# E1 - Chigashira no Tanbei
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***SIGN*** Arson & Theft
**[00:17] Sa**
Arson & Theft Department.
**[00:19] Sa**
Kobusa no Kumehachi!
**[00:20] Sa**
Surrender yourself!
**[00:25] Sa**
Your comrades ran away.
***SIGN*** Chigashira no Tanbei
***SIGN*** Arson & Theft Department
**[01:46] Ko**
He's tough.
**[01:47] Chu**
Even stone torture didn't take him down.
**[01:50] Hei**
I'll handle this.
**[01:52] Hei**
Are you Kobusa no Kumehachi?
**[01:58] Hei**
I'm chief of the Arson & Theft Department,
**[02:01] Hei**
Hasegawa Heizo.
**[02:05] Kume**
I get the chief himself, eh?
**[02:09] Kume**
Guess I'm moving up in the world.
**[02:11] Hei**
I'm told your comrades betrayed you.
**[02:15] Hei**
They left you to take the fall.
**[02:18] Hei**
What obligates you to protect them, then?
**[02:22] Kume**
Thieves have their own forms of honor,
**[02:25] ---**
and their own forms of pride, sir.
**[02:51] Hei**
Kumehachi...
**[02:52] Hei**
This won't really break you, will it?
**[02:55] Hei**
It's nothing compared to the suffering
you've inflicted on others.
**[03:36] Chu**
Ojun-sama!
**[03:39] Chu**
You can't be in here, dear.
**[03:42] Chu**
I'll get an earful for it.
**[03:44] Chu**
Darn it...
**[03:59] Chu**
Dang. Can't even enjoy a
couple minutes on the can.
**[04:03] Kume**
Excuse me, sir.
**[04:07] Chu**
What?
**[04:08] Kume**
Who was that girl?
**[04:10] Chu**
Our chief's daughter.
**[04:13] Chu**
Though she's not his real daughter.
**[04:18] Chu**
She's the daughter of a thief he arrested.
**[04:21] Kume**
Impossible!
**[04:23] Chu**
He's a generous man, our chief.
**[04:33] Kume**
Hasegawa... Heizo.
***SIGN*** — Months Later —
**[04:51] Hei**
You had quite a fitful sleep.
**[04:55] Hei**
Your wounds tormenting you again?
**[04:59] Hei**
Would you like a drink?
**[05:04] Hei**
Where are you from, exactly?
**[05:06] Kume**
I don't know.
**[05:08] Kume**
I don't even remember my parents.
**[05:12] Kume**
I just...
**[05:13] Hei**
You just?
**[05:14] Kume**
I think I was born in the north.
**[05:18] Kume**
A little village where the snow often fell.
**[05:22] Hei**
Snow, eh?
**[05:23] Kume**
I lived there with an old woman.
**[05:26] Kume**
I called her Granny On.
**[05:28] Hei**
Granny On?
**[05:31] Kume**
Thinking back, I feel like
she was my real grandmother.
**[05:36] Hei**
I see.
**[05:38] Kume**
I remember a snowy day.
**[05:41] Kume**
Granny On was leading me by the hand...
**[05:49] Kume**
I clung to her body and wept,
**[05:52] Kume**
then felt someone peel
me off and take me away.
**[05:56] Kume**
I don't know what happened next.
**[05:59] Kume**
My earliest real memories are of
**[06:01] ---**
making a living doing the tightrope
at Yamadori Gin's theater.
**[06:07] Kume**
Never knowing my parents meant I didn't
see much to offer me in an ordinary life.
**[06:15] Kume**
I shouldn't need to explain how
I turned down the wrong path after that.
**[06:26] Hei**
It's gotten chilly.
**[06:31] Hei**
This should help you sleep.
**[06:46] Hei**
Hey, Kumehachi.
**[06:49] Hei**
I never knew my real mother, either.
**[06:53] Hei**
Granny On...
**[06:56] Hei**
I wish someone had ever led me by the hand.
***SIGN*** Chigashira no Tanbei
**[07:29] Chu**
How did it go?
**[07:30] Saka**
How did it go? It was awful.
**[07:33] Chu**
Was there another wooden marker?
**[07:35] Saka**
Yes.
**[07:36] Saka**
It said "Chigashira no Tanbei."
**[07:39] Saka**
He's a disgrace to thieves.
**[07:41] Saka**
A nasty piece of work.
