1 00:00:07,807 --> 00:00:09,638 Hey! You sure we're headed the right way? 2 00:00:09,709 --> 00:00:11,643 The hell if I know! 3 00:00:15,815 --> 00:00:17,248 H- Hey! Over there! 4 00:00:18,551 --> 00:00:21,714 God help us! We're out near Twin lsland! 5 00:00:23,189 --> 00:00:29,560 Jikkou sanzei issai butsu. 6 00:00:29,662 --> 00:00:32,893 Wh- What's that voice? 7 00:00:32,966 --> 00:00:34,365 What is it?! 8 00:00:39,606 --> 00:00:41,574 S- Sea ghosts! 9 00:00:46,179 --> 00:00:49,273 H- Help us! 10 00:00:54,754 --> 00:01:03,458 Wanting you to just be near, (to feel your breath upon my ear) 11 00:01:03,530 --> 00:01:12,495 Wishing you would call my name, ('Cause only you can light the flame) 12 00:01:12,572 --> 00:01:19,705 Constantly searching, still can't find 13 00:01:21,981 --> 00:01:27,977 Ever illusive peace of mind 14 00:01:30,156 --> 00:01:38,723 Sometimes it's near, but slips away 15 00:01:38,798 --> 00:01:45,362 And I'm faced with another day 16 00:01:46,606 --> 00:01:52,442 Of wanting you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 17 00:01:52,512 --> 00:01:56,915 ...to just be near ('Cause only you can light the flame) 18 00:01:56,983 --> 00:02:01,044 Of wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 19 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:05,615 ...would call my name, to feel your breath upon my ear 20 00:02:05,692 --> 00:02:10,095 Of wanting you...wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 21 00:02:10,163 --> 00:02:17,729 Call my name, 'cause only you can light the flame 22 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,080 Mataichi, where are you? 23 00:02:36,789 --> 00:02:38,620 Mr. Author! 24 00:02:40,026 --> 00:02:42,517 It may be time for us to part ways. 25 00:02:44,030 --> 00:02:46,157 It's been 3 months since then. 26 00:02:50,570 --> 00:02:52,561 I had no idea where... 27 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,905 Mataichi and the others lived or even how they lived. 28 00:02:57,610 --> 00:03:00,602 All I knew was that wherever they appeared... 29 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:02,511 strange rumors began to spread. 30 00:03:04,918 --> 00:03:06,146 What the...?! 31 00:03:07,487 --> 00:03:13,426 "A man who could change into any form, from animal to woman to child." 32 00:03:13,493 --> 00:03:15,586 "The heretic descended from the kabuki theater world. 33 00:03:15,662 --> 00:03:17,289 Nagamimi the Bird Caller." 34 00:03:17,363 --> 00:03:19,831 Is this Nagamimi?! 35 00:03:19,899 --> 00:03:21,526 Friend of yours? 36 00:03:26,206 --> 00:03:28,606 I came down here to find a good book to read... 37 00:03:28,675 --> 00:03:30,540 and who should I find but my rarely seen friend. 38 00:03:33,146 --> 00:03:36,513 Ah. Is this a friend of yours? 39 00:03:36,883 --> 00:03:38,510 So what if he is? 40 00:03:38,585 --> 00:03:41,986 Well, I applaud the author great enough to write The 100 Stories! 41 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:44,649 You know people in the next world, too? 42 00:03:44,724 --> 00:03:48,888 If that guy was alive, he'd be over 200 years old! 43 00:03:48,962 --> 00:03:51,988 Huh?! You're right! 44 00:03:52,065 --> 00:03:55,000 You're incurably naive, you know that? 45 00:03:55,568 --> 00:03:57,195 Um, excuse me. 46 00:03:57,270 --> 00:04:01,673 Do you know anything about any weird rumors lately? 