# E38 - Cocoon
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**[00:12] Ushiyama**
Dauuhh...
**[00:18] Ushiyama**
Udaah...
**[00:22] Boy B**
Here, I'll feed you!
**[00:24] Boy B**
Open your mouth! Come on!
**[00:26] Boy B**
Eat the moss ball!
**[00:28] Boy C**
His dad owns some mining company, I heard.
**[00:32] Boy C**
Maybe you're too good to eat moss balls, huh?
**[00:35] Chiyotarou**
Huh? You guys eat moss balls?
**[00:38] Chiyotarou**
When you're poor, you have
to eat moss balls, huh?
**[00:43] Chiyotarou**
Somebody!
**[00:45] Chiyotarou**
Somebody help me!
**[00:49] Chiyotarou**
I'm going to freeze to
death when the sun sets.
**[00:52] Ushiyama**
Awuoh...
**[00:56] Ushiyama**
Pus...
**[00:57] Chiyotarou**
Um, will you help me?
**[01:02] Ushiyama**
Ussy...
**[01:05] Chiyotarou**
Wait! You're hungry, right? I've got food!
**[01:10] Chiyotarou**
Dried peaches!
**[01:12] Chiyotarou**
I'll give them to you, so let me down!
**[01:14] Ushiyama**
Pweach?
**[01:16] Chiyotarou**
My grandfather in Yamanashi sends them to me.
**[01:21] Ushiyama**
Nom, nom, nom...
**[01:23] Chiyotarou**
It's good, isn't it?
**[01:26] Chiyotarou**
Will you let me down, then?
**[01:28] Ushiyama**
Pus...
**[01:30] Chiyotarou**
Yeah!
**[01:31] Chiyotarou**
Wait, no! Not like that...
**[01:40] Chiyotarou**
Not like that, but holy crap!
**[01:43] Chiyotarou**
Thank you for saving me!
**[01:45] Ushiyama**
Undah...
**[01:46] Chiyotarou**
My name's Chiyotarou!
**[01:49] Chiyotarou**
What's your name?
**[01:50] Ushiyama**
Pussy.
**[01:52] Chiyotarou**
Pussy! That's your name, huh?
**[01:56] Chiyotarou**
I'll give you some more dried peaches,
so from now on, you work for me, Pussy.
**[02:01] Ushiyama**
Pussy!
**[02:03] Chiyotarou**
Yes! I've got my own personal servant,
the Pussy Monster!
***SIGN*** Golden Kamuy
***SIGN*** Episode Thirty-Eight
Cocoon
**[03:42] Sekiya**
As one of the Shinsengumi, he survived
countless deadly battles in Kyoto,
**[03:47] Sekiya**
and then the Battle of Hakodate, too.
**[03:48] Sekiya**
Then he escaped from Abashiri
Prison at the ends of the Earth.
**[03:52] Sekiya**
Hijikata Toshizou...
**[03:54] Sekiya**
A man like that, fated to die like this?
**[04:07] Sekiya**
Ushiyama's gone?
**[04:09] Sekiya**
Impossible! He broke out of
his coffin and crawled out?
**[04:13] Sekiya**
Damn it! I underestimated him!
**[04:16] Sekiya**
But the last poison I gave him was datura,
**[04:21] Sekiya**
and it'll take another 12 hours to wear off.
**[04:23] Sekiya**
He probably doesn't remember
this place, either.
**[04:26] Chiyotarou**
Pussy? You in there, Pussy?
**[04:29] Chiyotarou**
I brought you food.
**[04:31] Ushiyama**
Meow...
**[04:33] Chiyotarou**
Are you cold?
**[04:34] Chiyotarou**
Sorry, I can't take you home with me.
**[04:39] Chiyotarou**
Let's skate together today!
**[04:42] Chiyotarou**
Don't worry, I'll show you how.
***SIGN*** Inn
**[04:46] Innkeeper**
Wake up, sir!
**[04:50] Kadokura**
What is it?
**[04:51] Innkeeper**
Someone came and said to give
this to a "Chief Warden Kadokura."
**[04:55] Kadokura**
And how does he know my name?
**[04:59] Innkeeper**
Don't ask me.
**[05:00] Innkeeper**
I'll leave it here.
**[05:12] Kadokura**
This is...
**[05:14] Kadokura**
Nagakura-san!
**[05:15] Kirawus**
Nagakura's not here.
**[05:17] Kadokura**
Where'd he go?
**[05:18] Kirawus**
He said a tanuki would be of no use
to him, and left on his own to search.
