53 - HERO VS. CRIMINAL

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    Two days before the Decay of Angels incident...
[00:15] (Flashback) Dazai
    Heya.
[00:16] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    Dazai-san.
[00:17] (Flashback) Dazai
    Sorry for dragging you out
    here out of the blue,
[00:20] (Flashback) Dazai
    but we won't have to worry
    about surveillance here.
[00:23] Dazai
    We're the only ones who
    know about this place.
[00:27] Akutagawa
    Indeed.
[00:28] Akutagawa
    This is where you and I...
[00:31] Dazai
    I need to ask for a favor.
[00:34] (Flashback) Dazai
    The world is about to be torn,
[00:36] (Flashback) Dazai
    and from the fissure a deep,
    dark state of chaos will emerge.
[00:42] (Flashback) Dazai
    When that happens,
    I'd like you to be my eyes.
[00:45] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    Your eyes?
[00:46] (Flashback) Dazai
    Eyes to watch over all things.
[00:49] (Flashback) Dazai
    Never siding with anyone, never
    interfering, and hence never detected.
[00:54] (Flashback) Dazai
    That's you.
[00:56] (Flashback) Dazai
    I need your help to save this world,
    the Detective Agency, and Atsushi-kun.
[01:01] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    I refuse!
[01:02] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    Whatever colors the flames that engulf
    the world or the Agency are, I don't care.
[01:07] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    Much less would I ever save the weretiger.
[01:10] (Flashback) Dazai
    Sure you will.
[01:13] Dazai
    You know why, don't you?
[01:20] Fukuchi
    A flash of the sword creates pain.
[01:22] Fukuchi
    And a flash can end it.
[01:25] Fukuchi
    I'll put you at ease.
[01:27] Akutagawa
    You won't need to do that.
[01:31] Akutagawa
    For every time that weretiger
    is plunged into suffering,
[01:34] Akutagawa
    he returns as an even
    more troublesome enemy.
[01:37] Atsushi
    Akutagawa! Why are you here?
[01:40] Akutagawa
    By Dazai-san's orders.
[01:43] Akutagawa
    To collect information,
    detected by neither friend nor foe.
[01:46] Akutagawa
    To never aid unless a
    smoke signal is seen.
[01:50] Akutagawa
    Those were his orders.
[01:51] Atsushi
    Rampo-san's smoke flare!
[01:54] Atsushi
    Rampo-san predicted that, too?
[01:58] Fukuchi
    Another one!
[01:59] Fukuchi
    And this one looks like a
    pain in the ass to shut up.
[02:04] Akutagawa
    I have no intention of revealing
    your identity to the outside.
[02:07] Fukuchi
    Is that so?
[02:08] Akutagawa
    My job is to feed the fish.
[02:11] Akutagawa
    I'll be sending you into the ocean minced.
[02:13] Akutagawa
    The meat of a mastermind ought
    to be quite nourishing.
[02:22] Fukuchi
    What an insolent Gifted you are!
[02:24] Fukuchi
    Can't you see that I'm your senior!
[02:26] Akutagawa
    All lives are equal.
[02:28] Atsushi
    Why are you always this way?
[02:31] Atsushi
    You should be escaping to report the truth!
[02:35] Akutagawa
    You're the one who's oblivious
    to the situation, weretiger.
[02:38] Akutagawa
    How can you not notice this opportunity?
[02:44] Atsushi
    What was that?
[02:45] Akutagawa
    I destroyed the engine room
    to trap the ship here.
[02:49] Akutagawa
    No one can send backup now.
[02:52] Akutagawa
    In other words...
[02:54] Akutagawa
    For just this moment, he's all by himself.
[02:58] Atsushi
    The moment I knew this man was my enemy,
    I became fearful of loneliness.
[03:03] Atsushi
    But he's the one who's alone right now.
[03:06] Akutagawa
    We'll slash his throat and close the case.
[03:09] Atsushi
    Just the two of us?
