# 8 - Betrayer's Strike
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**[00:00] Gu**
Now, the gods are on my side.
**[00:04] Gu**
A silver badge.
**[00:06] Gu**
Are those Mongol letters?
**[00:08] Gu**
Listen, Shiraishi.
I wanted to ask you something.
**[00:12] Gu**
Why are you risking death here?
**[00:15] Gu**
There's nothing in it for you.
**[00:16] Gu**
Well... It just ended up that way, I guess.
**[00:21] Gu**
I felt like I had to do something
after watching the islanders
**[00:24] Gu**
get slaughtered by the Mongol armies.
**[00:28] Gu**
Shiraishi, let's be honest with each other.
**[00:32] Gu**
What are you trying to say?
**[00:33] Gu**
I'm asking you if you're
really okay with this.
**[00:36] Gu**
If you still have any pride as a samurai,
**[00:40] Gu**
then you shouldn't sell
your services for free.
**[00:42] Gu**
You need to fight for a reward.
**[00:49] Gu**
Let me hear you out.
**[02:21] Gu**
There are people who aren't in the
Toibarai who know about this castle.
**[02:25] Gu**
And we just killed a shit ton of Mongols.
**[02:28] Gu**
They'll find us. It's certain.
**[02:31] Gu**
We can't stay here.
**[02:33] Gu**
We need to get as far away
from the Mongols as we possibly can.
**[02:38] Gu**
Do what you want,
**[02:39] Gu**
but we won't abandon this place.
**[02:42] Gu**
This castle and the villages along the coast,
**[02:45] Gu**
make up the land where
Toibarai's ancestors' souls dwell.
**[02:48] Gu**
The soldiers' morale will fail them
if they try to fight anywhere else.
**[02:52] Gu**
Fighting here is what
will give us the advantage.
**[02:57] Gu**
I see. So that's it.
**[02:59] Gu**
You didn't take in all those people
from the capital and Sasu
**[03:03] Gu**
just because of the Emperor's
orders or your ancestor's words.
**[03:06] Gu**
You wanted as many extra men
as possible to protect this place.
**[03:13] Gu**
If you want to leave, we won't stop you.
**[03:17] Gu**
But even if you can escape the Mongols,
**[03:20] Gu**
can you survive General Winter?
**[03:24] Gu**
Alone in the wilderness with
nothing but the clothes on your back,
**[03:28] Gu**
all you'll find is hunger and the cold.
**[03:31] Gu**
We're not telling you to fight here.
**[03:36] Gu**
Just stay inside the strong stone walls,
and wait for them to pass.
**[03:46] Gi**
Wait!
**[03:47] Gu**
Leave him.
**[03:56] Gu**
Hey, I heard you told the Magistrate
to abandon the castle.
**[04:02] Gu**
You're not even from this island, exile.
**[04:04] Gu**
Don't try to tell us what to do.
**[04:10] Gu**
Hey, I heard you're good at some sword
style called "Gikei style," right?
**[04:15] Gu**
Can you give us a lesson with this stick?
**[04:21] Gu**
No need for that.
**[04:22] Gu**
I'll fight you with this.
**[04:25] ---**
Bastard!
**[04:31] Gu**
That's not a sword!
**[04:34] Gu**
If you want to die, I can use that stick.
**[04:36] Gu**
Gikei style is...
**[04:44] Gu**
...a style used to kill.
**[04:47] Gu**
Then kill me!
**[04:49] Gu**
All of us would be glad to die
in the land of our ancestors!
**[04:53] (Flashback) Gu**
I'll do the best I can to protect it!
**[04:59] Gu**
Okay, how about this?
**[05:02] Gu**
I'll fight you all at once.
**[05:05] Gu**
If you all lose, show me
your faces and tell me your names.
**[05:09] Gu**
Hey, Kuchii and the Toibarai are fighting!
**[05:13] Gu**
What?
**[05:18] Gu**
The exile from the capital started a fight!
**[05:20] Gu**
Let's join in!
**[05:21] Gu**
Come and get us!
**[05:22] Gu**
You want to fight, asshole?
**[05:24] Gu**
The hell you say?
**[05:25] Gu**
Get out of here! Damn it!
**[05:26] Gu**
Hey, what's all this about?
