E39 - The Smell of Sulfur

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SIGN    Noboribetsu Hell Valley
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SIGN    NOBORIBETSU
[00:06] Narrator
    At the time, Noboribetsu was
    Hokkaido's largest hot springs area.
[00:11] Narrator
    The springs there had healing properties,
[00:15] Narrator
    and after the Sino-Japanese War
    and Russo-Japanese War,
[00:18] Narrator
    the 7th Division would send
    their sick and wounded.
SIGN    Noboribetsu's Famous
    "Burning Waterfall"
[00:26] Nikaido
    I feel so good!
[00:28] Usami
    I'm reborn!
[00:33] Kikuta
    Privates Nikaido and Usami...
[00:39] Kikuta
    Did you just get here today?
[00:41] Usami
    Warrant Officer Kikuta.
[00:46] Usami
    How is your recuperation going?
[00:48] Kikuta
    Oh, did Lieutenant Tsurumi send you because
    he was worried about how I was doing?
[00:56] Kikuta
    He must be looking forward to how much
    stronger his army will be after my arrival.
[01:04] Kikuta
    By the way, did you hear that strange
    story Private Ariko was telling?
[01:09] Nikaido
    What did he say?
[01:11] Kikuta
    Last night, he met a strange man in
    a hot spring further up the mountain.
[01:17] Kikuta
    The man was running through the snow,
[01:18] Kikuta
    at night, carrying no light
    and wearing geta sandals.
[01:22] Kikuta
    Strange, yes?
[01:24] Usami
    My left ball is changing
    places with my right ball!
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
SIGN    Episode Thirty-Nine
    The Smell of Sulfur
[03:01] Usami
    A man wearing geta sandals
    on a dark, snowy mountain?
[03:05] Usami
    Well, there are snow geta
    you can wear in winter.
[03:08] Usami
    And if he was running in the dark, perhaps
    his eyes were simply used to the darkness.
[03:13] Usami
    What's so strange about that? Sheesh...
[03:18] Usami
    Anyway, busy now!
[03:21] Kikuta
    He can tell you himself.
[03:23] Kikuta
    Right, Private Ariko?
[03:26] Ariko
    I heard the sound of geta, but the
    footprints on the ground weren't from geta.
[03:31] Ariko
    They were from straw boots.
[03:34] Usami
    And so? Why is this so important to you?
[03:37] Kikuta
    There was more to the story, right, Ariko?
[03:40] Ariko
    The clothes he wore were... curious.
[03:44] Ariko
    The pattern on them was unusual.
[03:46] Nikaido
    Like how?
[03:48] Ariko
    I couldn't really say,
    because it was so dark...
[03:53] Nikaido
    You two have been here
    since the end of the war.
[03:56] Nikaido
    The hot springs have scrambled your brains.
[03:59] Usami
    Now, now, Nikaido.
[04:05] Nikaido
    What were you doing at a hot spring that
    far up in the mountains, Private Ariko?
[04:10] Ariko
    It's a secret hot springs
    that only the Ainu know about.
[04:13] Nikaido
    You an Ainu?
[04:16] Ariko
    Yes.
[04:16] Usami
    Perhaps he's an Ainu, too?
[04:19] Usami
    And the strange patterns on his
    clothes were an Ainu pattern.
[04:23] Ariko
    I would recognize an Ainu pattern.
[04:25] Kikuta
    Something about this story
    seemed really strange to me.
[04:29] Kikuta
    Am I just thinking about it too much?
[04:31] Kikuta
    You know anything, Mister Masseur?
[04:33] Toni
    Clothing with strange Ainu patterns?
[04:37] Toni
    I'll tell you if I see any.
[04:41] Usami
    That's funny!
[04:54] Nikaido
    No way! How?
[04:58] Kikuta
    Come on, help me out, Nikaido.
[05:03] Kikuta
    Tell me what the tattoos on the prisoners
    who escaped from Abashiri looked like.
[05:12] Nikaido
    Never seen one.
[05:18] Soldier A
    Let's go eat.
[05:22] Kikuta
    Ariko, go ask at your village if anyone
    else has seen this strange man.
[05:28] Ariko
    Understood.
[05:29] Kikuta
    We're in a bad spot because
    of Usami and Nikaido.
[05:32] Kikuta
    Those assholes don't believe us.
[05:34] Kikuta
    If we want to go back to serving under
    Lieutenant Tsurumi, we'd want to bring a gift.
[05:41] Nikaido
    Are we taking Warrant Officer Kikuta
    and Private Ariko back to Abashiri?
