# Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari
Filled with rage against spirits known as tsukumogami, Kunato Hyoma is sent to live with Nagatsuki Botan to help him see a different side. Though both are part of a clan that return the spirits back to their world with divine powers, their experiences with the otherworldly vessels are vastly different. Kunato, robbed of a loved one, and Nagatsuki, saved by them. Can she get through to him?
# Season 1
# E1 - Hyoma
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GX9UQ08Z8/hyoma)
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**[00:30] Hayato**
Hyoma...
**[00:44] Hayato**
Run, Hyoma!
**[00:46] Hayato**
He's...
**[01:14] Hayato**
R-Run!
**[01:20] Kusui**
Hi-kun!
**[01:30] Hyoma**
Big Sister! Big Brother!
**[01:53] Zohei**
"Marebito."
**[01:55] Zohei**
A name given to entities from the land of the
dead—a foreign realm where souls run rampant—
**[01:59] Zohei**
which find their way
to the land of the living.
**[02:12] Zohei**
Though fundamentally spiritual beings,
**[02:15] Zohei**
they're capable of possessing old inanimate
objects to manifest a physical form.
**[02:21] Zohei**
And in this form, they are known by
a more familiar name in Japan—
***SIGN*** Tsukumogami
***SIGN*** An inanimate object that
develops a spirit of its own
**[02:28] Zohei**
"Tsukumogami."
**[02:31] Old Coin B**
Saenome...
**[02:34] Hyoma**
Correct.
**[02:36] Hyoma**
Enforcer of House Kunato,
one of the three Saenome Houses...
**[02:40] Hyoma**
Kunato Hyoma.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Hyoma
**[04:24] Zohei**
I see.
**[04:26] Zohei**
You ended up in our world by chance,
**[04:29] Zohei**
possessed this old coin,
**[04:31] Zohei**
and got yourself a physical body.
**[04:33] Zohei**
That must have been very confusing for you.
**[04:36] Police B**
It sounds like he's just
hearing his life story.
**[04:41] Police A**
Just keep watching.
**[04:42] Police A**
He's protecting law and order in our city
**[04:45] Police A**
from these things that defy
our ideas about what is normal.
**[04:53] Zohei**
I can take custody of your spirit a while,
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[04:56] Zohei**
then return you to the world you came from.
**[05:00] Zohei**
If that sounds acceptable,
could you come down to my level?
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[05:29] Zohei**
The possessing spirit
is sealed in the vessel.
**[05:32] Zohei**
I'll hold a memorial for it later,
and that should be that.
**[05:37] Police A**
Bravo!
**[05:40] Zohei**
Possessions like that of the old coin
you witnessed, rookie,
**[05:44] Zohei**
are typically kept hidden
from the general population,
**[05:46] Zohei**
but it's been happening
in the shadows for ages.
**[05:49] Police B**
Uh-huh...
**[05:53] Zohei**
Sounds like we've got a skeptic.
**[05:55] Police A**
Kunato-san is part of a clan that's been
**[05:57] Police A**
entrusted to deal with tsukumogami
by the government for generations.
***SIGN*** Department of Exorcisms
Marebito Management Office
"Saenome"
7th Head
Kunato Zohei
**[06:01] Police A**
They're called the Saenome.
**[06:04] Police B**
Saenome?
**[06:07] Zohei**
Looking forward to working with you, rookie.
**[06:09] Police A**
Well, you'll get used to it in time.
**[06:12] Police B**
Right...
**[06:13] Police A**
Oh, Kunato-san.
**[06:15] Police A**
How's your grandson?
**[06:17] Police A**
He went after the other.
You don't think he was attacked?
**[06:21] Zohei**
Oh, no! He's quite the professional, too!
**[06:23] Zohei**
Besides, we talk these
things out when we can.
**[06:26] Zohei**
It's best to talk things out
and reach a peaceful resolution!
**[06:29] Zohei**
Professionalism means resolving things
with as little conflict as possible!
***SIGN*** Kunato
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[07:09] Police B**
Talking things... out?
**[07:11] Police A**
Would you call that... a peaceful resolution?
**[07:14] Zohei**
I guess that was talking...
in the language of battle.
**[07:18] Zohei**
Don't hesitate to contact us if
any more tsukumogami appear.
**[07:22] Zohei**
Honestly...
**[07:26] Zohei**
Hello?
**[07:28] Zohei**
It's me, Zohei.
**[07:31] Zohei**
*Sorry for the short notice,*
**[07:34] Zohei**
*but I need to talk to you about my grandson.*
**[07:37] Zohei**
* I thought it might help him if he*
* could stay with you for a while.*
**[07:42] Zohei**
*Mind having a look at him?*
**[07:48] Hyoma**
The target hadn't been
a tsukumogami for long.
**[07:51] Hyoma**
If it didn't know how to take
a proper human form,
**[07:53] Hyoma**
it wouldn't know how to use that form well.
**[07:56] Hyoma**
That also meant it might
not know its own strength.
**[08:00] Hyoma**
I therefore judged it best to strike quickly
and seal it, to prevent potential damage.
**[08:06] Hyoma**
My actions might have been violent,
but that comes with the Saenome territory.
**[08:12] Hyoma**
As future head of the Kunato Family,
I did the right thing.
**[08:16] Zohei**
All wrong!
**[08:19] Zohei**
Why do you always get ahead
of yourself, you little punk?
**[08:24] Hyoma**
May I ask what you mean?
**[08:31] Zohei**
It's what I'm always telling you.
**[08:33] Zohei**
Using force has to be our last resort.
**[08:36] Zohei**
Marebito have basically been
dragged here against their will.
**[08:41] Zohei**
They start out disoriented.
**[08:43] Zohei**
Even after becoming tsukumogami,
they all act in different ways.
**[08:48] Zohei**
I agree there are some troublemakers,
**[08:51] Zohei**
but some just want to go home,
and others want to blend in here.
**[09:00] Zohei**
The job of the Saenome is to
hear them out and guide them.
**[09:06] Zohei**
But when I see you...
**[09:12] Zohei**
Every single time you find your target,
you attack them, no questions asked,
**[09:15] Zohei**
and seal them against their will!
**[09:18] Zohei**
You cause unnecessary conflict!
**[09:22] Hyoma**
I can brush that off easily.
**[09:25] Zohei**
That's not the solution!
**[09:31] Hyoma**
I believe I'm doing the right thing.
**[09:35] Hyoma**
These creatures can turn
on you without warning.
**[09:40] Hyoma**
Reaching out to them carelessly
can bring fatal consequences.
**[09:43] Hyoma**
I saw it once with my own eyes.
**[09:52] Zohei**
Hyoma.
**[09:53] Zohei**
You still haven't shaken off
your hatred of tsukumogami?
**[09:58] Hyoma**
No.
**[10:03] Zohei**
You certainly made that crystal clear.
**[10:06] Zohei**
You're too preoccupied with the past.
**[10:09] Zohei**
Listen to me, Hyoma.
**[10:11] Zohei**
I thought you were strong
enough to grow past that.
**[10:16] Zohei**
Because, as my grandson,
you're my pride and joy.
**[10:22] Zohei**
But you just never seem to listen!
**[10:25] Zohei**
So I'll have to resort to drastic measures.
**[10:28] Hyoma**
Huh?
**[10:32] Zohei**
Yes, sorry to call again.
**[10:35] Zohei**
I'd like to go with what
we discussed after all.
**[10:39] Zohei**
Sorry for all the trouble.
**[10:41] Zohei**
I'll owe you one.
**[10:43] Zohei**
All right, Hyoma-san.
**[10:46] Zohei**
Are you aware of the existence
of "special exceptions"?
**[10:48] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[10:49] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami allowed a measure of freedom
**[10:52] Hyoma**
in exchange for conditions we assign them.
**[10:55] Hyoma**
Though I've never met one personally.
**[10:58] Zohei**
Correct.
**[11:00] Zohei**
The truth is, I happen to know one—
the person I was just talking to.
**[11:08] Zohei**
Actually, more than one...
**[11:09] Zohei**
It's a whole group of tsukumogami,
living as a family.
**[11:13] Zohei**
And...
**[11:15] Zohei**
Serving a particular human master, at that.
**[11:19] Hyoma**
Humans and tsukumogami, living together?
**[11:21] Hyoma**
Is that possible?
**[11:23] Zohei**
Yes.
**[11:24] Zohei**
And Hyoma, regarding the
drastic measures I mentioned...
**[11:29] Zohei**
In two days, under the pretense
of monitoring them,
**[11:32] Zohei**
I'll be having you stay there for a while.
**[11:37] Hyoma**
Wait—
**[11:37] Zohei**
Denied.
**[11:39] Zohei**
I told you these were drastic measures.
**[11:41] Zohei**
Because...
**[11:44] Zohei**
If you don't change, the only way
this ends is with your self-destruction!
**[11:47] Zohei**
If you refuse my offer, you'll be stripped
of your Saenome qualifications!
**[11:50] Zohei**
If you don't want that,
you'd better start packing!
**[12:00] Zohei**
*Why is this happening to me?*
**[12:03] Zohei**
* It would be one thing if all tsukumogami*
* were willing to talk things out,*
**[12:08] Zohei**
* but as long as there's even a*
* chance of violent retaliation...*
**[12:13] Zohei**
* We need to deal with them*
* before they can hurt anyone.*
**[12:16] Zohei**
*Isn't that the wisest course of action?*
**[12:27] Zohei**
I'll take this along.
**[12:31] Hayato**
Hyoma!
**[12:32] Kusui**
Hi-kun!
**[12:53] (Flashback) Zohei**
The head of your host family,
the Nagatsuki Family, is named Botan.
**[12:58] (Flashback) Zohei**
She'll be about your age.
**[13:01] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Nagatsuki Botan?
**[13:03] (Flashback) Zohei**
Hyoma, I think interacting with them
day-to-day will be good for you.
**[13:09] (Flashback) Zohei**
It's very rare to find tsukumogami who
coexist with humans for an extended period.
**[13:14] (Flashback) Zohei**
I want you to find what's at
the heart of that relationship,
**[13:16] (Flashback) Zohei**
and see, for the first time,
the nature of tsukumogami.
**[13:24] Hyoma**
All right. Let's try it.
**[13:30] Top Tsukumogami**
Why...
**[13:31] Top Tsukumogami**
Why are you hunting your fellow tsukumogami?
***SIGN*** Proxy
**[13:38] Yu**
Why?
**[13:49] Suzuri**
Because that's what we do.
**[13:51] Suzuri**
Might be time to head back.
**[13:53] Yu**
Understood.
**[13:58] Nagi**
Oh, crap.
**[13:59] Nagi**
I forgot the freeloader was coming today.
**[14:01] Nagi**
Who's at the house now?
**[14:03] Kagami**
Um... Haori and Kushige?
**[14:07] Nagi**
So, just the shifty-looking weirdos?!
**[14:19] Haori**
Would you be the Kunato Hyoma-san
whom we were told would be coming?
**[14:22] Haori**
I am watching the house
while my mistress is away.
**[14:25] Haori**
My name is Haori.
***SIGN*** — Haori —
**[14:28] Haori**
This is Kushige.
***SIGN*** — Haori —
***SIGN*** — Kushige —
**[14:31] Hyoma**
*A pair of tsukumogami...*
**[14:33] Hyoma**
*They look shifty.*
**[14:38] Hyoma**
Is Nagatsuki Botan not present?
**[14:40] Teacher**
All right, let's end it here.
**[14:43] Kei**
What is it, Bon-chan?
**[14:44] Teacher**
We'll do the next chapter next week,
so make sure it's fresh in your mind by then.
**[14:44] Botan**
I totally spaced out on something.
**[14:47] Botan**
Maybe I'll ditch third period today.
**[14:48] Teacher**
And don't forget to turn in your report.
**[14:51] Haori**
Our mistress is a student,
and currently away.
**[14:56] Hyoma**
I see.
**[14:57] Haori**
However...
**[14:59] Haori**
Excellent timing.
**[15:01] Haori**
Everyone *else* has now arrived.
**[15:22] Kagami**
I'm really sorry we're late, Haori-chan.
***SIGN*** — Kagami —
**[15:25] Suzuri**
Well... it seems like he only
just showed up, though.
***SIGN*** — Suzuri —
**[15:30] Yu**
And Botan is at college as usual.
***SIGN*** — Yu —
**[15:34] Nagi**
So this is the Kunato problem child, eh?
***SIGN*** — Nagi —
**[15:39] Haori**
Now, now, Nagi.
**[15:41] Haori**
Let's not be rude.
**[15:43] Haori**
As you can see, this is House Nagatsuki,
**[15:46] Haori**
consisting of six tsukumogami
and our mistress, Botan.
**[15:50] Haori**
Many things about it may be foreign to you,
but you are welcome here.
**[15:57] Hyoma**
Let me make myself clear:
**[16:00] Hyoma**
I despise tsukumogami.
**[16:06] Hyoma**
Inhuman things taking human form,
**[16:08] Hyoma**
using your deceptions to get close to us...
**[16:11] Hyoma**
You can't be trusted.
**[16:18] Suzuri**
B-But the point of this is
to work together, right?
**[16:22] Hyoma**
I'll just be observing you from a distance.
**[16:25] Hyoma**
So I don't need any sort of welcome from you.
**[16:29] Nagi**
Listen to this nerd!
**[16:33] Nagi**
You think we give a damn about that?
**[16:35] Nagi**
Give us a break.
**[16:37] Nagi**
Or are you just venting on us
because you're stressed?
**[16:41] Hyoma**
I'm more suspicious that you're using
this Botan person for your own ends.
**[16:51] Nagi**
Take that back.
**[16:54] Hyoma**
Not a chance.
**[17:03] Hyoma**
I thought so. An experienced combatant.
**[17:05] Nagi**
I'm not taking this kid's crap!
**[17:08] Nagi**
You guys stay outta this!
**[17:10] Yu/Suzuri/Kagami**
Okay...
**[17:13] Haori**
You're allowing it?
**[17:15] Haori**
Well, it's just a minor quarrel.
**[17:18] Haori**
He's a good boy.
**[17:20] Haori**
He came clean instantly, after all.
**[17:25] Nagi**
Don't worry, I won't kill ya.
**[17:36] Nagi**
But a whack from the flat
of a sword still hurts!
**[17:40] Hyoma**
Swords?
**[17:42] Hyoma**
* The ability to change form*
* based on the possessed vessel...*
**[17:45] Hyoma**
*That's the unique power of the tsukumogami.*
**[17:49] Hyoma**
* When used to attack, it can be*
* extremely dangerous to humans.*
**[17:54] Nagi**
Time to cry!
**[17:59] Hyoma**
Troublesome.
**[18:02] Suzuri**
He's up for it.
**[18:04] Hyoma**
I understand that you're a friend of my master.
**[18:08] Hyoma**
So I'll match your promise.
**[18:11] Hyoma**
I won't destroy you.
**[18:15] Nagi**
I gotta say...
**[18:21] Nagi**
You've got guts, kid!
**[18:36] Suzuri**
He broke it?!
**[18:38] Kagami**
No, he erased it.
**[18:40] Kagami**
I think that's a power of the Saenome,
**[18:45] Kagami**
those chosen by Saenokami,
guardian of the boundary.
**[18:52] Nagi**
Neat.
**[19:13] Kagami**
Amazing!
**[19:14] Suzuri**
He's anticipating Nagi's every move.
**[19:17] Yu**
Nagi's not taking it seriously yet.
**[19:20] Yu**
But neither is he.
**[19:24] Nagi**
Well, kid? Give me your best shot!
**[19:38] Hyoma**
I said I wouldn't destroy you.
**[19:40] Nagi**
Damn you...
**[19:52] Yu**
Haori!
**[19:55] Yu**
Botan's skipping her third period
class to come home early!
**[20:00] Haori**
What? Wait, what time is it now?
**[20:03] Yu**
1:10 PM.
**[20:04] Haori**
Then she'll be here any moment now!
**[20:11] Kagami**
Boys, boys! Please stop fighting!
**[20:14] Nagi**
Shaddap, Kagami!
**[20:16] Kagami**
I'm sorry!
**[20:28] Nagi**
Not bad at all.
**[20:33] Haori**
Time to resort to force!
**[20:36] Haori**
Everyone, restrain them both.
**[20:46] Hyoma**
Hey...
**[20:49] Nagi**
Um...
**[20:50] Suzuri**
Whoops.
**[20:51] Kagami**
O-Oh? Did we all go after Hyoma-san?
**[20:55] Yu**
K-Kushige sat it out, at least.
**[20:59] Nagi**
Um... I feel kinda bad about that.
**[21:04] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami truly... can't be trusted.
**[21:17] Hyoma**
It's a pleasure... to make your acquaintance.
**[21:20] Hyoma**
I'm Kunato... Hyoma.
**[21:26] Botan**
Um... I'm Nagatsuki Botan.
**[21:30] Botan**
So... you guys?
**[21:34] Botan**
How did this happen?
**[21:38] Botan**
Nothing to say for yourselves?
**[21:41] Zohei**
*Tsukumogami exist in this world.*
**[21:44] Zohei**
*This is the tale of a girl who loves them,*
**[21:46] Zohei**
*a boy who hates them,*
**[21:49] Zohei**
* and the others who get involved*
* in their shared life together.*
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Shoreline
# E2 - Shoreline
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G4VUQ248G/shoreline)
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**[00:00] Botan**
Er... I really am sorry about your
poor treatment so soon after arri—
**[00:05] Hyoma**
No matter.
**[00:06] Hyoma**
It was the result of my own carelessness.
**[00:09] Botan**
Huh?
**[00:12] Botan**
Um...
**[00:13] Botan**
But the others really were—
**[00:15] Hyoma**
The initiation of hostilities was mutual.
**[00:17] Botan**
You really aren't mad?
**[00:19] Hyoma**
Not at all!
**[00:22] Botan**
He looks really mad!
**[00:24] Haori**
I think that's how he looks all the time.
**[00:30] Botan**
I received your request to stay here with us.
**[00:34] Botan**
I heard you were a young... Saenome?
**[00:36] Botan**
And that you were doing this
to learn more about tsukumogami.
**[00:40] Botan**
The period is one year.
**[00:41] Botan**
Fortunately, we have rooms to spare,
**[00:43] Botan**
and since the request came
from a friend of Haori's,
**[00:45] Botan**
as long as you respect
the rules of the household,
**[00:47] Botan**
you're free to make yourself at home.
**[00:51] Botan**
Do you have any questions for me?
**[00:54] Hyoma**
* This girl, leader of a group*
* of six tsukumogami...*
**[00:59] Hyoma**
*Nagatsuki Botan.*
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Shoreline
**[02:37] Hyoma**
* She doesn't look like she has enough grit*
* to command a group of six tsukumogami.*
**[02:44] Hyoma**
Shouldn't there be a sixth tsukumogami here?
**[02:47] Kagami**
Nagi, you mean?
**[02:48] Kagami**
He's right here.
**[02:50] Nagi**
Why... Why am I the only one tied up?!
**[02:52] Botan**
What was that, Nagi?
**[02:54] Nagi**
It was Haori and the others who did it!
**[02:56] Nagi**
They beat him up when they stopped the fight!
**[02:59] Botan**
The fight between Kunato-san... and *whom*?
**[03:03] Nagi**
Me.
**[03:04] Botan**
See?
**[03:05] Botan**
You think about what you did.
**[03:06] Nagi**
Hold on! I've got work to—
**[03:09] Botan**
Ahem.
**[03:10] Botan**
Any other questions?
**[03:12] Hyoma**
*Perhaps she does have grit.*
**[03:15] Hyoma**
Well, then...
**[03:17] Hyoma**
Your manner of speaking suggests that,
while you know of the existence of tsukumogami,
**[03:23] Hyoma**
you are unfamiliar with the Saenome.
**[03:26] Botan**
Yes, that is true.
**[03:29] Hyoma**
My apologies.
**[03:31] Hyoma**
The Saenome are humans
empowered by Saenokami,
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[03:34] Hyoma**
the guardian god of the border between
the lands of the living and the dead.
***SIGN*** Kunato
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[03:39] Hyoma**
We're like the police
of the tsukumogami world.
**[03:42] Hyoma**
From that perspective, I'd like to give
my opinion about your present situation.
**[03:49] Hyoma**
It's untenable.
**[03:52] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami aren't like us.
They're a breed of monster.
**[03:57] Hyoma**
Treating them like family
is unthinkably dangerous.
**[04:01] Hyoma**
In practice, I've seen significant harm
triggered from their association with humans.
**[04:06] Hyoma**
Their superior intelligence and power
**[04:08] Hyoma**
lead them to view humans as disposable.
**[04:09] Nagi**
That son of a...
**[04:11] Nagi**
We're nothin' like those jerk tsukumogami!
**[04:14] Nagi**
Get a damn clue!
**[04:16] Hyoma**
If it turns out they're toying
with you in that same way,
**[04:20] Hyoma**
I can't let it stand.
**[04:22] Hyoma**
Would you be willing to allow me
to take over this case?
**[04:25] Hyoma**
You can return to a normal life—
**[04:30] Botan**
You don't know anything about my life.
**[04:35] Botan**
What gives you the right to say such
presumptuous things? Such *insulting* things?!
**[04:39] Botan**
I'm sorry, but I won't allow someone
**[04:42] Botan**
who sees my family as monsters
to remain in my home!
**[04:46] Botan**
I'll admit that we treated you rudely as well,
**[04:49] Botan**
so I'll allow you to stay for three days.
**[04:52] Botan**
But if, in that period, you show
no intention of working together,
**[04:58] Botan**
I'll have to ask you to leave!
**[04:59] Hyoma**
What?!
**[05:01] (Flashback) Zohei**
Don't forget! If you come back early,
you'll be an ex-Saenome!
**[05:06] Hyoma**
W-Wait!
**[05:07] Hyoma**
How can we work together?
**[05:09] Botan**
Ask the others!
**[05:18] Haori**
Your room's at the end
of the second floor hall.
**[05:23] Yu**
No comment.
**[05:25] Suzuri**
You can't just make a girl cry, man.
**[05:28] Kagami**
Thbbt!
**[05:34] Hyoma**
I saw no sign that she was being manipulated.
**[05:38] Hyoma**
*She meant what she said.*
**[05:40] Hyoma**
*What did she mean by "working together"?*
**[05:44] Hyoma**
*Cooperation?*
**[05:48] Hyoma**
With that thing's brethren?
**[05:53] Nagi**
Someone got an earful!
**[05:56] Nagi**
Lucky you! You get a whole three days!
**[05:58] Nagi**
Show a little gratitude for Botan's kindness.
**[06:01] Hyoma**
What do you want? To resume our fight?
**[06:03] Nagi**
Stupid. If we did that,
you'd get kicked out on the spot!
**[06:10] Nagi**
Actually, I was thinking...
**[06:11] Nagi**
This might be a great chance
to work together.
**[06:15] Hyoma**
What?
**[06:17] Nagi**
Mind hanging out with me for a while, kid?
**[06:22] Haori**
You seem disheartened.
**[06:24] Botan**
I am.
**[06:26] Botan**
I know I got upset, but that deadline
might have been a little too harsh.
**[06:31] Haori**
It's fine! Your anger was entirely justified.
**[06:34] Haori**
Hyoma-san's straightforwardness
makes his issues very transparent.
**[06:39] Haori**
He's straightforward in
the entirely wrong direction.
**[06:42] Haori**
Why not just wait a while
and see what happens?
**[06:46] Botan**
Okay...
**[06:50] Botan**
I'm going to have to see him at dinner!
**[06:54] Haori**
*Kunato Hyoma... I hope to see soon...*
**[06:58] Haori**
*whether you're worthy or not.*
**[07:02] Hyoma**
Hold it.
**[07:04] Hyoma**
You want me to help you with your business...
hunting down your own kind?
**[07:09] Nagi**
Yep.
**[07:10] Nagi**
I just got a request to seal
a rogue tsukumogami.
**[07:15] (Flashback) Zohei**
The conditions under which
**[07:16] (Flashback) Zohei**
the six tsukumogami are declared
special exceptions and allowed to run free
**[07:19] (Flashback) Zohei**
are that they follow local
Saenome requests for aid.
**[07:25] (Flashback) Zohei**
They are "Saenome Proxies"
who hunt their own kind.
**[07:31] Nagi**
I'm not feeling 100% after
being tied up like that.
**[07:35] Nagi**
Help me out a little,
**[07:36] Nagi**
and I'll tell Botan you acted like a decent guy.
**[07:41] Hyoma**
You want me to help you
skip out on your work?!
**[07:43] Nagi**
Nah, it's "working together."
**[07:47] Nagi**
But either one's fine by me.
**[07:51] Hyoma**
*Infuriating!*
**[07:53] Hyoma**
* His irresponsible attitude makes it*
* harder to accept his existence!*
**[07:59] Hyoma**
*Why must I work with these creatures?*
**[08:03] Hyoma**
You seem unconcerned
about hunting your own kind.
**[08:09] Hyoma**
Is it your lack of a soul that makes
it feel like a simple job to you?
**[08:13] Nagi**
Actually...
**[08:14] Nagi**
It makes other tsukumogami groups in
the land of the living hate us and shun us.
**[08:19] Nagi**
It's a damned dirty business.
**[08:23] Nagi**
But all we wanted
**[08:25] Nagi**
was to be with her.
**[08:28] Nagi**
So that's what we do.
**[08:32] Nagi**
You got anything like that in your life?
**[08:44] Nagi**
If not, what's it matter
if you get sent back home?
**[08:47] Hyoma**
Actually... I do.
**[08:50] Hyoma**
That's why I can't afford
to run away from this.
**[08:54] Nagi**
So it's settled.
***SIGN*** H
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**[08:57] Gangster**
Which gang sent you, eh?!
**[09:07] Towel Tsukumogami**
How easy.
**[09:09] Towel Tsukumogami**
Were these also considered "weak"?
**[09:12] Towel Tsukumogami**
No... other humans are afraid of them.
**[09:16] Towel Tsukumogami**
They must be considered "strong."
**[09:18] Towel Tsukumogami**
Which means...
**[09:20] Towel Tsukumogami**
I am far superior to them!
**[09:24] Nagi**
Ah, he's already at it.
**[09:27] Nagi**
That awkward human form,
that barely detectable presence...
**[09:32] Nagi**
Looks like a newborn tsukumogami to me.
**[09:35] Nagi**
Poor widdle guy!
**[09:40] Kagami**
Where's Hyoma-san?
**[09:41] Suzuri**
Oh. Nagi dragged him out.
**[09:44] Kagami**
Nagi's helping him? Weird.
**[09:46] Suzuri**
That stuff Hyoma-san said...
**[09:49] Suzuri**
It was presumptuous as hell,
**[09:52] Suzuri**
but he said it out of
genuine concern for Botan.
**[09:55] Suzuri**
I think Nagi picked up on that, just barely.
**[09:58] Kagami**
You think we can all get along
with Hyoma-san, then?
***SIGN*** Kunato
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[10:16] Nagi**
A hand towel, huh?
**[10:18] Nagi**
It's seen better days.
**[10:19] Nagi**
That being his vessel explains a few things.
**[10:22] Nagi**
But nobody died, so let's count it as a win.
**[10:27] Nagi**
Don't worry. I'll put in
a good word with Botan.
**[10:30] Nagi**
Huh?
**[10:32] Nagi**
You got hives from it?
**[10:34] Nagi**
I get it. You hate it that much?
**[10:36] Hyoma**
Well...
**[10:39] Hyoma**
* From working with tsukumogami...*
* and helping them.*
**[10:51] Hyoma**
A paper umbrella tsukumogami.
**[10:54] Hyoma**
My brother and sister were killed
by a paper umbrella tsukumogami
**[10:58] Hyoma**
newly born into the land of the living.
**[11:01] Hyoma**
He's still alive.
**[11:03] Hyoma**
But for some reason, I'm unable
to access information about him.
**[11:10] Hyoma**
No matter what trials
I must endure to get there,
**[11:12] Hyoma**
I must become the next head
of the Saenome Kunato Clan.
**[11:16] Hyoma**
If I do, I might be able to get a lead on him.
**[11:19] Hyoma**
That's why, despite everything,
I was willing to accept these conditions.
**[11:23] Hyoma**
I'll try my best to get along,
if that's what's required.
**[11:26] Hyoma**
And...
**[11:29] Hyoma**
I regret making Nagatsuki-san cry.
**[11:31] Nagi**
You were really bothered by that, huh?
**[11:34] Kagami**
You think you could ever
get along with Hyoma-san?
**[11:36] Suzuri**
Probably not.
**[11:38] Yu**
Definitely not.
**[11:43] Suzuri**
It's a job.
**[11:55] Botan**
Excuse me! Breakfast is ready!
**[11:59] Hyoma**
Regrettably, I haven't reached
my training goals for the day.
**[12:02] Hyoma**
You're more than welcome to eat without me.
**[12:06] Botan**
But...
**[12:08] Hyoma**
I'll gratefully partake later.
**[12:11] Botan**
He's uptight.
**[12:15] Botan**
Um... would you like a refill—
**[12:17] Hyoma**
No. I'm imposing enough already.
**[12:22] Botan**
*So uptight...*
***SIGN*** List of Kunato Hyoma supporters
***SIGN*** -san
***SIGN*** • Nagi
**[12:24] Botan**
You're using signatures?
**[12:26] Yu**
Yes. We thought we should
decide it among ourselves.
**[12:30] Yu**
He proposed this format himself, last night.
**[12:34] Yu**
If he can earn the approval
of all of us before the deadline,
**[12:39] Yu**
he'll be allowed to stay.
**[12:42] Yu**
Botan?
**[12:44] Botan**
Hyoma-san's so uptight!
**[12:47] Botan**
I hope it'll work out.
**[12:49] Yu**
He appears to offer
100% in all his endeavors.
**[12:52] Botan**
Yeah, I guess...
**[12:54] Botan**
Apparently he's heading out on a job
with Suzuri and Kagami today, and...
**[12:58] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I will see this through!
**[13:00] Botan**
He could probably afford to relax a little.
**[13:03] Yu**
Maybe that's just his natural state.
**[13:05] Botan**
Maybe...
**[13:07] Yu**
Are you worried about something?!
**[13:09] Botan**
About what?
**[13:11] Botan**
Although...
**[13:12] Botan**
Kagami should be fine,
**[13:14] Botan**
but he and Suzuri might be a bad match...
**[13:18] Suzuri**
I know *all* about the station area!
**[13:21] Suzuri**
I'd be happy to show you my favorite shops!
**[13:25] Girl 1**
Shady shops, huh?
**[13:27] Suzuri**
Of course not!
**[13:28] Suzuri**
I'd never be courageous enough
to enter one of those!
**[13:32] Suzuri**
Anyway, you've got my email address!
**[13:34] Suzuri**
Probably struck out there.
**[13:37] Hyoma**
Excuse me.
**[13:40] Hyoma**
I just spotted a tsukumogami
toying with humans.
**[13:44] Suzuri**
Scary face!
**[13:45] Suzuri**
D-Don't make it sound sordid!
**[13:47] Suzuri**
I just want to make friends
and talk about stuff!
**[13:51] Suzuri**
I don't want anything more than a nice lunch!
**[13:53] Suzuri**
I'm not doing anything shady, man! I mean it!
**[13:55] Hyoma**
Why do you only approach women, then?
**[13:58] Suzuri**
Personal preference.
**[14:00] Suzuri**
Why don't you join me?
**[14:02] Suzuri**
We could make it a double date!
**[14:04] Hyoma**
We're supposed to be on a job, you dolt!
**[14:06] Suzuri**
We've got time to kill first!
**[14:09] Hyoma**
So where did the one called Kagami go?
**[14:11] Suzuri**
She's...
**[14:14] Kagami**
I'm under threat!
**[14:17] Hyoma**
Every single one of you...
**[14:19] Suzuri**
Chill out!
**[14:20] Suzuri**
There's nothing wrong with
getting some food on the road.
**[14:23] Hyoma**
I don't understand!
**[14:26] Hyoma**
You join Nagatsuki-san
for breakfast and dinner,
**[14:31] Hyoma**
but tsukumogami have no need to
engage in the practice of eating.
**[14:35] Hyoma**
Why waste time and money
to act as if you're human?
**[14:40] Kagami**
We just want to know what it's like...
eating, picking out nice outfits...
**[14:45] Kagami**
Enjoying things the way that Botan...
the way that people do.
**[14:50] Kagami**
Is that really... a waste?
**[14:56] Suzuri**
We care about things, you know.
**[15:00] Suzuri**
I wish you'd try to see that
without making negative assumptions.
**[15:11] Hyoma**
Understood.
**[15:13] Hyoma**
I find the picking up of women
personally inscrutable,
**[15:16] Hyoma**
but the rest I comprehend.
**[15:19] Hyoma**
And supplementing your nutrition
before a job is fully acceptable.
**[15:22] Suzuri**
Huh?
**[15:24] Hyoma**
I'll try my best.
**[15:27] Suzuri**
All right, Hyoma-kun.
**[15:29] Suzuri**
We're about to meet a tsukumogami.
**[15:33] Suzuri**
Try not to scare them
with that death glare of yours.
**[15:39] Suzuri**
This request won't involve fighting.
**[15:42] Suzuri**
It's the final "special exception" evaluation
**[15:45] Suzuri**
for a tsukumogami hoping to live
alongside humans in this world.
***SIGN*** — Yagen —
**[15:51] Suzuri**
Hey there.
**[15:52] Suzuri**
I'm Suzuri, and I've been appointed
your final evaluator.
**[15:56] Yagen**
There's three of you?
**[15:57] Suzuri**
The girl is my assistant, Kagami.
**[16:00] Suzuri**
The man is a rookie Saenome.
**[16:05] Kagami**
She's a type of mortar wheel tsukumogami.
**[16:09] Kagami**
She might be a little jumpy,
I guess you'd say.
**[16:11] Kagami**
She's spent a long time terrified
of being sealed away.
**[16:16] Suzuri**
We call it an evaluation,
**[16:18] Suzuri**
but I know you've already
received a job offer,
**[16:20] Suzuri**
so it's more like final confirmation.
**[16:21] Yagen**
Really?
**[16:23] Yagen**
I've heard rumors...
**[16:25] Yagen**
About tsukumogami who let their guard down,
and get sealed away by force...
**[16:30] Suzuri**
This isn't that.
**[16:31] Suzuri**
Don't worry.
**[16:33] Suzuri**
And I have a question for you.
**[16:36] Suzuri**
Why did you choose to live on this side?
**[16:42] Yagen**
I suppose... I feel safe here.
**[16:46] Yagen**
There's a nostalgic feel to this world.
**[16:49] Yagen**
I recognize that's a strange thing to say.
**[16:52] Yagen**
And yet...
**[16:54] Suzuri**
Every now and then, we choose a vessel
that's come to have a memory of its own.
**[17:00] Suzuri**
The mortar wheel that became your vessel
**[17:02] Suzuri**
might have felt at peace with its old life.
**[17:06] Suzuri**
That feeling of comfort transferred into you.
**[17:10] Suzuri**
I see.
**[17:12] Suzuri**
That's a perfectly suitable reason to remain.
**[17:17] Suzuri**
I completely understand how you feel.
**[17:19] Suzuri**
Don't worry.
**[17:22] Suzuri**
Kagami.
**[17:23] Kagami**
Sure.
**[17:25] Suzuri**
This is the tsukumogami, Kagami.
**[17:27] Suzuri**
She's going to run the most
crucial part of the process,
**[17:30] Suzuri**
checking for a history of using
your transformation powers for evil.
**[17:33] Suzuri**
It's a just-in-case thing.
**[17:35] [SONG] sign**
Property of Kyoto Saenome
**[17:37] Kagami**
If you'd allow me...
**[17:40] Suzuri**
Here we go.
**[18:00] Suzuri**
That's the Shoyokyo—a mirror
that reveals truth.
**[18:05] Suzuri**
Right now, she's viewing everything
there is to know about her.
**[18:32] Kagami**
It all checks out.
**[18:34] Kagami**
She passes the evaluation!
**[18:35] Suzuri**
Great!
**[18:36] Suzuri**
Awesome work, everyone.
**[18:40] Suzuri**
Hyoma-kun,
**[18:41] Suzuri**
I'm going to take her in to make the report.
**[18:45] Suzuri**
You and Kagami can head back without me.
**[18:47] Hyoma**
Right.
**[18:47] Suzuri**
Call Botan, too.
**[18:50] Suzuri**
Ask if she needs anything from the store.
**[18:52] Hyoma**
I'm afraid I don't have the number
for the Nagatsuki household.
**[18:56] Suzuri**
Oh, really?
**[18:57] Suzuri**
Sorry, Kagami. I'll need you to ask—
**[19:01] Suzuri**
Is there—
**[19:22] Hyoma**
That was quite unexpected.
**[19:25] Yagen**
I knew it. You tricked me!
**[19:28] Yagen**
You're the... the Nagatsuki...
**[19:34] Hyoma**
You destroyed a Saenome Proxy
and attacked his assistant.
**[19:38] Hyoma**
Those are the facts as I see them.
**[19:41] Hyoma**
You're the one who tricked us!
**[19:44] Kagami**
Hyoma-san!
**[19:45] Yagen**
I just want to stay here!
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[20:03] Kagami**
Don't do it!
**[20:04] Kagami**
Hyoma-san!
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[20:09] Yagen**
I... I've heard all about them.
**[20:13] Yagen**
They hunt their own kind.
**[20:16] Yagen**
That's why... I...
**[20:22] Suzuri**
I see our infamy precedes us.
**[20:27] Suzuri**
That's why the mention of the
Nagatsuki name sent you into a panic.
**[20:32] Suzuri**
No need to worry.
**[20:33] Suzuri**
We really did just come here to evaluate you.
**[20:37] Suzuri**
My special property kept you from killing me,
**[20:40] Suzuri**
and Hyoma-kun kept you
from doing further harm.
**[20:42] Suzuri**
All's well that ends well, I'd say.
**[20:48] Kagami**
Hyoma-san!
**[20:50] Kagami**
She's got a pretty big shopping list for us.
**[20:53] Hyoma**
Right.
**[20:56] Hyoma**
Kagami...
**[20:58] Hyoma**
What will happen to that tsukumogami?
**[20:59] Kagami**
She'll probably get her special exception.
**[21:01] Kagami**
She's a little paranoid,
but they can work on that.
**[21:06] Kagami**
I personally hope she gets to stay, too.
**[21:09] Kagami**
She loves the land of the living
the same way I do.
**[21:14] Kagami**
Thank you.
**[21:16] Kagami**
Suzuri told me to pass on the message
**[21:19] Kagami**
that you stopped when you
saw the look in her eyes.
**[21:24] Hyoma**
I said I'd try my best,
and I didn't want to make myself a liar.
**[21:29] Hyoma**
That's the only reason.
**[21:38] Kagami**
Keep it up, Hyoma-san!
**[21:41] Nagi**
Kagami's not heavy enough.
**[21:43] Nagi**
Let me in on that action.
**[21:45] Hyoma**
Bring it on!
**[21:46] Suzuri**
He's all right with being in contact
with us if it helps with his training.
**[21:48] Nagi**
Yes!
**[21:49] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[21:51] Botan**
The bath's warmed up. You should take one now.
**[21:53] Hyoma**
Regrettably, I haven't reached
my training goals for the day.
**[21:59] Hyoma**
I'll gratefully partake later.
**[22:02] Botan**
He really is uptight.
**[22:06] [Messenger] sign**
Messages Received
***SIGN*** Kagami
***SIGN*** Botan
***SIGN*** I think Hyoma-san and I could
get along after all!
I bet Suzuri feels the same way!
**[22:07] Botan**
* I think Hyoma-san and*
* I could get along after all!*
**[22:10] Botan**
*I bet Suzuri feels the same way!*
**[22:12] Botan**
Right!
***SIGN*** List of Kunato Hyoma supporters
***SIGN*** -(san)
***SIGN*** • Nagi
***SIGN*** • Kagami
***SIGN*** • Suzuri
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Overflow
# E3 - Overflow
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***SIGN*** Kunato Family Grave
**[01:04] Hyoma**
I see.
***SIGN*** List of Kunato Hyoma Supporters
***SIGN*** -san
***SIGN*** • Nagi
***SIGN*** • Kagami
***SIGN*** • Suzuri
***SIGN*** • Haori
***SIGN*** • Kushige
**[01:13] Botan**
The third day is here...
**[01:25] Hikaki**
They're messing with us.
**[01:27] Hikaki**
Those damned Nagatsuki traitors!
**[01:30] Hikaki**
They're boosting their forces?
Talkin' about crackdowns?!
**[01:34] Hikaki**
They think they can boss us around, huh?!
**[01:37] Kaginawa**
Hikaki...
**[01:39] Kaginawa**
That talk of them taking in new recruits
**[01:43] Kaginawa**
is nothing but rumors.
**[01:47] Hikaki**
Still, more than enough of an excuse.
**[01:50] Hikaki**
So-called tsukumogami sucking up to humans,
**[01:53] Hikaki**
doing what they're told by hunting us down...
**[01:55] Hikaki**
What could feel better than
taking those freaks down a peg?!
**[02:04] Hikaki**
So let's go for it...
**[02:08] Hikaki**
Let's have a Nagatsuki hunt!
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Overflow
**[04:05] Botan**
I heard you saved Kagami yesterday.
**[04:08] Botan**
She was over the moon
about you carrying her like that.
**[04:19] Botan**
Thanks for doing that.
**[04:20] Hyoma**
She couldn't sign my approval dead.
**[04:23] Hyoma**
It was a logical response
from that perspective.
**[04:25] Botan**
Oh, is that why?
**[04:34] Botan**
Say...
**[04:37] Botan**
About today's... you know. The time limit.
**[04:41] Botan**
I think maybe I was a little unfair with you.
**[04:47] Botan**
So...
**[04:48] Hyoma**
It didn't feel unfair to me.
**[04:51] Hyoma**
I agreed to it myself.
**[04:55] Hyoma**
I won't go back on that now.
**[04:59] Botan**
Sure.
**[05:01] Botan**
Well, then...
**[05:02] Botan**
I don't know quite what to say...
**[05:06] Botan**
Do your best.
**[05:09] Hyoma**
I will.
**[05:11] Hyoma**
Do you have your university classes today?
**[05:13] Botan**
Yeah.
**[05:14] Botan**
Spring courses and all that.
**[05:20] Nagi**
Hey, c'mon.
**[05:21] Nagi**
It all comes down to Yu.
**[05:23] Suzuri**
You think so?
**[05:24] Nagi**
Haori and Kushige were
never opposed to taking him in.
**[05:28] Nagi**
So Yu's gonna be the biggest hurdle.
**[05:31] Nagi**
And Hyoma's behavior that first day was
pretty much tailor-made to piss off Yu.
**[05:36] Nagi**
And she's already stone-cold on a good day.
**[05:40] Kagami**
But Hyoma-san really
stepped on a landmine, right?
**[05:43] Kagami**
When it comes to Botan, Yu-chan gets so...
**[05:46] Suzuri**
That's right.
**[05:47] Nagi**
Anyway...
**[05:49] Nagi**
Let's wrap up work quickly
and check on their progress.
**[05:53] Nagi**
He'll need a major coup to earn her approval.
**[05:57] Nagi**
Of course, from a pure
personality perspective,
**[06:00] Nagi**
they're not the worst pairing in the world.
**[06:04] Nagi**
They might run into something
that flips things on their head.
**[06:09] Yu**
You're late.
**[06:10] Yu**
I finished the job already.
**[06:16] Hyoma**
Are they still alive?
**[06:18] Yui**
Yes. Just bound up.
**[06:22] Yui**
Then, once I've restrained them...
***SIGN*** Proxy
**[06:34] Yui**
Seal.
**[06:36] sign**
Proxy
**[06:43] Yu**
And then it's over.
**[06:44] Yu**
Your aid won't be required.
**[06:47] Yu**
Of course, even if you
had helped in some way,
**[06:51] Yu**
I doubt it would do anything
to change my opinion of you.
**[06:56] Hyoma**
I see.
**[06:57] Hyoma**
I was certainly getting that impression.
**[07:00] Yui**
That's right. I utterly despise you...
**[07:05] Yui**
Kunato Hyoma.
**[07:08] Yui**
The way your eyes watch us
with unwavering hatred...
**[07:13] Yui**
The way you carry yourself,
so brimming with loathing...
**[07:17] Yui**
And most of all...
**[07:21] Yui**
The way you hurt my mistress.
**[07:26] Yui**
You have two options regarding my signature.
**[07:31] Yui**
One is to give up on receiving it.
**[07:33] Yui**
The other is...
**[07:48] Yui**
Defeat me here,
**[07:51] Yui**
and take it by force.
**[07:55] Yui**
In other words, "might makes right."
**[07:57] Yui**
The latter seems simpler and more decisive.
**[08:05] Yui**
Shall we proceed with that?
**[08:17] Hikaki**
Spirit energy. They're close!
**[08:22] Hikaki**
That's them for sure... the Nagatsuki!
**[08:26] Suzuri**
Nagi, is that...
**[08:28] Nagi**
Yeah.
**[08:30] Nagi**
Yu's let herself get completely distracted.
**[08:33] Nagi**
If she's really lost her temper,
Hyoma could be in trouble.
**[08:39] Nagi**
Patrol time is over.
**[09:11] Hyoma**
Is that...
**[09:17] Hyoma**
A pin for binding up hair?
**[09:27] Yu**
Don't just run away.
**[09:29] Yu**
By all means, fight back.
**[09:31] Yu**
Strike the hated tsukumogami
down without a second thought.
**[09:35] Yu**
Isn't that how you've
always done it in the past?
**[09:39] Hyoma**
I was sent here under orders
to change that about myself.
**[09:46] Yu**
Were you?
**[09:58] Yu**
I saw no sign of that in
your demeanor the first day.
**[10:09] Yu**
Your bloodthirsty true self,
hostile to everything around you...
**[10:13] Yu**
Why not reveal it?!
**[10:44] Yu**
Even now, you won't fight back?
**[10:49] Hyoma**
Kunato Zohei told me to watch you.
**[10:54] Hyoma**
I've been around you for two days.
**[10:57] Hyoma**
Indeed, I'm starting to realize...
**[11:01] Hyoma**
There's something different
about the lot of you.
**[11:05] Hyoma**
I'm starting to feel it would be premature
to fight you until I figure out what that is.
**[11:21] Yu**
Tch.
**[11:23] Yu**
I see that this is a waste of time.
**[11:31] Haori**
I've been watching your grandson
in the two days since he arrived,
**[11:37] Haori**
and I think that he can safely remain here.
**[11:39] Haori**
That is, assuming he can
surmount this day's challenge...
**[11:44] Haori**
But are you truly certain
this is what you want?
**[11:48] Zohei**
What do you mean?
**[11:49] Haori**
*To overcome and accept means...*
**[11:54] Zohei**
It might be necessary for both of them.
**[11:58] Zohei**
But there is one thing.
**[12:01] Zohei**
His burden of darkness
**[12:04] Zohei**
is far darker than it may first appear.
**[12:08] Zohei**
He's quite a handful as grandsons go,
**[12:11] Zohei**
but I do hope you'll watch over him,
**[12:14] Zohei**
*Haori-san.*
**[12:16] Haori**
There's nothing I wouldn't do for Kunato Zohei.
**[12:20] Yu**
So? What now?
**[12:23] Yu**
If you won't force my hand,
will you give up and leave?
**[12:30] Hyoma**
Half of the day remains.
**[12:33] Hyoma**
A suitable amount of time in which to bond.
**[12:39] Yu**
*What makes him so confident?*
**[12:42] Hyoma**
Still, the rage you felt toward
someone who made light of a friend...
**[12:48] Hyoma**
That's a very human reaction.
**[12:51] Hyoma**
You love Nagatsuki-san, don't you?
**[12:58] Yu**
I...
**[13:00] Yu**
I...
**[13:03] Yu**
How could you say that to me?!
**[13:10] Hyoma**
What are you doing?!
**[13:15] Hikaki**
Found us a Nagatsuki!
**[13:18] Nagi**
Yu! Calm down!
**[13:23] Hikaki**
This little...
**[13:24] Hikaki**
annoying human fly!
**[13:26] Suzuri/Kagami**
Hyoma-san?!
**[13:34] Hikaki**
What's this, now?
**[13:42] Hikaki**
Well, ain't that interesting...
**[13:45] Hikaki**
Did you come here just to see us?
**[13:49] Hikaki**
Couldn't ask for a better chance
to crush your whole crew.
**[13:53] Nagi**
What was that, you cocky rooster wannabe?
**[13:58] Nagi**
Hey, Yu.
**[13:59] Nagi**
What's going on here?
**[14:02] Nagi**
What're these guys so pissed about?
**[14:06] Nagi**
What'd they come after you for?
**[14:10] Nagi**
What did you do?
**[14:12] Yu**
Don't be absurd, you gorilla.
**[14:14] Yu**
I'd just finished my duel with Hyoma-san
when they arrived without warning.
**[14:18] Yu**
Just like the lot of you.
**[14:20] Nagi**
I see.
**[14:21] Suzuri**
*So they* were *fighting...*
**[14:23] Nagi**
So you were with Hyoma? Where is he now?!
**[14:29] Nagi**
Right there.
***SIGN*** — Hikaki —
**[14:37] Hikaki**
Shut the hell up already.
**[14:39] Hikaki**
I make up my mind to have a Nagatsuki hunt,
and then run into the lot of them!
**[14:43] Hikaki**
Talk about good luck!
**[14:44] Hikaki**
And now...
**[14:45] Hikaki**
I'll kill you all!
**[14:47] Nagi**
Time out.
**[14:51] Nagi**
Anyway, Yu.
**[14:52] Nagi**
Get that idiot out of there first.
**[14:56] Suzuri**
Did you call him an idiot?
**[14:58] Kagami**
He can hear you in there, you know.
**[15:01] Nagi**
Shut up! I'll apologize later!
**[15:05] Yu**
What do we do about these?
**[15:08] Nagi**
Looks like your run-of-the-mill
punk tsukumogami.
**[15:11] Nagi**
Just gotta take 'em out, right?
**[15:14] Hikaki**
I get it now.
**[15:16] Hikaki**
You seem pretty attached
to that human from before...
**[15:22] Hikaki**
Then just stay where you are.
**[15:24] Hikaki**
Yattoko!
***SIGN*** — Yattoko —
**[15:25] Hikaki**
Koyori!
***SIGN*** — Koyori —
**[15:27] Hikaki**
Kaginawa!
***SIGN*** — Kaginawa —
**[15:28] Hikaki**
That human there!
**[15:29] Hikaki**
Beat 'em to it and kill the guy!
**[15:33] Suzuri**
Who does something like that?
**[15:36] Hikaki**
We'll get there before you do!
**[15:41] Nagi**
Yu!
**[15:42] Yu**
Yes. I'll take care of it!
**[15:46] Kagami**
Suzuri!
**[15:46] Suzuri**
Right!
**[15:54] Haori**
Kushige, let's head out for a while.
**[15:57] Haori**
I heard from Kagami.
**[15:59] Haori**
Hostile tsukumogami interrupted their patrol.
**[16:02] Haori**
That's not unusual in and of itself,
**[16:05] Haori**
but I'm curious as to the
mettle of the attackers.
**[16:09] Haori**
It might reveal to us the core
of Hyoma-san's character.
**[16:17] Kaginawa**
I'm in range!
**[16:19] Kaginawa**
Die!
**[16:24] Suzuri**
I can't let that happen. Sorry.
**[16:40] Koyori**
A projecting mirror?
**[16:47] Kagami**
Yu-chan!
**[16:48] Kagami**
Someone's moving around inside the building!
**[16:59] Yu**
You...
**[17:09] Hikaki**
What, is that the best you've got?!
**[17:12] Hikaki**
Seems like serving human masters
all day might've made you soft!
**[17:16] Nagi**
No need for trash talk. As Saenome proxies,
we'll gladly give you all we've got.
**[17:23] Nagi**
But I want to confirm one thing...
**[17:27] Nagi**
You ordered your comrades to kill the human,
**[17:30] Nagi**
and they showed no hesitation
to follow that order.
**[17:35] Nagi**
Does that mean you've killed humans before?
**[17:40] Hikaki**
Oh, we got bored of that
little game *long* ago!
**[17:45] Hikaki**
We don't like how humans
exploit the objects we possess,
**[17:49] Hikaki**
so we had a little fun with 'em!
**[17:51] Hikaki**
Talk about a letdown, though!
**[17:53] Hikaki**
Every single one just
started cryin' in seconds!
**[17:56] Hikaki**
Where's the fun in that?!
**[17:59] Hikaki**
Seeing the lot of you pal around with
those weaklings... it pisses me off!
**[18:09] Hikaki**
What was that?!
**[18:10] Nagi**
Hyoma!
**[18:16] Yu**
Is he... trying to extract himself?
**[18:26] Hikaki**
K-Kill him!
**[18:28] Hikaki**
He might be kinda tough!
**[18:49] Suzuri**
He broke him.
**[18:51] Suzuri**
Is it that power again?
**[18:57] Hyoma**
I see.
**[19:00] Hyoma**
Your gang...
**[19:03] Hyoma**
They've killed humans?!
**[19:40] Hikaki**
You're pretty awesome...
**[19:43] Hikaki**
Just like us... right?
**[19:47] Hikaki**
You love killing. You enjoy it!
**[19:51] Hikaki**
It's written on your face!
**[19:53] Hyoma**
Yes, that's right.
**[19:57] Hyoma**
It's what I've wanted for so long.
**[20:02] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami like you...
**[20:05] Hyoma**
This time, I'll destroy you.
**[20:09] Hyoma**
I'll destroy you...
**[20:10] Hyoma**
and this time...
**[20:14] Hyoma**
protect them!
**[20:20] Haori**
I see.
**[20:22] Haori**
So that's the core of Hyoma-san.
**[20:26] Haori**
The resentment and hatred
he feels truly does run deep.
**[20:31] Haori**
It's constant and unabating.
**[20:36] Haori**
Yes... I'm sure he sees all of
us tsukumogami the same way.
**[20:41] Haori**
That we bring nothing but harm
to the land of the living.
**[20:47] Haori**
But...
**[20:48] Haori**
I'm seeing the first signs of change here.
**[20:53] Haori**
If so, then Zohei-san might be right.
**[20:56] Haori**
His twisted heart could yet be corrected.
**[21:01] Haori**
But more importantly,
**[21:02] Haori**
he could represent hope to us.
**[21:13] Haori**
He might just
**[21:18] Haori**
be able to save her.
**[21:25] Haori**
Once, there was a girl
saved by tsukumogami...
**[21:29] Haori**
And a boy from whom they took everything.
**[21:34] Haori**
Does it not make sense that
the ones to bring them together
**[21:37] Haori**
might be tsukumogami, as well?
**[21:39] Haori**
The bond it is in our nature to forge...
**[21:44] Haori**
I'm glad that we took Hyoma-san on.
**[21:50] Haori**
They might make a good match.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Arrangement
# E4 - Arrangement
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GJWU2VDEM/arrangement)
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**[00:01] (Flashback) Oboro**
This girl has stood upon the boundary,
**[00:03] (Flashback) Oboro**
and now she surely has a
painful life ahead of her.
**[00:08] (Flashback) Oboro**
No matter how warped
and hardened it might be,
**[00:12] (Flashback) Oboro**
I want her to find human happiness in the end.
**[00:18] (Flashback) Oboro**
You know what you must do
to ensure that, do you not?
**[00:30] (Flashback) Zohei**
Hello?
**[00:32] (Flashback) Zohei**
It's me, Zohei.
**[00:35] Zohei**
*Sorry for the short notice,*
**[00:37] Zohei**
*but I need to talk to you about my grandson.*
**[00:41] (Flashback) Haori**
Yes?
**[00:42] Haori**
* I thought it might help him if he*
* could stay with you for a while.*
**[00:46] Haori**
*Mind having a look at him?*
**[00:49] (Flashback) Haori**
Certainly.
**[00:51] (Flashback) Haori**
But would you be willing to
accept a condition in exchange?
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Arrangement
***SIGN*** List of Kunato Hyoma Supporters
***SIGN*** -san
***SIGN*** • Nagi
***SIGN*** • Kagami
***SIGN*** • Suzuri
***SIGN*** • Haori
***SIGN*** • Kushige
***SIGN*** • Yu
***SIGN*** • Yu
**[02:38] Hyoma**
*I've managed to return to square one.*
**[02:42] Hyoma**
* No... Things aren't quite*
* as they were from the start.*
**[02:47] Hyoma**
*At the very least,*
**[02:48] Hyoma**
*I do feel more of a connection here*
**[02:51] Hyoma**
* in the Nagatsuki household*
* than I've ever felt before.*
**[02:56] Hyoma**
*But my duty now is to ascertain*
**[02:58] Hyoma**
* whether these are indeed tsukumogami*
* in whom I can place my full trust.*
**[03:07] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[03:08] Botan**
Did you really get everyone's signatures?!
**[03:18] Botan**
Sorry to burst in like that!
**[03:21] Hyoma**
I don't mind that at all.
**[03:28] Hyoma**
Your information is accurate.
**[03:30] Hyoma**
I've caused you a great deal of trouble.
**[03:34] Hyoma**
Would you accept an apology for my rudeness,
**[03:35] Hyoma**
and allow me to make a new first impression?
**[03:40] Botan**
Sorry! You're just always so uptight.
**[03:44] Botan**
You're going to give yourself
a heart attack one day!
**[03:50] Hyoma**
You shouldn't laugh when you're already
out of breath from running.
**[03:53] Botan**
I... I'm okay.
**[03:54] Botan**
Okay.
**[03:56] Botan**
Here's to a full year together, then.
**[04:02] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[04:05] Hyoma**
I appreciate your hospitality.
***SIGN*** Wind
Forest
Fire
Mountain
**[04:09] Kagami**
We're really going to tell him already?
**[04:12] Nagi**
Yeah. I mean, he met the conditions.
**[04:15] Kagami**
Yu-chan only signed because she felt bad
about the trouble she caused him, right?
**[04:19] Kagami**
And I'm not sure the two of them
will like having this sprung on them.
**[04:24] Suzuri**
We do have a whole year ahead of us.
**[04:27] Suzuri**
Why not allow for a longer grace period?
***SIGN*** List of Kunato Hyoma Supporters
***SIGN*** -san
***SIGN*** • Nagi
***SIGN*** • Kagami
***SIGN*** • Suzuri
***SIGN*** • Haori
***SIGN*** • Kushige
***SIGN*** • Yu
**[04:30] Nagi**
Whatever we do, we're already
on record as supporting him.
**[04:34] Nagi**
Over a pretty damned short period, at that.
**[04:38] Nagi**
I'm saying the time's ripe.
**[04:40] Nagi**
Right, Kushige?
**[04:44] Nagi**
Haori's come to the same conclusion.
**[04:49] Botan**
Oh, that's right.
**[04:51] Botan**
We cook dinner in shifts here.
**[04:54] Botan**
Can you cook, Hyoma-san?
**[04:57] Hyoma**
I've cooked many times at home.
**[05:01] Hyoma**
Though I can't make anything
especially complicated.
**[05:03] Botan**
Hey, that's okay.
**[05:05] Botan**
Nagi can't make anything but beer snacks...
**[05:15] Haori**
Hyoma-san, Botan...
**[05:17] Haori**
There's something we must tell you.
**[05:20] Haori**
Would you join us in the great hall?
**[05:24] Haori**
It regards an arrangement
I made with Zohei-san
**[05:29] Haori**
in exchange for taking Hyoma-san in.
**[05:32] Hyoma**
What?
**[05:33] Haori**
We of the Nagatsuki tsukumogami
share a single purpose.
**[05:38] Haori**
The request to have you stay here aligned
perfectly with our motivations in that regard.
**[05:46] Haori**
We agreed to allow you
to observe us for one year,
**[05:51] Haori**
and made a request of Zohei-san in turn.
