# 28 - Only a Diamond Can Polish a Diamond
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR5VXQ8PR/bungo-stray-dogs)
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
***SIGN*** Episode 28
***SIGN*** Only a Diamond Can
Polish a Diamond
**[00:04] Chuuya**
I only have memories of part of my life.
**[00:09] Chuuya**
Unlike you, I didn't lose
my memories from trauma.
**[00:13] Chuuya**
My very life has only existed
since that day eight years ago.
**[00:18] Chuuya**
Everything before that is darkness.
**[00:27] Chuuya**
Somewhere in that darkness,
I floated aimlessly.
**[00:36] Chuuya**
Someone's hand broke through
the bounds of that void
**[00:41] Chuuya**
and dragged me into the outer world.
**[00:53] Chuuya**
That hand was yours, wasn't it?
**[00:56] Chuuya**
Where did you find me?
**[00:59] Chuuya**
I followed this case to find that out.
**[01:04] Chuuya**
Now, tell me everything.
**[01:07] Randou**
I will, of course.
**[01:10] Randou**
You're worthy of knowing.
**[01:18] Dazai**
Why can't he defend himself with gravity?
**[01:21] Randou**
Unlike a bullet,
**[01:23] Randou**
the subspace I control doesn't
abide by the laws of physics.
**[01:27] Randou**
The subspace is a separate world,
closed off from regular space.
**[01:44] Randou**
You cannot come in unless I invite you.
Nor can you leave.
**[01:52] Dazai**
You've left me outside while
deploying your subspace.
**[01:55] Dazai**
You must know what my ability is.
**[01:58] Chuuya**
Son of a...!
**[02:01] Randou**
I'm surprised that didn't kill you.
**[02:03] Randou**
I suppose I should have expected as
much from Arahabaki's incarnation.
**[02:12] Randou**
Chuuya-kun. You can't touch me in this space,
**[02:17] Randou**
but I can attack you as I wish.
**[02:41] Chuuya**
Any ability that touches
that dolt gets nullified.
**[02:45] Chuuya**
If you try to quarantine
him with your subspace,
**[02:48] Chuuya**
you'll make a good trench for me.
**[02:51] Randou**
True, his existence is heretical.
**[02:54] Randou**
The ultimate anti-gifted,
with no peer even in the west.
**[02:58] Dazai**
The west?
**[03:01] Randou**
Still...
**[03:17] Randou**
How've you been, kid?
**[03:19] Dazai**
You look well for someone
who's been dead, Boss.
**[03:25] Dazai**
Or rather, former boss.
**[03:29] Chuuya**
There's no way he could have hurt
that idiot with his special ability.
**[03:32] Dazai**
You got me.
**[03:34] Dazai**
The former boss's giant scythe
isn't an ability. It's real.
**[03:40] Chuuya**
So it could kill you, then.
**[03:46] Chuuya**
The former boss is dead.
**[03:51] Chuuya**
What did you do, Randou-san?
**[03:53] Randou**
My ability can turn corpses
stored in my subspace
**[03:57] Randou**
into supernatural beings I command.
**[04:01] Randou**
I can only control one at a time, though.
**[04:06] Dazai**
That's amazing.
**[04:08] Dazai**
You've been hiding that ability from
the organization this whole time?
**[04:13] Dazai**
Just who are you?
**[04:16] Randou**
I was formerly a gifted western spy.
**[04:21] Randou**
I came to this nation to obtain
a high-energy being
**[04:24] Randou**
the government of Japan
had supposedly discovered.
**[04:29] Dazai**
And that's Arahabaki.
**[04:33] Randou**
My sole purpose for this
plan has been to kill you,
**[04:38] Randou**
Chuuya-kun, and subsume you as the replacement
**[04:42] Randou**
supernatural being for the former boss.
**[04:46] Randou**
Dazai-kun, if the boss were
to learn what you just have,
**[04:51] Randou**
he would attempt to have me assassinated.
**[04:54] Randou**
I regretfully ask you to die
with Chuuya-kun.
**[05:03] (Flashback) Mori**
It's not a big deal.
**[05:06] (Flashback) Mori**
There's no danger involved.
