# 27 - God of Fire
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**[00:03] Soldier**
Raise your arms and face this way.
***SIGN*** Raise your arms and face this way
**[00:07] Soldier**
I thought they'd called in backup,
but you're just two kids.
**[00:11] Soldier**
Is the Port Mafia short-staffed?
**[00:13] Soldier**
Or is that man, Randou, not very popular?
**[00:17] Chuuya**
Randou?
**[00:19] Dazai**
That's the name of the man
we're about to go talk to.
**[00:23] Dazai**
The person that was restraining
you using his special ability.
**[00:27] Chuuya**
Oh, him.
**[00:29] Chuuya**
Yo, old fart.
**[00:31] Chuuya**
Let's save us both some time.
**[00:33] Chuuya**
First, you shoot.
**[00:35] Chuuya**
Next, I'll retaliate by blowing you
all the way to the next town over.
**[00:39] Chuuya**
And then I'll beat the shit
out of your remaining men,
**[00:44] Chuuya**
and we'll call it a day.
**[00:46] Soldier**
What?
**[00:48] Dazai**
Man, you could just trick him to
get some information out of him.
**[00:53] Dazai**
You're with the GSS tactical team, aren't you?
**[00:57] Chuuya**
Gerhardt Security Services.
**[01:00] Chuuya**
Formerly a foreign-funded
private security firm,
**[01:04] Chuuya**
but they had their subsidies cut off
**[01:06] Chuuya**
and now they're a fully-fledged
illegal organization.
**[01:09] Soldier**
That's right.
**[01:10] Soldier**
I won't go easy on you
just because you're kids.
**[01:13] Chuuya**
Try me, old fart.
**[01:25] Soldier**
You...
**[01:28] Soldier**
You're the Sheep, Nakahara Chuuya.
**[01:30] Soldier**
So it was true that you fell
into the Port Mafia's hands.
**[01:38] Chuuya**
Don't get the wrong idea,
you annoying prick!
**[01:42] Dazai**
Good for you.
**[01:43] Dazai**
You're amazing.
**[01:45] Chuuya**
Were you just standing there watching?
**[01:47] Dazai**
I was busy collecting information from
the communicator I swiped off him.
**[01:52] Dazai**
It seems like the guy you just beat up
has some backup arriving.
**[02:00] Dazai**
You just make more work when you
don't think about what you're doing.
**[02:12] Soldier**
Captain!
**[02:14] Chuuya**
Want to join him in the ground?
**[02:16] Soldier**
Fire!
**[02:17] Soldier**
That shrimp is the gravity
manipulator Nakahara Chuuya!
**[02:36] Chuuya**
Did you just call me a shrimp, asshole?
**[02:40] Chuuya**
I'm only fifteen years old!
**[02:43] Chuuya**
I'm still growing!
**[03:18] Chuuya**
It's over.
**[03:19] Chuuya**
Tell me the reason for the attack.
**[03:23] Chuuya**
What do you know about Arahabaki?
**[03:28] Chuuya**
I guess we'll have to wait for
our team's investigation report.
**[03:33] Dazai**
How unfortunate for you.
**[03:35] Dazai**
Does it hurt?
**[03:37] Dazai**
It's too late to save you.
**[03:40] Dazai**
Still, you won't be dead for
another five minutes or so.
**[03:43] Dazai**
That's five minutes of hellish suffering.
**[03:46] Dazai**
I wouldn't be able to bear it.
**[03:50] Dazai**
Do you want me to end your
suffering with this gun?
**[03:54] Dazai**
If you want to say yes, you should
do it while you can still talk.
**[03:59] Soldier**
Shoot me, please.
**[04:05] Dazai**
All right.
**[04:12] Soldier**
This is more than you deserve.
**[04:23] Chuuya**
Quit shooting dead bodies.
**[04:28] Dazai**
You're right.
**[04:29] Dazai**
You're absolutely right.
**[04:33] Dazai**
What you say is probably correct.
**[04:37] Dazai**
That would be the normal way to think.
