1 00:00:02,077 --> 00:00:04,910 Was that the beginning, I wonder? 2 00:00:10,318 --> 00:00:12,980 Was it the end? 3 00:00:17,292 --> 00:00:18,884 My meeting those people. 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,928 The time I spent with them. 5 00:00:20,995 --> 00:00:24,487 Something inside me has finished. Something has changed. 6 00:00:28,069 --> 00:00:31,436 That's why... why I must go! 7 00:00:32,373 --> 00:00:34,967 To Kitabayashi... where Mataichi and the others are! 8 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:37,469 Even if what awaits me there... 9 00:00:39,114 --> 00:00:41,480 is something horrible! 10 00:00:48,289 --> 00:00:56,993 Wanting you to just be near, (to feel your breath upon my ear) 11 00:00:57,065 --> 00:01:06,030 Wishing you would call my name, ('Cause only you can light the flame) 12 00:01:06,107 --> 00:01:13,240 Constantly searching, still can't find 13 00:01:15,517 --> 00:01:21,513 Ever illusive peace of mind 14 00:01:23,691 --> 00:01:32,258 Sometimes it's near, but slips away 15 00:01:32,333 --> 00:01:38,897 And I'm faced with another day 16 00:01:40,141 --> 00:01:45,909 Of wanting you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 17 00:01:45,980 --> 00:01:50,440 ...to just be near ('Cause only you can light the flame) 18 00:01:50,518 --> 00:01:54,579 Of wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 19 00:01:54,656 --> 00:01:59,150 ...would call my name, to feel your breath upon my ear 20 00:01:59,227 --> 00:02:03,630 Of wanting you...wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 21 00:02:03,698 --> 00:02:11,264 Call my name, 'cause only you can light the flame 22 00:02:48,476 --> 00:02:51,536 I am the Lady of the Point. 23 00:02:51,613 --> 00:02:54,446 My enmity knows no end. 24 00:02:54,515 --> 00:02:58,144 If you wish to quiet the curse, raise a shrine to me! 25 00:02:58,219 --> 00:03:00,847 Pray for me! 26 00:03:16,838 --> 00:03:18,863 The curse of the Lady of the Point? 27 00:03:18,940 --> 00:03:22,273 Yes, milord. It has everyone, from the maids... 28 00:03:22,343 --> 00:03:24,937 to the head lady-in-waiting, in a panic. 29 00:03:25,013 --> 00:03:28,608 They're wondering if it isn't the ghost of Lady Kaede. 30 00:03:28,683 --> 00:03:31,243 So, the source of this curse... 31 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:32,843 is my mother, you mean? 32 00:03:37,659 --> 00:03:39,183 Apparently, people are already starting... 33 00:03:39,260 --> 00:03:41,490 to spread rumors in the castle town. 34 00:03:41,562 --> 00:03:43,154 What shall we do? 35 00:03:43,231 --> 00:03:44,391 You may kill them. 36 00:03:44,465 --> 00:03:45,591 Milord? 37 00:03:45,667 --> 00:03:49,000 Maid or lady-in-waiting, I don't care. 38 00:03:50,338 --> 00:03:52,306 None may be spared. 39 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:00,677 Is that clear, everyone? 40 00:04:00,748 --> 00:04:04,650 Anyone spreading insolent rumors of a curse by the Lady of the Point... 41 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:08,018 regardless of who they are, shall suffer immediate punishment... 42 00:04:08,089 --> 00:04:10,114 by order of Danjou, lord of the castle! 43 00:04:10,191 --> 00:04:11,658 Milord! 44 00:04:11,726 --> 00:04:12,715 Have mercy! 