1 00:00:04,742 --> 00:00:06,209 We're a pair! 2 00:00:06,277 --> 00:00:08,438 Uh-huh! We'll always be a pair! 3 00:00:08,512 --> 00:00:15,645 "Cross my fingers, if you lie, I'll make you eat a thousand needles!" 4 00:00:35,606 --> 00:00:44,480 (Wanting you to just be near, to feel your breath upon my ear) 5 00:00:44,548 --> 00:00:53,513 (Wishing you would call my name, 'Cause only you can light the flame) 6 00:00:53,590 --> 00:01:00,723 Constantly searching, still can't find 7 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,996 Ever illusive peace of mind 8 00:01:11,175 --> 00:01:19,742 Sometimes it's near, but slips away 9 00:01:19,817 --> 00:01:26,245 And I'm faced with another day 10 00:01:27,624 --> 00:01:33,028 Of wanting you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 11 00:01:33,097 --> 00:01:37,466 ...to just be near ('Cause only you can light the flame) 12 00:01:37,534 --> 00:01:42,062 Of wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 13 00:01:42,139 --> 00:01:46,633 ...would call my name, to feel your breath upon my ear 14 00:01:46,710 --> 00:01:51,113 Of wanting you...wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 15 00:01:51,181 --> 00:01:58,952 Call my name, 'cause only you can light the flame 16 00:02:08,365 --> 00:02:12,961 I'm searching for a woman. The sad woman that I love. 17 00:02:13,036 --> 00:02:17,735 My father's losing his mind. It's a monster's work. A hi-no-enma! 18 00:02:18,909 --> 00:02:21,036 A hi-no-enma, you say? 19 00:02:22,012 --> 00:02:23,946 A type of demon which flies to you. 20 00:02:24,014 --> 00:02:26,073 It takes the form of a woman and comes in order... 21 00:02:26,150 --> 00:02:29,051 to prevent the attainment of Buddhist enlightenment. 22 00:02:29,119 --> 00:02:31,713 It usually describes a creature which looks like an evil woman. 23 00:02:31,789 --> 00:02:34,053 It's said they take the form of a beautiful woman... 24 00:02:34,124 --> 00:02:37,355 visiting a man night after night to suck out his lifeblood until he dies. 25 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:45,861 Get rid of a hi-no-enma? 26 00:02:45,936 --> 00:02:48,734 In other words, is it like this? 27 00:02:48,806 --> 00:02:51,104 Kyoemon, a cargo vessel wholesaler... 28 00:02:51,175 --> 00:02:54,576 is searching for his bride, who ran away on their wedding night. 29 00:02:54,645 --> 00:02:55,771 Right. 30 00:02:57,414 --> 00:02:59,382 They say she was a pyromaniac... 31 00:02:59,450 --> 00:03:02,613 and left him so that she wouldn't cause him trouble. 32 00:03:02,686 --> 00:03:05,120 And he says it's all right for her to come back... 33 00:03:05,189 --> 00:03:07,350 because he's built a home she can set fire to? 34 00:03:07,424 --> 00:03:08,823 Not only that. 35 00:03:08,892 --> 00:03:11,326 If she can't be stopped... 36 00:03:11,395 --> 00:03:15,024 I wanted to let her be without any regard for others. 37 00:03:15,098 --> 00:03:19,831 If she can be cured, fine! If not, we can both die together! 38 00:03:20,737 --> 00:03:22,295 In that case, maybe we should... 39 00:03:22,372 --> 00:03:24,840 just hand her over immediately and let him do as he wants. 40 00:03:24,908 --> 00:03:30,210 H-Hold on! You know where this girl Shiragiku is? 41 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:31,679 We know. 42 00:03:31,748 --> 00:03:34,114 Wh- What do you mean? 43 00:03:34,184 --> 00:03:36,618 Snakes travel on other snakes' paths. 44 00:03:36,687 --> 00:03:39,850 I know. First, go to see Reverend Ryojun. 