Original subtitles

The next aim of Oda Nobunaga who banished shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki and overthrew the Muromachi shogunate...

was Azai Nagamasa.

Nagamasa's wife Oichi is Nobunaga's younger sister.

First we'll go for the Asakura clan, then we will annihilate the Azai clan.

Annihilate?

Nobunaga doesn't want to make the Azai clan surrender...

but he wants to destroy them?

Ken, go to Odani castle.

Ken...

I have to go to Odani castle where Oichi-sama is?

Find out Azai's true intention while I destroy Asakura.

His true intention?

Certainly, according to history the Azai clan... No, wait.

I might not make history happen the way it's supposed to.

I will do whatever it takes...

for the sake of Oichi and the children.

What does Oyakata-sama want you to do?

He said he wanted to destroy the Azai clan and yet he told you to find out his true intention.

There's only one thing I can do.

Cook.

Cook? What will you cook?

A dish that expresses Nobunaga-sama's feelings.

This is the last chance.

Lasuto chansu?

Anyhow, it means to do what you can do.

Odani castle

Ozuka castle has fallen? Odani castle

Ozuka castle has fallen?

Oda wants to isolate this Odani castle.

Does he want to destroy the Azai clan?

A French chef from the Heisei period one day suddenly time slipped to the Warring States period...

and of all things, became the cook of Oda Nobunaga.

This is the grand story of that cook trying to survive the Warring States with Heisei cuisine.

Translation/Sync: Super Saiyan

I heard that you will sneak yourself in Odani castle.

Yes. - What are you planning on doing?

Nobunaga-sama wants me to find out Azai Nagamasa's true intention through Oichi-sama.

So Oyakata-sama is giving Nagamasa a last chance to surrender?

Final episode: Farewell, Heisei chef! Save Oichi with a dish filled with memories!! So Oyakata-sama is giving Nagamasa a last chance to surrender?

Final episode: Farewell, Heisei chef! Save Oichi with a dish filled with memories!!

But not because he is nice for his brother-in-law.

It's a warning that he will kill everyone if he doesn't.

It won't be easy to persuade him.

If you fail, then you won't get away with it either.

That's right, there's a good method.

A good method?

Run.

You should go back to Heisei.

I won't do that.

You should know that it's not easy to go back.

The Netherworld shrine.

That's right.

The place where you once tried to go back to Heisei.

That road will open again in 10 days at the hour of the Dog (+/-8PM).

It will be open for only four and a half hours.

But you might be able to go back to Heisei if you go there.

I...

Will you go back to Heisei?

I will go to Odani castle.

It might be the last way.

If Ken can't persuade Azai Nagamasa...

then he will destroy them immediately, right?

When it comes to that...

Oichi-dono, Chacha and the other children will get killed.

But entrusting such a big task to Ken...

I have a bad feeling about this.

Natsu-san?!

What are you doing here?

It's dangerous here. - You're the one in danger, right?

Let's go.

Natsu-san!

Oichi-sama is a princess, right?

There's no way she's in the kitchen, right?

That's just how Oichi-sama is.

She's probably here today too.

Look.

Is that Oichi-sama?

Then, who is that?

I think it's Chacha-sama and Ohatsu-sama.

Well then, Chacha, Hatsu. What do you want to eat?

I don't need the food that you make.

It's enough to see you make it.

It's because your food isn't good.

Ohatsu! - I'm sorry.

It's fine.

I will make something delicious today.

Didn't you learn her how to cook last time?

I only promised here to teach her how to make a hamburger.

Anyhow, that's just too cruel.

Be carefu--

Did you say something? - Over there.

Ken. - Hello...

Retreat without getting noticed!

Hurry up! Return to Echizen!

Asakura Yoshikage abandoned the Azai clan that was holding Odani castle...

and started to retreat to Echizen.

Nobunaga who had expected that...

was chasing after the Asakura army before anyone else.

It's a great mistake to fall behind Oyakata-sama!

Get ready to depart! Follow Oyakata-sama!

What are you thinking?

What can the two of you...

We would be noticed if we'd come with a lot of people.

You wouldn't let us in either, right?

Letting you in or not...

What did you come here for?

To convey Nobunaga-sama's feelings.

Brother's feelings?

It's Nobunaga!

Nobunaga is all alone! Get him!