[05:47] Usami
    No, Lieutenant Tsurumi
    is leaving Abashiri soon.
[05:50] Usami
    We'll meet up with him somewhere.
[05:52] Nikaido
    What about the fortune-teller
    and the old cannibal?
[05:56] Nikaido
    Will he bring them?
[05:58] Usami
    That's not my problem.
[06:01] Usami
    Hey, would you please stop
    punching me like that?
[06:06] Usami
    Massage me carefully. It hurts!
[06:10] Usami
    You suck at this.
[06:12] Masseur A
    Oh, sorry.
[06:17] (Flashback) Masseur A
    Those two that just arrived
    were with Lieutenant Tsurumi.
[06:22] (Flashback) Masseur B
    They're a valuable source of information.
[06:24] (Flashback) Masseur B
    We should get rid of the soldiers
    named Ariko and Kikuta before they
[06:28] (Flashback) Masseur B
    realize who we are.
[06:29] (Flashback) Toni
    We should wait for the next new moon.
[06:32] (Flashback) Toni
    The moonlight off the snow
    makes the winter nights bright.
[06:35] (Flashback) Masseur A
    We need to hurry.
[06:37] (Flashback) Masseur A
    If we have to leave,
    we'll cease to be able to
[06:40] (Flashback) Masseur A
    give information about the 7th
    Division to Hijikata Toshizou.
[06:44] (Flashback) Masseur B
    Toni-san, you're the one who
    let that soldier see you.
[06:48] (Flashback) Masseur B
    This is your mess to deal with.
[06:58] Narrator
    The hot springs he spoke of, further up
    the mountain than Noboribetsu,
[07:01] Narrator
    is currently known as
    the Karurusu Hot Springs.
[07:04] Narrator
    The local Ainu called them "penke-yu."
[07:10] Kikuta
    Am I going to see the geta
    man tonight, I wonder?
[07:20] Ariko
    Have you seen a man wearing clothes with
    a strange pattern around penke-yu lately?
[07:27] Ariko
    Someone who comes to bathe at dusk.
[07:35] Kikuta
    The sound of geta!
[07:38] Ainu Woman
    Those aren't clothes.
[07:41] Ainu Woman
    They were tattoos.
[07:53] Kikuta
    This is the man Ariko spoke of.
[07:57] Kikuta
    He has a light with him, but...
[07:59] Kikuta
    You there. Take off your
    jacket and let me see you.
[08:18] Toni
    He can see me?
[08:19] Toni
    I had a light with me to stop his
    eyes from adjusting to the darkness!
[08:26] Kikuta
    He has friends with him?
[08:33] Kikuta
    I can see all of you.
[08:38] Narrator
    According to one theory,
[08:41] Narrator
    pirates wore eyepatches so that when they
    needed to charge below the decks of a ship,
[08:45] Narrator
    they could quickly adjust to the darkness.
[08:48] Narrator
    Warrant Officer Kikuta
[08:50] Narrator
    anticipated a night battle, and had
    worn an eyepatch since sunset.
[08:55] Narrator
    He could see in the dim darkness just fine!
[08:59] Toni
    Retreat! He can see you!
[09:02] Toni
    That's why I told you to do it
    on the night of the new moon!
[09:06] Masseur B
    That's not good.
[09:09] Toni
    Go! Go! Get into the valley!
[09:14] Kikuta
    You ain't getting away.
[09:33] Kikuta
    I can't see a thing.
[09:37] Toni
    I'm sick of the smell of sulfur.
[09:40] Toni
    Once I get my share of the gold,
    maybe I'll move to the coast.
[09:57] Masseur A
    Got him!
[10:03] Masseur A
    You got him!
[10:08] Ariko
    That's in the direction of Hell Valley.
[10:15] Kikuta
    Don't scratch my guns, shithead.
    I won these fair and square!
[10:19] Narrator
    During the Russo-Japanese War,
[10:21] Narrator
    Warrant Officer Kikuta became
    obsessed with stealing handguns
[10:25] Narrator
    from the Russia officers he killed.
[10:28] Narrator
    The Nagant M1895 was a personal favorite,
[10:32] Narrator
    so much that he had his
    men search for them as well.
[10:41] Usami
    Don't shoot! It's me!
[10:45] Masseur B
    There are more with him!
[10:53] Toni
    This is going like shit!
[10:59] Nikaido
    He fled into the mountains!
[11:01] Ariko
    Warrant Officer Kikuta!
