# Season 1
# E1 - Departure
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***SIGN*** Touko
**[00:32] Haijuu**
Kanata. My dog's name is Kanata.
**[00:44] Narrator**
* That night, a man*
* they called a "fire hunter" died,*
**[00:49] Narrator**
* leaving behind only*
* his hound and his sickle.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Departure
***SIGN*** Departure
**[02:45] Touko**
Kanata.
**[02:59] Touko**
Pardon us, Lady Warashi.
**[04:02] Akari**
For the dog.
**[04:05] Grandmother**
Touko.
**[04:07] Grandmother**
It's high time you returned that animal.
**[04:11] Grandmother**
It's all healed up now, right?
**[04:15] Grandmother**
You must give it back, along with
that warding stone and the fire sickle.
**[04:22] Akari**
That warding stone doesn't look hand-carved.
**[04:26] Akari**
The factories print writing like that.
**[04:29] Akari**
Maybe that fire hunter was from the capital.
**[04:32] Akari**
If he was, you'll need
to go there to return his dog.
**[04:37] Akari**
Will you go, Touko? To the capital.
**[04:39] Rin**
Touko? In the capital?
**[04:41] Touko**
But Aunt, I'd never make it.
**[04:46] Grandmother**
Touko.
**[04:48] Grandmother**
Fire hunting is a noble calling.
**[04:52] Grandmother**
How many times have I told you that?
**[04:55] Grandmother**
Up until about 60 years ago, we used
to skulk around among the dark trees,
**[05:02] Grandmother**
but now, we can build villages.
**[05:07] Grandmother**
We have the fire hunters to thank for that.
***SIGN*** Tokohanahime
**[05:11] Grandmother**
They risk their lives to harvest flame
so that you can live with your eyes open.
**[05:20] Grandmother**
That dog has had special training
so that it can help them with their work.
**[05:27] Grandmother**
You must return it.
**[05:30] Grandmother**
Take it to the hunter's family,
along with his other personal effects.
**[05:40] Akari**
The collection truck will come by soon.
**[05:45] Akari**
I'll speak to the papermakers.
**[05:48] Rin**
Hey, I could go if Touko doesn't want to.
**[05:53] Akari**
Don't be ridiculous!
**[05:55] Akari**
What could you do?
**[05:56] Akari**
That dog bites everyone except Touko.
***SIGN*** Tokohanahime
**[06:49] Rin**
Put that light back. You're wasting it.
**[06:55] Rin**
You really are cursed.
**[06:59] Rin**
Someone died because of you.
**[07:01] Rin**
You made this house even more
cramped for Mom and me.
**[07:05] Rin**
And now, you're gonna run off and
leave me to take care of Grandmother.
**[07:11] Rin**
I seriously...
**[07:14] Rin**
seriously hate you.
**[07:20] Akari**
We'd like to return the fire hunter's dog
and sickle to his family.
**[07:27] Akari**
And as you probably know,
the dog only listens to Touko.
**[07:32] Akari**
Since we think that hunter
was from the capital,
**[07:35] Akari**
we're hoping to send Touko
and the dog there on the next truck.
**[07:43] Akari**
So, could you give her
a few sheets of muku paper?
**[07:47] Shuichi**
Muku paper?
**[07:50] Shuichi**
Now listen here, Akari...
**[07:52] Shuichi**
We can't afford to
stick our necks out that far.
**[07:55] Shuichi**
You *know* we only make muku in the dead
of winter, when the water's at its clearest.
**[08:03] Shuichi**
Even if we started now,
we'd never be done in time.
**[08:09] Shuichi**
Plus, you do realize that just one sheet of
muku is enough to keep the lights on, right?
**[08:14] Shuichi**
It's a sacred offering.
You can trade it for bottled lightning.
**[08:18] Shuichi**
And you want some just like that?
**[08:22] Shuichi**
Enough's enough. She went into
the forest, got a fire hunter killed,
**[08:31] Shuichi**
and now she can't work
because of that dog.
**[08:35] Shuichi**
Go cry to the collection truck
if you want to give the mutt back that badly.
**[08:41] Shuichi**
We can't clean up Touko's mess for her.
**[08:45] Shuichi**
Sure, maybe she'll end up on the street,
**[08:48] Shuichi**
but the capital's likely
full of kids like that.
**[08:52] Akari**
That's why I'm asking.
**[08:54] Akari**
Our village is small, but it's special.
**[08:57] Akari**
Lots of villages sell to factories,
but only a handful make offerings.
**[09:06] Akari**
And muku paper is what the gods write on.
**[09:11] Akari**
We'd shame ourselves
if we sent a girl to repay a debt
**[09:17] Akari**
without properly preparing her
for the journey.
**[09:22] Akari**
Falling down dead in the forest
would be bad enough.
**[09:26] Akari**
But if she ends up homeless in the capital,
**[09:28] Akari**
the Lady Goddess will
consider this village defiled.
**[09:49] Shuichi**
Half a sheaf.
That's five sheets we'll give you.
**[09:53] Shuichi**
We'll have to give the collectors
double the usual batch of dyed paper.
**[09:59] Shuichi**
And even getting that much done
will mean losing sleep.
**[10:04] Shuichi**
Make sure you're packed.
**[10:07] Akari**
Sorry for the trouble.
**[10:16] Akari**
No one knows why you went into the forest.
**[10:24] Akari**
You went to fetch medicine,
didn't you? From the treefolk.
**[10:31] Akari**
Touko, they won't give you
eye medicine. You can't use it.
**[10:38] Akari**
Their medicine is poisonous to us.
**[10:42] Akari**
Silly girl.
**[10:43] Akari**
You weren't thinking of Grandmother,
were you? You were thinking of me.
**[10:49] Akari**
Don't fret. My eyes still work.
**[10:55] Akari**
People must have been
so carefree in the old days.
**[11:00] Akari**
Never stopping to think what
their actions would cause down the road.
**[11:15] Narrator**
*This is no ancient tale.*
**[11:20] Narrator**
* Once, humans could make fire*
* and use it as they pleased.*
**[11:26] Narrator**
*But then, the human race was remade.*
**[11:32] Narrator**
* Thereafter, even approaching*
* a spark of natural flame*
**[11:37] Narrator**
* would cause their bodies*
* to ignite from within.*
**[11:43] Narrator**
* So ended old humanity's*
* long history of war.*
**[11:50] Narrator**
* Ever since, the world has*
* been covered by dark forests,*
**[11:54] Narrator**
* which have become*
* the domain of flame fiends,*
**[11:59] Narrator**
* where humans cower in fear*
* of both the darkness and fire.*
**[12:07] Narrator**
* One day, strong winds rustled the treetops,*
* sparking a small natural flame.*
**[12:15] Narrator**
* This tiny fire claimed the lives of*
* Touko's parents and their neighbor's husband.*
**[12:20] Narrator**
* Akari's eyes burned, and a total of*
* 19 villagers died, incinerated from within.*
**[12:33] Akari**
Don't worry. We'll take
good care of your grandmother.
**[12:38] Akari**
Rin's a hard worker,
though you'd never guess it.
**[12:42] Akari**
Go make amends for what you've done.
**[12:46] Akari**
The dog will look out for you.
**[12:50] Akari**
And...
**[12:54] Akari**
Come back home. We'll be waiting.
**[12:59] Akari**
I promise we'll be waiting.
**[13:12] Villager A**
Oh! There it is!
**[13:18] Villager A**
Here comes the collection truck!
**[14:59] Narrator**
* About once every six months, the tiny*
* village comes alive for the collection.*
**[15:08] Narrator**
* Villagers flock to trade with the truck,*
* which not only buys goods,*
**[15:13] Narrator**
* but also operates a shop in*
* the square during its two-day stay.*
***SIGN*** 1
**[15:41] Narrator**
* Even though natural flame*
* now spelled death for humans,*
**[15:46] Narrator**
* they were loath to relinquish*
* the lost blessings of fire.*
**[15:50] Narrator**
* Or perhaps they wished to*
* shield their young from its dangers.*
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
**[15:56] Narrator**
* Whatever the reason, they started naming*
* their children after fire or shades of red.*
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
**[16:32] Enji**
You must be the girl.
**[16:38] Enji**
Don't be like that.
We'll be traveling companions for a while.
**[16:43] Enji**
We can give you a lift, but there are
other villages we have to stop at.
**[16:50] Enji**
It'll take us five months
to reach the capital.
**[16:53] Enji**
Then we'll have to wade through paperwork
and do repairs before we can leave again.
**[17:01] Enji**
You could ride another truck back home,
**[17:05] Enji**
but it still means you'll be away for
a year or two, even if all goes well.
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
***SIGN*** Offering
**[17:12] Enji**
And on top of that,
**[17:14] Enji**
this truck may look sturdy, but crossing
the forest in it is still dangerous.
**[17:20] Enji**
I guess what I'm trying to say
is this trip won't be without risk.
**[17:24] Sakuroku**
Enji!
**[17:26] Sakuroku**
Don't sugarcoat it just 'cause
she's a kid. Give it to her straight.
**[17:30] Sakuroku**
Even in our big trucks, she might not
make it out of the forest alive.
**[17:36] Touko**
I'm ready to leave.
**[17:40] Touko**
Everything's all in order at home, too.
**[17:43] Touko**
I even visited my parents' grave.
**[17:46] Touko**
I promise I'll try not to get underfoot.
**[17:50] Touko**
Please take me to the capital.
**[17:55] Enji**
My name's Enji.
**[18:02] Enji**
This is my boss, Sakuroku.
**[18:06] Sakuroku**
What's your name, twerp?
**[18:16] Touko**
Touko. And this dog is Kanata.
**[18:19] Sakuroku**
Don't introduce it like it's yours.
***SIGN*** Koushi and Hinako
**[19:38] Narrator**
*People of the past cremated their dead.*
**[19:43] Narrator**
* Did no one question this act of mixing*
* searing flame with the immobility of death?*
**[19:51] Narrator**
* Or is fire only a symbol of*
* suffering in this present age?*
**[19:58] Narrator**
*This world once perished.*
**[20:02] Narrator**
* The humans who survived its demise were*
* remade to combust in the presence of flame.*
**[20:10] Narrator**
* They eked out a living, scraping together*
* the remnants of past technology.*
**[20:20] Hinako**
Mom...
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** Here Lies Maho
**[20:23] Koushi**
How can we go on living with
these fragile bodies? We die so easily.
**[20:32] Narrator**
* There was always someone*
* falling ill somewhere.*
**[20:37] Narrator**
*When people wielded natural fire,*
**[20:40] Narrator**
* they knew how to shield themselves*
* from dangers and toxins.*
**[20:45] Narrator**
* That knowledge was lost,*
* and this new world has no time to relearn it.*
**[20:52] Narrator**
* The mother of this boy and*
* his young sister worked in a factory.*
**[21:00] Narrator**
* She took ill this time last year,*
* poisoned by its toxic waste.*
**[21:07] Narrator**
*Many workers have suffered the same fate.*
***SIGN*** Dear Koushi
***SIGN*** Dear Koushi
***SIGN*** Yuoshichi
Okibi
***SIGN*** Yuoshichi
Okibi
**[21:43] Koushi**
The Okibi family?
***SIGN*** Yuoshichi
Okibi
**[21:44] Koushi**
Who's Yuoshichi?
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Three Brides
***SIGN*** The Three Brides
# E2 - The Three Brides
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G31UX9MXV/the-three-brides)
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**[00:02] Narrator**
* Humans hunt flame fiends and*
* harvest the fire within them,*
**[00:07] Narrator**
*then build their lives around it.*
**[00:11] Narrator**
* Touko sets out for the capital, home*
* to Koushi, a man she does not know yet.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Three Brides
***SIGN*** The Three Brides
**[02:09] Hotaru**
Oh, you're awake!
**[02:12] Benio**
Don't talk to her out of the blue, Hotaru.
The dog won't like it if you startle her.
**[02:21] Benio**
I couldn't believe it.
**[02:22] Benio**
You puked and passed out
as soon as you got on.
**[02:27] Hotaru**
Here, have some water.
**[02:40] Hotaru**
I'm Hotaru.
**[02:41] Hotaru**
This is Benio.
**[02:45] Hotaru**
And that girl over there is Kaho.
**[02:55] Hotaru**
We're all getting rides to other villages.
**[03:00] Hotaru**
We're off to be married.
**[03:02] Touko**
You're getting married?
**[03:04] Touko**
That's why you're on the collection truck?
**[03:07] Benio**
But you're not here as a bride, are you?
**[03:17] Touko**
I'm going to the capital.
**[03:21] Benio**
To the capital? What for?
**[03:24] Touko**
S-Someone died because of me.
**[03:28] Touko**
I'm going to return his things.
**[03:34] Benio**
What's your name? How old are you?
**[03:38] Touko**
Touko. I'm 11.
**[03:43] Sakuroku**
You awake, twerp? Come with me.
**[03:46] Touko**
O-Okay.
**[03:47] Sakuroku**
Leave your bag.
**[03:50] Sakuroku**
The dog can come if it won't leave you.
**[03:53] Touko**
Ah, wait for...
**[03:56] Touko**
Please take care of this.
**[03:58] Hotaru**
Sure.
**[04:00] Narrator**
* Collection trucks connected*
* the scattered villages,*
**[04:03] Narrator**
* bringing precious goods made*
* in the capital's factories to them.*
**[04:08] Narrator**
* To the inhabitants of this world,*
* they were a lifeline.*
**[04:15] Narrator**
* In exchange for the safe light*
* and warmth of bottled lightning,*
**[04:19] Narrator**
* each village would send its unique*
* products and offerings to the capital.*
**[04:25] Narrator**
* The trucks ferried goods and news*
* between villages, but that wasn't all.*
**[04:33] Narrator**
* They were the last thread linking the*
* humans isolated within protective wards.*
**[04:42] Sakuroku**
This is the engine room.
**[04:44] Sakuroku**
Hey, Shouzou!
**[04:46] Shouzou**
Huh?
**[04:48] Sakuroku**
We picked up this twerp in the
village yesterday. Put her to work.
**[04:52] Shouzou**
What?
**[04:54] Shouzou**
Why me? I've already got a lot on my plate.
**[04:57] Sakuroku**
Can it. She's your problem now,
and that's that.
**[05:11] Shouzou**
Follow me.
**[05:12] Shouzou**
I hear you got saddled
with a dead fire hunter's stuff.
**[05:16] Shouzou**
Tough luck for a kid like you.
**[05:19] Touko**
It's my fault the fire hunter died.
**[05:24] Shouzou**
I'd sell the sickle to a passing hunter for a
tidy sum and keep the hound as a guard dog.
**[05:31] Shouzou**
You villagers sure are honest.
**[05:33] Shouzou**
'Course, it's better for
the factories that way.
**[05:40] Shouzou**
Scrub it nice and clean.
**[05:41] Touko**
Okay...
**[05:44] Shouzou**
There's more after this one.
**[06:05] Shouzou**
You oughta know me by now.
**[06:08] Shouzou**
Dogs are supposed to be quick learners.
**[06:12] Shouzou**
You're done here.
**[06:13] Shouzou**
Go back to your room and eat.
**[06:18] Touko**
Um, do you know where Mr. Enji is?
**[06:24] Shouzou**
Sorry, but Enji's on the other truck, Car 2.
**[06:30] Shouzou**
He's good with people.
**[06:33] Shouzou**
But over here, we've got that scary old chief.
**[06:43] Benio**
You *reek*!
**[06:48] Hotaru**
Your food's here.
**[06:50] Hotaru**
We already ate.
**[07:15] Kaho**
I don't need it.
**[07:17] Touko**
But...
**[07:19] Kaho**
I don't!
**[07:21] Hotaru**
That's no good, Kaho. You have to eat.
**[07:25] Hotaru**
Or you'll starve to death
before your wedding.
**[07:28] Hotaru**
And if we die on the truck, then...
**[07:34] Hotaru**
what are we here for?
**[07:38] Benio**
They packed us off as brides
to get rid of curses.
**[07:42] Touko**
Get rid of curses?
**[07:45] Hotaru**
My village made pottery.
**[07:50] Hotaru**
Like bowls and teacups, you know?
**[07:52] Hotaru**
Except lately, the clay's been no good.
**[07:56] Hotaru**
It runs through your fingers
like fiend blood.
**[08:00] Hotaru**
The old folks read the omens
and said it was a curse.
**[08:04] Hotaru**
The treefolk wouldn't take me
far enough away for them,
**[08:10] Hotaru**
so they put me on this truck.
**[08:12] Benio**
Same story here.
**[08:15] Benio**
My village works bamboo.
The whole place is one big grove.
**[08:19] Benio**
And this year, it refuses to grow.
**[08:22] Benio**
It doesn't normally need any help from us,
but this crop rots as soon as it sprouts.
**[08:28] Benio**
I got the same deal as Hotaru.
**[08:30] Benio**
As if marrying me off would lift any curse.
**[08:35] Benio**
I could've done the work of
five men if they'd just left me alone.
**[08:40] Benio**
Kaho's in the same boat.
**[08:42] Benio**
Her village mines pretty rocks.
**[08:46] Benio**
Ah, I'm bored to tears on this thing.
**[08:50] Benio**
You're lucky they let you work, Touko.
**[08:53] Benio**
Food doesn't taste right when you don't.
**[08:56] Benio**
I love to work. Being holed up in this
little room doesn't suit me one bit.
**[09:09] Benio**
Hurry up and eat!
**[09:10] Benio**
This has to be easier on
a mutt like you than it is on us.
**[09:15] Benio**
Don't growl like you own the place.
Mind your manners!
**[09:28] Hotaru**
You're so funny, Benio.
**[09:30] Hotaru**
You showed Touko's dog who's boss.
**[09:33] Hotaru**
That makes you the head honcho.
**[09:36] Benio**
Come on, Hotaru. Laugh or cry,
but don't do *both*.
**[09:41] Hotaru**
But Benio, look. It's eating.
**[09:45] Hotaru**
Look, Touko.
**[09:55] Touko**
Kanata?
**[09:57] Hotaru**
Could it be a dog whistle?
**[10:01] Hotaru**
There's a fire hunter
aboard the other truck.
**[10:05] Hotaru**
They say he orders his hound around
with a whistle that only dogs can hear.
**[10:13] Hotaru**
I bet Kanata can hear it, too.
**[10:17] Benio**
Do you want to work, too?
**[10:33] Kaho**
You're too loud.
**[10:36] Touko**
I'm sorry. Was I snoring?
**[10:39] Kaho**
No. You kept groaning in your sleep.
**[10:44] Kaho**
Here. This fell out of your bag
when you got on.
**[10:48] Kaho**
Those two wouldn't stop yapping
long enough for me to give it back.
**[10:52] Kaho**
Well, you have it now.
**[10:54] Kaho**
You barely talk when you're awake,
but in your sleep, you never shut up.
***SIGN*** Rin
***SIGN*** Tokohanahime
***SIGN*** Rin
***SIGN*** Koushi
**[12:29] Koushi**
I received this letter.
**[12:31] Koushi**
Haijuu the fire hunter is my father.
I believe you've hosted him here before.
**[12:36] Butler**
We have been expecting you, sir.
Right this way.
**[12:45] Butler**
My master, Yuoshichi,
will be with you shortly.
**[13:07] Yuoshichi**
I was devastated to hear what happened.
**[13:10] Yuoshichi**
Your poor mother.
And while your father is away, too.
**[13:14] Yuoshichi**
My sincerest condolences.
**[13:17] Yuoshichi**
I've been indebted to your father,
Haijuu, for many years.
**[13:22] Yuoshichi**
Your mother's health troubled me,
but I never expected such a sharp decline.
**[13:31] Koushi**
I have a younger sister.
**[13:34] Koushi**
She's ill, but I'm a student
and I don't have a job yet.
**[13:40] Koushi**
Could you please find it in your heart
to let me work in your factory?
**[13:45] Yuoshichi**
Oh, I didn't reach out to you children
because I want to put you to work.
**[13:52] Yuoshichi**
Tell me, how would you like to live here?
**[13:57] Koushi**
What?
**[13:58] Yuoshichi**
It's better than it once was,
but the capital is still far from safe.
**[14:03] Yuoshichi**
I'll give both of you rooms
in my house. What do you say?
**[14:08] Koushi**
Apprentice quarters?
**[14:10] Yuoshichi**
Actually, I'd like to welcome you
to be part of the family.
**[14:15] Koushi**
I'm deeply grateful, but I can't
presume upon your generosity.
**[14:20] Yuoshichi**
I realize this is sudden.
You must be confused.
**[14:24] Yuoshichi**
But think it over carefully.
**[14:26] Yuoshichi**
Whether you work or stay in school,
your sister will be alone all day.
**[14:33] Yuoshichi**
If you join me here,
I can get her a good doctor.
**[14:39] Yuoshichi**
I can find you a tutor and even
get you a pass to the central archive.
**[14:48] Yuoshichi**
And...
**[14:50] Yuoshichi**
You'll have free rein to use
the skyfire your father left behind.
**[14:57] Koushi**
Skyfire?
***SIGN*** Skyfire
**[15:00] Yuoshichi**
Haijuu once told me he'd stockpiled
skyfire in his home for a rainy day.
**[15:09] Yuoshichi**
Though, by law, all skyfire and fiendfire
must go to our rulers, the divine clans.
***SIGN*** Divine Clans
**[15:19] Yuoshichi**
Koushi, your father left the capital
because he sensed times were changing.
**[15:26] Yuoshichi**
The government of this land
is likely on its last legs.
**[15:31] Yuoshichi**
You must know about it. Unlike the fire
harvested from fiends in the dark forest,
**[15:38] Yuoshichi**
skyfire only comes from fallbeasts,
the fiends of the air.
***SIGN*** Fallbeasts
**[15:43] Yuoshichi**
And it is far more potent
than ordinary fiendfire.
**[15:49] Yuoshichi**
It doesn't burn. It explodes.
**[15:52] Yuoshichi**
Even a little of it makes excellent fuel.
**[15:56] Yuoshichi**
And only a handful of the very best
fire hunters can harvest fallbeasts.
***SIGN*** Fire Hunters
**[16:01] Yuoshichi**
Hunters like your father, Haijuu.
**[16:05] Yuoshichi**
Unfortunately, using skyfire is
beyond my factory's technicians.
**[16:11] Yuoshichi**
But I believe *you* can reinvent
bottled lightning for a new purpose.
**[16:19] Koushi**
A new type of bottled lightning?
***SIGN*** Bottled Lightning
**[16:24] Yuoshichi**
Use all the funds and materials you want.
**[16:28] Yuoshichi**
I share your father's premonition.
This nation will soon falter.
**[16:38] Yuoshichi**
When it does, we need the strength
to defend ourselves and our villages.
**[16:45] Koushi**
Please tell me one thing.
**[16:48] Koushi**
Why get me to use the skyfire?
Wouldn't an expert be better for this?
**[16:53] Koushi**
It's dangerous, and I'm still a student.
My knowledge is limited.
**[17:00] Koushi**
If you help my sister, I would be happy
to give you the skyfire my father left.
**[17:08] Yuoshichi**
No, I doubt anyone is
better suited to the task.
**[17:13] Yuoshichi**
Forgive me, but I took the
liberty of investigating you.
**[17:18] Yuoshichi**
You weren't born into wealth,
but you received a scholarship to the academy
**[17:26] Yuoshichi**
because they saw you had
a talent that others lack:
**[17:32] Yuoshichi**
the potential not just to learn,
but to create new things.
**[17:37] Yuoshichi**
And above all, that fire
is your father's legacy.
***SIGN*** Touko
**[18:13] Benio**
Uh, we're in the middle of breakfast...
**[18:19] Enzen**
You're a good hound.
**[18:21] Enzen**
I'm going hunting. Join me.
**[18:24] Touko**
Huh?
**[18:26] Enzen**
Come. Hunt with my hound, Izumo.
**[18:45] Sakuroku**
We just need enough to get by.
Don't overdo it. Be careful.
**[18:50] Enzen**
We only work *because* there's danger.
**[18:54] Benio**
Who does he think he is? I can't stand him.
**[19:00] Hotaru**
Oh no!
**[19:01] Hotaru**
Kaho's gone! I think she went outside.
**[19:10] Benio**
What's wrong with that girl?!
**[19:14] Touko**
Kanata!
**[19:18] Touko**
Please leave this open!
I'll bring Kaho back!
**[19:25] Hotaru**
Touko!
**[19:35] Touko**
Kaho!
**[19:36] Touko**
Kaho!
**[19:40] Touko**
K-Kaho!
**[20:19] Touko**
*Kanata.*
**[20:37] Touko**
K-Kaho!
**[20:58] Enzen**
Kanata! Izumo! Well done!
**[21:39] Enzen**
You nitwit!
**[21:41] Enzen**
I'd chew the other girl out, too,
if she weren't hurt.
**[21:49] Enzen**
Don't snarl at me.
**[21:51] Enzen**
This kid's not your master.
**[21:54] Enzen**
She's just your chaperone to the capital.
**[22:00] Sakuroku**
Never go outside without permission.
**[22:03] Sakuroku**
The lives of the whole crew
depend on our rules.
**[22:10] Sakuroku**
Sorry, twerp, but I can't keep you on board.
**[22:14] Sakuroku**
Get off at the next village
with one of the brides.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Fractions of the World
***SIGN*** Fractions of the World
# E3 - Fractions of the World
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GPWUKGWKM/fractions-of-the-world)
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**[00:02] Narrator**
* Haijuu the fire hunter saved Touko,*
* then perished before her eyes.*
**[00:07] Narrator**
* His son, Koushi, has come under the*
* patronage of the wealthy Okibi family.*
**[00:11] Narrator**
* Touko makes her way toward the*
* capital with Haijuu's hound, Kanata.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Fractions of the World
***SIGN*** Fractions of the World
**[01:50] Yuoshichi**
I hope you like it.
**[01:52] Yuoshichi**
Unfortunately, it faces west, so it doesn't
get much sunlight. Sorry about that.
**[02:00] Yuoshichi**
I want you and your sister to
think of this as your own home.
**[02:07] Yuoshichi**
Please excuse me now.
I have to work this afternoon,
**[02:11] Yuoshichi**
but we'll dine with my wife
and daughter tonight.
**[02:28] Kira**
May I come in?
**[02:35] Kira**
I'm so sorry I didn't greet you earlier.
**[02:38] Kira**
I'd hoped to meet you with Mother,
but she hasn't come out of her room yet.
**[02:49] Kira**
How do you do? I'm Kira.
I'm part of the Okibi family.
***SIGN*** Kira
**[02:57] Kira**
The doctor wants to see you
about your sister's diagnosis.
**[03:09] Kira**
Here he is, Doctor.
**[03:12] Takimi**
I am Takimi, the Okibis'
principal physician.
***SIGN*** Takimi
**[03:17] Koushi**
I'm Hinako's brother, Koushi.
**[03:22] Takimi**
This is a clear case of fetal contamination.
**[03:26] Takimi**
A real cure for her condition is
frankly unlikely, I'm sorry to say.
**[03:33] Takimi**
But with proper nutrition and a hygienic
environment, she should regain her strength.
**[03:40] Takimi**
She's been on a lot of
painkillers, hasn't she?
**[03:44] Takimi**
They will only worsen her condition.
**[03:47] Takimi**
Most children with fetal contamination
succumb at a much earlier age.
**[03:53] Takimi**
Hinako must be a strong girl.
**[03:56] Koushi**
Strong?
**[03:58] Takimi**
In cases like Hinako's, complications
from infections pose the greatest risk.
**[04:04] Takimi**
She should be safer here. It's far from
the factory district, and the air is clean.
**[04:10] Takimi**
I'll start treating her symptoms in earnest
once she has her strength back.
**[04:16] Takimi**
The master of the house told me about
your mother. My sincerest condolences.
**[04:22] Takimi**
Please, have no fear for your sister.
**[04:25] Takimi**
I will treat her to the best of my ability.
**[04:36] Kira**
Dr. Takimi is wonderful, don't you think?
**[04:40] Koushi**
Thank you for bothering
with people like us. I'm grateful.
**[04:44] Kira**
Please, don't stand on ceremony.
**[04:49] Kira**
To tell the truth, I've been lonely
growing up in this house.
**[04:55] Kira**
I'm so glad you came.
It's like I have siblings.
**[04:58] Kira**
Your sister is called Hinako,
isn't she? That's a lovely name.
**[05:03] Kira**
What do I call you?
**[05:06] Koushi**
Koushi.
**[05:08] Kira**
How do you write it?
**[05:17] Koushi**
"Kou" is "emperor" with the "fire" radical.
**[05:25] Koushi**
"Shi" is the number four. Koushi.
**[05:29] Kira**
What a wonderful name.
**[05:31] Kira**
The "kou" means "a great blaze,"
and the "shi" means "safety and perfection."
***SIGN*** Koushi
***SIGN*** Koushi
**[05:37] Koushi**
"Perfection"?
**[05:38] Kira**
The numbers in men's names don't reflect
their birth order. They each have a meaning.
***SIGN*** Koushi
***SIGN*** shi
***SIGN*** Kou
***SIGN*** shi
***SIGN*** Four
***SIGN*** shi
***SIGN*** One
***SIGN*** ichi
**[05:47] Kira**
One means "the first and best."
***SIGN*** Two
***SIGN*** ni
**[05:50] Kira**
Two means "rest and kindness."
***SIGN*** Three
***SIGN*** san
**[05:53] Kira**
Three means "as many times as it takes."
**[05:56] Koushi**
Really? I had no idea.
**[05:59] Kira**
Apparently, people started this custom
sometime after the loss of natural fire.
**[06:07] Kira**
It meant a lot at the time,
but no one remembers now.
**[06:09] Koushi**
Where did you learn about it?
**[06:12] Kira**
My tutor, Mr. Kouhachi, taught me.
He's amazing. He knows everything.
**[06:18] Kira**
I'm 16. What about you?
**[06:21] Koushi**
I'm 15. A year younger.
**[06:23] Koushi**
Don't you go to school, Kira?
**[06:29] Kira**
I wanted to, but my parents decided
I should have a tutor instead.
**[06:35] Kira**
I'm an only child,
so I'll inherit the factory someday.
**[06:40] Hibana**
I wouldn't be so sure of that.
**[06:45] Hibana**
I take it this is your new brother?
**[06:52] Kira**
Mother.
**[06:54] Hibana**
I'm Yuoshichi's wife.
Forgive me for not greeting you sooner.
**[06:59] Hibana**
My daughter's been over the moon
since she learned you were coming.
**[07:06] Hibana**
Kira, don't take things for granted.
**[07:10] Hibana**
You might not be the only potential heir.
**[07:15] Kira**
Yes. I'm sorry, Mother.
**[07:18] Hibana**
I'm going to rest.
**[07:20] Hibana**
Don't disturb me until dinner.
**[07:29] Koushi**
Is she not feeling well?
**[07:31] Kira**
It's not that. Sorry about her.
**[07:33] Kira**
Mother didn't even tell you her name.
**[07:38] Kira**
Hibana.
***SIGN*** Hibana
**[07:39] Kira**
My mother's name is Hibana.
**[07:42] Kira**
She's not ill or anything.
**[07:44] Kira**
She says she had a hard youth,
so she takes to her bed sometimes.
**[07:50] Kira**
But she's usually full of life.
**[07:54] Koushi**
I'm glad she's not ill.
**[07:56] Koushi**
Hinako's and my mother passed away
due to the factory toxins the other day.
**[08:02] Kira**
What am I thinking, celebrating
when you've just lost your mother?
***SIGN*** Touko
**[09:21] Doctor**
The claw wounds are deep but not fatal.
**[09:25] Doctor**
If it had bitten her, she'd be dead.
**[09:28] Doctor**
Standing here worrying
won't make her better.
**[09:32] Doctor**
The chief told you to get off
at the next village, remember?
**[09:35] Doctor**
I feel sorry for you, but them's the breaks.
**[09:38] Doctor**
We all look out for
each other's survival here.
**[09:42] Doctor**
Anyone who can't do that
has to go, even if it's a kid.
**[09:48] Benio**
Kaho, you idiot!
**[09:50] Benio**
We don't want to get married
any more than you do!
**[09:53] Benio**
But you never complained!
You just snuck out!
**[09:56] Benio**
What if you'd died?!
**[09:58] Hotaru**
Touko!
**[10:00] Benio**
That's a nasty bruise. Did somebody hit you?
**[10:04] Hotaru**
I just heard the news from one of the crew.
**[10:07] Hotaru**
Are you really getting off
at Weaver Village with me?
**[10:11] Benio**
It doesn't make sense!
Touko went out to save Kaho!
**[10:15] Benio**
I'll go talk to them.
**[10:17] Hotaru**
Benio!
**[10:20] Shouzou**
I don't know what you
expect me to do about it.
**[10:24] Benio**
You can't toss her out midtrip
for trying to help somebody.
**[10:28] Shouzou**
I know you villagers are big on responsibility,
**[10:31] Shouzou**
but the chief isn't mad
'cause the kid went outside.
**[10:36] Shouzou**
She didn't shut the door behind her, right?
**[10:41] Benio**
She asked us to leave it open.
**[10:43] Shouzou**
Some fiends are quick little buggers.
**[10:47] Shouzou**
Do you know what would happen
if one of them slipped in here?
**[10:53] Shouzou**
In these cramped quarters, we'd be helpless.
**[10:56] Shouzou**
You, me, and everyone else
could've been slaughtered.
**[11:00] Benio**
What?
**[11:02] Shouzou**
Besides, didn't you notice that
Kaho girl was up to something?
**[11:06] Benio**
Of course not! We would've stopped her!
**[11:09] Benio**
Or run away with her.
**[11:14] Shouzou**
I'll try to smooth things
over with the chief.
**[11:16] Benio**
Huh?
**[11:18] Shouzou**
The chief and the hunter don't get it.
**[11:21] Shouzou**
If we try to kick the kid out,
that dog won't take it lying down.
**[11:27] Shouzou**
Leave it to me. I won't let you down.
**[11:40] Touko**
She's taking her time.
**[11:42] Benio**
Let her. It's a special day.
**[12:04] Crewwoman**
You're still getting ready?
**[12:10] Crewwoman**
A farewell present for the bride.
**[12:14] Crewwoman**
Don't tell the rest of the crew.
**[12:16] Hotaru**
Are you sure? This must be to sell.
**[12:20] Crewwoman**
That's why I'm saying to keep it quiet.
**[12:23] Crewwoman**
I couldn't stand to
send you out with so little.
**[12:27] Crewwoman**
I'll just sell something else at double price.
**[12:30] Crewwoman**
Oh, and don't worry.
**[12:33] Crewwoman**
That girl's still sleeping off
the medicine, but she'll live.
**[12:38] Crewwoman**
She was tough enough to sneak out
the bottom of the truck,
**[12:42] Crewwoman**
so she'll be up and about in no time.
**[12:46] Benio**
Hey, are you gonna give me
anything when it's my turn?
**[12:50] Crewwoman**
Maybe. If I find anything
that'd suit a bumpkin like you.
**[12:55] Crewwoman**
Oh, that reminds me. The kid's off the hook.
**[12:58] Crewwoman**
She and the dog can stay with us
all the way to the capital.
