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6 - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

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    I don't believe it...
[00:02] ---
    The Koma Sword is the Myoda sect's
    main object of worship,
[00:04] ---
    and he had a connection
    to father through it?
[00:06] ---
    Hurry up, keep reading!
[00:08] ---
    Oh. Right!
[00:09] ---
    Man, I'm getting a bad feeling about this...
[00:12] ---
    I don't know what Suguro's dad
    wants to ask me to do, but...
[00:16] ---
    Rin?
[00:17] ---
    Yukio, keep reading that letter.
[00:31] ---
    So, this is the former stronghold
    of the Myoda sect.
[00:35] ---
    Goma Hall is in the back. We should hurry.
[00:38] ---
    Indeed.
[00:39] ---
    Do you really think
    it'll be safe in there, though?
[00:43] ---
    Fudobu-ji Temple was built around Goma Hall
    to protect it.
[00:47] ---
    I expect that the Right Eye
    was originally kept sealed there.
[00:51] ---
    Returning it to its original resting place
    is the wisest choice, wouldn't you agree?
[01:00] ---
    It's been a while
    since I last came up this mountain.

[01:03] ---
    Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten!
[01:08] ---
    Come back here, you monkeys!
[01:10] ---
    Uh-oh, here she comes! Run!
[01:13] ---
    It brings back memories...
[01:19] ---
    Mamushi!
[01:20] ---
    Stay away from this place!
[01:29] ---
    Oh, dear.
[01:30] ---
    So this is where you've been, Mamushi.
[01:33] ---
    Your father has been worried sick.
[01:36] ---
    Ready to come home?
[01:37] ---
    Ms. Hojo.
[01:40] ---
    Is this Goma Hall?
[01:43] ---
    Yes.
[01:44] ---
    This was once a sacrosanct place that
    only the head priest was allowed to enter.
[01:51] ---
    If I do this,
    I doubt the others will ever forgive me.

[01:57] ---
    But now, it's just an empty shell,
    without a master or holy relic...
[02:03] ---
    The goma altar's sacred flame is lit!
[02:07] ---
    There should be some sort
    of hidden door somewhere.
[02:09] ---
    Let's look for it.
[02:10] ---
    All right.
[02:14] ---
    Until the Master... Until Tatsuma Suguro
    proves he is worthy of my trust,

[02:20] ---
    I must do this!
SIGN    Episode 6: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
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    The Koma Sword.
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    A demonic sword passed down
    as the Myo-O Dharani sect's main object of worship.

[03:59] ---
    Also known as Kurikara.
[04:02] ---
    It is said that Fukaku, Myoda's founder,
[04:04] ---
    summoned a fire demon named Karura
    into this sword,

[04:08] ---
    and used its flames
    to defeat the Impure King.

[04:12] ---
    Ever since, the Myoda have passed down
    the sword as their main object of worship,

[04:17] ---
    kept the Right Eye sealed away,
[04:19] ---
    and have had a strict rule about
    remaining apart from the secular world.

[04:24] ---
    Then, as if to mock all of that,
    he appeared before me.

