# E4 - The Gateway to the Past
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYWMGD4JR/the-gateway-to-the-past)
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She's got real sense for her age.
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Yeah, that's quite amazing.
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Her form is quite good, too.
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And since she's so young,
she's a fast learner.
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BOUNTY HUNTER - MOROHA
**[00:12] ---**
Yeah? You all keep saying I'm young,
**[00:15] ---**
but in this era
I'm way older than all of you!
**[00:18] ---**
Well, that's impossible.
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HIGURASHI FAMILY'S CAT - BUYO
**[00:20] ---**
But it's true.
**[00:22] ---**
But it's true.
**[00:22] ---**
I'm probably around 450 years older
than everyone here.
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Everyone's looking so energetic.
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MEI'S GREAT-GRANDFATHER - GRANDPA
**[00:31] ---**
Good morning, Grandpa.
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Looks like you're fitting in quite well.
**[00:36] ---**
It's been a few days, after all.
**[00:38] ---**
I see. Since you're doing so well,
I have a gift for you.
**[00:41] ---**
What? You're giving me something?
**[00:44] ---**
It's a mummified foot of a Kappa
that brings good fortune.
**[00:47] ---**
Take good care of it, okay?
**[00:49] ---**
But this is such a precious item!
**[00:50] ---**
So you understand its value!
**[00:52] ---**
Kagome has such a good daughter.
**[00:57] ---**
Thank you, Kagome!
**[01:00] ---**
I still have some life left in me!
**[01:01] ---**
*Oh? So it's finally noticed
our presence, huh?*
**[02:48] ---**
THE GATEWAY TO THE PAST
**[02:50] ---**
"The Gateway to the Past"
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SAINT GABRIEL ACADEMY
**[02:53] ---**
SAINT GABRIEL ACADEMY
**[02:54] ---**
*I've decided to return to
the Feudal Era.*
**[02:57] ---**
*If Setsuna and Moroha
are from the Feudal Era,*
**[03:00] ---**
*then the forest that I grew up in
would also be there.*
**[03:06] ---**
*That means I raised here,
but was born in the Feudal Era.*
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14 YEAR OLD GIRL - TOWA HIGURASHI
**[03:12] ---**
*I only have gratitude for Papa Sota
for raising someone like me.*
**[03:16] ---**
*But I can't...*
**[03:17] ---**
Miss Towa Higurashi.
**[03:19] ---**
TOWA'S HOMEROOM TEACHER
OSAMU KIRIN
**[03:19] ---**
Stand up, please.
**[03:21] ---**
Yes.
**[03:22] ---**
Mr. Osamu Kirin.
**[03:24] ---**
Daydreaming won't help you
understand this context.
**[03:28] ---**
Please read from line 23.
**[03:32] ---**
"I'm going to visit Kyoto next year."
**[03:35] ---**
*But learning English probably won't be
that useful in Feudal Japan...*
**[03:41] ---**
HIGURASHI
SOTA, MOE, TOWA, MEI
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DEMON SLAYER - SETSUNA
**[03:53] ---**
DEMON SLAYER - SETSUNA
**[03:56] ---**
*What can I do so
Setsuna can sleep again?*
**[04:00] ---**
What do we do to get
Setsuna's dreams back?
**[04:03] ---**
It goes without saying, Towa.
We gotta capture the Dream Butterfly.
**[04:08] ---**
And where is this butterfly?
**[04:10] ---**
Who knows?
But it's definitely not here.
**[04:15] ---**
We must hurry back to
the other world.
**[04:17] ---**
Yep. Get back there,
get the butterfly. Easy-peasy.
**[04:22] ---**
Easy?! Just how are we supposed to
get to the other world?!
**[04:26] ---**
Oh, right.
**[04:27] ---**
But don't sweat it.
It'll turn out okay somehow.
**[04:32] ---**
*It doesn't matter if I dream or not.*
**[04:35] ---**
*It's not like I have ever suffered from it.*
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Bravo!
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To master this in such a short time!
