E281 - Farewell, Reaper

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[01:30] Asa
    Yaemon...
SIGN    The Reaper's Request: Please watch this program in 
    a bright room and at a safe distance from your TV.
[01:33] Asa
    You will die with me here.
[01:38] Asa
    Yaemon!
[01:41] Yae
    Too slow.
[01:43] Yae
    My sword has long reached
[01:46] Yae
    your head.
[02:02] Kag
    Gin-chan!
[02:02] Shin
    Gin-san!
[02:07] Gin
    Asaemon!
[02:18] Yae
    Asaemon,
[02:20] Yae
    neither this man nor the previous head
[02:23] Yae
    deserved to be protected by you.
[02:26] Yae
    "Innocent"?
[02:29] Yae
    Shall I tell you what sin that criminal
    the previous head let escape committed?
[02:34] Kag
    Gin-chan!
[02:36] Yae
    He's a sinner who killed
    your biological father.
[02:50] Yae
    Will I take his head first,
[02:54] Yae
    or will you take mine first?
[02:58] Yae
    Shall we see who's quicker on the draw?
[03:01] Yae
    Or, perhaps, will you take his head yourself?
[03:05] Yae
    That way, you can avenge your real father.
[03:10] Yae
    Ten years ago, your father,
    a Joi rebel, was killed in the Joi War,
[03:17] Yae
    and thus orphaned, you were
    adopted by the previous head.
[03:20] Yae
    That is what you were told, yes?
[03:23] Yae
    But that is not the truth.
[03:26] Yae
    your father survived the war,
    just like this man.
[03:32] Yae
    But once the Hitotsubashi began wiping
    out the survivors after the war,
[03:36] Yae
    he tried to ensure his own safety
[03:38] Yae
    by betraying his former comrades
[03:40] Yae
    and leaking their, and even
    their families', whereabouts
[03:43] Yae
    to aid the Hitotsubashi with their purge.
[03:48] Yae
    But, once he'd served his purpose,
[03:53] Yae
    he was fated to be killed himself.
[03:56] (Flashback) F
    P-Please!
[03:57] (Flashback) F
    Spare my life!
[04:00] (Flashback) F
    I know!
[04:01] (Flashback) F
    You can have my daughter
    as proof of my loyalty!
[04:04] (Flashback) F
    After all, she's just a leech some whore
    gave birth to and abandoned before the war!
[04:12] (Flashback) Gin
    Greetings.
[04:13] (Flashback) Gin
    Who am I, you ask?
[04:15] (Flashback) Gin
    Indeed, I am this idiot's daughter.
[04:20] (Flashback) Gin
    I don't recall ever
    fighting you Hitotsubashi,
[04:23] (Flashback) Gin
    but you can have this scum's and
    my, the White Yaksha's, head.
[04:27] (Flashback) Gin
    In return,
[04:28] (Flashback) Gin
    don't go after the others anymore.
[04:34] Gin
    But the former Yaemon let him live
[04:37] Gin
    and took your father's head.
[04:41] Gin
    Perhaps it was out of
    guilt that he adopted you.
[04:47] Gin
    Either way, the previous head and this man
[04:50] Gin
    are people you were meant
    to exact revenge upon.
[04:54] Gin
    There's only one head that
    needs to be taken here.
[04:57] Gin
    You don't want to send innocent
    heads rolling, now do you?
[05:04] Gin
    Asaemon,
[05:06] Gin
    remove his head.
[05:10] Kag
    Asaemon...
[05:17] Asa
    Please tell me just one thing...
[05:21] (Flashback) Yae
    Would you be kind enough
    to make me human again
[05:26] (Flashback) Yae
    with your sword?
[05:29] Asa
    Did he always intend to die by my hand?
[05:35] Gin
    Beats me.
[05:37] Gin
    But I'm pretty sure he was
    glad it turned out that way.
[05:42] Gin
    Just like me.
[05:47] (Flashback) Asa
    Say,
[05:48] (Flashback) Asa
    why have you been locked up here?
[05:52] (Flashback) Asa
    Did you do something bad?