45 00:03:39,923 --> 00:03:43,518 You'll probably find that degenerate priest wandering around... 46 00:03:43,594 --> 00:03:46,290 in the red light district of the city of Sakai. 47 00:03:46,363 --> 00:03:49,958 But when it comes to being "worldly," Shiragiku probably has him beat. 48 00:03:50,033 --> 00:03:51,967 Is he a friend of yours?! 49 00:03:52,035 --> 00:03:53,195 Sort of. 50 00:03:55,639 --> 00:03:59,473 Like us, he's an inhabitant of the underworld. 51 00:03:59,543 --> 00:04:03,445 However, he's a bit more depraved than average and hard to deal with. 52 00:04:03,514 --> 00:04:04,947 That bad, huh? 53 00:04:05,015 --> 00:04:07,984 Even Ogin would run from him without getting dressed first. 54 00:04:08,051 --> 00:04:09,643 What was that?! 55 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,051 Then we have to tell him! 56 00:04:12,189 --> 00:04:13,952 I'll go tell Mr. Kyoemon! 57 00:04:14,024 --> 00:04:15,457 Hold it! 58 00:04:15,526 --> 00:04:17,323 Why?! 59 00:04:17,394 --> 00:04:21,455 I think you've gotten the wrong idea, Author. 60 00:04:21,532 --> 00:04:25,195 Our job isn't to save people. 61 00:04:25,269 --> 00:04:29,501 We trick people. Sometimes we take their lives! 62 00:04:29,573 --> 00:04:34,203 Dredging human souls is, by its nature, a life-threatening job. 63 00:04:34,278 --> 00:04:38,442 Oh, dear. If you're risking lives, do it yourself, Trickster. 64 00:04:38,515 --> 00:04:40,710 Stay out of this, Puppeteer! 65 00:04:40,784 --> 00:04:42,775 I was wrong about you people! 66 00:04:44,521 --> 00:04:48,082 Oh, well. Still, this is for the best. 67 00:04:48,158 --> 00:04:49,853 We'll miss him. 68 00:04:49,927 --> 00:04:50,951 YOU'LL miss him! 69 00:04:51,028 --> 00:04:53,690 Huh? Don't be ridiculous! 70 00:04:53,764 --> 00:04:54,958 Anyway... 71 00:04:55,032 --> 00:04:58,991 Shiragiku. This is going to be tough. 72 00:05:05,075 --> 00:05:06,633 All right, then! 73 00:05:08,645 --> 00:05:11,478 In that case, I'll just have to get there... 74 00:05:11,548 --> 00:05:13,482 before Mataichi and the others and find Shiragiku myself! 75 00:05:14,718 --> 00:05:18,848 Don't worry, I'll come back to Kitabayashi soon. 76 00:05:18,922 --> 00:05:22,619 I just need to settle something from my past. 77 00:05:30,567 --> 00:05:31,693 Got it! 78 00:05:34,137 --> 00:05:35,297 Excuse me! 79 00:05:40,944 --> 00:05:42,605 Thank you. 80 00:05:48,118 --> 00:05:50,609 She was really pretty. 81 00:06:05,202 --> 00:06:07,102 I don't like these places. 82 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:10,602 He's here. 83 00:06:10,674 --> 00:06:12,904 Hey, big boy! Come in! 84 00:06:12,976 --> 00:06:14,876 Yes, yes! Come in! 85 00:06:14,945 --> 00:06:16,606 You can have the two of us for anything you want! 86 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,342 N- No, thanks! I'm not here for that! 87 00:06:21,218 --> 00:06:22,845 Watch where you're goin'! 88 00:06:22,919 --> 00:06:24,386 S- Sorry! 89 00:06:24,454 --> 00:06:28,220 From Edo, huh?! You insult me and I'll crack your head open! 90 00:06:28,291 --> 00:06:30,452 Something wrong, guys? 91 00:06:31,928 --> 00:06:33,418 Oh, it's a priest. 92 00:06:33,497 --> 00:06:34,589 What are you doin' here? 93 00:06:34,665 --> 00:06:37,759 You fools! Don't you know the decree of this red-light district? 94 00:06:39,569 --> 00:06:40,729 Look! A babe! 95 00:06:40,804 --> 00:06:43,432 This way! 96 00:06:44,441 --> 00:06:45,840 - Hold it! - Hey! 97 00:06:45,909 --> 00:06:47,570 Wh-What the...?! 98 00:06:50,647 --> 00:06:52,410 Damn it, where'd they go?! 99 00:06:52,482 --> 00:06:53,949 Hey! 100 00:06:54,618 --> 00:06:57,553 Th-Thanks so much. 101 00:06:57,621 --> 00:07:01,113 You gotta stay alert around here, though I get the feeling... 