# 23 - Rashoumon, The Tiger, and The Last Emperor
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**[00:04] Akutagawa**
I've found you, weretiger.
**[00:07] Atsushi**
Akutagawa!
**[00:19] Akutagawa**
Looks like you've improved your
acrobatic skills, weretiger.
**[00:22] Atsushi**
Why are you here, Akutagawa?
**[00:26] Akutagawa**
To kill you.
**[00:28] Atsushi**
Don't you understand the
situation we're in right now?
**[00:31] Atsushi**
We may no longer have a place to live.
**[00:35] Atsushi**
I don't understand you one bit.
**[00:38] Akutagawa**
I don't remember ever asking
for your understanding.
**[00:41] Dazai**
Oh, dear.
**[00:43] Dazai**
Akutagawa-kun still has a
terrible habit of going solo.
**[00:48] Dazai**
All right.
**[00:49] Dazai**
Atsushi-kun, we don't have
time to deal with him.
**[00:53] Dazai**
*Let's move on.*
**[00:54] Atsushi**
But...
**[00:55] Dazai**
Don't worry.
**[00:57] Dazai**
Just do as I say, and you'll make it.
**[01:03] Atsushi**
Understood.
**[01:05] Atsushi**
Akutagawa, I'm speaking to
Dazai-san on this intercom.
**[01:11] Atsushi**
He wants to talk to you.
**[01:14] Akutagawa**
Dazai-san!
**[01:26] Akutagawa**
Dazai-san!
**[03:01] Francis**
Well hello, Zelda.
**[03:03] Francis**
How have you been?
**[03:05] Francis**
Yeah, I apologize for calling you so late.
**[03:08] Francis**
I heard the news.
**[03:10] Francis**
You laid off another chef?
**[03:12] Francis**
They came all the way here from
a top-notch European restaurant.
**[03:16] Francis**
No, I don't blame you.
**[03:19] Francis**
It's true.
**[03:20] Francis**
Any cook that doesn't know of your distaste
for cream cheese ought to perish.
**[03:27] Francis**
Yes, she's still studying in London.
**[03:31] Francis**
I wouldn't forget it for a moment.
**[03:37] Francis**
Sorry, it appears I have a guest.
**[03:39] Francis**
I'll call you back.
**[03:41] Francis**
I love you, Zelda.
**[03:46] Francis**
That was a brief farewell, boy.
**[03:49] Francis**
Is this what you're looking for?
**[03:53] Atsushi**
Are you the one guarding
the control terminal?
**[03:56] Francis**
Here's the first secret
to how I got this far.
**[04:02] Francis**
The most important part of any job is to
not leave anything for others to handle.
**[04:08] Francis**
By the way, do you know how
much the Moby Dick weighs?
**[04:13] Francis**
It has a total mass of 29,000 tons.
**[04:15] Francis**
Dropped from an altitude of two kilometers,
**[04:18] Francis**
it would explode with the force of 140 tons of TNT...
Right in the middle of the city.
**[04:26] Atsushi**
No one would allow such an atrocity.
**[04:30] Francis**
The second secret to how I got this far is:
don't let the values of others affect you.
**[04:35] Francis**
With that said, you and I are both busy.
**[04:39] Francis**
If we have to fight over the control
terminal, let's keep things simple.
**[04:44] Francis**
We'll both run towards it
on the count of three.
**[04:46] Francis**
The first of us to take it is the winner.
**[04:49] Francis**
If you win, you can do as you like
with the Moby Dick.
**[04:53] Francis**
But if I win, you'll serve me
in helping with my search.
**[05:00] Francis**
One...
**[05:02] Atsushi**
* Should I take his challenge*
* and run when he does?*
**[05:06] Francis**
Two...
**[05:06] Atsushi**
* No, I can't trust anyone from*
* the Guild to keep a promise.*
**[05:10] Atsushi**
* I'll outsmart him and take it*
* before his signal, and run!*
**[05:16] Francis**
Three.
**[05:19] Francis**
Secret number three: It's easy to predict the
behavior of anyone who's given an opportunity.
**[05:28] Francis**
Oh? You aren't going down with that kick?
**[05:32] Francis**
That's impressive.
**[05:34] Francis**
Very well.
**[05:35] Francis**
10,000 may have been insulting.
**[05:38] Francis**
This is a portion of my securities.
**[05:42] Francis**
There's 100,000 dollars worth.
**[05:44] Francis**
I haven't introduced you
to my ability yet, have I?
**[05:48] Francis**
Ability: The Great Fitzgerald.
**[06:01] Francis**
My ability grants me physical
strength equal to the money I spend.
**[06:13] Francis**
Be proud, boy.
**[06:15] Francis**
I haven't used 100,000
dollars in a long time.
**[06:18] Francis**
Of course, Zelda would spend
that much in a month.
