# E3 - The Kusanagi Sword
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**[00:02] Narrator**
*Sumo...*
**[00:04] Narrator**
* Battles waged in a ring by those wearing*
* mawashi belts since ancient times in Japan.*
**[00:09] Narrator**
* It is one of the few combat sports*
* without weight classes.*
**[00:12] Narrator**
* Thus, larger and heavier student sumo*
* wrestlers have a distinct advantage.*
**[00:20] Narrator**
*Among them...*
**[00:22] Narrator**
* Those with the potential to*
* reach the rank of yokozuna...*
**[00:26] Narrator**
* receive the name of a sword from the*
* national treasures as their moniker.*
***SIGN*** Bout 3
"The Kusanagi Sword"
**[02:15] Ozeki**
So this is it...
**[02:16] Kirihito**
Yes.
**[02:17] Kirihito**
This is one of the top high schools for
sumo wrestling: Eiga University High School.
**[02:21] Ozeki**
W-We can't just jump straight
into practice bouts against Eiga!
**[02:25] Kirihito**
It's already been arranged.
**[02:28] Ozeki**
W-Wait, Tsuji!
***SIGN*** Eiga University High School
**[02:36] Hinomaru**
I can't wait to see how strong
the wrestlers are here!
***SIGN*** Eiga University High School Sumo Club
**[02:54] Kei**
We're really having practice bouts here?!
**[02:56] Kirihito**
Of course we are. If we want to
make it to the national tournament,
**[03:00] Kirihito**
a weak school like ours must test itself
against a nationally-ranked school.
**[03:04] Ozeki**
* He was serious about going*
* to nationals, after all?*
**[03:09] (Flashback) Kirihito**
It looks like you plan
to enter a tournament,
**[03:12] (Flashback) Kirihito**
but as you are now, you will almost
certainly lose in the first round.
**[03:16] (Flashback) Yuma**
What did you say?!
**[03:17] (Flashback) Chihiro**
He doesn't know who he's talking to.
**[03:20] (Flashback) Kirihito**
But don't worry.
**[03:23] (Flashback) Kirihito**
I will take you to nationals.
**[03:28] (Flashback) Yuma**
Who are you to talk to us like that?
**[03:30] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Gojo Yuma. Third-year.
**[03:32] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Accomplished at karate.
Winner of the Kanto Tournament.
**[03:36] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Kunisaki Chihiro. Second-year.
**[03:38] (Flashback) Kirihito**
National wrestling champion.
**[03:39] (Flashback) Chihiro**
Yeah! I guess everybody's heard of me!
**[03:42] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Ozeki Shinya. Third-year. Club captain.
**[03:45] (Flashback) Kirihito**
No experience of official bouts,
**[03:48] (Flashback) Kirihito**
but has a honed physique, thanks
to a quiet dedication to training.
**[03:52] (Flashback) Ozeki**
Y-You learned all about us?
**[03:56] (Flashback) Kei**
U-Um, I'm Mitsuhashi Kei. I'm a first-year.
**[03:59] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Have you ever played a sport before?
**[04:01] (Flashback) Kei**
I know it's not much,
but I've played flute since I was six!
**[04:10] (Flashback) Kirihito**
And Ushio Hinomaru.
**[04:12] (Flashback) Hinomaru**
Kirihito, what are you doing here?
**[04:15] (Flashback) Ozeki**
Ushio, is this a friend of yours?
**[04:17] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Tsuji Kirihito. First-year.
**[04:19] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Starting today, I will be supervising
the Odachi High School sumo club.
**[04:24] (Flashback) Yuma**
And who made you boss?
**[04:26] (Flashback) Yuma**
Do you even know the first thing about sumo?
**[04:29] (Flashback) Yuma**
I'm not taking orders from no beginner!
**[04:32] (Flashback) Chihiro**
Hey, dude, you're a beginner, yourself.
**[04:34] (Flashback) Kei**
Um, I've never heard of a student
being a club supervisor before...
**[04:38] (Flashback) Hinomaru**
You left out the most important
bit of info again, Kirihito.
**[04:41] (Flashback) Hinomaru**
You're always doing that.
**[04:43] (Flashback) Ozeki**
H-How do you two know each other?
**[04:45] (Flashback) Hinomaru**
In elementary school,
**[04:47] (Flashback) Hinomaru**
Kirihito and I did sumo at the same dojo.
**[04:52] (Flashback) Ozeki**
So you do sumo too, Tsuji?
**[05:02] (Flashback) Kirihito**
No, I...