**[13:02] Benio**
Good for you, Touko!
**[13:04] Benio**
I guess that Shouzou guy
actually came through for you.
**[13:09] Hotaru**
I'm so glad, Touko. That's great, isn't it?
**[13:18] Touko**
So pretty.
**[13:20] Benio**
You said it. She's gorgeous.
**[13:23] Benio**
Whoever marries you should
thank his lucky stars, Hotaru.
**[13:30] Hotaru**
Benio. Touko. I'm glad I got to know you.
**[13:35] Hotaru**
My village married me off to lift a curse,
but I wouldn't have met you if they hadn't.
**[13:44] Hotaru**
Getting to meet you was a blessing.
**[13:50] Hotaru**
We were only together for
a little while, but I'm truly grateful.
**[13:54] Hotaru**
I hope you'll both be safe and happy.
**[14:00] Narrator**
* Touko and Benio didn't get*
* to see Hotaru get married.*
**[14:05] Narrator**
* All bar the locals were forbidden from*
* attending weddings of curse-bearing brides.*
**[14:14] Narrator**
* Was the ceremony grand enough*
* to call it a wedding?*
**[14:22] Narrator**
*Was the bride even welcome in her new home?*
**[14:26] Narrator**
*They had no way of knowing.*
***SIGN*** Koushi
**[14:36] Yuoshichi**
Few people know about this room,
even among my household.
**[14:42] Yuoshichi**
I had your father's store
of skyfire brought here.
**[15:00] Yuoshichi**
This is where I want you
to make bottled lightning.
**[15:16] Koushi**
May I ask a question?
**[15:18] Koushi**
You said this country will fail,
and that was why my father...
**[15:24] Koushi**
Why he went into the forest alone,
without telling his fellow hunters.
**[15:29] Koushi**
But why will it fail?
**[15:31] Koushi**
What will threaten the divine clans' rule?
**[15:39] Koushi**
What is going to happen?
**[15:42] Yuoshichi**
Have you heard of the spiders?
**[15:45] Koushi**
My father said they're a worse danger
to hunters than the fiends are.
***SIGN*** Spiders
**[15:51] Yuoshichi**
Although they once numbered
among the divine clans,
**[15:55] Yuoshichi**
they now lurk in the forest,
plotting to overthrow the capital's rule.
**[16:00] Koushi**
So the spiders will make their move?
**[16:04] Koushi**
But if they rebel,
the divine clans who rule us will...
**[16:09] Yuoshichi**
Rule? Yes, they certainly do that.
***SIGN*** Fire
***SIGN*** Water
***SIGN*** Wind
***SIGN*** Earth
***SIGN*** Wood
**[16:21] Yuoshichi**
The divine clans have strange power
over fire, water, wood, earth, and wind.
***SIGN*** Earth
***SIGN*** Wood
***SIGN*** Fire
***SIGN*** Water
***SIGN*** Wind
**[16:31] Yuoshichi**
I suppose you've heard of the great fire
that once ravaged the capital.
**[16:37] Yuoshichi**
It was long before you were born, of course.
**[16:40] Koushi**
I know what I was taught in school.
**[16:43] Yuoshichi**
In a brand new factory, there was a burst
not of fiendfire, but of natural flame.
**[16:58] Yuoshichi**
It spread from person to person in the
densely packed residential quarter.
**[17:05] Yuoshichi**
The city's canals filled with the bodies
of people trying to flee the blaze.
**[17:15] Yuoshichi**
Water-wielding gods finally quenched
the blaze by calling a rainstorm,
**[17:21] Yuoshichi**
but they were too late.
**[17:23] Yuoshichi**
Far too many people had already died,
burning up like torches.
**[17:27] Yuoshichi**
It was a horrible sight.
**[17:31] Yuoshichi**
And I believe the divine clans
chose to delay and let it happen.
**[17:38] Koushi**
Then, you mean they...
**[17:41] Yuoshichi**
They culled the excess human population.
**[17:44] Yuoshichi**
The lives of the gods last
as long as three centuries.
**[17:47] Yuoshichi**
They control nature and
possess ancient technology.
**[17:53] Yuoshichi**
So why do they leave humans
to be poisoned by the factories?
**[17:58] Yuoshichi**
I've sent trustworthy fire hunters
to investigate the spiders in secret,
**[18:03] Yuoshichi**
but they haven't learned
anything definitive yet.
**[18:07] Yuoshichi**
Still, whatever they do is sure
to cause chaos in the capital.
**[18:13] Yuoshichi**
We would be fools to rely on gods
who once culled us like weeds.
**[18:20] Yuoshichi**
We need powerful weapons to
defend ourselves with our own hands.
**[18:28] Koushi**
I'll do what I can.
**[18:29] Yuoshichi**
I have high hopes for you.
**[18:32] Yuoshichi**
Oh, and keep this between us.
**[18:35] Koushi**
I won't tell a soul.
**[18:37] Yuoshichi**
I've registered you with the central archive.
**[18:41] Yuoshichi**
You should have full access by
the day after tomorrow at the latest.
***SIGN*** Touko
***SIGN*** 1
***SIGN*** 1
***SIGN*** 2
**[19:42] Shouzou**
What is it?
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 2
**[19:51] Touko**
Shouzou.
**[19:53] Shouzou**
We're gonna take on fuel here.
**[19:55] Shouzou**
Did Kanata go to help Izumo?
**[19:58] Touko**
Kanata rushed off.
**[20:00] Shouzou**
That's a hunting hound for you.
Already in perfect sync.
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 2
**[20:06] Shouzou**
You had a rough time of it the other day.
**[20:10] Shouzou**
Don't mind the chief.
**[20:14] Shouzou**
He's got a short fuse, but he told me
how impressed he was with your hard work.
**[20:18] Touko**
What?
**[20:20] Shouzou**
He said you're more useful than I am.
**[20:22] Shouzou**
Who the hell does he think
keeps this truck in working order?
**[20:28] Shouzou**
I hear we still don't know
what fiendfire really is.
**[20:32] Shouzou**
But we can run this big truck by using it
to boil water into high-pressure steam.
**[20:40] Shouzou**
In the old days, they mixed fuel
and air to make an explosion,
**[20:43] Shouzou**
and used the energy
to run all kinds of machines.
**[20:49] Shouzou**
But if we tried that now,
we'd be toast in no time.
**[20:54] Shouzou**
Now that he's got Kanata,
Enzen only goes after big game.
**[20:58] Shouzou**
So we don't have to skimp
on hot water for ourselves—
**[21:03] Shouzou**
Wh-What the...
**[21:05] Enji**
Shouzou! I'll go back to Car 2!
**[21:08] Enji**
Light all the fire tanks so we can
speed out of here on short notice!
**[21:13] Shouzou**
Hey, Enji! That's easy for you to say,
but I just disconnected Tank 2 for...
**[21:17] Shouzou**
Damn it! What's going on?!
**[21:19] Speaking Tube A**
* All hands, emergency stations!*
* Get in position!*
**[21:21] Speaking Tube B**
* Lookouts, keep your eyes peeled!*
* Something's out there!*
**[21:22] Speaking Tube C**
*Topside gunners, get moving!*
**[21:24] Speaking Tube D**
*Port gunners, incoming!*
**[21:38] Touko**
Benio!
**[21:40] Benio**
Wh-What *is* that thing?
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Flickering Flame
***SIGN*** Flickering Flame
# E4 - Flickering Flame
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**[00:01] Narrator**
* While she's traveling with Kanata,*
* the hound of the late fire hunter Haijuu,*
**[00:06] Narrator**
* a great white dragon attacks*
* the truck taking Touko to the capital.*
**[00:12] Narrator**
*Meanwhile, in the capital,*
**[00:14] Narrator**
* Koushi has a fateful encounter*
* with the Okibis' daughter, Kira.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Flickering Flame
***SIGN*** Flickering Flame
**[01:57] Touko**
Come on, Benio! Run!
**[02:08] Benio**
Touko!
**[02:15] Touko**
Kaho!
**[02:16] Touko**
Kaho, can you hear me?
We need to get out!
**[02:26] Touko**
Kaho!
**[02:27] Benio**
Hurry, Kaho! Come here!
**[02:32] Kaho**
He's dead.
**[02:35] Touko**
Kaho, hurry!
**[02:38] Kaho**
The doctor is dead.
**[02:42] Touko**
Kaho!
**[02:43] Kaho**
Why him and not me?
**[02:49] Kaho**
Why? Why couldn't it have been me?
**[02:52] Benio**
Kaho!
**[02:53] Benio**
Kaho, you blockhead!
Pull yourself together!
**[02:57] Shouzou**
Hit, damn it!
**[03:07] Shouzou**
This thing's useless!
**[03:56] Touko**
Kanata.
**[04:01] Shouzou**
Over here, kid! Hurry!
**[04:06] Shouzou**
Run!
**[04:13] Kaho**
The dragon god... My village's guardian.
**[04:18] Shouzou**
You mean *that's* a guardian deity?
**[04:21] Touko**
What?
**[04:22] Touko**
*Why would a guardian do this to everyone?*
**[04:38] Shouzou**
Get away! The sparks will
get us if we stay here!
**[05:01] Touko**
Kanata...
**[05:06] Enzen**
Kanata! You're a hunting hound!
***SIGN*** Koushi and Kira
**[05:27] Narrator**
* Once a year, when spring rolls around,*
* a ship leaves the capital,*
**[05:31] Narrator**
*bound for an island far to the south.*
**[05:35] Narrator**
* In the placid bay, expensive boats*
* luxuriously decked out bob on the water.*
**[05:40] Narrator**
* Onlookers often enjoy debating*
* which boat is the most magnificent.*
**[05:50] Kira**
Here, Hinako. Try one.
**[05:53] Hinako**
Okay.
**[05:54] Kira**
That boat practically
glides across the water.
**[05:58] Kira**
When you're feeling better,
you should come watch it with me.
**[06:02] Hinako**
What about your family, Kira?
Don't you have a boat?
**[06:06] Kira**
We do, but my father is an awful decorator.
**[06:12] Kira**
He thinks being gaudy
and garish is all it takes.
**[06:17] Kira**
I feel ashamed every time I see our boat.
**[06:20] Kira**
Oh, but don't tell him I said that.
**[06:25] Kira**
That goes for you, too, Koushi.
**[06:26] Koushi**
I won't say a word.
**[06:28] Hinako**
Honestly, Koushi. You always
have your nose in a book.
**[06:31] Kira**
Oh, that reminds me. You go to
my father's study every afternoon.
**[06:37] Kira**
What for?
**[06:39] Koushi**
Huh?
**[06:40] Koushi**
Oh, he lets me read his books.
**[06:43] Koushi**
Mr. Kouhachi's lessons are way beyond
what I learned at the academy,
**[06:48] Koushi**
so I'm working hard to catch up to you.
**[06:53] Kira**
Sugar perks up your brain and your spirits.
**[06:57] Kira**
Here. Say "aah."
**[07:00] Koushi**
Aah.
**[07:06] Hinako**
It's sweet!
**[07:09] Yuoshichi**
How are things progressing?
**[07:12] Yuoshichi**
If there's anything you need,
just say the word.
**[07:16] Koushi**
In that case, I would like
a few things, if you don't mind.
**[07:20] Koushi**
I'd also like to visit the central archive
again tomorrow afternoon.
**[07:25] Yuoshichi**
Feel free.
**[07:27] Yuoshichi**
You mustn't put any questions about
this work to your tutor, after all.
**[07:32] Koushi**
I know crystal plates are expensive, but...
**[07:35] Yuoshichi**
Crystal plates and additional fiendfire?
**[07:40] Yuoshichi**
I'll get you everything on this list
by the end of tomorrow.
**[07:43] Yuoshichi**
Keep up the good work.
**[07:46] Narrator**
* Colorful sweets are placed*
* outside shops, pharmacies,*
**[07:49] Narrator**
* and the little shrines to the*
* city's many guardian deities,*
**[07:54] Narrator**
* and children are free to eat*
* whatever they wish.*
**[08:04] Koushi**
If the spiders were to invade the capital,
how and where would they—
**[08:08] Yuoshichi**
If I were in their shoes,
I wouldn't bother infiltrating the city.
**[08:12] Yuoshichi**
I'd go straight for the divine palace.
**[08:14] Yuoshichi**
Striking the divine clans' stronghold
would be my top priority.
**[08:19] Koushi**
Could you get a map of the factory district
and the area around the palace for me?
**[08:24] Koushi**
I'd like one as precise as you can make it.
**[08:27] Yuoshichi**
That's quite a tall order.
**[08:31] Yuoshichi**
I shouldn't need to tell you
how tight palace security is.
**[08:36] Yuoshichi**
I doubt anyone has ever charted
its surroundings in detail.
**[08:42] Yuoshichi**
Still, I'll see what I can do.
**[08:55] (Flashback) Hitoo**
Once, when humans possessed natural fire,
**[09:00] (Flashback) Hitoo**
we spread out from our original home
and inhabited the whole world.
**[09:07] (Flashback) Hitoo**
Fire allowed us to adapt to frozen tundras
and lands where food was scarce.
**[09:14] (Flashback) Hitoo**
Yet now, swallowed by the dark forest,
**[09:18] (Flashback) Hitoo**
we have no way of knowing
what has become of other nations.
**[09:23] (Flashback) Hitoo**
Seeking out news of them is
part of the ship's yearly mission.
**[09:28] (Flashback) Hitoo**
That said, the ship always
goes to the same place:
**[09:32] (Flashback) Hitoo**
a small island with people
who speak our language.
**[09:36] (Flashback) Hitoo**
Every year, we sail there to ask them
for news, but it is always in vain.
**[09:47] (Flashback) Hitoo**
The ship returns laden with island goods that
are hardly worth the fuel burned on the trip.
**[09:56] (Flashback) Hitoo**
Nevertheless, it sets out once more,
and the capital celebrates the Boat Festival.
**[10:03] (Flashback) Hitoo**
In short, that island is as far as
modern humans can go and come back.
**[10:14] (Flashback) Haijuu**
Skyfire is both flame and light.
**[10:18] (Flashback) Haijuu**
Flame fiends have black blood,
yet the fire they yield gleams like gold.
**[10:27] (Flashback) Haijuu**
What could it be, I wonder?
**[10:29] (Flashback) Haijuu**
Fiends rush to attack fire hunters on sight,
**[10:34] (Flashback) Haijuu**
like they're mad with rage.
**[10:38] (Flashback) Haijuu**
But they fall still the moment
a sickle takes their life.
**[10:44] (Flashback) Haijuu**
They never so much as spasm or groan.
**[10:48] (Flashback) Haijuu**
They die and provide us
with their golden fire.
**[10:54] (Flashback) Haijuu**
Sometimes, I think the
flame fiends might be a gift.
**[11:01] (Flashback) Haijuu**
A gift from someone in ancient times
to sustain us in this savage world once...
**[11:10] (Flashback) Haijuu**
No, I shouldn't say any more.
**[11:13] (Flashback) Haijuu**
The Forest God would curse me for it.
***SIGN*** Touko and the Treefolk
**[11:58] Touko**
Was it everyone, not just Benio?
**[12:01] Touko**
Are Mr. Enji and Mr. Sakuroku
and even Mr. Enzen dead, too?
**[12:09] Shouzou**
Yeah. No one could've made it out of that.
**[12:13] Kaho**
I'm sorry. It's all my fault.
**[12:16] Shouzou**
Don't cry or you'll set me off, too.
**[12:20] Shouzou**
What could a kid like you do
to cause that disaster, anyway?
**[12:25] Kaho**
But...
**[12:26] Shouzou**
Anyway, forget that. You've got a fever.
**[12:30] Shouzou**
Please, don't anyone else go dying on me.
**[12:38] Shouzou**
Wh-What the...
**[12:47] Touko**
They're the treefolk, Mr. Shouzou.
They bring medicine to villages.
**[13:04] Treefolk Woman**
That hound summoned us.
**[13:08] Touko**
Um...
**[13:09] Treefolk Woman**
We know what happened.
**[13:12] Treefolk Man**
Fiends won't attack you if you stay with us.
**[13:23] Kaho**
E-Excuse me, what...
**[13:27] Kaho**
What happened to my village?
**[13:34] Treefolk Woman**
The white dragon guards Crystal Village.
**[13:38] Treefolk Woman**
The village's ward is
useless without its god.
**[13:47] Treefolk Man**
Any village that loses
its guardian is doomed.
**[14:21] Shouzou**
That's bitter!
**[14:28] Touko**
Kaho!
**[14:29] Shouzou**
Hey. Are you awake?
**[14:32] Shouzou**
These, uh, treefolk guys patched you up.
**[14:37] Treefolk Man**
Village guardians are incarnations
of the capital's Lady Goddess.
**[14:41] Treefolk Man**
If your dragon god went mad,
someone likely made it so.
**[14:48] Treefolk Woman**
The spiders.
**[14:50] Shouzou**
Did you say the spiders?
**[14:52] Shouzou**
Hang on. How could the spiders
control that dragon god?
**[14:56] Touko**
What are "spiders," Mr. Shouzou?
**[14:59] Shouzou**
Can it!
**[15:01] Shouzou**
The spiders used to be
one of the divine clans.
**[15:03] Shouzou**
Meaning they're related to the gods.
**[15:06] Shouzou**
The spiders broke with the capital and now
they wanna turn our world upside down.
**[15:10] Touko**
But they're family. Why would they fight?
**[15:13] Shouzou**
Hell if I know!
**[15:15] Shouzou**
So that's who got us?
The spiders? The goddamn *spiders*?
**[15:23] Treefolk Woman**
We will guide you to the nearest village.
**[15:26] Shouzou**
And after that?
**[15:28] Treefolk Man**
We cannot take you any farther than that.
***SIGN*** Koushi
**[15:39] Hibana**
Oh, are you going out today?
**[15:42] Koushi**
Yes. To the library.
**[15:44] Hibana**
I picked out some clothes for Hinako,
since she still seems ill.
**[15:49] Hibana**
Dressing up should help improve
her mood, don't you think?
**[15:54] Koushi**
Yes, thank you.
**[15:56] Hibana**
My husband drags her to
so many dinners and events
**[16:00] Hibana**
that the poor girl will miss
the Boat Festival this year.
**[16:05] Koushi**
*I know this scent.*
**[16:07] Koushi**
*Asafuyou?*
***SIGN*** Central
***SIGN*** Archive
**[16:32] Hitoo**
Why, fancy meeting you here.
**[16:37] Koushi**
Mr. Hitoo?
***SIGN*** Hitoo
**[16:39] Hitoo**
I was sorry to hear you left the academy.
**[16:44] Hitoo**
But I'm relieved to see
you're still eager to learn.
**[16:49] Hitoo**
Is there anything I can help you find?
**[16:54] Koushi**
I'm studying fire.
**[16:57] Hitoo**
Fire? I see.
**[17:00] Hitoo**
Try the third floor.
**[17:02] Koushi**
Why there?
**[17:05] Hitoo**
I'm certain it holds precious
texts even I've never seen.
**[17:11] Koushi**
Thank you very much.
**[17:48] Koushi**
* "It is said that an ancient cataclysm*
* gave rise to the flame fiends."*
**[17:55] Koushi**
* "The ruined land altered*
* the creatures living on it."*
**[18:01] Koushi**
* "The resemblance of the fiends to*
* ancient mammals backs up this theory."*
**[18:10] Koushi**
* "Adapting to a changed environment*
* turned existing animals into fiends."*
**[18:18] Koushi**
* "Yet much about the life and habits of*
* the fallbeast remains shrouded in mystery."*
**[18:25] Koushi**
* "We nevertheless distinguish it from other*
* flame fiends due to the potency of its fire."*
**[18:35] Koushi**
* "This, too, we call by a different name from*
* the fire produced by other fiends: skyfire."*
***SIGN*** Patron Goddess Tokohanahime
**[18:46] Koushi**
* "A goddess of the foremost clan, the clan*
* of fire, became the patron of fire hunters."*
**[18:52] Koushi**
*"Tokohanahime was her name."*
**[18:56] Koushi**
* "Her younger sister, Tayurahime, is said to*
* sustain this nation as its immortal guardian."*
***SIGN*** Tayurahime
**[19:06] Koushi**
* "Tokohanahime used natural flame to forge*
* a sickle even as her own body ignited."*
**[19:13] Koushi**
*"Her dying words survive to this day."*
***SIGN*** The Millennial Comet
**[19:21] Koushi**
* "'With the fire of the Millennial Comet,*
* we need no longer fear the dark forest.'"*
**[19:37] Koushi**
* "The Millennial Comet is a man-made star*
* once launched from the earth."*
**[19:46] Koushi**
* "After the final war, however,*
* it drifted into the void and disappeared."*
**[19:54] Koushi**
* "This humanoid star, which shall never*
* return, was called the Flickering Flame."*
***SIGN*** Flickering Flame
**[20:01] Koushi**
* "And whoever catches it shall become*
* known as the Lord of the Fire Hunters."*
***SIGN*** The Lord of
the Fire Hunters
**[20:20] Hitoo**
So did you find any useful books?
**[20:23] Koushi**
No, but I appreciated
the advice all the same.
**[20:27] Hitoo**
My lungs can't handle the dust,
so I can't go to the third floor.
**[20:34] Hitoo**
I envy you.
**[20:36] Hitoo**
That reminds me. A young fellow once
begged me to let him into the archive.
**[20:41] Hitoo**
I think he must have been a fire hunter.
**[20:44] Koushi**
What?
**[20:45] Hitoo**
He was a fine young man, with red hair
you couldn't miss, but he smelled of dogs.
**[20:54] Hitoo**
So you didn't find it, then. Oh well.
**[20:57] Hinako**
Koushi!
**[21:03] Hitoo**
Your sister seems much better.
I'd heard she was ill.
**[21:16] Kira**
Hinako wanted to come get you.
**[21:19] Kira**
Because you lose track of time
when you study, she said.
**[21:26] Kira**
And since she seems to be feeling better,
**[21:28] Kira**
I thought we could all go watch
the Boat Festival while we're out.
**[21:36] Koushi**
But isn't it dangerous
for you to be out alone?
**[21:39] Kira**
That's why you're coming, too.
**[21:45] Narrator**
* No flame fiend or fallbeast gives up its fire*
* unless slain with a hunter's sickle.*
**[21:53] Narrator**
* It is said the Lady Goddess birthed*
* the first sickle from within herself.*
**[21:59] Narrator**
* Records hold that this event coincided*
* with the maturation of the first fiends,*
**[22:09] Narrator**
* as though the goddess had been waiting*
* for their life-giving flame to ripen.*
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Spider Child
***SIGN*** The Spider Child
# E5 - The Spider Child
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GX9UQ0PQ1/the-spider-child)
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**[00:01] Narrator**
*This world is home to humans who fear fire,*
**[00:04] Narrator**
* and flame fiends who harbor*
* a new form of fire within them.*
**[00:09] Narrator**
* The fire hunter known as Haijuu died,*
* leaving behind his sickle and his dog, Kanata.*
**[00:13] Narrator**
* To return them to his family,*
* Touko journeys to the capital.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Spider Child
***SIGN*** The Spider Child
**[01:51] Kaho**
Come on, put me down. I can walk now.
**[01:54] Shouzou**
Stop whining and just sit tight. You're not
well enough yet. You'll get tired in no time.
**[01:59] Shouzou**
Hey, kid. What are you gonna do next?
**[02:02] Touko**
I'm going to the capital.
**[02:04] Touko**
I need to give Kanata and the
fire hunter's things back to his family.
**[02:08] Shouzou**
That's easy to say, but you'll never
make it there walking through this forest.
**[02:13] Touko**
But that's why I left my village.
**[02:17] Shouzou**
I mean, I wanna get back home, too.
**[02:20] Shouzou**
My family needs money.
**[02:22] Shouzou**
Crewing a collection truck is risky,
but the pay's good.
**[02:40] Kaho**
We're here.
**[02:41] Shouzou**
Yeah.
**[02:44] Kaho**
What's this?
**[02:46] Shouzou**
A blow dart?
**[03:25] Touko**
Kanata!
**[03:28] Akira**
Don't chase him! Come back!
**[03:44] Akira**
A factory worker with treefolk?
You don't see that every day.
**[03:49] Treefolk Woman**
They seem to have left.
**[03:53] Treefolk Man**
They won't be back for a while.
**[04:00] Touko**
Kanata!
**[04:04] Shouzou**
Say, that's a fire hunter's sickle, isn't it?
**[04:08] Kaho**
So that dog... is a hunting hound?
**[04:14] Touko**
*A fire hunter.*
**[04:36] Village Woman A**
Akira.
***SIGN*** Akira
**[04:43] Village Woman A**
We quit working in our workshops at night,
**[04:47] Village Woman A**
but we can't let the fires go out,
**[04:49] Village Woman A**
meaning we need more of it than
we can buy from the collection trucks.
**[04:53] Village Woman A**
That's why we turn to
roaming fire hunters like Akira.
**[05:01] Village Woman A**
The trucks give us a
fair price for our wares,
**[05:06] Village Woman A**
but it's not enough to keep us going.
**[05:09] Village Woman A**
Oh, but should I be saying this?
You *are* from the capital.
**[05:13] Shouzou**
Huh? Oh.
**[05:15] Shouzou**
Well, it's true that I'm from the capital,
but I don't know much about trucks.
**[05:21] Akira**
The details can wait till tomorrow.
**[05:24] Village Woman A**
Oh?
**[05:25] Akira**
They must all be exhausted,
especially after that attack.
**[05:29] Village Woman A**
How inconsiderate of me.
**[05:33] Shouzou**
We need to pay them.
Do you have anything we can trade?
**[05:36] Touko**
I have muku paper.
**[05:38] Shouzou**
Whoa! Nice going.
**[05:41] Shouzou**
I'll take a bit.
**[05:42] Touko**
Uh...
**[05:43] Shouzou**
Just a little.
**[05:46] Village Woman A**
Goodness gracious! Is that...
**[05:48] Village Woman A**
Grandpa! Look at this! It's muku paper!
**[05:51] Village Woman A**
This is what the gods write on.
**[05:54] Touko**
But Mr. Shouzou, shouldn't we tell them?
**[05:58] Touko**
This village must be waiting
eagerly for the trucks to come.
**[06:01] Shouzou**
It's not like we can do anything for them.
**[06:05] Shouzou**
Telling these villagers
would just cause unease.
**[06:10] Akira**
I saw some newly wrecked trucks
as I wandered this way from the west.
**[06:15] Akira**
I'm guessing you were on them.
**[06:18] Akira**
You can tell me the whole story
while we soak in the tub.
**[06:22] Akira**
Just us women.
**[06:30] Akira**
Those two could use a bath, too.
**[06:36] Kaho**
The doctor told me you ran
out of the truck to rescue me.
**[06:43] Kaho**
And that man carried me
on his back all the way here.
**[06:48] Kaho**
Touko, if you're going to
the capital, I'll join you.
**[06:52] Kaho**
I want all three of us to go together.
**[06:55] Akira**
How about all *four* of us?
**[06:59] Akira**
If the capital's your
destination, I'll help you.
**[07:02] Shouzou**
Hey! What the hell?!
**[07:02] Akira**
From here, you have to go through
the forest to get anywhere.
**[07:06] Akira**
And it looks like you've got spiders
after you as well as flame fiends.
**[07:12] Akira**
The treefolk will help you
if you run into them,
**[07:15] Akira**
but you can't count on them all the time.
**[07:18] Akira**
So trying to make it to the capital
on your own is basically suicide.
**[07:22] Akira**
Temari and I could
protect you on the journey.
**[07:32] Touko**
Um...
**[07:35] Akira**
You're quick on the uptake.
**[07:36] Akira**
And yes, I'll only do it for
some of that muku paper.
**[07:40] Akira**
I don't want any trouble,
so we'll leave early tomorrow morning.
**[07:44] Touko**
But what will Mr. Shouzou say?
**[07:48] Akira**
He doesn't have a death wish.
**[07:50] Akira**
This deal will help him, too,
and the payment is your muku paper.
**[07:55] Akira**
Why should he complain?
**[08:06] Akira**
The capital's about 7,000 units south of here.
**[08:10] Shouzou**
Sure, more or less.
**[08:13] Akira**
We'll cut through the forest to the sea,
then take a boat the rest of the way.
**[08:19] Akira**
If all goes well, it'll take us three days.
**[08:22] Shouzou**
You have a boat?
**[08:24] Akira**
There's a boat in the bay
that any fire hunter may use.
**[08:28] Akira**
We trade with each other for
what we need, when we need it.
**[08:34] Akira**
Of course, the boat ain't free.
**[08:43] Akira**
Hey, how many sheets of
muku paper you got left?
**[08:46] Touko**
I had half a sheaf, so five in total,
but I gave one to the villagers yesterday.
**[08:53] Akira**
That leaves four, then.
It'd be a shame to waste them.
**[08:59] Akira**
Guess I'll hunt on the way.
**[09:01] Touko**
Um, you're a fire hunter, right, Ms. Akira?
**[09:05] Touko**
Have you seen this dog before?
Its name is Kanata.
**[09:09] Touko**
Do you know the fire hunter it belonged to?
**[09:12] Akira**
Kanata?
**[09:14] Akira**
Sorry. Not ringing any bells.
**[09:17] Akira**
Your name's Touko, right?
**[09:19] Akira**
How did you come to
travel with that dog?
**[09:27] Akira**
That fire hunter might have
been after the same thing I am.
**[09:32] Touko**
Muku paper?
**[09:33] Akira**
Yeah.
**[09:34] Touko**
What use would you and
that fire hunter have for it?
**[09:42] Akira**
I want to write a letter.
**[09:45] Akira**
Strange things are happening
in villages all over.
**[09:48] Akira**
That's why yours sent you off
to become a bride, right, Kaho?
**[09:53] Akira**
I bet the world is gonna be changing
in a big way before too much longer.
**[09:58] Shouzou**
How can you tell that?
**[10:01] Akira**
Because the Millennial Comet,
the Flickering Flame, is coming home.
**[10:06] Touko**
The Flickering Flame?
**[10:25] Kaho**
A child?
**[10:26] Shouzou**
What would a kid be doing out here?
**[10:29] Akira**
Temari! Kanata! Stand guard here!
***SIGN*** Koushi
**[11:21] Koushi**
Hinako!
**[11:27] Koushi**
Hinako, put that down! Don't touch it!
**[11:47] Fire Hunter B**
Well, look who it is!
You're Haijuu's boy, right?
**[11:51] Fire Hunter A**
What's wrong? You're covered in sweat
and seem to be in a daze. Are you drunk?
**[11:56] Koushi**
Oh, no, I'm just not feeling too well.
**[11:59] Fire Hunter C**
What was Haijuu thinking, running off
and leaving his sick wife like that?
**[12:03] Fire Hunter c**
Must've been hard on you and your sister.
**[12:06] Fire Hunter D**
He always loved long journeys.
Probably off hunting somewhere as we speak.
**[12:07] Koushi**
*It wasn't real. I was dreaming.*
**[12:10] Koushi**
* Maybe it's because*
* I feel so out of place here.*
**[12:12] Fire Hunter C**
I'm sorry for your loss, but your kid sister
will be safe here with the Okibis.
**[12:17] Fire Hunter A**
You've really moved up in the world.
**[12:19] Fire Hunter C**
Man, here you are in this big mansion
and you still look like a scarecrow.
**[12:25] Fire Hunter C**
You oughta fatten up a bit.
**[12:31] Kira**
Koushi!
**[12:34] Kira**
Sirs, may Koushi and I give
our regards to your dogs?
**[12:38] Fire Hunter C**
Go ahead. You sure are a
dyed-in-the-wool dog lover, Miss Kira.
**[12:43] Fire Hunter D**
The dogs will love getting some
attention from a nice girl like you.
**[12:48] Kira**
Come on, Koushi.
**[12:50] Kira**
Hurry up!
**[12:54] Kira**
Shimaki, Tatsuta, Iwao, Kagura.
**[13:00] Koushi**
I never knew you liked dogs so much.
**[13:04] Kira**
I like all animals.
**[13:06] Kira**
I'd love to keep a pet here,
**[13:09] Kira**
but my mother can't stand them.
**[13:12] Kira**
Your family had a dog, too, right?
**[13:17] Koushi**
Kanata.
**[13:19] Kira**
Kanata? What a lovely name.
**[13:22] Koushi**
Yeah.
**[13:24] Kira**
Oh, I haven't seen you before.
You're gorgeous.
**[13:32] Kira**
I wonder which fire hunter you belong to.
**[13:35] Hibana**
Kira! Show our guests some attention!
**[13:38] Hibana**
Kira!
**[13:39] Kira**
Coming!
**[13:41] Kira**
I'm sorry, Koushi. I need to go.
**[13:48] Roroku**
I hear the master of the house
has taken you under his wing.
**[13:53] Roroku**
Impressive for a kid your age.
**[13:56] Koushi**
The other fire hunters are over there.
**[13:59] Roroku**
I'm not a party guest.
I came to talk business.
**[14:03] Roroku**
I got turned away at the gate, though.
**[14:06] Roroku**
I've got skyfire to sell.
**[14:09] Koushi**
Skyfire?
**[14:11] Koushi**
You hunt fallbeasts?
**[14:14] Roroku**
Yeah. I do.
**[14:21] Koushi**
Excuse me, but could you
teach me about skyfire?
**[14:36] Roroku**
The name's Roroku. This is Mizore.
***SIGN*** Roroku
**[14:44] Roroku**
If you want to learn about fallbeasts
and skyfire, why not join me on a hunt?
***SIGN*** Touko
**[14:54] Shouzou**
What'd you pick up this kid for?
**[14:57] Akira**
He's wearing a flame fiend pelt.
**[15:00] Akira**
Which means he's a spider.
**[15:04] Akira**
In a pinch, we can use him as a hostage.
**[15:07] Shouzou**
Have we made it?
**[15:11] Shouzou**
Yes! We're here...
**[15:15] Shouzou**
No way.
**[15:17] Akira**
Wait here!
**[15:30] Shouzou**
What the hell happened here?
**[15:41] Shouzou**
The bodies are all burned to a crisp.
People, dogs, even fiends.
**[15:51] Akira**
Hey! Is anybody still alive?!
**[16:10] Touko**
Kanata.
**[16:12] Shouzou**
It was the spiders.
**[16:15] Shouzou**
But how?
**[16:16] Shouzou**
Hey, brat! Tell me!
**[16:19] Shouzou**
How come the spiders can use fire?!
**[16:21] Shouzou**
Well?! Say something!
**[16:21] Kaho**
Stop that. This child isn't
going to know anything.
**[16:25] Shouzou**
Hey!
**[16:26] Kun**
Bugs.
**[16:31] Kun**
Bugs that make it so your body doesn't burn.
**[16:35] Kun**
Everyone made the bugs bite them
**[16:40] Kun**
so they could use fire
that's not from fiends.
**[16:44] Shouzou**
You mean you guys did all this?
**[16:50] Shouzou**
You sicced fiends on the hunters,
then set a fire to kill them all?
**[16:55] Shouzou**
So you really *were* behind
the attack on our trucks!