**[05:56] Haori**
That we, too, would be allowed
to spend the year evaluating you.
**[06:04] Botan**
Wait! Not again—
**[06:07] Yu**
Quiet now.
**[06:10] Hyoma**
I don't understand.
**[06:12] Hyoma**
Why would you want to do that?
**[06:15] Hyoma**
And why reveal it now?
**[06:19] Haori**
We intended to spend the year evaluating
whether or not we find you worthy.
**[06:24] Haori**
But you've made us do something
fairly similar in just three days.
**[06:29] Haori**
So I thought the time was ripe
to reveal everything to you.
**[06:34] Haori**
This is our purpose...
***SIGN*** Celebrate!
The Potential Husband's Arrival
by the House Nagatsuki Tsukumogami
***SIGN*** Welcome!
***SIGN*** Celebrate!
The Potential Husband's Arrival
by the House Nagatsuki Tsukumogami
***SIGN*** Welcome!
***SIGN*** Long Life
**[06:43] Haori**
The first step to finding a man
worthy of marriage to our mistress.
**[06:52] Hyoma**
Is this...
***SIGN*** Celebrate!
The Potential Husband's Arrival
**[07:02] Botan**
Don't get the wrong idea!
**[07:04] Botan**
I-It's a silly prank they play sometimes.
**[07:07] Botan**
Please... don't get the wrong idea!
**[07:10] Nagi**
Don't you say another word!
**[07:12] Nagi**
C'mon, ma'am!
**[07:13] Nagi**
We're doin' this for real!
**[07:16] Nagi**
Right, Kushige?
**[07:19] Kagami**
H-He's right! We're really trying our best!
**[07:24] Suzuri**
With Suzuki-kun in third grade...
***SIGN*** Suzuki-kun (9)
**[07:27] Suzuri**
With Tanaka-kun in seventh grade...
***SIGN*** Tanaka-kun (13)
**[07:29] Suzuri**
We evaluated both of them very earnestly!
**[07:32] Botan**
But, but, but... I told you
to stop all that, didn't I?!
**[07:36] Yu**
*I* rejected them both, of course.
**[07:43] Haori**
I'm afraid it's unavoidable, Botan.
**[07:46] Haori**
We manifested in objects tasked with
seeking a happy match for their owner.
**[07:55] Hyoma**
Tasked with...
**[07:57] Haori**
Yes.
**[07:58] Haori**
We don't originate from individual objects.
**[08:02] Haori**
We are from a single trousseau—
objects offered by the bride upon marriage.
**[08:10] Haori**
And so we have a purpose
we are driven to fulfill.
**[08:13] Haori**
Hyoma-san...
**[08:15] Haori**
In addition to the purpose you assigned them,
**[08:17] Haori**
our signatures signify that you
passed our evaluation.
**[08:22] Yu**
In a *purely* provisional fashion.
**[08:25] Nagi**
You shut up, Yu!
**[08:27] Haori**
Zohei-san has agreed to it, as well.
**[08:31] Haori**
Would you be willing to consider
this a trial arranged marriage?
**[08:35] Botan**
Excuse me! You really can't...
**[08:38] Yu**
*I remain unconvinced.*
**[08:40] Yu**
* And if he does or says*
* anything to hurt Botan,*
**[08:44] Yu**
*I'll run him through on the spot!*
**[08:45] Nagi**
*Could you please not?*
**[08:48] Suzuri**
* Still, Hyoma-kun's got quite*
* a poker face going on.*
**[08:53] Kagami**
*I really hope he doesn't lash out.*
**[08:56] Kagami**
*I'm so tired.*
**[08:59] Nagi/Suzuri/Kagami**
*How will you respond, Kunato Hyoma?!*
**[09:06] Hyoma**
You may have received
my grandfather's assent,
**[09:11] Hyoma**
but your own desires in the matter aside,
**[09:14] Hyoma**
I haven't finished getting
*your* measure yet.
**[09:18] Hyoma**
This sudden request to join your household
isn't something I can agree to so easily.
**[09:23] Hyoma**
However, it would be disrespectful to
my grandfather to refuse unconditionally.
**[09:28] Hyoma**
Therefore, I will defer judgment for now.
**[09:32] Haori**
Well... I suppose that's all right.
**[09:36] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san.
**[09:37] Botan**
Yes?!
**[09:38] Hyoma**
Wednesdays are my designated running days.
**[09:41] Hyoma**
I would ordinarily leave at this time. May I?
**[09:45] Botan**
Go ahead.
**[09:46] Hyoma**
Excellent. I shall return.
**[09:50] Nagi**
That reaction was weird. Too rational.
**[09:53] Suzuri**
Yeah.
**[09:54] Suzuri**
He's so calm, it's freaking me out a little.
**[09:58] Botan**
Although...
**[10:01] Botan**
I've gotta live with the guy another year,
**[10:04] Botan**
and now you've gone
and made it awkward again!
**[10:08] Suzuri**
W-We had good intentions, really...
**[10:11] Botan**
Besides...
**[10:14] Botan**
I just, really... I can't
*do* something like that.
**[10:18] Botan**
You know that.
**[10:22] Haori**
You worry too much. About everything.
**[10:26] Haori**
That's what makes us so anxious, you know?
**[10:27] Botan**
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
**[10:32] Suzuri**
Still, Hyoma-kun was pretty
unflappable back there.
**[10:35] Yu**
I suppose it's *slightly* better
than him throwing a fit.
**[11:00] Hyoma**
Wh-What the hell was that?!
**[11:10] Botan**
*Yeah, that was not cool.*
***SIGN*** I love the whole fish.
**[11:12] Botan**
*Not cool!*
**[11:14] Botan**
* Springing on a guy who's only*
* lived here a few days,*
**[11:18] Botan**
* "Oh, we're actually evaluating you as*
* a prospective husband for our daughter!"*
**[11:23] Botan**
* He probably had no idea*
* what they were saying.*
**[11:27] Botan**
*I barely knew what I was saying, either.*
**[11:38] Haori**
Look at how she's torturing herself!
**[11:41] Haori**
This could get very interesting!
**[11:45] Haori**
What? Time to go out?
**[11:48] Haori**
Already?!
**[11:51] Haori**
Oh, fine.
***SIGN*** I love the whole fish.
Flounder in Sauce
***SIGN*** February
***SIGN*** Lunches
of Happiness
**[11:58] Botan**
* I've got to find him, apologize,*
* and tell him not to worry about it!*
**[12:06] Botan**
*After I go shopping, though.*
**[12:08] Hyoma**
Haori informed me of the
arranged marriage condition.
**[12:11] Hyoma**
I have my own guesses as to why
you agreed to this arrangement.
**[12:17] Hyoma**
May I reveal them?
**[12:18] Zohei**
*Sure, give it a go.*
**[12:21] Hyoma**
Create a tense relationship
to increase my mental fortitude.
**[12:26] Hyoma**
In other words,
a form of psychological training.
**[12:30] Zohei**
Um, no.
**[12:31] Zohei**
It's just, a man tends to worry
when his grandson turns 21
**[12:33] Zohei**
and hasn't shown the slightest
interest in romance.
**[12:37] Hyoma**
What?
**[12:38] Zohei**
* It was just perfect timing,*
* as far as I was concerned!*
**[12:42] Zohei**
* Botan-chan's grown into*
* quite a lovely young woman,*
**[12:45] Zohei**
*so I couldn't think of any reason to re—*
**[12:52] Hyoma**
I see.
**[12:55] Suzuri**
Business? With Haori?
**[12:57] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[12:58] Hyoma**
I wish to engage her in earnest discussion.
**[13:00] Hyoma**
Do you know where I might find her?
**[13:02] Suzuri**
She's out with Kushige.
**[13:05] Kagami**
She could be gone for days.
**[13:08] Hyoma**
A business trip?
**[13:09] Suzuri**
Yeah, she takes them sometimes.
**[13:12] Hyoma**
Did Nagi and Yu accompany her?
**[13:14] Suzuri**
No, they're doing the usual business.
**[13:26] Suzuri**
Apparently that Hikaki guy
had more people in his gang
**[13:29] Suzuri**
than what we saw the other day.
**[13:34] Hyoma**
Why aren't I out with them now?!
**[13:38] Suzuri**
I thought you were calling home.
**[13:42] Botan**
Oh? Hyoma-san?
**[13:46] Botan**
I thought you went out with Nagi and Yu!
**[13:48] Hyoma**
No, I was left behind.
**[13:52] Hyoma**
Are you going shopping?
**[13:54] Botan**
Oh? Yes...
**[13:57] Kagami**
Hush!
**[14:02] Botan**
Um...
**[14:05] Botan**
Hyoma-san, I...
**[14:10] Botan**
You, uh, don't have to worry
about any of that stuff they said.
**[14:13] Botan**
I know it's just a huge bother...
**[14:14] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[14:17] Hyoma**
It *is* a huge bother.
**[14:19] Hyoma**
You can be assured that I haven't
given it a moment's concern.
**[14:29] Botan**
I see.
**[14:35] Botan**
Great.
**[14:36] Botan**
I'm glad to hear you're not worried about it.
**[14:39] Botan**
But I really do feel bad
for the trouble, so... sorry!
**[14:43] Botan**
Anyway, I really need to
get that shopping done.
**[14:46] Hyoma**
Understood.
**[14:57] Suzuri**
Hyoma-kun.
**[15:03] Suzuri**
What you did just now wasn't great.
**[15:07] Hyoma**
I merely spoke the truth.
**[15:10] Suzuri**
You could've been more sensitive.
**[15:12] Suzuri**
To turn down a girl her age
with total indifference...
**[15:17] Suzuri**
You can't see how cruel that is?
**[15:21] Suzuri**
I'm a pretty calm guy, but when I see
you hurt my mistress like that...
**[15:24] Suzuri**
Can you see how much it pains me?
**[15:28] Suzuri**
Meanwhile, Kagami's crying her eyes out!
**[15:31] Kagami**
You suck, Hyoma-san!
**[15:34] Kagami**
You don't have to be so mean!
**[15:38] Kagami**
Botan was really hurt by that!
**[15:40] Suzuri**
Go! Get him!
**[15:42] Hyoma**
Botan was hurt?
**[15:46] Hyoma**
Wait a minute.
**[15:47] Hyoma**
Can you explain what you mean by that?
**[15:59] (Flashback) Hyoma**
It *is* a huge bother.
**[16:03] Botan**
*Hearing him say it that clearly,*
**[16:07] Botan**
* I guess I can trust that*
* he's not stressing out about it.*
**[16:11] Botan**
*Which is a good thing, but...*
**[16:14] Botan**
* If it's a good thing,*
* why does it bug me so much?*
**[16:21] Hainarashi**
Well, well. Isn't this a find?
**[16:30] Hainarashi**
Are those lackeys of yours
busy elsewhere, perhaps?
***SIGN*** — Hainarashi —
**[16:35] Hainarashi**
Would you be Nagatsuki Botan, then?
**[16:40] Nagi**
A decoy, eh?
**[16:44] Tsukumogami A**
Right about now, our boss'll have found
his way to that powerless mistress of yours!
**[16:50] Tsukumogami A**
What now?
**[16:51] Tsukumogami A**
You guys care about her, don't you?
**[16:54] Tsukumogami A**
What'll you do, eh?!
**[17:02] Nagi**
Damn it!
**[17:03] Yu**
Botan!
**[17:12] Hainarashi**
Your family did a number on
that "little brother" of mine...
**[17:17] Hainarashi**
I've been looking for you.
**[17:19] Hainarashi**
Would you be willing to come with me?
**[17:21] Botan**
You're a tsukumogami too, aren't you?
**[17:25] Hainarashi**
You've seen your share of us, then?
**[17:27] Hainarashi**
You certainly have some backbone.
**[17:29] Hainarashi**
But I can also see you trembling.
**[17:33] Hainarashi**
Is this all you are?!
**[17:36] Hainarashi**
There's a kind of unwritten law among
the tsukumogami who live in Kyo...
***SIGN*** Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan
**[17:42] Hainarashi**
"Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan."
**[17:46] Hainarashi**
Was that merely a precaution to keep us away?
**[18:03] Hainarashi**
I am Hainarashi.
**[18:05] Hainarashi**
My only power as a tsukumogami
is the ability to scatter ash, but...
**[18:12] Hainarashi**
I can still tear a human apart easily enough!
**[18:28] Hyoma**
Are you all right, Nagatsuki-san?
**[18:31] Hainarashi**
Are you...
**[18:33] Hainarashi**
a Saenome?!
**[18:36] Hainarashi**
Child... Know your place!
**[18:41] Nagi**
Found 'em!
**[18:43] Nagi**
You dumbass!
**[18:46] Nagi**
You're gonna pay for this!
**[18:49] Botan**
Nagi! Yu!
**[18:51] Nagi**
We're good to go, right?
**[18:53] Yu**
Of course!
**[18:54] Nagi**
Heck yeah!
**[18:56] Yu/Nagi**
Get him!
**[18:57] Hainarashi**
Wait!
**[18:58] Hainarashi**
Three-on-one...
**[19:00] Hainarashi**
That's not fair!
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[19:04] Nagi**
Shut up!
**[19:08] Hyoma**
H-Hey!
**[19:14] Hyoma**
I'd like an honest answer.
**[19:17] Hyoma**
Did you actually try to eliminate
me while I was vulnerable?
**[19:22] Nagi**
No, but...
**[19:26] Yu**
Are you all right, Botan?!
**[19:30] Yu**
Were you hurt? Did you sprain anything?!
**[19:33] Botan**
I... I'm okay!
**[19:35] Yu**
You're sure? Let me see...
**[19:36] Nagi**
I was pretty mad. And I'm sorry.
**[19:40] Nagi**
And I gotta thank you.
**[19:42] Botan**
I'm okay!
**[19:44] Nagi**
You saved Botan.
**[19:47] Nagi**
Guess I owe you one.
**[19:51] Nagi**
Time to head back.
**[19:53] Yu**
Why?!
**[19:54] Nagi**
You just left the decoys
wrapped up in your hairpins!
**[19:59] Yu**
Botan!
**[20:06] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[20:09] Botan**
Thank you... for saving me.
**[20:13] Hyoma**
I merely did the duty of the Saenome.
**[20:17] Botan**
But... what were you doing here?
**[20:21] Kagami**
Go after her! Make her feel better now!
**[20:22] Hyoma**
Kagami requested that I follow you.
**[20:27] Botan**
She heard all that?!
**[20:30] Hyoma**
I'm sorry, Nagatsuki-san.
**[20:32] Hyoma**
The way I spoke in the hallway
was conducive to misunderstanding.
**[20:39] Hyoma**
Given your reaction to the reveal
of the arranged marriage agreement,
**[20:42] Hyoma**
it was clear, even to me,
that the idea upset you.
**[20:46] Hyoma**
I could tell they've been making trouble
for you in this regard for some time.
**[20:52] Hyoma**
So I simply wanted to tell you...
not to be overly concerned on my behalf.
**[21:01] Kagami**
I hope he cleared things up with her, Suzuri.
**[21:05] Suzuri**
How can anyone be so bad
at expressing themselves?
**[21:09] Hyoma**
And my grandfather was enthusiastically
complicit in the arrangement...
**[21:13] Hyoma**
But I don't want you to think I lack
any feeling or interest toward you at all.
**[21:22] Hyoma**
Er... that's not to say I *have* interest
toward you... That would sound strange.
**[21:26] Hyoma**
Ah, why is that strange? What have I said?
**[21:32] Botan**
Hey, Hyoma-san...
**[21:35] Botan**
It sounds like...
**[21:38] Botan**
It sounds like we both have
relatives who like to meddle.
**[21:42] Botan**
It's a pain, huh?
**[21:47] Hyoma**
Indeed it is.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Suspicions
# E5 - Suspicions
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GN7UD43VW/suspicions)
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**[00:02] Nagi**
Damn it, Hyoma!
**[00:03] Nagi**
Get back here, you asshole!
**[00:05] Suzuri**
Isn't it a little too early for yelling?
**[00:08] Nagi**
H-Hey, Suzuri!
**[00:09] Nagi**
Put a stop to this nonsense!
**[00:12] Hyoma**
It isn't nonsense.
**[00:14] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san was attacked. This is a fact.
**[00:17] Hyoma**
Therefore, as a protective measure,
**[00:19] Hyoma**
I must apply these around the mansion
and its surrounding area!
**[00:22] Hyoma**
These talismans
**[00:25] Hyoma**
will immediately paralyze most tsukumogami
entering their area of effect.
**[00:29] Hyoma**
They're a Saenome secret weapon!
**[00:31] Nagi**
What are you, stupid?!
**[00:32] Nagi**
That shit's powerful enough
to give humans the shakes, too!
**[00:36] Hyoma**
Really?
**[00:37] Nagi**
Besides, the mansion's safe.
**[00:39] Nagi**
Kushige put a barrier up!
**[00:42] Hyoma**
No one mentioned that to me.
**[00:45] Hyoma**
But the truth is...
**[00:46] Nagi**
What?!
**[00:48] Nagi**
Did you already set them up outside?!
**[00:50] Hyoma**
I believed it was for the best!
**[00:51] Nagi**
Take 'em down! Now!
**[00:53] Suzuri**
So much energy.
**[00:55] Suzuri**
Meanwhile, I'm way more worried
about Kushige and Haori.
**[01:03] Suzuri**
Given who it was that issued the invitation...
**[01:07] Suzuri**
It's an open question whether
they'll even make it back safely.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Suspicions
**[02:53] Zohei**
Hey there, you two.
**[02:56] Zohei**
Nice to see you.
**[02:57] Zohei**
I feel like I'm a little too old
for an invitation like this.
**[03:02] Zohei**
It didn't feel that way the last time we met.
**[03:06] Zohei**
How long has it been?
**[03:08] Haori**
Sixteen years, of course.
**[03:11] Haori**
But you look as young and dynamic
as ever to me, Zohei-san.
**[03:15] Zohei**
You do flatter me, Haori-san.
**[03:18] Zohei**
And you're as laconic as ever, Kushige.
**[03:24] Zohei**
I'd love to catch up,
**[03:28] Zohei**
but we should save that for the after-party.
**[03:30] Zohei**
That is...
**[03:32] Zohei**
Assuming we're in any shape
for it after we leave here.
**[03:40] Haori**
*It's my second time meeting him...*
**[03:43] Haori**
*Kai.*
**[03:45] Haori**
*Our last encounter was a brutal one.*
**[03:49] Haori**
*The first thing to look out for is*
**[03:51] Haori**
*a surprise attack to serve as a greeting.*
**[04:07] Zohei**
Hey, now...
**[04:12] Zohei**
You really need to...
**[04:14] Zohei**
find a new way of saying hello already.
**[04:18] Zohei**
Just being around you
is exhausting like this.
**[04:22] Kai**
Do forgive me.
**[04:25] Kai**
Toying with visitors is one of my
few pleasures in this existence.
**[04:36] Kai**
Welcome, Kunato.
***SIGN*** Suit
of
Armor
"Kai"
***SIGN*** Kyoto's
Three Great
Tsukumogami
***SIGN*** — Itsuki —
**[04:46] Kai**
And I'm glad to hear the Nagatsuki have
been doing well since our last meeting.
**[04:51] Zohei**
Did something happen then?
**[04:52] Haori**
Well...
**[04:53] Haori**
A few of our people came to offer
our regards, but lost their tempers...
***SIGN*** Our
***SIGN*** People
**[04:58] Haori**
It turned into all-out war.
**[05:02] Kei**
It was effective at staving
off boredom for me.
**[05:05] Kei**
I'd gladly take a rematch any day.
**[05:09] Zohei**
And you chose *us* to stave off
your boredom this time?
**[05:15] Zohei**
Quite an honor.
**[05:16] Kai**
Now, now. Cheer up.
**[05:18] Kai**
In exchange for staying locked up in here,
**[05:22] Kai**
I'm allowed choose anyone to
be my playmate at any time.
**[05:25] Kai**
It was the Saenome who offered
these terms to me, wasn't it?
**[05:31] Zohei**
I wish I could go back in time and
pop those Saenomes in the nose!
**[05:37] Kai**
Absolutely agreed.
**[05:39] Haori**
*One of Kyoto's Three Great Tsukumogami...*
**[05:42] Haori**
*The suit of armor, Kai.*
**[05:45] Haori**
* Saenome documents say he first*
* appeared early in the Edo Period...*
**[05:50] Haori**
* That he started out as a special*
* exception to fight with them,*
**[05:54] Haori**
*but then, fearful of his power,*
**[05:56] Haori**
* they sealed him behind a barrier created by*
* the shrine fence tsukumogami, Itsuki.*
**[06:02] Haori**
*One of the strongest.*
**[06:05] Kai**
I called you here because
I heard some very interesting news...
**[06:10] Kai**
Itsuki.
**[06:12] Kai**
Kunato, they say your grandson has
come to stay at the Nagatsuki household.
**[06:17] Kai**
Quite an interesting development.
**[06:19] Kai**
Tell me about it.
**[06:20] Kai**
I have food and drink available.
**[06:25] Zohei**
Actually, I reserved lodging elsewhere.
**[06:29] Zohei**
I'd prefer to leave here by six.
**[06:35] Kai**
Cancel the reservation.
**[06:38] Kai**
Your next few days belong to me.
**[06:42] Haori**
D—
**[06:43] Zohei**
Days, plural?
**[06:47] Haori**
*What's truly terrifying about him...*
**[06:51] Haori**
*If he chooses you to pass the time with him,*
**[06:54] Haori**
* you could be held captive*
* for an extended period of time.*
**[06:58] Kai**
I'd like to hear absolutely everything.
**[07:02] Kai**
Go on.
**[07:04] Zohei**
*I knew it.*
**[07:08] Hyoma**
One, two, three...
**[07:11] Hyoma**
Just four left.
**[07:13] Hyoma**
A shame. I felt so sure they were necessary.
**[07:16] (Flashback) Nagi**
They affect humans with
a strong sixth sense, too!
**[07:19] (Flashback) Nagi**
You're supposed to be protecting Botan,
but you're just gonna upset her, man!
**[07:26] Hyoma**
*It is curious, though.*
**[07:28] Hyoma**
* A tsukumogami with a grudge against them*
* attempted to take Nagatsuki-san hostage.*
**[07:34] Hyoma**
* This should have been a predictable*
* consequence of their actions,*
**[07:37] Hyoma**
* yet they haven't resorted*
* to measures like this.*
**[07:40] Hyoma**
* They must have great confidence*
* in whatever defenses they have.*
**[07:47] Hyoma**
* Or is there something about Nagatsuki-san*
* herself that makes protection unnecessary?*
**[07:54] Hyoma**
* It occurs to me that*
* I know very little about her.*
**[08:02] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[08:04] Hyoma**
Only three remain now.
**[08:10] Hyoma**
What in the world...
**[08:14] Kai**
He sounds very interesting.
**[08:16] Kai**
Hyoma, his name was?
**[08:19] Kai**
I see...
**[08:20] Kai**
So you sent him to the Nagatsukis
not for training, but for reformation.
**[08:27] Kai**
A man, heart frozen by hatred...
**[08:30] Kai**
Could the warmth of a simulated
family free it from its icy prison?
**[08:33] Haori**
Hey! Don't sleep yet!
**[08:35] Kai**
In other words, can the deepest darkness
of the human heart be expunged?
**[08:41] Kai**
Would that be your thesis?
**[08:44] Kai**
But you must be cautious.
**[08:47] Kai**
Regardless of your reasons,
**[08:49] Kai**
you've sent a third party to Nagatsuki Botan.
***SIGN*** Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan
**[08:58] Kai**
"Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan."
**[09:01] Kai**
You surely know the meaning
of this unwritten law.
**[09:06] Kai**
The potential that lies within her could be
a boon to either human or tsukumogami.
**[09:13] Kai**
She therefore cannot be allowed
to take either side.
**[09:18] Kai**
"The head of the Saenome and
Nagatsuki Botan's attendant tsukumogami
**[09:25] Kai**
have conspired to send a subordinate
to woo her to their side..."
**[09:31] Kai**
Some may find that
interpretation... convincing.
**[09:35] Kai**
If so, something may occur.
**[09:40] Hyoma**
Impossible.
**[09:41] Hyoma**
*It's been burned away.*
**[09:43] Hyoma**
* Which means the talisman activated,*
* but its power was superceded.*
**[09:56] Haori**
I recognize the need to offer
a full account to others...
**[10:01] Haori**
But I was afraid it might trigger
a fight for a share of Botan's power.
**[10:10] Kai**
It's a matter that requires great patience.
**[10:12] Kai**
Though I believe others will
already be jumping the gun...
**[10:25] Kai**
But at least it's entertaining,
so it's a welcome turn for me.
**[10:32] Aogi**
Hey, you.
**[10:34] Aogi**
You know who put up that talisman?
**[10:40] Aogi**
Or maybe... it was you?
**[10:45] Hyoma**
*They're...*
**[10:47] Hyoma**
*stronger than most.*
**[10:50] Aogi**
Bingo?
**[10:57] Yu**
I was wondering why I suddenly felt sick.
**[11:01] Yu**
I happened upon a rather bizarre barrier.
**[11:04] Yu**
Is it crime prevention month
and I simply forgot?
**[11:06] Nagi**
* Actually, that was Hyoma*
* running off half-cocked.*
**[11:11] Nagi**
*We're in the process of taking 'em down now.*
**[11:14] Nagi**
Glad to hear you found one.
**[11:15] Nagi**
Give him a call and then help us out.
**[11:19] Kagami**
The closer we come...
**[11:21] Suzuri**
Th-The tingling...
**[11:26] Haori**
I c-can't...
**[11:29] Haori**
take it... anymore.
**[11:35] Kai**
Goodness, what a slovenly display.
**[11:38] Kai**
We'll have to call a recess.
**[11:40] Itsuki**
Very well.
**[11:42] Itsuki**
By the way,
**[11:43] Itsuki**
shouldn't you have pressed them harder?
**[11:45] Itsuki**
That story they told...
**[11:47] Itsuki**
They're still hiding something from you.
**[11:52] Kai**
I suspected as much.
**[11:54] Kai**
It seems they'd already taken
my warning into account.
**[11:59] Kai**
They welcomed a foreign presence
into the Nagatsuki Household,
**[12:02] Kai**
even knowing the risk it would incur.
**[12:05] Kai**
But there's no need to rush.
**[12:08] Kai**
It's important to enjoy the process.
**[12:13] Kai**
Set up a network to watch for activity.
**[12:16] Kai**
If anything happens,
I'd like a front-row seat.
**[12:27] Aogi**
Haven't seen that sort of talisman
around here before.
**[12:31] Aogi**
Figured it had to have been
stuck up there by some newcomer.
**[12:37] Aogi**
We're looking for a guy named Kunato.
**[12:41] Aogi**
We've got quite a few questions for the guy.
**[12:44] Aogi**
So...
**[12:46] Aogi**
Would that be you, then?
**[12:48] Hyoma**
*If they're aware of my presence,*
**[12:51] Hyoma**
* they must be monitoring movements*
* around the Nagatsuki household.*
**[12:55] Hyoma**
* Which suggests they're allied*
* with the tsukumogami*
**[12:58] Hyoma**
*with a grudge against the Nagatsuki ones.*
**[13:03] Aogi**
Hey. You listening?
**[13:06] Hyoma**
*Their numbers are vast, then.*
**[13:08] Hyoma**
* They could prove a real*
* threat to Nagatsuki-san.*
**[13:13] Aogi**
Hey!
**[13:15] Hyoma**
I'm from the government office.
**[13:17] Hyoma**
I'm investigating reports of a
curious new barrier in the area.
**[13:21] Hyoma**
I'm not the person you're seeking.
**[13:24] Aogi**
Eh?
**[13:25] Hyoma**
Do you know anything about
the person who put them up?
**[13:29] Hyoma**
"Kunato," you said?
**[13:32] Aogi**
No... nothing in-depth.
**[13:35] Hyoma**
I see. Thank you.
**[13:39] Hyoma**
Farewell.
**[13:40] Aogi**
I get it. The government office, huh?
**[13:42] Aogi**
Sounds like tough work.
**[13:46] Aogi**
Hang on! Normies don't know
squat about barriers!
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[13:52] Aogi**
The Kunato seal...
**[13:56] Aogi**
Looks like I've got bingo after all!
**[14:07] Hyoma**
I'm taking you in alive!
**[14:09] Hyoma**
Tell me all about your comrades!
**[14:12] Aogi**
Oh, no...
**[14:13] Aogi**
Just kidding!
**[14:16] Aogi**
You made two mistakes here.
**[14:18] Aogi**
One was failing to land your strike on me.
**[14:21] Aogi**
The other...
**[14:23] Aogi**
was failing to finish off Uchiki-kun.
**[14:43] Aogi**
Well? Cooled your head a bit?
**[14:51] Yu**
*That's right. He did save Botan earlier.*
**[14:57] Yu**
Hello?
**[14:58] Yu**
I found one of your talismans earlier.
**[15:01] Yu**
How many remain?
**[15:04] Yu**
If they're nearby, I'll try to find them.
**[15:07] Yu**
Yes, I'll gladly help clean up
the mess you caused.
**[15:11] Yu**
That's about right, isn't it?
**[15:19] Yu**
Hello? I found one of your—
**[15:21] VO**
*This is the voicemail service center.*
**[15:27] Yu**
I don't have a choice, then.
**[15:33] Yu**
Goodness me...
**[15:38] Aogi**
Don't go too far now, Uchiki-kun.
**[15:42] Aogi**
And you chill out too, buddy.
**[15:44] Aogi**
We brought you here so we
could have a little chat.
**[15:52] Aogi**
You tried that one already.
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[15:54] Aogi**
You know it won't work.
**[15:56] Aogi**
All you did was seal another layer.
**[16:00] Aogi**
You can't reach the core.
**[16:06] Aogi**
Uchiki-kun?! No killing, now!
**[16:09] Aogi**
We've still got to question him!
**[16:16] Hyoma**
I haven't been here long.
**[16:19] Hyoma**
I don't know the vulnerabilities of the
tsukumogami hunters you hate so much.
**[16:24] Hyoma**
You're wasting your time!
**[16:26] Hyoma**
And even if I knew them, I'd never tell you!
**[16:32] Aogi**
You're not really the listening type, are you?
**[16:35] Aogi**
You're stupid, aren't you?
**[16:37] Aogi**
Or are you playing dumb?
**[16:39] Aogi**
Everything you say is so far off the money.
**[16:46] Aogi**
We're asking about *you*.
**[16:49] Aogi**
Don't lie, or you'll regret it.
**[16:52] Aogi**
Entering the Nagatsuki household
like a bolt from the blue...
**[16:56] Aogi**
What exactly are you after?
**[17:00] Aogi**
Do the Kunato seek the power
that Nagatsuki Botan...
**[17:04] Aogi**
that the yorimashi holds?
**[17:06] Hyoma**
Yorimashi? Power?
**[17:09] Aogi**
The Nagatsuki tsukumogami,
who are supposed to be neutral,
**[17:13] Aogi**
have sold that power to the Kunato.
**[17:16] Aogi**
Am I wrong?
**[17:18] Aogi**
If it's true, it means
they broke the rules first.
**[17:23] Aogi**
It'll mean all-out war breaking out
among us for Nagatsuki Botan.
**[17:28] Aogi**
So? Why not tell me already?
**[17:34] Hyoma**
Interesting.
**[17:36] Hyoma**
I've never met tsukumogami like you before.
**[17:40] Hyoma**
You're using psychological warfare—
**[17:42] Hyoma**
lies designed to confuse me—
in order to catch me unawares.
**[17:47] Hyoma**
But I've been doing this
too long to be deceived!
**[17:53] Aogi**
You really don't like listening, do you?!
**[18:07] Hyoma**
I see no reason to heed
the lies of tsukumogami.
**[18:11] Hyoma**
But I've learned one thing from this.
***SIGN*** Kunato
**[18:14] Hyoma**
You have your sights set on Nagatsuki-san.
**[18:17] Hyoma**
Which means...
**[18:20] Hyoma**
Seeing as you intend to
attack an ordinary citizen,
**[18:22] Hyoma**
I'm duty-bound to seal you!
**[18:24] Hyoma**
And I will do my duty!
**[18:27] Aogi**
An ordinary citizen?
**[18:29] Aogi**
You're talking about Nagatsuki Botan?
**[18:34] Aogi**
Eh?
**[18:36] Aogi**
You seriously don't kno—
**[18:38] Yu**
He came here to learn from us
as the next head of the Kunato.
**[18:43] Yu**
He's currently a guest under
the guardianship of the Nagatsuki.
**[18:49] Yu**
If you stir up any more trouble
with these false accusations,
**[18:51] Yu**
we're going to have a problem, Aogi.
**[18:55] Aogi**
Yu...
**[18:56] Hyoma**
How did you know we were here?
**[19:04] Yu**
I followed the scraps
of burned-out talismans...
**[19:07] Yu**
And look what a troublesome scene I've found.
**[19:10] Yu**
But Aogi...
**[19:13] Yu**
If you've learned what you need to know,
you should probably leave.
**[19:17] Yu**
Shouldn't you?
**[19:23] Aogi**
Yeah, I'm getting nowhere here.
**[19:26] Aogi**
Doesn't look like he'll
give up anything useful.
**[19:31] Hyoma**
You won't escape!
**[19:34] Yu**
Didn't I tell you?
**[19:36] Yu**
Any more escalation and we'll have a problem.
**[19:38] Yu**
Their methods may be extreme,
but their actions are permitted.
**[19:48] Yu**
Special exceptions...
**[19:49] Yu**
The twelve-layer robe, Uchiki,
***SIGN*** War Fan
Aogi
***SIGN*** Twelve-Layer Robe
Uchiki
**[19:51] Yu**
and the war fan, Aogi.
**[19:54] Yu**
Their primary duties are internal
investigations and intelligence gathering.
**[20:00] Yu**
I'm forced to wonder who hired them today.
**[20:03] Aogi**
Correct.
**[20:05] Aogi**
It seems looking for ulterior motives
in him is a waste of time.
**[20:10] Aogi**
For now, I'll have to buy your explanation—
that it's for training—and withdraw.
**[20:15] Aogi**
Besides...
**[20:18] Aogi**
Someone's been watching us for a while.
**[20:25] Aogi**
I'll admit I went too far,
**[20:27] Aogi**
but I won't apologize.
**[20:28] Aogi**
This is the job, after all.
**[20:31] Aogi**
Although...
**[20:32] Aogi**
I've received requests to investigate what
Kunato is doing at the Nagatsuki Household
**[20:36] Aogi**
from both humans and tsukumogami.
**[20:39] Aogi**
There are many eyes on you.
**[20:42] Aogi**
You'd better watch your backs.
**[20:46] Yu**
Honestly...
**[20:48] Yu**
It's constant trouble.
**[20:52] Hyoma**
*I could have beaten them.*
**[20:54] Hyoma**
*I'd figured out how to beat Uchiki,*
**[20:57] Hyoma**
*and I was an equally able fighter.*
**[20:59] Hyoma**
*Two against one?*
**[21:00] Hyoma**
*Not an issue.*
**[21:02] Hyoma**
* Once one was locked down,*
* I could have easily beat the other.*
**[21:05] Hyoma**
*Had the fight continued, I would have won.*
**[21:08] Hyoma**
Ow!
**[21:09] Yu**
Calm down.
**[21:13] Yu**
You're clearly in bad shape.
**[21:14] Yu**
I'll retrieve the other talismans.
**[21:18] Yu**
Now we're even.
**[21:29] Aogi**
* Do the Kunato seek the power*
* that Nagatsuki Botan...*
**[21:31] (Flashback) Aogi**
Do the Kunato seek the power
that Nagatsuki Botan...
**[21:33] (Flashback) Aogi**
That the yorimashi holds?
**[21:36] (Flashback) Aogi**
Entering the Nagatsuki household...
**[21:38] (Flashback) Aogi**
What exactly are you after?
**[21:44] Hyoma**
*Something's going on here.*
**[21:47] Hyoma**
*Nagatsuki Botan...*
**[21:50] Hyoma**
*I need to learn about her.*
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Botan
# E6 - Botan
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GK9U3XPD4/botan)
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**[00:19] Haori**
Hey, Hyoma!
**[00:22] Haori**
Were you waiting long?
**[00:24] Hyoma**
H-Haori?!
**[00:25] Hyoma**
Y-You...
**[00:27] Hyoma**
Wh-Why are you dressed like that?!
**[00:31] Haori**
You're dressed in your usual style, I see.
**[00:34] Haori**
Appearances are so important
for these things.
**[00:36] Haori**
You should really step it up.
**[00:38] Haori**
You're my boyfriend, aren't you?
**[00:40] Haori**
And we're heading out on a date.
**[00:43] Haori**
Come along, now.
**[00:45] Haori**
Oh, I know...
**[00:46] Haori**
Let's hold hands!
**[00:52] Hyoma**
*What...*
**[00:54] Hyoma**
*What in the world...*
**[00:56] Hyoma**
*have I gotten myself into?!*
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Botan
***SIGN*** 30 Minutes Earlier
**[02:37] (Flashback) Haori**
I'm back!
**[02:40] (Flashback) Kagami**
Welcome back, Haori!
**[02:41] (Flashback) Haori**
Kagami... tea, please.
**[02:44] (Flashback) Kagami**
Sure thing.
**[02:45] (Flashback) Kagami**
Where's Kushige?
**[02:49] (Flashback) Haori**
Anything happen while we were gone?
**[02:52] (Flashback) Kagami**
Well... Hyoma-san got
grilled by Aogi yesterday.
**[02:58] (Flashback) Haori**
I had a feeling.
**[03:00] (Flashback) Kagami**
But we made it through safe and sound!
**[03:03] (Flashback) Kagami**
I don't think there was
anything else weird...
**[03:05] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san!
**[03:09] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I must know more about you!
**[03:11] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Would you kindly go out with me?!
**[03:15] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I'm sorry to spring this on you suddenly.
**[03:17] (Flashback) Hyoma**
But this is an extremely
urgent matter for me.
**[03:24] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Well? Do you agree?
**[03:29] (Flashback) Hyoma**
P-Palm strike...
**[03:31] (Flashback) Botan**
I'm sorry, Hyoma-san...
**[03:34] (Flashback) Botan**
I have to hand in this report by 4:00 today!
**[03:38] (Flashback) Botan**
I've lost two nights' sleep over it!
**[03:40] (Flashback) Botan**
So I gotta go!
**[03:42] (Flashback) Botan**
Welcome home, Haori!
**[03:45] (Flashback) Haori**
T-Take care out there.
**[03:48] (Flashback) Haori**
What was that?
**[03:53] (Flashback) Hyoma**
That "Aogi" said that Nagatsuki-san
was a "yorimashi."
**[03:59] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I believe it is necessary for me to
ascertain the meaning of this term.
**[04:04] (Flashback) Haori**
So you wanted to "go out"
to ask Botan more about it?
**[04:07] (Flashback) Kagami**
It really sounded like
you were hitting on her.
**[04:11] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Yes. The way he spoke...
**[04:15] (Flashback) Hyoma**
He made it sound like there was
something about Nagatsuki-san
**[04:17] (Flashback) Hyoma**
that fundamentally attracts the inhuman.
**[04:22] (Flashback) Hyoma**
As a Saenome, I feel it
is crucial to protect her.
**[04:26] (Flashback) Hyoma**
If there's a reason she's under threat,
I must know what it is.
**[04:30] (Flashback) Kagami**
Wh-What should we do, Haori?
**[04:41] (Flashback) Haori**
Very well.
**[04:43] (Flashback) Kagami**
We can tell him?
**[04:44] (Flashback) Haori**
He's not acting out of mere curiosity.
**[04:48] (Flashback) Haori**
Besides, we'd have to tell him eventually.
**[04:51] (Flashback) Haori**
We're just speeding up the timeline.
**[04:53] (Flashback) Haori**
Leave this to me.
**[04:57] (Flashback) Haori**
Hyoma-san, prepare for an outing.
**[05:01] (Flashback) Haori**
I need to fix up my makeup.
**[05:03] (Flashback) Haori**
Would you meet me in front
of the convenience store?
**[05:06] (Flashback) Haori**
We'll be going on a date together!
**[05:12] (Flashback) Hyoma**
What?
**[05:15] Hyoma**
Honestly... I was wondering
what your game was.
**[05:20] Hyoma**
So this is it, eh?
**[05:25] Haori**
Hurry! She's turning!
**[05:26] Hyoma**
Keep your distance, Haori!
**[05:32] Haori**
Aren't we less conspicuous
if we look like a couple?
**[05:36] Hyoma**
I'm not especially comfortable
with any of this.
**[05:43] Hyoma**
But I need to ask...
**[05:45] Hyoma**
What even is the point of
tailing her like this?
**[05:48] Haori**
The first thing I need you to witness
**[05:51] Haori**
is the world in which she finds herself,
**[05:54] Haori**
the scenery of her everyday life.
**[05:58] Haori**
Kushige's barrier encompasses the
territory of the Nagatsuki estate.
**[06:02] Haori**
The barrier keeps many things out.
**[06:08] Hyoma**
Speaking of which, is Kushige still out?
**[06:17] Haori**
But when she leaves the mansion,
in the outside world...
**[06:22] Haori**
Go on.
**[06:23] Haori**
Perk up your senses,
and I think you'll notice it.
**[06:26] Haori**
You should be able to.
**[06:36] Hyoma**
*What in the world...*
**[06:38] Hyoma**
* The presences... no, the gazes...*
* of so many tsukumogami...*
**[06:45] Hyoma**
*They're all focused on Nagatsuki-san?!*
**[06:48] Hyoma**
*Not from any one direction, either.*
**[06:51] Hyoma**
*From all around her!*
**[06:53] Hyoma**
Damn it!
**[06:54] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-sa—
**[06:54] Haori**
Stop!
**[06:56] Haori**
Calm down, Hyoma.
**[06:58] Haori**
They're just watching.
**[07:01] Haori**
Breaths held, presences masked,
**[07:03] Haori**
they watch Botan, but go no further...
**[07:08] Haori**
They won't harm her.
**[07:10] Haori**
And she's aware of their eyes on her, as well.
**[07:15] Haori**
It's always been this way.
**[07:17] Haori**
She accepts it for what it is.
**[07:20] Haori**
Didn't I tell you?
**[07:22] Haori**
This is the scenery of Botan's daily life.
**[07:26] Hyoma**
That can't be...
**[07:28] Haori**
If you can't take that much on faith,
**[07:31] Haori**
then telling you any more is pointless.
**[07:35] Haori**
If you wish to know more,
then trust what I say.
**[07:41] Hyoma**
You're right.
**[07:43] Hyoma**
Of course.
***SIGN*** Report Turn-In Box
**[07:54] Botan**
What's the time?
**[07:56] Botan**
Yes!
**[07:57] Botan**
Th-Thank goodness!
**[08:00] Botan**
I made it just in time...
**[08:04] Kei**
Bon-chan!
**[08:06] Botan**
Kei... Natsuki...
**[08:08] Natsuki**
What, just turning it in now?
**[08:11] Kei**
You're usually more put-together
than that, Bon-chan!
**[08:14] Botan**
Well... My life's been pretty eventful lately.
**[08:17] Botan**
It's got me kind of distracted.
**[08:19] Natsuki**
Eventful *how*, I wonder?
**[08:21] Kei**
Distracted by *what*?
**[08:22] Kei**
A handsome new boyfriend, perhaps?
**[08:27] Botan**
A handsome...
**[08:30] Botan**
No, no, no!
**[08:30] Botan**
Of course not!
**[08:33] Botan**
I can't even imagine...
**[08:35] Botan**
* Wait, wasn't Hyoma-san*
* saying something earlier?*
**[08:40] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san!
**[08:42] Botan**
* I m-might be remembering wrong...*
* but he seemed pretty close to me!*
**[08:46] Botan**
*D-Darn it!*
**[08:48] Kei**
Yeah, I definitely have questions.
**[08:51] Natsuki**
Spill your guts!
**[08:53] Botan**
It's nothing! I mean it!
**[09:00] Haori**
A tsukumogami is born when a marebito
possesses an object to serve as its vessel.
**[09:07] Haori**
The word "marebito" originally referred to
**[09:10] Haori**
a visiting god bringing blessings
from a foreign land.
**[09:15] Haori**
And in a way, we do have
a sort of divine power.
**[09:18] Haori**
What else would you call the ability to
give life and new form to inanimate objects?
**[09:23] Hyoma**
Fair enough.
**[09:26] Haori**
You can also look at it this way.
**[09:29] Haori**
"'Tsukumogami' is the state of
being blessed by the marebito."
**[09:34] Haori**
There was a person who took
this idea to its logical conclusion...
**[09:37] Haori**
"What if a marebito chose
a different receptacle?"
**[09:42] Haori**
For instance... a human?
**[09:46] Haori**
A marebito can bring so much power
to even the most disposable of things.
**[09:50] Haori**
What if one were to dwell within a human?
**[09:51] Haori**
Would they not receive even greater power?
**[09:55] Haori**
Would they become a living god that
brings its blessings to the land of the living?
**[10:00] Haori**
And there was a person who
decided to put that to the test.
**[10:08] Haori**
The word "yorimashi" refers to
**[10:10] Haori**
a human possessed by a god.
**[10:15] Haori**
Botan carries within her a marebito,
just as we tsukumogami do.
**[10:22] Botan**
It's so cold!
**[10:24] Haori**
It hasn't yet awakened.
**[10:27] Haori**
But it is there.
**[10:31] Haori**
All who learn of this inevitably seek a way
**[10:35] Haori**
to turn Botan's still-uncertain
blessings to their own advantage.
**[10:39] Haori**
Whether they be tsukumogami... or human.
**[10:44] Haori**
If any one of them were to
approach Botan for that purpose,
**[10:47] Haori**
it would be a free-for-all, wouldn't it?
**[10:49] Haori**
Hence the shared law—
**[10:53] Haori**
"Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan."
***SIGN*** Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan
**[10:57] Haori**
None may actually approach her.
**[11:00] Haori**
Hence why they all merely
bide their time, watching.
**[11:04] Haori**
Of course, there's a lot of behind-the-scenes
finagling to keep everyone in check.
**[11:09] Hyoma**
I see.
**[11:11] Hyoma**
If you speak the truth, it explains
much of what Aogi said.
**[11:13] Aogi**
If it's true, it means
they broke the rules first.
**[11:17] (Flashback) Aogi**
It'll mean all-out war breaking out
among us for Nagatsuki Botan.
**[11:23] Hyoma**
And now, let me ask this...
**[11:26] Hyoma**
Where does this leave all of you?
**[11:29] Hyoma**
Can you swear to me that your proximity
to Nagatsuki-san has no ulterior motive?
**[11:32] Hyoma**
Tell me, Haori!
**[11:39] (Flashback) Girl 1**
You cut your hair?
**[11:40] (Flashback) Girl 2**
Looks cute!
**[11:41] (Flashback) Girl**
Thanks!
**[11:44] (Flashback) Teacher**
Nagatsuki-san.
**[11:46] (Flashback) Teacher**
She...
**[11:49] (Flashback) Teacher**
Botan-chan...
**[11:51] (Flashback) Teacher**
Sometimes I catch her just standing there,
staring into the distance
**[11:54] (Flashback) Teacher**
as if she's looking at something.
**[11:58] (Flashback) Teacher**
And whenever that happens...
**[12:03] (Flashback) Teacher**
Any children who are with her
suddenly become frightened.
**[12:07] (Flashback) Teacher**
When I ask them what's wrong, they say...
**[12:13] (Flashback) Teacher**
"It's so creepy."
**[12:16] (Flashback) Teacher**
"I feel like there are all
these eyes watching me."
**[12:22] (Flashback) Teacher**
As a teacher, I feel bad saying this,
**[12:26] (Flashback) Teacher**
but Botan-chan has this
unapproachable aura about her...
**[12:43] (Flashback) Haori**
Botan.
**[12:47] (Flashback) Haori**
Come on. Let's go home.
**[12:55] Botan**
*Okay.*
**[12:59] Haori**
Can I swear that our proximity
to Botan has no ulterior motive?
**[13:04] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[13:10] Haori**
That's a ridiculous question.
**[13:14] Haori**
Don't ask it again.
**[13:19] Haori**
We've watched her all this time.
**[13:23] Haori**
She was left in our care,
**[13:26] Haori**
and for the first three years,
until the aforementioned law propagated,
**[13:30] Haori**
she was not allowed to leave the estate.
**[13:35] Haori**
When she was finally allowed outside...
**[13:38] Haori**
Children, who naturally possess
a strong sixth sense, avoided her.
**[13:43] Haori**
Adults, seeing how their children acted,
also gave her a wide berth.
**[13:50] Haori**
The only ones who would draw near...
**[13:53] Haori**
were those drawn to her
marebito's power—be they human
**[13:58] Haori**
or monster.
**[14:23] Haori**
As we watched over her,
**[14:26] Haori**
a feeling began to take root within us.
**[14:32] Haori**
Not merely our feelings
as her bridal trousseau...
**[14:37] Haori**
But a kind of... parental love, I believe.
**[14:44] Haori**
It took years for her to be able to go out
without minding the eyes watching her.
**[14:49] Haori**
More years for her peers to
become numb to those eyes.
**[14:55] Haori**
And still more years for her to
be able to enjoy life with a smile.
**[15:03] Haori**
We have watched her all this time.
**[15:07] Haori**
Ulterior motives?
**[15:10] Haori**
I can say with confidence that we have none.
**[15:20] Haori**
Oh? You still have doubts?
**[15:24] Haori**
You know...
**[15:25] Haori**
Zohei-san has already given his
approval for us to stay with Botan.
**[15:31] Haori**
Are you questioning the judgment
of the head of House Kunato?
**[15:35] Haori**
Maybe I should tell him that.
**[15:42] Haori**
Well? What now?
**[15:46] Haori**
That's the entire story.
**[15:48] Haori**
You understand the position
she's in now, don't you?
**[15:51] Haori**
If you think she's more
trouble than she's worth,
**[15:55] Haori**
no one will object to you
returning to House Kunato.
**[16:01] Hyoma**
That thought never entered my mind.
**[16:03] Hyoma**
If I return now, I'll be exiled from the Saenome.
**[16:06] Hyoma**
Then I'll never achieve my goal.
**[16:10] Hyoma**
And...
**[16:13] Hyoma**
I will...
**[16:16] Hyoma**
I will protect her.
**[16:18] Hyoma**
From the moment I deemed that a necessity,
**[16:21] Hyoma**
leaving ceased to be an option.
**[16:27] Haori**
Yes. You can say that, can't you?
**[16:31] Haori**
See? He took it very well, didn't he,
**[16:34] Haori**
Kagami?
**[16:38] Kagami**
Yeah.
**[16:39] Kagami**
I followed along because I was worried, but...
**[16:44] Kagami**
I-I'm so glad!
**[16:49] Kagami**
It's no wonder you're Botan's future husband!
**[16:52] Haori**
Exactly!
**[16:53] Hyoma**
What?!
**[16:55] Hyoma**
Wait!
**[16:55] Hyoma**
I-Is that what this was about?
**[16:57] Haori**
"I will protect her"
means marriage, doesn't it?
**[17:00] Hyoma**
No!
**[17:02] Haori**
Don't be so shy, dear!
**[17:04] Kagami**
Yeah!
**[17:05] Hyoma**
I'm telling you, I didn't—
**[17:06] Botan**
Huh? You guys!
**[17:10] Botan**
What are you all doing out here?
**[17:15] Haori/Kagami**
Botan?!
**[17:16] Haori**
Wh-When did you get here?
**[17:18] Botan**
Well... I turned in my report,
and now I'm heading home.
**[17:22] Haori**
O-Oh! Did you make the deadline?
**[17:26] Botan**
Right at the buzzer.
**[17:27] Botan**
So, what's going on?
**[17:29] Kagami**
U-Um...
**[17:31] Haori**
J-Just a little get-together!
**[17:36] Botan**
Why are you dressed like that?
**[17:37] Haori**
For the get-together!
**[17:40] Botan**
A get-together? Here?
**[17:42] Haori**
They have the best sweet dumplings!
**[17:42] Hyoma**
Kagami.
**[17:44] Botan**
That's true... but something
still seems fishy here.
**[17:44] Hyoma**
I haven't had the opportunity to ask...
**[17:47] Haori**
Nothing's fishy at all!
**[17:47] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san's parents...
**[17:49] Hyoma**
Has she no close relatives
who would offer her aid?
**[17:55] Kagami**
We don't know anything about her parents.
**[17:58] Kagami**
Her grandfather was taking care
of her when we first met her.
**[18:01] Kagami**
When he died, there was someone who
came to visit Botan, worried about her...
**[18:08] Kagami**
But that helping hand never reached her.
**[18:15] Kagami**
She's seriously been through a lot.
**[18:21] Kagami**
She still carries deep scars on her heart.
**[18:24] Kagami**
And yet she still...
**[18:29] Hyoma**
I see.
**[18:31] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san is a strong person.
**[18:41] Hyoma**
It's gotten quite late.
**[18:43] Kagami**
Well, you had your date and all.
**[18:46] Hyoma**
Please don't talk about that.
**[18:49] Botan**
What? You told Hyoma-san about my past?
**[18:54] Haori**
Yes.
**[18:55] Haori**
It relates to his area of
specialization, after all,
**[18:58] Haori**
so I thought it best to inform him.
**[19:05] Haori**
What's the matter?
**[19:06] Botan**
It just makes me sound delusional, you know?!
**[19:10] Botan**
Like just the cringiest kind of nerd possible!
**[19:13] Botan**
*I sense the presence of the inhuman.*
**[19:16] Haori**
That kind of thing?
**[19:19] Haori**
But he really wanted to know.
**[19:22] Haori**
Also... did you forget that you hit him
with a palm strike on the way out?
**[19:30] Hyoma**
Excuse me.
**[19:32] Hyoma**
Is something the matter?
**[19:37] Botan**
I'm so sorry!
**[19:39] Botan**
That palm strike... I...
I didn't do it on purpose, I promise!
**[19:43] Hyoma**
Ah... well...
**[19:44] Hyoma**
I should have been more
mindful of my words, as well.
**[19:48] Botan**
And, um...
**[19:50] Botan**
Haori told you, right?
**[19:54] Botan**
About my... situation.
**[20:00] Hyoma**
Yes. She did.
**[20:04] Hyoma**
She did.
**[20:06] Hyoma**
And if I may be honest...
**[20:10] Hyoma**
I was truly impressed, Nagatsuki-san!
**[20:18] Hyoma**
To bear up under hardship
and carry on vibrantly...
**[20:22] Botan**
Well, it's not really...
**[20:24] Botan**
Huh?
**[20:26] Botan**
Isn't this where you're supposed to run off?
**[20:28] Botan**
To decide that I'm strange?
**[20:30] Hyoma**
I can think of no reason to do that.
**[20:32] Hyoma**
Though I will admit that I find your residency
among tsukumogami to be unusual.
**[20:39] Botan**
You have mentioned that, yeah.
**[20:43] Botan**
So...
**[20:50] Botan**
It's true. It didn't change anything.
**[20:54] Botan**
You heard all that about me...
and you were impressed?
**[21:01] Botan**
I've never gotten that reaction before.
**[21:06] Botan**
Yeah.
**[21:10] Botan**
It makes me happy, Hyoma-san.
**[21:20] Hyoma**
Er... well...
**[21:22] Kagami**
Botan!
**[21:26] Kagami**
I'm so happy!
**[21:28] Kagami**
Isn't that nice, Botan?
**[21:29] Botan**
Hey! What's with you two?
**[21:52] Hyoma**
I see now.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Quickening
# E7 - Quickening
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**[00:08] Botan**
So cold!
**[00:13] Botan**
Sorry, Kagami,
**[00:15] Botan**
for forcing you to do the shoveling and all.
**[00:18] Kagami**
Hey, no problem!
**[00:20] Kagami**
Good luck with your studies today, Botan!
**[00:23] Botan**
Thanks!
**[00:26] Hyoma**
Wow, it really snowed a lot.
**[00:29] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[00:32] Botan**
Don't you need to cover up a little more?
**[00:37] Hyoma**
The worse the weather conditions,
**[00:39] Hyoma**
the better it is for psychological training.
**[00:42] Botan**
No, no, no...
**[00:43] Botan**
You're definitely gonna catch cold like that!
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
**[00:47] Botan**
Here.
**[00:49] Botan**
Humor me, okay?
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
**[00:56] Hyoma**
You have my gratitude.
**[00:58] Hyoma**
Farewell!
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
***SIGN*** Hot Pack
**[01:03] Botan**
He's like a mischievous little boy.
**[01:06] Kagami**
Except he's all grown up.
**[01:10] Botan**
Well, I'm off.
**[01:13] Kagami**
Have a nice day!
**[01:18] Kagami**
Okay, then...
**[01:20] Kagami**
Let's get back to it!
**[01:23] Aogi**
Heya.
**[01:30] Suzuri**
Hey! It's been a while, hasn't it?
**[01:33] Suzuri**
I've got some questions for you, too,
**[01:36] Suzuri**
so I'm really happy you came...
**[01:39] Suzuri**
Aogi.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Quickening
**[03:24] Kagami**
Here.
**[03:25] Kagami**
Enjoy your tea!
**[03:31] Aogi**
I'm an errand boy today.
**[03:33] Aogi**
Once I've passed on my message,
I'll be out of your hair.
**[03:37] Suzuri**
Now, now.
**[03:38] Suzuri**
Kagami's just mad because
you hurt one of ours recently.
**[03:44] Aogi**
One of yours?
**[03:46] Suzuri**
Our houseguest, Kunato Hyoma.
**[03:50] Suzuri**
You made contact in the course
of your work, right?
**[03:53] Suzuri**
In the most predictable way.
**[03:56] Suzuri**
Make yourself comfortable.
**[04:00] Suzuri**
I have questions for you, too.
**[04:02] Suzuri**
I'd like to know how your employers
reacted when you made your report.
**[04:08] Aogi**
I bet you would.
**[04:10] Aogi**
We bought your story about Kunato's reason
for staying at the Nagatsuki household...
**[04:17] Aogi**
But while we did pass it on, we have a
handful of clients who have their doubts.
**[04:23] Aogi**
You wanna know who might be
pressing the issue pretty soon, right?
**[04:28] Suzuri**
Precisely.
**[04:30] Aogi**
Can't give that up for free, though.
**[04:33] Aogi**
You got any info of equal value for me?
**[04:36] Suzuri**
I have information that could be
crucial to you in the very near future.
**[04:41] Aogi**
Oh?
**[04:42] Suzuri**
You haven't been here in a while,
so you may be unaware.
**[04:47] Suzuri**
Our neighborhood's grown
quite dangerous of late.
**[04:51] Suzuri**
I'm not kidding.
**[04:53] Suzuri**
You could get jumped at any minute out there.
**[04:56] Suzuri**
It's dangerous for anyone
walking around alone.
**[04:59] Suzuri**
But...
**[05:01] Suzuri**
I could recommend a route
**[05:04] Suzuri**
that would let you make it back safe,
without any ill encounters.
**[05:09] Aogi**
I-Is that a threat?!
**[05:11] Suzuri**
What? How could you suggest such a thing?
**[05:15] Suzuri**
Besides, you're the one who attacked
the next head of House Kunato,
**[05:19] Suzuri**
who'd done nothing wrong.
**[05:22] Suzuri**
I think you owe us one for
keeping that on the down low.
**[05:27] Aogi**
I got over a dozen requests
about the same thing,
**[05:30] Aogi**
but most of 'em heard
my report and backed down.
**[05:34] Aogi**
"Kunato's staying with the Nagatsukis
for training purposes."
**[05:38] Aogi**
"That means the law hasn't been broken."
**[05:42] Aogi**
Those folks will probably stay quiet.
**[05:45] Aogi**
But I had three clients who remained...
a little skeptical.