**[07:43] Chu**
What's his M.O.?
**[07:44] Saka**
It's really something.
**[07:46] Saka**
He does whatever it takes.
**[07:48] Saka**
He'll threaten the master of the house
to unlock the warehouse, rob it blind,
**[07:52] Saka**
and even kill women and children.
**[07:55] Chu**
Even the quality of our thieves is declining.
**[07:58] Chu**
Anyone can just force money out of
someone if they're amoral enough.
**[08:03] Chu**
A real thief shouldn't
stoop to rape and murder.
**[08:09] Chu**
At least, that's what the
chief always tells me.
**[08:12] Kame**
I want to talk!
**[08:20] Hei**
I'm told you wanted to speak with me.
**[08:22] Kame**
Yes, Hasegawa-sama.
**[08:25] Kame**
The thief who attacked that lord's residence
**[08:28] Kame**
was impersonating Chigashira no Tanbei.
**[08:31] Hei**
What?
**[08:33] Kame**
The real Tanbei wouldn't
stomach such a slaughter,
**[08:36] Kame**
just as the sun doesn't rise in the west.
**[08:40] Hei**
You know the real Tanbei?
**[08:43] Kame**
Yes.
**[08:45] Kame**
He supported me until I turned nineteen...
**[08:48] Kame**
as my boss.
**[08:51] Hei**
What?
**[08:53] Kame**
It was Master Chigashira who taught
me the three rules of the true thief.
**[09:00] Hei**
The three rules of the true thief?
**[09:11] (Flashback) Tan**
Listen up, all of you.
**[09:13] (Flashback) Tan**
We might be bad guys,
but we're not some petty burglars.
**[09:17] (Flashback) Tan**
The three rules of the true thief!
**[09:19] (Flashback) Tan**
Don't forget these, no matter what.
**[09:23] (Flashback) Tan**
We don't shed blood,
**[09:25] (Flashback) Tan**
we only steal from the rich,
**[09:28] (Flashback) Tan**
and we don't rape women.
**[09:31] (Flashback) Thie**
We get it already, boss!
**[09:33] (Flashback) Thie**
You can stop tellin' us already!
**[09:37] (Flashback) Tan**
Kumehachi!
**[09:46] (Flashback) Tan**
A drink to our bond.
**[09:55] (Flashback) Tan**
We're counting on you.
**[10:16] Kume**
But several years later,
I broke that ironclad rule.
**[10:22] Kume**
In the foolishness of youth...
**[10:37] Hei**
What then?
**[10:38] Kume**
I was expelled.
**[10:40] Kume**
I apologized, but he wouldn't forgive me.
**[10:43] Kume**
Ever since that day, I've tried to
adhere to the three rules on my own.
**[10:51] Hei**
You're saying Chigashira no Tanbei
adheres to these rules as well?
**[10:58] Kume**
Yes.
**[11:02] Sa**
Sir!
**[11:03] Sa**
They struck again.
**[11:05] Sa**
This time it was Yorozuya Hikozaemon,
**[11:08] ---**
the paper dealer in
Kojimachi's third district.
**[11:11] Hei**
No survivors again?
**[11:13] Sa**
Actually...
**[11:14] Sa**
One girl did survive.
**[11:19] (Flashback) Sa**
You played dead to hide from them?
**[11:23] (Flashback) Oko**
Yes.
**[11:25] (Flashback) Sa**
You must have been very frightened.
**[11:27] (Flashback) Sa**
But you're safe now.
**[11:29] (Flashback) Sa**
Do you remember anything about them?
**[11:34] (Flashback) Oko**
They said... they were leaving Edo.
**[11:37] (Flashback) Sa**
The thieves said that?
**[11:40] (Flashback) Oko**
Yes...
**[11:41] (Flashback) Oko**
"Listen, we'll meet up
again in Shimada-juku."
**[11:45] (Flashback) Sa**
Shimada-juku?
**[11:47] (Flashback) Sa**
You're sure of that?
**[11:49] (Flashback) Oko**
Yes.
**[11:50] (Flashback) Oko**
Please... avenge my parents.
**[11:56] Kume**
Constable, sir.
**[11:58] Kume**
Please tell me one thing.
**[12:01] Kume**
Was there a scorched
wooden marker there, too?
***SIGN*** Chigashira no Tanbei
**[12:12] Kume**
Unforgivable...