**[16:58] Kaho**
Adults did that!
**[17:00] Kaho**
There's not point blaming a little kid!
**[17:04] Kaho**
He was probably abandoned
in the forest to fend for himself.
**[17:08] Shouzou**
Why? Why would they do that?
**[17:14] Akira**
Hurry! Get to the boat!
**[17:19] Shouzou**
Move it!
**[17:20] Kaho**
Right.
**[17:44] Akira**
* What's wrong with these fiends?*
* They're overly vicious.*
**[18:52] Kaho**
Shouzou! Shouzou!
**[18:55] Kaho**
No. You can't die!
**[18:58] Kaho**
Don't die.
**[18:59] Kaho**
Calm down. Don't move him.
**[19:03] Shouzou**
It hurts. It hurts so bad.
**[19:07] Kaho**
Don't die.
**[19:45] Akira**
Sorry. I talked big, but I didn't do
a great job of protecting you.
**[19:50] Akira**
I never expected the spiders to control
fiends and send them to attack the bay.
**[20:00] Akira**
You really surprised me, Touko.
**[20:04] Touko**
Huh?
**[20:05] Akira**
You know, you just might have—
**[20:08] Touko**
Um, I'm supposed to keep this sickle safe.
**[20:12] Touko**
Will the fire hunter's family
get mad at me for using it?
**[20:18] Akira**
Hunters share with each other to get by.
**[20:22] Akira**
That even goes for sickles and hounds.
**[20:25] Akira**
I got Temari here from another hunter.
**[20:30] Akira**
Temari's supposed to be
the last of an ancient lapdog breed.
**[20:35] Akira**
And you know...
**[20:37] Akira**
My sickle isn't really mine, either.
It's a memento.
**[20:44] Touko**
A memento?
**[20:45] Akira**
Of my big brother. He was a fire hunter.
**[20:51] Kun**
I'm hungry.
**[20:55] Touko**
Sorry. We don't have any food right now.
**[21:02] Touko**
What's your name?
**[21:05] Kun**
Kun.
***SIGN*** Kun
**[21:09] Touko**
Kun, did you hurt your arm earlier?
**[21:14] Kun**
All the others got the bugs
to bite them so they didn't burn.
**[21:20] Kun**
I'm the only one the venom didn't work on.
**[21:24] Kun**
My mom said I was too in tune with
the bugs, so the forest could have me.
**[21:32] Kaho**
I knew it.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Capital
***SIGN*** The Capital
# E6 - The Capital
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G4VUQ2EQ0/the-capital)
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**[00:03] Narrator**
* The roaming fire hunter Akira*
* and the abandoned spider boy Kun*
**[00:09] Narrator**
* have joined Kaho and Shouzou*
* as Touko's traveling companions.*
**[00:16] Narrator**
* Her journey to the capital with*
* the hound Kanata is nearing its end.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Capital
***SIGN*** The Capital
**[02:25] Akira**
It's the tombwhale, a god of the sea.
**[02:29] Touko**
A sea god?
**[02:31] Akira**
They say it watches over dead humans.
**[02:36] Akira**
The tombwhale's body holds
the memories of the dead.
**[02:42] Kun**
So is this guy gonna die?
**[02:45] Akira**
I'm protecting him. He won't die on my watch.
**[02:48] Touko**
Not him!
**[02:50] Touko**
Not this man! He isn't going to join you yet!
***SIGN*** Koushi and Roroku
**[03:36] Roroku**
You got here sooner than I expected.
**[03:40] Koushi**
What about the watchers?
**[03:41] Roroku**
I figured you'd come,
so I asked them to take some time off.
**[03:46] Roroku**
The palace's spies are
puppets animated by sorcery.
**[03:50] Roroku**
Familiars, basically.
**[03:53] Roroku**
Lift the spell, and this is what's left.
**[03:56] Koushi**
"Lift the spell"?
**[04:00] Roroku**
Stick close to me while we're in the forest.
**[04:04] Roroku**
If you're careful and don't
wander off, you'll be fine.
**[04:08] Roroku**
No lights until we're in the forest.
**[04:10] Roroku**
Follow the sound of Mizore's steps.
**[04:13] Koushi**
You say you came to sell to the Okibis,
**[04:17] Koushi**
but capital fire hunters aren't
allowed to sell fire independently.
**[04:22] Roroku**
I was sounding them out.
**[04:25] Koushi**
What?
**[04:26] Roroku**
Mr. Okibi's like some kind of monster.
**[04:30] Roroku**
He only cares about himself.
**[04:34] Roroku**
I'm amazed you let a guy
like that take you in.
**[04:42] Koushi**
My sister is sick. When our mother died,
I had no one else to turn to.
**[04:48] Roroku**
Didn't you have savings?
**[04:51] Roroku**
Your old man's a fire hunter, right?
And good enough to hunt fallbeasts.
**[04:57] Roroku**
Why would the owner of a fake meat factory
want a fire hunter's son on a leash?
**[05:03] Roroku**
What's he trying to do with skyfire?
**[05:19] Roroku**
I hear capital fire hunters
don't work at night,
**[05:23] Roroku**
but you can catch more prey after dark.
**[05:26] Roroku**
You see, flame fiends are
drawn to man-made lights.
**[05:30] Roroku**
Stay behind me.
**[05:51] Roroku**
Looks like this next one has some fight in it.
**[05:54] Roroku**
Get back, boy.
**[05:57] Roroku**
Go back in the tunnel. Move!
**[06:41] Roroku**
The first hunt you saw was a night hunt.
I'll bet you're shocked.
**[06:46] Koushi**
How did you get explosive bottled lightning?
**[06:51] Roroku**
I knew it.
**[06:52] Koushi**
Huh?
**[06:55] Roroku**
I figured that devil wasn't keeping you
in his mansion as a regular apprentice.
**[07:07] Roroku**
Roaming fire hunters
use these to blind fiends.
**[07:11] Roroku**
Capital hunters don't carry them.
I hear their bosses forbid it.
**[07:16] Roroku**
Being in the capital's service
seems like a real pain.
**[07:22] Roroku**
Let's go.
**[07:54] Roroku**
Mizore has picked up a scent of some kind.
**[07:57] Roroku**
Probably blood.
**[08:02] Roroku**
And not fiend blood, I'm guessing.
**[08:26] Fire Hunter A**
Your body may be divine,
but you still can't stand without legs.
**[08:31] Fire Hunter B**
Speak. If you talk, we'll let you keep a leg.
**[08:45] Roroku**
Looks like you've caught yourselves a spider.
**[08:49] Fire Hunter C**
I know that voice.
**[08:51] Fire Hunter D**
Roroku the islander.
**[08:54] Roroku**
Fiends will swarm you if you
splatter so much blood everywhere.
**[09:00] Roroku**
Better get out of here while you can.
**[09:02] Fire Hunter C**
We know.
**[09:04] Fire Hunter C**
But we need to make him
tell us something first.
**[09:09] Fire Hunter A**
Koushi, is that you?
**[09:12] Fire Hunter B**
Koushi, you may be Haijuu's son,
**[09:16] Fire Hunter B**
but the law forbids anyone except
fire hunters from entering the forest.
**[09:22] Roroku**
Listen, I know I'm an outsider here,
**[09:26] Roroku**
but shouldn't you be
handing him over to the gods?
**[09:30] Fire Hunter B**
We'll miss out on the
juiciest info if we do that.
**[09:34] Fire Hunter D**
And a reward beyond our wildest dreams.
**[09:38] Roroku**
I knew it. You're working for Okibi,
Mr. Moneybags himself.
**[09:41] Fire Hunter A**
The treefolk warned us the spiders' vanguard
will be slipping into the capital soon.
**[09:48] Fire Hunter C**
They can monitor nearby events
through tree roots, you see.
**[09:53] Fire Hunter C**
Though I guess a roamer
like you already knows that.
**[09:56] Roroku**
This guy tried getting over the cliffs
and into the city? On his own?
**[10:02] Fire Hunter C**
He's a scout. More spiders will follow.
**[10:07] Fire Hunter C**
We've smashed and hacked up
one of his legs, but he still won't talk.
**[10:14] Fire Hunter C**
Maybe it's his divine blood.
**[10:17] Fire Hunter A**
Sorry you had to see this.
**[10:20] Fire Hunter C**
You're a fine scholar in the making.
**[10:23] Fire Hunter C**
Fiends and the forest
are fire hunter territory.
**[10:27] Fire Hunter C**
Stay clear of them and walk your own path.
**[10:37] Spider Man A**
We have obtained fire.
**[10:41] Spider Man A**
We spiders have obtained the ancient flame.
**[10:47] Spider Man A**
Knowing when my comrades
are coming will not save you.
**[10:52] Spider Man A**
We spiders have the ancient fire.
We can approach flames without burning up.
**[11:00] Spider Man A**
You humans cower in fear of the old fire.
**[11:04] Spider Man A**
You do not stand a chance against us.
**[11:10] Spider Man A**
Look. My blood has drawn
the flame fiends to you.
**[11:19] Fire Hunter B**
Hah! We wouldn't be
fire hunters if fiends scared us.
**[11:23] Spider Man A**
But these are no ordinary fiends.
**[11:26] Spider Man A**
Now that our bugs have bitten them,
they do not fear the ancient fire.
**[11:32] Fire Hunter C**
We didn't come to hunt tonight.
**[11:34] Fire Hunter C**
I doubt we'll get him talking
anytime soon. Let's get out of here.
**[11:40] Spider Man A**
Are you frightened, humans?
**[11:43] Roroku**
We shouldn't hang around, either.
***SIGN*** Touko
***SIGN*** E
**[13:19] Back-alley Doctor**
I can't believe you got me
out of bed at this hour.
***SIGN*** E
***SIGN*** E
**[13:24] Shouzou's Father**
I promise I'll pay your fee.
**[13:26] Back-alley Doctor**
The fire hunter girl already
said she'd cover the bill.
**[13:30] Back-alley Doctor**
They got him here in the nick of time.
**[13:34] Back-alley Doctor**
Any longer and necrosis would have set in.
**[13:37] Back-alley Doctor**
I won't need to amputate his arm,
but even once it has healed,
**[13:42] Back-alley Doctor**
he'll never raise it above
shoulder height again.
**[13:45] Back-alley Doctor**
And I'm sorry to say he's blind in his right eye.
**[13:49] Back-alley Doctor**
As for the blood he's lost,
all I can do is give him a hematinic
**[13:53] Back-alley Doctor**
and leave it up to his body to pull through.
***SIGN*** Up Harbor Hill
District Twenty-two
***SIGN*** Crewman Shouzou
Collection Truck One
**[14:23] Akira**
I can't thank you enough, Doctor.
**[14:25] Back-alley Doctor**
I won't ask what happened.
**[14:29] Back-alley Doctor**
Now, get some rest yourself.
***SIGN*** E
**[15:23] Kaho**
Oh, Touko. You're awake.
**[15:36] Touko**
Kun's sound asleep, and so is Ms. Akira.
**[15:41] Kaho**
Well, Akira still has things to do
when she wakes up.
**[15:46] Touko**
What things?
**[15:49] Kaho**
And so do you, Touko.
**[15:58] Kaho**
W-We stink.
**[16:00] Touko**
Huh?
**[16:04] Touko**
Yeah. We do.
**[16:45] Shouzou's Mother**
They're old hand-me-downs.
**[16:48] Shouzou's Mother**
Still, this is fun. I feel like I have
two daughters all of a sudden.
**[16:54] Touko**
Can I really have these clothes?
**[16:58] Kaho**
I don't mind wearing this.
**[17:02] Akira**
Well, what matters is that they're clean.
**[17:05] Akira**
I'll go check in on Shouzou.
**[17:13] Touko**
Um...
**[17:15] Touko**
Mr. Shouzou said you were ill, ma'am.
**[17:20] Shouzou's Mother**
It's only ash sickness, dear.
Factory workers get it all the time.
**[17:25] Shouzou's Mother**
Oh, I'd better start on the cooking.
**[17:28] Shouzou's Mother**
I hope we have enough to feed six of us.
***SIGN*** E
**[17:34] Touko**
They're even feeding us.
**[17:36] Kaho**
Let's do what she says, Touko.
Be sure to eat your fill.
**[17:42] Kaho**
She must have figured out Kun was
a spider when she saw his fiend pelt.
**[17:50] Kaho**
But she didn't chase him off.
**[17:54] Kaho**
We should listen to her.
**[17:59] Kaho**
I'm going to get better.
And I'll help nurse Shouzou.
**[18:05] Touko**
And I need to look for Kanata's family.
**[18:11] Shouzou's Mother**
Food's ready, girls!
**[18:14] Touko; Kaho**
Okay!
***SIGN*** STAR DETECTIVE
***SIGN*** THIEF
**[18:36] Boy A**
Gotcha!
**[18:37] Boy B**
Hey!
**[18:46] Touko**
* "Cross the canal by the*
* bridge near the house."*
**[18:50] Touko**
* "Then cut straight across the hill road*
* leading down to the harbor."*
**[18:55] Touko**
*"Pass six side streets..."*
**[18:59] Touko**
*"And turn right at the second corner."*
***SIGN*** Healing
**[19:05] Touko**
Wait here, Kanata.
I'll get Mr. Shouzou's medicine.
**[19:22] Back-alley Doctor**
Come in.
**[19:23] Touko**
Um, I'm here for Mr. Shouzou's medicine.
**[19:28] Back-alley Doctor**
Oh, it's you. I have it ready.
**[19:34] Back-alley Doctor**
That fire hunter girl... What was her name?
**[19:38] Touko**
Ms. Akira.
**[19:40] Back-alley Doctor**
Oh, that's right.
**[19:42] Back-alley Doctor**
Take her medicine, too. Here.
**[19:45] Back-alley Doctor**
I'm amazed a girl like that...
**[19:48] Back-alley Doctor**
can hack it as a roaming fire hunter,
especially with that tiny hound of hers.
**[20:07] Touko**
Kanata?
**[20:11] Touko**
Kanata.
**[20:12] Touko**
Kanata!
**[20:56] Touko**
Is this it, Kanata?
**[21:00] Touko**
Is this the house of that fire hunter?
**[21:04] Guard**
Who are you, kid?!
**[21:06] Guard**
That looks like a hunting hound! Is it yours?
**[21:12] Touko**
Kanata!
**[21:14] Guard**
Hey! Stop right there!
**[21:53] Touko**
Kanata... where are we?
**[22:07] Kira**
You look lost.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Chance Encounter
***SIGN*** Chance Encounter
# E7 - Chance Encounter
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G14U4MW4P/chance-encounter)
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**[00:02] Narrator**
* While searching for*
* Kanata's owners in the capital,*
**[00:06] Narrator**
* Touko is pursued by a*
* watchman and loses her way.*
**[00:10] Narrator**
* But this also marks the beginning*
* of new encounters and new ordeals.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Chance
Encounter
***SIGN*** Chance
Encounter
**[01:53] Kira**
You look lost.
***SIGN*** Touko and Kira
**[02:05] Kira**
What a fine dog. It looks so
strong and clever. Is it yours?
**[02:11] Touko**
N-No. Um, this dog is lost, like me.
**[02:17] Kira**
So the two of you got lost together, huh?
**[02:21] Kira**
And that's why you're crying?
**[02:24] Touko**
A strange man chased us.
He had black clothes and a club.
**[02:30] Kira**
You must mean a watchman.
**[02:32] Kira**
Don't be scared of them. They only go after
people who have done something wrong.
**[02:37] Kira**
Here, eat this and cheer up.
**[02:45] Kira**
What's your name?
**[02:48] Touko**
Touko.
**[02:49] Kira**
How do you write that?
***SIGN*** Touko
**[03:02] Kira**
Touko. "Lamp child."
**[03:05] Kira**
What a lovely name.
**[03:10] Kira**
I'm Kira.
**[03:12] Kira**
Where would you like to get back to?
I can give you directions.
**[03:15] Kira**
Although I don't come here often either,
so they might not be very good.
**[03:22] Touko**
Um, I think Kanata...
I think this dog remembers the way.
**[03:30] Kira**
Kanata, be a good guide for Touko, all right?
***SIGN*** Kira and Koushi
**[03:37] Kira**
Would you like some water?
**[03:39] Kira**
I couldn't believe it when
that fire hunter carried you in.
**[03:44] Kira**
But Dr. Takimi says
all you need is a little rest.
**[03:53] Kira**
Koushi.
**[03:57] Kira**
You haven't told me anything.
**[04:00] Kira**
What happened out in the forest?
**[04:02] Kira**
What is my father making you do?
**[04:08] Kira**
He's upset, but it's not because
that hunter, Roroku, put you in danger.
**[04:14] Kira**
He can't stand that something
happened to you beyond his reach.
**[04:20] Kira**
He thinks he owns you.
**[04:32] Kira**
It's still not too late.
**[04:34] Kira**
My father is the one keeping secrets
from the gods, not that hunter.
**[04:40] Kira**
If even I know that, my father needs
to be careful about blaming others.
**[04:46] Kira**
I love my parents.
**[04:49] Kira**
They both worked hard
in order to live how they do now,
**[04:53] Kira**
and I'm sure they're a bit odd because of it.
**[04:57] Kira**
But I think they're wonderful
people. I respect them.
**[05:04] Koushi**
If the time comes...
**[05:05] Kira**
What?
**[05:08] Koushi**
If I can ever speak about it you, then...
**[05:13] Kira**
I ran into a lost little girl in town earlier.
**[05:17] Kira**
She had a dog with her. A strong, kind, gray dog
that seemed a little too majestic for her.
**[05:25] Kira**
I'm sure it was a hunting hound.
**[05:28] Kira**
And she called it Kanata,
just like your family's dog.
**[05:35] Koushi**
Kanata?
***SIGN*** Koushi and Yuoshichi
**[05:38] Yuoshichi**
So in short, you snuck out
of the house on your own
**[05:42] Yuoshichi**
and asked that man to
take you into the forest?
**[05:46] Koushi**
I thought that if I went there myself,
I might learn something about fallbeasts
**[05:50] Koushi**
that I can't read about
in the central archive.
**[05:53] Koushi**
I did find something.
**[05:55] Koushi**
And I absolutely need Mr. Roroku's help.
**[06:02] Koushi**
There's a fallbeast with skyfire in here.
**[06:05] Koushi**
I don't know who drew it,
**[06:08] Koushi**
but this beast's body
is covered in lightning.
**[06:13] Koushi**
Fallbeasts swoop down with lightning bolts.
**[06:16] Koushi**
Which means skyfire may be at its most potent
when falling from the sky as lightning.
**[06:25] Yuoshichi**
Perhaps.
**[06:27] Koushi**
True, my imagination
may be running away with me.
**[06:30] Koushi**
But this drawing matches what
I've observed in the laboratory.
**[06:36] Koushi**
The spider said they had mastered fire.
**[06:39] Koushi**
Not fiendfire, but the natural flame
humans have used since ancient times.
**[06:45] Koushi**
And he claimed they no longer
combust in its presence.
**[06:54] Yuoshichi**
So...
**[06:56] Yuoshichi**
Will your skyfire idea work
against spiders who don't burn?
**[07:02] Koushi**
Even if they don't burn, they can't survive
the lightning strike the skyfire will create.
**[07:12] Yuoshichi**
Hm?
**[07:14] Yuoshichi**
What's this?
**[07:15] Koushi**
In the ancient world, humans supposedly
struck at their enemies from the skies.
**[07:20] Yuoshichi**
But how will you use it?
**[07:22] Yuoshichi**
Even assuming we can
launch skyfire into the air,
**[07:26] Yuoshichi**
how will we make it fall onto the target?
**[07:31] Koushi**
We'll bury bottled lightning around the
palace and factory district in advance.
**[07:39] Koushi**
And for that job... I'd like Mr. Roroku's help.
**[07:47] Koushi**
You should be able to work
without the spies seeing you.
**[07:54] Yuoshichi**
Koushi, Roroku is a roaming
fire hunter from the islands.
**[08:00] Yuoshichi**
He doesn't seem worthy of
placing that much trust in him.
**[08:05] Koushi**
I didn't experience the great fire
that once ravaged the capital.
**[08:09] Koushi**
I've only read about it.
**[08:12] Koushi**
But *you've* felt it, haven't you?
The terror of that disaster.
**[08:21] Yuoshichi**
People deify whatever they can't control.
**[08:26] Yuoshichi**
To defend our city from the gods and
the spiders who wield those wild forces,
**[08:33] Yuoshichi**
perhaps lightning is a fitting weapon.
**[08:37] Yuoshichi**
This place is for us humans to live in,
not for the gods to rest on their laurels.
**[08:43] Yuoshichi**
The invasion will begin soon.
**[08:47] Roroku**
Sounds like we have a deal.
**[08:51] Roroku**
He's got more guts
than I gave him credit for.
**[08:55] Roroku**
Not just anyone can bargain with Mr. Okibi.
**[08:59] Koushi**
I'm sorry for dragging you into this.
**[09:03] Roroku**
At first, I thought if the capital's
gonna burn, I want a front row seat.
**[09:08] Roroku**
But I've changed my mind.
**[09:12] Roroku**
See you.
***SIGN*** Touko and Kaho
**[09:18] Shouzou's Mother**
My husband's working overtime,
but I'll be back this evening.
**[09:23] Shouzou's Mother**
Keep an eye on Shouzou.
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** E
**[09:25] Shouzou's Mother**
Don't forget to lock up.
**[09:28] Shouzou's Mother**
I've heard some awful rumors lately
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** E
**[09:30] Shouzou's Mother**
about spiders dead in the forest,
while others invade the city.
**[09:35] Shouzou's Mother**
Oh, what's the world coming to?
**[09:38] Touko**
Take care.
**[10:08] Akira**
Oh? You changed back into your old clothes?
**[10:11] Touko**
Oh, welcome back.
I feel more comfortable in this.
**[10:16] Akira**
But you looked good in a skirt.
**[10:21] Touko**
Kaho! Ms. Akira is back!
**[10:26] Akira**
Kun! Time for lunch!
**[10:35] Touko**
It's delicious.
**[10:37] Akira**
I used to buy food from this stand all the
time when I worked in one of the factories.
**[10:41] Kun**
There were lots of funny-smelling people.
**[10:44] Touko**
What did they smell like?
**[10:46] Akira**
They were asafuyou dealers.
**[10:48] Akira**
It's a drug that makes you hallucinate.
**[10:51] Akira**
Kun, even if they offer you
sweets, whatever you do...
**[10:55] Kun**
Don't go with them.
**[10:57] Akira**
That's right.
**[10:59] Touko**
You used to work in a factory, Ms. Akira?
**[11:03] Akira**
A long time ago. Before I left
the capital to start roaming.
**[11:08] Touko**
You said you wanted to write a letter on
muku paper and take it to the palace.
**[11:15] Touko**
Shouldn't you go do that?
**[11:16] Akira**
Shouzou isn't out of the woods yet.
**[11:20] Akira**
I let him get hurt bad,
even though I promised I'd protect him.
**[11:25] Akira**
And his folks are sheltering us.
I can't just run out on them like that.
**[11:32] Touko**
Mr. Shouzou got hurt protecting us.
**[11:36] Kaho**
You did your share of fighting.
**[11:39] Kaho**
So did Akira, Shouzou, Kanata,
and Temari. You all fought hard.
**[11:45] Kaho**
That's why we're all alive
here in the capital now.
**[12:03] Touko**
Do you think Mr. Shouzou will wake up?
**[12:06] Kaho**
He will.
**[12:08] Kaho**
Even I woke up.
**[12:10] Kaho**
The truck doctor said
I might end up just wasting away,
**[12:15] Kaho**
but here I am, taking care of people.
**[12:21] Kaho**
I'm going to marry him.
**[12:24] Touko**
Huh?
**[12:26] Kaho**
Ever since I got shipped off as a bride,
all I've thought about is dying.
**[12:34] Kaho**
But I've made it all this way
because people have kept helping me.
**[12:40] Kaho**
Even when Shouzou eventually wakes up,
he won't be able to move like before.
**[12:46] Kaho**
So this time, *I'll* be the one who helps *him*.
**[12:51] Kaho**
I'll stay with him even
if he never wakes up.
**[12:55] Kaho**
I've made up my mind.
**[12:57] Touko**
He'll love that.
**[13:00] Touko**
Mr. Shouzou will be over the moon
when he wakes up and hears that.
**[13:05] Touko**
I mean, you're gorgeous.
**[13:07] Touko**
He won't believe his luck.
**[13:14] Akira**
I'm going out again. And not for
food this time, so I'll leave Kun here.
**[13:22] Akira**
I've gotta go hunting to pay the doctor.
**[13:24] Touko**
But is that safe, Ms. Akira?
**[13:28] Akira**
Worried about spiders?
**[13:31] Akira**
True, those rumors about spiders roaming
the forest near the capital seem credible.
**[13:38] Akira**
But all the more reason
why I've gotta do my hunting now.
**[13:42] Touko**
Please take Kanata with you.
**[13:45] Touko**
Kanata worked with another
fire hunter on the collection truck.
**[13:50] Akira**
That dog came all this way with you
to get back to its family.
**[13:55] Akira**
We helped each other on the journey,
but Kanata isn't ours to order around.
**[14:03] Akira**
Besides...
**[14:05] Akira**
Kanata doesn't get along
all that well with Temari.
**[14:12] Akira**
I'll be back this evening.
**[14:21] Touko**
What are you up to, Kun?
**[14:23] Kun**
Picking my bug familiars.
**[14:26] Touko**
Your what?
**[14:27] Kun**
Since the big lady went out,
**[14:30] Kun**
I'll get bugs to watch out for danger.
**[14:34] Kun**
I'll pick the strongest.
**[14:36] Kun**
This one.
**[14:56] Touko**
Kanata, take me back
there again. To your house.
**[15:03] Touko**
Ms. Akira is right.
You need to go back to your family.
***SIGN*** Touko and Koushi
**[16:24] Touko**
You can still smell your owners.
**[16:50] Koushi**
Kanata!
**[16:51] Koushi**
You, too! Hurry!
**[16:53] Koushi**
This way!
**[17:00] Koushi**
Hurry up!
**[17:10] Koushi**
Come on!
**[17:54] Koushi**
You're a fast runner.
**[17:58] Touko**
What was that?
**[18:01] Koushi**
A spy. One of the gods' familiars.
**[18:06] Touko**
A spy?
**[18:08] Koushi**
Yes. It was probably watching me.
**[18:13] Koushi**
Kanata... So the dog Kira saw really was you.
**[18:19] Koushi**
You came home.
**[18:21] Touko**
Are you related to his fire hunter?
**[18:25] Koushi**
Yes, although that's nothing to brag about.
**[18:29] Koushi**
My name is Koushi. This dog belongs
to my father, Haijuu the fire hunter.
**[18:36] Touko**
Your father saved my life!
**[18:40] Touko**
I was attacked by
a flame fiend in the forest!
**[18:44] Touko**
The fire hunter was wounded and...
**[18:50] Touko**
He passed away there.
**[18:54] Touko**
H-His grave is in my village.
**[18:56] Touko**
He died saving me! I'm sorry!
**[18:59] Touko**
I'm so sorry!
**[19:03] Touko**
I-I brought you his sickle and warding stone.
**[19:06] Touko**
G-Give me a second.
**[19:08] Touko**
I really am sorry!
**[19:11] Touko**
Here. I've come to return
this sickle and Kanata.
**[19:24] Koushi**
So that's it. My dad died saving you.
**[19:29] Koushi**
In that case, I'm glad.
**[19:31] Touko**
Huh?
**[19:35] Koushi**
Thank you for bringing Kanata back.
**[19:38] Koushi**
My sister will be overjoyed.
**[19:41] Koushi**
I thought my dad had abandoned us.
**[19:45] Koushi**
I've hated him all this time.
But it turns out he died helping someone.
**[19:50] Koushi**
Thank you for telling me.
**[19:53] Touko**
I owe the fire hunter my life.
**[19:56] Touko**
He was a great man.
**[19:59] Koushi**
Hey.
**[20:02] Koushi**
Your name is Touko, right?
**[20:04] Touko**
Huh?
**[20:05] Koushi**
Touko, written "lamp child."
**[20:08] Koushi**
Kira is good at remembering
people's names by their meaning.
**[20:13] Touko**
Then, you're friends with
that lady, Mr. Koushi?
**[20:20] Koushi**
You should leave the capital
as soon as you can.
**[20:24] Koushi**
Fighting is going to break out here soon.
Against people known as "spiders."
**[20:29] Touko**
Huh?
**[20:30] Touko**
Spiders use fire. *Real* fire.
**[20:35] Touko**
If they're coming here,
you'll be in danger, too.
**[20:40] Koushi**
How... do you know that?
**[20:44] Koushi**
Who in the world...
**[20:50] Koushi**
Anyway, let's go somewhere else.
**[20:53] Koushi**
Another spy will find us if we stay here.
**[21:01] Koushi**
Were we spotted?
**[21:03] Touko**
That was...
**[21:04] Touko**
one of the treefolk! It's the treefolk!
**[21:07] Koushi**
"Treefolk"? Hey, wait!
**[21:09] Touko**
I remember now. The treefolk said
they had friends in the capital.
**[21:15] Touko**
In the "forbidden quarter," I think.
**[21:19] Touko**
That was definitely one of the treefolk.
**[21:22] Touko**
They bring medicine to the villages!
**[21:24] Koushi**
Wait. I'm telling you we'll be spotted.
**[21:27] Touko**
The treefolk might have
medicine for Mr. Shouzou!
**[21:37] Koushi**
Kanata?
**[21:39] Touko**
Kanata!
**[21:41] Koushi**
I know where the forbidden quarter is.
**[21:44] Koushi**
You'd just get lost if you tried
to follow that person on your own.
**[21:49] Koushi**
I'll take you there. In exchange,
please tell me about the spiders' fire.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Garden of the Gods
***SIGN*** Garden of the Gods
# E8 - Garden of the Gods
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GJWU2V522/garden-of-the-gods)
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**[00:02] Narrator**
* At last, Touko has met Koushi, a member*
* of the hound Kanata's family, in the capital.*
**[00:08] Narrator**
* But she has also encountered a new wonder:*
* the divine clans and their "spies."*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Garden of the Gods
***SIGN*** Garden of the Gods
**[01:51] Narrator**
* The capital's largest canal separates*
* the residential and industrial districts.*
**[01:56] Narrator**
*Beyond the long bridge that spans it*
**[01:59] Narrator**
* lies a sprawling expanse of factories*
* crisscrossed by waterways.*
**[02:08] Touko**
Mister, is this the land of the dead?
**[02:12] Koushi**
No, it's the factory district, although
people call it the "Garden of the Gods."
**[02:18] Koushi**
It connects to the forest, too.
**[02:21] Koushi**
There's a tunnel to the south that
fire hunters and collection trucks use.
**[02:29] Koushi**
You can just call me Koushi, by the way.
**[02:32] Touko**
Koushi.
**[02:33] Koushi**
The "kou" means "a great blaze,"
and the "shi" means "security and perfection."
**[02:39] Koushi**
Kira taught me that.
**[02:41] Touko**
A great blaze?
**[02:42] Koushi**
Yes, though I don't know what kind of fire.
**[02:45] Touko**
That thing you threw was like lightning.
**[02:50] Koushi**
That was bottled lightning.
As you saw, it makes a flash on impact.
**[02:56] Koushi**
It's like bottled fiendfire,
but it's full of skyfire instead.
**[03:02] Touko**
Bottled skyfire? But that's so valuable.
**[03:07] Koushi**
That spy earlier was
really just a piece of paper.
**[03:11] Koushi**
A god controls it, but it turns back
into paper if you break the spell.
**[03:17] Koushi**
I'm just glad the bottled lightning worked.
**[03:44] Koushi**
You came for medicine, right?
**[03:46] Touko**
Someone who did a lot for me is badly hurt.
**[03:51] Koushi**
The treefolk help villagers with medicine.
**[03:54] Koushi**
And they have ancient knowledge.
Things only the gods know.
**[03:59] Touko**
Even about the Flickering Flame?
**[04:01] Koushi**
Huh? How do you know about that?
**[04:08] Koushi**
That's the break signal. Let's hurry.
**[04:26] Koushi**
It's no good.
**[04:27] Koushi**
It's totally rusted shut.
**[04:37] Koushi**
Kanata, is that the way?
**[04:44] Touko**
One of the treefolk.
**[04:50] Touko**
Mr. Treefolk, I need medicine!
**[04:52] Touko**
My friend is really hurt!
Will you please share some medicine with me?
**[05:00] Koushi**
Let's go.
***SIGN*** Touko and the Treefolk
**[05:10] Touko**
Kanata and I got a ride
on the collection truck.
**[05:15] Touko**
It wasn't just us. There were women
who'd been sent off to be married, too.
**[05:22] Touko**
Then, Kaho's village guardian,
the dragon god...
**[05:29] Koushi**
I can't believe the spiders turned
a guardian deity against a collection truck.
**[05:34] Koushi**
But if that fire hunter, Akira, is right...
**[05:39] Koushi**
I wonder what my father wanted
to write on muku paper, and to whom.
**[05:45] Touko**
In my village, they say it's an offering
for the Lady Goddess to write on.
**[05:50] Koushi**
The Lady Goddess, Tayurahime, writes
prayers. Poems that praise the world.
**[05:57] Koushi**
Supposedly, her life allows the
divine clans to rule with their powers,
**[06:02] Koushi**
and her sister, Tokohanahime,
was the very first fire hunter.
**[06:14] Koushi**
Tokohanahime used natural flame
to forge a sickle while her body burned.
**[06:20] Koushi**
She vanished from the world
but left these dying words:
**[06:26] Koushi**
"With the fire of the Millennial Comet,
we need no longer fear the dark forest."
**[06:32] Koushi**
"And whoever catches it shall become
known as the lord of the fire hunters."
**[06:38] Koushi**
"This lord shall harvest
the Flickering Flame."
**[06:53] Touko**
These aren't tree trunks. Are they roots?
**[07:03] Mukuge**
Do not growl. En will do no mischief.
**[07:08] Koushi**
Over there.
**[07:09] Mukuge**
Visitors. Shuyu has brought a rare find.
**[07:16] Gomuju**
Summon Kiri.
**[07:19] Kiri**
Humans?
**[07:21] Mukuge**
Guests. Shuyu brought them.
**[07:25] Kiri**
Ugh. This is why I told you not to keep birds.
**[07:29] Kiri**
There must be a better way to kill time.
**[07:34] Kiri**
So, what do you humans want?
**[07:37] Koushi**
This girl wants medicine.
**[07:39] Koushi**
And I was hoping to ask you some questions.
**[07:43] Kiri**
We have no medicine to give you here.
**[07:47] Kiri**
Only the successes sent to the
forest were taught medicine.
**[07:54] Touko**
"Successes"? What do you mean?
**[07:58] Koushi**
Then tell me about this world.
**[08:01] Kiri**
Tell you what?
**[08:02] Koushi**
War is coming on the surface.
Haven't the gods told you anything?
**[08:08] Kiri**
The divine clans? They don't tell
treefolk what happens in the capital.
**[08:16] Kiri**
We're not like the test groups...
the ones sent to help villagers.