102 00:07:01,191 --> 00:07:03,989 you're not the type who normally comes to places like this. 103 00:07:04,061 --> 00:07:05,585 So, what brings you here? 104 00:07:06,763 --> 00:07:10,096 I came to find a priest named Ryojun. 105 00:07:10,167 --> 00:07:12,601 Huh? That'd be me, then. 106 00:07:12,669 --> 00:07:14,330 Huh? You?! 107 00:07:14,404 --> 00:07:16,065 Yeah. So, what can I do for you? 108 00:07:16,139 --> 00:07:19,575 Well, it's about a girl named Shiragiku. 109 00:07:19,643 --> 00:07:21,577 Shiragiku?! 110 00:07:21,645 --> 00:07:23,442 Let's talk somewhere else. 111 00:07:27,751 --> 00:07:29,082 Oh, boy. 112 00:07:32,122 --> 00:07:33,089 Two? 113 00:07:33,156 --> 00:07:35,784 I can't take much more rain! 114 00:07:38,829 --> 00:07:41,195 What, serving someone ahead of us? 115 00:07:41,264 --> 00:07:43,858 No prob, no prob! The rain's a bother for everyone. 116 00:07:47,170 --> 00:07:51,334 Don't stay in the corner. Come over to the fire and warm up. 117 00:07:51,408 --> 00:07:54,036 I may have a young man with me, but still... 118 00:07:54,111 --> 00:07:56,136 So, is this about Tatsuta? 119 00:07:56,213 --> 00:07:58,909 Uh, no, what I want to ask about is-- 120 00:07:58,982 --> 00:08:02,509 Oh, yes. Shiragiku, right? Shiragiku... 121 00:08:02,586 --> 00:08:07,216 Well, I know about her, but she's sort of one half of a pair. 122 00:08:07,290 --> 00:08:08,723 A pair? 123 00:08:08,792 --> 00:08:11,818 Well, this was a long time ago... 124 00:08:11,895 --> 00:08:16,229 but they were real beauties, as pretty as flowers. 125 00:08:18,635 --> 00:08:21,297 At the time, the merchant class girls would be instructed... 126 00:08:21,371 --> 00:08:23,862 in dancing and playing the samisen from a young age. 127 00:08:23,940 --> 00:08:28,172 Oh, yes. They say Shiragiku was the daughter of a nobleman. 128 00:08:28,245 --> 00:08:30,406 She was a quiet, gentle girl. 129 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,143 She didn't have an aggressive bone in her body. 130 00:08:34,217 --> 00:08:37,186 Whatever she did, she'd do it well. 131 00:08:37,954 --> 00:08:41,446 She was always hanging around with her friend Tatsuta... 132 00:08:41,525 --> 00:08:43,584 whose family owned a lumber yard. 133 00:08:43,660 --> 00:08:47,596 Yeah. Tatsuta was a nice girl. 134 00:08:47,697 --> 00:08:50,757 Shiragiku was always holding her hand. 135 00:08:52,169 --> 00:08:57,072 Anywhere you go, Tatsuta, I go. We'll always be a pair. 136 00:08:57,140 --> 00:08:58,835 Uh-huh! A pair! 137 00:08:58,909 --> 00:09:00,342 A pair forever! 138 00:09:00,410 --> 00:09:03,345 A pair. But despite what they said... 139 00:09:03,413 --> 00:09:05,472 Shiragiku was always the better one. 140 00:09:05,549 --> 00:09:08,143 That's what she was like. 141 00:09:08,218 --> 00:09:13,349 One day, they even got matching yukatas. 142 00:09:13,423 --> 00:09:15,015 We're a pair! 143 00:09:15,091 --> 00:09:16,854 Uh-huh! We'll always be a pair! 144 00:09:17,928 --> 00:09:20,396 It really is a pretty yukata. 145 00:09:20,463 --> 00:09:23,296 It really suits you, Shiragiku. 146 00:09:24,167 --> 00:09:27,159 Poor Tatsuta. 147 00:09:27,237 --> 00:09:29,364 Shiragiku was the only one who got complimented. 148 00:09:29,439 --> 00:09:32,772 Huh? I wanted to tell you about Shiragiku... 