**[05:04] (Flashback) Yuma**
Oh, so you just talk big.
**[05:06] (Flashback) Kirihito**
I guarantee that Dachi High
will make it to nationals.
**[05:11] (Flashback) Kirihito**
To that end, we're having practice bouts
with Eiga University High School next week.
**[05:17] (Flashback) Ozeki**
E-Eiga High?!
**[05:19] (Flashback) Yuma**
Are they strong?
**[05:20] (Flashback) Ozeki**
Th-They're more than just strong.
**[05:23] (Flashback) Ozeki**
They're the toughest school
in the Kanto region.
**[05:25] (Flashback) Ozeki**
They finished second in
the inter-high last year.
**[05:28] (Flashback) Ozeki**
They're a *major* powerhouse!
**[05:31] (Flashback) Yuma**
For real?
**[05:32] (Flashback) Chihiro**
Sounds like it'll be a riot.
**[05:34] (Flashback) Kei**
U-Um...
**[05:36] (Flashback) Kei**
I d-don't need to compete, do I?
**[05:38] (Flashback) Kirihito**
A team must consist of five wrestlers.
**[05:41] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Which means you have to.
**[05:43] (Flashback) Kei**
B-But...
**[05:47] Kei**
I've only... been doing sumo for a week.
**[05:51] Reina**
And *anyway!*
**[05:52] Reina**
Why are you making Yuma
carry so much stuff?!
**[05:56] Ozeki**
W-We're carrying bags, too.
**[05:58] Hinomaru**
What's in here, anyway?
**[06:00] Kirihito**
Chiba's specialty.
***SIGN*** Chiba Handachi
***SIGN*** Real
***SIGN*** Yachimata
Taste
***SIGN*** Peanuts
**[06:02] Kirihito**
Peanuts. They're souvenirs.
**[06:04] Reina**
You don't need this many!
**[06:07] Hinomaru**
By the way, what are you doing here?
**[06:10] Reina**
W-Well...
**[06:12] Chihiro**
Because she's into her brother, duh.
**[06:14] ---**
Why, you!
**[06:15] Yuma**
A-And why are *you* setting everything up?
**[06:17] Yuma**
I never agreed to letting you
be our club supervisor!
**[06:21] Kirihito**
Yomoda-san.
**[06:23] Yomoda**
Oh, we've been expecting you.
**[06:25] Kirihito**
This is their captain, Yomoda-san.
**[06:28] Kirihito**
Thanks for having us.
**[06:30] Yomoda**
Thanks for coming.
**[06:33] Yomoda**
*Ah, this guy...*
**[06:36] Kei**
He seems pretty nice.
**[06:38] Ozeki**
Huh? Oh, yeah...
**[06:40] Kei**
I was worried about what kind of people
you'd get at a sumo powerhouse.
**[06:48] Reina**
Y-Yuma's... in his u-underwear!
**[06:52] Ozeki**
Reina-san, it's not underwear.
We're wearing mawashi belts.
**[06:55] Reina**
Why are you doing sumo, anyway?!
**[06:57] Reina**
I can't stand to see you
embarrassed like this!
**[07:00] Yuma**
Then, go home.
**[07:02] Reina**
No! Not unless you come with me!
**[07:04] Yuma**
Do what you like.
**[07:05] Kirihito**
Okay, start warming up.
**[07:06] Kei**
Wait...
**[07:08] Ozeki**
Are these guys really high schoolers?
**[07:10] Kei**
They're not nice at all!
**[07:12] Chihiro**
They've all got seriously impressive bods.
**[07:16] Hinomaru**
Yeah. That's a powerhouse for you!
**[07:18] Sumo wrestler**
I've never heard of Odachi High School.
**[07:21] Sumo wrestler**
Who's the little guy? A grade schooler?
**[07:23] Sumo wrestler**
And that one's scrawny as hell.
Are they making fun of sumo?
**[07:32] Kariya**
*National treasure: Onimaru Kunitsuna...*
**[07:41] Reina**
Yuma!
**[07:47] Student**
Spirit!
**[07:58] Student**
Spirit!
**[08:07] Ozeki**
N-Not happening...
**[08:08] Student**
Spirit!
**[08:13] Sawai**
Captain, who are these guys?
**[08:16] Yomoda**
Hm, well...
**[08:25] Ozeki**
They're too strong for us.
**[08:26] Yuma**
Dammit!
**[08:30] Hinomaru**
Was that...
**[08:35] Hinomaru**
So he's at Eiga High!