**[08:25] Kiri**
We're failed experiments.
**[08:28] Kiri**
The gods were too ashamed
to let us see the light of day,
**[08:31] Kiri**
so they shut us up here
in the forbidden quarter.
**[08:36] Kiri**
Shuyu! Never go out again.
And never bring humans here!
**[08:43] Touko**
Wait. Please wait!
**[08:45] Kiri**
Can it. I don't know what you've been told,
but we don't enjoy the divine clans' favor.
**[08:55] Gomuju**
Moles.
**[08:56] Kiri**
Moles?
**[09:00] Kiri**
Oh, that's who this is?
**[09:02] Kiri**
The ones burying bottled lightning all over?
**[09:07] Kiri**
We can tell through the tree roots.
**[09:11] Kiri**
That's a secret, right?
**[09:13] Kiri**
If you don't want the gods finding out,
stop nosing around down here.
**[09:19] Kiri**
We don't care what happens
to the surface world.
**[09:24] Kiri**
En, chase them out.
**[09:57] Yanagi**
Stop.
**[09:59] Yanagi**
That child has a sickle. You'll get En hurt.
**[10:08] Gomuju**
Yanagi.
**[10:10] Yanagi**
As Kiri said, we failed treefolk
are locked up down here.
**[10:18] Yanagi**
Though, unlike Gomuju and me,
Kiri and Shuyu might survive in the forest.
**[10:26] Kiri**
This stuff keeps growing
no matter how much I cut it back.
**[10:30] Kiri**
It hurts, and it's always in the way.
**[10:33] Kiri**
And Shuyu's still a baby inside and out.
That pipsqueak can't hack it out there.
**[10:41] Yanagi**
You crossed the forest, didn't you?
You smell of our brethren.
**[10:48] Yanagi**
I'm sorry we can't give you medicine.
**[10:52] Yanagi**
Back when the world died, the gods tried
to entrust fire to the surviving beasts.
**[11:01] Yanagi**
Wild animals once gave humans fire.
**[11:06] Yanagi**
The gods acted out those tales in reverse.
**[11:11] Yanagi**
Humans and gods alike became
combustible and lost the use of fire.
**[11:19] Yanagi**
To rid themselves of the abominable flame,
they returned it to the beasts.
**[11:26] Koushi**
Are you saying the gods created
the flame fiends of the forest, too?
**[11:32] Yanagi**
And so, the flame fiends were born.
**[11:35] Yanagi**
Never-before-seen creatures, adapted
to the dark forest and bearing fire within.
**[11:44] Yanagi**
Though I doubt the gods predicted
their fire would take the form it has now.
**[11:53] Koushi**
But then, why did Tokohanahime
create the fire sickles?
**[11:58] Yanagi**
Tokohanahime discovered that the
fire in beasts no longer ignited people.
**[12:05] Yanagi**
She forged her sickle to
keep the human race alive.
**[12:10] Yanagi**
Humans had lost fire and the dark forest had
swallowed up their homes, but they lived on.
**[12:18] Yanagi**
Perhaps their strength lit a fire
in the Lady Goddess's heart.
**[12:24] Yanagi**
Like you humans, the divine clans
feared the world would truly die.
**[12:33] Koushi**
You mean, the gods made this world?
They made it the way it is now?
**[12:39] Yanagi**
I think ancient humans must have
been as cruel and reckless as the gods.
**[12:48] Yanagi**
To efficiently slay their enemies
and cull the excess population,
**[12:55] Yanagi**
they used pathogens to create bodies
that would ignite in the presence of fire.
**[13:02] Yanagi**
If they'd gotten their way,
unnecessary humans would have vanished,
**[13:08] Yanagi**
leaving only the worthy
living on this planet.
**[13:40] Koushi**
There's a good doctor
at the mansion I live in.
**[13:45] Koushi**
I might be able to get medicine from him.
Or I could ask him to treat your friend.
**[14:06] Koushi**
Run!
**[14:34] Touko**
Temari!
**[14:41] Akira**
Touko, you dummy! Where've you been?!
**[14:44] Touko**
Ms. Akira!
**[14:46] Touko**
What are *you* doing here?
**[14:47] Akira**
I told you to take care of Kun!
**[14:50] Akira**
You can make excuses later.
**[14:52] Akira**
Kanata! Temari! Protect the kids!
**[15:37] Hibari**
I think that's quite enough.
**[15:50] Hibari**
And you, fire hunter. Don't shed
unclean blood before the Lady Goddess.
**[16:06] Hibari**
A fine dog. White beasts
please the Lady Goddess.
**[16:12] Hibari**
Leave at once.
**[16:43] Koushi**
That was a god...
**[16:48] Akira**
Wow. Nice place ya got here.
**[16:53] Akira**
Doesn't this house belong to one
of the richest guys in the capital?
**[16:57] Koushi**
Yes, but I'm not part of the family.
I just live with them.
**[17:02] Akira**
So they've basically adopted you,
but you won't inherit anything?
**[17:08] Koushi**
That's why I have to make myself useful.
**[17:18] Akira**
Go on, Touko.
**[17:20] Touko**
Thank you so, so much for
taking me to see the treefolk.
**[17:35] Koushi**
Could you hold on to it?
**[17:38] Touko**
Huh?
**[17:39] Koushi**
I have a feeling you'll find
more use for it than I will.
**[17:43] Koushi**
As things stand, if it gets out that
you brought my father's things here,
**[17:48] Koushi**
you might find yourselves
in trouble sooner or later.
**[17:55] Koushi**
And take these.
**[17:59] Touko**
I-I can't accept those!
**[18:07] Akira**
Take 'em, Touko.
**[18:09] Koushi**
Thank you for traveling so far.
**[18:13] Koushi**
And for bringing Kanata back.
**[18:40] Akira**
I'm impressed, Touko.
**[18:43] Akira**
Saying goodbye to a dog isn't easy.
**[18:51] Akira**
You're just a kid, but you left your village
and came all this way through the dark forest.
**[19:00] Akira**
Well done.
**[19:08] Akira**
Now, let's go back. I'll carry you.
**[19:11] Touko**
I-It's okay. I can walk.
**[19:14] Akira**
You think I can walk alongside you
with you crying like that?
**[19:18] Akira**
The watch'll be wondering what I did to you.
**[19:31] Kun**
Lady!
***SIGN*** E
**[19:32] Akira**
What's up, Kun?
**[19:34] Kun**
My bug familiar died,
so I thought you'd died, too.
***SIGN*** E
**[19:38] Akira**
Your what?
**[19:40] Kun**
You're alive.
**[19:41] Kaho**
Touko! Where *were* you?
**[19:44] Kaho**
Kun stopped moving, and as soon as
he snapped out of it, he threw a fit.
**[19:52] Kaho**
Is Touko asleep?
**[19:56] Kaho**
Wait, where's Kanata?
**[20:08] Kaho**
Touko.
**[20:19] Touko**
I can hear him.
**[20:22] Kaho**
What?
**[20:29] Akira**
Shouzou.
**[20:39] Shouzou**
Shit! The pain!
**[20:42] Shouzou**
What the hell happened?
**[20:47] Shouzou**
I'm hurting and I'm hungry.
**[20:49] Kaho**
Hey. Is that all you have to say?
**[20:52] Akira**
Seriously. I'm not one to talk
since I screwed up guarding you,
**[20:56] Akira**
but try not to make this too hard on Kaho.
**[21:08] Kunugi**
Seeing the world like this
angers the Flickering Flame.
**[21:14] Kunugi**
Tayurahime continues to
write letters to appease it.
**[21:21] Kunugi**
If the Flickering Flame lashes out,
the world will be incinerated once more.
**[21:27] Kunugi**
The divine clans fear that prospect.
**[21:32] Kunugi**
I know.
**[21:34] Kunugi**
The lord of the fire hunters will soon appear,
**[21:38] Kunugi**
just as Tokohanahime desired
when she coined the title.
**[21:44] Kunugi**
Humans will plead with the
Flickering Flame in the gods' place.
**[21:49] Kunugi**
The lord will beg its forgiveness.
**[21:54] Kunugi**
But the Flickering Flame will not listen.
Its fury will not abate.
**[22:01] Kunugi**
Let it burn up the world if it wishes.
**[22:06] Kunugi**
Light the beacon.
Light the fire to welcome the star!
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Lightning Cannon
***SIGN*** The Lightning Cannon
# E9 - The Lightning Cannon
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**[00:00] Narrator**
* Kanata has returned to Koushi and Hinako,*
* the children of the late fire hunter Haijuu.*
**[00:07] Narrator**
* Meanwhile, Yuoshichi Okibi is rushing*
* Koushi to complete his lightning cannon*
**[00:14] Narrator**
* before the spiders emerge from the*
* dark forest and invade the capital.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Hinako and Kanata
***SIGN*** The Lightning
Cannon
***SIGN*** The Lightning
Cannon
**[01:54] Yuoshichi**
I recognize this dog.
Your father's, I believe?
**[01:59] Yuoshichi**
So your father left by
the cliff tunnel, did he?
**[02:03] Yuoshichi**
But since only his hound made it back...
**[02:15] Hibana**
Couldn't you ask that fire hunter,
Roroku, to take care of the dog?
**[02:20] Kira**
Mother, please.
**[02:23] Hibana**
Forgive me. I didn't mean to hurt
Koushi and Hinako's feelings.
**[02:30] Hibana**
I simply can't stand animals.
**[02:33] Yuoshichi**
Be that as it may, the dog means
a lot to Koushi and his sister.
**[02:37] Yuoshichi**
I don't see why they shouldn't
be allowed to keep it.
**[02:41] Yuoshichi**
What's a dog or two around the house?
**[02:44] Hibana**
This makes three strays you've taken in.
**[02:50] Yuoshichi**
Give the dog a bath. We'll feed it after.
**[02:55] Hinako**
Can I keep Kanata in my room?
**[02:59] Yuoshichi**
Well, all right. I'll allow it.
**[03:02] Yuoshichi**
It will probably be better for your health.
**[03:22] Koushi**
Hinako, Dad died out in the forest.
**[03:31] Koushi**
Hinako?
**[03:38] Koushi**
Aren't you glad Kanata came home?
**[03:44] Koushi**
I need to thank the people who brought
Kanata back to us the next time I see them.
**[03:49] Koushi**
Climb into bed before you fall asleep, okay?
**[04:18] Koushi**
I'm sorry I'm late.
**[04:21] Roroku**
Hi there, boy.
**[04:24] Akira**
Nice to meet you.
**[04:26] Roroku**
As I was just telling Mr. Okibi,
**[04:29] Roroku**
this girl's a fire hunter,
and she has important news.
**[04:37] Yuoshichi**
This seems urgent,
so feel free to cut to the chase.
**[04:47] Akira**
The spiders are on the move.
**[04:51] Akira**
I saw collection trucks attacked
by a dragon in the western forest.
**[04:54] Yuoshichi**
Trucks under attack?
**[04:57] Akira**
Both cars were horribly wrecked.
**[05:00] Akira**
I think the dragon was a guardian deity.
**[05:03] Akira**
The spiders may have used
venomous bugs to control it.
**[05:07] Akira**
A lot of fire hunters were killed, too.
Burned alive at a cove in the forest.
**[05:11] Akira**
Did you know that the spiders can
safely use the old fire now, Mr. Okibi?
**[05:18] Yuoshichi**
You expect me to believe
a guardian destroyed trucks
**[05:21] Yuoshichi**
and spiders used the ancient
flame to massacre hunters?
**[05:26] Akira**
As things stand, the villages
waiting for their fire won't get it.
**[05:31] Akira**
I'd like you to send out
new trucks immediately.
**[05:36] Yuoshichi**
Shouldn't you be making that
request to the divine clans instead?
**[05:41] Akira**
That would take too long.
**[05:43] Akira**
The gods must have noticed an attack by
one of the Lady Goddess's possessed beasts,
**[05:49] Akira**
but they don't seem to
have done anything about it.
**[05:53] Roroku**
Sounds like we can't
count on the divine clans.
***SIGN*** Collection Truck One
Crewman Shouzou
**[05:58] Yuoshichi**
A truck crewman's permit?
**[06:01] Akira**
I took it off a charred corpse.
**[06:05] Akira**
Capital folk don't act without proof
and something to gain.
**[06:11] Yuoshichi**
Villagers are naïvely devout, I hear.
***SIGN*** Collection Truck One
Crewman Shouzou
**[06:16] Yuoshichi**
The capital's factories might benefit
if we earned their gratitude.
**[06:23] Yuoshichi**
You say you're a roaming fire hunter.
**[06:26] Yuoshichi**
Would you investigate the
spiders further on my behalf?
**[06:30] Akira**
Only if you send the trucks.
**[06:33] Yuoshichi**
I'll start making the preparations tomorrow.
**[06:36] Akira**
It took me two days to
sail here from the cove.
**[06:40] Akira**
If the spiders are coming, they'll gather
allies as they cut through the forest.
**[06:46] Akira**
That's a ten-day journey, give or take.
**[06:51] Roroku**
Well then, if you'll excuse us.
**[07:03] Yuoshichi**
Well, we've certainly had some
nosy oddballs around here lately.
**[07:10] Yuoshichi**
I heard the ancient humans bred
those dogs for entertainment.
**[07:16] Koushi**
Even more unpredictable
factors may come into play.
**[07:20] Yuoshichi**
This "Millennial Comet" you mentioned?
**[07:25] Yuoshichi**
Built by the ancient humans and the gods,
but ultimately beyond their control?
**[07:33] Yuoshichi**
It sounds like a fairy tale.
**[07:37] Akira**
You must really love dogs.
**[07:39] Akira**
I've never seen Temari so comfortable
with anyone other than me.
**[07:44] Kira**
Thank you so much for letting me
cuddle your hunting hound.
**[07:49] Akira**
We'll visit again sometime.
**[08:09] Hibari**
So you've ganged up to plot
the spiders' downfall, huh?
**[08:13] Hibari**
Relax. I don't bite.
**[08:21] Hibari**
First, let me introduce myself.
**[08:23] Hibari**
I'm Hibari of the Wind Clan,
and my job is to oversee our spies.
**[08:29] Koushi**
The Wind Clan...
***SIGN*** Fire
***SIGN*** Water
***SIGN*** Wind
***SIGN*** Earth
***SIGN*** Wood
**[08:31] Hibari**
You and that village girl interest me.
***SIGN*** Fire
***SIGN*** Water
***SIGN*** Wind
***SIGN*** Earth
***SIGN*** Wood
**[08:35] Hibari**
You're trying to learn
what sort of world we live in.
***SIGN*** Fire
***SIGN*** Water
***SIGN*** Wind
***SIGN*** Earth
***SIGN*** Wood
**[08:40] Hibari**
You neither struggle for survival
nor wish for destruction.
**[08:45] Hibari**
You simply yearn to find out
the true nature of this world.
**[08:53] Hibari**
Let me supplement that fire hunter's report.
**[08:57] Hibari**
The spiders will come by night
nine days from now.
**[09:00] Hibari**
They'll gather their scattered brethren and
assault the capital, armed with natural flame.
**[09:06] Koushi**
Why would you tell me that?
**[09:08] Hibari**
For amusement.
**[09:11] Hibari**
If the spiders wish to burn down
this city, they're welcome to try.
**[09:16] Hibari**
Perhaps it's coming to
the end of its lifespan.
**[09:20] Hibari**
This world, I mean.
**[09:23] Hibari**
Of course, the spiders
may not deal the fatal blow.
**[09:28] Hibari**
The child of the stars seems
determined to get here before them.
**[09:34] Koushi**
The Flickering Flame?
**[09:37] Hibari**
"The lord of the fire hunters."
**[09:39] Hibari**
Your father could have been
the one to claim that title.
**[09:43] Koushi**
What?
**[09:44] Hibari**
Perhaps his death in the
forest was a stroke of luck.
**[09:50] Hibari**
I won't allow anyone to hunt
the Flickering Flame.
***SIGN*** The Lightning Cannon
**[10:24] Takiguchi**
Thank you for waiting.
**[10:26] Takiguchi**
I managed to have it
built to the specifications.
**[10:30] Yuoshichi**
Let me introduce you.
**[10:32] Yuoshichi**
This is Mr. Takiguchi, the man who
built this launcher at my request.
**[10:37] Ibushi**
I am Ibushi. Agriculture is our business
usually, but we assisted Mr. Takiguchi.
**[10:42] Koushi**
It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Koushi.
**[10:45] Yuoshichi**
Please do not worry.
**[10:48] Yuoshichi**
Koushi was a scholarship student,
and now, he conducts research for me.
**[10:53] Yuoshichi**
He was the one who devised this plan.
**[10:57] Yuoshichi**
Everyone, I pray nothing will
go amiss when the time comes.
**[11:02] Takiguchi**
Well then, let's go see it.
***SIGN*** 5
***SIGN*** 5
**[11:12] Yuoshichi**
A collection truck?
**[11:14] Koushi**
I'm borrowing a truck undergoing
maintenance to supply the necessary power.
**[11:34] Yuoshichi**
Is this it?
**[11:37] Takiguchi**
Yes, although I couldn't
tell you how it works.
**[11:42] Koushi**
I based the device off records on an ancient
weapon I found in the central archive.
**[11:48] Koushi**
I believe the ancients referred
to it as an "anti-aircraft gun."
**[11:56] Koushi**
The original weapon was designed to
shoot down aircraft flying at high altitude.
**[12:03] Koushi**
It needed a steep angle of elevation,
a quick turning speed, and a long barrel.
**[12:09] Koushi**
But we won't need all that to hit
stationary targets on the ground.
**[12:16] Yuoshichi**
I understand.
**[12:18] Koushi**
The cannon shells contain bottled skyfire.
**[12:22] Yuoshichi**
Yes. You showed me what those
shells can do the other day.
**[13:22] Butler**
Everything is ready, sir.
**[13:28] Koushi**
We should fire it before the wind changes!
**[13:33] Yuoshichi**
Begin.
**[13:34] Butler**
Certainly, sir.
**[14:12] Koushi**
The lightning itself won't
trigger human combustion,
**[14:16] Koushi**
but the instantaneous shock wave
will topple nearby buildings,
**[14:21] Koushi**
which could cause
scattered fires to break out.
**[14:25] Yuoshichi**
How powerful is the bottled
lightning in the real shells?
**[14:29] Koushi**
Twice as strong, at least.
**[14:31] Yuoshichi**
Excellent. The spiders won't be able to
shrug that off, and neither will the gods.
**[14:38] Koushi**
Huh?
**[14:40] Roroku**
I'll finish burying the charges in
the divine palace tomorrow night.
**[14:44] Koushi**
In the palace? But then we'd be
interfering in a war between gods.
**[14:51] Yuoshichi**
That's the plan.
**[14:54] Yuoshichi**
Don't tell me you imagined
the spiders and the divine clans
**[15:00] Yuoshichi**
would conveniently wipe each other out.
**[15:30] Truck Driver D**
Starting the collection truck.
***SIGN*** Do not enter
while in use
***SIGN*** Pressure
***SIGN*** 0
***SIGN*** 1
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 3
***SIGN*** 4
***SIGN*** 5
***SIGN*** 5
***SIGN*** Pressure
***SIGN*** 0
***SIGN*** 1
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 3
***SIGN*** 4
***SIGN*** 5
***SIGN*** Pressure
***SIGN*** 0
***SIGN*** 1
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 3
***SIGN*** 4
***SIGN*** 5
***SIGN*** Pressure
***SIGN*** 0
***SIGN*** 1
***SIGN*** 2
***SIGN*** 3
***SIGN*** 4
**[15:54] Yuoshichi**
The afternoon shift is starting.
**[15:56] Yuoshichi**
If we want a loud noise to go unnoticed...
**[16:57] Akira**
Thanks for the bottled lightning.
One of my companions is hurt bad,
**[17:02] Akira**
and it paid for his doctor and medicine.
**[17:06] Koushi**
Was the permit his?
**[17:09] Roroku**
See? He's sharp.
**[17:12] Roroku**
Of course, brains aside,
he's just some upstart kid.
**[17:19] Akira**
As you've probably guessed,
we go way back.
**[17:23] Akira**
When he was fresh off the boat
from his island and at a loose end,
**[17:26] Akira**
my brother was the one who
suggested he give fire hunting a try.
**[17:31] Koushi**
Then, you're originally from the capital?
**[17:35] Akira**
My brother was such a daredevil
that we couldn't stay here,
**[17:41] Akira**
so we became roaming fire hunters.
**[17:43] Koushi**
Was your brother one of
the capital's fire hunters?
**[17:48] Koushi**
Then, um, did he have red hair like you?
**[17:54] Akira; Roroku**
Huh?
**[17:56] Koushi**
Could you please come with me?
**[18:11] Akira**
It's gorgeous.
**[18:13] Roroku**
I can't believe you got us in here.
**[18:16] Koushi**
I got a special pass from one
of the teachers at the academy.
**[18:21] Koushi**
The book was hidden away over there.
**[18:26] Koushi**
It's about flame fiends and our world.
**[18:29] Koushi**
Or rather, it's a collection of sources
and commentaries on that subject.
**[18:34] Koushi**
And it's full of someone's
personal notes and opinions.
**[18:42] Koushi**
The person who left it
in the archive had red hair.
**[18:46] Koushi**
And he smelled and carried
himself like a fire hunter.
**[18:52] Roroku**
Why hide something that
dangerous in the archive?
**[18:57] Akira**
That's my brother.
**[18:59] Roroku**
If only he hadn't stuck
his neck out like that...
**[19:02] Akira**
Yeah. I can't tell if he was
being cautious or just plain stupid.
***SIGN*** E
**[19:13] Shouzou**
That's all I can manage. I feel sick.
**[19:16] Kaho**
Oh, stop whining and eat. You need
to at least get back on your feet.
**[19:20] Kaho**
Even these row houses won't
be safe from the spiders soon.
**[19:25] Kaho**
We need you to pull your
weight if things go south.
**[19:28] Shouzou**
Man...
**[19:31] Kaho**
Come on, wash your shoulders, too.
**[19:51] Touko**
Ms. Akira, you're back.
**[19:56] Akira**
Touko. If you can't sleep, let's go upstairs.
**[20:21] Akira**
A collection truck leaves
the day after tomorrow.
**[20:23] Akira**
You should hitch a ride back to your village.
**[20:28] Akira**
You did your duty and did it well.
**[20:31] Akira**
The next thing you need
to do is get back home.
**[20:36] Akira**
Listen, Touko.
The divine clans killed my brother.
**[20:43] Akira**
He appealed directly to the palace about
the Millennial Comet, the Flickering Flame.
**[20:48] Akira**
They marked him as a threat.
**[20:53] Akira**
It was too soon.
**[20:55] Akira**
But now... With the city full
of rumors about spider attacks,
**[21:03] Akira**
that muku paper you
brought will come in handy.
**[21:09] Akira**
To meet the Flickering
Flame when it returns,
**[21:12] Akira**
I need to submit an appeal
to the palace on muku paper.
**[21:17] Akira**
I'll take the letter there myself.
**[21:21] Akira**
Even if they kill me,
someone will hunt that comet.
**[21:27] Akira**
I don't care who earns the title
of "lord of the fire hunters."
**[21:34] Touko**
Ms. Akira, would you please take me with you?
**[21:42] Touko**
I won't give you any muku paper unless you do.
**[21:49] Touko**
The palace is full of scary gods
like the one we met, right?
**[21:54] Touko**
Can you really go deliver
your letter all on your own?
**[21:58] Touko**
Ms. Akira, I don't want to see
anyone else I care about get hurt or killed.
**[22:09] Touko**
Ms. Akira... I think you should
become the lord of the fire hunters.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Malformed Children
***SIGN*** Malformed Children
# E10 - Malformed Children
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**[00:01] Narrator**
*This world is home to fire-fearing humans*
**[00:04] Narrator**
* and bestial flame fiends*
* that harbor a new fire inside them.*
**[00:10] Narrator**
* The divine clans who rule over*
* everything have lost their authority.*
**[00:14] Narrator**
* And high overhead, the advent of*
* the Flickering Flame draws near,*
**[00:20] Narrator**
* borne on the Millennial Comet,*
* an artificial satellite.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Hinako
***SIGN*** Malformed Children
***SIGN*** Malformed Children
**[02:15] Kira**
Doctor! Hinako has a horrible fever.
**[02:34] Koushi**
Kanata!
**[02:36] Koushi**
Kanata, move! She has a bad fever
and needs a doctor right away!
**[02:54] Kira**
Hurry. Take her to my room.
**[02:56] Kira**
Stop! What's gotten into you, Kanata?
**[02:58] Kira**
Hinako might die! Kanata!
**[03:15] Koushi**
Kanata, why are you being like this?
**[03:25] Hibana**
Kira, get away from that dog.
**[03:42] Yuoshichi**
I don't believe it. Why *now*, of all times?
**[03:46] Hibana**
Stay with the dog and see that
it causes no more trouble.
**[03:56] Koushi**
Kanata?
**[04:35] Kira**
Mother, is Hinako really
going to the hospital?
**[04:39] Kira**
Mother!
**[04:41] Hibana**
She's only going in for observation.
Don't make a fuss.
**[04:45] Kira**
For observation?
Is... Is Hinako's fever that serious?
**[04:52] Kureha**
Please calm yourself, Miss.
**[04:54] Kureha**
She'll stay at Dr. Takimi's
clinic for a thorough—
**[04:57] Kira**
Stop! Don't you lie, too.
**[05:00] Kira**
If that's all it is, why won't
the doctor tell me anything?
**[05:06] Kira**
Mother, tell me the truth!
What's happening to Hinako?
**[05:11] Hibana**
Like I said, that's what the
doctors are going to find out.
**[05:15] Kira**
This house is full of lies!
**[05:17] Kira**
I've had enough of it!
**[05:19] Kira**
We're family, but we never say
one word of truth to each other!
**[05:23] Kira**
Father has so many secrets.
And so do you, Mother.
**[05:27] Kira**
Where are you taking Hinako?!
**[05:38] Hibana**
Take her to her room.
**[05:40] Hibana**
Dr. Takimi, look after Kira.
**[06:03] Koushi**
Hina—
**[06:20] Koushi**
Hinako...
**[06:47] Takimi**
Mrs. Okibi!
**[06:50] Takimi**
Mrs. Okibi...
**[07:01] Koushi**
Kanata?
**[07:02] Koushi**
Follow Hinako!
**[07:16] Koushi**
I know this smell.
**[07:19] Koushi**
Asafuyou?
**[07:22] Hibana**
Catch her.
**[07:24] Hibana**
Catch that girl.
***SIGN*** E
**[07:30] Kaho**
Good morning.
**[07:32] Kaho**
Hm? Where are Touko and Akira?
**[07:34] Kun**
The big lady and the
small lady are both gone?
**[07:39] Kaho**
Ma'am! Ma'am!
***SIGN*** Dear Kaho
***SIGN*** Rin
**[07:49] Shouzou**
Hm?
**[07:53] Mother**
"Dear Kaho..."
**[07:54] Mother**
"I know you'll be angry that I'm leaving,
so I won't tell you beforehand."
**[08:03] Mother**
"I'm going with Ms. Akira to
deliver a written appeal to the gods."
**[08:09] Mother**
"Thank you for everything."
**[08:12] Mother**
"I got this warding stone from my cousin."
***SIGN*** Rin
**[08:16] Mother**
"Consider it a parting gift to the bride
who has protected me this whole time."
**[08:22] Mother**
"I hope you have a good
life with Mr. Shouzou."
**[08:25] Mother**
"If we don't make it back,
please take care of Kun."
**[08:31] Mother**
Kaho, what is this?
**[08:34] Kun**
Where'd the ladies go?
**[08:38] Kaho**
They say they're taking a letter to the gods.
**[08:43] Kun**
I'll go, too! I've gotta save them!
**[08:47] Kaho**
No. They say they'll definitely
come back, so wait here.
**[08:51] Kun**
I'm going!
***SIGN*** Hibari and Akira and Touko
**[08:59] Akira**
The tunnel to the forest
is straight down this road.
**[09:05] Akira**
But if we circle around west to the old road,
we'll reach the cliffs below the palace.
**[09:12] Touko**
I wonder if Mr. Shouzou's dad works here, too.
**[09:22] Touko**
The capital sure has a lot of canals.
**[09:27] Akira**
Not long after the city was built,
a big fire broke out.
**[09:31] Akira**
They say every canal was clogged
with the bodies of people trying to escape.
**[09:37] Akira**
So now, the factory district canals have
pipes that spray water in emergencies.
**[09:45] Touko**
And that water will put out any fires?
**[09:48] Akira**
Well, that's the idea.
**[09:50] Touko**
Did the Lady Goddess's people make
that amazing system to protect humans?
**[09:56] Akira**
Who knows?
**[09:58] Akira**
If the gods really can control the wind
and the rain, they shouldn't need it.
**[10:06] Hibari**
You have quite a mouth on you.
**[10:13] Akira**
I remember you.
You're from the Wind Clan, right?
**[10:19] Akira**
Weren't you keeping tabs
on old Mr. Moneybags?
**[10:23] Akira**
What's a spymaster doing here?
**[10:28] Hibari**
I hear you plan to hunt the
child of the stars, fire hunter.
**[10:33] Akira**
I shouldn't have to tell you that
the spiders will reach the city soon.
**[10:39] Akira**
They want to eliminate your chief.
**[10:43] Akira**
And if the divine clans fall,
this country's people will fall with them.
**[10:48] Akira**
If you don't need to watch
Mr. Moneybags, forget roamers like me
**[10:53] Akira**
and go tighten up the security
around the Lady Goddess.
**[10:58] Hibari**
Do you imagine the Lady Goddess
lives a carefree life under our protection?
**[11:07] Hibari**
It takes more than that to reign
in the heart of government.
**[11:14] Hibari**
I'll show you.
**[11:21] God A**
The land has begun to
go awry everywhere, it seems.
**[11:27] Goddess B**
Lady Tayurahime cannot hold on.
It breaks my heart.
**[11:33] God C**
We must eliminate our lady's burden.
**[11:37] God C**
But can the Flickering Flame
serve as her replacement?
**[11:42] Goddess D**
Regarding that, we can only hope
our lady's prayers will be answered.
**[11:50] God E**
Lady Tayurahime requires fresh paper.
**[11:56] God F**
Not even our lady's prayers can ensure
the Flickering Flame will not be wrathful.
**[12:04] God G**
Creating more of the new race
should ease our lady's burden.
**[12:10] God H**
They live without fire, so at least
she need not waste her strength on wards.
**[12:20] Goddess I**
But that goes against
Lady Tokohanahime's will.
**[12:25] Goddess J**
Even so, society cannot
endure as things stand.
**[12:29] God K**
We must act before the spiders come.
**[12:33] God L**
The Flickering Flame's earthly
vessel remains incomplete.
**[12:39] God M**
A new vessel is needed.
**[12:43] Goddess N**
Yes. One we can use to
house her spirit for a time.
**[12:53] Hibari**
For centuries, we gods have fretted over
whether the coming child of the stars
**[13:01] Hibari**
will consent to becoming
our next Lady Goddess.
**[13:04] Hibari**
She's been floating alone
in the void, you see,
**[13:10] Hibari**
so her thoughts and powers
far surpass our own.
**[13:24] Akira**
Your *next* Lady Goddess?
**[13:26] Akira**
I thought the Flickering Flame was
a mechanical doll built by ancient humans?
**[13:33] Hibari**
Like Tayurahime and Tokohanahime,
to me, she is an elder sister.
**[13:40] Hibari**
I cannot permit any attempt to hunt her.
**[13:47] Akira**
Touko, hide!
**[14:51] Touko**
Did that happen because
it touched Ms. Akira's blood?
**[14:56] Hibari**
What a shame. Care to keep
trying until your blood runs dry?
**[15:44] Touko**
Kun!
**[15:49] Hibari**
A spider who commands insect familiars?
Now that's a surprise.
**[15:53] Akira**
Kun, why are you...
**[15:56] Kun**
If you kill her, I'll burn you.
**[16:00] Hibari**
You are merely a lowly outcast spider.
**[16:04] Hibari**
Do you want to taste my blades?
**[16:07] Akira**
You called her your sister, right?
**[16:10] Akira**
Then, if she's still alive,
why aren't you trying to help her?
**[16:16] Akira**
Why aren't you by her side?
**[16:21] Akira**
And that vision you showed us...
**[16:24] Akira**
Are you telling me all of those gods
can't make a place for humans to live
**[16:29] Akira**
without relying on a single
Lady Goddess for everything?
**[16:33] Akira**
Why doesn't anyone help her?
**[17:44] Touko**
You saved me.
**[17:48] Hinako**
I have to go or those people will die.
**[17:57] Hinako**
Thank you for Kanata.
**[18:01] Touko**
Wait, are you Mr. Koushi's...
**[18:09] Touko**
Wait!
**[18:26] Yuoshichi**
I'm truly sorry that it has come to this.
**[18:29] Yuoshichi**
My servants are combing
the whole city for Hinako.
**[18:34] Yuoshichi**
I promise we'll find her.
**[18:38] Koushi**
Isn't asafuyou illegal?
**[18:43] Yuoshichi**
My wife suffers from nervous breakdowns.
**[18:47] Yuoshichi**
She once used it in place of medicine.
Perhaps she's found a new supply.
**[18:59] (Flashback) Takimi**
Hinako must be a strong girl.
**[19:04] (Flashback) Takimi**
I will treat her to the best of my ability.
**[19:08] Koushi**
I'm sure Kanata will find her.
**[19:15] Roroku**
Hey there. What's got you looking so down?
**[19:19] Roroku**
Where's Mr. Okibi?
I've got urgent news for him.
**[19:24] Koushi**
I just saw him in his study.
**[19:26] Roroku**
Flame fiends have appeared...
**[19:29] Roroku**
in the factory district.
**[19:32] Koushi**
But the spiders shouldn't be here yet!
**[19:34] Roroku**
Exactly. There's still no sign of them.
**[19:38] Roroku**
The city has fire hunters on duty,
so the fiends haven't done much damage yet.
**[19:45] Roroku**
Still, I figured Mr. Okibi ought to know.
**[20:51] Narrator**
*Touko is past the point of no return.*
**[20:56] Narrator**
* Above her, a single speck of*
* light streaks across the sky.*
**[21:19] Narrator**
* Is this shining child of the stars*
* a portent of the spiders' invasion?*
**[21:26] Narrator**
* Or is it the last ray of hope*
* for this crumbling world?*
**[21:44] Kira**
Mother...
**[21:50] Kira**
Mother...
**[21:54] Kira**
Forgive me.
**[21:58] Narrator**
* The advent of the Millennial Comet,*
* the Flickering Flame, is close at hand.*
***SIGN*** To be continued
in Season 2
***SIGN*** To be continued
in Season 2
# E11 - Lunar Sickles
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GMKUXV8XD/lunar-sickles)
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**[00:04] Flickering Flame**
You... You must not use fire.
**[00:09] Flickering Flame**
You've killed each other enough already.
**[00:13] Flickering Flame**
Life will burn.
**[00:15] Flickering Flame**
The world will burn.