[03:11] Akutagawa
    Do we need any more?
[03:14] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    Why me?
[03:16] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    You've got plenty of people to work for you
    who are stronger and more intelligent than I am.
[03:22] (Flashback) Dazai
    Do you remember when we first met?
[03:25] (Flashback) Akutagawa
    I'd remember that night, even if I'd
    forgotten every other detail of my life.
[03:33] (Flashback) Akutagawa (thirteen yo)
    Can you give me a reason to live?
[03:36] (Flashback) Dazai (fifteen yo)
    I can.
[03:39] (Flashback) Dazai
    Why did I invite you into
    the Mafia that day?
[03:43] (Flashback) Dazai
    Why did I make you work
    alongside Atsushi-kun?
[03:46] (Flashback) Dazai
    To develop a special weapon
    against the Demon.
[03:48] (Flashback) Dazai
    To make a new generation of Double Black.
[03:53] (Flashback) Dazai
    In other words...
[03:55] Akutagawa
    For this moment.
[03:57] Fukuchi
    Now, then...
[03:58] Fukuchi
    Whatever path you choose,
    I will congratulate you.
[04:04] Fukuchi
    Young men, choose a path that
    won't leave your souls to regret.
[04:08] Fukuchi
    Especially if you will perish anyway!
[04:12] Akutagawa
    I need thirty seconds.
[04:13] Akutagawa
    Fix your leg.
SIGN    Tenma Tengai
[04:16] Akutagawa
    Tenma Tengai!
[04:19] Akutagawa
    It's a mere metal rod!
[04:21] Atsushi
    Avoid it, Akutagawa!
[04:31] Guard A
    What the...
[04:32] Guard B
    Did something hit us?
[04:33] Atsushi
    It's not just the weapon.
[04:35] Atsushi
    It doesn't matter if it's just railing...
[04:37] Atsushi
    He makes it into a weapon a
    thousand times more powerful.
[04:40] Fukuchi
    You dodged it.
[04:42] Fukuchi
    I should be careful not to sink
    the ship with my next swing.
[04:46] Akutagawa
    You freak.
[04:50] Akutagawa
    Too fast!
[04:51] Akutagawa
    I can't avoid it!
[04:53] Akutagawa
    But...
[04:55] Akutagawa
    Dazai-san didn't abandon me.
[04:58] Akutagawa
    Everything is a trial.
[05:00] Akutagawa
    And so I'll overcome death itself!
SIGN    Rashoumon
[05:05] Akutagawa
    Rashoumon: Tenma Agito!
[05:25] Akutagawa
    I don't stand a chance in this position.
[05:29] Akutagawa
    Weretiger!
[05:37] Akutagawa
    Don't touch me!
[05:39] Akutagawa
    You disgust me!
[05:40] Akutagawa
    Why did you run?
[05:42] Akutagawa
    The mission is to destroy him!
[05:44] Atsushi
    There's no way!
[05:45] Atsushi
    You saw him!
[05:46] Atsushi
    He's a god of war in human form!
[05:49] Akutagawa
    I'll defeat him even if it means seeing
    every bone in my body crumble.
[05:52] Atsushi
    Why?!
[05:54] Akutagawa
    Because otherwise Dazai
    won't need me anymore.
[05:59] Akutagawa
    Four years ago, Dazai-san abandoned me,
[06:03] Akutagawa
    and replaced me with the
    shiny new thing that was you.
[06:06] Akutagawa
    But...
[06:09] Akutagawa
    Perhaps I'm wrong.
[06:11] Akutagawa
    Isn't everything a trial?
[06:14] Akutagawa
    Is it not all an extension of the purpose
    given to me in that forest that night?
[06:19] Atsushi
    A trial?
[06:20] Atsushi
    Fukuchi Ouchi is?
[06:22] Akutagawa
    No.
[06:24] Akutagawa
    You are.
[06:26] Guard A
    Ah, shit, I overslept.
[06:28] Guard X
    I can't believe it took the
    intruder alert to wake us up.