**[05:28] Gu**
They just asked me for a sparring match.
**[05:33] Gu**
Now, take off your helmets
and give me your names.
**[05:37] Gu**
Fine. We promised we would.
**[05:39] Gu**
Nakamaru of Mitsuka.
**[05:41] Gu**
Kamaami.
**[05:42] Gu**
Jirou.
**[05:43] Gu**
Tasuke.
**[05:44] Gu**
Will the rest of you take off your
masks and give me your names, as well?
**[05:48] ---**
What?
**[05:49] Gu**
If we do have to fight the Mongols here,
**[05:53] Gu**
can you entrust your lives to people
whose faces and names you don't know?
**[05:59] Gu**
So, Kuchii Jinzaburou,
**[06:02] Gu**
if we do have to fight the Mongols here,
**[06:06] Gu**
will you stay in the castle?
**[06:09] Gu**
I owe you a debt from yesterday.
**[06:11] Gu**
And this is the place where you'll
really do the best you can, right?
**[06:17] Gu**
I guess I've got no choice
but to help you, then.
**[06:19] Gu**
Maybe it was wrong to try and
give up on a place to protect people,
**[06:23] Gu**
instead of trying to protect
both the people and a place.
**[06:26] Gu**
If you stay here, you'll really be able
to show me all you've got, right?
**[06:34] Gu**
Of course.
**[06:36] Gu**
But if you just use these walls to hide,
**[06:38] Gu**
they won't protect you
when you need them most.
**[06:41] Gu**
I'm going to strengthen
the castle's defenses.
**[06:44] Gu**
You don't need to tell us that.
**[06:51] Gu**
Two days ago,
**[06:52] Gu**
I left Sasu Valley and arrived
at a small fishing village.
**[06:57] Gu**
I was invited to the house
of a certain family...
**[07:00] Gu**
But for some reason,
the villagers attacked me.
**[07:07] Gu**
I was captured.
**[07:09] Gu**
And then the Mongol soldiers arrived.
**[07:14] Gu**
I thought it was over for sure that time...
**[07:18] Gu**
But this Mongol general
named Nergui or something...
**[07:21] Gu**
He seemed to realize my potential.
**[07:25] Gu**
This is a Mongol pass he gave me.
**[07:29] Gu**
I can go to meet him any time I want.
**[07:32] Gu**
So you're a traitor?
**[07:34] Gu**
That's a nasty way to put it.
**[07:36] Gu**
Our job is to fight for a liege
in exchange for the lands he lets us have.
**[07:41] Gu**
Whether that liege is Japanese
or Mongol makes no difference.
**[07:48] Gu**
How about it, Shiraishi?
**[07:50] Gu**
We can serve the Mongol army
and win glory for ourselves,
**[07:52] Gu**
receive lands from the Mongol general,
**[07:54] Gu**
and go back to being landed lords!
**[08:00] Gu**
Damn it all!
***SIGN*** Uriyan Edei's Army
Funbishi
**[08:02] Gu**
Where the hell did those Japanese escape to?
**[08:05] Gu**
I have men looking for them,
***SIGN*** Uriyan Edei's Army
Ochirubato
**[08:06] Gu**
but these mountains are bigger than they look.
**[08:08] Gu**
They're the perfect place
for those monkeys to hide.
**[08:10] Gu**
It's not like they
disappeared into thin air.
***SIGN*** Uriyan Edei's Army
Choukuru
**[08:13] Gu**
Are there no traces at all?
**[08:15] Gu**
Let's just ignore the islanders.
**[08:18] Gu**
What?
**[08:18] Gu**
There are only a few days until the time
the priests have told us to leave port.
**[08:24] Gu**
I believe our best choice is to let
**[08:26] Gu**
the soldiers rest before we
continue our conquest of Japan.
**[08:29] Gu**
So we give up?
**[08:31] Gu**
Impossible!
**[08:32] Gu**
That's what the Japanese want us to do.
**[08:37] Gu**
Yes. If we don't know where they are,
there's nothing we can do.
**[08:42] Gu**
We'll call off the pursuit.
**[08:43] ---**
Shit!
**[08:46] Gu**
* I guess I won't get that girl*
* I was looking forward to, huh?*
**[08:51] Gu**
If I may, General...
