# 24 - If I May Shed Away My Burden Now
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**[00:00] Tanizaki**
You... You...
**[00:00] Atsushi**
N-Naomi-san, Tanizaki-san
can't really take jokes!
**[00:00] Tanizaki**
Hear me out, Kyouka-chan!
**[00:00] Tanizaki**
Atsushi-kun!
**[00:00] Tanizaki**
I thought you weren't like that!
**[00:00] Kyouka**
What's the matter?
**[00:00] Rampo**
I know.
**[00:00] Yosano**
Drink, Kunikida!
**[00:00] Kunikida**
Here I go.
**[00:00] Yosano**
Good job!
**[00:00] Yosano**
You're quite a cheap drunk, aren't you?
**[00:00] Atsushi**
Naomi-san!
**[00:00] Naomi**
You better take responsibility.
**[00:00] Atsushi**
Kyouka-chan!
**[00:00] Kyouka**
Despicable!
**[00:00] Atsushi**
What?
**[00:00] Kunikida**
I am.
**[00:00] Kunikida**
I-I have a lot of work tomorrow.
**[00:00] Yosano**
Drink!
**[00:00] Kunikida**
Wait, I --
**[00:00] Kunikida**
I can't chug like that.
**[00:09] Francis**
Come!
**[00:10] Atsushi**
Beast Beneath the Moonlight!
**[00:14] Akutagawa**
Rashoumon Demonic Armor!
**[00:38] Francis**
Come on, now.
**[00:39] Francis**
I don't want to have spent
all that money on nothing.
**[00:45] Atsushi**
*Three minutes left.*
**[00:49] Dazai**
Kyouka-chan, if you'd prefer, I can
set you up with a life of killing.
**[00:59] Dazai**
But your anguish isn't yours alone.
**[01:03] Dazai**
What should one do, when what they
want to be isn't what they're best at?
**[01:09] Dazai**
Everyone fights, searching for the
correct way to live their lives.
**[01:14] Dazai**
What do they seek by fighting?
**[01:19] Dazai**
How ought they live?
**[01:22] Dazai**
No one can say.
**[01:26] Dazai**
All we have is the right to waver.
**[01:32] Dazai**
Like stray dogs that have hit rock bottom.
**[01:43] Akutagawa**
No!
**[02:00] Akutagawa**
Weretiger!
**[02:27] Akutagawa**
*If he's right...*
**[02:31] Akutagawa**
*It is worthless.*
**[02:34] Akutagawa**
* The words of your past are fundamentally*
* unrelated to who you are now.*
**[02:41] Atsushi**
*If I may shed away my burden now, I will...*
**[02:50] Akutagawa**
Die, weretiger!
**[04:02] Atsushi**
*I'm spent.*
**[04:05] Atsushi**
*If he stands back up...*
**[04:15] Francis**
I won, Zelda.
**[04:21] Francis**
Wait for me.
**[04:23] Francis**
I'll bring you happiness once more.
**[04:42] Atsushi**
*Right, the control terminal.*
**[04:47] Akutagawa**
You fool.
**[04:49] Akutagawa**
I took it from him during the last attack.
**[04:53] Atsushi**
Dammit!
**[04:54] Atsushi**
We need to stop it!
**[05:04] Akutagawa**
I'd love to rip you to shreds right now but,
unfortunately, I've used up all my strength.
**[05:10] Akutagawa**
You'll have to make do with this.
**[05:12] Atsushi**
You're going to pay for
this when we next meet.
**[05:29] Atsushi**
Descending?
**[05:31] Atsushi**
It can't be.
**[05:32] Atsushi**
I haven't done anything.
**[05:33] Akutagawa**
Hand it over.
**[05:38] Akutagawa**
It isn't responding.
**[05:41] Akutagawa**
Something's going on.
**[05:47] Atsushi**
No good.
**[05:48] Atsushi**
It isn't responding here, either.
**[05:50] Atsushi**
It's going to fall!
**[05:52] Kyouka**
That voice...
**[05:54] Atsushi**
We're out of time.
**[05:55] Atsushi**
We need to do something, or everyone's dead.
**[05:58] Herman**
It's no use.
**[06:00] Herman**
Someone has infiltrated from the outside.
**[06:03] Herman**
They've taken control.
**[06:06] Atsushi**
No.
**[06:08] Kyouka**
*There's still a way.*
**[06:10] Atsushi**
That voice...
