# 17 - Three Companies Conflict
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***SIGN*** Flowers that bloom in the darkness
can only be at ease in the darkness
**[00:01] Ko**
*Flowers that bloom in the darkness*
**[00:03] Ko**
*can only be at ease in the darkness.*
**[00:14] Ou**
The beauty of falling flower petals...
**[00:20] Ko**
There is no need to let blossoms
fall before they bloom.
**[00:25] Ko**
**[02:05] Tani**
Here, sorry to keep you waiting.
**[02:07] Tani**
Today's curry rice.
**[02:08] Naomi**
Wow, Brother.
**[02:10] Naomi**
It looks delicious!
**[02:11] Tani**
Oh, right!
**[02:13] Tani**
Thanks!
**[02:13] Tani**
The sauce, the sauce.
**[02:17] Naomi**
By the way, Brother.
**[02:19] Naomi**
Did you buy the baumkuchen cake we saw
yesterday at the store near the harbor?
**[02:23] Tani**
Oh...
**[02:24] Naomi**
You forgot?
**[02:26] Naomi**
Come on! I told you I must have it today!
**[02:31] Tani**
Oh, sorry.
**[02:33] Tani**
By the way...
**[02:36] Tani**
Is this the cake you meant?
**[02:43] Naomi**
Oh, Brother.
**[02:44] Naomi**
You're going to get it!
**[02:46] Tani**
H-Hey!
**[02:48] ---**
Stop!
***SIGN*** Ah
**[02:54] Naomi**
Brother...
**[02:55] Naomi**
Must you work while you eat?
**[02:57] Tani**
I got the interview records
from the city police.
**[03:00] Tani**
The one with Kyouka-chan.
**[03:01] Naomi**
I heard she was an orphan before
the Port Mafia took her in...
**[03:05] Tani**
As for why she became an
orphan in the first place,
**[03:08] Tani**
her parents were killed.
**[03:12] Tani**
The one responsible was...
**[03:22] Naka**
Sorry to keep you waiting.
**[03:23] Naka**
I got you a case.
**[03:25] Naka**
Before that, though, here's a taser.
**[03:29] Naka**
The Port Mafia's after you, too.
**[03:31] Naka**
We wanted you to have it for self defense.
**[03:32] Naka**
Well, I don't think you'll be in
any danger this time, though.
**[03:36] Kyo**
What kind of job is it?
**[03:37] Naka**
You have to deliver this
envelope with evidence
**[03:39] Naka**
to a judge in court.
**[03:42] Naka**
And this is the judge.
**[03:45] Kyo**
Got it.
**[03:46] Kyo**
I've memorized his face.
**[03:48] Naka**
You're really into this.
**[03:50] Naka**
Is it because it'll be your first job?
**[03:52] Kyo**
No.
**[03:54] Kyo**
My first job was to infiltrate
a building and kill two people.
**[03:59] Naka**
*I see.*
**[04:01] Naka**
*She's always been working.*
**[04:03] (Flashback) Aku**
Demon Snow is an ability to kill.
**[04:06] (Flashback) Aku**
Only when killing someone does
Kyouka's existence have meaning.
**[04:12] Kyo**
I'll do my best.
**[04:21] Kyo**
We can't go in?
**[04:22] Guard**
You need a permit.
**[04:24] Kyo**
But it's almost time.
**[04:26] Guard**
Please sign in on that form
and wait until you're called.
**[04:31] Kyo**
But it's almost time.
**[04:33] Guard**
Sorry, it's the rules.
**[04:43] Naka**
Nope, the judge isn't picking up.
**[04:46] Naka**
I guess there was some miscommunication.
**[04:48] Naka**
We have to do something about the guard.
**[04:52] Kyo**
You mean get rid of him?
**[04:53] Naka**
Huh?
**[04:54] Kyo**
First, I'll use my charms to
lure him into a deserted place,
**[04:58] Kyo**
then stab...
**[04:59] Naka**
We don't do things like that at the Agency!
**[05:04] Kyo**
Then I only know one other way.
**[05:06] Naka**
Hey!
**[05:07] Naka**
Kyouka-chan?
***SIGN*** Authorized Personnel Only
***SIGN*** Switch Room
***SIGN*** Electrical Transformer
**[05:23] Guards**
What the...