47 00:04:01,741 --> 00:04:03,265 Strange rumors, huh? 48 00:04:04,510 --> 00:04:08,071 Well, there's "Seven Man Point" in Kitabayashi. 49 00:04:08,147 --> 00:04:10,775 And the sea ghosts of Sanuki! 50 00:04:12,318 --> 00:04:15,515 Seven Man Point. And sea ghosts, huh? 51 00:04:31,304 --> 00:04:34,705 KYOGOKUTEl 52 00:04:34,774 --> 00:04:37,607 A teahouse? Out here? 53 00:04:49,222 --> 00:04:51,190 We've been waiting, Mr. Author. 54 00:04:51,257 --> 00:04:53,225 At last we meet, Mr. Author. 55 00:04:54,594 --> 00:04:56,221 How do you know who I am? 56 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:58,958 We've heard all about you from Mataichi. 57 00:04:59,032 --> 00:05:01,626 And we've heard about you from Ogin and Nagamimi. 58 00:05:01,701 --> 00:05:03,032 You people? 59 00:05:03,102 --> 00:05:07,266 Thank you for assisting them so well. 60 00:05:08,541 --> 00:05:12,978 I am Kyogokutei, the master of this establishment. 61 00:05:13,546 --> 00:05:17,073 Kyogokutei. Then you're Mataichi and the others'... 62 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:19,812 You'd be happiest to not finish that sentence. 63 00:05:19,886 --> 00:05:21,547 Happiest not to say it. 64 00:05:21,621 --> 00:05:24,249 We've been most fortunate... 65 00:05:24,324 --> 00:05:28,260 to have a fine man like you helping us, Mr. Author. 66 00:05:28,328 --> 00:05:31,661 Oh, no. I was just doing what I was told. 67 00:05:31,731 --> 00:05:34,222 I disagree. 68 00:05:34,867 --> 00:05:36,391 Since you've joined them... 69 00:05:36,469 --> 00:05:38,801 their operations have gone very smoothly. 70 00:05:38,871 --> 00:05:41,999 And you've added a touch of elegance, as well. 71 00:05:42,075 --> 00:05:43,838 Y- You think so? 72 00:05:43,910 --> 00:05:46,902 But they're delayed this time. 73 00:05:46,979 --> 00:05:49,880 I guess they're useless without Mr. Author. 74 00:05:49,949 --> 00:05:52,076 Where did Mataichi go? 75 00:05:52,151 --> 00:05:54,813 They went to Shikoku and vanished. 76 00:05:54,887 --> 00:05:56,514 No contact from them. 77 00:05:57,290 --> 00:06:01,158 Shikoku. Then that rumor of sea ghosts in Sanuki must be... 78 00:06:01,227 --> 00:06:05,163 I'm very worried about them. 79 00:06:12,405 --> 00:06:15,033 The sea ghosts appeared again, huh? 80 00:06:15,608 --> 00:06:17,508 It was around Kabuto lsland. 81 00:06:17,577 --> 00:06:21,274 The boat was wrecked and I heard nobody survived. 82 00:06:21,347 --> 00:06:23,645 Nobody will go out to fish now. 83 00:06:23,716 --> 00:06:24,876 Excuse me. 84 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:27,886 The sea ghosts sank a boat? 85 00:06:27,954 --> 00:06:29,615 They do it constantly around here. 86 00:06:29,689 --> 00:06:32,852 Attacking ships sounds more like what pirates would do. 87 00:06:32,925 --> 00:06:35,450 Still, it's strange, isn't it? 88 00:06:35,528 --> 00:06:38,292 Don't the sea ghosts usually appear around Twin lsland? 89 00:06:38,364 --> 00:06:40,389 Why would they appear near Kabuto lsland? 90 00:06:40,466 --> 00:06:42,229 Hmm. Now that you mention it... 91 00:06:42,301 --> 00:06:43,734 What do you mean? 92 00:06:43,803 --> 00:06:46,795 About half a day's boat ride from here... 93 00:06:46,873 --> 00:06:50,434 there were a pair of islands we called Twin lsland. 94 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:52,978 One night, around 20 years ago... 95 00:06:53,045 --> 00:06:54,910 one of them suddenly disappeared. 