# E6 - The Honnoji Incident
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**[00:01] Ranmaru**
Who's there?!
**[00:04] Ranmaru**
You're the ones from before...
**[00:06] Ranmaru**
You knaves!
**[00:12] Ranmaru**
What are you doing?
**[00:14] Ranmaru**
Let me go... Unhand me!
**[00:37] General**
No wonder our lord chose them to put on a show.
**[00:40] General 2**
This is very impressive!
**[00:50] Ranmaru**
Mitsuhide-sama.
**[00:53] Mitsuhide**
Oh, if it isn't Ranmaru.
**[00:55] Ranmaru**
I didn't know you were here.
**[00:58] Mitsuhide**
Our lord summoned me
to entertain a court noble.
**[01:02] Ranmaru**
Is that so?
**[01:04] Mitsuhide**
How beautiful is the camellia in late bloom.
**[01:09] Mitsuhide**
Unlike you, I am old and
won't live for much longer.
**[01:14] Mitsuhide**
But I hope I can make
flowers bloom in the afterlife.
**[01:17] Ranmaru**
Camellia...
**[01:19] Ranmaru**
These flowers are said to be
a bad omen for warriors,
**[01:23] Ranmaru**
for the way they fall
reminds one of a beheading.
**[01:28] Ranmaru**
I can't say I'm too fond of them, either.
**[01:32] Mitsuhide**
A flower bears no sin.
**[01:35] Ranmaru**
Indeed. But they do put
bad thoughts in my mind.
**[01:40] Ranmaru**
Like something sad is about to happen...
**[01:44] Mitsuhide**
Is something the matter?
**[01:47] Ranmaru**
No, nothing. I shall take my leave now.
**[02:03] Mitsuhide**
*Oda Nobunaga, whose head will it be?*
**[02:07] Mitsuhide**
* Will it be my head that falls,*
* or will it be yours?*
***SIGN*** Touken Ranbu -Kai- Kyoden
***SIGN*** Episode Six
The Honnoji Incident
**[03:47] Mutsunokami**
Nothing beats coolin' down with
the evening breeze right after a bath.
**[03:50] Kasen**
Yes. It is truly tasteful.
**[03:53] Kashu**
It's not too bad, yeah.
**[03:55] Kasen**
The sky is so grand.
**[03:57] Kasen**
No matter how many eras came and went,
**[04:00] Kasen**
people could never change the form
the sky takes day after day.
**[04:05] Kashu**
Maybe the sky has watched history
being written from above.
**[04:09] Hachisuka**
I wonder if Hasebe's squad is all right.
**[04:12] Mutsunokami**
Ah, yeah. They've headed off on a
mission that's awfully cruel ta them.
**[04:19] Hachisuka**
The Honnoji Incident, huh?
**[04:21] Mutsunokami**
Gah! I haven't the foggiest idea
what Master was thinkin'!
**[04:26] Kashu**
Say...
**[04:27] Kashu**
You think we'll be sent on missions with
Sakamoto Ryoma or the Shinsengumi, too?
**[04:33] Mutsunokami**
Who knows? That's for our master ta decide.
**[04:38] Kasen**
We all bear our own stories.
**[04:42] Kasen**
As you have your stories with
Sakamoto Ryoma or the Shinsengumi,
**[04:47] Kasen**
Hachisuka has one with the Hachisukas,
**[04:50] Kasen**
and I have mine with the Hosokowas.
**[04:53] Kasen**
Shokudaikiri Mitsutada and Ookurikara
have theirs with Date Masamune.
**[05:00] Kasen**
Our stories are tied to the history books,
and we fight to defend that history.
**[05:07] Kasen**
If that's the case, then maybe
we can't avoid facing our stories.
**[05:13] Mutsunokami**
You may be right.
**[05:16] Hachisuka**
I'm sure a time will come when we all
have to face off with our own stories.
**[05:22] Hachisuka**
If that is what Master wants, it will happen.
**[05:25] Kashu**
Well, I'm ready for that to happen.
**[05:29] Kashu**
Always have been, always will be.
**[05:53] Yagen**
The Honnoji Incident is about to begin.
**[05:55] Hasebe**
The Akechi army has
Honnoji Temple surrounded.
**[05:58] Hasebe**
Oda and his followers have
nowhere to run now.
**[06:02] Hasebe**
Soon, a battle cry will sound out,
and the attack will begin.
**[06:07] Souza**
Yes.
**[06:08] Yagen**
Why do you think Master
sent us on this mission?
**[06:13] Hasebe**
It doesn't matter. They're Master's orders,
and we mustn't question them.
**[06:19] Hasebe**
We're here to carry out our mission,
and that's what we'll do.