[04:31] ---
    Wh-What are you saying?
    That's Myoda's main object of worship!
[04:36] ---
    Quit yapping! I know, chrome dome!
[04:39] ---
    Anyway, the thing's empty, right?
[04:42] ---
    How dare you speak of things
    you don't understand!
[04:46] ---
    Yaozo!
[04:47] ---
    How long do you intend
    to continue defiling our relic, you thief?
[04:56] ---
    Did you get him, Yaozo?
[04:57] ---
    That's our Yaozo!
[04:59] ---
    N-No, it wasn't me...
[05:01] ---
    The maniac was gravely injured
    the whole time!
[05:04] ---
    What?
[05:05] ---
    I'm amazed he could even move
    with these wounds.
[05:08] ---
    Who is this guy?
[05:10] ---
    What do you wish done with him,
    Master Tatsuma?
[05:18] ---
    You awake?
[05:19] ---
    Shiro Fujimoto, Senior Exorcist First Class.
    Order of the True Cross, Japan Branch.
[05:30] ---
    Where am I?
[05:32] ---
    Fudobu-ji, Kongo-Shinzan.
[05:34] ---
    You collapsed.
[05:36] ---
    We couldn't leave you like that,
    so we brought you to the temple.
[05:39] ---
    Are you kidding?
    You should've just left me where I was!
[05:43] ---
    You're a real soft touch, aren't you?
[05:46] ---
    Uh, you got a light?
[05:50] ---
    Hey, what are you—
[05:51] ---
    That can wait, Fujimoto.
[05:54] ---
    Just how much do you know
    about our relic... About Kurikara?
[05:58] ---
    Why do you want to take it?
[06:00] ---
    Hell if I know. I just came here
    on orders from my bosses.
[06:03] ---
    But I think they're gonna use it
    to kill a kid...
[06:08] ---
    Kill... a child?
[06:10] ---
    He said that without batting an eye!
[06:13] ---
    If you can move,
    I must ask you to leave at once!
[06:16] ---
    Whatever the circumstances may be,
    I cannot tend to a child killer!
[06:21] ---
    Don't worry, I'll leave.
    After I get the Koma Sword.
[06:25] ---
    You haven't given up on that?
[06:27] ---
    You don't have the slightest idea
    where in Fudobu-ji it might be!
[06:30] ---
    No sweat, I'll just bust into
    all of your temples until I find it.
[06:34] ---
    No, there's probably no time for that.
    It'd be faster to just ask you.
[06:38] ---
    So tell me. Where's the sword?
[06:41] ---
    Th-This man is—
[06:45] ---
    Come on, really?
    You wanna fight me with that?
[06:48] ---
    Stop it before you get hurt.
[06:55] ---
    Hey! Wait!
[06:58] ---
    Where are you—
[07:00] ---
    No, that's—
    Don't go in there!
[07:04] ---
    Wha—
[07:05] ---
    Wh-What the hell is this?
[07:09] ---
    Stop this!
[07:12] ---
    What do you think you're doing?
[07:13] ---
    Shut up! End this farce right now!
[07:16] ---
    You monster!
    Do you know what you've done?
[07:18] ---
    If we stop communing with the Buddha,
    he will forsake us and withdraw his power!
[07:23] ---
    Then answer me this!
    Has all your praying helped these people?
[07:28] ---
    You're a coward who plays the saint...
[07:30] ---
    You're the kind of person I hate the most!
[07:33] ---
    These people are way beyond prayer!
[07:35] ---
    You have to pull the toxins that make up
    the miasma out of their bodies right now!
[07:38] ---
    Y-You can help them?
[07:40] ---
    Yeah! I can save them all. I think.
[07:44] ---
    You there! Bring me radish, onion,
    heal-all, calamus, rock salt...
[07:48] ---
    Oh, and some eagle claw chili!
[07:51] ---
    Also, some petroleum jelly
    or beeswax or lard!
[07:54] ---
    Um, right...
[07:56] ---
    Will that save them?
[07:57] ---
    Don't make me repeat myself!
    As for you, heat up a bunch of water!
[08:01] ---
    Also...
[08:03] ---
    I could use that light.
[08:06] ---
    If this...
[08:08] ---
