# E18 - Ani Nekko
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**[00:20] Gu**
Looks like they're nowhere near us.
**[00:24] Gu**
I guess that weather was
too much even for the 7th.
**[00:28] Gu**
I can't see them just giving
up and going home, though.
**[00:32] ---**
They'll be expecting us to head
down the mountain towards Abashiri.
***SIGN*** Otaru
***SIGN*** Asahikawa
***SIGN*** Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group
***SIGN*** Tokachi Region
***SIGN*** Kushiro
***SIGN*** Abashiri
**[00:37] ---**
We'll do what they're not expecting,
head toward Tokachi, and shake them off.
**[00:41] Gi**
Let's do it.
**[00:42] Gi**
We told Kiroranke Nispa and the others
to meet in Abashiri if we got separated.
**[00:50] Gu**
I sent a telegram to Otaru to check
on Huci when we left Yuubari.
***SIGN*** Hitomai Post Office
**[00:57] Gu**
We should get the answer
here at this post office.
**[01:00] Gu**
From who?
**[01:02] Gu**
Asirpa's uncle.
**[01:04] Gu**
He used to work with the Japanese,
**[01:06] Gu**
so he knows how to read and write a little.
**[01:11] Gu**
What does it say?
**[01:13] Gu**
"Huci making raikurushiyuku."
**[01:17] Gu**
What's "raikurushiyuku"?
**[01:19] Gi**
Raykur Siyuk... a burial shroud.
**[01:25] Gi**
When an elderly Ainu
knows that death is near,
**[01:28] Gi**
they prepare their own
burial shroud in secret.
**[01:34] Gu**
Why did you say that?
**[01:37] Gi**
I just told her what the spirits told me.
**[01:41] Gi**
There is a traitor near Asirpa-san.
**[01:46] Gu**
I don't want Huci to die.
**[01:49] Gu**
She fed me. She said the
Ainu care for children.
**[01:55] Gu**
She says you can't go to the
next world without kids.
**[01:59] Gi**
When an Ainu dies,
**[02:01] Gi**
those left behind must perform a ritual
before they can pass on to the afterlife.
**[02:09] Gi**
So they'll raise any child,
**[02:11] Gi**
even one not their own.
**[02:17] Gu**
Cikapasi, don't worry.
**[02:20] Gu**
I'll bring Asirpa back
safe and cheer up Huci.
**[02:25] Gu**
That's my job.
**[02:29] Gu**
She fed me, too, so I'm one of her kids.
**[02:33] Gu**
No way. You're her gigolo, Tanigaki Nispa.
**[02:37] Gi**
He sure is.
**[02:50] Gu**
*The role in life I've been looking for...*
***SIGN*** Golden Kamuy
***SIGN*** Several Months Ago
**[04:33] Gu**
Lt. Tsurumi, have you ever heard
of a food called kanemochi?
**[04:38] Gu**
It's a portable emergency
ration we Ani Matagi use.
**[04:41] Gu**
We make one shaped like a ball
and one shaped like an oval,
**[04:44] Gu**
and take both into the mountains with us.
**[04:46] Gu**
Supposedly the round one is the
sun and the oval one is the moon.
***SIGN*** Episode Eighteen
Ani Nekko
**[04:51] Gu**
Kanemochi, huh? I've never heard of it.
**[04:55] Gu**
How's it taste? No different
than other mochi?
**[04:58] Gu**
We add water to rice powder,
**[05:00] Gu**
then mix in miso or salt.
**[05:02] Gu**
Knead thoroughly, wrap in a leaf,
**[05:04] Gu**
and then bake in a covered
pan in the ashes of the hearth.
**[05:08] Gu**
Tozawa Matagi, by the way, are forbidden
from adding miso to their kanemochi.
**[05:12] Gu**
So each village has its own rules, huh?
**[05:17] Gu**
My dad was a very stern
and uncompromising man,
**[05:20] Gu**
so I never told anybody,
**[05:22] Gu**
but I actually did something a
little special to my own kanemochi.
**[05:28] Gu**
But one day another Matagi found out.
**[05:34] Gu**
How?
**[05:35] Gu**
We were hunting a wild goat
we Matagi call an "aoshishi."
**[05:42] Gu**
Matagi travel in small groups,
and each member has a different role
**[05:45] Gu**
to play in the hunt.
***SIGN*** Ani
**[05:49] Gu**
There's a scout called a mukaimatte
who gives orders to the whole group.
**[05:53] Gu**
Then two riflemen called matsumai.
**[05:56] Gu**
And two seko who aren't
allowed to use guns yet.
**[05:59] Gu**
The seko's job is to shout and drive
the prey into the riflemen's sights.
