E5 - Accursed Beast
Source: Crunchyroll
Translator:
Editor:
Timer:
QC:
(Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.)
[00:00] Kyousuke
She loved you!
[00:03] Kyousuke
And I loved you...
[00:06] Kyousuke
your talent, your poetry, and you.
[00:10] Kyousuke
But that ends today.
[00:13] Kyousuke
I am going to cut ties with you.
[00:22] Takuboku
"That accursed beast,
the dyer's daughter, Oroku
[00:27] Takuboku
carrying a cat along
the beach in the setting sun...
[00:31] Takuboku
with an innocent expression,
lissome and lithe..."
SIGN Woodpecker Detective's Office
[02:06] Takuboku
"I ponder...
[02:08] Takuboku
the dangerous religion
of this dissolute age
[02:10] Takuboku
the witchcraft of the Christian Deus...
[02:16] Takuboku
the captains of the Black Ships...
[02:19] Takuboku
the mysterious land of the Red-haired...
[02:22] Takuboku
the crimson colored glass...
[02:25] Takuboku
and sharply scented carnations
[02:27] Takuboku
the striped cottons of the
barbarians from the West
[02:30] Takuboku
and arrak, that strange and rare liquor.
[02:36] Takuboku
The pale people of Dominica
SIGN Poem 5
Accursed Beast
[02:39] Takuboku
speak in multisyllabic litanies,
even in my dreams,
[02:43] Takuboku
of the forbidden god of their sect
[02:45] Takuboku
or of the blood-stained holy crucifixion..."
[02:49] Kayo
I'm coming in!
[02:51] Takuboku
"The deceptive instrument which
shows poppy seeds large as apples...
[02:56] Takuboku
The strange spectacles which bring the
heavens closer as you peer into the sky..."
[02:56] Kayo
What is that? It's too early in the
morning for something so creepy.
[02:59] Kayo
Come on. Hurry up and eat.
[03:01] Takuboku
Is it creepy?
[03:04] Takuboku
This is called "Gateway to Heresy."
[03:07] Takuboku
A friend of mine, Kitahara Hakushuu,
a man overflowing with wisdom wrote...
[03:12] Takuboku
The son of the Uchimoto steamship
company seems to have killed someone.
[03:16] Kayo
Honestly...
[03:17] Kayo
There isn't a single decent person
among the so-called upper class.
[03:19] Takuboku
You have a grudge against
the Uchimoto ships or something?
[03:22] Kayo
It's nothing like that.
[03:24] Kayo
I just feel sorry for the young lady
who was killed. That's all.
[03:31] Kayo
Oh! Ishikawa-san!
[03:33] Kayo
Do you have this month's rent?
[03:34] Takuboku
Yes. I'll have it within
the next day or two.
[03:38] Kayo
Really?
[03:39] Takuboku
A poet never goes back on his word.
[03:42] Kayo
Honestly.
[03:43] Kayo
What does he think he's doing? At his age...
[03:50] Kyousuke
Good morning!
[03:52] Takuboku
Morning.
[03:54] Kyousuke
Were you up all night?
[03:56] Takuboku
Yes.
[03:57] Takuboku
I couldn't sleep, so I opened up
Kitahara-kun's Gateway to Heresy
[04:00] Takuboku
and ended up even more awake than before.
[04:02] Takuboku
People like him are geniuses.
[04:06] Kyousuke
True, Kitahara-san may be a genius,
[04:09] Kyousuke
but your talent is in no way
inferior to his.
[04:14] Takuboku
You really are kind, Kyousuke-san.
[04:17] Kyousuke
In any case... Don't push yourself too hard.
[04:20] Kyousuke
If you let your health fall apart,
nothing else matters.
[04:24] Takuboku
"For me...
[04:26] Takuboku
to soothe my troubled heart
[04:29] Takuboku
someone sang me a song of praise."
[04:33] Takuboku
I composed that yesterday
while thinking of you.
[04:37] Kyousuke
Changing the subject,
aren't you going to work?
[04:40] Takuboku
Yes. Of course I'm going.
[04:43] Takuboku
As an ordinary consumer,
I need to earn my daily living.