**[06:12] Atsushi**
Kyouka-chan?!
**[06:13] Kyouka**
*I heard about the situation.*
**[06:15] Kyouka**
Even if the Moby Dick can't
be stopped from falling,
**[06:17] Kyouka**
with enough force from above, it can be
destroyed before it reaches the city.
**[06:23] Kyouka**
I'll use this drone.
**[06:25] Atsushi**
I see.
**[06:26] Atsushi**
That's amazing, Kyouka-chan.
**[06:28] Atsushi**
We can save everyone.
**[06:30] Atsushi**
Prepare the parachutes, please.
**[06:34] Atsushi**
You need to escape now, too.
**[06:36] Kyouka**
I can't.
**[06:39] Kyouka**
I'm captive here.
**[06:41] Kyouka**
My ankles are chained down.
**[06:44] Kyouka**
I can't make it to the evacuation system.
**[06:48] Atsushi**
No...
**[06:50] Atsushi**
Then...
**[06:52] Kyouka**
*Forget about me.*
**[06:54] Atsushi**
No!
**[06:55] Atsushi**
I won't allow it!
**[06:56] Atsushi**
Change course!
**[06:58] Kyouka**
I didn't have a single
ray of light until now.
**[07:04] Kyouka**
But today, I understood. I have choices.
**[07:10] Kyouka**
If I sacrifice myself to save everyone
else, I'll pass the entrance exam.
**[07:17] Kyouka**
I can really become a
member of the Agency.
**[07:20] Kyouka**
I would regret nothing.
**[07:22] Atsushi**
Stop it!
**[07:26] Atsushi**
Let go!
**[07:27] Atsushi**
Akutagawa!
**[07:28] Atsushi**
Kyouka-chan, listen to me!
**[07:34] Kyouka**
Thank you.
**[07:36] Kyouka**
I'm sorry.
**[08:02] Atsushi**
Kyouka-chan!
**[08:18] Atsushi**
Why?
**[08:20] Atsushi**
Why her?
**[08:25] Akutagawa**
Kyouka...
**[08:27] Akutagawa**
What a fool.
**[08:29] Akutagawa**
If she hadn't embraced the hope of living in
light, she wouldn't have had to die in vain.
**[08:38] Dazai**
This is how it ought to
have been, Atsushi-kun.
**[08:43] Atsushi**
Dazai-san.
**[08:44] Atsushi**
Boss?
**[08:47] Dazai**
Kyouka-chan overcame herself
and saved the city.
**[08:51] Dazai**
With the high-mindedness
expected of the Agency.
**[08:55] Atsushi**
But there was no reason she had to die.
**[08:59] Dazai**
True, this is a merciless conclusion.
**[09:02] Dazai**
But there was a reason that
it had to be this way.
**[09:07] Fukuzawa**
My ability, All Men Are Created Equal,
**[09:12] Fukuzawa**
has an effect only on my subordinates...
That is, on members of the Agency.
**[09:17] Dazai**
The ability allows for control over the
output of the abilities of another.
**[09:23] Dazai**
The reason you're able to control your tiger
abilities now is because you joined the Agency.
**[09:30] Dazai**
And Kyouka-chan passed the entrance exam.
**[09:34] Dazai**
Right in the instant before the impact.
**[09:36] Dazai**
Do you understand what that means?
**[09:45] Kyouka**
I used Demon Snow's katana to
cut the chain and escape.
**[09:51] Kyouka**
I'm back.
**[09:58] Atsushi**
Welcome back.
**[10:01] Kyouka**
You're hurting me.
**[10:03] Atsushi**
Sorry.
**[10:04] Dazai**
Sorry I kept it from you both.
**[10:09] Dazai**
If I hadn't, it wouldn't have
made for a proper entrance exam.
**[10:15] (Flashback) Dazai**
Do we end in the mountains?
**[10:16] (Flashback) Rampo**
At sea.
**[10:18] (Flashback) Dazai**
Roger.
**[10:21] Atsushi**
Was this all planned from the beginning?
**[10:24] Dazai**
The enemy's been defeated,
and Kyouka-chan passed.
**[10:28] Dazai**
I'm glad it all worked out.
**[10:30] Akutagawa**
Dazai-san!
**[10:31] Akutagawa**
There's no one left to get in my way.