**[08:37] Hinomaru**
It's been ages! I'll go say hi to him.
**[08:42] Kei**
I'm sorry.
**[08:45] Ozeki**
Mitsuhashi-kun...
**[08:49] Chihiro**
I'll just have to go and win, then.
**[08:51] Chihiro**
Here comes my grand debut
to the world of sumo!
**[08:57] Sumo wrestler**
Spirit!
**[09:00] Sumo wrestler**
What kind of move was that?
**[09:02] Sumo wrestler**
Is he a wrestler?
**[09:04] Chihiro**
Power!
**[09:11] Ozeki**
W-Wow.
**[09:12] Yuma**
He's strong.
**[09:15] Chihiro**
Yes! High five! High five!
**[09:19] Yuma**
Shut up! You're in the way!
**[09:21] Ozeki**
M-More importantly, it's Ushio's turn now.
**[09:24] Ozeki**
We're counting on you, Ushio—
**[09:26] Ozeki**
Huh?
**[09:28] Ozeki**
Ushio? Where are you, Ushio?!
**[09:45] Kariya**
Sosuke.
**[09:47] Kariya**
Sosuke!
**[09:53] Kuze**
What is it, Shun?
**[09:56] Kariya**
Hinomaru's here.
**[09:59] Daniel**
Hinomaru? Who's that?
**[10:02] Kariya**
Let's go, Sosuke.
**[10:04] Kariya**
We're having practice bouts.
**[10:05] Kuze**
Shun.
**[10:07] Kuze**
You realize I'm not taking part, right?
**[10:10] Kariya**
Sosuke!
**[10:12] Kuze**
I'm going home for the day.
**[10:14] Kariya**
H-Hey!
**[10:18] Kuze**
Oh, excuse me.
**[10:19] Hinomaru**
My fault. I wasn't looking where I was going.
**[10:26] Kuze**
Hinomaru-kun.
**[10:28] Hinomaru**
Kuze... Sosuke.
**[10:41] Hinomaru**
Kuze...
**[10:42] Hinomaru**
You go to this school?
**[10:44] Kirihito**
*National treasure: Kusanagi Sword.*
**[10:48] (Flashback) Yomoda**
Odachi High School?
**[10:50] (Flashback) Yomoda**
Never heard of it.
**[10:52] (Flashback) Kirihito**
They haven't been in
any official matches yet.
**[10:56] (Flashback) Kirihito**
But this team is going to make it
to the national tournament.
**[10:59] (Flashback) Yomoda**
Well, we *could*, but...
**[11:01] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Practice bouts would benefit Eiga High, too.
**[11:06] (Flashback) Yomoda**
How, exactly?
**[11:08] (Flashback) Kirihito**
National treasure: Onimaru Kunitsuna.
**[11:12] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Ushio Hinomaru is on our team.
**[11:15] (Flashback) Yomoda**
The elementary school yokozuna?
**[11:17] (Flashback) Yomoda**
I heard he didn't grow in middle
school and quit sumo for good.
**[11:21] (Flashback) Kirihito**
He hasn't quit.
**[11:22] (Flashback) Kirihito**
And he's a lot stronger now.
**[11:26] (Flashback) Kirihito**
He's on his way to being
a high school yokozuna...
**[11:28] (Flashback) Kirihito**
No, a professional yokozuna.
**[11:33] (Flashback) Kirihito**
If anyone can motivate
your guy, it's Hinomaru.
**[11:37] (Flashback) Kirihito**
The slumbering national treasure,
the Kusanagi Sword:
**[11:40] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Kuze Sosuke.
**[11:44] (Flashback) Kirihito**
Some say Eiga High's team
has no star wrestler this year.
**[11:49] (Flashback) Kirihito**
To win the inter-high this time around,
you're going to need Kuze.
**[12:01] Daniel**
Who's that?
**[12:03] Kariya**
Sosuke faced Hinomaru in the
elementary school tournament.
**[12:07] Hinomaru**
So you still refuse to compete in bouts?
**[12:10] Kuze**
Right.
**[12:13] (Flashback) Guy**
What do we have here? So *that's*
Yokozuna Yamatokuni's son, huh?
**[12:17] (Flashback) Guy**
He's got a strong body.
**[12:19] (Flashback) Guy**
But I've heard the other
one is strong, too.
**[12:24] (Flashback) Referee**
Spirit!
**[12:36] (Flashback) Referee**
Bring a stretcher!
**[12:38] (Flashback) Referee**
Quickly!
