# 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!
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** Next Episode
***SIGN*** The Lightning Cannon
***SIGN*** The Lightning Cannon