**[05:49] Aogi**
The group of the tsukumogami
you sealed that included Hikaki,
**[05:53] Aogi**
known as the Sogenbi.
**[05:57] Aogi**
The Saenome representative
protecting Kyoto, the Kadomori Faction.
**[06:01] Aogi**
And one of the Three Great Tsukumogami
of Kyoto, the Bureau of Traditional Music.
**[06:06] Aogi**
Those three didn't seem inclined
to back off so easily.
**[06:10] Aogi**
A human, like a tsukumogami,
in whom a marebito dwells...
**[06:15] Aogi**
Nagatsuki Botan possesses unknown potential.
**[06:19] Aogi**
When there's a powerful human who could
provoke it, like Kunato Hyoma, nearby...
**[06:27] Aogi**
It's only a matter of time before
someone offers up a complaint.
**[06:30] Aogi**
The question is just if they come
after you guys, the Kunato kid,
**[06:34] Aogi**
Nagatsuki Botan herself, or all of you.
**[06:38] Aogi**
But I wouldn't know.
**[06:41] Suzuri**
Might I ask which faction
you think will move first?
**[06:45] Aogi**
Let's see...
**[06:47] Aogi**
Hang on! You can't make me share that, too!
**[06:49] Suzuri**
Oh, is that too much?
**[06:51] Aogi**
Or maybe you can...
**[06:54] Aogi**
Truth is, I've got a message
from the lead-off hitter.
**[06:58] Aogi**
Remember? I said I was
playing errand boy today.
**[07:03] Aogi**
They're calling you out.
**[07:05] Aogi**
The group of the three with whom
you've had the most dealings...
**[07:10] Aogi**
Protectors of Kyoto, the Kadomori.
**[07:14] Aogi**
The Saenome branch
who watch over this region.
**[07:29] Nagi**
Suzuri!
**[07:30] Nagi**
Good work.
**[07:32] Suzuri**
You bet it was work!
**[07:33] Suzuri**
Why did I have to deal with him alone?
**[07:36] Nagi**
Well, I'd... probably have hit him.
**[07:39] Kagami**
And I can't keep my cool around Aogi.
**[07:42] Nagi**
You're the only one he'd open up to.
**[07:45] Kagami**
Yeah, yeah!
**[07:47] Kagami**
That's our smooth talker!
**[07:50] Nagi**
Good job!
**[07:51] Suzuri**
Oh, r-really?
**[07:52] Suzuri**
Well, I *did* think I'd handled it pretty well...
**[07:56] Kagami**
But I was surprised to hear the Bureau
of Traditional Music might get involved.
**[08:01] Kagami**
Even Kai was happy to just wait and see...
**[08:04] Nagi**
You think there are any others?
**[08:06] Suzuri**
Most likely.
**[08:08] Suzuri**
There are probably a few things
Aogi's keeping close to his chest.
**[08:12] Aogi**
Damn it!
**[08:13] Aogi**
It's not like I was sworn
to silence or anything,
**[08:17] Aogi**
but it pisses me off that
I had to tell him all that crap!
**[08:21] Aogi**
I've got just one piece of info left.
**[08:24] Aogi**
* No... that encounter the other*
* day is still too ambiguous.*
**[08:32] (Flashback) Shigure**
Hey.
**[08:33] (Flashback) Shigure**
Were you the one investigating Kunato?
**[08:38] Aogi**
*What?*
**[08:41] Aogi**
*Is that... a tsukumogami?*
**[08:44] (Flashback) Shigure**
Hey... tell me what you learned, would you?
**[08:48] (Flashback) Aogi**
Can't give that up for free.
**[08:50] (Flashback) Aogi**
You've gotta give me some info in exchange.
**[08:53] (Flashback) Aogi**
For instance...
**[08:55] (Flashback) Aogi**
Tell me who you are.
**[09:00] (Flashback) Shigure**
Oh, really?
**[09:02] (Flashback) Shigure**
Too bad.
**[09:09] (Flashback) Aogi**
Creepy.
**[09:12] Aogi**
* He's got the prestigious and the weirdos*
* all coming out of the woodwork.*
**[09:16] Aogi**
*Life's gonna be hard for that kid pretty soon.*
**[09:19] Aogi**
Can't wait to see how it goes.
**[09:23] Aogi**
Will he navigate the stormy
seas coming his way?
**[09:28] Nagi**
Hey, hey.
**[09:31] Nagi**
Clothes really make the man, eh?
**[09:34] Hyoma**
I haven't yet received formal permission
to act in Kyoto, after all.
**[09:38] Hyoma**
It's common sense to dress for the occasion.
**[09:41] Suzuri**
Even though they're my clothes?
**[09:44] Nagi**
You ever met Kadomori before?
**[09:47] Hyoma**
No.
**[09:49] Hyoma**
But I heard about him from my grandfather.
**[09:53] Hyoma**
He puts up the front of a sly old man,
**[09:56] Hyoma**
but he's a bird of prey.
**[09:59] Taiju**
Took you long enough to see me,
but I won't hold it against you.
**[10:02] Taiju**
Zohei told me the whole story.
**[10:05] Taiju**
And I'm sure you've had your hands
full getting acclimated here.
**[10:10] Hyoma**
*A bird of prey.*
**[10:12] Hyoma**
*An accurate description.*
**[10:14] Hyoma**
*The Saenome representative in Kyoto,*
**[10:17] Hyoma**
*Kadomori Taiju.*
**[10:25] Hyoma**
What is this?
**[10:26] Taiju**
A call bell.
**[10:28] Taiju**
The sounds he makes will call out
any tsukumogami nearby.
**[10:33] Taiju**
We made him a special exception
since his power's so useful.
**[10:36] Taiju**
He does good work for us.
**[10:39] Taiju**
Why not sit down and watch with me?
**[10:46] Hyoma**
Regarding my license to act here...
**[10:49] Taiju**
None of that, now.
**[10:51] Shota**
Who's that?
**[10:52] Umekichi**
Some Kunato kid.
**[10:55] Shota**
Hmph! Watching us work, eh?
Must think he's hot shit.
**[10:59] Shota**
He's a spoiled brat from the sticks.
**[11:01] Umekichi**
Yeah, I know. Just stop talking.
**[11:04] Umekichi**
It's here.
**[11:10] Umekichi**
Time to get to work.
**[11:12] Taiju**
There we go.
**[11:15] Taiju**
Not gonna sit?
**[11:18] Taiju**
Ah, youth.
**[11:29] Taiju**
Our fights are more or less orthodox.
**[11:32] Taiju**
We use the power of our talismans
to hold down the target,
**[11:36] Taiju**
and while they're frozen,
drive sealing power into their dan tian.
***SIGN*** Kadomori
***SIGN*** Kadomori
**[11:57] Umekichi**
Seal.
**[12:09] Hyoma**
I see.
**[12:10] Hyoma**
* Kyoto is a battleground where*
* tsukumogami spawn frequently.*
**[12:14] Hyoma**
* You'd need significant skill*
* to keep it under control.*
**[12:18] Taiju**
They're about average for us.
**[12:21] Taiju**
As the next head of the Saenome,
what do you think?
**[12:25] Hyoma**
Excellent.
**[12:26] Shota**
Tch.
**[12:28] Shota**
Nice to have the approval of
a rich brat from nowheresville.
**[12:32] Taiju**
He can hear you, dummy.
**[12:34] Taiju**
Sorry, we've got our own share of issues.
**[12:39] Taiju**
Too many hooligans in our ranks, for one thing.
**[12:42] Taiju**
But worst of all, we're lacking in manpower.
**[12:47] Taiju**
So I won't object if you want to keep
up the business while you're here.
**[12:53] Taiju**
I'd welcome it, in fact.
**[12:57] Hyoma**
I'm grateful to hear that.
**[13:00] Taiju**
I know Zohei already gave his permission,
but I figured I'd give it as well,
**[13:06] Taiju**
as the local representative.
**[13:08] Taiju**
Just report in every now and then.
**[13:11] Taiju**
Also, could I ask you one more thing?
**[13:15] Hyoma**
Yes?
**[13:16] Taiju**
Well...
**[13:18] Taiju**
It's about the Nagatsuki household.
**[13:23] Professor**
The Heian Period was a time of great
change in the history of Japanese poetry.
**[13:28] Professor**
*The Tale of Genji* integrated
traditional poetry into prose,
**[13:32] Botan**
*Maybe I'll make stew tonight.*
**[13:32] Professor**
which had a massive influence
on future generations...
**[13:35] Botan**
*Yeah, let's do stew.*
**[13:38] Botan**
*It'll warm us all up.*
**[13:40] Botan**
*I was really worried at first,*
**[13:43] Botan**
* but Hyoma-san's really feeling*
* like a member of the family.*
**[13:48] Taiju**
I'll admit, I was shocked
when Aogi mentioned it to me.
**[13:54] Taiju**
When I heard you were staying
with the Nagatsukis,
**[13:58] Taiju**
I thought the Kunato were
finally making their move...
**[14:02] Taiju**
But is it true you're really
just there to observe?
**[14:07] Taiju**
Yeah, that was a shock.
**[14:10] Hyoma**
Representative Kadomori.
**[14:12] Hyoma**
How does your clan view the Nagatsukis?
**[14:17] Taiju**
Seems like monsters and
monsters living side by side
**[14:22] Taiju**
in one happy damn monster family.
**[14:27] Taiju**
You've heard what Nagatsuki Botan is already?
**[14:30] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[14:31] Taiju**
You get it, then.
**[14:33] Taiju**
Outrageous, eh?
**[14:36] Taiju**
What'll happen when that marebito
inside her finally awakens?
**[14:42] Taiju**
I've heard theories here and there,
**[14:45] Taiju**
but I'd say the most likely one is...
**[14:47] Taiju**
The same way a human
takes ownership of objects,
**[14:51] Taiju**
a human possessed by a marebito
**[14:53] Taiju**
would have ownership of marebito.
**[14:56] Taiju**
In other words, she'd become
the master of all tsukumogami...
**[15:01] Taiju**
Or something like that.
**[15:04] Taiju**
It'd be one thing if we could
keep her under our control,
**[15:09] Taiju**
but with no guarantee there, she's like
a ticking time bomb in our midst.
**[15:14] Taiju**
Who wouldn't want to get rid of it?
**[15:18] Taiju**
The reason we can't is because she's
got a wall around her at all times,
**[15:24] Taiju**
and because her household
isn't under our jurisdiction,
**[15:26] Taiju**
but that of the leader of all Saenome.
**[15:30] Taiju**
So there's no one else I can ask.
**[15:34] Taiju**
You've made it inside the wall,
and you're a Kunato on top of that.
**[15:40] Taiju**
Would you seal up the Nagatsuki tsukumogami
**[15:43] Taiju**
and do away with Nagatsuki Botan for us?
**[15:46] Taiju**
I'd love to hear a yes.
**[15:49] Taiju**
I might not be able to restrain my
little band of hooligans otherwise.
**[15:53] Taiju**
You get my meaning, don't you?
**[15:57] Hyoma**
My answer is no.
**[16:00] Hyoma**
My answer is no.
**[16:04] Hyoma**
I don't believe that
Nagatsuki Botan is a monster.
**[16:08] Hyoma**
And as I consider myself
a protector of humans,
**[16:11] Hyoma**
it would be unacceptable for
me to "do away" with one.
**[16:14] Hyoma**
Furthermore, I have developed
a fondness for that family.
**[16:19] Hyoma**
Therefore...
**[16:21] Hyoma**
My answer is no!
**[16:22] Taiju**
H-He said it three times?
**[16:25] Taiju**
Three times...
***SIGN*** U
L
T
R
A
J
U
M
P
**[16:33] Taiju**
He means it, eh?
**[16:36] Taiju**
Seems like he means it.
**[16:39] Taiju**
And that means... what a fool I am.
**[16:47] Taiju**
Of course a sheltered little boy
would be hopelessly naïve.
**[16:52] Taiju**
Politeness would've dictated
an answer of "yes."
**[16:56] Taiju**
I meant what I told you before.
**[16:59] Taiju**
I couldn't dream of a better vessel for
taking care of the Nagatsuki situation.
**[17:03] Taiju**
I'll make use of you,
even if I need to force you into it.
**[17:06] Taiju**
Say "yes" now, and you can avoid a lot of pain.
**[17:10] Taiju**
Well? Will you cooperate?
**[17:13] Hyoma**
No!
**[17:16] Taiju**
Just as I'd expect of Zohei's grandson...
**[17:19] Taiju**
A total fool.
**[17:23] Shota**
Go on, damn it!
**[17:24] Umekichi**
Oh, shut up!
**[17:35] Hyoma**
I have no intention of changing my mind.
**[17:39] Hyoma**
If you attempt to control me
by force, I will fight back.
**[17:45] Shota**
How'd he endure that?!
**[17:47] Taiju**
*Guess he's more than a little rich boy.*
**[17:51] Hyoma**
Saenome of Kyoto...
**[17:54] Hyoma**
Come to me.
**[17:58] Tsubaki**
Guess he's got his share
of battlefield experience.
**[18:04] Taiju**
The fools got careless.
**[18:06] Taiju**
Nice work, canceling out the
explosive power of the talismans.
**[18:11] Taiju**
Without protective charms or
experience fighting tsukumogami,
**[18:15] Taiju**
you wouldn't carry a talisman
to cancel that out.
**[18:19] Hyoma**
Correct.
**[18:24] Taiju**
But even if you've got real-life experience,
**[18:27] Taiju**
the Tohoku region,
overseen by the Kunato Clan,
**[18:31] Taiju**
is a safe place full of meek
and docile tsukumogami.
**[18:36] Taiju**
About the only being there on par with
the Three Great Tsukumogami of Kyoto...
**[18:44] Taiju**
is the legendary monster that stole tiles
**[18:46] Taiju**
from all houses that fell
within the range of its power,
**[18:49] Taiju**
and used them to destroy
two villages in one night...
**[18:56] Taiju**
The Onigawara of Ou.
**[19:01] Taiju**
And they say the Onigawara
went into seclusion, so...
**[19:04] Taiju**
The place where you did the training
that earned you so many scars...
**[19:10] Taiju**
From our perspective,
**[19:12] Taiju**
it's like a bonus stage without a boss.
**[19:17] Hyoma**
Those are...
**[19:19] Hyoma**
Control talismans?
**[19:21] Hyoma**
I see. You had them on the "call bell" earlier.
**[19:24] Hyoma**
Using talismans to control tsukumogami...
**[19:27] Hyoma**
That's how you do things, then?
**[19:30] Taiju**
Exactly.
**[19:32] Taiju**
Most of them are naughty brats
we caught playing pranks.
**[19:36] Taiju**
And our motto is to use
whatever's available to us.
**[19:40] Taiju**
Tsukumogami are just extensions
of objects, anyway.
**[19:44] Taiju**
We're just using those objects
to the best of our ability.
**[19:47] Taiju**
We'll make use of you later as well,
**[19:50] Taiju**
so for now, enjoy a taste of a real battlefield.
**[19:58] Taiju**
With pleasure.
**[20:03] Shota**
He's down for it?
**[20:05] Taiju**
Matsu, you know what to do.
**[20:08] Taiju**
Wear him down, then stick him
with a binding talisman.
**[20:14] Shota**
Yeah, I know.
**[20:16] Hyoma**
Incidentally, I've been wondering...
**[20:19] Hyoma**
Who is that girl there?
**[20:23] Taiju**
Oh, her?
**[20:27] Taiju**
She's my daughter.
**[20:30] Taiju**
Tsubaki, what's your pleasure?
**[20:33] Taiju**
Going to take part?
**[20:39] Tsubaki**
Nah, he's too cute. I'll pass.
**[20:42] Taiju**
All right.
**[20:58] Hyoma**
*A tamasudare toy?*
**[21:18] Shota**
Is that... the Kunato Clan's...
**[21:22] Tsubaki**
That shape...
**[21:24] Taiju**
* The ritual tool of House Kunato,*
* handed down directly from Saenokami...*
**[21:29] Taiju**
*The "door pull," Chibiki-iwa.*
**[21:31] Taiju**
*He's not hesitating to pull out all the stops.*
**[21:34] Taiju**
* He'll do whatever it takes*
* to kill tsukumogami.*
**[21:38] Taiju**
*The kid's a little too ready for this.*
**[21:42] Taiju**
* I'd heard his siblings were*
* killed by a tsukumogami,*
**[21:47] Taiju**
*but that hatred of his...*
**[21:49] Taiju**
*He's nursed it far beyond what I expected.*
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Circumstances
# E8 - Circumstances
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**[00:01] Nagi**
Old man Zohei mentioned it to me...
**[00:04] Nagi**
Apparently Hyoma's first real fight
happened when he was twelve.
***SIGN*** Wild Caught in the North Sea
Dried Squid
***SIGN*** Wild Caught in the North Sea
Dried Squid
***SIGN*** Greengrocer
Noriki
**[00:09] Suzuri**
Twelve?
**[00:10] Nagi**
His hatred of tsukumogami
spurred him to look up some info,
**[00:14] Nagi**
run off on his own,
**[00:16] Nagi**
and risk his life hunting down tsukumogami.
***SIGN*** Dried Goods
***SIGN*** Sugitora
**[00:21] Nagi**
"The Onigawara of Ou."
**[00:24] Nagi**
That's a tsukumogami they had up there,
about as powerful as us.
**[00:28] Nagi**
Hyoma destroyed the thing at eighteen.
**[00:32] Suzuri**
What?!
**[00:34] Nagi**
Totally stupid, right?
**[00:36] Nagi**
I could hardly believe it.
**[00:37] Nagi**
But he survived that desperate battle.
**[00:42] Nagi**
Hyoma's damn strong.
**[01:00] Hyoma**
Well, Representative Kadomori?
**[01:04] Hyoma**
Is that everything?
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Circumstances
**[02:50] Taiju**
Curious.
**[02:52] Taiju**
What'd I say before?
**[02:56] Shota**
Big moves like that must
tire him out pretty fast.
**[03:00] Taiju**
Hold it.
**[03:02] Taiju**
Let's play a bit longer.
**[03:11] Hyoma**
There's more?
**[03:16] Hyoma**
You're...
**[03:20] Hyoma**
Yagen!
***SIGN*** — Yagen —
**[03:24] Taiju**
* Guess it was worth hitting*
* him with that curveball.*
**[03:28] Taiju**
* See? I really do use*
* every resource available.*
**[03:34] Hyoma**
I see.
**[03:36] Hyoma**
After I left you, you were placed
in the service of the Kyoto Saenome.
**[03:40] Hyoma**
I never thought I'd meet you again like this.
**[03:45] Hyoma**
Yagen...
**[03:50] (Flashback) Hayato**
"Tsukumogami are not people,
but should be used like the objects they are"?
**[03:56] (Flashback) Hayato**
You Kadomoris see tsukumogami
as tools and nothing more, then?
**[04:00] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
You think it's gross? We hear that a lot.
**[04:03] (Flashback) Hayato**
Well, the custom has let you
keep Kyoto safe, hasn't it?
**[04:07] (Flashback) Hayato**
That's an admirable thing.
**[04:09] (Flashback) Hayato**
And Kadomori-san is
unflinching in his belief.
**[04:13] (Flashback) Hayato**
People like that are very strong.
**[04:17] Tsubaki**
Strong, huh?
**[04:41] Shota**
He's not as sharp as he was before, eh?
**[04:43] Taiju**
*I thought so.*
**[04:46] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I have developed a fondness for that family.
**[04:49] Taiju**
* Explains why he didn't speak*
* solely of Nagatsuki Botan,*
**[04:52] Taiju**
*but of that tsukumogami "family."*
**[04:56] Taiju**
* The brat's developed*
* sympathies for tsukumogami.*
**[05:02] Taiju**
*At least, he's starting to.*
**[05:06] Taiju**
* He's every bit the fighter*
* I heard, of course.*
**[05:09] Taiju**
*The blade of hatred knows no mercy.*
**[05:13] Taiju**
* But set a familiar face after him,*
* and suddenly he's wracked with doubt...*
**[05:18] Taiju**
*Zohei...*
**[05:20] Taiju**
* You sent the boy here to understand*
* tsukumogami better and grow in the process.*
**[05:25] Taiju**
*It backfired on you.*
**[05:28] Taiju**
*It's made him fragile.*
**[05:34] Taiju**
*Hey, kiddo...*
**[05:36] Taiju**
* If you lose here,*
* I'm gonna take you into custody.*
**[05:40] Taiju**
*And even if you do finish off Yagen...*
**[05:43] Taiju**
* While your mind's gone blank from destroying*
* something you had tender feelings for,*
**[05:47] Taiju**
*I'll hit you with a control talisman.*
**[05:50] Taiju**
*It'll be hard to fight that one.*
**[05:57] Hyoma**
Yagen, you've had more than your
share of misfortune, haven't you?
**[06:08] Taiju**
*Yes.*
**[06:09] Taiju**
*There's the right choice to make.*
**[06:11] Taiju**
*They're only objects, after all.*
**[06:14] Taiju**
*But I've won the day!*
**[06:32] Hyoma**
Well? What's next?!
**[06:34] Taiju**
*H-How...*
**[06:37] Taiju**
*How's he still so calm?!*
**[06:45] Yagen**
*What?*
**[06:50] Yagen**
*I...*
**[06:51] Taiju**
*He saved it?!*
**[06:53] Taiju**
* That's why he let it get close enough*
* to put himself in danger of a hit,*
**[06:58] Taiju**
*so he could strip the talisman off its face?!*
**[07:02] Yagen**
What happened to my clothes?!
**[07:05] Taiju**
Why?
**[07:07] Taiju**
You didn't have to save it.
**[07:10] Taiju**
Why'd you choose the toughest
way around the problem?
**[07:14] Hyoma**
That's an absurd question.
**[07:16] Hyoma**
It was instinct.
**[07:18] Hyoma**
Instinct told me that that was the only way.
**[07:20] Hyoma**
I followed that instinct.
**[07:25] Tsubaki**
The old, "Don't think, feel," huh?
**[07:28] Tsubaki**
He's just like they told me.
**[07:31] Hayato**
* We've got someone like that*
* in our family, too.*
**[07:34] (Flashback) Hayato**
He just barrels forward in
the direction he believes in,
**[07:37] (Flashback) Hayato**
halfway between foolish and valiant.
**[07:41] (Flashback) Hayato**
But he's unflinching in
every belief he's ever held.
**[07:45] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
Is he your...
**[07:47] (Flashback) Hayato**
Yeah. He's our little brother, Hyoma.
**[07:52] Tsubaki**
Papa, can we be done for now?
**[07:55] Tsubaki**
My brothers lost all their pieces,
so it's kind of a stalemate.
**[07:59] Taiju**
You stay out of this, Tsubaki!
**[08:02] Tsubaki**
Now, Papa...
**[08:04] Tsubaki**
If you escalate things any further...
**[08:08] Tsubaki**
I might be forced to take Hyoma-chan's side.
**[08:13] Hyoma**
Formation talismans?
**[08:15] Tsubaki**
I've grown to like him, see?
**[08:20] Taiju**
Another unruly child, eh?
**[08:25] Taiju**
Matsu, get up already!
**[08:29] Taiju**
You too, Tsubaki. Get Ume up.
**[08:32] Tsubaki**
All right!
**[08:37] Hyoma**
What now, Representative Kadomori?
**[08:39] Taiju**
What do you think?
**[08:43] Taiju**
I might've overdone it a bit.
**[08:45] Taiju**
You passed!
**[08:46] Taiju**
You passed with flying colors, Hyoma-kun!
**[08:49] Taiju**
While I gave you permission to operate,
I wanted to test you a bit, as well.
**[08:52] Taiju**
And while I might've been
trying to test your power,
**[08:54] Taiju**
I probably got a little too mean
about Nagatsuki-san in the process!
**[08:57] Taiju**
But now I can see the whole picture.
**[09:00] Taiju**
You've got strength and resolve in spades!
**[09:04] Taiju**
I think you'll get by in this town.
**[09:14] Hyoma**
I-Is that what it was about?
**[09:18] Taiju/Shota/Umekichi**
*Simpleton.*
**[09:20] Taiju**
I'll let you take custody of Yagen.
**[09:22] Taiju**
She'll be under Kunato jurisdiction now.
**[09:27] Taiju**
Hyoma-kun...
**[09:29] Taiju**
You're an interesting one.
**[09:32] Taiju**
Hope to see more of you.
**[09:36] Tsubaki**
Hey.
**[09:38] Tsubaki**
You owe me one for today.
**[09:40] Tsubaki**
Drop me a line sometime.
**[09:41] Tsubaki**
We'll have a nice, long talk...
**[09:45] Tsubaki**
Reminiscing about Hayato-san and Kusui-san.
**[09:50] Hyoma**
You're...
**[09:52] Tsubaki**
Tsubaki.
**[09:53] Tsubaki**
Kadomori Tsubaki.
**[09:55] Tsubaki**
Later!
**[10:01] Yagen**
Excuse me.
**[10:03] Yagen**
Do you know what's going on here?
**[10:05] Yagen**
And... what should I do?
**[10:08] Hyoma**
I'll explain everything on the way.
**[10:11] Hyoma**
For now, come along.
**[10:15] Botan**
Hang on!
**[10:16] Botan**
Kushige fell asleep in the bath?!
**[10:18] Suzuri**
Yeah, apparently he's been drinking for days.
**[10:21] Botan**
Haori, look after him!
**[10:23] Botan**
Yu, a change of clothes! Kagami, wet a towel!
**[10:26] Nagi**
Hey, Botan! Do I smell something burning?
**[10:29] Hyoma**
Kushige's back, then?
**[10:31] Yagen**
What is this? A den of iniquity?
**[10:34] Hyoma**
Why would you say that?
It's the Nagatsuki estate.
**[10:37] Yagen**
The demon castle of
those tsukumogami-hunters?!
**[10:40] Hyoma**
You still believe that?
**[10:43] Hyoma**
I contacted the Kunato.
**[10:45] Hyoma**
Someone will be by to get you tomorrow.
**[10:48] Hyoma**
You'll only have to stay here one night.
**[10:52] Botan**
Oh! Welcome back, Hyoma-san!
**[10:55] Botan**
Why are you all wrecked?!
**[10:57] Hyoma**
No reason.
**[10:59] Botan**
H-Hold on a minute!
**[11:02] (Flashback) Taiju**
Who wouldn't want to get rid of it?
**[11:06] Hyoma**
*Those eyes...*
**[11:07] Hyoma**
* I don't know exactly*
* how far he intended to go,*
**[11:10] Hyoma**
* but his eyes, in that moment,*
* were completely sincere.*
**[11:15] (Flashback) Haori**
Children and adults both
gave Botan a wide berth.
**[11:18] Hyoma**
* Nagatsuki-san's been subjected*
* to that all her life.*
**[11:31] Botan**
Sorry.
**[11:32] Botan**
It's just, you always seem to
come back a little beat up.
**[11:36] Botan**
You're like some rambunctious little kid.
**[11:40] Botan**
Well? Come inside.
**[11:44] Botan**
What's wrong?
**[11:46] Hyoma**
Nothing.
**[11:48] Hyoma**
The sight of your face
seems to have set me at ease.
**[11:53] Botan**
Uh... Um... Huh?
**[11:57] Hyoma**
Forgive me. It's nothing.
**[12:00] Hyoma**
Anyway, Yagen!
**[12:04] Hyoma**
Forgive me, Nagatsuki-san.
**[12:06] Hyoma**
Would it be possible to
house her here for a day?
**[12:12] Botan**
*Tattered clothing... Injuries...*
**[12:16] Botan**
* Clothing messed up...*
* Beautiful girl who looks scared...*
**[12:25] Hyoma**
I merely took pity on an unfortunate woman!
**[12:26] Botan**
*Explain the situation.*
**[12:27] Botan**
Such a martyr.
**[12:30] Suzuri**
My clothing...
**[12:31] Botan**
*Look after Kushige.*
**[12:34] Nagi**
Drink!
**[12:34] Botan**
* And a welcome party for Yagen...*
* as a pretense for drinking.*
**[12:35] Suzuri**
And give me your email address!
**[12:38] Haori**
So Yagen-san will be heading out tomorrow?
**[12:40] Botan**
*And tomorrow's the deadline for my report...*
**[12:41] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[12:42] Yu**
Wanna drink? Let's drink!
**[12:45] Haori**
What? You finished it?
**[12:49] Botan**
I guess yesterday's hub-bub
helped to clear my head!
**[12:52] Haori**
The others all went shopping.
**[12:55] Haori**
Suzuri wanted to buy clothes.
**[12:57] Botan**
What about you?
**[12:58] Haori**
I need to tend to Kushige, of course.
**[13:01] Botan**
I see!
**[13:02] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki-san, I'm heading out now.
**[13:05] Botan**
Huh? Oh... to see off Yagen-san?
**[13:08] Hyoma**
Yes. There's a place she wanted
to visit before she leaves,
**[13:13] Botan**
so we're leaving a bit early.
**[13:14] Botan**
Oh...
**[13:16] Haori**
Hey, Botan.
**[13:18] Haori**
Why don't you go with them?
**[13:20] Botan**
Huh?
**[13:21] Haori**
I really think you should.
**[13:23] Haori**
Think about the situation Hyoma-san's in.
**[13:27] Haori**
Heading out *alone* with a beautiful woman...
**[13:30] Haori**
What could such things lead to?!
**[13:34] Hyoma**
Please accompany me, Nagatsuki-san.
**[13:36] Hyoma**
I wish there to be no doubts
about the situation.
**[13:40] Yagen**
Well... I'd really appreciate
you coming with me.
**[13:44] Yagen**
His eyes are so scary.
**[13:47] Botan**
*Yeah, I get that.*
**[13:49] Botan**
Maybe I'll just do that, then.
**[13:55] Yagen**
I feel like I once spent
a great deal of time there,
**[14:00] Yagen**
as a tool with its master.
**[14:04] Yagen**
I'd like to see it once before I go.
**[14:07] Hyoma**
Your vessel's memories?
**[14:11] Yagen**
Yes, most likely...
**[14:13] Yagen**
But it's like a memory from a past life,
**[14:15] Yagen**
so while I have strong attachments
to my hometown and my master,
**[14:19] Yagen**
I can't clearly summon
its location, or his face.
**[14:24] Hyoma**
*Marebito are like lost children.*
**[14:28] Hyoma**
It's a difficult issue.
**[14:29] Hyoma**
You rarely hear of a tsukumogami
so influenced by its vessel.
**[14:34] Botan**
Do you think that going there
will trigger some memories for you?
**[14:40] Yagen**
That seems unlikely.
**[14:43] Yagen**
My time as a mere mortar wheel
was likely centuries ago.
**[14:48] Hyoma**
There's likely no trace left.
**[14:51] Botan**
Sorry I asked such a stupid question.
**[14:53] Yagen**
Oh, it's fine...
**[14:55] Yagen**
I can't even be sure
that this is where it was.
**[15:00] Yagen**
Before I became a special exception,
I visited it several times out of curiosity...
**[15:06] Yagen**
But I never learned anything.
**[15:09] (Flashback) Suzuri**
The feelings of comfort felt by the
mortar wheel that became your vessel
**[15:13] (Flashback) Suzuri**
transferred into you.
**[15:16] Yagen**
*That's why I wanted to know...*
**[15:18] Yagen**
* If the source of those outpouring emotions,*
* and the one toward whom they were felt,*
**[15:23] Yagen**
*really existed.*
**[15:27] Yagen**
Yes, I suppose there's nothing here.
**[15:31] Yagen**
But please hear me, my master...
**[15:33] Yagen**
Because of you, your mortar wheel
truly loves the world of the living.
**[15:38] Yagen**
Thank you.
**[15:43] Hyoma**
Have you had enough?
**[15:44] Yagen**
Yes, more than enough.
**[15:46] Yagen**
And...
**[15:47] Yagen**
I'd hate to take up any more
of the happy couple's time.
**[15:52] Hyoma/Botan**
What?!
**[15:54] Yagen**
Well, I was told that you were engaged.
**[15:56] Hyoma/Botan**
No!
**[15:58] Botan**
That engagement stuff is
all Haori and the others' idea!
**[16:01] Hyoma**
Indeed! Nagatsuki-san and I do
not yet have any such relationship!
**[16:04] Botan**
*Yet*?!
**[16:05] Hyoma**
Wh-What did I say?!
**[16:09] Hyoma**
The Kunatos have a similar rule about their
special exceptions needing to work,
**[16:13] Hyoma**
but it won't be as unilateral
as it was with the Kadomoris.
**[16:17] Hyoma**
If you'd rather return to the land
of the dead, tell them that.
**[16:21] Hyoma**
Please, take care of her.
**[16:23] Botan**
*Hyoma-san's "at work"...*
**[16:26] Botan**
*It feels a little strange to see.*
**[16:28] Yagen**
Kunato-san, I can't thank you
enough for everything.
**[16:32] Hyoma**
I was doing my job, nothing more.
**[16:35] Yagen**
Could I say one thing? About Botan-san...
**[16:40] Yagen**
She's not a normal human, is she?
**[16:45] Yagen**
From my... Well, speaking as a tsukumogami...
**[16:48] Yagen**
I feel a warmth toward her
akin to what I feel for my master.
**[16:54] Yagen**
Be careful.
**[16:55] Yagen**
There will be no lack of moths
drawn to that light.
**[17:01] Yagen**
Please protect that dear girl.
**[17:05] Hyoma**
I will. I'm a Saenome.
**[17:12] Botan**
Hey...
**[17:13] Botan**
Thanks for taking me along today.
**[17:15] Botan**
It's been kind of educational,
in a few different ways.
**[17:18] Hyoma**
Educational?
**[17:19] Botan**
Yeah.
**[17:26] Botan**
I haven't talked much with tsukumogami
other than the ones in my household.
**[17:32] Botan**
I never knew they had so many
different ways of feeling and being.
**[17:37] Hyoma**
What a coincidence. I felt the same way.
**[17:40] Botan**
Huh?
**[17:41] Botan**
But don't Saenome specialize in tsukumogami?
**[17:45] Hyoma**
Well... I always sealed them on sight.
**[17:50] Hyoma**
I never saw any reason to hear them out.
**[17:53] Botan**
*What a problem child!*
**[17:56] Botan**
Hey, Hyoma-san.
**[17:58] Botan**
Can I ask you one question?
**[17:59] Hyoma**
Yes. I'll answer as best I can.
**[18:04] Botan**
Why are you so hard on tsukumogami?
**[18:12] Hyoma**
Haori never told you?
**[18:14] Botan**
Does Haori know?
**[18:17] Hyoma**
It's quite simple.
**[18:20] Hyoma**
My brother and sister were
killed by a tsukumogami.
**[18:25] Hyoma**
I was twelve years old at the time.
**[18:27] Hyoma**
My twin siblings were eighteen.
**[18:30] Hyoma**
They were already working as Saenome,
as successors to the Kunato leadership.
**[18:34] Hyoma**
My sister's name was Kusui.
She was like a mother to me, and very kind.
**[18:40] Hyoma**
My brother was Hayato.
**[18:42] Hyoma**
He was acknowledged by all as a prodigy,
**[18:44] Hyoma**
and my teacher in combat techniques.
**[18:48] Hyoma**
And their killer was a tsukumogami wandering
the streets whom they'd come to save.
**[18:57] Hyoma**
The sight of that tsukumogami, laughing as
it speared them both on its skewers...
**[19:03] Hyoma**
I can't purge it from my mind.
**[19:09] Botan**
I'm sorry. I asked so carelessly...
**[19:12] Hyoma**
No matter. I should have told you in advance.
**[19:16] Hyoma**
When I left to join your household,
my grandfather told me,
**[19:19] Hyoma**
"See, for the first time,
the nature of tsukumogami."
**[19:23] Botan**
See their nature?
**[19:27] Hyoma**
There are many kinds of tsukumogami.
**[19:29] Hyoma**
It's just as you said earlier.
**[19:33] Hyoma**
It's possible understanding that is
how I'll be able to move forward.
**[19:39] Hyoma**
I'm starting to internalize it...
**[19:42] Hyoma**
That Yagen
**[19:43] Hyoma**
and the Nagatsuki tsukumogami
**[19:46] Hyoma**
are nothing like that paper umbrella.
**[19:49] Hyoma**
But...
**[19:51] Botan**
You can change.
**[19:53] Botan**
You already come off really differently
than you did when I first met you.
**[19:59] Botan**
You're a lot more gentle with
my people and with Yagen-san.
**[20:04] Botan**
Early on, I thought you'd give me an ulcer.
**[20:08] Hyoma**
Forgive me.
**[20:11] Hyoma**
What you're saying seems rather unreal to me.
**[20:15] Botan**
Then let me give you my guarantee.
**[20:18] Botan**
You can change. You can overcome this.
**[20:24] Botan**
I know you can.
**[20:27] Botan**
You know I speak with authority, right?
**[20:31] Botan**
Right?
**[20:37] Hyoma**
If you give me your endorsement,
**[20:39] Hyoma**
I'll endeavor to live up to it.
**[20:42] Botan**
Can't wait to see it.
**[20:44] Hyoma**
*I still feel them...*
**[20:46] Hyoma**
* The eyes of the tsukumogami*
* just looking this way.*
**[20:51] Hyoma**
* And on the far bank,*
* a presence holding it at bay...*
**[20:57] Hyoma**
*And one spike of hostility directed at me?!*
**[21:00] Suzuri**
Don't be mean, Yu.
**[21:01] Nagi**
Seriously.
**[21:02] Yu**
But they're on a d-date!
**[21:05] Kagami**
They're just on a walk.
**[21:07] Yu**
Botan's far too young to be
walking alone with a man!
**[21:10] Suzuri**
How old do you think she is?
**[21:14] Botan**
What's wrong?
**[21:15] Hyoma**
It's truly an overwhelming atmosphere.
**[21:17] Hyoma**
You never fail to amaze me, Nagatsuki-san.
**[21:20] Botan**
Oh, that's right!
**[21:21] Botan**
About that...
**[21:23] Botan**
Call me Botan!
**[21:25] Botan**
"Nagatsuki-san" could refer
to any of my people.
**[21:28] Botan**
And my friends all call me by my given name.
**[21:31] Hyoma**
Y-You are certain? P-Perhaps...
**[21:34] Yu**
Call her by her given name?!
**[21:36] Yu**
It's indecent! Utterly indecent!
**[21:37] Nagi**
We're going home, Yu!
**[21:41] Botan**
Try and say it.
**[21:42] Hyoma**
E-Er... isn't that a bit sudden?
**[21:44] Botan**
Come on, for practice!
**[21:47] Botan**
Go on, do it!
**[21:49] Hyoma**
B... B-B...
**[21:51] Botan**
I can't hear you!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Fire
# E9 - Fire
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G31UX9JZD/fire)
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**[00:03] Umekichi**
Suggests they were attacked and tortured,
but only up to the brink of death.
**[00:09] Umekichi**
They'll be alive,
**[00:11] Umekichi**
but they likely won't serve
as a Saenome again.
**[00:15] Shota**
Damn it!
**[00:17] Taiju**
The remnants of the puppets
brought along as bodyguards.
**[00:20] Taiju**
One's cut in two.
**[00:23] Taiju**
One's burned to ash.
**[00:25] Taiju**
One's shattered.
**[00:27] Taiju**
There'll be at least three attackers,
**[00:31] Taiju**
and a torture-happy bunch, at that.
**[00:35] Umekichi**
Can it be...
**[00:36] Taiju**
It'll be the Sogenbi.
**[00:42] Taiju**
Been a while since anyone
picked a fight with us.
**[00:45] Taiju**
Let's find them and crush them.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Fire
**[02:25] Botan**
Now, you be careful...
**[02:27] Botan**
You be *real* careful not to get hurt!
**[02:30] Botan**
I'm tired of you coming home
covered in cuts and bruises.
**[02:34] Hyoma**
Y-Yes.
**[02:36] Hyoma**
I shall endeavor to be safe, Nagatsuki-s—
**[02:41] Hyoma**
B...
**[02:43] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[02:45] Botan**
Yep!
**[02:48] Hyoma**
Hostility?!
**[02:49] Yu**
Hey!
**[02:52] Hyoma**
No honorific? At least use "san"!
**[02:56] Hyoma**
But Naga—
**[02:58] Hyoma**
Botan told me to say that.
**[02:59] Yu**
Again?!
**[03:01] Botan**
It's no big deal.
**[03:02] Botan**
He doesn't use "san" with anyone else's name.
**[03:05] Botan**
Besides, it looks like
that training's paid off!
**[03:12] (Flashback) Hyoma**
B... B...
**[03:13] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Bot... Bota...
**[03:14] (Flashback) Botan**
You're almost there! Push through!
**[03:19] Yu**
*Was it really worth pushing for?*
**[03:25] Botan**
I hope they'll be okay together.
**[03:28] Botan**
Don't you guys have to join them?
**[03:30] Nagi**
Nah, we're on house duty today!
**[03:37] Hyoma**
Still...
**[03:38] Hyoma**
For them to ask for not just me,
but the Nagatsuki household...
**[03:42] Hyoma**
The opponent must be impressively powerful.
**[03:45] Yu**
Yes, it's the Tsukumogami group
known as "Sogenbi."
**[03:49] Yu**
One of the largest factions in Kyoto.
**[03:52] Yu**
Of particular note,
**[03:54] Yu**
their members' vessels are all implements of
**[03:57] Yu**
execution, torture, and other
instruments of human suffering.
**[04:02] Yu**
Four years ago, the Kyoto Saenome
went to war to take them down.
**[04:08] Yu**
This most recent incident must be the work
of three of their surviving leaders.
**[04:15] Hyoma**
They sound quite dangerous.
**[04:20] Hyoma**
You're sure we shouldn't have
brought Nagi and the others?
**[04:23] Yu**
Yeah. We were part of
taking them down last time.
**[04:28] Yu**
If they're after revenge,
**[04:32] Yu**
they might attempt to
take Botan as a hostage.
**[04:37] Suzuri**
Kushige, it might be best to expand
the mansion's barrier a bit.
**[04:48] Hyoma**
I see.
**[04:50] Yu**
Or... are you *scared* without them?
**[04:54] Hyoma**
Don't be absurd.
**[04:56] Hyoma**
We're facing tsukumogami that harm humans.
**[05:00] Hyoma**
I'm relieved that I won't have to hold back.
***SIGN*** Kazahana Park
**[05:11] Yu**
This was the meeting place.
**[05:14] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan!
**[05:19] Hyoma**
You—
**[05:21] Hyoma**
Identify yourself!
**[05:24] Tsubaki**
How've you been?
**[05:26] Hyoma**
You're... Kadomori Tsubaki!
**[05:29] Tsubaki**
Right-o!
**[05:31] Tsubaki**
Looks like we're working together today!
**[05:34] Tsubaki**
Anyway, how come you didn't text me?
**[05:37] Tsubaki**
I waited, like, forever!
**[05:39] Hyoma**
I had my reasons—
**[05:45] Yu**
You've got a woman in every town, do you?
**[05:49] Yu**
I'll let Botan know.
**[05:52] Hyoma**
I do not!
**[05:54] Tsubaki**
Sorry for messing with you like that.
**[05:57] Tsubaki**
Nice to work with you today, Yu.
**[06:00] Hyoma**
You know each other?
**[06:02] Yu**
Of course we do.
**[06:03] Yu**
I'm more surprised to see
how close *you* two are.
**[06:09] Yu**
Of course, Tsubaki's in the running to be
the next Kyoto Saenome representative.
**[06:14] Yu**
It's in House Kunato's interest
that you two should be so close.
**[06:19] Yu**
I wish you a happy life together!
**[06:20] Hyoma**
It's not like that!
**[06:22] Yu**
Incidentally, she and I mainly
just grab coffee on occasion.
**[06:26] Tsubaki**
Yu loves her coffee, right?
**[06:29] Hyoma**
Y-Yes...
**[06:31] Yu**
Where are the other Saenome?
**[06:33] Aogi**
Nowhere.
**[06:35] Aogi**
What you see is what you get.
**[06:37] Aogi**
You guys are on your own mission.
**[06:41] Aogi**
We'll be guiding you to your destination.
**[06:44] Aogi**
And just FYI, the guiding's all you get.
**[06:47] Aogi**
Don't expect us to join in the fighting.
**[06:50] Hyoma**
The informant... Aogi, wasn't it?
**[06:54] Aogi**
Hey there, buddy.
**[06:56] Aogi**
It's been a while.
**[06:57] Hyoma**
Why are we on our own mission?
**[07:00] Aogi**
The rep and his main squad
**[07:03] Aogi**
are at the place where shit went down,
setting up a radar network of talismans.
**[07:09] Aogi**
Once it's finished, they'll have all
of Kyoto under their watchful eye.
**[07:14] Aogi**
In the meantime,
you'll be doing your own thing,
**[07:18] Aogi**
sniffing out the shady little places
they'd most likely be hiding.
**[07:23] Hyoma**
And that's something you'd know?
**[07:25] Aogi**
Bingo! Give the man a prize!
**[07:30] Aogi**
Their hideout...
**[07:32] Aogi**
Not likely they're using it now that
they've shown their hand, of course.
**[07:38] Aogi**
Here's just hoping they left
behind a clue of some kind.
**[07:42] Hyoma**
Wait a minute.
**[07:43] Hyoma**
You're telling me you
*just* found their hideout?
**[07:47] Hyoma**
Aogi, you...
**[07:52] Hyoma**
You're incredible!
**[07:56] Hyoma**
Aogi, you've done well.
**[07:57] Aogi**
Oh, w-well...
**[07:59] Tsubuki**
Hyoma-chan doesn't know about connivance?
**[08:02] Yu**
He'd probably be angry if he found out.
**[08:05] Yu**
* Connivance... letting lawbreaking*
* tsukumogami run free, if under supervision.*
**[08:12] Yu**
* Kadomori had granted connivance*
* to the Sogenbi's remnants*
**[08:15] Yu**
* while using Aogi and Uchiki*
* to check in on them periodically.*
**[08:19] Yu**
* It makes it easier to track the*
* movements of the minor hooligans*
**[08:23] Yu**
*who come seeking their approval.*
**[08:25] Yu**
* "We let you roam free,*
* and you don't turn on us."*
**[08:28] Yu**
* The Sogenbi would have*
* known that was the deal.*
**[08:32] Yu**
* They've stayed quiet*
* for years now, after all.*
**[08:36] Yu**
*Why would they break that unspoken law now?*
**[08:41] Yu**
* We've become quite the lawbreakers*
* ourselves in their eyes, I suppose.*
**[08:46] Yu**
* You're becoming quite a point*
* of contention, Kunato Hyoma.*
**[08:52] Aogi**
A-Anyway, this is as far as I go.
**[08:55] Aogi**
Let's blow this joint.
**[08:57] Aogi**
We're not staying here
any longer than we have to.
**[09:00] Aogi**
C'mon, Uchiki-kun.
**[09:05] Hyoma**
Aogi!
**[09:05] Aogi**
What now?
**[09:07] Aogi**
Don't try to stop—
**[09:17] Hyoma**
They *are* here?!
**[09:21] Mushiro**
One... two... three.
**[09:25] Mushiro**
Well, well...
**[09:27] Mushiro**
Not many of you, are there?
**[09:29] Tsubaki**
Aw, c'mon. There's a whole two of them!
**[09:32] Hikikiri**
Three.
**[09:37] Hikikiri**
Yes, I see...
**[09:39] Hikikiri**
Kadomori Taiju put a watch on the town?
**[09:42] Hikikiri**
What a pity...
**[09:44] Hikikiri**
For you, that is.
***SIGN*** — Hikikiri —
**[09:46] Hikikiri**
We didn't know the location
of Kadomori's stronghold,
**[09:50] Hikikiri**
so we'd decided to wait.
**[09:53] Hikikiri**
That Saenome last night...
**[09:55] Hikikiri**
He was a fine soldier.
**[09:57] Hikikiri**
No matter how we tortured him,
he wouldn't reveal his master's location.
**[10:05] Hikikiri**
Let's see how much *you* can endure.
***SIGN*** — Shimoto —
**[10:16] Aogi**
H-Hang on...
**[10:18] Aogi**
How'd we end up surrounded?!
***SIGN*** — Mushiro —
**[10:26] Hyoma**
Sogenbi...
**[10:28] Hyoma**
For what purpose do you hurt humans?
**[10:33] Hyoma**
Did you attack that Saenome
for the purpose of revenge?
**[10:36] Hikikiri**
For what purpose?
**[10:38] Hikikiri**
We do it to make humans suffer.
**[10:42] Hikikiri**
That is naught but our fate, as those who take
instruments of punishment as their vessel.
**[10:48] Hyoma**
I see.
**[10:50] Hikikiri**
And when we attacked the Saenome,
**[10:52] Hikikiri**
we were turning them from an
obstacle to a target, nothing more.
**[10:56] Hyoma**
Did you...
**[10:58] Hyoma**
Yes, I see.
**[11:03] Hyoma**
I'll break you!
**[11:04] Yu**
I believe you see the Nagatsukis
as obstacles, as well.
**[11:08] Yu**
It's in our interest to crush you now, then.
**[11:10] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan happens to be right here.
**[11:13] Tsubaki**
Guess I'd better put on a good show.
**[11:16] Aogi**
Um, so...
**[11:19] Aogi**
Uchiki-kun?
**[11:21] Aogi**
This is not a good day.
**[11:25] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami Group, Sogenbi...
**[11:31] Hyoma**
Begone from this world!
**[11:39] Hikikiri**
*The door pulls of the Kunato...*
**[11:42] Hikikiri**
*So he's the one...*
**[11:45] Tsubaki**
*Show me, Hyoma-chan.*
**[11:47] Tsubaki**
* The strength that Hayato-san*
* and Kusui-san boasted about.*
**[11:51] Tsubaki**
*If you show me that here...*
**[11:54] Tsubaki**
* I'll know for sure that you're*
* the one I've been waiting for.*
**[12:00] Aogi**
It's feeling like we're gonna
get dragged into this fight.
**[12:03] Aogi**
You gotta be kidding me!
**[12:07] Aogi**
I'll have to pretend I'm
helping out the Saenome,
**[12:11] Aogi**
then slip away in the chaos!
**[12:12] Aogi**
Okay...
**[12:13] Tsubaki**
Here!
**[12:14] Aogi**
Huh? Is that...
**[12:17] Aogi**
A control talisman?!
**[12:18] Tsubaki**
Have a good time, Aogi!
**[12:22] Aogi**
H-Hey!
**[12:24] Aogi**
You're pure evil!
**[12:31] Aogi**
Time to make a break for it!
**[12:35] Aogi**
Ow!
**[12:48] Hyoma**
Tsubaki!
**[12:52] Hikikiri**
I'll face you myself.
**[13:07] Tsubaki**
Couldn't you turn up the heat a bit?
**[13:13] Hikikiri**
Nagatsuki, and Kunato...
**[13:16] Hikikiri**
The human who broke the law by approaching
the Nagatsukis, Kunato Hyoma...
**[13:22] Hikikiri**
I am grateful to you.
**[13:24] Hikikiri**
Your actions freed us from
that ridiculous obligation
**[13:29] Hikikiri**
and allowed us to act.
**[13:32] Hyoma**
I was the reason?
**[13:37] Yu**
Hyoma, now's not the time to think about—
**[13:44] Hikikiri**
He's...
**[13:47] Hyoma**
I'll not be led astray by nonsense.
**[13:49] Hyoma**
Strike him quickly, Yu!
**[13:52] Yu**
Goodness. He is quite a fool.
**[13:57] Yu**
Kindly don't order me around.
***SIGN*** Kadomori
**[14:11] Shota**
Nothing but servants.
**[14:14] Taiju**
Ume, Matsu...
**[14:16] Taiju**
Leave them to me.
**[14:19] Aogi**
Hang on a minute, Shimoto!
**[14:22] Aogi**
We're friends, aren't we?
**[14:23] Aogi**
Plus, we're just doing what
the control talisman tells us to!
**[14:27] Aogi**
We're really not here to fight!
**[14:29] Shimoto**
Huh? I've never liked you two, y'know.
**[14:32] Shimoto**
The way you scamper around,
running your schemes...
**[14:37] Shimoto**
You know those Kadomori puppets
we destroyed last night?
**[14:42] Shimoto**
You two are pretty much
the same from our perspective.
**[14:47] Aogi**
Did you call us puppets?
**[14:50] Shimoto**
You can't brown-nose your way out of this!
**[14:57] Aogi**
Okay, damn it...
**[14:59] Aogi**
That one really ticked me off.
**[15:02] Aogi**
Let's do this, Uchiki-kun.
**[15:05] Shimoto**
I don't want to hear about pride...
**[15:08] Shimoto**
from a human bootlicker like you!
**[15:11] Aogi**
That's rich, coming from someone
humans granted connivance!
**[15:45] Yu**
*He self-detonated?*
**[15:47] Yu**
*No...*
**[15:56] Yu**
Hyoma!
**[16:01] Hikikiri**
Your hairpins...
**[16:03] Hikikiri**
They seal in place anything
they hit. Quite dangerous.
**[16:08] Hikikiri**
But our bodies are already an assumed form.
**[16:11] Hikikiri**
If we instantly re-transform wherever
they strike, it's not difficult to avoid them.
**[16:17] Hikikiri**
Just stay quiet there for a while.
**[16:26] Hikikiri**
Now for you.
**[16:28] Hikikiri**
Your eyes have some life in them.
**[16:32] Hikikiri**
* Anything that crosses the path of those*
* "door pulls" is completely erased.*
**[16:38] Hikikiri**
*The Kunatos' relic...*
**[16:40] Hikikiri**
*The door pulls, "Chibiki-iwa"...*
**[16:42] Hikikiri**
*So the rumors were true.*
**[16:47] Hikikiri**
* The literal pulls from the door*
* to the land of the dead.*
**[16:53] Hikikiri**
*To come into contact with them*
**[16:55] Hikikiri**
*is to step through that door.*
**[16:58] Hikikiri**
*And that change in their natural law*
**[17:00] Hikikiri**
* causes things of the world*
* of the living to vanish.*
**[17:05] Hikikiri**
Terrifying.
**[17:06] Hikikiri**
However...
**[17:08] Hikikiri**
The ability to use them comes
down to the wielder's skill.
**[17:11] Hikikiri**
And with your leg in that state,
your mobility is halved.
**[17:15] Hikikiri**
It's time to fulfill my purpose, then.
**[17:19] Hikikiri**
I'll tear you to pieces,
slowly and carefully.
**[17:25] Hikikiri**
It's time for torture.
**[17:27] Hikikiri**
Scream, cry...
**[17:50] Hikikiri**
And then lose all hope.
**[18:00] Tsubaki**
You can't back down, can you?
**[18:06] Hikikiri**
Impossible...
**[18:07] Tsubaki**
You can't afford to lose in a place like this,
against an opponent like that...
**[18:13] Tsubaki**
Because the thing you must destroy
is far more powerful.
**[18:18] Tsubaki**
Seeing you wield the door pulls they left you
**[18:21] Tsubaki**
makes it clear that we're
focused on the same thing.
**[18:25] Tsubaki**
At last, we meet...
**[18:31] Tsubaki**
The one who hunts the paper umbrella.
**[18:38] Hyoma**
Is that the best you have, Sogenbi?
**[18:41] Tsubaki**
My compatriot.
**[18:49] Shimoto**
She's...
**[18:51] Aogi**
Just because we're lower rank...
**[18:54] Aogi**
You better not look away!
**[18:56] Shimoto**
You—
**[18:58] Aogi**
So long, Shimoto-san!
**[19:09] Aogi**
Nice work, m'dear!
**[19:10] Aogi**
You've slimmed down a bit, I see.
**[19:13] Aogi**
How many layers left, Uchiki-kun?
**[19:18] Aogi**
We're down to the wire, I guess.
**[19:23] Aogi**
Might be time to throw in the towel,
**[19:26] Aogi**
Mr. Hikikiri.
**[19:32] Hikikiri**
Implements of torture have a purpose.
**[19:39] Hikikiri**
I learned through four
years of stifling silence...
**[19:43] Hikikiri**
Living, for us, means acting out our purpose!
**[19:48] Aogi**
No freaking way...
**[19:49] Hikikiri**
I won't stop! I won't stop! I won't stop!
**[19:55] Hikikiri**
To achieve my purpose in life,
**[19:58] Hikikiri**
you all must...
**[20:00] Hikikiri**
die!
**[20:06] Hikikiri**
Y-You...
**[20:14] Aogi**
Is she mad?
**[20:16] Aogi**
Oh, hey...
**[20:19] Aogi**
The building is...
**[20:21] Aogi**
N-No way...
**[20:24] Aogi**
She bound up the whole building?!
**[20:27] Tsubaki**
Now, there's something I didn't know.
**[20:29] Tsubaki**
You get scary when you're mad, huh, Yu?
**[20:35] Yu**
*Get out of here. You're injured.*
**[20:40] Hyoma**
*Understood.*
**[20:45] Hikikiri**
Get out of my way, Nagatsuki!
**[20:50] Yu**
Don't underestimate me!
**[20:53] Hyoma**
That's right!
**[20:55] Hyoma**
Learn the weight of the hammer of justice!
**[20:59] Yu**
What are you doing?!
**[21:00] Hyoma**
I'm following your plan, Yu!
**[21:02] Yu**
I didn't—
**[21:04] Yu**
F-Fine, do whatever you want!
***SIGN*** Release
**[21:14] Hikikiri**
Kunato!
**[21:23] Aogi**
What a dumbass.
**[21:33] Hyoma**
A magnificent collaboration!
**[21:39] Yu**
Why the hell did you do that?!
**[21:41] Hyoma**
But you said—
**[21:42] Yu**
I never said that!
**[21:43] Yu**
And didn't Botan tell you
*not* to injure yourself?!
**[21:47] Hyoma**
She did, but—
**[21:49] Yu**
Stupid!
**[21:49] Hyoma**
B-But—
**[21:50] Yu**
Stupid!
**[21:52] Yu**
What's wrong with you?!
**[21:53] Hyoma**
Isn't that what you wanted?!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Radiance
# E10 - Radiance
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GPWUKG2D7/radiance)
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**[00:05] Hikikiri**
I don't understand.
**[00:09] Hikikiri**
This is the purpose for which
humans created my vessel.
**[00:14] Hikikiri**
To make other humans suffer...
**[00:18] Hikikiri**
This is the cruelty that humans
wrought into me at birth.
**[00:24] Hikikiri**
I was merely doing what they
made me for... and yet...
**[00:28] Hikikiri**
Why am I treated this way?
I do not understand.
**[00:32] Hikikiri**
I was merely being what I am,
**[00:36] Hikikiri**
Kadomori Taiju.
**[00:38] Taiju**
Tsukumogami such as yourselves
would normally be
**[00:41] Taiju**
declared unfit for life
in the land of the living.
**[00:44] Taiju**
Your marebito would be stripped out
and returned to the land of the dead.
**[00:48] Hikikiri**
"Unfit"?
**[00:50] Taiju**
So hung up on your vessel,
you refuse to live your own life.
**[00:55] Taiju**
Wouldn't you rather just be an object?
**[00:57] Hikikiri**
No. I—
**[00:58] Taiju**
No deeper thoughts,
just switched on at all times.
**[01:05] Taiju**
Still, I used you.
**[01:08] Taiju**
I thought you might just be useful.
**[01:11] Taiju**
But then you went and turned on me.
**[01:19] Taiju**
You're worthless scrap.
**[01:22] Taiju**
Don't understand why you're treated this way?
**[01:25] Taiju**
Better learn, then.
**[01:28] Taiju**
Scrap's got to be disposed of.
**[01:38] Taiju**
I'll tell the men that we had our revenge.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Radiance
**[03:27] Tsubaki**
Papa says he finished the job.
**[03:30] Tsubaki**
Mission complete, right?
**[03:32] Yu**
I'm finished.
**[03:33] Hyoma**
Thank you.