[04:47] Takuboku
Though I work and work...
[04:51] Kyousuke
Do you have any plans tonight?
[04:53] Kyousuke
Let's go eat something
to give you some stamina.
[04:55] Kyousuke
I received my wages yesterday.
[04:57] Takuboku
I somehow feel apologetic toward you.
[05:00] Kyousuke
Oh, right. You paid your rent, didn't you?
[05:03] Takuboku
Oh.
[05:05] Takuboku
I'll take care of it in the next day or so.
[05:07] Kyousuke
Let's meet in the usual
place at seven, then.
[05:16] Yoshii
"Every morning...
[05:17] Yoshii
always on the same beach
[05:20] Yoshii
if we meet, I begin to smile—this maiden."
[05:23] Sakutarou
That's good.
[05:25] Yoshii
You think so?
[05:26] Sakutarou
Yes.
[05:27] Sakutarou
That is exactly the frame of mind I'm in.
[05:31] Sakutarou
So, who were you thinking
of when you composed that?
[05:38] Sakutarou
What?
[05:39] Sakutarou
She's the one that I—
[05:40] Yoshii
But you haven't made a single move.
[05:42] Sakutarou
Even so... How could you be so cruel?
[05:44] Yoshii
What do you mean, "cruel"?
[05:46] Yoshii
It's not as though Kiku-san belongs to you.
[05:49] Sakutarou
But...
[05:50] Nomura
Hey! You guys fighting?
[05:53] Sakutarou
Nomura-san!
[05:55] Sakutarou
Yoshii-kun has betrayed me.
[05:57] Yoshii
Hold on! You're making me
out to be a disgrace!
[05:59] Nomura
Now, now. I have no idea
what you're talking about.
[06:02] Sakutarou
Well, I... Ever since
she started working here,
[06:07] Sakutarou
my heart follows her.
[06:09] Sakutarou
I talked with Yoshii-kun about it, but he...
[06:12] Nomura
Would that "she" be...
[06:15] Sakutarou
Yokoyama Kiku-san.
[06:16] Nomura
What?!
[06:18] Sakutarou
Could it be that you also—
[06:19] Nomura
D-Don't be stupid.
[06:22] Nomura
Who'd want a girl like...
[06:40] Takuboku
Excuse me!
[06:42] proprietor
Huh?
[06:43] Takuboku
I'll take this please.
[06:54] Takuboku
"Fresh and new...
[06:55] Takuboku
the smell of the paper of Western books
[06:58] Takuboku
makes me hunger for money all the more."
[07:03] Sakutarou
So Nomura-san, you have
feelings for Kiku-san, too.
[07:08] Nomura
That girl stole something important to me.
[07:12] Sakutarou
Something important?
[07:13] Nomura
My heart.
[07:20] Sakutarou
Beautiful, genuine, and dignified...
[07:24] Sakutarou
It would be hard not to
fall in love with her.
[07:28] Nomura
You're not wrong.
[07:29] Yoshii
I will not let you have her!
[07:31] Yoshii
Whether my opponent be
Nomura-san or Hagiwara-kun,
[07:36] Yoshii
I will not give her up!
[07:37] Sakutarou
And I—
[07:39] Sakutarou
I'd never give her up, even if it kills me.
[07:41] Nomura
Well, there is the question of her feelings...
[07:42] Yoshii
I see.
[07:44] Yoshii
Then why don't we settle this
with our poems?
[07:47] Sakutarou
With poems?
[07:48] Yoshii
We have staked our lives on literature.
[07:51] Yoshii
It's only logical that a battle on love's
pathway be settled through literature.
[07:54] Sakutarou
That's true, but...
[07:56] Nomura
I'll pass.
[07:59] Yoshii
What about you, Hagiwara-kun?
[08:01] Yoshii
Do you think you can surpass
the poem I read earlier?
[08:05] Sakutarou
Of course. I accept your challenge.
[08:12] Satou
It's already after three.
[08:13] Satou
What happened?
[08:15] Takuboku
Yes... I wasn't feeling very well.
[08:19] Satou
I see.
[08:20] Satou
You do seem tired...