**[00:19] Narrator**
* Humanity's final war ended with*
* the creation of a biological weapon*
**[00:25] Narrator**
* that altered humans so they would combust*
* from within when touched by natural flame.*
**[00:34] Narrator**
*Yet the human race survived.*
**[00:37] Narrator**
* Even though the dark forest*
* engulfed them along with the world,*
***SIGN*** Tokohanahime
**[00:41] Narrator**
* one destitute yet hardy*
* generation followed another.*
**[00:46] Narrator**
* Forest beasts contained fire that*
* did not set humans ablaze.*
**[00:50] Narrator**
*People called them "flame fiends."*
***SIGN*** Flame Fiends
**[00:54] Narrator**
* Those who slew the fiends for this blessed*
* light and warmth were called "fire hunters."*
***SIGN*** Fire Hunters
**[00:59] Narrator**
* And they hailed the yet-unseen savior*
* who would avert humanity's returning doom as*
**[01:08] Narrator**
*"the lord of the fire hunters."*
***SIGN*** The Lord of
the Fire Hunters
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
**[01:11] Touko**
Ms. Akira...
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
**[01:12] Touko**
Ms. Akira, I think you should
become the lord of the fire hunters.
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** Muku (Innocence)
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Lunar Sickles
***SIGN*** Lunar Sickles
**[02:49] Narrator**
* Hibari of the divine clans*
* and Akira the fire hunter*
**[02:53] Narrator**
* clashed in a fierce battle that*
* nearly saw Touko drown in a canal.*
**[02:57] Narrator**
* But Koushi's sister, Hinako, rescued Touko,*
* as well as Akira's hound, Temari.*
**[03:11] Touko**
Kanata?
**[03:16] Akira**
Are you awake?
**[03:18] Touko**
Ms. Akira.
**[03:20] Touko**
Is Kun...
**[03:22] Akira**
Don't worry. He's just sleeping.
**[03:29] Akira**
Why are a treefolk and a fiend here?
**[03:34] Touko**
Shuyu...
**[03:36] Akira**
Touko, did *you* slay that fiend?
**[03:40] Touko**
I don't really remember.
**[03:42] Touko**
It sprang out in front of me
with Shuyu in its jaws.
**[03:46] Touko**
Temari and I...
**[03:48] Touko**
Koushi's little sister
pulled us up onto the bank.
**[03:53] Akira**
What?
**[03:54] Touko**
I couldn't believe how strong she was.
She seemed strange, too.
**[03:59] Touko**
Then she just crossed the canal and left.
**[04:04] Akira**
Crossed how?
**[04:07] Touko**
It was almost like she flew.
**[04:12] Akira**
What in the world?
**[04:14] Akira**
I thought Koushi's sister was sickly
and the Okibis were caring for her.
**[04:19] Touko**
But she...
**[04:22] (Flashback) Hinako**
Thank you for Kanata.
**[04:25] Touko**
She thanked me for returning Kanata.
**[04:29] Touko**
That was...
**[04:45] Akira**
Fiends have slipped into the capital.
**[04:49] Akira**
Since they broke the fiend wards,
the spiders must be controlling them.
**[05:26] Akira**
Every fire hunter and hound
in the capital will head here.
**[05:30] Akira**
Touko, take Kun and run.
**[05:33] Akira**
This is about to become a battlefield.
**[05:37] Touko**
You run, Ms. Akira.
**[05:41] Touko**
You're going to become
the lord of the fire hunters.
**[05:44] Akira**
I didn't set out to become anything so grand.
**[05:47] Akira**
I just don't want this world
to die yet. Besides...
**[05:53] Akira**
You're not a fire hunter now.
**[06:02] Akira**
Here they come.
**[06:03] Akira**
Sorry, Touko, but I'm borrowing Kanata.
**[06:07] Narrator**
* A pack of fiends breaks through*
* the wards and enters the capital.*
**[06:11] Narrator**
*Every fire hunter gathers to fight them off.*
**[06:15] Narrator**
* As Akira said, this place*
* becomes a battlefield.*
**[06:27] Narrator**
*Akira and Temari fight well.*
**[06:30] Narrator**
*As does Kanata.*
**[06:51] Akira**
Touko?
**[07:00] Akira**
You little fool.
**[07:28] Akira**
Touko!
**[07:40] Akira**
Touko! Fall back for now!
**[07:45] Akira**
Touko...
**[07:55] Akira**
Touko!
**[08:06] Kun**
Lady!
**[08:19] Roroku**
Get clear, Mizore!
**[08:35] Koushi**
Ms. Akira, you're hurt.
**[08:37] Akira**
Man, how pathetic can I be?
**[08:39] Roroku**
You overdid it.
**[08:41] Roroku**
Now, take the girl and fall back.
**[08:45] Roroku**
Every fire hunter in the capital
saw the Millennial Comet.
**[08:49] Roroku**
Your brother will never get
to rest in peace if you die here.
**[08:53] Roroku**
Get your ass to the palace
before the spiders beat you there.
**[08:59] Roroku**
Let's go, Mizore.
**[09:05] Touko**
Koushi...
**[09:08] Koushi**
We have to get away from here.
**[09:11] Koushi**
You don't need to use this anymore.
**[09:20] Fire Hunter A**
Look there!
**[09:22] Fire Hunter B**
The spiders have made it in here!
**[09:25] Koushi**
Huh?
**[09:28] Koushi**
No!
**[09:30] Koushi**
The fiends are that way!
**[09:31] Akira**
Wait!
**[09:33] Koushi**
You're making a mistake!
**[09:34] Fire Hunter A**
Kill him!
**[09:40] Akira**
Wait! Don't kill him!
**[09:58] Koushi**
Hinako?
**[10:10] Koushi**
Please come with me.
**[10:12] Koushi**
You need treatment
if you're going to the palace.
**[10:14] Akira**
Touko, can you stand?
**[10:23] Flickering Flame**
Just like my older sister.
**[10:26] Touko**
Who are you?
**[10:28] Flickering Flame**
But Tokohanahime has gone from this world.
**[10:34] Flickering Flame**
I cannot see my sister in the flesh again.
**[10:37] Flickering Flame**
I left my orbit because
I could not bear the fear,
**[10:42] Flickering Flame**
yet I have returned.
**[10:44] Touko**
*Am I dead?*
**[10:48] Flickering Flame**
You are not dead.
**[10:50] Flickering Flame**
It was our older sister who died.
**[10:54] Flickering Flame**
And many humans, too.
**[10:57] Flickering Flame**
Almost all life.
**[11:00] Flickering Flame**
You live.
**[11:03] Touko**
*Who are you?*
**[11:06] Touko**
*The Flickering Flame?*
**[11:09] Flickering Flame**
Enough have died already,
yet still they kill each other.
**[11:17] Touko**
*You're the Flickering Flame.*
**[11:22] Akira**
Patch up Kun.
**[11:24] Koushi**
Spiders are like gods physically.
**[11:27] Koushi**
Your injuries obviously come first.
**[11:30] Koushi**
I'm not a doctor,
so I can only give you first aid,
**[11:34] Koushi**
but I can at least stop the bleeding.
**[11:38] Akira**
What about Touko?
**[11:39] Koushi**
Sleeping off her exhaustion.
**[11:41] Koushi**
She's so small, and yet...
**[11:44] Fire Hunter C**
You there. Our job's not done yet.
**[11:48] Akira**
I won't let Touko swing a sickle anymore.
**[11:54] Akira**
She kills too much.
**[11:57] Akira**
Killing's not the same as hunting.
**[11:59] Akira**
We must never let Touko
wield a sickle again.
**[12:54] Koushi**
Hinako?
**[12:56] Koushi**
Hinako!
**[12:58] Akira**
Koushi. Don't go looking for her.
**[13:02] Akira**
She was probably...
**[13:04] Koushi**
Remade by the gods.
**[13:07] Koushi**
Like the treefolk in the forbidden quarter.
**[13:12] Koushi**
I think the doctor who treated Hinako...
**[13:16] Akira**
He works for the gods?
**[13:18] Koushi**
He may *be* a god. And he might not
be the only one in the Okibis' mansion.
**[13:24] Akira**
Does Mr. Okibi know?
**[13:27] Koushi**
I doubt he has realized.
**[13:30] Koushi**
He loathes the divine clans.
**[13:33] Akira**
That girl is no longer...
**[13:45] Koushi**
What now?
**[13:46] Akira**
I'll deliver my appeal to the Lady Goddess.
**[13:50] Koushi**
But then, you'll end up like your...
**[13:52] Akira**
My brother brought word of the Millennial
Comet and the lord of the fire hunters,
**[13:56] Akira**
and the gods killed him for it.
**[13:59] Akira**
I'm that fool's little sister, and hunting
flame fiends is all I know how to do,
**[14:05] Akira**
so I'll do what I've set my mind on.
**[14:08] Akira**
But I have hope this time.
**[14:11] Akira**
The Lady Goddess *has* to read
an appeal written on muku paper,
**[14:16] Akira**
and the gods can't play dumb now the
spiders have launched their invasion.
**[14:22] Akira**
So? What will *you* do?
**[14:25] Koushi**
I'll use the tunnels that link the factories
to get to the Ibushi cultivation plant.
**[14:34] Koushi**
They have the second lightning cannon,
**[14:38] Koushi**
and they should have
staff on-site to work it.
**[14:42] Koushi**
I'll join them.
**[14:44] Koushi**
Mr. Okibi must be on his way to the
first cannon at the Takiguchi steelworks.
**[14:54] Akira**
Koushi, you don't need to
stand by rich old Okibi anymore.
**[15:00] Akira**
You don't need to endanger yourself, either.
**[15:03] Akira**
If you head straight for town,
you can make it to the bridge.
**[15:06] Akira**
Take Touko and Kun with you.
**[15:08] Koushi**
No, I'll stick to the plan.
**[15:13] Koushi**
I designed that machine—that weapon—
to protect the townspeople
**[15:18] Koushi**
from the spiders' war with the gods.
**[15:22] Koushi**
I have a responsibility to see this through.
**[15:26] Akira**
I wonder if Haijuu was like you.
**[15:30] Koushi**
My father?
**[15:31] Akira**
Haijuu even abandoned
his family to seek out muku paper.
**[15:37] Akira**
He traveled to Touko's village,
but before he could get what he wanted,
**[15:41] Akira**
he died saving Touko from a fiend attack.
**[15:46] Koushi**
Pretty stupid, huh?
**[15:48] Akira**
It does seem silly.
**[15:51] Akira**
If he'd ignored Touko
and gotten the muku paper,
**[15:55] Akira**
Haijuu might have petitioned the Lady
Goddess and become lord of the fire hunters.
**[16:02] Akira**
But you know, only a warmhearted fool
would think of overturning divine rule,
**[16:09] Akira**
let alone try to do it.
**[16:14] Koushi**
My father never once mentioned
the lord of the fire hunters to me.
**[16:20] Akira**
"The lord of the fire hunters
has the power to change the world."
**[16:25] Akira**
It sounds like a fairy tale,
**[16:28] Akira**
but looking at the capital, we really
do need an alternative to divine rule.
**[16:35] Koushi**
Mr. Okibi said the same thing.
**[16:41] Koushi**
He told me we needed a weapon
against the gods to make that happen.
**[16:45] Koushi**
And for all humans to get to eat their fill
of meat, sacrifices needed to be made.
**[16:53] Akira**
A lord is someone who spends their life
thinking about how other people live.
**[16:59] Akira**
They never treat people like banknotes.
**[17:03] Koushi**
So not just anyone will do, then?
**[17:06] Koushi**
The skill to hunt the
Flickering Flame isn't enough.
**[17:10] Akira**
Right. We need someone worthy to
become the lord of the fire hunters.
**[17:31] Koushi**
Are you evacuating to the city?
**[17:33] Supervisor**
No one's left.
**[17:36] Supervisor**
Where did you come from?
**[17:38] Akira**
Could you take this kid with you? She's hurt.
**[17:42] Supervisor**
Sure, I can take her,
**[17:44] Supervisor**
but if she's hurt, a treefolk named Kiri is
healing people on the southern outskirts.
**[17:49] Koushi**
Kiri? You mean Kiri came aboveground, too?
**[17:53] Koushi**
No, never mind.
**[17:55] Supervisor**
What about that kid?
**[17:57] Akira**
He's mine.
**[18:00] Supervisor**
Aren't you folk evacuating?
**[18:03] Akira**
We still have a little
business to take care of.
**[18:06] Supervisor**
"Business," huh?
**[18:09] Akira**
Ask the welder and laundress in Minatozaka,
District 22. They'll tell you about her.
**[18:25] Akira**
She'll be furious later.
**[18:28] Akira**
You'd never guess,
but Touko has a mean temper.
**[18:35] Akira**
I'm not ditching you, okay? I'll come back.
**[18:39] Akira**
Stay with this boy and do what he tells you.
**[18:42] Koushi**
Ms. Akira, the lightning
will start soon. Be careful.
**[18:46] Akira**
I can't wait to see your invention in action.
**[18:51] Narrator**
* Entrusting Touko to the kindness of others,*
* Koushi leads Kun to the lightning cannon.*
**[18:57] Narrator**
* Akira heads for the divine palace*
* with Temari to petition the Lady Goddess.*
**[19:05] Narrator**
*Their time apart may prove lengthy.*
**[19:21] Kun**
What's this place?
**[19:23] Koushi**
It's where food grows when people
in the capital don't have enough.
**[19:27] Koushi**
Kun, we'll hide you here.
**[19:30] Koushi**
Don't worry. Kanata will be with you.
**[19:33] Koushi**
I'm counting on you, Kanata.
**[19:35] Koushi**
Don't come out even if you hear loud noises.
**[20:09] Koushi**
Hello! Is anybody here?
**[20:12] Koushi**
It's me, Koushi! Is anybody here?
**[20:16] Hibari**
You took your sweet time.
**[20:18] Koushi**
You're... Hibari.
**[20:24] Koushi**
Did you kill them all?
**[20:26] Hibari**
Of course not. They turned tail
and fled as soon as they saw my spies.
**[20:36] Koushi**
Did the gods make this rain, too?
**[20:39] Hibari**
Perhaps they made it a bit too heavy.
**[20:42] Hibari**
They called the rain like this before,
when they tried to stop the great fire.
**[20:49] (Flashback) Yuoshichi**
Water-wielding gods finally quenched
the blaze by calling a rainstorm.
**[20:57] (Flashback) Yuoshichi**
I believe the divine clans
chose to delay and let it happen.
**[21:01] (Flashback) Yuoshichi**
They culled the excess human population.
**[21:08] Hibari**
They have arrived.
**[21:09] Hibari**
The spiders have entered the capital.
**[21:28] Hibari**
They used the fiends to divert attention.
**[21:32] Hibari**
I see the spiders' usual crude stratagems
have proven effective against humans.
**[21:40] Hibari**
And it appears some humans schemed
to invite them into the city.
**[21:46] Hibari**
Starting with the reconstruction after
the great fire, they built hidden passages
**[21:54] Hibari**
so the spiders could access the tunnels.
**[21:58] Hibari**
The spiders have had a way
into the capital all this time.
**[22:04] Hibari**
And humans made it for them.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Roaring Thunder
***SIGN*** Roaring Thunder
# E12 - Roaring Thunder
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**[00:01] Narrator**
* Amid a deadly battle*
* between fiends and fire hunters,*
**[00:04] Narrator**
* the spiders finally launch*
* their invasion of the capital.*
**[00:10] Narrator**
* Akira heads to the palace to present*
* a petition on muku paper to the Lady Goddess.*
**[00:16] Narrator**
*And...*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Roaring
Thunder
***SIGN*** Roaring
Thunder
**[01:49] Hibari**
Tell me, how will you fight
the spiders with this ugly machine?
**[01:56] Koushi**
Have you already told your allies,
the other gods, about this place?
**[02:02] Hibari**
No. My relatives don't care for me.
**[02:06] Koushi**
And the spiders coming from underground?
**[02:09] Hibari**
I don't care what you all
crawl around in the dirt for.
**[02:14] Hibari**
Humans, spiders, and this city
mean nothing to me.
**[02:18] Hibari**
I won't kill you unless you make
a play for the Flickering Flame.
**[02:24] Hibari**
I detest blood.
**[02:27] Koushi**
How can you say that?
**[02:29] Koushi**
So many humans are hurt and bleeding.
**[02:32] Koushi**
They're fighting covered in blood.
**[02:35] Koushi**
But you want to just stay up on high
and never shed a drop of your own?
**[02:40] Hibari**
I knew you would amuse me.
**[02:43] Hibari**
I hope your machine does its job.
**[02:47] Hibari**
But now, I must get back to
monitoring your foster father.
**[02:51] Hibari**
I may turn my spies' blades on
his people if the situation calls for it,
**[02:57] Hibari**
but don't blame me
if you lose your cozy home.
**[03:10] Voice 1**
Is it true that fiends have gotten inside?
**[03:13] Voice 2**
Why else would they
evacuate us to this place?
**[03:17] Voice 3**
The alarm was ringing.
**[03:19] Voice 4**
The grown-ups ran off without us.
**[03:21] Voice 5**
But why can't we go home?
**[03:24] Voice 6**
They'll send us back to work
as soon as they know it's safe.
**[03:26] Masumi**
Hey, are you okay?
**[03:28] Masumi**
You injured? What factory did you come from?
**[03:32] Boy Worker 1**
She ain't a worker.
**[03:34] Boy Worker 1**
She doesn't even have a uniform.
**[03:36] Masumi**
Can it. You're not even
a team leader, so butt out.
**[03:42] Boy Worker 1**
Keep it down. The chief'll yell at us again.
**[03:45] Boy Worker 2**
Who is she?
**[03:47] Boy Worker 3**
She's not a worker, right?
**[03:48] Boy Worker 4**
Think she could be a kid from the slums?
**[03:51] Boy Worker 5**
But she came with an evacuee group, right?
**[03:52] Masumi**
Do you want to go outside?
**[03:55] Boy Worker 6**
She must've gotten mixed in.
**[03:56] Masumi**
What are you looking at?
**[03:58] Masumi**
Let us through.
**[03:58] Boy Worker 5**
I hear hunters headed to
the tunnel to wipe out the fiends.
**[04:01] Boy Worker 6**
You mean the wards broke?
**[04:04] Boy Worker 7**
The spiders'll break the gods' wards
and attack from the dark forest.
**[04:08] Boy Worker 6**
The spiders? Are the gods
gonna fight the spiders, then?
**[04:12] Boy Worker 5**
The fire hunters will fight them first.
**[04:15] Boy Worker 6**
Won't the other adults do anything?
**[04:17] Boy Worker 6**
How can we just wait here
twiddling our thumbs?
**[04:20] Supervisor 2**
Pipe down, pipsqueaks.
Don't talk like you know any better.
**[04:24] Boy Worker 6**
If we keep working in the factories,
pollution'll kill us anyway.
**[04:28] Boy Worker 5**
I'd rather die fighting spiders!
**[04:30] Supervisor 2**
Don't get smart with me! Any more
nonsense and you're on waste disposal!
**[04:35] Supervisor 2**
Or would you rather service tunnels
till you can't stand straight?
**[04:35] Masumi**
None of them have ever even
seen a fiend or a spider.
**[04:39] Masumi**
The older kids are always
picking fights with the grown-ups.
**[04:43] Boy Worker 8**
Hey. You can't just go outside.
**[04:47] Masumi**
I think this girl is here by mistake.
She says she's from the slums.
**[04:52] Masumi**
Cowards.
**[04:55] Masumi**
That scared them because the slums
are said to be full of infection.
**[05:00] Masumi**
But my mom's got it way worse.
**[05:03] Masumi**
She can't talk anymore because of
factory poisoning. She can only groan.
**[05:08] Masumi**
And we'll all end up that way sooner or later.
**[05:13] Masumi**
Just like my mom.
**[05:16] Touko**
Are we somewhere in the factory district?
**[05:20] Masumi**
No, we're in a communal kitchen
in the residential district.
**[05:24] Masumi**
Nothing to eat here now, though.
**[05:29] Boy Worker 5**
Hey! Look at that!
**[05:31] Boy Worker 6**
Whoa.
**[05:32] Boy Worker 6**
Are the gods doing something?
**[05:34] Boy Worker 7**
They're here. The spiders really came!
**[05:38] Masumi**
What are you so happy about?
**[05:41] Boy Worker 7**
My folks told me about 'em.
**[05:44] Boy Worker 7**
They say the gods leave
factory poisons around on purpose.
**[05:49] Boy Worker 7**
When the spiders come, humans will
be able to use fire like in the olden days.
**[05:53] Boy Worker 7**
We'll be stronger than the gods.
**[05:55] Boy Worker 6**
Is that true?
**[05:58] Boy Worker 7**
My old man says the bug venom kills you,
then makes it so you won't burn.
**[06:03] Boy Worker 5**
The watch will arrest you
for talking like that.
**[06:06] Masumi**
Don't be silly.
No one comes back from the dead.
**[06:10] Boy Worker 6**
Shut up! I'd rather die from
bug venom than factory poisoning!
**[06:15] Supervisor 2**
Give it a rest already!
**[06:18] Supervisor 2**
A-A-Anyway, all of you, get inside.
**[06:24] Touko**
I had no idea.
**[06:26] Touko**
I didn't know anything
about what the capital is like.
**[06:32] Masumi**
You mean you're not from the city?
**[07:22] Koushi**
Kun, I can't operate this alone.
**[07:24] Koushi**
I need your help.
**[07:28] Kun**
Okay.
**[07:29] Koushi**
But first, I have something to tell you.
**[07:34] Kun**
I know. Everybody's gonna die, right?
**[07:38] Koushi**
Right.
**[07:40] Kun**
But you've gotta use this thing, right?
**[07:47] Koushi**
Right.
**[08:18] Koushi**
Kun, over here.
**[08:21] Koushi**
Pull that long rod toward you
as hard as you can.
**[08:24] Kun**
Right.
**[08:42] Okibi Maid A**
I believe children from
the factories have gathered here?
**[08:45] Supervisor 1**
Did the Okibis send you?
**[08:47] Okibi Maid A**
Please enjoy this food together.
**[08:50] Supervisor 1**
Meal time, you lot.
**[08:53] Masumi**
Join in. Come on.
This is your chance to get food.
**[08:53] Kids**
Food!
**[08:54] Kids**
I'm starving!
**[09:17] Koushi**
Kun, Kanata, over here.
***SIGN*** Takiguchi Factory
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** II
***SIGN*** III
***SIGN*** Takiguchi Factory
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** II
***SIGN*** III
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** II
***SIGN*** III
***SIGN*** Takiguchi Factory
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** II
***SIGN*** III
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** II
***SIGN*** III
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** II
***SIGN*** III
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** I
***SIGN*** I
**[09:37] Koushi**
Kun, curl up and keep your head down.
**[09:59] Boy Worker 7**
Look, lightning!
**[10:00] Kids**
Lightning?
**[10:01] Boy Worker 5**
Forked lightning! It struck
the edge of the factory district!
**[10:07] Kids**
Hey! Quit crying!
**[10:08] Touko**
Mr. Koushi...
**[10:10] Okibi Maid A**
What? You know Koushi?
**[10:15] Okibi Maid A**
Which factory is this girl from?
**[10:17] Supervisor 2**
Actually, a fire hunter left her
with us during the evacuation.
**[10:31] Koushi**
A volley from the first cannon!
**[10:47] Koushi**
Hurry, Kun. Load the next—
**[10:52] On**
What are you doing?
**[10:57] On**
I don't believe it. You can make
lightning strike with this?
**[11:04] On**
You're calling lightning...
**[11:07] On**
and killing my comrades?
**[11:39] Koushi**
Her arm!
**[11:44] Koushi**
Kanata!
**[12:12] Roroku**
That was a close one.
**[12:14] Koushi**
Roroku!
**[12:15] Roroku**
She dislocated her elbows and shoulders
to stretch her already long arms.
**[12:20] Roroku**
Her range was hard to gauge.
**[12:21] Koushi**
So you're all right, then.
**[12:24] Roroku**
You think anyone's all right
given current circumstances?
**[12:29] Koushi**
Your arm...
**[12:32] Roroku**
It started to ignite,
so I cut it off with my sickle.
**[12:35] Roroku**
Those who escaped went to guard the first
cannon at Takiguchi's like we'd planned.
**[12:42] Roroku**
This thing wasn't firing,
so they sent me to check it out.
**[12:47] Roroku**
Where's the crew?
**[12:49] Koushi**
The gods chased them off.
They were gone by the time I got here.
**[12:54] Roroku**
So you launched that shot on your own?
**[12:58] Koushi**
No, I got this boy and Kanata to help me.
**[13:04] Roroku**
Now that's rich.
**[13:06] Roroku**
They've got a gaggle of grown men
kicking up a fuss over there,
**[13:11] Roroku**
but a four-eyed kid, a pipsqueak,
and a dog made this monster howl.
**[13:17] Koushi**
What's going on outside?
**[13:21] Roroku**
Spiders leaped out of
the underground tunnels all over.
**[13:25] Roroku**
They must've been spinning their web
under the capital for a long time.
**[13:29] Roroku**
Fire killed the gods who thought
they could get the drop on them.
**[13:35] Roroku**
Most of the fire hunters burned, too.
**[13:38] Roroku**
What about Akira and the girl?
**[13:40] Koushi**
Akira set out for the divine palace.
**[13:43] Koushi**
We asked a group of evacuating workers
to take Touko into town.
**[13:55] Kun**
On won't fight anymore.
**[13:58] Koushi**
You know this spider?
**[14:00] Kun**
We were together in the forest.
**[14:02] Kun**
On had a short temper
and wouldn't play with me much.
**[14:06] Roroku**
Hey...
**[14:08] On**
I wouldn't want humans any other way.
**[14:12] Roroku**
* You're a tough one.*
* A human would be dead by now.*
**[14:17] Roroku**
*Must be the spiders' divine blood.*
**[14:23] On**
As I speak, our fellows open the gates
of the home from which we were driven.
**[14:29] On**
Go to them, Kun.
**[14:32] Kun**
The bug that makes you
not burn doesn't work on me.
**[14:36] On**
No matter. Go and watch
as the world regains fire,
**[14:45] On**
and as the spiders burn away the gods,
the head clan from which we split,
**[14:50] On**
and the home of our birth.
**[14:53] Koushi**
"The home of your birth"?
**[14:56] Koushi**
The spiders used to be part of the Fire Clan.
***SIGN*** Fire
***SIGN*** Water
***SIGN*** Wind
***SIGN*** Earth
***SIGN*** Wood
**[14:59] Koushi**
Is that why you're so fixated on fire?
***SIGN*** Fire
**[15:03] On**
Ancient flame was once
the very power we commanded.
**[15:09] On**
Now the head clan stands over all,
**[15:12] On**
yet they cannot even approach the flame
that is their power, let alone wield it.
**[15:19] On**
Does it not frustrate you? More than anyone,
humans should reclaim fire.
**[15:25] On**
Return to the era when you
boasted of controlling its might.
**[15:29] Koushi**
Why... Why do you care so much
about what humans do?
**[15:33] Roroku**
Stop. Don't bother arguing.
**[15:36] On**
We attack the capital
where the divine clans squat
**[15:40] On**
to achieve our great ambition
of giving humanity fire.
**[15:45] Koushi**
After you killed so many
of those very humans?
**[15:48] Koushi**
You act just like the
people of the old world.
**[15:54] Koushi**
Ancient humans once destroyed the world
with fire to get what they wanted.
**[16:03] On**
Didn't you kill your fair share
using the fallbeasts' power?
**[16:10] On**
Like the humans of the old world.
**[16:14] On**
No matter how the world changes,
the human race never will.
**[16:20] On**
That is humanity's true nature.
**[16:26] On**
Humans use fire to make things
and fight each other.
**[16:31] On**
Then they rise again from
the ashes of destruction.
**[16:35] On**
That's how it should be.
**[16:37] On**
That's the kind of creatures humans are.
**[16:41] On**
So reclaim fire.
**[16:47] Touko**
Where are we going?
**[16:49] Okibi Maid A**
We'll escort you to the Okibi estate.
**[16:51] Okibi Maid A**
You must have seen Koushi in the factories.
**[16:54] Okibi Maid A**
He's alive, isn't he?
**[16:56] Touko**
He left me with some people
and went to a factory, I think.
**[17:02] Voice 1**
The spiders have come.
**[17:04] Voice 1**
The spiders brought real fire to save us.
**[17:07] Voice 2**
Purifying flame, not filthy fiendfire.
**[17:12] Driver**
Move! And be quick about it!
**[17:16] Driver**
Make way! Clear the road!
**[17:16] Voice 3**
The spiders will save us, even after we die.
**[17:20] Voice 5**
They'll free us from the torment
of the factories and the pain of life!
**[17:27] Okibi Maid A**
Who's that with the cane?
**[17:30] Okibi Maid B**
That's Ms. Ibushi.
She runs the cultivation plant.
**[17:35] Ibushi**
You ought to stop this. Don't go.
**[17:39] Ibushi**
It wasn't just the gods.
**[17:42] Ibushi**
*They* swell up out of the dark places.
**[17:45] Yuoshichi**
Someone escort Ms. Ibushi home to her estate.
**[18:03] Yuoshichi**
Spineless coward.
**[18:11] Kira**
Touko?
**[18:13] Okibi Maid A**
Miss Kira.
**[18:15] Kira**
What's wrong? What brings you here?
**[18:18] Okibi Maid A**
She said she was in the
factory district with Koushi.
**[18:21] Okibi Maid A**
We bumped into her at a communal kitchen.
**[18:25] Kira**
Touko, let's go to my room.
**[18:29] Kira**
Bring her clean clothes
and something hot to eat.
**[18:31] Hibana**
Wait right there.
**[18:36] Hibana**
Kira.
**[18:38] Kira**
Yes, Mother.
**[18:43] Hibana**
You mustn't decide these things on your own.
**[18:48] Kira**
Forgive me, Mother.
**[18:54] Hibana**
What are you waiting for?
Fetch this girl a change of clothes.
**[18:57] Kira**
Okay.
**[18:59] Hibana**
Listen closely.
**[19:01] Hibana**
That boy was invited into
our home for this moment.
**[19:07] Hibana**
Your father predicted this would happen
and kept an assistant on hand.
**[19:14] Hibana**
The boy certainly made
himself at home here,
**[19:19] Hibana**
but he must have realized that much himself.
**[19:24] Hibana**
So, Kira...
**[19:27] Hibana**
Stop having vulgar feelings
for your father's lackey.
**[19:33] Kira**
What?
**[19:45] Kira**
Koushi and Hinako and even Kanata
must be in the factory district right now.
**[19:52] Kira**
I had no idea.
**[19:55] Kira**
How... How long has this been going on?
**[20:00] Kira**
I have to go.
**[20:01] Kira**
I have to go to where they are.
**[20:05] Hibana**
Kira! Wait!
**[20:08] Kira**
I...
**[20:09] Okibi Maid A**
Miss Kira!
**[20:11] Touko**
Miss Kira!
**[20:41] Kouhachi**
I must insist that the
young lady accompany me.
**[20:47] Kouhachi**
So that the Flickering Flame
may become our new Lady Goddess,
**[20:52] Kouhachi**
we must choose a human child
as a temporary vessel.
**[20:58] Kouhachi**
A bright, healthy girl like
Miss Kira should do nicely.
**[21:09] Hibana**
Kouhachi. So you were a mole?
**[21:12] Hibana**
You pretended to be human and
snuck into our home, you monster.
**[21:17] Hibana**
Give me back my daughter!
**[21:20] Takimi**
The Okibis have been chosen.
**[21:23] Takimi**
Chosen by the gods to keep
the human world from ending.
**[21:28] Hibana**
You, too, Takimi?
**[21:32] Takimi**
Little Hinako proved most suitable.
**[21:36] Takimi**
She's a new breed of human
that doesn't need fire.
**[21:41] Hibana**
My daughter...
**[21:43] Hibana**
Give Kira back to me!
**[21:47] Takimi**
Unfortunately, this is no time for scruples.
**[21:52] Takimi**
Please understand.
**[21:54] Takimi**
We do this for future generations.
**[21:58] Hibana**
Kira!
**[22:12] Flickering Flame**
I'll take you to where the dogs are.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Great Tree
***SIGN*** The Great Tree
# E13 - The Great Tree
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**[00:01] Narrator**
*The divine clans rule the world.*
**[00:05] Narrator**
* Humans, who ignite easily*
* in the presence of natural flame,*
**[00:08] Narrator**
* are permitted to live only by means*
* of fiendfire, harvested from flame fiends.*
**[00:17] Narrator**
*The goddess Flickering Flame is returning.*
**[00:19] Narrator**
* Her arrival draws closer*
* with each passing moment.*
**[00:23] Narrator**
* The spiders' invasion has plunged*
* the capital into unprecedented chaos.*
**[00:29] Narrator**
* Akira is heading to the palace to*
* deliver her appeal to the Lady Goddess.*
**[00:34] Narrator**
* Koushi is firing on the spiders*
* with his lightning cannon.*
**[00:38] Narrator**
* Meanwhile, at the Okibi mansion,*
* the gods attempt to abduct Kira.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Great Tree
***SIGN*** The Great Tree
**[02:27] Koushi**
Kanata?
**[02:28] Koushi**
What's wrong, Kanata?
**[02:31] Kun**
The small lady is calling?
**[02:35] Koushi**
Touko's in danger.
**[02:37] Koushi**
Kun, send your bugs.
**[02:47] Koushi**
Let's go, Kun.
**[02:49] Koushi**
And you, Roroku?
**[02:50] Roroku**
Mizore seems to have
taken a liking to Akira's dog.
**[02:55] Roroku**
I'll go find them.
**[02:58] Koushi**
I'm going to Touko.
**[03:01] Koushi**
Roroku... be safe.
**[03:05] Koushi**
Let's go, Kun.
**[03:08] Roroku**
I can't believe spiders
really can command bugs.
**[03:12] Roroku**
And I figured Koushi was just a cocky brat,
**[03:15] Roroku**
but I guess taking him
on that fiend hunt paid off.
**[03:19] Roroku**
Let's go, Mizore.
**[03:25] Flickering Flame**
Oh, it really is beautiful.
**[03:28] Flickering Flame**
A long time has passed since I last saw one,
**[03:32] Flickering Flame**
but I love what you make with paper, Hibari.
**[03:36] Flickering Flame**
But isn't it paper for writing on?
**[03:40] Hibari**
Our sister, Tayurahime, gave it to me.
**[03:44] Hibari**
She shared it with me quite some time ago.
**[03:50] Flickering Flame**
You still look like a child, Hibari.
**[03:53] Flickering Flame**
Though in truth, you must be one
of the oldest gods around now.
**[03:58] Flickering Flame**
So much time has passed since then, hasn't it?
**[04:02] Hibari**
But you've stayed a child, too, sister.
**[04:08] Flickering Flame**
That girl...
**[04:11] Hibari**
She's in league with a fire hunter who means
to hunt you, but shall I take her to the palace?
**[04:17] Flickering Flame**
That girl must go forth.
**[04:20] Flickering Flame**
There is a dog she must meet.
**[04:25] Hibari**
A dog?
