E20 - Echoes

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[00:02] Beholder
    The battle with the Nokkers
    on Jananda came to an end.
[00:08] Beholder
    Having learned many things on
    the island, Fushi set off,
[00:12] Beholder
    after saying goodbye to Tonari...
[00:19] Beholder
    and to Hayase of the Yanome.
[02:09] Proprietor
    When is this friend of
    yours coming, old lady?
[02:14] Pioran
    Dunno.
[02:29] Fushi
    Pioran...
[02:31] Fushi
    I made her wait for so long.
[02:36] Fushi
    Pioran's been good to me for a long time.
[02:41] Fushi
    But I keep attracting the worst things.
[02:46] Fushi
    Things that want to have their way with me.
SIGN    Echoes
[03:05] Fushi
    I've been thinking the whole
    time on my way here...
[03:09] Fushi
    I can't bring anyone happiness.
[03:30] Fushi
    I think I'll sleep here tonight.
[03:33] Fushi
    And tomorrow, I'll leave on a ship.
[03:47] Fushi
    Hang on, how much money does Pioran have?
[03:52] Fushi
    She was eating peas at the shop.
[03:54] Fushi
    There's no way she can survive.
[03:56] Pioran
    Are you sure you don't want me to pay?
[04:00] Pioran
    You've even given me bread.
[04:04] Proprietor
    It's all right. You don't have any money, do you?
[04:07] Proprietor
    I've cleaned out the shed.
[04:09] Proprietor
    I left some soap there, too.
    You're welcome to use it.
[04:12] Pioran
    Thank you.
[04:20] guy
    Great meal! Thanks a lot!
[04:23] guy2
    You had way too much to drink.
[04:24] Fushi
    She'll make it without me.
[04:29] Fushi
    Goodbye, Pioran.
[04:50] Worker A
    All right, let's go.
[04:51] Worker B
    Steady, steady...
[04:56] Fushi
    But then again, if I leave now,
    she'll be waiting for me forever.
[05:01] Worker A
    What's that?!
[05:02] Fushi
    I can't do that to her.
[05:03] Worker B
    A rat?!
[05:04] Fushi
    I'll write her a letter to say she doesn't
    need to wait for me anymore.
[05:08] Fushi
    I'll produce a pen and paper, and...
[05:10] Fushi
    Huh? I don't have any.
[05:13] Fushi
    Hey, could I borrow that?
[05:16] Boy
    No.
[05:17] Fushi
    Just for a second!
[05:19] Boy
    Hey, what's your problem?!
[05:22] Fushi
    Sorry.
[05:23] Fushi
    Thanks.
[05:28] Fushi
    "I'm okay now. Bye."
[05:32] Fushi
    Wait, was this the right
    letter for the "P" in "Pioran"?
[05:36] Fushi
    Whatever, this'll do.
[05:45] Fushi
    It's goodbye for real this time.
[05:58] Fushi
    Wait a second! Pioran always got cold at night!
[06:02] Fushi
    She always said she wanted a coat.
[06:04] Fushi
    She's going to freeze to
    death in those clothes.
[06:07] Fushi
    This seems good.
[06:19] Fushi
    Pioran...
[06:20] Fushi
    Where are you?
[06:25] Pioran
    Where do you think you're taking me?!
[06:29] Man
    You came from Jananda, didn't you?
[06:31] Man
    This place isn't for you.
[06:34] Man
    Go back to the island!
[06:35] Pioran
    Let me go!
[06:36] Pioran
    I was officially freed from the
    island by the island leader!
[06:40] Man
    That's not our problem!
[06:42] Fushi
    I have to help her.
[06:45] ---
    Ow!
[06:49] Pioran
    Fool.
[06:52] Fushi
    Pioran...
[07:00] Fushi
    Pioran might be just fine without me.
[07:06] Fushi
    But...
[07:11] Fushi
    She's never smiled.
[07:14] Observer
    What's the matter?
[07:16] Observer
    You've been going back and forth.
[07:20] Fushi
    Tonari said a while ago...
[07:23] Fushi
    that you might be a demon.
[07:24] Fushi
    That you might be something bad.
[07:28] Fushi
    Is she right?
[07:32] Observer
    That's a discussion that's
    far removed from us.
[07:37] Observer
    You want to be with that Pioran, do you?
[07:42] Fushi
    No.
[07:44] Observer
    There's a chance that she'll be killed
    by the Nokkers if she stays with you.
[07:49] Observer
    Even if she's not with you,
    that old woman will eventually die.
[07:53] Observer
    She doesn't have long to live.
[07:56] Fushi
    Stop it!
[07:57] Fushi
    Pioran isn't going to die!
[08:00] Observer
    All people inevitably die.
