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The Apothecary Diaries
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This story is a work of fiction. The names of all of the characters, organizations, and so on
are imaginary. It also bears no connection to any specific real-life events.
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It sounds like singing insects.
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Maomao, you have to wear a fox mask, too.
Use the one you just painted.
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Episode 43: Festival
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Sure.
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Usually people paint the corners of the
eyes red. Green seems like an odd choice.
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You look like a tanuki, sort of.
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What? Well, you look like a cat, Maomao.
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My hair's getting in the way.
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Let me tie it up for you again. Sit.
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Hmm.
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Feels like something's missing.
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It's kinda incomplete with just
string, don't you think?
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I don't mind.
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You can borrow one of my hair sticks.
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It's shaped like a spider web! Super cute.
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Oh.
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I do have a hair stick, actually. Use this one.
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Wow, Maomao. This one's really nice.
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It was a gift.
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Hey,
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if I asked, would you give it to me?
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No.
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Dang.
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I could just not mention it,
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but Master Jinshi can be eerily good
at reading facial expressions.
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That said, I don't even know if I can
make it back to the capital at all.
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There, all done.
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Thank you.
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The festival takes place
at a shrine outside the village.
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Let's go.
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Perhaps because of the torchlight,
they seem like an actual skulk of foxes.
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Feels like we're in a different world, right?
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Yeah.
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Eerie, isn't it?
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You could say that.
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Although I'm being
accompanied by a green tanuki.
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There are some others, like Shisui,
who are using green around their eyes.
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Mostly men. I wonder if there's
a meaning there?
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A lot of grasshoppers this year, it seems.
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I heard that's why we have to go
big with this year's festival.
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I see.
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To ward off evil spirits, I guess.
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Lantern plant berries don't taste good.
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I know.
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They're poisonous. In the pleasure
district, courtesans—
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I know.
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Gross.
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Sorry!
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The shrine is up these stairs.
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You know why the god enshrined here is a fox
and considered the god of good harvest?
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No.
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This area used to be inhabited
by a certain group of people.
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Then a different group came from
a different nation, from the west.
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Most of the villages
chased these newcomers away,
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but a small number accepted them.
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The westerners had valuable knowledge.
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How to enrich the fields.
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How to get rid of pests.
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I guess some villagers
understood the value in that.
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But then, others invaded, trying
to steal the rich farmland.
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As that process repeated, they began
moving their village deeper into the forest.
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Quietly, like they were sneaking away.
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What about this fox god?
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The fox represents the westerners
who brought knowledge,
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and are the ancestors of this village.
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I hear the foxes here are white.
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The masks were white at first, right?
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Painting colors on the masks
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represents how the newcomers settled
and took on the colors of the region.
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I see.
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Does the white fox represent pale skin?
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And through intermarriage, the colors change...
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Hmm?
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Where have I heard that before?
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Many of the men here have trouble
differentiating colors.
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Huh?
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It's rarer in women.
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So, that's why they paint around
the eyes in green instead of red.
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Shisui, too.
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The Mother Royal, who came to the city.
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The people of the white fox, who
built a hidden village deep in the forest.
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They must both have been from the same
group of people who came from the west...
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Maomao, you can leave your mask here.
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What happens to these masks?
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They're enshrined for a year,
and then we burn them.
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This way, come on!
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Come get some food!
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There are food stalls, too?
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Alright, thank you!
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Yeah. Want something to eat?
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If you're buying, sure.
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How about meat skewers, then?
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Frogs and locusts...
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Which one do you want, Maomao?
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I'll have the locusts!
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Locusts at this time of the year
are so plump and yummy!
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I'll have the chicken.
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Not the frog?
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I don't want to see frogs for a while...
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Hurry!
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Have you never eaten insects before?
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I didn't see them at
the pleasure district's food stalls.
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Like I said, that's gross.
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Yuck, that one was a grasshopper!
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They look the same to me.
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They're totally different!
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These are tasty.
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I can't tell the difference...
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Look, inside the shrine!
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A child?
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That must be Kyou-u.
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Every year, a child plays
the role of the god like that.
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I see.
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Coming to think of it, that brat
did paint a really pretty mask.
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I'm impressed that he can sit so still, though.
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They take turns throughout the night
like that. Everyone wants to volunteer.
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It makes for a good memory, too.
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I think it's just about
time for them to switch.
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Let's wait for him out back.
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Check this out!
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What is this?
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What's wrong?
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Oh.
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This ear of rice is empty.
The one the village elder gave us.
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That field never grows well.
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And the elder only gives us rice
from that field. How cheap.
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Sheesh.
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Well, better luck next year.
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Would this one work better?
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What? Are you sure?
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Yay, thanks!
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No fair!
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You're a nice person, Maomao.
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Not really. There's no point
in me holding on to it.
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Big Sis!
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How'd I do?
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You did good!
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If only my mother could've seen.
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He doesn't live with his mother?
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Come on, let's go watch them
burn the masks from last year.
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Hey, what'd you wish for?
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Wish?
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They say when you write your wish on a mask,
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the wish comes true as the mask burns,
and the wish rises to the heavens.
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You didn't write one?
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I only learned just now.
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I didn't think you believed in
superstitions like that, Maomao.
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It's not a superstition!
The wishes really come true!
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That's why I spent a lot of time and effort
painting my mask and writing my wish.
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What did you write?
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I'll never say!
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Whatever.
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Look, here they come!
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Kyou-u, didn't you want to play that role?
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I'm not a little kid,
so I'll let the others do it!
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How mature of you.
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He's trying real hard.
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Was your mask there, Kyou-u?
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I can't tell.
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I hope it burns up properly.
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The ungranted wishes sink to
the bottom to feed the next harvest.
