# E279 - The Reaper by Day and the Reaper by Night
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***SIGN*** The Reaper's Request: Please watch this program in a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV.
**[01:35] G**
Boss, I gotta close up already.
**[01:38] G**
And they say this area's gotten dangerous
lately, so you'd best hurry on home.
**[01:42] Gin**
Dangerous? What else is new?
**[01:46] G**
Haven't you heard of the serial
killer going after drunkards?
**[01:49] G**
Just two days ago, another corpse
was found in a back alley.
**[01:52] G**
And there was something
really strange about it.
**[01:55] G**
At first glance, he looked like any old
drunkard with nary a scratch on him,
**[01:59] G**
but he was cut through the neck,
leaving just one tiny bit of skin attached.
**[02:04] G**
And because of that,
**[02:05] G**
now there are rumors that it
was the work of a Reaper.
**[02:09] Gin**
No wonder the streets are
so deserted everywhere.
**[02:14] Gin**
When things get this gloomy,
it even makes alcohol taste bad.
**[02:18] Gin**
I wish someone would have a
drink with me, Reaper or not.
**[02:22] G**
Give it a rest, Boss.
**[02:24] G**
Or else a Reaper really might
show up to pour you a drink.
***SIGN*** Oden
**[02:28] G**
So scary!
**[02:29] G**
I'd better take down my lamp before
the candle gets snuffed out.
**[02:34] Gin**
How stupid.
**[02:36] Gin**
By just a tiny bit of skin on his neck?
**[02:38] Gin**
Big whoopin' deal.
**[02:40] Gin**
Even I could do that.
**[02:44] Gin**
Hell, we're always scraping along
by the skin of our necks.
**[02:47] Gin**
Financially, that is.
**[02:48] R**
Is that true?
**[02:51] R**
If so, I'd like to ask you
**[02:55] R**
to help me commit suicide.
***SIGN*** The Reaper by Day
and the Reaper by Night
**[03:06] Gin**
I'm not sure I get it,
**[03:08] Gin**
but you should probably rethink this.
**[03:11] Gin**
If you committed suicide, uh,
**[03:14] Gin**
wouldn't it be bad in a lot of ways?
**[03:16] Gin**
How should I put this...
**[03:18] Gin**
It's just wrong in all kinds of ways.
**[03:21] Gin**
Basically, this isn't like you.
**[03:24] Gin**
Cheer up!
**[03:25] R**
What the hell would you know about me?!
**[03:27] Gin**
What would I know?
**[03:29] Gin**
I'd say it's all pretty obvious, really.
**[03:32] R**
Stop judging a book by its cover!
**[03:35] R**
You know nothing about my suffering!
**[03:37] Gin**
I can pretty much guess.
**[03:39] Gin**
You couldn't learn Bankai
or something, right?
**[03:42] R**
Wrong!
**[03:43] Gin**
Anyway,
**[03:44] Gin**
don't throw your life away.
**[03:47] Gin**
You have the important mission
of taking human lives...
**[03:50] Gin**
Wait, that's not right.
**[03:52] Gin**
You should know better than
anyone how precious life is
**[03:54] Gin**
*because* you take so many lives...
**[03:57] Gin**
That's not it, either.
**[03:58] Gin**
Man, this is a pain!
**[04:00] Gin**
I have no idea how to stop a
Reaper from committing suicide!
**[04:03] R**
I must atone for all the lives I have taken.
**[04:07] Gin**
Look, I get that.
**[04:09] Gin**
But isn't that your job?
**[04:11] Gin**
You don't have a choice.
**[04:12] Gin**
Everyone understands that.
**[04:15] R**
Just hurry and finish me off already!
**[04:18] R**
P-Please!
**[04:20] R**
Finish me!
**[04:22] R**
End my suffering!
**[04:24] Gin**
I don't even care anymore.
**[04:26] Gin**
Don't resent me, okay?
**[04:27] Gin**
Don't reduce my life span, okay?
**[04:28] R**
Ow! Ow! Ow! I'm gonna die!
**[04:31] Gin**
Didn't you *want* to die?!
**[04:32] R**
H-Hurry up! Hurry up!