**[05:10] Dazai**
I like it.
**[05:14] Dazai**
Hey.
**[05:17] Dazai**
Let's kill them.
**[05:18] Dazai**
Together.
**[05:20] Randou**
What?
**[05:21] Randou**
I thought you wanted to die.
**[05:23] Dazai**
I'm starting to like working for the Port Mafia.
**[05:28] Dazai**
In the outside world,
death is pushed away from everyday life.
**[05:32] Dazai**
But in the Mafia's world, death is an
extension of and a part of everyday life.
**[05:38] Dazai**
I tend to think that's more accurate.
**[05:41] Dazai**
After all, to die isn't the opposite of living.
**[05:45] Dazai**
It's merely a component
of the process of life.
**[05:49] Dazai**
Without observing death up close,
**[05:52] Dazai**
one can't capture the full picture
of what it means to live.
**[05:55] Chuuya**
In other words,
the suicidal maniac wants to live.
**[06:00] Chuuya**
Is that it?
**[06:02] Dazai**
I've come to think it's worth trying.
**[06:04] Dazai**
That's all.
**[06:07] Randou**
That won't be necessary.
**[06:11] Randou**
It's death time for kids.
**[06:12] Dazai**
Oh, really?
**[06:24] Dazai**
There you have it.
**[06:26] Dazai**
You understand, don't you?
**[06:27] Chuuya**
Don't give me orders.
**[06:41] Randou**
Eight years ago, I tried to take you,
**[06:44] Randou**
Arahabaki, as my supernatural being.
**[06:48] Randou**
But the moment Arahabaki emerged,
it decimated the surroundings.
**[06:55] Randou**
I won't make the same mistake twice.
**[06:58] Randou**
This time, I'll end your life
thoroughly and subsume you.
**[07:22] Randou**
What?
**[07:23] Randou**
You soaked up the impact by increasing
your gravity and density?
**[07:29] Chuuya**
Hey.
**[07:32] Chuuya**
Want me to tell you why I was keeping
both my hands tucked away until now?
**[07:38] Chuuya**
I thought that if I ever felt like I was about to lose,
**[07:42] Chuuya**
that feeling might give me
a reason to be fond...
**[07:49] Chuuya**
...of my humanity.
**[07:51] Randou**
Magnificent!
**[07:53] Randou**
Once I subsume you, perhaps
the coldness I feel will disappear.
**[07:58] Dazai**
Come on, Chuuya!
**[08:03] Chuuya**
*You* move, Dazai, you piece of shit.
**[08:09] Boss**
This is the end, son!
**[08:12] Chuuya**
Hey!
**[08:19] Randou**
What?!
**[08:20] Dazai**
Chuuya!
**[08:22] Chuuya**
Come on, Dazai!
**[08:25] Randou**
I won't let you!
**[08:29] Randou**
No!
**[08:47] Chuuya**
It's over.
**[08:49] Chuuya**
You cannot escape gravity!
**[08:56] Dazai**
If Randou-san's subspace vanishes,
naturally, so will you.
**[09:01] Dazai**
But...
**[09:09] Dazai**
Let me thank you for once.
**[09:37] Chuuya**
What are you, shitty Dazai? A magician?
**[09:40] Dazai**
Listen, Chuuya, do you really think
I'd be wearing a cast for no reason?
**[09:46] Dazai**
You're going to tell us everything,
aren't you, Randou-san?
**[09:50] Randou**
That day, eight years ago,
**[09:53] Randou**
my spy partner and I infiltrated this nation.
**[09:59] Dazai**
Your partner?
**[10:00] Dazai**
We were here to take the high-energy being
**[10:04] Dazai**
the military was supposedly
hiding in a secret facility.
**[10:08] Dazai**
But the moment I took the being,
**[10:12] Dazai**
my partner betrayed me and our nation.
**[10:16] Dazai**
He and I fought over the being and, in the end,
**[10:21] Dazai**
we were discovered and confronted
by the Japanese military.
**[10:25] Dazai**
In order to escape, I unleashed you,
**[10:32] Dazai**
the being I'd stolen,
and tried to take control.