45 00:04:13,928 --> 00:04:17,728 These women shall be burned at the stake. So... 46 00:04:17,799 --> 00:04:22,236 You people...don't you want a little sample beforehand? 47 00:04:23,304 --> 00:04:27,741 The castle's-- the lord's maids are yours to do with as you please. 48 00:04:27,809 --> 00:04:29,606 The lord has granted his permission for it! 49 00:04:52,033 --> 00:04:53,557 Our shrine! 50 00:04:53,634 --> 00:04:57,934 It's the curse! The curse of the Lady of the Point! 51 00:04:58,006 --> 00:05:00,975 Damn you! Still you say it?! 52 00:05:06,614 --> 00:05:08,809 There is no curse! 53 00:05:08,883 --> 00:05:11,374 Danjou, lord of the castle, so declares it! 54 00:05:13,054 --> 00:05:14,351 What was that?! 55 00:05:14,422 --> 00:05:16,151 That came from the castle's family temple. 56 00:05:16,224 --> 00:05:18,192 This must be... 57 00:05:23,297 --> 00:05:24,662 The curse! 58 00:05:24,732 --> 00:05:25,960 This fief is cursed! 59 00:05:26,034 --> 00:05:27,433 By the Lady of the Point. 60 00:05:31,105 --> 00:05:35,132 Can you not hear it? The enraged voice of the Lady of the Point? 61 00:05:35,209 --> 00:05:39,509 Can you not hear it? The cursed voice which lingers here? 62 00:05:40,581 --> 00:05:42,640 If you hear it, then pray! 63 00:05:42,717 --> 00:05:45,379 Pray to calm her anger. 64 00:05:46,087 --> 00:05:48,419 The Lady of the Point... 65 00:05:48,489 --> 00:05:50,423 resides over there! 66 00:05:53,161 --> 00:05:55,994 Pray! Pray with all your might! 67 00:05:56,064 --> 00:05:58,259 Those who do not pray shall not survive. 68 00:05:58,332 --> 00:06:01,301 But prayer alone will not save you! 69 00:06:01,369 --> 00:06:02,597 Then what should we do?! 70 00:06:02,670 --> 00:06:04,695 Master Exorcist, we beg of you! 71 00:06:05,206 --> 00:06:07,538 If you're serious, then pray with... 72 00:06:07,608 --> 00:06:10,736 the miraculous power of these sutra talismans! 73 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:16,974 One sheet, a mere 10 or 15 mon, is the source of life itself! 74 00:06:19,387 --> 00:06:22,948 Here. Distribute these to those in the castle as well. 75 00:06:23,024 --> 00:06:24,719 Thank you so much. 76 00:06:29,030 --> 00:06:32,761 I get involved in these things and can't ever back out. 77 00:06:32,834 --> 00:06:36,930 For heaven's sake, isn't that what Mr. Author's always doing? 78 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,399 Guess I'm in no position to criticize him, huh? 79 00:06:44,278 --> 00:06:48,442 Oh? Looks like it worked. 80 00:06:48,516 --> 00:06:50,450 Hmm? Where's Mr. Author? 81 00:06:50,518 --> 00:06:53,419 Say, now that you mention it, when did he... 82 00:06:53,488 --> 00:06:54,648 You don't suppose he... 83 00:07:11,372 --> 00:07:13,499 Ukon... 84 00:07:13,841 --> 00:07:17,368 That samurai was looking for a place to die. 85 00:07:17,645 --> 00:07:19,875 I won't let this place be where he dies! 86 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:49,274 It's been a while. 87 00:07:49,944 --> 00:07:52,139 You! Shiragiku! 88 00:07:52,213 --> 00:07:54,113 I mean, Tatsuta! 89 00:07:54,182 --> 00:07:55,774 So, you remember me. 90 00:07:58,853 --> 00:08:02,448 You can't escape! What do we do with him, Sis? 91 00:08:02,523 --> 00:08:05,822 He's working with those meddlers in the castle town. 92 00:08:05,893 --> 00:08:09,886 He was safe, yet chose to fly into danger again. 