E2 - 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
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[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.
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