**[06:24] Yagen**
I figured you'd say that.
**[06:28] Hasebe**
Probably as a message, telling us
to come to terms with it.
**[06:31] Souza**
Huh?
**[06:32] Hasebe**
We have to come to terms
with Oda Nobunaga's story.
**[06:39] Souza**
For me...
**[06:40] Souza**
When that so-called Demon King Oda Nobunaga
defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto at Okehazama,
**[06:46] Souza**
he took me as spoils of war.
**[06:48] Souza**
I stayed with him as
Oda Nobunaga's sword thereafter,
**[06:52] Souza**
and I burned here in Honnoji.
**[06:55] Souza**
If I close my eyes,
I see a nightmare of flames.
**[06:58] Souza**
So long as this brand remains on my chest,
I can never escape this nightmare.
**[07:02] Yagen**
You know, I don't feel too negatively
about Nobunaga-san.
**[07:07] Souza**
Yagen?
**[07:08] Yagen**
I can't say I hated him.
**[07:10] Yagen**
But I also don't know if I liked him.
**[07:13] Yagen**
What I do know is that
I want to understand him.
**[07:16] Souza**
Understand him, you say?
**[07:19] Yagen**
I want to understand what kind
of man Oda Nobunaga really was.
**[07:24] Yagen**
The Fool of Owari,
the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven,
**[07:28] Yagen**
the Conqueror, the Great Unifier...
**[07:30] Yagen**
People gave him all kinds of monikers.
**[07:34] Yagen**
He was respected, feared, loved, and despised.
**[07:40] Yagen**
Nothing about him gives us a glimpse
into who he was deep inside.
**[07:46] Yagen**
But you know what?
**[07:48] Yagen**
I think they were all part of what
made Oda Nobunaga who he was.
**[07:54] Yagen**
We all have different sides, too.
**[07:57] Yagen**
We do farm work, and we eat.
**[08:00] Yagen**
We fight battles, and we wrestle
with our thoughts, just like now.
**[08:03] Yagen**
I feel like he was probably the same.
**[08:06] Yagen**
There's no way we can sum
that all up in one sentence.
**[08:11] Souza**
To me, that man was...
**[08:19] Yamanbagiri**
What are you doing there?
**[08:22] Fudou**
Nothing, really.
**[08:25] Yamanbagiri**
If you have something to say,
go out there and say it.
**[08:28] Yamanbagiri**
You were an Oda sword just like them.
**[08:32] Fudou**
I'm not strong like Heshikiri and Yagen.
**[08:36] Fudou**
I was beloved as a sword,
but not as much as Souza.
**[08:40] Fudou**
I really am a useless sword.
**[08:43] Fudou**
That's why I can't stay this way.
**[08:47] Fudou**
Manba-chan, I'll fight to defend history, too.
**[08:52] Fudou**
I'll help make sure the Honnoji Incident
occurs just like it did in history.
**[08:56] Yamanbagiri**
Yeah, that's the way.
**[08:59] Mikazuki**
The time is upon us.
**[09:03] Hasebe**
So it's starting.
**[09:05] Yamanbagiri**
Yeah.
**[09:12] Yamanbagiri**
It's the Honnoji Incident.
**[09:43] Mitsuhide**
Our enemy lies in Honnoji! To battle!
**[09:48] Toshimitsu**
Inform all troops to commence battle!
**[09:50] Retainer**
Sir!
**[10:01] Ranmaru**
Is this...
**[10:06] Ranmaru**
Milord!
**[10:18] Akechisoldiers**
What the...
**[10:19] Akechisoldiers**
What's going on?
**[10:21] Akechisoldiers**
This almost seems to be an ayakashi's doing!
**[10:27] Akechisoldiers**
These fiends...
**[10:29] Akechisoldiers**
Monsters!
**[10:34] Hasebe**
Settle down. There's nothing we can do.
**[10:38] Yagen**
About historical fact, that is.
**[10:41] Hasebe**
But if anyone seeks to alter it,
we must move to defend it.
**[10:46] Fudou**
I decided to fight to defend history.
**[10:51] Fudou**
But... now that I see this
unfolding before me...
**[10:55] Fudou**
Heshikiri, don't you...
**[10:57] Fudou**
Don't you care what happens to Nobunaga?!
**[11:01] Hasebe**
I don't, no. Unlike you,
I was a sword he discarded.
**[11:05] Hasebe**
So I think this serves him right, even.
**[11:09] Hasebe**
A human life is but a flash
in the overall scale of history.
**[11:13] Hasebe**
All life is bound to die someday,
**[11:15] Hasebe**
and Oda Nobunaga was no exception. That's all.
**[11:18] Fudou**
Still, I...