93 00:08:10,898 --> 00:08:13,128 Straight into Lord Danjou's pictures of hell! 94 00:08:13,201 --> 00:08:16,432 I thought so! He's reenacting those atrocity prints! 95 00:08:18,706 --> 00:08:20,105 Reenacting them? 96 00:08:21,976 --> 00:08:25,070 Lord Danjou has no interest in such things. 97 00:08:25,146 --> 00:08:27,478 Look well at these devils. 98 00:08:27,548 --> 00:08:32,349 They're from the first group we brought here. 99 00:08:33,287 --> 00:08:35,380 Some were good people chosen from here. 100 00:08:35,456 --> 00:08:37,219 Good sons, loyal to their parents. 101 00:08:37,625 --> 00:08:39,149 How do you like them now? 102 00:08:39,227 --> 00:08:43,960 Because they want to stay alive, they torture, rape, and kill. 103 00:08:44,031 --> 00:08:47,967 Now they enjoy it more than anything else! 104 00:08:50,238 --> 00:08:51,865 What are you... 105 00:08:51,939 --> 00:08:54,635 Lord Danjou is testing them. 106 00:08:54,709 --> 00:08:56,768 How far can humans fall? 107 00:08:56,844 --> 00:09:00,075 What are they after they can't sink any lower? 108 00:09:00,147 --> 00:09:03,048 At the moment, you can't understand. 109 00:09:03,117 --> 00:09:05,312 But eventually you will. 110 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:07,817 Stop this! 111 00:09:07,888 --> 00:09:11,051 You'll understand, too! You'll understand, too! 112 00:09:18,966 --> 00:09:22,163 Ukon! You're all right! 113 00:09:22,236 --> 00:09:25,296 Yes. And thanks to that, I was able to see my wife. 114 00:09:25,373 --> 00:09:27,432 Then your wife is still... 115 00:09:27,508 --> 00:09:30,636 She lived because she wasn't due to give birth, as in the picture. 116 00:09:31,245 --> 00:09:34,510 But her heart... Her heart is gone. 117 00:09:36,584 --> 00:09:42,784 Even so, I was able to see my wife again thanks to you. I am grateful. 118 00:09:42,857 --> 00:09:44,620 It wasn't... 119 00:09:45,092 --> 00:09:46,753 Anyway, Master Momosuke... 120 00:09:47,895 --> 00:09:49,362 Iook at that. 121 00:09:55,636 --> 00:09:57,729 Tell me that isn't... 122 00:09:57,805 --> 00:10:00,399 Yes. It is the flame lance. 123 00:10:01,475 --> 00:10:04,273 We have to stop it somehow! 124 00:10:04,345 --> 00:10:07,143 Then, shall I have you lend us a hand, huh? 125 00:10:09,617 --> 00:10:10,982 Ogin?! 126 00:10:11,052 --> 00:10:14,385 Boy, you're so troublesome. 127 00:10:38,446 --> 00:10:42,780 Now listen, don't move until our plan's complete. 128 00:10:42,850 --> 00:10:44,511 Wait here and keep still. 129 00:10:44,585 --> 00:10:45,813 How long? 130 00:10:45,886 --> 00:10:50,755 Not long. So don't get any ideas about saving your wife by yourself. 131 00:10:51,759 --> 00:10:55,855 Ogin... I've felt nothing but fear. 132 00:10:55,930 --> 00:11:00,993 When I saw those pictures and thought the same thing they did. 133 00:11:01,068 --> 00:11:05,596 All I wanted to know is whether or not I've become like them now. 134 00:11:05,673 --> 00:11:07,607 To see with my own eyes... 135 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:16,514 Mr. Author, you've spent too much time with us. 136 00:11:16,584 --> 00:11:19,212 You've just seen a few too many dirty things. 137 00:11:20,421 --> 00:11:21,718 Don't worry. 138 00:11:22,623 --> 00:11:26,582 No matter what happens, you're still human. 