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TOWA'S ADOPTIVE MOTHER - MOE HIGURASHI
**[04:46] ---**
It's only thanks to the teacher...
**[04:48] ---**
You're a prodigy that comes once in a hundred,
no, once in five hundred years!
**[04:53] ---**
You can probably become
a worldwide violinist like me some day.
**[04:57] ---**
Setsuna.
**[04:59] ---**
What is it?
**[05:01] ---**
Moroha is calling for you.
**[05:03] ---**
Oh, really?
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TOWA'S STEPSISTER - MEI HIGURASHI
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She said she found a way back home.
**[05:08] ---**
There we go.
**[05:13] ---**
Yo, Setsuna! Rejoice.
I found a way to get back to...
**[05:16] ---**
Hey, what's with the clothes?
**[05:19] ---**
You actually look pretty good!
**[05:22] ---**
I'll kill you.
**[05:23] ---**
So you found a means to get back?
**[05:26] ---**
I sure did.
**[05:27] ---**
The thing that stole our demon energy
back in the rainbow corridor
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is a demon named Root Head.
**[05:35] ---**
Root Head?
**[05:37] ---**
It got tangled with the roots
of the Tree of Ages,
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and created a time-traveling corridor.
**[05:43] ---**
I see. You researched well.
**[05:45] ---**
I didn't research it. I asked it myself.
**[05:49] ---**
The root looked pretty bored,
so I asked it some questions
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and then it wouldn't stop talking.
**[05:55] ---**
Anyway, we can get back to the other world
by negotiating with Root Head.
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I see. I suppose we can try it.
**[06:03] ---**
So, what is this?
**[06:05] ---**
Oh, this?
**[06:07] ---**
Just a few things that
we'll be able to use over there.
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NEW SOCIAL STUDIES AND HISTORY
**[06:12] ---**
Whoops.
**[06:14] ---**
NEW SOCIAL STUDIES AND HISTORY
**[06:14] ---**
What the heck is this? Oh well.
**[06:16] ---**
Into the bag it goes!
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Oh, and take a look at this!
**[06:21] ---**
This is the bounty that'll buy me lunch.
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Let's see, what else is there?
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How did this all fit in?
**[06:29] ---**
Who knows?
**[06:30] ---**
What's everyone up to?
**[06:33] ---**
Welcome home.
**[06:34] ---**
Thank you.
**[06:35] ---**
I'm home, Mei.
**[06:37] ---**
Guess what?
Moroha found a way back home.
**[06:41] ---**
TOWA'S ADOPTIVE FATHER
SOTA HIGURASHI
**[06:41] ---**
That's amazing.
**[06:42] ---**
Did you really?
**[06:43] ---**
That backpack!
It looks just like Kagome's.
**[06:49] ---**
Wouldn't all of that stuff
risk changing history?
**[06:52] ---**
Don't worry. We can just say
it's demon magic or ninjutsu or something.
**[06:56] ---**
Oh, that's right.
**[06:59] ---**
Please take care of this!
**[07:02] ---**
What?!
**[07:02] ---**
RECEIPT
**[07:03] ---**
RECEIPT
W-When did she...
**[07:05] ---**
It's just some modest shopping
for your cute niece.
**[07:10] ---**
Yeah, real cute...
**[07:12] ---**
All right. Preparations complete.
**[07:15] ---**
Time to make our grand return
to the feudal age!
**[07:29] ---**
Papa Sota.
**[07:30] ---**
Towa.
**[07:31] ---**
Grammy said you were here.
Can I talk to you?
**[07:35] ---**
Of course. What is it?
**[07:39] ---**
What a pretty person.
Is she your older sister?
**[07:43] ---**
Yes, her name's Kagome.
**[07:46] ---**
What kind of person was she?
**[07:47] ---**
Let's see.
**[07:48] ---**
She was always causing a ruckus,
but for different reasons than yours.
**[07:53] ---**
I'm sorry for troubling you all the time.
I'm always so selfish...
**[08:00] ---**
You're just like her.
And she also went to the Feudal Era...