**[06:08] Gu**
The bears that the Matagi call itazu have
a tendency to run uphill into the mountains.
**[06:13] Gu**
So the seko drive them toward the peak.
**[06:16] Gu**
But the aoshishi are the opposite.
**[06:17] Gu**
We try to drive them away from the peaks.
**[06:19] Gu**
I was a seko, out with a boy a year
older than me named Aoyama Kenkichi.
**[06:24] Gu**
When we got to the peak,
the weather suddenly changed.
**[06:31] Gu**
We sought refuge in a cave,
**[06:34] Gu**
but the blizzard continued,
trapping us for days.
**[06:38] Gu**
The beans and rice we'd
brought quickly ran out.
**[06:43] Gu**
The kanemochi serves as the last
meal you can eat at times like that.
**[06:47] Gu**
No matter how cold it gets,
it doesn't freeze, and it never spoils.
**[06:51] Gu**
And just nibbling a little fills you up.
**[06:58] (Flashback) Gu**
Ken...
**[07:02] (Flashback) Gu**
What?
**[07:04] (Flashback) Gu**
I was just thinking this
might be our last meal.
**[07:08] (Flashback) Gu**
Hell no.
**[07:10] (Flashback) Gu**
I'm surviving, even if I have
to cook and eat you.
**[07:18] (Flashback) Gu**
Hey, did you mix something
in to this kanemochi?
**[07:23] (Flashback) Gu**
What is this?
**[07:25] (Flashback) Gu**
Wait. Don't tell me.
**[07:27] (Flashback) Gu**
I'll guess.
**[07:29] (Flashback) Gu**
It's...
**[07:33] (Flashback) Gu**
I know! Walnuts!
**[07:35] (Flashback) Gu**
You put walnuts into it, Genjirou.
**[07:37] (Flashback) Gu**
Yup. But don't tell my dad, Kenkichi.
**[07:46] (Flashback) Gu**
Hey, Genjirou...
**[07:51] (Flashback) Gu**
We're getting out of this alive.
**[07:55] (Flashback) Gu**
Yeah.
**[08:09] Gu**
After that, Kenkichi married
my younger sister, Fumi,
**[08:14] Gu**
and we became in-laws.
**[08:16] Gu**
I see.
**[08:19] Gu**
Fumi and Kenkichi lived quietly a ways
up on a mountain, away from the village.
**[08:30] Gu**
On that day, I was making kanemochi at home.
**[08:35] Gu**
My brother came in from outside, with a look
on his face like I'd never seen before.
**[08:42] (Flashback) Gu**
Fumi is...!
**[08:43] Gu**
When I saw the panic in his eyes, I felt
like I'd been stabbed with an icicle.
**[08:51] Gu**
By the time I arrived, the little hut
where the two of them lived was already...
**[09:09] Gu**
Inside, I found her body burnt to a crisp.
**[09:13] (Flashback) Gu**
Why?
**[09:17] (Flashback) Gu**
What happened? What happened?!
**[09:19] (Flashback) Gu**
Fumi!
**[09:24] Gu**
There was a stab wound in her heart.
**[09:32] Gu**
And next to her, Kenkichi's masuke.
**[09:37] Gu**
The short blade we call a masuke
is the soul of a Matagi.
**[09:42] Gu**
Kenkichi was nowhere to be found.
**[09:49] (Flashback) Gu**
Where the hell is Kenkichi?
**[09:50] (Flashback) Gu**
Our son has never come back
here! Please don't hurt us!
**[09:54] (Flashback) Gu**
You're not hiding him, are you?
**[09:59] Gu**
I searched everywhere for him,
but never found him.
**[10:04] Gu**
But one day, I heard a rumor that
he'd joined the 7th in Hokkaido.
**[10:14] (Flashback) Gu**
Give it up, Genjirou.
Don't abandon Ani for revenge.
**[10:19] (Flashback) Gu**
Don't waste your life.
**[10:27] (Flashback) Gu**
I can't give up after he killed my sister!
**[10:30] (Flashback) Gu**
Screw being a Matagi. I'm never going back.
**[10:35] Gu**
There were 37 Tondenhei villages in Hokkaido.
**[10:40] Gu**
Between my military training
and the farming I did,
**[10:43] Gu**
I looked for Kenkichi, but had no luck.
**[10:50] Gu**
Just before we left for war,
**[10:52] Gu**
my brother sent me a message
telling me my mother was dead.
**[10:56] Gu**
Fumi's brutal death. The fact that I'd
abandoned my homeland to go to war.
**[11:01] Gu**
The two of them were too much for her
frail heart. She quickly became sick and died.
**[11:10] Gu**
My hatred swelled as I told myself
Kenkichi was responsible for everything.
