# 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
***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