OVA3 - The Blind Alley, The Boy, and I

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    Wait!
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    You're here, too?
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    Who are you?
SIGN    #13 "The Blind Alley, The Boy, and I"
[02:13] ---
    Okay, let's drink and ward
     off the summer heat!
[02:15] ---
    Cheers!
[02:16] ---
    Cheers!
[02:18] ---
    Cheers.
[02:19] ---
    Good work today.
[02:21] ---
    Good work.
[02:23] ---
    Thanks...
[02:26] ---
    You look down, Miyako-kun.
[02:28] ---
    Could it be related to the fact
     that you've smelled
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    like a wild animal all day?
[02:34] ---
    You can tell?
[02:36] ---
    Of course it's related!
[02:38] ---
    I had to give up on the cold
     shiruko I asked you for!
[02:41] ---
    Cold shiruko?
[02:43] ---
    Well, you see...
[02:57] (Flashback) ---
    I keep ending up in the same place.
[03:01] (Flashback) ---
    How can I get lost for an hour
     in my own neighborhood?
[03:11] (Flashback) ---
    Huh?
[03:12] (Flashback) ---
    I don't remember a restaurant like this here...
[03:15] (Flashback) ---
    Come in, kid.
[03:19] (Flashback) ---
    Have a drink.
[03:24] (Flashback) ---
    We know all about you.
[03:26] (Flashback) ---
    You're famous around Kagurazaka.
[03:30] (Flashback) ---
    You're Seimei's descendant, right?
[03:33] (Flashback) ---
    A friend of my grandfather's
     grandfather lived in the west,
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    and he helped him out.
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    First that blind alley and now this.
[03:44] ---
    Well, they're definitely not human.
[03:50] (Flashback) ---
    If one of us has been helped,
     we all owe a debt.
[03:54] (Flashback) ---
    A debt we'd like to repay to his
     grandson, or great grandson!
[04:00] (Flashback) ---
    I see.
[04:01] (Flashback) ---
    You're rambling on about
    debts and grandsons,
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    but this is what you're really after, right?
[04:06] (Flashback) ---
    We've always wanted to try it!
[04:09] (Flashback) ---
    You want it that bad?
[04:11] (Flashback) ---
    Yes!
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    Bark!
[04:15] (Flashback) ---
    You're foxes?
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    So, you gave them the cold
     shiruko and they let you go?
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    Those foxes will pay for this!
[04:31] ---
    What is this?
[04:33] ---
    An anti-fox spray that
     creates a smell foxes hate.
[04:38] ---
    If I'd sprayed this on you earlier,
     my cold shiruko...
[04:45] ---
    You really love the stuff, huh?
[04:48] ---
    The stuff from Kanoyoshi is special.
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    The way it smells, the way
     it feels on the tongue...
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    Another beer!
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    Coming right up!
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    Foxes, huh?
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    I remember having a run-in with some
     when I was about your age, Miyako-kun.
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    You had problems with foxes, Senda-san?
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    I think they were servants
     of Oinari-san, so yes.
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    They really don't care about
     our problems in the slightest,
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    so be careful.
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    What did they do to you?
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    You want to hear?
[05:26] ---
    I do!
[05:27] ---
    So do I!
[05:29] ---
    What to do?
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    With what? You want the stuffed chicken wings?
[05:32] ---
    Not that.
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    Why not? They may learn something.
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    Well...
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    It was my third year of college,
     so about 15 years ago?
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    I'd gone back home to the
     countryside because it was Obon.
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    My friend worked at a local shrine,
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    and I was told to help with the
     preparations for the summer festival.
[06:04] (Flashback) ---
    Hey, you're one of the Sendas.
[06:07] (Flashback) ---
    You're back.
[06:08] (Flashback) ---
    Here to help with the summer festival?
[06:10] (Flashback) ---
    Yes. I can't believe they sent me
     here as soon as I got back.