**[08:53] Gu**
What is it, Nergui?
**[08:55] Gu**
While you were gone,
**[08:58] Gu**
I convinced several
of the islanders to act as spies,
**[09:01] Gu**
and spread them throughout the island.
**[09:03] Gu**
If we're lucky,
**[09:06] Gu**
they might tell us where our foes
are hiding as soon as today.
**[09:10] Gu**
That changes things.
**[09:14] Gu**
Our commanders have given us
the capital, the best meal on the island.
**[09:22] Gu**
We need to make sure we suck it
down to the marrow of its bones,
**[09:25] Gu**
or it just wouldn't feel right, would it?
**[09:27] Gu**
What do you think, Shiraishi?
**[09:30] Gu**
It's not a bad deal, is it?
**[09:32] Gu**
They might make us governors if we're lucky!
**[09:38] Gu**
Why are you so worried?
**[09:40] Gu**
Do we have anything left to lose?
**[09:45] Gu**
We do.
**[09:49] Gu**
I don't want to lose my soul, as well.
**[09:53] Gu**
I appreciate the offer,
but I can't betray everyone.
**[09:57] Gu**
Sheesh... My brother was the same way.
**[10:01] Gu**
"Duty." "Soul."
**[10:03] Gu**
While he was fretting and worrying,
**[10:05] Gu**
someone else took the initiative, and he died.
**[10:07] Gu**
And that someone was me!
**[10:11] Gu**
You're an exile.
It's the same for you, right?
**[10:15] Gu**
Is your soul so wonderful
you'd miss it if you lost it?
**[10:21] Gu**
Enough, Obusuma.
**[10:23] Gu**
I'll let you go, just this once.
**[10:25] Gu**
Go.
**[10:28] Gu**
How nice of you.
**[10:31] Gu**
I owe you one!
**[10:43] Gu**
I knew exactly what you'd do.
**[10:44] Gu**
Damn it...
**[10:50] Gi**
Why did you kill him, mister?
**[10:53] Gu**
You're one of the divers from before?
**[10:56] Gu**
Look.
**[10:57] Gu**
He was working with the Mongols.
**[11:01] Gi**
A traitor?
**[11:04] Gu**
But I didn't need to kill him.
**[11:08] Gi**
No, you did the only thing you could do!
**[11:11] Gi**
I'll tell everyone for you!
**[11:15] Gi**
I'll go bring someone.
**[11:18] Gu**
Wait.
**[11:20] Gi**
What? Mis—
**[11:33] Gi**
Why?
**[11:45] Gu**
I'm sorry.
**[11:50] Gu**
I-I changed my mind about you.
**[12:06] Gu**
Obusuma Saburou...
**[12:08] Gu**
I can work with the Mongols,
**[12:10] Gu**
but not with scum like you!
***SIGN*** Chikuzen Dazaifu Magistrate Fortress
**[12:29] Gu**
How goes the loading of the ships?
**[12:31] Gu**
It will take more time.
**[12:33] Gu**
Get as many ships as you can,
**[12:36] Gu**
loaded with all the arrows
and provisions you can find.
**[12:39] Gu**
And then we need
as many troops as we can get.
**[12:41] Gu**
Once they're here, we'll have them
board and head for Tsushima!
**[12:50] Gu**
* There are people out there who*
* will fight for men they've never met...*
**[12:55] Gu**
*Just wait,*
**[12:57] Gu**
*Kuchii Jinzaburou.*
**[13:04] Gi**
Jinzaburou!
**[13:06] Gi**
I want your honest opinion.
**[13:10] Gi**
Are reinforcements coming? Or not?
**[13:14] (Flashback) Gu**
I'm sending 3,000 soldiers to Tsushima.
**[13:17] Gu**
They are.
**[13:18] Gu**
He'll keep his promise.
**[13:21] Gu**
A samurai always does.
**[13:23] Gu**
He said he'll send reinforcements,
and now he has to.
**[13:27] Gu**
The Shouni Clan are duty-bound
to defend Tsushima.
**[13:32] Gi**
I see.
**[13:34] Gi**
That's rare...
**[13:36] Gi**
You're never optimistic.
**[13:40] Gi**
But we don't know
for sure that they'll come.
**[13:43] Gi**
So stay sharp.
