# 19 - The Ninjas Take Action
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**[00:07] Soldier**
Announcing the arrival
**[00:09] Soldier**
of Date Masamune-dono.
**[00:37] Voice**
Lord!
**[00:37] Voice**
Your short sword!
**[00:38] Masamune**
Yeah.
**[00:52] Kojuro**
Lord.
**[00:53] Kojuro**
It is safely in my hands.
**[00:55] Masamune**
I am grateful my insolence
has been admonished.
***SIGN*** The Ninjas Take Action
**[02:46] Keiji**
I see...
**[02:48] Keiji**
a death robe would, indeed, be theatrical
enough to please the Chief Advisor.
**[02:54] Kanetsugu**
More endearing than spite and defiance.
**[02:59] Keiji**
Though he got to keep his head,
Date wasn't unscathed, either.
**[03:04] Kanetsugu**
A large portion of his
territory was confiscated.
**[03:09] Kanetsugu**
And his lordship took away one more
important thing from Date-dono.
**[03:51] Hideyoshi**
Hey, Masamune.
**[03:54] Hideyoshi**
I am confiscating Iwase and Asaka.
**[04:00] Hideyoshi**
Yes.
**[04:15] Hideyoshi**
You will still have
about 700,000 koku left.
**[04:18] Hideyoshi**
Any complaints?
**[04:22] Hideyoshi**
And...
**[04:24] Hideyoshi**
Katakura Kojuro.
**[04:26] Hideyoshi**
I am granting you
50,000 koku from Tamura.
**[04:30] Kojuro**
Pardon?
**[04:34] Hideyoshi**
How about that?
**[04:39] Hideyoshi**
Would you like to become my direct vassal?
**[04:48] Kojuro**
I could not accept it.
**[04:58] Hideyoshi**
Huh?
**[05:12] Hideyoshi**
Why?
**[05:16] Kojuro**
I am the one who has gouged
out my own lord's right eye.
**[05:22] Hideyoshi**
Is this true?
**[05:27] Masamune**
Indeed...
**[05:29] Masamune**
it is true!
**[05:35] Kojuro**
Therefore, it is my destiny
to be his right eye until I die.
**[05:47] Hideyoshi**
All right, all right.
**[05:49] Hideyoshi**
I've heard enough.
**[05:50] Hideyoshi**
How pathetic.
**[05:53] Hideyoshi**
You reject 50,000 koku as if it's nothing.
**[05:59] Hideyoshi**
Hey, Rikyu.
**[06:00] Hideyoshi**
Kojuro reminds me of that guy.
**[06:03] Rikyu**
Yes.
**[06:04] Masamune**
What guy?
**[06:10] Rikyu**
That would be Naoe Kanetsugu-sama.
***SIGN*** Eight Swords Bishamon
**[06:47] Suibara**
I thought that would be the end of Date.
**[06:50] Suibara**
Instead, Masamune curried favor for himself.
**[06:57] Kanetsugu**
That was splendid.
**[07:02] Kagekatsu**
He's a troublesome fellow
from a neighboring province.
**[07:11] Mosuke**
That is...
**[07:42] Ii**
Leave him be.
**[07:49] Ii**
He is Naoe Kanetsugu-dono,
the strategist of Uesugi.
**[07:54] Kanetsugu**
Ii-dono.
**[07:55] Ii**
What are you up to, Naoe-dono?
**[07:57] Kanetsugu**
I would enjoy a visit,
**[08:01] Kanetsugu**
but we must pass through on horseback.
**[08:04] Kanetsugu**
Please pardon us.
**[08:05] Ii**
Huh?
**[08:07] Ieyasu**
This is a battlefield.
**[08:09] Ieyasu**
They may stay on horseback.
**[08:11] Ieyasu**
They may go.
**[08:28] Ieyasu**
Naoe-dono.
**[08:29] Ieyasu**
It has been a while.
**[08:31] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[08:32] Ieyasu**
I heard about your hospitality to Naomasa.
**[08:36] Ii**
Uh... My lord.
**[08:38] Ii**
Please don't...
**[08:40] Ieyasu**
First, you drank him under the table,
**[08:43] Ieyasu**
then you had to deliver him to his residence.
**[08:51] Ii**
Damn it...
**[08:52] Ii**
The biggest embarrassment of my life.
**[08:55] Kanetsugu**
Oh, it was nothing.
