E19 - A Well Run Dry

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[00:30] Koume
    Dad?
[00:39] Yukiya
    It's better you don't look.
[00:41] Koume
    Let go of me!
[00:45] Koume
    Let go! I said let go of me!
[00:47] Koume
    Dad! Dad!
[00:49] Koume
    No! Dad!
SIGN    YATAGARASU
SIGN    The Raven
    Does Not 
    Choose 
    Its Master
[02:31] Dandy
    Me? Sell Sagecap?
[02:33] Dandy
    Don't even joke about that.
[02:35] Dandy
    I want nothing to do
    with a drug that risky.
[02:39] Watchman 1
    A courtesan died in Shimobara yesterday.
[02:42] Watchman 2
    Stuck her head in a burning oven,
     I hear. In raven shape.
[02:47] Watchman 2
    Ring any bells?
[02:50] Dandy
    Now that you mention it, a woman
    did frequent the physician's place there.
[02:55] Dandy
    Maybe she's your seller.
[02:58] Watchman 1
    What kind of woman?
[02:59] Dandy
    Kind of young. An "older sister" type.
[03:03] Dandy
    Never got a good look
    at her face, though.
[03:07] Dandy
    Oh, I know! She had moles.
[03:09] Dandy
    Around here, I think.
SIGN    Clear Mirror Temple
[03:12] Natsuka
    We have identified the body as Jihei's.
[03:15] Natsuka
    He was flayed alive
    before being strung him up.
[03:19] Natsuka
    He reaped what he sowed, but even so...
[03:22] Sumio
    The Underground has
    always worked that way.
[03:25] Rokon
    Basically, they played us for fools.
[03:29] Rokon
    They used the court to smoke out Jihei,
[03:32] Rokon
    then snatched him when he broke cover.
[03:35] Rokon
    King Saku got one over on us.
[03:41] Hamayu
    And that letter?
[03:42] Natsuka
    It was found tied to the corpse.
[03:44] Natsuka
    They want us to take it
    from here, I suppose.
[03:48] Natsuka
    It's in Jihei's hand.
[03:51] Yukiya
    Are you certain Jihei wrote it?
[03:54] Natsuka
    Positive. We had his daughter
    identify the handwriting.
[03:59] Natsuka
    We will never get a chance
    to question Jihei now.
[04:02] Natsuka
    These are his final words.
[04:05] Jihei
    My well ran dry.
[04:08] Jihei
    That's how it all started.
[04:16] Jihei
    I'd heard whispered rumors about water
    drying up on the central mountain,
[04:22] Jihei
    but I never imagined it would happen to me.
[04:29] Jihei
    Changing trades didn't work out.
[04:32] Jihei
    Debt collectors took
    the kimono and valuables.
[04:35] Jihei
    Then, my wife left us.
[04:38] Jihei
    My little girl went out to work.
[04:41] Jihei
    I started drinking,
[04:43] Jihei
    and gambled my days away.
[04:45] Jihei
    When I happened to luck into some money,
[04:47] Jihei
    I bought an old well.
[04:50] Jihei
    I trusted promises that it still had water.
[04:53] Jihei
    I was grasping at straws.
[05:01] (Flashback) Jihei
    No luck here, either?
[05:04] (Flashback) Jihei
    God, please bring the water back.
[05:15] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    You're a yatagarasu?
[05:19] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I'm in here.
[05:22] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Thanks for drink.
[05:25] (Flashback) Jihei
    C-Can it be?
[05:27] (Flashback) Jihei
    G-God?
[05:31] Sumio
    Huh?
[05:33] Yukiya
    God? At the bottom of a well?
[05:41] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Well, you can call me what you like.
[05:44] (Flashback) Jihei
    W-Will you please bring the water back?
[05:47] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Sorry. I can't do that.
[05:50] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    But I'll give you a present
    by way of thanks.
[06:01] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Take it to a physician.
[06:04] (Flashback) Jihei
    A physician?
[06:05] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    If you want more, lower down some sake.
[06:08] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I'll come again when I smell it.
[06:24] Jihei
    I didn't learn the name "Sagecap"
    until a while later.
SIGN    Physician
[06:37] Jihei
    I never doubted it was a divine blessing.
[06:46] Jihei
    And I kept doing what the voice asked.
[06:55] (Flashback) Jihei
    Wh-What did you say?
[06:56] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I smell something delicious
    on you. A young woman.
[07:01] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I want to eat her next.
[07:04] (Flashback) Jihei
    Y-You can't.