149 00:09:32,843 --> 00:09:35,141 but I ended up talking about Tatsuta. 150 00:09:35,212 --> 00:09:37,874 Well, they always were a pair. 151 00:09:37,948 --> 00:09:40,416 You got the impression the sun gave Shiragiku... 152 00:09:40,483 --> 00:09:44,510 extra sunlight to make her shine. 153 00:09:44,588 --> 00:09:45,919 Light, huh? 154 00:09:45,989 --> 00:09:48,981 When she was 14, Shiragiku was apprenticed... 155 00:09:49,059 --> 00:09:51,118 to a feudal lord to the west. 156 00:09:51,194 --> 00:09:54,357 It's all right! We'll write to each other. 157 00:09:54,431 --> 00:09:57,025 It'll be okay if we're apart. 158 00:09:57,100 --> 00:09:59,398 We'll always be a pair. 159 00:09:59,469 --> 00:10:00,629 Right. We're a pair. 160 00:10:00,704 --> 00:10:03,798 But she soon returned. 161 00:10:03,874 --> 00:10:04,898 Why? 162 00:10:04,975 --> 00:10:09,776 Shiragiku was blamed for setting a fire in their house. 163 00:10:09,846 --> 00:10:14,647 But the real reason was probably jealousy over Shiragiku's beauty. 164 00:10:15,318 --> 00:10:17,650 I get to be with you again, Tatsuta. 165 00:10:17,721 --> 00:10:20,656 That's good enough for me. 166 00:10:24,227 --> 00:10:27,424 And then another fire started. 167 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,433 You all right? 168 00:10:31,501 --> 00:10:33,867 Wow! That surprised me! 169 00:10:33,937 --> 00:10:36,462 That time, Shiragiku's house burned down. 170 00:10:36,539 --> 00:10:40,737 Her family was killed and arson was again suspected. 171 00:10:40,810 --> 00:10:43,870 Rumors started that Shiragiku was a woman who could summon fire... 172 00:10:43,947 --> 00:10:48,247 and she was soon driven from the town and forced into prostitution. 173 00:10:48,318 --> 00:10:53,620 Despite this, the sun still seemed to pour upon her. 174 00:10:53,690 --> 00:10:57,786 Before long, she was a headlining prostitute with many admirers. 175 00:10:57,861 --> 00:11:00,227 The light was always, always upon her. 176 00:11:08,972 --> 00:11:13,875 Ah, she went out. The rain must have stopped. 177 00:11:14,611 --> 00:11:18,206 Eventually, a man appeared to redeem Shiragiku. 178 00:11:18,281 --> 00:11:20,806 A man named Seihachi from a local lumber yard. 179 00:11:20,884 --> 00:11:25,548 Just when it seemed Shiragiku was finally going to find happiness... 180 00:11:25,622 --> 00:11:27,954 Seihachi was offered an arranged marriage. 181 00:11:28,024 --> 00:11:30,925 And the woman he was to marry was Tatsuta. 182 00:11:30,994 --> 00:11:34,657 Her family probably wanted her to marry him... 183 00:11:34,731 --> 00:11:38,428 in order to merge the two lumber yard-owning families. 184 00:11:39,269 --> 00:11:43,433 Shiragiku cut off her little finger and sent it to Seihachi. 185 00:11:43,506 --> 00:11:44,598 She sent her little finger?! 186 00:11:44,674 --> 00:11:49,077 Yes, to prove the promise she made wasn't child's play. 187 00:11:49,145 --> 00:11:52,478 It's a sad custom of the red light districts... 188 00:11:52,549 --> 00:11:55,518 to show how seriously one loves another. 189 00:11:55,585 --> 00:12:00,613 Now nobody knows which of them Seihachi truly had feelings for. 190 00:12:00,690 --> 00:12:01,987 You're saying... 191 00:12:02,058 --> 00:12:05,186 Because he died on his wedding night. 192 00:12:05,261 --> 00:12:06,319 You don't mean... 193 00:12:06,396 --> 00:12:09,888 Yes, in a fire. Started right in the middle of the wedding. 194 00:12:09,966 --> 00:12:13,060 A giant fire that spread all the way into Osaka. 195 00:12:13,136 --> 00:12:18,972 Seihachi and his bride Tatsuta were burned to ashes! 