1 - Destiny

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    There were people who loathed one another.
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    Their corpses withered in the fields,
    their souls soaked in blood...
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    And their bonds were broken by blades...
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    Collapsed in the darkness,
    their sincerity wails...
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    "My beloved, please die..."
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    Clouds shroud a night with a waning
    moon quivering in the haze
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    A cruel trap involving
    a pair of crucified fledglings°
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    Oh, since smoldering feelings
    lie firmly in their hearts...
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    destruction!
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    Gently as the water, severely as a flower
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    pierce with a trembling blade
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    Even when I shut the fated
    tears deep within my eyes
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    my eyelids still remember you
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    "19th Year of Keichou (1614 A.D.)"
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    "Sunpu Castle"
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    "Tokugawa Chief of Espionage
    - Hattori Hanzo"
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    "Swordsmanship Instructor
    - Yagyuu Munenori"
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    "Retired Shogun - Tokugawa leyasu"
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    "Kouga Manjidani Group - Kazamachi Shougen"
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    "Kouga Manjidani Chief - Kouga Danjou"
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    "Iga Tsubagakure Group - Yashamaru"
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    "Iga Tsubagakure Chief - Iga-no-Ogen"
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    Don't worry...
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    It'll only hurt...
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    ...for a second!
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    Iga-no-Ogen!
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    That sharpness!
    What on earth does that man wield?!
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    Female black hair, twined together
    and coated with secret animal oils...
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    'Tis the secret Kokujou
    technique of Iga-no-Yashamaru.
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    However...
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    ...there is no point in wasting it so.
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    Talk about pathetic, you Kouga geezer!
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    'Tis premature to be
    boasting of your win, boy...
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    Kouga Danjou! What was that?!
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    It was phlegm.
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    P-Phlegm?!
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    To think he would oppose
    Yashamaru's Kokujou with phlegm...
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    Ogen, make not light of it!
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    The phlegm of the Kouga Manjidani's
    Kazamachi Shougen is like glue!
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    Its adhesiveness, several hundred-fold!
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    This's more like it, kiddo!
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    Now you can't play cat's cradle anymore.
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    Bastard!
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    I'll kill you...
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    ...Kouga scum!
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    To think I'd ever see
    eye-to-eye with Iga trash!
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    Chief of the Kouga Manjidani group,
    Kouga Danjou...
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    Chief of the Iga
    Tsubagakure group, Ogen...
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    What ill-boding people...
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    Now I understand why the first
    Hanzo sealed them in darkness
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    and forced them into an anti-war pact...
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    Still, I do not understand
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    why leyasu-sama would
    wish to observe such rabble...
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    Ninja...
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    Indeed.
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    So a priest says to use ninja to
    decide the next Tokugawa shogunate...
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    Edo Castle is split into two factions
    over Hidetada-sama's successor;
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    one for Takechiyo-sama, and one
    for younger brother Kunichiyo-sama.
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    Even the senior guards
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    "Tokugawa Bakufu Overseer
    - Nankoubou Tenkai"
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    partake in this family quarrel...
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    Should we ignore this,
    even if we do destroy Toyotomi,
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    the Tokugawa shall also
    follow the path to destruction.
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    I know...
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    That is the reason I consult you, Priest.
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    And I have stated my thoughts.
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    However, it is far too late
    to settle things with reason.
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    Empathetic consideration
    would also prove futile.
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    Consequently, the next wisest
    choice would be to decide by having
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    two worthy warrior families vie
    in a 10-game match of swords...
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    Doing thusly would also
    save many Tokugawa samurai
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    from dying pointless deaths...
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    Therefore, ninja?
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    Indeed...
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    Even if ninja should slay one
    another and perish in a sea of blood...
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    ...it would make no difference to anyone!
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    Enough. Stop them.
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    --That is enough!
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    --That is enough!
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    Kouga and Iga...
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    To think such people would hide in
    a province bordering the Yagyuu...
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    How blind I have been!
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    I had heard of their names
    from the first Hanzo.
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    Their ninpou is said to
    surpass ordinary techniques.
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    Yes. That was most impressive.
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    Kouga Danjou, Iga-no-Ogen,
    I truly thank you both.
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    Incidentally...
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    Would you be willing to help
    determine the Tokugawa successor...
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    ...by fighting to the death
    in a ninpou competition?
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    Allow me to humbly say this.
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    Speak.
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    We... have been bitter rivals for 400 years.
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    Even were it not for the Tokugawa family...
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    Rescind the anti-war pact we made
    with the first Hattori Hanzo-sama...
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    ...and we can begin.
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    As you wish.
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    Yes. Well stated, Hanzo.
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    Then...
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    Inscribe upon these two scrolls
    the names of ten ninja of each clan.
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    The Kouga shall represent the faction
    wishing Kunichiyo to be heir.
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    The Iga shall represent
    the Takechiyo faction.
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    I entrust to them the selection
    of the third-generation shogun.
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    And once the two sides
    fight and slay one another,
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    the one to survive with this secret
    scroll in hand shall be the victor!
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    "The Ten Kouga"
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    "By Decree of Tokugawa leyasu"
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    1000 years of glory
    are promised to one clan!