[05:55] (Flashback) Gin
    Yeah.
[05:56] (Flashback) Gin
    I've done loads of things that'd
    make you piss your pants,
[06:01] (Flashback) Gin
    so I gotta lose my head.
[06:04] (Flashback) Asa
    Really?
[06:06] (Flashback) Gin
    Yeah.
[06:07] (Flashback) Gin
    Get lost. You're annoying me,
    you damn pipsqueak.
[06:10] (Flashback) Asa
    But the executioner was saying
    you weren't really a bad guy.
[06:18] (Flashback) Asa
    That all you did was protect a poor little girl.
[06:24] (Flashback) Asa
    But now you... It's so sad.
[06:28] (Flashback) Asa
    Oh, I know!
[06:31] (Flashback) Asa
    One day, when I become a great executioner,
[06:33] (Flashback) Asa
    I'll take your head for you.
[06:37] (Flashback) Gin
    Seriously?
[06:38] (Flashback) Asa
    Yep!
[06:40] (Flashback) Asa
    I'll cut it nice and good so it doesn't hurt!
[06:43] (Flashback) Asa
    I'll send you to heaven in peace!
[06:45] (Flashback) Asa
    So promise me.
[06:47] (Flashback) Asa
    Until I become a great executioner,
[06:51] (Flashback) Asa
    you can't die, okay?
[06:55] (Flashback) Gin
    That so?
[06:56] (Flashback) Gin
    In peace, huh?
[06:59] (Flashback) Gin
    Sounds good.
[07:01] (Flashback) Gin
    Okay, I promise.
[07:05] Gin
    Send me off in peace, okay?
[07:11] Asa
    Sure.
[07:13] Asa
    I won't mess up this time.
[07:17] Asa
    Never again!
[07:32] Yae
    Asaemon,
[07:34] Yae
    please don't think badly of me.
[07:37] Yae
    The Soul Cleansing technique
    is almost instantaneous.
[07:40] Yae
    The only way to fend it off
[07:42] Yae
    is by having it point elsewhere
[07:44] Yae
    and attacking its blind spot immediately
    after it's been executed.
[07:48] Yae
    Did you really think you, a criminal's
    child, had any right to punish sins?
[07:54] Shin
    Gin-san!
[07:55] Shin
    Asaemon-san!
[08:00] Asa
    You're right.
[08:03] Asa
    The only way to overcome the
    Soul Cleansing technique
[08:05] Asa
    is by attacking its blind spot!
[08:08] Asa
    Like I said already,
[08:10] Asa
    never again will I let
[08:13] Asa
    the heads of the people who saved me
[08:15] Asa
    fall to the ground!
[08:24] (Flashback) Asa
    Wh-What is this?
[08:26] (Flashback) Asa
    Who could've done such a thing?
[08:28] (Flashback) Yae
    Father...
[08:32] (Flashback) Yae
    I finally did it. I pulled off
    the Soul Cleansing technique.
[08:36] (Flashback) Yae
    Now I'm sure to be the next Yaemon, aren't I?
[08:47] Yae
    It'll get there.
[08:49] Yae
    My sword will get there first.
[08:53] Yae
    I've had my eyes fixed on his sword
    from closer than anyone else.
[08:57] Yae
    I've longed for his sword more
    ardently than anyone else.
[09:03] (Flashback) Yae
    It won't cut a thing.
[09:06] (Flashback) Yae
    Your sword is not capable of
    severing the sins of humans.
[09:15] Yae
    And yet, my sword...
[09:19] (Flashback) Yae
    As of this day,
[09:20] (Flashback) Yae
    I appoint Asaemon my successor
    as the Ikeda family head.
[09:29] (Flashback) Nbnb
    If you remain a prisoner
    of antiquated customs
[09:31] (Flashback) Nbnb
    that let outstanding talent go to waste,
[09:34] (Flashback) Nbnb
    your family is bound to die out someday.
[09:37] (Flashback) Nbnb
    You should just eliminate both Yaemons.