196 00:12:20,643 --> 00:12:22,235 Shiragiku did it? 197 00:12:22,312 --> 00:12:26,078 Who knows? But it's probably more comforting to think... 198 00:12:26,149 --> 00:12:29,175 that she set a fire out of anger and jealousy... 199 00:12:29,252 --> 00:12:32,710 because her childhood friend took the man she loved. 200 00:12:32,789 --> 00:12:36,225 The idea she came to celebrate the wedding of her beloved friend... 201 00:12:36,292 --> 00:12:39,318 and the man she loved so much is just too sad to bear. 202 00:12:39,396 --> 00:12:41,023 Don't you agree? 203 00:12:44,434 --> 00:12:46,527 I don't know what happened to her after that. 204 00:12:46,603 --> 00:12:48,366 I heard she returned to prostitution... 205 00:12:48,438 --> 00:12:50,565 and got involved in some shady dealings. 206 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:55,202 Perhaps Shiragiku really became a hi-no-enma. 207 00:12:55,278 --> 00:12:57,303 Where is she now? 208 00:12:57,380 --> 00:12:58,677 I'm fairly sure she's in Nagoya. 209 00:12:58,748 --> 00:12:59,772 What?! 210 00:12:59,849 --> 00:13:02,579 She wrote me about her wedding there. 211 00:13:04,454 --> 00:13:07,685 I guess it's back to Nagoya for me. How about you, Ryojun? 212 00:13:07,757 --> 00:13:09,588 I think I'll sit this out. 213 00:13:09,659 --> 00:13:15,097 She specifically told me about it because she didn't want me to come. 214 00:13:26,042 --> 00:13:27,168 Ryojun! 215 00:13:27,243 --> 00:13:30,610 After all, I decided to go there, too. 216 00:13:37,087 --> 00:13:41,956 Something's bugging me. But what? 217 00:13:44,661 --> 00:13:47,994 Her little finger! Shiragiku cut off her little finger! 218 00:13:52,669 --> 00:13:56,105 Tatsuta was a nice girl. 219 00:14:00,410 --> 00:14:05,347 My beloved, the wedding is prepared and I await you. 220 00:14:06,816 --> 00:14:10,217 He loves me? Loves me...Shiragiku? 221 00:14:13,056 --> 00:14:18,187 They shouldn't have come... those who know of my past. 222 00:14:22,532 --> 00:14:25,194 Will Shiragiku really come? 223 00:14:25,268 --> 00:14:29,261 That depends upon how much you believe she will. 224 00:14:29,339 --> 00:14:33,400 He built that just to burn it? Extravagant, isn't it? 225 00:14:33,476 --> 00:14:36,604 There are all sorts of people in this world. 226 00:14:36,679 --> 00:14:38,977 We'll be done by the time Mr. Author arrives. 227 00:14:46,356 --> 00:14:49,655 A fire?! That's right. Ryojun? 228 00:14:49,726 --> 00:14:53,992 Huh?! That's cruel! He ran off without me! 229 00:15:05,808 --> 00:15:07,571 That woman! 230 00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:12,646 What's she doing here? 231 00:15:12,715 --> 00:15:17,209 Why is she smiling? Watching us...in the fire... 232 00:15:17,287 --> 00:15:20,415 Can it be? Is that Shiragiku?! 233 00:15:31,034 --> 00:15:33,468 Author! Hang on a moment! 234 00:15:35,838 --> 00:15:37,863 Little hags?! 235 00:15:39,075 --> 00:15:42,044 Can't let you interfere! 236 00:15:42,111 --> 00:15:44,011 You can't! You can't! 237 00:15:47,584 --> 00:15:50,985 If Shiragiku reaches Kaneshiroya before I do... 238 00:15:53,623 --> 00:15:56,091 I believe in you, Mataichi! 239 00:15:56,159 --> 00:15:58,889 You will save Mr. Kyoemon, won't you? 240 00:15:58,962 --> 00:16:01,931 You won't just let him die, will you? 241 00:16:09,472 --> 00:16:11,838 I've been waiting for you, Shiragiku! 