[06:33] Guard X
    Wait!
[06:34] Guard X
    I surrender!
[06:36] Guard X
    I don't get paid enough
    to die with a villain!
[06:40] Guard X
    I mean, believe it or not,
    I have an adorable wife and daughter.
[06:44] Guard X
    Basically, if I were to let a terrorist get away
     and go on to destroy my home, I'd be upset.
[07:02] Atsushi
    Stop, Akutagawa!
[07:04] Atsushi
    Don't kill him!
[07:04] Akutagawa
    Shut up.
[07:12] Atsushi
    Shit!
[07:18] Atsushi
    He's alive.
[07:19] Akutagawa
    That was his carotid artery.
[07:21] Akutagawa
    Squeezing it causes fainting due
    to lack of blood to the brain.
[07:25] Akutagawa
    He'll regain consciousness in a few minutes.
[07:28] Atsushi
    So you...
[07:29] Atsushi
    You haven't killed anyone
    since we made that promise?
[07:32] (Flashback) Atsushi
    Don't kill anyone for the next six months.
[07:36] Akutagawa
    I keep my promises.
[07:39] Guard C
    Are you sure you heard gunshots?
[07:41] Guard D
    Yeah, this way.
[07:44] Akutagawa
    Damn.
[07:45] Akutagawa
    Let's go.
[07:47] Atsushi
    That said, we need to think of something.
[07:51] Akutagawa
    The answer is simple.
[07:52] Akutagawa
    We defeat Fukuchi.
[07:54] Atsushi
    If only it were that easy!
[07:57] Akutagawa
    There is a way.
[07:59] Akutagawa
    Of course there is.
[08:01] Akutagawa
    Dazai-san would never have made us work
    together without a strategy in mind.
[08:09] Akutagawa
    There's a simple, yet absolute, tactic.
[08:14] Akutagawa
    Beast Beneath the Moonlight Rashoumon,
    Kokko Zessou.
[08:18] Atsushi
    This is the one we used in
    the fight against Fyodor.
[08:21] Akutagawa
    An amalgam of our special abilities.
[08:24] Akutagawa
    Those claws can even kill a god,
    if you can hit them.
[08:28] Akutagawa
    There's just one problem.
[08:31] Akutagawa
    I'm sure you know.
[08:32] Atsushi
    Yeah.
[08:33] Atsushi
    Actually hitting them.
[08:35] Akutagawa
    Our enemy is particularly evasive.
[08:39] Akutagawa
    Thus, there will not be a second chance
    to use Kokko Zessou.
[08:42] Akutagawa
    The entirety of my power
     will be passed to you.
[08:45] Akutagawa
    Should we be outed,
    my head will be the first to fly.
[08:50] Akutagawa
    End him on the first strike.
[08:53] Atsushi
    Then we'll have to go underwater.
[08:55] Atsushi
    We won't be as nimble in the water,
[08:58] Atsushi
    but Kokko Zessou has a longer range.
[09:03] Atsushi
    And there's just the thing here for it.
[09:04] Atsushi
    This way.
[09:07] Atsushi
    There's a submarine for rescuing government
    VIPs in the event of an emergency.
[09:11] Atsushi
    We can launch it unmanned.
[09:13] Atsushi
    He'll have no choice but to go after it,
[09:16] Atsushi
    and that's when we'll ambush him from behind.
[09:19] Atsushi
    Please...
[09:20] Atsushi
    I hope this works.
SIGN    Episode 53
[09:36] Atsushi
    We've failed.
[09:44] Fukuchi
    You don't need to look so furious.
[09:47] Atsushi
    Was he on to us?
[09:49] Fukuchi
    I'm not going to torment you or anything.
[09:53] Atsushi
    Why do you do this?
[09:55] Atsushi
    Is it because the battlefield changed you?
[09:57] Atsushi
    Were you tortured by the enemy or something?
[10:01] Fukuchi
    Yeah, I've certainly experienced torture.