[07:05] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Why not? Is she your wife? Your daughter?
[07:09] (Flashback) Jihei
    Please! Anything but that!
[07:14] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    You must really care for her.
[07:18] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Another woman will do.
[07:21] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I'll give you heaps more Sagecap.
[07:23] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Why not use it to make that woman
    who means so much to you happy?
[07:44] Jihei
    It was then that I learned
    I hadn't been worshiping a god,
[07:50] Jihei
    but a monstrous monkey
    that feeds on yatagarasu.
[08:12] Jihei
    I didn't want my daughter
    to find out what I'd done.
[08:17] Jihei
    Anyone but her.
[08:25] Natsuka
    "And then, one day..."
[08:29] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I've had a bright idea.
[08:32] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    A way to snatch up
    a lot of prey all at once.
[08:36] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    You won't need to hunt anymore.
[08:38] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    From now on, just lead
    my friends to the hunting ground.
[09:01] Jihei
    I made up my mind to
    cut ties with the monster.
[09:05] Jihei
    But then, I hear rumors the Underground
    was looking for someone selling Sagecap.
[09:12] (Flashback) Koume
    Peddling goods to Sugou?
[09:14] (Flashback) Koume
    Why do I have to come, too?
[09:15] Jihei
    I decided that after Sugou, I'd take
    my daughter and leave the Center.
[09:21] Jihei
    And I put sleeping powder
    in the sake pots...
[09:27] Jihei
    so that she'd never find out.
[09:44] Jihei
    I thought I'd pulled it off
    until those two showed up.
[09:54] (Flashback) Nazukihiko
    Don't let your guard down.
[10:15] Jihei
    Koume.
[10:16] Jihei
    We have to run.
[10:18] Jihei
    Wake up, Koume!
[10:28] Natsuka
    So when Nazukihiko and Yukiya
    landed in Sugou and slew the monkeys,
[10:33] Natsuka
    Jihei was left with no choice
    but to abandon Koume and flee.
[10:36] Natsuka
    Meanwhile, thanks to her drugged sleep,
[10:40] Natsuka
    Koume awoke in the Lord of Taruhi's home
    with no knowledge of the Sugou massacre.
[10:45] Natsuka
    Jihei must have expected death
    when he emerged from hiding.
[10:49] Natsuka
    Both the Underground and the court suspected
    his daughter. He sought to clear her name.
[10:56] Natsuka
    It was all Jihei's doing.
[10:58] Natsuka
    The thorough chronology,
    details only the culprit would know...
[11:03] Natsuka
    They all ring true.
[11:05] Natsuka
    This letter...
[11:07] Natsuka
    is Jihei's confession.
[11:23] Sumio
    I might get drunk just smelling that stuff.
[11:26] Sumio
    Will that thing really take the bait?
[11:29] Yukiya
    Who knows? It's what
    Jihei's letter said he did.
[11:33] Yukiya
    But should we really be doing this
     before the council meets?
[11:38] Yukiya
    Won't they have complaints again?
[11:40] Nazukihiko
    If I hold a council, the old men will
    demand we block up the well at once.
[11:46] Nazukihiko
    If we want to identify that voice,
     we must act now.
[11:51] Nazukihiko
    What did you think of that letter?
[11:54] Yukiya
    I have no sympathy for Jihei.
[11:57] Yukiya
    Loving his daughter doesn't excuse
    sacrificing yatagarasu to monsters.
[12:02] Yukiya
    And Koume never mentioned the
    two men who went with them to Sugou.
[12:08] Yukiya
    I know she wanted
    to shield her father, but—
[12:21] Great Monkey
    Who's there?
[12:23] Nazukihiko
    First, who are you?
[12:26] Great Monkey
    Oh, I see. You've found me out.
[12:29] Great Monkey
    I liked this well, but that's life.
[12:32] Great Monkey
    Are you the one who killed my brethren?
[12:35] Nazukihiko
    I killed those who attacked yatagarasu.
[12:39] Great Monkey
    Even the children. Poor things.
[12:42] Nazukihiko
    You killed yatagarasu children
    in the villages you attacked.
[12:47] Nazukihiko
    I have a duty to defend my people.
[12:51] Nazukihiko
    I can't afford to be gentle with those
     who mean the yatagarasu harm.
[12:56] Great Monkey
    You wouldn't be their leader, would you?
[13:00] Nazukihiko
    I am the true kin'u.
[13:04] Great Monkey
    I see. The true kin'u.