96 00:06:54,981 --> 00:06:56,915 An island vanished in a night?! 97 00:06:56,983 --> 00:06:59,508 The rumors of the sea ghosts have been around for a long time... 98 00:06:59,585 --> 00:07:01,519 but the word is that since that night... 99 00:07:01,587 --> 00:07:04,317 they especially tend to appear around Twin lsland. 100 00:07:07,126 --> 00:07:10,254 It's said that sea ghosts are the souls of people... 101 00:07:10,329 --> 00:07:13,423 who died in the sea and came back as spirits. 102 00:07:13,499 --> 00:07:17,868 Those who died on a boat approach and ask for a ladle. 103 00:07:17,937 --> 00:07:21,270 It's said that if you give them the ladle, they'll use it to... 104 00:07:21,340 --> 00:07:24,434 draw up wave after wave, until the boat is sunk. 105 00:07:24,510 --> 00:07:25,772 Tr- Trouble! 106 00:07:26,979 --> 00:07:30,107 Lord Sekiyama, the boating magistrate, is coming here personally! 107 00:07:39,659 --> 00:07:41,854 Don't trouble yourselves. Raise your heads, please. 108 00:07:46,098 --> 00:07:47,463 Anyway... 109 00:07:47,533 --> 00:07:52,470 the frequent reports of sea ghost disasters here are not at all strange. 110 00:07:52,538 --> 00:07:55,132 I have determined it is all the work of the Kawakubo Clan! 111 00:07:56,209 --> 00:07:58,268 It is difficult to forgive these cunning people... 112 00:07:58,344 --> 00:08:00,141 who threaten the livelihood of this land's citizens! 113 00:08:01,113 --> 00:08:03,445 I have decided to take care of this threat! 114 00:08:06,586 --> 00:08:09,987 I see! You saw Lord Sekiyama? 115 00:08:10,056 --> 00:08:12,889 He seems like an impressive man. 116 00:08:12,959 --> 00:08:14,984 And handsome, too, I hear! 117 00:08:15,061 --> 00:08:17,393 I only heard him mention them... 118 00:08:17,463 --> 00:08:20,591 but what sort of people are the Kawakubo Clan, exactly? 119 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,301 No one at the beach would tell me. 120 00:08:24,370 --> 00:08:25,837 R- Really? 121 00:08:25,905 --> 00:08:27,338 Do you know anything about them? 122 00:08:27,406 --> 00:08:30,273 N- Not really. Make yourself comfortable! 123 00:08:32,411 --> 00:08:34,345 I- I don't know nothin'! 124 00:08:36,182 --> 00:08:40,846 Not one person in the village would tell me about the Kawakubo Clan. 125 00:08:48,761 --> 00:08:49,989 Hey, you! 126 00:08:50,062 --> 00:08:51,086 Yes? 127 00:08:51,163 --> 00:08:54,599 You've been asking around about the Kawakubo Clan. 128 00:08:55,902 --> 00:08:58,097 What's wrong? Cat got your tongue? 129 00:08:58,170 --> 00:09:02,607 No matter. Answer me or not, you're still gonna die. 130 00:09:16,022 --> 00:09:17,148 That's... 131 00:09:31,904 --> 00:09:35,772 Damn it, where'd he go?! Find him! 132 00:09:38,244 --> 00:09:39,677 That way! 133 00:09:44,650 --> 00:09:45,844 For heaven's sake. 134 00:09:45,918 --> 00:09:48,910 You find danger so often I can never just stand by watching you. 135 00:09:48,988 --> 00:09:50,717 I looked everywhere for you. 136 00:09:52,091 --> 00:09:54,582 No one asked you to. 137 00:09:55,394 --> 00:09:59,592 Why didn't you ask me to help you on this latest setup? 138 00:09:59,665 --> 00:10:01,360 Can't you tell? 139 00:10:01,434 --> 00:10:04,460 You're getting to be a burden for us, Mr. Author. 140 00:10:05,037 --> 00:10:07,198 You can't mean that! 141 00:10:07,273 --> 00:10:10,071 Is it because I failed in the last mission? 