**[12:15] Kume**
Hasegawa-sama...
**[12:17] Kume**
This impostor who calls himself
Chigashira no Tanbei...
**[12:21] Kume**
Please, let me capture him myself.
**[12:26] Hei**
Kumehachi...
**[12:28] Hei**
That would make you a dog in the
eyes of your fellow thieves.
**[12:34] Kume**
But I can't let someone ruin Chigashira,
the man to whom I owe so much.
**[12:41] Kume**
That's another of our laws.
**[12:46] Kume**
When I'm finished, I swear I'll return.
**[12:53] Sa**
Chief!
**[12:53] Sa**
Wait, please.
**[12:55] Sa**
Letting a prisoner go like
this is unprecedented.
**[12:59] Sa**
What if he runs away? It could
greatly affect your standing.
**[13:02] Hei**
I'm aware.
**[13:04] Sa**
You want to let Kumehachi go,
**[13:06] ---**
even knowing it could lead to your dismissal?
**[13:10] Hei**
Sajima...
**[13:11] ---**
There's no need to worry about him.
**[13:13] Sa**
Chief...
**[13:15] Hei**
If my judgment turns out to be incorrect,
**[13:18] Hei**
I'll gladly cut my own stomach.
***SIGN*** — Shimada-juku —
**[13:44] Kume**
Hey, asshole!
**[13:47] Man**
Whadda you want, kid?
**[13:50] Man**
That mouth will be the death of you.
**[14:06] Kume**
Really? Looks like it'll be the death of *you*.
**[14:11] Man**
I... I was kidding...
**[14:17] Kume**
Anyone got a problem? Try me!
**[14:20] Kume**
I'll be staying at the Suzuya Inn!
***SIGN*** — Arson & Theft Department Staging Office —
**[14:30] Hei**
How's it going?
**[14:32] Sa**
Neither hide nor hair of the thieves yet.
**[14:36] Sa**
Sakai and Koyanagi are watching Kumehachi.
**[14:39] Chu**
Chief!
**[14:40] Chu**
Are you sure we can trust what
that survivor girl said...
**[14:44] ---**
That the gang is meeting up in Shimada-juku?
**[14:49] Sa**
Hey, Chugo.
**[14:50] Chu**
I mean it!
**[14:52] Chu**
Maybe she heard it wrong.
**[14:57] Sa**
It has been ten days since
we entered Shimada-juku.
**[15:01] Sa**
It might be time to consider withdrawing.
**[15:35] Lady**
Sir, you have a visitor.
**[15:40] Kume**
Who might it be?
**[15:43] Kume**
He's standing right there, isn't he?
**[15:47] Tan**
Kume!
**[15:49] Tan**
It's been a while!
**[15:55] Kume**
Boss...
**[16:04] Tan**
How long's it been, again? Fifteen years?
**[16:07] Kume**
Yes.
**[16:09] Tan**
And what brings you here, Kume?
**[16:12] Kume**
Well... I messed up in Edo,
and the heat was on me.
**[16:17] Kume**
I managed to get away,
but I had nowhere to go.
**[16:20] Kume**
I've been forced to hole up here in Shimada.
**[16:23] Tan**
You messed up, eh? Who were you working for?
**[16:27] Kume**
Self-employed, I'm afraid.
**[16:30] Tan**
I see.
**[16:36] Tan**
I'm sure you've heard about
my little smash-and-grab jobs.
**[16:43] Tan**
Mass murder is the best way to steal.
**[16:45] Tan**
There's no way for anyone to trace you.
**[16:48] Kume**
But...
**[16:49] Tan**
The wooden markers?
**[16:51] Tan**
That's just me riling
up the Arson & Theft guys.
**[16:55] Tan**
It's not like anyone knows what I look like.
**[16:59] Kume**
What about the three rules of the true thief?
**[17:02] Tan**
Say, there's a blast from the past!
**[17:06] Tan**
Ah, the foolishness of youth.
**[17:09] Tan**
I can't believe you
remember that stupid crap!
**[17:17] Tan**
Anyway, Kume.
**[17:19] Tan**
Why not come back where you belong?
**[17:23] Tan**
Join up with me again.
**[17:25] Tan**
I won't ride your ass like before.
**[17:29] Kume**
Sure.
**[17:30] Tan**
Really? You'll join me?
**[17:34] Tan**
We'll be so much better off with you!