I am not an official messenger...

so I can't appear before Nagamasa-sama.

Oichi-sama, you will have to cook...

and express Nobunaga-sama's feelings to Nagamasa-sama.

Me?

Oyakata-sama!

Oyakata-sama!

Please step back. We will take care of the rest!

Kill all of them!

We have to let Nagamasa know.

That those who go against me...

even Azai, will all meet the same fate!

To be honest, I'm bad at cooking.

I know.

I'm sorry.

I will make part of it. I want to ask you to add the finishing touches.

Only the finishing touches?

Yes.

Ichi cooked? - Yes.

Well, my stomach feels a bit...

Please stop with your bad acting.

Father, it's fine.

Mother's dishes are very delicious today.

Because... - Chacha.

Nagamasa-sama, please ask the others to go.

I understand. Go!

What's wrong, Ichi?

Come on. Warring States cuisine!

I want to present you the first plate.

What is this?

The meaning of this dish is in the finishing touches.

I will show you how.

Please look.

Make thin slices...

and add vegetables and flowers to it.

Like this.

I have never seen such an arrangement.

Please eat it.

Delicious.

No, very delicious!

The strong taste of the meat and the refreshing vegetables are in perfect harmony.

This meat doesn't smell at all. Is it deer meat?

No, that is bonito.

Bonito?!

A bonito fumet salad.

Fumet means that it's smoked.

When you smoke the bonito, the taste of blood...

will change into such a strong great taste.

Well then, the second dish.

Ichi, as expected you poured this color soup in there...

Please wait.

Pretty!

Red cold noodles.

How?

How did that disgusting looking soup change into a deep red soup?

I added this vinegar and yuzu to the soup that was boiled with red shiso.

Vinegar and yuzu?

Why does something transparent like vinegar change the color?

Because when you add vinegar to the pigment called anthocyanin that is in red shiso...

the pH value changes and it will get a deep red color.

I have no clue what you're talking about.

Oichi-sama... - I see.

Did you understand that?

It appears that the Pé-Há changes.

Pé... Pé-Há?

It's Pé-Há.

As expected of Oyakata-sama's younger sister.

Delicious.

Well then, the final dish.

It's getting bigger!

The origin of cream puffs, beignet soufflé.

The dough contains a lot of moist...

and when you add heat...

it will attempt to evaporate the outside and it will become twice as big.

It will change like this.

Enough.

Is it that man?

Brother's cook Ken, right?

Nagamasa-sama, please...

So this food has Brother's... Nobunaga's intention hidden in it.

The thing these three dishes express..

That is...

Change. To change.

Change?

That is, a change of heart, to surrender to my brother.

That is the only way for this Azai clan to survive, right?

Yes.

We have to change, Nagamasa-sama.

So brother is showing his minimal good will by not sending an official messenger?

I will not give in to Oda.

I want to show my vassal that I have chosen my own way.

Nagamasa-sama.

But I can't do that.

As warrior, as head of the Azai clan...

I can't give in to Oda!

Then I will stick to my part again.

I will follow you everywhere.

Natsu-san.

Nobunaga pursued after the retreating Asakura army.

The fleeing Asakura army drew their defense line at Toneyama...

but the Oda army broke through and killed all of Asakura's 2000 soldiers.

At the same time, Asakura Yoshikage was escaping...

and reached Echizen.

I'm almost at my stronghold, Ichijodani.

Continue the pursuit! Kill Asakura!

August 18, Ichijodani goes up in flames.

August 20, Asakura Yoshikage commits suicide.

Eight days after Nobunaga attacked Ozuka castle.

The famous Warring States daimyo of the Azai clan who had been active for 100 years...

were annihilated in only eight days.

Oyakata-sama is a terrifying man.

The Azai clan is now isolated and helpless.

They have no other way to survive than to comply with your persuasion.

Will Oichi-sama and the children...

At least spare the children...

For that, you will have to pull Nagamasa and Oichi-sama apart.

No way...

You know that that's the only way, right?

You're a smart one, aren't you?

But to me you pretend to be a fool.

Why don't you go to the Netherworld shrine right away?

Tomorrow. The hour of the Dog.

That's the only time when the way to Heisei will open.

Mitsuhide-san...

What's with that stare? Do you still don't understand?

You are not supposed to be here.

You're a thorn in my side.