**[04:29] Hibari**
Oh, now that you mention it,
she does usually have a hound by her side.
**[04:35] Flickering Flame**
Yes, like Tayura.
**[04:38] Flickering Flame**
Tayura had a dog by her side, too,
remember? A dog named En.
***SIGN*** Tayurahime
**[04:44] Hibari**
Will you go to our sister?
**[04:46] Flickering Flame**
Yes. I want to see Tayura.
**[04:51] Flickering Flame**
And send that girl home quick—
**[04:56] Hibari**
The divine clans have decided
to make you the next Lady Goddess.
**[05:01] Hibari**
You may wander into
the void, Flickering Flame,
**[05:06] Hibari**
but when your ordained duty
calls you back to this land,
**[05:09] Hibari**
you will succeed Lady Tayurahime.
**[05:14] Hibari**
That girl will be made your vessel.
**[05:18] Hibari**
Forcing the Lady Goddess
to bear a great burden alone
**[05:23] Hibari**
allows us to wield our divine power.
**[05:27] Hibari**
We govern the surviving humans.
**[05:31] Hibari**
Such a world cannot go on like this.
**[05:46] (Flashback) Kouhachi**
I must insist that the
young lady accompany me.
**[05:57] (Flashback) Flickering Flame**
I'll take you to where the dogs are.
**[06:03] Touko**
Kanata.
**[06:11] Kun**
I lost sight of Kanata.
**[06:13] Koushi**
If Kanata left, Touko must be nearby.
**[06:18] Koushi**
But why would Touko be in a factory?
**[06:22] Koushi**
I thought she escaped with those
other kids. What could have happened?
**[06:26] Koushi**
Kun, try to find Kanata again.
**[06:29] Kun**
The bugs are getting weak,
so I can't tell much.
**[06:32] Koushi**
Try, Kun. Your bugs are our only hope.
**[06:37] Kun**
I'll give it another shot.
***SIGN*** Iron
&
Steel
**[07:47] Touko**
A collection truck?
**[07:56] Touko**
*Grandma.*
**[08:00] Touko**
*Aunt.*
**[08:06] Touko**
*Rin.*
**[09:17] Touko**
Whose footprints are those?
**[09:37] Touko**
Mr. Koushi... Ms. Akira... Kanata...
**[09:45] Touko**
Kanata!
**[09:51] Kun**
Kanata...
**[09:54] Kun**
Kanata found the small lady.
**[09:58] Koushi**
Where's Touko?
**[09:59] Kun**
The bugs are in bad shape,
so I can't see too good.
**[10:04] Kun**
There.
**[10:31] Koushi**
What is it? What's wrong, Kun?
**[10:33] Kun**
Well...
**[10:37] Kun**
A big tower and a big, black log.
**[10:42] Kun**
Just like the thing from before.
**[10:44] Koushi**
Kun, you mean Touko saw something...
something like the lightning cannon?
**[10:51] Koushi**
That must be Takiguchi's first cannon.
**[10:54] Kun**
Mister...
**[10:57] Kun**
A big shadow's coming at the small lady!
**[11:00] Koushi**
"A shadow" doesn't tell me
anything. What exactly—
**[11:03] Koushi**
An earthquake!
**[12:23] Touko**
The huge treefolk?
**[12:30] Touko**
You were in the forbidden quarter.
**[12:46] Yanagi**
Ah, I see you made it in one piece, too.
**[12:50] Kunugi**
The mole's friend, huh?
**[12:55] Touko**
Treefolk...
**[12:57] Touko**
But why are you aboveground?
**[13:00] Yanagi**
The gods collapsed the ground
to put out the spiders' fires.
**[13:06] Yanagi**
Thanks to that, Kunugi managed to
get free of that wall and come up here.
**[13:12] Touko**
Then, what about Ms. Kiri
and the other treefolk?
**[13:17] Yanagi**
Kiri and En fled.
**[13:19] Yanagi**
We don't know where Shuyu is.
**[13:22] Yanagi**
The others...
**[13:26] Touko**
A fiend killed Shuyu. I'm sorry.
**[13:31] Touko**
I couldn't do anything.
**[13:35] Yanagi**
I see.
**[13:38] Yanagi**
Sad as that is, you shouldn't
let it trouble you so much.
**[13:44] Yanagi**
We can't live long on the surface.
**[13:49] Touko**
What?
**[13:58] Yanagi**
There's nothing I... nothing we can do.
**[14:03] Yanagi**
I said we should just return to the soil,
**[14:07] Yanagi**
but Kunugi came aboveground,
hoping to make graves for our comrades.
**[14:13] Kunugi**
We must dig graves.
Graves for the treefolk.
**[14:18] Ruri-Matsuri**
If you want to make graves for your fellows,
bury the dead spiders first.
**[14:27] Ruri-Matsuri**
We can't leave corpses
lying around. Death defiles.
**[14:31] Ruri-Matsuri**
We must clear the area around the palace
before rot causes ghost lights.
**[14:39] Touko**
Kanata!
**[15:03] Yanagi**
You're Ruri-Matsuri of the Wood Clan.
**[15:08] Yanagi**
You remade us, the treefolk
of the forbidden quarter.
**[15:14] Ruri-Matsuri**
Oh? You have a good memory.
**[15:20] Yanagi**
I had nothing new to remember underground.
**[15:24] Yanagi**
Where is Kiri?
**[15:27] Yanagi**
You should be able to tell
even without putting down roots.
**[15:35] Ruri-Matsuri**
She seems to be tending to wounded humans.
**[15:39] Ruri-Matsuri**
Fitting for a treefolk's final task, I suppose.
**[15:44] Ruri-Matsuri**
The human girl called Hinako is with her.
**[15:49] Ruri-Matsuri**
Are you the one that good-for-nothing
Hibari has his eye on?
**[15:55] Ruri-Matsuri**
Hibari... The rest of us labor to put out fires,
calling rain, shifting canal water,
**[16:04] Ruri-Matsuri**
collapsing earth, and guiding
the fall of trees and buildings.
**[16:08] Ruri-Matsuri**
But he's only focused on the
Lady Goddess and the Millennial Comet.
**[16:14] Ruri-Matsuri**
He refuses to do real work.
**[16:29] Kunugi**
Trees are burning.
**[16:31] Yanagi**
Didn't the gods put out the spiders' fire?
**[16:35] Ruri-Matsuri**
Humans did this.
**[16:40] Touko**
Why would humans use fire?
Why would they burn trees?
**[16:45] Ruri-Matsuri**
The humans doing that
are caught in the spiders' web.
**[16:50] Ruri-Matsuri**
I knew some humans
secretly supported the spiders.
**[16:56] Ruri-Matsuri**
Not content to dig secret tunnels
beneath the factories,
**[17:00] Ruri-Matsuri**
they ignite their own bodies
to burn down factories and trees.
**[17:06] Touko**
They're burning themselves?
**[17:09] Mob**
The spiders have come!
The spiders really brought fire!
**[17:11] Mob**
Not filthy fiendfire! Purifying flame!
**[17:13] Mob**
The spiders will save us, even after we die!
**[17:13] Mob**
You must've seen that star fall!
The spiders will claim it and defeat the gods!
**[17:16] Mob**
The spiders are our true saviors!
**[17:17] Mob**
They'll liberate us! Liberate us!
**[17:19] Mob**
We'll be free!
**[17:22] Ruri-Matsuri**
Those humans believed that absurd story
about victims of the spiders' fire
**[17:28] Ruri-Matsuri**
reviving with bodies that don't burn.
**[17:31] Ruri-Matsuri**
And all of this because *he* never
alerted anyone to their activity.
**[17:38] Ruri-Matsuri**
I can't believe he kept
the keen-eared Wind Clan fooled.
**[17:43] Ruri-Matsuri**
The clans should have kept
a closer eye on that idiot.
**[17:51] Touko**
Do you mean... Mr. Hibari?
**[18:07] Touko**
I'll go with Kanata. We have to find Mr. Koushi.
**[18:12] Touko**
If you go to help Ms. Kiri, please
protect Hinako, the girl with her, too.
**[18:17] Touko**
She's part of this dog's family.
**[18:27] Koushi**
Kun, about that spider called On...
**[18:31] Kun**
On was with us in the forest.
**[18:34] Kun**
My dad said On was better
with blades than bugs.
**[18:43] Koushi**
What are the bugs that
stop you from burning like?
**[18:48] Kun**
I heard some special bugs were born.
**[18:52] Kun**
And once those bugs bit everyone,
going near fire didn't bother 'em.
**[18:59] Kun**
I was the only one the bugs didn't
work on, so they left me in the forest.
**[19:04] Kun**
My mom told me to become
part of the forest and left.
**[19:09] Koushi**
I see.
**[19:12] Koushi**
Could an insect really have that effect?
**[19:16] Koushi**
But the spiders *did* bring
ancient flame into the capital,
**[19:21] Koushi**
so they must at least have some way
to stop their own bodies from burning.
**[19:26] Koushi**
But even if they do, why would
they want to share it with humans?
**[19:34] (Flashback) On**
More than anyone,
humans should reclaim fire.
**[19:38] (Flashback) On**
Return to the era when you
boasted of controlling its might.
**[19:43] (Flashback) Koushi**
Why... Why do you care so much
about what humans do?
**[19:48] Koushi**
"That is humanity's true nature."
**[19:52] Koushi**
"That's the kind of creatures humans are."
**[19:55] (Flashback) On**
Didn't you kill your fair share
using the fallbeasts' power?
**[20:03] (Flashback) On**
Like the humans of the old world.
**[20:09] Koushi**
"That's the kind of creatures humans are."
**[20:13] Koushi**
"So reclaim fire."
**[20:16] Kun**
Mister?
**[20:21] Kun**
How do you think
Kanata found the small lady?
**[20:25] Koushi**
Kanata found who he ought
to protect on his own.
**[20:29] Kun**
On his own?
**[20:31] Koushi**
Fire hunters don't choose their hounds.
**[20:34] Koushi**
Hounds choose their fire hunters.
**[20:47] Koushi**
Kun, quick.
**[21:23] Kureha**
You mustn't go.
**[21:30] Kureha**
You mustn't go.
**[21:33] Koushi**
Don't, Kun.
**[21:38] Koushi**
Didn't you work for the Okibis?
**[21:42] Kureha**
You mustn't go any farther.
**[21:54] Koushi**
I have to go. My friends are in danger.
**[21:58] Kureha**
Hide.
**[22:00] Kureha**
You'll burn.
**[22:01] Kureha**
You mustn't die.
**[22:05] Kun**
Mister...
**[22:07] Kureha**
I'm sorry.
**[22:08] Kureha**
I'm not a person anymore.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Banked
Fire
***SIGN*** Banked
Fire
# E14 - Banked Fire
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GQJUG3442/banked-fire)
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**[00:01] Narrator**
* An onslaught of spiders and fiends turns*
* the factory district into a battlefield.*
**[00:07] Narrator**
* Kunugi comes to the surface to escape*
* the collapse of the forbidden quarter.*
**[00:14] Narrator**
* Having reunited with Kanata,*
* Touko searches for Koushi.*
**[00:19] Narrator**
* And Koushi likewise searches for her,*
* traversing the tunnels with Kun's help.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Banked
Fire
***SIGN*** Banked
Fire
**[02:36] Flickering Flame**
They still get muddled and fight.
**[02:45] Takimi**
The divine clans, the spiders,
and the humans who believe in them.
**[02:50] Takimi**
Most of the fire hunters
fell fighting swarms of fiends,
**[02:53] Takimi**
the humans using skyfire
destroyed themselves,
**[02:56] Takimi**
and the townspeople will
eventually turn into a violent mob.
**[03:02] Takimi**
We can no longer extinguish these flames,
**[03:05] Takimi**
because unlike the great fire in the past,
humans are lighting these ones themselves.
**[03:11] Flickering Flame**
Devastation will come, whether I act or not.
**[03:16] Takimi**
There aren't many humans or gods left.
**[03:20] Takimi**
Anyone can see this world is dwindling.
**[03:24] Takimi**
Humans of the past would have devoted
all of their skills to finding a solution,
**[03:30] Takimi**
but humanity lacks the resources now.
**[03:33] Takimi**
That's why we're going to lend you a hand.
**[03:37] Koushi**
What did you do to Hinako?
**[03:40] Takimi**
Industrial toxins would have
caused her ever greater pain,
**[03:44] Takimi**
ultimately killing her within ten years.
**[03:47] Takimi**
But Hinako has already
overcome that hurdle.
**[03:52] Koushi**
Don't give me that!
**[03:55] Hibari**
We'll have none of that.
**[04:00] Koushi**
Stop...
**[04:03] Hibari**
Do not fight in the presence
of the Flickering Flame.
**[04:08] Hibari**
Your job is to put out fires,
not stand around chatting.
**[04:13] Takimi**
Oh, I take my work very seriously.
**[04:16] Takimi**
Though I imagine it won't amount to much.
**[04:19] Hibari**
You ought to know
we have no time for griping.
**[04:24] Takimi**
And how did we fail to detect the spiders
until the situation got so dire?
**[04:29] Takimi**
I believe intelligence falls
within the Wind Clan's purview.
**[04:34] Takimi**
Or has someone been
concealing suspicious activity?
**[04:39] Flickering Flame**
Let him go now.
**[04:43] Koushi**
What did you do?
And I don't mean just to Hinako...
**[04:46] Koushi**
What did you do to the
Okibis' servants? To humans?
**[04:51] Takimi**
We of the Water Clan merely acted
on our desire to help humanity survive.
**[04:58] Takimi**
Unlike the other clans, we aren't content
to sit and wait for the Millennial Comet.
**[05:04] Takimi**
Of course, our attempts to remake
bodies were met with many setbacks.
**[05:09] Takimi**
But with the help of a superb subject,
we perfected the formula.
**[05:14] Takimi**
We created a new human race. One at home
in darkness, without the need for fire.
**[05:23] Koushi**
How could you toy with people like that?
**[05:27] Koushi**
Why would you go that far to keep us alive?
**[05:31] Takimi**
Because making sacrifices now
will prove beneficial in the long run.
**[05:36] Takimi**
Flickering Flame, it seems you refuse
to become the next Lady Goddess.
**[05:41] Takimi**
But since no suitable lady
has been born to the divine clans,
**[05:45] Takimi**
only you can inherit that mantle.
**[05:48] Flickering Flame**
Would I become like Tayura?
**[05:52] Flickering Flame**
What will happen to Tayura if I succeed her?
**[05:56] Takimi**
The Earth Clan has chosen
a vessel from among the humans.
**[06:02] Takimi**
They plan to enthrone you as
the Lady Goddess by force if necessary.
**[06:06] Hibari**
Sister, you need not listen to this prattle.
**[06:17] Kun**
Mister. Mister!
**[06:20] Kun**
Hey, are you okay?
**[06:22] Koushi**
Yeah.
**[06:23] Koushi**
Where are we?
**[06:25] Hibari**
Did hitting your head give you bad dreams?
**[06:29] Koushi**
I know *you* showed me that.
**[06:31] Hibari**
Think what you like.
**[06:34] Koushi**
Forget him, Kun.
**[06:36] Hibari**
Wandering around will get you killed.
Fires are still burning here and there.
**[06:42] Hibari**
The girl with the dog is over that way.
**[06:45] Koushi**
Touko?
**[06:47] Hibari**
The Water Clan is putting out fires,
but there must be spiders around, too.
**[06:53] Hibari**
So be careful.
**[06:55] Koushi**
What is a "vessel"?
**[06:57] Hibari**
A human that will house
the Flickering Flame.
**[07:01] Koushi**
"House" her?
**[07:03] Hibari**
They picked your foster parents' daughter.
**[07:06] Koushi**
Kira?
**[07:08] Hibari**
They needed a wealthy girl
uncontaminated by the toxic waste.
**[07:12] Hibari**
One who was physically and mentally fit
to become the Lady Goddess.
**[07:16] Hibari**
Candidates were in short supply.
**[07:19] Hibari**
You must have had some inkling.
**[07:22] Hibari**
Aside from the doctor
who called himself Takimi,
**[07:25] Hibari**
one more god frequented
the Okibi household.
**[07:29] Hibari**
He pretended to be a human teacher.
**[07:33] Hibari**
You never suspected him?
**[07:36] Hibari**
Well, clever as you seem, you *are* only human.
**[07:41] Hibari**
Or maybe I should compliment
the old man on his disguise.
**[07:51] Kun**
When did he leave?
**[07:54] Kun**
I never took my eyes off him.
**[08:56] Touko**
Kun!
**[08:57] Kun**
Lady!
**[09:04] Kun**
Lady!
**[09:05] Touko**
Kun!
**[09:16] Touko**
Mr. Koushi.
**[09:23] Koushi**
I'm sorry. I... I...
**[09:27] Koushi**
I've been working like mad
to cause these horrors.
**[09:31] Koushi**
With the skyfire my father left
and the Okibis' influence,
**[09:36] Koushi**
I convinced myself
I could protect this city.
**[09:40] Koushi**
I ended up creating horrible weapons.
**[09:44] Koushi**
Protect the city?
**[09:47] Koushi**
I just created heaps of charred corpses.
**[10:01] Koushi**
Gods?
**[10:16] Yuoshichi**
What a glorious sight.
**[10:22] Koushi**
Yuoshichi, sir.
**[10:24] Koushi**
Why are you here? And is that blood?
**[10:31] Yuoshichi**
The gods rule humans, yet they despise
the blood in our veins and view it as unclean.
**[10:41] Yuoshichi**
Still, it looks like
the lightning only struck spiders.
**[10:46] Yuoshichi**
I wish it could have killed gods, too.
**[10:51] Yuoshichi**
This takes me back to the great fire.
**[10:55] Yuoshichi**
The bodies littering the ground,
the charred smell in the air...
**[11:00] Yuoshichi**
My mother burned back then.
**[11:04] Yuoshichi**
She helped me into a canal
before she combusted.
**[11:08] Yuoshichi**
The stink of burned humans
lingered for days, even weeks.
**[11:13] Yuoshichi**
Children who'd lost their food and homes
had no choice but to forage.
**[11:21] Yuoshichi**
I'll make those conceited gods
feel humanity's rage.
**[11:27] Yuoshichi**
That's all I've lived for
since I survived the great fire.
**[11:34] Yuoshichi**
I no longer have any need of your services.
**[11:38] Yuoshichi**
Use that tunnel and
escape to wherever you like.
**[11:43] Butler**
Sir.
**[11:53] Yuoshichi**
Try to survive, just like I did.
**[12:10] Touko**
Temari!
**[12:12] Touko**
Ms. Akira? Are you there?
**[12:29] Touko**
Ms. Akira!
**[12:31] Kun**
Lady!
**[12:36] Koushi**
Where's Akira?
**[12:37] Touko**
She isn't here. Only Temari.
**[12:44] Koushi**
Akira...
**[12:51] Koushi**
Akira got separated from Temari.
**[12:56] Koushi**
And we still don't know where Hinako is.
**[12:59] Touko**
Um, Mr. Koushi.
**[13:01] Touko**
I think Hinako is at a relief station
in the factory district.
**[13:06] Koushi**
What?
**[13:07] Touko**
She's helping Ms. Kiri of the treefolk
treat the fire hunters who got hurt.
**[13:13] Touko**
A goddess told me so.
**[13:17] Koushi**
One from the divine clans?
**[13:20] Touko**
She scared me.
**[13:22] Touko**
The forbidden quarter treefolk said
she was the goddess who made them.
**[13:27] Koushi**
"Goddess"? There's nothing holy about them.
**[13:32] Koushi**
Hinako, the forbidden quarter
treefolk, and now Kira.
**[13:37] Koushi**
They treat us like lab rats.
**[13:40] Touko**
Ms. Kira?
**[13:43] Koushi**
Kira was chosen as a vessel.
**[13:45] Touko**
What's that?
**[13:47] Koushi**
It sounds like the
Lady Goddess is on her last legs.
**[13:49] Koushi**
So the divine clans want to put
the Flickering Flame inside Kira
**[13:54] Koushi**
to make her the new Lady Goddess.
**[13:56] Touko**
Put a goddess *inside* her?
**[13:59] Koushi**
That shows how little
humans matter to them.
**[14:03] Koushi**
They don't care what we think or feel.
**[14:10] Touko**
Why, Mr. Koushi?
**[14:13] Touko**
My grandma always said the fire hunters
made the world a better place.
**[14:19] Touko**
Humans used to live in the forest, hiding
from fiends without villages or houses.
**[14:27] Touko**
We had no fire, so we had nothing to eat,
and lots of people starved to death.
**[14:36] Koushi**
I wish you'd never gotten
caught up in all this, Touko.
**[14:41] Koushi**
If you'd stayed in your village,
at least you wouldn't be in so much danger.
**[14:46] Touko**
But I'd still know nothing
if I'd stayed at home.
**[14:51] Touko**
I wouldn't have met Kaho, Mr. Shouzou,
Hotaru, Benio, or Ms. Akira.
**[15:00] Touko**
You go look for Hinako, Mr. Koushi.
**[15:03] Touko**
I'll find Ms. Akira and
go to the palace with her.
**[15:11] Koushi**
No, I'll go with you.
**[15:13] Touko**
But...
**[15:14] Koushi**
It's fine. Hinako will
be safer with the treefolk,
**[15:18] Koushi**
and she won't have to fight or hurt others...
**[15:22] Koushi**
or kill again.
**[15:28] Koushi**
We should all stick together from now on.
**[15:41] Koushi**
But which way do we go?
**[15:48] Koushi**
That thing...
**[15:50] Koushi**
It was near the tunnel entrance earlier, too.
**[15:55] Touko**
What?
**[15:57] Koushi**
Is someone trying to guide us?
**[16:00] Touko**
Huh?
**[16:04] Touko**
Ms. Flickering Flame?
**[16:08] Koushi**
I guess we have to follow it.
**[16:29] Koushi**
This looks like a facility to purify
wastewater and send it somewhere.
**[16:36] Kun**
Water!
**[16:38] Koushi**
Let's take a breather.
**[16:40] Koushi**
We could use some water, too.
**[16:44] Touko**
Mr. Koushi.
**[16:45] Koushi**
Hm?
**[16:46] Touko**
What *is* the Flickering Flame?
**[16:48] Koushi**
No idea.
**[16:50] Koushi**
She's been called the Millennial Comet,
the star child, the mechanical doll...
**[16:57] Touko**
Do you think she really is a goddess?
**[17:00] Koushi**
Oh, right. You said the Flickering Flame
might be guiding us earlier.
**[17:06] Touko**
I don't know for sure, but I feel like
I've met her a lot in my dreams.
**[17:11] Koushi**
In your dreams?
**[17:13] Flickering Flame**
I was made that way.
**[17:17] Flickering Flame**
The world was ending
due to pollution and war,
**[17:20] Flickering Flame**
and I was sent up to save it from the sky.
**[17:25] Flickering Flame**
To find people who needed help from orbit.
**[17:31] Flickering Flame**
Isolated settlements.
**[17:33] Flickering Flame**
Stranded soldiers.
**[17:35] Flickering Flame**
Children and livestock buried alive.
**[17:38] Flickering Flame**
Wanderers who'd lost their homes.
**[17:44] Flickering Flame**
It frightened me.
**[17:46] Flickering Flame**
People who should have
been saved kept dying.
**[17:50] Flickering Flame**
The people who should have
rescued them killed others instead.
**[17:55] Flickering Flame**
It seemed like the planet
was strangling itself.
**[18:02] Flickering Flame**
There were almost no facilities
left to receive my signals.
**[18:07] Flickering Flame**
Even when a distress call got through,
there was no one to help.
**[18:13] Flickering Flame**
I didn't want to look.
**[18:15] Flickering Flame**
I didn't want to just watch
from up in the sky.
**[18:20] Flickering Flame**
I never meant to come back.
**[18:24] Flickering Flame**
My return wouldn't mean anything.
**[18:28] Flickering Flame**
But I was designed so I can't change it myself,
even though I tried for so long.
**[18:36] Flickering Flame**
I couldn't overwrite my directive.
**[18:39] Flickering Flame**
So I came back.
**[18:43] Koushi**
Touko.
**[18:44] Koushi**
Touko!
**[18:49] Koushi**
Touko, you met the Flickering Flame,
didn't you? What did she say?
**[18:55] Touko**
She tried to "overwrite
her directive" but couldn't.
**[19:01] Koushi**
What directive?
**[19:03] Touko**
She said she can't change it herself.
She was made that way.
**[19:08] Touko**
And that's why she came back.
**[19:10] Koushi**
She can't overwrite it?
**[19:19] Touko**
What have they found?
**[19:21] Koushi**
I'm not sure.
**[19:25] Touko**
A spy?
**[19:27] Koushi**
No, they don't work in the water.
**[19:39] Touko**
Kun!
**[19:46] Touko**
Kun!
**[19:47] Koushi**
Touko! Watch out!
**[19:59] Touko**
Wh-What are...
**[20:01] Koushi**
Spies?
**[20:15] Touko**
A person?
**[20:42] Hibari**
What a nuisance.
**[20:44] Hibari**
The Flickering Flame has come home,
**[20:48] Hibari**
yet the interruptions never cease.
**[20:51] Touko**
You're the god from before.
**[20:56] Koushi**
Hibari, why did you save us?
**[21:00] Hibari**
Learn to show some caution.
**[21:04] Hibari**
You're only human.
**[21:06] Koushi**
So were they!
**[21:08] Hibari**
They aren't human.
**[21:10] Koushi**
They are! The divine clans just remade them!
**[21:14] Hibari**
So what if we did?
**[21:16] Hibari**
Would you abandon the spider child
to save those humans?
**[21:20] Hibari**
The Water Clan controls those creatures.
**[21:25] Hibari**
They loosed them into the
waterways to kill spiders on sight.
**[21:30] Hibari**
And even if I'd spared them, they would
never have regained their humanity.
**[21:37] Koushi**
Where did the Flickering Flame go?
**[21:40] Hibari**
To the rest of the divine clans.
**[21:44] Hibari**
The Flickering Flame is still wavering.
**[21:47] Hibari**
The choice is hers to make,
**[21:51] Hibari**
but whatever her final
decision is, it must satisfy.
**[21:56] Hibari**
You can reach an even
deeper level from here.
**[21:59] Hibari**
It will lead you to a slope.
**[22:01] Hibari**
Keep going and you'll reach the palace.
**[22:05] Hibari**
Don't waste the guidance
the Flickering Flame gave you.
**[22:15] Koushi**
The Flickering Flame's final decision...
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Sea of Trees
***SIGN*** Sea of Trees
# E15 - Sea of Trees
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G50UZVJJ1/sea-of-trees)
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**[00:01] Narrator**
* Humans combust in*
* the presence of natural flame.*
**[00:05] Narrator**
* The people of the forest*
* known as the spiders*
**[00:08] Narrator**
* finally launched their coup*
* against the divine clans' rule.*
**[00:12] Narrator**
* Their advance on the factories with the*
* fiends has plunged the capital into chaos.*
**[00:16] Narrator**
* While searching for his sister, Hinako,*
* and the Okibis' daughter, Kira,*
**[00:20] Narrator**
* Koushi reunites with Touko,*
* and they hurry onward.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Sea of
Trees
***SIGN*** Sea of
Trees
**[02:07] Kun**
Down there, mister?
**[02:09] Koushi**
Who knows?
**[02:11] Koushi**
Whether or not
we believe what that god said,
**[02:14] Koushi**
the Flickering Flame
was leading us this way.
**[02:18] Koushi**
I guess we just have to keep going.
**[02:23] Touko**
Kun!
**[02:23] Koushi**
Kun!
**[02:25] Koushi**
Kun, are you hurt?
**[02:27] Koushi**
Kun!
**[02:28] Touko**
Kun!
**[02:30] Kun**
I'm fine!
**[02:33] Kun**
Hey, wait!
**[02:48] Kun**
This fish doesn't fight back.
**[02:50] Koushi**
Fish?
**[02:57] Kun**
We don't get fish like this in
forest rivers. Think it tastes good?
**[03:02] Koushi**
Why are there fish here?
**[03:08] Touko**
So many huge fish.
**[03:33] Koushi**
I'm sorry to say they don't seem natural.
**[03:37] Touko**
Did the gods make them?
**[03:40] Koushi**
They can remake humans. I wouldn't be
surprised if they made these fish, too.
**[03:47] Touko**
But what for?
**[03:50] Koushi**
Let's keep going.
**[04:07] Touko**
Do you smell that, Mr. Koushi?
**[04:15] Koushi**
It's the forest.
**[04:16] Koushi**
We're in the dark forest.
**[04:25] Koushi**
When did we get here?
**[04:49] Koushi**
Akira!
**[04:51] Touko**
Ms. Akira.
**[04:53] Kun**
Lady!
**[04:59] Touko**
Ms. Akira!
**[05:03] Roroku**
Hey, kid. Surprised you're not dead.
**[05:09] Koushi**
Roroku.
**[05:11] Akira**
Yeah, so I met up with him, and
we got as far as the palace entrance.
**[05:16] Akira**
But then, things got weird,
**[05:19] Akira**
and the next thing I knew,
we'd wandered into the forest.
**[05:24] Akira**
The gods must have
pulled a fast one on us.
**[05:29] Akira**
Temari and I got separated on the way.
**[05:34] Touko**
M-Ms. Akira, your hand.
**[05:36] Akira**
Oh, yeah. But it's no big deal
compared to his.
**[05:44] Akira**
This guy's called Roroku.
**[05:47] Akira**
He's a wandering fire hunter like me.
**[05:52] Roroku**
I helped you out back in
the factory district, remember?
**[05:57] Akira**
Don't sweat it.
**[05:59] Akira**
You weren't yourself then.
I doubt you remember a thing.
**[06:04] Roroku**
The gods must have cast
an illusion to get us out of the way.
**[06:10] Roroku**
Did it to you, too, I'll bet.
**[06:12] Koushi**
Yes, the same happened to us.
**[06:22] Touko**
Mr. Koushi...
**[06:24] Roroku**
Fire hunters hired by Okibi
tortured a captive spider here.
**[06:35] Roroku**
I guess he still hasn't gotten over it.
**[06:43] Akira**
We'd better figure out
how to get back to the capital.
**[06:47] Roroku**
Let's get some sleep first.
**[06:58] Akira**
Koushi, are you awake?
**[07:01] Akira**
That god called Hibari showed you, didn't he?
**[07:07] Akira**
What the Flickering Flame looks like.
**[07:10] Koushi**
Yes, but... was that real?
**[07:15] Koushi**
And she didn't seem solid.
**[07:19] Akira**
But you saw it.
**[07:21] Koushi**
They said the gods have prepared a vessel
**[07:24] Koushi**
to make the Flickering Flame
the next Lady Goddess.
**[07:28] Koushi**
They're going to put
the Flickering Flame inside Kira.
**[07:32] Koushi**
Who knows if she's safe?
**[07:35] (Flashback) Akira**
You must really love dogs.
**[07:37] (Flashback) Akira**
I've never seen Temari so comfortable
with anyone other than me.
**[07:42] (Flashback) Kira**
Thank you so much for letting me
cuddle your hunting hound.
**[07:51] Akira**
Try acting a little more worried.
At least about the people who matter to you.
**[07:59] Akira**
You hated that house.
**[08:03] Akira**
But that girl who was born and raised in it
is the only one you can open up to, and...
**[08:15] Akira**
Well, whatever. Get some sleep for now.
**[08:49] Spider A**
Boy.
**[08:52] Spider A**
Is the enemy always in front of you?
**[09:09] Roroku**
What's wrong?
**[09:10] Koushi**
Nothing.
**[09:12] Akira**
The point of sleeping was to rest.
How'd you wake up looking even *more* tired?
**[09:23] Koushi**
Kun.
**[09:25] Koushi**
I need a favor from you.
**[09:30] Koushi**
Can you find one of those bugs?
**[09:33] Akira**
What?
**[09:35] Roroku**
You sure come up with some rotten ideas.
**[09:38] Roroku**
Don't tell me you want that bug
that made the spiders fireproof...
**[09:44] Koushi**
If the spiders can control combustion,
I don't see why humans and gods can't.
**[09:51] Roroku**
I knew it.
**[09:53] Roroku**
That's just the kind of thing you'd think of.
**[09:57] Koushi**
I killed so many of the spiders
who entered the capital.
**[10:03] Koushi**
I want to at least do what I can
to stop things from getting any worse.
**[10:10] Kun**
I can do it.
**[10:11] Kun**
I can find that bug.
**[10:14] Kun**
It might go faster if I use my bugs, too.
**[10:22] Touko**
Why?
**[10:24] Touko**
Why aren't you going
to help Hinako and Ms. Kira?
**[10:30] Touko**
I'm sure they're both okay.
They must be waiting for you.
**[10:40] Akira**
Touko.
**[10:43] Akira**
I think Koushi has
given this a lot of thought.
**[10:48] Akira**
We should let him do
what he wants this time.
**[10:57] Akira**
I have three letters.
They all say the same thing.
**[11:03] Akira**
Someone will deliver one.
**[11:06] Akira**
Roroku, you take one.
**[11:09] Akira**
And Koushi, you hold on to one.
**[11:14] Akira**
Good grief. Why do you come up
with such ridiculous plans?
**[11:18] Akira**
I'll take Kun and Touko with me
to track down those bugs.
**[11:24] Akira**
In the forest, Touko will be
a lot more help than you.
**[11:30] Akira**
You two head back to the capital.
**[11:33] Akira**
We'll make our way there,
too, before sundown.
**[11:38] Akira**
At least try to fill in
for the hand Roroku lost.
**[11:43] Roroku**
I'm counting on you.
**[11:47] Kun**
Chewing these leaves makes you hurt less.
**[11:52] Roroku**
Where would I be without you kids?
**[12:01] Koushi**
Kanata will go with you.
**[12:06] Touko**
But...
**[12:08] Koushi**
He's your dog now, Touko.
**[12:11] Touko**
Mr. Koushi...
**[12:13] Touko**
Stay alive. Please.
**[12:30] Akira**
Don't fall behind, Touko.
**[12:38] Roroku**
We should get moving, too.
**[12:40] Koushi**
What if the path I've chosen
brings even more destruction?
**[12:45] Koushi**
Maybe that's why the Flickering Flame
can't make up her mind.
**[12:50] Koushi**
Will the future be a world worth living in?
**[12:54] Koushi**
If a world like that really exists,
**[12:59] Koushi**
I'd like to see it, too.
**[13:02] Roroku**
Then, you'd better live.
**[13:08] Roroku**
I hate this smell.
**[13:11] Koushi**
It doesn't look like anything's burning.
**[13:19] Roroku**
I hear voices.
**[13:23] Roroku**
It'll be a pain if someone finds us.
**[13:26] Roroku**
Let's split up.
**[13:29] Roroku**
There are three letters.
**[13:32] Roroku**
What's the point if we go down together
before reaching the palace?
**[13:36] Roroku**
You deliver yours if I don't make it.
**[13:39] Roroku**
But find your sister first.
**[13:44] Roroku**
Little Miss Okibi must be in the palace.
**[13:47] Roroku**
Go find your sister, then bring her back.
**[14:22] Crewman A**
Hey.