[10:05] Fukuchi
    Though I was on the torturing side.
[10:08] Fukuchi
    Not just soldiers.
[10:11] Fukuchi
    Civilians, too.
[10:13] Fukuchi
    Women and children.
SIGN    On that battlefield,
    I was born.
[10:19] Fukuchi
    Neither you nor Fukuzawa
    know that battlefield.
[10:23] Fukuchi
    That's why you can believe
    in a benevolent state.
[10:28] Fukuchi
    I challenge the justness of
    the heavens' directives!
[10:30] Fukuchi
    I've endured countless trials and tribulations,
    suffered hardships inconceivable in number,
[10:35] Fukuchi
    the lack of recognition of which fuels my wrath.
[10:39] Fukuchi
    Thus I, humble Ouchi, shall embrace
     the cold cynicism of all creation!
[10:46] Fukuchi
    Come fight, young whelps!
SIGN    Tenma Agito
[10:57] Akutagawa
    Tenma Agito!
[11:04] Atsushi
    What?!
[11:20] Fukuchi
    And stay down.
[11:23] Fukuchi
    Did you think you could defeat
    me if you fought together?
[11:27] Fukuchi
    I've defeated a hundred
    Gifted single-handedly.
[11:32] Fukuchi
    Should the two of you attack individually,
    I need only kill you individually.
[11:37] Akutagawa
    Stay down, you say?
[11:39] Akutagawa
    I refuse.
[11:45] Atsushi
    He's using his ability and his coat
    to force his bones into place.
[11:49] Atsushi
    I have to keep up with him.
[11:54] Fukuchi
    Very well.
[12:02] Fukuchi
    I shall demonstrate the true
    nature of the battlefield.
[12:07] Fukuchi
    The battlefield is a garden of
    carnage whereupon justice,
[12:11] Fukuchi
    courage, and conviction die all the same.
[12:14] Fukuchi
    The only possible paths are a death
    that is merciful or one that is not.
[12:20] Fukuchi
    Welcome to the battlefield.
[12:28] Fukuchi
    This katana was forged by Gifted
    blacksmiths 1,500 years ago.
[12:34] Fukuchi
    It's noble, but peculiar.
[12:36] Fukuchi
    It had never been used in battle, as it was
    made specifically for ritual activities.
[12:42] Fukuchi
    Not until I wielded it.
[12:44] Fukuchi
    Let me tell you why you've lost:
[12:51] Fukuchi
    you shouldn't have made me draw this sword.
[13:00] Atsushi
    Akutagawa!
[13:02] Fukuchi
    One down.
[13:04] Atsushi
    I didn't even see him move!
[13:07] Atsushi
    What happened to him?
[13:08] Atsushi
    He's coming.
[13:10] Atsushi
    Something's coming.
[13:11] Atsushi
    Something I have to evade.
[13:14] Atsushi
    No...
[13:15] Atsushi
    I can use the tiger's eyes
    to see what's coming.
[13:24] Fukuchi
    The ritual sword Amenogozen.
[13:26] Fukuchi
    Otherwise known as the "space-time sword."
[13:29] Fukuchi
    It compresses space to
    send its blade elsewhere,
[13:33] Fukuchi
    but it could only traverse
    a dozen or so centimeters.
[13:37] Fukuchi
    Until it's been made a hundred times
    more powerful by my special ability!
[13:46] Fukuchi
    It's over.
[13:47] Fukuchi
    The tiger's abilities are
    effective in frontal attacks.
[13:50] Fukuchi
    The black coat abilities are effective
    in defense and attacking blind spots.
[13:54] Fukuchi
    With the tiger in front and the
    black coat in defense and ambush,
[14:00] Fukuchi
    you may have had my head.
[14:04] Fukuchi
    The only reason you failed,
    boy, is because you faltered.
[14:10] Fukuchi
    That's why I said...
[14:12] Fukuchi
    Should the two of you attack individually,
    I need only kill you individually.
