# 23 - The Cherry Blossoms Scatter
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6NQ9PX36/basilisk--the-ouka-ninja-scrolls)
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**[00:00] [SONG] OpeningNarration**
We look the same, but men call us monsters.
If we shadows, which lurk
between eras, are destined to die,
then I shall fall with the cherry blossoms.
Then, I shall fall with the cherry blossoms.
**[00:16] Gu**
*Fifty years of a man's life*
**[00:23] Gu**
*are like a dream,*
**[00:29] Gu**
*compared to the heavens.*
**[00:37] Gu**
*Once a man is born,*
**[00:41] Gu**
*must he not die?*
**[00:50] Gi**
Hachirou... Hibiki...
**[00:53] Gi**
We can't let the demon king live!
***SIGN*** The Cherry Blossoms Scatter
**[02:34] Gu**
Who are you?
**[02:36] Gu**
Don't you know that you point
your blades at Nobunaga?
**[02:42] Gu**
Nobunaga-sama,
**[02:44] Gu**
you have returned from the land of the dead.
**[02:49] Gu**
The land of the dead?
**[02:51] Gu**
You say I died?
**[02:57] Gu**
Nonsense...
**[02:59] Gu**
I shall never die.
**[03:06] Gu**
Nobunaga-sama...
**[03:09] Gu**
Get back, Hibiki!
**[03:12] Gu**
Stop this, Nobunaga-sama!
**[03:15] Gu**
Begone!
**[03:19] Gu**
Nobunaga-sama...
**[03:21] Gu**
Who are you people?
**[03:25] Gu**
Do you work for Mitsuhide...
that kumquat head?
**[03:33] Gu**
Burn the monks of Mount Hiei!
**[03:38] Gu**
I shall conquer China...
**[03:40] Gu**
And Goa and Malacca, too!
**[03:44] ---**
They shall all belong to the
Demon King of the Sixth Heaven!
**[03:48] GI**
What are you doing, Hachirou?!
**[03:50] GI**
That isn't Nobunaga!
**[03:52] GI**
It's just a monster!
**[03:54] Gu**
Indeed... Right now, he's a monster.
**[03:57] Gu**
But before long,
**[03:58] Gu**
he will revive and become the true
Demon King of the Sixth Heaven.
**[04:05] Gi**
Hachirou!
**[04:06] Gu**
Nobunaga-sama!
**[04:24] Gu**
Die!
**[04:31] Gu**
Forgive me, Nobunaga-sama.
**[04:34] Gu**
The dead must remain dead.
**[05:11] Gu**
What was that?
**[05:13] Gu**
Some monster's trick?
**[05:16] Gu**
Disgusting...
**[05:17] Gi**
There's no blood within Nobunaga's body.
**[05:21] Gi**
He's... a puppet. Just a puppet!
**[05:58] Gi**
Get back, Hachirou! Hibiki!
**[06:53] Gi**
Namenba!
**[07:04] Gi**
That's...
**[07:07] Gu**
The Lotus Root Gun.
**[07:31] Gi**
Namenba...
**[07:33] Gu**
We're getting out of here now.
**[07:51] Gu**
Get back, Hibiki!
**[08:13] Gu**
That is as far as you go, Nobunaga-sama.
**[08:19] Gu**
It's time
**[08:21] Gu**
for you to return my body.
**[08:27] Gu**
Right now, I have no mouth.
**[08:32] Gu**
So I am borrowing yours to speak.
**[08:38] Gu**
Who is there?
**[08:43] Gu**
Kouga Hachirou, Suruga-sama.
**[08:50] Gu**
Kouga Hachirou?
**[08:53] Gu**
Where is Joujin?
**[08:56] Gu**
He is gone from this world.
**[09:00] Gu**
Joujin is... dead?
**[09:10] Gu**
You laugh, too, Kouga Hachirou!
**[09:14] Gu**
Suruga-sama?
**[09:16] Gu**
Laugh at me,
**[09:18] Gu**
at the destiny which led me to
be the toy of mere ninjas!
**[09:28] Gu**
Out of the way, loser!
**[09:31] Gu**
I am Oda Nobunaga!
**[09:34] Gu**
I say unto you, Nobunaga-sama...
**[09:39] Gu**
That, up until the end,
I refuse to be controlled.
**[09:45] Gu**
Oda Nobunaga,
**[09:48] Gu**
return to the hell where Joujin waits!
**[09:53] Gu**
Mother...
**[09:55] Gu**
Tadanaga is coming to you now.
**[10:24] Gu**
The ninjas were nothing but toys, as well.
**[10:29] Gu**
Let's hurry, Hibiki!
**[10:31] Gu**
Yeah.
**[10:55] Gu**
So that is what's left of our dream?
**[11:02] Gu**
What?
**[11:09] Gu**
Let's go back...
**[11:12] Gu**
Master.
**[11:15] Gu**
To how things were...
**[11:17] Gu**
Forever... and ever.
**[11:22] Gu**
Let's just go back...
**[11:26] Gu**
The corridors of time!
**[11:29] Gu**
Fool...
**[11:31] Gu**
If you do that...
**[11:35] Gu**
Where am I?
**[11:37] Gu**
This is Rinne Magoroku's technique,
the Adamantite Tower.
**[11:44] Gu**
My technique, the Inverted Halberd of Time,
**[11:48] Gu**
can make time's gears spin backward.
**[11:52] Gu**
If I scatter all these sands of time,
**[11:55] Gu**
there's no knowing how far back we can go.
**[11:58] Gu**
Enough! Stop!
**[12:00] Gu**
Everything is over, Kujaku!
**[12:18] Gu**
Enough! Stop!
