E20 - The Golden Raven
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[00:00] Nazukihiko
The mother who abandoned her family?
[00:04] Yukiya
I think Koume pieced it together.
[00:06] Yukiya
But she didn't think I'd take
her story seriously, so...
[00:10] Nazukihiko
She went to settle things herself?
[00:13] Yukiya
My humble apologies.
[00:17] Nazukihiko
We must hurry...
[00:20] Nazukihiko
to where Koume's gone.
SIGN Shimobara, the North
[00:29] Hatsune
What are you doing here?
[00:32] Koume
Is that all you have to say to
your daughter after all this time?
[00:40] Coworker
You have a visitor, Hatsune?
[00:42] Hatsune
Yes, one of my relatives.
[00:44] Hatsune
We'd better step out for a bit.
It seems urgent.
[00:47] Coworker
Sure thing.
[00:59] Koume
Well, I see you're living well.
[01:04] Koume
Is that a man's kimono?
[01:06] Hatsune
So what if it is?
[01:08] Koume
I was just wondering if he knows
you've been seeing your ex-husband.
[01:15] Koume
Dad came here, didn't he?
[01:19] Hatsune
Whatever do you mean?
[01:22] Koume
Dad stopped at this inn before Sugou.
He said he had a good customer here.
[01:28] Koume
At the time, I never dreamed he meant you.
[01:34] Hatsune
Pure coincidence. I haven't seen him.
[01:37] Koume
What did you put him up to?
[01:39] Hatsune
Nothing. I just told you.
[01:42] Koume
I heard a woman with moles like yours
sold Sagecap to a physician in Shimobara.
[01:49] Koume
That made me a suspect.
[01:52] Koume
I kept my mouth shut. For now.
[01:55] Koume
You made that deal with
the monkeys, didn't you?
[02:00] Koume
You got rich off Sagecap but made Dad do all
the work so you could keep your hands clean.
[02:06] Koume
Then you cut him loose
when he got inconvenient.
[02:10] Hatsune
I don't know what you're talking about.
[02:13] Hatsune
Could you leave already?
[02:18] Koume
Don't worry. I won't go and turn you in.
[02:25] Koume
I need to make my own way from now on.
[02:29] Koume
Won't you give me a little
something to get started...
[02:32] Koume
Mom?
[02:39] Hatsune
You really are my daughter.
[02:42] Hatsune
Wait a moment.
[02:45] Koume
Still, I'm impressed.
[02:48] Koume
How'd you ever convince that coward to
kidnap girls and feed them to the monkeys?
[02:55] Hatsune
As if Jihei would've ever found the courage.
[03:01] Hatsune
I just asked him to do a little job.
[03:04] Hatsune
You know, "Won't you take
some shady cargo to Sazaki for me?"
[03:08] Koume
"Some shady cargo"?
[03:13] Koume
You mean Dad didn't know about the monkeys?
[03:17] Hatsune
You think he would've agreed if he had?
[03:20] Hatsune
Sure enough, he came back
from Sazaki as pale as a ghost.
[03:23] Hatsune
"What did you make me do?" and
"I'll never take a job like that again!" and so on.
[03:29] Hatsune
But in the end, he agreed
to go to Sugou, too.
[03:33] Koume
Why? Didn't he say he was
done with that stuff?
[03:36] Hatsune
Well, you see, he sold Sagecap to an amateur
and caught the Underground's attention.
[03:43] Hatsune
If you'd stayed in the Center,
you would've both been dead.
[03:47] Hatsune
He decided to flee to the countryside and
make it look like the monkeys had eaten you.
[03:52] Hatsune
That's why he took the Sugou job.
[03:55] Koume
Let me guess. You planned that part, too.
[03:58] Koume
Dad could never handle Sagecap.
[04:02] Koume
You knew that and set him up
so he'd have no choice but to go to Sugou.
[04:06] Hatsune
Me? Perish the thought.
[04:09] Koume
And to top it off,
you dumped all the blame on him.
[04:12] Koume
You told him to write that
he'd done it all on his own and—
[04:16] Hatsune
Jihei wrote that confession for your sake.
[04:20] Koume
What?
[04:21] Hatsune
"Think of poor Koume with
two murderers for parents," he said.
[04:25] Hatsune
"Let me be the only villain."
[04:28] Hatsune
That letter convinced
the Underground to stop with him.
[04:32] Hatsune
You were all Jihei thought
about to the bitter end.
