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E9 - My Buddha

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    THE ELUSIVE
    SAMURAI
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    THE ELUSIVE
    SAMURAI
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    The true way to use a real sword
    is not by stabbing forcefully.
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    It's much like using
    a kitchen knife or a saw.
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    The blade cuts the best when it is pulled.
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    To cut as you retreat.
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    Don't you think it's the best technique
    for an elusive person like you?
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    But I couldn't take a life
    with this method.
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    At most, I could cut hide or meat.
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    That's okay.
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    That's precisely what makes it
    the Elusive Sword.
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    Your raised left hand
    will serve as a guide.
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    Wait for the moment when your enemy's
    blade passes between your hand and sword.
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    Here he comes!
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    Twist my upper body counterclockwise.
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    Let the weight of the sword
    do the work as I lower it.
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    Pull the blade to the right
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    and retreat!
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    My inner forearm.
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    I don't have any armor here
    because it's a difficult spot to aim for,
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    and it impedes my movement.
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    You know the weak points
    of an armored warrior well.
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    But it's not a terrible weakness.
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    It'll take quite some time for me to lose
    consciousness with just a bleeding wrist.
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    You think I won't kill you
    before that happens?
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    In this small room!
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    I'll corner you slow and steady.
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    I can just take my time to tend
    to my wound after I cut you into pieces.
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    Why did I shiver just now?
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    He's a naginata expert.
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    He won't let me get a single blow in!
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    You're light, small,
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    and lack experience!
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    You two will die here.
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    What a shame.
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    In ten years, you probably would have
    become a skilled master.
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    If that were the case,
    you could have known many pleasures.
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    The sophisticated pleasure of using your
    body and strength to kick about the weak,
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    the pleasure of stealing,
    the pleasure of taking a woman…
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    That's what my boss taught me
    when he took me under his wing.
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    Something your virtuous leader
    Yorishige Suwa can't do.
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    Lord Yorishige isn't…
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    Huh?
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    …our lord now.
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    Is that so?
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    Regardless of who you serve,
    it's all the same.
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    Your lord is clueless.
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    They couldn't even teach you brats
    about any fulfilling pleasures
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    and left you to die
    for this worthless village.
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    So you shut up.
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    Am I spot-on?
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    Yeah, it's true.
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    Our lord is soft, naive,
    and tends to run away.
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    But compared to you who has grown fat
    by sacrificing the weak, my Big Brother,
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    who commands us to protect the weak,
    has much more integrity as a warrior.
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    You're still here?
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    Resisting with a brat's toy
    like the trash you are!
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    Persistent brat.
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    There's no way a mere child can penetrate
    the defense of a grown man's naginata.
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    Stop calling me
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    a brat!
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    I can't be so carefree
    to be thinking about the far future.
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    We have a year and a half
    until Lord Yorishige's prophecy.
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    We won't be useful
    in the Young Lord's great war
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    if we can't beat adults while we're ten.
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    What…
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    I can't believe I'm being defeated
    by some nameless brats.
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    Go be with the demons in hell.
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    Our lord is Tokiyuki Hojo.
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    What?
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    Kamakura's…
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    rightful heir!
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    There's no way!
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    I can't hit him!
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    This is bad.
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    I have to stop the bleeding.
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    He's not only evading my sword,
    but also my splattering blood?
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    Is he a monster?
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    A transforming swordsmanship!
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    It's rare to see one wield a blade
    with such precision.
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    There must be someone
    who taught you those techniques.
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    Who is your teacher?
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    I don't have to tell you.
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    A skilled hawk hides everything.
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    If you show your strength
    within an organization,
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    you'll be taken advantage of
    like the small fry and the core members.
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    Act like a clown and pander to the leader,
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    and you can be sure to enjoy
    just the benefits.
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    BUDDHA
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    There is just one brief moment
    when I have to use my sharpened talons.
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    The moment when I kill anyone
    that recognizes them.
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    Or when I kill our boss
    and take over this party.
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    To hide yourself is an art of survival
    in times of chaos!
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    Now die and shut up!
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    To hide… huh.