[06:14] (Flashback) ---
    We could use a hand, though. Help us out.
[06:35] (Flashback) ---
    It's been a long time. But this
    place hasn't changed at all.
[07:02] (Flashback) ---
    It's pretty busy.
[07:29] (Flashback) ---
    What?
[07:31] (Flashback) ---
    Why is no one here?
[07:37] (Flashback) ---
    I can't hear the cicadas, either.
[07:49] (Flashback) ---
    Guess I'll head to the shrine office.
[07:54] (Flashback) ---
    Hello?
[07:57] (Flashback) ---
    Akira? I'm here!
[08:02] (Flashback) ---
    You can't bring me here and then be a no-show.
[08:07] (Flashback) ---
    Now what do I do?
SIGN    Akira
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    No signal?
[08:20] (Flashback) ---
    Something's not right here.
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    I have a bad feeling about this...
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    I should probably get outta here.
[08:52] ---
    I just went down these stairs...
[09:04] (Flashback) ---
    Ah, jeez.
[09:05] (Flashback) ---
    A fox or a tanuki?
[09:07] (Flashback) ---
    Something inhuman, either way.
[09:18] (Flashback) ---
    The phone still doesn't work...
[09:21] (Flashback) ---
    A person?
[09:23] (Flashback) ---
    Um, are you also...
[09:28] (Flashback) ---
    Why are you running?
[09:31] (Flashback) ---
    Wait!
[09:41] (Flashback) ---
    Who are you?
[09:55] (Flashback) ---
    Are you trapped here, too?
[10:08] (Flashback) ---
    You're cute.
[10:10] (Flashback) ---
    I'm a guy!
[10:12] (Flashback) ---
    Himeduka Theo!
[10:13] (Flashback) ---
    Theo, in katakana!
[10:15] (Flashback) ---
    Mistake me for a girl again
     and I'll kick your ass!
[10:17] (Flashback) ---
    You already kicked me...
[10:26] (Flashback) ---
    Himeduka Theo?
[10:28] (Flashback) ---
    Himeduka Theo-kun, huh?
[10:30] (Flashback) ---
    I'm sorry. I thought you were a foreign girl.
[10:34] (Flashback) ---
    I'm not a girl.
[10:35] (Flashback) ---
    But I'm half-British, half-Japanese.
[10:38] (Flashback) ---
    That's why your Japanese is so good?
[10:40] (Flashback) ---
    Why'd you run if you can speak it, though?
[10:44] (Flashback) ---
    I didn't really run...
[10:47] (Flashback) ---
    Who are you?
[10:50] (Flashback) ---
    Senda. Senda Reiji.
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    22 years old. In college.
[10:54] (Flashback) ---
    You one of them?
[10:56] (Flashback) ---
    "Them"?
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    I mean, look at what you've got with you.
[10:59] (Flashback) ---
    What I have with me?
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    Wait, you don't know?
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    Then are you in trouble, too?
[11:10] (Flashback) ---
    You can't leave.
[11:12] (Flashback) ---
    Yeah...
[11:16] (Flashback) ---
    I think it's the work of something inhuman...
[11:20] (Flashback) ---
    You can tell, too?
[11:21] (Flashback) ---
    It's just a feeling...
[11:24] (Flashback) ---
    I can't believe this is happening near
     my house, and at a friend's shrine, too.
[11:29] (Flashback) ---
    A friend? You mean Akira?
[11:32] (Flashback) ---
    Huh? You know him?
[11:34] (Flashback) ---
    Yeah. We met online.
[11:36] (Flashback) ---
    I'm interested in Japanese
     culture, particularly shrines.
[11:41] (Flashback) ---
    I met him on a forum for that stuff,
     and he told me he lived at a shrine,
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    and invited me over for summer break.
[11:48] (Flashback) ---
    And when I got here...
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    This is what you found, huh?
[11:53] (Flashback) ---
    So, we're both stuck.
