WEBVTT 00:17.920 --> 00:20.460 I can't see anything, but... 00:21.130 --> 00:23.960 I can sense it. The little guy's in trouble. 00:30.230 --> 00:33.800 I was able to sense her tao then... 00:34.470 --> 00:37.180 because my blood blurred my vision in one eye. 00:38.730 --> 00:42.100 Because I couldn't see, I relied on my senses. 00:45.490 --> 00:49.490 I gouged out one. The other's blurry. 00:50.090 --> 00:52.970 Well... I can't see a thing. 00:53.800 --> 00:57.540 But I can sense it clearly now. 01:07.080 --> 01:09.770 You really are an incredible woman. 01:09.770 --> 01:11.260 You have my thanks. 01:11.660 --> 01:14.970 This is starting to get interesting! 01:30.150 --> 01:31.110 Hell's Paradise 01:31.110 --> 01:36.470 A faint flower was blooming unnoticed by anyone 01:36.470 --> 01:41.470 Not a burning red, but flickering serenely in red 01:41.470 --> 01:46.820 I've been pausing for a long time dragging my past at my feet 01:46.820 --> 01:49.420 If I break free from this ambivalence, 01:49.420 --> 01:52.830 will I be able to bloom by its side? 01:52.830 --> 01:55.470 The future is slipping away between my fingers 01:55.470 --> 01:57.990 What mistake did I make to pay this price? 01:57.990 --> 02:02.840 Always hurting myself 02:02.840 --> 02:08.190 and hesitant even to a small joy 02:08.700 --> 02:10.390 I want to stop now 02:10.390 --> 02:12.910 The flower just bloomed in dignity 02:12.910 --> 02:15.530 and that was all I needed to be happy 02:15.530 --> 02:20.300 I just wanted to protect this one flower 02:20.650 --> 02:23.360 Wishing to be strong, I 02:23.360 --> 02:26.020 picked up the vulnerability I had once cast away 02:26.020 --> 02:27.970 Can't break free from the ambivalence 02:27.970 --> 02:31.160 In ambivalence, I become myself 02:31.160 --> 02:33.870 Like rooting strongly into the soil 02:33.870 --> 02:36.420 like swaying ephemerally to the wind 02:36.420 --> 02:39.650 I'm slowly loosening myself to bloom 02:39.510 --> 02:42.720 Hell's Paradise 02:46.560 --> 02:52.530 Chrysanthemum and Peach 02:52.190 --> 02:58.870 In a world without war, conquering it with a sword is a pipe dream. 02:59.220 --> 03:01.560 But that didn't stop me. 03:01.560 --> 03:07.540 I sought to become the fastest, sharpest, and strongest swordsman. 03:08.420 --> 03:11.030 I wanted only one thing. 03:12.400 --> 03:15.030 To cut down every powerful warrior... 03:17.910 --> 03:25.540 and live forever by carving my name into history. 03:36.460 --> 03:42.080 How are you so strong, old man? 03:42.490 --> 03:46.740 You're skinnier and slower than me, so how? 03:46.740 --> 03:50.580 Tetsunosuke, you're too greedy. 03:50.580 --> 03:53.310 You want to be everything because you're young. 03:53.670 --> 03:58.530 Thicker, harder, hotter, faster. 03:58.890 --> 04:02.140 You've lost focus. 04:02.700 --> 04:05.910 Not everything a person eats becomes part of them. 04:05.910 --> 04:08.140 Eat too much, and it'll pass right through you. 04:08.680 --> 04:13.330 It's fine while you're young, but cut back once you get older. 04:13.650 --> 04:18.010 Cast off everything you can and look closely at what's left. 04:18.010 --> 04:20.350 You'll find everything within that. 04:20.950 --> 04:23.620 Don't go wider. Go deeper. 04:23.880 --> 04:26.160 Flip it on its side, and it's the same. 04:28.760 --> 04:31.560 I never get what you're saying. 04:32.170 --> 04:36.170 Sakataya Rice 04:33.120 --> 04:36.170 Back then, I didn't understand my master's words. 04:36.170 --> 04:37.420 You bastard! 04:37.420 --> 04:38.590 You'll pay for this! 04:38.590 --> 04:39.740 Are you okay? 04:43.710 --> 04:46.950 So I traveled around the country. 04:48.490 --> 04:51.040 But I understand now. 04:51.460 --> 04:56.300 The more you accumulate, the harder it becomes to see yourself. 