**[10:33] Akutagawa**
Please see my strength now.
**[10:36] Dazai**
I don't know.
**[10:38] Dazai**
You're at your limit now, aren't you?
**[10:40] Dazai**
You just defeated the
Guild's leader, after all.
**[10:42] Akutagawa**
That's irrelevant.
**[10:44] Akutagawa**
I am—
**[10:47] Dazai**
You've become strong.
**[10:57] Dazai**
Oh, whoops.
**[11:02] Dazai**
Nice view, isn't it?
**[11:09] Dazai**
You protected it.
**[11:14] Dazai**
It's your city.
***SIGN*** Episode 24: If I May Shed Away My Burden Now
**[11:22] Atsushi**
My city, huh?
**[11:30] Ango**
The massive gifted war caused so
much collateral damage in Yokohama.
**[11:33] Ango**
And it's finally over.
**[11:35] Ango**
But the government's work
is just getting started.
**[11:39] Ango**
Cleaning up after this huge mess...
**[11:42] Ango**
I won't be sleeping at home for days.
**[11:45] Ango**
Given that, we would very much appreciate
having your help, Mr. Herman.
**[11:54] Herman**
I just want to watch the sea for now.
**[11:58] Ango**
With your information, we won't have to
arrest Guild members who weren't part of this.
**[12:05] Herman**
Do you think that a mere grunt like
myself would have such information?
**[12:11] Ango**
Yes.
**[12:12] Ango**
You were the leader of the Guild
two generations ago, after all.
**[12:18] Herman**
It pains me that you young'uns always
insist on bringing up the past.
**[12:23] Ango**
Please help us overcome
our sleep deprivation.
**[12:27] Ango**
I don't need to use this, do I?
**[12:49] Mark**
I never imagined the Moby
Dick being underwater.
**[12:53] Mark**
It was such a nice place.
**[12:55] John**
The Moby Dick?
**[12:57] Mark**
The Guild.
**[12:59] Mark**
The boss is missing in action.
**[13:01] Mark**
I hear there are even insurgencies within
the Guild, now that we don't have a leader.
**[13:05] Mark**
Looks like it's time to lower
the curtain on our adventures here.
**[13:10] John**
Yeah.
**[13:12] John**
But life isn't over.
**[13:14] Mark**
That's true.
**[13:16] Mark**
I'm going to go back home and
finish working on my biography.
**[13:20] Mark**
What about you guys?
**[13:22] Louisa**
I'm going to look for Lord Francis.
**[13:26] Louisa**
I'm sure he's alive.
**[13:29] Mark**
You're going back to your
family, right, John?
**[13:32] John**
I'm not.
**[13:35] John**
I have to stop the insurgency in the Guild.
**[13:37] Mark**
*You*?
**[13:39] Mark**
That's a surprise.
**[13:41] Mark**
I thought you hated the boss.
**[13:44] Mark**
I do.
**[13:45] Mark**
I hate anyone who controls
people with money.
**[13:49] Mark**
But he depended on his wealth to save
his family, and this was the result.
**[13:55] Mark**
I can't bring myself to just leave.
**[13:58] Lovecraft**
The contract...
**[14:02] Lovecraft**
is finally fulfilled.
**[14:04] Mark**
You made it, huh, Lovecraft?
**[14:07] Mark**
What's going to become of you now?
**[14:13] Lovecraft**
I sleep.
**[14:20] Mark**
Who *is* that guy?
**[14:22] John**
What does it matter?
**[14:25] John**
He's one of my few friends.
**[14:34] Atsushi**
Kyouka-chan.
**[14:37] Atsushi**
Go ahead.
**[14:56] A**
Ready, and...
**[14:57] A**
Congratulations on joining
the Agency, Kyouka-chan!
**[15:05] A**
Cheers!
**[15:28] Kunikida**
Atsushi.
**[15:30] Kunikida**
How are your injuries?
**[15:32] Atsushi**
I'm all better now.
**[15:34] Kunikida**
Your actions have saved the
city from destruction.
**[15:38] Kunikida**
I thought I should say something,
as your senior here at the Agency.
**[15:46] Kunikida**
First of all, solo operations are an
exception at group organizations such as ours.
***SIGN*** Blah, blah, blah...
**[15:50] Kunikida**
I won't tell you not to apply the experience
you gained from this in the future,
**[15:52] Kunikida**
but don't dare neglect the
Agency's prime activities.