**[06:23] Francis**
Now everything is going according to plan.
**[06:25] Francis**
With crashing the Moby Dick,
and with capturing you.
**[06:30] Atsushi**
Me?
**[06:31] Francis**
Our strategist has the
ability to make
**[06:35] Francis**
limited precognitions based
on what information she has.
**[06:40] Atsushi**
Now that I have you, it would
be a pain if you got away.
**[06:45] Atsushi**
I should probably remove your
arms and legs for good measure.
**[06:55] Atsushi**
Oh my, what an unusual guest.
**[06:58] Atsushi**
Mister...
**[06:59] Atsushi**
Agua?
**[07:01] Atsushi**
Aguagar?
**[07:04] Akutagawa**
Akutagawa.
**[07:07] Francis**
That's the one.
***SIGN*** Episode 23: Rashoumon, The Tiger, and The Last Emperor
**[07:17] Dazai**
Hey, Kyouka-chan, can you hear me?
**[07:19] Dazai**
It's Dazai.
**[07:21] Dazai**
We negotiated with the
Gifted Special Operations Division.
**[07:23] Dazai**
We can bring you back down for now.
**[07:26] Dazai**
* I'm going to teach you*
* how to pilot that drone.*
**[07:31] Kyouka**
No more.
**[07:36] Dazai**
* To tell you the truth, the Agency*
* doesn't have a reason to rescue you.*
**[07:43] Dazai**
You aren't an official member, after all.
**[07:47] Dazai**
The Agency has an entrance test,
and you haven't passed it yet.
**[07:52] Dazai**
The test is to see if you have the heart and
strength to help even complete strangers.
**[08:01] Kyouka**
*I don't think I'd pass.*
**[08:06] Dazai**
I don't like that.
**[08:09] Dazai**
A former killer isn't qualified
to become a good person.
**[08:15] Dazai**
Do you truly believe that?
**[08:22] Francis**
Well, Mr. Akutagawa, I'd love to welcome
you aboard, but as you can see, I'm busy.
**[08:28] Akutagawa**
Who gave you permission to lie around?
**[08:31] Akutagawa**
You aren't getting away this time.
**[08:33] Akutagawa**
Stand up and fight.
**[08:35] Atsushi**
Things couldn't get worse.
**[08:38] Atsushi**
I was never ready to begin with.
**[08:41] Akutagawa**
You said earlier that you
couldn't understand me.
**[08:46] Akutagawa**
To me, you're completely incomprehensible.
**[08:50] Akutagawa**
Those fearful eyes have no faith in
your own strength or gift,
**[08:55] Akutagawa**
yet you always involve
yourself in futile battles.
**[08:58] Akutagawa**
Where do you get that
incoherent self-respect?
**[09:01] Francis**
That's enough, little guy.
**[09:03] Francis**
I don't like being ignored.
**[09:07] Akutagawa**
Shut up.
**[09:08] Akutagawa**
My main course is the weretiger.
**[09:11] Akutagawa**
I'd like my dessert to sit quietly.
**[09:17] Francis**
I hate being in second place.
**[09:20] Francis**
I request our rankings be changed.
**[09:23] Akutagawa**
Fine.
**[09:27] Akutagawa**
*Did he stop Rashoumon with his bare hands?*
**[09:34] Francis**
For your efforts, I'll teach you
the fourth secret to success.
**[09:38] Akutagawa**
I don't need it.
**[09:39] Akutagawa**
Rashoumon!
**[09:41] Akutagawa**
Black Torrent!
***SIGN*** Black Torrent
**[09:45] Francis**
500,000 dollars.
**[09:57] Francis**
The fourth secret to success: Though
there are many forms of strength...
**[10:05] Francis**
money and influence, gifts, social status...
it helps to have all of them, the way I do.
**[10:15] Francis**
*The tiger's gone.*
**[10:17] Atsushi**
Strength my ass!
**[10:19] Atsushi**
Money and gifts don't
exist to blow up cities.
**[10:23] Atsushi**
Human strength exists to be shared with
those who are in the depths of despair.
**[10:28] Francis**
I'm not surprised that
you'd make such a mistake.
**[10:31] Francis**
Strength doesn't exist to help the weak.
**[10:34] Francis**
The very essence of money-making
is to extract value from the weak.
**[10:39] Francis**
To then offer that to the
weak is to repeat a pointless act,
**[10:43] Francis**
akin to swinging a door round and round.
**[10:47] Francis**
Strength must be used more meaningfully.
**[10:51] Atsushi**
Do you pretend not to see the lives
that are snubbed out to that end?
**[10:56] Francis**
By the snubbed out lives of the weak...
**[10:59] Francis**
Do you mean, for example, your past self?
**[11:05] Francis**
I looked up your history.