**[08:05] ---**
How did you...
**[08:06] ---**
You want to go with them, don't you?
**[08:10] ---**
But you raised me until now, and...
**[08:13] ---**
Don't worry about it.
**[08:15] ---**
I knew this day would come
sooner or later.
**[08:19] ---**
Ever since I found you barefoot
in front of the Sacred Tree.
**[08:24] ---**
Even if I'm here,
I'll cause nothing but trouble for you.
**[08:30] ---**
I'm telling you,
you don't have to worry about it.
**[08:34] ---**
Be safe, okay, Towa?
**[08:39] ---**
Thank you.
**[08:41] ---**
I'll be off then... Dad.
**[08:47] ---**
Moroha, the Elder's Association
would like to give you a parting gift.
**[08:52] ---**
That's awesome.
Tell them I said thanks!
**[08:56] ---**
Moroha.
**[08:57] ---**
MEI'S GRANDMOTHER
GRAMMY
**[08:58] ---**
Give my regards to Kagome
if you see her.
**[09:01] ---**
Uh, sure.
Even though I don't really know her.
**[09:05] ---**
To send off a once-in-five-hundred-year prodigy
to the Feudal Era...
**[09:10] ---**
Take care of the violin, okay?
**[09:13] ---**
Oh, this. I'll play it on nights
when I can't fall asleep.
**[09:16] ---**
I'm leaving then.
**[09:17] ---**
Be careful.
**[09:19] ---**
Sis, please come back, okay?
**[09:22] ---**
You have to come back!
**[09:24] ---**
You too, Setsuna and Moroha.
Everyone has to come home here.
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Hup!
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Thank you, Mei.
**[09:38] ---**
I can't make any promises,
but I'll do my best.
**[09:41] ---**
Just promise me!
**[09:44] ---**
All right. I'll come home once
we get Setsuna's dreams back.
**[09:48] ---**
Come on, promise her,
both of you!
**[09:51] ---**
The feudal age isn't
some fairy-tale world.
**[09:54] ---**
If you're not prepared to die...
**[09:55] ---**
I am prepared.
But it's not for death.
**[09:59] ---**
I can keep my head
*and* come back here safe.
**[10:05] ---**
All right, let's get going already.
**[10:11] ---**
Hey, Root Head! We have
something you can't get from this era.
**[10:15] ---**
Three coveted Rainbow Pearls
stuffed with demon power!
**[10:24] ---**
If you let us pass through
to the Feudal Era,
**[10:26] ---**
we'll give you the
Gold, Silver, and Red Rainbow Pearls.
**[10:31] ---**
How's that, Root Head?
**[10:39] ---**
All right. I shall allow you to pass.
**[10:47] ---**
Lady Kaede, that light!
**[10:50] ---**
Indeed.
**[10:51] ---**
That's the light from the Sacred Tree.
**[10:53] ---**
Could Setsuna be returning here?
**[10:53] ---**
VILLAGE
ELDER PRIESTESS
KAEDE
**[10:53] ---**
MASTER OF HIRAIKOTSU
HISUI
**[10:56] ---**
That may be so.
**[10:58] ---**
Kirara.
**[10:59] ---**
CAT DEMON
KIRARA
**[11:00] ---**
I'll go notify Uncle.
**[11:06] ---**
There it is!
**[11:07] ---**
It's the same as back then.
**[11:12] ---**
Hey, that's mine!
**[11:14] ---**
- Wait!
- Hey!
**[11:16] ---**
Give it back!
**[11:17] ---**
Hey!
**[11:24] ---**
Thank you, everyone.
**[11:27] ---**
I'm heading out now.
**[11:29] ---**
It's a promise, okay?
**[11:31] ---**
I love all of my sisters, okay?
**[11:39] ---**
I'm sure they'll come home.
**[11:41] ---**
Because all of them are family, after all.
**[11:44] ---**
They're all my adorable
great-grandchildren.
**[11:46] ---**
Yes.
**[11:48] ---**
They really are.