[08:23] Takuboku
Not at all. Work is work.
[08:25] Takuboku
I can't let my circumstances
dictate everything.
[08:28] Satou
Good. Then we'll be counting on you today.
[08:32] Takuboku
Yes, sir. Leave it to me.
[08:37] Satou
Is something wrong?
[08:39] Takuboku
Well... I was wondering if
I might have an advance.
[08:42] Satou
What?
[08:43] Satou
But you asked for an advance
last week, too, to pay your rent.
[08:46] Takuboku
Oh. I ended up sending that to my parents...
[08:51] Satou
It's really hard to talk
to accounting about this...
[08:55] Satou
Will this be enough?
[08:56] Takuboku
Thank you.
[08:58] Takuboku
I will forever be indebted to you!
[09:01] Takuboku
That's a nice suit.
[09:02] Satou
Oh, this?
[09:03] Satou
The other day, I splurged and
bought it on monthly installments.
[09:06] Satou
I just happened to see it in the store
and fell in love at first sight.
[09:10] Satou
It's not often...
[09:12] Takuboku
"So large and great...
[09:14] Takuboku
his physical being loathsome
[09:16] Takuboku
standing before him, speaking."
[09:23] Sakutarou
"I simply wish...
[09:25] Sakutarou
for a day beside you
[09:28] Sakutarou
for a dream of a thousand years."
[09:30] Nomura
Impressive... Very passionate.
[09:34] Yoshii
Exactly the kind of poem I'd expect
a closet lecher like you to compose.
[09:38] Sakutarou
There's no need to talk about
a person's poem like that!
[09:40] Nomura
Oh, I forgot.
[09:42] Nomura
Shall we get this warmed up?
[09:44] Yoshii
Drinking will hardly help
with the poetry, will it?
[09:47] Sakutarou
You're wrong. Drinking will help
our tongues move more freely.
[09:51] Yoshii
But it will slow the movement
of our minds, won't it?
[09:54] Sakutarou
Poems are not spoken from the mind.
[09:57] Yoshii
Even so, they aren't spoken
from the tongue, are they?
[10:00] Sakutarou
You speak them with your tongue!
Or do you speak them with your teeth?
[10:03] Sakutarou
If you don't—
[10:03] Bokusui
Poems are read from the heart.
[10:07] Nomura
Wakayama-kun.
[10:10] Bokusui
Kiku-san!
[10:12] Kiku
Yes?
[10:14] Bokusui
Sorry for the trouble.
Can I ask you to heat this up?
[10:17] Kiku
Of course.
[10:19] Kiku
All of you have had the most
troubled expressions.
[10:21] Kiku
Are you discussing literature again?
[10:24] Sakutarou
No...
[10:25] Yoshii
Well, it is literature of a sort...
[10:27] Kiku
Don't give up.
[10:32] Bokusui
Truly, that is what you call lovely.
[10:35] Bokusui
I've been thinking Kiku-san
is pretty lovable, too, you see.
[10:39] Bokusui
Will you let me join in?
[10:41] Yoshii
That's...
[10:42] Sakutarou
Wakayama-san is like us,
aspiring toward literature.
[10:45] Sakutarou
There's no logical reason to refuse.
[10:48] Bokusui
In that case, allow me to read a poem.
[10:51] Bokusui
To be honest, I've already written it.
[10:54] Bokusui
"Look at the mountains
[10:55] Bokusui
The mountains shine in the sunlight
[10:57] Bokusui
Look at the sea
[10:59] Bokusui
The sea shines in the sunlight
[11:01] Bokusui
Now! My lips to yours."
[11:13] Man A
About Oen...
[11:15] Takuboku
Yes. Hananoya's proprietress
told me all about it.
[11:20] Man A
Meaning you understand and accept?
[11:22] Takuboku
Well, now, that's...
[11:24] Takuboku
It isn't something I can do
at my own discretion.
[11:27] Takuboku
Oen's feelings are what's
most important here, you see.
[11:31] Man A
You're quite an impressive man.
[11:33] Takuboku
Am I?