**[11:16] Gu**
If I went to Port Arthur, where the soldiers
from Hokkaido were gathering,
**[11:18] Gu**
I could find Kenkichi.
**[11:21] Gu**
And when I found him, I'd wait for my
chance in the middle of the battle,
**[11:25] Gu**
and shoot him from behind!
***SIGN*** Golden Kamuy
***SIGN*** Lushun
**[11:48] Gu**
I saw a haggard man sitting in the
corner of one of the trenches.
**[11:53] Gu**
His face was so covered in blood,
**[11:56] Gu**
either his own or that of an enemy,
that I couldn't make it out, but...
**[11:59] (Flashback) Gu**
A white sash...
**[12:02] Gu**
* This man is a survivor of*
* last night's suicide charge!*
**[12:07] Gu**
*I'm amazed he survived.*
**[12:10] (Flashback) Gu**
Got any food?
**[12:15] (Flashback) Gu**
Y-Yeah.
**[12:16] (Flashback) Gu**
Eat.
**[12:20] (Flashback) Gu**
Thanks.
**[12:21] (Flashback) Gu**
I appreciate it.
**[12:26] (Flashback) Gu**
It's got a firm texture. Is this... mochi?
**[12:29] (Flashback) Gu**
I taste miso. Is it some kind of Akita dish?
**[12:35] (Flashback) Gu**
How did you know it was Akita?
**[12:36] (Flashback) Gu**
I knew it.
**[12:38] (Flashback) Gu**
The way you said "eat" just now.
**[12:41] (Flashback) Gu**
That's Akita dialect, right?
**[12:44] (Flashback) Gu**
There was a private in the
1st Division, where I'm from,
**[12:46] (Flashback) Gu**
who was from a place called Ani in Akita.
**[12:50] (Flashback) Gu**
He told me about it.
**[12:52] (Flashback) Gu**
He said he was a hunter back
home before he came to Tokyo.
**[12:57] Gu**
It was Kenkichi.
**[13:00] Gu**
I'd finally found my sister's killer.
**[13:05] Gu**
He'd gone to Tokyo, not Hokkaido.
**[13:10] Gu**
The soldiers at Hill 203 were from
the Hokkaido 7th, the Shikoku 11th,
**[13:18] Gu**
the Kanazawa 9th, and the Tokyo 1st.
**[13:23] Gu**
Yes.
**[13:25] Gu**
The gods had helped me
find my sister's killer.
**[13:29] Gu**
That's how it felt to me.
**[13:32] Gu**
I wanted to go find him immediately,
**[13:35] Gu**
but I knew if I saw him, I'd lose control.
**[13:40] Gu**
I still had the mental
calmness left to want to
**[13:41] Gu**
bring an end to this journey of
revenge in the middle of a battle,
**[13:44] Gu**
where I wouldn't be caught.
**[13:47] Gu**
But that hill...
**[13:49] Gu**
...wasn't the sort of place where I'd
have time to look for Kenkichi.
**[14:05] Gu**
The Russians threw grenades,
and we threw them right back.
**[14:13] Gu**
As we began to push them
back further and further,
**[14:16] Gu**
they tied grenades to their bodies
and jumped into our trenches.
**[14:22] Gu**
That was rough.
**[14:24] Gu**
One Russian would take out ten of us.
**[14:30] Gu**
And then another came.
**[14:31] (Flashback) Gu**
Stop him!
**[14:34] Gu**
Two or three hits from a Type 30
didn't even slow him down.
**[14:40] Gu**
And then a lone man came running
out of one of the trenches.
**[14:52] Gu**
*Kenkichi!*
**[15:03] Gu**
Kenkichi just barely survived.
**[15:10] Gu**
At last, the moment I'd
been waiting for was here.
**[15:15] Gu**
That's how it seemed to me.
**[15:17] (Flashback) Gu**
Kenkichi, I finally found you!
**[15:21] (Flashback) Gu**
I'll stab you in the heart,
just like you did to Fumi!
**[15:28] (Flashback) Gu**
Tanigaki, he's done for.
**[15:30] (Flashback) Gu**
He can't even hear you.
**[15:32] (Flashback) Gu**
His eardrums have probably been destroyed!
**[15:43] (Flashback) Gu**
Fumi...
**[15:56] Gu**
The battle had just reached a stalemate,
and the whole place became strangely quiet.
**[16:06] (Flashback) Gu**
Why? Why'd you kill Fumi, Kenkichi?
**[16:11] (Flashback) Gu**
Wh-Who are you?
**[16:18] (Flashback) Gu**
I don't know who you are.
**[16:21] (Flashback) Gu**
But I want you to take a message...