**[11:52] ---**
*That's right.*
**[11:54] ---**
*I must've passed through
this corridor when I was four.*
**[11:59] ---**
*The Feudal Era is just ahead...*
**[12:01] ---**
*That's where Setsuna's
dreams were stolen.*
**[12:04] ---**
*I'll definitely get them back for her!*
**[12:07] ---**
Moroha, was it really okay
to make such a promise to Root Head?
**[12:11] ---**
It's fine.
**[12:12] ---**
If it comes to it,
I could just slay Root Head.
**[12:16] ---**
Huh?
**[12:17] ---**
Setsuna, did you just call me
by my name?
**[12:22] ---**
What of it?
**[12:25] ---**
Nothing at all! This isn't so bad.
**[12:27] ---**
It is bad!
You need to keep your promises.
**[12:30] ---**
Lies are bad.
**[12:31] ---**
It wasn't a lie, it was a means to an end.
**[12:45] ---**
A decade's worth of time has passed.
**[12:47] ---**
The Half-Demon Princesses
travel under my feet.
**[12:51] ---**
If my predictions are correct,
those three will save the world.
**[12:58] ---**
For now, I shall let Root Head dream.
**[13:05] ---**
This is the Feudal Era?
**[13:07] ---**
No, something's not right.
**[13:09] ---**
Stay alert.
**[13:10] ---**
Moroha, I bet you had us
take the wrong path.
**[13:13] ---**
There is no wrong path
because it's only one path!
**[13:16] ---**
Towa, now is a good time to warn you.
**[13:19] ---**
In the feudal age,
there is no room for "hesitation."
**[13:22] ---**
R-Right...
**[13:23] ---**
If you don't kill your enemy,
they will kill you.
**[13:27] ---**
If it's just you, then it's fine.
**[13:29] ---**
But we can't have you
dragging us down with you!
**[13:34] ---**
Geez, all right.
**[13:35] ---**
Both of you.
**[13:38] ---**
What is this place?
**[13:47] ---**
You've done well to come here,
Half-Demon Princesses.
**[13:51] ---**
You've done well to come here,
Half-Demon Princesses.
**[13:54] ---**
Half-Demon Princesses?
Are you referring to us?
**[13:57] ---**
Is this Root Head?
**[13:59] ---**
No, it's not.
I don't sense any demon energy.
**[14:02] ---**
Who are you?
**[14:03] ---**
SPIRIT OF THE TREE OF AGES
**[14:03] ---**
SPIRIT OF THE TREE OF AGES
**[14:04] ---**
SPIRIT OF THE TREE OF AGES
I am the Tree of Ages.
**[14:07] ---**
Is the Tree of Ages
supposed to look like a priestess?
**[14:10] ---**
No, this is a borrowed appearance.
**[14:13] ---**
It appears this form was created
**[14:15] ---**
from the spirit of the Arrow of Sealing
that was stuck on my trunk.
**[14:22] ---**
I believe the priestess' name was Kikyo.
**[14:27] ---**
Kikyo?
**[14:28] ---**
Are you the one who summoned us here?
**[14:31] ---**
Yes. Daughters of Sesshomaru,
I have a request for you.
**[14:36] ---**
Ah-ha! So you *are* Sesshomaru's...
**[14:39] ---**
But hey, wait a second.
**[14:41] ---**
Sorry, but I'm not Sesshomaru's daughter.
**[14:44] ---**
Listen to my tale until the end, Moroha.
**[14:48] ---**
H-How did she know my name?
**[14:51] ---**
So what's this request?
**[14:53] ---**
I would like you to slay a certain demon.
**[14:56] ---**
You got it! It's Root Head, right?
**[14:58] ---**
No. Root Head means nothing to me.
**[15:02] ---**
The demon I would like you to slay
is the Beast King Kirinmaru.
**[15:06] ---**
Kirinmaru?
**[15:07] ---**
He is attempting to twist time,
**[15:09] ---**
swallow this world
into the degenerate age,
**[15:12] ---**
and return it to nothingness.