142 00:10:11,644 --> 00:10:16,206 That was because Mataichi didn't fill me in beforehand. 143 00:10:16,282 --> 00:10:18,443 It's not that. 144 00:10:18,517 --> 00:10:21,975 It's because we don't live in the same world. 145 00:10:22,054 --> 00:10:23,578 Then let me join you-- 146 00:10:23,656 --> 00:10:25,055 No! 147 00:10:25,124 --> 00:10:29,561 There are boundaries people cannot cross. 148 00:10:30,229 --> 00:10:32,197 Mr. Author... 149 00:10:35,901 --> 00:10:37,300 Never. 150 00:10:39,872 --> 00:10:43,831 Stay out of this. Go back to Edo. Understand? 151 00:10:47,413 --> 00:10:48,402 Ogin! 152 00:10:56,188 --> 00:10:59,624 Mister! That girl you were with went out to sea! 153 00:11:00,226 --> 00:11:03,024 It looked like she was headed for Twin lsland. 154 00:11:08,968 --> 00:11:13,405 Why won't anyone tell me about the Kawakubo Clan? 155 00:11:15,608 --> 00:11:17,132 Because they're ghosts. 156 00:11:17,209 --> 00:11:19,109 Ghosts? 157 00:11:19,178 --> 00:11:22,944 The Kawakubo were defeated members of the Taira Clan. 158 00:11:23,015 --> 00:11:26,109 Nowadays, neither the Taira nor the Minamoto exist. 159 00:11:26,185 --> 00:11:29,154 All people think about are themselves. 160 00:11:29,221 --> 00:11:31,655 And yet, those people... 161 00:11:32,558 --> 00:11:34,651 You're saying they live in a different world... 162 00:11:36,262 --> 00:11:39,857 We can see it! That's Twin lsland there! 163 00:11:50,576 --> 00:11:52,567 Oh, no! If we don't do something... 164 00:12:16,936 --> 00:12:19,461 I... I'm still alive. 165 00:12:19,538 --> 00:12:21,529 Who are you?! 166 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:27,773 No one who has seen us can be allowed to return alive! 167 00:12:29,048 --> 00:12:30,015 Um... 168 00:12:30,082 --> 00:12:31,276 Stop it! 169 00:12:33,452 --> 00:12:34,476 Mataichi! 170 00:12:34,553 --> 00:12:36,214 If we let them live... 171 00:12:36,288 --> 00:12:39,724 None may take another person's life! 172 00:12:39,792 --> 00:12:42,226 But what happened 20 years ago will be repeated-- 173 00:12:42,294 --> 00:12:43,886 Silence! 174 00:12:45,865 --> 00:12:47,696 Forgive us, young man. 175 00:12:47,767 --> 00:12:52,795 There was another man with me, who brought me here. 176 00:12:52,872 --> 00:12:55,705 I doubt he survived these waves. 177 00:12:57,276 --> 00:12:59,710 The sea is angry. 178 00:13:01,380 --> 00:13:09,014 Jikkou sanzei issai butsu. 179 00:13:09,455 --> 00:13:14,722 Shoson bosatsu umaka satsu. 180 00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:19,162 I heard this beach was stained red with blood... 181 00:13:19,231 --> 00:13:21,722 when the armies of the Taira and the Minamoto met in battle. 182 00:13:23,736 --> 00:13:26,933 And then, 20 years ago, dozens of people died... 183 00:13:27,006 --> 00:13:29,839 on the night the neighboring island sank. 184 00:13:38,651 --> 00:13:41,119 We're sea ghosts, you say? 185 00:13:41,787 --> 00:13:44,847 I see. Perhaps it's true, in a way. 186 00:13:44,924 --> 00:13:47,119 However, we aren't pirates! 187 00:13:47,193 --> 00:13:50,458 I think you should meet with Lord Sekiyama the magistrate... 188 00:13:50,529 --> 00:13:52,497 to clear your names. 189 00:13:52,565 --> 00:13:54,726 We can't do that. 190 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,791 But... 191 00:13:56,869 --> 00:13:59,235 We can't go anywhere. 192 00:14:01,307 --> 00:14:04,970 You're the second person who's ever been washed ashore on this island. 