[09:42] (Flashback) Nbnb
    The one who will join me in carving
    a path to a new era with that sword
[09:46] (Flashback) Nbnb
    will be you, 18th.
[09:54] Yae
    My sword will reach him!
[10:01] Gin
    It's not gonna reach
[10:03] Gin
    anyone anymore.
[10:13] Yae
    I see.
[10:15] Yae
    By that time, my sword
[10:22] Yae
    was already long broken, huh?
[10:33] G
    F-Fire!
[10:34] G
    Shoot those fiends!
[10:41] Oki
    We're done here.
[10:43] Oki
    Feel free to carry on transporting
    your corpses or whatever.
[10:46] Shin
    Okita-san!
[10:48] Kag
    You bastard!
[10:50] G
    Don't let them leave alive!
[10:57] Hij
    Let's go!
[10:58] Hij
    The Mayonnaise Line is over there!
[11:00] Shin
    Over where?!
[11:04] Oki
    Boss, you should hurry up and run—
[11:07] Shin
    Gin-san, hurry—
[11:10] Asa
    H-Hang in there!
[11:12] G
    Don't let them escape!
[11:17] Asa
    Y-Yaemon?!
[11:21] Yae
    Hurry up and go.
[11:24] Yae
    Now that you've dragged me off the stage,
[11:31] Yae
    who's going to protect the Ikeda family?
[11:39] Asa
    Yaemon, you...
[11:42] (Flashback) Yae
    Let's protect the Ikeda family
[11:46] (Flashback) Yae
    and the things our father left behind
[11:48] (Flashback) Yae
    together, from the light and the shadows.
[11:51] Yae
    I was willing to kill my father
[11:55] Yae
    in order to protect the family
    of bakufu executioners he built.
[12:00] Yae
    And you were willing to kill me
[12:03] Yae
    in order to uphold his executioner's spirit.
[12:08] Yae
    But his sword...
[12:10] Yae
    We both loved his sword.
[12:14] Yae
    That is all.
[12:18] Yae
    Now go,
[12:22] Yae
    Ikeda Yaemon.
[12:32] Nbnb
    Good grief.
[12:33] Nbnb
    I never thought you'd relinquish the name
[12:36] Nbnb
    you killed your father to get your hands on.
[12:40] Nbnb
    I thought we vowed to carve open
    the path to a new era together.
[12:43] Nbnb
    What am I supposed to call you now?
[12:50] Yae
    Patricide,
[12:52] Yae
    serial killer,
[12:54] Yae
    or the fool who sullied
    the Hitotsubashi name.
[12:59] Yae
    Pick whichever you like.
[13:01] Nbnb
    Is that so?
[13:03] Nbnb
    Then...
[13:05] Nbnb
    how about "just a head"?
[13:12] Nbnb
    Yes...
[13:13] Nbnb
    That went pretty well for a first time.
[13:16] Nbnb
    Looks like I could act as the new
    government's executioner myself.
[13:20] G
    Surely you jest.
[13:21] Nbnb
    I'm not kidding.
[13:24] Nbnb
    That said, what I must behead
    is this antiquated country.
[13:29] Nbnb
    I, Hitotsubashi Nobunobu,
[13:31] Nbnb
    am without doubt this country's executioner.
[13:35] G
    My lord, what about the others?
[13:37] Nbnb
    Leave them be.
[13:39] Nbnb
    I'll grant his last wish.
[13:42] Nbnb
    All responsibility lay with him,
[13:45] Nbnb
    and sunk into the ocean along with his head.
[13:49] G
    But my lord!
[13:50] G
    Shigeshige's lapdogs...
[13:53] Nb
    They won't be able to do anything.
[13:56] Nb
    And thanks to them,
[13:59] Nb
    we got to see something amusing, did we not?
[14:03] Nb
    Don't you agree,
[14:04] Nb
    Takasugi-kun?
[14:07] Nb
    It wasn't my intention to steal your prey.
[14:11] Nb
    I heard there was an unusual
    corpse and had it transported,
[14:15] Nb
    but as it turned out, it was still alive...
[14:18] Nb
    That demon.