**[03:34] Tsubaki**
Did you hurt your leg bad, Hyoma-chan?
**[03:36] Hyoma**
No, it's no issue.
**[03:38] Aogi**
Pants on fire.
**[03:40] Hyoma**
Tsubaki, you're pursuing
the paper umbrella, as well?
**[03:43] Tsubaki**
Sure am. You heard?
**[03:46] Hyoma**
You mentioned my siblings' names before.
**[03:49] Hyoma**
Is your quest related to their deaths?
**[03:54] Tsubaki**
We had a few get-togethers
for group training.
**[04:00] Yu**
Information brokers...
**[04:01] Tsubaki**
They were really strong,
and they were nice to me.
**[04:06] Tsubaki**
Watching them in action...
It was like poetry.
**[04:14] (Flashback) Taiju**
The specialty training of the Kyoto Saenome,
**[04:17] (Flashback) Taiju**
Ten Vessels Sparring.
**[04:19] (Flashback) Taiju**
They mastered it so quickly.
**[04:21] (Flashback) Taiju**
Impressive indeed.
**[04:24] (Flashback) Taiju**
Watch close, Tsubaki.
**[04:26] (Flashback) Taiju**
They're what we call prodigies, just like you.
**[04:31] Tsubaki**
I'd never met anyone who made
my heart sing like they did.
**[04:38] Tsubaki**
Things were so much fun when
Kusui-san and Hayato-san were around.
**[04:43] Tsubaki**
I'm pursuing the paper umbrella
because it stole them from me.
**[04:47] Tsubaki**
It's the first tsukumogami I feel
determined to beat with my own hands.
**[04:54] Tsubaki**
If you feel the same way,
maybe we could work together?
**[04:58] Tsubaki**
The Kyoto Saenome have an
unparalleled information network.
**[05:02] Tsubaki**
And it's the most likely place to run into
newly manifested tsukumogami.
**[05:07] Tsubaki**
So instead of staying shut up in the
Nagatsuki household, you should join me,
**[05:12] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan.
**[05:16] Yu**
* I'm sure you'll find it*
* an appealing invitation.*
**[05:21] Yu**
*But it's dangerous to take that hand.*
**[05:25] Yu**
* Kadomori Tsubaki was only*
* eight years old when she mastered*
**[05:27] Yu**
*the Kyoto Saenome's ultimate training,*
**[05:30] Yu**
*Ten Vessels Sparring.*
**[05:32] Yu**
* And around age ten, she was*
* outdoing even experienced Saenome.*
**[05:35] Yu**
*The Kadomori Prodigy...*
**[05:38] (Flashback) Taiju**
That's enough, Tsubaki.
**[05:40] (Flashback) Taiju**
I don't need you ruining all
our workers just for practice.
**[05:44] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
It's just...
**[05:46] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
boring.
**[05:48] Yu**
*Her feelings for your siblings...*
**[05:51] Yu**
*and even for the paper umbrella...*
**[05:54] Yu**
*differ from yours in a definitive way.*
**[05:57] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
You think I look happy?
**[05:59] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
You can tell?
**[06:01] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
I found something...
**[06:03] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
A wonderful toy.
**[06:05] Yu**
*It's all a game to entertain herself.*
**[06:10] Yu**
* And she has inherited the Kadomori*
* philosophy—use whatever you can*
**[06:16] Yu**
*to achieve your goal.*
**[06:21] Yu**
*Despite that, Hyoma, will you...*
**[06:25] Hyoma**
Let me think.
**[06:27] Hyoma**
"Destroy the paper umbrella."
**[06:30] Hyoma**
This has been my oath,
**[06:32] Hyoma**
and the source of the hatred that's
consumed me for close to ten years now.
**[06:37] Hyoma**
We are the same.
**[06:39] Hyoma**
I'm pursuing it, as well.
**[06:41] Hyoma**
Your offer is most welcome.
**[06:45] Hyoma**
However,
**[06:46] Hyoma**
I currently have other commitments
I can't back away from,
**[06:51] Hyoma**
so I fear I must courteously decline.
**[06:55] Tsubaki**
Huh?
**[07:00] Yu**
You really did overdo it.
**[07:02] Hyoma**
Certainly not! I merely
turned my heart to iron—
**[07:05] Yu**
That's what we call "overdoing it."
**[07:09] Hyoma**
But why were you all so surprised?
**[07:13] Hyoma**
Tsubaki seemed truly puzzled by my answer.
**[07:16] Yu**
Aogi and Uchiki were, too.
**[07:19] Yu**
Still, you weren't tempted at all?
**[07:24] Hyoma**
"I will destroy the paper umbrella myself."
**[07:26] Hyoma**
That is my unimpeachable goal.
**[07:30] Hyoma**
But that's not all I swore
before their grave.
**[07:34] Hyoma**
The oath I swore was to become
truly strong, in body and mind,
**[07:39] Hyoma**
so that I could stop the next
tsukumogami-induced tragedy.
**[07:44] Hyoma**
I believe that my training in the Nagatsuki
household is equally in pursuit of that goal.
**[07:49] Hyoma**
And there's the matter of Botan, as well.
**[07:56] Yu**
W-Well...
**[07:58] Yu**
Is this an "I can't abandon my
betrothed" sort of statement?
**[08:02] Yu**
That seems rather presumptuous.
**[08:04] Yu**
You lecher!
**[08:05] Hyoma**
No! It's merely the circumstances in which she—
**[08:07] Hyoma**
L-Lecher?!
**[08:08] Yu**
Men are such pigs!
**[08:13] Hyoma**
Have I...
**[08:15] Hyoma**
Is that the impression I give?
**[08:18] Hyoma**
Of an unlikely lecher?
**[08:22] Yu**
Idiot.
**[08:25] Botan**
You stupid idiot!
**[08:27] Botan**
You came back *so* injured!
**[08:30] Hyoma**
I'm sorry.
**[08:34] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[08:36] Botan**
Find it?
**[08:37] Hyoma**
No. Nothing there either?
**[08:40] Botan**
I just can't figure out where
it could've gotten put.
**[08:42] Hyoma**
What's Kushige up to, anyway?
**[08:45] Botan**
Playing shogi with a guy from
the neighborhood association.
**[08:47] Botan**
They do it all the time.
**[08:49] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami can be conscientious neighbors?
***SIGN*** White Team Red Team
***SIGN*** White Team Red Team
**[08:52] Botan**
Nagi even took part in the parents'
relay on sports day and stuff.
**[08:56] Hyoma**
What in the world?
**[08:58] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami are quite varied, it seems.
**[09:04] Hyoma**
What is it?
**[09:04] Botan**
Oh, nothing!
**[09:06] Botan**
You go down the stairs first.
**[09:13] Botan**
*What a mess. I hate you, Haori!*
**[09:17] (Flashback) Haori**
Listen, all.
**[09:18] (Flashback) Haori**
Botan will be starting
her third year in university,
**[09:21] (Flashback) Haori**
and Hyoma-san will be starting
his third month with us.
**[09:25] (Flashback) Haori**
To celebrate the occasion, tonight...
**[09:29] (Flashback) Haori**
We're having hot pot!
**[09:30] (Flashback) All**
Heck yes!
**[09:34] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Hot pot?
**[09:35] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Was that really the purpose of this meeting?
**[09:38] (Flashback) Haori**
Hot pot is a big event in this household.
**[09:41] (Flashback) Haori**
We only have it during celebrations like this,
**[09:44] (Flashback) Haori**
so it gets everyone into a festive mood.
**[09:47] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Even Botan?
**[09:50] (Flashback) Haori**
Now I'm going to assign roles for shopping.
**[09:54] (Flashback) All**
Yes, ma'am!
**[09:55] (Flashback) Haori**
I'll buy the meat.
**[09:56] (Flashback) Haori**
Yu will buy the other ingredients.
**[09:57] (Flashback) Yu**
Yes, ma'am!
**[09:58] (Flashback) Haori**
Eggs, sides, that kind of thing: Suzuri, Kagami.
**[10:02] (Flashback) Kagami**
Right-o!
**[10:02] (Flashback) Suzuri**
You got it!
**[10:03] (Flashback) Haori**
Nagi's on alcohol duty.
**[10:05] (Flashback) Nagi**
Heck yeah!
**[10:06] (Flashback) Haori**
Kushige, stay in the mansion
in case of trouble.
**[10:09] (Flashback) Botan**
What about Hyoma-san and me?
**[10:11] (Flashback) Haori**
You find the big self-heating pot
we stashed away somewhere.
**[10:16] (Flashback) Nagi**
Go for it, Hyoma!
**[10:17] Nagi**
We all gotta chip in to
make the hot pot happen!
**[10:19] (Flashback) Botan**
What?
**[10:20] (Flashback) Haori**
Botan, it'll be just you and Hyoma-san.
**[10:21] Hyoma**
You seem very serious about hot pot.
**[10:23] (Flashback) Haori**
Make the best of it.
**[10:23] Nagi**
C'mon, man! Get a clue!
**[10:24] (Flashback) Botan**
What?
**[10:25] (Flashback) Haori**
He's in the running to be your
future husband, remember?
**[10:28] Nagi**
You gotta learn the truth
of what hot pot's all about.
**[10:28] (Flashback) Haori**
I want you moving things along.
**[10:30] (Flashback) Botan**
I-I never signed up for that!
**[10:31] Nagi**
You'll see, man.
**[10:33] Hyoma**
What are you talking about?
**[10:33] (Flashback) Botan**
And Hyoma-san doesn't seem interested...
**[10:35] Hyoma**
Is it really that important?
**[10:36] (Flashback) Haori**
If you don't make your move,
he never will be!
**[10:39] (Flashback) Haori**
Surely you fancy him at least
a *little* bit, don't you?
**[10:42] (Flashback) Botan**
I-I do believe he's a good person,
**[10:44] (Flashback) Botan**
but that doesn't mean
I have special... well...
**[10:47] (Flashback) Botan**
I just don't look at him that way!
**[10:49] (Flashback) Haori**
Someone's blushing!
**[10:50] (Flashback) Botan**
We're not children!
**[10:52] (Flashback) Haori**
A cheat sheet of questions.
***SIGN*** Step 2 Investigate his likes and interests
***SIGN*** Steps for Love
***SIGN*** ~ Hyoma Version ~
***SIGN*** By Haori
***SIGN*** Step 1 Investigate his past romantic history
**[10:54] (Flashback) Haori**
While you look for the pot,
try and feel him out.
**[10:58] Botan**
*Honestly... She's made me all self-conscious!*
**[11:03] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[11:04] Botan**
Y-Yes?!
**[11:05] Hyoma**
A pot for this many people
would be quite large, correct?
**[11:09] Hyoma**
Is there any chance you stored it
in the outside warehouse?
**[11:12] Botan**
Oh... It might be there.
**[11:14] Hyoma**
All right. I'll search there.
**[11:16] Botan**
* He doesn't seem like the kind of person*
* to have a romantic history...*
***SIGN*** Beef Heaven
***SIGN*** Today's Special
Domestic Black Wagyu Beef
Half Price!!
***SIGN*** Today's Special
Domestic Black Wagyu Beef
Half Price!!
***SIGN*** Beef Corner
**[11:38] Haori**
Excellent.
**[11:40] Haori**
Mission complete!
**[11:42] Haori**
Now to go home and enjoy a cup of tea.
**[11:45] Haori**
* But after getting them some alone time,*
* I probably shouldn't hurry back...*
**[11:51] Haori**
*I'll grab my tea out.*
**[12:00] Yu**
Oh, drat!
**[12:01] Yu**
I left them home alone together.
**[12:04] Yu**
Blinded by the promise of hot pot,
I have made a grievous error.
**[12:08] [SONG] sign**
Fried Tofu
**[12:09] Yu**
I need free hands.
**[12:19] Yu**
I'll return soon.
**[12:21] Yu**
Botan...
**[12:23] Kagami**
Shoyokyo!
**[12:27] Kagami**
That mackerel, the amberjack on the right,
the sea bream in the back, and these oysters!
**[12:31] Kagami**
I'll take them!
**[12:32] Fishmonger 1**
Excellent eye!
**[12:34] Fishmonger 2**
She picked all the best of the catch!
**[12:36] Suzuri**
These strawberries are
charming and appetizing...
**[12:41] Suzuri**
Just like you, young miss.
***SIGN*** Green
Grocer
Noriki
**[12:43] Older Lady**
Oh, you!
**[12:44] Suzuri**
You've sold me, then. I'll take one more box.
**[12:49] Suzuri**
In exchange, dear...
do you think you might...
**[12:52] Older Lady**
What a smooth talker!
**[12:54] Older Lady**
I'll let you have it all at half price!
**[12:57] Kagami**
What a haul!
**[12:59] Kagami**
What else were we gonna buy again?
**[13:02] Suzuri**
Why not grab some cake while we're out?
**[13:04] Kagami**
Great idea!
**[13:07] Nagi**
Hey.
**[13:08] Nagi**
The Kadomoris gave me the lowdown.
**[13:11] Nagi**
A special exception,
assigned the task of making sake...
**[13:15] Nagi**
The koji box tsukumogami!
**[13:18] Koji Box Tsukumogami**
A Nagatsuki, eh?
**[13:20] Koji Box Tsukumogami**
Didn't expect you to darken my door.
**[13:23] Nagi**
I'm here for a bit of your legendary sake.
**[13:28] Koji Box**
I won't be unfair.
**[13:31] Koji Box**
Defeat me in a competition,
and you can have it.
**[13:34] Nagi**
Sounds great.
**[13:36] Nagi**
Glad we could get right down to business.
**[13:40] Koji Box**
It seems you don't know the
nature of this competition.
**[13:44] Koji Box**
Very well. I'll show you.
**[13:50] Koji Box**
It's this.
**[13:52] Nagi**
Fine by me!
**[13:54] Both**
Let's...
**[13:55] Both**
Fight!
**[14:07] Botan**
*What the heck's wrong with me?*
**[14:16] (Flashback) Botan**
Let's see...
**[14:22] Botan**
* He's fine, and I'm all flustered.*
* It's a little disheartening.*
**[14:26] Botan**
* I mean, why am I the only one thinking*
* about the trial arranged marriage?*
**[14:30] Botan**
*Shouldn't it be on Hyoma-san's mind, too?*
**[14:34] Botan**
*If I'm the only one... bothered about it...*
**[14:37] Botan**
*Well, it's not fair!*
**[14:40] Botan**
* Although... maybe Hyoma-san's*
* really not like that.*
**[14:44] Botan**
* If he doesn't get crushes or feel*
* romantic feelings for others,*
**[14:48] Botan**
* it's possible the arranged marriage*
* thing really isn't on his mind!*
**[14:49] Botan**
Botan?
**[14:51] Hyoma**
Botan?
**[14:53] Hyoma**
Are you all right?
**[14:54] Botan**
Wh-What?!
**[14:56] Hyoma**
Well... you were looking rather ill.
**[14:58] Hyoma**
I can take over here if you'd like to rest.
**[15:03] Botan**
*Whose fault is it that I feel ill?!*
**[15:07] Botan**
*Oh, right... It's Haori's.*
**[15:15] Botan**
That's actually a relief.
**[15:18] Botan**
Oh, nothing. I was just
thinking about something.
**[15:23] Hyoma**
About what?
**[15:24] Botan**
I'm going to check the second floor.
**[15:27] Hyoma**
Botan, you dropped something.
**[15:31] Hyoma**
"Step 1: Investigate his past romantic history.
**[15:35] Hyoma**
Step 2..."
**[15:36] Hyoma**
What is this?
**[15:38] Botan**
Just some stupid thing Haori wrote!
**[15:40] Hyoma**
Why do you have this?
**[15:43] Botan**
About the arranged marriage, um...
**[15:45] Botan**
Haori wanted things to move forward,
so she kind of forced it on me.
**[15:51] Botan**
I-It's not what you think?
**[15:53] Hyoma**
Is this what was bothering you?
**[15:56] Hyoma**
They're truly incorrigible.
**[15:59] Hyoma**
You don't need to worry about it.
**[16:01] Hyoma**
I'm not worried about it.
**[16:03] Botan**
*He's colder than I thought!*
**[16:09] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[16:11] Botan**
Are you blushing a little?
**[16:13] Hyoma**
I know not of what you speak.
**[16:15] Hyoma**
My behavior is normal.
**[16:16] Hyoma**
Might we venture to the second floor?
**[16:20] Botan**
Hey. Hey!
**[16:22] Botan**
Could I get a quick look at your face?
**[16:24] Hyoma**
My eyes have already locked on to
the cardboard box before me.
**[16:28] Hyoma**
Would looking away not
be negligence, forsooth?
**[16:31] Botan**
*"Forsooth"?*
**[16:33] Botan**
*Suzuri mentioned this...*
**[16:35] Suzuri**
* When Hyoma-kun gets flustered,*
* he sometimes slips into old-timey speech.*
**[16:40] Suzuri**
*He says "wherefore" and such.*
**[16:53] Hyoma**
Wherefore? Wherefore?!
**[16:55] Botan**
I'm curious!
**[16:56] Botan**
*And* I want revenge!
**[16:57] Hyoma**
Revenge?! What are you suggesting I've done—
**[17:07] Botan**
*He's... bright red.*
**[17:20] Hyoma**
B-Botan?
**[17:21] Botan**
Y-Yes?!
**[17:24] Hyoma**
Might you remove yourself from my person?
**[17:27] Yu**
What the hell is going on here?!
**[17:32] Yu**
Kunato...
**[17:35] Yu**
Hyoma!
**[17:41] Neighborhood Association Man**
Well, I had a wonderful time.
**[17:44] Neighborhood Association Man**
I hope we can play again soon, Kushige-san.
**[17:49] Yu**
The evil has been purged.
**[17:51] Botan**
I don't know about evil...
**[17:53] Yu**
Did you find the large
self-heating pot, though?
**[17:57] Neighborhood Association Man**
Large self-heating pot?
**[17:58] Neighborhood Association Man**
You mean the one we borrowed?
**[18:07] Haori**
That's right!
**[18:08] Haori**
I lent it to the neighborhood association
for a festival and forgot to get it back!
**[18:12] Haori**
I'm so sorry, you two!
**[18:15] Botan/Hyoma**
It's no laughing matter!
**[18:17] Suzuri/Kagami**
We're back.
**[18:19] Botan**
What happened to Nagi?
**[18:21] Suzuri**
We found him passed out at the front door.
**[18:24] Nagi**
I had a battle...
**[18:27] Nagi**
A drinking battle.
**[18:29] Nagi**
It was a damn hard fight...
**[18:33] Nagi**
But I won the legendary sake!
**[18:36] Botan**
One bottle might not be enough.
**[18:38] Suzuri**
And you only got Japanese sake?
Where's my cocktails?
**[18:40] Yu**
And my red wine?
**[18:41] Haori**
And my whisky?!
**[18:43] Nagi**
Huh? Didn't get any...
**[18:45] Yu**
Go back out and get more.
**[18:47] Nagi**
No way!
**[18:49] Haori**
Well, we've more or less got what we need,
**[18:52] Haori**
so let's start getting ready!
**[18:53] Haori**
Hot pot time!
**[18:55] Tsukumogami/Botan**
Yeah!
**[19:01] All**
Let's eat!
***SIGN*** Celebrating Botan's Third Year
And Hyoma-san's Three Months!
**[19:07] Kagami**
Huh? Where's the sashimi?
**[19:09] Suzuri**
Over here.
**[19:10] Nagi**
Kushige! I'm takin' your shochu!
**[19:10] Botan**
Do you like a lot of vegetables, Yu?
**[19:12] Yu**
Yes, thank you.
**[19:17] Haori**
Hey, Nagi! Don't hog the beef!
**[19:18] Hyoma**
It appears that growing accustomed to human
form gives tsukumogami a taste for food.
**[19:19] Haori**
Give me your dish! You're getting veggies!
**[19:21] Nagi**
No way!
**[19:23] Hyoma**
They're amazing.
**[19:29] Suzuri**
Kagami, your Kahlua and milk.
**[19:31] Kagami**
Hey, thanks!
**[19:33] Hyoma**
Kagami, you're too young to drink alcohol!
**[19:35] Kagami**
Aw... In that case...
**[19:40] Kagami**
I can do it now, right?
**[19:41] Hyoma**
Don't transform trivially!
**[19:43] Nagi**
Hyoma! What team're you on?
**[19:46] Nagi**
We're all big drinkers here.
**[19:48] Nagi**
And I'm team Japanese sake!
**[19:49] Kagami**
Hyoma, come join Team Kahlua and Milk!
**[19:53] Hyoma**
Er, I'm not particularly
well-versed in alcoholic—
**[19:56] Botan**
That's right!
**[19:57] Botan**
You're Team Newbie like me!
**[20:00] Botan**
Let's get along, Kunato-kun...
**[20:00] Hyoma**
H-Hey!
**[20:03] Hyoma**
Botan?
**[20:05] Hyoma**
Are you drunk?
**[20:07] Nagi**
I get it now.
**[20:10] Nagi**
At the end of the day...
**[20:13] Yu**
...you're just after Botan.
**[20:15] Hyoma**
I-I'll bring some water to sober her up!
**[20:19] Suzuri**
Huh? We out of beef?
**[20:22] Kagami**
I want more!
**[20:24] Hyoma**
Are you all right?
**[20:24] Suzuri**
There's more over there!
**[20:25] Botan**
Yeah, thanks.
**[20:34] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[20:36] Botan**
Sorry I went overboard earlier.
**[20:38] Hyoma**
N-No matter...
**[20:39] Hyoma**
It was Haori's fault for
the silly trick she played.
**[20:44] Hyoma**
Are big sisters like that in every household?
**[20:48] Botan**
Big sisters?
**[20:49] Hyoma**
Mine made life difficult for me long ago.
**[20:52] Hyoma**
I was still merely a child,
**[20:55] Hyoma**
but she interrogated me and advised me
about friends of the opposite sex at school.
**[21:01] Hyoma**
She was a formidable big sister.
**[21:04] Botan**
Oh, really?
**[21:09] Hyoma**
The Nagatsuki tsukumogami are quite raucous.
**[21:13] Hyoma**
They celebrate and converse
with great enthusiasm,
**[21:16] Hyoma**
and make clear their deep affection for you.
**[21:19] Hyoma**
I'd never met tsukumogami like them before.
**[21:26] Hyoma**
You have a fine family.
**[21:29] Botan**
Thank you.
**[21:32] Nagi**
Hey, asshole! I worked hard for that shit,
and you ain't even drunk it!
**[21:33] Hyoma**
Stop it! Let me go!
**[21:35] Nagi**
Just have some!
**[21:37] Suzuri**
Down it quick!
**[21:38] Yu**
Meanwhile, we'll have some girly talk!
**[21:39] Hyoma**
Lay off! Stop i—
**[21:40] Haori**
Anything happen while we were gone?
**[21:42] Hyoma**
Ah, it's good.
**[21:43] Kagami**
Tell us all about it!
**[21:44] Nagi**
Right?!
**[21:45] Haori**
You pushed *him* to the floor?!
**[21:46] Suzuri**
Now try a cocktail!
**[21:47] Kagami**
A reverse floor slam!
**[21:49] Botan**
N-No! It wasn't like—
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Ambush
# E11 - Ambush
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G2XU0QPDE/ambush)
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**[00:18] Botan**
They all fell asleep?
**[00:35] Hyoma**
Tofu... onion...
**[00:38] Hyoma**
Shirataki noodle tsukumogami...
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Ambush
**[02:27] Hyoma**
Didn't we come by here before?
**[02:29] Botan**
No. I think it's this way.
**[02:32] Hyoma**
I'm so confused.
**[02:35] Botan**
Well, you haven't lived in Kyoto long.
**[02:37] Botan**
Hey, is that it?
***SIGN*** Tebata Fabrics
***SIGN*** Tebata Fabrics
**[02:42] Hyoma**
I see I was right to ask you to join me.
**[02:45] Botan**
You're very welcome!
**[02:47] Botan**
I hope you can get a nice outfit made.
**[02:49] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[02:50] Hyoma**
But I'm a bit nervous about the
"test" mentioned in the catalog.
***SIGN*** Kunato Hyoma-sama
c/o Nagatsuki Household
***SIGN*** Kyoto Saenome Mail-Order Catalog
Enclosed
***SIGN*** Three Days Ago
**[02:55] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Kyoto Saenome Mail-Order Catalog?
**[02:58] (Flashback) Hyoma**
And it's addressed to me?
**[02:59] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Oh, bet it's clothes.
**[03:01] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Clothes?
**[03:02] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Kyoto Saenome wear special
equipment to fight tsukumogami.
**[03:07] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Now that you mention it,
**[03:09] (Flashback) Hyoma**
when Tsubaki was wreathed in flame earlier,
**[03:11] (Flashback) Hyoma**
her clothing remained unscathed.
**[03:13] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Hey, lemme see!
**[03:14] (Flashback) Suzuri**
I don't get to see Saenome
mail-order stuff much.
***SIGN*** April Edition
Special Gift:
Cute Sa-kun
Desktop Calendar
**[03:22] (Flashback) Hyoma**
He models in his spare time, as well?
***SIGN*** An in-depth interview with Kadomori Taiju, Kyoto Saenome Head
The Clothing of My Fight
High defense and flexibility with lots of room for control talismans
Stylish and fashionable seals
Special column
Talking about the appeal of "Sa-kun," the mascot everyone's talking about!
***SIGN*** EYES Editorial picks its favorite Saenome looks!
Talking to the agency— Top-Tier Talismans!
***SIGN*** The Season's New Looks
Saenome trends for spring—
A Saenome fashion battle
Kadomori Umekichi and Shota show down
Saenome Girls show what they really
**[03:25] (Flashback) Suzuri**
That's kind of painful to look at.
***SIGN*** Model
Kadomori Taiju
Coat
Fabric: Wool 100%
Size
Vest
Fabric: Wool 100%
Size
Scarf
Fabric: Wool
Shirt
Fabric
Size
Pants
Fabric
**[03:30] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Is this necessary when fabric
and size are the only choices?
***SIGN*** Model
Kadomori Shota
Shirt
Fabric: Cotton 100%
Size
Undershirt
Fabric: Cotton 100%
Necktie
Fabric: Silk
***SIGN*** Pants
Fabric: Wool 100%
Size
Belt
**[03:34] (Flashback) Suzuri**
The fact that they're kind of into it
somehow makes it even worse.
**[03:38] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Huh? Seems like you have
to pick it up yourself.
**[03:42] (Flashback) Suzuri**
And look at this.
***SIGN*** Order
***SIGN*** When picking up
your order,
a compatibility test
will be conducted.
-Hata
**[03:45] (Flashback) Suzuri**
It says, "When picking up your order,
a compatibility test will be conducted."
**[03:50] (Flashback) Hyoma**
A compatibility test?
**[03:52] (Flashback) Taiju**
I'm givin' you a test!
**[03:58] Hyoma**
No turning back now.
**[04:04] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan, you finally made it!
**[04:07] Tsubaki**
Haven't seen you since the Sogenbi thing!
**[04:09] Tsubaki**
Hey, how's the leg?
**[04:11] Botan**
Hyoma...chan?
**[04:13] Hyoma**
What brings you here?
**[04:14] Tsubaki**
I ordered new clothes, too!
**[04:16] Tsubaki**
I heard you'd be coming, so I hung around!
**[04:19] Tsubaki**
Plus you didn't text or call!
**[04:21] Hyoma**
Well, I didn't have any news—
**[04:22] Tsubaki**
Do it anyway!
**[04:24] Botan**
Excuse me!
**[04:25] Botan**
Do you two... know each other?
**[04:28] Hyoma**
Yes, she's...
**[04:31] Hyoma**
Could you please give me some space?
**[04:32] Tsubaki**
Oh, you!
**[04:35] Hyoma**
She's one of the Saenome
policing the tsukumogami in Kyoto.
**[04:39] Hyoma**
Kadomori Tsubaki. We're colleagues.
**[04:42] Botan**
Oh, thank you for your service.
**[04:44] Botan**
I'm Naga—
**[04:45] Tsubaki**
I know who you are.
**[04:46] Tsubaki**
Botan-chan.
**[04:48] Tsubaki**
I know *all* about the Nagatsukis from work.
**[04:53] Tsubaki**
Hey, Botan-chan. Are you...
**[04:59] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan's girlfriend?!
**[05:02] Hyoma**
Why are all of you like this?!
**[05:03] Tsubaki**
That reaction just seals the deal!
**[05:06] Hyoma**
No—
**[05:06] Botan**
It's really not like that, Kadomori-san!
**[05:08] Tsubaki**
Hey, call me Tsubaki.
**[05:10] Tsubaki**
Nice to meet you, Botan-chan.
**[05:18] Tsubaki**
Anyway, it's on the second floor.
**[05:20] Tsubaki**
This way.
**[05:23] Tsubaki**
Tsubaki-san's very easygoing, isn't she?
**[05:27] Hyoma**
She does march to her own drumbeat.
**[05:29] Hyoma**
Though she is quite skilled.
**[05:39] Hyoma**
Tsubaki, are you aware of the "test"?
**[05:42] Tsubaki**
Yeah. It's not especially hard...
**[05:46] Tsubaki**
Though I don't know how it'll be for you.
**[05:49] Hyoma**
What do you mean by that?
***SIGN*** Tebata
Fabrics
**[05:51] Tsubaki**
It's kind of a special thing.
**[05:55] Hyoma**
Cloth?
**[05:57] Botan**
Wh-What's going on?!
**[06:00] Hyoma**
Botan!
**[06:01] Hyoma**
Are you all right?
**[06:02] Botan**
Y-Yeah.
**[06:03] Botan**
It's actually quite soft, but...
**[06:06] Hata**
Sorry 'bout that!
**[06:08] Hata**
The cloth we make here
has some special properties.
**[06:11] Hata**
It's got a life of its own, you could say.
**[06:14] Hata**
A spinning wheel tsukumogami
spins the thread,
***SIGN*** — Hata —
**[06:16] Hata**
and I, a hand loom tsukumogami,
weave it together.
**[06:20] Hata**
Our nature kind of rubs off on it, I guess...
**[06:23] Hata**
Hey!
**[06:24] Hata**
Are you Nagatsuki Botan, dearie?
**[06:27] Botan**
Oh... hello.
**[06:28] Hata**
Well, no wonder it took such a shine to you!
**[06:31] Hata**
Never thought I'd see you
in the flesh like this!
**[06:34] Tsubaki**
Hang on, Hata!
**[06:35] Tsubaki**
*We're* the customers here, remember?
**[06:38] Hata**
Oh, you bet!
**[06:39] Hata**
You know I'd never forget that!
**[06:40] Hyoma**
*Clothing created by tsukumogami...*
**[06:43] Hata**
The cloth itself isn't
a tsukumogami, of course.
**[06:47] Hata**
It just picks up our
transformative properties,
**[06:50] Hata**
so it can adjust endurance and flexibility
in accordance with the wearer's will.
**[06:55] Hata**
"Living clothing."
**[06:58] Hata**
The "living" part is the key.
**[07:00] Hata**
You've gotta build a relationship with it,
**[07:02] Hata**
or it'll be uncooperative.
**[07:05] Hata**
Here, this one's done.
**[07:08] Hata**
For you, Tsubaki-san.
**[07:11] Hata**
Can you wear it to its full potential?
**[07:14] Hata**
That's the test.
**[07:17] Hata**
You really are good at that, eh?
**[07:20] Tsubaki**
Well, I do it often enough.
**[07:21] Botan**
Amazing!
**[07:24] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[07:25] Hyoma**
Tsukumogami... all over my body.
Tsukumogami... all over my body.
**[07:28] Hata**
I told you, it's not really a tsukumogami.
**[07:31] Botan**
Maybe you'd better not.
**[07:45] Hyoma**
It's all right. This is
surely part of my training.
**[07:49] Hyoma**
Besides...
**[07:51] Hyoma**
Reducing my rate of injury will help
to set your mind at ease, Botan.
**[07:56] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[08:02] Hyoma**
Very well. I accept your challenge.
**[08:04] Hata**
That's the spirit.
**[08:06] Hata**
Of course, there are many
kinds of relationships.
**[08:09] Hata**
Friendly relationships,
master-servant relationships...
**[08:11] Hata**
The key is just convincing it
that you're a worthy wearer.
**[08:20] Tsubaki**
A staredown, huh?
**[08:22] Hata**
A very strained atmosphere.
**[08:24] Hata**
Not exactly a great start.
**[08:27] Botan**
But it latched right on to me...
**[08:29] Tsubaki**
You're a rare case.
**[08:31] Hata**
Yep, they're not so friendly with most.
**[08:34] Botan**
Really?
**[08:35] Tsubaki**
Same with the others in your household.
**[08:38] Tsubaki**
You're capable of building some
pretty unprecedented relationships.
**[08:42] Botan**
I am?
**[08:46] Tsubaki**
*And that's just one part*
**[08:48] Tsubaki**
* of why Papa finds you*
* so very, very dangerous.*
**[08:53] Botan**
What will Hyoma-san do, then?
**[08:55] Tsubaki**
Probably what we all do.
**[08:58] Tsubaki**
Discipline!
**[08:59] Tsubaki**
Dominate it through sheer force,
bring it to heel,
**[09:01] Tsubaki**
and forge a master-servant relationship.
**[09:04] Botan**
You force it, then?
**[09:06] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan probably sees that
as his ideal method, too.
**[09:12] Botan**
You think so?
**[09:14] Botan**
It might have been that way
when he first came to us,
**[09:18] Botan**
but I feel like he might find
a different solution now.
**[09:25] Hyoma**
Well, let's get fighting.
**[09:27] Botan**
Huh?! No way!
**[09:29] Hyoma**
Let's not beat around the bush.
**[09:31] Hyoma**
Give me your best shot
with all the power you have.
**[09:33] Hyoma**
Let's see if we can trust
each other with our lives...
**[09:35] Hyoma**
through use of fists!
**[09:39] Tsubaki**
What in the world?
**[09:41] Tsubaki**
They don't even understand
the spoken word, do they?
**[09:44] Hata**
No, they don't.
**[09:46] Hata**
But it looks like the sentiment got through.
**[09:53] Hyoma**
Begin!
**[10:02] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[10:06] Hyoma**
No need to worry.
**[10:07] Hyoma**
I'm stronger than this.
**[10:10] Hyoma**
I'm sure you can see that, as well.
**[10:15] Hyoma**
Good.
**[10:17] Hyoma**
Now it's my turn!
**[10:26] Tsubaki**
Huh?!
**[10:27] Botan**
It's *that* kind of thing?!
**[10:29] Hyoma**
I'm impressed that you
endured my full-force strike.
**[10:33] Hyoma**
I feel I could entrust my life
to you as my armor.
**[10:37] Hyoma**
As reticent as I might be about it,
**[10:38] Hyoma**
I require your service for the fight ahead.
**[10:41] Hyoma**
I swear I will wear you well, wear you out,
**[10:45] Hyoma**
and allow you to fulfill the purpose
for which you were born.
**[10:48] Hyoma**
Join me!
**[10:50] Hyoma**
We have a common interest.
**[10:52] Hyoma**
Our relationship is that of comrades in arms!
**[10:55] Botan**
Was that it? He wasn't just resorting to force?
**[10:59] Hata**
It's a gray area, I guess,
**[11:02] Hata**
but the cloth seems pretty satisfied, so...
**[11:05] Hata**
I guess all's well that ends well.
***SIGN*** Tebata Fabrics
**[11:15] Hyoma**
I'm sorry for the wait.
**[11:17] Botan**
No problem.
**[11:18] Botan**
Hey... You don't look any different.
**[11:21] Hyoma**
It seems not.
**[11:23] Hyoma**
It even transformed to match
my outfit's color and form.
**[11:26] Hyoma**
And Tsubaki?
**[11:27] Botan**
She headed out already.
**[11:28] Hyoma**
I see.
**[11:31] Botan**
Hyoma-san, you seem pleased with yourself.
**[11:35] Hyoma**
You could tell?
**[11:36] Botan**
Yeah, kinda.
**[11:37] Hyoma**
I admit, I surprised myself today.
**[11:40] Hyoma**
I usually see tsukumogami
as merely things to destroy,
**[11:43] Hyoma**
but today I looked one in the proverbial eye
and reached an agreement with it.
**[11:48] Hyoma**
Quite frankly, I didn't think myself
capable of such a thing.
**[11:54] Hyoma**
Perhaps I'm becoming the true
Saenome that Grandfather spoke of.
**[12:00] Botan**
At the very least, I think you're
heading in a good direction.
**[12:04] Hyoma**
I hope you're right.
**[12:06] Hyoma**
By the way, are you feeling fatigued?
**[12:09] Botan**
Could you tell?
**[12:10] Hyoma**
Vaguely.
**[12:11] Botan**
Well, while you were in there,
it was just me and Tsubaki-san for a while.
**[12:17] Hyoma**
I see.
**[12:24] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
Is that the Big Dipper?
**[12:26] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
What a great hairpin.
**[12:27] (Flashback) Botan**
Oh... right.
**[12:29] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
It really suits you. It's cute.
**[12:32] (Flashback) Botan**
Oh, well...
**[12:34] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan's pretty cute too, huh?
**[12:41] (Flashback) Botan**
C-Cute? Him?
**[12:43] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
Actually, I tried to make a move on him earlier...
**[12:47] (Flashback) Botan**
A mo—
**[12:48] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
He blew me off, though.
**[12:50] (Flashback) Botan**
O-Oh...
**[12:52] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
He's still too cute, though,
so it's hard to back down.
**[13:00] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
You're also very cute, and I like you, but...
**[13:04] (Flashback) Botan**
I-I wouldn't say I'm—
**[13:07] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
I'm not losing to you.
**[13:12] Hyoma**
You truly do appear fatigued!
**[13:16] Taiju**
So the kid managed to wear it, eh?
**[13:20] Tsubaki**
But hey, nice of you to be tactful for once.
**[13:23] Tsubaki**
You like Hyoma-chan now?
**[13:25] Taiju**
Don't be dumb.
**[13:26] Taiju**
Getting him the right equipment's
just part of the rules.
**[13:29] Tsubaki**
I also met the infamous Botan-chan.
**[13:32] Tsubaki**
Super-cute girl.
**[13:34] Tsubaki**
She and Hyoma-chan had a nice relationship.
**[13:37] Tsubaki**
Lots of mutual trust there.
**[13:39] Taiju**
Trust?
**[13:42] Tsubaki**
I'd say, yeah.
**[13:44] Taiju**
Strange.
**[13:46] Taiju**
I'd met the girl once before, but...
**[13:49] Taiju**
She didn't look like the type
to open up to others at all.
**[13:54] Taiju**
That's one reason I thought I could
leave her at large a while longer.
**[13:59] Taiju**
So that's a little unsettling to hear.
**[14:04] Taiju**
Times like this, the strangest things
start coming out of the woodwork.
**[14:10] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[14:12] Botan**
Could you lower the right side just a bit?
**[14:14] Shiho**
Oh, just missed it!
**[14:15] Natsuki**
Now the left side's a little...
***SIGN*** Hyakunin Isshu Society
***SIGN*** Hyakunin Isshu Society
**[14:22] Natsuki**
Podium, check!
**[14:23] Natsuki**
Booklets, check!
**[14:25] Natsuki**
Sign, check!
**[14:26] Natsuki**
All ready to go!
**[14:27] Natsuki**
Boy, having a guy around speeds things up!
**[14:30] Botan**
Thanks for everything, Hyoma-san.
**[14:32] Hyoma**
It's nothing.
**[14:33] Hyoma**
The Hyakunin Isshu Society, is it?
**[14:36] Hyoma**
So you joined a club, as well?
**[14:39] Botan**
Actually,
**[14:40] Botan**
I did it all the time on New Year's
at home, so I got pretty good at it.
**[14:44] Hyoma**
Don't you have classes?
**[14:46] Botan**
This is recruitment week.
**[14:47] Kana**
...and those are your
recruiting stations. Let's do this!
**[14:48] Botan**
Classes pretty much don't start until Monday.
**[14:51] Botan**
Today's the day for nabbing new recruits!
**[14:53] Kana**
Here, Bon-chan, your share of the flyers.
**[14:55] Botan**
Oh, right!
**[14:58] Kana**
Kunato-san, thank you so much for your help.
**[15:00] Kana**
To be honest, when I first saw you,
**[15:03] Kana**
I assumed you were a bit of a hooligan.
**[15:05] Botan**
S-Senpai?!
**[15:07] Shiho**
Yeah, at first I thought Nagatsuki-senpai
had some underworld connections!
**[15:11] Botan**
Why?!
**[15:12] Natsuki**
Well, that glare...
**[15:14] Natsuki**
I feel like I should be begging for my life.
**[15:15] Shiho**
But then it turned out
he's such a hard worker...
**[15:18] Shiho**
Secretly sensitive! So dreamy!
**[15:21] Natsuki**
We've got some time to kill,
**[15:22] Natsuki**
so why not take a campus tour...
**[15:24] Natsuki**
with your boyfriend.
**[15:26] Botan**
I told you, we're related!
**[15:28] Hyoma**
*She told them we're related?*
**[15:31] Hyoma**
*Speaking of which...*
**[15:33] Hyoma**
*What's* their *cover story?*
**[15:36] Natsuki**
Haori-san and the others
are also your relatives, right?
**[15:40] Hyoma**
You've met the—
**[15:41] Botan**
Welp, here goes the tour!
**[15:45] Botan**
They came to my culture
festival in my first year.
**[15:49] Botan**
My clubmates and classmates
know all about them.
**[15:51] Hyoma**
Is that really safe?
**[15:53] Botan**
Seems like it.
**[15:55] Botan**
They just think we're a weird family, I guess.
**[15:58] Hyoma**
I wonder about that.
**[16:00] Botan**
Oh, I forgot.
**[16:01] Botan**
I've got a shift showing stuff to
potential recruits this afternoon.
**[16:04] Kao**
There you are!
**[16:06] Botan**
Kao-chan!
**[16:07] Kao**
Botan!
**[16:09] Kao**
Could you help write a sign for us?
**[16:11] Kao**
Please, please!
**[16:12] Botan**
No worries, Hyoma-san!
You can head back without me!
**[16:17] Hyoma**
R-Right.
**[16:19] Hyoma**
* Botan's life at school is*
* livelier than I expected.*
**[16:25] Hyoma**
* But her tsukumogami, who came to her*
* culture festival and generally enjoy revelry,*
**[16:29] Hyoma**
*didn't come with her today... curious.*
**[16:32] Suzuri**
First time in Kyoto, huh?
**[16:34] Suzuri**
I bet you wanna see everything, right?
**[16:36] Suzuri**
Just leave it to me!
**[16:37] Suzuri**
I've got my first-level
Kyoto Tourism Certification.
**[16:40] Suzuri**
And I'm well-versed in everything
from sweets to fast casual!
**[16:44] Suzuri**
So if you have any questions,
just shoot me a line.
**[16:48] Nagi**
Hey, Suzuri!
**[16:50] Nagi**
Maybe you oughta focus a little.
**[16:52] Suzuri**
What's the big deal?
**[16:54] Suzuri**
Hyoma-kun's with her today.
**[16:56] Suzuri**
And if I can get a source on the inside here,
**[16:58] Suzuri**
it'll be a big help if anything
goes down at her school.
**[17:01] Suzuri**
What about you, Nagi? What're you up to?
**[17:03] Nagi**
I dropped in on the swordsmanship club
and sliced through a training post.
**[17:07] Suzuri**
Sounds like you're the one
who needs some focus.
**[17:09] Nagi**
They called me "master,"
but I'm not cut out for teaching...
**[17:13] Suzuri**
Why are you picking up disciples?!
**[17:15] Suzuri**
You seem to be enjoying it, too.
**[17:18] Suzuri**
We don't want to stand out too much.
**[17:20] Suzuri**
Think it's time to head back?
**[17:21] Nagi**
Good idea.
**[17:27] Nagi**
Hang on a minute...
**[17:29] Suzuri**
Nagi?
**[17:30] Nagi**
The hell's she doing here?
**[17:36] Suzuri**
Wait!
**[17:38] Nagi**
*If that kid's here, that means...*
**[17:48] Itsuki**
You are called to battle...
**[17:51] Itsuki**
Kai-sama.
**[17:58] Hyoma**
An ambush? Here?!
**[18:02] Kai**
Would that be you?
**[18:05] Kai**
The new house guest at
the Nagatsuki household...
**[18:07] Kai**
Kunato Hyoma?
**[18:10] Kai**
You look more frail than I expected.
**[18:23] Hyoma**
*The people disappeared...*
**[18:24] Hyoma**
*No, I'm in a barrier?*
**[18:28] Kai**
Now no one will interrupt.
**[18:31] Kai**
Now...
**[18:32] Kai**
Show me this reckless courage
about which I've heard so much.
**[18:38] Hyoma**
Who exactly are you?
**[18:41] Hyoma**
No... it doesn't matter who you are,
or what your reasons are.
**[18:44] Hyoma**
I can't leave at large any tsukumogami
that turns its power on others.
**[18:49] Hyoma**
Let us begin.
**[18:50] Hyoma**
I'll finish you here and now!
**[18:53] Kai**
Go on and try.
**[18:58] Reader**
Here, you see it—
**[18:59] Botan**
There!
**[18:59] Reader**
The place where all people meet...
**[19:00] Rookie**
So fast!
**[19:01] Reader**
Comers and goers...
**[19:01] Natsuki**
You can get that good in time.
**[19:04] Natsuki**
What do you think, new blood?
**[19:07] Botan**
*I wonder if Hyoma-san left.*
**[19:12] Botan**
*I wish he'd come by to play a bit.*
**[19:15] Botan**
* I just hope he hasn't gotten himself*
* mixed up in something again.*
**[19:26] Hyoma**
*I feel so light...*
**[19:27] Hyoma**
*Is it the clothing?*
**[19:36] Hyoma**
*My strength, too...*
**[19:38] Hyoma**
* Of course. No wonder the*
* Kyoto Saenome treasure it.*
**[19:42] Hyoma**
*But...*
**[19:43] Hyoma**
*Swords, spears...*
**[19:45] Hyoma**
* These planks are like the shoulder*
* guards of Japanese armor.*
**[19:48] Hyoma**
* Typically, a tsukumogami's*
* transformation powers*
**[19:51] Hyoma**
* are based on the one item*
* they took as their vessel.*
**[19:55] Hyoma**
*But I've heard there are exceptions—*
**[19:57] Hyoma**
* tsukumogami that take a full*
* "set" of items as their vessel.*
**[20:03] Hyoma**
*Could it be?*
**[20:06] Hyoma**
*Is he...*
**[20:08] Hyoma**
You're an absolute monster.
**[20:33] Kai**
Too soft.
**[20:37] Hyoma**
Th-The helmet?!
**[20:44] Kai**
Oh? That should've gone in deep...
**[20:47] Kai**
Yet no external injuries.
That's excellent armor you've got.
**[20:51] Hyoma**
* Though it can't fully deflect*
* the force of impact.*
**[20:57] Hyoma**
*I knew it.*
**[20:59] Hyoma**
* He's one of the three great*
* tsukumogami of Kyoto...*
**[21:04] Hyoma**
*Kai, the suit of armor!*
**[21:07] Nagi**
Hey, what brings you here?
**[21:11] Nagi**
Shouldn't you be shut away, Itsuki?
**[21:16] Nagi**
But the real problem is,
I know you don't act alone.
**[21:20] Nagi**
Where the hell is Kai?
**[21:22] Itsuki**
Kai-sama is meeting with Kunato Hyoma
within the sanctuary I created.
**[21:28] Nagi**
With Hyoma?!
**[21:29] Suzuri**
What? Why?!
**[21:32] Nagi**
But this has all been disappointingly boring.
**[21:36] Nagi**
Is this really all you have?
**[21:40] Nagi**
What a shame.
**[21:43] Nagi**
I might kill you.
**[21:45] Itsuki**
Kai-sama is engaged in his amusements.
**[21:48] Itsuki**
If you seek to intervene,
**[21:51] Itsuki**
you will have to go through me.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Efflorescence
# E12 - Efflorescence
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G8WUNMQ0M/efflorescence)
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**[00:04] Kai**
You're so weak.
**[00:06] Kai**
Not even worth leaving alive.
**[00:10] Kai**
It really is humorous.
**[00:13] Kai**
You expected to slay the
paper umbrella like this?
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Efflorescence
**[01:58] Hyoma**
You know of the paper umbrella?
**[02:00] Kai**
I know you aspire to kill it
to avenge your slain family.
**[02:05] Hyoma**
Do you know where it is?!
**[02:07] Kai**
And you've been training
in order to take your revenge.
**[02:11] Kai**
But if this is as far as it's gotten you,
**[02:14] Kai**
your resentment must run shallow after all!
**[02:22] Hyoma**
Tell me!
**[02:43] Kai**
Harder!
**[02:45] Kai**
Harder!
**[02:46] Kai**
Try harder!
**[02:50] Nagi**
Hyoma!
**[02:59] Kai**
Welcome!
**[03:00] Nagi**
Kai!
**[03:08] Kai**
Now it's getting fun!
**[03:10] Kai**
Are you up next, Nagi?!
**[03:12] Nagi**
Don't be stupid.
**[03:14] Nagi**
I know I can't take you in a one-on-one...
**[03:17] Nagi**
But the kid told me everything!
**[03:21] Kai**
Itsuki?!
**[03:23] Itsuki**
I...
**[03:24] Itsuki**
I'm sorry, Kai-sama.
**[03:26] Itsuki**
We're out of time.
**[03:27] Kai**
W-Wait...
**[03:33] Kai**
I told you to hide...
**[03:36] Kai**
Because you're so extremely weak.
**[03:40] Nagi**
Damn it, what a pain-in-the-ass old bastard.
**[03:44] Hyoma**
Nagi.
**[03:45] Hyoma**
Tell me what's going on here.
**[03:47] Hyoma**
Or rather... first...
**[03:50] Hyoma**
Could you get me down from here?
**[03:54] Kohai Girl**
Oh, no way!
**[03:56] Natsuki**
What, really?
**[03:57] Kohai Girl**
There's gotta be some hot guys
who like the Hyakunin Isshu!
**[04:01] Natsuki**
Who cares if they like the Hyakunin Isshu?
**[04:04] Natsuki**
As long as they're hot.
**[04:05] Botan**
What are we talking about?
**[04:07] Senpai Girl**
They're plotting to rope in good-looking
guys from the new students.
**[04:11] Botan**
Ah. Right.
**[04:13] Kohai Girl**
Huh?! Botan-senpai's put off?!
**[04:15] Natsuki**
Why?
**[04:16] Natsuki**
You know our slogan this year is,
"Pick up some male club members!"
**[04:19] Kei**
Now, now.
**[04:20] Kei**
Calm down, my dear girls.
**[04:23] Kei**
This is what they call "the leisure
of the romantically attached."
***SIGN*** Romantically attached
**[04:26] Kohai Girl**
I knew it! Kunato-san is her boyfriend!
**[04:29] Botan**
Huh?!
**[04:30] Natsuki**
Don't look down on us!
**[04:32] Botan**
Look...
**[04:35] Botan**
Can you guys just tidy up already?
**[04:41] Botan**
Dating... Romance...
**[04:48] Botan**
Loving someone.
**[04:53] Botan**
All terrifying things... and
they make them look so easy.
**[05:00] Hyoma**
A greeting?
**[05:01] Kai**
I've heard rumors here and
there of your existence.
**[05:05] Kai**
I got permission to see you myself.
**[05:08] Nagi**
And you went too damn far as always!
**[05:11] Kai**
I have to amuse myself somehow.
**[05:13] Kai**
Besides, you had a little fun
with Itsuki yourselves.
**[05:18] Nagi**
That wasn't exactly fun!
**[05:22] Nagi**
How was I supposed to know
she was that damn weak?
**[05:24] Itsuki**
Well, they said they were
gonna try to stop you,
**[05:27] Itsuki**
so I figured I'd try...
**[05:30] Hyoma**
Wait a minute.
**[05:33] Hyoma**
What do you know about the paper umbrella?
**[05:36] Kai**
That's the question you attempted
to force me to answer, yes?
**[05:41] Kai**
I therefore determine that you are not yet
strong enough to warrant an answer.
**[05:47] Kai**
Am I wrong?
**[05:49] Kai**
That's my estimation.
**[05:52] Kai**
I met Kunato Hayato and Kusui before,
**[05:56] Kai**
and you are far weaker even than they,
**[05:59] Kai**
who were slain by the
paper umbrella at the time.
**[06:01] Kai**
Why don't you even use your own weapon?
**[06:05] Kai**
Is using the ones you received
from them a way to remember them?
**[06:10] Kai**
A ridiculous obsession.
**[06:14] Nagi**
You can give it a rest now, Kai.
**[06:18] Kai**
You think I'm being cruel?
**[06:19] Kai**
You're far worse than I am, Nagatsuki.
**[06:24] Nagi**
What do you mean by that?
**[06:26] Kai**
Placing Kunato Hyoma with Nagatsuki Botan...
**[06:31] Kai**
That's a true act of cruelty.
**[06:35] Botan**
What should we do for the after-party?
**[06:42] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[06:44] Botan**
And... who?
**[06:46] Kai**
As long as the boy remains near her,
he'll attempt to protect her.
**[06:52] Kai**
He'll consider it his duty.
**[06:54] Kai**
What could be more ironic, then?
**[06:58] Kai**
The paper umbrella who
killed his brother and sister...
**[07:01] Kai**
The one responsible for its activation
**[07:05] Kai**
was Nagatsuki Botan herself!
**[07:11] Kai**
And of course, she doesn't want
anyone protecting her anyway.
**[07:18] Kai**
Nagatsuki Botan is incapable of trusting
anyone enough to wish for that.
**[07:25] Kai**
Ironic, isn't it?
**[07:27] Nagi**
Kai!
**[07:29] Nagi**
We'd appreciate it if you'd stop insulting
our mistress with your baseless hunches.
**[07:35] Nagi/Suzuri**
We'll crush you.
**[07:38] Kai**
Here we go—
**[07:44] Itsuki**
I said you were out of time.
**[07:47] Itsuki**
Besides, you've taken
your mischief a little too far.
**[07:50] Itsuki**
Allow me to apologize on Kai-sama's behalf.
**[07:54] Itsuki**
He seems rather satisfied.
**[07:57] Itsuki**
I'll get him back in holding for a while,
**[07:59] Itsuki**
so please forgive him.
**[08:00] Nagi**
Hold it!
**[08:01] Suzuri**
Nagi, suck it up for now.
**[08:04] Itsuki**
But Kai-sama is right that
your situation is off-kilter.
**[08:11] Itsuki**
And... someone might potentially
take advantage of that.
**[08:18] Itsuki**
Never forget that.
**[08:22] Hyoma**
Excuse me, Nagi, Suzuri.
**[08:25] Hyoma**
Do you think I could have a little time off?
**[08:30] Nagi**
Don't let Kai's bullshit get to y—
**[08:34] Suzuri**
All right.
**[08:35] Nagi**
Hey!
**[08:36] Suzuri**
But don't overdo it. And see that you return.
**[08:41] Hyoma**
Thank you.
**[08:46] Nagi**
He's definitely hung up on what Kai said.
**[08:50] Suzuri**
It's about his siblings, after all.
**[08:53] Suzuri**
We can't exactly expect
him to just shake it off.
**[08:57] Suzuri**
And what Kai said...
**[09:00] Suzuri**
It's true that there are rumors about it.
**[09:03] Nagi**
That Botan's behind the
paper umbrella incident?
**[09:06] Nagi**
But it's just one of a dozen theories.
**[09:10] Suzuri**
We're just Saenome proxies, so there's
no way for us to learn the truth, but...
**[09:17] Suzuri**
It would be a lie to say we know nothing.
**[09:21] Suzuri**
We need to be as open with him as we can.
**[09:27] Kagami**
It's been four days now...
**[09:29] Kagami**
I wonder where Hyoma-san is right now.
**[09:36] Kagami**
Darn it!
**[09:37] Kagami**
This is all Kai's fault!
**[09:39] Yu**
He does enjoy stirring the pot.
**[09:42] Kagami**
It's not very nice.
**[09:44] Yu**
Hyoma apparently said
he'd be back eventually.
**[09:47] Yu**
I'm sure there's no need to worry.
**[09:50] Yu**
My greater concern lies
**[09:53] Yu**
with Botan's recent despondency.
**[09:57] Botan**
* I wonder what his expression*
* was in that moment.*
**[10:03] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I can't purge it from my mind.
**[10:06] Botan**
*If it's possible I was the cause of that...*
**[10:11] Botan**
*Then I...*
**[10:18] Tsubaki**
Papa! Visitor!
**[10:24] Taiju**
* The human in whom dwells a marebito*
* from the land of the dead,*
**[10:27] Taiju**
*that which serves as a tsukumogami's soul...*
**[10:31] Taiju**
*Nagatsuki Botan.*
**[10:33] Taiju**
*What kind of monster have you grown into?*
**[10:38] Botan**
P-Pleasure to meet you!
**[10:39] Botan**
My name is Nagatsuki Botan!
**[10:41] Botan**
Thank you for always looking after fy mamily!
**[10:44] Botan**
...m-my family.
**[10:48] Taiju**
Ah, right...
**[10:50] Taiju**
Though this is actually our second meeting.
**[10:54] Taiju**
The first was when you were
just a little thing, of course.
**[10:58] Taiju**
It's no wonder you don't remember that.
**[11:00] Tsubaki**
Have a seat.
**[11:03] Taiju**
Tsubaki told me why you've come.
**[11:06] Taiju**
You want to know how you're connected
to the paper umbrella incident, then?
**[11:13] Botan**
Yes.
**[11:18] Botan**
Thank you for your help.
**[11:20] Botan**
I'm sorry for dropping in so... er...
**[11:22] Taiju**
It's nothing.
**[11:23] Taiju**
Though it was a bit sudden, true.
**[11:25] Taiju**
But either way, the paper
umbrella is Hyoma-kun's problem.
**[11:31] Taiju**
Why're you so curious about it?
**[11:34] Botan**
Er... well...
**[11:40] Taiju**
Is this one of those
"I bet he hates me now" things?
**[11:44] Taiju**
Listen to you, like a maiden in love!
**[11:49] Taiju**
Tsubaki, have I said something rude?
**[11:54] Tsubaki**
I think you hit the nail on the head.
**[11:56] Botan**
No! N-No, no!
**[11:57] Botan**
It's not like that!
**[11:58] Botan**
Um...
**[11:59] Botan**
That... Kai-san person said those things,
**[12:02] Botan**
and then Hyoma-san ran off somewhere...
**[12:05] Botan**
Since I happened to overhear it,
I can't help but be... worried...
**[12:12] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan ran off somewhere?
**[12:14] Taiju**
He's been training with us,
as a matter of fact.
**[12:17] Hyoma**
Representative Kadomori!
**[12:19] Hyoma**
I've completed my Ten Vessels Sparring!
**[12:20] Hyoma**
Next!
**[12:21] Botan**
Hyoma-san?!
**[12:24] Hyoma**
Botan? What brings you here?
**[12:26] Taiju**
Convenient timing there.
**[12:28] Taiju**
He came to stay with us three days ago.
**[12:32] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Representative Kadomori!
**[12:34] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I recently encountered Kai
of the Three Great Tsukumogami,
**[12:38] (Flashback) Hyoma**
sparred with him, and was found lacking!
**[12:41] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I therefore wish to undertake training
with the Saenome Kyoto Branch.
**[12:47] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Is this acceptable?!
**[12:49] Taiju**
Hyoma-kun.
**[12:50] Taiju**
Head home for now and take tomorrow off.
**[12:53] Hyoma**
What? But I still—
**[12:55] Taiju**
Actually, the Ten Vessels Sparring you just
completed is our household's final training!
**[13:01] Hyoma**
Unthinkable!
**[13:02] Taiju**
I want you gone.