**[14:24] Crewman A**
Did you get left behind?
**[14:27] Crewman B**
Why didn't you run for it?
**[14:30] Crewman A**
Don't tell me...
**[14:32] Crewman A**
Are you with those guys
going around setting fires?
**[14:36] Crewman B**
Tell us the truth.
**[14:38] Koushi**
N-No, I'm...
**[14:42] Crewman B**
Hang on. Are you from the academy?
**[14:45] Crewman A**
What? Some brat here to help his teacher?
**[14:48] Crewman A**
I can't stand those eggheads,
acting all full of themselves.
**[14:54] Koushi**
Are you crewmen? From a collection truck?
**[14:57] Crewman A**
Hey, go tell your teachers
we need more guys to carry the wounded.
**[15:03] Koushi**
Please wait.
**[15:05] Koushi**
By "the wounded," do you mean fire hunters?
**[15:08] Koushi**
And teachers from the academy are here?
**[15:11] Koushi**
What about—
**[15:11] Crewman B**
What?
**[15:12] Koushi**
The factory district.
**[15:14] Koushi**
I'm looking for my sister.
**[15:19] Crewman B**
The only people left here are crewmen
who are hurt too bad to move.
**[15:23] Crewman A**
Well, them, and dogs whose owners have died.
**[15:27] Crewman B**
At least that stink keeps 'em docile.
**[15:32] Crewman A**
The treefolk smell.
**[15:35] Koushi**
The treefolk?
**[15:36] Crewman B**
Yeah.
**[15:38] Koushi**
Where are the treefolk now?
**[15:40] Crewman A**
Over there. At the relief station.
**[15:42] Koushi**
I'll try there.
**[15:44] Koushi**
Thank you.
**[15:47] Koushi**
Thank you!
**[15:59] Akira**
Koushi told me.
**[16:01] Akira**
You talked with the Flickering Flame.
**[16:04] Touko**
Did I really? It might have been a dream.
**[16:09] Akira**
Koushi saw it, too.
**[16:11] Akira**
So I think you really did talk to it, Touko.
**[16:16] Akira**
Koushi said it looked like a girl.
**[16:21] Akira**
But according to legend,
the Flickering Flame is a mechanical doll.
**[16:25] Akira**
The Flickering Flame you met must be...
**[16:28] Kun**
Found some!
**[16:33] Kun**
They might still be close.
Want me to find some more?
**[16:36] Akira**
No, that's enough.
We'll head back to the capital.
**[16:42] Touko**
Kanata?
**[16:46] Voice**
What are you trying to do?
**[16:47] Voice**
You just want to die.
**[16:48] Voice**
Believe Tokohanahime and
become the "lord of the fire hunters"?
**[16:54] Voice**
You want to die satisfied that
you carried on your brother's will?
**[16:56] Touko**
Ms. Akira, what's...
**[16:59] Akira**
Ignore them.
**[17:01] Akira**
The gods just want to spook us.
**[17:01] Voice**
Poor Tayurahime.
**[17:03] Voice**
False petitions to the Flickering Flame.
**[17:04] Akira**
Pretty underhanded for
high and mighty rulers.
**[17:06] Akira**
Let's go.
**[17:06] Voice**
An excuse for the divine clans to live on.
**[17:10] Voice**
No wonder Hibari pities her.
**[17:14] Voice**
Petitions at the chief clan's dictation.
**[17:18] Crowd**
Can't we at least get
disinfectant and bandages?
**[17:19] Crowd**
I told you! The medical supplies burned up!
**[17:20] Crowd**
What the hell are they *thinking*?!
**[17:22] Crowd**
They have no need of lives,
so what use is medicine to them?
**[17:23] Crowd**
For now, stop the bleeding
and give them painkillers.
**[17:25] Crowd**
What about the group that went
to pharmacies to get supplies?
**[17:29] Crowd**
Let the doctors handle triage.
Our stock's running low.
**[17:31] Hitoo**
Koushi.
**[17:33] Hitoo**
Koushi, is that you?
**[17:33] Crowd**
Get anyone who can walk to go into town.
**[17:33] Crowd**
Shut those dogs up! I can't hear myself think.
**[17:36] Koushi**
Mr. Hitoo?
**[17:36] Crowd**
It's all because the hunters
were sent into town without them.
**[17:37] Hitoo**
I thought I recognized you.
**[17:38] Crowd**
What idiot split up hunters and hounds?
**[17:39] Hitoo**
But really, fancy seeing you here.
**[17:40] Crowd**
They only listen to their owners.
**[17:40] Crowd**
Who cares?! Just get
them to shut the hell up!
**[17:42] Crowd**
Check vitals. We need to free up beds.
**[17:42] Hitoo**
Are you hurt? I'm amazed you've survived.
**[17:44] Crowd**
This'll become a morgue at this rate.
**[17:46] Koushi**
I'm fine. But my sister, Hinako...
**[17:46] Crowd**
We need more people. Call the workers back.
**[17:48] Crowd**
The standby order got extended.
**[17:52] Crowd**
No worker recall until
they're sure all the fires are out.
**[17:53] Hitoo**
This isn't the best place to talk.
Let's go out there.
**[17:55] Crowd**
Oh, great. So no one cares if *we* burn up.
**[17:58] Hitoo**
Your sister, huh?
That's certainly concerning.
**[18:11] Koushi**
The first cannon...
**[18:13] Koushi**
What could tear up the ground like this?
**[18:18] Koushi**
Did something come up from below?
**[18:23] Koushi**
Are you helping at the relief station?
**[18:26] Hitoo**
No. Unfortunately, medicine isn't my field.
**[18:32] Hitoo**
I'm gathering data.
**[18:34] Koushi**
Data?
**[18:36] Hitoo**
I want to determine the distance
at which humans combust.
**[18:40] Hitoo**
I estimate the size of a flame,
**[18:43] Hitoo**
then measure the distance
to the point of combustion.
**[18:47] Hitoo**
This data will prove useful someday.
Or so I believe.
**[18:53] Hitoo**
By the way...
**[18:55] Hitoo**
A strange rumor is going around the city.
**[18:59] Hitoo**
They say a red-haired fire hunter
will become a "lord" and save us all.
**[19:05] Hitoo**
It reminded me of that
red-haired fire hunter I met,
**[19:10] Hitoo**
but at this point, it seems like
more than an urban legend.
**[19:14] Koushi**
A red-haired fire hunter...
**[19:16] Koushi**
I know one.
**[19:19] Koushi**
Let me tell you everything that's happened.
**[19:26] Hitoo**
*You* made this, Koushi?
**[19:29] Koushi**
I called it a lightning cannon.
**[19:51] Hitoo**
I see. Thank you for telling me.
**[19:55] Hitoo**
How dreadful that must have been.
**[19:59] Hitoo**
I don't know what to say. For children
like you to shoulder such a burden...
**[20:10] Hitoo**
I feel ashamed of how little I can do.
**[20:14] Koushi**
I'm sorry. You always told me
to turn to you when I was in trouble,
**[20:20] Koushi**
but I convinced myself
I could do everything alone.
**[20:23] Koushi**
And I killed so many spiders.
**[20:27] Hitoo**
Koushi, I think I understand
why you keep blaming yourself,
**[20:35] Hitoo**
but it doesn't seem quite right
to say that you bear all the blame.
**[20:45] Koushi**
I thought up this horrible machine
and killed dozens of spiders. Maybe more.
**[20:54] Hitoo**
But did you do that out of malice?
Or because you had some evil intent?
**[21:00] Koushi**
I wanted to shield the cityfolk from
the war between the spiders and the gods.
**[21:06] Hitoo**
You wanted to save
the people you care about.
**[21:11] Koushi**
Even if I did, I ended up
making things worse.
**[21:16] Hitoo**
Koushi, sometimes people
can't bring themselves
**[21:21] Hitoo**
to kill one person in front of them,
even for a good reason.
**[21:25] Hitoo**
And sometimes, they kill a hundred,
even a thousand when trying not to.
**[21:31] Hitoo**
That only goes to show that people's hearts
**[21:37] Hitoo**
are just as good or evil
as they think they are.
**[21:42] Hitoo**
But a person's true morality ought
to be judged separate from their feelings.
**[21:51] Hitoo**
What could be more arrogant than
believing you can control everything?
**[22:00] Hitoo**
But perhaps I should mind my own business.
**[22:05] Hitoo**
Koushi, what is *that*?
**[22:09] Hitoo**
How horrible.
**[22:12] Koushi**
They used animal blood
to keep the gods away.
**[22:18] Koushi**
How could they?
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Divine Palace
***SIGN*** The Divine Palace
# E16 - The Divine Palace
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**[00:01] Narrator**
* The Earth Clan has abducted Kira to use*
* her as a vessel for the Flickering Flame.*
**[00:09] Narrator**
*Carrying one of three petitions,*
**[00:12] Narrator**
* Koushi leaves Roroku and makes*
* his own way to the divine palace.*
**[00:17] Narrator**
* In the dark forest, Touko, Akira,*
* and Kun find the insect they seek,*
**[00:22] Narrator**
* and with Kanata, they leave the trees*
* behind and also head for the palace.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Divine
Palace
***SIGN*** The Divine
Palace
**[02:04] Hitoo**
You say you worked with skyfire?
**[02:09] Hitoo**
That's big.
**[02:12] Hitoo**
You need to think carefully about
how to use such a massive flame.
**[02:18] Hitoo**
You thought up a way to make lightning.
**[02:22] Hitoo**
But you mustn't stop there.
**[02:25] Hitoo**
Keep at it. Think longer and harder.
**[02:28] Hitoo**
If you need advice,
I'll give you all the help I can this time.
**[02:32] Hitoo**
Hm? Is that...
**[02:39] Koushi**
Hinako!
**[02:44] Koushi**
I found you.
**[02:59] Koushi**
Kiri.
**[03:01] Kiri**
Don't act so friendly, mole.
**[03:09] Koushi**
I'm glad you're...
**[03:11] Kiri**
Mukuge and Gomuju are dead.
**[03:14] Kiri**
I think Yanagi made it out,
but with a body like hers...
**[03:21] Kiri**
Hurry up and go somewhere else.
**[03:25] Kiri**
There's no one here but the dead.
**[03:29] Koushi**
Kiri, can you guess where
Yanagi might have gone?
**[03:35] Kiri**
Probably.
**[03:37] Koushi**
Then let's go there.
**[03:40] Kiri**
She'll be with Kunugi.
A giant like him will be easy to spot.
**[03:46] Koushi**
Who's Kunugi?
**[03:47] Kiri**
When you came to the
forbidden quarter that time,
**[03:51] Kiri**
he was right in front of you,
but I guess you didn't notice.
**[03:57] Hitoo**
Koushi.
**[04:01] Hitoo**
I think that pit may mark where
something emerged from below ground.
***SIGN*** Kunugi
**[04:51] Akira**
Damn. Back to square one again.
**[04:54] Akira**
Touko. Kun. Stay close to me.
**[05:05] Touko**
Ms. Akira, um, about
those voices in the forest...
**[05:09] Kun**
I heard them, too.
**[05:11] Akira**
They might be right.
**[05:14] Akira**
Fiends don't have
cunning minds like humans.
**[05:20] Akira**
At least, when a fiend comes at a human,
it can only mean a fight to the death.
**[05:27] Akira**
I might be able to relax more
in the forest than anywhere else.
**[05:40] Touko**
There's that symbol again.
**[05:43] Akira**
Yeah. Markers for the spiders.
**[05:46] Akira**
Looks like this place isn't safe, either.
**[05:56] Akira**
Who's there?
**[06:05] Akira**
Are you factory workers?
**[06:08] Akira**
Did you get stranded?
**[06:15] Boy**
Dad.
**[06:49] Akira**
You fool!
**[06:50] Akira**
Do you want to take
the kid out with you?!
**[07:01] Man**
I was so close.
**[07:03] Man**
Just a little longer, and I could
have freed him from this world.
**[07:09] Akira**
"Freed" him?
**[07:11] Man**
He could have departed this
cursed world and been reborn
**[07:17] Man**
in a body that won't burn.
**[07:26] Man**
May the spiders burn you,
running dog of the gods.
**[07:31] Akira**
I'm not one of the capital's fire hunters.
**[07:41] Akira**
Let's go.
**[07:47] Kiri**
I know I shouldn't complain
when I'm leaning on you,
**[07:50] Kiri**
but you sure are weak.
**[07:53] Koushi**
You're right. You're the last person
I want to hear that from right now.
**[07:58] Koushi**
Let's go.
**[08:05] Koushi**
Let's go, Hina—
**[08:09] Koushi**
Hinako?
**[08:16] Koushi**
Hinako, leave that thing behind.
**[08:40] Touko**
Who were those people?
**[08:42] Akira**
A couple of firestarters who fell
for the spiders' empty promises.
**[08:47] Touko**
Was it a good idea to just leave them?
**[08:50] Akira**
People like that never listen to reason.
**[08:54] Akira**
They've suffered for too long.
**[08:58] Akira**
So they cling to what they want to hear
**[09:02] Akira**
and throw away their families' lives
along with their own.
***SIGN*** Kaho
**[09:27] Touko**
Kaho?
**[09:28] Kun**
Kaho!
**[09:30] Akira**
Kaho?
**[09:40] Kaho**
I thought I'd never see you again.
Thank goodness.
**[09:45] Akira**
Kaho, what are you doing in a place like this?
**[09:52] Touko**
Why... Why are you here?
**[09:56] Kaho**
Some of the townsfolk came here
to help the wounded fire hunters.
**[10:01] Kaho**
I followed them.
**[10:03] Akira**
Are you part of a collection truck crew?
**[10:09] Crewman C**
You must think we're a bit old for it.
**[10:12] Akira**
Oh, well...
**[10:14] Crewman C**
You see how it is.
They called up anyone with experience.
**[10:19] Akira**
This area isn't safe.
**[10:22] Crewman C**
We know.
**[10:24] Crewman C**
But for the villagers' sake,
we need to get the trucks moving soon.
**[10:32] Crewman D**
The last convoy never
came back from the forest.
**[10:36] Crewman E**
They say a dragon attacked it
and killed the whole crew.
**[10:41] Crewman C**
Shouzou gave us the gist of things,
including about what you're trying to do.
**[10:48] Crewman D**
Kaho here demanded we take her
to the factories. She's a real firecracker.
**[10:57] Kaho**
Shouzou said I had to tell you
something if we ran into you, Akira.
**[11:02] Kaho**
A lot of the townsfolk believe humans
will be saved if we listen to the spiders.
**[11:11] Kaho**
No one knows what's going on, so they've
all started believing the same thing.
**[11:17] Kaho**
If this keeps up, it'll be a disaster.
**[11:21] Kaho**
Akira. He said, "Tell the red-haired
fire hunter to become the new lord."
**[11:28] Kaho**
And that everyone needs
something they can believe in.
**[11:38] Crewman D**
Shouzou sounded like he really
thought you could pull it off.
**[11:44] Crewman D**
Akira, wasn't it?
**[11:50] Crewman C**
The capital's a hellhole.
I lost my wife and kids to factory toxins.
**[11:58] Crewman C**
I did heavier work than any of them,
covered in oil in the repair center,
**[12:05] Crewman C**
but I'm the only one who survived.
**[12:08] Crewman C**
My friends died horribly, too.
**[12:11] Crewman C**
I always wished we could at least
live and die like people in this city,
**[12:17] Crewman C**
and I got old still wishing.
**[12:21] Crewman C**
So please.
**[12:28] Kaho**
Here, Kun. Food.
**[12:30] Kaho**
It's from Shouzou's mom.
**[12:33] Kaho**
You'd better make it back, Touko.
**[12:36] Touko**
I will.
**[12:49] Touko**
Ms. Akira.
**[12:50] Akira**
Keep quiet and walk.
**[13:34] Hibana**
I thought I recognized you.
**[13:39] Hibana**
That dog...
**[13:41] Hibana**
That dog brought all the misfortune with it.
**[13:46] Hibana**
I knew I loathed animals for a reason.
**[13:55] Akira**
You're Mrs. Okibi, aren't you?
**[13:59] Akira**
Don't tell me the gods got to you, too?
**[14:06] Hibana**
Where's Kira?
**[14:09] Hibana**
Where has my daughter been taken?
**[14:12] Hibana**
Do you work for them, too?
**[14:16] Hibana**
You wormed your way into my house
and my husband's good graces,
**[14:21] Hibana**
you flea-bitten she-fox!
**[14:24] Akira**
I don't work for the divine clans.
**[14:27] Akira**
They've taken Kira to their palace.
**[14:30] Akira**
We're going there to get her back,
so stay out of our way.
**[14:34] Hibana**
You can't possibly imagine how it felt,
**[14:37] Hibana**
clawing my way out of the slums
so I could take my place in that house.
**[14:44] Akira**
Like I care. Don't give me your sob stories.
**[14:48] Akira**
I can't stand that even if we save Kira,
she'll end up back in that house.
**[14:54] Akira**
How can you live with that man?
**[14:56] Hibana**
When poverty left me all skin
and bones, he gave me meat.
**[15:03] Hibana**
He told me to eat up and get pretty.
**[15:07] Hibana**
So I followed him.
**[15:09] Hibana**
I thought that if I could live with him,
looking down on the city's riffraff,
**[15:15] Hibana**
I could be human, too.
**[15:18] Touko**
Ms. Akira...
**[15:20] Hibana**
I failed to become a person.
**[15:23] Touko**
Ma'am, stop it!
**[15:24] Touko**
Aren't you going to help Ms. Kira?
**[15:27] Touko**
Aren't you on your way to get her?
**[15:31] Akira**
Get back, Touko!
**[15:33] Akira**
She's out of her mind.
**[15:45] Touko**
Stop!
**[15:47] Hibana**
Die!
**[16:06] Kun**
I'll kill anyone who picks on her.
**[16:18] Akira**
Temari.
**[16:23] Akira**
So you made it, too.
***SIGN*** Koushi, Hinako, Kiri... Kunugi
**[17:08] Koushi**
*This* is Kunugi?
**[17:20] Kiri**
Yanagi!
**[17:31] Ruri-Matsuri**
So two treefolk from the garden remain, hm?
**[17:40] Kiri**
That's Ruri-Matsuri of the
Wood Clan who made us.
**[17:47] Kiri**
Go away! What do *you* want after all this time?
**[17:50] Ruri-Matsuri**
I came *because* it's been so long.
**[17:54] Ruri-Matsuri**
Plus, treefolk who belong in
the forbidden quarter are roaming about.
**[17:59] Ruri-Matsuri**
True, you can't live away from that place.
**[18:05] Ruri-Matsuri**
But I still need to clean up
after my creations.
**[18:10] Kiri**
Shuyu, Mukuge, Gomuju, even Yanagi...
**[18:14] Kiri**
All your failures are dead.
**[18:17] Kiri**
Kunugi and I don't have long, either.
**[18:20] Kiri**
What's left to "clean up"?
**[18:23] Ruri-Matsuri**
Aren't you the human
who made that lightning?
**[18:29] Ruri-Matsuri**
You made quite a dent in
the spiders' numbers. Well done.
**[18:35] Koushi**
What happened to the
Flickering Flame after that?
**[18:39] Ruri-Matsuri**
What do you want with her?
**[18:42] Ruri-Matsuri**
The Flickering Flame is dangerous.
**[18:44] Ruri-Matsuri**
We need to shut her down and bury her
deep underground as soon as she returns.
**[18:51] Ruri-Matsuri**
But the Fire Clan, the spiders,
and the humans all want her.
**[18:58] Ruri-Matsuri**
No one in this world now
can tame the fire inside her.
**[19:03] Ruri-Matsuri**
Not even the spiders
who have nullified combustion.
**[19:07] Ruri-Matsuri**
They all talk about prolonging this world.
**[19:11] Ruri-Matsuri**
Those Earth Clan fools
found a girl to serve as a vessel.
**[19:16] Ruri-Matsuri**
The Water Clan remade
humans into something new.
**[19:22] Ruri-Matsuri**
Like that girl, I believe.
**[19:27] Koushi**
Hinako.
**[19:29] Koushi**
What's wrong? Do you feel sick?
**[19:31] Ruri-Matsuri**
The drugs must have worn off.
**[19:34] Ruri-Matsuri**
You see, the Water Clan's methods
don't rebuild bodies from the ground up.
**[19:41] Ruri-Matsuri**
They need to keep taking medicine
to sustain themselves.
**[19:45] Ruri-Matsuri**
Their pointless struggles
only create more busywork.
**[19:52] Koushi**
Hinako!
**[19:53] Koushi**
Hang in there, Hinako!
**[20:10] Kunugi**
Your business is over there, mole!
**[21:12] Koushi**
Hinako. Hinako!
**[21:15] Takimi**
She isn't dead. Please rest easy.
**[21:20] Koushi**
You...
**[21:23] Takimi**
I realize this outfit doesn't suit me,
but it is customary in the palace.
**[21:30] Takimi**
Don't worry.
The test subject will soon recover.
**[21:37] Koushi**
Takimi!
**[21:40] Takimi**
Please give me the subject.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Empty Girl
***SIGN*** The Empty Girl
# E17 - The Empty Girl
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**[00:02] Narrator**
* The giant treefolk, Kunugi, gives his life to*
* carry Koushi and Hinako to the divine palace.*
**[00:12] Narrator**
* Awaiting them is the man*
* whose experiments changed Hinako:*
**[00:17] Narrator**
* the Okibis' family physician, Takimi,*
* who is revealed to be a god.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Empty Girl
***SIGN*** The Empty Girl
**[02:04] Koushi**
You...
**[02:07] Takimi**
I realize this outfit doesn't suit me,
but it is customary in the palace.
**[02:15] Takimi**
Don't worry. The test subject
will soon recover.
**[02:22] Koushi**
Takimi!
**[02:24] Takimi**
Please give the subject to me.
**[02:33] Takimi**
You can't defy us gods with a toy like that.
**[02:39] Koushi**
Don't do anything else to Hinako.
**[02:43] Takimi**
That child escaped the death
that was staring her in the face.
**[02:49] Takimi**
She's currently experiencing
an adverse reaction to her mutation.
**[02:53] Takimi**
I need to administer
medication for her pain.
**[02:57] Koushi**
Don't give me that!
**[03:00] Takimi**
I shall inject you, too.
**[03:03] Takimi**
Although born from the same womb,
you seem to have avoided fetal contamination.
**[03:11] Takimi**
But from now on,
you can share your sister's pain.
**[03:17] Koushi**
And Kira? What about Kira?
**[03:21] Takimi**
Oh, the Okibis' daughter?
**[03:24] Takimi**
I would have loved to
experiment on her, too,
**[03:28] Takimi**
but the Earth Clan set
their sights on her first.
**[03:33] Takimi**
I could've perfected my drug
much sooner with her as a subject.
**[03:42] Takimi**
Research never proceeds smoothly
when too many groups get involved.
**[03:48] Takimi**
I'm sure you can relate.
**[03:53] Takimi**
If I can't have the capital,
I'll experiment on a whole village somewhere.
**[04:01] Takimi**
If I can prove the viability
of life without fiendfire,
**[04:08] Takimi**
I'll be able to save every human
in this country one day.
**[04:33] Koushi**
Mizore!
**[04:38] Takimi**
Inferior creature!
**[04:52] Koushi**
What about Roroku?
**[04:55] Koushi**
Mizore, where's Roroku? Where is Roroku now?
**[04:59] Takimi**
Oh, yes. That roaming fire hunter
kept this hound with him.
**[06:00] Koushi**
Kira!
**[06:02] Flickering Flame**
Is that this girl's name?
**[06:06] Flickering Flame**
Ah. You must be friends.
**[06:12] Flickering Flame**
But forgive me.
**[06:15] Flickering Flame**
I'm not Kira.
**[06:19] Flickering Flame**
I'm just inside her right now.
**[06:26] Koushi**
The Flickering Flame?
**[06:56] Touko**
Is this... Mr. Kunugi?
**[07:00] Akira**
You mean *this* is a treefolk?
**[07:19] Touko**
Ms. Kiri.
**[07:21] Kun**
Be careful!
**[07:23] Touko**
Ms. Kiri!
**[07:34] Touko**
Ms. Kiri!
**[07:40] Kiri**
Up there.
**[07:42] Touko**
Ms. Kiri, I can't... I can't hear you!
**[07:49] Akira**
Koushi's group crossed this treefolk's body
to the palace on the far side?
**[07:57] Akira**
Touko. Kun.
**[08:00] Akira**
We're going to the palace, too.
**[08:09] Kunugi**
Your friends went on ahead.
**[08:15] Kunugi**
Will you birth the lord of the fire hunters?
**[08:19] Kunugi**
Then beg forgiveness. The Flickering Flame
will soon scorch this planet.
**[08:25] Kunugi**
Become the lord and beg
for the star child's forgiveness.
**[08:35] Flickering Flame**
She's angry.
**[08:37] Flickering Flame**
This girl is absolutely furious.
**[08:41] Flickering Flame**
So enraged, she can't keep still.
**[08:46] Flickering Flame**
Put me back in my old body.
**[08:51] Flickering Flame**
Being in this one feels miserable.
**[08:56] Flickering Flame**
And if this keeps up,
this girl's body won't last, either.
**[09:06] Koushi**
Is that Kira? I mean, the "vessel"?
**[09:10] Takimi**
Five incisions were made to
insert the soul, then tied shut.
**[09:17] Takimi**
The Earth Clan's handiwork.
**[09:20] Koushi**
They trapped her soul inside Kira?
**[09:22] Takimi**
The Flickering Flame resides inside
the girl that was made into her container.
**[09:28] Takimi**
That is the Flickering Flame.
**[09:31] Takimi**
She may still be able to escape her vessel
and return to the Millennial Comet.
**[09:39] Takimi**
But she would need the
Earth Clan's help for that.
**[09:44] Koushi**
Kira...
**[09:46] Takimi**
Flickering Flame,
you should make the choice.
**[09:50] Takimi**
No one has the power to stop
your decision, in any case.
**[09:59] Flickering Flame**
Choose?
**[10:02] Flickering Flame**
I chose a long time ago.
**[10:06] Flickering Flame**
When I left the ground, I chose never
to return until I crumble to dust alone.
**[10:15] Takimi**
Regardless, you mustn't come out here.
**[10:19] Takimi**
Your vessel hasn't stabilized yet.
**[10:23] Takimi**
If you push yourself too hard,
you'll die along with her.
**[10:27] Takimi**
Go inside the palace for now.
**[10:30] Hibari**
That's enough out of you.
**[10:38] Koushi**
Hibari!
**[10:40] Takimi**
Oh? I thought you had
your hands full with human rebels.
**[10:46] Hibari**
And what of you?
**[10:50] Hibari**
How dare you spill blood fighting
an animal before the Lady Goddess?
**[10:56] Hibari**
Don't set foot in the palace
until that blood is cleansed.
**[11:01] Takimi**
I could say the same to you.
**[11:03] Takimi**
I hear that Okibi and his servant,
traitors coated in impure filth,
**[11:09] Takimi**
have made it into the palace.
**[11:12] Takimi**
Surely the Wind Clan bears the blame
for overlooking such trespassers?
**[11:18] Hibari**
The *Water* Clan kept human "test subjects"
in the palace and lost control of them.
**[11:27] Hibari**
Throw them out at once.
**[11:30] Hibari**
Otherwise, I'll annihilate them down to
the last drop of blood and flake of bone.
**[11:37] Flickering Flame**
Stop toying with humans.
**[11:43] Flickering Flame**
I'm fed up with all this.
**[11:47] Hibari**
Sister.
**[11:49] Hibari**
We're out of time.
Please return to Lady Tayurahime.
**[11:55] Flickering Flame**
Inside that palace, they're preparing
to install me on the Lady Goddess's throne.
**[12:03] Flickering Flame**
And give me commands that I can't overwrite.
**[12:07] Flickering Flame**
I know they have a place
to write orders into my head.
**[12:13] Hibari**
I don't want any of you to become
puppets of the divine clans, sister.
**[12:19] Hibari**
I want you to be free.
**[12:21] Hibari**
I won't let anyone criticize
your choice, no matter what it is.
**[12:27] Flickering Flame**
Then return this girl vessel
and those two to their city.
**[12:36] Flickering Flame**
I'll decide after that.
**[12:39] Hibari**
Please discard needless
attachments to humans for now.
**[12:43] Hibari**
Some of them are trying to hunt you, sister.
**[13:04] Flickering Flame**
Leave them out of this.
**[13:07] Flickering Flame**
Stop getting Koushi and Hinako involved.
**[13:24] Koushi**
Hinako!
**[13:35] Koushi**
Hinako. Hinako!
**[13:47] Takimi**
Test subject, hold still!
**[13:50] Koushi**
Get your hands off Hinako!
**[13:52] Koushi**
Stop!
**[13:59] Roroku**
Mizore!
**[14:41] Koushi**
Hinako!
**[15:31] Koushi**
Roroku!
**[15:37] Roroku**
Damn.
**[15:55] Takimi**
I see.
**[15:56] Takimi**
You aren't... compatible.
**[16:03] Takimi**
What a shame.
**[16:10] Roroku**
These guys just don't know
when to stay dead.
**[16:13] Roroku**
I'd rather fight a pack of fiends.
**[16:17] Roroku**
Sorry I'm late.
**[16:19] Roroku**
I tussled with spider
remnants on the old road,
**[16:23] Roroku**
and that ate up time.
**[16:36] Roroku**
I don't believe it.
**[16:39] Roroku**
So they made the girl
into their vessel, huh?
**[16:44] Roroku**
Koushi.
**[16:46] Roroku**
I'll deliver the petition
to the Lady Goddess.
**[16:50] Roroku**
You need to take your sister
and the girl home. Got that?
**[17:36] Roroku**
Akira.
**[17:38] Roroku**
This was supposed to be your job.
**[17:42] Roroku**
Akira, where are you?
**[18:46] Kouhachi**
To think the Water and Wind Clans would
let a filthy human get this far. Deplorable.
**[19:03] Kouhachi**
No human may approach the palace,
let alone the Lady Goddess.
**[19:11] Koushi**
No...
**[19:26] Kouhachi**
What can a wounded lesser animal do?
**[19:51] Kouhachi**
Lady Goddess... Tayurahime...
**[20:24] Yuoshichi**
At last. I finally managed it.
**[20:30] Kouhachi**
Filthy human.
**[20:32] Kouhachi**
Have you any notion what you've done?
**[20:37] Kouhachi**
Curse you!
**[20:39] Kouhachi**
I'll rip you apart!
**[20:55] Butler**
Master Yuoshichi!
**[20:57] Kouhachi**
This can't be. But...
**[21:00] Kouhachi**
*That* Lady Goddess is...
**[22:02] Yuoshichi**
One more.
**[22:04] Yuoshichi**
If I crush one more,
the divine clans' rule will end.
**[22:10] Yuoshichi**
And that last one must be in there.
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***SIGN*** Heavenly Beast
***SIGN*** Heavenly Beast
# E18 - Heavenly Beast
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G0DUNKQQ2/heavenly-beast)
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**[00:04] Kouhachi**
Lady Goddess... Tayurahime...
**[00:15] Narrator**
* The man cannot forget the way*
* his mother died when he was still a child.*
**[00:22] Narrator**
* He would give all he has to*
* take revenge on the divine clans.*
**[00:30] Narrator**
* Yuoshichi, the head of the Okibi family*
* and the wealthiest man in the capital,*
**[00:35] Narrator**
* turns his grudge-induced rage on the*
* Flickering Flame, the future Lady Goddess.*
**[00:45] Yuoshichi**
One more.
**[00:48] Yuoshichi**
If I crush one more,
the divine clans' rule will end.
**[00:53] Yuoshichi**
And that last one must be in there.
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Heavenly Beast
***SIGN*** Heavenly Beast
**[02:33] Roroku**
Yuoshichi.
**[02:36] Roroku**
Give it a rest already.
**[02:40] Yuoshichi**
Roroku, wasn't it?
**[02:44] Yuoshichi**
Well done.
**[02:46] Yuoshichi**
If you survive, I'll let you name your price.
**[02:50] Roroku**
Keep your money.
**[02:52] Roroku**
I did this for my own reasons.
**[02:55] Yuoshichi**
Have it your way.
**[02:57] Roroku**
I'm telling you to stop.
**[03:00] Roroku**
That's...
**[03:01] Roroku**
your own daughter, Miss Kira.
**[03:07] Yuoshichi**
I don't care what she looks like.
No one can stop me now.
**[03:35] Yuoshichi**
Stop wasting your time.
**[03:38] Yuoshichi**
I see your much-vaunted divine powers
can't get past the impurity
**[03:43] Yuoshichi**
in even your own Lady Goddess's blood.
**[03:49] Yuoshichi**
That divine spy who called himself
Kouhachi died in my butler's blood.
**[03:56] Yuoshichi**
I can't believe we referred
to you weaklings as gods.
**[04:01] Yuoshichi**
You're laughingstocks.
**[04:04] Hibari**
Sister, please run!
**[04:16] Hibari**
Get back! You're nothing but a filthy human!
**[04:37] Yuoshichi**
This "filthy human" is going
to put an end to you gods.
**[04:42] Yuoshichi**
So watch closely.
**[04:46] Flickering Flame**
What is it you are fighting?
**[04:51] Yuoshichi**
I've been working toward
this moment my whole life.
**[05:01] Koushi**
Stop! That's Kira!
**[05:10] Koushi**
Have you lost your mind? Let go of Kira!
**[05:14] Yuoshichi**
* I don't care what container they put*
* her in, or if my bloodline dies out.*
**[05:19] Yuoshichi**
*None of that matters.*
**[05:28] Koushi**
Don't move from this spot, Hinako.
**[05:39] Koushi**
Wait!
**[05:48] Koushi**
Stop!
**[05:52] Koushi**
Stop!
**[05:54] Yuoshichi**
I already said I was done with you!
**[05:58] Koushi**
Kira.
**[06:01] Koushi**
Kira!
**[06:12] Yuoshichi**
You...
**[06:17] Hibana**
You stopped giving me meat.
**[06:21] Hibana**
Look how hideous I've become.
**[06:25] Hibana**
You must give me more meat.
**[06:38] Yuoshichi**
Hibana.
**[06:41] Hibana**
I thought I would find you here, dear.
**[06:49] Hibana**
That's my daughter.
**[06:53] Yuoshichi**
You...
**[06:55] Yuoshichi**
You fell into that god's hands, too?
**[06:59] Flickering Flame**
Who is this?
**[07:02] Yuoshichi**
She calls herself your mother.
**[07:07] Flickering Flame**
She is this girl's mother?
**[07:12] Hibana**
What were you attempting to do to this girl?
**[07:16] Hibana**
She's *my* daughter.
**[07:19] Hibana**
I gave birth to her. She's mine. All mine.
**[07:26] Hibana**
You'll never have her.
**[07:30] Yuoshichi**
Stand aside.
**[07:52] Hibana**
I just wanted to eat meat.
**[07:57] Hibana**
I had no other reason
for joining the Okibi family.
**[08:04] Yuoshichi**
I knew that.
**[08:06] Yuoshichi**
And I didn't mind,
as long as you stayed by my side.
