# 33 - The Masked Assassin
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***SIGN*** What comes after knowing the evil within...
**[00:33] Fukuzawa**
Blood stains...
**[01:00] Fukuzawa**
The trail stops at this puddle.
**[01:06] Fukuzawa**
What a dangerous night.
**[01:13] Fukuzawa**
What a curious skill, kicking nothing
but air to change direction.
**[01:19] Mask**
Death to the gifted.
**[01:21] Mask**
An eternal slumber in the soil,
from which there is no awakening.
**[01:25] Fukuzawa**
A gifted-hunter.
**[01:27] Fukuzawa**
If I'm not your only target,
**[01:31] Fukuzawa**
I'll have to stop you.
**[01:34] Mask**
You can't reach me.
**[01:36] Mask**
You'll never reach me.
**[01:39] Mask**
No matter how masterful you
may be in martial arts,
**[01:41] Mask**
you can't evade an attack
outside of your awareness.
**[01:49] Fukuzawa**
An attack from an empty dead-end...
**[01:52] Mask**
You seem to have detected my bloodlust.
**[01:55] Mask**
But this is adequate.
**[01:58] Mask**
Inescapable death awaits everywhere.
**[02:02] Mask**
For example, by gunshot,
by disease, by loneliness,
**[02:07] Mask**
and by poison.
**[02:18] Fukuzawa**
Stop!
**[02:27] Mask**
It is a good, moonlit night to die.
***SIGN*** Episode 33
**[02:30] [SONG] Text**
The Masked
Assassin
**[04:05] Atsushi**
Is it true that the president was attacked?!
**[04:07] Kunikida**
Yeah.
**[04:08] Kunikida**
He survived, but he's unconscious
and suffering mysterious symptoms.
**[04:13] Kunikida**
He isn't improving, even with
Yosano-sensei's abilities.
**[04:18] Dazai**
There have been a lot of
similar attacks recently.
**[04:24] Dazai**
Gifted being attacked at night,
with no one around to see.
**[04:27] Dazai**
Some have already died.
**[04:30] Kunikida**
What do we know about the attacker?
**[04:32] Dazai**
Only that they use an unknown ability
**[04:35] Dazai**
and that they wear a mask.
**[04:38] Kunikida**
A masked assassin.
**[04:40] Dazai**
Of course, the attacker may be dead
before we start running around.
**[04:47] Dazai**
Atsushi-kun, which organization do
you think stands to lose the most
**[04:51] Dazai**
if a gifted-killer were to
go on a massacre in town?
**[04:56] Dazai**
The Gifted Special Operations Division.
**[04:58] Dazai**
In this town, it's the opposite.
**[05:00] Dazai**
It's the Port Mafia.
**[05:03] Dazai**
For the Port Mafia, masters of the night,
**[05:07] Dazai**
the relentless killing of the gifted
on whom their existence depends
**[05:10] Dazai**
is an insult akin to having a
knife swung around at their nose.
**[05:15] Dazai**
If one of the Port Mafia
were to fall victim...
**[05:19] Kunikida**
Their credibility would come tumbling down.
**[05:23] Kunikida**
But will they take action before
there are any casualties?
**[05:27] Dazai**
The first to make a move wins.
**[05:29] Dazai**
That's what Mori-san would always say.
**[05:32] Dazai**
I guarantee they will act.
**[05:35] Dazai**
They may have even discovered
the attacker's hideout by now.
**[05:48] Tachihara**
We were a moment too late.
**[05:50] Hirosawa**
Boss, the hideout is an empty shell.
**[05:53] Ougai**
*So they're good at playing tag.*
**[05:57] Elise**
Come on, Rintarou!
**[05:57] Ougai**
That's all right.
**[05:58] Ougai**
As proud as they may be of their quick feet,
**[05:59] Elise**
Rintarou!
**[06:02] Elise**
Rintarou, Rintarou!
**[06:02] Ougai**
they cannot run from the night forever.
**[06:03] Elise**
Rintarou!
**[06:05] Elise**
Are we going to the sweets shop yet?
**[06:07] Ougai**
We're almost there, Elise-chan.
**[06:09] Ougai**
But first, one more place.
**[06:12] Elise**
Another clothes shop?!
**[06:13] Elise**
This is the fifteenth one!
**[06:15] Ougai**
It's a short distance by car.
**[06:17] Ougai**
I could die happy, right now,
if you came with me.
**[06:21] Elise**
Fine, I'll go. Happy?
**[06:27] Hirosawa**
*Boss.*
**[06:28] Hirosawa**
*Boss!*
**[06:31] Ougai**
Right, where were we?
**[06:34] Hirosawa**
Has the trap been set as planned?
**[06:36] Ougai**
Yes.