242 00:16:11,908 --> 00:16:13,876 Go on, burn anything you like! 243 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,142 What's wrong? Come to me. 244 00:16:20,216 --> 00:16:24,653 I cannot. I, Shiragiku, have... 245 00:16:24,721 --> 00:16:28,157 I have given my finger to the man I truly love. 246 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:31,652 The bride has arrived! 247 00:16:37,967 --> 00:16:39,400 She has both little fingers! 248 00:16:43,506 --> 00:16:45,770 Wait! Wait a second! 249 00:16:45,842 --> 00:16:48,538 That's not Shiragiku! 250 00:16:49,245 --> 00:16:53,579 It's all right, Shiragiku. It doesn't matter who else you love. 251 00:16:53,650 --> 00:16:56,016 Go on. Burn to your heart's content. 252 00:17:01,524 --> 00:17:03,492 Shiragiku? 253 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:04,685 Shiragiku... 254 00:17:04,761 --> 00:17:06,160 Master Kyoemon! 255 00:17:06,229 --> 00:17:11,030 Shiragiku, how I have waited for you! How I have longed for you! 256 00:17:11,100 --> 00:17:13,967 Your eyes, your hair... 257 00:17:14,037 --> 00:17:16,528 A day hasn't gone by that I haven't thought about them! 258 00:17:17,607 --> 00:17:18,631 Master Kyoemon! 259 00:17:20,043 --> 00:17:22,341 I'm the real one. Isn't that right? 260 00:17:23,146 --> 00:17:24,875 SHlRAGlKU! 261 00:17:29,252 --> 00:17:30,913 Shiragiku! 262 00:17:31,020 --> 00:17:33,420 I thought I killed you that time! 263 00:17:33,489 --> 00:17:37,858 That time... Yes, it's just like that last time. 264 00:17:37,927 --> 00:17:39,861 Yes, only this time it's reversed. 265 00:17:41,264 --> 00:17:44,665 I came to celebrate your wedding. 266 00:17:45,935 --> 00:17:50,395 I pray for your eternal happiness. 267 00:18:02,518 --> 00:18:05,351 Why was I the only one left out? Only l? 268 00:18:08,157 --> 00:18:11,558 Even you wouldn't look... 269 00:18:11,627 --> 00:18:14,118 at me! 270 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,101 Just as we promised. We're a pair. 271 00:18:29,612 --> 00:18:32,945 A pair. And this time, we will truly be a pair... 272 00:18:33,015 --> 00:18:35,210 upon which the sun will not shine! 273 00:18:35,284 --> 00:18:37,149 That's why you killed me... 274 00:18:37,220 --> 00:18:40,621 and the people I loved? 275 00:18:40,690 --> 00:18:43,250 The sun shone on you all the time. 276 00:18:43,326 --> 00:18:46,386 As long as you lived, it'd do no good for me. 277 00:18:46,462 --> 00:18:50,262 No one would ever look at me. I'd always live in your shadow. 278 00:18:55,838 --> 00:18:58,773 Mataichi?! Then you must be... 279 00:19:01,344 --> 00:19:04,006 You are a fool! 280 00:19:04,747 --> 00:19:06,942 Kyoemon would have been happy with you... 281 00:19:07,016 --> 00:19:10,611 even as a sinful woman who was using Shiragiku's name! 282 00:19:10,686 --> 00:19:13,849 Happy with you as yourself. And yet, you... 283 00:19:15,324 --> 00:19:17,019 Shiragiku. 284 00:19:17,427 --> 00:19:20,225 Shiragiku... 285 00:19:26,769 --> 00:19:28,236 With this hand... 286 00:19:28,304 --> 00:19:31,569 Could I be happy if I took this hand? 287 00:19:32,241 --> 00:19:34,038 Would the sun shine on me? 288 00:19:39,649 --> 00:19:45,952 No. This man, too. The one he really wants is... 289 00:19:47,824 --> 00:19:50,224 SHlRAGlKU! 290 00:19:55,498 --> 00:19:57,557 To the next world, we commit Thee! 291 00:19:58,734 --> 00:20:00,429 MATAlCHl! 292 00:20:02,638 --> 00:20:04,538 This isn't Shiragiku! 293 00:20:04,607 --> 00:20:05,574 Oh, Mr. Author! 