E20 - 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!