**[06:37] Ougai**
The assassin will soon make his next attack.
**[06:40] Ougai**
That's when we'll catch him.
**[06:43] Ougai**
Thanks for waiting, Elise-chan.
**[06:46] Ougai**
All right, let's go!
**[07:02] Dazai**
The alleyway where the president was attacked,
**[07:09] Dazai**
and the blood stains that
the president first saw.
**[07:13] Dazai**
An unidentified puddle of blood.
**[07:16] Dazai**
An attack from an empty dead-end...
**[07:20] Dazai**
and the ability to walk on air.
**[07:27] Dazai**
That makes sense.
**[07:29] Dazai**
I know who the attacker is.
**[07:44] Elise**
This seriously sucks.
**[07:46] Ougai**
Thanks, Elise-chan.
**[07:49] Ougai**
But I-I can't breathe.
**[07:53] Elise**
Whatever.
**[07:57] Ougai**
Ow, ow...
**[08:02] Ougai**
*It's me.*
**[08:04] Akutagawa**
As you expected,
our prey has taken the bait.
**[08:08] Ougai**
*Then give him a good bite.*
**[08:15] Ougai**
The first to make a move always wins.
**[08:20] Higuchi**
* The vehicle detonation signal*
* came from Area C-33.*
**[08:28] Akutagawa**
Bloodshed?
**[08:29] Mask**
Death.
**[08:32] Mask**
For gifted, the slumber of death.
**[08:35] Akutagawa**
To think that the rabbit being
hunted would show its face...
**[08:39] Akutagawa**
Are you the gifted-killer?
**[08:42] Akutagawa**
For the resurrection of my beloved,
**[08:45] Akutagawa**
I carry out this contract of death.
**[08:48] Akutagawa**
You kill for someone's sake.
**[08:51] Akutagawa**
Is that your goal?
**[08:53] Akutagawa**
I can't say it's not beautiful.
**[08:56] Akutagawa**
But without strength,
you're just a howling animal!
**[09:18] Akutagawa**
So *you're* the gifted-killer.
**[09:22] Akutagawa**
The Guild's Irmão.
**[09:24] Akutagawa**
Nathaniel.
**[09:34] Guy 1**
What the...
**[09:35] Guy 2**
Jeez!
**[09:36] Guy 1**
Is it an accident?
***SIGN*** No one's hurt!
***SIGN*** Just the car!
***SIGN*** It's burning...
**[09:36] [SONG] Text**
At the shopping mall?
***SIGN*** Yeah
**[09:38] Guy 1**
This is a scoop!
**[09:39] Girl 1**
Seriously? I can't see anything.
**[09:42] Ougai**
Look at all these gawkers.
**[09:45] Ougai**
Maybe we made too much of a commotion.
**[09:47] Cop**
Are you all right?
**[09:50] Cop**
We received word that a car exploded.
**[09:52] Ougai**
Oh, not to worry, officer.
**[09:56] Ougai**
My daughter here just put some
orange juice in the gas tank.
**[10:00] Elise**
What?!
**[10:00] Ougai**
She said she wanted mister car to try some.
**[10:04] Ougai**
Right, Elise-chan?
***SIGN*** Obviously Not.
**[10:09] Cop**
It was an accident?
**[10:11] Cop**
Your clothes appear burnt.
**[10:14] Cop**
Are you hurt?
**[10:15] Ougai**
We're fine.
**[10:16] Ougai**
See? We're doing great.
**[10:18] Cop**
That's a problem.
**[10:30] Ougai**
You!
**[10:31] Ougai**
Stop!
**[10:33] Guy 1**
What the?!
**[10:34] Ougai**
Elise-chan!
**[10:44] Elise**
I lost him.
**[10:46] Ougai**
The excessive number of gawkers
was his doing, as well.
**[10:57] Akutagawa**
Your ability, The Scarlet Letter,
allows you to manipulate blood.
**[11:02] Akutagawa**
You affix the blood writing to nothingness,
allowing you to walk on the air.
**[11:08] Akutagawa**
And this...
**[11:12] Akutagawa**
is what was behind your unmanned attacks.
**[11:15] Akutagawa**
Firing words from the puddle of blood.
**[11:18] Akutagawa**
That's quite a devious skill you've acquired,
for a straight-laced man of God.
**[11:29] (Flashback) Akutagawa**
Rashoumon...
**[11:31] (Flashback) Akutagawa**
Jaws of Endless Gates!
***SIGN*** Jaws of Endless Gates
**[11:51] Akutagawa**
You said this was for the
resurrection of your beloved.
**[11:55] Akutagawa**
So you're doing this is for that woman.
**[11:59] Akutagawa**
The woman I defeated in combat at the port.