**[13:04] Taiju**
You're a nuisance to have in our house.
**[13:11] Botan**
Hyoma-san, you forgot your scarf.
**[13:15] Hyoma**
You have my thanks.
**[13:16] Taiju**
There's a surprise.
**[13:19] Taiju**
You're a bit fond of Hyoma-kun, aren't you?
**[13:22] Taiju**
Wouldn't you rather have him staying over?
**[13:24] Tsubaki**
Seems like frequent visits over a long
time would offer more chances than
**[13:29] Tsubaki**
him learning it all in a
short time and then leaving.
**[13:31] Taiju**
Wouldn't him staying over
make it easier to go after him
**[13:35] Taiju**
when Nagatsuki Botan's not around?
**[13:39] Tsubaki**
Well...
**[13:41] Tsubaki**
Maybe.
**[13:46] Hyoma**
You heard us talking there?!
**[13:48] Botan**
I'm afraid so.
**[13:50] Hyoma**
And you went to ask Kadomori the truth?
**[13:54] Hyoma**
That's quite bold.
**[13:55] Botan**
I mean... you just left
without saying anything, so...
**[14:01] Botan**
I thought you might not want to stay
in our house anymore because of that.
**[14:07] Botan**
Of course I was worried.
**[14:11] Hyoma**
I apologize.
**[14:13] Botan**
But it should matter a lot to you, right?
**[14:19] Hyoma**
Well...
**[14:23] Hyoma**
To be frank, I assumed
that part was nonsense.
**[14:28] Hyoma**
The idea of you being responsible for
the paper umbrella is transparently false.
**[14:34] Hyoma**
I learned only one thing: that I am too weak.
**[14:39] Hyoma**
Thus, I must train.
**[14:41] Hyoma**
The next time we meet, I will force out
the truth about the paper umbrella.
**[14:46] Botan**
You're really amazing, Hyoma-san.
**[14:49] Botan**
When you set your eye on something,
you never waver in going after it.
**[14:54] Hyoma**
W-Well...
**[14:55] Botan**
You trust that part of yourself.
**[15:00] Hyoma**
Botan?
**[15:02] Botan**
There's another truth that
tsukumogami, Kai, revealed.
**[15:08] Botan**
I really can't trust others.
**[15:14] Hyoma**
May I ask what happened?
**[15:19] Botan**
The truth is...
**[15:21] Botan**
I was kidnapped once.
**[15:24] Botan**
When I was seven,
**[15:26] Botan**
a whole parade of different
relatives offered to take me in.
**[15:31] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Botan...
**[15:33] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Would you be Botan, then?
**[15:35] Botan**
One was a man with kind eyes,
a distant relative.
**[15:39] Botan**
Another was my father's younger sister.
**[15:42] Botan**
She had a sour expression.
**[15:45] Botan**
It had been a little over three years since
I was allowed to venture off the grounds.
**[15:50] Botan**
But I'd already seen lots of humans and
other tsukumogami set their sights on me,
**[15:54] Botan**
as a vessel housing a marebito.
**[15:58] Botan**
My household and I were all on our guard.
**[16:02] Botan**
But...
**[16:05] Botan**
Because they were my first
blood relatives, I guess...
**[16:08] Botan**
I wanted them to care for me.
**[16:11] Botan**
I decided to trust their kindness.
**[16:14] Botan**
The one who kidnapped me was the woman.
**[16:20] Hyoma**
So she was someone you should
have been on your guard around?
**[16:25] Botan**
No, not her.
**[16:30] Botan**
She...
**[16:32] Botan**
Satsuki-san...
**[16:34] Botan**
She was trying to save me.
**[16:41] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Damn you!
**[16:43] (Flashback) Relative Man**
You can't get ahead of me, Satsuki!
**[16:46] (Flashback) Relative Man**
Give it back, now!
**[16:47] (Flashback) Relative Man**
That thing belongs to me!
**[16:58] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan-chan,
**[17:00] (Flashback) Satsuki**
sorry to put you through
that scary experience.
**[17:04] Botan**
Satsuki-san was the one
I was always watching out for.
**[17:08] Botan**
But I should have been
watching out for the man.
**[17:12] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan-chan.
**[17:14] (Flashback) Satsuki**
You are human.
**[17:16] (Flashback) Satsuki**
You're a human's... my brother's child.
**[17:19] (Flashback) Satsuki**
I'm sorry for what those
tsukumogami might think,
**[17:22] (Flashback) Satsuki**
but I won't let anybody use you.
**[17:31] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Let's live together.
**[17:34] (Flashback) Satsuki**
You'll find happiness as a human.
**[17:37] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Okay?
**[17:48] Botan**
While my guys were out searching for me,
**[17:53] Botan**
I was living a quiet,
peaceful life with Satsuki-san.
**[18:01] Botan**
I'd been taken from my parents
right after I was born,
**[18:04] Botan**
but Satsuki-san was like the mother
I'd always dreamed about.
**[18:12] Botan**
If I could have stayed with her,
**[18:14] Botan**
maybe she could have been my mother for real.
**[18:24] Botan**
But those peaceful days
came to an abrupt end.
**[18:44] (Flashback) Botan**
Satsuki-san...
**[18:46] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan...chan...
**[18:50] (Flashback) Relative Man**
No worries.
**[18:53] (Flashback) Relative Man**
I'll put Botan here to good use.
**[18:58] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan...chan...
**[19:07] Botan**
I don't remember anything after that.
**[19:12] Botan**
The next thing I knew, it was all over.
**[19:17] Botan**
And ever since then,
**[19:21] Botan**
I've been afraid...
**[19:24] Botan**
of being betrayed by those I care about.
**[19:27] Botan**
Of seeing people die protecting me.
**[19:32] Botan**
I'm unspeakably afraid of trusting anyone.
**[19:38] Botan**
I've learned how to interact confidently
with both humans and tsukumogami.
**[19:44] Botan**
But that's the absolute best I can do.
**[19:52] Botan**
I'm afraid to go any further.
**[19:56] Hyoma**
Any further?
**[19:58] Botan**
Like to have a best friend.
**[20:00] Botan**
The kind of relationship where you
trust all you are to someone else...
**[20:07] Botan**
Let alone love another person.
**[20:11] Botan**
I just can't.
**[20:14] Botan**
And so the person you are...
**[20:17] Botan**
Always marching forward,
**[20:20] Botan**
never hesitating...
**[20:25] Botan**
It's truly amazing to me.
**[20:30] Botan**
This is getting a little depressing, huh?
**[20:32] Botan**
Let's go home.
**[20:37] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[20:40] Hyoma**
You might find me acceptable.
**[20:43] Botan**
Uh... in what way?
**[20:46] Hyoma**
Well, I mean...
**[20:49] Hyoma**
Perhaps you might trust me.
**[20:53] Hyoma**
Do you agree?
**[20:54] Botan**
Um... what?
**[20:57] Hyoma**
After all, I refuse to die
until I achieve my life's goal,
**[21:00] Hyoma**
and I am undergoing training now
to ensure that is possible!
**[21:04] Hyoma**
You know this, do you not?!
**[21:05] Botan**
Y-Yes...
**[21:07] Hyoma**
I might add,
**[21:08] Hyoma**
do you think me skilled enough at manipulation
as to successfully deceive you?!
**[21:12] Botan**
N-No, you're very awkward, in fact!
**[21:15] Hyoma**
A-Awkward?
**[21:18] Hyoma**
True enough, I suppose.
**[21:20] Hyoma**
Regardless, I feel that you might
find me acceptably trustworthy.
**[21:25] Hyoma**
Do you agree?
**[21:28] Botan**
Well... I...
**[21:31] Botan**
I just...
**[21:32] Botan**
I...
**[21:34] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[21:35] Hyoma**
This I swear.
**[21:36] Hyoma**
I will not betray you. I will not die.
**[21:40] Hyoma**
I...
**[21:42] Hyoma**
I'll always keep you safe.
**[21:52] Botan**
Whe...
**[21:54] Hyoma**
Whe?
**[21:54] Botan**
Where did "keep you safe" come from?!
**[21:56] Hyoma**
It... It was merely an expression of resolve!
**[21:59] Botan**
And aren't you oversimplifying
things just a tad?!
**[22:04] Botan**
But...
**[22:05] Botan**
But can I... really...
**[22:08] Botan**
Can I really, really trust you?
**[22:12] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[22:13] Hyoma**
Bring it on!
**[22:20] Hyoma**
What is it?
**[22:21] Botan**
I...
**[22:23] Botan**
I don't think I've ever seen you...
**[22:27] Botan**
really smile before.
**[22:29] Hyoma**
Eh?
**[22:30] Hyoma**
Surely, I am as capable of smiling as anyone!
**[22:34] Botan**
But still! I've never actually seen it!
**[22:37] Botan**
Yu's even said, "I suspect he even lacks
facial muscles," and stuff like that!
**[22:41] Hyoma**
That's very rude!
**[22:44] Botan**
You look kind of like a kid when you smile.
**[22:47] Hyoma**
I know not of what you speak!
**[22:49] Hyoma**
Fare thee well!
**[22:53] Haori**
* What a surprise...*
* to hear her talk of old times.*
**[22:58] Haori**
* I thought it would take*
* a lot longer for that.*
**[23:01] Haori**
*It's very promising.*
**[23:03] Botan**
Hey! Let's walk home together!
**[23:07] Botan**
Darn it...
# E13 - Entrance
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GZ7UV4511/entrance)
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**[00:02] Zohei**
*It's said that as they age,*
**[00:04] Zohei**
*objects take on a spirit of the divine.*
**[00:07] Zohei**
*The objects that acquire life in this manner*
**[00:11] Zohei**
*and gain the ability to transform themselves*
**[00:14] Zohei**
*are called "tsukumogami."*
**[00:18] Zohei**
*And...*
**[00:20] Zohei**
*One day, a girl with a family of tsukumogami*
**[00:25] Zohei**
* and a boy whose family*
* was killed by tsukumogami*
**[00:28] Zohei**
*met in this place.*
**[00:31] Zohei**
*This is their tsukumogami-tinged love story.*
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Entrance
**[02:16] Botan**
They say it's going to get
pretty cold tonight.
**[02:19] Botan**
Maybe I should wear another layer?
**[02:22] Botan**
Nah, I'll be back before evening anyway.
**[02:28] Hyoma**
Security for the Aoi Festival?
**[02:30] Haori**
It's a Saenome duty.
**[02:32] Haori**
You'll be no exception there.
**[02:35] Hyoma**
Yes. Very well.
**[02:39] Botan**
*Time sure flies...*
**[02:41] Botan**
* It's already been six months*
* since Hyoma-san first arrived.*
***SIGN*** "Six Months Ago"
**[02:49] (Flashback) Botan**
Okay, let's open it!
**[02:54] (Flashback) Botan**
Yeah, it really is dusty!
**[02:57] (Flashback) Nagi**
How long's it been since you tidied up?
**[02:59] (Flashback) Botan**
I haven't touched it since
Grandpa passed away, so...
**[03:03] (Flashback) Botan**
Sixteen, seventeen years?
**[03:05] (Flashback) Nagi**
Botan...
**[03:06] (Flashback) Nagi**
Are we really gonna clean all this up?
**[03:09] (Flashback) Suzuri**
I don't like it. Dust is very bad for hair.
**[03:14] (Flashback) Botan**
Look, that Kunato-san guy is
gonna be staying here next week.
**[03:18] (Flashback) Botan**
It's our duty as hosts to get it ready for him!
**[03:22] (Flashback) Botan**
Nagi, Suzuri, you move the furniture out.
**[03:24] (Flashback) Botan**
There's some space left
in the storage room, right?
**[03:28] (Flashback) Botan**
Yu, you clean with me.
**[03:31] (Flashback) Botan**
What's the matter?
**[03:32] (Flashback) Yu**
Nothing...
**[03:33] (Flashback) Yu**
I'm remembering when you were young,
and you used to imitate us cleaning.
**[03:38] (Flashback) Yu**
And now you've grown so mature...
**[03:40] (Flashback) Yu**
I'm simply overcome!
**[03:43] (Flashback) Botan**
Yeah, yeah. Just do it, okay?
**[03:46] (Flashback) Haori**
They're having fun, aren't they?
**[03:56] (Flashback) Haori**
Now, let's get some tea.
**[04:00] (Flashback) Nagi**
Where the heck are Kagami and Kushige, anyway?
**[04:04] (Flashback) Suzuri**
You didn't hear?
**[04:05] (Flashback) Suzuri**
We need new furniture.
**[04:06] (Flashback) Suzuri**
So they're out shopping.
**[04:10] (Flashback) Kagami**
Northern European furniture
is fashionable, isn't it?
**[04:14] (Flashback) Kagami**
But we're a tatami mat household,
**[04:17] (Flashback) Kagami**
so maybe Japanese-style
antiques would look better!
**[04:20] (Flashback) Nagi**
I mean, we don't need Kagami. She's super weak.
**[04:24] (Flashback) Nagi**
But isn't Kushige better suited
to manual labor than us?!
**[04:27] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Given his size, he said he
didn't want to get in the way.
**[04:33] (Flashback) Botan**
Gosh, it's dusty!
**[04:40] (Flashback) Botan**
A pipe?
**[04:42] (Flashback) Botan**
Was it Grandpa's?
**[04:44] (Flashback) Botan**
Did he smoke?
**[04:46] (Flashback) Yu**
Sometimes. You don't remember?
**[04:49] (Flashback) Botan**
I was basically a baby, so...
**[04:52] (Flashback) Botan**
Plus, he died right after he took me in.
**[04:55] (Flashback) Yu**
That's right.
**[04:57] (Flashback) Botan**
Wow. I've never seen an
old-fashioned pipe like this.
**[05:01] (Flashback) Yu**
Botan, I'm going to bring the vacuum.
**[05:04] (Flashback) Botan**
Oh, sure.
**[05:13] (Flashback) Haori**
Botan?
**[05:14] (Flashback) Yu**
This presence...
**[05:15] (Flashback) Nagi**
Hey, no way!
**[05:16] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Inside the building, even?!
**[05:20] (Flashback) Yu**
Botan!
**[05:21] (Flashback) Yu**
I knew it. A tsukumogami!
**[05:23] (Flashback) Botan**
Hey!
**[05:32] (Flashback) Haori**
Excuse me.
**[05:33] (Flashback) Haori**
Did you just try to burn a young girl's face?
**[05:36] (Flashback) Haori**
That's a bit much for a prank.
**[05:38] (Flashback) Nagi**
What the hell do you think you're doing?!
**[05:52] (Flashback) Yu**
Nagi!
**[05:53] (Flashback) Nagi**
Right!
**[05:56] (Flashback) Nagi**
With this...
**[05:59] (Flashback) Nagi**
It's finished!
**[06:04] (Flashback) Nagi**
Keep your hand off of Botan, newbie.
**[06:07] (Flashback) Botan**
Oh. Grandpa's pipe...
**[06:13] (Flashback) Nagi**
S-Sorry.
**[06:14] (Flashback) Nagi**
I broke your family memento...
**[06:18] (Flashback) Haori**
Goodness. Goodness...
**[06:20] (Flashback) Haori**
Well, Nagi didn't mean any harm.
**[06:25] (Flashback) Haori**
Right?
**[06:26] (Flashback) Botan**
Yeah, I know.
**[06:29] (Flashback) Botan**
Thanks for saving me.
**[06:31] (Flashback) Botan**
And... as far as "family" goes,
**[06:34] (Flashback) Botan**
I'm much more relieved
that my family here is safe!
**[06:37] (Flashback) Botan**
I'll have it repaired and keep
it stored safe and sound.
**[06:42] (Flashback) Botan**
Now, let's get back to cleaning!
**[06:47] (Flashback) Botan**
What is it?
**[06:48] (Flashback) Haori**
Oh, did you hear what she said?!
**[06:51] (Flashback) Nagi**
Sure did!
**[06:52] (Flashback) Yu**
What a wonderful thing she said!
**[06:54] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Yes... She's grown up into such a nice girl!
**[06:59] (Flashback) Botan**
Um... Cleaning?
**[07:04] (Flashback) Botan**
Starting next week,
someone's going to be living here.
**[07:07] Botan**
*Kunato Hyoma-san...*
**[07:09] Botan**
*I wonder what he'll be like.*
**[07:15] Botan**
Well, Grandpa, I'm heading out.
**[07:23] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[07:26] Hyoma**
Heading to school?
**[07:27] Botan**
Yeah. Have you got more
training with Kadomori-san?
**[07:31] Hyoma**
Yes. As befits their reputation
as the Kyoto Saenome,
**[07:34] Hyoma**
they've taught me a number of fighting styles.
**[07:37] Hyoma**
I've benefited greatly from it.
**[07:38] Botan**
Really?
**[07:40] Botan**
Well, keep at it!
**[07:44] Kagami**
They're certainly getting along...
but it's moving so slowly!
**[07:55] Tsubaki**
You'll need to do more than that, Hyoma-chan!
**[08:01] Tsubaki**
Checkmate!
**[08:05] Hyoma**
I failed to win a single match.
**[08:08] Tsubaki**
You're such a straightforward person,
it's really easy to read you.
**[08:18] Tsubaki**
Hey, Hyoma-chan.
**[08:21] Tsubaki**
Did Botan-chan say anything
about you visiting me?
**[08:26] Hyoma**
She told me to "keep at it."
**[08:29] Tsubaki**
I see.
**[08:31] Tsubaki**
She doesn't see me as a rival at all, I guess.
**[08:34] Hyoma**
"Rival"?
**[08:36] Tsubaki**
Oh, nothing.
**[08:38] Tsubaki**
But, now...
**[08:39] Tsubaki**
As thanks for the training, tell me more
about Kusui-san and Hayato-san!
**[08:47] Hyoma**
Ever since they were young, my brother and
sister distinguished themselves as Saenome.
**[08:53] Hyoma**
Before their twentieth birthday,
**[08:54] Hyoma**
their ascension to the leadership of
House Kunato seemed only a matter of time.
**[08:59] (Flashback) Hyoma**
What? Grandpa got mad at you for helping him?
**[09:03] (Flashback) Hayato**
Right?
**[09:05] (Flashback) Hayato**
Genius is never appreciated in its own time.
**[09:08] (Flashback) Hayato**
Remember that, Hyoma.
**[09:10] (Flashback) Kusui**
Idiot.
**[09:11] (Flashback) Kusui**
We didn't help him. We stole his job.
**[09:14] (Flashback) Hayato**
But we've gotta start showing
the old guard what we can do.
**[09:19] (Flashback) Hayato**
I'm sick of not being respected
just because I'm young.
**[09:23] (Flashback) Kusui**
We're just getting negative
attention like this, though.
**[09:26] (Flashback) Kusui**
We need to be more circumspect.
**[09:31] (Flashback) Hyoma**
You guys wanna become leaders
of the clan sooner rather than later?
**[09:34] (Flashback) Hayato**
Yeah.
**[09:36] (Flashback) Hayato**
We wanna reach the top.
**[09:37] (Flashback) Hayato**
It's what they call the impertinence of youth.
**[09:40] (Flashback) Kusui**
Though what we're doing right now
feels like a lot of wasted effort.
**[09:44] (Flashback) Kusui**
Helping protect wayward tsukumogami would
probably look a bit better, don't you think?
**[09:50] (Flashback) Hyoma**
"To offer guidance and maintain
order in the land of the living."
**[09:55] (Flashback) Hyoma**
That's what Grandpa says is
the Saenome guiding principle.
**[09:59] (Flashback) Kusui**
That's it! We've gotta set
a good example for Hi-kun!
**[10:03] (Flashback) Hayato**
Got it! Next time our schedules line up,
come watch us at work!
**[10:07] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Sure!
**[10:12] Tsubaki**
Oh, Hyoma-chan...
**[10:15] Tsubaki**
They really did love you, didn't they?
**[10:22] Hyoma**
Shall we resume our training?
**[10:25] Tsubaki**
Yes, we need to surpass both
Kusui-san and Hayato-san.
**[10:30] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[10:33] Haori**
Let's just make sure.
**[10:35] Haori**
Security arrangements for the Aoi Festival...
**[10:37] Nagi**
It's the same as ever, right?
**[10:40] Haori**
I suppose. It's the same course.
***SIGN*** Parade Course
Detour Points
Closed to Cars
Closed to Buses, etc
***SIGN*** • Times represent estimates for start of parade passage
• Total passage takes about one hour
**[10:43] Yu**
Is this...
**[10:44] Nagi**
Wow, *they're* gonna be on
security for the Aoi Festival, too?
**[10:49] Yu**
I heard they were coming back
on their leave of absence.
**[10:51] Haori**
The Aoi Festival is one of Kyoto's
Three Great Festivals, after all.
**[10:55] Haori**
It'll be quite an event.
**[10:56] Haori**
We want as many helping hands as possible.
**[11:00] Haori**
If we run into each other...
it'll have been ten years and then some.
***SIGN*** Kyoto
**[11:04] Haori**
Since we last met the other of
Kyoto's Three Great Tsukumogami...
**[11:09] Haori**
The Bureau of Traditional Music.
**[11:31] Kei**
Looking great, Natsuki!
**[11:35] Botan**
Are you really okay coming here with me, Kei?
**[11:38] Kei**
Why do you ask?
**[11:39] Botan**
Well... what does your boyfriend think?
**[11:43] Kei**
Oh, he doesn't like this kind of thing.
**[11:47] Kei**
Speaking of, Bon-chan, how are
things going with you and Kunato-san?
**[11:51] Botan**
He's not my boyfriend.
He's just crashing at my house.
**[11:55] Botan**
He's got work today, he said.
**[11:58] Botan**
And...
**[11:59] (Flashback) Nagi**
Hyoma has a hard time with
festivals because of his line of work.
**[12:03] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Hey—
**[12:04] (Flashback) Botan**
His line of work?
**[12:09] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Festivals and other parades...
**[12:14] (Flashback) Hyoma**
They remind me of the Night Parade
of a Hundred Demons.
**[12:17] (Flashback) Botan**
Night Parade? But isn't that a yokai thing?
**[12:20] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Well...
**[12:21] (Flashback) Hyoma**
It's certainly associated
with artwork of yokai,
**[12:25] (Flashback) Hyoma**
but it can also be drawn
as a parade of tsukumogami.
**[12:30] (Flashback) Botan**
So parades have unpleasant connotations...
**[12:33] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Well... I start speculating
on how I'd want to attack
**[12:37] (Flashback) Hyoma**
if it really were a parade of tsukumogami,
**[12:40] (Flashback) Hyoma**
and other thoughts inappropriate
to a parade... It's painful for me.
**[12:46] Kei**
He has problems with parades, huh?
**[12:48] Botan**
Yeah, that's what he said.
**[12:50] Kei**
If it's because he doesn't like crowds...
**[12:53] Kei**
That's pretty rough.
**[12:54] Botan**
How so?
**[12:55] Kei**
Well, it limits the number of
places you can go together.
**[12:59] Botan**
Hey!
**[13:00] Botan**
Knock it off with that already!
**[13:02] Kei**
Ow, ow, ow!
**[13:05] Kei**
I give, I give, I give!
**[13:06] Hyoma**
Greetings.
**[13:11] Botan**
Sorry! You startled me, that's all.
**[13:14] Botan**
Wait, what about work?
**[13:17] Hyoma**
Although I am here to watch the parade,
it's fortunate that we happened to meet.
**[13:23] Hyoma**
Haori said, "We'll be out late,
so please step in to make dinner tonight."
**[13:28] Botan**
Huh?!
**[13:30] Botan**
Um... You mind helping me, then?
**[13:34] Hyoma**
Sure.
***SIGN*** Kei
***SIGN*** Bon-chan's flirting
**[13:37] Hyoma**
If the day remains uneventful,
I won't have to leave you waiting—
**[13:43] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[13:45] Hyoma**
Forgive me.
**[13:46] Hyoma**
It seems the day may be eventful.
**[13:48] Hyoma**
You'll have to handle dinner yourself.
**[13:50] Botan**
Huh?
**[13:52] Hyoma**
I'll make it up to you another time.
**[13:54] Botan**
H-Hey, wait!
**[13:56] Botan**
And there he goes.
***SIGN*** Kao
***SIGN*** What?
***SIGN*** Keina
***SIGN*** What?
***SIGN*** Shiho
**[14:02] Botan**
What's going on here?!
***SIGN*** What?
**[14:05] Botan**
Kei...
**[14:06] Botan**
Did you send them something?
**[14:07] Botan**
You did, didn't you?!
**[14:09] Kei**
Bon-chan's so scary!
***SIGN*** Kao
***SIGN*** Are you dating?
***SIGN*** Keina
***SIGN*** Are you dating?
***SIGN*** Shiho
***SIGN*** Are you dating?
**[14:13] Hyoma**
* The spirit energy of a*
* tsukumogami from behind...*
**[14:17] Hyoma**
*Could it be...*
**[14:27] Hyoma**
That decorative umbrella?
**[14:29] Hyoma**
Representative Kadomori. It's Kunato.
**[14:32] Taiju**
*What is it?*
**[14:33] Hyoma**
The courtesan's decorative umbrella...
**[14:38] Taiju**
*What is it? A tsukumogami?*
**[14:44] Hyoma**
I'll handle it. You put out fires!
**[14:47] Taiju**
*Wait! H-Hyoma-kun?!*
**[14:53] Hyoma**
Wh-Who are they?!
**[15:00] Hyoma**
*They knocked out the spectators?*
***SIGN*** Proxy
**[15:28] Tsumabiki**
Was this how it was?
**[15:29] Tsuzumi**
Yeah, perfect!
**[15:40] Woman A**
Huh?
**[15:40] Woman B**
Did something just...
**[15:44] Tsumabiki**
Fortune was with you today, young Saenome.
**[15:48] Tsumabiki**
Had we not been present,
**[15:50] Tsumabiki**
the situation would have
grown chaotic for sure.
**[15:52] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[15:54] Hyoma**
*This intimidating aura...*
**[15:58] Hyoma**
*They're the ones Haori mentioned.*
**[16:02] Tsumabiki**
What's this, now?
**[16:04] Hyoma**
You're the Bureau of
Traditional Music, aren't you?
**[16:07] Tsumabiki**
Correct.
**[16:10] Tsumabiki**
I'm Tsumabiki.
***SIGN*** — Tsumabiki —
**[16:13] Fukie**
Fukie.
***SIGN*** — Fukie —
**[16:16] Tsuzumi**
Tsuzumi!
***SIGN*** — Tsuzumi —
**[16:19] Tsuzumi**
Better tell us your name, too, kid!
**[16:22] Hyoma**
Yes...
**[16:24] Hyoma**
I must thank you for your aid.
**[16:26] Hyoma**
My name is Kunato Hyoma,
and I arrived here recently.
**[16:32] Hyoma**
I heard you were coming,
but I didn't expect it to be in this form.
**[16:42] Tsuzumi**
Aha, so you're the one!
**[16:44] Tsumabiki**
Yes. I see.
**[16:46] Tsumabiki**
He's got the face of a troublemaker.
**[16:48] Fukie**
And the eyes of a delinquent.
**[16:50] Fukie**
I feel a sense of kinship here.
**[16:54] Hyma**
What in the world are you doing?!
**[16:56] Hyma**
Do you know me?
**[16:58] Tsuzumi**
We heard the rumors!
**[16:59] Tsuzumi**
You beat the Onigawara of Ou
all by yourself, is that right?!
**[17:03] Tsuzumi**
I always wanted to meet that fool!
**[17:05] Hyoma**
Just keep your spit to yourself.
**[17:07] Fukie**
Ah, I can tell...
**[17:10] Fukie**
That nasty glare,
getting mobbed by strange people...
**[17:13] Fukie**
He's very much like me indeed.
**[17:16] Hyoma**
What are you talking about?
**[17:19] Tsumabiki**
Aogi told us
**[17:22] Tsumabiki**
there was someone here who knew how to rock.
**[17:25] Hyoma**
How to lock?
**[17:30] Tsumabiki**
Yes, I see now.
**[17:33] Tsumabiki**
That decisiveness.
**[17:34] Tsumabiki**
It suggests little regard for consequences,
**[17:37] Tsumabiki**
but I rather like it.
**[17:39] Hyoma**
But the way you fought, managing
the bystanders, truly helped me.
**[17:45] Hyoma**
It was brilliant.
**[17:47] Tsumabiki**
No need to thank us.
**[17:50] Tsumabiki**
It's simply how we always do things.
**[17:56] Hyoma**
I see.
**[17:57] Haori**
Hey!
**[18:01] Haori**
I finally found you!
**[18:03] Haori**
Hey! What happened to the tsukumogami?!
**[18:05] Haori**
Kadomori-san's furious, you know!
**[18:10] Tsumabiki**
Haori?
**[18:13] Haori**
Oh, it's been so long!
**[18:14] Haori**
What are you doing here with Hyoma-san?
**[18:17] Haori**
Oh, I get it now!
**[18:19] Haori**
You helped him out, is that it?
**[18:22] Tsumabiki**
Terribly sorry, Haori.
**[18:24] Tsumabiki**
We're tired from the long journey,
**[18:27] Tsumabiki**
so we'll be on our way.
**[18:28] Tsumabiki**
We'll pay a visit to the
Nagatsuki household soon.
**[18:31] Tsumabiki**
Though we're on a leave of absence,
we do share a mission as long as we're here.
**[18:37] Tsumabiki**
And as we've grown sick of our tracking work,
**[18:40] Tsumabiki**
and we've been out of Kyoto for a while,
it seemed like perfect timing.
**[18:44] Tsumabiki**
First...
**[18:46] Tsumabiki**
Let's let the Bureau of Traditional
Music roar, shall we?
**[18:49] Haori**
Let it roar?
**[18:52] Haori**
Are you gonna hold a street
concert somewhere again?
**[18:57] Haori**
The minute I take my eyes off of them...
**[19:00] Hyoma**
Hey, Haori...
**[19:02] Hyoma**
How long are you gonna sit on me?
**[19:04] Haori**
Oh, terribly sorry!
**[19:07] Haori**
But you really need to check
in with Kadomori-san!
**[19:11] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[19:15] Hyoma**
The transceiver doesn't seem to be working.
**[19:18] Haori**
Oh... Probably because you
were in their area of effect.
**[19:22] Hyoma**
Hello. Can you hear me?
**[19:26] Hyoma**
Hello? Representative Kadomori?
***SIGN*** Hayato (Brother)
Heya
***SIGN*** Wanna see how
we help guide a tsukumogami?
**[19:53] (Flashback) Hayato**
Is this the one?
**[19:54] (Flashback) Kusui**
Looks like.
**[19:58] (Flashback) Hayato**
Hey there! What are you crying for?
**[20:01] (Flashback) Kusui**
You okay?
**[20:14] (Flashback) Hayato**
If that's the way you want it, then...
**[20:17] (Flashback) Hayato**
That speeds things up!
**[20:19] (Flashback) Hayato**
Kunato Gate Opening Technique...
Personal Style!
***SIGN*** Chaotic Unlocking
**[20:24] (Flashback) Hayato**
Chaotic Unlocking!
**[20:33] (Flashback) Hayato**
It's expanding further.
**[20:35] (Flashback) Hayato**
We'll have to stop its growth and slow it down.
**[20:39] (Flashback) Hayato**
Kusui!
**[20:40] (Flashback) Kusui**
Right!
**[20:41] (Flashback) Kusui**
Kunato Mixed Lightning Binding Talismans!
**[20:51] Hayato**
*The talisman effect backfired?!*
**[20:56] (Flashback) Kusui**
It's laid out... a circle.
**[21:00] Hayato**
*A talisman barrier for reversing techniques?!*
**[21:04] Hayato**
*Was this all a trap?!*
**[21:07] Hayato**
*But... why do you...*
**[21:09] Hayato**
* Why does a tsukumogami know*
* how to use Saenome talismans?!*
**[21:21] Hayato**
*It's like...*
**[21:23] Hayato**
* The impurity encroaching*
* into the land of the living...*
**[21:28] Hayato**
*A repulsive, malevolent god!*
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Duet
# E14 - Duet
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GK9U3DEN1/duet)
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***SIGN*** Celebrate! Return of the Bureau of Traditional Music
**[00:07] Tsumabiki**
Thank you for joining us, people!
**[00:10] Tsumabiki**
Kindly show some love for the comeback
show for the Bureau of Traditional Music!
**[00:19] Tsumabiki**
Tsuzumi.
**[00:22] Tsumabiki**
Fukie.
**[00:23] Tsumabiki**
Now, let us begin!
**[00:32] Hyoma**
Isn't that the Bureau of Traditional Music?
**[00:34] Hyoma**
What are they doing over there?
**[00:36] Kagami**
Hey, c'mon!
**[00:38] Kagami**
It's just a thing they do.
Forget them, let's go!
**[00:40] Hyoma**
Well... but...
***SIGN*** Celebrate! Return of the Bureau of Traditional Music
**[00:45] Kagami**
C'mon! Did you forget your promise?
**[00:47] Kagami**
You said we'd have fun today!
**[00:49] Hyoma**
Ah... yes.
**[00:52] Kagami**
So! Where to, Hyoma-san?
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Duet
**[02:34] Suzuri**
Huh? A romantic check-in?
**[02:36] Haori**
Yes.
**[02:37] Haori**
Kagami wants to find out how Hyoma-san
is feeling at this stage of things.
**[02:42] Haori**
And don't you feel like Botan's
starting to warm up to him, as well?
**[02:48] Haori**
You don't sound enthusiastic.
**[02:51] Suzuri**
Come on. You know Hyoma-kun.
**[02:54] Suzuri**
His ideas about love are so hard to read.
**[02:57] Suzuri**
He'll probably react to her "check-in"
in completely unpredictable ways.
**[03:03] Suzuri**
Besides, wouldn't *I* be the better
candidate for an investigation like that?
**[03:07] Haori**
You'd run off to hit on girls.
**[03:11] Haori**
Besides, I think her forthrightness
might be effective here.
**[03:17] Hyoma**
Kagami, I had plans to train today.
**[03:21] Kagami**
Just give up and accept this, okay?
**[03:23] Hyoma**
Still, when you say we'll "have fun"...
**[03:25] Hyoma**
Where are we going? A park?
**[03:27] Kagami**
We're not little kids!
**[03:29] Hyoma**
That's for little kids?
**[03:35] Kagami**
Hey, Hyoma-san...
**[03:37] Kagami**
When was the last time you just had fun?
**[03:42] Hyoma**
All I've done is train for
as long as I can remember.
**[03:45] Kagami**
*I've never heard him so plaintive...*
**[03:49] Kagami**
*But I can worry about that later.*
**[03:52] Kagami**
Okay!
**[03:54] Kagami**
I'll take the lead for today.
**[03:56] Kagami**
Education for your future!
**[03:59] Hyoma**
For my future?
**[04:00] Kagami**
Yep!
**[04:01] Kagami**
Shoyokyo!
**[04:04] Kagami**
Info linking mode!
**[04:06] Kagami**
I'm using mirrors to seek out
routes that will take us
**[04:09] Kagami**
to the best shops while avoiding big crowds!
**[04:14] Hyoma**
W-Wait!
**[04:15] Hyoma**
Should you be using your
tsukumogami powers so openly?
**[04:18] Kagami**
I have it! I have it!
**[04:19] Kagami**
I've visualized the dating course!
**[04:21] Hyoma**
The dating... course?
**[04:23] Kagami**
Okay! Moving out!
**[04:27] Hyoma**
Please be gentle with me.
**[04:33] Kagami**
First, you'll visit a bunch of shops
**[04:35] Kagami**
and check out all the hottest fashions.
**[04:39] Hyoma**
Is this... fun?
**[04:41] Kagami**
Ta-da!
**[04:43] Kagami**
Well?
**[04:45] Hyoma**
Kagami!
**[04:45] Hyoma**
What did I tell you about
using your powers openly?!
**[04:48] Kagami**
Nope! Wrong!
**[04:50] Kagami**
You got that all wrong!
**[04:51] Kagami**
You gotta open with a compliment. "You look
so cute!" or "What a great look for you!"
**[04:58] Kagami**
* For lunch, you'll pick a stylish*
* restaurant—Italian, for instance.*
**[05:03] Kagami**
Looks so good!
**[05:05] Kagami**
Huh?
**[05:06] Kagami**
That's all you're getting?
**[05:08] Hyoma**
Foreign cuisines tend to be high in calories.
**[05:11] Hyoma**
Foods high in fiber are
better for one's health.
**[05:14] Kagami**
But you're not coming here for your health.
**[05:18] Kagami**
Here!
**[05:20] Kagami**
You can have it.
**[05:21] Kagami**
It's really good!
**[05:24] Hyoma**
Very well, then.
**[05:30] Kagami**
* You'll take the long way around*
* and enjoy the scenery.*
**[05:39] Kagami**
*Then you'll get moving, like this.*
**[05:50] Kagami**
*Then you'll take a rest break at a café.*
**[05:54] Kagami**
How'd you like it?
**[05:57] Hyoma**
Well... I must ask...
**[06:00] Hyoma**
What is... "fun," exactly?
**[06:03] Kagami**
That's your question?!
**[06:04] Hyoma**
Lunch was a meal, and bowling was exercise.
**[06:08] Hyoma**
The rest was mostly... walking around?
**[06:13] Kagami**
Well, as long as you enjoy it,
I think of it as "fun"...
**[06:17] Kagami**
Did you not enjoy it?
**[06:19] Hyoma**
Is that how it works?
**[06:21] Hyoma**
I do believe I "had fun," then.
**[06:23] Kagami**
Really?!
**[06:25] Hyoma**
The pizza had an excellent flavor,
**[06:28] Hyoma**
and that was my first time ever going bowling.
**[06:31] Hyoma**
It was a truly interesting experience.
**[06:33] Kagami**
Yeah, yeah!
**[06:34] Hyoma**
However, Kagami...
**[06:36] Kagami**
Yeah?
**[06:36] Hyoma**
You said that this was
"education for my future."
**[06:40] Hyoma**
How does learning how to "have fun"
relate to my Saenome duties?
**[06:45] Hyoma**
"Learning that some tsukumogami
enjoy daily life activities
**[06:49] Hyoma**
will help make you more tolerant."
**[06:52] Hyoma**
Is that what it is?
**[06:54] Hyoma**
Why are you looking at me like that?!
**[06:57] Kagami**
That... That's what you were thinking about?!
**[07:00] Kagami**
That's the worst thing you could do!
**[07:02] Hyoma**
Then why are you teaching me this?!
**[07:06] Kagami**
For, well... you know.
**[07:09] Kagami**
For when you start going out with Botan.
**[07:13] Hyoma**
We've been through this!
**[07:14] Hyoma**
Why are you making these
decisions without my input?!
**[07:18] Hyoma**
I told you I wasn't thinking about that now!
**[07:20] Hyoma**
And... it clearly bothers Botan.
**[07:24] Hyoma**
Besides... I know little of the matter,
**[07:28] Hyoma**
but when a man and woman "go out"...
should not their mutual feelings...
**[07:31] Hyoma**
include... l-love?
**[07:34] Hyoma**
And... why do you look so happy?
**[07:38] Kagami**
No reason!
**[07:40] Kagami**
I'll take that reaction as a positive sign!
**[07:43] Kagami**
Okay, okay!
**[07:44] Kagami**
Can I ask you one question?
**[07:46] Hyoma**
What is it?
**[07:47] Kagami**
Well...
**[07:49] Kagami**
Okay, so...
**[07:54] Kagami**
Tell me, Hyoma-san...
**[07:57] Kagami**
What do you think of Botan?
**[07:59] sign**
Right Down the Plate
**[08:01] Hyoma**
What kind of question is that?
**[08:03] Kagami**
C'mon, just tell me!
**[08:05] Kagami**
It's part of today's curriculum.
**[08:08] Hyoma**
Well...
**[08:09] Hyoma**
If I must be honest...
**[08:14] Hyoma**
I like her.
**[08:17] Kagami**
Home run!
**[08:23] Hyoma**
She has a wonderfully calm
and cheerful disposition.
**[08:28] Kagami**
Yes, yes!
**[08:30] Hyoma**
She appears to have numerous
college friends, as well.
**[08:34] Hyoma**
She has saved me numerous times.
**[08:37] Hyoma**
I feel constantly grateful to her.
***SIGN*** Out
**[08:47] Hyoma**
As for my other reasons... let me see...
**[08:52] Hyoma**
I find her worthy of respect.
**[08:56] Hyoma**
She's faced countless trials in her lifetime.
**[08:59] Hyoma**
Yet she faces life head-on.
**[09:02] Hyoma**
Or rather... she endeavors to.
**[09:06] Hyoma**
I believe she's a splendid person.
**[09:12] Kagami**
It doesn't feel quite fair.
**[09:16] Kagami**
The truth is, I've had mixed feelings about
pushing the engagement between you two.
**[09:26] Kagami**
I get that you two aren't that into it.
**[09:29] Kagami**
And early on, I was really scared of you.
**[09:34] Kagami**
But nowadays, I really feel like
you'd make a great pair.
**[09:41] Hyoma**
I-I... I wouldn't know!
**[09:44] Kagami**
Hee hee hee...
**[09:46] Kagami**
If manga's taught me anything,
it's that panic is a positive sign!
**[09:49] Hyoma**
Now, let us depart forthwith!
**[09:51] Kagami**
Forthwith?
**[09:54] Hyoma**
I feel strangely exhausted.
**[09:56] Kagami**
Now, now...
**[09:57] Kagami**
It's education for your future!
You gotta study, right?
**[10:00] Hyoma**
I told you I had no interest in—
**[10:06] Hyoma**
A tsukumogami?
**[10:07] Nagi**
Hyoma! Help us out here!
**[10:10] Nagi**
Speed's about all that coward's got going on!
**[10:15] Hyoma**
I see.
**[10:17] Hyoma**
Leave this to me!
**[10:19] Hyoma**
Kagami, head back without me!
**[10:25] Kagami**
*I guess there's no changing that side of him.*
**[10:28] Kagami**
*But...*
**[10:30] Kagami**
*Yes, it's just fine.*
**[10:33] Kagami**
*Because Hyoma-san really sees Botan.*
**[10:43] Tsumabiki**
We truly rocked out back there.
**[10:47] Tsuzumi**
But old lady, now that the show's behind us...
**[10:50] Tsumabiki**
Yes, it's time to head out...
**[10:55] Tsumabiki**
to the Nagatsuki household.
**[10:59] Tsumabiki**
What do you think of grunge for our next song?
**[11:02] Tsuzumi**
I'd like to play some prog rock!
**[11:04] Suzuri**
Why not try your hand at an idol song?
**[11:06] Nagi**
Metal! I wanna hear slash metal!
**[11:09] Kagami**
No, write something cute!
**[11:10] Kagami**
There's this song in my favorite anime...
**[11:12] Haori**
Sorry for all the commotion.
**[11:14] Botan**
What's going on here?
**[11:16] Haori**
They're sort of... comrades of ours.
**[11:19] Tsumabiki**
Haori, what do you think?
**[11:21] Tsumabiki**
Oh, that girl there!
**[11:23] Tsumabiki**
Can it be...
**[11:24] Tsumabiki**
Botan?!
**[11:25] Tsumabiki**
What perfect timing!
**[11:27] Tsuzumi**
For our next song, we'd love to
hear what's hip with the youth!
**[11:31] Haori**
You're scaring her!
**[11:32] Haori**
Besides, she's busy right now!
**[11:35] Haori**
By the way, where's Fukie?
**[11:37] Tsumabiki**
Oh, he was pulled aside for
questioning on the way here.
**[11:41] Haori**
Say what?
**[11:43] Police**
Could I see what you've got there?
**[11:46] Tsuzumi**
Oh, yeah! It happens all the time!
**[11:49] Suzuri**
Well, this is nothing new from them.
**[11:51] Nagi**
They never change, eh?
**[11:53] Kagami**
It's probably best to leave them be.
**[11:57] Haori**
Hyoma-san got worn out and went for a walk.
**[12:00] Hyoma**
*I can't keep up with them.*
**[12:04] Botan**
Maybe I'll do the same thing.
**[12:12] Hyoma**
I left because I couldn't keep up with them...
**[12:15] Hyoma**
But what was the purpose
of their visit, anyway?
**[12:19] Hyoma**
*Still, they're exactly as Nagi described them.*
**[12:24] (Flashback) Nagi**
Why does the Bureau protect humans, you ask?
**[12:27] (Flashback) Nagi**
Part of it is that they're special exceptions...
**[12:31] (Flashback) Nagi**
But it's also because humans
make a good audience.
**[12:35] (Flashback) Nagi**
Since they originated
as musical instruments,
**[12:37] (Flashback) Nagi**
they've got this constant urge to make music.
**[12:40] (Flashback) Nagi**
And they want others to hear it.
**[12:42] (Flashback) Nagi**
So they find humans worth
protecting as an audience.
**[12:47] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I see.
**[12:48] (Flashback) Nagi**
And... I guess 'cause they originated as
musical instruments, they're noisy as hell.
**[12:53] Hyoma**
* They're hard to deal with*
* in a different way than Kai.*
**[12:56] Hyoma**
* All they talk about is music.*
* Never about the job.*
**[13:01] Kei**
Oh, hey... Kunato-san?
**[13:04] Kei**
I thought that was you!
Haven't seen you since the other day!
**[13:07] Natsuki**
You remember us?
**[13:09] Hyoma**
You're Botan's fellow scholars, yes?
**[13:12] Kei**
Fellow scholars?!
**[13:13] Natsuki**
So stiff!
**[13:14] Kei**
How about "club friends"?
**[13:16] Hyoma**
R-Right...
**[13:18] Kei**
You by yourself today?
**[13:20] Hyoma**
Yes...
**[13:28] Natsuki**
Kunato-san's ours!
**[13:30] Kei**
We've got so many questions for you!
**[13:33] Hyoma**
What is the meaning of this?!
**[13:35] (Flashback) Botan**
Hyoma-san's got a heck of a glare,
but he's nothing to be afraid of.
**[13:39] Natsuki**
Kei!
**[13:41] Natsuki**
Into custody!
**[13:43] Hyoma**
Please, unhand me!
**[13:46] Kei**
In order to let...
the flower of love blossom...
**[13:50] Kei**
we must be steadfast.
**[13:52] Hyoma**
A haiku?!
**[13:53] Natsuki**
*He's not trying to shake us off, though.*
**[13:56] Kei**
*He might be a good guy!*
**[14:02] Botan**
I felt a sudden chill...
**[14:08] Tsuzumi**
There you are, boss!
**[14:09] Kagami**
We're tired. We're gonna head out.
**[14:12] Nagi**
They talked for three straight hours.
**[14:14] Suzuri**
Hear them out for us, would you?
**[14:19] Tsumabiki**
You've lost a bit of your old vigor.
**[14:22] Tsumabiki**
That old man's appearance is
more appropriate to you than ever.
**[14:28] Tsumabiki**
The Nagatsuki representatives are all here.
**[14:31] Tsumabiki**
Shall we come to the main topic now?
**[14:35] Tsumabiki**
We've been giving thought to
your true motivations of late.
**[14:41] Haori**
"True motivations"?
**[14:43] Tsuzumi**
Don't play dumb with us!
**[14:44] Tsuzumi**
Your motivations for
putting Hyoma with that girl!
**[14:48] Tsumabiki**
"Don't make use of Nagatsuki Botan."
**[14:51] Tsumabiki**
You're breaking the rule
that you yourselves set.
**[14:54] Tsumabiki**
That's certainly a rock attitude,
**[14:56] Tsumabiki**
but your claim that you invited
Hyoma here to expand his horizons
**[15:00] Tsumabiki**
was a big, fat lie.
**[15:03] Tsumabiki**
You're trying to pair them up, aren't you?
**[15:09] Tsumabiki**
But for what purpose?
I'd like to check my theory.
**[15:15] Kei**
So... is it true that you
and Bon-chan are related?
**[15:19] Natsuki**
Really?
**[15:20] Hyoma**
Ah... yes, I suppose.
**[15:25] Kei**
Is it?
**[15:26] Natsuki**
You don't interact with her the same
way Nagi-san and the others do,
**[15:28] Natsuki**
so I had my doubts.
**[15:31] Hyoma**
W-We're *distant* relatives.
**[15:33] Kei**
Does that mean Bon-chan's still single?
**[15:37] Kei**
It's rare to see a girl reach college
without ever having a boyfriend...
**[15:42] Kei**
Could she be one of the
seven wonders of the world?
**[15:45] Natsuki**
Hey, does that make me one
of those seven wonders, too?
**[15:48] Kei**
Guys *like* Bon-chan, though!
**[15:50] Natsuki**
Hey!
**[15:52] Kei**
I've had a bunch ask me
to introduce them to her.
**[15:56] Natsuki**
Really?
**[15:57] Kei**
But when I do, Bon-chan's always so hesitant...
**[16:03] Kei**
She's shy about it, I guess.
**[16:05] (Flashback) Botan**
Well... I'm not really into...
that kind of thing.
**[16:11] Kei**
But some say that could be good, since she
might be too polite to turn anyone down!
**[16:15] Natsuki**
Hey, come on!
**[16:16] Natsuki**
She won't give in that easily.
**[16:18] Natsuki**
Bon keeps that big family of hers together,
so she's gotta be tougher than she looks.
**[16:24] Natsuki**
Personally, I think that contrast
between her mother-like responsibility
**[16:30] Natsuki**
and age-appropriate silliness is adorable!
**[16:33] Kei**
You think the guys who like her
all have mother complexes?
**[16:35] Kei**
Yikes!
**[16:37] Natsuki**
My dad told me!
**[16:39] Natsuki**
When men reach a certain age,
they all just want their mothers!
**[16:43] Hyoma**
*I'm not following this at all. However...*
**[16:48] Natsuki**
Yeah, Bon-chan's just got something
that draws people to her.
**[16:53] Kei**
She sure does!
**[16:54] Natsuki**
There are tons of guys in our medieval
literature course who are into Bon-chan!
**[16:59] Kei**
Oh, that's crazy!
**[17:01] Natsuki**
Crazy, right?!
**[17:03] Kei**
Don't just chuckle knowingly, Kunato-san.
**[17:05] Natsuki**
We're talking about important things here.
**[17:07] Hyoma**
I don't know where I stand in it.
**[17:10] Botan**
Hey...
**[17:11] Botan**
What are we up to here?
**[17:16] Botan**
I'm going to ask again.
**[17:18] Botan**
Kei-chan, Natsuki-chan...
**[17:20] Botan**
Why did you bring Hyoma-san here?
**[17:22] Kei**
W-Well... we happened to run into him here...
**[17:25] Natsuki**
Right, Kunato-san?
**[17:27] Hyoma**
They accosted me on my walk.
**[17:29] Hyoma**
I know nothing further.
**[17:32] Kei**
He abandoned us like it was nothing!
**[17:35] Botan**
Are you feeling him out or something?!
**[17:37] Natsuki**
N-No way!
**[17:38] Kei**
We were trying to figure out
what your real relationship was.
**[17:41] Botan**
I told you, we're relatives!
**[17:43] Natsuki**
Chill out, Mom!
**[17:45] Botan**
Stop calling me "Mom"!
**[17:47] Botan**
Honestly, you get the weirdest ideas...
**[17:49] Natsuki**
Well, what do you expect?
**[17:51] Natsuki**
You and Kunato-san have such a great vibe.
**[17:53] Kei**
Yeah, yeah! You'd make a great couple!
**[17:57] Natsuki**
Hey, what was that?
**[17:59] Kei**
Could it all be true?!
**[18:01] Botan**
N-No, of course not!
**[18:03] Botan**
R-Right... Hyoma-san?
**[18:06] Hyoma**
Indeed, verily so!
**[18:14] Natsuki**
Yeah, yeah, we get the picture.
**[18:17] Kei**
You're just very, *very* close relatives!
**[18:21] Natsuki**
Now we've got questions for Bon-chan!
**[18:24] Botan**
I t-told you!
**[18:27] Tsumabiki**
You're doing it all to seal the
marebito inside her, aren't you?
**[18:35] Tsumabiki**
The marebito's last awakening was sparked
by the despair caused by human betrayal.
**[18:43] Tsumabiki**
Botan's soul was cut off from its human nature,
**[18:46] Tsumabiki**
and the marebito replaced it,
making her a living god.
**[18:49] Tsumabiki**
That's what we've assumed,
at least, ever since then.
**[18:54] Tsumabiki**
Human and living god...
**[18:56] Tsumabiki**
That girl stands on the boundary between them.
**[18:59] Tsumabiki**
And the condition that will
push her to one side or the other
**[19:02] Tsumabiki**
is whether she loves humanity or abandons it.
**[19:05] Tsumabiki**
And if the key to her fate
lies within that dichotomy...
**[19:09] Tsumabiki**
If she were ever to find true human happiness,
**[19:13] Tsumabiki**
it might put the marebito to rest forever.
**[19:17] Tsumabiki**
Marriage...
**[19:19] Tsumabiki**
As a bridal trousseau,
**[19:21] Tsumabiki**
you would surely consider that your
preferred method for saving your master.
**[19:27] Haori**
It's all very fine speculation.
**[19:29] Haori**
What makes you so confident
in that theory, might I ask?
**[19:33] Tsumabiki**
When I first laid eyes on Kunato Hyoma,
**[19:35] Tsumabiki**
I realized he fulfilled all possible
conditions to be Botan's life partner.
**[19:41] Tsumabiki**
He has the power of the Saenome
to surmount all obstacles,
**[19:46] Tsumabiki**
the broad-mindedness to accept her,
even knowing of her circumstances,
**[19:50] Tsumabiki**
and the unwavering drive to see it all through.
**[19:55] Tsumabiki**
It's just a sense I got...
**[19:58] Tsumabiki**
But I have confidence in my instincts.
**[20:03] Tsumabiki**
To break the rule will invite chaos.
**[20:06] Tsumabiki**
And yet, to aid your master,
you forced this plan into action.
**[20:12] Tsumabiki**
Am I wrong?
**[20:13] Haori**
If your theory were correct, what would you do?
**[20:19] Haori**
If that were, indeed, the case...
**[20:22] Haori**
we would do whatever it takes to see it done.
**[20:35] Tsumabiki**
You guys...
**[20:37] Tsumabiki**
You're rock as all hell!
**[20:41] Haori**
Er... why did you ask about it, then?
**[20:44] Tsuzumi**
Eh? Didn't she say at the start?
**[20:47] Tsuzumi**
She just wanted to check her theory!
**[20:49] Tsumabiki**
Turns out I was right on the money.
**[20:52] Tsumabiki**
Which means *I* get to pick
our next song style, Tsuzumi!
**[20:55] Haori**
Now, I never said you were right.
**[20:58] Tsumabiki**
Your reaction told me all I need to know!
**[21:00] Tsumabiki**
I'm satisfied with my intuition.
**[21:03] Tsumabiki**
Whatever your ambition might be, we don't care.
**[21:06] Tsumabiki**
Follow the path you believe in.
**[21:09] Tsumabiki**
We won't get in your way,
**[21:12] Tsumabiki**
and we won't let anyone get in our way.
**[21:15] Tsuzumi**
That's the motto of the
Bureau of Traditional Music!
**[21:17] Tsuzumi**
The rock!
**[21:19] Haori**
Is that all you wanted to talk about?
**[21:21] Tsumabiki**
Was there anything else?
**[21:23] Tsuzumi**
You senile old woman! The mission, remember?
**[21:26] Tsumabiki**
Oh, that's right.
**[21:27] Tsumabiki**
As you know, our job is to investigate
tsukumogami pointed out to us.
**[21:33] Tsumabiki**
We were wondering if you would help us there.
**[21:36] Tsumabiki**
We returned to Kyoto because we have
a new subject for investigation.
**[21:41] Tsumabiki**
We don't know who it is yet,
**[21:44] Tsumabiki**
but according to Aogi, who encountered it...
**[21:48] Tsumabiki**
it may be the paper umbrella.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Specter
# E15 - Specter
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G50UZ10D5/specter)
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**[00:01] Tsuzumi**
The rock!
**[00:02] Haori**
Is that all you wanted to talk about?
**[00:05] Tsumabiki**
Was there anything else?
**[00:07] Tsuzumi**
You senile old woman! The mission, remember?
**[00:09] Tsumabiki**
Oh, that's right.
**[00:11] Tsumabiki**
As you know, our job is to investigate
tsukumogami pointed out to us.
**[00:16] Tsumabiki**
We were wondering if you would help us there.
**[00:19] Tsumabiki**
We returned to Kyoto because we have
a new subject for investigation.
**[00:25] Tsumabiki**
We don't know who it is yet,
**[00:28] Tsumabiki**
but according to Aogi, who encountered it...
**[00:31] Tsumabiki**
it was a paper umbrella.
**[00:36] Tsumabiki**
He didn't get a clear look at it,
**[00:38] Tsumabiki**
but its aura suggested a formidable being.
**[00:41] Tsumabiki**
Of course, when we hear something like that,
**[00:44] Tsumabiki**
there's one point that catches our attention...
**[00:47] Haori**
"Paper umbrella."
**[00:49] Tsuzumi**
Yes.
**[00:50] Tsuzumi**
When we hear "paper umbrella,"
we think of one thing...
**[00:57] Tsuzumi**
Kisatsu.
***SIGN*** — Kisatsu —
***SIGN*** Kunato Killer
**[00:58] Tsuzumi**
The tsukumogami who earned its nickname
**[01:01] Tsuzumi**
killing the prodigies Kunato Hayato and Kusui.
**[01:07] Tsuzumi**
Was that the one Aogi saw?
**[01:10] Tsuzumi**
We need to find out quickly.
**[01:14] Botan**
What, really?
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Specter
**[03:01] Hot Guy**
The Hyakunin Isshu, huh?
What a blast from the past.
**[03:05] Hot Guy**
I memorized a little for tests
and entrance exams and stuff.
**[03:09] Shiho**
Oh, I hear you!
**[03:10] Shiho**
That's kind of how we all started, too.
**[03:13] Hot Guy**
I've forgotten it all by now, of course.
**[03:17] Kana**
Oh, yeah.
**[03:18] Kana**
But that's just fine with us!
**[03:20] Kana**
"Let's enjoy campus life" is the true
motto of the Hyakunin Isshu Society!
**[03:27] Hot Guy**
Hey, what's your name?
**[03:29] Botan**
Huh? Oh... Nagatsuki Botan.
**[03:34] Hot Guy**
Botan-chan, huh?
**[03:35] Hot Guy**
That's a cute name. Nice to meet you!
**[03:37] Botan**
Same...
**[03:41] Kana**
Here's the room. Come on in!
**[03:47] Hot Guy**
Wow!
**[03:48] Hot Guy**
I didn't know colleges had Japanese-style ro—
**[03:54] Hot Guy**
Why'd you lock the door?
**[03:59] Natsuki**
Just in case.
**[04:01] Hot Guy**
Just in case... of what?
**[04:04] Kei**
Have some tea!
**[04:05] Shiho**
Come on in!
**[04:06] Kana**
Yes, come in!
**[04:08] Kana**
Come right in!
**[04:13] Botan**
The Hyakunin Isshu is made up of poems
composed by people over a thousand years ago,
**[04:18] Botan**
but there are some that
still resonate, you know?
**[04:21] Botan**
It's proof that people's feelings
never really change across the ages.
**[04:25] Hot Guy**
There are some love poems there too, right?
**[04:28] Botan**
Huh?
**[04:29] Botan**
Oh... yes.
**[04:30] Hot Guy**
Could you teach me some of those?
**[04:33] Natsuki**
Absolutely!
**[04:35] Hot Guy**
R-Right...
**[04:37] Kei**
For love poems... let's see.
**[04:42] Kei**
"The Mina River
**[04:43] Kei**
cascading 'neath Tsukuba
**[04:45] Kei**
etches a chasm.
**[04:47] Kei**
So floweth my love for thee,
**[04:49] Kei**
ever stronger and deeper."