[13:08] Great Monkey
    How nice to see you again.
[13:10] Great Monkey
    Or should I say, nice to meet you?
[13:15] Nazukihiko
    What are you getting at?
[13:18] Sumio
    Don't play its game.
[13:19] Nazukihiko
    I know.
[13:21] Nazukihiko
    Where did you come from? Are you a monkey?
[13:24] Nazukihiko
    If so, why can only you speak our language?
[13:28] Nazukihiko
    Why did you eat yatagarasu?
[13:30] Great Monkey
    Don't be in such a rush.
[13:32] Great Monkey
    I've lived a long time.
[13:35] Great Monkey
    I've known you lot since
    you only knew how to caw.
[13:40] Great Monkey
    You yatagarasu have survived
     by forgetting inconvenient truths.
[13:45] Great Monkey
    But now, the bill has come due.
[13:49] Nazukihiko
    What do you mean?
[13:51] Great Monkey
    I mean Yamauchi will crumble.
[13:55] Great Monkey
    Can't you tell?
[13:56] Great Monkey
    Put a hand on where your
    heart should be and think.
[14:05] Nazukihiko
    Wait!
[14:06] Sumio
    Nazukihiko, no!
[14:11] Yukiya
    Your Highness!
[14:46] Sumio
    Nazukihiko!
SIGN    Cherry Blossom Palace
[15:09] Lady-in-Waiting
    Koume, it's time you got ready.
SIGN    Sunrise Palace
[15:23] Yukiya
    I know, I know.
[15:26] Yukiya
    Huh?
[15:36] Hamayu
    About Koume's future...
[15:39] Hamayu
    Someone offered to take her in,
    even knowing all that's happened.
[15:44] Masuho
    She has no family, but we can't
    keep her in Cherry Blossom Palace.
[15:49] Masuho
    We've been scratching our heads
     about that ourselves.
[15:53] Sumio
    That offer sounds perfect, then.
[15:56] Sumio
    But who's the generous benefactor?
[16:00] Yukiya
    Lady Hamayu, you don't mean...
[16:03] Hamayu
    Oh, yes, I do.
[16:05] Hamayu
    Lady Azusa of Taruhi
     called on me yesterday.
[16:09] Hamayu
    She asked to fetch Koume back from
    Cherry Blossom Palace as soon as she can.
[16:15] Yukiya
    What is my mother thinking?
[16:18] Yukiya
    Koume's father sold Taruhi to the monkeys.
[16:23] Hamayu
    All the more reason not to abandon her,
     according to Lady Azusa.
[16:28] Hamayu
    She said Koume shouldn't bear
    the burden of living as a criminal's child.
[16:37] Yukiya
    I'll speak with my mother.
[16:39] Sumio
    Yukiya?
SIGN    His Highness
    the Prince
[16:42] Yukiya
    This report from the town watch
     arrived this morning.
[16:45] Yukiya
    Koume's still hiding something.
[16:47] Yukiya
    I'll convince my mother to reconsider.
[16:51] Sumio
    Hey!
[16:52] Nazukihiko
    Wait.
[16:55] Nazukihiko
    I doubt you could hold a decent
    conversation in your present state.
[17:00] Yukiya
    I'm quite calm.
[17:02] Nazukihiko
    Have you ever said that 
    and actually been calm?
[17:06] Yukiya
    If you'll excuse me.
[17:08] Nazukihiko
    Don't go. That's an order.
[17:10] Yukiya
    Since when did I pledge my loyalty to you?!
SIGN    Mansion of the Northern House
[17:29] Yukiya
    Koume.
[17:34] Koume
    Yukiya?
[17:35] Yukiya
    You begged my mother, didn't you?
[17:39] Koume
    What?
[17:40] Yukiya
    Don't come to Taruhi. I can't trust you.
[17:47] Koume
    I can't blame you for being angry.
[17:50] Koume
    I wasn't truthful, even though you all
    showed me so much sympathy and kindness.
[17:56] Koume
    When I heard you went to
    the Underground because of me,
[18:00] Koume
    I thought my heart would burst.
[18:03] Koume
    But Yukiya, I really didn't know.
[18:08] Koume
    Not about what happened in Sugou
     or what my father did.
[18:12] Koume
    I mean, he was so spineless.
[18:17] Koume
    I still can't believe it.
[18:20] Yukiya
    They say a woman sold Sagecap in Shimobara.
[18:22] Koume
    Shimobara?
[18:23] Yukiya
    Yes. A town on the road
    from the Center to Sugou.