139 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:34,229 They're all dead! 140 00:11:34,301 --> 00:11:36,826 It's just as the exorcist said! 141 00:11:38,506 --> 00:11:41,168 Pray! Pray! 142 00:11:41,242 --> 00:11:44,006 The day of the curse draws near! 143 00:11:45,579 --> 00:11:49,640 The Lady of the Point's great rage shall strike! 144 00:11:50,251 --> 00:11:52,116 Master Exorcist, we beg of you! 145 00:11:52,186 --> 00:11:55,383 When is the day of the curse? When will this disaster strike?! 146 00:11:55,456 --> 00:11:57,890 On that day, rain will fall. 147 00:11:57,958 --> 00:11:59,755 Rain? Rain, you say? 148 00:11:59,827 --> 00:12:01,351 Yes. A rainy evening upon which... 149 00:12:01,429 --> 00:12:03,989 the cosmic balance of light and dark shall be upset. 150 00:12:04,064 --> 00:12:06,123 It shall surely be a moment of peril. 151 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,896 If you wish to avoid disaster... 152 00:12:08,969 --> 00:12:12,735 then purify your homes and pray to the Buddha! 153 00:12:12,807 --> 00:12:13,865 We have to purify our homes! 154 00:12:13,941 --> 00:12:16,171 Hurry! We have to get home! 155 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,214 Hold it, Mata! 156 00:12:21,282 --> 00:12:25,048 Even we can't whip up rain for one of our operations! 157 00:12:25,119 --> 00:12:29,749 No matter. You feel this wind? We're due for a shower. 158 00:12:30,724 --> 00:12:34,490 I can't ask anymore if the roar of thunder tags along. 159 00:12:35,696 --> 00:12:39,188 I see. Now that you mention it... 160 00:12:47,741 --> 00:12:49,368 The day of the curse? 161 00:12:49,443 --> 00:12:51,240 Yes, milord. Rumors are spreading... 162 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:54,110 that disaster is doomed to strike on a rainy night. 163 00:12:54,982 --> 00:12:58,543 Even the castle staff are leaving one by one... 164 00:12:58,619 --> 00:13:00,712 and retreating to their homes. 165 00:13:00,788 --> 00:13:03,222 It's the curse! The day of the curse is here! 166 00:13:03,290 --> 00:13:06,225 The day of the curse, just as the exorcist said! 167 00:13:07,228 --> 00:13:10,959 All this... the result of one exorcist's machinations? 168 00:13:12,099 --> 00:13:16,365 Appropriate weather for a disaster, don't you think, Junai? 169 00:13:16,437 --> 00:13:17,631 Y- Yes, milord. 170 00:13:17,705 --> 00:13:19,366 Is the flame lance nearly finished? 171 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,169 Yes, milord! Soon. 172 00:13:21,242 --> 00:13:24,234 Tonight! Tonight we will test fire it. 173 00:13:24,311 --> 00:13:26,643 Pardon me, milord, but I've heard the flame lance... 174 00:13:26,714 --> 00:13:29,080 is so destructive you could overturn the heavens with it. 175 00:13:29,149 --> 00:13:31,515 The test firing should be kept absolutely secret. 176 00:13:31,585 --> 00:13:35,681 Kaburagi, you seem to have misunderstood something. 177 00:13:35,756 --> 00:13:36,723 Milord? 178 00:13:38,292 --> 00:13:40,123 Th- then, you mean... 179 00:13:40,194 --> 00:13:41,752 Lord, it's arrived. 180 00:13:41,829 --> 00:13:44,263 That foreign beast Master Junai asked for. 181 00:13:44,899 --> 00:13:46,833 The foreign beast! The foreign beast! 182 00:13:48,135 --> 00:13:49,568 Wh- What the... 183 00:14:00,648 --> 00:14:03,310 Master Momosuke, could this be... 184 00:14:05,085 --> 00:14:06,575 A reenactment?! 