**[12:42] (Flashback) Mom**
No bouts at all?
**[12:45] (Flashback) Mom**
But lots of kids get hurt doing sumo.
**[12:47] (Flashback) Mom**
He just needs to learn restraint.
**[12:50] (Flashback) Yamato**
Our son is indeed exceptional.
**[12:53] (Flashback) Yamato**
But if his prodigious talent means we must
teach him to show restraint in the ring,
**[12:57] (Flashback) Yamato**
I'd rather he never has
another bout as a student.
**[13:03] Hinomaru**
Hey, Kuze!
**[13:05] Hinomaru**
How long are you going to let your
father's words hold you back?
**[13:10] Hinomaru**
I was an elementary school yokozuna.
**[13:12] Hinomaru**
But I've always felt like I've never
faced a *truly* strong opponent.
**[13:18] Hinomaru**
Kusanagi Sword! Fight me!
**[13:24] Kuze**
I cannot defy my father.
**[13:30] Kariya**
Fight me, Hinomaru!
**[13:33] Kuze**
Shun.
**[13:34] Kariya**
Sosuke, don't you feel insulted
by what he just said?
**[13:40] Kariya**
Tch. Fine. I'll show you a fight
that will restore your courage.
**[13:50] Reina**
Who's *that* guy? He's teensy-weensy.
**[13:52] Chihiro**
He's no taller than Hotaru here.
**[13:54] Kei**
It's Kei. My name's Mitsuhashi Kei.
**[13:57] Ozeki**
But if he's in Eiga High's sumo club,
that means he's no regular high schooler.
**[14:02] Kirihito**
Correct. He's Kariya Shun, a first-year.
**[14:06] Kirihito**
He was the middle school
lightweight champion.
**[14:09] Yuma**
Lightweight?
**[14:11] Yuma**
Does sumo even have weight classes?
**[14:13] Ozeki**
There are a lot of amateur
sumo tournaments that do.
**[14:17] Ozeki**
But the inter-high and the pro league
Hinomaru wants to compete in are openweight.
**[14:23] Kei**
Does that mean smaller guys have
no chance in openweight bouts?
**[14:26] Kirihito**
No, even in openweight, Kariya Shun made it
to the national quarterfinals last year.
**[14:34] Kirihito**
He was also hindered by his
small stature in middle school.
**[14:39] Kirihito**
But unlike Hinomaru, he was
able to taste success sooner
**[14:42] Kirihito**
because he responded differently
to their mutual stumbling block.
**[14:48] Kirihito**
For Hinomaru, who has focused on facing
large, powerful sumo wrestlers,
**[14:51] Kirihito**
Kariya is a difficult opponent.
**[14:54] Kariya**
*Ushio Hinomaru...*
**[15:01] Kariya**
*Your yokozuna-style sumo...*
**[15:03] Kariya**
*I admired it.*
**[15:05] Kariya**
* You attacked head-on and forced*
* your opponent into submission.*
**[15:10] Kariya**
*I abandoned that style in order to win!*
**[15:18] Referee**
Spirit!
**[15:21] Ozeki**
He's low!
**[15:22] Chihiro**
He's going in low on Hinomaru!
**[15:24] Kirihito**
* That's what he did when he*
* won the lightweight class.*
**[15:27] Kirihito**
* He intends to use that style*
* to conquer all before him.*
**[15:31] Kirihito**
*He's determined.*
**[15:35] Sumo wrestler**
He pushed him back up!
**[15:49] Ozeki**
Wow! He's surging forward so that Hinomaru
can't get a hold of his mawashi belt.
**[16:03] Sumo wrestler**
Hinomaru picked him up!
**[16:05] Kariya**
*Now!*
**[16:07] Kariya**
* The moment he arches his back*
* and extends his knees...*
**[16:10] Kariya**
*...I'll cut him down!*
**[16:12] Ozeki**
An outside leg trip!
**[16:13] Yuma**
He was waiting for it.
**[16:17] Kei**
He's going down!
**[16:20] Kariya**
*He's not falling!*
**[16:24] Hinomaru**
Demon Wheel!
**[16:30] Ozeki**
He withstood it!
***SIGN*** Twisting
***SIGN*** Twisting under
***SIGN*** Twisting underarm
***SIGN*** Twisting underarm throw
**[16:34] Hinomaru**
Demon Storm!
***SIGN*** Demon
***SIGN*** Storm
***SIGN*** Demon
***SIGN*** Demon
***SIGN*** Storm
***SIGN*** Storm
**[16:42] Yuma**
He withstood that one, too?!
