E8 - Garden of the Gods

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[00:02] Narrator
    At last, Touko has met Koushi, a member
    of the hound Kanata's family, in the capital.
[00:08] Narrator
    But she has also encountered a new wonder:
    the divine clans and their "spies."
SIGN    The Fire Hunter
SIGN    The Fire Hunter
SIGN    The Fire Hunter
SIGN    Garden of the Gods
SIGN    Garden of the Gods
[01:51] Narrator
    The capital's largest canal separates
    the residential and industrial districts.
[01:56] Narrator
    Beyond the long bridge that spans it
[01:59] Narrator
    lies a sprawling expanse of factories
    crisscrossed by waterways.
[02:08] Touko
    Mister, is this the land of the dead?
[02:12] Koushi
    No, it's the factory district, although
    people call it the "Garden of the Gods."
[02:18] Koushi
    It connects to the forest, too.
[02:21] Koushi
    There's a tunnel to the south that
    fire hunters and collection trucks use.
[02:29] Koushi
    You can just call me Koushi, by the way.
[02:32] Touko
    Koushi.
[02:33] Koushi
    The "kou" means "a great blaze,"
    and the "shi" means "security and perfection."
[02:39] Koushi
    Kira taught me that.
[02:41] Touko
    A great blaze?
[02:42] Koushi
    Yes, though I don't know what kind of fire.
[02:45] Touko
    That thing you threw was like lightning.
[02:50] Koushi
    That was bottled lightning.
    As you saw, it makes a flash on impact.
[02:56] Koushi
    It's like bottled fiendfire,
     but it's full of skyfire instead.
[03:02] Touko
    Bottled skyfire? But that's so valuable.
[03:07] Koushi
    That spy earlier was
    really just a piece of paper.
[03:11] Koushi
    A god controls it, but it turns back
    into paper if you break the spell.
[03:17] Koushi
    I'm just glad the bottled lightning worked.
[03:44] Koushi
    You came for medicine, right?
[03:46] Touko
    Someone who did a lot for me is badly hurt.
[03:51] Koushi
    The treefolk help villagers with medicine.
[03:54] Koushi
    And they have ancient knowledge.
    Things only the gods know.
[03:59] Touko
    Even about the Flickering Flame?
[04:01] Koushi
    Huh? How do you know about that?
[04:08] Koushi
    That's the break signal. Let's hurry.
[04:26] Koushi
    It's no good.
[04:27] Koushi
    It's totally rusted shut.
[04:37] Koushi
    Kanata, is that the way?
[04:44] Touko
    One of the treefolk.
[04:50] Touko
    Mr. Treefolk, I need medicine!
[04:52] Touko
    My friend is really hurt!
    Will you please share some medicine with me?
[05:00] Koushi
    Let's go.
SIGN    Touko and the Treefolk
[05:10] Touko
    Kanata and I got a ride
    on the collection truck.
[05:15] Touko
    It wasn't just us. There were women
    who'd been sent off to be married, too.
[05:22] Touko
    Then, Kaho's village guardian,
     the dragon god...
[05:29] Koushi
    I can't believe the spiders turned
    a guardian deity against a collection truck.
[05:34] Koushi
    But if that fire hunter, Akira, is right...
[05:39] Koushi
    I wonder what my father wanted
    to write on muku paper, and to whom.
[05:45] Touko
    In my village, they say it's an offering
    for the Lady Goddess to write on.
[05:50] Koushi
    The Lady Goddess, Tayurahime, writes
    prayers. Poems that praise the world.
[05:57] Koushi
    Supposedly, her life allows the
    divine clans to rule with their powers,
[06:02] Koushi
    and her sister, Tokohanahime,
    was the very first fire hunter.
[06:14] Koushi
    Tokohanahime used natural flame
    to forge a sickle while her body burned.
[06:20] Koushi
    She vanished from the world
    but left these dying words:
[06:26] Koushi
    "With the fire of the Millennial Comet,
    we need no longer fear the dark forest."
[06:32] Koushi
    "And whoever catches it shall become
    known as the lord of the fire hunters."
[06:38] Koushi
    "This lord shall harvest
     the Flickering Flame."
[06:53] Touko
    These aren't tree trunks. Are they roots?
[07:03] Mukuge
    Do not growl. En will do no mischief.
[07:08] Koushi
    Over there.
[07:09] Mukuge
    Visitors. Shuyu has brought a rare find.
[07:16] Gomuju
    Summon Kiri.
[07:19] Kiri
    Humans?
[07:21] Mukuge
    Guests. Shuyu brought them.