[14:18] Atsushi
    He's right.
[14:20] Atsushi
    But for that, I would have
    needed to trust Akutagawa
[14:23] Atsushi
    and thrown myself into this
    freak's radius of murder.
[14:27] Atsushi
    I could never have done
    such a reckless thing.
[14:33] Fukuchi
    What's so funny?
[14:35] Akutagawa
    Because I'm happy, of course.
[14:37] Akutagawa
    Undefeated hero, Fukuchi Ouchi...
[14:40] Akutagawa
    If I defeat you,
    Dazai-san will surely approve of me.
[14:48] Fukuchi
    Looks like you don't understand
    your own situation.
[14:51] Fukuchi
    You won't be surviving.
[14:53] Fukuchi
    You two won't even be given a swift death.
[14:56] Fukuchi
    I still need you to give me all the
    information you have, after all.
[15:02] Fukuchi
    Though, I'm a little tired
    of that kind of thing.
[15:06] Fukuchi
    Akutagawa-kun, was it?
[15:08] Fukuchi
    Why don't you become my apprentice?
[15:11] Akutagawa
    What?
[15:12] Fukuchi
    I'm more powerful and more
    experienced than anyone.
[15:17] Fukuchi
    More than anything, I'll soak my hands
    in blood to achieve my goals. Like you.
[15:21] Fukuchi
    Is that not more appealing than
    the death you're suffering now?
[15:25] Akutagawa
    That's the most foolish
    proposition in the world.
[15:29] Akutagawa
    No one would replace Dazai-san!
[15:33] Fukuchi
    I never said to turn on him.
[15:35] Fukuchi
    My occupation has made me quite
    adept at training Gifted.
[15:40] Fukuchi
    Once you've become the strongest Gifted
    among even the Hunting Dogs,
[15:43] Fukuchi
    I'll return you to your master.
[15:45] Akutagawa
    There's no guarantee that
    you'll keep your promise!
[15:49] Fukuchi
    I'll uphold my promise.
[15:52] Fukuchi
    Besides, I have a reason
    to negotiate with you.
[15:57] Fukuchi
    I'd like you to do something for me.
[16:00] Fukuchi
    Kill the tiger boy.
[16:04] Fukuchi
    I've had enough of dispatching
    children for my objectives.
[16:08] Fukuchi
    You were never motivated by the just act
    of stopping a terrorist in the first place.
[16:13] Fukuchi
    In other words, you have
    no motivation to kill me.
[16:16] Fukuchi
    So shouldn't you make survival
    your priority for now?
[16:22] Fukuchi
    What's wrong?
[16:23] Fukuchi
    Don't you want to kill him?
[16:24] Fukuchi
    Is his life that important to you?
[16:29] Akutagawa
    Get up, weretiger.
[16:31] Fukuchi
    Good.
[16:32] Atsushi
    No!
[16:33] Atsushi
    Do you really think he'll keep his promise?
[16:36] Akutagawa
    I promised I would kill
    you in six months' time.
[16:40] Akutagawa
    That time's simply come a little sooner.
[16:42] Akutagawa
    I'll defeat you.
[16:44] Akutagawa
    That's my purpose in life.
[16:46] Atsushi
    Why are you so obsessed with
    your purpose in life?!
[16:50] Akutagawa
    I haven't told anyone this...
[16:52] Akutagawa
    But I have an illness of the lung.
[16:55] Akutagawa
    My time is short.
[16:57] Akutagawa
    Therefore, I cannot allow myself to
    disappoint Dazai-san in the time I have left.
[17:03] Atsushi
    I see.
[17:06] Akutagawa
    I'm sorry.
[17:16] Atsushi
    Akutagawa said he can't allow
    himself to disappoint Dazai-san.
[17:21] Atsushi
    Then, if Akutagawa meets
    Dazai-san after I die...
[17:26] Atsushi
    If Dazai-san learns that he betrayed
    me in order to survive...
[17:30] Atsushi
    How would Dazai-san react?
