E18 - The World Outside

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[00:32] Nazukihiko
    Never mind behind us.
    Keep your eyes on the thread.
[00:36] Yukiya
    R-Right.
[00:55] Nazukihiko
    What's that?
[00:57] Yukiya
    This?
[01:00] Yukiya
    King Saku told me he'd tell me
    all he knows about the monkeys
[01:04] Yukiya
    if I brought back a "white shard."
[01:13] Yukiya
    Your Highness must have
    seen those heaps of bones.
[01:17] Yukiya
    They've been eating yatagarasu
    long before Sazaki and Sugou.
[01:23] Yukiya
    Why didn't we catch on to them before now?
[01:26] Nazukihiko
    No, that's not the only explanation.
[01:29] Yukiya
    What do you mean?
[01:35] Yukiya
    Don't tell me these are monkey bones?
[01:38] Nazukihiko
    We'll have to get out of here
    if we want to find out.
SIGN    YATAGARASU
SIGN    The Raven
    Does Not 
    Choose 
    Its Master
[03:42] Saku
    Two hours to go.
[03:45] Tobi
    What are you plotting, boss?
[03:52] Yukiya
    So I know it's a little late to ask this,
[03:54] Yukiya
    but what are you doing here?
[03:59] Yukiya
    Actually...
[04:00] Yukiya
    Almost none of this makes any sense to me.
[04:04] Nazukihiko
    I slipped out of Sunrise Palace.
[04:06] Yukiya
    I get that part.
[04:08] Nazukihiko
    Anyone could see negotiations would fail.
[04:12] Nazukihiko
    I let King Saku know I would
    be there, just not on time.
[04:16] Yukiya
    Huh?
[04:18] Yukiya
    Ow.
[04:19] Nazukihiko
    Are you hurt?
[04:20] Yukiya
    Your Highness knows King Saku?
[04:24] Nazukihiko
    Yes.
[04:26] Nazukihiko
    We can't afford a permanent breach
    between the court and the Underground.
[04:31] Nazukihiko
    No one but the old man could have
    kept the situation under control.
[04:38] Yukiya
    I see. So that's why
    King Saku showed up.
[04:44] Nazukihiko
    Once King Saku had smoothed
    over my brother's meeting,
[04:47] Nazukihiko
    I was supposed to enter this cave
    to investigate the monkeys alone.
[04:53] Yukiya
    What?
[04:54] Nazukihiko
    Still, I didn't expect you to come along.
[04:58] Nazukihiko
    I don't know everything
    that old man is thinking.
[05:03] Nazukihiko
    Don't let you guard down.
[05:13] Yukiya
    So we were all dancing to his tune?
[05:18] Yukiya
    Wait, what about Sumio?
SIGN    Sunrise Palace
[05:29] Hamayu
    It's stuffy in here.
    Shall I let in some fresh air?
[05:41] Hamayu
    Sorry for roping you into this.
[05:44] Kikuno
    No, I'm happy to help.
[05:50] Sumio
    Is that...
[06:01] Sumio
    I've been had!
[06:09] Hamayu
    He doesn't have it easy, either.
[06:23] Nazukihiko
    Do you hear something?
[06:32] Yukiya
    Nothing special.
[06:47] Saku
    Well...
[06:50] Saku
    Any moment now.
[07:03] Yukiya
    Huh? I thought this was a straight path.
[07:06] Yukiya
    I didn't pass a place like this.
[07:08] Nazukihiko
    Neither did I. I followed your thread.
[07:16] Yukiya
    The thread...
[07:19] Yukiya
    Your Highness, give me the light.
[07:29] Yukiya
    Found it!
[07:30] Nazukihiko
    You fool!
[07:32] Nazukihiko
    Look at the ground.
[07:37] Yukiya
    Sorry.
[07:39] Yukiya
    But I found the thread.
[07:42] Yukiya
    We can follow it to the exit.
[07:52] Yukiya
    Huh? Isn't this...
[07:55] Yukiya
    We're back here?
[07:57] Yukiya
    Did we take a wrong turn somewhere?
[08:00] Yukiya
    Let's try again.
[08:06] Yukiya
    How are we back here again?