**[11:07] Francis**
You were nearly killed, twice,
in your early childhood
**[11:10] Francis**
by the president of your orphanage.
**[11:14] Francis**
When he kicked you and broke
your ribs, he said to you...
**[11:19] (Flashback) President**
Compared to what your parents
did to you in your infancy,
**[11:24] (Flashback) President**
this doesn't even count as violence.
**[11:35] Francis**
We're slowing down, preparing for descent.
**[11:38] Francis**
We have just over ten minutes until impact.
**[11:44] Akutagawa**
I understand.
**[11:45] Francis**
What?
**[11:50] Francis**
Stop!
**[11:53] Francis**
He ran?
**[12:09] Akutagawa**
I take back what I said about not
being able to understand you.
**[12:14] Akutagawa**
I understand you.
**[12:17] Akutagawa**
Weretiger, you fight in order
to earn permission to live.
**[12:23] Akutagawa**
Even if that means
sacrificing your own life.
**[12:28] Akutagawa**
Disgusting.
**[12:33] Akutagawa**
Do you honestly believe, weretiger, that
someone is out there to grant you permission?
**[12:39] Akutagawa**
Did you think that if you put your
life on the line fighting for others,
**[12:43] Akutagawa**
someone will stamp a form certifying
that you deserve to live?
**[12:47] Atsushi**
Where's the crime in believing that?
**[12:49] Akutagawa**
You're an utter disappointment.
**[12:52] Akutagawa**
I never expected you to be such a fool.
**[12:55] Akutagawa**
I could kill you hundreds of times, and I'd
have gained no accomplishments in battle.
**[13:01] Atsushi**
Accomplishments in battle.
**[13:02] Akutagawa**
Indeed.
**[13:04] Akutagawa**
That is the only true measure of value.
**[13:06] Akutagawa**
Without any accomplishments in battle,
that man would never approve of me.
**[13:12] Akutagawa**
Not Dazai-san.
**[13:15] Atsushi**
Dazai-san?
**[13:17] Atsushi**
How does his name fit here?
**[13:25] Francis**
I've found you, stray dogs.
**[13:30] Dazai**
Kyouka-chan, everyone has
strengths and weaknesses.
**[13:34] Dazai**
You clearly have talent in killing.
**[13:38] Dazai**
You think that, therefore, you can't
become a member of the Detective Agency.
**[13:43] Dazai**
*That's foolish.*
**[13:45] Dazai**
* I'll prove to you in one second how*
* devoid of reason that belief is.*
**[13:51] Dazai**
* Kyouka-chan, how many people have*
* you killed with those hands?*
**[13:55] Kyouka**
35.
**[13:57] Dazai**
*A mere 35.*
**[14:02] Dazai**
*Listen up, Kyouka-chan.*
**[14:05] Dazai**
You don't know everything
about the Detective Agency.
**[14:08] Dazai**
You don't know everything about yourself.
**[14:11] Dazai**
No one can know everything.
**[14:14] Dazai**
That's what we call "potential."
**[14:18] Dazai**
Even Atsushi-kun, who's
given you another chance,
**[14:20] Dazai**
was originally a savage
beast, deemed a menace.
**[14:23] Dazai**
But now he's risking his own life to do what
only he can do, in order to protect this city.
**[14:36] Atsushi**
That's it.
**[14:37] Atsushi**
The cargo elevator.
**[14:47] Atsushi**
His ability is way out of my league.
**[14:49] Atsushi**
I don't stand a chance.
**[14:51] Atsushi**
I need to think of a way to steal
the terminal when I have a chance.
**[14:55] Akutagawa**
You're as foolish as ever.
**[14:58] Atsushi**
What?
**[14:59] Akutagawa**
This box takes us to the
inescapable deck service door.
**[15:04] Akutagawa**
We are the ones who have been cornered.
**[15:08] Atsushi**
No.
**[15:10] Akutagawa**
Nothing could be more shameful than to have
been defeated once by the likes of you.
**[15:15] Akutagawa**
Especially knowing that you're so worthless
that you ask others for your own right to live.
**[15:20] Atsushi**
You're right, I'm worthless.
**[15:22] Atsushi**
But you're a murderer with no purpose
but to flaunt your strength.
**[15:26] Atsushi**
I'm a hundred times better.
**[15:28] Akutagawa**
Say that again.
**[15:29] Atsushi**
You have plenty of power and status.
**[15:32] Atsushi**
You fight just so that people fear you.
**[15:34] Atsushi**
That's way more worthless.
**[15:38] Akutagawa**
Take that back!
**[15:41] Akutagawa**
I have power and status?
**[15:47] Akutagawa**
I'll tell you why I called you disgusting.
**[15:51] Akutagawa**
It's because you're a fool who continues to
mope about old wounds despite having everything.
**[15:59] Atsushi**
What?
**[16:01] Atsushi**
What did you say I am?