[07:25] Kiri
    Ugh. This is why I told you not to keep birds.
[07:29] Kiri
    There must be a better way to kill time.
[07:34] Kiri
    So, what do you humans want?
[07:37] Koushi
    This girl wants medicine.
[07:39] Koushi
    And I was hoping to ask you some questions.
[07:43] Kiri
    We have no medicine to give you here.
[07:47] Kiri
    Only the successes sent to the
    forest were taught medicine.
[07:54] Touko
    "Successes"? What do you mean?
[07:58] Koushi
    Then tell me about this world.
[08:01] Kiri
    Tell you what?
[08:02] Koushi
    War is coming on the surface.
    Haven't the gods told you anything?
[08:08] Kiri
    The divine clans? They don't tell
    treefolk what happens in the capital.
[08:16] Kiri
    We're not like the test groups...
    the ones sent to help villagers.
[08:25] Kiri
    We're failed experiments.
[08:28] Kiri
    The gods were too ashamed
    to let us see the light of day,
[08:31] Kiri
    so they shut us up here
    in the forbidden quarter.
[08:36] Kiri
    Shuyu! Never go out again.
    And never bring humans here!
[08:43] Touko
    Wait. Please wait!
[08:45] Kiri
    Can it. I don't know what you've been told,
     but we don't enjoy the divine clans' favor.
[08:55] Gomuju
    Moles.
[08:56] Kiri
    Moles?
[09:00] Kiri
    Oh, that's who this is?
[09:02] Kiri
    The ones burying bottled lightning all over?
[09:07] Kiri
    We can tell through the tree roots.
[09:11] Kiri
    That's a secret, right?
[09:13] Kiri
    If you don't want the gods finding out,
     stop nosing around down here.
[09:19] Kiri
    We don't care what happens
    to the surface world.
[09:24] Kiri
    En, chase them out.
[09:57] Yanagi
    Stop.
[09:59] Yanagi
    That child has a sickle. You'll get En hurt.
[10:08] Gomuju
    Yanagi.
[10:10] Yanagi
    As Kiri said, we failed treefolk
    are locked up down here.
[10:18] Yanagi
    Though, unlike Gomuju and me,
    Kiri and Shuyu might survive in the forest.
[10:26] Kiri
    This stuff keeps growing
    no matter how much I cut it back.
[10:30] Kiri
    It hurts, and it's always in the way.
[10:33] Kiri
    And Shuyu's still a baby inside and out.
     That pipsqueak can't hack it out there.
[10:41] Yanagi
    You crossed the forest, didn't you?
    You smell of our brethren.
[10:48] Yanagi
    I'm sorry we can't give you medicine.
[10:52] Yanagi
    Back when the world died, the gods tried
    to entrust fire to the surviving beasts.
[11:01] Yanagi
    Wild animals once gave humans fire.
[11:06] Yanagi
    The gods acted out those tales in reverse.
[11:11] Yanagi
    Humans and gods alike became
    combustible and lost the use of fire.
[11:19] Yanagi
    To rid themselves of the abominable flame,
    they returned it to the beasts.
[11:26] Koushi
    Are you saying the gods created
    the flame fiends of the forest, too?
[11:32] Yanagi
    And so, the flame fiends were born.
[11:35] Yanagi
    Never-before-seen creatures, adapted
    to the dark forest and bearing fire within.
[11:44] Yanagi
    Though I doubt the gods predicted
    their fire would take the form it has now.
[11:53] Koushi
    But then, why did Tokohanahime
    create the fire sickles?
[11:58] Yanagi
    Tokohanahime discovered that the
    fire in beasts no longer ignited people.
[12:05] Yanagi
    She forged her sickle to
    keep the human race alive.
[12:10] Yanagi
    Humans had lost fire and the dark forest had
    swallowed up their homes, but they lived on.
[12:18] Yanagi
    Perhaps their strength lit a fire
    in the Lady Goddess's heart.
[12:24] Yanagi
    Like you humans, the divine clans
    feared the world would truly die.
[12:33] Koushi
    You mean, the gods made this world?
    They made it the way it is now?
[12:39] Yanagi
    I think ancient humans must have
    been as cruel and reckless as the gods.
[12:48] Yanagi
    To efficiently slay their enemies
    and cull the excess population,
[12:55] Yanagi
    they used pathogens to create bodies
    that would ignite in the presence of fire.
[13:02] Yanagi
    If they'd gotten their way,
    unnecessary humans would have vanished,
[13:08] Yanagi
    leaving only the worthy
    living on this planet.