[08:09] Yukiya
    The path was straight.
    It didn't fork off anywhere.
[08:13] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya, do you remember...
[08:16] Nazukihiko
    when I mended a tear in the boundary?
[08:20] Nazukihiko
    I think this place is outside it.
[08:25] Yukiya
    Outside the boundary?
[08:29] Nazukihiko
    I think the boundary that protects Yamauchi
    is causing this strange phenomenon.
[08:35] Nazukihiko
    It's removing those who would
    try to enter from outside.
[08:39] Nazukihiko
    We crossed the boundary
    without realizing it,
[08:44] Nazukihiko
    and now it is hindering our return.
[08:48] Nazukihiko
    It perceives us as threats to Yamauchi.
[08:52] Yukiya
    Threats? But...
[08:56] Yukiya
    We're running out of time.
[09:10] Yukiya
    Monkeys?
[09:11] Nazukihiko
    They've caught up to us.
[09:13] Nazukihiko
    I'll hold off the monkeys.
    You think of a way out of here.
[09:17] Yukiya
    M-Me?
[09:18] Nazukihiko
    If King Saku could do it, so can you.
[09:21] Yukiya
    Oh, come on!
[09:24] Nazukihiko
    King Saku doesn't act thoughtlessly.
[09:26] Nazukihiko
    He must have given you some sort
    of clue before you entered the tunnel.
[09:33] Nazukihiko
    Think back and figure it out.
[09:40] Nazukihiko
    Stand back, Yukiya!
[09:59] Yukiya
    What could it be?
    What hint did King Saku give me?
[10:03] Yukiya
    Think. Think.
[10:04] Yukiya
    He gave me the lantern, and then...
[10:06] Yukiya
    Damn it! There must be something!
[10:16] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya?
[10:18] Yukiya
    Your Highness!
[10:36] Yukiya
    Your Highness.
[10:38] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya. I'm here.
[10:43] Nazukihiko
    Did you find the path?
[10:44] Yukiya
    Not yet, but I think I know how to.
[10:46] Yukiya
    You search, too. For sandalwood and cassia.
[10:51] Nazukihiko
    Sandalwood?
[10:52] Yukiya
    The smell of it.
[10:53] Yukiya
    That's King Saku's hint.
[10:55] Yukiya
    The scent of the incense clock
    will lead us through the boundary.
[10:59] Nazukihiko
    Of course.
[11:07] Nazukihiko
    Sandalwood and cassia.
[11:10] Nazukihiko
    This way.
[11:13] Nazukihiko
    Right here.
[11:26] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya?
[11:30] Yukiya
    There's the exit!
[11:35] Yukiya
    Wait! Wait! Don't close it!
[11:52] Saku
    You took your sweet time.
[12:04] Yukiya
    Please see for yourself.
[12:08] Saku
    Well now. An Adam's apple.
[12:11] Saku
    Not bad.
[12:13] Nazukihiko
    King Saku.
[12:14] Nazukihiko
    Did you know about this?
[12:17] Saku
    You noticed?
[12:19] Saku
    Well, you were away for
    a long time, so I guess you would.
[12:24] Saku
    These give off a smell like nothing else.
[12:28] Saku
    They don't belong to any animal
    that lives in Yamauchi.
[12:32] Saku
    Nor to yatagarasu, naturally.
[12:35] Yukiya
    Huh?
[12:36] Yukiya
    Then, they really are monkey bones?
[12:39] Saku
    Not monkeys, either.
[12:42] Nazukihiko
    They're human.
[12:43] Yukiya
    Huh?
[12:47] Nazukihiko
    That's human bone.
[12:51] Yukiya
    "Human"?
[12:55] Yukiya
    Um, what's a "human"?
[12:59] Yukiya
    Some animal from the outside world?
[13:03] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya, what is the world outside?
[13:07] Yukiya
    Everything outside Yamauchi, right?
[13:10] Nazukihiko
    What is the world outside Yamauchi like?
[13:14] Yukiya
    What do you mean?
[13:16] Nazukihiko
    Yamauchi is a little world
    wrapped in a thin boundary.