**[12:19] Gu**
Everything is over, Kujaku!
**[12:28] Gu**
I'll just have to try!
**[12:37] Gu**
Your corridor of time flows backward,
**[12:40] Gu**
but it must be sealed within
my Adamantite Tower!
**[13:04] Gi**
What is this?
**[13:06] Gu**
I don't know.
**[13:08] Gu**
What's going on?
**[13:11] Gu**
Let's just find another path.
**[13:13] Gi**
Yeah...
**[13:15] Gu**
Give up.
**[13:23] Gu**
Rinne Magoroku!
**[13:25] Gu**
Is this your doing?!
**[13:27] Gu**
Half of it.
**[13:29] Gu**
The real blame lies with Kujaku's
Inverted Halberd of Time.
**[13:33] Gu**
And without limit...
**[13:37] Gu**
Time is flowing backward?
**[13:42] Gu**
Perhaps that is why my wounds healed.
**[13:47] Gu**
But it isn't only time that has gone mad.
**[13:51] Gu**
I used my Adamantite Tower to stop
the Inverted Halberd of Time,
**[13:56] Gu**
and it seems the two clashed
with one another.
**[13:59] Gu**
And this is the result, then?
**[14:02] Gu**
At this point, there is nothing I can do.
**[14:06] Gu**
We have been trapped in a place
where time and space have gone mad.
**[14:10] Gu**
Impossible!
**[14:19] Gu**
Thus, there is only one
thing left for me to do.
**[14:25] Gu**
Defeat you.
**[14:28] Gu**
You would still fight us?!
**[14:31] Gu**
Joujin is dead,
**[14:33] Gu**
and Nobunaga has returned to hell.
**[14:35] Gu**
Our blood and tears have
no meaning to you now!
**[14:39] Gu**
No, there is no meaning to this.
**[14:42] Gu**
But I can have my revenge.
**[14:50] Gu**
You are angry at the loss
of your comrades, too.
**[14:54] Gu**
And if you defeat me,
**[14:56] Gu**
this mad space may return to normal.
**[15:02] Gu**
Well... I can't guarantee that.
**[15:06] Gu**
What did you seek when you joined Joujin?
**[15:10] Gu**
Perhaps I merely wanted a place to fight.
**[15:22] Gu**
Now, draw your sword!
**[15:24] Gu**
Or are you afraid?
**[15:26] Gu**
You don't know if your eyes will
work in a place like this.
**[15:32] Gu**
I never had any intention of using them.
**[15:40] Gu**
I am Kouga Hachirou. Here I come.
**[15:45] Gu**
Stand back, Hibiki.
**[17:07] Gu**
Let's hurry and get out of here.
**[17:09] Gi**
Right!
**[17:21] Gi**
Saizou!
**[17:31] Gu**
Let's go. Follow him.
**[17:35] Gu**
Hibiki!
**[17:48] Gi**
Shikibu!
**[17:56] Gi**
Hachirou...
**[17:57] Gu**
Yes, they're no longer a part of our world.
**[18:01] Gi**
No...
**[18:04] Gi**
Shichigen!
**[18:08] Gi**
Shichigen!
**[18:24] Gi**
Looks like we have to go, too.
**[18:26] Gi**
Yeah. I believe in everyone.
**[18:30] Gi**
Yes, no matter where this leads us,
**[18:34] Gi**
it's where they want us to be.
**[18:38] Gi**
Let's go, Hachirou.
**[18:40] Gi**
Right.
**[19:38] Gi**
Truly... hell.
**[19:41] Gi**
The hell Joujin-sama desired truly
is in front of us now.
**[19:52] Gu**
The fire spreads and the castle burns,
until there's nothing left...
**[19:58] Gu**
Always a beautiful thing to see.
**[20:03] Gu**
The daily doings of mankind
are truly fragile things.
**[20:09] Gu**
It isn't enough.
**[20:11] Gu**
It isn't enough yet.
**[20:14] Gu**
We must turn this world into a true hell,
**[20:17] Gu**
starting with Edo.
**[20:33] Gi**
The town is burning... Edo?
**[20:37] Gu**
The Joujinshuu...
**[20:40] Gu**
You know our name?
**[20:45] Gu**
The Murakumo reached Edo?
**[20:49] Gu**
Interesting.
**[20:51] Gu**
What do you know of us?
**[20:55] Gi**
Hachirou, is this...
**[20:58] Gu**
Yes. Saizou, Shikibu, and Shichigen
**[21:02] Gu**
were no longer a part of our world.
**[21:05] Gu**
In a place where the Adamantite Tower
**[21:07] Gu**
and the Inverted Halberd of Time intersect,
**[21:10] Gu**
perhaps anything can happen.
**[21:15] Gi**
Then what is this place?
**[21:17] Gu**
I don't know.
**[21:19] Gu**
I don't know, but perhaps
it's a different "now"
**[21:23] Gu**
than the "now" where we fought the
Joujinshuu and lost our companions.
**[21:29] Gi**
No matter what world this is,
**[21:32] Gi**
we can't let Joujin destroy it!
**[21:38] Gu**
Fortunately, they don't know us.
**[21:42] Gu**
But we know them.
**[21:46] Gu**
We can win!
***SIGN*** Preview
**[23:26] Gu**
Saizou, Shikibu, Shichigen,
**[23:28] Gu**
Hachisu, Rui, Utsutsu, Hadaebou,
**[23:32] Gu**
Tokugawa Tadanaga, Namenba, Gorone,
***SIGN*** The Cherry Blossoms Bloom
**[23:36] Gu**
Iga Hibiki, and Kouga Hachirou...