05:03.300 --> 05:05.080 The less you have... 05:11.490 --> 05:13.050 the better you can see. 05:17.220 --> 05:20.380 You've made me even stronger. 05:20.380 --> 05:22.140 Wow! 05:22.140 --> 05:23.260 But... 05:23.620 --> 05:25.410 that won't kill me! 05:26.110 --> 05:28.100 Then I'll spend my whole life! 05:28.100 --> 05:29.730 An eternity! 05:30.150 --> 05:32.270 Forever and ever! 05:32.270 --> 05:35.020 Cutting you again and again! 05:36.110 --> 05:37.900 How romantic! 05:42.350 --> 05:44.200 He's determined. 05:44.200 --> 05:47.200 But if this becomes a battle of attrition... 05:49.540 --> 05:51.100 we'll lose. 05:51.960 --> 05:57.070 Even if he can see her tao, he can't kill her without the hindering effect. 05:57.460 --> 06:05.720 Wood 05:57.460 --> 06:05.720 Fire 05:57.460 --> 06:05.720 Earth 05:57.460 --> 06:05.720 Metal 05:57.460 --> 06:05.720 Water 05:57.460 --> 05:59.860 Tao Fa's attribute is wood. 06:00.420 --> 06:02.420 My metal attribute could kill her, 06:02.420 --> 06:05.320 but I can't use tao well enough to be effective. 06:05.980 --> 06:09.350 If we wait too long, Gantetsusai will die of blood loss. 06:10.050 --> 06:11.270 What should we do? 06:11.980 --> 06:15.580 Restoration is a flow that supports yours. 06:16.190 --> 06:18.580 Hindrance is one that halts it. 06:22.880 --> 06:25.240 What are you doing? Move, Little-emon! 06:25.240 --> 06:27.120 Is this what you're into? 06:27.120 --> 06:32.020 Hindrance kills Tensen because it prevents their tanden from regenerating! 06:32.020 --> 06:33.250 In other words, 06:33.250 --> 06:36.710 as long as I'm touching her tanden immediately after it's destroyed, 06:36.710 --> 06:37.880 the effect is the same! 06:38.600 --> 06:41.490 Cut her, Tamiya Gantetsusai! 06:41.490 --> 06:42.230 What? 06:42.230 --> 06:44.870 Naturally, you must cut as close as possible without cutting me. 06:44.870 --> 06:46.890 It would be child's play for an Asaemon. 06:46.890 --> 06:49.060 Is it too difficult for you, Blade Dragon? 06:52.810 --> 06:54.310 I'll do it! 06:58.670 --> 07:02.670 Honestly, it's nearly impossible to be precise with these eyes. 07:03.370 --> 07:05.970 At this rate, I'll cut the little guy, too. 07:09.750 --> 07:16.490 Cast off everything you can and look closely at what's left. 07:16.490 --> 07:19.130 You'll find everything within that. 07:32.430 --> 07:33.850 Wow. 07:33.850 --> 07:37.350 There you go, Little-emon. Child's play. 07:38.840 --> 07:40.230 Ju Fa... 07:44.500 --> 07:47.090 Without hindrance, this never ends. 07:47.460 --> 07:49.720 But we don't have time for this. 07:51.330 --> 07:53.230 I'll have to use that. 07:55.150 --> 07:57.370 Don't do it, Brother. 07:57.800 --> 07:59.880 Let's kill them together. 08:01.980 --> 08:03.380 You're right. 08:03.380 --> 08:08.530 Did you really think you'd survive turning against us? 08:08.530 --> 08:11.270 You fools don't consider consequences. 08:11.270 --> 08:12.850 Consequences? 08:12.850 --> 08:15.330 No matter the riff-raff ahead or behind me, 08:15.330 --> 08:17.270 I just crush whoever gets in my way. 08:17.270 --> 08:19.490 I count on him to stand at my side. 08:19.490 --> 08:21.400 That's all I need. 08:22.890 --> 08:26.400 You may be livestock, but I can agree with that. 08:28.910 --> 08:31.660 Two is enough. 08:33.480 --> 08:37.320 Ju Fa, help me! 08:46.510 --> 08:48.360 I'm sorry, Tao Fa. 08:48.890 --> 08:51.430 I got heated and left you by yourself. 08:52.400 --> 08:55.470 You and I belong together. 09:03.340 --> 09:06.440 We'll crush them together. 09:07.270 --> 09:11.020 Hell's Paradise 09:14.440 --> 09:19.310 Ju Fa and Tao Fa, you are two as one. 09:21.650 --> 09:23.950 We're all family, 09:25.190 --> 09:27.250 but you're special. 09:29.340 --> 09:31.390 I more or less understood. 09:37.500 --> 09:41.100 Nobody else fears the Soshin or doshi. 