# 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...
***SIGN*** Next Episode
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***SIGN*** Sea of Trees
***SIGN*** Sea of Trees