**[10:38] Dazai**
In that instant you blew up the
facility along with all its records,
**[10:43] Dazai**
and I lost my memories.
**[10:54] Dazai**
My name isn't Randou.
**[10:57] Dazai**
Someone of this nation simply
misread the hat that I wore,
**[11:02] Dazai**
and gave the name to me.
**[11:04] Dazai**
What happened to your partner?
**[11:07] Randou**
I killed him with my own hands.
**[11:11] Randou**
Chuuya-kun.
**[11:13] Randou**
I suspect you aren't Arahabaki itself,
**[11:16] Randou**
but a human being chosen as a vessel
to keep Arahabaki under control.
**[11:22] Randou**
But you are strong, not as
the Aragami but as a human being.
**[11:29] Chuuya**
Well, thanks.
**[11:31] Randou**
Whatever may live inside you,
**[11:35] Randou**
you are already you.
**[11:37] Randou**
Is that not enough?
**[11:42] Randou**
All people, all creatures,
**[11:47] Randou**
live without knowing what
they really are.
**[11:56] Randou**
It's odd...
**[12:00] Randou**
I'm not the least bit cold.
**[12:30] Chuuya**
What a pain in the ass, even in death.
**[12:34] Chuuya**
The Port Mafia took all the records
you'd collected on Arahabaki.
**[12:41] Chuuya**
Thanks to you, I have no leads.
**[12:47] Chuuya**
Well, not that you would have told anyone
**[12:50] Chuuya**
about that stuff, even if you'd been alive.
**[12:55] Chuuya**
I'll be back.
**[13:06] Shirase**
I've been looking for you, Chuuya.
**[13:08] Chuuya**
Shirase.
**[13:10] Chuuya**
How did you find me here?
**[13:12] Shirase**
I wanted to apologize to you.
**[13:15] Shirase**
We did some soul-searching
after what happened.
**[13:18] Shirase**
We have a good understanding
of the Sheep's problems now.
**[13:23] Shirase**
So we all talked it over
and came up with a solution.
**[13:28] Chuuya**
If it's something you decided
together, I won't—
**[13:34] Chuuya**
You...
**[13:39] Shirase**
We attack you from outside your periphery,
**[13:41] Shirase**
when your guard is completely down.
**[13:43] Shirase**
That way, you won't have
time to use gravity.
**[13:46] Shirase**
Right, Chuuya?
**[13:50] Chuuya**
What do you think you're doing?
**[13:52] Shirase**
You should try not to move.
**[13:55] Shirase**
I rubbed rat poison on the blade.
**[13:58] Shirase**
Your limbs will be numb
and immobilized for a while.
**[14:02] Shirase**
You wouldn't have had to go through
this if you weren't so strong.
**[14:11] Chuuya**
Guys!
**[14:12] Shirase**
This is the solution we chose.
**[14:16] Shirase**
We'll team up with the GSS.
**[14:19] Shirase**
We all came to the realization
**[14:21] Shirase**
that if you were to side with the Port Mafia,
**[14:25] Shirase**
you'd get everyone in the Sheep killed.
**[14:27] Chuuya**
I would never betray the organization!
**[14:31] Shirase**
Unlike you, the GSS doesn't
change its loyalties on a whim.
**[14:35] Shirase**
They can be trusted
as long as they can profit.
**[14:38] Shirase**
This is the smarter way to fight
against the Port Mafia!
**[14:47] Chuuya**
I suppose I was the fool.
**[14:52] Shirase**
Get him! Fire!
**[15:05] Shirase**
He may be weakened by the poison,
but it won't be enough to kill him!
**[15:09] Shirase**
Find him quickly!
**[15:10] Shirase**
Don't let him live!
**[15:18] Chuuya**
Shit.
**[15:22] Chuuya**
"Leader," my ass.
**[15:25] Chuuya**
I was the one ruining the organization.
**[15:28] Dazai**
Hey, Chuuya.
**[15:31] Dazai**
You look like you're in a bind.
**[15:33] Chuuya**
Why are you here, shitty Dazai?
**[15:37] Chuuya**
Are you here to kill me, too?
**[15:40] Dazai**
I have a message from Mori-san.