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    Die!
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    There's an ordinary blade
    that comes straight,
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    and a unique blade
    in which one bends their wrist.
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    If you hide it well, your opponent won't
    know which is coming until it's too late.
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    But with him, the height of his elbow is
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    slightly different
    from the moment he pulls back his blade.
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    Which means he's not
    sufficiently hiding his technique.
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    W-What?
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    That would be a formidable sword skill
    if you could hide it completely,
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    but you don't understand how it works.
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    You're not hiding anything special
    as I thought.
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    I'm disappointed.
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    He wields two swords
    and is skilled in martial arts, too.
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    What else is this kid hiding?
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    Occupying this village and
    the children's tactics are both valuable.
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    When I find a hidden treasure,
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    my forlorn body
    is slightly brought back to life.
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    I'm drawn to him for some reason.
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    Because he's hiding something magnificent.
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    All right. That's enough from you.
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    Now.
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    How is it going, Chojumaru?
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    This is hopeless.
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    I'm going to die.
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    I'll lose too much blood
    before I kill this kid.
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    It's useless. I'm fading.
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    My life ends here?
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    Father!
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    What do you mean
    there's no territory for me to inherit?
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    I'm sorry.
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    The family has distributed the land
    amongst the sons
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    over generations until
    only this small plot remains.
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    From now on, like all the other families,
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    we'll give all our territory
    to the eldest son.
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    You live here and help out
    your older brother.
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    You're telling me
    to become my brother's servant!
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    I've been studying martial arts
    and the art of war
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    so that I can protect my own territory!
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    A warrior without a territory
    is not a warrior at all.
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    If I wanted a place of my own,
    I had no choice but to steal it.
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    It was hell from then on.
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    Somewhere along the way,
    it became pleasurable to take from others.
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    I sold children.
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    I felt better about myself by sending them
    to futures as dark as my own.
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    Though I was pursued,
    I had nowhere to rest.
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    I thought I could reverse my fate
    when I was recruited into a large battle.
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    But I was unable to
    make a name for myself,
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    for I was on the losing side.
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    Your life is always hell, isn't it?
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    You should flee somewhere
    where no one can chase you.
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    There must be a place
    where the light shines.
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    Don't lie, Kusunoki.
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    There's no light anywhere.
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    What's this?
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    Something shines before me.
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    I can't win.
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    Someone who can laugh so purely
    in this hellhole cannot be human.
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    He's even smiling upon someone like me?
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    My Buddha…
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    What started as a blade
    of compassion had become
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    hell on earth
    by the time the fight was over.
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    Is it a demon or a buddha that grants
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    the scoundrel of times of chaos
    the death penalty?
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    Demon-heart Buddha Blade.
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    You're amazing, Young Lord.
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    The two of us barely stood a chance
    against that monster.
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    It's all thanks
    to the technique Fubuki taught me.
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    You're right.
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    Who would have thought
    that it would be possible to defeat him
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    by simply cutting his inner forearm
    and running from him?
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    The Cowardly Sword is impressive!
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    Don't call it that!
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    The enemies that remain should run away
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    when we spread the word
    that their general is dead.
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    We're almost done…
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    Are you serious?
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    Sadamune's here!
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    You again, brat?
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    "You again"? That's our line!
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    You're the one invading others' territory!
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    Shut up! These are the times we live in!
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    Your eye… I want to feed it to a snake
    and watch it swallow it whole.
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    -What's wrong with you?
    -What's wrong with you?
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    Big-Eyed Monster, you're so persistent.
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    Don't call me a monster!
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    You basically are a monster
    with those eyes!
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    What did you say about my godly eyes?
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    Leave it to Sadamune Ogasawara
    to bring his reinforcements at this timing
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    from the village's front entrance.
    He's got a keen perception of this war.
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    Our other allies are busy handling
    the enemies that are already here.
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    We can't win like this.
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    SOUTH
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    There are no enemies
    on the south end of this village.
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    We can gather our allies
    and all escape from there…
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    What?
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    Enemy forces from the south, too?
[16:29] ---
    Nope.