[04:40] Hatsune
How's this? I think it suits you.
[04:44] Hatsune
Oh, I know. My man will be home soon.
Let's have a nice meal. All three of us.
[04:51] Hatsune
You really do take after me.
Like mother, like daughter.
[04:56] Koume
Don't touch me!
[04:59] Hatsune
Koume?
[05:01] Koume
Dad's the only parent I have!
[05:03] Koume
You...
[05:05] Koume
You're not my mother! You can't be!
[05:18] Hatsune
I can't believe you just waltzed in
here alone. How stupid can you be?
[05:31] Hatsune
I bet you thought no parent would
ever kill her own child. How naive.
[05:37] Hatsune
My father sold me when
I was 13 to pay off his tab.
[05:43] Hatsune
And not just once. Over and over.
[05:48] Hatsune
One winter night,
he got dead drunk outside.
[05:52] Hatsune
It was supposed to snow the next day.
[05:54] Hatsune
So I locked him out.
He was ice cold by morning.
[06:04] Hatsune
I was so happy when Jihei fell for me.
[06:07] Hatsune
I thought I finally had a family.
That Jihei would treasure me.
[06:14] Hatsune
But then, you came along,
[06:16] Hatsune
and I ended up alone again.
[06:20] Koume
Murderer.
[06:22] Hatsune
Yes, I'm a murderer.
[06:29] Hatsune
How did I end up like this?
[06:32] Hatsune
I only wanted to be happy.
[06:46] Yukiya
Koume! Are you all right?
[06:52] Koume
Yukiya?
[06:55] Nazukihiko
I heard the gist of it from Yukiya.
[06:59] Nazukihiko
You must have found it hard to bear alone.
[07:03] Yukiya
I'm so very sorry.
I said so many awful things to you.
[07:07] Koume
I thought you'd come, Yukiya.
[07:10] Koume
Because you suspected me.
[07:14] Koume
When you told me you couldn't trust me,
[07:19] Koume
I realized everyone who'd
really believed in me was gone.
[07:28] Koume
Dad...
[07:47] Nazukihiko
Take your time.
[08:01] Hatsune
Darling!
[08:03] Hatsune
Save me!
[08:05] Hatsune's Man
Hatsune.
[08:09] Nazukihiko
Sagecap?
[08:26] Nazukihiko
Go back inside!
[08:34] Koume
Yukiya!
[08:36] Koume
Help! Yukiya!
[08:41] Yukiya
What does this remind me of?
[08:47] Nazukihiko
Wait, Yukiya!
[08:52] Yukiya
Your Highness!
[09:14] Yukiya
Is he dead?
[09:15] Nazukihiko
No.
[09:16] Nazukihiko
We'll retreat for now.
[09:17] Nazukihiko
Take Koume and—
[09:48] Yukiya
Your Highness!
[09:54] Yukiya
Your Highness!
[10:00] Yukiya
Your Highness! Your Highness!
[10:03] Koume
Yukiya!
[10:29] Yukiya
Your Highness! Your Highness!
[10:31] Sumio
Nazukihiko!
[10:32] Sumio
Can you hear me?
Hey, pull yourself together!
[10:34] Yukiya
Your Highness!
[10:35] Sumio
Say something, Nazukihiko!
[10:36] Yukiya
Your Highness! Your Highness!
[10:37] Sumio
Hey! Open your eyes! Come on!
SIGN Northern House, Main House
[11:48] Sumio
It was my fault. I'm so sorry.
[11:55] Yukiya
Lady Hamayu.
[12:19] Hamayu
Now you've been punished...
[12:22] Hamayu
so don't get any crazy ideas.
[12:25] Hamayu
That's an order.
[12:38] Hatsune
It must have been three or four years ago.
[12:41] Hatsune
The water dried up, starting at
the foot of the central mountain.
[12:45] Hatsune
Eventually, our well failed, too.
[12:49] (Flashback) Great Monkey
I smell something delicious
on you. A young woman.
[12:53] (Flashback) Great Monkey
I want to eat her next.
[12:56] (Flashback) Hatsune's Man
Out of the question.
[12:58] (Flashback) Great Monkey
Why not? Is she your wife? Your daughter?
[13:02] (Flashback) Hatsune's Man
I said no, and that's final!
[13:04] (Flashback) Hatsune
Oh? And why not?
[13:07] (Flashback) Hatsune's Man
H-Hatsune! I told you not to come here.