**[13:45] Gu**
* Just the promise of reinforcements*
* is keeping everyone's spirits up.*
**[13:52] Gu**
* But... I don't know if it's*
* really going to happen.*
**[13:55] Gu**
* They would have the terrain advantage*
* if they fought the Mongols at Kyushu.*
**[13:58] Gu**
* I can't believe they'd abandon it and*
* send their troops across dangerous seas.*
**[14:05] Gu**
*But if reinforcements do come...*
**[14:09] Gu**
*It means we can do more, but...*
**[14:16] Gi**
Onami-chan!
**[14:19] Gi**
How horrible...
**[14:21] Gi**
It's my fault.
**[14:23] Gi**
I should've come sooner.
**[14:25] Gu**
From the look of things, it would've
been too late, even if you had.
**[14:28] Gi**
Magistrate...
**[14:30] Gu**
What was the cause of death?
**[14:32] Gi**
This piece of shit samurai must
have tried to rape Onami!
**[14:36] Gi**
But she fought back and killed him, too!
**[14:38] Gi**
He tried to put his hands on other
women, and nobody liked him!
**[14:45] Gi**
Is something wrong, Magistrate?
**[14:51] Gu**
No.
**[14:52] Gu**
Let's bury Nami.
**[14:55] Gu**
Obusuma Saburou is dead?
**[14:57] Gu**
Yeah.
**[14:58] Gu**
He and one of the diving
women killed each other.
**[15:01] Gu**
What happened?
**[15:02] Gu**
No idea. Maybe he grabbed her butt?
**[15:06] Gu**
Loser.
**[15:07] Gu**
That's terrifying...
**[15:09] Gu**
I need to be careful around those women, too.
**[15:12] Gu**
*He looked like a decently skilled warrior...*
**[15:17] Gu**
*It's odd that he'd be killed so easily...*
**[15:19] Gu**
I guess we should go bury him.
**[15:22] Gu**
We all fought on the same
battlefield two days ago.
**[15:27] Gu**
Hey, where's Shiraishi-dono?
**[15:30] Gu**
No idea.
**[15:31] Gu**
He missed dinner,
and I haven't seen him since.
**[15:44] Gu**
So there's a castle in the
mountains on the north side?
**[15:48] Gu**
And the escaped islanders are hiding there?
**[15:53] Gu**
That's good to know.
**[15:55] Gu**
General, this silver badge is real,
but we can't trust him.
**[16:00] Gu**
This isn't the man I gave it to.
**[16:03] Gu**
The safe thing to do would be to kill him.
**[16:07] Gu**
You said your name was Shiraishi?
**[16:09] Gu**
Your reward will be dependent
on what you do now.
**[16:15] Gu**
It's dependent on what you do now.
**[16:18] Gu**
So you'll trust me, then?
**[16:20] Gu**
I want to keep as many
of my soldiers alive as possible.
**[16:25] Gu**
Help me out with that.
**[16:27] Gu**
First, can you tell me the
weaknesses of that castle?
**[16:33] (Flashback) Gu**
Do they have enough defenders?
**[16:39] Gu**
They don't have enough defenders
to protect a castle that size, I think.
**[16:44] Gu**
I see.
**[16:46] Gu**
So if we concentrate our forces
on a single point of attack,
**[16:48] Gu**
the other points will
become undefended, huh?
**[16:54] Gu**
It's possible.
**[16:56] Gu**
So, are there a lot of things
to plunder in the castle?
**[17:01] Gu**
Provisions, weapons, cloth, treasure...
**[17:05] Gu**
And more than anything, slaves!
**[17:09] Gu**
Especially the women and children.
**[17:11] Gu**
Only if we can take them alive, though.
**[17:14] Gu**
* I shudder to think of the*
* terrible thing I've done,*
**[17:18] Gu**
*but I can't turn back now.*
**[17:23] Gu**
Yeah, there's plenty.
**[17:26] Gu**
There's tons of treasure
inside that mountain.
**[17:29] Gu**
* If I've already betrayed them,*
* I may as well keep doing it!*
**[17:33] Gu**
Karaun, did you see that
expression he had for a moment?
**[17:37] Gu**
An expression of pain.
**[17:39] Gu**
And it was real.
**[17:41] Gu**
The face of someone who betrayed
his comrades and is overcome with guilt.