09:42.740 --> 09:45.560 They take their studies seriously, too. 09:46.860 --> 09:51.890 But Tao Fa fears the Soshin, and I don't really like studying. 09:54.320 --> 09:57.890 Nobody really cares if one of us gets hurt, 10:00.870 --> 10:03.170 probably because they don't die. 10:08.960 --> 10:12.550 But I don't like seeing Tao Fa get hurt at all. 10:14.880 --> 10:19.810 That's probably because you have someone you care about. 10:22.810 --> 10:29.010 We feel our own pain, but we can only imagine the pain of another. 10:29.630 --> 10:32.730 And you imagine it because you care about them. 10:33.710 --> 10:36.990 Imagination is the source of anxiety and kindness. 10:37.550 --> 10:40.370 It's just harder to notice with bodies like ours. 10:40.960 --> 10:44.580 Ju Fa, we're all playing over here. 10:44.900 --> 10:45.910 Tao Fa. 10:47.230 --> 10:48.590 Shall we go? 10:49.270 --> 10:50.730 We have plenty of time. 10:51.060 --> 10:54.600 We can take our time studying together. 10:56.100 --> 10:58.930 The first change was Rien. 10:59.850 --> 11:04.730 They are Hoko. Prototype Tensen. 11:05.180 --> 11:07.700 They were sent to live outside the castle. 11:08.140 --> 11:11.390 Use them to replenish your lost tao. 11:11.390 --> 11:12.610 Replenish? 11:12.980 --> 11:16.900 You will begin your proper training now. 11:16.900 --> 11:20.430 It's the reason you were created. 11:21.290 --> 11:22.950 Ran will study doin. 11:22.950 --> 11:24.620 Mu Dan will study shuten. 11:24.620 --> 11:26.330 Gui Fa will study shuitsu. 11:26.330 --> 11:28.450 Zhu Jin will study taisoku. 11:29.210 --> 11:30.450 And... 11:39.110 --> 11:41.870 Ju Fa and Tao Fa will study bochu jutsu. 11:41.870 --> 11:45.350 This is the reason I raised you together. 11:46.080 --> 11:48.490 I know this is sudden, but it can't be helped. 11:48.940 --> 11:53.280 You'll focus on your studies and teach each other. 11:53.890 --> 11:56.540 The kindness disappeared from Rien. 12:01.270 --> 12:04.690 I don't want to use the Hoko. 12:05.360 --> 12:07.690 I can't help imagining how they feel. 12:18.060 --> 12:19.910 Neither do I, Tao Fa. 12:19.910 --> 12:23.810 It's not much, but let's use fruit to replenish our tao. 12:26.260 --> 12:27.620 Thank you. 12:28.700 --> 12:32.480 I'm glad I was paired with you, Ju Fa. 12:33.560 --> 12:37.700 Several years later, Mei vanished from the castle. 12:37.700 --> 12:39.510 I didn't know why. 12:40.500 --> 12:44.080 But significantly, nobody seemed to care. 12:45.050 --> 12:47.170 Our training became more intense, 12:48.620 --> 12:51.900 and our sense of reality became even more distorted. 12:54.800 --> 12:57.700 It's okay. I'm here. 12:59.260 --> 13:01.760 I must protect Tao Fa's smile. 13:03.860 --> 13:08.400 A hundred years passed, and the animals we brought from the mainland died out. 13:09.070 --> 13:10.830 Our training continued. 13:11.690 --> 13:15.450 A hundred more years passed, and the Hoko village fell into ruin. 13:16.270 --> 13:18.290 Our training continued. 13:19.910 --> 13:22.360 How long are we going to keep doing this? 13:22.360 --> 13:25.940 Soon the Hoko will be gone, and we'll run out of crops. 13:25.940 --> 13:28.250 What are Rien and the grandmaster thinking? 13:28.710 --> 13:31.500 They must have a plan. 13:31.500 --> 13:35.500 We can bring in sources of tao from the outside. 13:35.500 --> 13:38.300 The outside? You mean humans? 13:38.300 --> 13:40.010 Obviously. 13:40.010 --> 13:45.090 If you don't like that, eventually we'll run out of tao and die. 13:45.090 --> 13:48.770 We're not truly immortal. 13:49.200 --> 13:53.470 Besides, I doubt we'll achieve perfect immortality 13:53.470 --> 13:56.900 no matter how much we train. 14:00.410 --> 14:06.180 You mean our training and Tao Fa's suffering was pointless? 14:11.890 --> 14:15.300 How can they smile? 