    If this really helps them...
[08:10] ---
    Then what have we...
[08:14] ---
    Torako...
[08:17] ---
    Tatsuma, I'm—
[08:19] ---
    T...
[08:21] ---
    To...
[08:23] ---
    Torako!
[08:29] ---
    Tatsuma...
[08:30] ---
    I-I honestly thought I was done for!
[08:37] ---
    I... I'm really going to be able
    to have the baby?
[08:41] ---
    Sure you will!
[08:42] ---
    Thank goodness... I'm so relieved!
[08:47] ---
    Thank you, Fujimoto!
[08:49] ---
    When you showed up
    to steal the sword,
[08:50] ---
    I thought you were
    some sort of bandit!
[08:53] ---
    Was I ever wrong about you!
[08:55] ---
    Huh?
[08:57] ---
    That was that. And this is this.
    Cough up the sword.
[09:01] ---
    I mean, I did save all those lives.
[09:04] ---
    And even taught you the treatment.
[09:06] ---
    I think I'm entitled to a little something
    for my trouble, don't you?
[09:10] ---
    Tatsuma?
[09:11] ---
    Y-You get some rest, okay?
[09:16] ---
    I thought you were a good person!
[09:18] ---
    Man, you really are the kind of person
    I hate the most...
[09:22] ---
    Trust me, I ain't.
[09:25] ---
    If you aren't gonna help,
    I'll find it myself.
[09:28] ---
    You'll never get anywhere
    if you're afraid to get your hands dirty.
[09:36] ---
    Father?
[09:37] ---
    That's him.
[09:39] ---
    Seize him!
[09:45] ---
    What are you—
[09:47] ---
    He's trying to escape!
    After him!
[09:49] ---
    Don't let that bandit
    leave this mountain alive!
[09:52] ---
    Father, what are you doing? That man—
[09:54] ---
    Tatsuma! Don't think
    this fiasco will go unpunished!
[09:57] ---
    An Order of the True Cross exorcist?
[10:00] ---
    You brought an emissary from those unbelievers
    into our temple and let him work their foul magic!
[10:04] ---
    You're wrong!
    Father, that man just saved many lives!
[10:07] ---
    He saved them... He saved Torako!
[10:10] ---
    That makes no difference!
[10:12] ---
    Outsiders who learn anything of the Koma Sword
    and the secrets of the Myoda,
[10:16] ---
    must be killed!
[10:20] ---
    I have a responsibility to protect Myoda!
[10:24] ---
    Father, what you're protecting is its rules.
[10:28] ---
    I'm...
[10:32] ---
    I'm not like you!
[10:34] ---
    Tatsuma! Where are you going?
[10:36] ---
    Tatsuma!
[10:40] ---
    - He went that way!
    - Don't let him get away!
[10:42] ---
    Crap, these guys don't give up!
[10:45] ---
    I tore open my wounds, damn it!
[10:48] ---
    Fujimoto!
[10:50] ---
    Tatsuma?
[10:51] ---
    Take it.
[10:55] ---
    The Koma Sword?
[10:57] ---
    I'll show you the way out. Follow me.
[11:00] ---
    Hey, hang on!
[11:02] ---
    What gives? Are you sure about this?
[11:04] ---
    It's all right. I've known all along.
[11:07] ---
    When I was a child,
    I once secretly drew that sword.
[11:11] ---
    I wanted to see Karura.
[11:14] ---
    But nothing came out.
    Not Karura, not flames, nothing.
[11:16] ---
    That sword is empty.
    I've known all these years.
[11:21] ---
    I'm through with praying
    over an empty sword!
[11:24] ---
    I finally found the will to fight!
[11:26] ---
    Thanks to you!
[11:29] ---
    I'm gonna kill a kid with this, you know.
[11:31] ---
    No, I know you won't.
[11:34] ---
    I can tell.
[11:37] ---
    You're a hopeless soft touch, you know that?
[11:39] ---
    The trail leads this way!
[11:42] ---
    Keep running in this direction.
    This makes us even!
[11:45] ---
    Nope.
[11:47] ---
    This makes us friends.
[11:50] ---
    Over there!
[11:52] ---
    - Drat, he jumped!
    - He's below! Head him off!
[11:58] ---
    Here ends the tale
    of me and Father Fujimoto.

