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Say "Yes!" Say it!

That person just now... Just who was that?

That... was a young woman, wasn't it?!

6 years ago...

...the true Iemitsu passed away from the scarlet smallpox.

"Already, this princess alone..."

"...is the only person who carries Iemitsu-ko's blood line."

The current Shogun does not have a name.

That person is, essentially, a person who should not be in this world.

Why did you bring me here?

You are the "seed."

Your duty is to...

...come between the Shogun here in the Ooku and produce an heir.

It is a secret that the current Shogun is a woman.

Now that you are aware of it...

...you cannot be permitted to leave this Ooku for the rest of your life.

The rest of my life...

Fire watch!

Making my rounds!

Fire watch!

Make sure there isn't any!

Fire watch!

Making my rounds!

Beware of fire!

Make sure there isn't any!

He seems to have rushed away without even looking back.

And then there's...

...the story of a samurai holding a woman's freshly severed head with black hair, as well.

He's been seen here and there in the Ooku.

A woman's freshly severed head?

Yes.

He was holding it like this in one hand, and a sword in the other.

"Episode 3: I Was Born to Save Only You..."

Anyhow, those are just a made-up stories.

It's since everyone doesn't have any other pleasures.

All they can do is spread such rumors.

Gyokuei, where on earth did you come into possession of such stories?

They were talking about it in the Ochuro boy's room.

A story from the boy's room?

I just happened to overhear them talking.

It feels to me that those guys don't have any friends.

It is said that the Ooku world is a small one.

And within that, we are the only ones we can talk to.

That condition will change soon as well.

Is that so...

I have that feeling.

Shogun.

Your hair has grown out considerably.

- It is about time we cut it. - It's still fine.

Oman!

Shogun...

You collapsed after taking practice swings in the dojo, didn't you?

Yes.

How wretched. Get a grip on yourself!

I have no excuse.

Still... I wonder why Den'emon said that...

"In any case, in the end."

"In the end, he achieved his 1,000 strokes."

It was as if he was saying that because he was praising you.

Her name is Wakamurasaki.

Wakamurasaki?

You've got a far better name than I've got.

She is adorable, is she not?

I detest adorable things.

Small things...

Warm things...

They remind me of my daughter.

What is it? Is it strange that I had a daughter?

I gave birth to her when I was a child of 15 and she died immediately.

Was that so...

Are you disappointed I'm not a virgin?

What are you saying?

A mother who has lost the child they painfully gave birth to...

That is the deepest sorrow this world has.

You have truly endured it.

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"Edo Castle's Inner Chamber, the Ooku."

"Ooku"

"Formerly, with the lone exception of the Shogun..."

"...it was a place forbidden to young men."

"In the wake of the death of the third Shogun, Iemitsu-ko..."

"...it was now the chamber where only young men lived."

"It had changed greatly."

"Within that chamber, the current Shogun..."

"...and including Inaba Masakatsu-sama and Arikoto-sama..."

"...and other people such as the Shogun's concubines and so on..."

"...were protected by high walls and a strong key..."

"...in a place called the Ooku's Inner Ooku."

"There they lived quietly."

Have you heard the story of Kasuga's rainbow colors meals?

Rainbow colors meals?

My late father, Iemitsu...

...had a weak constitution since he was young and didn't have much of an appetite.

Kasuga, for Father's sake, prepared 7 varieties of breakfast for him.

Chameshi (rice boiled in tea), Mugimeshi (boiled barley and rice)...

Awameshi (millet rice), Azukimeshi (red beans and rice)...

Yutorimeshi (rice in hot water), Hoshimeshi (dried rice)...

...and Hikiwarimeshi (cracked barley).

She said that by having all of those arranged, he only needed to like one of them.

And so, the Ooku.

Ah...

Kasuga said the Ooku in Edo Castle was only just of women.

It had been made into a stupid place.

By only gathering together so many women...

...she thought Father would at least pick one woman as his favorite.

Then on my behalf...

...rather than an Ooku with a rainbow of colors, I get to choose from 4 men.

I see.

Somehow or other...

That old procuress thinks up plans that are farsighted and deeply laid-out.

She thinks up things like rainbow colored foods?

The Shogun seems to be showing up a lot recently at that guy's room.

And to top it off, there's that cat the Shogun bestowed upon him.

The two of them play with it every day.

Well, the day they share a bed is probably not too far off.

If it's with a handsome man such as him, a woman normally would...

Even so, aren't you bastards men?!

We entered this Ooku after being told...

...we'd become father to a Shogun.

It's said that if that doesn't come true...