**[04:33] Gin**
Hey, come on!
**[04:34] Gin**
Quit moving around!
**[04:37] Gin**
H-Here I come.
**[04:46] R**
U-Uh, how much longer?
**[04:49] R**
Hurry up and put me at ease.
**[04:52] Gin**
J-Just a sec. Don't look this way.
**[04:54] Gin**
I'm adjusting my aim right now!
I'll take your head in one swing!
**[05:03] R**
Are you done yet?
**[05:04] R**
Hey, I'm really starting to hurt here.
**[05:06] R**
Please, hurry!
**[05:07] Gin**
S-Settle down!
**[05:09] Gin**
This is the pain of all the
lives you have taken so far!
**[05:13] Gin**
And this one's for Krillin!
**[05:20] R**
Hey! What do you think you're doing?!
**[05:24] R**
H-Help...
**[05:25] Gin**
I-I'm sorry! I can't do this after all!
**[05:28] R**
It's too late to be saying that!
**[05:30] R**
My guts are spilling out already!
**[05:33] Gin**
Well, my brain's spilling out,
so let's call it even!
**[05:36] R**
Don't go wimping out on me now!
**[05:38] R**
Hurry up and finish the job!
**[05:40] R**
Kill me!
**[05:41] Gin**
I'll die! *I'll* die!
**[05:49] Gin**
This isn't helping with suicide, it's a scene
out of Tuesday Suspense Theater!
**[05:52] Gin**
Th-This ain't my fault, right?
**[05:54] Gin**
This ain't a murder, right?
**[05:56] Gin**
I just helped with the suicide, right?
**[05:57] Gin**
And surely helping a Reaper
commit suicide isn't a crime...
**[06:06] Gin**
What's all this? Sure is noisy.
**[06:11] Gin**
Did something happen?
**[06:13] Shin**
I want to know what happened to *you*!
**[06:16] Gin**
What about me?
**[06:17] Shin**
What? That Reaper hanging
from your back, that's what!
**[06:21] Gin**
Reaper?
**[06:22] Gin**
Wait, can you see something behind me?
**[06:25] Gin**
Damn, is something haunting me?
**[06:28] Shin**
Like hell!
**[06:28] Shin**
The thing's lying limp on your back!
**[06:31] Shin**
It's covered in blood!
**[06:32] Gin**
That doesn't sound good.
**[06:34] Gin**
I might die soon.
**[06:36] Kag**
The Reaper up and died before you!
**[06:38] Kag**
What happened? Don't tell me...
**[06:40] Gin**
No, no! It was self-defense!
**[06:43] Gin**
All I did was turn the tables on
the Reaper who came after my life!
**[06:45] Kag**
You killed it? You killed a Reaper?
**[06:49] Gin**
Anyway, bring in all the Zanpakuto we have.
**[06:52] Gin**
We'll all use our Bankai and send
the Reaper back to Soul Society.
**[06:56] Shin**
What are you trying to make us do?!
**[06:57] Shin**
Not even Bankai can clear you of this crime!
**[06:59] Shin**
Turn yourself in!
**[07:01] Shin**
You've totally committed a murder here!
**[07:02] Gin**
Screw you!
**[07:04] Gin**
Only Soul Society can judge me—
**[07:08] R**
No. Only people can judge other people.
**[07:13] R**
You don't have to assist
in my suicide anymore.
**[07:14] Shin**
It's alive! The Reaper is alive!
**[07:17] R**
I'm sorry.
**[07:19] R**
This stomach wound was a fake.
**[07:21] R**
I figured you'd never take my head
unless I did something like this.
**[07:26] R**
But I'm not allowed an
honorable ritual suicide.
**[07:30] R**
I'm more deserving of having my
severed head stuck on a pike.
**[07:35] R**
A Reaper doesn't even have the right to die.
**[07:39] Kag**
A human?
**[07:42] R**
No, I'm a Reaper.
**[07:44] R**
Ikeda Asaemon,
**[07:46] R**
a good-for-nothing Reaper who
can't even have her own head,
**[07:49] R**
let alone those of sinners.
**[07:52] R**
I apologize for causing a fuss.