[11:59] (Flashback) ---
    To be honest, I don't want to say
     this to a person I've just met, but...
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    This is a really unusual situation,
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    so I think you'll believe at least
     part of what I'm about to say.
[12:11] (Flashback) ---
    There's something strange behind you.
[12:14] (Flashback) ---
    Strange?
[12:20] (Flashback) ---
    You mean a ghost or something?
[12:23] (Flashback) ---
    No.
[12:28] (Flashback) ---
    A fox. Probably a servant of a god?
[12:34] (Flashback) ---
    A fox?
[12:37] (Flashback) ---
    Then the reason you ran...
[12:39] (Flashback) ---
    A person chasing me with
    something like that attached?
[12:42] (Flashback) ---
    Of course I ran.
[12:53] (Flashback) ---
    It's creepy.
[12:55] (Flashback) ---
    Ever since you got close, I've been
     able to see it really clearly.
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    Normally this never happens.
[13:04] (Flashback) ---
    You and I may be very compatible, then.
[13:09] (Flashback) ---
    By the way, what's the fox doing?
[13:18] (Flashback) ---
    It moved.
[13:21] (Flashback) ---
    What? It looks like it's pointing a finger.
[13:24] (Flashback) ---
    It's got fingers? Even though it's a fox?
[13:27] (Flashback) ---
    Yeah.
[13:31] (Flashback) ---
    It's pointing that way.
[13:36] (Flashback) ---
    Was there a forest over there?
[13:40] (Flashback) ---
    I've got a bad feeling...
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    Where are you going?
[13:50] (Flashback) ---
    That way. I don't have a choice, do we?
[13:53] (Flashback) ---
    The thing behind me locked us here
     because it wanted us to do something, right?
[14:03] (Flashback) ---
    I'd appreciate it if you came with me.
[14:06] (Flashback) ---
    I can't see it, so I'd like
     to know what it's saying.
[14:11] (Flashback) ---
    You're strange.
[14:14] (Flashback) ---
    Normally you wouldn't believe that stuff
     I said about foxes, or seeing strange things.
[14:19] (Flashback) ---
    My family's got a history with that stuff.
[14:22] (Flashback) ---
    Family?
[14:23] (Flashback) ---
    You told me because you
    thought I'd believe you, right?
[14:28] (Flashback) ---
    I see. Let's go.
[14:43] (Flashback) ---
    I used to play at the shrine all the time...
[14:46] (Flashback) ---
    But I don't remember this path.
[14:53] (Flashback) ---
    Listen...
[14:55] (Flashback) ---
    What you said earlier... What did you
     mean by we're compatible?
[14:59] (Flashback) ---
    Oh, that's also something I shouldn't
     say to a person I've just met.
[15:04] (Flashback) ---
    But I'm kind of a catalyst?
[15:06] (Flashback) ---
    Catalyst?
[15:08] (Flashback) ---
    It's in my family's blood, I guess.
[15:11] (Flashback) ---
    I'm an amplifier for powers...
[15:14] (Flashback) ---
    When someone's compatible
     with me, it gets easier to see
[15:16] (Flashback) ---
    things they shouldn't be able to see.
[15:20] (Flashback) ---
    It gave me a rough time when I was little.
[15:24] (Flashback) ---
    "When he gets close, you can see ghosts."
[15:26] (Flashback) ---
    "The Rei in Reiji is the Rei
     in reinousha, or medium."
[15:30] (Flashback) ---
    Even though I can't see a thing...
[15:33] (Flashback) ---
    So that's why, huh?
[15:36] (Flashback) ---
    My senses have been really sharp
     for these past few minutes.
[15:39] (Flashback) ---
    I feel it more than I usually do.
[15:42] (Flashback) ---
    Feel?
[15:44] (Flashback) ---
    Yeah. A dangerous presence.
[15:56] (Flashback) ---
    Is this the spot?