[11:36] Takuboku
If I were just a little more brazen,
[11:38] Takuboku
providing for my lifestyle
would be easier...
[11:42] Takuboku
"Though I work and work,
still, the way I live..."
[11:53] Takuboku
Kyousuke-san!
[11:56] Takuboku
Sorry to keep you waiting!
[11:58] Kyousuke
No, I just got here.
[12:01] Kyousuke
Have you already been drinking?
[12:03] Takuboku
With a certain wealthy man.
[12:05] Takuboku
Now, shall we go to the foot
of the Twelve-stories?
[12:08] Kyousuke
What?
[12:09] Takuboku
That's right. It's simply a lust for flesh.
[12:11] Takuboku
But it's still a lust for flesh, you know.
[12:14] Takuboku
Besides which, Kyousuke-san...
[12:15] Takuboku
Are you sure you're all right like that?
Your whole life... like that?
[12:19] Kyousuke
Well, no, but...
[12:21] Takuboku
Then tonight is the night we settle things!
[12:26] Bokusui
"Once drunk, everyone
[12:27] Bokusui
jokes about their triumphs in love
[12:30] Bokusui
with tears mingled in, ah, these youths."
[12:33] Nomura
Huh. The more he drinks,
the more Wakayama he gets.
[12:37] Sakutarou
The more he drinks, the more
his heart sings, I suppose.
[12:40] Yoshii
Nomura-san!
[12:41] Yoshii
Which poem is it? A poem
worthy of giving to Kiku-san.
[12:45] Yoshii
Tell me!
[12:46] Nomura
About that...
[12:47] Nomura
The thing is, Kiku-san has...
[12:49] Kiku
I'm leaving for the day!
[12:56] Sakutarou
Kiku-san!
[12:59] Sakutarou
Um... There's something
I'd like to give you.
[13:04] Kiku
What is it?
[13:06] Sakutarou
It's just... Um...
[13:08] Sakutarou
This.
[13:12] Kiku
"Every morning...
[13:14] Kiku
always on the same beach
[13:16] Kiku
if we meet, I begin to smile—this maiden."
[13:21] Sakutarou
Yoshii-kun wrote this poem for you.
[13:25] Kiku
My.
[13:26] Yoshii
That's right.
[13:27] Yoshii
I love—
[13:31] Kiku
Senjaku-sama!
[13:33] Senjaku
Hey.
[13:34] Kiku
I was waiting for you.
[13:36] Senjaku
Is it all right for you to leave?
[13:37] Kiku
Yes.
[13:38] Kiku
Yoshii-sama!
[13:40] Kiku
Thank you for the beautiful poem.
[13:44] Yoshii
No problem...
SIGN Woodpecker
Detective's
Office
SIGN Hananoya
[13:48] madam
I'm very sorry.
[13:50] madam
Another guest came just before you.
[13:58] Takuboku
Oen is such a beauty, you see?
[14:00] Takuboku
There's no end to the offers from people
wanting to take her home.
[14:02] Kyousuke
Really.
[14:04] Oen
Stop talking about that.
[14:06] Takuboku
If you let someone take you in,
[14:08] Takuboku
you'd never worry for money
and you could live how you liked...
[14:12] Kyousuke
Honestly.
[14:13] Kyousuke
What is it you like about Ishikawa-kun?
[14:15] Oen
I'm from Hanamaki.
[14:19] Oen
When I came here, my first
guest was Hajime-san...
[14:23] Oen
I started crying...
[14:26] Oen
When that happened,
instead of making love to me,
[14:29] Oen
he just patted my head all night.
[14:31] Takuboku
Oen...
[14:34] Oen
Wha—Hajime-san!
[14:36] Takuboku
Does it tickle?
[14:38] Kyousuke
I'm going home!
[14:43] Oen
Oh, my.
[14:45] Takuboku
Well. Shall we head up?
[14:47] Takuboku
There's something I wanted
to talk to you about.
[14:52] Yoshii
"Upon visiting...
[14:53] Yoshii
my friend happens to be pleasantly drunk
[14:56] Yoshii
delighted in love,
the moon on a misty night."
[14:59] Sakutarou
One of Wakayama-san's poems, isn't it?
