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I'm hungry.

If it's this cold, a lot of people will die this winter.

If a blizzard comes, we can't pick any more food.

We should hurry.

To think we have to go this deep in search of food.

I heard Muraguchi's youngest daughter was sold to a merchant in Sakai.

Her husband must be over 60 already.

I feel bad for the poor girl.

In this situation, they had no choice.

Hey.

What's that kid doing?

Hey.

It could be an evil spirit.

Leave it alone.

It's all right.

It's a child.

Hey, boy.

What are you doing this deep in the woods?

What's the matter? Can't you talk?

Thank you.

Sorry, I can't offer anything else.

I know it's not much.

Here.

Help!

-Shige. -Shige. Hey!

What happened to you, Shige?

It's Sho… It's Shohachi.

What happened to Shohachi?

He was attacked.

What?

Was it a bear?

No.

A human.

It was Gin.

I'm sure of it.

That was Gin!

Why did this have to happen?

We're just trying our best…

to survive.

I thought it was supposed to be over once we sacrificed her to Kurunokami.

What's wrong with this village? Huh?

Are we cursed?

♪ Hushabye, sleep ♪

♪ How cute is the baby who has fallen asleep ♪

♪ The baby who is awake and cries ♪

♪ How hateful his face looks ♪

♪ Hushabye ♪

♪ Hushabye ♪

♪ Hushabye ♪

♪ Hushabye ♪

♪ Hushabye ♪

We will devour them.

Shirogane.

Gin Goto survived in the forest by eating people.

And…

her newborn child was with her.

She lived in the forest,

where there was no food or anything, for years.

After a while, the villagers began to search for Gin.

They had all gone mad with hunger and cold.

Gin!

They were all out to kill Gin.

Their persistence was ghastly to behold.

Gin!

We're going to kill you, Gin!

Hey, Gin!

Stay on your toes, everyone.

Gin!

Gin!

But no matter how much we searched,

Gin was nowhere to be found.

Why did this have to happen?

We've scoured the whole mountain.

Where is she?

We abandoned her on the snowy mountain.

She can't have survived alone.

What if someone in the village is helping her?

Hey. Let's stop this.

Killing and getting killed. It's enough.

Let the police handle the rest.

We can't do that, Yoshimune.

This is village business. Keep your mouth shut.

Yeah, shut up.

Haruko.

Haruko.

What's wrong with her?

-What is it? -What's the matter?

I… I don't think she's breathing.

-No. -It can't be. Why?

Someone…

Someone take a look at her!

-Calm down. Calm down, Akiko. -Why? Why Haruko?

- Why? - Calm down.

- Someone help her! - Calm down.

- Why won't anyone help her? - Calm down.

Calm down.

No! No!

Looks like we're running out of time.

There's no food left in the village.

Yes, there is!

And not just food.

There are some people who have saved up a lot of money as well.

Take it all…

from the Goto family!

A lot of people are starving to death.

You should show some restraint, Kinji.

You've lost weight, Yoshimune.

Now is the time to make them indebted to you.

You can save this village--

I don't give a damn.

Sort it out yourselves.

The village will perish.

Yoshimune.

Have you forgotten about the Kashihabe?

The Kashihabe.

Surely you remember their tribe.

It was during a great famine in the Edo Period.

They stole children who had been sacrificed to Kurunokami

and ate them to survive.

Soon, the laughing sickness began to spread

among the Kashihabe who had eaten human flesh.

When the villagers found out about the cannibalism,

they banished the Kashihabe from the village.

At the time…

the only family that stood up for the Kashihabe was the Goto family.

Because of that, we were ostracized.

They took our fields from us and forced us into the barrens.

For generations, and generations…

…and generations!

This village is rotten to the core.

But still…

Isn't it funny, Yoshimune?

Even after sacrificing Gin to Kurunokami,

the crops continue to fail.

And besides…

there's still food left.

Even if everything else is gone…

…you can just eat people.

Kinji.

Stop searching for Gin.

She has killed several villagers.

At this rate, the villagers and the Goto family

will start killing each other.

Why do you think I'd search for Gin?

Because you're in love with her.

Gin!

Where are you?

Gin!

Hey. What are you doing? Go look for her already!

Kinji.

- What? - He's doing it again.

Kinji. This isn't working. We should give up.

What the hell are you saying?

Come to your senses.

Gin must be dead already.

Gin is…

Gin is…

Katsuyoshi!

Gin is mine!

Kinji.

Kinji! You're going too far!

This land…

The food…

Kinji!

Every last grain of rice!

I won't let anyone have them!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

It hurts!

Gin.

Then, it's like our own secret place.

I'm on your side, even if no one else is.

Listen and learn.

Everything about me.

Gin…

Gin!

Where have you gone, Gin?