[13:12] (Flashback) Hatsune
Say...
[13:13] (Flashback) Hatsune
You say you want female flesh,
but do you really care if it's mine?
[13:17] (Flashback) Great Monkey
No, not really.
[13:20] (Flashback) Great Monkey
I'll give you heaps more
Sagecap in exchange.
[13:25] (Flashback) Hatsune
Well? I'm sure we can work something out.
[13:38] Hatsune
Surely you've heard enough?
[13:40] Hatsune
Can you untie me now? These ropes hurt.
[13:44] Natsuka
They cannot begin to compare...
[13:47] Natsuka
to the pain your sacrifices inflicted
on our poor fellow yatagarasu.
[13:52] Hatsune
My "fellow yatagarasu"?
[13:55] Hatsune
I don't recall any of you
lifting a feather to help me,
[13:59] Hatsune
but if we're "fellow yatagarasu,"
would you mind letting me out of here?
[14:08] Natsuka
How dare you...
[14:10] Hatsune
No one came to my rescue.
[14:14] Hatsune
Especially no blowhards who go on about
"our poor fellow yatagarasu."
[14:21] Hatsune
But the monkeys didn't lie,
and they paid up.
[14:26] Hatsune
They helped me to live in the lap of luxury.
[14:31] Hatsune
I still feel gratitude to them.
[14:36] Hatsune
Now, I suppose you're going to kill me.
[14:41] Hatsune
Go ahead.
[14:43] Hatsune
I forgive you.
[14:49] Official
Take her away!
[14:52] Soldier
On your feet!
[14:54] Hatsune
This society isn't going to last
much longer like this anyway.
[14:58] Soldier
Move!
[15:09] Natsuka
I do not understand.
[15:11] Natsuka
I cannot make sense of that woman.
[15:14] Natsuka
No. She is beyond pity.
[15:18] Natsuka
I do not need to understand her.
[15:21] Rokon
I bet her execution won't be pretty.
[15:29] Natsuka
She brought it on herself.
[15:31] Rokon
Yes, Lord Natsuka. You've got that right.
[15:34] Natsuka
Then, wipe that smug look
off your face this instant!
[15:50] Yukiya
It's my fault His Highness was stabbed.
[15:53] Yukiya
I assumed he could kill the big raven
with one blow, like he killed that monkey.
[15:59] Hamayu
No, it's not your fault.
[16:05] Hamayu
What do you think makes a true kin'u?
[16:08] Yukiya
Huh?
[16:11] Hamayu
You see, Yukiya, Nazukihiko...
[16:14] Hamayu
cannot kill yatagarasu.
[16:17] Yukiya
What?
[16:18] Hamayu
The Golden Raven regards
all yatagarasu with love.
[16:23] Hamayu
He could never kill one of us.
Not even one that was trying to take his life.
[16:35] Hamayu
That's just how kin'u are.
[16:39] Hamayu
Some even say a true kin'u has no heart.
[16:43] Yukiya
What do you mean?
[16:45] Hamayu
"No emotion" might be nearer the mark.
[16:48] Hamayu
In fact, Nazukihiko says so himself.
[16:50] Hamayu
"I can't recall feeling joy,
sorrow, or any other emotion."
[16:56] Hamayu
"To a lord who would rule justly,
personal feelings are nothing but a burden."
[17:04] Yukiya
That does sound like him.
[17:07] Hamayu
You've had an especially rough time of it.
[17:11] Hamayu
But you know, I'm convinced Nazukihiko's
lying about having no emotions.
[17:20] Hamayu
It's just that in the face
of his grand duty as kin'u,
[17:25] Hamayu
his own feelings become
as weak as wet paper.
[17:29] Hamayu
They probably dissolve into nothing
before he even notices them.
[17:41] Voice
His Highness, the Prince, has awakened!
[17:56] Natsuka
Thank goodness. Oh, thank goodness.
[17:59] Sumio
Nazukihiko! Do you recognize me?
[18:04] Sumio
Nazukihiko.
[18:12] Yukiya
Oh, God...
[18:37] Yukiya
How is Your Highness's wound?
[18:40] Nazukihiko
It barely gives me pain now.
[18:42] Nazukihiko
You look sickly yourself.
Would you rather wait here?
[18:46] Yukiya
You must be joking.
What if something happened to you?
[18:53] Nazukihiko
There.
[19:08] Yukiya
Ghost-fire?