193 00:14:05,044 --> 00:14:07,877 There was another castaway 20 years ago. 194 00:14:07,947 --> 00:14:10,575 And because of him, we were... 195 00:14:10,649 --> 00:14:12,549 You're wrong. 196 00:14:13,285 --> 00:14:16,379 It wasn't that man who was the real cause. 197 00:14:17,723 --> 00:14:19,122 It was THAT. 198 00:14:20,893 --> 00:14:22,121 What is it? 199 00:14:22,194 --> 00:14:25,561 It was entrusted to us by our ancestors... 200 00:14:25,631 --> 00:14:29,624 to be of use when the signal of the Taira uprising came. 201 00:14:29,969 --> 00:14:31,129 It's a flame lance. 202 00:14:31,203 --> 00:14:32,636 Flame lance? 203 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:35,401 Those who know how to use it to its full potential... 204 00:14:35,474 --> 00:14:37,601 could seemingly topple the heavens themselves! 205 00:14:37,676 --> 00:14:40,509 It'd be best to simply destroy it. 206 00:14:40,579 --> 00:14:43,013 We cannot. 207 00:14:43,082 --> 00:14:44,982 It's a source of catastrophe... 208 00:14:45,050 --> 00:14:48,144 a thing which calls out the darkness in men's hearts. 209 00:14:48,220 --> 00:14:52,714 I know... which is why it must never be unleashed upon the world. 210 00:14:52,791 --> 00:14:54,986 But not destroyed, either. 211 00:15:09,575 --> 00:15:13,011 You can take this path to the other side of the island. 212 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:15,410 Use the boat there to go back. 213 00:15:15,481 --> 00:15:16,880 I'm not leaving. 214 00:15:16,949 --> 00:15:19,042 Best to keep out of this, Mr. Author. 215 00:15:19,118 --> 00:15:21,279 What are you planning to do? 216 00:15:24,456 --> 00:15:26,185 It's Taromaru, isn't it? 217 00:15:26,258 --> 00:15:29,284 You're planning to exorcise him, aren't you?! 218 00:15:29,361 --> 00:15:32,296 He's not doing anything, is he?! 219 00:15:32,364 --> 00:15:34,525 And that is his sin! 220 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,728 The fact he inherited the flame lance can't be helped... 221 00:15:37,803 --> 00:15:39,532 but his failure to destroy it is his sin! 222 00:15:39,605 --> 00:15:42,540 Does Kyogokutei know about this?! 223 00:15:44,009 --> 00:15:45,840 How do you know about Kyogokutei? 224 00:15:45,911 --> 00:15:50,314 I met him in Edo. He's your boss, right? 225 00:15:50,382 --> 00:15:54,910 No, he's not. I once thought he was, but... 226 00:15:54,987 --> 00:15:58,286 ...then he started thinking terrible things. 227 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:03,424 Rather than calm the darkness inhabiting men's hearts... 228 00:16:03,495 --> 00:16:05,827 he decided to draw that darkness out. 229 00:16:05,898 --> 00:16:08,799 And for that, the flame lance is most suitable. 230 00:16:08,867 --> 00:16:10,698 They're coming! 231 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:18,940 Hyogo! 232 00:16:19,011 --> 00:16:23,675 The one cast away here 20 years ago...was that man. 233 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:29,151 Master Taromaru. 234 00:16:29,221 --> 00:16:30,848 Forgive my not contacting you sooner. 235 00:16:30,923 --> 00:16:32,584 Why have you returned? 236 00:16:32,658 --> 00:16:35,786 The magistrate's office is here to search the Kawakubo Clan... 237 00:16:35,861 --> 00:16:37,385 for any signs of criminal behavior. 238 00:16:37,463 --> 00:16:39,158 Ridiculous. 