***SIGN*** Written by
Asagiri Kafka
***SIGN*** Manga by Sango
Harukawa
in Young Ace
**[06:12] Randou**
So cold...
**[06:15] Randou**
The wind is coming through,
and it's three times as cold.
**[06:19] Dazai**
Must have been rough, huh? Randou-san.
**[06:22] Randou**
That was brutal.
**[06:24] Randou**
Why me?
**[06:26] Dazai**
It's easy to guess why we were attacked.
**[06:29] Dazai**
The rumor is spreading.
**[06:32] Dazai**
If a Mori supporter like you were
to die in a black explosion,
**[06:36] Dazai**
people would take the anger
of the former boss more seriously.
**[06:41] Dazai**
One of the GSS soldiers
he tore up on the way here
**[06:45] Dazai**
had these instructions for
faking a black explosion.
**[06:49] Randou**
What's a "black explosion"?
**[06:52] Dazai**
Apparently, you can get a black-ish flame
**[06:55] Dazai**
using a sodium lamp flame reaction.
**[06:59] Dazai**
Whatever the case, it's just a cheap trick.
**[07:08] Chuuya**
So let me get this straight...
**[07:10] Chuuya**
The GSS people attacked this guy,
pretending to be Arahabaki,
**[07:15] Chuuya**
in order to get the Port Mafia to turn on itself.
**[07:18] Randou**
The current GSS president
is a cold-hearted man.
**[07:22] Randou**
Rumor has it that he has close ties to The Guild,
a North American secret organization.
**[07:27] Dazai**
Tell me about Arahabaki as you
saw it in Suribachi City.
**[07:32] Dazai**
That's the only lead we have on the
resurrection of the former president.
**[07:38] Randou**
I remember it clearly.
**[07:41] Randou**
How could I ever forget?
**[07:45] Randou**
I was the only survivor.
**[07:48] Randou**
My subordinates all burned to ash.
**[07:51] Randou**
They were engulfed by that black flame.
**[07:56] Randou**
It was no doubt that god of fire.
**[07:59] Dazai**
This is getting interesting.
**[08:01] Dazai**
Tell us more.
**[08:03] Randou**
It happened close to the
center of Suribachi City.
**[08:09] Randou**
We, the Port Mafia,
**[08:10] Randou**
were on our way to battle the Sheep boys.
**[08:17] Randou**
There, out of the blue, we were all
blown away by a black explosion.
**[08:31] Randou**
A sudden blastwave.
**[08:33] Randou**
All I could do was protect
myself with my ability.
**[08:39] Randou**
Black flames.
**[08:41] Randou**
Crumbling earth.
**[08:43] Randou**
It was hell itself.
**[08:46] Randou**
And in the middle, there it was.
**[08:51] Randou**
It wasn't the former boss.
**[08:55] Randou**
No... It wasn't even human.
**[09:07] Randou**
A beast.
**[09:10] Randou**
A beast of black flames.
**[09:13] Randou**
Even its eyes were like
the flames of purgatory.
**[09:19] Randou**
Everything in sight was shimmering
in the extreme heat,
**[09:23] Randou**
except the Yokohama sea.
**[09:26] Randou**
Just the sea, in the distance,
**[09:29] Randou**
basking gently in the moonlight.
**[09:32] Randou**
That alone is vivid in my memory.
**[09:38] Randou**
That moment, I heard the voice of the beast.
**[09:42] Randou**
It was a voice utterly devoid of emotion.
**[09:45] Randou**
It terrified me.
**[09:51] Randou**
I apologize.
**[09:53] Randou**
You two wanted to prove that the former boss was not resurrected by Arahabaki,
**[09:57] Randou**
and it was a hoax put together
by enemy gifted, didn't you?
**[10:01] Dazai**
No.
**[10:02] Dazai**
That was interesting indeed.
**[10:05] Dazai**
Thanks to you, the mystery is solved.
