# E9 - Mikoto and Mikoto
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**[00:00] Miko**
*To tell you...*
**[00:01] Fb**
Once upon a time, in a far away land,
**[00:03] Fb**
lived an old man and an old woman.
**[00:09] Fb**
The old man went to the mountains
to gather firewood.
**[00:11] Fb**
The old woman went to the river
to do the washing.
**[00:15] Woman**
Here.
**[00:16] Woman**
Your favorite, millet dumplings.
**[00:19] Momo**
Thank you, Mama.
**[00:21] Man**
Take this.
**[00:25] Momo**
A sword?
**[00:27] Momo**
But surely it's too expensive...
**[00:30] Man**
It's dangerous out there.
**[00:32] Man**
You may encounter hostile creatures.
**[00:35] Momo**
Thank you, Papa.
**[00:38] Man**
Still calling me "Papa," Peachy?
**[00:44] Momo**
Stop that now.
**[00:45] Momo**
I'm not a child any longer.
**[00:49] Momo**
My name now is Kibitsu-Hiko-no-Mikoto.
**[00:52] Momo**
Mama, Papa.
**[00:54] Momo**
See you later.
**[02:30] Dog**
Thank you, human.
***SIGN*** Mikoto and Mikoto
**[02:36] Momo**
A talking dog?!
**[02:38] Dog**
Oh, calm down.
**[02:40] Dog**
I just thanked you for the dumpling.
**[02:43] Dog**
You know, my own kind ostracizes me
because of this ability.
**[02:48] Dog**
Humans consider me
an ill omen and attack me.
**[02:52] Dog**
I have to pretend to be half-dead
to get any food at all!
**[02:59] Momo**
You fooled me, then?
**[03:01] Dog**
You're a kind man.
**[03:03] Dog**
Don't just leave me here.
**[03:05] Dog**
Take me with you!
**[03:09] Momo**
Let's go, then.
**[03:20] Dog**
You're looking for your parents?
***SIGN*** Tea
**[03:22] Momo**
Yes.
**[03:24] Momo**
I want to ask them
**[03:25] Momo**
why they put me in a peach
and sent me floating down the river.
**[03:32] Dog**
Are you sure they were telling
the truth about that?
**[03:35] Momo**
Mama and Papa brought me up.
**[03:37] Momo**
They would never lie to me!
**[03:39] Dog**
Really?
**[03:41] Dog**
I hope you find them, then.
**[03:45] Momo**
Agreed.
**[03:48] Man**
An ogre!
**[03:49] Man**
There's an ogre in the village!
**[04:12] Dog**
Run, Hiko!
**[04:18] Dog**
Dying here won't do anyone any good!
**[04:21] Dog**
Don't you have to find your parents?!
**[04:24] Momo**
I... I'm seeking the parents
who abandoned me.
**[04:28] Momo**
How can I abandon these people here?
**[04:43] Momo**
Stop!
**[04:46] Ogre**
Oh?
**[04:47] Ogre**
Who are you, human,
who dares defy me?
**[04:53] Momo**
M-My name is... Kibitsu... Hiko... no...
**[04:56] Dog**
This is no time for getting tongue-tied!
**[05:02] Dog**
You fool!
**[05:04] Momo**
I... I said... my name is...
**[05:09] Momo**
Kibitsu-Hiko...
**[05:14] Momo**
Enough!
**[05:16] Momo**
My name is... this!
**[05:22] Momo**
Peach Boy, born from a peach!
**[05:31] Momo**
I killed it.
**[05:32] Momo**
*I* killed it?!
**[05:37] Momo**
What is this power?
**[05:38] Man**
He killed it!
**[05:40] Man**
He killed the ogre!
**[05:45] Man**
You're amazing!
**[05:47] Dog**
And so the rumors spread.
**[05:50] Dog**
The people suffering ogre attacks
in every town
**[05:53] Dog**
asked Hiko for help,
**[05:56] Dog**
and Hiko gave it.
**[05:59] People**
Help me!
**[06:00] People**
Please!
**[06:03] People**
Help me!
**[06:05] People**
Help!
**[06:09] Dog**
When hope appears, people cling to it.
**[06:11] Dog**
They never stop clinging to it.
**[06:15] Dog**
And so Hiko stopped
looking for his parents
**[06:19] Dog**
and killed ogres instead.
**[06:22] Dog**
He was a kind man.
**[06:27] Dog**
Hiko thought that killing the ogres' leader
would end the battle,
**[06:31] Dog**
and so he headed for their base
on Ogre Island.
**[06:36] Momo**
Do you resent me?
**[06:39] Momo**
You used to be the master
of your own life.
**[06:42] Momo**
Yet you've let me drag you all this way?
All for one dumpling?
**[06:45] Dog**
Hiko...