**[16:02] Akutagawa**
You're blessed with your gift.
**[16:04] Akutagawa**
You're blessed with friends.
**[16:06] Akutagawa**
With no effort and with nothing but sheer
luck, you're revered and praised by Dazai-san.
**[16:10] Akutagawa**
You don't even understand how lucky you are.
**[16:12] Akutagawa**
You dwell in your own tragedy.
**[16:14] Akutagawa**
You're a disgusting fool!
**[16:17] (Flashback) Akutagawa**
Without any accomplishments in battle,
that man would never approve of me.
**[16:23] (Flashback) Akutagawa**
Not Dazai-san.
**[16:27] Atsushi**
Dazai-san?
**[16:29] Atsushi**
Don't tell me you've always been...
**[16:45] Francis**
That's enough of playing tag.
**[16:48] Francis**
In less than ten minutes, the Moby Dick
will enter into an irrevocable trajectory.
**[16:53] Francis**
At that point, not even this terminal will
be able to stop it from falling into the city.
**[16:58] Francis**
Only I will survive, as I've
strengthened myself with my ability.
**[17:03] Akutagawa**
Hey, nouveau riche, if I defeat someone as
strong as you, will I no longer be weak?
**[17:14] Francis**
I'll guarantee it.
**[17:15] Akutagawa**
Then I won't regret dying
as many times as it takes.
**[17:20] Akutagawa**
Rashoumon! Demonic Armor!
**[17:46] Francis**
*Is he overriding my actions with his gift?*
**[17:53] Atsushi**
* Akutagawa is so strong, yet*
* he thinks of himself as weak.*
**[17:59] Atsushi**
*He's preposterous!*
**[18:01] Atsushi**
*How many people has his selfishness killed?*
**[18:06] Atsushi**
*Tiger, grant me strength once again.*
**[18:11] Atsushi**
*Just like last time.*
**[18:25] Akutagawa**
Get out of my way, weretiger!
**[18:27] Atsushi**
*You* get out of *my* way!
**[18:30] Atsushi**
Dazai-san, my ass!
**[18:32] Atsushi**
You're even more worthless!
**[18:34] Akutagawa**
Nonsense.
**[18:35] Akutagawa**
You're more worthless than I am!
**[18:37] Francis**
This is amusing.
**[18:40] Francis**
You're both very much alike.
**[18:45] ---**
What?!
**[18:46] Atsushi; Akutagawa**
Don't...
**[18:47] Atsushi; Akutagawa**
...compare me...
**[18:49] Atsushi; Akutagawa**
...to him!
**[19:03] Akutagawa**
This technique makes my black
armor double as muscle.
**[19:09] Akutagawa**
My body is too feeble to last.
**[19:11] Atsushi**
Taking a break, Akutagawa?
**[19:14] Akutagawa**
Shut up.
**[19:14] Akutagawa**
You're next.
**[19:16] Atsushi**
The control terminal comes first.
**[19:18] Atsushi**
If this ship hits the city,
Dazai-san will be obliterated, too.
**[19:23] Akutagawa**
That man wouldn't die so easily.
**[19:32] Francis**
Tiger beetle, tell me, is
there anything in this world
**[19:37] Francis**
aside from family worth
sacrificing everything for?
**[19:43] Francis**
I'll take the book, and I'll bring
my daughter back into this world.
**[19:49] Akutagawa**
Your daughter?
**[19:57] Francis**
My wife, Zelda, unable to accept our
daughter's death, became mentally ill.
**[20:03] Francis**
To this day, she hides in her fantasy that
our daughter is studying abroad in London.
**[20:09] Francis**
I'm going to make that fantasy a reality,
and reclaim my family.
**[20:14] Francis**
No matter what the cost is.
**[20:18] Francis**
My wealth is dispensable.
**[20:25] Francis**
I'll pay all of it!
**[20:35] Atsushi**
He's off the scales.
**[20:37] Atsushi**
It's like standing in front
of a massive tornado.
**[20:41] Atsushi**
This is the will of the Guild's leader?
**[21:05] Atsushi**
Akutagawa...
**[21:06] Akutagawa**
What?
**[21:09] Atsushi**
Am I a fool?
**[21:13] Atsushi**
Is it worthless of me to want
to escape from those memories?
**[21:17] Akutagawa**
It is.
**[21:19] Akutagawa**
The words of your past are fundamentally
unrelated to who you are now.
**[21:32] Atsushi**
I see.
**[21:36] Atsushi**
I think Dazai-san already approved
of you a long time ago.
**[21:48] Francis**
Come!
**[21:50] Atsushi**
Beast Beneath the Moonlight!
**[21:55] Akutagawa**
Rashoumon Demonic Armor!
***SIGN*** Episode 24:
**[22:06] [SONG] Text**
If I May Shed Away
My Burden Now