**[08:01] Gin**
Who could it be at this time of night?
**[08:12] Hij**
Again?
**[08:13] Oki**
Yeah. The fourth one this week alone.
**[08:17] Oki**
I never knew Reapers were such hard workers.
**[08:20] Hij**
Seriously.
**[08:22] Hij**
I wish they'd spare a thought for us
cops who have to deal with their messes.
**[08:25] Oki**
And unlike us, I bet they get paid
for overtime in Soul Society.
**[08:31] Oki**
This technique never ceases to amaze me.
**[08:33] Hij**
Yeah, no ordinary swordsman
could pull this off.
**[08:36] Hij**
But Sogo, if they were as skilled as you—
**[08:40] Oki**
Gimme a break.
**[08:42] Oki**
I was busy all night, targeting
your head like always.
**[08:46] Hij**
You call that an alibi?
**[08:48] Oki**
Besides, I'm not the only one capable of this.
There are loads of others out there.
**[08:53] Oki**
Did you know?
**[08:55] Oki**
Someone committing a ritual
suicide first pierces his belly,
**[08:59] Oki**
and then his assistant lops off his
head before he starts to suffer.
**[09:02] Oki**
But it's not that easy to take
someone's head in one swing.
**[09:07] Oki**
If it goes badly, you fail to finish him
off even after two or three strikes,
**[09:11] Oki**
thus making him suffer more.
**[09:13] Oki**
As such, it's usually up to the finest
swordsman in the family to be the assistant.
**[09:18] Oki**
Some among them try to
**[09:19] Oki**
keep the head from falling to
the ground and getting dirty
**[09:22] Oki**
by leaving just one tiny bit of
skin attached when they cut it,
**[09:25] Oki**
a practice known as the Hung Head
style of execution, or so I hear.
**[09:31] Yae**
Do you mean to say that the murderer
is one of us executioners?
**[09:40] Oki**
And who might you be?
**[09:42] Hij**
I asked him to help us
with the investigation.
**[09:45] Hij**
He's the Royal Swordskeeper,
**[09:47] Hij**
the 18th Ikeda Yaemon-dono.
**[09:50] Oki**
Royal Swordskeeper?
**[09:53] Hij**
Basically, the arms magistrate who supervises
all of the Shogun family's weaponry—
**[09:57] Yae**
It's fine.
**[09:59] Yae**
No need to address me so formally.
**[10:02] Yae**
Everybody knows that trying out
the swords is but a side job.
**[10:08] Yae**
I know that we're called the
clan of executioners who
**[10:11] Yae**
behead those sentenced by the Bakufu,
**[10:13] Yae**
no, that we are ridiculed
as Reapers behind our backs.
**[10:19] Oki**
Oh, I get it.
**[10:20] Oki**
The quickest way to learn about
a Reaper is to ask a Reaper—
**[10:25] Yae**
Our job may seem like
dirty work to outsiders,
**[10:29] Yae**
but our swords purge criminals of their
sins and return purity to their souls,
**[10:34] Yae**
and we take great pride in them.
**[10:36] Yae**
None in our family would swing their
swords like this, bereft of conviction.
**[10:42] Hij**
It's not like we're suspecting you.
**[10:45] Hij**
We wanted to ask about this technique—
**[10:46] Yae**
Or so I'd like to say,
**[10:49] Yae**
but I don't think anyone outside the Ikeda
family is capable of such a technique.
**[10:54] Yae**
It's not that this head was left
attached by one tiny bit of flesh,
**[10:58] Yae**
but rather that it was chopped off so
skillfully that its cells are coalescing.
**[11:03] Yae**
Leaving even a person's cells
unaware that they've been cut,
**[11:05] Yae**
this art truly removes only their soul.
**[11:08] Yae**
The Ikeda family's ultimate form
of the Hung Head Technique,
**[11:11] Yae**
Soul Cleansing.
**[11:13] Hij**
And how many in your family
can perform this technique?
**[11:16] Yae**
Only a few.
**[11:18] Yae**
First, the late former Yaemon.
**[11:22] Yae**
The second would be me,
who inherited the technique.
**[11:27] Hij**
There are others, right?
