E14 - 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...
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