[13:23] Nazukihiko
    We call everything beyond it
    "the world outside."
[13:27] Nazukihiko
    And that world is ruled by humans.
[13:32] Nazukihiko
    They resemble yatagarasu in appearance.
[13:37] Nazukihiko
    Or rather, we make ourselves look like them.
[14:32] Sumio
    First monkeys, now humans?
[14:35] Sumio
    Give me a break.
[14:37] Nazukihiko
    It isn't as though humans are
    poised to do anything to Yamauchi.
[14:43] Natsuka
    Indeed. The monkeys are our immediate foe.
[14:48] Nazukihiko
    At present, the humans
    are victims, if anything.
[14:52] Nazukihiko
    I suspect the monkeys dwell in the gap
    between Yamauchi and the world outside,
[14:57] Nazukihiko
    and have been feeding on humans from there.
[15:01] Nazukihiko
    But recently, a passage to Yamauchi opened,
[15:06] Nazukihiko
    and they discovered another
    humanlike creature: the yatagarasu.
[15:11] Nazukihiko
    They may not even recognize a distinction.
[15:16] Rokon
    That explains it. They didn't touch
    the horses in Sazaki or Sugou.
[15:21] Hamayu
    If only we knew where this passage was.
[15:24] Hamayu
    Didn't you learn anything
    about that in the Underground?
[15:27] Natsuka
    The people down there
     don't know everything.
[15:30] Natsuka
    All evidence suggests the passage
     is somewhere in the North.
[15:34] Yukiya
    Oh, but King Saku said—
[15:37] Natsuka
    What did he say?
[15:40] Saku
    They're probably
    coming through the Center.
[15:43] Yukiya
    The Center? Not the North?
[15:47] Saku
    The North is a distraction.
[15:50] Saku
    Someone may have given them tips.
[15:53] Nazukihiko
    Would you mind sharing your reasoning?
[15:56] Saku
    Remember when a string of
    Central girls got kidnapped not long ago?
[16:03] Saku
    I think someone used them to broker a deal.
[16:07] Nazukihiko
    A deal?
[16:08] Saku
    Yeah. Between the monkeys
     and the yatagarasu.
[16:13] Saku
    As you saw, the monkeys' lair
     is full of human bones.
[16:18] Saku
    Those are just trash to the monkeys,
[16:21] Saku
    but a whole lot of yatagarasu
    would be happy to have them.
[16:26] Saku
    What I mean is human bones turn a profit.
[16:34] Saku
    I don't know who made the offer,
[16:37] Saku
    but the girls ended up monkey food,
    and the monkeys paid in human bone.
[16:43] Saku
    Whoever got those bones
    sold them on the sly.
[16:46] Nazukihiko
    And that's what got the
    Underground concerned?
[16:49] Saku
    Right. We tracked the seller down,
    but he slipped through our grasp.
[16:56] Saku
    But at least, I'm sure the monkeys
    are coming through the Center.
[17:02] Saku
    You can have this back, boy.
[17:08] Yukiya
    Thank you for everything.
[17:11] Nazukihiko
    King Saku, I thank you as well.
[17:15] Saku
    Talk to Tobi next time. I'm retired.
[17:18] Nazukihiko
    But aren't you forgetting one thing?
[17:24] Nazukihiko
    The name of the man who sold the bones.
[17:30] Nazukihiko
    You promised to tell Yukiya "all you knew"
    if he returned with a white shard.
[17:47] Natsuka
    Jihei the water seller?
[17:48] Yukiya
    Yes. That's what King Saku told us.
[17:52] Yukiya
    As I thought, Koume's father was involved.
[17:55] Yukiya
    We can explain why the monkeys
    appeared in the North.
[17:59] Yukiya
    They find hunting in
    the Center too dangerous.
[18:02] Yukiya
    They'd stand out,
    and there are soldiers everywhere.
[18:05] Yukiya
    But they're safe in remote villages
     like Sugou and Sazaki,
[18:10] Yukiya
    and they can get a lot more food there.
[18:12] Natsuka
    But it can't be that simple.
[18:14] Natsuka
    They'd have to pass through
    checkpoints with the salted meat,
[18:19] Natsuka
    and they can't even speak.