[08:03] Observer
    Human flesh begins a process of change
    at the moment of its birth.
[08:08] Observer
    After a youthful, active period,
[08:11] Observer
    their behavior gradually slows
    and, eventually, stops.
[08:17] Observer
    Are you concerned with how
    that old woman will die?
[08:22] Observer
    It's not worth wondering about.
[08:25] Observer
    One doesn't know until it happens.
[08:28] Observer
    Unless they themselves choose
[08:33] Observer
    how they wish to die.
[08:39] Fushi
    What do you think I should do?
[08:43] Observer
    What do you want to do?
[08:46] Fushi
    I don't know.
[08:47] Fushi
    I don't know, which is why I'm worried.
[08:51] Fushi
    And...
[08:56] Observer
    You're lonely?
[09:03] Fushi
    Right...
[09:04] Fushi
    Yeah.
[09:06] Fushi
    I think I'm lonely.
[09:13] UroyFushi
    Uroy...
[09:16] OopaFushi
    Oopa...
[09:20] MiaFushi
    Mia...
[09:23] MiaFushi
    I'll admit it.
[09:25] MiaFushi
    I killed them all.
[09:28] MiaFushi
    The islanders...
[09:31] MiaFushi
    Gugu...
[09:32] MiaFushi
    Parona...
[09:34] MiaFushi
    March...
[09:44] MiaFushi
    It's all right.
[09:46] MiaFushi
    It's all right now.
[09:49] MiaFushi
    This is it.
[10:04] Pioran
    Who's there?
[10:08] Pioran
    Wait!
[10:08] Pioran
    You there!
[10:19] Pioran
    Fushi!
[10:21] MiaFushi
    N-No, I'm not!
[10:23] MiaFushi
    Look carefully, see?
[10:25] MiaFushi
    I'm a girl!
[10:37] Fushi
    I think I've neglected a
    lot of things up until now
[10:41] Fushi
    that I didn't understand or didn't accept.
[10:47] Pioran
    Take a look!
[10:49] Pioran
    This is the forest of Sarlnine.
[10:54] Fushi
    There really is no one here.
[10:57] Fushi
    Do you think there might
    be potatoes in the ground?
[10:59] Pioran
    There are potatoes in the ground everywhere.
[11:03] Fushi
    There might come a day when I have
    to face the things that I've neglected.
[11:27] Fisherman
    Does your wound still hurt?
[11:32] Fisherman
    Have some of this, if you'd like.
[11:44] Beholder
    Progress report.
[11:46] Beholder
    For the past month,
[11:48] Beholder
    I've watched over the travels of the boy,
    the old woman, and the donkey.
[11:54] Beholder
    The old woman, Pioran,
    is close to ninety years old.
[11:57] Beholder
    She's skilled at catching river fish.
[12:01] Pioran
    Start a fire, Fushi!
[12:03] Beholder
    The mind of the boy, Fushi,
[12:05] Beholder
    has continued to change since the
    time he behaved like a beast.
[12:15] Beholder
    He's perhaps fourteen in human years.
[12:19] Beholder
    He seems to have a fully-developed
    sense of self.
[12:24] Beholder
    They're 500 meters to the south.
[12:28] Fushi
    They're here, Pioran.
[12:30] Pioran
    What?!
[12:31] Fushi
    There are some rules we keep
    in order to stay safe together.
[12:35] Fushi
    Let's run!
[12:36] Fushi
    First, if the Nokkers come,
    we run, no matter what.
[12:36] Pioran
    Right!
[12:41] Fushi
    It's dangerous to try to fight back.
[12:44] Fushi
    Second, avoid changing into random animals.
[12:50] Fushi
    What is this?
[12:50] Fushi
    Because if I can't maintain
    my sense of self as that animal,
[12:51] Pioran
    Were you bitten by a leech?
[12:54] Fushi
    I can't respond when the Nokkers come.
[12:57] Pioran
    Goodnight, Fushi.
[12:57] Fushi
    Third, I go to sleep after Pioran,
[12:59] Fushi
    Yep.
[13:01] Fushi
    and wake up before Pioran.
[13:04] Fushi
    I should write down everything that's
    important so I don't forget.
[13:12] Pioran
    You spent all that time writing,
    and now you're burning it?
[13:15] Fushi
    It's fine.
[13:16] Fushi
    I can get it back whenever I need to.
[13:18] Pioran
    Uh-huh...
[13:19] Fushi
    Is there anything you want
    to do or eat, Pioran?
[13:23] Fushi
    Do you have any wishes?
[13:25] Pioran
    Wishes?
[13:27] Pioran
    Well...
[13:29] Pioran
    If I had to choose,
    I'd like to become younger.
[13:33] Pioran
    If I were younger, I could move around
    better, and I could eat hard foods.