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    To Kouga Manjidani...
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    To Iga Tsubagakure...
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    This is certainly an odd
    turn of events, Ogen...
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    That it is...
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    Just as we were nearing conciliation
    through our grandchildren's love...
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    The two could very well be
    with each other as we speak...
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    Such a pity... It just wasn't in the stars...
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    Wasn't in the stars...
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    Fate, indeed...
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    Providence is terrifying...
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    "9th Year of Tenshou (1581 A.D.)"
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    Danjou-sama!
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    Ogen-dono!
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    Sorry I'm late!
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    Today is the last day
    we can meet in secret...
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    Yes.
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    The next time we can meet is
    after both the Iga and Kouga clans
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    have been freed from
    their long-standing grudge.
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    It won't be that long.
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    The Kouga elder is on my side.
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    Hattori Hanzo-sama, too, wishes
    for a truce between the clans.
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    If I ask for mediation, they will
    unquestionably spare no effort to help.
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    Yes, Danjou-sama...
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    We must briefly part, Ogen-dono...
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    The sun is about to set. Make haste.
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    Ogen-dono, what is wrong?
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    Do you think it will be?
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    Come again?
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    Do you think... there will
    be peace in our lifetime?
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    Do not be fainthearted...
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    We must both patiently
    persuade those close to us.
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    When the time is right,
    we will bring both sides together...
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    ...and tell them about us.
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    Ogen-dono...
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    I will do my utmost...
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    I love you...
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    And I you, Ogen.
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    That's the first time
    you've ever called me "Ogen"!
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    I have cleansed my body...
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    That's...
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    The Tsubagakure village!
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    The Tsubagakure lookouts
    would never be destroyed so easily!
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    This is no ordinary raid!
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    Who would dare attack the Iga, and why?!
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    Oda!
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    Ogen! Where is the elder?!
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    Ogen!
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    Ogen!
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    My shoulder...
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    It only grazed it...
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    Grandfather!
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    Ogen...
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    I'm sorry. We rushed straight
    here, but he was already...
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    "First Generation - Hattori Hanzo"
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    Kouga Danjou, why are you here?
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    I see...
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    The Iga are doomed if nothing is done!
    Escape with the survivors!
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    Bastard!
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    Ogen!
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    Ogen! Just accept it!
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    The hammer will drop on Nobunaga eventually!
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    No human being would
    carry out such an injustice!
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    Danjou-sama, return to the Kouga...
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    I promise I'll come see you someday.
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    No, we need to get you to safety.
    But first you need medical attention...
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    Sakinta!
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    Who's there?!
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    Hannojou! Hikoza!
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    This is a Kouga blade!
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    Danjou-sama.
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    Renbu!
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    Why are you in Tsubagakure first?
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    I'll explain later! Why do you kill the Iga?!
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    What an odd question...
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    The retired shogun has
    ordered us to use this opportunity
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    to exterminate the Iga!
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    What?!
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    'Tis hardly an onerous job.
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    Oda's lines are infallible.
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    All we're doing is
    exterminating the Iga insects
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    who dare to slip through the cracks!
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    Unforgivable! I am the chief!
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    It was decided that your opinions
    on this matter need no consideration!
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    That can't be!
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    Danjou-sama...
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    Have you deceived us... and me?!
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    Ogen! How can you say that?!
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    Wait! This is some sort of--
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    Ogen?!
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    Ogen!
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    Ogen!
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    Your wound!
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    You said it was your shoulder,
    but it's actually near a vital spot!
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    Ogen! Show me your wound!
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    Ogen!
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    I guess it just wasn't in the stars...
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    Please die...
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    Kouga...
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    ...Danjou!
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    Incidentally, Ogen.
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    I doubt you know who
    the Kouga Manjidani Ten are...
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    Likewise, I doubt you know
    who the Iga Tsubagakure Ten are...
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    Ten?
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    You mean nine.
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    You let your guard down...
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    That Yashamaru boy is
    still quite inexperienced...
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    "Ogen"
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    Dan--
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    Farewell, Ogen!
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    'Tis the fate of one born a shinobi, Ogen...
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    Ogen!
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    "Kouga Danjou"
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    Melting away in the melody
    you whisper in the twilight
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    I sense eternity in our attracting eyes
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    and life sprouts silently
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    The dew of emotions that dances
    and flutters about in the spring wind
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    is a crumbling butterfly dream that
    wildly disturbs the path of the stars
SIGN    "Oboro"
SIGN    "Kouga Gennosuke"
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    "Kouga-Iga Border - Toki Pass"
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    Sorry I'm late...
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    Oboro-dono...
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    Gennosuke-sama...
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    "Mutual Thought, Mutual Killing"
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    "Next Episode"
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    Kouga and Iga.
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    Upon those opposites,
    the wind of tranquility blows.
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    Two beautiful hearts trust and bond.
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    In the night sky of
    their humble rendezvous
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    soar the blood-soaked signal fires
    that are the secret scrolls.
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    On the next Basilisk ~ Kouga Ninpouchou:
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    "Dual Stirrings."