185 00:14:07,388 --> 00:14:09,549 Stop! 186 00:14:11,825 --> 00:14:14,555 Now then, milord, please be satisfied. 187 00:14:14,628 --> 00:14:18,155 It's not often you see a plan like this! 188 00:14:19,433 --> 00:14:20,661 I've changed my mind. 189 00:14:21,969 --> 00:14:24,995 Did you not hear me? You will be devoured, instead. 190 00:14:25,072 --> 00:14:27,165 L- Lord, surely you're not serious! 191 00:14:27,241 --> 00:14:30,404 You both shall be devoured! 192 00:14:30,811 --> 00:14:31,937 Milord! 193 00:14:37,184 --> 00:14:38,173 Milord! 194 00:14:38,252 --> 00:14:39,879 What's going on?! 195 00:14:56,370 --> 00:14:59,965 To the end, they did not see their own vanity. 196 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,405 Now the girl. 197 00:15:01,475 --> 00:15:03,136 No! 198 00:15:03,611 --> 00:15:05,442 Stop this! 199 00:15:05,512 --> 00:15:06,740 Time to start. 200 00:15:15,422 --> 00:15:16,821 What?! 201 00:15:21,595 --> 00:15:24,496 I am the Lady of the Point. 202 00:15:24,565 --> 00:15:26,692 My enmity knows no end. 203 00:15:35,242 --> 00:15:39,474 Lord Danjou, it's dangerous here. This way! 204 00:15:48,889 --> 00:15:50,254 Sis! 205 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:54,520 Who are you?! 206 00:15:54,595 --> 00:15:58,031 That's enough mischief out of you, young lady. 207 00:15:58,098 --> 00:16:02,535 When it comes to controlling beasts, I have far more experience than you! 208 00:16:18,118 --> 00:16:20,643 White Hermit! Black Hermit! 209 00:16:22,656 --> 00:16:24,214 After them! 210 00:16:26,593 --> 00:16:28,117 Mataichi! 211 00:16:28,195 --> 00:16:30,129 Master Momosuke! Hurry! 212 00:16:31,098 --> 00:16:33,225 Mataichi! 213 00:16:35,703 --> 00:16:38,536 Shiragiku, soon it will be realized... 214 00:16:38,605 --> 00:16:40,766 the wish you and I share. 215 00:16:40,841 --> 00:16:42,832 All will be consumed in a sea of fire. 216 00:16:42,910 --> 00:16:45,640 No. All will be reduced to an age of darkness. 217 00:16:45,713 --> 00:16:46,975 Yes. 218 00:17:06,166 --> 00:17:08,828 This will incinerate everything. 219 00:17:08,902 --> 00:17:11,370 I can't let you do that! 220 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:14,098 Mataichi! 221 00:17:14,174 --> 00:17:18,201 You're too late. What can you do at this point? 222 00:17:20,781 --> 00:17:22,715 You think so? 223 00:17:46,607 --> 00:17:48,275 - The waves! 224 00:17:48,275 --> 00:17:48,900 - The waves! - Dear! 225 00:17:50,344 --> 00:17:52,403 It's a tsunami! 226 00:17:56,650 --> 00:17:59,346 Either way the city falls, the outcome will be the same! 227 00:17:59,419 --> 00:18:01,944 Mata, you can't stop it. 228 00:18:02,022 --> 00:18:04,752 Heh. I'll admit it's difficult. 229 00:18:04,825 --> 00:18:09,262 Mainly because the one who set this all in motion isn't actually human! 230 00:18:10,664 --> 00:18:13,929 Were he human, he'd feel pain in his heart. 231 00:18:14,001 --> 00:18:16,492 But that person isn't actually a person... 232 00:18:16,570 --> 00:18:19,596 am I not correct... Kyogokutei?! 233 00:18:21,241 --> 00:18:23,869 So, you figured it out, Mataichi. 234 00:18:23,944 --> 00:18:26,412 Impressive as always, my trusted agent. 235 00:18:30,584 --> 00:18:32,609 You three casting out the darkness... 