**[17:45] Gu**
That's the face of a true traitor.
**[17:48] Gu**
And anyone without that sense
of guilt can't be trusted.
**[17:54] Gu**
The Mongols prize those
who agree to serve us willingly.
**[17:58] Gu**
You were the first Japanese
to surrender to us.
**[18:01] Gu**
And you will receive
the best treatment of them.
**[18:04] Gu**
Now, my new Japanese friend,
**[18:06] Gu**
you may split the spoils with me.
**[18:14] Gu**
This is sulfur.
**[18:16] Gu**
If you cover a stick with it,
you can use it to easily start fires.
**[18:20] Gu**
It stinks.
**[18:21] Gu**
If they got it locally,
it's probably from Iwo Jima.
**[18:25] Gu**
It's usually used as medicine, right?
**[18:27] Gu**
I'd like some later.
**[18:36] Gu**
By the way, it seems
we're missing some exiles.
**[18:39] Gu**
That big one...
**[18:41] Gu**
Oh, I haven't seen Shiraishi
since this afternoon.
**[18:45] Gu**
This afternoon?
**[18:47] Gu**
Nobody saw him?
**[18:50] Gu**
What's on your mind?
**[18:53] Gu**
I'll come out and say it.
**[18:54] Gu**
I'm thinking his disappearance
might have something
**[18:57] Gu**
to do with the death
of a man named Obusuma.
**[19:01] Gu**
What do you mean?
**[19:03] Gu**
The man's collarbone
had been sliced clean through.
**[19:07] Gu**
The short katanas the women
carry couldn't do that.
**[19:10] Gu**
It was a tachi katana...
**[19:16] Gu**
Hey, everyone.
**[19:18] Gu**
Shiraishi! Where were you?
**[19:22] Gu**
I was following this thing.
**[19:25] Gu**
That's a huge boar.
**[19:27] Gu**
Nice work!
**[19:31] Gu**
It was tough.
**[19:36] Gu**
I'm happy to get a chance
to rest by the fire.
**[19:39] Gu**
We haven't had time until now.
**[19:42] Gu**
You guys are like a bunch of old geezers.
**[19:45] Gu**
We've got no drink, and I'm bored!
**[19:47] Gu**
Somebody sing!
**[19:49] Gi**
Yes...
**[19:51] Gi**
It doesn't have to be loud. Someone sing.
**[19:55] Gi**
Kano, how about you?
**[19:57] Gi**
A cheerful song.
**[19:59] Gi**
Something that would help us feel like
we made it through the day, and sleep...
**[20:04] Gi**
But I'm just a guard...
**[20:06] Gu**
It's our job to bring peace
to the princess's heart.
**[20:11] Gi**
How about we sing one of the hayauta
songs we learned as children?
**[20:15] Gi**
I'll sing the sue part.
**[20:17] Gi**
You honor me too highly, Princess.
**[20:19] Gi**
Give it up, Kano.
**[20:25] Gi**
All right. I can't promise
it will be any good, but...
**[20:31] Gi**
Where is the branch I shall rest on tonight?
**[20:39] Gi**
It's far ahead, beyond the mountains.
**[20:47] Gi**
A kotsuzura tree deep in the mountains.
**[20:55] Gu**
Hmph! I know a more elegant song than this.
**[20:55] Gi**
A kotsuzura tree as the sun sets...
**[20:59] Gu**
I'm sure you do,
but I'd rather they sing than you.
**[21:03] Gi**
Grab on to the heron's neck...
**[21:11] Gi**
It's so long, so very long...
**[21:28] Gu**
Hey, look! Smoke signals!
**[21:33] Gu**
The Mongols are coming?
**[21:36] Gu**
They found this place?
**[21:38] Gu**
I don't know.
**[21:39] Gu**
But they're heading straight here.
**[21:42] Gu**
They'll reach Kanatanoki
Castle this afternoon.
**[21:48] Gu**
*So they're here...*
**[21:50] Gu**
* Now that the Mongols had a target,*
* they marched straight for it.*
**[21:54] Gu**
*Their march was filled with confidence.*
**[22:00] Gu**
*The battle of Kanatanoki Castle had begun.*
***SIGN*** Episode 08: Betrayer's Strike