[18:21] Yukiya
    That's why they needed a collaborator.
[18:24] Yukiya
    Someone to do the talking for them.
[18:28] Sumio
    And that was Jihei?
[18:30] Sumio
    It does make sense.
[18:32] Nazukihiko
    Actually, King Saku told me one other thing.
[18:37] Nazukihiko
    What human bone is used for.
[18:41] Nazukihiko
    The Underground forbids
     the trafficking of it,
[18:45] Nazukihiko
    but some people still secretly
    compound it into medicine.
[18:49] Nazukihiko
    Small doses of powdered bone
     can cause elation.
[18:54] Nazukihiko
    Take too much, however,
    and it becomes addictive.
[18:59] Nazukihiko
    Those who consume it lose their senses
    and can never leave raven shape again.
[19:07] Yukiya
    Your Highness, do you mean...
[19:10] Nazukihiko
    I am told that this rare
    and valuable elixir is known...
[19:17] Nazukihiko
    as Sagecap.
[19:29] Rokon
    That ties everything together.
[19:32] Rokon
    The monkeys and the Sagecap
    come from the same place.
[19:36] Rokon
    For the time being—
[19:37] Natsuka
    We must force a confession
    by any means necessary.
[19:39] Natsuka
    We'll do whatever it takes to
    flush out Jihei the water seller.
SIGN    Jihei
SIGN    His likeness
[19:52] Townsman 1
    It says he helped to arrange murders.
[19:54] Townswoman 2
    How dreadful. He looks so meek.
[19:58] Townsman 3
    I hear he's got a daughter.
[20:00] Townsman 3
    They'll make an example of her and
    parade her around unless he shows himself.
[20:20] (Flashback) King Saku
    We'll take in anyone
    who falls through the cracks,
[20:23] (Flashback) King Saku
    so at least protect the people under
    your wings like your life depends on it.
[20:45] Yukiya
    I didn't know a thing.
[20:49] Yukiya
    I was so focused on keeping my home safe,
[20:52] Yukiya
    I never stopped to think
    that someone was protecting us.
[20:57] Nazukihiko
    Of course not.
[20:58] Nazukihiko
    No ordinary yatagarasu learns of humans
    or the world outside in peacetime.
[21:06] Nazukihiko
    This situation arose
    because I fell short in my duties.
[21:13] Yukiya
    Are you a true kin'u?
[21:17] Yukiya
    What is a kin'u, exactly?
[21:22] Nazukihiko
    The kin'u is both father
    and mother to all yatagarasu.
[21:27] Nazukihiko
    He must always face his subjects—
    his children—with compassion.
[21:33] Nazukihiko
    He must defend and guide his people
    through any and all hardships.
[21:41] Nazukihiko
    So it says in The Roots 
    of the Great Mountain.
[21:44] Nazukihiko
    That's what I was born for.
[21:57] Nazukihiko
    The boundary has sheltered Yamauchi.
[22:00] Nazukihiko
    In recent years,
     that boundary has weakened.
[22:04] Nazukihiko
    Ghost-fire, tears,
    monkey invaders, and now humans.
[22:11] Yukiya
    Your Highness said that yatagarasu
    make ourselves look like humans.
[22:17] Yukiya
    What did you mean by that?
[22:20] Yukiya
    Does it have something to do
     with these disturbances?
[22:25] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya.
[22:26] Nazukihiko
    As we speak, Yamauchi
    is on the road to collapse.
[22:31] Nazukihiko
    Collapse?
[22:52] Lady-in-Waiting
    Koume.
[22:54] Lady-in-Waiting
    Try to keep calm and listen to me.
[24:31] Narrator
    A father changed beyond recognition.
[24:35] Narrator
    Who invited the monkeys in?
[24:39] Narrator
    At the bottom of a dried-up well,
[24:42] Narrator
    someone awaits a reunion
    with the true kin'u.
[24:50] Narrator
    Next time: "A Well Run Dry."
SIGN    A Well
SIGN    Run Dry
SIGN    YATAGARASU:
    The Raven
    Does Not 
    Choose 
    Its Master
SIGN    Illustration: Natsuki