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    Here we go!
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    That fire!
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    Yes, they're reinforcements
    from Suwa Grand Shrine.
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    They made it just in time.
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    Drat!
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    Retreat!
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    Only gather Shokan's soldiers
    that are fighting nearby.
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    B-But, Sadamune…
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    We lack the preparation
    to fight against Suwa's main army.
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    The war is happening outside, but there's
    blood on the inside of the door?
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    Lord Yorishige, Sadamune
    and his presumed army are evacuating!
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    Chase them away to the border.
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    Tokitsugu, clean up the bandits
    around the village.
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    YORISHIGE'S SON
    TOKITSUGU SUWA
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    Okay.
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    -They're getting away.
    -Hi.
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    Genba!
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    You better be grateful.
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    We made it in time
    because I rode the horse at full speed.
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    Well, when I saw
    a curvy woman on the road,
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    I was shocked because
    my nose started bleeding profusely.
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    I thought I was a goner.
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    Don't die!
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    -What about over there?
    -There's no one.
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    -The enemy's over there.
    -Right.
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    None here. Find them!
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    Mr. Yorishige.
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    I'm glad you're safe.
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    Yes.
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    That kinda hurts, Mr. Yorishige.
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    Sadamune. Shokan is…
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    He's got dumb luck.
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    He would've croaked if we stopped
    the bleeding just a little bit later.
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    Why did you come for me?
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    We received word that you and your men
    were wasting time committing a massacre.
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    Suwa's response isn't so stupid as
    to let such an opportunity go unnoticed.
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    Who said to kill the villagers?
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    You don't get any taxes
    from an uninhabited territory.
[18:48] ---
    You idiot.
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    Punish me as you wish.
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    However, your strategic insight
    this time was incredible.
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    I will give you a small territory,
    so sharpen your fangs there.
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    Prepare for the decisive battle
    against Suwa that will eventually come.
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    From this day forward,
    you are prohibited from being a bandit.
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    Serve me only as a soldier.
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    Certainly.
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    I can tell his will to be a bandit
    is gone from his eyes.
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    Did malice leave his body
    along with the blood?
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    From then on,
    rogues gradually fell under the control
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    of the increasingly powerful governing
    feudal lords and eventually disappeared.
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    This era was the final stage
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    where the uninhibited
    bandit samurai thrived.
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    There.
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    There we go.
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    Mr. Yorishige.
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    It's all thanks to Fubuki
    that the village and I survived.
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    Please pay him a special sum
    from Suwa Grand Shrine.
[20:11] ---
    Oh, is that so?
[20:13] ---
    Of course, we will pay him handsomely!
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    And one more thing.
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    I want Fubuki to join my party
    as a retainer.
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    Splendid idea!
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    Wait, Chojumaru.
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    I want to be your friend, but becoming
    a retainer is a different story.
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    I want to serve a lord
    that can lead the country.
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    I would consider it
    if I were to serve your Lord Suwa…
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    This one
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    is the lord.
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    This one.
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    My name is Tokiyuki Hojo.
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    I'm the orphan of the regent
    to the Kamakura shogunate, Takatoki Hojo.
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    I am more or less on an endeavor
    to lead the country.
[20:53] ---
    What?
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    Sorry I hid it from you.
[20:58] ---
    I had decided
    to not share my true identity
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    until I had talked to Mr. Yorishige.
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    I thought he was hiding
    something huge, but…
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    This secret is too big!
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    As a commoner,
    he's just a kind, elusive boy.
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    But when you add the fact
    that he is a Hojo child…
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    All of his skills
    become formidable weapons!
[21:27] ---
    This is invigorating.
[21:32] ---
    My millet fee will be expensive.
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    If that's okay, then I will serve you.
[21:46] ---
    I will draw out
    all the strength this prince possesses
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    and join his attempt to win the country.
[21:52] ---
    At Suwa Grand Shrine, we're allowed to
    eat rice instead of millet.
[21:56] ---
    For real? It must be paradise?
[21:59] ---
    I can't tell
    if this guy is smart or clueless.
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    TO BE CONTINUED