***SIGN*** Episode 27
***SIGN*** The God of Fire
***SIGN*** A derelict at the edge of town
***SIGN*** Chuuya and Dazai collide violently
***SIGN*** "Tell me who's behind it!"
***SIGN*** "No way!"
***SIGN*** Chuuya quickly closes in on Dazai
***SIGN*** He unleashes a powerful downward kick
***SIGN*** Dazai kicks the ground beneath him, leaping into the air away from Chuuya
***SIGN*** As he descends, he swings down with the club in his hands
***SIGN*** "Hup!"
***SIGN*** Chuuya blocks with both hands
***SIGN*** "Agh!"
***SIGN*** Dazai lands on the ground
**[10:31] [SONG] Text**
Immediately, Chuuya delivers
a storm of punches
***SIGN*** "You don't get it, do you?!"
***SIGN*** "No, I do.
***SIGN*** Unlike a certain grade-school kid I happen to know!"
***SIGN*** Dazai takes a step back
***SIGN*** Chuuya hammers him relentlessly with his fists
***SIGN*** "Come on, come on! You're never going to win if you're always on the defensive!"
**[10:46] Dazai**
Well, too bad for you.
***SIGN*** The club emits a destruction beam
**[10:51] Chuuya**
Hang on a second!
**[11:00] Dazai**
Remember our promise?
**[11:02] Dazai**
The loser has to obey one order
from the winner, like a dog.
**[11:08] Dazai**
Now, what should I have you do?
**[11:11] Chuuya**
I was so sure I could win, too!
**[11:14] Dazai**
The strength of your ability is your downfall.
**[11:17] Dazai**
It's so strong that you never learn
to be cunning or to think tactically,
**[11:21] Dazai**
whether it's video games or riddles.
**[11:24] Chuuya**
Riddles?
**[11:26] Chuuya**
I don't remember ever doing
riddles, let alone losing!
**[11:29] Dazai**
Then let's have a contest to see who
can catch the perpetrator first.
**[11:34] Dazai**
If you win, we can call off the bet we had.
**[11:38] Dazai**
But if I win, you're my dog for life.
**[11:43] Chuuya**
You're on! I'll do it!
**[11:46] Chuuya**
I'm neither cunning or tactical?
**[11:48] Chuuya**
Why would I ever show *you*
what I have up my sleeve?
**[11:52] Dazai**
Does the fact you always have your
fists closed and engage with your opponents
**[11:57] Dazai**
using just your kicks have something to
do with what you have up your sleeve?
**[12:01] Chuuya**
How I fight is none of your business.
**[12:03] Dazai**
I see.
**[12:04] Dazai**
So you're being lazy on purpose.
**[12:08] Dazai**
Say, why are you looking for
the god of fire, Arahabaki?
**[12:12] Dazai**
What got you interested?
**[12:14] Chuuya**
Why are *you* so insistent on dying young?
**[12:21] Dazai**
What's wrong?
**[12:22] Chuuya**
Shut up for a second!
**[12:25] Dazai**
Oh, those two.
**[12:27] Dazai**
The blue bracelets they're wearing...
**[12:29] Dazai**
They're members of the Sheep, aren't they?
**[12:31] Dazai**
Is there a problem?
**[12:34] Chuuya**
Does this seem like a good
time for them to see me?
**[12:37] Dazai**
Hey, Nakahara Chuuya-kun!
**[12:40] Dazai**
Let's get to work!
**[12:41] Dazai**
Boss's orders!
**[12:42] Chuuya**
What are you, mental?!
**[12:44] Chuuya**
Shut up, dammit!
**[12:47] Guy**
Chuuya.
**[12:48] Guy**
Finally, there you are.
**[12:49] Guy**
We were looking for you.
**[12:51] Chuuya**
Hey, guys.
**[12:52] Chuuya**
You're safe.
**[12:54] Guy**
Akira and Shougo were
abducted by the Port Mafia.
**[12:57] Guy**
Let's go to their base
and give them some pain.
**[13:01] Guy**
Like we always do.
**[13:03] Chuuya**
Don't worry about that.