[12:04] ---
    A few months later,
    the Blue Night occurred,

[12:07] ---
    and my father passed on the true secret
    of the Myoda sect with his dying breath.

[12:13] ---
    That secret was indeed a terrible thing.
[12:20] ---
    So this is where it was hidden!
    Let's see what's down there.
[12:28] ---
    It's a door!
[12:30] ---
    I had no idea there was a chamber like this
    hidden beneath Goma Hall...
[12:35] ---
    Give the Right Eye to me.
[12:37] ---
    B-But you said that carrying both
    would put your life at risk!
[12:40] ---
    We're practically there.
    And I'm more worried about you.
[12:45] ---
    I'm beginning to regret
[12:48] ---
    that my guesswork has caught up
    my dearest pupil in something dreadful.
[12:53] ---
    When I think about
    the repercussions for you...
[12:56] ---
    Are you having regrets?
[12:59] ---
    No, sir.
[13:00] ---
    I am the only one
    who can keep everyone safe now!

[13:03] ---
    You really are a fine young lady.
[13:06] ---
    Now, let's get this open.
[13:19] ---
    What is that?
[13:20] ---
    This is the Impure King.
[13:23] ---
    Ansei year 5 (1858).
[13:25] ---
    Fukaku, your founder,
[13:27] ---
    made a pact with the demon sword Kurikara,
    inhabited by the fire demon Karura,
[13:31] ---
    and battled the Impure King,
    but to no avail.
[13:34] ---
    He finally subdued the Impure King
    by plucking out his eyes and sealing them away.
[13:38] ---
    At that time, Karura departed from Kurikara.
[13:41] ---
    That is the truth of the Myoda sect.
[13:43] ---
    This is what the Myoda sect's
    secrets within secrets have protected.
[13:48] ---
    This is the Impure King?
[13:49] ---
    Impossible! Are you saying that
    it's existed down here for 150 years?
[13:54] ---
    But then, the Right Eye and Left Eye—
[13:57] ---
    Correct.
[13:57] ---
    If the Right Eye and Left Eye were to be
    returned to the shrivelled Impure King,
[14:02] ---
    he would be restored to his former glory.
[14:07] ---
    Mr. Todo, just what are you?
[14:11] ---
    Oh, Ms. Hojo.
[14:12] ---
    You are my dearest student,
    and hearing that tone wounds me deeply.
[14:18] ---
    However, I have no further use for you.
[14:23] ---
    Well, well!
[14:25] ---
    Master?
[14:27] ---
    Mamushi!
[14:28] ---
    Everything will be fine.
[14:29] ---
    I'll get you back to your father
    safe and sound, you hear?
[14:34] ---
    This is a cancer that corrupts
    all it comes in contact with!
[14:37] ---
    It ends with me!
    I won't let it infect another generation!
[14:41] ---
    I will protect everyone!
[14:43] ---
    Master!
[14:44] ---
    Any who would try to thwart that goal
[14:47] ---
    will answer to Tatsuma Suguro,
    the 17th head priest of the Myoda sect!
[14:58] ---
    Father!
[14:59] ---
    Surrounded by blue flames,
[14:59] ---
    Father! Can you hear me?
    Father! Father!
[15:00] ---
    I learned all the secrets passed down
    among the head priests of Myoda.

[15:05] ---
    Don't die! Father!
[15:12] ---
    I am called Karura.
[15:14] ---
    I serve the high priests
    of the Myo-O Dharani.
[15:17] ---
    Are you descended
    from its founder, Fukaku?
[15:20] ---
    Give me proof of your blood.
[15:22] ---
    I... I am Tatsuma Suguro!
[15:25] ---
    I am Fukaku's descendant!
[15:28] ---
    You are indeed of Fukaku's blood.
[15:31] ---
    In that case, I shall henceforth serve you,
    Tatsuma Suguro.
[15:36] ---
    I don't believe it. The high priests
    have employed Karura for generations?