**[08:12] Yuoshichi**
That was good enough for me.
**[08:40] Yuoshichi**
Hibana, you were beautiful.
**[08:59] Kira**
Father.
**[09:03] Kira**
Mother.
**[09:41] Touko**
Ms. Akira.
**[09:42] Touko**
Some people... Some people
fell from the palace.
**[09:46] Akira**
Yeah. I saw them, too.
**[09:49] Akira**
It looked like Yuoshichi and his wife.
**[09:54] Akira**
Damn it. What's going on?
**[10:04] Akira**
These are...
**[10:08] Akira**
Spiders?
**[10:10] Akira**
Why are there spider corpses here?
**[10:14] Touko**
Mr. Kunugi said he was going
to make a grave for them.
**[10:20] Akira**
Down below the cliff?
**[10:24] Akira**
A grave for the spiders...
**[10:29] Akira**
Kun, I know this can't
be easy, but let's hurry.
**[10:32] Kun**
Huh?
**[10:36] Kun**
Wait.
**[10:38] Kun**
That's Dad.
**[10:41] Kun**
Dad!
**[10:42] Touko**
Huh?
**[10:49] Kun**
Dad!
**[10:51] Kun**
It's me. It's Kun.
**[11:02] Father**
Kun?
**[11:04] Father**
I thought you ended up as
bug food in the forest long ago.
**[11:12] Father**
So the kid who didn't take to the
fire-restoring insect survived, huh?
**[11:20] Kun**
I saw On die.
**[11:24] Father**
Everyone died.
**[11:28] Father**
Are you the fire hunter
who wants to become the lord?
**[11:33] Akira**
Are you the father
who abandoned Kun in the forest?
**[11:40] Akira**
I hear you're promising humans
bodies that won't burn,
**[11:47] Akira**
but we don't need help from you spiders.
**[11:50] Akira**
We humans will take care of ourselves.
**[11:59] Father**
So these humans are
your family now, huh, Kun?
**[12:06] Kun**
Yeah.
**[12:07] Father**
Then, go with them.
**[12:12] Father**
Listen up, human who would
become the lord of the fire hunters.
**[12:18] Father**
As long as humans hunt beasts with
tools bestowed by the divine clans,
**[12:23] Father**
you will remain tied to those
doomed gods to the bitter end.
**[12:29] Father**
Till the soil, acquire sustenance,
and perpetuate life.
**[12:34] Father**
That is how humans should be.
**[12:38] Father**
Creatures like you must not be chained
to this place that is dripping with poison.
**[12:46] Akira**
You spiders have killed too many
humans to make speeches now.
**[12:52] Kun**
And humans killed spiders while the gods
carried on causing human deaths.
**[13:16] Father**
Kun, go with those humans.
**[13:23] Father**
Human, reclaim fire for yourself.
**[13:33] Kun**
Dad!
**[13:49] Koushi**
Kira! It's not safe there! Come this way!
**[13:53] Hibari**
Sister.
**[14:03] Koushi**
Roroku! You're in no shape to be moving!
**[14:17] Touko**
Miss...
**[14:20] Touko**
Ms. Akira, Ms. Kira's over there!
**[14:23] Akira**
Yeah, I see her.
**[14:29] Akira**
A god?
**[14:31] Akira**
Hibari?
**[14:37] Touko**
What? No. That's not Ms. Kira. That's...
**[14:43] Kunugi**
Mole.
**[14:44] Touko**
Huh?
**[14:45] Touko**
Ms. Akira.
**[14:47] Akira**
I hear it.
**[14:48] Akira**
Is this treefolk talking?
**[14:51] Kunugi**
Moles, that human girl has become a vessel.
**[14:58] Akira**
That's not Kira anymore.
**[15:02] Akira**
Koushi...
**[15:03] Akira**
While you take your sweet time,
the person you care about...
**[15:09] Akira**
keeps getting further away from you.
**[15:16] Touko**
That's Ms. Flickering Flame.
**[15:30] Koushi**
I'll stop the bleeding.
**[15:32] Roroku**
Don't touch me.
**[15:35] Roroku**
It's fine now.
**[15:38] Koushi**
How is this "fine"? You haven't seen
the future yet. I haven't shown it to you.
**[15:42] Koushi**
But I *know* we'll need fire hunters
like you in that world!
**[15:49] Koushi**
You, too, Mizore?
**[15:52] Roroku**
You'll have to...
**[15:55] Roroku**
see that future world for me.
**[16:00] Roroku**
And get your facts straight.
**[16:05] Roroku**
Fire hunting's not my real job.
**[16:09] Roroku**
I'm just a fisherman who trawls the seas.
**[16:15] Roroku**
Though with this arm...
**[16:20] Roroku**
I doubt I'll ever be able
to haul in another net.
**[16:33] Koushi**
Roroku!
**[16:54] Flickering Flame**
This planet fell once,
but it still harbors so much life.
**[17:01] Flickering Flame**
To the planet, humans
and the gods beside them
**[17:06] Flickering Flame**
should be no different
from any other creature.
**[17:11] Flickering Flame**
So why does this keep happening
time and time again?
**[17:17] Touko**
Didn't they put you in your "vessel"?
**[17:24] Flickering Flame**
I am still inside her.
**[17:27] Flickering Flame**
But she feels so angry, so uncontrollably
sad, the knots have loosened.
**[17:38] Flickering Flame**
Even so, I will be pulled back soon.
**[17:43] Flickering Flame**
The divine clans seemed to think
putting me in a human container
**[17:48] Flickering Flame**
would let them control me.
**[17:52] Flickering Flame**
They thought it was the only way
to make me succeed Tayurahime.
**[17:58] Flickering Flame**
But the girl they turned into my vessel
did not vanish. Her will endures.
**[18:05] Touko**
I need to go back there.
**[18:10] Flickering Flame**
Are you not scared?
**[18:11] Touko**
I *am* scared. But even though I won't be
any help, I want to be with the people there.
**[18:21] Flickering Flame**
I have a person I want to be with, too.
**[18:25] Touko**
What?
**[18:27] Flickering Flame**
I had never thought of it like that before,
**[18:31] Flickering Flame**
but I suppose I have a right
to wish for something, too.
**[18:45] Touko**
It looks sort of bigger than before.
**[18:49] Flickering Flame**
Yes. It keeps coming closer.
**[19:28] Touko**
This is the divine palace.
**[19:31] Touko**
Huh?
**[19:41] Touko**
Mr. Roroku...
**[19:53] Touko**
Kanata, Mr. Roroku is...
**[19:59] Touko**
I didn't...
**[20:02] Touko**
I didn't want anyone else to die.
**[20:32] Koushi**
Lightning?
**[20:35] Akira**
What?
**[20:40] Akira**
The Millennial Comet looks so big.
**[20:44] Akira**
Don't tell me it's falling to earth.
**[20:56] Koushi**
What's going on?
**[20:58] Akira**
We'd better take shelter.
**[21:01] Hibari**
Sister, let's go back.
**[21:20] Akira**
Touko!
**[21:21] Koushi**
Touko!
**[21:30] Akira**
Kun! Hurry!
**[22:08] Akira**
A fallbeast.
**[22:09] Koushi**
Touko...
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***SIGN*** Lady Goddess
***SIGN*** Lady Goddess
# E19 - Lady Goddess
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GEVUZD5PJ/lady-goddess)
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**[00:08] Narrator**
*A fallbeast descends upon the divine palace.*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Lady
Goddess
***SIGN*** Lady
Goddess
**[01:52] Touko**
*But what is a fallbeast doing here?*
**[01:58] Touko**
* Oh. Maybe it's because*
* so much skyfire burned here.*
**[02:04] Touko**
*It came to see what was happening.*
**[02:16] Koushi**
What's going on?
**[02:18] Akira**
I can't help her anymore.
**[02:23] Akira**
* But fallbeasts live in the mountains.*
* Why would one appear in the capital now?*
**[02:29] Koushi**
Why isn't the fallbeast moving?
**[02:33] Akira**
It's almost like...
**[02:36] Akira**
it's waiting for Touko to hunt it.
**[02:42] Koushi**
My father mentioned that.
**[02:44] Koushi**
Fallbeasts grow docile in front of fire
hunters, like they're asking to be hunted.
**[02:50] Akira**
Yeah. In front of *true* fire hunters.
**[02:56] Akira**
* I get it now. This fallbeast must have*
* come to put an end to everything itself.*
**[03:04] Akira**
*Everything.*
**[03:11] Koushi**
Temari!
**[03:16] Akira**
No fire hunter's hound would
ever turn its back on a fallbeast.
**[03:21] Akira**
They're trained, maybe even
destined, to act that way.
**[03:29] Koushi**
Mizore!
**[04:24] Koushi**
Touko.
**[04:27] Akira**
Touko.
**[04:34] Hibari**
I knew it. She...
**[04:43] FF/Kira**
Will you hunt me?
**[04:48] Koushi**
The Flickering Flame.
**[04:51] FF/Kira**
Will you hunt me now? With that sickle?
**[04:55] Hibari**
Sister!
**[04:57] Akira**
Not now.
**[04:59] Akira**
I can't hunt you unless
you leave that girl's body.
**[05:05] FF/Kira**
I can't leave on my own.
**[05:09] FF/Kira**
But if you hunt this, that will be the end.
**[05:17] Koushi**
Kira.
**[05:18] Koushi**
Kira, is that you?
**[05:21] FF/Kira**
I was a fool.
**[05:23] FF/Kira**
This country under divine rule
survived even after the world fell apart.
**[05:31] FF/Kira**
I believed it was a good place.
**[05:35] FF/Kira**
But I was wrong.
**[05:38] FF/Kira**
There's... There's an enormous flame here.
**[05:43] FF/Kira**
Somehow, I know how to use it, too.
**[05:49] FF/Kira**
Because there's someone else inside me.
**[05:52] FF/Kira**
This flame belongs to her.
**[05:59] FF/Kira**
She longs to be free,
but no one wants her to be.
**[06:06] FF/Kira**
Not even she knows what choice
will avoid a second devastation.
**[06:16] FF/Kira**
If nothing changes, I'll end up using
this flame to bring it all to an end.
**[06:24] FF/Kira**
Even though I know it's wrong
to think such things.
**[06:30] FF/Kira**
To wish that everyone...
that everyone would just disappear.
**[06:44] Hibari**
It's Touko, isn't it?
**[06:46] Hibari**
Follow me. Tayurahime summons you.
**[06:50] Akira**
Wait a minute.
Yuoshichi grabbed the Lady Goddess and...
**[06:54] Hibari**
That was a substitute.
A mere pitiable shadow.
**[07:00] Hibari**
The Lady Goddess resides
within the palace shrine.
**[07:04] Koushi**
Then, Yuoshichi...
**[07:06] Hibari**
Yes. He died without achieving
any of his ambitions.
**[07:59] Grandmother**
Touko.
**[08:01] Grandmother**
Are you all ready to go to the capital?
**[08:08] Akari**
Grandmother asked you
a question. Speak up.
**[08:14] Akari**
And explain why that dog's here.
**[08:17] Touko**
Huh?
**[08:19] Rin**
You'd better not have brought
a hunting hound home *again*.
**[08:29] Touko**
Temari?
**[08:44] Touko**
Temari.
**[08:47] Touko**
Kanata?
**[08:52] Touko**
What about Mizore?
**[08:54] Hibari**
That hound went to join its fire hunter.
**[08:59] Hibari**
Or so a human might put it.
**[09:04] Touko**
Mr. Hibari?
**[09:09] Hibari**
That sickle looks newly made.
**[09:13] Hibari**
Like Tokohanahime only just forged it.
**[09:23] Touko**
What about Mr. Koushi and Ms. Akira?
**[09:27] Touko**
Where are Hinako and Kun?
**[09:31] Hibari**
You have more important
things to worry about.
**[09:41] Hibari**
Rest easy. No doubt Ruri-Matsuri
did something for them.
**[10:06] Touko**
Are they alive?
**[10:09] Hibari**
Alive and dreaming.
**[10:11] Touko**
Dreaming?
**[10:13] Hibari**
They dream of slitting open their bellies
and planting bits of nature inside.
**[10:18] Hibari**
Of becoming trees and water and stones.
**[10:21] Hibari**
They dream of becoming part of this planet.
**[10:28] Hibari**
No one here has a spine.
**[10:31] Hibari**
They couldn't stop the old world's ruin,
**[10:35] Hibari**
and they failed to revitalize it.
**[10:39] Hibari**
Many such gods chose to dwell in
dreams of the old world they yearn for.
**[10:49] Hibari**
While they gorge themselves
on peace and dreams here,
**[10:54] Hibari**
Tayurahime focuses the divine clans' power.
**[10:58] Hibari**
Even now, she serves as
the pillar propping up this world.
**[11:04] Touko**
Tayurahime?
**[11:07] Hibari**
Tayurahime is the elder sister
of the Flickering Flame.
**[11:14] Hibari**
Tayurahime desires words
to console the Flickering Flame,
**[11:19] Hibari**
and as such, she wishes to
learn more about the outside world.
**[11:26] Touko**
What does that have to do with me?
**[11:29] Hibari**
She says that she wishes to question you.
**[11:34] Hibari**
Tayurahime knows you well
through the Flickering Flame.
**[11:40] Hibari**
You have been chosen.
**[12:12] Kun**
Lady!
**[12:13] Koushi**
Touko!
**[12:23] Kiri**
So you hunted a fallbeast.
**[12:27] Kiri**
You're a full-fledged fire hunter now.
**[12:31] Touko**
Ms. Kiri!
**[12:35] Touko**
You're alive, too.
**[12:38] Kiri**
Yeah. That goddess,
Ruri-Matsuri, brought me here.
**[12:45] Kiri**
She even patched up my wounds.
**[12:48] Akira**
That god called Hibari decided
to heal me once before, too.
**[12:55] Akira**
One moment, they seem all-powerful,
then blood makes them recoil in fear the next.
**[13:01] Akira**
Are they strong or weak?
I can't tell anymore.
**[13:05] Koushi**
True.
**[13:08] Touko**
And Hinako?
**[13:10] Kun**
She's sleeping.
**[13:12] Akira**
* Touko just hunted her fourth fiend.*
* A fallbeast this time.*
**[13:17] Akira**
* And she used all three hounds to do it:*
* Kanata, Temari, and Mizore.*
**[13:24] Touko**
What is this?
**[13:27] Kiri**
A failed experiment from the past,
when the gods implanted fire.
**[13:33] Kiri**
They've been hiding it here.
**[13:37] Touko**
An experiment?
**[13:48] Touko**
What do you mean, they "implanted" fire?
**[13:51] Koushi**
One of the treefolk, Yanagi, told us about it
when we visited the forbidden quarter.
**[13:56] Touko**
Oh.
**[13:57] Touko**
She said the beasts
held fire in their bodies
**[14:02] Touko**
so that it would never
come near the gods again.
**[14:05] Koushi**
Yes. And so, the flame fiends were born.
**[14:11] Touko**
They failed back then and...
**[14:15] Kiri**
It's just like how they locked failed treefolk
like Yanagi, Kunugi, and me underground.
**[14:34] Koushi**
Did the goddess who brought us her,
Ruri-Matsuri, want to show us this?
**[14:43] Kiri**
I bet she's enjoying your reactions.
**[14:50] Touko**
These tubes look different.
**[14:53] Koushi**
Touko, don't touch them.
**[14:58] Akira**
What is it? What's in there?
**[15:07] Koushi**
A human.
**[15:09] Akira**
A human?
**[15:17] Akira**
You're right. They're all human babies.
**[15:20] Akira**
But what does this mean?
**[15:23] Touko**
Did they try to put fire inside humans, too?
**[15:28] Kiri**
They're failed treefolk.
**[15:31] Koushi**
No, that's not it.
**[15:37] Koushi**
They look like they're meant
to become something.
**[15:42] Akira**
Become something?
**[15:47] Akira**
You mean, like...
**[15:54] Akira**
...gods?
**[15:57] Kiri**
Enough of this crazy talk, mole.
**[16:00] Kiri**
What would baby gods be doing
stashed away with these prototype fiends?
**[16:10] Kun**
My dad told me the divine clans
aren't really what they look like.
**[16:16] Kun**
They're not real, so why should they act
like gods and boss humans around?
**[16:29] Koushi**
The divine clans are hiding something huge.
**[16:34] Koushi**
Maybe the entities we call "gods"
are made by altering humans.
**[16:40] Koushi**
They could be artificial beings
that humans created.
**[16:45] Koushi**
Like the treefolk and
the people the Water Clan injected.
**[16:52] Koushi**
I'm certain the divine clans can't be
a completely different species from us.
**[16:58] Koushi**
That's...
**[16:59] Koushi**
That's why the pathogen that causes
human combustion affects them, too.
**[17:08] Koushi**
The legend of Tokohanahime is true.
**[17:10] Koushi**
She forged the hunters' sickles
while she herself burned.
**[17:18] Kiri**
Seriously, humans, spiders,
and gods are all birds of a feather.
**[17:28] Kiri**
That goddess, Ruri-Matsuri, might've gotten
fed up with what they've been doing.
**[17:35] Kiri**
But it's a little late for regrets.
**[17:39] Koushi**
Akira?
**[17:41] Touko**
Akira?
**[17:43] Koushi**
Kiri, where's Akira?
**[17:45] Kiri**
The fire hunter left.
**[17:49] Touko**
Ms. Akira went off all alone?
**[17:52] Koushi**
Why didn't you say something?
**[17:54] Kiri**
Why do I have to
tell you every little thing?
**[17:59] Kiri**
Though I don't mind giving you advice.
**[18:03] Kiri**
Why don't you go chasing after her?
**[18:12] Kiri**
You came all this way
but you're leaving the rest to her?
**[18:16] Kiri**
That hardheaded hunter
doesn't care if she dies.
**[18:21] Kiri**
Just like the Flickering Flame.
**[18:24] Kiri**
I'll keep an eye on
the kid and the sick girl.
**[18:28] Kiri**
You've got business with the
Lady Goddess and the vessel girl, right?
**[18:34] Kiri**
How long are you going
to drag your feet for, mole?
**[18:37] Kiri**
You're using your brain
for all the wrong things.
**[18:41] Touko**
But where...
**[18:43] Koushi**
See those pipes with the glowing fish?
**[18:46] Koushi**
Akira reckoned she could follow them
to the real palace where Tayurahime is.
**[19:07] Koushi**
Kiri's right. I need to go.
**[19:09] Koushi**
The Flickering Flame...
Kira must be near the Lady Goddess.
**[19:16] Koushi**
Touko, come on.
**[19:22] Touko**
Right.
**[19:50] Kun**
That guy and the small lady left.
**[19:54] Kiri**
Without saying a word
to you or that sick girl.
**[20:00] Kiri**
Those moles plan on coming
back here, no matter what.
**[20:06] Kun**
In that case...
**[20:08] Kun**
I've gotta keep us safe until they do.
**[20:14] Hinako**
Kanata...
**[20:18] Kun**
After all, she's family.
**[20:49] Kiri**
How will this world end?
And what kind of world will follow it?
**[20:55] Kiri**
You'll never get another chance to see.
**[20:58] Kiri**
Me and the others from the forbidden
quarter never got to witness anything.
**[21:04] Kiri**
But you still have a chance.
**[21:10] Koushi**
You know that goddess, Ruri-Matsuri?
**[21:14] Koushi**
I wonder if she wants to see...
**[21:17] Koushi**
what humans who know the truth will do.
**[21:28] Koushi**
I see now. The divine clans can't
sustain themselves without humans.
**[21:35] Koushi**
They aren't ruling to preserve the world.
**[21:41] Koushi**
It's all to ensure their own survival.
**[21:47] Koushi**
Those fish—or what look
like fish—are organic machines.
**[21:54] Koushi**
After factories use fiendfire, they carry
the purified residue to the palace basement.
**[22:01] Koushi**
Burning that purified fire lets the
Lady Goddess exceed her natural lifespan.
**[22:09] Koushi**
The factory district
really exists to purify fiendfire.
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Lamplight
***SIGN*** Lamplight
# E20 - Lamplight
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G7PU41K52/lamplight)
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**[00:01] Narrator**
*Touko and Koushi...*
**[00:03] Narrator**
* Will they succeed in*
* meeting the Lady Goddess?*
**[00:07] Narrator**
*And what does the future hold?*
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** The Fire Hunter
***SIGN*** Lamplight
***SIGN*** Lamplight
**[01:58] Touko**
Ms. Akira!
**[02:09] Koushi**
Akira.
**[02:10] Akira**
So you came. That figures.
**[02:14] Touko**
Ms. Akira.
**[02:15] Hibari**
I only summoned the girl.
**[02:19] Hibari**
I have no business with stray fire hunters.
**[02:22] Ruri-Matsuri**
Your elder sisters must
have wanted a look at her.
**[02:27] Ruri-Matsuri**
They want to see the
current world and its inhabitants
**[02:32] Ruri-Matsuri**
before they settle everything.
**[02:44] Touko**
Ms. Ruri-Matsuri.
**[02:48] Akira**
So you're the treefolk's maker,
Ruri-Matsuri of the Wood Clan?
**[02:57] Ruri-Matsuri**
You there. The fire hunter.
I saw you once before, in the dark forest.
**[03:05] Touko**
You were the one
who made those trees speak.
**[03:10] Ruri-Matsuri**
Hardly.
**[03:12] Ruri-Matsuri**
The forest was merely voicing
the hunter's darkest thoughts to her.
**[03:20] Ruri-Matsuri**
Now, humans, did you find
those young specimens?
**[03:27] Koushi**
You gods can't exist without humans.
**[03:36] Ruri-Matsuri**
Exactly.
**[03:40] Ruri-Matsuri**
Eventually, humans like you will appear.
Ones who arrive at the truth.
**[03:46] Ruri-Matsuri**
The divine clans haughtily assumed
no human would ever realize.
**[03:52] Ruri-Matsuri**
That shows you what our wisdom is worth.
**[03:56] Ruri-Matsuri**
Fire hunter.
**[03:58] Ruri-Matsuri**
Tayurahime's elder sister, Tokohanahime,
**[04:01] Ruri-Matsuri**
gave her life to forge
the sickles you use to hunt fiends.
**[04:08] Ruri-Matsuri**
Without those tools, humans cannot
harvest fire from the fiends.
**[04:13] Ruri-Matsuri**
Keeping humans alive and
maintaining this world's order...
**[04:19] Ruri-Matsuri**
The divine clans were certainly capable
of that in this once-ruined world.
**[04:26] Ruri-Matsuri**
We possess superhuman lifespans
and powers that resonate with nature.
**[04:33] Ruri-Matsuri**
And by using our powers,
we could save those facing death.
**[04:39] Ruri-Matsuri**
Some of us did aspire to that,
like Tokohanahime.
**[04:45] Ruri-Matsuri**
Tayurahime's lifespan would
normally have ended long ago.
**[04:51] Ruri-Matsuri**
The capital's factory district is
her overblown life support system.
**[04:58] Touko**
Mr. Koushi said that earlier.
**[05:01] Touko**
The capital factories are just
one big machine to purify fiendfire.
**[05:07] Ruri-Matsuri**
Did he now? No wonder
Hibari took an interest in him.
**[05:12] Ruri-Matsuri**
I didn't expect him to
get that far on his own.
**[05:16] Koushi**
Humans wield the sickles,
and humans supply fire to the divine clans.
**[05:24] Koushi**
You can't exist without us.
**[05:28] God A**
How long will you let this farce drag on?
**[05:33] Goddess B**
I have no patience for human prattle.
**[05:37] God C**
By all rights, humans are
forbidden to set foot in here.
**[05:46] Hibari**
Stay, En. You'll get unclean blood
on Tayurahime's sacred body.
**[05:57] Head Clan Member C**
Our people possess the chosen blood.
**[06:02] Head Clan Member D**
The planet blesses us
over the children of men.
**[06:05] Head Clan Member E**
We keep their realm alive.
**[06:10] Head Clan Member F**
The Lady Goddess combines
our powers and regulates the flow.
**[06:15] Head Clan Member G**
Lady Goddesses are born
only of the chief clan.
**[06:19] Koushi**
Present-day humans are only
the poor descendants of our ancestors,
**[06:25] Koushi**
who played with fire until
they destroyed the world with it!
**[06:31] Head Clan Member H**
We returned fire to the forest
and admonished ourselves.
**[06:34] Head Clan Member I**
Because we admonished ourselves,
the new Lady Goddesses died out.
**[06:35] Head Clan Member J**
To keep the Lady Goddess alive,
we need even greater power.
**[06:41] Head Clan Member A**
The children of men bring it to us.
**[06:45] Head Clan Member B**
By enduring now, they will also prosper.
**[06:53] Hibari**
I have no choice.
**[06:59] Akira**
Touko, you mustn't fight again.
Not in any way.
**[07:05] Touko**
You're wrong, Ms. Akira.
**[07:08] Touko**
If Kanata... If Kanata is fighting for us...
**[07:15] Touko**
Then I'll fight, too. For Kanata.
**[07:19] Koushi**
Humans are miserable creatures now,
living in fear of fire and beasts.
**[07:26] Koushi**
But the divine clans are also... No, even the
spiders who tried to destroy the capital...
**[07:32] Koushi**
We're all being forced to clean up
after the humans of the old world.
**[07:39] Koushi**
We're just killing each other inside a system
left to us by people who are dead and gone.
**[07:51] Touko**
Are you there?
**[07:59] Hibari**
Fire hunter, put down your sickle.
En will attack you no more.
**[08:29] Hibari**
Sister.
**[08:31] Ruri-Matsuri**
Tayurahime.
**[08:35] Akira**
This is...
**[08:44] Hibari**
The Lady Goddess of this land.
**[08:47] Hibari**
She alone links our divine powers
and brings peace to the realm.
**[08:54] Hibari**
Sister goddess to Tokohanahime,
and twin sister to the Flickering Flame.
**[09:01] Touko**
*This* is the Lady Goddess?
**[09:05] Touko**
No. The Lady Goddess isn't...
**[09:18] Touko**
No.
**[09:23] Hibari**
Stop, girl! The likes of you—
**[09:30] Hibari**
Tayurahime?
**[09:34] Touko**
Why... Why do you look like this?
**[10:12] Flickering Flame**
Tayura.
**[10:14] Flickering Flame**
Try not to move. Your body will crumble.
**[10:20] Koushi**
Kira!
**[10:43] Tayura-Touko**
Welcome home, Flickering Flame.
**[10:48] Akira**
Is that...
**[10:51] Ruri-Matsuri**
Tayurahime is speaking.
**[10:54] Tayura-Touko**
I've spent so long alone,
brooding over what to do.
**[11:02] Tayura-Touko**
My time had long since ended,
**[11:06] Tayura-Touko**
but I resolved to have my life prolonged
and to serve as the Lady Goddess.
**[11:14] Tayura-Touko**
So that you wouldn't feel lonely
when you returned,
**[11:18] Tayura-Touko**
I've waited here all this time.
**[11:24] Tayura-Touko**
Long ago, you were birthed to resemble me.
**[11:28] Tayura-Touko**
A younger sister who shares my blood.
**[11:32] Tayura-Touko**
Just as Tokohanahime felt
concern for me, I felt it for you.
**[11:43] Flickering Flame**
I was launched into the sky to watch over
the world, and to save and comfort people.
**[11:52] Flickering Flame**
But I could only watch the world
fall apart, helpless to do anything.
**[11:58] Flickering Flame**
They all wouldn't stop killing
and destroying each other.
**[12:05] Flickering Flame**
So many humans perished while wailing
that they never meant it to come to this.
**[12:12] Flickering Flame**
The powerless and the powerful
jumbled together at the end,
**[12:18] Flickering Flame**
scorched by their own burning bodies.
**[12:21] Flickering Flame**
That made every human on this planet equal.
**[12:25] Flickering Flame**
I witnessed the futility of this planet.
**[12:34] Koushi**
Kira!
**[12:35] Touko**
Ms. Kira!
**[12:49] Touko**
Ms. Kira.
**[13:02] Touko**
Is this the real Ms. Flickering Flame?
**[13:06] Hibari**
I suppose she looked different to you.
**[13:13] Hibari**
That was a false face to show to humans.
**[13:17] Ruri-Matsuri**
You humans do love judging things
by appearances, after all.
**[13:25] Ruri-Matsuri**
But the need for that has passed.
**[13:28] Ruri-Matsuri**
Here in the inner palace,
**[13:30] Ruri-Matsuri**
the Flickering Flame can maintain even
this incomplete body in physical form.
**[13:37] Hibari**
My sister synchronized too closely
with the girl who was her vessel.
**[13:42] Koushi**
Kira! Is Kira alive?
**[13:45] Koushi**
You toyed with Kira...
with her body and soul, and...
**[13:51] Flickering Flame**
The girl lives still.
**[13:54] Flickering Flame**
I have done badly by her.
**[14:02] Touko**
When I met Ms. Flickering Flame inside
the Millennial Comet, she seemed sad.
**[14:10] Touko**
You looked so sad.
**[14:18] Touko**
The you I met then wasn't just for show.
**[14:24] Touko**
It was the *real* Ms. Flickering Flame.
**[14:32] Akira**
This is it?
**[14:33] Akira**
A lump of mud and a mechanical doll
on the verge of breaking down?
**[14:38] Akira**
This...
**[14:40] Akira**
This is all the Lady Goddess
you gods worship really is?
**[14:45] Akira**
You kept your precious Lady Goddess
alive in this horrible state?
**[14:50] Akira**
Does your own continuation
mean *that* much to you?
**[14:54] Hibari**
Silence!
**[14:55] Hibari**
My sisters were entrusted with everything.
What would a mere human know of their pain?
**[15:01] Hibari**
Never speak so thoughtlessly again
or it will be the last thing you do.
**[15:08] Flickering Flame**
I think it's all right to end it now.
**[15:13] Flickering Flame**
You remind me of all the people
I used to look down at from orbit.
**[15:22] Flickering Flame**
The people who panicked,
ran, sobbed, and died.
**[15:26] Flickering Flame**
You remind me of
all the living and the dead.
**[15:31] Flickering Flame**
Those people who lost hope
but still wished for salvation,
**[15:36] Flickering Flame**
even as death claimed them all.
**[15:39] Flickering Flame**
I don't mind being hunted,
as long as you do it.
**[15:44] Touko**
What?
**[15:46] Flickering Flame**
Because you remind me of everyone
I longed to save but never could.
**[15:56] Flickering Flame**
Hibari doesn't seem to have realized,
**[16:00] Flickering Flame**
but I think Tayura called you here
because she made the same decision.
**[16:08] Flickering Flame**
I can't save Tayura,
and I can't end this world, either.
**[16:17] Flickering Flame**
But I can do this.
**[16:20] Touko**
No! I can't accept that!
**[16:23] Touko**
If I'm like the people
who died in the old days,
**[16:26] Touko**
then Ms. Akira and Mr. Koushi
and Hinako and Kun must be, too!
**[16:34] Flickering Flame**
Yes. But you don't resemble anyone.
**[16:39] Touko**
What?
**[16:53] Touko**
Ms. Flickering Flame...
**[17:03] Touko; Akira**
* "On the hunt, a fire hunter*
* becomes the dark forest."*
**[17:08] Touko; Akira**
* "She reads the minds of the hostile*
* flame fiends and follows their movements."*
**[17:17] Touko; Akira**
* "She grasps the feelings of the fiends*
* who dwell in the forest and attack people."*
**[17:23] Touko; Akira**
*"On the hunt, I, too, become a flame fiend."*
**[17:28] Touko; Akira**
*"And so, I harvest life-giving fire."*
**[17:34] Touko; Akira**
* "Gods, humans, treefolk, fiends, and even*
* spiders are all equally part of this planet."*
**[17:47] Touko; Akira**
* "I hear the fire to keep this world alive*
* dwells within the Flickering Flame."*
**[17:53] Touko; Akira**
* "With that fire, the lord of the fire hunters*
* will sustain the world."*
**[18:00] Touko; Akira**
* "Call the Millennial Comet*
* to the hunting grounds."*
**[18:03] Touko; Akira**
* "If you will not, then please*
* punish this petition's author."*
**[18:10] Touko; Akira**
* "So shall the human who had the temerity*
* to write to the Lady Goddess atone."*
**[19:02] Ruri-Matsuri**
If the Flickering Flame has made up
her mind, no one can argue.
**[19:11] Ruri-Matsuri**
The lord of the fire hunters is born.
**[19:14] Ruri-Matsuri**
No matter how foolish a choice that was.
**[19:20] Ruri-Matsuri**
Hibari, I assume you don't object?
**[19:26] Hibari**
I won't allow anyone to stand
in the way of my sister's choice.
**[19:31] Hibari**
Throughout your long service, your solitude
and fears always concerned me.
**[19:39] Hibari**
May you rest in peace.
**[19:49] Ruri-Matsuri**
So this little girl is our new ruler?
**[19:53] Ruri-Matsuri**
Flickering Flame, even your
final choice was true to form.
**[20:14] Kaho**
Those fire hunters are getting on, too?
**[20:16] Akira**
Yeah. And not just to keep
the collection trucks supplied this time.
**[20:21] Akira**
A fire hunter will settle in
every village and teach their craft.
**[20:26] Kaho**
Touko, will you make paper
once you get back to your village?
**[20:29] Touko**
Huh?
**[20:31] Touko**
Um...
**[20:33] Akira**
No. Touko will become her village's
fire hunter and come back here one day.
**[20:39] Kun**
The small lady *is* the
lord of the fire hunters, y'know.
**[20:43] Akira**
I'll fill in for her in the meantime.
**[20:47] Akira**
For now, we managed to get crews
for the trucks together,
**[20:52] Akira**
and Kiri and the treefolk
have agreed to help us.
**[20:56] Akira**
Experiments with the bugs
Kun found will start soon, too.
**[21:02] Akira**
We've got a lot on our plates.
**[21:16] Koushi**
Are you really sure you want them here?
**[21:19] Kira**
Yes. I think my mother
and father would be happy.
**[21:24] Koushi**
It's been almost a week
since Touko left with the trucks.
**[21:28] Kira**
Yes. And Kanata went with her.
**[21:32] Kira**
Are you missing them, Koushi?
**[21:36] Koushi**
Kanata will come home
to the capital someday.
**[21:39] Koushi**
And this time, Touko will be
the lord of the fire hunters.
**[21:54] Hinako**
A fish.
***SIGN*** Hotaru
**[21:59] Touko**
Ms. Hotaru!
**[22:04] Hotaru**
Touko!
***SIGN*** Papermaker Village
**[22:35] Grandmother**
And Touko? Is Touko on board?
**[22:40] Akari**
I can't see too well myself these days.
**[22:44] Akari**
Is that Touko riding on the roof?
**[22:49] Akari**
Looks to me like she's waving.
**[22:52] Rin**
Grandma, Mom, I can see
Touko waving clear as day.
**[22:59] Rin**
Touko's... Touko's waving to us.
**[23:06] Rin**
Her hand'll fly clean off if she keeps
swinging it around like that.
**[23:39] Rin**
Welcome home, Touko!
**[23:44] Rin**
Welcome home, Touko!