**[11:19] Hasebe**
Don't get emotional.
**[11:21] Hasebe**
Oda Nobunaga will die here,
**[11:24] Hasebe**
and we have to ensure it happens.
**[11:33] Yamanbagiri**
This is no time to be standing around chatting.
**[11:36] Hasebe**
Fudou Yukimitsu.
**[11:37] Hasebe**
If you won't fulfill your duty
as a Sword Warrior,
**[11:42] Hasebe**
leave this place now.
**[11:46] Yamanbagiri**
Let's go.
**[11:47] Mikazuki**
Yes, let's. To put an end
to Oda Nobunaga's history.
**[11:57] Fudou**
The heck am I supposed to do?!
**[12:06] Akechisoldier**
You're mine!
**[12:10] Yasuke**
Ranmaru-sama!
**[12:14] Ranmaru**
Is Mitsuhide-sama staging a rebellion?
**[12:17] Yasuke**
Why would he do that?
**[12:20] Ranmaru**
I don't know. And...
**[12:23] Ranmaru**
This isn't the Honnoji Temple I know.
**[12:26] Yasuke**
What is happening?
**[12:28] Akechisoldier**
There they are!
**[12:29] Yasuke**
Ranmaru-sama.
**[12:30] Ranmaru**
I'll handle things here. You take on
the foes there, Yasuke-dono.
**[12:34] Yasuke**
Si, signore!
**[12:36] Ranmaru**
I am not letting you through to milord!
**[12:41] Ranmaru**
Curses!
**[12:43] Akechisoldier**
Prepare to die.
**[13:01] Ranmaru**
It's you...
**[13:10] Ranmaru**
Why do you help me?
**[13:13] Yasuda**
Oh? He has some terribly grotesque men.
**[13:16] Yasuda**
I suppose he's not called
the demon king for nothing!
**[13:33] Ranmaru**
No!
**[13:36] Ranmaru**
I can't die yet!
**[13:40] Ranmaru**
I must protect milord...
I must protect Nobunaga-sama!
**[13:50] Yasuda**
How could this be?
**[13:58] Yasuda**
You walking corpse!
**[14:15] Yasuda**
Have you ceased to be human?
**[14:23] Ranmaru**
I will... keep milord safe.
**[14:40] Yagen**
Hey, you okay?
**[14:42] Akechisoldier**
Who are you people?
**[14:44] Hasebi**
Looks like Honnoji Temple has
turned into a cursed labyrinth.
**[14:49] Mikazuki**
Our foes are trying every trick in the book.
**[14:52] Yamanbagiri**
Stop being impressed. Let's hurry.
**[14:57] Akechisoldier**
Who were those guys?
**[15:03] Souza**
That's...
**[15:04] Akechisoldier**
Yasuda-sama!
**[15:06] Akechisoldier**
He's still breathing! Take him outside!
**[15:08] Akechisoldier**
Right!
**[15:10] Yamanbagiri**
One of Akechi's generals, Yasuda Kunitsugu.
**[15:13] Yagen**
The warrior who historically
killed Mori Ranmaru...
**[15:17] Yagen**
and yet he's down and out already.
**[15:19] Hasebe**
History is starting to get twisted.
**[15:22] Mikazuki**
Is the Time Retrograde Army counting on
Mori Ranmaru to save Oda Nobunaga?
**[15:30] Fudou**
Nobunaga!
**[15:32] Fudou**
Ranmaru!
**[15:33] Fudou**
Where are you?!
**[15:35] Fudou**
Hey, where are you?
**[15:39] Fudou**
Ranmaru... Ranmaru... I...
**[15:53] Fudou**
I finally found you.
**[15:57] Ranmaru**
Why are you here?
**[16:03] Fudou**
Ranmaru!
**[16:06] Hasebe**
Wait.
**[16:07] Fudou**
Heshikiri?
**[16:09] Souza**
Something's wrong.
**[16:11] Yagen**
Yeah.
**[16:23] Ranmaru**
Well, it doesn't matter.
**[16:27] Ranmaru**
Whoever comes after milord's
life has to go through me.
**[16:40] Souza**
That form...
**[16:42] Yagen**
He looks like one of the Time Retrograde Army.
**[16:48] Fudou**
Ranmaru!
**[16:52] Fudou**
Move, Souza!
**[16:54] Souza**
You mustn't! According to history,
**[16:57] Souza**
Mori Ranmaru should already be dead!
**[16:59] Souza**
What you see there is not Mori Ranmaru!
**[17:03] Fudou**
But...
**[17:04] Hasebe**
It's a monster possessed by
the Time Retrograde Army.
**[17:07] Fudou**
Stop it!