**[15:15] ---**
Kirinmaru is a king who,
alongside the Great Dog-Demon,
**[15:18] ---**
had long reigned over the demon beasts.
**[15:22] ---**
Kirinmaru ruled in the East,
**[15:24] ---**
while the one who held the West
was your grandfather,
**[15:28] ---**
the Great Dog-Demon.
**[15:30] ---**
The Great Dog-Demon, huh?
I see, it's a name that I've heard of.
**[15:36] ---**
Equal in strength,
the two warriors ruled their lands
**[15:39] ---**
while keeping watch over the other
to maintain the balance in power.
**[15:44] ---**
However, your father Sesshomaru
**[15:47] ---**
renounced his Great Dog-Demon title
and walked his own path.
**[15:53] ---**
Taking that as an opportunity,
**[15:56] ---**
Kirinmaru plots to plunge
this world into devastation.
**[15:59] ---**
The power to travel across time
would be necessary to fight him.
**[16:04] ---**
So that's where we come in.
**[16:06] ---**
Yes.
**[16:08] ---**
As ones with deep ties to
the Great Dog-Demon,
**[16:11] ---**
you three must slay Kirinmaru.
**[16:14] ---**
You will agree to this, won't you,
Half-Demon Princesses?
**[16:17] ---**
I'm all for it!
**[16:19] ---**
But when I succeed,
I'll be collecting a worthy bounty.
**[16:23] ---**
And you, daughters of Sesshomaru?
**[16:26] ---**
I refuse.
**[16:28] ---**
Huh?!
**[16:29] ---**
You will not do it?
**[16:31] ---**
I will not.
**[16:32] ---**
I decline to accept.
**[16:34] ---**
For what reason?
**[16:35] ---**
First, I do not know this Sesshomaru
who you claim is my father.
**[16:40] ---**
Why in the world must we atone for
such a demon's failure?
**[16:45] ---**
If Kirinmaru must be defeated,
then have that Sesshomaru deal with it.
**[16:51] ---**
Tree of Ages,
you're asking the wrong people.
**[16:57] ---**
I was right to place confidence in you.
**[17:01] ---**
Sesshomaru cannot defeat Kirinmaru.
**[17:04] ---**
That is because these two Beast Kings
currently walk the same path.
**[17:09] ---**
If you defeat Kirinmaru,
Sesshomaru will emerge.
**[17:12] ---**
Similarly, if you defeat Sesshomaru...
**[17:15] ---**
In other words, you must defeat them
at the same time.
**[17:19] ---**
At the same time?
**[17:21] ---**
You are not atoning for
Sesshomaru's failure.
**[17:25] ---**
I'm telling you to defeat two demons
who have taken the wrong path.
**[17:29] ---**
Then that's more reason we can't accept
what you're asking us to do.
**[17:34] ---**
Even if we've never met him,
Sesshomaru is our father, right?
**[17:39] ---**
Don't ask his daughters
to do something like that!
**[17:42] ---**
So the two daughters of Sesshomaru
will not accept my request?
**[17:49] ---**
Yes, that's exactly it.
We do not accept!
**[17:52] ---**
Oh, man.
**[17:54] ---**
It seems you do not understand
what will happen...
**[17:57] ---**
if you disobey the Tree of Ages.
**[18:00] ---**
I won't let anyone stop us
from our own mission.
**[18:03] ---**
Yes, we will do as we please.
**[18:06] ---**
I ask one last time.
Will you not slay him?
**[18:10] ---**
I will not repeat myself.
**[18:11] ---**
I have no doubts, either.
**[18:12] ---**
Let us pass, or we'll cut you down.
**[18:14] ---**
Wait, are we really doing this?
**[18:17] ---**
Very well.
Fate is a continuously spinning wheel.
**[18:21] ---**
We shall meet again.
**[18:23] ---**
What?
**[18:24] ---**
What's going on?
**[18:26] ---**
Awaken, Root Head.
**[18:28] ---**
The Rainbow Pearls you desire
are getting away.
