# The Fire Hunter
Outside the magical barriers lies a world overrun by fiery beasts known as Flame Demons, and the only ones who can protect humanity are the Fire Hunters. In the dark woods where the beasts roam is where Toko, a young villager, is rescued from attack by one of these skilled trackers, Koshi. But their meeting was no accident, and a new destiny begins.
# Season 1
# E1 - Departure
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GVWU09D00/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
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GD9UV3445/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!