239 00:16:39,231 --> 00:16:41,699 I know. You're here for the flame lance, aren't you? 240 00:16:41,767 --> 00:16:43,701 That simplifies things. 241 00:16:43,769 --> 00:16:45,293 Will you hand over the plans to me? 242 00:16:45,371 --> 00:16:46,895 I refuse! 243 00:16:46,972 --> 00:16:48,405 We can simply kill you all... 244 00:16:48,474 --> 00:16:50,874 and take the cannon for ourselves, you know. 245 00:16:50,943 --> 00:16:53,912 Without the plans, you won't know how to use it. 246 00:16:54,580 --> 00:16:57,413 If we take a cannon shell back with us, we can investigate how it's made. 247 00:16:59,885 --> 00:17:02,649 Hand it over and I'll declare the Kawakubo Clan... 248 00:17:02,721 --> 00:17:05,417 innocent of any wrongdoing and let you go free. 249 00:17:07,459 --> 00:17:10,019 That man! I get it! 250 00:17:10,095 --> 00:17:13,622 He's been impersonating the sea ghosts to commit piracy! 251 00:17:14,233 --> 00:17:16,360 Those words have sealed your doom! 252 00:17:17,069 --> 00:17:19,367 Which of you is doomed, I wonder? 253 00:17:19,438 --> 00:17:20,462 Who the hell are you?! 254 00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:23,565 They have a fire lance here. 255 00:17:25,878 --> 00:17:29,814 I think you know very well how powerful it is. 256 00:17:40,025 --> 00:17:43,085 Over and over, I've dreamt of it. Of when I could have it. 257 00:17:43,162 --> 00:17:45,790 Of how I craved it. It was unbearable. 258 00:17:45,864 --> 00:17:47,798 You became obsessed with it. 259 00:17:47,866 --> 00:17:50,801 You're not planning to attack this domain's lord, are you? 260 00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:53,702 I find that statement amusing as well. 261 00:17:53,772 --> 00:17:55,797 You'll never leave this island alive. 262 00:17:57,709 --> 00:17:59,677 Give us a little time. 263 00:18:00,646 --> 00:18:05,242 I'll wait until dawn. Use the time to make up your minds. 264 00:18:07,453 --> 00:18:08,920 What do you intend to do? 265 00:18:11,457 --> 00:18:14,153 of the monster called the fire lance. 266 00:18:16,728 --> 00:18:18,889 Boss, we can... 267 00:18:18,964 --> 00:18:21,489 I will not have any lives wasted. 268 00:18:21,567 --> 00:18:23,091 Boss, please join us! 269 00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:27,400 I cannot. I must end this. 270 00:18:27,473 --> 00:18:29,771 You really can't just destroy it? 271 00:18:32,344 --> 00:18:34,676 I am the fire lance. 272 00:18:34,746 --> 00:18:36,873 And if I wasn't here... 273 00:18:36,949 --> 00:18:39,782 the spirits of those at rest in the sea would miss me. 274 00:18:41,053 --> 00:18:43,521 Nobody's lives should be wasted. 275 00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:53,261 I should have done this long ago. 276 00:18:58,303 --> 00:19:01,966 To carry this burden, I had to... 277 00:19:02,741 --> 00:19:05,733 Stop it! Stop it, please! 278 00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:09,247 Taromaru! You will be the next leader! 279 00:19:09,314 --> 00:19:11,874 No! I don't want to be! 280 00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:14,942 Stop it! STOP lT! 281 00:19:16,088 --> 00:19:17,715 Father, you're a coward! 282 00:19:17,789 --> 00:19:19,757 We're abandoning the Kawakubo Clan! 283 00:19:19,825 --> 00:19:23,955 Stop protecting that thing and let this end with your generation! 284 00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:27,487 Until you do, the younger generation will live on that island! 