**[06:47] Dog**
You've got it all wrong.
**[06:49] Dog**
I came along because I wanted to!
**[06:51] Dog**
All for one dumpling.
**[06:54] Momo**
There's something wrong
about seeing you smile.
**[06:57] Dog**
Hey!
**[07:00] Momo**
Sorry.
**[07:01] Dog**
Smile, boy.
**[07:03] Dog**
I love seeing your smile.
**[07:15] Ogre**
You beat me.
**[07:18] Ogre**
I surrender.
**[07:20] Momo**
Do you remember the promise
you made before our duel?
**[07:25] Ogre**
To leave this land and never return?
**[07:31] Ogre**
Very well...
**[07:33] Ogre**
I'll keep my promise.
**[07:35] Ogre**
But remember this:
**[07:37] Ogre**
My defeat will bring the Kishin here.
**[07:43] Momo**
"Kishin"?
**[07:46] Ogre**
And so the land was freed from the ogres,
**[07:49] Ogre**
and Hiko was named a hero.
**[07:54] Ogre**
Hiko then made himself a home
deep in the mountains.
**[07:58] Ogre**
He was worried about the Kishin
that the ogres' leader mentioned,
**[08:03] Ogre**
and he didn't want to get anyone
involved in the fight.
**[08:09] Dog**
Hey...
**[08:10] Dog**
Shouldn't you go see
your mama and papa?
**[08:14] Momo**
They'd yell at me if I returned
without completing my original goal.
**[08:20] Dog**
That's what he said.
**[08:22] Dog**
But deep down, he was lonely.
**[08:25] Dog**
I saw it in him,
more pronounced day by day.
**[08:29] Dog**
Until one day...
**[08:32] Momo**
I don't see a horn,
but you're an ogre, aren't you?
**[08:36] Momo**
Did you come here to kill me?
**[08:38] Gaki**
C-Certainly not...
**[08:40] Gaki**
I came with a request, in fact.
**[08:44] Gaki**
My name is Gaki.
**[08:47] Gaki**
My appearance let me infiltrate the village
and eat the people there.
**[08:54] Gaki**
But...
**[08:55] Gaki**
I fell in love.
**[09:00] Gaki**
I got married. I have a child.
**[09:06] Gaki**
But... But I...
**[09:09] Gaki**
I ended up devouring my wife!
**[09:15] Gaki**
My request is: Please kill me!
**[09:21] Gaki**
Please!
**[09:23] Gaki**
Peach Boy, the ogre slayer!
**[09:26] Momo**
I can't do that.
**[09:27] Momo**
I can see you trembling.
**[09:30] Gaki**
I can't fight my ogre instincts.
**[09:33] Gaki**
If this keeps up,
I'll eat my son, as well!
**[09:36] Momo**
What will happen to him,
with you gone?
**[09:38] Gaki**
I've left him with people I trust.
**[09:46] Dog**
He was a kind man to the end.
**[09:52] Dog**
You're concerned about that
ogre's child, aren't you?
**[09:55] Momo**
Of course I am.
**[09:57] Momo**
I have to check on him, at least.
**[09:58] Mi**
Die, you monster!
**[10:07] Momo**
Stop this!
**[10:10] Momo**
What kind of people
treat a child this way?
**[10:18] Momo**
Are you all right?
**[10:21] Mi**
That thing is a monster!
**[10:23] Mi**
We took it in,
**[10:26] Mi**
but it has a horn on its head!
**[10:28] Mi**
It's an ogre disguised as a human!
**[10:33] Momo**
What does it matter
that he has a horn?
**[10:36] Momo**
Has he done anything—
**[10:38] Mi**
Shut up!
**[10:39] Mi**
The ogres killed my child!
**[10:41] Mi**
They ate him right in front of my eyes!
**[10:45] Man**
Mine, too!
**[10:47] Man**
They killed my husband!
**[10:48] Man**
My grandfather!
**[10:49] Man**
My grandmother!
**[10:50] Man**
My father!
**[10:51] Man**
My mother!
**[10:52] Momo**
Wait a minute!
**[10:53] Momo**
This child didn't do it himself!
**[10:56] Miko**
I'm... sorry.
**[11:00] Miko**
I'm sorry I was born.
**[11:09] Miko**
Hear me!
**[11:10] Miko**
This child is under my protection!
**[11:12] Dog**
Hiko!
**[11:14] Momo**
It's a hollow, self-serving display of kindness.
**[11:19] Momo**
But to fail to do so
simply would be evil.
**[11:22] Momo**
I want to take responsibility,
**[11:24] Momo**
no matter how you hate me for it.
**[11:26] Dog**
That's the day Mikoto met Hiko.
**[11:32] Miko**
Please kill me.
**[11:34] Miko**
I'm afraid of living.