**[04:52] Kana**
The source of the Mina River is
the peak of Mount Tsukuba.
**[04:56] Kana**
It starts as a narrow stream,
but in time, carves out a chasm.
**[05:00] Kana**
Little by little, the first stirrings
of affection grow into deep love!
**[05:05] Kana**
The poet compares that feeling to a river!
***SIGN*** Mina River
***SIGN*** Man Woman
**[05:08] Shiho**
Incidentally, here's how
you write "Mina River."
**[05:12] Natsuki**
It's a really straightforward love poem!
**[05:16] Natsuki**
It's saying "let's date!"
**[05:18] Natsuki**
You get it?
**[05:19] Hot Guy**
R-Right.
**[05:20] Kei**
"With thee, one moment—
**[05:22] Kei**
I'd die for such a treasure,
**[05:23] Kei**
not regretfully.
**[05:25] Kei**
Yet now that I have found you,
**[05:27] Kei**
would that life might never end."
**[05:29] Kana**
"I love you so much, so badly,
I'd give up my life to be with you!"
**[05:35] Shiho**
"But now that we're together,
I want my life to last forever!"
**[05:42] Natsuki**
It means, "I want to be with you for eternity!"
**[05:45] Kana**
Don't you long to find a love like that?!
**[05:52] Natsuki**
Why?!
**[05:54] Kana**
We finally got a hot guy in here
and he ran away from us!
**[05:58] Shiho**
What exactly are we doing wrong?!
**[06:02] Kei**
The desperation scared him off.
**[06:04] Natsuki**
Damn it! We don't have to take this
from the romantically attached!
**[06:07] Kei**
Look, it's all about fate.
**[06:10] Kei**
Maybe wait for the universe
to bring you someone.
**[06:12] Kana**
If you wait too long,
you'll just end up like me.
**[06:15] Natsuki**
A campus life without a boyfriend
is like an anpan without an!
**[06:20] Shiho**
Like katsudon without tonkatsu!
**[06:22] Kana**
Like a dashi rolled omelet without dashi!
**[06:25] Botan**
It's fun enough with just us girls, though.
**[06:29] Natsuki**
You don't sound very desperate to land a guy.
**[06:32] Natsuki**
It's almost like you've got one already!
**[06:35] Kana**
You're totally dating that
scary guy, aren't you?
**[06:38] Shiho**
That mean-looking guy?
**[06:40] Botan**
Seriously, I'm not!
**[06:42] Botan**
Hyoma-san's just a relative.
**[06:44] Kei**
Botan-chan, could you invite Kunato-san over?
**[06:47] Botan**
Huh? Why should I?
**[06:49] Kei**
There's something we'd like his help with.
**[06:51] Botan**
I can handle that.
**[06:53] Natsuki**
Nah, a girl can't handle it.
**[06:55] Natsuki**
It's physical labor, best fit for a man.
**[07:02] Hyoma**
All right. I'm on my way.
**[07:04] Botan**
*You're sure? It's not too much trouble?*
**[07:07] Hyoma**
I was in the middle of
strength training anyway.
**[07:09] Hyoma**
I don't mind at all.
**[07:11] Botan**
Sure. Okay.
**[07:13] Botan**
See you later, then.
**[07:15] Botan**
He said he's on his way.
**[07:18] Kei**
Okay, great!
**[07:21] Kana**
He comes the minute you call him.
How about that!
**[07:24] Natsuki**
Very interesting indeed.
**[07:41] Hyoma**
All right—
**[07:42] Security B**
Wait!
**[07:43] Hyoma**
What are you doing?!
**[07:44] Security A**
Suspicious intruder secured!
**[07:46] Security B**
We won't let you bring harm to our students!
**[07:50] Hyoma**
You've misunderstood! I was invited here!
**[07:53] Security A**
What?!
**[07:54] Security A**
Has a criminal organization
infiltrated our school already?!
**[07:57] Security B**
You'll be coming with us!
**[07:59] Hyoma**
I have no ulterior motives!
**[08:01] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[08:02] Botan**
What in the world?
**[08:06] Botan**
You got confused for an intruder?
**[08:09] Botan**
What a rough time.
**[08:10] Hyoma**
I get interrogated just for
walking down the street.
**[08:15] Hyoma**
Do I look that suspicious to others?
**[08:18] Botan**
Well...
**[08:20] Botan**
Not usually, but...
**[08:22] Botan**
You've got this hard glare sometimes...
**[08:25] Hyoma**
I see.
**[08:26] Hyoma**
My desire to arrive with
purpose was my undoing.
**[08:30] Botan**
With purpose? Why?
**[08:32] Hyoma**
You devote yourself to
the Hyakunin Isshu Society.
**[08:36] Hyoma**
I wished to participate with similar ardor.
**[08:40] Botan**
Oh...
**[08:41] Botan**
I wouldn't say I "devote myself"
to it... I just enjoy it.
**[08:46] Hyoma**
They aren't the same?
**[08:47] Botan**
I practiced the Hyakunin Isshu a long time ago,
**[08:50] Botan**
but I never planned on joining
a club about it in college.
***SIGN*** Anime Enthusiasts
**[08:56] Botan**
But the club members just
came right up and talked to me,
**[09:01] Botan**
and that was such a refreshing experience.
**[09:05] Botan**
Sorry.
**[09:07] Hyoma**
It's clearly important to you.
**[09:10] Hyoma**
When you're with your fellow scholars
of the Hyakunin Isshu Society,
**[09:13] Hyoma**
you seem to enjoy yourself.
**[09:18] Botan**
I guess I do.
**[09:24] Natsuki**
Kunato-san...
**[09:26] All**
Welcome!
**[09:28] Kana**
Sorry to call you out all of a sudden!
**[09:31] Hyoma**
No, I'm glad to be of help where I can.
**[09:36] Kei**
Bon-chan, you've got class coming up, right?
**[09:39] Kei**
You should probably get to that.
**[09:41] Botan**
What? But...
**[09:42] Hyoma**
I'll be fine on my own.
**[09:45] Hyoma**
I'll follow your fellow scholars' instructions.
**[09:48] Hyoma**
You should focus on your studies, Botan.
**[09:52] Botan**
Okay. Good luck.
**[09:55] Natsuna**
Kunato-san. Over here.
**[09:57] Hyoma**
Right.
**[10:00] Hyoma**
So, what's the physical labor you—
**[10:07] Hyoma**
Why did you lock the door?
**[10:11] Natsuki**
Just in case.
**[10:14] Hyoma**
Good!
**[10:15] Hyoma**
It's important to exercise
caution at all times.
**[10:19] Hyoma**
You're a very sensible person.
**[10:21] Natsuki**
Well... thanks.
**[10:24] Natsuki**
Would you like some tea?
**[10:26] Hyoma**
Much obliged. Thank you.
**[10:36] Kei**
So, are you and Bon-chan dating?
**[10:41] Hyoma**
What?
**[10:42] Natsuki**
C'mon, give us the scoop!
**[10:44] Kana/Shiho**
What's the scoop?!
**[10:46] Hyoma**
*It's a trap!*
**[10:48] Kei**
"'How in love he is,'
**[10:49] Kei**
say the rumors that abound...
**[10:51] Kei**
But how can this be?
**[10:53] Kei**
When those soft feelings for thee
**[10:55] Kei**
remain virgin, clandestine..."
**[10:57] Shiho**
"Everyone's talking about
how I'm in love with you!"
**[11:01] Natsuki**
"But I only just started feeling that way,
and I didn't tell anyone about it!"
**[11:06] Natsuki**
It means that if you're in love,
even if you try to hide it,
**[11:08] Natsuki**
it's still plain as day to those around you!
**[11:11] Hyoma**
What? I... er...
**[11:18] Natsuki**
How do you *really* feel about Bon?
**[11:21] Shiho/Kana**
C'mon!
**[11:22] Hyoma**
*H-How do I feel?*
**[11:26] Hyoma**
*I don't know...*
**[11:27] Hyoma**
*But my duty as a Saenome is clear.*
**[11:34] Hyoma**
I have sworn a vow...
**[11:36] Hyoma**
that I will always keep her safe.
**[11:45] Natsuki**
Kunato Hyoma, you pass!
**[11:48] Shiho**
Keep her safe?! That's total boyfriend stuff!
**[11:51] Natsuki**
And you've told Bon this, right?
**[11:55] Hyoma**
I... have.
**[11:58] Kei**
So? So? What'd Bon-chan say then?!
**[12:02] (Flashback) Botan**
Where did "keep you safe" come from?!
**[12:05] Kana**
But why?
**[12:06] Kana**
"I'll always keep you safe"
is basically a proposal!
**[12:09] Hyoma**
Pro—
**[12:10] Natsuki**
You gotta tell us more about this!
**[12:13] Shiho**
How did this all go down?!
**[12:17] Hyoma**
Wherefore must I be subject to such inquiry?
**[12:21] Hyoma**
I fear I know not,
**[12:23] Hyoma**
but as it seems you have no labor for me...
**[12:27] Hyoma**
My hand is forced!
**[12:29] Teacher**
"In lamentation,
**[12:31] Teacher**
my soul wanders through the skies,
**[12:32] Teacher**
seeking connection
**[12:33] Teacher**
Tie yourself to me, I beg
**[12:35] Teacher**
as one secures kimono"
**[12:36] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[12:37] Teacher**
This poem was...
**[12:38] Kana**
Well, he's a pretty weird guy, but...
**[12:42] Kana**
"I'll always keep you safe"?
**[12:43] Kana**
I'd love to have a guy say that to me!
**[12:45] Shiho**
Botan-senpai's so lucky!
**[12:48] Natsuki**
There's a problem, though.
**[12:50] Natsuki**
They're both so shy,
they'll never make any progress like this.
**[12:54] Kei**
Exactly.
**[12:55] Natsuki**
It's time for the Hyakunin Isshu
Society to band together
**[12:59] Natsuki**
and get those two hooked up!
**[13:00] Kana**
Yeah!
**[13:02] Botan**
Get *which* two hooked up?
**[13:06] Botan**
Could I perhaps inquire as to
what you said to Hyoma-san?
**[13:13] Natsuki**
Hey, Bon!
**[13:15] Natsuki**
We didn't mean any harm!
**[13:19] Natsuki**
We were really just worried.
**[13:21] Natsuki**
We don't want you falling in with anyone bad.
**[13:24] Kei**
We just want you to be happy!
**[13:28] Natsuki**
Yeah, yeah!
**[13:34] Botan**
I've got a craving for green tea pancakes.
**[13:37] Kei**
Sure, let's grab some!
**[13:40] Natsuki**
Wanna invite Kunato-san?
**[13:41] Botan**
Please, just drop it!
**[13:54] Botan**
A parasol?
**[14:00] Natsuki**
Someone you know?
**[14:02] Kei**
That's weird. Who carries
a parasol when it's cloudy?
**[14:14] Botan**
Is that...
**[14:16] Shigure**
Have you weakened a bit?
**[14:22] Shigure**
Yorimashi... Nagatsuki Botan-san.
**[14:34] Kei**
Wh-What's going on?
**[14:37] Natsuki**
This feels kinda bad.
**[14:39] Botan**
Run! Quick!
**[14:52] Kei**
What... a wall?
**[14:54] Natsuki**
Wh-What's going on here?!
**[14:57] Shigure**
I won't let you escape.
**[15:05] Botan**
*She's got us trapped...*
**[15:10] Shigure**
I'm going to check on things in there.
**[15:16] Natsuki**
Hey, someone!
**[15:18] Kei**
Hey! Stop it!
**[15:19] Shigure**
Very thoroughly...
**[15:33] Itsuki**
What is it, Kai-sama?
**[15:36] Kai**
Oh, you know...
**[15:38] Kai**
I briefly felt a familiar old spirit energy.
**[15:42] Kai**
Things might be about to get interesting.
**[15:45] Kai**
It seems like it had been
masking its presence...
**[15:48] Kai**
but a certain someone's sure to notice.
**[15:53] Hyoma**
*I felt it just now...*
**[15:56] Hyoma**
*That ominous spirit energy.*
**[15:58] Hyoma**
*Can it be...*
**[16:01] Fukie**
What's wrong?
**[16:03] Fukie**
You've got a dangerous look in your eyes.
**[16:06] Hyoma**
You're...
**[16:09] Natsuki**
Hey! Hey!
**[16:10] Natsuki**
Can anyone hear me?
**[16:12] Natsuki**
Hey!
**[16:15] Natsuki**
What the hell's going on?
**[16:18] Natsuki**
Who the hell was she?
**[16:21] Natsuki**
What's going on here?
**[16:23] Kei**
Natsuki!
**[16:25] Natsuki**
Kei!
**[16:26] Kei**
Natsuki... I don't understand.
**[16:28] Kei**
What's happening to us?
**[16:31] Natsuki**
Calm down!
**[16:32] Natsuki**
We'll work together to find a way out.
**[16:35] Natsuki**
Wait... Where's Bon?
**[16:37] Natsuki**
Hey! Bon!
**[16:39] Kei**
Bon-chan!
**[16:42] Kei**
You're over there? We're coming!
**[16:44] Botan**
Stay back!
**[16:46] Botan**
I'm okay.
**[16:47] Botan**
You guys stay put.
**[16:58] Botan**
Please don't hurt the others.
**[17:16] Botan**
*No...*
**[17:19] Botan**
*She's not looking at me.*
**[17:23] Shigure**
Yes. The light's definitely
weakened since then.
**[17:30] Shigure**
And...
**[17:37] Kei**
Bon-chan! What's wrong?!
**[17:39] Kei**
N-Natsuki...
**[17:40] Natsuki**
Kei, go find us a way out.
**[17:46] Shigure**
Of course, I can't break the barrier.
**[17:51] Shigure**
It's got protection on it.
**[17:54] Shigure**
Both outside and inside.
**[18:00] Shigure**
Very well done.
**[18:06] Shigure**
But it's definitely in there.
**[18:09] Shigure**
Don't you worry, now.
**[18:13] Shigure**
I promise, we'll release you...
**[18:18] Shigure**
My master.
**[18:23] Natsuki**
You...
**[18:24] Natsuki**
Get the hell away from Bon, you freak!
**[18:27] Botan**
Natsuki...
**[18:33] Kei**
*I've got to call for help...*
**[18:37] Kei**
*But... how?*
**[18:45] Natsuki**
Kei!
**[18:50] Botan**
Natsuki!
**[18:53] Shigure**
Let's see.
**[18:54] Shigure**
Perhaps...
**[18:59] Shigure**
If I strip away the environment that
serves as nothing but a receptacle...
**[19:07] Shigure**
The marebito might just come out.
**[19:12] Natsuki**
What the...
**[19:14] Natsuki**
No...
**[19:22] Botan**
What are you doing?
**[19:24] Botan**
No! Stop!
**[19:30] Botan**
Natsuki!
**[19:36] Botan**
Kei!
**[19:46] Botan**
*Someone...*
**[19:54] Botan**
*Hyoma-san...*
**[20:08] Shigure**
Oh?
**[20:18] Botan**
Hyo...
**[20:19] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[20:22] Hyoma**
Sorry I'm late.
**[20:24] Hyoma**
But...
**[20:26] Hyoma**
You're safe now, Botan!
**[20:30] (Flashback) Hyoma**
This I swear.
**[20:32] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I'll always keep you safe.
**[20:42] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[20:46] Shigure**
Barrier disruption...
**[20:48] Shigure**
A power gifted by Saenokami.
**[20:52] Shigure**
I see.
**[20:53] Shigure**
Kunato Hyoma.
**[20:56] Shigure**
Is that you?
**[20:58] Shigure**
But how will you fight me
with three women to protect?
**[21:03] Fukie**
No need to worry there.
**[21:16] Fukie**
I'll be protecting them.
**[21:19] Fukie**
I won't let anyone get close.
**[21:22] Fukie**
You should be able to go all-out now, right?
**[21:28] Shigure**
Fukie of the Bureau of Traditional Music?
**[21:33] Hyoma**
Thank you.
**[21:38] Hyoma**
*There is a resemblance.*
**[21:41] Hyoma**
*I know this spirit energy.*
**[21:44] Hyoma**
*This is...*
**[21:49] Shigure**
What a hideous expression.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Draconic
# E16 - Draconic
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GWDU8Q23Q/draconic)
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**[00:04] Botan**
*Hyoma-san...*
**[00:16] Shigure**
Oh?
**[00:25] Botan**
Hyo...
**[00:27] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[00:30] Shigure**
Barrier disruption...
**[00:32] Shigure**
A power gifted by Saenokami.
**[00:36] Shigure**
I see.
**[00:38] Shigure**
Kunato Hyoma.
**[00:40] Shigure**
Is that you?
**[00:42] Shigure**
But how will you fight me
with three women to protect?
**[00:47] Fukie**
No need to worry there.
**[00:50] Fukie**
I won't let anyone get close.
**[00:54] Fukie**
You should be able to go all-out now, right?
**[00:57] Shigure**
Fukie of the Bureau of Traditional Music?
**[01:03] Hyoma**
*There is a resemblance.*
**[01:05] Hyoma**
*I know this spirit energy.*
**[01:08] Hyoma**
*This is...*
**[01:13] Shigure**
What a hideous expression.
**[01:19] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[01:20] Hyoma**
Get back, Botan.
**[01:24] Hyoma**
*Remain calm.*
**[01:26] Hyoma**
*I don't know that it's true yet.*
**[01:29] Hyoma**
* The prior paper umbrella manifested*
* with inexperienced transformations.*
**[01:32] Hyoma**
* I have no way of knowing*
* what it might look like now.*
**[01:36] Hyoma**
* I can't be sure that this*
* tsukumogami is the one.*
**[01:41] Hyoma**
*Calm yourself.*
**[01:44] Hyoma**
*Calm...*
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Draconic
**[03:34] Fukie**
I'm on his side. I'm not your enemy.
**[03:37] Fukie**
You would be safest remaining close to me.
**[03:41] Fukie**
In fact...
**[03:42] Fukie**
It's easier for me if the things
I'm protecting remain in one place.
**[03:46] Botan**
Natsuki! Kei!
**[03:48] Botan**
Um... Are they...
**[03:51] Fukie**
I've put them both to sleep.
**[03:53] Fukie**
They're fine.
**[03:58] Botan**
Thank goodness.
**[04:00] Botan**
Thank goodness...
**[04:15] Botan**
The city's back?
**[04:18] Fukie**
The barrier's been lowered.
**[04:20] Fukie**
All the more reason to stay close to me.
**[04:24] Fukie**
It's going to channel its power elsewhere.
**[04:27] Fukie**
To fight... or to flee?
**[04:33] Hyoma**
You won't escape.
**[04:35] Hyoma**
I have questions to ask you.
**[04:37] Hyoma**
But most importantly, as a Saenome,
**[04:40] Hyoma**
I cannot allow a tsukumogami that
harms humans to remain at large.
**[04:44] Shigure**
"Most importantly"?
**[04:54] Shigure**
Liar.
**[04:55] Shigure**
That part's just lip service for you, isn't it?
**[05:05] Botan**
*She moved behind Hyoma-san in an instant...*
**[05:11] Shigure**
That expression...
**[05:14] Shigure**
The one you let slip before me earlier.
**[05:17] Shigure**
*That's* how you really feel, isn't it?
**[05:20] Shigure**
You pursue out of a desire to destroy.
**[05:23] Shigure**
To protect others as a Saenome?
**[05:26] Shigure**
You don't look like the kind of person
motivated by such noble principles.
**[05:33] Hyoma**
*It uses some curious movement technique...*
**[05:35] Hyoma**
* I should use talismans first*
* to ascertain its nature.*
**[05:40] Shigure**
Or perhaps...
**[05:42] Hyoma**
Try me!
**[05:44] Shigure**
Kusui and Hayato...
**[05:48] Shigure**
Those martyrs to their cause...
You seek to imitate them?
**[05:54] (Flashback) Kusui**
Helping protect wayward tsukumogami would
probably look a bit better, don't you think?
**[06:00] (Flashback) Hyoma**
"To offer guidance and maintain
order in the land of the living."
**[06:04] (Flashback) Hyoma**
That's what Grandpa says is
the Saenome guiding principle.
**[06:09] (Flashback) Kusui**
That's it! We've gotta set
a good example for Hi-kun!
**[06:13] (Flashback) Hayato**
Next time our schedules line up,
come watch us at work!
**[06:16] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Sure!
**[06:26] Botan**
*A paper umbrella that knows their names...*
**[06:29] Botan**
*Is she the one Hyoma-san...*
**[07:13] Hyoma**
Die!
**[07:17] Shigure**
See?
**[07:19] Shigure**
You're not looking at anything but me.
**[07:22] Shigure**
You can't protect anyone.
**[07:34] Shigure**
Our objective has always been...
**[07:37] Shigure**
right here.
**[07:40] Hyoma**
Botan!
**[08:08] Shigure**
What's this?
**[08:10] Shigure**
Hairpins and...
**[08:12] Shigure**
Katana?
**[08:15] Shigure**
Oh...
**[08:16] Shigure**
It's you, is it?
**[08:23] Hyoma**
All of you...
**[08:27] Tsumabiki**
So glad you happened to be here...
**[08:29] Tsumabiki**
Fukki.
**[08:32] Haori**
You've come after our master, have you?
**[08:36] Haori**
You lowlife.
**[08:38] Haori**
There's nothing to discuss.
**[08:43] Haori**
We will destroy you.
**[08:49] Hyoma**
*The tsukumogami before me now*
**[08:53] Hyoma**
*are not the ones I see every day.*
**[08:56] Hyoma**
* They're some of the most powerful*
* tsukumogami in Kyoto...*
**[08:59] Hyoma**
*"The Nagatsuki Bridal Trousseau."*
**[09:02] Hyoma**
*Those who protect Nagatsuki Botan.*
**[09:07] Shigure**
Destroy me?
**[09:10] Shigure**
Very well.
**[09:12] Shigure**
Who are the more worthy servants?
**[09:16] Shigure**
Us? Or you?
**[09:21] Shigure**
I think it's time we worked that out.
**[09:36] Shigure**
*A mirror? Just one?*
**[09:39] Shigure**
*Where are the others?*
**[09:43] Kagami**
This spirit energy... This power...
**[09:46] Kagami**
I'm sure of it!
**[09:47] Kagami**
It's a tsukumogami linked
to the land of the dead!
**[09:50] Kagami**
Keep your guard up, everyone!
**[09:58] Nagi**
I don't give a damn who you are...
**[10:02] Nagi**
I'll slice you to ribbons!
**[10:41] Shigure**
A projectile fired with an ally inside...
**[10:56] Hyoma**
This is...
**[10:58] Hyoma**
This is the true face of the Nagatsukis.
**[11:02] Tsumabiki**
Now, now.
**[11:03] Tsuzumi**
If you're getting that just from
their destructive power,
**[11:06] Tsuzumi**
you've still got a lot to learn!
**[11:08] Hyoma**
Bureau, is Botan...
**[11:11] Tsumabiki**
The girl? She's with Haori.
**[11:30] Tsumabiki**
They fight to draw the enemy
away from their mistress,
**[11:34] Tsumabiki**
and keep the enemy's attacks
pointed away from their mistress.
**[11:39] Tsumabiki**
Truly, fighting to protect is more
difficult than fighting to defeat...
**[11:44] Tsumabiki**
But that's the style in which they excel.
**[11:50] Hyoma**
Fighting... to protect.
**[11:57] Nagi**
Damn it... Vanished again.
**[12:00] Nagi**
Haori! Be careful!
**[12:02] Haori**
Kagami, search with the Shoyokyo!
**[12:05] Haori**
Everyone else, return here for now.
**[12:18] Shigure**
My... master...
**[12:21] Shigure**
Come with me...
**[12:31] Haori**
I thought something wasn't quite right.
**[12:36] Hyoma**
Diving into and emerging from shadows...
**[12:39] Hyoma**
That's how your warp technique works!
**[12:43] Hyoma**
You won't...
**[12:45] Hyoma**
You won't...
**[12:47] Hyoma**
You won't have your way anymore,
paper umbrella!
**[12:58] Tsuzumi**
Don't struggle!
***SIGN*** Proxy
**[13:11] Shigure**
Well done.
**[13:13] Shigure**
Take care, my master.
***SIGN*** Proxy
**[13:37] Tsumabiki**
As long as its intentions remain unknown,
**[13:40] Tsumabiki**
we'll need to remove the seal
and interrogate it at some point.
**[13:45] Tsumabiki**
You can give it a piece
of your mind at that time.
**[13:49] Tsumabiki**
Until then, in accordance with the rules,
**[13:52] Tsumabiki**
we'll store it in the warehouse of
the presiding Saenome in this case.
**[13:57] Tsumabiki**
Kunato Hyoma.
**[13:59] Hyoma**
Y-Yes?
**[14:01] Tsumabiki**
Is now a time to be lost in your thoughts?
**[14:04] Tsumabiki**
I hope the lady over there
isn't feeling too traumatized.
**[14:10] Tsumabiki**
This paper umbrella was our target originally.
**[14:14] Tsumabiki**
We'll deal with the aftermath.
**[14:16] Tsumabiki**
We've altered your friends' memories, as well.
**[14:20] Tsumabiki**
The rest of you should take
a well-deserved rest.
**[14:26] Hyoma**
*Is it... over?*
**[14:28] Hyoma**
*Really?*
**[14:29] Hyoma**
*At last?*
**[14:32] Hyoma**
*Is it all that easy?*
**[14:34] Hyoma**
*Could it really be that easy?*
**[14:38] Hyoma**
*I don't feel anything yet.*
**[14:43] Haori**
Kunato Hyoma.
**[14:45] Haori**
You kept our mistress safe until we arrived.
**[14:50] Haori**
On behalf of the Nagatsuki Bridal Trousseau,
**[14:53] Haori**
I give you my thanks.
**[15:00] Hyoma**
No. You're the ones who kept her safe.
**[15:04] Hyoma**
I became preoccupied with
defeating that tsukumogami.
**[15:10] Hyoma**
I protected nothing.
**[15:12] Botan**
That's not true!
**[15:17] Hyoma**
Botan?
**[15:19] Botan**
That's not... true at all.
**[15:23] (Flashback) Hyoma**
You're safe now, Botan!
**[15:28] Botan**
Because I...
**[15:36] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[15:47] Hyoma**
Botan!
**[15:48] Trousseau**
Botan!
**[15:50] Botan**
I... what...
**[15:53] Botan**
Something... just...
**[15:56] Haori**
It can't be...
**[16:00] Haori**
Back home, everyone!
**[16:02] Haori**
Hurry!
**[16:04] Hyoma**
*On our flight back to the mansion,*
**[16:07] Hyoma**
*my mind was a swirl of questions.*
**[16:10] Hyoma**
*The paper umbrella's aura...*
**[16:13] Hyoma**
* Its smell, the same as*
* the tsukumogami I seek...*
**[16:17] Hyoma**
*Why... If we just sealed it...*
**[16:21] Hyoma**
*As we come closer to the mansion,*
**[16:23] Hyoma**
*why do they seem to grow thicker and heavier?*
**[16:27] Nagi**
What the...
**[16:29] Nagi**
They're all Kyoto Saenome.
**[16:32] Nagi**
What're they doing at our place?
**[16:34] Nagi**
Move it!
**[16:41] Tsubaki**
Ah, so that's the story.
**[16:44] Tsubaki**
Looks like they got us, Hyoma-chan.
**[16:48] Tsubaki**
This was their real target.
**[16:54] Tsubaki**
Not the destruction of the mansion...
**[16:58] Tsubaki**
But the keystone of protection
that dwelt there.
**[17:03] Tsubaki**
Their target was Kushige.
**[17:07] Haori**
Kushige?!
**[17:09] Hyoma**
*It did say... "our objective"...*
**[17:13] Hyoma**
*This isn't over at all.*
**[17:16] Hyoma**
*That viscous, unmistakable spirit energy...*
**[17:20] Hyoma**
*Can there be more of it out there?*
**[17:22] Hyoma**
*Could it still be nearby?!*
**[17:25] Nagi**
Hyoma!
**[17:27] Nagi**
I can sense your urge to kill from here.
**[17:29] Nagi**
Hold it in for now.
**[17:31] Hyoma**
But—
**[17:37] Nagi**
If the paper umbrella was in cahoots
with whoever attacked here,
**[17:41] Nagi**
there could be even more of them.
**[17:43] Nagi**
The fact that they beat Kushige means
they're at least as powerful as us!
**[17:50] Nagi**
You've got better things to do right now
**[17:52] Nagi**
than rushing out to die for nothing!
**[17:55] Shigure**
*Our objective has always been...*
**[17:58] Shigure**
*right here.*
**[18:04] Hyoma**
Tsubaki.
**[18:06] Hyoma**
The tsukumogami we encountered
said their target was Botan.
**[18:09] Hyoma**
If it was working with the one
who attacked the mansion,
**[18:12] Hyoma**
then protecting her has to come first.
**[18:15] Tsumabiki**
Best place for her would be Papa's place, then.
**[18:25] Restoration Artist**
I don't think the tsukumogami's gone for good.
**[18:28] Restoration Artist**
I think it sealed its own soul in its vessel.
**[18:31] Restoration Artist**
It's what we call a state of "pseudo-sealing."
**[18:35] Hyoma**
"Pseudo"?
**[18:35] Restoration Artist**
Yes.
**[18:36] Restoration Artist**
As you know, there are two ways
to eliminate a tsukumogami.
**[18:42] Restoration Artist**
One is to kill its living body,
the vessel made flesh.
**[18:47] Restoration Artist**
The other is to sever the vessel
from the soul and seal it.
**[18:54] Restoration Artist**
When that happens, the vessel
temporarily becomes a vault for the soul,
**[18:59] Restoration Artist**
and then we typically return the soul
to the land of the dead later.
**[19:03] Restoration Artist**
Kushige-san probably avoided death by
severing his soul just before he was destroyed.
**[19:09] Taiju**
I see.
**[19:11] Taiju**
So? Can you restore it?
**[19:16] Restoration Artist**
First, I have to repair the vessel.
**[19:18] Restoration Artist**
That's my job, so it's doable.
**[19:22] Restoration Artist**
But...
**[19:23] Restoration Artist**
Even if the external scars are fixed,
**[19:26] Restoration Artist**
there's no telling when
the life might return to it...
**[19:29] Restoration Artist**
And there's just nothing I can do about that.
**[19:39] Kagami**
Botan...
**[19:42] Taiju**
Our boarding house is nearby,
so we'll have you people stay there for now.
**[19:49] Taiju**
That'll be best from a safety standpoint.
**[19:52] Taiju**
After that... well,
it won't be up to me to decide...
**[19:56] Taiju**
But with the state Kushige's in,
**[19:59] Taiju**
you should be ready for more meddling and
severe limitations concerning Nagatsuki Botan.
**[20:06] Hyoma**
What do you mean by that?
**[20:08] Haori**
The role Kushige played
was just that important.
**[20:12] Haori**
You know that Kushige rarely
accompanied us on jobs, right?
**[20:17] Haori**
That's simply because... he couldn't.
**[20:21] Haori**
Because most of his power
was already in constant use.
**[20:26] Haori**
He maintained a barrier around
the mansion to keep enemies out,
**[20:30] Haori**
and maintained separate barriers
over Botan's body and mind.
**[20:36] Haori**
In this way, he prevented the surfacing
of the marebito inside her.
**[20:42] Haori**
That's why Botan could go about
her life with minimal supervision.
**[20:47] Haori**
Currently, though, all of those
barriers have been lifted.
**[20:52] Taiju**
Which means she's completely exposed.
**[20:55] Taiju**
There's no telling what could trigger
the marebito's surfacing.
**[21:00] Taiju**
If Nagatsuki-san is the one
they're after, as you heard,
**[21:05] Taiju**
it'll be too dangerous to let her
go out as she did before.
**[21:09] Taiju**
Everyone aware of the situation will agree.
**[21:12] Taiju**
Which means outside forces
will begin to weigh in on
**[21:16] Taiju**
what to do with Nagatsuki Botan from now on.
**[21:20] Taiju**
That's the meddling.
**[21:22] Suzuri**
We'll accept the limitations.
**[21:25] Suzuri**
Until we can work out
countermeasures, at least.
**[21:29] Suzuri**
But the meddling...
Depending on what it consists of...
**[21:35] Taiju**
Hold your tempers, now.
**[21:38] Taiju**
If your lot tries anything, I'll act in
accordance with my orders from above.
**[21:44] Taiju**
And don't go forgetting that your
mistress is currently in my hands.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Moonset
# E17 - Moonset
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GG1U2ZJV4/moonset)
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**[00:00] Taiju**
Hold your tempers, now.
**[00:03] Taiju**
If your lot tries anything, I'll act in
accordance with my orders from above.
**[00:09] Taiju**
And don't go forgetting that your
mistress is currently in my hands.
**[00:15] Tsubaki**
Hey! I hear Botan-chan's up.
**[00:19] Nagi**
Let's get going, guys!
**[00:21] Haori**
Get out of my way!
**[00:24] Taiju**
You know...
**[00:26] Taiju**
They treat you rather poorly, don't they?
**[00:29] Tsubaki**
You're done talking, right, Papa?
**[00:31] Tsubaki**
I'll be taking Hyoma-chan, then.
**[00:35] Taiju**
Ah... Well, fine.
***SIGN*** Infirmary
**[00:39] Kagami**
Thank goodness! Botan!
**[00:43] Botan**
C'mon, you two...
**[00:44] Nagi**
You in any pain?
**[00:46] Suzuri**
Are you feeling nauseous or sluggish at all?
**[00:49] Haori**
If anything at all feels off,
just say the word!
**[00:51] Botan**
H-Hey! I told you to calm down!
**[00:55] Haori**
I-I'm sorry.
**[00:57] Haori**
We were just so worried about you...
**[01:00] Botan**
Yeah, I know.
**[01:02] Botan**
Thanks, you guys.
**[01:07] Botan**
Oh, right.
**[01:09] Botan**
Make sure you tell Kushige that I'm okay, too.
**[01:12] Botan**
I'm sure he's worried sick back at the house.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Moonset
**[02:56] Hyoma**
Enough! I don't need your help to walk.
**[02:59] Tsubaki**
Aw, you meanie.
**[03:01] Hyoma**
Now, what do you want to talk about?
**[03:03] Tsubaki**
Oh? What's this?
**[03:05] Tsubaki**
You want to hear me talk?
**[03:07] Hyoma**
You brought me here for a reason, didn't you?
**[03:11] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan...
**[03:13] Tsubaki**
You encountered the paper umbrella, didn't you?
**[03:16] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[03:18] Hyoma**
I can't be certain it's the one I'm seeking, but...
**[03:21] Tsubaki**
But it struck you as a likely suspect. Didn't it?
**[03:26] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[03:28] Tsubaki**
Then you made the right decision
not to pursue at that time.
**[03:33] Tsubaki**
Nagi was right.
**[03:35] Tsubaki**
Our best option now is to wait for info
from the paper umbrella we captured.
**[03:40] Tsubaki**
Our family needs to investigate
the mansion's attacker, as well.
**[03:45] Hyoma**
I understand that.
**[03:48] Hyoma**
Still, you're acting like you
know something, Tsubaki.
**[03:51] Tsubaki**
Well, I've uncovered a few things about the
paper umbrella through my own investigations.
**[03:56] Hyoma**
You have?
**[03:58] Tsubaki**
But there are also things
you know that I don't...
**[04:03] Tsubaki**
Having seen it with your own eyes and all.
**[04:10] Tsubaki**
Why don't we take this opportunity
to exchange information?
**[04:15] Hyoma**
Very well. I would find that—
**[04:18] Tsubaki**
Awesome! I got Hyoma-chan to agree to a date!
**[04:22] Tsubaki**
We'll want a place we can have
a nice, leisurely chat, right?
**[04:25] Tsubaki**
How about a stylish café tour?
***SIGN*** Dating in Kyoto! All the best cafés!!
***SIGN*** Tour stylish coffee shops
**[04:28] Hyoma**
Wait a minute.
Why is this suddenly all about that?
**[04:31] Tsubaki**
Or perhaps...
***SIGN*** Hakone • Izu Hot Springs Tour
***SIGN*** Hakone • Izu Hot Springs Tour
**[04:33] Tsubaki**
How's about an overnight stay?
***SIGN*** Hakone • Izu Hot Springs Tour
**[04:36] Tsubaki**
This is the one I recommend most!
**[04:41] Hyoma**
Is this all you had to say?
**[04:42] Hyoma**
I should be going.
**[04:44] Tsubaki**
Hang on a minute!
**[04:45] Tsubaki**
You're not done yet.
**[04:47] Tsubaki**
My brothers have things they want to say, too!
**[04:52] Umekichi**
We heard, Kunato.
**[04:54] Umekichi**
You lost your head with a paper umbrella
and attempted a suicide charge.
**[04:59] Shota**
We took time out of our schedules
to teach you to fight like a Kadomori.
**[05:03] Shota**
Did you forget that somewhere along the way?
**[05:06] Shota**
Or maybe you didn't need it?
**[05:10] Hyoma**
I'm aware of my shortcomings in this regard.
**[05:13] Hyoma**
I am prepared to receive your chastisement!
**[05:16] Tsubaki**
Just so you know, my brothers love to lecture.
**[05:19] Tsubaki**
You're about to make a big commitment here.
**[05:22] Tsubaki**
You'll be lucky if you get out before midnight.
**[05:25] Tsubaki**
And since you turned down a date with me,
I'm not going to help you out.
**[05:33] Umekichi**
You turned down our little sister?
**[05:36] Shota**
That's beyond the pale, man.
**[05:40] Hyoma**
Well, that's really just—
**[05:42] Shota/Umekichi**
Silence!
**[05:45] Tsubaki**
*Still... it was a bit surprising.*
**[05:49] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Protecting her has to come first.
**[05:53] Tsubaki**
* If the tsukumogami he's*
* searching for was nearby,*
**[05:56] Tsubaki**
* I would've expected him to*
* fly off the handle immediately.*
**[06:01] Tsubaki**
*But... well, fine.*
**[06:04] Tsubaki**
* A potentially interesting enemy*
* has finally appeared.*
**[06:09] Tsubaki**
*I might have a little fun at last!*
**[06:24] Hyoma**
I can't believe they lectured
me for five straight hours.
**[06:27] Hyoma**
I realize the fault was mine, but...
**[06:30] [SONG] sign**
Concentrated Soy Milk
Cold
**[06:37] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[06:39] Hyoma**
Botan?
**[06:45] Hyoma**
How are you feeling?
**[06:46] Botan**
I'm just fine.
**[06:48] Hyoma**
I see.
**[06:50] Hyoma**
I'm sorry I was unable to stop in right away.
**[06:54] Botan**
Actually, Nagi and the others
made such a fuss in the infirmary...
**[06:58] Botan**
I had my hands full already!
**[07:00] Hyoma**
Where are the others?
**[07:01] Botan**
They're asleep now.
**[07:03] Botan**
They're as worn out as you'd expect.
**[07:19] Hyoma**
Botan...
**[07:22] Hyoma**
How are you... er...
**[07:26] Hyoma**
I mean...
**[07:29] Botan**
Kushige... When I was little,
he was the one I spent the most time with.
**[07:36] Botan**
Everyone else would go out to work,
so it was just me and him at home.
**[07:42] Botan**
We played karuta and stuff.
**[07:44] Botan**
He was quiet the whole time,
but he was always there for me.
**[07:49] Botan**
He looks kind of scary and silent, but...
**[07:53] Botan**
He's just overly soft-spoken.
**[07:57] Botan**
And he always watched out for me,
just like the others did.
**[08:04] Hyoma**
I see.
**[08:06] Botan**
So...
**[08:08] Botan**
I know he'll wake up.
**[08:12] Botan**
The Bridal Trousseau all want me to get married
**[08:18] Botan**
and be happy...
**[08:22] Botan**
There's no way they'd disappear before
they got to see me off in that moment.
**[08:29] Botan**
He'll be okay.
**[08:31] Hyoma**
Honestly...
**[08:33] Hyoma**
You never fail to impress me, Botan.
**[08:39] Botan**
So... I'm not sure how to put this, but...
**[08:47] Botan**
See, the reason I was waiting for you was...
**[08:50] Hyoma**
You waited? I'm so sorry!
**[08:53] Botan**
No, it was just a thing I wanted to do...
**[08:58] Botan**
There was something... earlier...
I didn't get to tell you, remember?
**[09:04] Hyoma**
There was?
**[09:07] (Flashback) Botan**
Because I...
**[09:12] Botan**
I heard Kei and Natsuki
woke up earlier, by the way.
**[09:19] Botan**
The reason we all made it out safely
**[09:24] Botan**
is because you came to help us then.
**[09:29] Botan**
So... I wanted to say...
**[09:31] Botan**
Thank you... for keeping your promise.
**[09:38] Hyoma**
In truth, I have many regrets
about my behavior then.
**[09:42] Botan**
You really shouldn't—
**[09:44] Hyoma**
But hearing those words
from you lessens that burden.
**[09:50] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[09:52] Hyoma**
However!
**[09:53] Hyoma**
I must accomplish a method of protection
**[09:56] Hyoma**
that will be acknowledged
by both myself and others!
**[09:58] Hyoma**
Watch me!
**[10:02] Botan**
Yeah! I know you will!
**[10:06] Zohei**
*I see. The paper umbrella?*
**[10:10] Zohei**
*It's a good thing the girl's safe, though.*
**[10:13] Hyoma**
Yes. But...
**[10:17] Hyoma**
I didn't do it all by myself.
**[10:21] Zohei**
* The fact that you can recognize that*
* is a sign of growth all on its own.*
**[10:26] Zohei**
Hyoma...
**[10:28] Zohei**
It might be time for you to face it.
**[10:32] Zohei**
* That which you've been averting*
* your eyes from all this time...*
**[10:35] Zohei**
*Your own power.*
**[10:44] Hyoma**
*Seeing it again like this...*
**[10:46] Hyoma**
*There's a lonely feeling to it.*
**[11:24] Zohei**
*Hyoma, you should use your own door pulls.*
**[11:28] (Flashback) Hyoma**
But... I...
**[11:30] Zohei**
* Yes, you haven't tried to*
* use them all this time.*
**[11:36] (Flashback) Zohei**
You chose to use the ones you received
as mementos from Hayato and Kusui,
**[11:41] (Flashback) Zohei**
so that you would never forget
your anger about their deaths.
**[11:46] (Flashback) Zohei**
So that you could strike down their
murderer as a spirit of vengeance.
**[11:51] (Flashback) Zohei**
But now...
**[11:53] (Flashback) Zohei**
Since going to Kyoto,
**[11:55] Zohei**
*you've changed, Hyoma.*
**[11:59] Zohei**
* You're seeking a power not to strike down*
* the enemy, but to protect others.*
**[12:06] Zohei**
* You won't get that from*
* Hayato and Kusui's door pulls.*
**[12:10] Zohei**
*You'll get it from your own.*
**[12:15] Tsubaki**
Hyo-o-ma-chan!
**[12:18] Tsubaki**
Hey, it's me! You in or what?
**[12:24] Tsubaki**
Maybe he's out?
**[12:27] Tsubaki**
Is he still sore about yesterday
**[12:29] Tsubaki**
and ignoring me?!
**[12:31] Hyoma**
Tsubaki?
**[12:33] Tsubaki**
Hey, Hyoma-chan.
**[12:34] Hyoma**
Mind if I borrow your dojo?
**[12:37] Tsubaki**
Hey, is that...
**[12:40] Natsuki**
*Sorry about yesterday.*
**[12:41] Natsuki**
*Turns out we collapsed from heat stroke.*
**[12:44] Natsuki**
*I hear you called us an ambulance?*
**[12:48] Natsuki**
Thanks for that.
**[12:49] Natsuki**
Kei says thanks, too.
**[12:51] Botan**
Oh, no...
**[12:53] Botan**
I'm the one who should apologize.
**[12:57] Natsuki**
*Why would* you *apologize?*
**[12:59] Natsuki**
*We're the ones who made all the trouble!*
**[13:02] Botan**
No... I really am sorry.
**[13:08] Natsuki**
*Green tea pancakes.*
**[13:10] Natsuki**
I mean, we said we were gonna treat you,
but we never made it there, right?
**[13:15] Natsuki**
So let's go, the three of us.
**[13:19] Natsuki**
*That's a promise, okay?*
**[13:33] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[13:35] Botan**
*What's going on?*
**[13:37] Botan**
*He seems different than usual...*
**[13:41] Botan**
*And... what's that box?*
**[13:45] Tsubaki**
Something catch your attention?
**[13:46] Botan**
Tsubaki-san?
**[13:48] Tsubaki**
That box contains Hyoma-chan's door pulls.
**[13:53] Botan**
Hyoma-san's door pulls?
**[13:55] Tsubaki**
Yes.
**[13:56] Tsubaki**
He currently wields one from Kusui-san
and one from Hayato-san.
**[14:00] Tsubaki**
They aren't actually his.
**[14:19] (Flashback) Hayato**
Kunato Gate Opening Technique...
**[14:21] (Flashback) Hayato**
Personal Style!
**[14:23] (Flashback) Hayato**
Ikutachi!
**[14:31] (Flashback) Hayato**
Well, Hyoma?
**[14:33] (Flashback) Hayato**
Once you really master your door pulls' power,
**[14:35] (Flashback) Hayato**
you can even do moves like that!
**[14:38] (Flashback) Kusui**
Hi-kun, just don't imitate
that "Personal Style" part.
**[14:42] (Flashback) Kusui**
It's lame.
**[14:43] (Flashback) Hayato**
Come on, it's cool.
**[14:45] (Flashback) Kusui**
It's lame!
**[14:46] (Flashback) Hayato**
Aw, nah, it's totally cool!
**[15:12] Tsubaki**
Looks like he can't use them well yet.
**[15:21] Botan**
If they're his, why can't he use them well?
**[15:25] Tsubaki**
Kusui-san told me...
**[15:27] Tsubaki**
The door pulls are a gift from
Saenokami, a portion of its power.
**[15:32] Tsubaki**
Using a door pull means
**[15:34] Tsubaki**
using the power of Saenokami,
with whom the wielder has made a pact.
**[15:38] Tsubaki**
But to use them to their full potential,
**[15:41] Tsubaki**
there needs to be a rapport
between the door pull and its user.
**[15:45] Tsubaki**
But all this time, Hyoma-chan's
been using Hayato-san's and Kusui-san's.
**[15:51] Tsubaki**
Because of that, he's likely lost
the rapport with his own door pulls.
**[15:55] Tsubaki**
It's like with girls, you know?
**[15:58] Tsubaki**
Neglect them too long,
and they'll start to sulk a bit.
**[16:00] Botan**
R-Right...
**[16:03] Tsubaki**
But as long as he's not using his own,
he can't unleash his true power.
**[16:09] Tsubaki**
Even so, it's not easy to reforge
a bond once it's broken.
**[16:16] Umekichi**
There you are.
**[16:20] Umekichi**
Dad's calling.
**[16:25] Taiju**
Allow me to tell you why I've called you here.
**[16:28] Taiju**
I want to tell you what's going to
happen after yesterday's events.
**[16:33] Taiju**
I've called in Hyoma-kun,
Nagatsuki-san, and Haori-kun,
**[16:36] Taiju**
as a representative of the Bridal Trousseau.
**[16:39] Taiju**
First, Hyoma-kun.
**[16:41] Taiju**
You're free to return to
the Kunato if you'd prefer,
**[16:44] Taiju**
but as long as you're in Kyoto,
we'd like you to stay with us.
**[16:47] Taiju**
You'd be a welcome addition to our forces.
**[16:51] Taiju**
The same goes for you, Nagatsuki-san.
**[16:54] Taiju**
With Kushige out of action,
**[16:55] Taiju**
it's too dangerous to leave you roaming free.
**[16:59] Taiju**
We'll harbor you here until we've
made progress on countermeasures.
**[17:03] Taiju**
Sorry, but you'll need to
take leave from university, too.
**[17:09] Botan**
All right.
**[17:11] Taiju**
I know there's no asking you
to be happy about it,
**[17:14] Taiju**
but it's a difficult issue.
**[17:17] Taiju**
The best compromise we can offer is that
you'll have no limits on your movements
**[17:22] Taiju**
as long as you're here.
**[17:25] Taiju**
Ah, by the way...
**[17:26] Taiju**
Tsubaki's raring to invite you
to a Saenome Girls' Night.
**[17:33] Taiju**
Haori-kun.
**[17:34] Taiju**
We'll now address the matter
of the Bridal Trousseau.
**[17:39] Taiju**
You've been summoned.
**[17:41] Haori**
Understood. By whom?
**[17:44] Taiju**
The deputy director of the Saenome Marebito
Management Office, Department of Exorcisms...
**[17:50] Taiju**
The Yachimata, one of the three
Saenokami Descendent families,
**[17:53] Taiju**
alongside the Kunato and the Tsuji.
**[17:58] Taiju**
They'd like to meet with you and
discuss the question of whether
**[18:03] Taiju**
Nagatsuki Botan can continue
to be left under your care.
**[18:06] Yui**
That's unacceptable.
**[18:07] Suzuri/Kagami**
Agreed!
**[18:09] Yui**
Calling us all out together?
**[18:11] Yui**
Leaving Botan behind in her condition?
**[18:14] Yui**
It's unthinkable.
**[18:15] Haori**
I thought the same thing...
**[18:18] Haori**
But if the Yachimatas are involved,
we can't just ignore the call.
**[18:22] Haori**
You know that, don't you?
**[18:24] Botan**
Um... Is the Yachimata family that big a deal?
**[18:29] Haori**
Yes. The Saenome that deal with tsukumogami
**[18:33] Haori**
are also known as the
Marebito Management Office.
**[18:36] Haori**
And the three families
that lead the organization
**[18:38] Haori**
are known as the Three Great Houses.
**[18:42] Haori**
The Kunato, the Tsuji, and the Yachimata.
**[18:45] Haori**
It was their ancestors who were
first spoken to by Saenokami,
**[18:49] Haori**
and who founded the organization.
**[18:51] Haori**
They're also known as Saenokami Descendants.
**[18:54] Haori**
Powerful special exception tsukumogami
**[18:56] Haori**
are placed under the
Three Great Houses' supervision.
**[18:59] Haori**
Of those of us in Kyoto,
the Bridal Trousseau are under the Kunato,
**[19:04] Haori**
the Suit of Armor under the Tsuji,
**[19:06] Haori**
and the Bureau of Traditional Music
under the Yachimata.
**[19:09] Suzuri**
The reason the Yachimata
have called us out is likely
**[19:11] Suzuri**
because it was the Bureau that were
handling the paper umbrella investigation.
**[19:16] Botan**
I see...
**[19:17] Hyoma**
Is that the balance in place?
**[19:24] Haori**
How did you not know that, Hyoma-san?!
**[19:26] Suzuri**
Aren't you the heir to the Kunato family?
**[19:28] Yui**
It's unfathomable!
**[19:29] Kagami**
Seriously!
**[19:30] Hyoma**
Well... I prioritized training over study...
**[19:36] Haori**
Anyway, it would be difficult
to refuse the invitation.
**[19:41] Haori**
Besides, the Kyoto Saenome will be
looking after Botan while we're gone.
**[19:46] Suzuri**
The Kyoto Saenome are
the ones I'm worried about.
**[19:48] Suzuri**
You know as well as I do that Representative
Kadomori is a hard guy to read.
**[19:54] Suzuri**
If he has some other plan up his sleeve...
**[19:58] Suzuri**
We won't be able to stop it while we're gone.
**[20:03] Kagami**
In the end, Hyoma-san really is
the only one we can trust with her.
**[20:19] Kagami**
I know! Let's contact Zohei-san and—
**[20:22] Tsumabiki**
Now, now! No need to worry there.
**[20:26] Tsumabiki**
Because...
**[20:29] Tsumabiki**
We, the Bureau of Traditional Music,
will protect Nagatsuki Botan!
**[20:33] Tsumabiki**
We were instructed by
Representative Yachimata Kokutan
**[20:37] Tsumabiki**
to fill in for the Bridal Trousseau.
**[20:41] Haori**
Is that... true?
**[20:43] Haori**
Kadomori-san didn't mention that.
**[20:46] Tsumabiki**
We just received word
ourselves a little while ago.
**[20:49] Tsumabiki**
They knew you'd be sulking about it otherwise.
**[20:54] Fukie**
It's a logical action from the Yachimata.
**[20:58] Fukie**
Any further reluctance on your part
will just undermine your positions.
**[21:04] Fukie**
Though that would be rock
in its own way, I suppose.
**[21:09] Nagi**
Guess that's that.
**[21:11] Haori**
Nagi...
**[21:12] Nagi**
We're special exceptions under
human supervision, after all.
**[21:16] Nagi**
We have no right to refuse.
**[21:18] Nagi**
Which means we've just gotta do what they say.
**[21:25] Yui**
Very well. Let's proceed.
**[21:30] Yui**
But Bureau...
**[21:32] Yui**
If you're going to fill in for us,
**[21:34] Yui**
you must protect Botan with your lives.
**[21:37] Tsumabiki**
Understood.
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Vow
# E18 - Vow
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**[00:08] (Flashback) Shigure**
If I strip away the environment that
serves as nothing but a receptacle...
**[00:13] (Flashback) Shigure**
The marebito might just come out.
**[00:17] Botan**
*The marebito inside me...*
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Vow
**[02:04] Botan**
* He said I was responsible for*
* the paper umbrella's activation.*
**[02:11] Botan**
* And when I went to Kadomori-san*
* to find out if that was true, he said...*
**[02:19] (Flashback) Taiju**
Let me start with this.
**[02:21] (Flashback) Taiju**
The reason the "paper umbrella"
tsukumogami activated is still far from clear.
**[02:26] (Flashback) Taiju**
That's led to various parties
formulating various theories.
**[02:30] (Flashback) Taiju**
One such theory...
**[02:32] (Flashback) Taiju**
is that the trigger was that
time you were kidnapped.
**[02:40] (Flashback) Taiju**
The incident when those two,
calling themselves your relatives,
**[02:42] (Flashback) Taiju**
outwitted the Nagatsuki tsukumogami
with their fine words,
**[02:45] (Flashback) Taiju**
took you from them,
**[02:47] (Flashback) Taiju**
and then died in an accident while on the run,
**[02:51] (Flashback) Taiju**
while you alone survived.
**[02:56] (Flashback) Botan**
Yes. I remember.
**[02:59] (Flashback) Botan**
Although...
**[03:01] (Flashback) Taiju**
Although... you don't remember
the last of it, right?
**[03:05] (Flashback) Taiju**
The next thing you knew, you were in custody.
**[03:09] (Flashback) Botan**
Yes.
**[03:11] (Flashback) Taiju**
During that amnesiac period, you see,
**[03:14] (Flashback) Taiju**
you weren't human.
**[03:18] (Flashback) Taiju**
I don't know if it was the extreme
circumstances that caused it...
**[03:22] (Flashback) Taiju**
But you tagged in the marebito inside you,
and gave it ownership of your body.
**[03:30] (Flashback) Taiju**
The "living god" manifested,
**[03:33] (Flashback) Taiju**
and it saw to it that you
survived, no matter what.
**[03:39] (Flashback) Taiju**
Of course, no one witnessed that.
**[03:42] (Flashback) Taiju**
We and the Nagatsuki only
arrived on the scene later.
**[03:46] (Flashback) Taiju**
But around the time of the accident,
**[03:49] (Flashback) Taiju**
I witnessed a curious sight.
**[03:52] (Flashback) Taiju**
The tsukumogami in our service said
**[03:55] (Flashback) Taiju**
the last thing they remembered was a great
light coming from the site of the accident.
**[04:01] (Flashback) Taiju**
The reason tsukumogami
follow you on a daily basis
**[04:06] (Flashback) Taiju**
is because they see the marebito inside
you always glowing, like a light trap.
**[04:13] (Flashback) Taiju**
But in that instant,
**[04:15] (Flashback) Taiju**
they say it seemed to light
up as brightly as the sun.
**[04:19] (Flashback) Taiju**
The next thing I knew, every single
tsukumogami in my service
**[04:24] (Flashback) Taiju**
was prostrating itself in that direction.
**[04:28] (Flashback) Taiju**
The marebito within you
had come to the surface.
**[04:31] (Flashback) Taiju**
In other words, there'd been a
change of leadership inside you.
**[04:35] (Flashback) Taiju**
That's why you have no memory of that period.
**[04:39] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
And that light is what activated
the paper umbrella?
**[04:44] (Flashback) Taiju**
That's one theory.
**[04:47] (Flashback) Taiju**
"It was a signal flare for certain
clandestine entities to come out of hiding."
**[04:53] (Flashback) Taiju**
And indeed, the Kunatos had their run-in
with the paper umbrella not long after.
**[04:57] Botan**
*Then... I really...*
**[05:00] Botan**
*I really am...*
**[05:03] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
It's all so vague, though.
**[05:06] (Flashback) Taiju**
Like I said, it's just a theory.
**[05:09] (Flashback) Taiju**
In the end,
**[05:13] (Flashback) Taiju**
no one can say for sure
that you're responsible.
**[05:17] (Flashback) Taiju**
That's my opinion.
**[05:21] Botan**
* But... it's true that there's*
* a marebito inside me.*
**[05:25] Botan**
*And with Kushige's barriers gone,*
**[05:28] Botan**
*at any moment, I could...*
**[05:36] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I'll always keep you safe.
**[05:40] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Bring it on!
**[05:49] Hyoma**
* Even the Bridal Trousseau will have*
* to do as they're told this time.*
**[05:55] Hyoma**
*They'll only be gone a few short days,*
**[05:58] Hyoma**
*but for those who are after Botan,*
**[06:01] Hyoma**
*it will be a golden opportunity.*
**[06:04] Hyoma**
* I must stop any attacks that are*
* attempted in their absence.*
**[06:09] Hyoma**
*I must protect Botan!*
**[06:22] Hyoma**
*Someone's watching.*
**[06:25] Hyoma**
*Have they been here from the start?*
**[06:27] Hyoma**
*No... Did they trail me?*
**[06:30] Hyoma**
*From the paper umbrella's coterie?*
**[06:33] Hyoma**
*No. This spirit energy...*
**[06:41] Nagi**
Hyoma...
**[06:43] Nagi**
Don't run.
**[06:45] Hyoma**
Nagi?
**[06:46] Hyoma**
What in the world are you...
**[06:47] Nagi**
Stupid.
**[06:49] Nagi**
You're too slow!
**[06:52] Nagi**
*Cloth? This is...*
**[06:54] Nagi**
*The Kadomori appareling technique!*
**[06:59] Hyoma**
What are you doing?!
**[07:05] Hyoma**
I see.
**[07:07] Hyoma**
Picking up where we left off?
**[07:12] Hyoma**
*When we first met,*
**[07:14] Hyoma**
* I could only see those swords*
* as a sinister threat.*
**[07:18] Hyoma**
* But I see now that they are blades of duty,*
* used to protect their mistress.*
**[07:24] Nagi**
The difficulty of protecting...
**[07:26] Nagi**
The weight of an oath...
**[07:28] Nagi**
Do you understand any of it?!
**[07:35] Nagi**
A smokescreen?
**[07:40] Nagi**
A fake?!
**[07:55] Nagi**
Will that be enough to keep her safe?!
**[08:07] Hyoma**
Botan... I...
**[08:22] Nagi**
Not bad.
**[08:24] Nagi**
You didn't quite make it, though.
**[08:30] Nagi**
Those door pulls...
**[08:33] Nagi**
You use 'em pretty well.
**[08:36] Hyoma**
Indeed.
**[08:37] Hyoma**
But I can't employ their true power yet.
**[08:41] Nagi**
I see.
**[08:43] Nagi**
I just wanted to get a feel for your ability.
**[08:47] Nagi**
Sorry, Hyoma.
**[08:50] Hyoma**
Go settle what you need to.
**[08:55] Hyoma**
I will...