**[05:23] Kadokura**
It's Sekiya. Sekiya kidnapped Hijikata-san.
**[05:28] Kadokura**
He sent us a threat letter!
**[05:33] Sekiya**
* The fugu poison has put Hijikata Toshizou*
* in something close to a coma.*
**[05:37] Sekiya**
* His breathing is shallow, but he only has*
* a few more hours of air in that coffin.*
**[05:41] Sekiya**
* I'll trade the tattooed skins*
* they have for his location.*
**[05:46] Kirawus**
There's no proof that
Hijikata Nispa is alive.
**[05:50] Kadokura**
Sekiya's pulled the same
stunt a bunch of times.
**[05:54] Kadokura**
He's acting alone, so he
can't watch his hostages.
**[05:57] Kadokura**
He buries them while he goes
to get the ransom money.
**[06:01] Kadokura**
He's careful. He always
leaves the hostages alive.
**[06:05] Kadokura**
He accepts that his hostages
may be fated to survive.
***SIGN*** Inn
**[06:09] Kadokura**
Nagakura-san's got the skins.
**[06:12] Kadokura**
We need to find him.
**[06:14] Kadokura**
Damn it! There's no time before the handover!
**[06:18] Kadokura**
And if we fail, Hijikata-san will die!
**[06:26] Ushiyama**
Moo!
**[06:28] Chiyotarou**
You're great! Wow, you're a genius!
**[06:32] Narr**
* Ushiyama is wearing geta skates,*
* also known as "gerori."*
**[06:36] Narr**
* They were enormously popular in Hokkaido*
* in the latter half of the Edo period!*
**[06:41] Ushiyama**
Moo!
**[06:43] Boy C**
Hey, rich kid.
**[06:46] Boy C**
We warned you not to play here.
**[06:49] Boy B**
Or are you hungry for more moss balls?
**[06:54] Ushiyama**
Udah...
**[06:57] Boy C**
Wh-Who are you?
**[06:59] Chiyotarou**
This is Pussy.
**[07:01] Ushiyama**
Nom, nom...
**[07:03] Chiyotarou**
Crouch down for a second.
**[07:07] Chiyotarou**
He works for me!
**[07:11] Chiyotarou**
What's wrong?
**[07:13] Chiyotarou**
Weren't you going to feed me a moss ball?
**[07:15] Boy B**
Take this!
**[07:17] Chiyotarou**
Low-life scum. Let's go, Pussy.
**[07:22] Chiyotarou**
It's not worth hanging out with poors.
**[07:29] Boy A**
I'm sorry!
**[07:30] Chiyotarou**
Pussy, no!
**[07:35] Chiyotarou**
Stop it! Stop it, already!
**[07:38] Chiyotarou**
Here, a peach!
**[07:39] Chiyotarou**
It's your favorite, Pussy!
**[07:42] Ushiyama**
Peach...
**[07:46] Chiyotarou**
*Oh, no!*
**[07:48] Chiyotarou**
* I didn't realize the Pussy*
* Monster was this dangerous!*
**[07:52] Chiyotarou**
*He's... a deadly weapon!*
**[07:56] Chiyotarou**
*I must get rid of him.*
**[07:59] Kadokura**
Kirawus, wait up!
**[08:02] Kadokura**
Let's take a break.
**[08:04] Kadokura**
I can't run anymore. I can't breathe...
**[08:07] Kadokura**
I'll die before he does.
**[08:10] Kirawus**
Old man...
**[08:12] Kirawus**
We need to find Nagakura Nispa!
**[08:15] Kadokura**
There's no time.
**[08:16] Kadokura**
Sekiya doesn't know how many
tattooed skins we have, right?
**[08:23] Kadokura**
We'll have to bluff him into telling
us where Hijikata is somehow.
**[08:28] Kirawus**
"Somehow"? How?
**[08:30] Kirawus**
You'll fail if you don't
have a real plan, Kadokura!
**[08:33] Kadokura**
You got any brilliant ideas,
then? Let's hear them!
**[08:37] Kadokura**
You don't, do you? You broke-ass!
**[08:40] Kirawus**
You're unemployed and broke, too,
Mr. Asshole Examiner.
**[08:46] Chiyotarou**
I must protect my town!
**[08:49] Ushiyama**
Boytarou!
**[08:51] Ushiyama**
Moo!
**[08:52] Chiyotarou**
I have to do it!