[15:01] Sakutarou
When it comes to poems about alcohol,
no one can match him.
[15:06] Yoshii
Indeed.
[15:07] Yoshii
Hagiwara-kun.
[15:09] Yoshii
Why did you give her my poem?
[15:11] Sakutarou
Because that poem moved me.
[15:16] Yoshii
Love truly is a fragile thing, isn't it?
[15:20] Sakutarou
Yes, it is.
[15:24] Sakutarou
"Two pitch-black cats
[15:27] Sakutarou
on a rooftop in the
seductive, restless night
[15:30] Sakutarou
from the tips of their tall,
pin-straight tails
[15:32] Sakutarou
a crescent moon,
thin as a thread, grows hazy
[15:36] Sakutarou
meow, good evening
[15:38] Sakutarou
meow, good evening
[15:40] Sakutarou
mraow, mraow, mraow
SIGN Hananoya
[15:47] Sakutarou
meow
[15:48] Sakutarou
the master of this house is ill."
[15:53] Takuboku
I really do feel
[15:54] Takuboku
that the hearts of people who come from
the same area are connected at the root.
[15:58] Oen
Yes. I feel that, too.
[16:02] Takuboku
"One's hometown
[16:03] Takuboku
those children who have left
[16:05] Takuboku
are all alike
[16:07] Takuboku
there is no sadness which
can overwhelm happiness."
[16:11] Oen
"One's hometown
[16:13] Oen
those children who have left
[16:14] Oen
are all alike
[16:16] Oen and Takuboku
there is no sadness which
can overwhelm happiness."
[16:22] Takuboku
Are you crying?
[16:24] Oen
I'm sorry.
[16:26] Takuboku
Do you want to go back? To your hometown...
[16:29] Oen
No.
[16:31] Oen
If I did, I wouldn't be able
to see you, Hajime-san.
[16:36] Takuboku
Oen, I have something I want to ask you.
[16:53] Sakutarou
"In the distance, a pistol shot rings out.
[16:56] Sakutarou
And another pistol shot.
[16:58] Sakutarou
Ah!
[16:59] Sakutarou
My detective dons clothes of crystal
[17:02] Sakutarou
and sneaks in through the lover's window.
[17:05] Sakutarou
The floors are of clear jade.
[17:07] Sakutarou
From the spaces between each finger
[17:09] Sakutarou
flows ghastly pale blood.
[17:12] Sakutarou
Atop the tragic woman's corpse
[17:14] Sakutarou
a cold katydid chirps.
[17:18] Sakutarou
One morning, at the beginning
of the Month of Frost,
[17:20] Sakutarou
the detective dons his clothes of crystal
[17:23] Sakutarou
and turns at the intersection in town.
SIGN Kikunyuusha Milk
Newspapers
SIGN Milk Newspapers Kikunyuusha
[17:29] Sakutarou
At the intersection, a fountain of autumn.
[17:33] Sakutarou
Now, the lone detective feels troubled.
[17:36] Sakutarou
Look.
[17:37] Sakutarou
That distant, desolate marble footpath
[17:41] Sakutarou
where the villain slips away at speed."
[17:47] Takuboku
Oh, my.
[17:48] Takuboku
They've arrested a statesman who'd been
receiving money from Uchimoto steamships.
[17:52] Takuboku
It says it started with a letter the woman
killed by the son of the family left.
[17:57] Takuboku
This looks like it'll be a big deal.
[17:59] Kayo
Serves him right.
[18:01] Kayo
The murdered young lady will be happy, too.
[18:03] Takuboku
This seems very similar to...
[18:05] Kayo
To what?
[18:06] Takuboku
Well, it's just...
[18:08] Takuboku
With the Arakawa mines case, too,
[18:09] Takuboku
it started with a murder
related to a letter,
[18:12] Takuboku
which lead to uncovering
the mine pollution issues...
[18:15] Takuboku
Now that I think about it,
[18:17] Takuboku
the real murderer who tried to frame
the head clerk hasn't been caught yet.
[18:22] Kayo
"And that real murderer might be pulling
the strings behind this case, too."