**[05:27] Guards**
What are you doing?
**[05:30] Judge**
What's all this racket about?
**[05:41] Kyou**
A delivery.
**[05:47] Kyou**
Oops.
***SIGN*** Got in... a lot of trouble.
**[05:56] Naka**
Here.
**[06:00] Naka**
The president settled things.
**[06:03] Naka**
He's friends with the judge.
**[06:05] Kyo**
It was going so well up until
the power outage...
**[06:08] Naka**
*So doing that was fine in your mind?*
**[06:13] Naka**
So you're still holding onto that phone.
**[06:17] Kyo**
I had the service provider
change the program.
**[06:21] Kyo**
It's important to me.
**[06:26] Naka**
About possibilities as we move forward...
**[06:30] Naka**
If we can figure out the remaining
unknowns about your ability,
**[06:33] Naka**
and if you can control your Demon Snow
without the voice from the phone,
**[06:37] Naka**
then you can become an asset to the Agency—
**[06:38] Kyo**
No!
**[06:40] Kyo**
No.
**[06:41] Kyo**
I'm never using Demon Snow again.
**[06:53] Ko**
*Demon Snow,*
**[06:56] Ko**
* punish those who teach*
* Kyouka a world of lies.*
**[07:07] Ko**
Though it is the blood of vermin,
it's still beautiful when it splatters.
***SIGN*** Ability: Golden Demon
**[07:11] ---**
Port Mafia Executive
Omisaki Kouyou
**[07:12] Ko**
Don't you agree?
**[07:17] Ko**
My dear Kyouka...
**[07:19] Ko**
Do you know how I worried
for you and felt such pain
**[07:25] Ko**
that I left you with animals and vermin?
**[07:33] Ko**
But there is nothing to worry about now.
**[07:37] Ko**
You need not concern yourself with anything.
**[07:39] Ko**
I will protect you.
**[07:42] Naka**
She is not going back to the Port Mafia.
**[07:46] Naka**
Her strengths are for her
to use in Agency jobs.
**[07:57] Ko**
I knew I should have come for you without
waiting for Ougai-dono's permission.
**[08:03] Ko**
I cannot let you stay
here for a moment longer
**[08:05] Ko**
in this festering lair of hypocrisy.
**[08:08] Ko**
You must have been led astray
by their beguiling words
**[08:11] Ko**
and mistaken their world
for one full of light.
**[08:14] Ko**
But they will eventually ask
you to use your Demon Snow.
**[08:20] Ko**
Let us return to the place where you belong.
**[08:24] Naka**
Wait.
**[08:25] Naka**
Where are you taking her?
**[08:27] Naka**
The place where Kyouka-chan belongs...
**[08:30] Naka**
is the Agency!
**[08:34] Ko**
So slow.
**[08:38] Naka**
*A second demon?*
**[08:45] Koyo**
Maybe I'll finish my job first after all.
**[08:48] Koyo**
Die, boy.
**[08:50] Kyo**
No!
**[08:53] Koyo**
Ougai-dono wishes all Agency
operatives to be eradicated.
**[08:58] Koyo**
However, I pleaded for
your life to be spared,
**[09:01] Koyo**
and he agreed to make a special exception.
**[09:03] Koyo**
Come back, Kyouka.
**[09:06] Koyo**
You are a flower born of darkness.
**[09:08] Koyo**
You will only be at ease in the darkness.
**[09:10] Kyo**
No.
**[09:12] Kyo**
I am not a flower of darkness.
**[09:18] Koyo**
She has been blinded by the light.
**[09:24] Koyo**
It is a light you showed her.
**[09:27] Koyo**
But fortunately, all is not lost.
**[09:31] Koyo**
I doubt you would want to stay
if the Agency no longer has him,
**[09:35] Koyo**
even more so if he is killed because of you.
**[09:39] Kyo**
Okay!
**[09:41] Kyo**
I'll come back. So please.
**[09:46] Koyo**
Everything is for you, Kyouka.
**[09:53] Koyo**
You'll understand someday.
**[09:58] Koyo**
How precious you are.
**[10:17] Koyo**
Well done, Kyouka.
**[10:19] Koyo**
I did not sense anything from you.