[15:41] ---
    In exchange for what?
[15:43] ---
    What I desire is secrets.
[15:45] ---
    My existence. And the purpose
    I am made to serve you.
[15:50] ---
    The truth of all that is sealed away
    and kept secret.
[15:53] ---
    That is your price?
[15:55] ---
    To be more precise,
[15:57] ---
    the keeping of secrets is what gives me life,
    and I feed on lies and mistrust.
[16:02] ---
    In exchange for those secrets,
    I lend you the flames that quell your enemy.
[16:08] ---
    Our enemy?
[16:09] ---
    The Impure King.
[16:11] ---
    The remnant that has been slumbering
    beneath this temple for 150 years.
[16:16] ---
    Karura!
[16:17] ---
    The time has come for you
    to lend me your power!
[16:22] ---
    Master!
[16:24] ---
    Such is our pact. Ask, and I obey.
[16:27] ---
    Karura!
[16:29] ---
    Or do I call you the Vermillion bird or phoenix?
[16:31] ---
    That is quite the magnificent familiar
    you have there!
[16:34] ---
    Fiend! I don't know what you're planning,
[16:37] ---
    but the Impure King
    cannot be controlled so easily!
[16:40] ---
    Put down the Right and Left Eyes
    and leave this place!
[16:43] ---
    I'm afraid I can't do that.
[16:46] ---
    This is the moment I've lived for
    all these years!
[16:51] ---
    Karura-en... Kashoku-no-in!
    (Karura Flames, Fire-eating Sigil)
[16:57] ---
    I can't believe his physical abilities!
[16:59] ---
    Such tends to be the case with humans
    who are inhabited by a demon.
[17:03] ---
    All right, then...
[17:04] ---
    Karura-en, kafun-no-in!
    (Karura Flames, Spark Sigil)
[17:08] ---
    M-M-My regeneration can't keep up!
[17:12] ---
    So this is Karura's power.
[17:16] ---
    Mamushi!
[17:19] ---
    Allow me to play my trump card, then.
[17:23] ---
    No!
[17:29] ---
    Mamushi! Hang in there!
[17:33] ---
    Hold on tight to me!
[17:36] ---
    The Impure King is awakening!
[17:43] ---
    Goma Hall? Why would they come here?
[17:53] ---
    What in the world?
[17:56] ---
    Master! And Mamushi?
[17:58] ---
    Juzo?
[18:05] ---
    Juzo! Watch out for the droplets!
[18:15] ---
    What is that?
[18:16] ---
    Juzo, your timing is perfect.
[18:19] ---
    Some of Yaozo's quick thinking, eh?
    Good, that helps.
[18:22] ---
    I'll handle this, so take Mamushi back
    to the field office and bring help!
[18:26] ---
    Yes, sir!
[18:27] ---
    What is that monster?
[18:29] ---
    Mamushi knows.
[18:31] ---
    She's gravely wounded from carrying
    the Impure King's Right Eye inside her body.
[18:35] ---
    Take her back to her father for me.
[18:39] ---
    - What about you, Master?
    - I will hold him here.
[18:43] ---
    - Mamushi.
    - Master...
[18:46] ---
    You tell everyone everything.
    I'm counting on you.
[18:50] ---
    I understand.
[18:53] ---
    Master...
[18:54] ---
    Get moving!
[18:56] ---
    Let's go, Mamushi. Climb on!
[19:00] ---
    Master!
[19:04] ---
    My secret has been revealed.
[19:06] ---
    My pact to serve the head priests
    of Myoda is at an end.
[19:10] ---
    But your separate pact
    with me personally still stands.
[19:14] ---
    Before the Impure King can reach maturity
    and release his miasma,
[19:18] ---
    I have to try to pin him down here with
    the Joukafuu-no-in (Purifying Flame Seal Sigil)!
[19:22] ---
    The Joukafuu-no-in
    demands a great deal of power.
[19:25] ---
    I'll use Gouha-en
    (World-destroying Waves and Flames).
[19:27] ---
    I was under the impression that Gouha-en
    was devised to defeat the Impure King.
[19:31] ---
    If you use it now,
[19:32] ---
    you will forever lose the chance
    to defeat the Impure King.
[19:35] ---
    There's no choice.
[19:37] ---
    Let's begin!
[19:46] ---
    Gouha-en! Joukafuu-no-in!
[19:52] ---
    Right, that should at least keep him
    confined here for the time being...
[19:56] ---
    Whew, I'm beat.
[20:01] ---
    I did warn you.
[20:03] ---
    What, I ain't dead just yet.
[20:06] ---
    And as long as there's life left in you,
    there's always a way—
[20:14] ---
    Oh, dear.
[20:16] ---
    I do feel terrible
    about what I did to Ms. Hojo.
[20:20] ---
    Unfortunately, you're a man of mystery.
[20:22] ---
    You rarely come out into the open,
    making it impossible to locate you.
[20:27] ---
    I thought long and hard about what
    I would need to do to draw you out,
[20:32] ---
    and I concluded that the only way
    was to revive the Impure King.
[20:36] ---
    I was certain that you were using Karura
    to keep the Impure King sealed away.
[20:39] ---
    But then I was forced to while away
    many a year waiting for this day to arrive.
[20:44] ---
    You were my objective, Tatsuma Suguro.
[20:47] ---
    Or perhaps it would be
    more accurate to say your familiar!
[20:53] ---
    Tatsuma!
[20:57] ---
    He's eating Karura?
[20:59] ---
    What is this man?
[21:12] ---
    Its power is even greater than I imagined!
[21:14] ---
    He actually forced Karura to inhabit his body!
[21:18] ---
    A human, forcing his will on a demon?
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    No human could possibly do that!
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    Oh, my. I feel like I'm quite a bit younger...
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    Perhaps this is an added bonus
    from gaining Karura's power.
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    It's flapping around like mad
    in my innards!
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    It would seem that I'm not quite
    up to fully controlling it just yet.
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    But... I'll get used to it soon enough.
[21:44] ---
    This brings me one step closer
    to my ultimate goal.
[21:47] ---
    Thank you, Tatsuma Suguro.
[21:51] ---
    W-Wait...
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    Please.
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    I beg you, Okumura.
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    I want you to use the Koma Sword
    to defeat the Impure King.

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    I'm all too aware that this is an unreasonable
    and brazen request to make of you.

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    But if...
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    "If you have even the tiniest sliver of charity
    in your heart, as your father did,
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    I would like to appeal it.
[22:17] ---
    Thank you for reading this far."
    Signed, Tatsuma Suguro.
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    Next Time
[24:00] ---
    Episode 7: Like a Fire Burning Bright
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    Rin, give back the sword.
[24:08] ---
    This idiot's flames have been effective
    against demons before.
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    It's worth a try.
[24:14] ---
    Please defeat the Impure King!
[24:16] ---
    By a majority vote of
    the Grigori's Court of Inquiry,
[24:19] ---
    Rin Okumura has been
    sentenced to death.
[24:23] ---
    Old Man, why'd you save me?