[19:13] Yukiya
Why is there so much of it?
[19:14] Nazukihiko
It seems the tears have widened
while I was bedridden.
[19:33] Nazukihiko
Ghost-fire is the light humans make.
[19:36] Yukiya
Really?
[19:39] Nazukihiko
Humans can't stand to leave
any darkness unilluminated.
[19:47] Nazukihiko
They move at a tremendous pace.
[19:49] Nazukihiko
Their light is already
closing in on our mountain.
[19:52] Nazukihiko
No...
[19:55] Nazukihiko
It has already engulfed and
destroyed several outlying villages.
[20:00] Nazukihiko
The monkeys will reemerge before long.
[20:05] Nazukihiko
Yamauchi's waters will run dry.
Its people's hearts will grow barren.
[20:11] Nazukihiko
The tears will continue to spread
until the humans eventually find us.
[20:16] Yukiya
Will that be the end of Yamauchi?
Will it all disappear?
[20:21] Nazukihiko
Not even I know what form
our ruin will take,
[20:25] Nazukihiko
but I know it's coming.
[20:27] Yukiya
How can you be so certain?
[20:30] Nazukihiko
Because I was born.
[20:32] Nazukihiko
A true kin'u is always born
with the strength his times demand.
[20:39] Nazukihiko
Healing in times of strife.
Wisdom to survive in times of disaster.
[20:44] Nazukihiko
And I have...
[20:47] Nazukihiko
the power to halt Yamauchi's collapse.
[21:01] Yukiya
What should I do?
[21:04] Nazukihiko
Other than go home to Taruhi
and protect your family?
[21:10] Yukiya
Then, will you guard
Yamauchi all on your own?
[21:14] Yukiya
Stifling your feelings and mending tears
with no one any the wiser?
[21:22] Nazukihiko
I am the leader of all yatagarasu.
[21:25] Nazukihiko
I would give all I have to save even one.
[21:29] Nazukihiko
That is my joy.
[21:45] Nazukihiko
We're leaving.
[21:47] Yukiya
Your Highness.
[21:50] Yukiya
Guarding you means guarding
all of Yamauchi, my home included.
[22:00] Yukiya
That means staying to support you
is the best choice I can make.
[22:06] Nazukihiko
Yukiya.
[22:08] Yukiya
Our true kin'u can do his duty, but he's got
no clue how to take care of himself.
[22:12] Yukiya
I can't risk leaving him.
[22:19] Yukiya
I humbly beseech Your Majesty, the Kin'u.
[22:22] Yukiya
I, Yukiya of Taruhi, hereby pledge
my loyalty to you for as long as I live,
[22:28] Yukiya
till my body withers to nothing
and the last flicker of my spirit fades.
[22:45] Nazukihiko
You will be my right hand one day,
[22:49] Nazukihiko
but I suspect you'll endure
suffering and hardship because of it.
[22:55] Nazukihiko
I may abandon you if I grow desperate,
[22:58] Nazukihiko
and I may not always be the best of lords.
[23:02] Nazukihiko
Will you still have me?
[23:05] Yukiya
Please take me as your lowliest servant.
SIGN Unbending Reed Monastery
[23:56] Student 1
I hear we've got
serious competition this year.
[23:58] Student 2
Oh, you mean that big-shot noble's kid?
[24:01] Student 3
I heard he was the Prince's aide.
[24:03] Student 4
Is that the same guy who got
a perfect score on the test?
[24:06] Ichiryu
This is Unbending Reed Monastery,
[24:08] Ichiryu
built to train Yamauchi Guardsmen
to defend the kin'u, lowborn or not.
SIGN Of Shimaki Village
in the North
Ichiryu
[24:12] Ichiryu
Only strength matters here.
[24:14] Ichiryu
Who cares if he's some noble's kid or aide?
[24:17] Ichiryu
I'll beat him black and blue and
into shape, or my name ain't Ichi—
[24:24] Ichiryu
Y-Yukiya?
[24:26] Yukiya
It's so nice to see you again, Ichiryu.
[24:28] Ichiryu
What are you...
You said you'd never come here!
[24:31] Yukiya
Oh, well, I changed my mind.
[24:34] Yukiya
Joining the Yamauchi Guard
doesn't seem so bad after all.
[24:38] Yukiya
I hope you won't be too hard on me.
SIGN YATAGARASU:
The Raven
Does Not
Choose
Its Master
SIGN Illustration: Natsuki