**[13:05] Chuuya**
We're dealing with that right now.
**[13:08] Guy**
Dealing with it?
**[13:09] Dazai**
Yeah, dealing with it.
**[13:12] Dazai**
Never mind that.
**[13:13] Dazai**
Could you tell me what you
learned about Arahabaki?
**[13:17] Dazai**
Have you discovered anything?
**[13:19] Guy**
Who's he?
**[13:20] Girl**
Is he interested in joining?
**[13:22] Chuuya**
Something like that.
**[13:24] Chuuya**
Sorry, but would you mind
answering his question?
**[13:28] Chuuya**
Please.
**[13:30] Guy**
Sure, I guess.
**[13:33] Guy**
Based on our investigation,
rumors about people seeing
**[13:36] Guy**
the previous boss or the black flame
have exploded in the past week.
**[13:42] Dazai**
What's the oldest confirmable rumor?
**[13:45] Guy**
Probably eight years ago.
**[13:47] Guy**
The giant explosion that created
Suribachi City at the end of the conflict.
**[13:51] Guy**
Arahabaki didn't cause
any damage prior to that.
**[13:56] Dazai**
I thought so.
**[13:59] Girl**
Is this kid really a newcomer to the Sheep?
**[14:01] Guy**
More importantly, let's come up
with a plan to get our guys back.
**[14:05] Guy**
They were abducted from the
factory road past the river.
**[14:07] Chuuya**
Hang on. You went past the river?
**[14:11] Chuuya**
You went to steal booze again?!
**[14:13] Chuuya**
So close to the Port Mafia base?!
**[14:15] Chuuya**
It's right in the middle of the conflict!
**[14:17] Chuuya**
It's like asking to be abducted.
**[14:20] Girl**
Please don't shout.
**[14:21] Guy**
We're upholding our defensive policy, aren't we?
**[14:24] Guy**
Besides, this is a good opportunity.
**[14:27] Guy**
Lay your hands on the Sheep and
we hit back a hundred times harder. Right?
**[14:31] Guy**
Isn't it what you always say?
**[14:34] Guy**
That anyone who has the means others don't,
**[14:37] Guy**
they ought to fulfill that responsibility.
**[14:39] Guy**
Fulfill your responsibility as someone
who has an ability. Please.
**[14:44] Dazai**
That's great.
**[14:45] Dazai**
You two sure are interesting.
**[14:48] Dazai**
He's the one with the strongest power,
**[14:52] Dazai**
and he acts like a sheep
in the eyes of wolves.
**[14:55] Dazai**
It seems that leading an organization
**[14:59] Dazai**
is a lot harder than you'd imagine.
**[15:02] Chuuya**
You...
**[15:04] Dazai**
You can't take him with you, though.
**[15:06] Dazai**
He's busy carrying out the
Port Mafia's orders right now.
**[15:09] Chuuya**
Hey!
**[15:10] Girl**
That's impossible!
**[15:12] Girl**
Right, Chuuya?
**[15:14] Guy**
You're with the Port Mafia?!
**[15:17] Dazai**
Oh, my, I'm scared.
**[15:19] Dazai**
You got me.
**[15:21] Dazai**
I'll do anything. Just don't kill me.
**[15:24] Dazai**
Oh, I know.
**[15:25] Dazai**
I'll ask Mori-san to release
the hostages, so spare me.
**[15:31] Guy**
Who told you to contact him? Dammit!
**[15:33] Guy**
Are you listening to me?
**[15:35] Guy**
Hey!
**[15:37] Dazai**
Hey, Mori-san?
**[15:39] Dazai**
Yeah.
**[15:40] Dazai**
We're making good progress
on the work you ordered.
**[15:42] Dazai**
We're almost done.
**[15:43] Dazai**
Regarding that, I want to ask for a favor.
**[15:46] Dazai**
Could you release the Sheep hostages?
**[15:49] Dazai**
Yup, that's right.
**[15:51] Dazai**
Immediately. Unharmed.