**[15:42] Dazai**
He wants me to officially
recruit you into the Port Mafia.
**[15:47] Chuuya**
Are you trying to make me
owe you by saving me?
**[15:49] Dazai**
The message isn't important.
**[15:51] Dazai**
I'm just here for a massacre.
**[15:54] Dazai**
Mori-san is a pretty demanding employer.
**[15:57] Dazai**
The moment I joined the Port Mafia,
he put me in charge of the army.
**[16:02] Dazai**
Two enemies, the GSS and the Sheep,
have formed an alliance.
**[16:07] Dazai**
We have to shut them down before
they become completely coordinated.
**[16:11] Dazai**
But, hey, we'll be done by noon.
**[16:15] Dazai**
We're killing them all.
**[16:18] Chuuya**
Including the Sheep?
**[16:20] Dazai**
There's no change to our policy.
**[16:23] Dazai**
That said, if someone, a peer...
**[16:28] Dazai**
Someone who has information
on the enemy... can advise us,
**[16:32] Dazai**
I wouldn't mind changing our policy.
**[16:35] Chuuya**
A peer's advice, huh?
**[16:38] Dazai**
Right.
**[16:39] Dazai**
For example, a peer in the Port Mafia.
**[16:41] Dazai**
I could trust the advice of one of my own.
**[16:44] Chuuya**
So you want to make a deal.
**[16:46] Chuuya**
You devil.
**[16:48] Dazai**
Although, anyone who lost to me in a game
**[16:52] Dazai**
is bound to get worked to the
bone in this organization.
**[16:59] Chuuya**
I'll shred you someday.
**[17:01] Dazai**
I like that expression.
**[17:03] Dazai**
You look like a wild beast.
**[17:06] Chuuya**
Don't kill the children.
**[17:09] Dazai**
Sure.
**[17:10] Dazai**
Got that, everyone?
**[17:12] Dazai**
As we discussed earlier,
no hurting the kids.
**[17:18] Chuuya**
I see.
**[17:20] Chuuya**
He'd calculated that this would happen, too.
**[17:24] Chuuya**
Ever since he made that
phone call at the arcade...
**[17:30] Chuuya**
He did it to sow doubt
about me in my people.
**[17:36] Chuuya**
That son of a bitch...
**[17:41] Chuuya**
I'm game, then.
**[17:50] Chuuya**
What's up with this hat?
**[17:52] Mori**
Normally, in the Port Mafia,
**[17:54] Mori**
whoever recruits a new member
is responsible for their care.
**[17:59] Mori**
As a symbol of that, they hand
down one of their belongings.
**[18:03] Mori**
I gave Dazai-kun my coat.
**[18:06] Mori**
And that's for you.
**[18:08] Chuuya**
It's an old hat.
**[18:10] Mori**
It belonged to Randou-kun.
**[18:19] Mori**
It seems he'd been investigating Arahabaki.
**[18:23] Mori**
Apparently, the military facility
he infiltrated was researching
**[18:28] Mori**
the creation of an artificial gifted by
combining gifted and normal beings.
**[18:32] Chuuya**
Artificial gifted?
**[18:34] Mori**
Those are the documents he collected.
**[18:38] Mori**
I apologize,
**[18:41] Mori**
but only executives have
permission to view those files.
**[18:47] Chuuya**
What makes you think I won't
pummel you and take it for myself?
**[18:51] Mori**
You aren't such a fool of a human.
**[18:56] Mori**
Besides, I can answer another question
that you would want answered.
**[19:07] Chuuya**
So you see right through me, huh?
**[19:10] Chuuya**
Tell me one thing: What exactly
is the leader of an organization?
**[19:14] Mori**
A leader is both the head of the organization
and the organization's slave.
**[19:20] Mori**
For the survival and profit
of the organization,
**[19:22] Mori**
they gladly put themselves
through any manner of filth.
**[19:26] Mori**
They develop their subordinates
and place them where they best fit.
**[19:30] Mori**
And, if necessary,
they use and dispose of them.
**[19:36] Mori**
For the sake of the organization,
they take on any act of barbarism with glee.
**[19:41] Mori**
That is a leader.