**[08:54] Narr**
* Lake Akan has natural hot*
* springs on its bottom,*
**[08:58] Narr**
* and even when the lake*
* surface freezes in winter,*
**[08:59] Narr**
* there are places call "steam*
* pots" where holes form.*
**[09:04] Chiyotarou**
Come here, Pussy.
**[09:14] Sekiya**
Chief Warden Kadokura, stop where you are.
**[09:16] Sekiya**
Take off your clothes, and throw them at me.
**[09:19] Sekiya**
I want to be sure you came unarmed.
**[09:21] Kadokura**
I stuffed a hunting rifle up my ass.
**[09:24] Kadokura**
Want to take a look and see, Sekiya?
**[09:27] Kadokura**
*He's careful, and smart.*
**[09:31] Kadokura**
* Sekiya chose the middle of the*
* lake as the place for the handover*
**[09:36] Kadokura**
* because there's a minimum of one*
* kilometer to the banks on all sides.*
**[09:41] Kadokura**
* Nobody can pull off a*
* sniper shot at that range.*
**[09:49] Sekiya**
So, where are the skins?
**[09:51] Kadokura**
I brought 'em.
**[09:53] Kadokura**
Check my coat.
**[09:55] Sekiya**
One wrong move and the deal's off.
**[10:01] Kadokura**
Well, that's a problem.
**[10:04] Sekiya**
You just looked behind you.
**[10:06] Kadokura**
Wh-What do you mean?
**[10:09] Sekiya**
Is the Ainu who was with
you on the opposite bank?
**[10:14] Sekiya**
Did you borrow the blade you've got
wedged between your ass cheeks from him?
**[10:20] (Flashback) Kirawus**
This is important to me. My father
made it. Be careful with it.
**[10:25] (Flashback) Kirawus**
Where will you hide it?
**[10:26] (Flashback) Kadokura**
Yeah, got it.
**[10:28] (Flashback) Kirawus**
Where will you hide it?
**[10:32] Sekiya**
So the plan was to extract the location
of Hijikata Toshizou from me by force?
**[10:38] Sekiya**
You're as crude and sloppy as ever.
**[10:43] Sekiya**
Kadokura-san, what do you think? Is God real?
**[10:50] Chiyotarou**
Come on! If you don't come get it,
I'll throw this peach away!
**[10:54] Chiyotarou**
Are you okay with that?
**[10:55] Ushiyama**
Udah...
**[10:56] Chiyotarou**
Hurry! Or I'll throw it away!
**[11:06] Chiyotarou**
Go get it!
**[11:08] Ushiyama**
Moo!
**[11:10] Chiyotarou**
I'm sorry!
**[11:17] Chiyotarou**
I'm sorry, Pussy!
**[11:19] Chiyotarou**
Forgive me!
**[11:28] Kadokura**
Gerori!
**[11:33] Kadokura**
Damn it! He got me!
**[11:35] Kadokura**
Wait, Sekiya!
**[11:37] Kadokura**
*Gotcha, fuckface.*
**[11:39] (Flashback) Kirawus**
You're unemployed and broke, too,
Mr. Asshole Examiner.
**[11:44] (Flashback) Kadokura**
Shut up and think!
**[11:46] (Flashback) Kadokura**
Well? You don't have any good ideas, do you?
**[11:49] (Flashback) Kirawus**
We deliberately screw up the deal so
he runs, and then I'll follow him in secret.
**[11:56] (Flashback) Kirawus**
He'll return to Hijikata Nispa and
Ushiyama Nispa to take their skins.
**[12:00] (Flashback) Kadokura**
Yeah, we'll go with that.
**[12:03] Kadokura**
* There ain't nobody in the*
* direction I was just looking!*
**[12:07] Kadokura**
* Sekiya will probably run for*
* the farthest edge of the lake,*
**[12:09] Kadokura**
*while keeping his distance from the coasts.*
**[12:12] Kadokura**
* I'll pretend to chase after him*
* while guiding him toward you.*
**[12:17] Kirawus**
He's here! Just like we planned!
**[12:20] Kadokura**
Wait!
**[12:25] Sekiya**
Ushiyama?
**[12:27] Narr**
* In that moment, the effects of the*
* datura Ushiyama ingested wore off!*
**[12:33] Ushiyama**
Sekiya, you bastard!
**[12:35] Kadokura**
Ushiyama-san, why are you showing
up there of all places?
**[12:41] Kirawus**
Crap! Don't let him get away!
Catch him, Kadokura!
**[12:48] Kadokura**
Ow! Ow! My skin's coming off!