**[08:58] Hyoma**
It's a promise.
**[09:01] Nagi**
*A promise to fulfill his vow to keep Botan safe?*
**[09:07] Nagi**
*How unnecessarily complicated.*
**[09:09] Nagi**
*But I like it well enough.*
**[09:14] Nagi**
Counting on you, Hyoma!
**[09:17] Nagi**
That's a promise between men!
**[09:21] Hyoma**
And I understand the weight of it.
**[09:26] Nagi**
It's from Haori.
**[09:29] Hyoma**
Did something happen?
**[09:30] Nagi**
She wants me to buy booze.
**[09:34] Yui**
I promise! I promise we'll be right back!
**[09:37] Yui**
Please don't look so sad!
**[09:39] Botan**
Um... You're strangling me!
**[09:42] Nagi**
What in the world?
**[09:44] Haori**
Oh, welcome back.
**[09:46] Haori**
Apparently, a Yachimata messenger
will arrive tomorrow.
**[09:50] Haori**
We're celebrating in advance
in the hopes it will all go well.
**[09:55] Nagi**
You wanna head out with a hangover?
**[09:59] Nagi**
How can you be so calm about
getting called out like this?
**[10:03] Nagi**
Or did you accept 'cause
you've got a plan in mind?
**[10:08] Haori**
I guess you'll see.
**[10:11] Hyoma**
May I sit with you?
**[10:14] Suzuri**
Bota—
**[10:15] Botan**
C'mon!
**[10:16] Botan**
Don't just worry about me.
**[10:19] Botan**
You've got an important meeting
coming up, right?
**[10:22] Botan**
I've got Tsubaki-san and the Bureau
and Hyoma-san right here...
**[10:27] Botan**
And I don't intend to lose
heart any time soon.
**[10:31] Botan**
Focus on your immediate issue
and come back soon.
**[10:35] Suzuri/Yui/Kagami**
B-B-Botan!
**[10:37] Kagami**
You've become so mature!
**[10:40] Suzuri**
The same girl who used to
cling to me and never let go...
**[10:43] Botan**
When did that happen?!
**[10:44] Yui**
I just can't stand to say goodbye!
**[10:46] Botan**
Seriously, guys...
**[10:48] Kagami**
Botan!
**[10:49] Nagi**
How long are they gonna keep at it?
**[11:06] Haori**
Well, Hyoma-san, take care.
**[11:10] Hyoma**
I will.
**[11:11] Hyoma**
You'll be driving all the way
to the Yachimata in Tokyo?
**[11:14] Hyoma**
That'll take time.
**[11:15] Haori**
We want to keep the fact that
we're leaving as quiet as possible.
**[11:20] Yui**
Understand?
**[11:22] Yui**
If a stranger comes by, keep the door tightly—
**[11:24] Botan**
How old do you think I am now?
**[11:25] Kagami**
Yu-chan.
**[11:27] Kagami**
More importantly...
**[11:28] Yu**
Oh, of course.
**[11:30] Yu**
Botan...
**[11:33] Yu**
Here.
**[11:35] Yu**
Hairpins, a hand mirror, and a parcel of ink.
**[11:38] Yu**
Carry them with you always.
**[11:40] Yu**
They will protect you.
**[11:45] Yu**
We shall return, Mistress.
**[11:50] Botan**
Sure. See you then.
**[11:58] Hyoma**
I'm told Tsubaki gleefully passed on
what you spoke of last night.
**[12:05] (Flashback) Haori**
Botan. Life with the Kyoto Saenome
may be unpleasant at first.
**[12:11] (Flashback) Haori**
The people there all know your background.
**[12:15] (Flashback) Haori**
They'll be guarded around you
until they get used to you.
**[12:19] (Flashback) Botan**
I know that.
**[12:21] (Flashback) Botan**
How about this, then?
**[12:26] Hyoma**
You're really going to do it?
**[12:28] Botan**
Of course.
**[12:31] Taiju**
The Bridal Trousseau's gone, then.
**[12:34] Middle-Aged Saenome**
Representative Kadomori!
**[12:36] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
What's the meaning of this?
**[12:37] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
You're keeping Nagatsuki Botan here?!
**[12:40] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Hasn't she always been viewed as
dangerous and unpredictable?!
**[12:44] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
I know she looks innocent...
but that thing isn't human!
**[12:48] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
We're warriors protecting Kyoto
under the Saenome name!
**[12:51] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
We've got to seal her
the moment it's called for!
**[12:55] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Isn't that the reason you're
doing this, Representative?!
**[12:58] Taiju**
Nah, we won't do anything.
**[13:04] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Why?
**[13:05] Taiju**
Don't go getting the wrong idea.
**[13:07] Taiju**
I just mean "for now."
**[13:09] Taiju**
Nagatsuki Botan can't leave our territory
until it's decided what to do with her.
**[13:13] Taiju**
She's completely at our mercy.
**[13:17] Taiju**
We can wait to take action until
we're completely prepared.
**[13:23] Taiju**
Let's do as we like, and let her do the same.
**[13:27] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
R-Representative Kadomori...
**[13:30] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
No wonder you're our representative!
**[13:32] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Magnificent cunning!
**[13:34] Middle-Aged Saenome 1; 2; 3**
Our very own evil magistrate!
**[13:37] Taiju**
I'm gonna smack all of you.
**[13:40] Taiju**
* I told them to back off,*
* but it's too common a sentiment.*
**[13:44] Taiju**
*They won't accept the circumstances easily.*
**[13:47] Taiju**
*Nagatsuki girl...*
**[13:49] Taiju**
*Don't take this place lightly.*
***SIGN*** Dining Hall
**[13:53] Young Saenome 1**
Did you hear?
The Nagatsuki girl is staying here.
**[13:56] Young Saenome 1**
Think they're gonna put us on
rotating babysitting duty?
**[14:00] Young Saenome 2**
The yorimashi, huh?
**[14:02] Young Saenome 2**
I hear it's even gone rogue before.
**[14:07] Hyoma**
*I see.*
**[14:08] Hyoma**
* The reputation that precedes*
* her is not a positive one.*
**[14:13] Young Saenome 1**
She looked like some normal girl to me.
**[14:15] Young Saenome 2**
Huh? You saw her?
**[14:18] Young Saenome 1**
One salmon ball combo, please.
**[14:19] Young Saenome 2**
I'll have a salmon-pork combo, ma'am!
**[14:21] Botan**
U-Um...
**[14:24] Botan**
Is a standard serving of rice all right?
**[14:29] Young Saenome 2**
Huh? A new part-timer?
**[14:33] Young Saenome 1**
N-Naga... Naga...
**[14:35] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Representative Kadomori!
**[14:38] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Nagatsuki Botan is...
**[14:39] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
working in the dining hall!
***SIGN*** Lunch Set
***SIGN*** Curry
***SIGN*** Pasta
***SIGN*** Ramen
**[14:43] All**
Nagatsuki...
**[14:44] All**
She's cute...
**[14:46] Taiju**
Move it!
**[14:49] Tamura**
Her name's Botan-chan.
**[14:51] Tamura**
Tsubaki-chan introduced us.
She wanted to help out.
**[14:54] Tamura**
She's a good, hard worker,
**[14:56] Tamura**
so I'd better not see any of you
making trouble for her!
**[15:01] Tamura**
Good day there, Representative Kadomori.
**[15:03] Taiju**
T-Tamura-san, who gave you the authority...
**[15:05] Taiju**
And Nagatsuki-san, what possessed you to...
**[15:08] Botan**
I-I asked Tsubaki-san...
**[15:13] Botan**
Since I don't have anything
else to do while I'm here,
**[15:16] Botan**
I wanted to know if there
was any way I could help.
**[15:19] Botan**
I always feel better when
I have something to do.
**[15:23] Taiju**
*Such a pure motive!*
**[15:25] Tamura**
She's been cooking for a big family, she says.
**[15:28] Tamura**
She's a good cook, too. It's such a help!
**[15:32] Young Saenome 2**
Hey, is that Nagatsuki Botan?
**[15:35] Young Saenome 2**
Not quite what you'd imagine... right?
**[15:41] Botan**
*Well... How about this, then?*
**[15:45] (Flashback) Haori**
You're going to work here? Starting tomorrow?
**[15:49] (Flashback) Botan**
Yeah.
**[15:50] (Flashback) Haori**
W-Won't that cause a bit of a stir off the bat?
**[15:53] (Flashback) Haori**
Shouldn't you wait—
**[15:54] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Now, now.
**[15:56] (Flashback) Suzuri**
What gave you the idea to do that?
**[15:59] (Flashback) Botan**
I have to take a break from university,
**[16:01] (Flashback) Botan**
and I can't even go outside.
**[16:04] (Flashback) Botan**
Spending my time doing nothing
will probably be suffocating.
**[16:09] (Flashback) Botan**
So rather than trying my
best to stay out of sight,
**[16:13] (Flashback) Botan**
maybe I should actively try to fit in.
**[16:17] (Flashback) Botan**
Is that a bad idea?
**[16:20] (Flashback) Haori**
Well, I doubt Kadomori-san would complain
about you making yourself useful...
**[16:25] (Flashback) Haori**
Perhaps, even...
**[16:27] (Flashback) Taiju**
I'll put anything useful to use!
**[16:31] (Flashback) Haori**
Very well.
**[16:33] (Flashback) Haori**
Try your best for now at
whatever you want to accomplish.
**[16:37] (Flashback) Botan**
Right!
**[16:40] Tamura**
I couldn't be more grateful!
**[16:41] Botan**
I look forward to working with you!
**[16:43] Taiju**
Sure... Likewise.
**[16:49] Taiju**
*Well, she's being useful, so I'll allow it.*
***SIGN*** Incoming
***SIGN*** Shota
***SIGN*** Mobile
**[16:58] Taiju**
What is it?
**[16:59] Shota**
*What the hell's going on, Dad?!*
**[17:01] Shota**
* Nagatsuki Botan's doing filing at*
* the talisman development center?!*
**[17:05] Taiju**
Huh?
**[17:06] Shota**
We called Hyoma in to help
make new talismans...
**[17:10] Shota**
And she tagged along and put herself to work!
**[17:12] Botan**
Is this the right shelf?
**[17:14] Young Saenome 3**
Y-Yeah...
**[17:16] Taiju**
*If she's not in the way, leave her to it.*
***SIGN*** Incoming
***SIGN*** Umekichi
***SIGN*** Mobile
**[17:25] Umekichi**
*What is the meaning of—*
**[17:26] Taiju**
Okay. It's about Nagatsuki Botan, right?
**[17:29] Umekichi**
*Eh?*
**[17:30] Taiju**
So? Where's she shown up now?
**[17:32] Umekichi**
The training hall.
**[17:33] Taiju**
* What? Is she teaching*
* martial arts or something?*
**[17:38] Umekichi**
Kunato's handling that.
**[17:40] Umekichi**
She's treating injuries.
**[17:43] Young Saenome 4**
I-It'll get better on its own!
**[17:46] Botan**
If you go to work looking like that,
you'll just scare everyone.
**[17:52] Botan**
Although...
**[17:54] Botan**
I know I can only do trivial things myself.
**[17:58] Young Saenome 4**
Thanks or whatever.
**[18:02] Young Saenome 4**
This is totally nuts.
**[18:05] Young Saenome 2**
I get you.
***SIGN*** Yeah! They're all so nice
***SIGN*** Kagami
***SIGN*** We're on the highway now!
***SIGN*** We're on the highway now!
***SIGN*** Kagami
***SIGN*** We'll be in Nagoya soon
***SIGN*** We'll be in Nagoya soon
***SIGN*** Kagami
***SIGN*** Misokatsu, kishimen, hitsumabushi
***SIGN*** Misokatsu, kishimen, hitsumabushi
***SIGN*** Kagami
***SIGN*** What to get for lunch~
***SIGN*** What to get for lunch~
***SIGN*** Kagami
***SIGN*** I'll report in on which one I get
**[18:17] Hyoma**
Next up!
**[18:19] Young Saenome 2**
Next.
**[18:20] Young Saenome 2**
Please, try me, Substitute Instructor Hyoma!
**[18:23] Hyoma**
Right!
**[18:25] Tsumabiki**
Well, well.
**[18:27] Tsumabiki**
Look at you go.
**[18:28] Botan**
The Bureau!
**[18:30] Botan**
Wait...
**[18:31] Botan**
Where have you been?
**[18:33] Tsumabiki**
Perimeter security.
**[18:35] Fukie**
Of course, Haori's group had six people
to handle the same work,
**[18:40] Fukie**
so we need a break.
**[18:42] Botan**
Thank you for everything.
**[18:44] Tsuzumi**
You surprise us, though.
**[18:47] Tsuzumi**
You've really got that rock spirit!
**[18:50] Botan**
Um...
**[18:52] Botan**
There's something I've been wondering.
**[18:55] Botan**
What exactly is "rock"?
**[18:58] Tsumabiki/Fukie/Tsuzumi**
What?!
**[19:00] Tsuzumi**
Listen here!
**[19:01] Tsuzumi**
The way of rock is...
**[19:03] Tsuzumi**
to struggle, break through, and move on,
**[19:06] Tsuzumi**
no matter what circumstances
you find yourself in!
**[19:08] Tsuzumi**
It's the practice of shouting
who you are from the rooftops!
**[19:11] Tsumabiki**
And of course, it means
something different for everyone.
**[19:14] Tsumabiki**
To truly go in-depth,
we'd be here all day and more.
**[19:16] Fukie**
That's right.
**[19:17] Fukie**
This is just what rock means to us.
**[19:21] Tsuzumi**
So seeing you throw yourself into
the Saenome like this... That's rock!
**[19:27] Fukie**
I regret thinking of you
as sheltered and helpless.
**[19:30] Tsumabiki**
Terribly sorry.
**[19:32] Tsumabiki**
You really are the mistress
of the Bridal Trousseau.
**[19:35] Botan**
Oh...
**[19:38] Botan**
I wonder about that.
**[19:40] Botan**
I think I've been jumping
at shadows for so long.
**[19:45] Botan**
But...
**[19:45] Hyoma**
Next!
**[19:48] Botan**
But...
**[19:49] Botan**
Since someone always rushing
full-speed toward what he believes in,
**[19:51] Botan**
a real embodiment of "rock,"
appeared before me,
**[19:55] Botan**
I decided I should try to take
a page from his book.
**[20:01] Tsumabiki**
Well, just be careful you don't go *that* hard!
**[20:08] Tsumabiki**
Well, well.
**[20:10] Tsumabiki**
We've got a job in.
**[20:12] Botan**
What about your break?
**[20:14] Tsuzumi**
The Saenome are exploitative employers.
**[20:16] Tsuzumi**
Especially regarding us!
**[20:19] Tsumabiki**
See you later, Botan.
**[20:24] Botan**
They came and went
with the force of a storm...
**[20:28] Tsumabiki**
Honestly.
**[20:30] Tsumabiki**
The minute they hear Haori's people are gone,
**[20:34] Tsumabiki**
the riffraff comes out of the woodwork.
**[20:37] Tsukumogami 1**
Out of the way! We gotta avenge our allies!
**[20:39] Tsukumogami 2**
We'll kidnap Nagatsuki Botan and take
our revenge on the Bridal Trousseau!
**[20:44] Tsumabiki**
Scrambling to take advantage of a
fortuitous situation dropped in your laps...
**[20:49] Tsumabiki**
You're the opposite of how Botan was earlier.
**[20:53] Tsumabiki**
Totally lame.
**[20:55] Tsukumogami 1/2**
We'll destroy you!
**[20:58] Tsumabiki**
Be silent!
**[21:00] Tsumabiki**
Without anything to play,
**[21:02] Tsumabiki**
you're impotent instrumentalists.
**[21:05] Tsumabiki**
Having you on the stage
is nothing but a nuisance.
**[21:09] Tsumabiki**
Right, Hyoma? Botan?
**[21:21] Yu**
Kagami, you need to settle down.
**[21:24] Kagami**
Sorry, sorry.
**[21:26] Kagami**
I just haven't been in a car in so long.
**[21:28] Yu**
You're very impressive.
**[21:29] Yu**
When I think about who we're about to talk to,
**[21:32] Yu**
it's hard to be enthusiastic.
**[21:34] Haori**
Nothing to be gained from worrying now.
**[21:36] Haori**
We don't even know how they'll treat us.
**[21:40] Haori**
If things get dicey,
I'm sure Zohei-san will step in.
**[21:44] Haori**
Though I've heard Zohei-san
and the Yachimata representative
**[21:48] Haori**
don't get along so well—
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Turbulence
# E19 - Turbulence
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZN7Q7/turbulence)
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**[00:09] Nagi**
Not bad.
**[00:11] Nagi**
You didn't quite make it, though.
**[00:17] Nagi**
I just wanted to get a feel for your ability.
**[00:21] Nagi**
Sorry, Hyoma.
**[00:24] Hyoma**
Go settle what you need to.
**[00:29] Hyoma**
I will...
**[00:32] Hyoma**
It's a promise.
**[00:35] Nagi**
Counting on you, Hyoma!
**[00:38] Nagi**
That's a promise between men!
**[00:42] Hyoma**
And I understand the weight of it.
**[00:46] Haori**
Well, Hyoma-san, take care.
**[00:50] Hyoma**
You'll be driving all the way
to the Yachimata in Tokyo?
**[00:53] Hyoma**
That'll take time.
**[00:54] Haori**
We want to keep the fact that
we're leaving as quiet as possible.
**[01:00] Yu**
Botan...
**[01:02] Yu**
Here.
**[01:04] Yu**
Hairpins, a hand mirror, and a parcel of ink.
**[01:08] Yu**
Carry them with you always.
**[01:10] Yu**
They will protect you.
**[01:14] Yu**
We shall return, Mistress.
**[01:19] Botan**
Sure. See you then.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Turbulence
***SIGN*** Kadomori
**[03:21] Umekichi**
No time to talk.
**[03:24] Umekichi**
The seal is complete.
**[03:26] Young Saenome 2**
Well done!
**[03:27] Umekichi**
Where's Matsu's team?
**[03:29] Young Saenome 2**
I'm told they sealed the first just a bit ago.
**[03:32] Young Saenome 2**
Still, four strays before noon...
**[03:37] Young Saenome 2**
It's an awfully hectic morning.
**[03:40] Umekichi**
Yeah.
**[03:41] Umekichi**
You're right about that.
**[03:44] Umekichi**
There's something strange in the air.
**[03:50] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
There's nothing we can do.
**[03:52] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
We're doomed, aren't we?
**[03:55] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
This part, especially...
**[03:58] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
What do you think, Nagatsuki Botan?
**[04:05] Botan**
Oh, she's taking the physics test?
**[04:09] Botan**
Our literature department
uses Introduction to Physics.
**[04:12] Botan**
There are two physics tests, too.
**[04:15] Botan**
If she just takes Introduction,
I think she can make it.
**[04:18] Botan**
And she's doing well in English, math,
and Japanese ones, so she still has a chance.
**[04:24] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
You mean it?
**[04:25] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
I-I'm gonna make a call!
**[04:28] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Thanks a lot!
**[04:31] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Must be hard having a kid
taking entrance exams.
**[04:34] Middle-Aged Saenome 3**
Thanks for talking to him.
**[04:36] Middle-Aged Saenome 3**
Sorry to put you out during your break.
**[04:39] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
He might look tough,
but he's a sucker for his kid.
**[04:42] Botan**
I'm happy to be of any help I can.
**[04:45] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Boy, you're one good kid.
**[04:48] Middle-Aged Saenome 3**
Yeah!
**[04:59] Secretary**
You can have this, if you like.
**[05:01] Secretary**
Some of the merch we sell here.
**[05:03] Botan**
Merch?
**[05:05] Secretary**
That's the Kyoto Saenome mascot, Sakkun!
**[05:08] Botan**
Sakkun?
**[05:10] Botan**
A sai (rhino)? Like Saenome?
**[05:13] Secretary**
Sakkun is the rhino of justice!
**[05:16] Secretary**
He protects Kyoto from the shadows,
doing whatever it takes to achieve his goals
**[05:19] Secretary**
and make use of anyone
to their fullest potential!
**[05:22] Secretary**
That's the concept, anyway.
**[05:25] Secretary**
Though he's also pretty shady
and kind of a slave driver...
**[05:28] Tamura**
Just like our Representative Kadomori.
**[05:31] Tamura**
He's the one who came up with Sakkun, even.
**[05:35] Botan**
Oh, I see...
**[05:37] Secretary**
"Girls love Sakkun.
**[05:39] Secretary**
Everyone who comes to Kyoto
will want one!" he said.
**[05:43] Secretary**
And we created all this merch,
**[05:45] Secretary**
but all it does is sit in the warehouse.
**[05:47] Botan**
I think I kinda like Sakkun, though.
**[05:50] Botan**
The concept is a bit odd,
but I like that about it.
**[05:55] Secretary**
Really?
**[05:56] Secretary**
You can have this too, then! And this!
**[05:58] Botan**
Oh, thank you!
**[06:00] Tamura**
Having a college girl like you use them
**[06:03] Tamura**
will make for great advertising!
**[06:07] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Thanks for your help earlier, Nagatsuki-san.
**[06:09] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
As thanks, here's some dango.
**[06:11] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Help yourself!
**[06:12] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
This is my favorite daifuku.
**[06:13] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
I bought some tasty baked sweet potatoes, too!
**[06:16] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Why would you give baked
sweet potatoes to a girl?
**[06:18] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Is that bad?
**[06:20] Botan**
I love baked sweet potatoes!
**[06:22] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
See?!
**[06:23] Botan**
But do you really want to give me all this?
**[06:26] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Hey, it's nothing.
**[06:28] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
You're working hard.
**[06:30] Middle-Aged Saenome 3**
And the young men are loving
the tasty food in the dining hall.
**[06:34] Tamura**
What, you didn't like how it tasted before?
**[06:36] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Oh... No, not at all...
**[06:38] Tamura**
I'm working to promote
health and balanced nutrition!
**[06:42] Secretary**
I'm working hard, too,
but you never buy me sweets.
**[06:48] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Well, this was my thanks to Nagatsuki-san...
**[06:52] Botan**
Hey, do you guys want to share?
It's really too much for me,
**[06:56] Botan**
and everything tastes better
when you eat it together.
**[06:58] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Y-Yeah!
**[06:59] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Let's do it!
**[07:00] Middle-Aged Saenome 3**
Let's all have a snack!
**[07:01] Secretary**
Nice! It all looks great!
**[07:04] Tamura**
All right, I'll put on tea.
**[07:06] Botan**
Thanks so much!
**[07:09] Hyoma**
*She's really fitting in.*
**[07:11] Hyoma**
*And she just started working today...*
**[07:16] Hyoma**
*I've been training here for two months,*
**[07:19] Hyoma**
* yet I've never seen the*
* people here smile like that.*
**[07:22] Tamura**
Here we are!
**[07:23] Hyoma**
*How?*
**[07:25] Tsumabiki**
Don't glare like that.
**[07:27] Tsumabiki**
It makes you look even meaner.
**[07:30] Tsumabiki**
You could learn a thing or two
from Botan's sunny disposition.
**[07:33] Hyoma**
Kindly keep your hands to yourself.
**[07:35] Hyoma**
Where are Fukie and Tsuzumi?
**[07:37] Tsumabiki**
Called out on another matter.
**[07:39] Tsumabiki**
Lot of stray tsukumogami out today.
**[07:43] Tsumabiki**
See?
**[07:45] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
Got it. On our way.
**[07:48] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
We've got work.
**[07:49] Middle-Aged Saenome 3**
Lots of deployments today, eh?
**[07:51] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Let's go.
**[07:53] Botan/Secretary**
See you later!
**[07:54] Botan**
Take care!
**[07:56] Middle-Aged Saenome 1/3**
Right!
**[07:57] Middle-Aged Saenome 2**
See you later!
**[07:59] Hyoma**
Has word of Haori and the others'
absence gotten out?
**[08:02] Tsumabiki**
It might just have, by now.
**[08:04] Tsumabiki**
I begged a few others to take over my patrol
**[08:08] Tsumabiki**
so I could get back to my job, guarding Botan.
**[08:12] Tsumabiki**
I asked a bit about you, as well.
**[08:15] Tsumabiki**
If you'd rather go out on the hunt,
I'll protect Botan here.
**[08:19] Hyoma**
Don't be absurd.
**[08:21] Hyoma**
My duty is right here.
**[08:23] Tsumabiki**
It was a rude suggestion, I suppose.
**[08:23] Tamura**
Botan-chan, see you later.
**[08:25] Secretary**
See you!
**[08:26] Hyoma**
It was.
**[08:26] Botan**
Take care!
**[08:39] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[08:41] Botan**
Hyoma-san.
**[08:42] Hyoma**
I borrowed the spare key to the dojo.
**[08:45] Hyoma**
We could get some fresh air there.
**[08:49] Hyoma**
Would you join me?
**[08:51] Botan**
Oh, sure. Let's do it.
**[08:57] Tsumabiki**
Well... I hope the others
are hard at work, as well.
**[09:04] Aogi**
Sheesh, talk about a raw deal.
**[09:07] Aogi**
Why do we gotta handle
surveillance for Tsumabiki?
**[09:12] Aogi**
Ain't exactly in my job description...
**[09:15] Aogi**
We could ditch.
**[09:17] Aogi**
How 'bout it?
**[09:20] Aogi**
Uchiki-kun, you're too earnest.
**[09:24] Aogi**
You're too much of a workaholic sometimes.
**[09:27] Aogi**
It's gonna interfere with our spy work.
**[09:31] Aogi**
Oh, look at 'em go.
**[09:34] Aogi**
Hey, it's the Shota group.
**[09:37] Aogi**
Huh?
**[09:39] Aogi**
Hang on a minute.
**[09:41] Aogi**
Something's off.
***SIGN*** Kadomori
**[09:58] Young Saenome 1**
Well done, Matsu-san!
**[10:00] Shota**
Thanks!
**[10:02] Shota**
But seriously, they're all the same.
**[10:05] Shota**
They look like they couldn't care less,
but they just keep coming!
**[10:09] Shota**
*What the hell is this?*
***SIGN*** Hunting
***SIGN*** Toma
***SIGN*** Iida
***SIGN*** Higuchi
***SIGN*** Kitagawa
***SIGN*** Akahori
***SIGN*** Yamada
***SIGN*** Matsuyanagi
***SIGN*** Hunting
***SIGN*** Kato
***SIGN*** Ueda
***SIGN*** Hunting
***SIGN*** Fujisawa
**[10:12] Secretary**
Yes. Meet up with the Kitagawa group.
***SIGN*** Suzuki
***SIGN*** Kawaguchi
**[10:15] Secretary**
Yes. Yes. Please do.
**[10:19] Taiju**
Was that Ume?
**[10:20] Secretary**
Yes. He's heading right to the next scene.
**[10:24] Taiju**
Right.
**[10:26] Taiju**
*Lots of deployments today.*
**[10:28] Taiju**
*I anticipated this, of course.*
**[10:31] Taiju**
* Strays coming after Nagatsuki Botan*
* in Haori and the others' absence,*
**[10:36] Taiju**
*increasing in number as the day goes on.*
**[10:40] Taiju**
* Still, having the appearances*
* skyrocket like this just today...*
**[10:46] Taiju**
*A total mobilization, maybe?*
**[10:50] Taiju**
*I don't like it.*
**[11:08] Suzuri**
A barrier!
**[11:16] Haori**
Everyone?
**[11:17] Suzuri/Nagi**
We're fine!
**[11:19] Nagi**
That was pretty out of nowhere, huh,
**[11:21] Nagi**
paper umbrella?!
**[11:31] Kagami**
What happened to the car... the driver?
**[11:34] Yu**
They're members of the
Yachimata, not amateurs.
**[11:37] Yu**
I doubt they'll just lie down and die.
**[11:41] Yu**
Besides, we're in no position
to worry about others right now.
**[11:45] Yu**
We know this one.
**[11:48] Nagi**
Its form is different from
the one we saw before,
**[11:51] Nagi**
but I know that spirit energy.
**[11:55] Nagi**
Are you the one who killed Kushige?!
**[11:59] Tenjitsu**
Not "the one"...
**[12:01] Tenjitsu**
"The ones."
**[12:07] Haori**
Three paper umbrellas?
**[12:15] Tenjitsu**
We need you to stay quiet until
we're done with our business.
**[12:19] Nagi**
Like hell!
**[12:25] Tenjitsu**
That won't work.
**[12:27] Tenjitsu**
You won't escape, no matter
how much you struggle.
**[12:32] Tenjitsu**
Ah, I know.
**[12:34] Tenjitsu**
I'll give you a nice piece of advice.
**[12:36] Tenjitsu**
We have partners close to you.
**[12:42] Tenjitsu**
They'll make their move soon, as well...
**[12:45] Tenjitsu**
To capture Nagatsuki Botan.
**[12:49] Tenjitsu**
You fell right into our trap.
**[12:54] Haori**
Of all things...
**[12:56] Tenjitsu**
I like that expression.
**[12:58] Tenjitsu**
Lament your powerlessness in
this moment, Bridal Trousseau.
**[13:04] Nagi**
Damn you!
**[13:09] Yu**
If you mean to eat us, you should be
prepared for the consequences.
**[13:14] Yu**
We'll gnaw our way out of your stomach!
**[13:21] Yu**
Botan... Hyoma!
**[13:25] Botan**
I hope they've made it to
the Yachimata household.
**[13:29] Botan**
Kagami said she'd email me when she did,
**[13:32] Botan**
but she's been strangely quiet.
**[13:35] Hyoma**
Does being away from them make you anxious?
**[13:37] Botan**
It's not like that.
**[13:39] Botan**
I know they'll be back soon.
**[13:42] Botan**
But we've been together for so long,
it's a little unsettling, I guess.
**[13:48] Hyoma**
Botan...
**[13:49] Tsumabiki**
Oh!
**[13:51] Tsumabiki**
I thought so when I came here the other day,
**[13:56] Tsumabiki**
but this dojo would be perfect for a concert!
**[13:59] Tsumabiki**
Right?!
**[14:00] Hyoma**
Could you please keep it down?
**[14:06] Botan**
I know we'll only be apart for a little while,
**[14:09] Botan**
but I take it for granted,
having them around.
**[14:13] Hyoma**
They surely feel the same way.
**[14:16] Hyoma**
I can imagine it now.
**[14:18] Botan**
Imagine it?
**[14:20] Hyoma**
The moment the talks with
the Yachimata are over,
**[14:23] Hyoma**
I can see Yu sending a flood of phone calls,
**[14:26] Hyoma**
and Kagami crying with joy.
**[14:31] Hyoma**
I believe I trust them, as well.
**[14:42] Office Worker**
They're on their way now. Take care.
**[14:49] Taiju**
What is it, Matsu?
**[14:50] Shota**
These tsukumogami are weird.
**[14:53] Taiju**
*How so?*
**[14:54] Shota**
They don't put up a fight.
**[14:56] Shota**
It's like fighting one of your puppets.
**[15:00] Taiju**
*Puppets?*
**[15:01] Taiju**
Matsu, out of the strays you fought today,
**[15:04] Taiju**
did any of them try to run away?
**[15:07] Shota**
Nah, they all came right for us.
**[15:12] Hyoma**
I hear Kushige should recover soon.
**[15:15] Hyoma**
Shall we visit the office
to check on him tomorrow?
**[15:19] Botan**
But I can't go out.
**[15:21] Hyoma**
It's just next door.
**[15:22] Hyoma**
I'm sure Representative Kadomori
will allow you that much.
**[15:27] Botan**
You think?
**[15:28] Tsumabiki**
Oh, it won't work...
**[15:33] Hyoma**
Don't lose heart.
**[15:35] Hyoma**
Why not ask Representative Kadomori?
**[15:38] Hyoma**
What do you want to do?
**[15:40] Tsumabiki**
A concert...
**[15:41] Botan**
Never thought I'd hear Hyoma
say he might trust my family.
**[15:45] Botan**
I need to tell them...
**[15:51] Botan**
Suzuri?
**[15:53] Taiju**
Tell all the deployed squads
to return right now!
**[15:56] Taiju**
Evacuate all noncombatants!
**[15:58] Taiju**
Issue order "Kanoto-3,"
authorization, Kadomori Taiju!
**[16:03] Taiju**
Hurry!
**[16:04] Secretary**
S-Sir!
**[16:05] Taiju**
*They fooled us.*
**[16:06] Taiju**
*Of course they wouldn't want to*
**[16:08] Taiju**
* fight their way through every Saenome*
* here to get to Nagatsuki Botan.*
**[16:11] Taiju**
*They just have to get where she is.*
**[16:15] Taiju**
*I don't know how they got control of them,*
**[16:17] Taiju**
*but the reason they're all appearing today*
**[16:21] Taiju**
* was likely to hold the*
* dispatched men in the field,*
**[16:26] Taiju**
* and leave the Kyoto Saenome*
* headquarters abandoned!*
**[16:35] Umekichi**
Leave this to me, everyone!
**[16:36] Young Saenome 2**
Right!
**[16:37] Umekichi**
Damn. What's going on?
**[16:41] Umekichi**
You're...
**[16:43] Taiju**
*And while we're understaffed here,*
**[16:46] Taiju**
*the star will come after Nagatsuki Botan.*
**[16:54] Taiju**
Aogi!
**[16:56] Aogi**
M-Mister Kadomori...
**[16:59] Aogi**
Careful! The enemy is—
**[17:10] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[17:12] Botan**
Get away from there!
***SIGN*** paper umbrella bureau of traditional music colluding
**[17:32] Tsumabiki**
Secret's out, eh?
**[17:34] Tsumabiki**
Took a bit too long, though.
**[17:38] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[17:40] Hyoma**
How?
**[17:43] Hyoma**
How can you be here?
**[17:47] Shigure**
We meet again...
**[17:50] Shigure**
my master.
***SIGN*** paper umbrella
bureau of traditional music
colluding
**[17:55] Botan**
The Bureau are working
with the paper umbrella!
**[18:04] Tsumabiki**
Wait, umbrella!
**[18:06] Tsumabiki**
We're the ones in charge here!
**[18:09] Tsumabiki**
Isn't that what we decided?
**[18:15] Tsumabiki**
Now, Hyoma...
**[18:18] Tsumabiki**
We'd like to avoid unnecessary conflict.
**[18:23] Fukie**
We only want one thing.
**[18:26] Tsuzumi**
Please hand over Nagatsuki Botan quietly.
**[18:30] Tsuzumi**
I didn't want Aogi raising a fuss, so I was
forced to do something regrettable.
**[18:37] Taiju**
When did it start?
**[18:39] Taiju**
At what point were we all
just dancing to your tune?
**[18:42] Taiju**
If you're the ones rigging things
so that she'd be easy to take,
**[18:47] Taiju**
and the key to getting the Bridal
Trousseau out of the picture
**[18:49] Taiju**
was the attack from the paper umbrella...
**[18:53] Taiju**
That suggests...
**[18:54] Tsuzumi**
As usual, good instincts.
**[18:57] Tsuzumi**
We share the same goal.
**[18:59] Tsuzumi**
In other words, we're colluding.
**[19:01] Taiju**
* It was the Bureau that*
* sealed that umbrella, as well.*
**[19:04] Taiju**
* They likely lifted the seal*
* and let it recover somewhere.*
**[19:08] Tsuzumi**
Taiju...
**[19:10] Tsuzumi**
Please, hand over that girl without a fight.
**[19:15] Fukie**
That girl is not precisely human.
**[19:19] Fukie**
You see her the same way.
**[19:21] Fukie**
That's why you've always
treated her as a monster.
**[19:25] Fukie**
We'd just like to take her off your hands.
**[19:29] Fukie**
It's not a bad deal, is it?
**[19:31] Fukie**
And if we have a say in things,
**[19:33] Fukie**
we'd prefer not to have to crush you.
**[19:37] Umekichi**
*I'm the field commander here.*
**[19:40] Umekichi**
*What do I do?*
**[19:43] Taiju**
*What do I do?*
**[19:45] Taiju**
*Ah, what an absolute nuisance.*
**[19:48] Taiju**
* She's causing as much trouble*
* as I originally feared.*
**[19:51] Taiju**
* Even if it doesn't harm me,*
* it'll cause trouble for others.*
**[19:56] Taiju**
*Nagatsuki Botan, eh?*
**[20:00] Taiju**
Well, this could be a good opportunity.
**[20:05] Tsumabiki**
The Bridal Trousseau is
under our control, as well.
**[20:08] Tsumabiki**
Tsuzumi and Fukie are currently meeting
with Kadomori and the main Saenome.
**[20:13] Tsumabiki**
Your decision could spark a massive conflict.
**[20:17] Tsumabiki**
It's true that we have fondness for you both,
**[20:19] Tsumabiki**
but that doesn't mean
we can stray from our path.
**[20:25] Tsumabiki**
Give us Nagatsuki Botan.
**[20:30] Shota**
Ume!
**[20:31] Middle-Aged Saenome 1**
Young master! Are you safe?
**[20:33] Umekichi**
Big Brother?
**[20:35] Umekichi**
Everyone?
**[20:39] Umekichi**
Yes, I see.
**[20:42] Umekichi**
So, with that...
**[20:45] Umekichi**
Fukie...
**[20:47] Taiju**
It's a good opportunity,
**[20:49] Taiju**
so let me give you my impressions
of Nagatsuki Botan.
**[20:54] Taiju**
That girl is no more than a slightly odd human,
**[20:58] Taiju**
and as long as she's human,
**[21:00] Taiju**
the Kyoto Saenome have a duty to protect her
**[21:02] Taiju**
from supernatural threats
with all of their power.
**[21:07] Taiju**
Took a while to make that decision.
**[21:10] Taiju**
Really, she's a troublesome girl.
**[21:14] Taiju**
But...
**[21:16] Taiju**
It's our collective decision.
**[21:19] Taiju**
Besides, part of my fear has always been
that she'd be used for wicked aims.
**[21:25] Taiju**
Those who'd go to such lengths to get near her
**[21:28] Taiju**
can't possibly be up to anything good.
**[21:30] Taiju**
Whatever it is, I can't let it happen.
**[21:34] Tsuzumi**
Then... your answer is...
**[21:40] Hyoma/Umekichi/Taiju**
I will not!
**[21:42] Hyoma**
No one here would give in to demands made
by those working with the paper umbrella,
**[21:44] Hyoma**
nor would they be defeated by them!
**[21:48] Hyoma**
Most of all...
**[21:50] Hyoma**
I swore an oath to keep Botan safe!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Unseasonal
# E20 - Unseasonal
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G7PU4J74P/unseasonal)
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**[00:01] Tsumabiki**
Now, Hyoma...
**[00:03] Tsumabiki**
We'd like to avoid unnecessary conflict.
**[00:08] Fukie**
We only want one thing.
**[00:10] Tsuzumi**
Please hand over Nagatsuki Botan quietly.
**[00:15] Tsumabiki**
The Bridal Trousseau is
under our control, as well.
**[00:19] Tsumabiki**
Tsuzumi and Fukie are currently meeting
with Kadomori and the main Saenome.
**[00:24] Tsumabiki**
Your decision could spark a massive conflict.
**[00:28] Tsumabiki**
Give us Nagatsuki Botan.
**[00:31] Taiju**
That girl is no more than a slightly odd human,
**[00:35] Taiju**
and as long as she's human,
**[00:37] Taiju**
the Kyoto Saenome have a duty to protect her
**[00:39] Taiju**
from supernatural threats
with all of their power.
**[00:42] Taiju**
Besides, part of my fear has always been
that she'd be used for wicked aims.
**[00:48] Taiju**
Those who'd go to such lengths to get near her
**[00:51] Taiju**
can't possibly be up to anything good.
**[00:53] Taiju**
Whatever it is, I can't let it happen.
**[00:57] Tsuzumi**
Then... your answer is...
**[01:03] Hyoma/Umekichi/Taiju**
I will not!
**[01:04] Hyoma**
No one here would give in to demands made
by those working with the paper umbrella,
**[01:07] Hyoma**
nor would they be defeated by them!
**[01:10] Hyoma**
Most of all...
**[01:12] Hyoma**
I swore an oath to keep Botan safe!
**[01:16] Tsumabiki**
Excellent resolve, Hyoma.
**[01:19] Tsumabiki**
Just what I like to see.
**[01:22] Tsumabiki**
The clash of will against will...
**[01:25] Tsumabiki**
Between us, I think it'll make a fine melody!
**[01:30] Tsumabiki**
I'm going to enjoy this!
**[01:37] Hyoma**
I will protect Botan.
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Unseasonal
**[03:21] Tsuzumi**
All right. I hear you.
**[03:24] Tsuzumi**
And I accept your resolve!
**[03:35] Tsuzumi**
Taiju!
**[03:36] Tsuzumi**
In that case, I can't let you
get back to Nagatsuki Botan!
**[03:41] Tsuzumi**
You'll have to go through me!
**[03:46] Taiju**
* He's implying he's already*
* got somebody with her.*
**[03:51] Taiju**
*Fukie, Tsumabiki, or that paper umbrella...*
**[03:56] Taiju**
* Hyoma-kun's probably the only one*
* with Nagatsuki-san at the moment.*
**[04:01] Taiju**
*Hang tough and show your mettle, Hyoma-kun!*
**[04:13] Taiju**
"A 100-dan talisman user."
**[04:15] Taiju**
When I took the chairmanship through force,
**[04:18] Taiju**
my predecessor called me that.
**[04:22] Taiju**
Shouldn't you know who
you're picking a fight with?
**[04:25] Taiju**
You buffoon.
**[04:29] Umekichi**
It's Fukie!
**[04:31] Umekichi**
The tsukumogami around him
are merely his puppets!
**[04:36] Umekichi**
Keep your guard up and focus on Fukie!
**[04:55] Fukie**
* Use the paper umbrella as bait*
* to lure out the Bridal Trousseau,*
**[04:59] Fukie**
*while sealing Kushige.*
**[05:02] (Flashback) Nagi**
Are you the one who killed Kushige?!
**[05:04] (Flashback) Tenjitsu**
We need you to stay quiet until
we're done with our business.
**[05:08] Fukie**
* Then, exploit their failure to*
* take them off the board entirely.*
**[05:12] (Flashback) Tenjitsu**
That won't work.
**[05:14] (Flashback) Tenjitsu**
You won't escape, no matter
how much you struggle.
**[05:19] Fukie**
*And at last, we have our chance.*
**[05:24] Fukie**
*And this time...*
**[05:26] Tsumabiki**
I will have Nagatsuki Botan!
**[05:39] Tsumabiki**
Now, I think I'll play!
**[05:41] Hyoma**
Cover your ears, Botan!
**[06:02] Shigure**
Cloth?
**[06:08] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[06:14] Hyoma**
*Not good!*
**[06:36] Hyoma**
Cloth!
**[06:37] Hyoma**
Cover and protect Botan!
**[06:41] Hyoma**
Help her keep up with my movements!
**[06:44] Hyoma**
Understand?!
**[06:47] Botan**
Hyoma-san, you're bleeding!
**[06:48] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[06:50] Hyoma**
Stay close to me.
**[06:55] Tsumabiki**
Really, umbrella.
**[06:57] Tsumabiki**
You couldn't have just opened
your umbrella to snatch Botan away?
**[07:03] Shigure**
She was hanging too close to Kunato Hyoma.
**[07:06] Shigure**
Drawing her into my barrier
would have taken them both in,
**[07:10] Shigure**
and then he'd break out of it.
**[07:13] Tsumabiki**
That Kunato family technique, you mean?
**[07:15] Tsumabiki**
How aggravating.
**[07:18] Tsumabiki**
We won't get anywhere like that.
**[07:20] Tsumabiki**
In other words...
**[07:22] Tsumabiki**
We'll have to do this.
**[07:27] Tsumabiki**
Strip Hyoma away first!
**[07:31] Hyoma**
This is the crucial moment.
**[08:02] Hyoma**
*Behind me. I knew it!*
**[08:05] Hyoma**
*I'm using your memento, Yu!*
**[08:10] Hyoma**
Unfurl!
**[08:34] Tsumabiki**
A mirror?!
**[08:38] Tsumabiki**
He's trying to escape?
**[08:40] Tsumabiki**
I won't let you!
**[09:03] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[09:05] Botan**
Hyoma-san... Were you hurt?
**[09:14] Tsumabiki**
Enough, now.
**[09:17] Tsumabiki**
Hand over the girl, Hyoma.
**[09:21] Tsumabiki**
You'll die if you keep this up.
**[09:28] Hyoma**
I refuse.
**[09:30] Hyoma**
*You* should leave!
**[09:36] Tsumabiki**
I don't enjoy engaging in this torment.
**[09:41] Shigure**
Why not just get rid of him?
**[09:43] Tsumabiki**
Goodness, listen to you.
**[09:45] Tsumabiki**
It's simple, you see.
**[09:48] Tsumabiki**
I *like* him.
**[09:51] Tsumabiki**
In that case, Botan...
**[09:55] Tsumabiki**
I'll ask you. Come to me.
**[09:57] Tsumabiki**
Let him rest, please.
**[10:23] (Flashback) Hyoma**
This I swear.
**[10:24] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I will not betray you. I will not die.
**[10:27] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I...
**[10:29] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I'll always keep you safe.
**[10:35] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[10:38] Tsumabiki**
Now, come along.
**[10:44] Botan**
I will not!
**[10:45] Botan**
I believe in him!
**[10:47] Botan**
I believe in Hyoma-san!
**[10:49] Botan**
If I give up now...
**[10:52] Shigure**
No. No more of that, now.
**[10:56] Botan**
Then I'd be the traitor!
**[11:00] Shigure**
The more Nagatsuki Botan loves someone,
**[11:04] Shigure**
the deeper the sleep of the
marebito within her becomes.
**[11:11] Botan**
To see through what you believe in...
**[11:14] Botan**
I'm prepared to do that, too!
**[11:17] Shigure**
Silence, mere vessel!
**[11:28] Hyoma**
Do not touch her!
**[11:33] Tsumabiki**
*They're intact.*
**[11:34] Tsumabiki**
*They haven't broken one bit!*
**[11:37] Tsumabiki**
*They truly are...*
**[11:40] Tsumabiki**
*strong.*
**[11:45] Hyoma**
Stay there and watch.
**[11:48] Hyoma**
I told you, remember?
**[11:50] Hyoma**
That I would accomplish
a method of protection
**[11:52] Hyoma**
that would be acknowledged
by both myself and others!
**[11:56] Botan**
Yes!
**[11:59] Tsumabiki**
I suppose you leave me no choice.
**[12:01] Tsumabiki**
This battle is to the death now, Hyoma.
**[12:07] Tsubaki**
Sounds like fun!
**[12:09] Tsubaki**
Mind if I join in?
**[12:20] Tsubaki**
Goodness me.
**[12:22] Tsubaki**
It took a lot of time, but...
**[12:25] Tsubaki**
Here we go.
**[12:28] Tsubaki**
I sure hope it's not over yet.
**[12:37] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
Botan-chan's under attack.
**[12:39] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
It's the Bureau and that paper umbrella.
**[12:44] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
The Trousseau may or may not be safe, either.
**[12:48] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
Surely, this is no time for sleeping, is it?
**[12:52] (Flashback) Tsubaki**
I'd better get going, too.
**[13:06] Hyoma**
Tsubaki?
***SIGN*** Kadomori
**[13:10] Umekichi**
Are you ready yet, Matsu?!
**[13:13] Shota**
Okay! Front line, fall back!
**[13:15] Umekichi**
Great!
**[13:19] Shota**
You might just be his puppets, but...
**[13:25] Shota**
I'll give you a proper memorial!
**[13:46] Shota**
Damn it!
**[13:47] Shota**
They're all burning their
life force to regenerate!
**[13:51] Saenome 3**
The only way to stop them is to
seal them or destroy them entirely!
**[13:55] Shota**
But making it to him is gonna be hard as hell...
**[14:04] Umekichi**
* On top of that,*
* if we don't remain alert at all times,*
**[14:07] Umekichi**
* we'll be hypnotized by his melody*
* and become puppets ourselves!*
**[14:11] Umekichi**
*He's wearing us down, physically and mentally!*
**[14:15] Shota**
Hey! Eyes up, Ume!
**[14:18] Umekichi**
Crap—
**[14:37] Hata**
Tsubaki-san filled us in.
**[14:40] Hata**
She said the Kanoto-3 order'd been issued.
**[14:43] Hata**
So we, the special exception tsukumogami,
**[14:46] Hata**
will temporarily do some work
vanquishing the enemy forces!
**[14:50] Koji Box**
We'll offer what meager help
we can, Kadomori-san.
**[14:54] Shota**
That damn Tsubaki...
**[14:55] Shota**
I was wondering where she'd wandered off to!
**[14:58] Shota**
Thanks for the save!
**[15:00] Shota**
We're fighting a member of the
Three Great Tsukumogami...
**[15:02] Shota**
The Bureau of Traditional Music!
**[15:13] Tsuzumi**
You redistributed my vibrations?
**[15:17] Tsuzumi**
You created talismans to fight us specifically?
**[15:20] Tsuzumi**
You wily old man!
**[15:27] Tsuzumi**
You won't escape!
**[15:31] Tsuzumi**
Where'd he go?
**[15:33] Tsuzumi**
No, wait. This doesn't track.
**[15:36] Tsuzumi**
The wall behind you...
**[15:38] Tsuzumi**
had a window in it!
**[15:50] Tsuzumi**
What?!
**[16:01] Tsuzumi**
Can it be... This is...
**[16:04] Tsuzumi**
No, *you* are...
**[16:09] Taiju**
Finally awake, eh?
**[16:11] Taiju**
Time to get to work.
**[16:13] Taiju**
The protective fortress and attacking
castle of the Kyoto Saenome...
**[16:18] Taiju**
The estate tsukumogami, Okuu!
**[16:22] Okuu**
You're... my enemy?
**[16:29] Taiju**
That's right.
**[16:31] Taiju**
Get going, now.
**[16:40] Taiju**
No need to stick around and get crushed.
**[16:43] Taiju**
I left you a way out.
**[16:47] Taiju**
The exit leads right to me.
**[16:53] Taiju**
And as you crawl your way out, I gobble you up.
**[16:58] Taiju**
You'd better stay still, too.
**[17:01] Aogi**
Uchiki-kun...
**[17:03] Taiju**
Not listening, eh?
**[17:06] Taiju**
* Still, I keep Okuu half-sealed most*
* of the time to conserve energy.*
**[17:12] Taiju**
*It awoke faster than I expected.*
**[17:15] Taiju**
* Someone must've expected the Kanoto-3*
* order and removed the seal.*
**[17:21] Taiju**
*In which case...*
**[17:25] Taiju**
I suppose I'll let you do as you like.
**[17:29] Taiju**
Good work.
**[17:31] Botan**
Tsubaki-san?
**[17:35] Tsumabiki**
So you make your appearance here...
**[17:38] Tsumabiki**
Favored child of the Kyoto Saenome,
Kadomori Tsubaki.
**[17:43] Tsubaki**
Boy, you surprised me there!
**[17:45] Tsubaki**
I can't believe you guys are
working with the paper umbrella!
**[17:48] Tsubaki**
I didn't take you for the scheming sort.
**[17:52] Tsubaki**
And so...
**[17:54] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan.
**[17:55] Tsubaki**
Is that the paper umbrella you met earlier?
**[17:58] Hyoma**
Yes. Its spirit energy...
**[18:03] Tsubaki**
I get it now.
**[18:05] Tsubaki**
That explains why you weren't sure
if it was the one you were after.
**[18:10] Tsubaki**
For a tsukumogami that devoured two Saenome,
**[18:14] Tsubaki**
it doesn't smell very human.
**[18:17] Botan**
Devoured?
**[18:22] Tsubaki**
Well,
**[18:23] Tsubaki**
it's our enemy either way, right?
**[18:26] Tsubaki**
I'll just have to take you both in together.
**[18:32] Tsumabiki**
*I'd have preferred to avoid facing her.*
**[18:36] Tsumabiki**
*She's an unknown quantity, even to me.*
**[18:39] Tsumabiki**
*They say she's got talent on par with Taiju.*
**[18:43] Tsumabiki**
* But I've heard even more*
* troublesome rumors, as well...*
**[18:49] Tsubaki**
Okay, Hyoma-chan.
**[18:51] Tsubaki**
Botan-chan's still the one they're after.
**[18:54] Tsubaki**
You should focus only on protecting her.
**[18:58] Tsubaki**
I'll take offense, while you handle defense.
**[19:01] Tsubaki**
That's a good role split, right?
**[19:05] Tsubaki**
And... even if you stopped
the bleeding with talismans,
**[19:07] Tsubaki**
that wound's still going to hold you back.
**[19:10] Tsubaki**
Though I'm sure you'll do your best regardless.
**[19:13] Tsubaki**
You can handle it, can't you?
**[19:14] Hyoma**
Of course!
**[19:15] Tsubaki**
There's my boy!
**[19:17] Botan**
Tsubaki-san, um...
**[19:19] Tsubaki**
No need to worry, Botan-chan.
**[19:22] Tsubaki**
This is our duty.
**[19:24] Tsubaki**
No matter how powerful the opponent,
**[19:27] Tsubaki**
we protect people from tsukumogami.
**[19:30] Tsubaki**
At risk to our own lives...
**[19:34] Tsubaki**
So corny.
**[19:59] Shigure**
*She extended her scythe...*
**[20:07] Tsumabiki**
Formation talismans...
**[20:08] Tsumabiki**
Talismans shaped into weapons and armor.
**[20:10] Tsumabiki**
I'd heard of it as a support technique, but...
**[20:16] Tsumabiki**
In Tsubaki's hands,
they're a terrifying weapon,
**[20:19] Tsumabiki**
attacking the enemy in all shapes and forms.
**[20:22] Tsumabiki**
My goodness. You've really got my blood racing!
**[20:27] Tsumabiki**
Let's play!
**[20:35] Botan**
Incredible!
**[20:36] Hyoma**
Yes, but there's something strange
about Tsubaki's demeanor.
**[20:42] Tsubaki**
*I'm sorry, Hyoma-chan.*
**[20:44] Tsubaki**
*I'm keeping it all to myself.*
**[20:46] Tsubaki**
*But with two such fun toys in front of me...*
**[20:51] Tsubaki**
*I just don't want to let anyone have them!*
**[21:17] Tsumabiki**
Damnation!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Advent
# E21 - Advent
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**[00:01] Tsumabiki**
Let's play!
**[00:09] Botan**
Incredible!
**[00:10] Hyoma**
Yes, but there's something strange
about Tsubaki's demeanor.
**[00:17] Tsubaki**
*I'm sorry, Hyoma-chan.*
**[00:19] Tsubaki**
*I'm keeping it all to myself.*
**[00:20] Tsubaki**
*But with two such fun toys in front of me...*
**[00:26] Tsubaki**
*I just don't want to let anyone have them!*
**[00:51] Tsumabiki**
Damnation!
**[01:33] Tsumabiki**
*It's just as the rumors said.*
**[01:35] Tsumabiki**
* She's not fighting because*
* of her duty as a Saenome.*
**[01:39] Tsumabiki**
*She's fighting for her own pleasure!*
**[01:44] Tsumabiki**
*A true berserker...*
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Advent
**[03:28] Tsumabiki**
*Kadomori Tsubaki...*
**[03:31] Tsumabiki**
* During the war between the*
* Kyoto Saenome and the Sogenbi,*
**[03:36] Tsumabiki**
* while Saenome and*
* tsukumogami alike were dying,*
**[03:40] Tsumabiki**
* she danced, laughing,*
* through the enemy lines...*
**[03:44] Tsumabiki**
* The one who mastered the*
* Kyoto Saenome's special technique,*
**[03:47] Tsumabiki**
* Ten Vessels Sparring,*
* at the tender age of eight...*
**[03:50] Tsumabiki**
* Who at ten years old surpassed*
* not only her brothers,*
**[03:53] Tsumabiki**
*but even veteran Saenome...*
**[03:57] Tsumabiki**
*The Kadomori prodigy.*
**[04:06] Tsumabiki**
Umbrella!
**[04:13] Tsubaki**
Hey! Where do you think you're going?!
**[04:16] Shigure**
Stay on target, talisman user.
**[04:26] Tsumabiki**
I'll let the umbrella occupy Tsubaki.
**[04:29] Tsumabiki**
I'm dealing with you, Hyoma.
**[04:34] Tsumabiki**
I love that expression!
**[04:37] Tsumabiki**
You've processed the fact
that we're enemies, then?
**[04:42] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[04:43] Hyoma**
I've gotten over my shock...
**[04:45] Hyoma**
at you just being one of those
pathetic tsukumogami who yearn
**[04:50] Hyoma**
for the vague something
hiding inside Botan.
**[04:54] Hyoma**
After all your talk of "rock"...
**[04:56] Hyoma**
You sicken me!
**[05:00] Tsumabiki**
The key.
**[05:02] Tsumabiki**
That girl is the key!
**[05:06] Hyoma**
Key?
**[05:07] Tsumabiki**
There's nothing "vague" about it.
**[05:09] Tsumabiki**
We know just how we'll use it.
**[05:13] Tsumabiki**
I don't care for being lumped in
with the mindless masses!
**[05:18] Hyoma**
What do you mean by "key"?
**[05:21] Hyoma**
What are you going to use Botan to accomplish?!
**[05:25] Hyoma**
Tsumabiki!
**[05:28] Tsumabiki**
Human and marebito...
spirits of different worlds.
**[05:34] Tsumabiki**
Nagatsuki Botan possesses both,
and stands between those worlds.
**[05:39] Tsumabiki**
We'll use her to open the door between
the lands of the living and the dead.
**[05:48] Tsumabiki**
It will lead to utter chaos.
**[05:50] Tsumabiki**
The worlds will merge together,
leaving everything in disarray.
**[05:55] Tsumabiki**
That's what we're after!
**[05:58] Tsumabiki**
That's the stage we just can't do without!
**[06:02] Botan**
Chaos?
**[06:04] Botan**
I'm the key for... that?
**[06:09] Hyoma**
I don't understand.
**[06:11] Hyoma**
This chaos you're talking about...
**[06:13] Hyoma**
It would be a calamity for the
people in the land of the living!
**[06:17] Hyoma**
Are you saying that's what you want?!
**[06:20] Tsumabiki**
Let me make one thing clear to you, Hyoma.
**[06:24] Tsumabiki**
I have absolutely nothing against humans.
**[06:29] Tsumabiki**
The urge that drives us
**[06:31] Tsumabiki**
is the urge to be heard.
**[06:34] Tsumabiki**
Sound on its own means nothing.
**[06:37] Tsumabiki**
There must be someone to hear it.
**[06:40] Tsumabiki**
So we're grateful for the presence
of humans in our lives.
**[06:46] Hyoma**
Why, then?!
**[06:47] Tsumabiki**
It's the urge!
**[06:50] Tsumabiki**
The urge to be heard!
**[06:52] Tsumabiki**
To be heard on an ever grander stage,
by ever more entities!
**[06:56] Tsumabiki**
That desire is what drives us,
single-mindedly, down the path that we walk!
**[07:03] Tsumabiki**
That's what the Bureau of Traditional Music is!
**[07:16] Tsumabiki**
In a world like none ever seen before...
**[07:19] Tsumabiki**
A world where humans and marebito
interact indiscriminately...
**[07:25] Tsumabiki**
We'll make our sound heard by all!
**[07:29] Tsumabiki**
Can you imagine anything more exciting?
**[07:31] Tsumabiki**
This is our ambition!
**[07:32] Tsumabiki**
And *this* is the nature
**[07:35] Tsumabiki**
of rock!
**[07:41] (Flashback) Tsuzumi**
The way of rock is...
**[07:43] (Flashback) Tsuzumi**
to struggle, break through, and move on,
**[07:46] (Flashback) Tsuzumi**
no matter what circumstances
you find yourself in!