**[19:48] Mori**
All for the organization,
**[19:50] Mori**
and for the protection of this beloved city.
**[19:57] Chuuya**
*I see.*
**[19:59] Chuuya**
*That's what was missing in me.*
**[20:12] Chuuya**
Then I dedicate my blood
and all that I am to you, Boss.
**[20:17] Chuuya**
I will protect this organization
that you work to support,
**[20:21] Chuuya**
and I will work for you
to decimate its enemies.
**[20:24] Chuuya**
Our enemies will know the vicious gravity
**[20:29] Chuuya**
that will crush those
who oppose the Port Mafia.
**[20:38] Mori**
Welcome to the Port Mafia,
Nakahara Chuuya-kun.
**[20:50] Chuuya**
Why are you taking me to
the meeting, old sis?
**[20:53] Kouyou**
Stop calling me that.
**[20:55] Kouyou**
I'm not that old yet.
**[20:58] Kouyou**
For your information, of course.
**[21:01] Kouyou**
The meeting today is with one of
the Mafia's front organizations.
**[21:06] Kouyou**
Every cup of tea,
every pause in the conversation
**[21:10] Kouyou**
affects the Mafia's future.
**[21:12] Kouyou**
What if I take part in the
meeting and make them angry?
**[21:17] Chuuya**
We'll deal with that when it happens.
**[21:19] Chuuya**
If the boat is so easily tipped,
**[21:23] Chuuya**
it would be more triumphant
to destroy it spectacularly.
**[21:28] Q**
I'm Kyusaku!
**[21:29] Q**
Hey, let's play.
**[21:30] Q**
Come on, let's play.
**[21:32] Dazai**
Fine, fine, when you're older.
**[21:36] Chuuya**
You!
**[21:37] Dazai**
Chuuya!
**[21:39] Dazai**
Why do you think we recruited you?!
**[21:42] Dazai**
You're my dog!
**[21:45] Dazai**
If I tell you my leg is itchy,
you scratch it.
**[21:47] Dazai**
If I tell you I want to eat soba, you threaten
a soba shop owner into coming here.
**[21:50] Dazai**
That's your job!
**[21:51] Dazai**
So what the hell are you doing
in Kouyou-san's direct command?!
**[21:54] Dazai**
Working your way up the ladder?!
**[21:56] Dazai**
Smooth sailing?!
**[21:57] Dazai**
You're young! Go do some grunt work!
**[21:59] Chuuya**
Shut up, you scheming bastard!
**[22:02] Chuuya**
I joined the Port Mafia of my own accord!
**[22:05] Chuuya**
I'm not going to be your
henchman or your dog!
**[22:08] Kouyou**
Was it really such a good idea to have
these two in the same organization?
**[22:12] Kouyou**
Now what?
**[22:14] Mori**
Only a diamond can polish a diamond.
**[22:20] Mori**
Natsume-sensei, those words you
told me and Fukuzawa-dono...
**[22:25] Mori**
I'm going to find out if you were right.
***SIGN*** Seven Years Later (Present Day)
***SIGN*** Somewhere, Tokyo
**[22:39] Ango**
Those were the events
surrounding the recruitment of
**[22:43] Ango**
Port Mafia executives
Nakahara Chuuya and Dazai Osamu.
**[22:48] Ango**
The Port Mafia's influence soon spread
significantly under Mori's new leadership.
**[22:55] Ango**
Another year later,
**[22:57] Ango**
Nakahara Chuuya discovered the
truth of his own emergence,
**[23:01] Ango**
and he confronted the gifted spy who
had been Randou's friend and betrayer.
**[23:07] Ango**
He wasn't dead.
**[23:10] Ango**
I will provide a separate
report on that matter.
**[23:14] Ango**
Document Number I-4190 C.
**[23:17] Ango**
History of the Role of Young Gifted
in the Arahabaki Incident.
**[23:22] Ango**
Report by Ministry of Internal Affairs Gifted
Special Operations Division Assistant Counselor
**[23:26] Ango**
Sakaguchi Ango.
***SIGN*** Next: Episode 29
**[23:36] [SONG] Text**
My Ill Deeds Are
the Work of God