[15:57] (Flashback) ---
    Probably.
[15:59] (Flashback) ---
    Was something buried here?
[16:05] (Flashback) ---
    Oh no. Something really bad is buried here.
[16:09] (Flashback) ---
    Is it that bad?
[16:13] (Flashback) ---
    You really don't feel anything?
[16:17] (Flashback) ---
    Let's dig it up, then.
[16:20] (Flashback) ---
    We've come this far. It's not like
     we can do anything else at this point.
[16:31] (Flashback) ---
    It smiled. Looks like digging
     it up is the right answer.
[16:35] (Flashback) ---
    Let's do it, then.
[16:47] (Flashback) ---
    What is this?
[16:48] (Flashback) ---
    It's really bad news.
[16:51] (Flashback) ---
    It looks like steps in
     the ritual were skipped,
[16:53] (Flashback) ---
    or maybe it was done by a beginner.
[16:55] (Flashback) ---
    You know what it is?
[16:56] (Flashback) ---
    Yeah. My family has a history
     with this stuff, too.
[17:01] (Flashback) ---
    So, what is this?
[17:04] (Flashback) ---
    Some kind of ritual tool.
[17:06] (Flashback) ---
    Ritual tool?
[17:08] (Flashback) ---
    Something that brings disaster
     to a place or a person, using a curse.
[17:12] (Flashback) ---
    Probably a Kodoku Pot.
[17:16] (Flashback) ---
    You throw centipedes, snakes, and scorpions
     into a pot and make them eat each other.
[17:20] (Flashback) ---
    The result is a powerful poison curse.
[17:23] (Flashback) ---
    Just touching the Kodoku's
     poison will end any life.
[17:27] (Flashback) ---
    This probably has something to do with
     the surrounding trees and grass being dead.
[17:31] (Flashback) ---
    No wonder they don't like it.
[17:33] (Flashback) ---
    From the perspective of the local god,
     it'd be like having a bomb in your house.
[17:38] (Flashback) ---
    What's something like that doing here?
[17:41] (Flashback) ---
    Maybe they couldn't
     get rid of it, so they threw it away?
[17:43] (Flashback) ---
    It's not a pet turtle.
[17:46] (Flashback) ---
    It's a pot, not a turtle, yeah.
[17:48] (Flashback) ---
    Your Japanese really is good.
[17:51] (Flashback) ---
    I'm half-Japanese.
[17:53] (Flashback) ---
    But what do we do with it?
[17:57] (Flashback) ---
    Let's purify it.
[17:59] (Flashback) ---
    I guess it's the only way.
[18:02] (Flashback) ---
    That fox behind me?
[18:04] (Flashback) ---
    I think it's a servant of the local god.
[18:07] (Flashback) ---
    It probably wants us to get rid of this.
[18:09] (Flashback) ---
    Agreed.
[18:11] (Flashback) ---
    It would be better to ask a pro, like Akira.
[18:16] (Flashback) ---
    But we can't talk to him
     while we're stuck in here.
[18:18] (Flashback) ---
    Yeah.
[18:20] (Flashback) ---
    We'll have to do it ourselves, then.
[18:24] (Flashback) ---
    You're really calm.
[18:26] (Flashback) ---
    Who was it who dug this up first?
[18:29] (Flashback) ---
    So, where do we start?
[18:31] (Flashback) ---
    Well... with water, I suppose.
[18:35] (Flashback) ---
    Water?
[18:37] (Flashback) ---
    Since we don't know who laid the curse or why,
[18:41] (Flashback) ---
    we'll have to weaken the poison with water.
[18:44] (Flashback) ---
    Water it down?
[18:45] (Flashback) ---
    Yes. Holy water would be ideal, but...
[18:49] (Flashback) ---
    Holy water?
[19:01] (Flashback) ---
    I think it's a little better.
[19:10] (Flashback) ---
    It's pointing again.
[19:12] (Flashback) ---
    That way, it says.