236 00:18:32,686 --> 00:18:36,122 in people's hearts, one by one, will not change anything. 237 00:18:36,190 --> 00:18:38,124 It lies far deeper. 238 00:18:38,192 --> 00:18:40,717 There is no limit to its depths. 239 00:18:40,794 --> 00:18:43,627 And so you would have everything swallowed by the darkness? 240 00:18:46,333 --> 00:18:48,665 I'm merely returning things to their original state. 241 00:18:48,735 --> 00:18:50,794 The world as it is now is an illusion. 242 00:18:53,874 --> 00:18:56,536 Within the darkness, there is truth. 243 00:18:57,411 --> 00:18:59,538 Thanks for all your good work! 244 00:18:59,613 --> 00:19:02,639 Really! You did an excellent job! 245 00:19:02,716 --> 00:19:05,150 Now, as for you all... 246 00:19:05,219 --> 00:19:07,050 return to the darkness which spawned you! 247 00:19:18,565 --> 00:19:20,590 Mataichi! Ogin! 248 00:19:28,642 --> 00:19:29,870 Kyogokutei... 249 00:19:29,943 --> 00:19:32,503 the one who will be returning to what he was...is YOU! 250 00:19:55,269 --> 00:19:57,999 What?! What have you... 251 00:19:58,071 --> 00:20:01,563 It was you who underestimated the darkness of the heart! 252 00:20:02,242 --> 00:20:05,006 The darkness of the human heart is blacker than you can imagine... 253 00:20:08,482 --> 00:20:11,849 This fire springs from those you killed! 254 00:20:11,919 --> 00:20:14,410 From the darkness of those you used! 255 00:20:14,488 --> 00:20:18,390 Now, these dark feelings, these bitter thoughts... 256 00:20:19,293 --> 00:20:21,352 Iet them absorb YOU! 257 00:20:32,806 --> 00:20:34,433 Lord Danjou! 258 00:21:03,837 --> 00:21:04,929 The curse! 259 00:21:07,007 --> 00:21:10,067 Burning! It's all burning! 260 00:21:18,218 --> 00:21:19,947 Mataichi! 261 00:21:20,020 --> 00:21:22,614 Mr. Author, it's time to say good-bye. 262 00:21:23,357 --> 00:21:25,416 This may sound conceited... 263 00:21:25,492 --> 00:21:29,656 but the real death spirits here may have been us all along. 264 00:21:29,730 --> 00:21:32,927 Because death comes to all who involve themselves with us. 265 00:21:34,134 --> 00:21:36,125 Mataichi... 266 00:21:36,203 --> 00:21:39,138 You can still go back, Mr. Author. 267 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,135 Please go... 268 00:21:42,209 --> 00:21:45,042 back to where you live. 269 00:21:47,948 --> 00:21:49,438 No, please! 270 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:54,982 Momosuke... 271 00:21:59,292 --> 00:22:04,127 OGlN! 272 00:22:34,995 --> 00:22:40,092 If I turn here, I'll find Kyogokutei. 273 00:22:46,373 --> 00:22:51,106 Soon, I'll be publishing The 100 Stories, which I've so longed to do. 274 00:22:51,178 --> 00:22:54,147 "Thank you for all your help. " 275 00:22:54,214 --> 00:22:56,375 "Thanks to you, I got my wife back. " 276 00:22:56,450 --> 00:23:00,113 I've spent my days writing of the strange things I've seen from the sidelines. 277 00:23:07,561 --> 00:23:09,119 However... 278 00:23:09,196 --> 00:23:14,930 I couldn't write any more about the time I spent with Mataichi and the others. 279 00:23:18,105 --> 00:23:21,905 I haven't seen them since that final night. 280 00:23:32,152 --> 00:23:35,451 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 281 00:23:35,522 --> 00:23:40,152 Ieaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public.