**[07:48] (Flashback) Tsuzumi**
It's the practice of shouting
who you are from the rooftops!
**[07:52] Botan**
That's what it's been... this whole time.
**[07:56] Tsumabiki**
My heart is racing! My mind is dancing!
**[08:00] Tsumabiki**
Do you feel it, Hyoma?!
**[08:02] Hyoma**
I do not!
**[08:14] Tsuzumi**
I'm not through yet!
**[08:15] Tsuzumi**
Not yet!
**[08:17] Taiju**
Devour!
**[08:21] Tsuzumi**
This has been a fun little game, Taiju!
**[08:35] Tsuzumi**
It was a good plan, though.
**[09:03] Tsumabiki**
His foot?!
**[09:12] Tsubaki**
That can't possibly be all you've got!
**[09:14] Tsubaki**
It's really not, is it?
**[09:21] Tsubaki**
Hey, what happened to that pressure of yours?!
**[09:29] Tsubaki**
Where'd that cut come from?
**[09:32] Tsubaki**
Oh, of course...
**[09:35] Tsubaki**
Yes, I knew there was more!
**[09:39] Tsubaki**
So much more fun to be had!
**[09:55] Tsuzumi**
Enough!
**[10:00] Hyoma**
Tsumabiki?!
**[10:02] Tsubaki**
Whew!
**[10:04] Tsubaki**
Aw, and it was just getting good!
**[10:08] Tsubaki**
Hang on. That voice...
**[10:12] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan?
**[10:14] Hyoma**
Yes. Tsubaki...
**[10:17] Hyoma**
The situation may have just gotten worse.
**[10:20] Botan**
Oh, no...
**[10:27] Tsubaki**
They'd have been targeting the other Saenome
so the old woman could do her work.
**[10:34] Tsubaki**
If they're here now, that means...
**[10:39] Tsubaki**
We're out of allies.
**[10:42] Tsumabiki**
So sorry, Hyoma.
**[10:44] Tsumabiki**
The gang's all here now.
**[10:48] Tsumabiki**
There'll be no more one-on-one.
**[10:52] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[10:52] Tsubaki**
Botan-chan.
**[10:53] Hyoma**
I know it's a tall order, but please, run away.
**[10:57] Hyoma**
We'll make an opening for you.
**[11:00] Tsubaki**
And I'm already tired after all that playing.
**[11:03] Botan**
Tsubaki-san... Hyoma-san...
**[11:08] Tsumabiki**
No, she can't escape.
**[11:11] Tsumabiki**
Didn't I tell you? The gang's all here.
**[11:15] Tsumabiki**
Fukie.
**[11:19] Hyoma**
An attack?
**[11:21] Tsubaki**
No, it's not.
**[11:22] Tsubaki**
This is...
**[11:24] Tsumabiki**
Yes. The traditional song, "Koranjo."
**[11:28] Tsumabiki**
In other words...
**[11:30] Tsumabiki**
Entrance music!
**[11:37] Hyoma**
Wh-What...
**[11:43] Shigure**
Master, allow us to give you our names at last.
**[11:48] Shigure**
We are the Warazamawashi.
**[11:52] Shigure**
Kogarashi.
**[11:53] Shigure**
Fubuki.
**[11:55] Shigure**
Tenjitsu.
**[12:00] Shigure**
And...
**[12:02] Shigure**
My name is Shigure.
***SIGN*** — Shigure —
**[12:05] Shigure**
It's such a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
**[12:10] Shigure**
My master...
**[12:12] Shigure**
I'd like to start with clean-up.
**[12:16] Shigure**
Those who protect the vessel
that keeps you locked away...
**[12:21] Shigure**
In your name, I'll destroy them all.
**[12:25] Shigure**
So that the vessel, Nagatsuki Botan,
**[12:27] Shigure**
is left without the smallest crumb of hope.
**[12:32] Shigure**
My master...
**[12:34] Shigure**
I'd like to start with clean-up.
**[12:38] Shigure**
Those who protect the vessel
that keeps you locked away...
**[12:43] Shigure**
In your name, I'll destroy them all.
**[12:48] Botan**
*At this rate...*
**[12:49] Botan**
* At this rate, Hyoma-san*
* and the others really will...*
**[12:56] Hyoma**
*It's there.*
**[12:58] Hyoma**
*It's one of them.*
**[13:00] Hyoma**
*The one I'm after...*
**[13:02] Hyoma**
*is there!*
**[13:06] Hyoma**
*It's not just similar.*
**[13:09] Hyoma**
* I feel the exact same spirit energy*
* from one of them.*
**[13:14] Hyoma**
*I've finally found...*
**[13:17] Hyoma**
*the one!*
***SIGN*** Hayato (Brother)
Heya
***SIGN*** Wanna see how
we help guide a tsukumogami?
**[13:24] (Flashback) Hayato**
Is this the one?
**[13:26] (Flashback) Kusui**
Looks like.
**[13:30] (Flashback) Hayato**
Hey there! What are you crying for?
**[13:32] (Flashback) Kusui**
You okay?
**[13:48] Hayato**
*The talisman effect backfired?!*
**[13:54] (Flashback) Kusui**
It's laid out... a circle.
**[13:58] Hayato**
*A talisman barrier for reversing techniques?!*
**[14:02] Hayato**
*Was this all a trap?!*
**[14:04] Hayato**
*But... why do you...*
**[14:07] Hayato**
* Why does a tsukumogami know*
* how to use Saenome talismans?!*
**[14:18] Hyoma**
*At last!*
**[14:27] (Flashback) Hayato**
Run, Hyoma!
**[14:29] (Flashback) Hayato**
He's...
**[14:55] (Flashback) Hayato**
R-Run!
**[15:01] (Flashback) Kusui**
Hi-kun!
**[15:08] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Big Sister! Big Brother!
**[15:20] Hyoma**
*But...*
**[15:22] (Flashback) Zohei**
You're too preoccupied with the past.
**[15:25] (Flashback) Zohei**
Hyoma.
**[15:26] (Flashback) Zohei**
I thought you were strong
enough to grow past that.
**[15:31] (Flashback) Suzuri**
Hyoma-kun kept you
from doing further harm.
**[15:33] (Flashback) Botan**
You can change. You can overcome this.
**[15:36] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I'll always keep you safe.
**[15:37] (Flashback) Haori**
You can say that, can't you?
**[15:40] (Flashback) Yu**
Idiot.
**[15:42] (Flashback) Nagi**
Counting on you, Hyoma!
**[15:45] (Flashback) Nagi**
That's a promise between men!
**[15:53] Hyoma**
Botan...
**[15:54] Hyoma**
As I told you before,
run away when I make an opening.
**[15:59] Hyoma**
It's all right.
**[16:01] Hyoma**
I will fulfill my vow.
**[16:03] Hyoma**
I will!
**[16:05] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[16:08] Tsubaki**
* Hyoma-chan's prioritizing*
* his duty over his revenge.*
**[16:15] Tsubaki**
*He was capable of that...*
**[16:19] Tsubaki**
* It's frustrating...*
* but it's the right thing to do.*
**[16:24] Tsubaki**
* This is the stage of the game where*
* a moment's distraction could mean death.*
**[16:32] Tsubaki**
*Yes...*
**[16:34] Tsubaki**
*They said they want to clean up first...*
**[16:37] Tsubaki**
*which means their first priority is us!*
**[16:41] Tsubaki**
Stand back, Botan-chan.
**[16:44] Tsubaki**
The enemy's on the way!
**[16:47] Tsubaki**
Hyoma-chan!
**[16:49] Hyoma**
Right!
**[16:55] Hyoma**
*They've arranged something.*
***SIGN*** — Kogarashi —
**[17:04] Hyoma**
From the ground?!
**[17:07] Tsuzumi**
You seem distracted!
**[17:12] Tsuzumi**
Not enough!
**[17:17] Tsubaki**
What?!
**[17:19] Tsubaki**
*I see. Shadows...*
**[17:21] Tsubaki**
* The fan-like umbrella creates*
* shadows they can move in!*
**[17:30] Tsubaki**
*Incredible!*
**[17:35] Hyoma**
*We can't afford to keep fighting here.*
**[17:38] Hyoma**
* If we can't move to a place with*
* fewer shadows, the ambushes—*
***SIGN*** — Fubuki —
**[17:53] Hyoma**
*It's not over!*
**[17:55] Tsubaki**
*It's not over!*
**[17:58] Tenjitsu**
It's begun.
***SIGN*** — Tenjitsu —
**[18:01] Tenjitsu**
The slow death.
**[18:08] Tenjitsu**
Little by little. Little by little...
**[18:11] Tenjitsu**
Come closer to death.
**[18:14] Tenjitsu**
That's the only thing you're good for.
**[18:19] Tenjitsu**
And you...
**[18:22] Tenjitsu**
Nagatsuki Botan.
**[18:26] Botan**
*I know I'm supposed to run...*
**[18:28] Botan**
*I know they're fighting to let me escape,*
**[18:32] Botan**
*getting injured doing it...*
**[18:34] Botan**
*But I can't move my legs...*
**[18:36] Botan**
*No, not just that.*
**[18:38] Botan**
*I can't even speak, or look away...*
**[18:44] Botan**
*Something's preventing me from doing it.*
**[18:54] Tenjitsu**
Yes, Fukie.
**[18:56] Tenjitsu**
Bind Nagatsuki Botan to the spot.
**[18:58] Tenjitsu**
Make sure she takes in every moment of this.
**[19:02] Tenjitsu**
Tsumabiki and the others were naïve.
**[19:04] Tenjitsu**
They were trying to kill those two quickly.
**[19:08] Tenjitsu**
"Then we can take Nagatsuki Botan
and go," they thought.
**[19:13] Tenjitsu**
But wouldn't that be such a waste?
**[19:18] Tenjitsu**
They should be an offering.
**[19:22] Shigure**
What do you think, Nagatsuki Botan?
**[19:26] Shigure**
The sight of those two noble warriors
**[19:29] Shigure**
risking their lives to protect you...
**[19:32] Shigure**
Doesn't it spark a memory?
**[19:45] Shigure**
Yes. You've got it, haven't you?
**[19:50] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Let's live together.
**[19:53] (Flashback) Satsuki**
You'll find happiness as a human.
**[19:56] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Okay?
**[20:29] (Flashback) Botan**
Satsuki-san...
**[20:31] (Flashback) Satsuki**
Botan-chan...
**[20:37] Botan**
S-Satsuki-sa—
**[20:42] Shigure**
Oh, yes.
**[20:44] Shigure**
Wasn't there someone who died
protecting you once before?
**[20:57] Shigure**
Today's just the same.
**[21:09] Tenjitsu**
Nagatsuki Botan's mind had to be
sequestered to prevent disturbances.
**[21:17] Tenjitsu**
Kushige served that purpose,
but now that he's gone...
**[21:24] Tenjitsu**
There's nothing to keep what
lies beneath from surfacing,
**[21:29] Tenjitsu**
led by the disturbance known as despair!
**[21:32] Tsuzumi**
This feeling...
**[21:34] Tsuzumi**
Ma'am...
**[21:38] Tenjitsu**
Yes. It's coming!
**[21:47] Tenjitsu**
The living god is here!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Dance
# E22 - Dance
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GX9UQZEQ4/dance)
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**[00:01] Shigure**
What do you think, Nagatsuki Botan?
**[00:04] Shigure**
The sight of those two noble warriors
**[00:08] Shigure**
risking their lives to protect you...
**[00:11] Shigure**
Doesn't it spark a memory?
**[00:15] Shigure**
Yes. You've got it, haven't you?
**[00:19] Botan**
Satsuki-sa—
**[00:22] Shigure**
Wasn't there someone who died
protecting you once before?
**[00:29] Shigure**
Today's just the same.
**[00:38] Tsuzumi**
This feeling...
**[00:40] Tsuzumi**
Ma'am...
**[00:44] Tenjitsu**
Yes. It's coming!
**[00:53] Tenjitsu**
The living god is here!
**[01:07] Yu**
Botan...
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Dance
**[03:01] Shota**
Ume!
**[03:02] Shota**
You're awake?
**[03:04] Umekichi**
Matsu...
**[03:06] Umekichi**
What happened here?
**[03:08] Shota**
Looks like we went into a frenzy
to defeat the enemy in front of us.
**[03:16] Umekichi**
I... did that?
**[03:20] Shota**
Spurred on by Fukie's song, yeah.
**[03:24] Umekichi**
Matsu, where's Fukie?
**[03:26] Shota**
He's long gone.
**[03:28] Shota**
We'd better hurry.
**[03:31] Shota**
I think something's happened
to Nagatsuki Botan.
**[03:40] Umekichi**
What in the world...
**[03:44] Umekichi**
The tsukumogami are kneeling
and facing the same direction.
**[03:51] Umekichi**
This sight...
**[03:53] Umekichi**
Can it be...
**[03:59] Kai**
It's been so long.
**[04:02] Kai**
So great that I'm obliged
to bow my head to it...
**[04:05] Kai**
Such power!
**[04:08] Kai**
Why do you think it holds us tsukumogami
in its sway to this degree...
**[04:16] Kai**
Tsuji Hojo?
**[04:19] Hojo**
Objects are meant to be used by humans.
**[04:22] Hojo**
And...
**[04:24] Hojo**
Tsukumogami, object spirits,
**[04:27] Hojo**
are meant to be used by the living god.
**[04:29] Hojo**
Thus, all tsukumogami fear and respect it.
**[04:35] Hojo**
"The being that reigns over us.
**[04:38] Hojo**
The master foundational to our existence."
**[04:55] Tsubaki**
*What... in the world?*
**[05:02] Tsubaki**
*Botan... chan?*
**[05:06] Tsubaki**
*No...*
**[05:27] Tsumabiki**
*I can't... move.*
**[05:32] Tsumabiki**
*Is "awe" the word for it?*
**[05:35] Tsumabiki**
* I can't even raise my head*
* to see what's going on.*
**[05:40] Tsumabiki**
* It's nothing like that*
* emitted by tsukumogami...*
**[05:46] Tsumabiki**
*The pressure of the living god!*
**[05:48] Tsumabiki**
*As she is now, Nagatsuki Botan may indeed*
**[05:51] Tsumabiki**
* have the power to open the door*
* to the land of the dead.*
**[05:57] Tsumabiki**
*But... in the end...*
**[06:09] Botan**
You.
**[06:15] Botan**
Stand.
**[06:23] Botan**
This hole in your right shoulder...
**[06:27] Botan**
How did it happen?
**[06:29] Botan**
Tell me.
**[06:33] Tsuzumi**
During my battle with the Saenome,
**[06:36] Tsuzumi**
these sort of... scraps of a talisman...
worked their way into the wound.
**[06:40] Tsuzumi**
I can't regenerate it!
**[06:44] Tsubaki**
*Papa's forbidden technique...*
**[06:47] Tsubaki**
*The symbol talisman, Venomous Snake.*
**[06:53] Botan**
I see.
**[06:56] Botan**
How tragic.
**[07:00] Botan**
But...
**[07:02] Botan**
more than tragic, unsightly.
**[07:07] Botan**
You must be...
**[07:09] Tsuzumi**
Divine One, what are—
**[07:12] Tsuzumi**
Can't sp—
**[07:13] Botan**
...disposed of.
**[07:20] Botan**
Go in peace.
**[07:46] Fukie**
*Tsuzumi...*
**[07:49] Botan**
It appears you objects
**[07:52] Botan**
manifested me in the hope that
I'd do something for you.
**[07:58] Botan**
How conceited of you.
**[08:00] Botan**
Why would I listen to the
requests of mere objects?
**[08:06] Botan**
How I am to be,
**[08:08] Botan**
I will decide for myself.
**[08:12] Tsumabiki**
*I miscalculated.*
**[08:13] Tsumabiki**
*It wasn't like this before.*
**[08:16] Tsumabiki**
*The living god we saw before*
**[08:19] Tsumabiki**
*spoke and acted like a child.*
**[08:25] Tenjitsu**
*To think that as Nagatsuki Botan matured,*
**[08:28] Tenjitsu**
*it would gain this degree of individuality.*
**[08:33] Tsumabiki**
*It can't be stopped.*
**[08:35] Tsumabiki**
*No one could ever stop it!*
**[08:41] Tenjitsu**
*But...*
**[08:42] Tenjitsu**
*All the more reason why...*
**[08:47] Hyoma**
Give her back.
**[09:04] Tenjitsu**
*Kunato...*
**[09:06] Tsumabiki**
*Hyoma!*
**[09:11] Botan**
Are you...
**[09:14] Fubuki**
It's weakened?
**[09:17] Hyoma**
Give Botan back.
**[09:23] Hyoma**
She's not...
**[09:25] Hyoma**
alone any longer.
**[09:29] Hyoma**
Because she has so many people with her.
**[09:35] Botan**
Stay away...
**[09:36] Hyoma**
Because she's tried to be strong...
**[09:38] (Flashback) Botan**
You can change. You can overcome this.
**[09:43] (Flashback) Botan**
I know you can.
**[09:46] (Flashback) Botan**
You know I speak with authority, right?
**[09:51] Hyoma**
...and kept on walking!
**[09:58] Hyoma**
Not as a yorimashi.
**[10:00] Hyoma**
Not as a living god.
**[10:03] Hyoma**
Nagatsuki Botan has people waiting for her.
**[10:08] Hyoma**
Give her back!
**[10:10] Botan**
Th-This place is...
**[10:14] Botan**
So cold... So dark...
**[10:19] Botan**
I'm scared...
**[10:20] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[10:33] Shigure**
How...
**[10:34] Shigure**
How can she have resurfaced?!
**[10:39] Hyoma**
What's wrong with all of you?
**[10:43] Hyoma**
Protecting her...
**[10:45] Hyoma**
Protecting her all this time...
Was that not the source of your pride?!
**[10:50] Hyoma**
She's here, right now! She's suffering!
**[10:54] Hyoma**
*You need to be here, too.*
**[10:56] Hyoma**
After all your lectures to me about
how hard it is to protect someone,
**[10:59] Hyoma**
you're just going to give up
because you're trapped?!
**[11:03] Hyoma**
You're going to give her up
in that deplorable state?!
**[11:07] Hyoma**
*I know you won't do that!*
**[11:09] Hyoma**
Show me your pride...
**[11:12] Hyoma**
Bridal Trousseau!
**[11:17] Tenjitsu**
What?
**[11:24] Restoration Artist**
N-No way!
**[11:26] Restoration Artist**
Out of nowhere?!
**[11:46] Tsumabiki**
A barrier seal?!
**[11:48] Tsumabiki**
Can it be...
**[11:49] Shigure**
*What could possibly*
**[11:53] Shigure**
*have brought Nagatsuki Botan back?*
**[11:59] Shigure**
Kill him!
**[12:01] Shigure**
He's the one!
**[12:03] Shigure**
The real obstacle here!
**[12:20] Haori**
Yu!
**[12:21] Yu**
I don't know what's going on out there...
**[12:25] Yu**
But...
**[12:28] Yu**
I feel it!
**[12:30] Nagi**
Yeah.
**[12:31] Kagami**
I can feel Botan's suffering. Her pain.
**[12:36] Suzuri**
Botan's soul is shivering.
**[12:43] Haori**
* If Kushige were here, he could've*
* easily torn down a barrier like this.*
**[12:49] Haori**
* Perhaps that's part of why*
* they targeted him individually.*
**[12:56] Haori**
*But that doesn't mean there's no way out.*
**[13:00] Nagi**
*Yeah.*
**[13:04] Yu**
*I'll wind up the space itself and compress it!*
**[13:10] Kagami**
Yu-chan!
**[13:14] Yu**
*It's nothing. No hardship at all.*
**[13:18] Yu**
* Nothing compared to the pain*
* Botan's been through!*
**[13:23] Yu**
Suffering...
**[13:26] Yu**
Pain...
**[13:29] Yu**
I never want to see her go through that again!
**[13:34] Haori**
That's right.
**[13:36] Haori**
What we want to see
**[13:39] Haori**
is her smile.
**[13:42] Haori**
Nothing more than that.
**[13:53] Nagi**
You said it.
**[13:54] Nagi**
I've worked pretty hard
to see that smile of hers.
**[14:05] Suzuri**
Spending every day together...
**[14:08] Kagami**
Playing all kinds of games...
**[14:14] Kagami**
We won't let it end here.
**[14:18] Suzuri**
* Yu won't be able to keep the space*
* minimized like this for long.*
**[14:23] Suzuri**
*We'll only get one chance at this.*
**[14:26] Yu**
*One will be more than enough.*
**[14:28] Nagi**
*We'll settle this the moment it reaches us...*
**[14:34] Nagi**
*Tear a pinpoint hole and rip it open.*
**[14:36] Yu**
*We share a single wish...*
**[14:42] Trousseau**
*Botan's happiness!*
**[15:03] Kagami**
Nagi! Haori-chan!
**[15:04] Kagami**
Now!
**[15:21] Yu**
*No matter where we are, we'll come for you!*
**[15:24] Nagi**
Our arrival is a foregone conclusion.
**[15:28] Nagi**
Isn't that right,
**[15:29] Nagi**
our girl?!
**[15:32] Botan**
You guys!
**[15:33] Hyoma**
Yes!
**[15:35] Nagi**
Sorry, Hyoma.
**[15:37] Nagi**
Didn't mean to keep you waiting!
**[15:43] Shigure**
Nagatsukis!
**[15:49] Suzuri**
Don't you...
**[15:52] Suzuri**
touch them!
**[16:17] Tsumabiki**
*Stole them away, did you?*
**[16:20] Nagi**
You people...
**[16:22] Nagi**
You've been busy in our time away, huh?!
**[16:36] Botan**
Yu...
**[16:37] Yu**
Yes. I'm so sorry we're late, Botan.
**[16:41] Suzuri**
You didn't necessarily have to strip
her away from Hyoma-kun, though.
**[16:45] Yu**
He got *way* too touchy-feely
with her while we were away!
**[16:50] Nagi**
Can you stand, Tsubaki?
**[16:52] Tsubaki**
Yeah, I think so...
**[16:55] Nagi**
Looks like you've reached your limit.
**[16:58] Nagi**
Tag us in, all right?
**[17:00] Botan**
Tsubaki-san.
**[17:06] Haori**
Hyoma-san.
**[17:07] Haori**
You should sit this one out, too.
**[17:10] Haori**
Kagami.
**[17:11] Kagami**
Right. We owe him, after all.
**[17:13] Kagami**
I won't let anyone touch him.
**[17:19] Nagi**
Hyoma.
**[17:23] Nagi**
You're a real man.
**[17:29] Nagi**
This time...
**[17:32] Nagi**
We will...
**[17:36] Nagi**
be the protectors.
**[17:50] Shigure**
Tenjitsu.
**[17:51] Nagi**
It's you!
**[17:53] Tenjitsu**
So you broke out, just like you said you would.
**[17:57] Tenjitsu**
I underestimated your sheer stubbornness.
**[18:06] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[18:08] Tenjitsu**
But the one who really disrupted our plans...
**[18:13] Tenjitsu**
The one I really underestimated...
**[18:16] Tenjitsu**
is you, Kunato Hyoma.
**[18:21] Tenjitsu**
How could I forget...
**[18:23] Tenjitsu**
what pains in the ass you Kunatos are?
**[18:32] Hyoma**
Big...
**[18:33] (Flashback) Hayato**
Genius is never appreciated in its own time.
**[18:37] (Flashback) Hayato**
Hyoma!
**[18:39] Hyoma**
Big... B-Brother?
**[18:43] Nagi**
What?!
**[18:50] Botan**
*Why are you so hard on tsukumogami?*
**[18:55] (Flashback) Hyoma**
My brother and sister were
killed by a tsukumogami.
**[19:03] Tenjitsu**
We are the umbrellas.
**[19:05] Tenjitsu**
The canopy for the divine.
**[19:06] Tenjitsu**
The Warazamawashi.
**[19:08] Tenjitsu**
We serve our master, the living god.
**[19:12] Tenjitsu**
Just as you do.
**[19:18] Haori**
Hyoma-san.
**[19:20] Haori**
I understand that you're upset.
**[19:24] Haori**
But this isn't the time.
**[19:46] Tenjitsu**
Bureau!
**[20:00] Yu**
Tsumabiki!
**[20:12] Tsumabiki**
Don't go forgetting about us, now.
**[20:16] Haori**
Forget you?
**[20:18] Haori**
How could we ever forget you...
**[20:21] Haori**
or the utterly foolish things the
Warazamawashi have led you to do?
**[20:28] Haori**
You won't escape, Bureau.
**[20:31] Haori**
You're going to tell us everything.
**[20:33] Haori**
How long you've been demeaning
yourselves by serving these monsters,
**[20:36] Haori**
and what exactly it is that you want.
**[20:40] Tsumabiki**
You won't let us escape?
**[20:42] Tsumabiki**
We wouldn't dream of trying!
**[20:44] Tsumabiki**
We came here to fight!
**[20:47] Tsumabiki**
We have a very good reason
why we have to, you see!
**[20:52] Haori**
A reason?
**[20:53] Fukie**
You look rather exhausted
from breaking that barrier.
**[20:58] Fukie**
I wonder if raw force will work on us.
**[21:02] Suzuri**
You seem to be missing Tsuzumi, as well.
**[21:06] Tsumabiki**
As you're missing Kushige.
**[21:08] Kagami**
I guess they really were our enemy...
**[21:12] Fukie**
You just realized that, Kagami?
**[21:17] Nagi**
I've had enough.
**[21:24] Nagi**
I'll slice you to ribbons!
**[21:26] Tsumabiki**
Go ahead and try!
**[21:37] Tsumabiki**
If I get to play my greatest song today,
**[21:41] Tsumabiki**
I don't even need a reward!
**[21:46] Tsumabiki**
Now...
**[21:48] Tsumabiki**
Bureau of Traditional Music,
of the Three Great Tsukumogami...
**[21:52] Tsumabiki**
Let us begin!
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Sparks
# E23 - Sparks
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**[00:24] (Flashback) Tsumabiki**
Are you the new special exceptions?
**[00:27] (Flashback) Haori**
And who might you be?
**[00:28] (Flashback) Tsumabiki**
Us?
**[00:30] (Flashback) Tsumabiki**
We're in the same position
you are, with different duties.
**[00:34] (Flashback) Tsumabiki**
We're a bit like your senpai.
**[00:37] (Flashback) Tsumabiki**
So you're willing to hunt your own kind
out of devotion to that girl?
**[00:43] (Flashback) Tsumabiki**
Followers of the way of rock
after our own hearts.
**[00:47] (Flashback) Tsumabiki**
It's going to be difficult for both of us.
**[00:56] Tsumabiki**
Let us begin!
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Sparks
**[02:33] Tsumabiki**
It's our once-in-a-lifetime concert!
**[02:36] Tsumabiki**
Time to hear it!
**[02:55] Botan**
Haori!
**[02:55] Haori**
The next wave's coming!
**[02:58] Fukie**
Ring out.
**[03:03] Fukie**
A mirror?
**[03:07] Suzuri**
Go! Nagi, Yu!
**[03:27] Tsumabiki**
*This is...*
**[03:29] Tsumabiki**
*This is it!*
**[03:30] Tsumabiki**
* The agonizing battle for our lives*
* that we've been seeking for so long!*
**[03:39] Tsumabiki**
Come, now! The concert's only just begun!
**[03:48] Yu**
You must die for your crime of harming Botan.
**[03:53] Fukie**
I don't mind that.
**[03:55] Fukie**
But first,
**[03:56] Fukie**
I'll need to defeat all of you.
**[04:12] Yu**
Suzuri!
**[04:34] Tsumabiki**
Guess it's time for the closing number!
**[04:46] Tsumabiki**
Now, let's let the Bureau of
Traditional Music roar!
**[04:56] Fubuki**
Sheesh, turn it down already!
**[04:58] Tsubaki**
This isn't good.
**[05:01] Tsubaki**
The sound waves are hitting them
with incredible pressure.
**[05:05] Yu**
I can't... move!
**[05:11] Suzuri**
Nagi! Yu!
**[05:14] Kagami**
Haori-chan!
**[05:15] Haori**
Right!
**[05:20] Fukie**
These two first.
**[05:33] Botan**
Nagi! Yu!
**[05:50] Hyoma**
Is that...
**[05:52] Tsubaki**
Of course.
**[05:53] Tsubaki**
He's awakened, then.
**[06:05] Botan**
Kushige!
**[06:30] Yu**
Thanks for the save, Kushige!
**[06:32] Nagi**
Honestly...
**[06:34] Nagi**
Waiting for the most dramatic
possible time to come back, huh?
**[06:36] Suzuri**
Regardless, the full Bridal Trousseau
is together for the first time in a while.
**[06:45] Haori**
Kushige.
**[06:46] Haori**
You handle the protection of Botan.
**[06:53] Haori**
We excel the most when
we're fighting to protect.
**[06:57] Haori**
I'm told you said that about us, Tsumabiki.
**[07:01] Haori**
You're halfway correct.
**[07:06] Haori**
When someone has harmed our mistress,
**[07:08] Haori**
we will attack,
**[07:09] Haori**
and attack,
**[07:10] Haori**
until we destroy them!
**[07:12] Haori**
Experience for yourselves
the Bridal Trousseau's battle!
**[07:17] Fukie**
I never thought I'd get to fight
the full Bridal Trousseau for real.
**[07:21] Tsumabiki**
I'm numb with exultation!
**[07:25] Tsumabiki**
I only wish Tsuzumi could have been here!
**[08:15] Hyoma**
It's over, then?
**[08:21] Tsumabiki**
*Magnificent.*
**[08:25] Fukie**
*Truly magnificent.*
**[08:28] Fukie**
Thank you for putting an end to us here.
**[08:34] Fukie**
When the living god manifested
**[08:36] Fukie**
and Tsuzumi was destroyed right before our eyes,
**[08:40] Fukie**
we couldn't even struggle against her.
**[08:42] Fukie**
We just let her go by.
**[08:46] Tsumabiki**
Rock ends the moment it bends to another.
**[08:50] Tsumabiki**
We've failed to see our resolve
through. It's our time to go.
**[08:59] Hyoma**
Tsumabiki...
**[09:13] Tsumabiki**
*That's right.*
**[09:14] Tsumabiki**
*More than us, with all our grand talk about it...*
**[09:17] Tsumabiki**
* More than anyone here, the one trying*
* to assert himself through hardship...*
**[09:24] Tsumabiki**
*You were true rock.*
**[09:31] Tsumabiki**
You'd better hurry if you want your prize.
**[09:40] Nagi**
Quit spinning everything
through your stupid worldview.
**[09:44] Nagi**
We just couldn't forgive you...
**[09:47] Nagi**
for putting Botan in danger.
**[09:51] Nagi**
I doubt you're gonna tell us anyway.
**[09:54] Nagi**
Kagami's Shoyokyo will reveal the past.
**[09:57] Nagi**
So...
**[09:59] Nagi**
Be cast to the four winds and die,
you stupid assholes.
**[10:05] Fukie**
Yeah...
**[10:08] Fukie**
It was a good concert.
**[10:17] Tsumabiki**
Hyoma...
**[10:19] Tsumabiki**
I can't say I know for sure
that you'll always keep her safe.
**[10:25] Tsumabiki**
But I believe that you can keep shouting.
**[10:31] Tsumabiki**
Let it be heard in all corners of the world.
**[10:35] Tsumabiki**
Let it cause even the land
of the dead to tremble.
**[11:08] Kagami**
* That day... when we saw Botan*
* seeking out blood family,*
**[11:13] Kagami**
*and our hearts began to waver,*
**[11:17] Kagami**
*they sent their song into our hearts*
**[11:19] Kagami**
*and created an opening there.*
**[11:24] Kagami**
Everyone!
**[11:29] Tenjitsu**
Finished, are you?
**[11:31] Shigure**
Well, then...
**[11:33] Shigure**
We'll be taking Nagatsuki Botan.
**[11:37] Tsubaki**
Leave the rest to me, Botan-chan.
**[11:40] Botan**
Tsubaki-san...
**[11:42] Yu**
Don't push yourself.
**[11:44] Yu**
You're clearly in no condition to fight.
**[11:47] Tsubaki**
Don't be ridiculous.
**[11:51] Tsubaki**
With all these wonderful toys
right in front of me?
**[11:54] Tsubaki**
I couldn't possibly sit this one out!
**[11:58] Botan**
Hyoma-san?
**[12:00] Hyoma**
No need to worry.
**[12:03] Hyoma**
Tenjitsu of the Warazamawashi...
**[12:07] Hyoma**
I'll defeat him myself.
**[12:26] Tenjitsu**
He's mine to hunt.
**[12:29] Tenjitsu**
Kindly don't interfere.
**[12:31] Fubuki**
Okay!
**[12:33] Fubuki**
Guess we'll have to hunt elsewhere!
**[12:54] Tenjitsu**
Half-baked.
**[12:57] Tenjitsu**
You're not about to tell me
this is all you have, are you?
**[13:05] Tenjitsu**
This is all the growth you've achieved?
**[13:09] Tenjitsu**
Your siblings must be so disappointed in you!
**[13:13] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[13:16] Hyoma**
I knew it.
**[13:18] Hyoma**
The spirit energy that surrounds you...
**[13:20] Hyoma**
The tone of your words...
**[13:23] Hyoma**
I remember it clearly now!
**[13:26] Hyoma**
In the instant before you literally
devoured my brother and sister,
**[13:29] Hyoma**
those words that you said...
**[13:32] (Flashback) Paper Umbrella**
I'll be making good use of them.
**[13:38] Hyoma**
I finally found you.
**[13:40] Hyoma**
You, wearing the skin of my brother...
**[13:44] Hyoma**
Tenjitsu of the Warazamawashi!
**[13:47] Hyoma**
You're the one!
**[13:49] Hyoma**
The one I've been looking for!
**[13:52] Tenjitsu**
Kunato Hayato and Kunato Kusui...
**[13:56] Tenjitsu**
I'm told they distinguished themselves
as Saenome from a very young age.
**[14:00] Tenjitsu**
They were considered unparalleled geniuses.
**[14:03] Hyoma**
What are you—
**[14:04] Tenjitsu**
But...
**[14:05] Tenjitsu**
They, who were utterly
unsurpassed in sheer ability,
**[14:09] Tenjitsu**
were overwhelmingly deficient in one
element necessary for a Saenome leader.
**[14:14] Tenjitsu**
An enemy that set traps in
the surrounding environment
**[14:16] Tenjitsu**
to guarantee a kill on their prey—
**[14:18] Tenjitsu**
They needed experience
against an enemy like that.
**[14:23] Tenjitsu**
But they were simply too innocent.
**[14:29] Tenjitsu**
Impatience creates mental blind spots.
**[14:32] Tenjitsu**
Those two, so desperate to become
the next heads of the Kunato family,
**[14:37] Tenjitsu**
were exceedingly simple to take out.
**[14:40] Tenjitsu**
Though I do understand why
they were in such a hurry.
**[14:45] Tenjitsu**
Kunato Zohei is long past his peak as a Saenome.
**[14:50] Tenjitsu**
And...
**[14:53] Tenjitsu**
Their talentless little brother
**[14:55] Tenjitsu**
was trying to become a Saenome
out of admiration for them!
**[14:59] Tenjitsu**
It must've been quite the burden
they were bearing!
**[15:03] Hyoma**
Don't slander my siblings! What would you know—
**[15:06] Tenjitsu**
I know everything!
**[15:08] Tenjitsu**
Because when I devoured him,
**[15:10] Tenjitsu**
I heard what was going through his mind.
**[15:31] Hayato**
*We were in too much of a hurry, Grandpa.*
**[15:35] Hayato**
*Me and Kusui both...*
**[15:37] Hayato**
*Before Hyoma became a Saenome,*
**[15:39] Hayato**
* we wanted to take over the house*
* and lay a proper foundation...*
**[15:44] Hayato**
*And most of all,*
**[15:46] Hayato**
*we wanted to let you rest!*
**[15:50] Hayato**
*But... we couldn't tell you!*
**[15:54] (Flashback) Tenjitsu**
These are his feelings?
**[15:59] Hayato**
*Because...*
**[16:01] Hayato**
* You've worked twice as hard as*
* anyone as house leader, right?*
**[16:05] Hayato**
*And... you raised us!*
**[16:12] (Flashback) Tenjitsu**
Human feelings are such ludicrous things!
**[16:18] Tenjitsu**
So the ones who drove Kunato Hayato
and Kunato Kusui to their deaths
**[16:22] Tenjitsu**
were their decrepit grandfather
and their useless little brother!
**[16:26] Hyoma**
Damn you!
**[16:28] Tenjitsu**
I won't get a real fight out of it,
**[16:31] Tenjitsu**
but I suppose I'll humor you a while.
**[16:36] Tenjitsu**
You never change, Hyoma!
**[16:39] Tenjitsu**
So straightforward and easy to read!
**[16:47] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Ow, ow, ow!
**[16:49] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Big Brother! I give, I give!
**[16:51] (Flashback) Hayato**
You've got a good,
straightforward attack posture...
**[16:55] (Flashback) Hayato**
But you'll need more,
**[16:56] (Flashback) Hayato**
or your opponent will read you a mile away.
**[17:05] Tenjitsu**
This is the result of your
admiration for your brother?
**[17:19] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[17:21] Fubuki**
Getting to fight to the death
with the Bridal Trousseau...
**[17:24] Fubuki**
Aren't I the lucky one?
**[17:29] Yu**
I won't let you lay one finger on Botan!
**[17:35] Shigure**
Fubuki, our objective is—
**[17:37] Fubuki**
I know, damn it!
**[17:38] Fubuki**
We've gotta kill these guys
and take Nagatsuki Botan, right?
**[17:42] Shigure**
Yes.
**[17:44] Nagi**
Won't let it happen.
**[17:45] Suzuri**
Honestly... you're annoyingly persistent!
**[17:48] Suzuri**
Aren't you?!
**[18:06] Kogarashi**
Maybe I went a bit too far?
**[18:09] Kogarashi**
I've made a mess of that
cute little face of yours.
**[18:24] Tsubaki**
Nothing satisfying about a losing battle!
**[18:32] Tsubaki**
Nice batting!
**[18:46] Tenjitsu**
What's the matter, Hyoma?
**[18:48] Tenjitsu**
Put up a fight, won't you?
**[18:53] Hyoma**
*Big... Brother?*
**[18:57] Hyoma**
*I guess... I still can't beat my brother.*
**[19:08] Tenjitsu**
Looks like you remembered.
**[19:11] Tenjitsu**
Our potentials as Saenome are
on completely different levels.
**[19:27] Botan**
*The being inside me is stirring.*
**[19:30] Botan**
*It's given me instinctive understanding...*
**[19:33] Botan**
*It's no use. He's...*
**[19:38] Botan**
*A natural talent.*
**[19:40] Botan**
*Gifted, even when he was alive and human,*
**[19:43] Botan**
* with a channel that brought him*
* close to the Saenome itself.*
**[19:51] Tenjitsu**
Do you hate me?
**[19:58] Tenjitsu**
It seems you've fought all this time,
fueled by your hatred of tsukumogami.
**[20:03] Tenjitsu**
But now it's all going to be for nothing.
**[20:07] Tenjitsu**
It's really pathetic, Hyoma.
**[20:11] Tenjitsu**
You'll simply die here, in vain,
**[20:15] Tenjitsu**
failing to avenge your siblings!
**[20:25] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[20:30] Botan**
Don't lose.
**[20:34] Suzuri**
Your reason for fighting
isn't hatred of tsukumogami!
**[20:39] Yu**
Like us, you're fighting to protect
someone you care about!
**[20:43] Kagami**
We decided we could entrust Botan to you!
**[20:49] Nagi**
We believe you can do this,
**[20:51] Nagi**
Hyoma!
**[20:53] Haori**
You're the one we've entrusted with Botan.
**[20:55] Haori**
We believe in you, son-in-law!
**[20:59] Botan**
Get up, Hyoma-san!
**[21:14] Hyoma**
My grudge against the paper umbrella...
**[21:17] Hyoma**
My hatred for tsukumogami...
**[21:22] Hyoma**
My reason for fighting is far beyond that.
**[21:26] Hyoma**
I swore an oath to Botan.
**[21:29] Hyoma**
I will not betray her! I will not die!
**[21:33] Hyoma**
I...
**[21:35] Hyoma**
I'll always keep Botan safe!
**[21:41] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[21:49] Tenjitsu**
Oh?
***SIGN*** Next Time
***SIGN*** Fluttering
# E24 - Fluttering
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**[00:01] (Flashback) Zohei**
What have you done?
**[00:03] (Flashback) Zohei**
Actually, do you even understand
what it is that you've done?
**[00:08] (Flashback) Zohei**
Hyoma!
**[00:09] (Flashback) Hyoma**
What I've done?
**[00:11] (Flashback) Hyoma**
These tsukumogami were all on the list.
**[00:14] (Flashback) Hyoma**
In other words, they're vermin.
**[00:17] (Flashback) Hyoma**
No different from the one who
killed my brother and my sister.
**[00:22] (Flashback) Hyoma**
They're better off destroyed, right?
**[00:25] (Flashback) Zohei**
You damned fool!
**[00:29] (Flashback) Hyoma**
Grandfather...
**[00:31] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I hate tsukumogami.
**[00:35] Tenjitsu**
It's really pathetic, Hyoma.
**[00:41] Hyoma**
My grudge against the paper umbrella...
**[00:44] Hyoma**
My hatred for tsukumogami...
**[00:49] Hyoma**
My reason for fighting is far beyond that.
**[00:54] Hyoma**
I...
**[00:56] Hyoma**
I'll always keep Botan safe!
**[01:02] Botan**
Hyoma-san...
**[01:06] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[01:08] Hyoma**
There's no need to worry.
**[01:10] Hyoma**
About anything.
**[01:18] Hyoma**
* My battle from here on isn't*
* just about pursuing my enemy.*
***SIGN*** Malevolent Spirits
***SIGN*** Fluttering
**[03:18] Haori**
He's readied his door pulls!
**[03:20] Nagi**
Get him, Hyoma!
***SIGN*** Hyoma
***SIGN*** Ready yourself
**[03:28] Hyoma**
*I've long since prepared for this!*
**[03:31] Hyoma**
*What I'm about to fight*
**[03:33] Hyoma**
*is my own battle!*
**[03:40] Hyoma**
Kunato Gate Opening Technique! Essence!
**[03:47] Hyoma**
Ikutachi!
**[03:50] Tenjitsu**
Come to me, Hyoma!
**[04:16] Fubuki**
Hey, now...
**[04:18] Kogarashi**
I don't know that I care for this.
**[04:29] Tenjitsu**
You can extract the power of
your door pulls at last, then?
**[04:33] Tenjitsu**
This might just be enjoyable.
**[04:37] Botan**
Oh, no...
**[04:50] Taiju**
Looks like we made it just in time!
**[04:54] Tsubaki**
Papa?
**[04:56] Tsubaki**
You're alive?
**[04:58] Taiju**
Listen to this girl!
**[05:00] Kogarashi**
My, it seems they have reinforcements.
**[05:03] Fubuki**
We can kill them all together.
**[05:08] Shigure**
Is that...
**[05:16] Itsuki**
Kai-sama.
**[05:17] Itsuki**
You may take the field at your leisure.
**[05:22] Tenjitsu**
Looks like we played with them too long.
**[05:26] Hyoma**
Wait!
**[05:29] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[05:40] Tenjitsu**
Bridal Trousseau... and Kunato Hyoma.
**[05:44] Tenjitsu**
The Warazamawashi will
devour everything in our way.
**[05:48] Tenjitsu**
And we will take Nagatsuki Botan, in time.
**[05:52] Botan**
I'll never go with you!
**[05:55] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[05:56] Hyoma**
No matter what happens, I will protect Botan!
**[06:01] Tenjitsu**
I await our next meeting,
**[06:04] Tenjitsu**
Kunato Hyoma!
**[06:10] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[06:12] Tsubaki**
It's been a long, busy day, huh, Hyoma-chan?
**[06:17] Botan**
I'm sorry. Because of me...
**[06:20] Hyoma**
No need to worry.
**[06:23] Hyoma**
I'm just... a bit tired.
**[06:27] Nagi**
C'mon, man, look alive.
**[06:30] Kagami**
I guess he's down for the count.
**[06:32] Suzuri**
Understandably, though.
**[06:41] Botan**
Welcome back.
**[06:42] Botan**
I believed in you, Kushige.
**[06:47] Botan**
I believed in you!
**[06:49] Botan**
But...
**[06:50] Botan**
But I...
**[06:56] Nagi**
Time for a visit to the hospital, I guess.
**[06:58] Yu**
That includes you, Tsubaki.
**[07:00] Tsubaki**
Aw, do I gotta?
**[07:04] Nagi**
Of course you do!
**[07:05] Suzuri**
You're in pretty bad shape yourself.
**[07:08] Taiju**
Did you destroy the Bureau?
**[07:10] Haori**
The Bureau, yes.
**[07:12] Haori**
The paper umbrellas they were
working with, the Warazamawashi...
**[07:16] Haori**
I would've liked to finish them as well, but...
**[07:19] Taiju**
I'd reckon the immediate threat
has passed, at least.
**[07:22] Taiju**
You all did very well.
**[07:25] Taiju**
Thank you.
**[07:26] Nagi**
Right!
**[07:28] Yu**
We might need some taxis here.
**[07:30] Nagi**
Yeah, I'm pretty beat.
**[07:34] Suzuri**
Haori, did you throw out your back?
**[07:36] Kagami**
I'll give you a massage later!
**[07:38] Haori**
Oh, please do.
**[07:38] Taiju**
They're all so casual!
**[07:40] Kagami**
Leave it to me!
**[07:42] Taiju**
You did well, too.
**[07:45] Aogi**
We could really use a bonus.
**[07:48] Taiju**
*But it's only for now.*
**[07:51] Taiju**
*The Bureau, under the supervision of*
**[07:54] Taiju**
* one of the Saenome's*
* Three Great Houses—the Yachimata—*
**[07:57] Taiju**
*turned against Kunato's Bridal Trousseau.*
**[08:01] Taiju**
* It can't just be written off as*
* lax supervision by the Yachimata.*
**[08:06] Taiju**
* Meanwhile, the instability of*
* Nagatsuki Botan has also been revealed.*
**[08:11] Taiju**
* Responsibility for that*
* lies with the Kunato.*
**[08:15] Taiju**
* The reverberations of this could lead*
* to war between the Three Great Houses.*
**[08:21] Taiju**
*I'm sure you realize that, Zohei.*
**[08:25] Zohei**
I see.
**[08:27] Zohei**
So the Bureau of Traditional Music
was working with the paper umbrella?
**[08:31] Haori**
Zohei-san,
**[08:32] Haori**
did you know that Tenjitsu
of the Warazamawashi
**[08:37] Haori**
was wearing the face of Kunato Hayato?
**[08:39] Zohei**
*Yes.*
**[08:40] Zohei**
* That's why I was trying to keep Hyoma from*
* learning anything about the paper umbrella.*
**[08:46] Zohei**
But with as far as Hyoma's come,
I think he can handle it.
**[08:52] Kai**
You're returning home, Hojo?
**[08:54] Hojo**
I am.
**[08:55] Hojo**
It seems the Three Great Houses are
about to have a lot more work to do.
**[09:00] Hojo**
It smells of the sort of trouble
you're so fond of, Kai.
**[09:07] Kai**
I can't wait to see it.
**[09:11] Taiju**
*And the umbrellas have made their move.*
**[09:14] Taiju**
* Nagatsuki Botan will be at*
* the center of a maelstrom.*
**[09:18] Taiju**
*And yet...*
**[09:21] Taiju**
*You'll walk straight into it, won't you?*
**[09:40] Hyoma**
Where am I?
**[09:43] Botan**
You're awake?
**[09:46] Botan**
I'm so glad.
**[09:47] Botan**
Hyoma-san, you've been
asleep for two whole days.
**[09:52] Hyoma**
Have I?
**[09:53] Botan**
You're getting up already?
**[09:55] Hyoma**
I believe I've had enough rest.
**[09:57] Hyoma**
Where are my clothes?
**[09:59] Botan**
Don't worry.
**[10:00] Botan**
I can bring you that much, at least.
**[10:04] Hyoma**
Botan, your hair is stuck to your cheek.
**[10:07] Botan**
Oh... Well...
**[10:10] Botan**
I actually dozed off myself.
**[10:13] Botan**
I'm so embarrassed.
**[10:15] Hyoma**
It's fine. Thank you.
**[10:18] Botan**
No, thank you!
**[10:24] Taiju**
Well, isn't that nice?
**[10:28] Hyoma**
R-Representative Kadomori! Tsubaki!
**[10:30] Taiju**
What's with him?
**[10:32] Taiju**
What does he think we saw?
**[10:34] Tsubaki**
No idea.
**[10:36] Hyoma**
Representative!
**[10:37] Hyoma**
W-Were you hurt?
**[10:39] Tsubaki**
Back pain.
**[10:39] Taiju**
It's back pain.
**[10:41] Tsubaki**
Papa's not a young man, after all!
**[10:43] Taiju**
And I've been off the front
lines for a while now!
**[10:46] Taiju**
Tsubaki filled me in about the Bureau.
**[10:50] Taiju**
It seems like a typical motive for them.
**[10:54] Taiju**
But what I'm more concerned about
**[10:56] Taiju**
is the paper umbrella joining the fight.
**[11:01] Taiju**
More precisely, the paper umbrella group.
**[11:04] Taiju**
Warazamawashi, was it?
**[11:06] Taiju**
Our office is investigating incidents
they might've been involved in.
**[11:11] Taiju**
But what concerns me most is the fact that
one of them seems to be your brother.
**[11:20] Taiju**
I see.
**[11:21] Tsubaki**
That's wrong.
**[11:23] Tsubaki**
He looks like him,
but he's not Hayato-san at all inside.
**[11:29] Taiju**
How do you know?
**[11:32] (Flashback) Tenjitsu**
He's mine to hunt.
**[11:35] (Flashback) Tenjitsu**
Kindly don't interfere.
**[11:37] Tsubaki**
Hayato-san would never use
the "boku" pronoun for himself.
**[11:42] Taiju**
"Boku"?
**[11:45] Taiju**
Now that you mention it...
**[11:47] (Flashback) Taiju**
Thanks for coming.
**[11:49] (Flashback) Taiju**
Would you be Kusui-san and Hayato-kun, then?
**[11:51] (Flashback) Hayato**
Eh? How'd you know before
we introduced ourselves?
**[11:56] (Flashback) Hayato**
I see. Yes.
**[11:58] (Flashback) Hayato**
My face is already that well-known...
**[12:02] (Flashback) Hayato**
I truly am great.
**[12:04] Taiju**
Oh, I remember now.
**[12:06] Tsubaki**
Yeah, it was always the haughty
"ore-sama" or "ore."
**[12:09] Taiju**
He was quite confident.
**[12:13] Taiju**
After all, he was a recognized genius,
**[12:17] Taiju**
whom they say surpassed Zohei
at the mere age of sixteen.
**[12:20] (Flashback) Taiju**
Didn't your grandfather say
he was sending a photo?
**[12:24] (Flashback) Hayato**
Oh, right!
**[12:26] Taiju**
*And yet he was a real dum-dum.*
**[12:29] Tsubaki**
If you'd faced him, you would've known
right away that it wasn't him.
**[12:34] Hyoma**
I see.
**[12:36] Hyoma**
He didn't just devour my brother and sister.
**[12:39] Hyoma**
He even wore my brother's skin...
**[12:43] Hyoma**
Next time we fight,
**[12:46] Hyoma**
I will...
**[12:48] Taiju**
All right, I get it.
**[12:51] Taiju**
I'm relieved to hear that it
hasn't depleted your morale.
**[12:55] Taiju**
As long as you're on the Kyoto Saenome roll,
**[12:59] Taiju**
I'm hoping to get plenty of
use out of you, after all.
**[13:02] Taiju**
Anyway, let's work hard together
on our umbrella hunt.
**[13:06] Hyoma**
Together?
**[13:07] Taiju**
Well, of course together.
**[13:10] Taiju**
As long as they're after
Nagatsuki-san, who's in Kyoto,
**[13:13] Taiju**
we, the defenders of Kyoto,
will be their enemy.
**[13:17] Taiju**
So we'll inevitably be fighting side by side.
**[13:21] Taiju**
Am I wrong?
**[13:23] Hyoma**
That's true, but...
**[13:25] Taiju**
Good!
**[13:26] Taiju**
Then it's all decided!
**[13:28] Taiju**
Now, Hyoma-kun,
**[13:29] Taiju**
come join us tonight for
a Kyoto Saenome tradition!
**[13:34] Taiju**
You're not getting out of this either, Tsubaki!
**[13:37] Hyoma**
What's this all about?
**[13:39] Taiju**
There's something we always do after a big job!
**[13:43] Taiju**
A celebratory bash!
**[13:51] Botan**
I did remember Haori and the others creating
a sash that read "You're the star," but...
**[13:56] Tsubaki**
That was for the party, for sure.
***SIGN*** You're the Star
**[13:59] Tsubaki**
To tease Hyoma-chan with.
**[14:01] Hyoma**
Wh-What?
**[14:04] Hyoma**
I-I could ne'er accept praise
after a mere two days' slumber!
**[14:08] Botan**
He's freaking out.
**[14:09] Tsubaki**
Like I said, they're teasing you.
**[14:11] Tsubaki**
Exaggerating things to make the party more fun.
**[14:16] Taiju**
It's fine enough.
**[14:17] Taiju**
You did a fine job protecting
Nagatsuki-san this time.
**[14:21] Taiju**
Even if it's exaggerated,
it's all right to accept the praise.
**[14:31] Suzuri**
Hey, hey!
**[14:33] Suzuri**
Here comes our star of the day...
**[14:38] Suzuri**
Kushige-san!
***SIGN*** You're the Star
**[14:46] Hyoma**
So that's what it was!
**[14:47] Suzuri**
Oh, and Hyoma-kun's out of the hospital, too!
**[14:58] Suzuri**
Oh? What's this?
**[15:00] Suzuri**
Hyoma-kun, were you hoping you'd be the star?
**[15:04] Hyoma**
Don't speak of it.
**[15:05] Kagami**
Hyoma-san's face is all red!
**[15:08] Hyoma**
Don't look at me!
**[15:13] Hyoma**
Was Kushige's quick restoration instigated
by his concern for his mistress, then?
**[15:20] Suzuri**
I do think that was the number one reason.
**[15:23] Suzuri**
He'll keep up his barrier over Botan,
**[15:25] Suzuri**
but with the mansion gone, the spirit energy
he was spending there has returned to him.
**[15:31] Suzuri**
So Kushige will be able
to fight from now on, too.
**[15:35] Suzuri**
We can't ignore the paper umbrellas
now that they've said they're after Botan.
**[15:42] Saenome 2**
Don't worry! No matter
what those Wara-things do...
**[15:46] Saenome 1**
...we'll keep Bon-chan safe!
**[15:49] Saenome 1**
Right, everyone?
**[15:51] All**
Yeah!
**[15:53] Botan**
You guys...
**[15:54] Suzuri**
That's our line!
**[15:56] Kagami**
You old men can sit this one out!
**[15:59] Saenome 1**
Hey, shut up!
**[16:03] Hyoma**
*All this time, I thought...*
**[16:05] Hyoma**
* that the fight against the*
* paper umbrella was my fight.*
**[16:10] Hyoma**
*That to achieve my revenge against him myself*
**[16:13] Hyoma**
*was the only form it could take.*
**[16:17] Hyoma**
*But there's more to it than that.*
**[16:20] Hyoma**
*There's more to it than that now.*
**[16:23] Hyoma**
*In terms of how I face the paper umbrella...*
**[16:31] Hyoma**
*And the reason I must defeat it.*
**[16:37] Suzuri**
You look like you've made a decision.
**[16:40] Hyoma**
Yes.
**[16:42] Hyoma**
It's a bit like, I can't afford
to lose, and perhaps...
**[16:46] Kushige**
Boy.
**[16:47] Kushige**
For doing everything in your power
to protect my mistress in my absence,
**[16:53] Kushige**
I offer you my most profound gratitude.
**[16:57] Hyoma**
Kushige talked!
**[16:59] Shota**
Hell yeah!
**[17:01] Umekichi**
It's gonna be a great year!
**[17:04] Tsubaki**
Among the Kyoto Saenome,
there's a rumor that hearing Kushige's voice
**[17:07] Tsubaki**
means good fortune for the new year!
**[17:30] Kagami**
What Tsumabiki saw back then...
**[17:40] Kagami**
That was Botan before she met us.
**[17:46] Kagami**
I can't tell them.
**[17:48] Kagami**
I can't tell anyone about that.
**[17:56] Kei**
Okay, Bon-chan!
**[17:58] Kei**
Tell us all about what's been going on
since you took off from college!
**[18:03] Botan**
S-Seriously, our house collapsed from old age,
**[18:08] Botan**
and I had to stick around for the repairs.
**[18:14] Natsuki**
She's lying.
**[18:15] Kei**
Yes, clearly lying.
**[18:20] Kei**
Oh-ho!
**[18:21] Kei**
Did you go on a trip with Kunato-san?
**[18:24] Natsuki**
O-One of those pre-marriage trips?!
**[18:28] Botan**
I didn't go on a trip!
**[18:31] Botan**
And... I'm not getting married.
**[18:34] (Flashback) Hyoma**
I'll always keep you safe.
**[18:43] Natsuki**
I can feel the money for the wedding
gift leaving my wallet already...
**[18:48] Kei**
It's okay, Natsuki!
**[18:49] Botan**
Hyoma-san and I don't have
that kind of relationship!
**[19:01] Natsuki**
Huh?
**[19:02] Natsuki**
You didn't bring an umbrella, Bon?
**[19:04] Kei**
The forecast said it'd start
raining in the afternoon.
**[19:08] Botan**
I could buy a plastic one
at the convenience store...
**[19:12] Botan**
But I'd rather avoid spending if I don't have to.
**[19:16] Hyoma**
Botan.
**[19:18] Botan**
Hyoma-san!
**[19:21] Botan**
What are you doing here?
**[19:23] Hyoma**
Kagami told me you'd forgotten your umbrella
**[19:26] Hyoma**
and asked me to drop it off.
**[19:28] Botan**
Thanks—
**[19:31] Kei**
Gosh, what a nice boyfriend!
**[19:33] Natsuki**
Kunato-san, we leave Bon in your care.
**[19:36] Hyoma**
R-Right.
**[19:44] Botan**
Hyoma-san, don't you need an umbrella?
**[19:47] Hyoma**
No, I'm fine.
**[19:57] Botan**
If you get too wet, you'll catch a cold.
**[20:00] Hyoma**
Thank you.
**[20:03] Botan**
* Isn't sharing an umbrella*
* something couples do?!*
**[20:23] Hyoma**
A traditional wedding ceremony?
**[20:25] Botan**
Yeah. Isn't the white kimono pretty?
**[20:28] Hyoma**
It is.
**[20:30] Hyoma**
I think you'd look good in one.
**[20:35] Hyoma**
I-I meant nothing by it!
**[20:37] Hyoma**
I meant only that the style would suit you...
**[20:42] Suzuri**
They're as clueless as ever.
**[20:45] Kagami**
Why are you so bad at this, Hyoma-san?!
**[20:47] Kagami**
Don't try to back down from that!
**[20:49] Yu**
Botan should just dump him already.
**[20:55] Nagi**
Looks to me like we're just waiting
to see which one takes the first step.
**[21:00] Haori**
Indeed.
**[21:01] Haori**
The bond we tsukumogami have forged and tied...
**[21:13] Haori**
Let's see this good match
meet its appropriate end.
**[21:20] Hyoma**
The rain seems to have let up.
**[21:22] Botan**
Yeah.
**[21:26] Botan**
If you think I'd look good in one of those...
**[21:32] Botan**
Why don't we get a closer look?
**[21:39] Hyoma**
Right.