[11:04] Kikuta
    Ariko, is that you?
[11:07] Ariko
    What I saw was a tattoo.
[11:11] Kikuta
    We'll follow him. After me.
SIGN    Golden Kamuy
[11:23] Kikuta
    Usami, you asshole. Your timing
    was a little too convenient.
[11:27] Kikuta
    You and Nikaido were actually staking
    out the Ainu hot springs, weren't you?
[11:32] Kikuta
    Let me guess: the two of you figured out
    what was going on from Ariko's story,
[11:35] Kikuta
    and were planning on
    finding the man before us.
[11:38] Usami
    Whoops. Guess you figured it out.
[11:45] Ariko
    Why would a tattooed prisoner
[11:47] Ariko
    take the risk of hiding at a hot springs
    filled with members of the 7th?
[11:54] Nikaido
    Oh, I've seen him.
[11:58] Nikaido
    He's a masseur.
[12:14] Ariko
    His footsteps lead inside.
[12:17] Ariko
    It's an old mine tunnel. I went
    inside once when I was a kid.
[12:21] Kikuta
    Any other exits?
[12:22] Ariko
    Several, if they haven't collapsed.
[12:26] Kikuta
    It's coming from further inside.
[12:28] Kikuta
    Don't light any matches.
[12:31] Kikuta
    It'll make you a target.
[12:44] Usami
    I can't see a thing.
[12:56] Kikuta
    What's this?
[12:57] Kikuta
    There's something on the ground.
[13:00] Kikuta
    If we're not careful,
    we'll give away our location.
[13:03] Narrator
    The ice stalagmites created by
    water dripping to the ground
[13:07] Narrator
    and freezing are called hyoujun,
    or "ice bamboo shoots."
[13:11] Narrator
    Even in Hokkaido, they can
    only be seen in a few places.
[13:14] Toni
    Now it's my turn.
[13:18] Kikuta
    Looks like the prisoner has
    particularly good ears.
[13:24] Kikuta
    He's using the sound of the
    ice breaking to target us.
[13:30] Ariko
    I never even noticed the ice
    when I came here before.
[13:34] Ariko
    If I had a cinoyetat I could avoid them,
[13:37] Ariko
    but a light like that would
    make me an easy target.
[13:51] Kikuta
    Bastard!
[14:02] Kikuta
    He's moving fast, but I don't
    hear any shattering ice.
[14:07] Kikuta
    How is he able to dodge it in this darkness?
[14:12] Kikuta
    And even with the volcanic gases at
    Hell Valley, he and his buddies...
[14:41] Toni
    A torch?
[14:46] Kikuta
    He's a masseur!
[14:48] Kikuta
    He'd never seen us to begin with.
[14:51] Toni
    They found me! Now things are bad!
[14:54] Ariko
    A masseur?
[14:55] Kikuta
    He's using sound to get an accurate
    picture of his surroundings.
[14:59] Kikuta
    There's probably some secret
    to that sound of geta sandals,
[15:02] Kikuta
    but it doesn't matter.
[15:10] Kikuta
    So he ran outside?
[15:15] Usami
    Warrant Officer Kikuta,
    I was shot in the leg!
[15:20] Usami
    Please don't leave me here!
[15:23] Usami
    It's dark!
[15:25] Kikuta
    He's so damn annoying.
[15:27] Ariko
    Let me go alone.
[15:30] Ariko
    I've got an idea.
[15:31] Ariko
    A hunt is best done silently and alone.
[15:34] Kikuta
    Fine.
[15:36] Kikuta
    Don't let him get away.
[15:43] Toni
    I need to get the bullet out...
[15:56] Usami
    Should we really let Ariko go on his own?
[15:59] Kikuta
    Stop talking.
[16:01] Kikuta
    You're in no position to question anybody.
[16:03] Kikuta
    And Ariko was part of the
    Mt. Hakkoda search party.
[16:09] Narrator
    The Lost March of Mt. Hakkoda!
[16:13] Narrator
    Two years before the Russo-Japanese War,
[16:15] Narrator
    Aomori's 5th Infantry Regiment
[16:17] Narrator
    was doing a march in the snow
    as part of winter training.
[16:19] Narrator
    During this march 199 men lost their lives,
[16:22] Narrator
    in what was one of the worst
    mountaineering accidents in history.
[16:26] Usami
    He was one of the Ainu brought from Hokkaido?
[16:31] Kikuta
    The Ainu search parties walked
    through waist-deep freezing water,
[16:35] Kikuta
    and moved across deep snowy mountains
    like they were open plains.