**[11:37] Miko**
And I'm tired of hurting.
**[11:40] Miko**
Please...
**[11:42] Momo**
Don't you want to avenge your father?
**[11:48] Momo**
I'm the one who killed your father.
**[11:53] Momo**
So you have a right to take revenge.
**[11:57] Momo**
Cut off my head, please!
**[12:02] (Flashback) Gaki**
Don't go worrying your mother now!
**[12:06] (Flashback) Gaki**
You're hungry, right?
**[12:11] (Flashback) All**
Monster!
**[12:12] (Flashback) Gaki**
Mikoto! Mikoto!
**[12:20] Dog**
Hiko!
**[12:26] Momo**
You aren't strong enough
to kill me now.
**[12:33] Momo**
Listen to me.
**[12:34] Momo**
You'll be far stronger
when you grow up.
**[12:38] Momo**
You'll be able to kill me then.
**[12:42] Momo**
But you won't be able
to survive that long alone.
**[12:47] Momo**
So I'll take care of you.
**[12:50] Miko**
No!
**[12:51] Momo**
Do you want to return to your old life,
hated and beaten?
**[12:58] Momo**
I have sympathy for you.
**[13:00] Momo**
I'll treat you well.
**[13:05] Miko**
I will kill you!
**[13:09] Dog**
Why won't you tell him?
**[13:10] Momo**
About what?
**[13:12] Dog**
Hiko!
**[13:14] Momo**
Be quiet.
**[13:15] Momo**
You'll wake the boy.
**[13:17] Dog**
Just tell him!
**[13:19] Dog**
Tell him that his father
asked you to kill him!
**[13:22] Dog**
Does he really need to hate you?
**[13:25] Momo**
Does he need to hate me?
**[13:30] Momo**
Of course he does.
**[13:33] Momo**
Can you imagine it?
**[13:36] Momo**
One day, his mother disappears,
**[13:38] Momo**
I kill his father,
**[13:41] Momo**
and the next thing he knows,
he's all alone because he has a horn.
**[13:45] Momo**
What, whom is he supposed to hate?
**[13:48] Momo**
Whose fault is it
that this happened to him?
**[13:51] Momo**
Is he supposed to accept it
simply as his lot in life?
**[13:53] Momo**
I can't neglect a crying child
before my eyes.
**[13:59] Dog**
And so, Hiko's life with Mikoto began.
**[14:04] Dog**
He taught him to read.
**[14:06] Momo**
You're better at this than me.
**[14:09] Dog**
He taught him to hunt.
**[14:11] Momo**
Aim carefully before you release.
**[14:14] Momo**
Amazing!
**[14:17] Dog**
To make fire...
**[14:21] Dog**
Hiko. How have you not killed yourself yet?
**[14:34] Momo**
Doesn't that feel great?
**[14:37] Momo**
How's the water?
**[14:42] Momo**
Am I allowed to ask your name yet?
**[14:46] Miko**
I don't want to say it.
**[14:48] Miko**
My name's stupid.
**[14:51] Miko**
Yours is so cool.
**[14:55] Momo**
You want it, then?
**[15:00] Momo**
You can have my name.
**[15:03] Dog**
Hiko and Mikoto were like brothers.
**[15:06] Dog**
I believed they'd found the
happiness each was due.
**[15:09] Dog**
But that would all soon end.
**[15:19] Jii**
We have arrived.
Lord Kishin, Noburega.
***SIGN*** God of Laws
Noburega
**[15:28] Miko**
Master Hiko?
**[15:29] Momo**
Mikoto. Today is your coming-of-age.
**[15:33] Momo**
You remember what I said?
**[15:35] Momo**
You can kill me now.
**[15:36] Miko**
Master Hiko... what are you...
**[15:42] Miko**
I won't do it!
**[15:46] Dog**
Hiko. Why did you do that?
**[15:51] Dog**
Are there ogres nearby?
**[15:53] Momo**
No... they're still distant.
**[15:56] Momo**
But it's the Kishin.
**[16:02] Momo**
I've been looking for you.
**[16:04] Miko**
I want to stay here forever.
**[16:06] Miko**
Please let me.
**[16:09] Momo**
Go on a journey.
**[16:12] Momo**
There are people in this world
who will accept you.
**[16:17] Momo**
I'll be with you. Don't be afraid.
**[16:21] Momo**
Do you hate me?
**[16:23] Miko**
I despise you.
**[16:25] Miko**
But...
**[16:27] Miko**
Please don't hate me.
**[16:30] Miko**
Do you really think there are people
in the outside world who'll accept me?
**[16:35] Momo**
Of course there are.
**[16:36] Momo**
But humans are cowards.
**[16:38] Momo**
They'll be hostile to people who are different,
or people with great power.
**[16:45] Momo**
I know.