285 00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:37,002 If I'd tried with all my might to stop it that time... 286 00:19:37,075 --> 00:19:38,770 it never would have happened. 287 00:19:47,486 --> 00:19:48,817 They fled? 288 00:19:54,026 --> 00:19:56,824 Wait for me. I'm coming to you now. 289 00:20:53,151 --> 00:20:55,085 Master Taromaru. 290 00:20:55,153 --> 00:20:56,711 Master Taromaru! 291 00:20:56,788 --> 00:20:57,846 Boss. 292 00:21:01,893 --> 00:21:05,351 To the next world, we commit Thee. 293 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:11,334 You dare to call this an exorcism?! 294 00:21:11,403 --> 00:21:13,564 What's wrong? 295 00:21:13,639 --> 00:21:17,268 Maybe you blame what you do on evil spirits... 296 00:21:17,342 --> 00:21:19,810 but you're all really just murderers! 297 00:21:19,878 --> 00:21:22,438 You're one to talk! 298 00:21:22,514 --> 00:21:25,847 Haven't you done things just as bad as us?! 299 00:21:36,662 --> 00:21:37,754 But they were... 300 00:21:37,829 --> 00:21:39,353 Exactly the same! 301 00:21:39,431 --> 00:21:42,491 Monsters whose hearts carried darkness within. 302 00:21:42,567 --> 00:21:44,694 N- No! They were all people! 303 00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:48,729 You're saying you're a murderer, then? 304 00:21:52,778 --> 00:21:55,076 Mata, that boat there... 305 00:22:00,652 --> 00:22:02,313 Those little hags! 306 00:22:02,387 --> 00:22:04,548 Where are they taking it? 307 00:22:04,623 --> 00:22:06,989 There's only one place I can think of. 308 00:22:07,059 --> 00:22:08,549 The fief of Kitabayashi. 309 00:22:16,034 --> 00:22:21,438 Wind chimes whisper soft and sweet 310 00:22:23,475 --> 00:22:29,243 Though there's not a hint of a breeze 311 00:22:30,549 --> 00:22:36,283 Moonlight dancing on the garden walk 312 00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:42,954 As it gently drifts through the trees 313 00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:50,266 Romance takes flight on this perfect night 314 00:22:50,335 --> 00:22:56,968 While all of the world lays sleeping 315 00:22:57,843 --> 00:23:07,275 Find us here as we feel the moment of love 316 00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:12,056 Draw near 317 00:23:12,124 --> 00:23:19,053 Dream, sleep, with your hand in mine 318 00:23:19,131 --> 00:23:24,694 Underneath a blanket of stars 319 00:23:27,239 --> 00:23:32,199 Song birds singing in a distant glade 320 00:23:32,277 --> 00:23:41,117 As we share the warmth of the dawn 321 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,253 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 322 00:23:50,328 --> 00:23:53,092 Ieaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public. 323 00:23:53,165 --> 00:23:55,565 One man haunts seven others to death. 324 00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:58,262 Those seven each haunt seven more to death. 325 00:23:58,336 --> 00:24:00,600 A curse runs deep in Kitabayashi. 326 00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:03,971 A chain of curses resembling pictures of atrocities. 327 00:24:04,042 --> 00:24:08,342 Next time, on Natsuhiko Kyogoku's "Requiem from the Darkness:" 328 00:24:08,413 --> 00:24:12,850 "The Death Spirits of Seven Man Point, Part 1." 329 00:24:12,918 --> 00:24:15,045 To the next world, we commit Thee!