**[16:24] (Flashback) Gu**
...to a man named Tanigaki
in Ani, up in Akita.
**[16:31] (Flashback) Gu**
I married the Tanigaki family's daughter.
**[16:37] (Flashback) Gu**
She was so beautiful. Far too good for me.
**[16:43] (Flashback) Gu**
The two of us lived quietly,
deep in the mountains.
**[16:48] (Flashback) Gu**
One day, she became sick with smallpox.
**[16:55] (Flashback) Gu**
Don't tell my mom or dad.
**[17:00] (Flashback) Gu**
Fumi!
**[17:02] (Flashback) Gu**
If you do, they'll get worried and come here.
**[17:07] (Flashback) Gu**
And if it spreads to them...
**[17:09] (Flashback) Gu**
Fumi!
**[17:11] (Flashback) Gu**
You can't stay here, either.
**[17:14] (Flashback) Gu**
Wh-What are you saying?
**[17:17] (Flashback) Gu**
We'll die together!
**[17:21] (Flashback) Gu**
When a member of a mountain
family catches smallpox,
**[17:24] (Flashback) Gu**
we abandon that family
member so it won't spread.
**[17:28] (Flashback) Gu**
But I couldn't do it.
**[17:32] (Flashback) Gu**
I'd heard a story about animals finding
their way into an abandoned home,
**[17:36] (Flashback) Gu**
and killing the defenseless
sick people inside.
**[17:42] (Flashback) Gu**
I couldn't let her die alone.
**[17:47] (Flashback) Gu**
But she refused to allow it.
**[17:51] (Flashback) Gu**
If it was found out that one
of the Tanigakis got smallpox,
**[17:55] (Flashback) Gu**
the rest of the village would shun them.
**[17:59] (Flashback) Gu**
The other Matagi would refuse to
hunt with the rest of her family.
**[18:05] (Flashback) Gu**
She wanted me to kill her and leave
the village before anyone found out.
**[18:16] (Flashback) Gu**
She covered her pox-riddled
face with a cloth, and said to me...
**[18:23] (Flashback) Gu**
If it doesn't spread to you,
**[18:26] (Flashback) Gu**
you must decide how to spend
the rest of your life.
**[18:33] (Flashback) Gu**
Find your role in life.
**[18:37] (Flashback) Gu**
Fumi...
**[18:41] (Flashback) Gu**
And at last, I...
**[18:47] (Flashback) Gu**
The two of us both thought of a way for
her to suffer as little as possible.
**[18:52] (Flashback) Gu**
I am a hunter, so I used
the method I knew best.
**[19:03] (Flashback) Gu**
Just like Fumi told me,
I burned down our home,
**[19:07] (Flashback) Gu**
and left the village without
telling her family about her death.
**[19:14] (Flashback) Gu**
I've spent the rest of my life
bearing the guilt of killing her.
**[19:22] (Flashback) Gu**
My actions have caused
great pain to her family.
**[19:28] (Flashback) Gu**
If I can heal those wounds in any way...
**[19:33] (Flashback) Gu**
Please.
**[19:34] (Flashback) Gu**
Please, tell this story
to Tanigaki-sama in Ani, Akita.
**[19:55] (Flashback) Gu**
Kanemochi with walnuts...
**[20:00] (Flashback) Gu**
Genjirou, is that you?
**[20:06] Gu**
And then, he died.
**[20:14] Gu**
Kenkichi found his role in life,
**[20:18] Gu**
and spent the rest of
his days carrying it out.
**[20:20] Gu**
Every day I ask myself,
what is my role in life?
**[20:26] Gu**
I can't go back to Ani now.
**[20:29] Gu**
I can't face my brother or father.
**[20:33] Gu**
Tanigaki...
**[20:35] Gu**
I need you.
**[20:42] Gu**
First, will you start by making me
**[20:45] Gu**
some of these kanemochi with walnuts?
**[20:53] Gu**
Of course.
***SIGN*** Kushiro Marsh
**[21:09] Gu**
Hey, look at that.
**[21:12] Gu**
Somebody's dancing all the way out there.
**[21:14] Gu**
Isn't that Asirpa?
**[21:27] Gu**
This is a dance from Kushiro, huh?
**[21:30] Gu**
The sarorunrimse...
**[21:31] Gu**
The crane dance.
**[21:41] Gu**
Somebody's coming.
**[21:49] Gu**
Look! I knew it, it's Asirpa!
**[21:53] Gu**
Cikapasi and Cironnup...
**[21:55] Gu**
And Tanigaki.
**[21:59] Gu**
How?
***SIGN*** Next Time:
Kamuy Hopunire
**[23:36] ---**
Next Time: "Kamuy Hopunire."