**[16:46] Momo**
Let's make a promise.
**[16:48] Miko**
A promise?
**[16:49] Momo**
Smile.
**[16:52] Momo**
Whenever something bad happens,
**[16:53] Momo**
whenever it's hard,
and you feel like crying,
**[16:55] Momo**
brush it off with a smile.
**[16:59] Momo**
As long as you do that,
I will always protect you.
**[17:02] Momo**
I'll risk my life to save you.
**[17:05] Momo**
Together forever.
**[17:07] Momo**
Right?
**[17:10] Miko**
Sure.
**[17:17] Miko**
*I've got a bad feeling about this.*
**[17:19] Miko**
*I know this feeling.*
**[17:25] Miko**
* It's the same feeling*
* as when my father went missing!*
**[17:29] Dog**
Wait!
**[17:31] Dog**
You mustn't go any farther.
**[17:33] Miko**
Master Hiko is there, isn't he?
**[17:35] Miko**
Please let me through!
**[17:37] Dog**
No!
**[17:38] Dog**
Return home!
**[17:40] Miko**
Move!
**[17:41] Dog**
I will not.
**[17:47] Dog**
Stay away! Mikoto!
**[17:59] Momo**
*Am I... going to die?*
**[18:05] Momo**
*It hasn't been a bad life.*
**[18:08] Momo**
*That's all right.*
**[18:09] Momo**
*I've done enough.*
**[18:11] Momo**
Don't worry.
**[18:12] Momo**
The child will be able to smile,
even without me.
**[18:31] Momo**
Getting your distance to finish me off?
**[18:35] Momo**
As if I pose any threat...
**[18:39] Momo**
I can't even move anymore.
**[18:43] Momo**
Ah, the moon's out?
**[18:48] Momo**
It looks just like a millet dumpling.
**[18:51] Momo**
Why...
**[18:53] Momo**
Why did you come here?
**[18:57] Momo**
Look at you, crying...
**[19:00] Miko**
Why...
**[19:02] Momo**
I lost.
**[19:04] Momo**
Run. Hurry.
**[19:07] Miko**
No!
**[19:08] Momo**
Mikoto!
**[19:09] Miko**
No!
**[19:11] Momo**
I'm going to die.
**[19:15] Miko**
No... no!
**[19:18] Momo**
*I can't even pat his head now.*
**[19:23] Momo**
*Then...*
**[19:27] Momo**
Mikoto, listen closely.
**[19:30] Momo**
You're about to head out
on your journey.
**[19:33] Momo**
You'll have to learn to accept yourself,
and other people.
**[19:39] Miko**
I can't do it.
**[19:41] Miko**
There's no point in living
without you.
**[19:44] Miko**
Life's dark and scary
and full of people who hate me.
**[19:47] Momo**
Do you remember our promise?
**[19:50] Momo**
If you smile, I'll protect you.
**[19:55] Momo**
I can't promise
we'll be together forever, but...
**[19:59] Momo**
You can take my sword instead.
**[20:03] Momo**
To protect yourself and others.
**[20:06] Momo**
To find what's important to you.
**[20:09] Momo**
To take pride in the fact
that you're alive.
**[20:12] Momo**
And... just so that
you can smile every day.
**[20:25] Miko**
Master Hiko...
**[20:27] Miko**
What is this?
**[20:30] Miko**
Master Hiko?
**[20:44] Miko**
*Master Hiko...*
**[20:46] Miko**
*I'm not a good boy.*
**[20:49] Miko**
*I'm always been very defiant.*
**[20:52] Miko**
*There's something I've wanted.*
**[20:55] Miko**
*I've wanted...*
**[20:57] Miko**
*For a very long time...*
**[21:06] Miko**
*Master Hiko.*
**[21:08] Miko**
*Master Hiko.*
**[21:10] Miko**
*Master Hiko.*
**[21:14] Miko**
*Master Hiko.*
**[21:15] Miko**
*I love you.*
**[21:21] Nobu**
The battle between ogres
and humans will never end.
**[21:25] Miko**
Yes, it will.
**[21:38] Miko**
Because I'll kill you all!
**[21:46] Miko**
Master Hiko...
**[21:47] Mill**
Did you say something?
**[21:50] Mill**
Talking in his sleep?
**[21:52] Dog**
He's having a bad dream, perhaps.
**[21:56] Dog**
*Listen, Hiko...*
**[21:58] Dog**
* Ever since that day,*
* Mikoto's had a hole in his heart.*
**[22:03] Dog**
* No amount of ogre-slaying*
* will ever fill that hole.*
**[22:08] Dog**
* Not until he meets someone*
* he can share a smile with*
**[22:12] Dog**
*from the bottom of his heart.*
***SIGN*** Horror and Resentment
**[23:46] ---**
Next time: "Horror and Resentment."