[19:14] (Flashback) ---
    That's where the waterfall is.
[19:16] (Flashback) ---
    I get it. Throw it under the waterfall...
[19:19] (Flashback) ---
    And it will be purified.
[19:21] (Flashback) ---
    Is it okay to grab this, though?
[19:23] (Flashback) ---
    I think we should be able to now.
[19:27] (Flashback) ---
    Okay, let's carry it.
[19:39] (Flashback) ---
    This is the perfect place
    to purify it, I think.
[19:43] (Flashback) ---
    Of course, a proper exorcism
     will need to be done later.
[19:50] (Flashback) ---
    Okay.
[20:11] (Flashback) ---
    What? Is it saying something again?
[20:14] (Flashback) ---
    I think it said we can go.
[20:17] (Flashback) ---
    Good.
[20:20] (Flashback) ---
    Sheesh. They're so selfish.
[20:23] (Flashback) ---
    All that trouble, and now
     they're kicking us out.
[20:25] (Flashback) ---
    That's just what Anothers are like.
[20:28] (Flashback) ---
    Anothers?
[20:29] (Flashback) ---
    Oh, Anothers are....
[20:35] (Flashback) ---
    Reiji-kun!
[20:56] (Flashback) ---
    If that poison touches you, you're dead, huh?
[21:00] (Flashback) ---
    Well, that's not good.
[21:07] (Flashback) ---
    This spellthread was woven
     by the Witch of the West.
[21:09] (Flashback) ---
    Normally it can only ward off demons,
[21:12] (Flashback) ---
    but with your abilities as an amplifier,
[21:15] (Flashback) ---
    it can defeat a Kodoku.
[21:23] (Flashback) ---
    Sheesh. This was one heck of a day.
[21:27] (Flashback) ---
    That's the first time anybody's
     called me "Reiji-kun".
[21:31] (Flashback) ---
    Would you have preferred Senda-kun?
[21:35] (Flashback) ---
    Thanks for saving me, Theo-kun.
[21:40] (Flashback) ---
    You're welcome.
[21:52] ---
    And that's how we made it
     out of our own blind alley.
[22:06] ---
    Well, it was hard to purify that waterfall,
[22:10] ---
    but I spent the rest of summer
     vacation with Theo-kun.
[22:15] ---
    He followed me back to Tokyo,
     and we ended up working together.
[22:21] ---
    And that's how we got where we are today.
[22:23] ---
    Um... So the two of you have
     always been amazing, huh?
[22:28] ---
    Right?
[22:29] ---
    I can't believe you dug up a
    Kodoku Pot, though.
[22:33] ---
    They're so dangerous.
[22:35] ---
    If I hadn't, we might still be stuck there.
[22:42] ---
    That fox selfishly used us to serve his god.
[22:50] ---
    We were basically made to disarm
     a bomb without any protective suits.
[22:55] ---
    So, don't let them take
     my cold shiruko next time.
[22:58] ---
    I have to go get it again?
[23:01] ---
    Of course.
[23:02] ---
    Thank you for the meal!
[23:04] ---
    Okay, see you all Monday.
[23:06] ---
    Night!
[23:08] ---
    Okay, let's go home...
[23:11] ---
    Or so I thought.
[23:13] ---
    But aren't you hungry?
[23:14] ---
    After all you ate?
[23:16] ---
    I forgot to get ramen at the end.
[23:18] ---
    You always have so much energy.
[23:21] ---
    Yeah?
[23:22] ---
    You're coming to my family's
     inn this year, right?
[23:25] ---
    Of course.
[23:27] ---
    Thanks to you, my research...
[23:29] ---
    Oh, I know! Let's get that good tonkotsu ramen.
[23:33] ---
    We just had ramen for lunch!
[23:35] ---
    Maybe soba...
[23:36] ---
    How about fox udon?
[23:38] ---
    Foxes? Sounds great.