**[09:01] Ieyasu**
Thanks for taking care of him.
**[09:03] Ieyasu**
I express my gratitude.
**[09:33] Ii**
Damn...
**[09:45] Mosuke**
Milord.
**[09:47] Mosuke**
My hunch is that Ieyasu
was waiting for you there.
**[09:52] Kanetsugu**
Probably.
**[09:54] Kanetsugu**
That's why I greeted him.
**[09:56] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[10:00] Kanetsugu**
He...
**[10:08] Kanetsugu**
definitely knows the secret about my eyes.
**[10:14] Kagekatsu**
Tokugawa...
**[10:16] Kagekatsu**
is investigating your secret?
**[10:20] Kanetsugu**
Yes.
**[10:23] Kanetsugu**
He probably knows about
the Jizo Bodhisattva, as well.
**[10:31] Kagekatsu**
Tokugawa must be planning to battle us.
**[10:37] Kanetsugu**
Lord. You need not worry.
**[10:42] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo is on his way
to the Bodhisattva statue,
**[10:44] Kanetsugu**
to make sure it doesn't get stolen.
**[10:50] Kagekatsu**
But...
**[10:51] Kanetsugu**
No.
**[10:53] Kanetsugu**
If my history were to bring
troubles to Uesugi...
**[10:58] Kanetsugu**
you must execute me as a criminal.
**[11:01] Kagekatsu**
What?
**[11:03] Kanetsugu**
That would be the best strategy
to eliminate the source of trouble.
**[11:40] Jirobo**
That's Shimosaka Sagen.
**[11:44] Jirobo**
I heard he's working for Ii Naomasa.
**[11:51] Jirobo**
Can't be true...
**[12:34] Jirobo**
A ninja.
**[12:48] Sagen**
Long time no see, Jirobo.
**[12:51] Sagen**
I see your ninja skills have not waned.
**[12:56] Jirobo**
Shimosaka Sagen, is that you?
**[13:00] Sagen**
You recognize me by voice?
**[13:04] Sagen**
I take it that you have been aware of me.
**[13:19] Jirobo**
What?
**[13:48] Jirobo**
S-Sagen...
**[13:51] Sagen**
Sorry about that.
**[13:53] Sagen**
But there was no other way to capture you.
**[13:57] Jirobo**
Wh-What do you want from me?
**[14:00] Sagen**
Lord Kenshin has bequeathed
a Jizo Bodhisattva as proof of his son.
**[14:05] Sagen**
Tell me where it is.
**[14:10] Jirobo**
Wh...
**[14:11] Jirobo**
What are you talking about?
**[14:29] Sagen**
Don't pretend you don't know.
**[14:31] Sagen**
As Mitsumono ninja, you and I fought
together at Kawanakajima, remember?
**[14:38] Sagen**
Back in the days when I worked for Takeda...
**[14:41] Sagen**
there was a ninja who ran errands
between Nara's Shukuin and Kenshin.
**[14:47] Sagen**
As to his personal description...
**[14:49] Sagen**
it matches yours perfectly.
**[14:52] Jirobo**
Wh-What are you talking about...
**[14:57] Sagen**
Don't play dumb.
**[14:59] Sagen**
I know you were Kenshin's number one ninja.
**[15:05] Sagen**
You can go to Kenshin's
side now, if you like.
**[15:20] Mosuke**
Could that have been...
**[15:24] Kanetsugu**
Mosuke's hunch was right on the mark.
**[15:30] Keiji**
There's no torture more
severe than the ninjas'.
**[15:33] Kanetsugu**
Not to mention, it was Sagen and Jirobo...
**[15:36] Kanetsugu**
It was a battle of wills
**[15:38] Kanetsugu**
between two men connected
to Kenshin and Uesugi's fate.
**[15:43] Keiji**
Hence, his pain...
**[15:45] Keiji**
must have been unimaginable.
**[15:50] Kanetsugu**
However, notwithstanding
the excruciating pain,
**[15:53] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo did not give in.
**[15:56] Keiji**
Indeed...
**[15:59] Kanetsugu**
Due to his righteous loyalty
to my father, Lord Kenshin.
**[16:06] Kenshin**
What?
**[16:07] Kenshin**
Princess Tae is pregnant with my child?
**[16:10] Jirobo**
Yes, indubitably.
**[16:16] Kenshin**
You...