**[18:35] ---**
Lady Kaede.
**[18:36] ---**
LEADER OF THE DEMON SLAYERS
KOHAKU
**[18:37] ---**
Could this presence be...
**[18:38] ---**
Root Head's demon power is increasing.
**[18:40] ---**
Root Head's demon power is increasing.
**[18:41] ---**
What?
**[18:43] ---**
It's too dangerous here.
**[18:50] ---**
Hey, is everyone okay?
**[18:51] ---**
Where is this?
**[18:53] ---**
Dang it.
**[18:54] ---**
The Tree of Ages sent us
to where Root Head is, of all places.
**[18:56] ---**
PLANT DEMON
ROOT HEAD
**[18:58] ---**
A promise is a promise.
Hand over the three Rainbow Pearls.
**[19:03] ---**
So this is Root Head.
**[19:04] ---**
Sorry! We can't give you
the Rainbow Pearls anymore.
**[19:07] ---**
Then perish where you stand.
**[19:10] ---**
Cyclone Burst!
**[19:17] ---**
Crimson Dragon Wave!
**[19:21] ---**
It'll never end like this.
**[19:22] ---**
Root Head should have a weak spot.
If we can find it...
**[19:31] ---**
What? My energy blade is fading!
**[19:34] ---**
Shit! Your demon powers
are being drained!
**[19:36] ---**
Can't you do anything, Moroha?
**[19:39] ---**
That's right, I had this.
**[19:42] ---**
Here we go!
**[19:43] ---**
Here! Have a taste of a
lucky kappa's foot!
**[19:51] ---**
My powers are back!
**[19:54] ---**
Thanks Grandpa!
It really did bring me good fortune.
**[19:58] ---**
We'll hit it all at once.
**[19:59] ---**
Scourge of Swallows!
**[20:02] ---**
Heavenly Arrow Barrage!
**[20:10] ---**
*That light is...*
**[20:12] ---**
Towa! Aim for the spot
under that big eye!
**[20:15] ---**
That's its weak spot. Finish it off!
**[20:17] ---**
I won't let you.
**[20:19] ---**
There, huh?
**[20:21] ---**
Don't hesitate, don't
hesitate, don't hesitate!
**[20:28] ---**
What?
**[20:29] ---**
What's that blue dragon?
**[20:50] ---**
A-All good, Moroha?
**[20:54] ---**
So this is the Feudal Era...
**[20:56] ---**
Setsuna.
**[20:57] ---**
Setsuna!
**[20:59] ---**
I'm glad you're safe.
**[21:00] ---**
Yes. I have managed to return.
**[21:02] ---**
Well, thank goodness.
**[21:04] ---**
I can't sense Root Head's demon energy.
What happened?
**[21:08] ---**
We defeated it.
**[21:10] ---**
What? I-Is that true?
**[21:12] ---**
*O-Oh, that's right.*
**[21:15] ---**
*If we defeated Root Head, how are we
geting back to the modern era?*
**[21:20] ---**
Maybe this wasn't a good idea.
**[21:26] ---**
Those girls have such fighting spirit.
**[21:30] ---**
I am the Tree of Ages,
and yet they refused my wish.
**[21:34] ---**
Are you sure about this?
**[21:37] ---**
If you forsake this girl,
she will never awaken.
**[21:50] ---**
I suppose this is one path as well.
**[21:55] ---**
Perhaps staying like this
would be best in the end.
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Setsuna and I accept jobs to slay demons.
**[23:34] ---**
While following a boy who collects bones,
we run into Moroha.
**[23:39] ---**
Moroha, your prey is here as well?
**[23:41] ---**
As one of the Four Perils,
Tokotsu's bounty is not just a bag of gold.
**[23:45] ---**
He's worth at least a gold ingot.
**[23:48] ---**
Come on! Let's split the bounty three ways.
**[23:51] ---**
Next time on *Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon:*
"Jakotsumaru of the Red Bone Palace"
**[23:54] ---**
Moroha the Demon Killer,
the one who murdered my father!
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