**[10:22] Kyo**
I saw a bright world.
**[10:25] Kyo**
I cannot go back to a time when
I did not know such a thing existed.
**[10:30] Koyo**
Don't use it, Kyouka.
**[10:33] Koyo**
If you use it, you will...
**[10:36] Kyo**
Demon Snow, defeat my enemy!
**[10:44] John**
My Rocinante...
**[10:46] John**
The roads in this country are too narrow.
**[10:49] Love**
We'll just have to walk to our destination.
**[10:52] Love**
I really want to finish
this so we can go back.
**[10:56] Love**
It's been four years since
I was last outside.
**[11:00] John**
Oh, well!
**[11:02] John**
Let's go.
**[11:03] John**
Our luggage is about to arrive.
**[11:09] Koyo**
This blade is your true nature.
**[11:11] Koyo**
You kill anyone as soon as you
believe they are in your way.
**[11:14] Koyo**
You are like a demon, yourself.
**[11:15] Kyo**
No!
**[11:17] Koyo**
I can understand why you think that.
**[11:20] Koyo**
But a flower that has
bloomed in the darkness
**[11:22] Koyo**
can only be at ease in the darkness.
**[11:25] Koyo**
Why do I know that?
**[11:27] Koyo**
Because there was a woman who
also craved the same light,
**[11:30] Koyo**
but was burned by it and
fell into the darkness.
**[11:35] Koyo**
Come back, Kyouka.
**[11:37] Kyo**
I don't want to.
**[11:40] Kyo**
Despite everything, I still...
**[11:42] Koyo**
You cannot change your true nature.
**[11:44] Koyo**
You justify any killing
to achieve our goals.
**[11:48] Koyo**
If that were not true,
**[11:49] Koyo**
you would not be able to
use your demon like so.
**[11:53] Koyo**
After all, your demon...
**[11:56] Koyo**
killed your parents.
**[12:01] Naka**
That's...
**[12:03] Naka**
But why?
**[12:05] Kyo**
No, this is...
**[12:07] Koyo**
He would not understand.
**[12:10] Koyo**
No one who lives in the world of light can.
**[12:25] Koyo**
You no longer have to wield that blade in
search of a place where you can belong.
**[12:29] Koyo**
I will protect you.
**[12:36] Kenji**
Please duck.
**[12:43] Kenji**
Oh, look how it flies!
**[12:45] Kuni**
Are you okay, Atsushi?!
**[12:47] Naka**
Kunikida-san... Why are you here?
**[12:50] Kuni**
I modified Kyouka's cell so that it'd
send a signal if anyone called it.
**[12:54] Kuni**
Get up.
**[12:56] Kuni**
Why're you acting like a damsel in distress?
**[12:59] Kuni**
A weretiger's supposed to be tough!
**[13:02] Koyo**
Agency vermin!
**[13:04] Koyo**
Don't show Kyouka any more
of your toxic light!
**[13:07] John**
Wow, what great timing.
**[13:10] John**
It's like the split second
before a collision.
**[13:14] John**
If we could've come just a bit later,
we would've had it easy.
**[13:17] John**
Do you want in?
**[13:18] Love**
I don't care either way,
**[13:20] Love**
but all the stares are
making me uncomfortable.
***SIGN*** Ability: Grapes of Wrath
**[13:23] ---**
Guild Operative
John S
**[13:23] John**
Oh, fine.
**[13:25] John**
I guess I'll work for my keep for the Guild.
***SIGN*** Ability: The Great Old One
**[13:28] ---**
Guild Operative
Lovecraft
**[13:28] Love**
I'm tired.
**[13:30] Love**
Ugh, itchy.
**[13:32] Love**
Yuck, tired and itchy.
**[13:34] Kuni**
*Are they gifted Guild members?*
**[13:37] John**
Oh, keep the middle clear, will you?
**[13:41] John**
Our luggage will be arriving soon.
**[13:47] Naka**
Something's up there!
**[14:01] Koyo**
No!
**[14:02] Koyo**
Fire!
***SIGN*** Episode 17: Three Companies Conflict
**[14:16] Nath**
Come to think of it...
**[14:17] Nath**
Where is Sir Poe and Lady Louisa?
**[14:20] Margaret**
They have a fear of heights,
so they stayed behind.