**[16:19] Kenshin**
have just killed someone, haven't you?
**[16:22] Jirobo**
Yes.
**[16:23] Jirobo**
Several ninjas.
**[16:25] Jirobo**
Because they got wind of the secret.
**[16:28] Kenshin**
You killed your own comrades?
**[16:31] Jirobo**
I had to silence them. It was inevitable.
**[16:41] Kenshin**
You...
**[16:43] Jirobo**
Now I, too, can guard the secret.
**[16:48] Kenshin**
I will not allow it.
**[16:49] Kenshin**
Do not die, Jirobo.
**[16:51] Jirobo**
M-Milord.
**[16:57] Kenshin**
As of this moment, you are my direct vassal.
**[17:00] Jirobo**
Th-That is too much...
**[17:02] Kenshin**
Hence, you must live.
**[17:05] Kenshin**
Live and protect my son.
**[17:11] Nar**
This was the moment Jirobo
renewed his will to live.
**[17:16] Nar**
When Jirobo was an infant,
**[17:17] Nar**
he was found at a battlefield
by a ninja leader.
**[17:21] Nar**
He was raised by him－
as a slave and as a ninja.
**[17:24] Nar**
Thus, he was ready to die at any moment,
without any qualms whatsoever.
**[17:30] Nar**
And even now, his will kept Jirobo alive...
**[17:42] Mosuke**
Milord.
**[17:43] Kanetsugu**
Hmm?
**[17:45] Kanetsugu**
What's the matter?
**[17:46] Kanetsugu**
Still can't get to sleep?
**[17:50] Kanetsugu**
I guess you are hearing
Jirobo's voice in your heart, too.
**[17:55] Mosuke**
I'm worried about Jirobo.
**[17:58] Mosuke**
If Tokugawa is onto him, it's too
dangerous for him to go alone.
**[18:03] Mosuke**
I know.
**[18:04] Mosuke**
I can go to his aid.
**[18:08] Mosuke**
But, milord.
**[18:10] Kanetsugu**
Don't worry.
**[18:12] Kanetsugu**
Jirobo is not alone.
**[18:14] Mosuke**
Huh?
**[18:16] Kanetsugu**
That demon is with him.
**[18:18] Mosuke**
Demon?
**[18:22] Mosuke**
No, don't tell me!
**[18:33] Ninja1**
So that's the famous ninja, Jirobo, huh?
**[18:37] Ninja2**
His fame is overrated.
**[18:38] Ninja1**
Nothing but a geriatric ninja.
**[18:49] Ninja1**
A bear?
**[18:57] Ninja2**
What the... As if it was
running away from something.
**[19:02] Ninja1**
Of course not! What would
a bear be afraid of?
**[19:06] Ninja2**
I suppose you're right...
**[19:21] Ninja1**
What's the matter?
**[19:22] Ninja2**
A d-d-demon...
**[19:33] Ninja1**
He's dead!
**[19:40] Ninja1**
Wh-Wh-What the...
**[20:04] Sagen**
I have heard, that after Kenshin's death,
**[20:09] Sagen**
you left Echigo and
became a freelance ninja.
**[20:12] Sagen**
So why are you still loyal to Uesugi?
**[20:19] Jirobo**
Because Lord Kenshin...
**[20:22] Jirobo**
saved me from being a slave.
**[20:26] Jirobo**
I will never forget
**[20:29] Jirobo**
my debt to him,
as long as I live.
**[20:34] Sagen**
Righteousness due to your indebtedness.
**[20:36] Jirobo**
That's right.
**[20:37] Jirobo**
Righteousness.
**[20:44] Sagen**
So even you are righteous, too.
**[20:46] Sagen**
When Echigo men are righteous,
they also are stubborn.
**[20:58] Sagen**
You must die.
**[21:01] Sagen**
Because it would be a nuisance for me...
**[21:04] Sagen**
if you righteously reported to Naoe
of my search for the Jizo Bodhisattva.
**[21:22] Sagen**
What?
**[21:39] Sagen**
Wh-What the...
**[21:59] Sagen**
Wh-What is this?
***SIGN*** Episode 20 Demon
**[23:41] Nar**
Next time on *Gifuu Doudou:
Kanetsugu and Keiji*:
**[23:45] Nar**
Episode 20
"Demon."
**[23:48] Nar**
Let us discuss the path
of righteousness next time, as well.