[18:26] Kayo
You weren't going to say that, were you?
[18:29] Takuboku
Kayo-san, are you sure you don't
have a talent for writing fiction?
[18:33] Takuboku
But in the Arakawa mines case,
more than the murder of Tatsukichi,
[18:37] Takuboku
it seemed like exposing the scandal
about the minerals was the real objective.
[18:41] Kayo
Educated people always make things
too difficult. That's the problem.
[18:45] Kayo
More importantly, your rent.
[18:49] Takuboku
There's two month's worth in there.
[19:02] Kyousuke
Excuse me...
[19:04] Kyousuke
Oen-san?
[19:06] Kyousuke
Is something wrong?
[19:07] Kyousuke
It's cold out here. Please, come inside.
[19:10] Oen
No, thank you. I have to catch a train.
[19:14] Kyousuke
Are you traveling far?
[19:20] Kyousuke
Is someone waiting for you?
[19:23] Oen
The man who will be my husband.
[19:25] Kyousuke
What?
[19:26] Kyousuke
Then, you—
[19:27] Oen
Will you give this to Hajime-san?
[19:42] Takuboku
Well, that was a close one!
[19:45] Kyousuke
Ishikawa-kun!
[19:46] Kyousuke
Just now, Oen-san was...
[19:48] Takuboku
Yes. I saw.
[19:50] Takuboku
Is that for me?
[19:52] Kyousuke
Oh. Yes...
[19:55] Takuboku
Quite the conscientious woman, isn't she...
[19:58] Takuboku
I could buy another suit like this
and still have change left over.
[20:02] Kyousuke
What on earth is going on?
[20:04] Takuboku
What do you mean?
[20:05] Kyousuke
That suit and that money.
[20:07] Takuboku
Oh.
[20:08] Takuboku
This was from the remuneration
for persuading Oen, and this...
[20:12] Takuboku
I suppose you could call it a farewell gift.
[20:14] Kyousuke
Which means you...
[20:16] Kyousuke
After selling Oen off
and receiving money for it,
[20:19] Kyousuke
you took her money, too?
[20:21] Takuboku
I didn't "sell her off."
[20:23] Takuboku
Oen agreed to it, after all.
[20:25] Takuboku
She should be grateful to me, really.
[20:28] Kyousuke
Grateful?
[20:29] Takuboku
Yes. The man is very wealthy.
[20:33] Takuboku
From now on, she'll never
have to worry about money—
[20:36] Kyousuke
She loved you!
[20:38] Kyousuke
And I loved you...
[20:40] Kyousuke
your talent, your poetry, and you!
[20:44] Kyousuke
But that ends today.
[20:47] Kyousuke
I am going to cut ties with you.
[21:01] Takuboku
"That accursed beast,
the dyer's daughter, Oroku
[21:05] Takuboku
carrying a cat along
the beach in the setting sun...
[21:09] Takuboku
with an innocent expression,
lissome and lithe...
[21:15] Takuboku
The accursed beast ties fabric
in the chikuzen-shibori style
[21:19] Takuboku
her slim, elegant fingertips
stained dark blue
[21:23] Takuboku
and her gold ring flashes..."
[21:27] Oen
I'm from Hanamaki. When I came
here, my first guest was...
[21:29] Kyousuke
What is it you like about Ishikawa-kun?
[21:32] Man A
You're quite an impressive man.
[21:33] Kyousuke
I am going to cut ties with you.
[21:47] Takuboku
Cut ties?
[21:49] Takuboku
Well, that's just fine.
[21:52] Takuboku
You know, I'm... trying so desperately...
[21:56] Takuboku
"Though I work and work
[21:59] Takuboku
still, it never gets any easier to live
[22:02] Takuboku
I stare at my hands."
[23:38] Bokusui
Kindaichi-kun, they say you
cut ties with Ishikawa-kun?
[23:40] Kyousuke
I can never forgive him!
[23:42] Bokusui
If you're too stubborn, someone might
steal your spot as his partner, you know.
SIGN Next Time: "Honeysuckle"
SIGN Illustration: Saki Kaoru
No comments to display
No comments to display