**[11:28] Yae**
No, there are none left in the family.
**[11:32] Yae**
But there is one on the run.
**[11:43] B**
Huh? I'm not hurt at all?
**[11:45] G**
Are you all right, kid?!
**[11:49] G**
Huh? Everything inside has been cut.
**[11:55] G**
Hell, even the truck's been cut?!
**[12:17] (Flashback) Yae**
Asaemon, why do you tremble so?
**[12:21] (Flashback) Yae**
The man in front of you
is no longer your master.
**[12:26] (Flashback) Yae**
He is a criminal whose
head you must take.
**[12:28] (Flashback) Yae**
Waver not.
**[12:30] (Flashback) Yae**
Do your duty.
**[12:32] (Flashback) Yae**
When people sin and degenerate into demons,
**[12:35] (Flashback) Yae**
we must make them
human again at their end.
**[12:38] (Flashback) Yae**
That is the Ikeda family's duty.
**[12:41] (Flashback) Yae**
Would you be kind enough
to make me human again
**[12:45] (Flashback) Yae**
with your sword?
**[12:51] (Flashback) Yae**
Never forget.
**[12:52] (Flashback) Yae**
The only beings capable of
turning people human again
**[12:56] (Flashback) Yae**
are neither demons that take human heads
**[12:59] (Flashback) Yae**
nor Reapers that take their souls,
**[13:02] (Flashback) Yae**
but humans who sever their souls to save them.
**[13:25] C**
Where'd she go?
**[13:26] C**
That way! Look over there!
**[13:30] Asa**
They've already got the entire town covered.
**[13:34] Asa**
This might be a fitting end for me.
**[13:37] Gin**
Not on my watch.
**[13:40] Gin**
Aren't you the one who asked
me to help you commit suicide,
**[13:43] Gin**
my dear Reaper?
**[13:44] R**
You're—
**[13:46] R**
Hey, watch your hands!
**[13:53] Gin**
Ikeda Asaemon.
**[13:55] Gin**
I never thought
**[13:56] Gin**
someone from a family that's served
as bakufu executioners for generations
**[14:00] Gin**
would ask me to behead them.
**[14:03] Asa**
And I never thought asking
you to assist me with suicide
**[14:06] Asa**
would lead to your taking
advantage of it to molest me.
**[14:10] Gin**
I'm telling you, I didn't touch nothing!
**[14:12] Asa**
You see, compared to girls, Reapers have
one more private part you shouldn't touch.
**[14:17] Gin**
I'm telling you, I didn't
touch your private parts!
**[14:20] Asa**
Privates of the Caribbean.
**[14:22] Gin**
That's just a skull!
**[14:24] Asa**
It's the skull of Caribbean, the pirate
said to be the first criminal put down by
**[14:29] Asa**
the Ikeda family of bakufu executioners.
**[14:31] Asa**
Now that you've laid your hands
on a Reaper's holy privates,
**[14:34] Asa**
you will definitely lose your nape.
**[14:37] Gin**
And how exactly are you gonna
have my nape in your state?
**[14:40] Asa**
Oh, did I say nape?
**[14:42] Asa**
I meant nip.
**[14:48] Gin**
She took my nipple!
**[14:49] Gin**
What have you done?! And when?!
**[14:52] Asa**
Taking a criminal's head without letting
them realize they've lost it...
**[14:56] Asa**
That's what a Reaper's sword does.
**[14:57] Gin**
Lost it? More like "lost teat"!
**[14:59] Asa**
No need to worry.
**[15:00] Asa**
My sword doesn't even hurt the cells.
**[15:03] Asa**
If you put it back, it'll stick.
**[15:11] Asa**
Then please draw it back when
the DVD version comes out.
**[15:14] Gin**
Help, Yabuki-sensei!
**[15:17] Gin**
Damn you! I'm seriously gonna
throw you into the depths of Hell!
**[15:20] Shin**
Calm down!
**[15:21] Asa**
Stop! Don't touch my private parts!
**[15:26] Yae**
A job well done, Odd Jobs.
**[15:29] Yae**
You actually managed to bring her
here before the police could.