**[15:54] Dazai**
Sure. Bye.
**[15:59] Guy**
The guards are contacting me.
**[16:02] Girl**
They've all been released?
**[16:06] Guy**
What are you playing at?
**[16:08] Dazai**
Are we done here?
**[16:10] Dazai**
Let's go.
**[16:11] Dazai**
We have work to finish.
**[16:13] Girl**
Work?
**[16:14] Girl**
Chuuya doesn't do work for the Port Mafia.
**[16:17] Guy**
Yeah.
**[16:17] Guy**
You have no more hostages.
**[16:20] Girl**
Let's go, Chuuya.
**[16:24] Girl**
Chuuya?
**[16:26] Chuuya**
Sorry. You guys go without me.
**[16:29] Guy**
What are you talking about?
**[16:31] Chuuya**
Arahabaki comes first.
**[16:33] Chuuya**
I made a bet with him
that I'd find it first.
**[16:38] Guy**
Everyone's waiting for you
to beat down the enemy!
**[16:41] Dazai**
Lay off him already.
**[16:44] Dazai**
He has the ability to choose for
himself how to use his power.
**[16:49] Dazai**
Even a kid could figure out that much.
**[16:53] Dazai**
There's nothing to discuss here.
**[16:56] Guy**
Are the rumors actually true?
**[16:59] Guy**
That you betrayed the Sheep
and joined the Port Mafia?
**[17:03] Chuuya**
The Port Mafia has nothing to do with this.
**[17:05] Chuuya**
This is my own problem.
**[17:08] Guy**
Don't you dare forget, Chuuya!
**[17:10] Guy**
You had no family or relatives
when the Sheep accepted you!
**[17:17] Guy**
Shit!
**[17:34] Dazai**
That should do it.
**[17:36] Dazai**
I can't wait.
**[17:38] Dazai**
Imagine how happy that brat's
going to be when he finds out
**[17:42] Dazai**
he's getting such a grand party in
honor of his new-found freedom.
**[17:49] Randou**
Dazai-kun,
**[17:51] Randou**
you said you found out
who's behind Arahabaki.
**[17:56] Randou**
Is that true?
**[17:58] Randou**
Or did you lie to torment Chuuya-kun?
**[18:02] Dazai**
Both, of course.
**[18:05] Dazai**
I said what I did in front of him
so he'd take on the bet,
**[18:10] Dazai**
but it's also true that
I know who's behind it.
**[18:13] Randou**
Oh?
**[18:14] Randou**
Who is it?
**[18:16] Dazai**
You, Randou-san.
**[18:22] Dazai**
You impersonated the former boss
and spread rumors about Arahabaki.
**[18:28] Dazai**
Do you have anything to say?
**[18:31] Randou**
What's your reasoning?
**[18:33] Dazai**
You've made a mistake.
**[18:35] Dazai**
A very basic mistake.
**[18:38] Randou**
And what mistake is that?
**[18:41] Dazai**
The sea.
**[18:45] Dazai**
You said this:
**[18:47] Dazai**
When you saw Arahabaki
and the black flames...
**[18:51] (Flashback) Randou**
Just the sea, in the distance,
**[18:55] (Flashback) Randou**
basking gently in the moonlight.
**[18:58] (Flashback) Randou**
That alone is vivid in my memory.
**[19:01] Randou**
I did say that.
**[19:05] Randou**
Because that's what I saw.
**[19:08] Randou**
What about it?
**[19:11] Dazai**
Are you sure you want
me to spoil it for you?
**[19:13] Randou**
Tell me.
**[19:15] Dazai**
It happened close to the
center of Suribachi City,
**[19:19] Dazai**
and Suribachi City is a
hemispherical basin valley
**[19:22] Dazai**
that was carved out by the explosion.
**[19:28] Randou**
I see!
**[19:29] Dazai**
Exactly.
**[19:31] Dazai**
There's no way you would have seen the sea.
**[19:34] Dazai**
If you were inside a giant depression
roughly two kilometers wide,
**[19:37] Dazai**
the sea would never be within sight,
no matter how tall you stood.