**[12:05] Nathaniel**
You?
**[12:08] Nathaniel**
Who are you?
**[12:30] Fyodor**
My hat is missing.
**[12:32] Dazai**
Is this what you're looking for?
**[12:34] Dazai**
Hey, demon Fyodor.
**[12:39] Fyodor**
It's you.
**[12:41] Fyodor**
I haven't seen you since Mukurotoride.
**[12:43] Dazai**
A double-pronged attack that used
the masked man as bait.
**[12:48] Dazai**
I expected as much from you,
**[12:53] Dazai**
so I took the liberty of figuring
out your escape route and waiting.
**[12:58] Dazai**
How do I look?
**[12:59] Fyodor**
Terrible.
**[13:00] Dazai**
Oh, fine.
**[13:02] Dazai**
Have it back, then.
**[13:06] Dazai**
This has your name written all over it.
**[13:08] Dazai**
You tinkered with a poor priest's head
and turned him into an assassin,
**[13:13] Dazai**
and had him attack the leaders
of two organizations.
**[13:17] Fyodor**
And what business do you have with me today?
**[13:20] Dazai**
I think I'll have you tell me
what poison you used on my boss.
**[13:25] Dazai**
I know what your goal is.
**[13:28] Dazai**
In order to obtain the book you need,
you'll purge Yokohama of all its gifted.
**[13:33] Dazai**
But you Rats don't have
the manpower to burn down
**[13:36] Dazai**
the entirety of Yokohama
the way the Guild did.
**[13:39] Dazai**
That's why you tried to assassinate the heads
of the Detective Agency and the Port Mafia.
**[13:45] Fyodor**
Why do you think that?
**[13:48] Dazai**
Because that's what I would do.
**[13:51] Fyodor**
So we're two-of-a-kind.
**[13:56] Fyodor**
Very well.
**[13:57] Fyodor**
I'll tell you.
**[14:00] Fyodor**
The poison I used
is a cannibalizing ability.
**[14:10] Yosano**
What is this?
**[14:13] Fyodor**
It's a viral ability belonging
to a certain criminal.
**[14:17] Fyodor**
A minuscule supernatural lifeform
grows to maturity in 48 hours
**[14:22] Fyodor**
and eats through the two hosts' bodies.
**[14:26] Fyodor**
However, if one of the hosts
dies, the ability stops.
**[14:33] Fyodor**
To save the president,
**[14:35] Fyodor**
the only option is to kill
the other host, Mori-san.
**[14:39] Fyodor**
You'll have to give up
trying to nullify the ability.
**[14:43] Fyodor**
To try to find the virus hiding within
**[14:46] Fyodor**
the vital organs and touch it
directly is suicidal.
**[14:50] Fyodor**
What will you do?
**[14:52] Fyodor**
Will you discuss it with the Port Mafia?
**[14:56] Chuya**
Son of a bitch!
**[14:57] Chuya**
Two days?!
**[14:59] Kouyou**
So it's a scheme to make the Armed Detective Agency
and the Port Mafia crush each other.
**[15:04] Chuya**
Big sis...
**[15:05] Kouyou**
Do you plan to fight the Detective Agency?
**[15:08] Kouyou**
You'll be playing right into
the mastermind's hands.
**[15:10] Chuya**
I'll pummel the mastermind.
**[15:12] Chuya**
Still...
**[15:15] Chuya**
Two days isn't enough time.
**[15:19] Fyodor**
People are sinful and foolish.
**[15:22] Fyodor**
Even knowing that it's part of a trap,
they can't help but kill each other.
**[15:27] Fyodor**
Someone must cleanse them of that sin,
**[15:31] Fyodor**
thus I seek the book.
**[15:34] Fyodor**
Just like this.
**[15:56] Dazai**
*A sniper...*
**[15:58] Dazai**
*He predicted my actions, too.*
**[16:02] Fyodor**
I directed him not to
shoot your vital organs.
**[16:05] Fyodor**
I need you to carry out your role, which is
to report the conflict with the Port Mafia.
**[16:11] Dazai**
You said we're two-of-a-kind.
**[16:16] Dazai**
We are the same kind,
but there's just one difference
**[16:22] Dazai**
to the way we think.
**[16:27] Dazai**
You're right that people
are all sinful and foolish.
**[16:35] Dazai**
But isn't that what's so great?
**[16:39] Fyodor**
You knew about the sniper, didn't you?
**[16:43] Fyodor**
You came here knowing that,
in order to obtain information.
**[16:48] Dazai**
The book is a single-volume novel.
**[16:53] Dazai**
A piece of literature wherein whatever
is written becomes reality.
**[16:58] Fyodor**
Yes. I'll be using that book to create
**[17:03] Fyodor**
a world without sin... Without gifted.