**[17:09] Yagen**
Hey, we don't have time to be arguing.
**[17:15] Yamanbagiri**
The Time Retrograde Army...
**[17:17] Ranmaru**
Oh, so you are our enemies.
**[17:21] Ranmaru**
In that case, in order to protect milord,
**[17:25] Ranmaru**
I must have your heads!
**[17:27] Yamanbagiri**
Don't bunch up. Disperse!
**[17:39] Yasuke**
Who are you?
**[17:41] Yasuke**
I see.
**[17:43] Yasuke**
You wish to protect Nobunaga-sama, too,
**[17:47] Yasuke**
our dark friends?
**[18:00] Fudou**
No! Stop it, Ranmaru!
**[18:03] Fudou**
I don't want to fight you!
**[18:15] Fudou**
Ranmaru?
**[18:16] Ranmaru**
I won't let milord die. I will protect him.
**[18:22] Fudou**
No, Ranmaru!
**[18:23] Fudou**
Tend to your wounds, or you'll die!
**[18:26] Ranmaru**
Out of my way!
**[18:28] Fudou**
Cut it out!
**[18:29] Fudou**
I don't want to fight you!
**[18:32] Ranmaru**
Quiet!
**[18:32] Fudou**
I don't want to see you die!
**[18:35] Fudou**
You and I are comrades,
both beloved by Nobunaga!
**[18:40] Fudou**
That's why I...
**[18:44] Ranmaru**
I must go to milord...
**[18:47] Fudou**
Ranmaru!
**[18:56] Yamanbagiri**
The enemy has possessed
Mori Ranmaru in a bid to alter history.
**[19:00] Hasebe**
They want him to kill Akechi Mitsuhide and
keep Oda Nobunaga alive beyond Honnoji?
**[19:06] Souza**
Then we must stop Mori Ranmaru.
**[19:09] Yagen**
Hey, check it out.
**[19:14] Yagen**
Looks like we hit the bullseye.
**[19:17] Mikazuki**
Then fight we shall.
**[19:23] Fudou**
Ranmaru!
**[19:24] Hasebe**
Fudou Yukimitsu!
**[19:26] Yagen**
When will he learn?
**[19:28] Yamanbagiri**
Souza, we'll take care of this.
**[19:31] Yamanbagiri**
Go after Fudou.
**[19:32] Souza**
Right!
**[19:37] Ranmaru**
Milord...
**[19:44] Akechiretainer**
Wh-What the?!
**[19:46] Akechiretainer**
Foul monster!
**[19:54] Mitsuhide**
Are you... Ranmaru-dono?
**[20:00] Ranmaru**
Mitsuhide-sama.
**[20:03] Ranmaru**
Why would you start a rebellion?
**[20:05] Mitsuhide**
To see my cause to fruition.
**[20:08] Ranmaru**
What cause could this
madness possibly serve?
**[20:11] Mitsuhide**
Ranmaru, why do you fight for
our lord in such a wretched state?
**[20:17] Ranmaru**
Because that is my duty.
**[20:22] Mitsuhide**
"Duty," eh?
**[20:24] Mitsuhide**
Just as you fight out of fealty,
I fight for my cause.
**[20:33] Mitsuhide**
Move, Ranmaru.
**[20:35] Mitsuhide**
I must have his head.
**[20:38] Ranmaru**
Why would you want to kill him?
What did he do to deserve this?
**[20:42] Mitsuhide**
Let me ask you, then.
**[20:44] Mitsuhide**
Why do you try to protect him with your life?
**[20:48] Mitsuhide**
What has you show such loyalty to him?!
**[20:53] Mitsuhide**
Ranmaru...
**[20:55] Mitsuhide**
I ask you, what kind of man
is Oda Nobunaga to you?
**[20:58] Mitsuhide**
Who is Oda Nobunaga?
**[21:08] Fudou**
Ranmaru!
**[21:18] Souza**
Mori Ranmaru.
**[21:20] Souza**
You were already meant
to be dead by this point.
**[21:24] Ranmaru**
And yet I still live!
**[21:27] Souza**
That isn't what the history books want!
**[21:34] Kasen**
Since we swords were part
of many historical events,
**[21:39] Kasen**
they form our stories, as well.
**[21:42] Kasen**
And part of that is always
our former masters' downfalls.
**[21:47] Hachisuka**
Yes. Some passed away peacefully,
**[21:50] Hachisuka**
while others died in the midst
of pursuing their dreams.
**[21:54] Mutsunokami**
And regardless, we were brought
here ta defend history.
**[21:59] Kashu**
Yeah, which is why we'll do just that.
**[22:03] Kashu**
Even if that history is
nothing but pain and misery.