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!
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