**[17:37] Tan**
Here.
**[17:38] Tan**
A drink to our bond.
**[17:42] Tan**
Drink.
**[17:46] Tan**
I know it's sudden, but come
to the Mikura-ya tomorrow.
**[17:49] Tan**
The tobacco shop in the seventh
district is our hideout.
***SIGN*** Kurinuki-ya
**[17:54] Tan**
Now I'll treat you to your share of women.
***SIGN*** Courtyard
***SIGN*** Counting House
***SIGN*** Pond
***SIGN*** Chestnut
***SIGN*** Warehouse
***SIGN*** Plum
***SIGN*** Closet
***SIGN*** Back Entrance
***SIGN*** Courtyard
***SIGN*** Spare Room
***SIGN*** Stairs
***SIGN*** Guest Room
**[18:20] Guard**
Who's there?
**[18:22] Kume**
There'll be rain again tomorrow.
**[18:27] Thieves**
It's a raid!
***SIGN*** Arson & Theft
**[18:29] Hei**
Arson & Theft Department!
**[18:30] Hei**
Give yourselves up quietly!
**[18:34] Hei**
I don't need a judgment
against scum like you.
**[18:38] Hei**
Submit or die!
**[18:41] Thief**
Damn you!
**[19:22] Tan**
Y-You...
**[19:28] Tan**
You traitorous dog!
**[19:31] Kume**
Imposter Chigashira no Tanbei!
**[19:34] Kume**
Submit to your prison cell!
**[19:38] Tan**
What's that?
**[19:39] Tan**
You think I'm an imposter?
**[19:42] Kume**
Yes.
**[19:44] Kume**
The Tanbei I've kept in
my heart all these years
**[19:48] Kume**
isn't a petty little bastard like you.
**[19:57] Tan**
Hey... W-Wait!
**[20:01] Tan**
Lemme go!
**[20:03] Hei**
He really is an imposter, then?
**[20:06] Kume**
Yes.
**[20:08] Kume**
He's not the real Tanbei.
**[20:10] Kume**
He's an imposter.
**[20:13] Kume**
He's an imposter.
**[20:21] Hei**
Kumehachi...
**[20:23] Kume**
Yes?
**[20:24] Hei**
Would you like to work for me as a spy?
**[20:29] Hei**
I know you don't like the idea, but...
**[20:33] Hei**
Having someone like you
would be a great help to me.
**[20:37] Hei**
Stop by my place if you
ever feel so inclined.
**[20:50] Tat**
I'm back!
**[20:52] Tat**
Sheesh, I'm exhausted.
**[20:55] Tat**
Mother, I'm hungry.
**[20:57] Ku**
Tatsuzo, what in the world?
**[20:59] Ku**
Where are your manners?
**[21:02] Tat**
F-Father!
**[21:05] Tat**
You're back from work?
**[21:10] Tat**
You must be happy you caught
those awful criminals!
**[21:15] Tat**
I worked up a good sweat
at the dojo today, too.
**[21:20] Hei**
Did you?
**[21:25] Ku**
I wonder if your brother
really was training.
**[21:29] Ku**
Don't you, Ojun?
**[21:31] Tat**
Of course I was!
**[21:33] Tat**
Look! My muscle's gotten thicker!
**[21:35] Tat**
Ow!
**[21:38] Hei**
You left yourself open!
**[21:39] Hei**
One point to her.
**[21:41] Ku**
Tatsuzo...
**[21:43] Ku**
What's this on your collar?
**[21:46] Tat**
W-Well... it's blood!
**[21:49] Tat**
I had a nosebleed.
**[21:52] Ku**
I smell face powder on it, too.
**[21:55] Tat**
Hey!
**[21:57] Tat**
Father!
**[21:58] Hei**
Spring's in the air, after all.
**[22:01] Hei**
One must sow a few wild oats.
**[22:02] Ku**
My!
**[22:03] Tat**
Father!
**[22:06] Tat**
Ojun!
***SIGN*** Next Time
**[23:40] Tat**
Heizo is reunited with a
friend from his younger days.
**[23:45] Tat**
Old memories blend with the
terrible truth of the present.
**[23:49] ---**
Next time on *Onihei*:
**[23:51] ---**
"Honjo, the Cherry Blossom Mansion."
***SIGN*** Honjo, the Cherry Blossom Mansion