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Insects never survive the winter.
They only leave behind their children.
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I'm home!
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You're back. Do you want dinner?
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Yes!
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How was the festival?
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Well, when we got there,
Kyou-u was inside, and...
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What?
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You promised me something.
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The resurrection potion.
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Yes.
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Do you understand your situation right now?
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I'm technically a hostage,
but I'm not restricted at all.
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Do they think there's no point in me trying
to escape? Or is there another reason?
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The way these two are behaving
raises so many questions.
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But what's more concerning right now is...
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Fine.
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Is it thornapple and blowfish?!
At what ratio?!
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Anything else?!
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What's the correct amount?!
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Also, how was your body
after coming back to life?!
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How long did it take to regain consciousness?
Could you move right away?!
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I don't think thornapple is needed.
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It's not?
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It was included in the foreign recipe,
but it's for extending the near-death state.
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They likely added it to render people
unconscious, so they'd be easier to enslave.
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That's what it was originally for.
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I was able to get away with just this,
but if you fail, you lose your memory.
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There's a lot more room for improvement
before trying this on humans—
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Please use me!
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I won't try it on you.
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Why not?! Go right ahead!
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You're a hostage...
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I'm glad you guys get along.
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Neither of you have many friends.
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Shut up.
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Silence.
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You and Shisui are close.
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Does it appear so?
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Yes.
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I have so many questions for Shisui...
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Why did she bring me here?
What's the end goal of all this?
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And... who are these two, really?
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Th-These are all about herbs...?!
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Yes. I'll be away for a while.
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There are guards outside.
Don't even think of escaping.
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I doubt she'd try!
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Why are they watching you? What'd you do?
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Maomao, your breakfast is getting cold.
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I'll have it later.
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Oh, come on!
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Here, get changed. I'll help.
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Wow, how lazy. How is she so stuck up?
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She's like Lady Shenmei.
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Shenmei?
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There, all done!
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Kyou-u, you clean up the dishes.
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What?!
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Isn't he from a rich family or something?
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The prosperous inevitably decay.
Who knows if he can stay that way?
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I guess so.
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Maomao, where's that hair stick from yesterday?
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By my bed.
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You're treating it so casually.
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This is a really nice hair stick. You need
to be more careful, or it'll get stolen.
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Do you think it'd fetch a good price?
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Maybe, but...
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The intricate patterns and everything
make it look really exquisite.
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I think someone with the right eyes
could see it and tell who ordered it.
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Guess I can't sell it, then.
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Given how obsessive that guy is,
it might come right back.
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You'd have to crush it back down to its metal.
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That seems wasteful.
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It needs a little more.
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There, that's good.
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You're good at this.
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Yep. I get beaten if I'm too slow.
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Beaten?
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I have to give good massages too,
otherwise I get hot water thrown on me.
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That's why I learned really quickly.
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That's scary. You had a terrible master.
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Not a master. It was my mother.
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I don't want you to get in trouble,
Maomao, so stay put, okay?
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I've gotta leave for a while today, too.
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Has it been about six hours now?
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Impressive. I can see
all the way outside the village.
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The rice is unharvested
in just that section.
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In fact, it's still green?
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Is that the storehouse
for the rice next to it?
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Come to think of it...
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That field never grows well.
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Is that the field he was talking about?
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Such a perfectly square shape, too.
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Could it be...
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Hey, Big Sis!
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What are you doing?
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Open doors more quietly.
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Ow, ow!
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Anyway, where's my big sis?
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I don't know.
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Hey, do you know what that building is?
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Hmm? Oh, that's the village
elder's old storehouse.
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They built a new one with raised
floors to keep the rats out,
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so I don't think they still use that one.
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I see.
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Is it possible to go there?
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But they're watching you, right?
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I mean, I guess it's possible, but...
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Really?! How?
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Ugh, fine. I'll show you.
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My secret passage that I use
to get out of studying!
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He really is a little shit.
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What are you doing?
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I want to check something.
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Does this section not get enough nutrients?
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I don't think that's it.
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How do you know?
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The widths of this window and this section
of immature rice are about the same.
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This section gets light all night,
coming from that window.
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Does light prevent growth?
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Usually, they say plants grow
better in good sunlight.
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But when plants are exposed
to bright light continuously,
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it sometimes messes up their growth.
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I see.
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Similar to how, by altering the environment,
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I could get flowers to blossom out of season.
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You said there are rats here, right?
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Yeah. I heard even setting
lots of traps didn't help.
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So, an infinite supply of rats.
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Suirei said the drug needed improvements
before it could be tested on humans.
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So, I guess she tested it on small
animals that are easy to catch.
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What a troublesome brat.
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What do you think is inside?
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Hmm. Well, I have a few guesses.
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Ew, rats.
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This must be where she
ran her tests, like I thought.
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Oh, how I'd love to take all of this with me!
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No, now's not the time for that!
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What's this?
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Metal tubes? A ton of them, too.
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What is this doing here?
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I didn't expect this at all.
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Yikes. This is like...
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A full-blown feifa workshop.
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The same ones that the assassins
used on Master Jinshi...
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Oh? I wonder why the door was unlocked.
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Did someone forget to lock it?
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No, that's impossible.
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And yet it was unlocked.
Who was in charge of locking it?
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Oh no, it's Lady Shenmei...
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How very strange.
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Is there a problem?
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That's the special envoy from back then.
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Not at all, Lady Ayla. It's nothing.
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It was just my imagination.
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Though it seems a pair of
filthy rats have snuck in.
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L-Lady Shenmei...
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So this...
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is Shenmei.
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Next Time
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Episode 44: The Stronghold
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Next time: "The Stronghold."
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