Translation/Sync: Super Saiyan

What's with that stare? Do you still don't understand?

You are not supposed to be here.

You're a thorn in my side.

You can see the future, right?

Then you can see it, right?

Me defeating Oyakata-sama.

The enemy is in the Honno-ji.

The Honno-ji incident...

You've got me thinking, Ken.

Am I the one who will defeat him after all?

I see!

Will I defeat him in the Honno-ji?

No! That's not it!

I understand. Nobody would believe that.

You have no time to be hanging around here, right?

Prepare a banquet for Oyakata-sama's victory.

Yes.

Ken, are you fine with this?

With what?

With not going back to that Heisei village?

I have something I need to do here now.

But Mitsuhide-sama said so, right?

You are not supposed to be here.

I'll be fine.

No matter how far that Heisei village is. As long as you're fine...

I'm sure we will meet again someday.

We can't.

There is no place where we can meet.

I see.

I found you!

This time Hatsu is it. - Yes.

Then I will count.

One, two, three, four, five...

So Asakura has been destroyed?

Duck with fig sauce.

Delicious.

Nobunaga-sama, about the Azai clan... They didn't surrender.

I have heard. That's how Nagamasa is.

Oyakata-sama, at least spare Oichi-sama.

Ignore her. She has chosen this way herself.

I will destroy her together with Azai.

Nobunaga-sama, please let me go one more time.

Ken.

What can you do if you go there again?

I might not be able to do anything.

But I can't leave Oichi-sama and the children alone.

I mean, isn't it strange?

A brother killing his younger sister...

Ken, you're saying too much!

That's the Warring States world.

Aren't you fighting to change that wrong and strange world?

Ken! - To unify the country...

and to end the strange Warring States period, right?!

You! - Wait!

Odani castle is a strong fortress that extends over the mountain ridge.

There's nothing a cook can do.

Oyakata-sama, please leave it to this Kinoshita Tokichiro Hideyoshi!

The mountain ridge that extends to west Honmaru where Azai Nagamasa is...

has some light slopes.

If we climb those and let Honmaru fall at...

That's impossible.

The defense is too strong. - Kyoukokumaru then!

If we make Kyoukokumaru fall...

At Kyoukokumaru's side is an even harder to climb cliff.

We can't climb it that easily! - That might be our chance.

If they think that we can't climb it...

then there shouldn't be a lot of men. If we make Komaru fall after that...

then Nagamasa should be willing to talk with us.

I see. You're right.

Oyakata-sama!

Alright, go.

I will wait until the hour of the Dog.

The hour of the Dog...

Tomorrow at the hour of the Dog.

That's the only time when the way to Heisei will open.

If the hour of the Dog passes, then we will set Honmaru on fire!

Please take me along.

Just do whatever you want.

They want to burn down Honmaru at the hour of the Dog, exactly when the Netherworld shrine opens.

I'm fine as long as you're alive.

Just that.

Ken, are you listening?

This is not the time to cook.

What a great smell.

Is this perhaps?

It's done.

Grilled onion ujimaru, dried daikon with miso and...

a great burdock paella.

Ujimaru...

This is the first dish I let you eat.

Delicious!

Do you remember? - I would never forget that.

But why are you making this now?

Why? - That is...

because I obtained some good looking eels.

Bad timing, right?

Taiming?

I have no clue what you're talking about!

I'm sorry.

Are you not coming back?

Is this the last time?

You're wrong.

I will definitely come back.

Delicious.

You!

We will make Kyoukokumaru fall at the break of dawn.

Go!

Hideyoshi-san, what about me?

You should go ahead with Kaede.

Kyoukokumaru has what?!

I never thought that they would go through the center...

It seems that Komaru has fallen too.

All that is left is Honmaru where Nagamasa is.

Enemy!

Please wait.

Please come with me Oichi-sama.

The general attack is about to start.

I said that I would stay here with Nagamasa-sama.

You shouldn't let the children make a part of this.

Nobunaga-sama will not take away the lives of children who are blood related to him.

Chacha, Hatsu...

Gou...

Please go.

How about you, mother?

Chacha doesn't want to part with you, mother.

I don't want to.

I don't want to. - Mother.

Chacha-sama, Ohatsu-sama.

Flowers!

A hachiyagaki dorayaki.