[18:30] Yukiya
    She had a huge supply of Sagecap.
[18:33] Yukiya
    And although she took care
     to hide her face,
[18:37] Yukiya
    she had two moles under her right eye.
[18:42] Yukiya
    Just like you do.
[18:45] Yukiya
    Are you sure you didn't know 
    what your father was doing?
[18:54] Koume
    That wasn't me.
[18:56] Yukiya
    Lying won't—
[18:57] Azusa
    Is that you, Yukiya?
[19:01] Yukiya
    Mother.
[19:03] Koume
    My lady.
[19:04] Azusa
    What brings you here?
[19:06] Azusa
    What were you talking about?
[19:10] Koume
    Nothing, my lady.
[19:13] Koume
    I think I'd better excuse myself.
[19:15] Yukiya
    Wait.
[19:16] Yukiya
    I still have...
[19:19] Koume
    See you, Yukiya.
[19:25] Yukiya
    Mother, she's fooling you.
[19:27] Azusa
    How so?
[19:28] Yukiya
    She's crafty. A schemer.
[19:31] Yukiya
    She spotted your kindness immediately
    and tried to take advantage of it.
[19:35] Azusa
    What makes you think that?
[19:39] Yukiya
    She's laying all the blame on her father,
[19:41] Yukiya
    while she gets a nice,
    cushy new life for herself.
[19:45] Yukiya
    How could she ask to live in Taruhi,
    the very place the monkeys attacked?
[19:50] Azusa
    I invited Koume to come to Taruhi,
[19:54] Azusa
    but she just turned me down.
[19:57] Yukiya
    Huh?
[20:02] (Flashback) Koume
    I truly appreciate your kindness.
[20:06] (Flashback) Koume
    But I realize what my father did.
[20:10] (Flashback) Koume
    As his daughter, I can't escape
    responsibility just because I didn't know.
[20:15] (Flashback) Azusa
    Koume, I don't think—
[20:16] (Flashback) Koume
    My father was kind to me,
    even if he was a hopeless good-for-nothing.
[20:21] (Flashback) Koume
    I probably won't see Yukiya again,
    so please give him my best.
[20:28] (Flashback) Koume
    Thank you so much.
[20:33] Azusa
    Your mother can tell that anger
    is clouding your eyes right now.
[20:38] Azusa
    Taking revenge on someone is not at all
    the same thing as making them atone.
[20:44] Azusa
    You mustn't become so bitter that
    you lose sight of what's really happening.
[21:17] Yukiya
    Has Koume been found, Sumio?
[21:20] Sumio
    Someone saw a girl like her
    board a basket out of the city.
[21:24] Sumio
    Nazukihiko has the Yamauchi Guard
     out looking for her.
[21:28] Yukiya
    It's all my fault.
[21:29] Sumio
    Well, now we know Koume
    was selling the stuff,
[21:34] Sumio
    just like you suspected.
[21:36] Yukiya
    Was she really?
[21:40] Yukiya
    The moles aren't really
    enough to prove anything.
[21:44] Yukiya
    Even if Koume was selling Sagecap, 
    she didn't need to run.
[21:48] Yukiya
    So why has she disappeared?
[21:54] Yukiya
    Don't tell me...
[21:57] (Flashback) Koume
    See you, Yukiya.
[21:59] Yukiya
    She wants me to chase her?
[22:03] Yukiya
    Is she counting on me suspecting her, and...
[22:08] Sumio
    H-Hey!
[22:18] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya?
[22:19] Yukiya
    Your Highness, I may have
    overlooked something important.
SIGN    Shimobara, the North
SIGN    m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
SIGN    Bridge
    of
    Heaven
    Inn
[22:30] Woman
    Are you there, Hatsune?
[22:31] Hatsune
    Right here!
[22:33] Woman
    You have a visitor.
    Your little sister, maybe?
[22:36] Hatsune
    My sister?
[22:49] Koume
    Found you.
[22:56] Koume
    It's been a long time...
[22:58] Koume
    Mom.
[24:30] Narrator
    Yukiya races through
    the skies in pursuit of Koume,
[24:36] Narrator
    and the fate of the
    true kin'u comes to light.
[24:42] Narrator
    Once Yukiya learns all,
    what path will he choose?
[24:50] Narrator
    Next time: "The Golden Raven."
SIGN    The Golden
SIGN    Raven
SIGN    YATAGARASU:
    The Raven
    Does Not 
    Choose 
    Its Master
SIGN    Illustration: Natsuki