**[15:53] Kunikida**
Likewise for Kyouka.
**[15:54] Kunikida**
Be mindful of the fact that you are
a member of the Detective Agency,
**[15:57] Kunikida**
and act in a way that none
would be ashamed of.
**[15:58] Yosano**
No kidding, Kunikida.
**[16:01] Yosano**
You're all such buzzkills.
**[16:04] Yosano**
Drink with me.
**[16:06] Kunikida**
No, I'd rather not drink much.
**[16:09] Yosano**
Isn't there something you wanted to say?
**[16:13] Kunikida**
You did well, the both of you.
**[16:16] Yosano**
All right, let's drink all night!
**[16:19] Kunikida**
Please, no.
**[16:20] Yosano**
Are you telling me you can't drink with me?
**[16:23] Atsushi**
* Act in a way that none*
* would be ashamed of, huh?*
**[16:28] Atsushi**
Haruno-san, Naomi-san.
**[16:32] Atsushi**
I'm sorry.
**[16:35] Atsushi**
I did some awful things to
you thanks to Q's abilities.
**[16:40] Atsushi**
It would never have happened if
I'd known how unstable I was.
**[16:47] A**
Oh, *that*?
**[16:50] Atsushi**
I'm really sorry.
**[16:55] Haruno**
Atsushi-kun, that wasn't that bad.
**[16:58] Naomi**
We can't keep holding
on to stuff like that here.
**[17:01] Atsushi**
Really?
**[17:02] Haruno**
Yes.
**[17:04] Atsushi**
Thank goodness.
**[17:06] Atsushi**
There was something seriously wrong with
me, to have done what I did to you.
**[17:13] Tanizaki**
Atsushi-kun.
**[17:15] Tanizaki**
I've never heard about this until now.
**[17:18] Tanizaki**
Atsushi-kun, what is this about?
**[17:21] Atsushi**
Please, stay calm.
**[17:22] Poe**
Rampo-kun, I brought the new piece that
you inquired about over the phone.
**[17:23] Kunikida**
I can't.
**[17:25] Naomi**
I'm damaged goods!
**[17:27] Yosano**
Kunikida!
**[17:28] Atsushi**
N-Naomi-san?!
**[17:29] Kunikida**
Yosano-sensei, I think you've
had too much to drink.
**[17:30] Rampo**
Oh, hey.
**[17:31] Rampo**
Thanks for coming.
**[17:33] Tanizaki**
A-Atsushi-kun!
**[17:33] Poe**
Do I really belong here?
**[17:35] Kenji**
Rampo-san, the boss wants you.
**[17:37] Poe**
I'm from an enemy organization.
**[17:39] Rampo**
I'll be right back.
**[17:40] Atsushi**
K-Kyouka-chan?!
**[17:40] Rampo**
Stay right there.
**[17:42] Poe**
Rampo-kun.
**[17:43] Kyouka**
What?!
**[17:44] Yosano**
Kunikida!
**[17:45] Fukuzawa**
That was an impressive operation.
**[17:46] Kyouka**
W-Wait, Kyouka-chan...
**[17:47] Kyouka**
Don't make excuses, it's unmanly!
**[17:48] Fukuzawa**
The Agency would be nothing without you.
**[17:50] Atsushi**
What did you tell her, Tanizaki-san?
**[17:52] Tanizaki**
All the naughty things you did.
**[17:54] Poe**
They seem to be having fun, huh, Karl?
***SIGN*** He likes being left out?
**[18:07] Chuya**
It's a '64 Romane.
**[18:10] Kouyou**
May I really?
**[18:12] Kouyou**
Isn't it your treasure?
**[18:14] Chuya**
Is there a better day than today to open it?
**[18:21] Ougai**
To victory.
**[18:27] Ougai**
This is delicious.
**[18:30] Chuya**
Boss, how shall we punish Akutagawa?
**[18:33] Ougai**
Punish?
**[18:35] Ougai**
He was instrumental in our success.
**[18:38] Ougai**
Akutagawa-kun has always been this way.
**[18:41] Ougai**
He runs off by himself, he causes
destruction and, in the end, he contributes the most.
**[18:46] Ougai**
He has a strong nose.
**[18:49] Ougai**
So long as he continues to succeed,
there will be no punishment.