Gin, I miss you.

Gin.

Masamune.

What?

Gin?

It's really you, isn't it?

You really are beautiful, Gin.

It's been a long time.

Who is that child?

Is that Shirogane?

It is Shirogane, right?

Mine and your child.

Our child.

Shirogane.

Shirogane.

You're back.

You're back, Gin!

I have…

a favor to ask of you.

Kurunokami Shrine

It's Yoshimune.

He's here.

It's pointless to say anything, Yoshimune.

W-We've already made up our minds.

To survive…

we will take from the Goto family.

- That's right. - We have to survive.

Even so, you have to restrain yourselves.

If you steal from them now, then the village is truly doomed.

Now is the time to be patient.

I know Kinji's personality very well.

When we have been driven to our wit's end and beg him for aid,

he will propose a compromise--

That's enough, Father.

Patience, patience…

That's what you always say,

but you're just putting off dealing with problems.

Over there, you cozy up to Kinji,

and over here, you put on airs for the villagers.

But…

have you ever actually saved even a single person as a result?

What are you saying?

I know this village better than anyone.

You were the one who said to sacrifice Gin to the gods.

You're just running away!

Can you look everyone in the eye and say that you were right?

That's right.

Because you could never make up your mind,

the situation has only gotten worse.

-Yeah. -Yeah, that's right.

There will be killing!

You'll die too.

You must be patient now if you want to survive.

You can still turn back now.

It's too late.

Junior. We caught her.

The girl from the Goto family.

She waltzed into the midwife's place, saying she was having a baby.

Bastards!

Hold still.

Masamune.

Do you understand what you're doing?

Now we'll really be at war with the Goto family.

That's right. It's war.

Everyone! Fight!

Yeah!

Yeah, let's do it!

Junior is right.

Your role is over, Father.

My time starts today.

- No more running! - Yeah!

If we run, all we can do is starve and wait for death.

Yeah, that's right!

Let's go, people!

Let's steal what we need to survive!

To the Goto household!

Let's go!

We'll take over the village.

First, you will oust your father

and assume the position of Chief Priest.

Then you will win the hearts of the villagers

and unite them to destroy the Goto family.

I can't do that.

You're the only one who can.

The only one I trust…

is you, Masamune.

We made a promise here, didn't we?

We said we were going to make a new world for ourselves.

Yeah.

Yeah. I know.

You're right.

You're right.

You're right.

We'll make a world where the weak can survive.

I'll make it happen.

It seems they'll be here soon.

Don't worry. The men will take care of it.

Damned livestock.

They really came.

The villagers have gone mad from starvation.

They're so simple.

We'll confront them.

Please, wait.

There are so many of them.

Maybe we were the ones who underestimated them, Kinji.

What are you saying?

Are you telling me to surrender?

-No, no… -Huh?

Kinji, please calm down.

Even the Goto family doesn't have enough to share with others!

Hey.

- K-Kinji. - What?

Your little sister has been taken hostage!

Kinji.

I think we should find a point of compromise--

- Hey. - Huh?

Kinji!

Why should I…

do that…

for the people who have oppressed the Goto family for so long?

This is a fight to decide who gets to live on.

We'll beat the fear of the Goto family into their brains.

Are you prepared?

Yes.

Here's what food we can spare.

Let his little sister go and then leave.

You don't want to die, do you?

Get the rice.

Yeah, carry the rice.

We'll carry the rice first.

It's rice.

Now we won't have to starve.

It's rice. Oh, it's rice.

Oh! We can eat rice.

You think we're even now?

You won't have to starve for a while, right?

-Right? -This won't do.

No, this won't do.

This won't do, will it?

Are we going to be satisfied with this?

Junior? What's wrong?

We've won.

Now--

What?

- Huh? What happened? - Hey.

Who did that?

We did nothing…

Kill the woman.

Hey! Kill the woman!

Kill the woman!

Kill her!

What are you doing?

Take that!

Everyone, fight! Let's go!

Kill them all!

Kinji! Aim for Kinji!

I don't want to die.

- What the hell are you talking about? - Fight.

We must win.

If we don't win, our deaths will be for nothing.

Do it!

You want to feed your children, right?

Junior is right.

- We have to win. - Kill them!

- Kinji! - Kill them!

Kill Kinji!

How many of you can still move?

Surrender, Kinji!

Don't be stupid.

Come on already.

We'll keep killing until the very last man.

Then die!

What the hell? What's happe--

What?

What? What…

What?

The men will die to become our food.

The women…

Plant.

Plant your seeds in them.

Plant and plant and plant some more.

Then devour all.

When the seeds grow…

the ones you call the Goto family…

will be our children.

Gin…

Who are you?

No one.

For now.

Are you the Kashihabe?

You are the Kashihabe, aren't you?