[16:38] Kikuta
    They found the bodies and brought them back.
[16:41] Kikuta
    Even the locals were astonished.
[16:44] Kikuta
    And he knows this mountain
    like his own backyard.
[16:47] Kikuta
    Escaping from Ariko Rikimatsu on
    this mountain... is impossible.
[17:12] Toni
    There's something about those
    breaking branches I don't trust.
[17:41] Toni
    What is this sound?
[17:49] Toni
    So that's it...
[17:51] Toni
    He led me right where he wanted me,
[17:54] Toni
    to a place where this could easily happen.
[18:01] Toni
    I lose.
SIGN    Four Days Later
[18:20] Nikaido
    Where's Warrant Officer Kikuta?
[18:22] Usami
    He went to the mountains to search again.
[18:24] Usami
    It's been four days and Private Ariko
    isn't back. He's probably dead.
[18:30] Nikaido
    Did you send a telegram to Lieutenant Tsurumi?
[18:33] Usami
    Yeah.
[18:34] Usami
    He says he's coming here.
[18:37] Usami
    Ariko's dead, and I injured my leg,
[18:40] Usami
    and we let the prisoner get away.
[18:44] Usami
    He'll scold me again!
[18:54] Ainu Woman
    Ipopte...
[18:59] Kikuta
    Hey, Ariko. If you're alive, say so.
[19:03] Kikuta
    I was worried.
[19:04] Ariko
    I've been waiting for you.
[19:10] Kikuta
    Why did you strip off his skin?
     Explain, Ariko.
[19:13] Ariko
    When I checked the tattoos, I realized that
    they stopped at the body's medial line.
[19:19] Kikuta
    At the medial line?
[19:21] Ariko
    It was an instruction to strip off
    the skin like you would an animal's.
[19:26] Kikuta
    I see.
[19:27] Ariko
    It was too deep in the mountains for
    me to easily be able to carry it back.
[19:32] Ariko
    So I stripped it off there.
[19:34] Ariko
    And there was a chance that Usami
    and Nikaido would steal our prize.
[19:40] Ariko
    So I hid here in the village
    until you came to look for me.
[19:48] Kikuta
    And his gun?
[19:49] Ariko
    I assumed you'd want it, so I looked for it.
[19:52] Ariko
    But it was buried in the avalanche.
[19:55] Ariko
    The only prizes I brought
    back are his skin, and this.
[19:58] Kikuta
    Well done, Ariko.
[20:00] Kikuta
    You made the right call every time.
[20:02] Kikuta
    This is the perfect gift
    for Lieutenant Tsurumi.
[20:07] Kikuta
    Now we can get back the time we wasted.
[20:19] Sugimoto
    Whatcha making, Granny?
[20:21] Shiraishi
    I hope it's something
    that goes well with sake!
[20:25] Shiraishi
    Rice soaked in water?
[20:27] Shiraishi
    What are you doing with that?
[20:40] Narrator
    It's unknown if it's a
    Karafuto Ainu tradition,
[20:44] Narrator
    but there is a record of a dish
    called "Grandma-Chewed Dumplings."
[20:48] Narrator
    The grandchildren said,
[20:50] Narrator
    "It was delicious! It was delicious,
    and that's all there is to it!"
[21:09] Tanigaki
    It's like the kiritanpo we have in Akita,
    made by crushing and baking leftover rice.
[21:14] Shiraishi
    Hey! Hey!
[21:16] Shiraishi
    Give me more of granny's dumplings!
[21:19] Old woman
    Pirka, pirka.
[21:21] Sugimoto
    Make us more, Granny!
[21:24] Sugimoto
    Okay?
[21:25] Old woman
    Pirka, pirka.
[21:27] Shiraishi
    I can't wait anymore, Granny!
[21:30] Shiraishi
    Put them right into my mouth!
[21:35] Tanigaki
    What the hell is wrong with these two?
[21:41] Koito
    Tsukishima...
[21:42] Tsukishima
    Yes?
[21:43] Koito
    What does bar... "barchonak" mean in Russian?
[21:48] Tsukishima
    Barchonok?
[21:50] Tsukishima
    It's what you'd say to make
    fun of a noble's son.
[21:54] Tsukishima
    In other words, a spoiled rich kid.
[21:58] Tsukishima
    Where did you hear that?
SIGN    Next Time
    Spoiled Rich Kid
[23:35] Narrator
    Next time: "Spoiled Rich Kid"!