[14:22] Tak
    You won't be able to take
[14:24] Tak
    his head or mine.
[14:27] Nb
    We may have been bitter enemies in the past,
[14:29] Nb
    but I hold no resentment toward you people.
[14:32] Nb
    In fact, I find you fascinating.
[14:35] Nb
    You hold great power that
    yields not even to the nation,
[14:40] Nb
    be it as allies or enemies.
[14:45] Tak
    So long as you're taking on the bakufu,
[14:47] Tak
    I'm sure I'll stand by your side again.
[14:51] Tak
    But the moment you give up on that,
[14:54] Tak
    the one coming for your head
[14:57] Tak
    could be him
[14:58] Tak
    or me.
[15:01] Tak
    You never know.
[15:13] Asa
    I see.
[15:14] Asa
    So Yaemon...
[15:16] Hij
    We haven't found his body,
[15:19] Hij
    but it'd be safe to assume he was
    taken out by the Hitotsubashi.
[15:23] Asa
    No.
[15:25] Asa
    I was the one who killed him.
[15:28] Asa
    It may have been to protect the family,
[15:31] Asa
    but I took the former Yaemon's head,
[15:33] Asa
    and even his son's life.
[15:36] Asa
    Surely I have no right to
    call myself an Ikeda anymore.
[15:42] Hij
    You executioners might be
    fated to let your heads roll
[15:46] Hij
    in order to defend the Yaemon name.
[15:49] Asa
    In that case,
[15:51] Asa
    then I'm still one head short.
[15:54] Asa
    The bakufu executioner,
[15:56] Asa
    Ikeda Asaemon,
[15:58] Asa
    shall carry out her final duty.
[16:03] Oka
    Prisoner No. MI-32654,
[16:09] Oka
    come on out.
[16:11] Oka
    You guys, too.
[16:13] Oka
    Sorry to keep you waiting.
[16:18] Oka
    It's time for your execution.
[16:24] Shin
    Okita-san, what's the meaning of this?
[16:28] Oki
    Did you think you'd get off
    scot-free after what you did?
[16:32] Oki
    Either you guys
[16:34] Oki
    or Asaemon?
[16:36] Oki
    It's proving difficult to build a
    prosecutable case on all this.
[16:41] Oki
    Firstly, the fact that
    the serial killer victims
[16:43] Oki
    were all criminals who were supposed to
    be beheaded is complicating matters.
[16:49] Oki
    It's become a question of whether
    it's even a punishable offense.
[16:52] Oki
    But most of all, the murderer in question,
[16:54] Oki
    Ikeda Yaemon, has gone missing since then.
[16:58] Oki
    And while it's clear that
[17:00] Oki
    the Hitotsubashi were behind everything,
    including his involvement and disappearance,
[17:03] Oki
    we can't book them for it,
[17:05] Oki
    'cause they haven't outwardly
    dirtied their own hands at all.
[17:09] Oki
    If we try to do it anyway,
[17:10] Oki
    they might end up bringing
    the hammer down on us.
[17:13] Oki
    So in order to resolve this hopeless
    situation once and for all,
[17:18] Oki
    we gotta have you guys take
    all the blame and die.
[17:21] Shin
    Why?!
[17:24] Oki
    To close the book on a scandal,
    you need a scapegoat.
[17:27] Shin
    We're more like sacrificial lambs here!
[17:30] Oki
    Your deaths won't be pointless.
[17:32] Oki
    This will put the issue of our spat
    with the Hitotsubashi to rest,
[17:36] Oki
    and I'll escape a pay cut—
[17:38] Kag
    That's pretty much pointless!
[17:40] Kag
    We're not toilet paper for you bastards
    to wipe your asses with!
[17:43] Oki
    Besides, if you and Asaemon all die,
[17:46] Oki
    surely the bakufu will refrain from
    wiping out the entire Ikeda family.
[17:51] Gin
    Hey. What's that supposed to mean?
[17:53] Oki
    Oh, you didn't know?
[17:56] Oki
    Apparently Asaemon took responsibility
    for this entire uproar
[18:00] Oki
    by committing suicide.