...we'll be confined here to this Ooku and finish off the rest of our lives in uselessness!

Even so, are you bastards okay with that?!

I... cannot bear that.

"Your Master, too, will eventually encounter the same thing as well."

So long, Shigesato-dono.

He says that to us, but what can we can do about it?

Still, Shigesato-dono's feelings are quite just.

The question is what to do about it.

At this rate, we will just grow old and rot here in the Ooku.

That's unbearable.

Wakamurasaki.

Wakamurasaki?

"And there's the story of a samurai holding a woman's freshly severed head with black hair, as well."

"He's been seen here and there in the Ooku."

- Wakamurasaki. - Wakamurasaki!

Come out, Wakamurasaki.

Sorry about this, but we are looking for a cat.

It's still a tiny, white cat. Have you seen it?

In that case, it was chasing after a butterfly in that direction.

- Wakamurasaki. - Wakamurasaki.

- Wakamurasaki. - Wakamurasaki.

Should we put a leash on her from now on?

No. That would be far too pitiful.

I want to keep the cat free.

- It's Wakamurasaki. - Wait.

Shogun...

We wasted half a day searching for that cat.

It is the Shogun's Cat-sama, is it not?

- Cat-sama? - Indeed.

If a cat is bestowed from the Shogun, it becomes a Cat-sama.

You mustn't go calling for Wakamurasaki without the honorific.

That would be an unreasonable injury.

That is over-exaggerating things, is it not?

This is not something to be laughed at, Arikoto-sama.

If by chance something happened to it, a suitable punishment would be handed down.

This place is uselessly huge!

Even going to the toilet is a pain.

Wakamurasaki...

Forgive me, okay?

When will Wakamurasaki return?

Who knows...

A cat is an unrestrained creature.

And after I went to all the trouble of coming here.

The Shogun's will here in the Ooku is just like that of Wakamurasaki's, is it not?

It's not like that.

It's not only just my will.

It's serious! It's serious!

Be quiet! Just now the Shogun has...

Something serious has happened!

Wakamurasaki has... Cat-sama has...

What sort of thing is this...

To have become so cold...

Shogun.

Shigesato.

What sort of thing is this?

I know nothing about this.

However, this is your room's front garden.

I had nothing to do with this, truly...

Check Shigesato's sword!

Yes!

The edge of his short sword is clouded with blood.

I will personally execute him for this disrespectful act!

Please stop, Shogun.

Out of the way, Oman!

No. I will not get out of the way.

If you don't move... I'll behead you!

Why won't you...

...listen when I threaten you?!

Shogun.

To kill such a person...

...would only dirty your sword.

Entrust this here to me.

Shigesato. You understand, don't you?

Here!

Oi. Your master's the one who did those 1,000 wooden sword swings, isn't he?

Ah... he did...

What about it?

That instructor named Sawamura is strict, ain't he?

Everyone figures he just lied about the number of swings he made.

That was his first time at it, wasn't it?

That's right. My Master isn't lying about it; he really did do 1,000 of them.

Ohh!

Ah. That Sunami-sama who was forced to commit seppuku after murdering Cat-sama?

The Shogun was going to personally execute him...

...but Arikoto-sama got in-between them.

Ehh... Really?

That's right. He was resolved to be killed by the Shogun.

That was serious, wasn't it? The Shogun's got a violent disposition, right?

But that way Sunami-sama was able to keep face and commit seppuku.

That's the sort of person Arikoto-sama is.

"Homosexual."

Good morning.

Good morning.

What's this?

This is Wakamurasaki's grave.

A grave? For a cat?

Yes.

So that somehow the pitiful Wakamurasaki may enter Nirvana.

Please perform the nenbutsu with me. (chants to Buddha)

No way.

Shogun...

Those won't revive the cat, so why should I?

Shogun.

I think a funeral is for those of us who remain behind...

...so that we may come to terms with our feelings.

While performing the nenbutsu, we calm our minds...

...and recall those who have passed away as we chant.

Cannot people who do this recover, little by little, from the sorrow that they feel?

If they do not...

Just what you'd expect from an ex-monk.

Using such high-minded words towards me...

The only ones who can be saved by such things are people who were happy to begin with.

I'll ask you, Oman.

Those people who don't have the leisure to recite the nenbutsu...

...what should they do for each and every sorrow that they're struck with?

That seems to have stopped you.

I guess it would have been better if I had cut Shigesato down that time.

Rather than performing the nenbutsu and sobbing uncontrollably...

...if I just cut a person down, that would have been the far more cheerful way for me.