**[19:41] Dazai**
Why, then, did you say you saw the sea?
**[19:45] Dazai**
You described Arahabaki with
persuasiveness that was almost truthful.
**[19:50] Dazai**
So how?
**[19:51] Dazai**
It's because you did indeed see the sea.
**[19:57] Dazai**
That's why you made that mistake.
**[20:00] Dazai**
You could only have seen the sea from
Suribachi City before it was made.
**[20:05] Dazai**
Before the giant explosion eight years ago,
at the end of the conflict.
**[20:12] Randou**
You had a bet with Chuuya-kun, didn't you?
**[20:15] Randou**
Have you won that bet, then?
**[20:18] Randou**
You've beat him to the man behind it all.
**[20:37] Chuuya**
And now I've won the bet
with the suicidal maniac.
**[20:41] Chuuya**
It was your doing, Randou.
**[20:43] Chuuya**
You aren't fooling me.
**[20:46] Chuuya**
I knew all along that you were lying.
**[20:50] Dazai**
Okay, stop!
**[20:54] Chuuya**
You!
**[20:54] Chuuya**
Why are you here?
**[20:57] Dazai**
Just so you know, I made
the announcement first.
**[21:01] Dazai**
I was just in the middle of explaining
the method behind the crime.
**[21:06] Chuuya**
In the middle of? So you weren't done?
**[21:09] Chuuya**
Then I win.
**[21:11] Dazai**
There's no way you've won, but I'll
let you explain how you deduced it.
**[21:15] Dazai**
How did you deduce that
Randou-san was behind it?
**[21:18] Chuuya**
What is there to deduce?
**[21:20] Chuuya**
Anyone could have figured
it out from what he said.
**[21:23] Chuuya**
Every eyewitness so far has
said they saw the former boss,
**[21:29] Chuuya**
but this guy said he saw Arahabaki itself.
**[21:34] Randou**
There is no such thing as gods,
so you decided I did it.
**[21:39] Randou**
Is that right?
**[21:41] Chuuya**
No.
**[21:42] Chuuya**
The opposite.
**[21:45] Chuuya**
It's because gods do exist.
**[21:50] Chuuya**
I know it.
**[21:53] Randou**
You know that Arahabaki exists?
**[21:56] Chuuya**
Yeah.
**[21:58] Chuuya**
You saw it, too, didn't you?
**[21:59] Chuuya**
Eight years ago.
**[22:02] Chuuya**
There's no way you could have given
such a precise account otherwise.
**[22:08] Randou**
Chuuya-kun. Do you know
where Arahabaki is right now?
**[22:15] Randou**
Tell me.
**[22:17] Dazai**
You should tell him if you know.
**[22:21] Dazai**
Randou-san's going to be executed for
putting the Port Mafia in danger, anyway.
**[22:27] Chuuya**
Dammit, why the hell does everyone
want to meet that thing?
**[22:32] Chuuya**
It doesn't have the power
to revive the dead.
**[22:36] Chuuya**
It doesn't even have a
personality or a mind.
**[22:40] Chuuya**
It's the same as a typhoon or earthquake.
**[22:43] Randou**
It doesn't need a personality.
**[22:46] Randou**
Great destruction.
**[22:48] Randou**
Scorching the earth, staining the skies,
rumbling the air...
**[22:52] Randou**
An unfathomable *thing* from the other side.
**[22:55] Randou**
That power is enough for me.
**[22:59] Randou**
Tell me, Chuuya-kun, where is this
thing beyond human comprehension,
**[23:03] Randou**
this thing that burned me alive?
**[23:18] Chuuya**
I'll tell you if you really want to know.
**[23:22] Chuuya**
Arahabaki is...
**[23:28] Chuuya**
Me.
**[23:30] Dazai**
What?
**[23:35] Chuuya**
I had a hunch that you were.
***SIGN*** Episode 28
***SIGN*** Only a Diamond Can Polish a Diamond
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