# E16 - 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