**[18:52] Ougai**
Say, Kouyou-kun, why did you not try to
escape when you were captured by the Agency?
**[18:59] Ougai**
It ought to have been easy for you.
**[19:02] Kouyou**
I wonder why.
**[19:06] Kouyou**
Perhaps because the tea was so delicious.
**[19:09] (Flashback) Dazai**
Sister, let's make a deal, as two grown-ups.
**[19:13] (Flashback) Dazai**
I have a plan for saving Kyouka-chan.
**[19:15] (Flashback) Kouyou**
What?
**[19:17] (Flashback) Dazai**
If we succeed, it'll be the only way to
protect both her life and her dreams.
**[19:25] Kouyou**
Dazai saw how it would all play out.
**[19:30] Kouyou**
What a terrifying man.
**[19:32] Chuya**
Pfft.
**[19:33] Ougai**
Kouyou-kun, you are strong.
**[19:37] Ougai**
Now that your beloved Kyouka-kun is gone, it
would be difficult for me to chase you down,
**[19:44] Ougai**
should you decide to leave
the Port Mafia now.
**[19:47] Kouyou**
Of course.
**[19:49] Kouyou**
Sadly, I must help a clumsy leader
with reestablishing the organization.
**[19:56] Ougai**
I'm grateful, but I deal only
with those under twelve.
**[20:01] Kouyou**
Silence.
**[20:03] Kouyou**
I'll sew your lips shut.
**[20:04] Chuya**
Dazai!
**[20:06] Chuya**
You're so dead!
**[20:12] A**
It's so cute!
**[20:20] Atsushi**
Hey, where's Dazai-san?
**[20:32] Dazai**
What a weird painting.
**[20:34] Dazai**
I bet even I could do it.
**[20:40] Dazai**
Hirotsu-san, thanks for the help.
**[20:44] Hirotsu**
Did I do enough?
**[20:47] Hirotsu**
All I did was leak the Moby Dick
infiltration route to Higuchi-kun.
**[20:51] Dazai**
If she knows, she will tell Akutagawa-kun.
**[20:55] Dazai**
If Akutagawa-kun knows, he
will come in by himself.
**[20:59] Dazai**
It was as I expected.
**[21:01] Hirotsu**
Why did you go through all that trouble
**[21:04] Hirotsu**
to bring Akutagawa-kun
together with the tiger boy?
**[21:07] Dazai**
I wanted to be sure.
**[21:10] Dazai**
For the *real* disaster that's about to come.
**[21:16] Dazai**
He's already on the move.
**[21:21] Fyodor**
So the destruction of the
Moby Dick was a failure.
**[21:25] Fyodor**
Still, just about everything
is according to plan.
**[21:27] Fyodor**
We succeeded in creating strife within the
Guild and recruiting talented gifteds.
**[21:34] Nathaniel**
I'm only helping for the time being
to fulfill my end of the deal
**[21:38] Nathaniel**
and have Margaret brought
back to consciousness.
**[21:42] Fyodor**
That's fine by me, Pastor.
***SIGN*** Fyodor D.
***SIGN*** Ability: Crime and Punishment
**[21:47] Nathaniel**
Let us paint the land with the
blood of the guilty together.
**[21:52] Nathaniel**
For a better world.
**[21:57] Dazai**
We won't be able to avoid going to war
with that demon I've fought in the past.
**[22:04] Dazai**
Akutagawa-kun is formidable enough by himself,
**[22:08] Dazai**
but his abilities are most
valuable in a supporting role.
**[22:12] Dazai**
In complementing a forward
attacker such as Atsushi-kun,
**[22:15] Dazai**
with his speed and toughness,
he could be a powerful ally.
**[22:20] Dazai**
We'll need to be more powerful than before
in order to fight with that demon.
**[22:26] Dazai**
Something more powerful than
the former Double Black.
**[22:30] Dazai**
That's those two.
**[22:33] Hirotsu**
Dazai-kun, why do you
value Yokohama so dearly?
**[22:41] Dazai**
My friend said me...
**[22:46] Dazai**
"You might as well side with
the people who save others."
**[22:49] Dazai**
"That's at least a little more beautiful."
**[22:55] Hirotsu**
Teni Muhou.
**[23:04] Atsushi**
The city we protected.
**[23:12] Akutagawa**
Worthless nonsense.
**[23:32] Akutagawa**
* This city became my home,*
* with all the people here.*