The ones who eat people.

How funny.

The Kashihabe will eat me.

Tell me.

Don't you want revenge against the village?

Those scumbags live comfortably in the village.

Will you keep living in the forest like this?

So…

why don't we work together?

Doesn't sound so bad, does it?

I see…

I see.

This was all your doing.

What a woman.

I can't let anyone have it.

Gin…

and this house.

You're still saying that, fool?

Die!

Is that…

my child?

Who knows?

He might be a Goto child, or a child of the shrine.

He could even be a child of the Kashihabe.

It doesn't matter.

He was born from the lust of Kuge Village.

And he is only mine.

We worked so hard to build this up.

Now it's all being taken away.

What a wretched family.

I admit defeat, Gin.

But…

our bond will not end.

I love you, Gin.

You're right.

You will live on inside me.

In our eyes…

you look like meat.

It's Masamune.

Junior is back, everyone.

Junior has come back alone.

Masamune.

Wait!

Kinji Goto, the man you despised, is dead.

I killed him with my own hands.

Kinji…

From this day forward, we are the new Goto family.

We're not like Kinji's Goto family.

We will do things differently.

We will build a new relationship between the Goto family and Kuge Village.

I…

and the new Chief Priest of Kurunokami Shrine, together.

Gin.

Isn't that right?

You're right.

That's right, everyone.

Today, Kuge Village has changed.

Now we will all be saved.

What's Junior saying?

What is he saying?

So…

who is the one who can save you now?

It's rice.

Rice!

It's not Kurunokami who can save you.

It's me.

Do you not call your savior your god around here?

If you want to be saved, then sacrifice.

Just as people did during the votive festival long ago.

Not dolls, but people.

To your new god.

If you do that…

you won't have to starve anymore.

Ridiculous.

Of all the things to say, you demand human sacrifice?

Inconceivable.

Who will heed those words?

The festival you hold so dear has now returned to its original form.

You will have nothing else to do with the Goto family.

That is the rule of Kuge Village.

How could you promise to keep giving them food?

What's the problem?

There are plenty of things to eat.

This child will still only eat human meat.

Shirogane has the laughing sickness.

He won't last much longer.

After making it this far…

Why?

700 years ago…

there was one person who survived the laughing sickness.

The person who overcame the disease

grew taller than six and a half shaku…

and wavered between frenzy and stupor.

It is said that his rampaging form was like that of a god itself.

The people were terrified.

This is what they called that man.

"Arahito."

Since then,

Gin and I cared for Shirogane in secret,

in the inner sanctum of the shrine.

He always sits there,

perfectly still,

waiting for the final ritual of the festival

to begin.

I am quite sure…

that he is there, in the place where he grew up--

Mashiro is there, isn't she?

It's the place where I treated your wounds.

Officer.

I've been listening to your story.

But I don't get it at all.

Mr. Agawa.

You guys.

How long are you going to keep this up?

Hey.

Officer!

Wait.

Yosuke?

Kuroe? What are you doing out here?

What am I…

Yosuke. Where are you going?

What's that?

Huh?

That.

Oh, uh, it's nothing.

It's a person.

Who is it?

The new officer's wife.

I'm taking her to the hospital.

Don't interfere.

She's bleeding from her ears.

What?

Not good.

I've got to hurry.

Hey, you.

You really did betray the Goto family.

You're just like me.

It's now or never.

Let me get in the car.

Wait, Officer.

Stay away from me.

I can't trust you.

This is a problem I have to deal with.

Shut up.

Hey, Officer.

Right from the start,

I should have chosen which lives to take and which lives to protect.

Not wanting anyone to die was too naive.

I'll do it.

I'll kill That Man.

I have to end this curse for good.

Hey.

If you get in my way…

I'll kill you too.

In order to neutralize the Goto family,

the objective of this mission is to arrest

the chief suspects Keisuke Goto, Iwao Goto,

and the huge man they call "That Man."

We will first infiltrate Kuge Village by crossing the bridge,

and head for the location known as "the altar,"

which Ai Goto informed us about.

Listen up.

If you encounter any resistance, you are permitted to fire at will.

It's time.

Commencing operation!

N2, taking position.

First group is Sasaki's squad.

Second group is Miyake's squad.

Third group is Oba's squad.

Fourth group is Itagaki's squad.

Sasaki's squad will take the armored vehicle.

Miyake's squad is 3714.

Oba's squad is 1052.

Itagaki's squad is 9043.

Kuge Village

What?

It's fallen off.

Move it out of the way.

Huh?

Come on.

Go already.

Hurry up.

Just a little longer, and I'll be free.

I figured you were going to try to leave the village.

Sa-Sadamu?

You traitor.

Where is Keisuke?

Answer me, Yosuke.

Translated by Douglas Jern