It's a pastry where I put jam made of dried persimmons boiled in sugar...

between castella sponge cake.

Please eat it.

Delicious! - Very good!

Hachiyagaki is a local specialty from Mino.

There are a lot of delicious persimmons in your mothers hometown.

There's no need to be afraid. Please go.

Mother will come later.

Really, mother?

Yes.

Well then...

Please take care of them.

You are Nobunaga's cook.

What are you doing?!

Please wait, Nagamasa-sama!

Ken gave this to Chacha and the children.

As a mother, I want Chacha and the children to eat delicious persimmons in the future too.

Kaede-san, please take care of Chacha-sama and the children.

You should come with me too.

I have to talk to Nagamasa-sama.

Oyakata-sama...

It's almost the hour of the Dog.

Prepare to set it on fire. - Please wait.

Ken is saving Oichi-sama right now.

Where is Oichi-sama?! - She is still inside.

Ken...

I will not surrender.

Please give me some time.

There is something I'd like to present you.

Come on. Warring States cuisine!

Thank you for waiting.

A duck confit with summer burdock sauce.

I boiled salt pickled crane meat in oil at a low temperature...

and fried it until it got crispy.

Please eat it.

Crane?

Yes. Japanese crane couples have a very strong and deep bond.

They do everything together.

It continues when one of them dies.

They stay near the body and when an enemy appears...

they open their wings to threat and scare away the enemy.

Do you want Oichi-sama to end as a crane?

You have accepted to talk with me like this.

That is because you're wishing for me to take Oichi-sama with me...

even though you're not planning on surrendering, right?

I can take Oichi-sama with me by force.

But that wouldn't be good.

She will want to stick to you like a crane and continue to oppose Nobunaga-sama...

and might choose to die one day.

If you want Oichi-sama to live...

Ichi, go back to the Oda clan.

Nagamasa-sama.

Our three daughters carry the Azai blood.

They need to be protected.

The task of someone who married into the Azai clan is to protect the Azai blood.

There's no need for you here anymore.

Cook, I'll give Ichi to you.

Take her with you.

Yes.

As always...

your acting is bad.

But it is me who is making you say those words.

I said that I would stick to my part...

but you're telling me not to do so.

You're a very cruel person.

For the rest of my life...

I will hate you for that, Nagamasa-sama.

Oichi-sama!

Mother!

Take her with you.

Come.

What happened to Ken?

It's the hour of the Dog.

Set it on fire!

Ken...

Normally, I should have let Ichi go back to the Oda clan much sooner.

But...

Father!

But I was spoiled by Ichi's words of being together with me.

Cook.

Why aren't you going?

Because I still have something to say.

To me?

There is something I really have to say.

I have come from the far future.

A time period called Heisei.

I was wondering what you would say...

But this nonsense...

Please listen.

Soon, a world of peace will come.

It will last for 260 years.

A peaceful time without wars will continue.

The Edo period.

The foundation of that will be laid by...

Chacha, Hatsu and Gou...

Your three children with Azai blood.

If...

If such a thing is waiting...

then it's not bad to die here.

Cook Ken.

It was delicious.

Nobunaga-sama!

How troublesome.

Let's go. Follow me!

Oyakata-sama!

Ken! Ken!

What were you doing? You're late, idiot!

I want to be with you forever!

Natsu-san...

Wait! Butterfly, wait!

As long as you live...

you and the children...

will be able to eat delicious food.

Have you eaten Ken's food before?

Yes.

It's strange food that makes you want to live.

I think so too.

Ken might be the person...

who will lead Tono to a good fate.

What I said about the Netherworld shrine opening. That was a lie.

A lie?

It will take a long time before it will open.

Then why did you tell me that lie?

Because I wanted to test you.

Test me?

If you would want to go back to Heisei...

then you would have been a worthless man.

You wouldn't matter to me.

But you didn't want to go back.

You stayed in this Warring States world for the sake of Oyakata-sama.

Do you know what I found out by that?

That to me, you...

have become a very troublesome man.

Mitsuhide-san...

Bang!

I didn't light the fire.

The next time I meet you...

appears to be in this Honno-ji.

I'm looking forward to it.

Only one step until I rule the country.

Don't be bothered by insignificant things.

You are my cook.

I need you to rule the country.

Follow me!

Yes!

Come on. Warring States cuisine!

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