14:15.990 --> 14:18.300 Have they truly lost their minds? 14:18.910 --> 14:22.550 Have they grown accustomed to the endless training and lost their minds? 14:23.030 --> 14:24.860 Or is it me? 14:24.860 --> 14:27.390 Are Tao Fa and I the crazy ones? 14:29.080 --> 14:31.870 I must protect Tao Fa's smile. 14:38.630 --> 14:42.270 What is that, Tao Fa? 14:43.590 --> 14:49.420 Chum. It's for attracting humans from the outside. 14:49.960 --> 14:54.100 In the grandmaster's homeland, they send flowers with invitations. 14:54.100 --> 14:55.830 Isn't that perfect? 14:56.170 --> 14:58.320 If we do it enough times, 14:58.320 --> 15:02.040 some humans who find it strange might come to investigate. 15:02.710 --> 15:05.910 The kaijin won't attack it if we launch it through the sluice gate. 15:05.910 --> 15:08.970 The ocean currents will carry it to Wakoku. 15:09.350 --> 15:11.600 I don't want to use the Hoko. 15:12.010 --> 15:14.600 I can't help imagining how they feel. 15:15.310 --> 15:19.630 Tao Fa, are you okay with this? 15:30.620 --> 15:32.550 Totally. 15:34.180 --> 15:35.980 Is that weird? 15:50.280 --> 15:53.500 No, of course not. 15:56.890 --> 16:00.970 Humans are like the Hoko. Less than livestock. 16:01.470 --> 16:03.390 They're ours to use. 16:13.480 --> 16:15.790 We're not crazy. 16:17.270 --> 16:20.950 It's this world that's crazy. 16:33.860 --> 16:37.040 Everything besides us is crazy. 16:38.180 --> 16:41.690 Livestock, livestock. 16:42.210 --> 16:44.450 That's their Kishikai transformation? 16:44.940 --> 16:46.780 They combined. 16:46.780 --> 16:49.140 Feathers—no, wings? 16:49.470 --> 16:52.320 Either way, it can't be easy for them to move indoors. 16:59.040 --> 17:00.880 We can't do anything like this! 17:00.880 --> 17:02.460 What did you say? 17:02.460 --> 17:03.650 Brother! 17:11.890 --> 17:13.910 I'm amazed it can fly with those wings. 17:13.910 --> 17:17.040 I agree. Structurally, it should be impossible. 17:17.470 --> 17:21.150 Twisted and unnatural, yet somehow seductive. 17:21.150 --> 17:24.180 Their appearance is like love itself. 17:26.220 --> 17:29.730 You're struggling after your betrayal, Big Brother. 17:29.730 --> 17:32.340 After that monster, you're next, old man. 17:32.340 --> 17:35.360 I'm not letting you beat me to it. 17:35.360 --> 17:36.330 Wait! 17:36.330 --> 17:38.940 You're bleeding too much. Let me tend your wounds. 17:38.940 --> 17:41.060 We don't have time for that. 17:41.060 --> 17:45.340 If I kill that monster, my name will go down in history. 17:45.340 --> 17:47.340 But you'll die! 17:48.960 --> 17:50.920 I'm okay with that. 18:08.460 --> 18:10.360 Gantetsusai! Hey! 18:11.290 --> 18:13.660 Are those fluffy spores causing this? 18:17.870 --> 18:18.760 Ow! 18:18.760 --> 18:22.120 Take cover. Touching the spores is dangerous. 18:26.280 --> 18:28.380 This is bad. 18:30.030 --> 18:31.880 They keep falling. 18:32.720 --> 18:33.880 Brother! 18:34.490 --> 18:37.890 I know, but don't stop me now. 18:38.620 --> 18:39.640 Okay. 18:40.660 --> 18:45.650 As long as I maintain my sense of self, I can control this power. 18:59.030 --> 19:03.450 As I thought, my metal tao is effective against Tao Fa's wood. 19:00.580 --> 19:05.920 Wood 19:00.580 --> 19:05.920 Fire 19:00.580 --> 19:05.920 Earth 19:00.580 --> 19:05.920 Metal 19:00.580 --> 19:05.920 Water 19:03.450 --> 19:05.920 If I can destroy her tanden, she'll die. 19:06.270 --> 19:07.410 But... 19:35.210 --> 19:36.200 Brother! 19:38.050 --> 19:40.620 They're both enormous and quick. 19:40.620 --> 19:43.130 And most of all, they've got two tanden. 19:44.520 --> 19:47.230 Where'd all your bluster go, Big Brother? 19:47.230 --> 19:48.050 Shut up. 19:48.050 --> 19:50.850 Brother! Brother, Brother, Brother! 19:50.850 --> 19:53.590 Okay, okay. Calm down, all of you. 19:54.030 --> 19:57.990 No single one of us can kill that monster. 