[18:05] Oki
    By offering the two Yaemons' heads
    and her own up as sacrifice,
[18:08] Oki
    she protected the family.
[18:10] Oki
    How far she's come, considering she
    couldn't even kill herself a few days ago.
[18:15] Gin
    Why...
[18:15] Gin
    Why didn't you stop her?!
[18:18] Oki
    Stop her?
[18:19] Oki
    Wake up and listen to yourself, would you?
[18:22] Oki
    Even when you first met her,
[18:24] Oki
    didn't she want to sever her head
[18:27] Oki
    along with the sins she'd committed?
[18:30] Oki
    And you chopped it off for her
[18:33] Oki
    with your pale executioner's sword.
[18:36] Oki
    You're the one who killed her, Boss.
[18:42] Hij
    Now, if we just take your heads,
    everything will be settled.
[18:46] Hij
    In the past, bakufu executioner Ikeda
    Yaemon let a certain criminal escape.
[18:52] Hij
    So taking that criminal's head
[18:54] Hij
    to make amends for it all
[18:58] Hij
    is bakufu executioner
[19:00] Hij
    Ikeda Yaemon's duty, too.
[19:07] Shin
    Asaemon-san...
[19:09] Asa
    ...is gone.
[19:11] Asa
    The Reaper no longer exists.
[19:16] Asa
    Didn't you help her commit suicide yourself?
[19:19] Asa
    Your sword reached her.
[19:24] Asa
    It was a pure swing that
    cleansed her soul without
[19:27] Asa
    letting her head fall to the ground.
[19:29] Asa
    You three are my precious executioners
[19:34] Asa
    who helped me remember
    the most important thing
[19:37] Asa
    and made me human again.
[19:41] Asa
    I shall waver no longer.
[19:43] Asa
    The woman before you is not a
    demon consumed by her sins,
[19:47] Asa
    nor a Reaper afraid to punish sins,
[19:51] Asa
    but a bakufu executioner,
[19:54] Asa
    the 19th Ikeda Yaemon.
[19:58] Gin
    You...
[20:00] Oki
    So, yeah.
[20:02] Oki
    We'll write Ikeda Asaemon off
    as having committed suicide.
[20:06] Hij
    We leave the rest to you, 19th.
[20:10] Hij
    Yaemon's sword needs no observers.
[20:14] Hij
    Should we ever run into some morons
    with heads still on their shoulders...
[20:17] Oki
    We can just consider them corpses with
[20:20] Oki
    their heads attached by
    one tiny bit of flesh, right?
[20:23] Asa
    Yes.
[20:25] Asa
    Yaemon's sword does not make mistakes.
[20:43] Asa
    There's no longer
[20:45] Asa
    a single criminal here
[20:47] Asa
    who must be punished.
[21:05] (Flashback) Yae
    When people sin and degenerate into demons,
[21:09] (Flashback) Yae
    the only beings capable of
    turning them human again
[21:12] (Flashback) Yae
    are humans.
[21:14] (Flashback) Yae
    That's why I have no right to cut you.
[21:19] (Flashback) Yae
    A demon has no right to cut a fellow demon.
[21:23] (Flashback) Yae
    You promised, did you not?
[21:29] (Flashback) Asa
    One day, when I become a great executioner,
[21:33] (Flashback) Asa
    I'll take your head for you.
[21:36] (Flashback) Asa
    So promise me.
[21:38] (Flashback) Asa
    Until I become a great executioner,
[21:43] (Flashback) Asa
    you can't die, okay?
[21:49] Gin
    Pops...
[21:51] Gin
    Think I've become a somewhat
    better person now?
[22:05] Gin
    Wait...
[22:06] Gin
    She took my damn nipple again!
SIGN    Farewell, Reaper
SIGN    A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes 
    Over and Over
[23:45] Mad
    Next Episode: "A Phoenix Rises
    from the Ashes Over and Over."
SIGN    The next episode is a  summer vacation special,
SIGN    where we'll run the  traditional summer scary story.
SIGN    Make sure not to
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