[13:38] Pioran
    And I'd be popular with the men.
[13:40] Fushi
    Popular?
[13:42] Pioran
    I used to be beautiful a
    long time ago, like Rean.
[13:48] Fushi
    That's a hard wish to make come true.
[13:50] Pioran
    I've done everything I could ever want to.
[13:55] Pioran
    It used to be a life of
    toiling away like a horse.
[14:01] Pioran
    But I was blessed with a grandchild,
    and now, I have freedom.
[14:07] Pioran
    It's been a plenty fulfilling life.
[14:10] Beholder
    Fushi seems to have sensed something
    noble about this old woman.
[14:18] Fushi
    Fulfilled...
[14:20] Fushi
    I wonder if I'll feel that way someday.
[14:25] Beholder
    But the old woman was in the midst
    of losing that noble something.
[14:34] Fushi
    Pioran!
[14:38] Fushi
    You have to hold on tight.
[14:41] Pioran
    Shut up!
[14:42] Pioran
    I told you, my back hurts!
[14:44] Pioran
    Fool! Scumbag!
[14:51] Pioran
    Have you baked the breakfast potatoes?
[14:54] Fushi
    Huh? We just ate them earlier.
[14:56] Pioran
    I haven't eaten!
[14:58] Fushi
    Yes, you have!
[14:59] Pioran
    I have not!
[15:04] Beholder
    That change came slowly.
[15:08] Pioran
    Why do you carry me?!
[15:10] Pioran
    You think I'm useless, don't you?!
[15:12] Pioran
    Let me down!
[15:13] Fushi
    What else can I do?
[15:15] Fushi
    You keep falling off the donkey.
[15:17] Pioran
    I get it! I'm dead weight, aren't I?
[15:19] Pioran
    I'm old and senile! Leave me behind!
[15:22] Fushi
    I wouldn't do that.
[15:25] Fushi
    Wait! Where are you going, Pioran?
[15:28] Fushi
    It's midnight!
[15:29] Pioran
    The Yanome will come after
    us if we sleep out here!
[15:32] Fushi
    The Yanome aren't coming.
[15:35] Beholder
    Fushi doesn't seem to understand
    why this has happened.
[15:41] Beholder
    Even though I'd told him that that's
    how it is, he wouldn't accept it.
[15:47] Beholder
    He'd simply continue taking care
    of the old woman in silence.
[15:51] Pioran
    Just kill me already!
[15:53] Pioran
    I deserve to die! Kill me!
[15:57] Observer
    It must have felt to Fushi as though this
    person, Pioran, was slowly vanishing.
[15:57] Pioran
    Kill me!
[16:07] Observer
    And Fushi himself slowly changed.
[16:12] Observer
    He came to smile frequently.
[16:17] Observer
    His refreshing expression may have been that
[16:22] Observer
    of the joy of having gained a new experience,
[16:28] Observer
    or a desperate struggle to
    provide for the withering.
[16:35] Pioran
    Fushi, I'm happy I got to meet you.
[16:50] Pioran
    It's going to rain.
[16:53] Pioran
    Could you bring in the potatoes
    and fish that you left out to dry?
[16:57] Fushi
    Okay.
[17:03] Fushi
    I'll be right back.
[17:06] Fushi
    Stay in bed so you don't get cold.
[17:37] Pioran
    Hey, you. The one following Fushi around.
[17:42] Pioran
    The black thing.
[17:45] Pioran
    Take me right now.
[17:49] Pioran
    And if you can,
[17:53] Pioran
    let me be reborn into something that
    can be more useful to Fushi.
[18:01] Pioran
    If you care about him, do as I say.
[18:17] Beholder
    Your soul is made to be a whole
    only when it is with your flesh.
[18:24] Beholder
    If your body changes, that which
    makes you who you are will also change.
[18:31] Beholder
    Do you still wish for it?
[18:35] Pioran
    Yeah.
[18:38] Beholder
    Very well.
[18:41] Beholder
    Close your eyes and picture
    what you want to become.
[18:46] Beholder
    I'll come for you before
    you're taken by paradise.
[21:26] Fushi
    What am I supposed to do now?
[21:32] Fushi
    I know.
[21:34] Fushi
    I need to make sure I
    don't forget about today.
[21:38] Fushi
    About Pioran.
[21:47] Pioran
    What is your dream, Fushi?
[21:51] Pioran
    Do what you want to do, like I did!
[22:02] Fushi
    Thanks, Pioran.
[22:34] Fushi
    I was happy, too.
[22:44] Beholder
    For a while after, there was nothing
    more for me to say about Fushi.
[22:53] Beholder
    And then, several decades passed.
[23:10] Fushi
    Ow...
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