**[17:08] Dazai**
Go ahead.
**[17:11] Dazai**
Give it a try.
**[17:16] Atsushi**
Dazai-san!
**[17:18] Atsushi**
Where'd he go?
**[17:20] Atsushi**
He said he was going to investigate
something around here.
**[17:23] Fyodor**
Well, then,
**[17:26] Fyodor**
we'll meet again in the promised land.
**[17:39] Atsushi**
Dazai-san.
**[17:42] Atsushi**
Dazai-san!
**[17:50] Yosano**
Fukuzawa-sensei and Mori-sensei...
**[17:55] Yosano**
This is fate.
**[18:03] Yosano**
The president's examination is finished.
**[18:07] Yosano**
It sounds like the enemy's warning was true.
**[18:10] Yosano**
The ability is draining the life out of him.
**[18:12] Yosano**
I'm not sure whether he'll
regain consciousness or not.
**[18:16] Kunikida**
So it was true.
**[18:17] Tanizaki**
Let's save the president, Kunikida-san.
**[18:22] Tanizaki**
Let's kill the Port Mafia's boss!
**[18:24] Tanizaki**
That's the only way!
**[18:26] Kunikida**
It's true that we absolutely
must prevent the president's death.
**[18:30] Kunikida**
But...
**[18:33] Kunikida**
Dazai is currently undergoing surgery
for the bullet wound at another hospital.
**[18:37] Kunikida**
* There's no way we can fight*
* the Port Mafia without him.*
**[18:42] Tanizaki**
Kunikida-san!
**[18:44] Kunikida**
Yosano-sensei, where's Rampo-san?
**[18:47] Yosano**
Keeping the president company.
**[18:49] Yosano**
He was devastated.
**[18:51] Yosano**
I don't blame him.
**[18:54] Atsushi**
This is bad!
**[18:56] Atsushi**
The Port Mafia has surrounded the building!
**[19:20] Chuya**
Sorry, Detective Agency.
**[19:22] Chuya**
It's nothing personal today.
**[19:25] Chuya**
Give me your boss' head,
**[19:28] Chuya**
and you won't have to die.
**[19:31] Kunikida**
They're already here?!
**[19:33] Atsushi**
They're holding the front
and back entrances.
**[19:39] Yosano**
They are the masters of raids
and killing, after all.
**[19:44] Yosano**
What's our plan?
***SIGN*** Ideals
**[19:47] Kunikida**
*What do we do?*
**[19:49] Kunikida**
* The enemy is likely well-prepared and ready*
* to charge in, regardless of casualties.*
**[19:55] Kunikida**
*Worse, they know our abilities.*
**[19:59] Kunikida**
* If we fight them without a plan,*
* people will die.*
***SIGN*** Ideals
**[20:04] Kunikida**
* But what plan can I come up*
* with in this panic?*
**[20:08] Ranpo**
Stay calm, Kunikida.
**[20:11] Ranpo**
You call yourself the
president's apprentice?
**[20:13] Yosano**
Rampo-san...
**[20:15] Yosano**
Are you all right?
**[20:16] Ranpo**
The president told us to get a grip.
**[20:20] Yosano**
He's regained consciousness?
**[20:23] Ranpo**
No.
**[20:24] Ranpo**
But I could hear him.
**[20:28] Ranpo**
Give us our orders, Acting President.
**[20:31] Ranpo**
I'll deduce any information we need.
**[20:40] Higuchi**
* Gifted guards spotted in front of*
* the Detective Agency's hospital room.*
**[20:45] Higuchi**
*A blonde child.*
**[20:47] Chuya**
*It's that brat again.*
**[20:58] Chuya**
*Physical attacks do almost nothing to him.*
**[21:02] Chuya**
* They're playing their trump*
* card right off the bat.*
**[21:05] Chuya**
* Of course, they're probably trying*
* to buy time to get the boss out.*
**[21:10] Higuchi**
*Report. It's not just the child.*
**[21:13] Higuchi**
*Kunikida, the weretiger...*
**[21:16] Higuchi**
* Almost the entirety of the Detective Agency's*
* main force is defending the hospital room.*
**[21:21] Chuya**
What?
**[21:22] Chuya**
They're going full-force already?
**[21:31] Chuya**
We'll respond with our top men.
**[21:34] Chuya**
Send Akutagawa and the Black Lizard
over from the perimeter team.
**[21:54] Chuya**
Want to do this one by one?
**[21:58] Chuya**
Or should we all go at it at once?
**[22:01] Chuya**
Well?
**[22:04] Chuya**
I don't mind either way.
***SIGN*** Next: Episode 34
***SIGN*** Cannibalism (Part 1)