**[15:33] Yae**
As the head of the Ikeda family, I thank you.
**[15:36] Asa**
Y-Yaemon-sama...
**[15:40] Yae**
You've finally come back home, Asaemon.
**[15:46] W**
This is Ishikawa Rokuemon's head.
**[15:48] W**
And this is the head of
Weasel Boy Jirokichi.
**[15:51] W**
And that's...
**[15:53] W**
Who was it again?
**[15:55] W**
Well, it's somebody's nipple.
**[15:57] Gin**
Excuse me.
**[15:58] Gin**
This nipple looks familiar to me.
**[16:01] W**
They're all heads of the heinous
villains the Ikeda family has put down.
**[16:05] Gin**
This is mine, isn't it?
**[16:07] Gin**
Why is it already part of your collection?
**[16:09] W**
Feel free to observe them all you like.
**[16:13] W**
Dinner will be served momentarily.
**[16:15] Kag**
That's the mansion of the
bakufu's executioners for you.
**[16:18] Kag**
Everything is so clear-cut.
**[16:19] Kag**
They're desperate to show themselves off.
**[16:21] Shin**
Uh, Gin-san...
**[16:23] Shin**
Can we just take our money and go?
**[16:26] Shin**
I don't really feel like eating
with skulls staring at me.
**[16:30] Kag**
Wait up, Shinpachi.
**[16:32] Kag**
There's something fishy about
that young head of the Reapers.
**[16:35] Kag**
Oops.
**[16:36] Gin**
Guys that put on that Sakai
Masato-ish fake smile
**[16:38] Gin**
tend to be the type to kill people
with a smile on their face.
**[16:42] Gin**
He might've welcomed her back warmly,
**[16:44] Gin**
but he's probably trying to wipe out the
family's black sheep behind closed doors.
**[16:48] Gin**
They say a Reaper always
approaches you with a smile...
**[16:50] Yae**
No, that's the devil.
**[16:52] Yae**
A Reaper would be standing behind
you before you even realized it.
**[16:56] Yae**
And he'd take your life
in the blink of an eye.
**[17:00] Yae**
I returned your nipple.
**[17:10] Yae**
Shall we begin, then?
**[17:12] Gin**
Uh, we'll pass for tonight.
**[17:15] Yae**
Is something wrong?
**[17:16] Gin**
Nah, I'm just starting to
feel sick of this room—
**[17:20] Gin**
I mean, to my stomach.
**[17:22] Yae**
Perfect!
**[17:24] Yae**
We've prepared a very nutritious
Ikeda special course for you.
**[17:29] Yae**
First, we have the appetizer, live frog.
**[17:31] Yae**
Then the side dish, monkey brain,
**[17:33] Yae**
and the main course, broiled boar head.
**[17:36] Yae**
And then...
**[17:36] Gin**
*They're all heads!*
**[17:39] Gin**
W-Wow! They're all unusual dishes!
**[17:42] Gin**
B-But do you have anything
that's a bit closer to home?
**[17:47] Asa**
Of course.
**[17:48] Asa**
Here's the dessert: somebody's nipple.
**[17:50] Gin**
That hits *too* close to home!
**[17:52] Gin**
Enough with the taking it
off and putting it back on!
**[17:55] Gin**
What the hell do you think my nipples are?!
**[17:58] Yae**
Asaemon cooked this meal herself.
**[18:01] Yae**
I thought it'd be a good way to
let her thank you personally.
**[18:04] Gin**
That's not the point.
**[18:06] Gin**
Why the hell are you—
**[18:07] Yae**
Why are we welcoming back the
traitor who killed the former head?
**[18:13] Yae**
If you tell anyone else what I tell you,
I'll have to behead all of you, as well.
**[18:19] Yae**
Do you still want to know?
**[18:22] Yae**
Asaemon and I are like siblings.
**[18:26] Yae**
I'm the former Yaemon's own son,
**[18:28] Yae**
whereas Asaemon was an orphan he adopted.
**[18:30] Yae**
However, our Ikeda family
cares not about blood lineage.