**[14:24] Margaret**
They should just die.
**[14:26] Mark**
That was easy, Reverend.
**[14:30] Nath**
May God have mercy on the sinful.
**[14:43] Nath**
**[14:53] Naka**
*Where am I?*
**[14:56] Naka**
*I think there was an enemy attack...*
**[15:00] Yosano**
That's quite a superb critical
injury you've got there, Atsushi.
**[15:05] Yosano**
Well, it's time for treatment.
**[15:11] ---**
I'll use this one today.
***SIGN*** The detectives have fully recovered, physically.
**[15:20] Yosano**
What a helpless lot you are.
**[15:23] Yosano**
Without my ability,
**[15:25] Yosano**
you'd all be pushing up daisies by now.
**[15:28] Fuku**
How are you all feeling?
**[15:30] Kuni**
President...
**[15:31] Kuni**
I'm sorry.
**[15:33] Kuni**
I was there, and yet...
**[15:34] Fuku**
All good.
**[15:35] Fuku**
I'll be out for a bit.
**[15:37] Naka**
But isn't it dangerous to go out right now?
**[15:42] Yosano**
He's pretty riled up, from the looks of him.
**[15:47] Ou**
Hey, Elise-chan...
**[15:49] Ou**
Eating that much isn't
good for your health...
**[15:52] Erris**
Why?
**[15:54] Erris**
Sweetness is justice.
**[15:55] Ou**
Well, sure, but...
**[15:57] Erris**
I can consider trying on the dress
you bought me earlier, Rintarou.
**[16:03] Ou**
Do you want seconds?
**[16:05] Chuuya**
Boss, we received word that the
Agency got to the scene ahead of us
**[16:09] Chuuya**
and took Kouyou away.
**[16:12] Chuuya**
We can't take rash action
**[16:13] Chuuya**
now that one of the top five executives
has been taken hostage.
**[16:17] Ou**
Right...
**[16:20] Ou**
Okay!
**[16:21] Ou**
Let's kill the president of the Agency!
**[16:24] Ou**
I prefer assassination.
**[16:26] Ou**
If we hire outside contractors,
**[16:28] Ou**
we'll spare ourselves the labor
**[16:29] Ou**
and we can focus on confronting the Guild.
**[16:40] Dazai**
Hey, Sister.
**[16:44] Dazai**
It's been a while.
**[16:46] Koyo**
It has indeed been a while, traitor.
**[16:50] Koyo**
Boy, is Kyouka safe?
**[16:55] Naka**
She's missing.
**[16:59] Naka**
Because of you.
**[17:06] Naka**
What's so funny?!
**[17:09] Dazai**
Leave her to me.
**[17:13] Naka**
Dazai-san!
**[17:14] Dazai**
Just leave it, okay?
**[17:19] Dazai**
Well, then.
**[17:20] Dazai**
Sorry to get right to the point,
**[17:22] Dazai**
but tell us where the
Port Mafia's at in the conflict
**[17:23] Dazai**
and what your strategy is moving forward.
**[17:27] Koyo**
Have you forgotten the
Port Mafia's code, boy?
**[17:31] Koyo**
Those with loose tongues die first.
**[17:33] Dazai**
Your subordinates were marked with a brand
that identified them as torture specialists.
**[17:37] Dazai**
On the rare occasion that they ran
into trouble, I would help out...
**[17:44] Dazai**
Can you recall a single hostage who
didn't talk after *I* asked the questions?
**[17:49] Dazai**
This is not for the eyes of children.
**[17:54] Fuku**
All operatives are to leave
the company building
**[17:57] Fuku**
and gather at the former Bankoudou.
**[18:00] Kuni**
* Is that the place that used*
* to be your headquarters*
**[18:03] Kuni**
*before you founded the Agency, President?*
**[18:05] Fuku**
Only a select few know of that place.
**[18:09] Fuku**
If we cannot keep our location secret,
**[18:11] Fuku**
we'll be crushed by foes
who have superior numbers.
**[18:14] Kuni**
* So the president is*
* prepared to go to war...*
**[18:19] Fuku**
I seem to have visitors.
**[18:22] Kuni**
*President?*
**[18:23] Kuni**
*What's the matter?*
**[18:26] Kuni**
*President?*
**[18:29] Naka**
What's wrong?