19:57.990 --> 20:00.090 We may not like it, but we have to work together. 20:00.090 --> 20:02.540 Work with him? You're joking. 20:02.540 --> 20:04.850 I don't want you anyway. You're injured. 20:04.850 --> 20:06.810 You're one rude brat. 20:06.810 --> 20:08.640 Your brother's indebted to me for teaching him, you know. 20:08.640 --> 20:11.090 He's not a brat! And I don't owe you anything! 20:11.090 --> 20:12.230 You heard him. 20:12.230 --> 20:14.920 Do I need to punish both of you? 20:14.920 --> 20:18.110 Shut up, idiot. 20:24.830 --> 20:27.580 Our current enemy is that monster. 20:28.990 --> 20:32.090 If you want to kill each other, do it after. 20:33.590 --> 20:36.660 If you hold me back, I'll kill you. 20:36.660 --> 20:39.050 Right back at you. 20:39.390 --> 20:41.580 All right. Let's do this. 20:41.580 --> 20:43.610 I'm still treating your wounds. 20:43.610 --> 20:46.190 I'm amazed you stuck around this guy. 20:46.190 --> 20:48.760 You're the one who told me to wait for you. 20:50.060 --> 20:51.500 Now, then. 20:52.430 --> 20:53.980 Let's go kill a monster. 21:08.100 --> 21:14.230 On the other side, even today 21:14.230 --> 21:20.190 Someone is unraveling, yet they still stand 21:20.190 --> 21:26.100 A stab to the chest, this loneliness 21:26.100 --> 21:31.930 Points and lines, breaking off and vanishing 21:31.930 --> 21:34.830 My shattered mask 21:34.830 --> 21:37.910 It's more than I can bear 21:37.910 --> 21:40.900 But I must keep on living 21:40.900 --> 21:45.690 Tomorrow awaits to greet me 21:45.690 --> 21:48.650 It's endless 21:48.650 --> 21:51.220 And so fragile 21:51.220 --> 21:57.450 Is it better to believe hearts don't exist at all? 21:57.450 --> 22:03.010 Radiant and soft 22:03.010 --> 22:04.720 Was the hand 22:04.720 --> 22:13.300 I squeezed back on that day 22:28.850 --> 22:34.340 How much farther until we reach that Horai place the doshi thing mentioned? 22:34.340 --> 22:36.940 Roughly eight ri. We'll be there before tomorrow. 22:36.940 --> 22:37.860 What?! 22:37.860 --> 22:40.440 Is this not a bit reckless? 22:40.440 --> 22:43.420 They say shinobi can run 40 ri in a day, 22:43.750 --> 22:46.930 but we're samurai. Without horses... 22:48.050 --> 22:50.790 Then we'll use the horse whistle. 22:51.620 --> 22:52.710 Horse whistle? 22:52.710 --> 22:56.220 Wait. You're not serious, are you? 22:56.220 --> 22:57.220 Of course I am. 22:57.220 --> 22:59.940 The doshi told us how to use it during the interrogation. 22:59.940 --> 23:03.430 You've completely lost your mind. Don't— 23:03.430 --> 23:07.210 Shugen-sama, the genin searching the area have returned. 23:07.610 --> 23:11.140 They recovered what we believe are the personal effects of the expeditioners. 23:11.140 --> 23:12.830 Could you take a look at them? 23:15.590 --> 23:18.440 Tenza... Genji... 23:18.840 --> 23:21.410 It can't be... 23:21.410 --> 23:25.110 Brother... Brother Genji! 23:25.110 --> 23:29.850 Judging by the state of the bodies, some were killed by criminals. 23:32.100 --> 23:34.630 We have no time to waste. 23:34.630 --> 23:37.580 We must travel to Horai as quickly as possible and find our companions. 23:37.580 --> 23:42.140 I will kill the sages and the criminals. 23:42.860 --> 23:44.720 In that case, Shugen-sama... 23:47.280 --> 23:49.740 This is the cave. 23:50.770 --> 23:52.870 Please use the horse whistle. 23:53.200 --> 23:54.830 What's that whistle for? 23:54.830 --> 23:56.620 Don't you remember? 23:56.620 --> 23:59.120 It's for controlling monsters. 24:02.190 --> 24:05.220 The monsters live inside that cave. 24:07.250 --> 24:08.260 You can't be serious. 24:08.260 --> 24:10.140 I'm deadly serious. 24:10.140 --> 24:11.900 Like I said... 24:12.800 --> 24:15.890 Shugen's lost his mind. 24:21.020 --> 24:23.070 I'm on my way.