**[12:55] Kadokura**
What a mistake.
**[12:57] Kadokura**
Talk about bad luck...
***SIGN*** Golden Kamuy
**[13:06] Kadokura**
Ushiyama-san, Sekiya kidnapped you, too?
**[13:10] Kadokura**
Where were you?
**[13:11] Kadokura**
Hijikata-san may be there, too.
**[13:15] Ushiyama**
I don't know.
**[13:16] Ushiyama**
I woke up and my head was
poking out of the ice.
**[13:20] Ushiyama**
Maybe that whore was bought off by Sekiya.
**[13:24] Ushiyama**
I remember she gave me something
she said would make me rock hard...
**[13:29] Sekiya**
Dick-for-brains!
**[13:30] Ushiyama**
Betrayed by another whore...
**[13:38] Kadokura**
This is the white shell that
we saw where Hijikata-san was seen.
**[13:42] Kadokura**
And one fell out of your jacket after
you went missing, too, which means...
**[13:49] Kadokura**
The mystery has deepened!
**[13:51] Kirawus**
That's a silkworm cocoon.
**[13:53] Ushiyama**
Cold...
**[13:55] Kirawus**
Perhaps it got stuck in his
clothing in the place he was held.
**[14:00] Kirawus**
You don't raise silkworms in winter,
**[14:02] Kirawus**
so some of the buildings are uninhabited.
**[14:04] Kadokura**
That's it!
**[14:06] Kadokura**
The points have connected and formed a line!
**[14:09] Kadokura**
A line like a silkworm's thread!
**[14:11] Kirawus**
Nearby silkworm farms are that way.
**[14:14] Kirawus**
And that way, at the opposite end of the lake.
**[14:16] Kadokura**
Okay, we're running out of time.
**[14:18] Kadokura**
Let's split up and catch Sekiya!
**[14:32] Kadokura**
Sekiya!
**[14:34] Kadokura**
Hijikata-san's inside, right?
**[14:36] Kadokura**
Take me to him now.
**[14:38] Sekiya**
I'm amazed you found this place,
Chief Warden Kadokura.
**[14:42] Kadokura**
Don't underestimate Detective Kadokura!
**[14:46] Sekiya**
This way.
**[14:56] Sekiya**
I was just trying this.
**[14:59] Sekiya**
A cocoon sex identifier.
**[15:02] Sekiya**
It uses the fact that the males
and females inside the cocoons
**[15:05] Sekiya**
have different weights to distinguish them.
**[15:10] Sekiya**
This farm has a different room
for every step of the process.
**[15:13] Sekiya**
There are over ten rooms between
this building and the next.
**[15:17] Sekiya**
Hijikata Toshizou is buried in one of them.
**[15:21] Sekiya**
Chief Warden Kadokura,
I'm giving you a trial to pass.
**[15:25] Sekiya**
Half the cocoons contain
fatal amounts of wolfsbane,
**[15:29] Sekiya**
fugu poison, strychnine and arsenic.
**[15:33] Sekiya**
The ones on their opposite side do not.
**[15:36] Sekiya**
You'll choose one,
and I'll take its opposite.
**[15:42] Sekiya**
If I take the poison, I'll tell you
where Hijikata-san is before I die.
**[15:47] Sekiya**
And if you take the poison,
I promise to save Hijikata-san's life.
**[15:54] Kadokura**
Where is Hijikata-san?
**[15:57] Sekiya**
Speaking from my experience, there's very
little air left in the coffin.
**[16:01] Sekiya**
He's got 30 minutes left at most.
**[16:05] Sekiya**
I'm interested in the fates of people
who have some kind of strong will.
**[16:11] Sekiya**
Kadokura-san, if you're following the
right path, fate will side with you, not me.
**[16:18] Kadokura**
You don't care about the tattoos,
or even the gold, do you?
**[16:24] Kadokura**
You're after us, the people coming after them.
**[16:28] Kadokura**
* What motivates Sekiya's actions are these*
* tests of luck that he calls "trials."*
**[16:35] Kadokura**
*I was born under a star*
**[16:36] Kadokura**
* that guarantees I'll always make the*
* wrong choice at times like these.*
**[16:40] Kadokura**
*Even if only one of the cocoons had poison,*
**[16:43] Kadokura**
*I'm confident it would be the one I'd pick.*
**[16:48] Kadokura**
*But...*
**[16:49] Kadokura**
* Even so... if I can save Hijikata-san's*
* life in exchange for my end...*
**[17:01] Sekiya**
Will you let me talk about myself
a little until we know who won?