**[18:31] Kuni**
The call with the president just...
**[18:33] Kuni**
Could it be an enemy attack?
**[18:34] Naka**
What?
**[18:35] Naka**
Then we should go help right away!
**[18:37] Kuni**
The president is fine.
**[18:38] Kuni**
More importantly—
**[18:39] Naka**
How do you know that for sure?!
**[18:47] Kuni**
Try to grab my hand.
**[18:49] Kuni**
You'll figure it out right away.
**[18:57] Kuni**
That's the first technique
I learned from my master.
**[19:01] Kuni**
I've never won a single match against him.
**[19:04] Kuni**
He's not going to lose to a group
of dime-a-dozen assassins.
**[19:10] Fuku**
Go back to your master and
tell him, "good try."
**[19:15] Fuku**
Continue to target me and me alone!
**[19:24] John**
Well done.
**[19:26] John**
It seems the Agency has abandoned their office
and hidden in a different facility.
**[19:31] John**
It will be difficult to
find their new location.
**[19:33] John**
The Port Mafia have begun to
make their move, as well.
**[19:37] Francis**
When I was a boy...
**[19:38] Francis**
I worked for two years to
buy a gun like this,
**[19:42] Francis**
but I still couldn't save enough,
so I killed four men.
**[19:45] Francis**
Now, I own the company that makes this gun.
**[19:50] Francis**
Money is a nightmare.
**[19:52] Francis**
Every time you obtain something you desire,
**[19:55] Francis**
you lose something you desire.
**[19:58] Francis**
Eventually, the world becomes as tiresome
as blue smoke rising from burning leaves.
**[20:04] Francis**
That's why, John...
**[20:08] Francis**
my world is so bright right now.
**[20:20] Francis**
That city will be mine.
**[20:31] Fuku**
Listen, all.
**[20:33] Fuku**
The Port Mafia seeks to
eradicate the Agency.
**[20:36] Fuku**
The Guild seeks to usurp the Agency.
**[20:39] Fuku**
We must protect the Agency
from these two foes.
**[20:44] Fuku**
Dazai, explain.
**[20:46] Dazai**
Yes, sir.
**[20:48] Dazai**
The Guild has substantial financial assets,
**[20:50] Dazai**
and the Port Mafia has
the numerical advantage.
**[20:52] Dazai**
So, we will split into defensive
and offensive teams
**[20:56] Dazai**
and engage in guerrilla tactics.
**[20:59] Dazai**
The critical goal for the defense
is to protect Yosano-sensei here.
***SIGN*** Defensive Team: Fukuzawa, Ranpo, Yosano, Kenji
**[21:04] Dazai**
With her healing ability,
**[21:05] Dazai**
as long as we don't die outright,
we will be cured of any injury.
***SIGN*** Offensive Team A Kunikida, Tanizaki
**[21:08] Dazai**
The offense will split into two teams,
**[21:11] Dazai**
and surprise the enemy using
Tanizaki-kun's subterfuge ability
***SIGN*** Offensive Team B Dazai, Atsushi
**[21:15] Dazai**
and my nullification ability.
**[21:17] Dazai**
The crux of this strategy is to keep
our base of operations hidden.
**[21:21] Dazai**
If our enemies were to hit us
here with everything they have,
**[21:24] Dazai**
our defense would not hold.
**[21:29] Chu**
Boss, our assault ended in failure.
**[21:33] Chu**
We've put a tail on him, but I suspect...
**[21:36] Ou**
Very well.
**[21:37] Ou**
It's all according to plan.
**[21:39] Ou**
And?
**[21:40] Ou**
What about the radioactive tracking element
we put on the assassins' clothes?
**[21:45] Chu**
We're getting a strong signal.
**[21:47] ---**
**[21:47] Ou**
*That's the Agency's secret hiding place.*
**[21:51] Fuku**
Only one of the three
organizations can survive.
**[21:54] Fuku**
Our only course of action is to fight!
**[21:57] Ou**
Of course, we'll be the ones left standing.
**[22:00] Francis**
I'm looking forward to the results.
**[22:03] FOF**
It'll be a three-way gifted war!
***SIGN*** Episode 18:
**[22:10] ---**