[17:43] Fukuchi
    What?!
[17:44] Atsushi
    A perfect ambush.
[17:46] Atsushi
    This is trust!
[17:49] Atsushi; Akutagawa
    Beast Beneath the Moonlight Rashoumon,
SIGN    Beast Beneath the Moonlight
SIGN    Rashoumon
SIGN    Beast Beneath the Moonlight Rashoumon
[17:52] Atsushi; Akutagawa
    Kokko Zessou!
[18:11] Atsushi
    Don't die yet!
[18:13] Atsushi
    Reveal the truth and the Detective
    Agency's innocence to the public!
[18:16] Fukuchi
    It seems Heaven still will not
     release me from my duties...
[18:27] Atsushi
    He's dead.
[18:31] Atsushi
    Found it.
[18:32] Atsushi
    The page!
[18:33] Atsushi
    The Agency's saved.
[18:35] Akutagawa
    Then my mission is complete.
[18:38] Akutagawa
    We're getting out before security arrives.
[18:42] Atsushi
    What's the matter?
[18:46] Atsushi
    What did that katana cut in the last moment?
[18:52] Akutagawa
    What's the matter?
[18:53] Atsushi
    It never cut us.
[18:56] Atsushi
    Where did that sword strike, in the end?
[19:21] Atsushi
    A perfect ambush.
[19:23] Atsushi
    This is trust!
[19:25] Atsushi;Akutagwa
    Beast Beneath the Moonlight Rashoumon,
SIGN    Beast Beneath the Moonlight Rashoumon
[19:29] Atsushi
    Kokko Zessou!
[19:35] Atsushi
    Weretiger!
[19:51] Akutagawa
    What...
[19:53] Akutagawa
    What happened to me?
[19:57] Atsushi
    That was a perfect ambush.
[20:00] Atsushi
    He didn't even have time to defend himself.
[20:03] Fukuchi
    Anything you'd like to say before you die?
[20:07] Atsushi
    What have you done?
[20:09] Fukuchi
    How do you think I've been able to save
    the world from disaster so many times?
[20:13] Fukuchi
    How do you think I've been
    victorious so many times?
[20:16] Fukuchi
    Didn't I tell you?
[20:17] Fukuchi
    Amenogozen is the space-time sword.
[20:20] Fukuchi
    Its blade traverses space.
[20:23] Fukuchi
    It also traverses time.
[20:28] Fukuchi
    You defeated me in the future, yes?
[20:32] Fukuchi
    But at the moment of my defeat,
    Amenogozen cut through to the past.
[20:36] Fukuchi
    As a result, your victory was rendered moot.
[20:40] Fukuchi
    It was erased.
[20:41] Fukuchi
    From the future, the blade cut the past,
    so I never lost in the first place.
[20:48] Atsushi
    He's insurmountable.
[20:50] Atsushi
    This monster slays even past defeats.
[20:54] Fukuchi
    I'll ask again.
[20:56] Fukuchi
    Is there anything you'd like
    to say before you die?
[21:00] Akutagawa
    I've always contemplated it...
[21:02] Akutagawa
    What should I say in the short time I have
    before the flame of my life is extinguished?
[21:08] Akutagawa
    It was just now, just seconds ago,
    that I finally knew.
[21:11] Akutagawa
    I need no words.
[21:14] Akutagawa
    I need only action!
[21:17] Atsushi
    He's manipulating his shirt
    with his special ability?!
[21:23] Atsushi
    A fire extinguisher from the ship!
[21:35] Fukuchi
    He got away.
[21:50] Akutagawa
    I need no words.
[21:53] Akutagawa
    I need only action!
[21:56] Atsushi
    He's manipulating his shirt
    with his special ability?!
[22:01] Atsushi
    A fire extinguisher from the ship!
[22:10] Fukuchi
    Action over words in this moment?
[22:14] Fukuchi
    Bravo!
[22:20] Atsushi
    Akutagawa!