**[16:49] Kirihito**
* He can't use his Demon Wheel, and his*
* Demon Storm wasn't strong enough to end it.*
**[16:57] Hinomaru**
*Demon Wheel and Demon Storm...*
**[16:59] Hinomaru**
*If they don't work on their own,*
**[17:01] Hinomaru**
*I'll use them together!*
***SIGN*** Hundred
***SIGN*** Hundred
***SIGN*** Demon
***SIGN*** Hundred
***SIGN*** Demon
***SIGN*** Take
***SIGN*** Demon
**[17:07] Hinomaru**
*Hundred Demon Takedown!*
***SIGN*** Take
***SIGN*** Down
***SIGN*** Take
***SIGN*** Down
***SIGN*** Down
**[17:20] Hinomaru**
Kuze!
**[17:21] Hinomaru**
I'm standing right here.
**[17:24] Hinomaru**
I'm gonna be a yokozuna at the
very top of professional sumo!
**[17:28] Hinomaru**
How long are you gonna just
be the son of a yokozuna?!
**[17:45] Ozeki**
A yokozuna's... son?
**[17:58] Kariya**
Sosuke!
**[18:02] Kariya**
*You're strong, Hinomaru.*
**[18:05] Kariya**
*But you're about to smack into a wall.*
**[18:09] Kariya**
* And that wall is Kuze Sosuke,*
* because you just woke a sleeping giant!*
**[18:22] Referee**
Spirit!
**[18:26] Ozeki**
Hinomaru was sent flying by that collision!
**[18:34] Yuma**
H-How can he hit so hard?!
**[18:45] Kariya**
*Th-That grip...*
**[18:51] Kariya**
*For him to become* this *merciless...*
**[18:56] Kariya**
*He's prepared to break his arm to win!*
**[19:03] Kariya**
* The pain would make most*
* people try to pull away.*
**[19:05] Kariya**
* But he moved in closer*
* and forced him to release!*
**[19:10] Kuze**
*Father...*
**[19:12] (Flashback) Yamato**
Our son is exceptional.
**[19:14] Kuze**
*There's one right here!*
**[19:18] Kuze**
*A mighty sapling!*
**[19:25] ---**
A counter forearm thrust?!
**[19:32] Kariya**
*They're chest-to-chest!*
**[19:36] Kirihito**
*The next attack..*
**[19:38] Kariya**
*...will decide the winner!*
***SIGN*** Hundred Demon Takedown
**[19:52] Hinomaru**
Hundred Demon Takedown!
***SIGN*** Great Serpent Cleaver
**[19:57] Kuze**
Great Serpent Cleaver!
**[20:05] Adviser**
Hey!
**[20:07] Yomoda**
Uh-oh.
**[20:07] Adviser**
What do you think you're doing in here?!
**[20:09] Kirihito**
I guess it's over.
**[20:11] Adviser**
Yomoda, the yokozuna let
his son join on the condition
**[20:15] Adviser**
he wouldn't compete in any bouts.
**[20:16] Adviser**
Don't go behind my back!
**[20:38] Kei**
*Wh-What a somber mood...*
**[20:43] Ozeki**
Ushio...
**[20:47] Kuze**
Today is the first time
I've disobeyed my father.
**[20:50] Kuze**
As a yokozuna, his word is absolute.
**[20:55] Kariya**
So why'd you do it?
**[20:57] Kuze**
I'm not sure.
**[21:03] Kuze**
I just wanted to sumo wrestle him.
**[21:09] Kariya**
Or in other words,
**[21:11] Kariya**
he got your blood pumping.
**[21:15] Hinomaru**
*If the fight had continued, I would've...*
**[21:18] Hinomaru**
Oh, come on. Quit brooding.
**[21:21] Kirihito**
You did your stupid "head-on"
yokozuna-style sumo today.
**[21:26] Kirihito**
But that style suits you.
**[21:29] Kirihito**
I'm going to teach you
**[21:32] Kirihito**
how to win while being stupid.
**[21:35] Hinomaru**
Wh-What did you say?
**[23:10] Hinomaru**
This is how you tie a mawashi belt.
**[23:13] Kei**
I see.
**[23:18] Kei**
Done.
**[23:21] Reina**
Yuma, let's go!
**[23:24] Kei**
The Great Serpent Cleaver...
**[23:27] Reina**
I didn't need to see that!
***SIGN*** Next Bout "Dachi High's Fifth Member"