[13:40] Koushi
    There's a good doctor
    at the mansion I live in.
[13:45] Koushi
    I might be able to get medicine from him.
    Or I could ask him to treat your friend.
[14:06] Koushi
    Run!
[14:34] Touko
    Temari!
[14:41] Akira
    Touko, you dummy! Where've you been?!
[14:44] Touko
    Ms. Akira!
[14:46] Touko
    What are you doing here?
[14:47] Akira
    I told you to take care of Kun!
[14:50] Akira
    You can make excuses later.
[14:52] Akira
    Kanata! Temari! Protect the kids!
[15:37] Hibari
    I think that's quite enough.
[15:50] Hibari
    And you, fire hunter. Don't shed
    unclean blood before the Lady Goddess.
[16:06] Hibari
    A fine dog. White beasts
    please the Lady Goddess.
[16:12] Hibari
    Leave at once.
[16:43] Koushi
    That was a god...
[16:48] Akira
    Wow. Nice place ya got here.
[16:53] Akira
    Doesn't this house belong to one
    of the richest guys in the capital?
[16:57] Koushi
    Yes, but I'm not part of the family.
     I just live with them.
[17:02] Akira
    So they've basically adopted you,
    but you won't inherit anything?
[17:08] Koushi
    That's why I have to make myself useful.
[17:18] Akira
    Go on, Touko.
[17:20] Touko
    Thank you so, so much for
    taking me to see the treefolk.
[17:35] Koushi
    Could you hold on to it?
[17:38] Touko
    Huh?
[17:39] Koushi
    I have a feeling you'll find
    more use for it than I will.
[17:43] Koushi
    As things stand, if it gets out that
    you brought my father's things here,
[17:48] Koushi
    you might find yourselves
    in trouble sooner or later.
[17:55] Koushi
    And take these.
[17:59] Touko
    I-I can't accept those!
[18:07] Akira
    Take 'em, Touko.
[18:09] Koushi
    Thank you for traveling so far.
[18:13] Koushi
    And for bringing Kanata back.
[18:40] Akira
    I'm impressed, Touko.
[18:43] Akira
    Saying goodbye to a dog isn't easy.
[18:51] Akira
    You're just a kid, but you left your village
    and came all this way through the dark forest.
[19:00] Akira
    Well done.
[19:08] Akira
    Now, let's go back. I'll carry you.
[19:11] Touko
    I-It's okay. I can walk.
[19:14] Akira
    You think I can walk alongside you
     with you crying like that?
[19:18] Akira
    The watch'll be wondering what I did to you.
[19:31] Kun
    Lady!
SIGN    E
[19:32] Akira
    What's up, Kun?
[19:34] Kun
    My bug familiar died,
    so I thought you'd died, too.
SIGN    E
[19:38] Akira
    Your what?
[19:40] Kun
    You're alive.
[19:41] Kaho
    Touko! Where were you?
[19:44] Kaho
    Kun stopped moving, and as soon as
    he snapped out of it, he threw a fit.
[19:52] Kaho
    Is Touko asleep?
[19:56] Kaho
    Wait, where's Kanata?
[20:08] Kaho
    Touko.
[20:19] Touko
    I can hear him.
[20:22] Kaho
    What?
[20:29] Akira
    Shouzou.
[20:39] Shouzou
    Shit! The pain!
[20:42] Shouzou
    What the hell happened?
[20:47] Shouzou
    I'm hurting and I'm hungry.
[20:49] Kaho
    Hey. Is that all you have to say?
[20:52] Akira
    Seriously. I'm not one to talk
    since I screwed up guarding you,
[20:56] Akira
    but try not to make this too hard on Kaho.
[21:08] Kunugi
    Seeing the world like this
    angers the Flickering Flame.
[21:14] Kunugi
    Tayurahime continues to
    write letters to appease it.
[21:21] Kunugi
    If the Flickering Flame lashes out,
    the world will be incinerated once more.
[21:27] Kunugi
    The divine clans fear that prospect.
[21:32] Kunugi
    I know.
[21:34] Kunugi
    The lord of the fire hunters will soon appear,
[21:38] Kunugi
    just as Tokohanahime desired
     when she coined the title.
[21:44] Kunugi
    Humans will plead with the
    Flickering Flame in the gods' place.
[21:49] Kunugi
    The lord will beg its forgiveness.
[21:54] Kunugi
    But the Flickering Flame will not listen.
    Its fury will not abate.
[22:01] Kunugi
    Let it burn up the world if it wishes.
[22:06] Kunugi
    Light the beacon.
    Light the fire to welcome the star!
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