**[17:07] Sekiya**
It happened one Sunday morning...
**[17:12] Sekiya**
I was returning home with my young daughter.
**[17:16] Sekiya**
She was toddling along right in front of me.
**[17:22] Sekiya**
Something exploded next to us. I passed out.
**[17:36] Sekiya**
My daughter lost her legs and part of her head.
**[17:40] Sekiya**
It took a while to figure out
that we'd been hit by lightning.
**[17:48] Sekiya**
Why was my daughter chosen?
**[17:51] Sekiya**
Why not me?
**[17:55] Sekiya**
Is "luck" the will of God?
**[17:58] Sekiya**
If someone like me survived,
doesn't that mean that there is no God?
**[18:05] Sekiya**
If it started kicking it at ten minutes,
that means it's the wolfsbane.
**[18:10] Kadokura**
Keep your promise.
**[18:12] Kadokura**
Save Hijikata-san...
**[18:16] Sekiya**
I'll dig him out now.
**[18:21] Kadokura**
How long will it take me to die?
**[18:27] Sekiya**
You'll suffer for several hours.
**[18:31] Kadokura**
Well, that sucks...
**[18:48] Kadokura**
*Hijikata-san, I'm sorry.*
**[18:50] Kadokura**
*I can't go with you any farther.*
**[18:56] Kadokura**
*Hijikata Toshizou is still useful.*
**[18:59] Kadokura**
* I'll move him while the fugu*
* poison is still in his system.*
**[19:02] Kadokura**
* Next I'll set up a trial for the Ainu,*
* or perhaps Ushiyama again...*
**[19:16] Hijikata**
I guess my time as a medicine-seller
when I was young paid off.
**[19:22] Hijikata**
Luck alone isn't enough
to survive in these times.
**[19:26] Kadokura**
Huh?
**[19:30] Kadokura**
I feel better.
**[19:33] Narrator**
* By sheer coincidence, the other two poisons*
* that Kadokura took to end his suffering*
**[19:38] Narrator**
*were both fugu!*
**[19:41] Narrator**
* Wolfsbane and fugu tetrodotoxin both have*
* the effect of neutralizing one another!*
**[19:50] Narrator**
* Kadokura had, with incredible luck,*
* taken just the right amount of fugu poison*
**[19:54] Narrator**
* to cancel out the wolfsbane, and they*
* both disappeared from his system.*
**[19:58] Narrator**
* As for Hijikata Toshizou, as the*
* fugu poison made him pass out,*
**[20:03] Narrator**
* he secretly, and deliberately, took just*
* enough wolfsbane to make the dose non-fatal!*
**[20:11] Sekiya**
So he knew he took fugu poison and
immediately took wolfsbane, too?
**[20:16] Sekiya**
He was able to find the wolfsbane
from among the cocoons?
**[20:20] Sekiya**
There was arsenic and strychnine, too!
**[20:26] Hijikata**
If not taking it meant certain death,
I had to take my chance.
**[20:32] Hijikata**
Let's say that guts and experience
brought fate to my side.
**[20:38] Sekiya**
Impossible.
**[20:39] Sekiya**
That's... a miracle!
**[20:42] Sekiya**
Yes... a miracle!
**[20:45] Sekiya**
Which means God is real after all!
**[20:48] Sekiya**
Don't you think so, Hijikata-san?
**[20:53] Sekiya**
God has finally judged me, at least!
**[21:01] Kadokura**
He killed and killed
**[21:03] Kadokura**
to resolve the conflict between his faith
and his daughter's sudden, unlucky death,
**[21:08] Kadokura**
until he made himself into a monster.
**[21:12] Kadokura**
Because in his mind, his daughter's death
had to be God's way of punishing him.
**[21:18] Hijikata**
I don't know anything about God.
**[21:20] Hijikata**
I'm only interested in the world of man.
**[21:25] Hijikata**
When you're born into this world,
how do you spend your life?
**[21:29] Hijikata**
That's all I care about.
**[21:31] Kadokura**
Let's just hope we can put
his tattoos to good use.
**[21:37] Kirawus**
Is Kadokura okay, I wonder?
**[21:59] Chiyotarou**
*Thank you, Pussy.*
**[22:03] Chiyotarou**
*I'll never forget you!*
***SIGN*** Next Time
The Smell of Sulfur
**[23:35] Narrator**
*Next time: "The Smell of Sulfur"!*