294 00:20:10,613 --> 00:20:13,081 Thanks, Mata! 295 00:20:13,149 --> 00:20:15,242 Thanks to you, I know now. 296 00:20:15,318 --> 00:20:18,253 Who really wants me. 297 00:20:18,321 --> 00:20:21,518 And who I really am paired with. 298 00:20:23,526 --> 00:20:25,790 For me, the Shiragiku I am now... 299 00:20:25,862 --> 00:20:28,296 I shall shine on in the shadows! 300 00:20:39,775 --> 00:20:44,872 Shiragiku really was a hi-no-enma monster. 301 00:20:44,947 --> 00:20:48,405 The Buddha heart within you, Kyoemon... 302 00:20:48,484 --> 00:20:53,854 allowed the fire monster to be consumed in its own flames. 303 00:20:53,923 --> 00:20:59,452 Take a moment to pray for her. For Shiragiku's unfortunate soul. 304 00:21:00,596 --> 00:21:04,828 Shiragiku, it didn't matter to me who you were. 305 00:21:04,901 --> 00:21:10,032 Even if you were a monster who burned people to death. 306 00:21:11,574 --> 00:21:14,543 You really should have stayed out of this! 307 00:21:14,610 --> 00:21:16,874 But she had both her little fingers! 308 00:21:16,946 --> 00:21:20,211 After the fire in Osaka, Tatsuta took the place of Shiragiku... 309 00:21:20,283 --> 00:21:22,342 the girl she both hated and admired. 310 00:21:22,418 --> 00:21:25,410 And under her name, she committed evil. 311 00:21:25,488 --> 00:21:29,219 Before she knew it, the fires she set to ruin Shiragiku's name... 312 00:21:29,292 --> 00:21:33,786 became a source of pleasure for her. 313 00:21:33,863 --> 00:21:37,390 We blew an excellent chance to finally defeat her. 314 00:21:38,968 --> 00:21:43,564 And Mr. Author has no idea how hard we worked to keep him out of this. 315 00:21:44,707 --> 00:21:48,507 I have a good idea where she's retreated to. 316 00:21:49,512 --> 00:21:50,843 But the question before that... 317 00:21:50,913 --> 00:21:54,076 Yes. Kyogokutei's behind this. 318 00:21:54,150 --> 00:21:57,085 Looks like things have gotten complicated. 319 00:21:58,020 --> 00:21:59,578 Mr. Author! 320 00:22:01,824 --> 00:22:04,554 It may be time for us to part ways. 321 00:22:06,095 --> 00:22:10,327 Mataichi! Ogin! Nagamimi! 322 00:22:14,737 --> 00:22:20,334 Wind chimes whisper soft and sweet 323 00:22:22,211 --> 00:22:28,275 Though there's not a hint of a breeze 324 00:22:29,285 --> 00:22:35,019 Moonlight dancing on the garden walk 325 00:22:35,091 --> 00:22:41,655 As it gently drifts through the trees 326 00:22:43,132 --> 00:22:49,002 Romance takes flight on this perfect night 327 00:22:49,071 --> 00:22:55,704 While all of the world lays sleeping 328 00:22:56,545 --> 00:23:06,011 Find us here as we feel the moment of love 329 00:23:07,356 --> 00:23:10,519 Draw near 330 00:23:10,826 --> 00:23:17,789 Dream, sleep, with your hand in mine 331 00:23:17,867 --> 00:23:23,772 Underneath a blanket of stars 332 00:23:25,975 --> 00:23:31,208 Song birds singing in a distant glade 333 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:39,119 As we share the warmth of the dawn 334 00:23:46,562 --> 00:23:48,894 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 335 00:23:48,964 --> 00:23:52,866 Ieaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public. 336 00:23:53,269 --> 00:23:55,760 A curse from a time long past. 337 00:23:55,838 --> 00:23:58,671 The cursed cannon, etched into a man's back. 338 00:23:58,741 --> 00:24:01,835 Now comes the time to reset the cycle of karma. 339 00:24:01,911 --> 00:24:05,244 The sinking of the proof of his dead son's life. 340 00:24:05,314 --> 00:24:10,047 Next time, on Natsuhiko Kyogoku's "Requiem From the Darkness:" 341 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:11,814 Marine Spirits. 342 00:24:11,887 --> 00:24:14,651 To the next world, we commit Thee!