**[18:34] Yae**
For generations,
**[18:36] Yae**
only the most skilled swordsman has
been chosen as the bakufu executioner
**[18:38] Yae**
and inherited the Yaemon name,
proof of being the Ikeda family head.
**[18:43] Yae**
The former Yaemon thought
we had that potential,
**[18:47] Yae**
and so we supported each other like siblings,
**[18:49] Yae**
competed like rivals, and
raised the bar for each other.
***SIGN*** Yaemon
**[18:56] Yae**
People would say the family's
future would be secure no matter
**[19:00] Yae**
which of us became Yaemon.
**[19:02] Yae**
But that's when
**[19:04] Yae**
it came to light that the former
Yaemon had gone against his duty
**[19:07] Yae**
and secretly helped criminals
escape in the past.
**[19:12] Yae**
If the court were to find out, the
Ikeda family would've been wiped out.
**[19:17] Shin**
Then, did you...
**[19:19] Yae**
We punished the former Yaemon in secrecy.
**[19:22] Yae**
Asaemon was the one who
helped him commit suicide.
**[19:26] Yae**
But the court was bound to
learn of his death eventually,
**[19:29] Yae**
so Asaemon left home, unbeknownst to all.
**[19:32] Yae**
To shroud the truth about the
former Yaemon's death in darkness,
**[19:35] Yae**
she took on the stigma of being
a traitor who killed her lord,
**[19:38] Yae**
and chose the path of wearing
a bloodied Reaper's mask.
**[19:43] Yae**
Asaemon is a loyal retainer who threw
everything away to protect the Yaemon name.
**[19:50] Gin**
Then were you trying to commit suicide
**[19:54] Gin**
so you could erase both yourself and
the truth before you got caught?
**[19:58] Ase**
That's not true.
**[20:02] Ase**
I'm no loyal retainer.
**[20:06] Shin**
Asaemon-san!
**[20:09] Yae**
She loved the previous head,
our master, more than anyone else.
**[20:14] Yae**
But I never thought she'd go so
far to protect Father's name.
**[20:18] Yae**
I'm glad we found her before it was too late.
**[20:21] Gin**
Listen to yourself.
**[20:22] Gin**
It wasn't just the sin of killing
her lord she took on, right?
**[20:26] Gin**
I mean, it'd be bad if the honorable
family of bakufu executioners
**[20:30] Gin**
produced a serial killer, now wouldn't it?
**[20:33] Gin**
Especially if it were the head of the family,
**[20:35] Gin**
because I hear the entire family
would have to be wiped out.
**[20:40] Yae**
I see.
**[20:42] Yae**
You said Reapers approach
with a smile on their face.
**[20:45] Yae**
That might not be all that far off the mark.
**[20:48] Yae**
A faint smile, is it?
**[20:52] Yae**
You can't call that a crime.
**[20:55] Yae**
They were all criminals
**[20:57] Yae**
who would've lost their heads if the
former head hadn't let them escape.
**[21:00] Shin**
N-No way!
**[21:02] Shin**
Don't tell me, you...
**[21:04] Yae**
Asaemon and I shared a vow that day.
**[21:08] Yae**
That even if we walked down different
paths, the sky would keep us connected.
**[21:12] Yae**
And under that sky, both
the Reaper by day and
**[21:15] Yae**
the Reaper by night would protect the
things the previous head left us.
**[21:19] Yae**
In my eyes,
**[21:20] Yae**
she's also one of the precious things the
previous Yaemon, my father, left me.
**[21:26] Yae**
If I were planning to make
her a sacrificial pawn,
**[21:29] Yae**
I wouldn't have had you bring her back.
**[21:32] Gin**
You think you can hide it forever?
**[21:34] Yae**
So long as you're not the
talkative sort, yes.
**[21:36] Gin**
Then why'd you take that
risk by telling us all this?
**[21:41] Yae**
Please don't play dumb.
**[21:44] Yae**
Now that you've heard all this, you'll
either have to cooperate with me
**[21:48] Yae**
or run into a serial killer
and lose your head.
**[21:58] Yae**
Because the list of criminals the previous
Yaemon let escape ten years ago
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**[22:03] Yae**
has your name on it,
**[22:08] Yae**
Sakata Gintoki-san.
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