Even if they cannot return the slashed Wakamurasaki...

...there are enemies such as famine and disease, bringing disaster to this world.

What can you do against such enemies that cannot be defeated?

At such a time, I would just kill whoever was at hand.

Humans who have such things don't deserve to live, do they?

Homeless wanderers. Criminals.

Shogun...

Have you always been like this?

That is according to what Kasuga has told me. Something wrong with that?

"That case of the phantom assailant. He did this indecent thing to her head."

"Recently a samurai who kills passerbys to test out his sword..."

"...will also slash off the hair of any young girls he gets ahold of."

Shogun.

Recently in Edo...

...a samurai has appeared who cuts off the hair of young girls.

- And? - Could it be...

Could it be it was you, Shogun?

Shogun!

Indeed, it is me.

I gave the order to Den'emon to take away women's hair.

What's this change in your expression?

It's just a little mischief, isn't it?

Their hair'll grow back right away. It's not like they're being murdered.

Foolishness...

What foolishness is this?!

Shogun, just to clear away your own feelings, you had women's hair cut...

How could you do such a thing to the people of your country!?

The people of my country?

Hah! What a joke.

Who is it that thinks I really am the Shogun?

After all, I am...

...nothing but a belly on loan for the sake of connecting the Tokugawa blood line.

I can tell from Kasuga.

All she sees in me is Father!

After all, I...

After all, I...

It wasn't my choice to become this way.

I have no reason to want to live in the Ooku concealed as a boy!

Shogun.

I met a young girl...

...who had just lost her brother to the scarlet smallpox.

Yet even so, that young girl bore no grudge against whoever it was that had cut off her hair.

Admirably, she performed the nenbutsu next to me.

Shogun.

All people...

...accept the fate that has been given to them...

...and live with it.

As do I.

For your sake, I was recently brought here where I did not wish to be.

If you feel you are the only one who is in pain...

...then you are greatly mistaken!

Is that so?

That Oman, with that gentle face of his...

...will eventually turn them all like that.

All the men of the Ooku will think I am a fool.

Well then...

...would you like me to personally execute Oman?

Don't... do that.

Well then...

Shall we punish him just a little?

Hmm...

Yeah, that's it.

Let's do that.

Gather the other Ochuro together and let's play with them.

Certainly.

Please Shogun, just always, always think only pleasant things.

What's this? Women's clothes, aren't they?

Putting on these clothes, make-up and a wig...

...you will then appear in the Shogun's presence wearing them.

Is Arikoto-sama to be turned into a woman? That's going too far!

To do such a thing, even if they are Shogun...

Gyokuei.

If he says he won't...

...will he then be executed?

Well...

The Shogun's orders until now have not been refused by anyone.

How that might turn out is...

Masakatsu-dono.

There is something I want to ask you about.

What would that be?

This is your best work yet, Kasuga!

Sawamura Den'emon in particular!

You look good in that! It really does match you!

Truly.

Dance. Now, dance!

Ah, this is funny.

Dance more! More, more!

"Wakamurasaki."

"Wakamurasaki?"

"Chie-sama is surely far more beautiful than even Murasaki no Ue was."

"Really? Mother, is it true? Toyo?"

"Yes."

"Temari toretore mo hitotsu futatsu Temari catch it, catch it, one, two" (a Temari is the traditional handball she has here)

"Mittsu, yottsu, itsu, muttsu Three, four, five, six"

"Nanatsuru yatsuru Seven, eight"

"Mother, Toyo, where are you?!"

"Stop it! Let me go!"

"Stop it!"

"Oh, the spitting image of him..."

"The same eyebrows, the same shape of the mouth..."

"Most certainly, you are the Shogun Iemitsu-sama's child."

- "Let's go." - "Yes."

"Stop it! Let me go!"

"Stop it!"

"Mother, Toyo!"

"Please excuse our rudeness."

"From here on, you will no longer be Chie-sama."

"You will become the substitute for your father."

"Shogun!"

"Serves her right."

"Who am I to be told by Kasuga-dono not to go outside?"

"In that case, what's the point of this getup?"

"Oh, where ya goin', Page?"

"Ya've got quite the pretty face on ya!"

"A woman?!"

"Let me go! Someone help!"

"Shut it up!"

"This is incredible good luck."

"Getting to take a woman here in the Ooku."

"Shogun!"

"It's not that big a deal."

"This man tried to play with me a little..."

"...and because he was bad at it and hurt me while on top..."

"...I punished him by executing him!"

"I'm Shogun, aren't I?!"

"Violating the Shogun's body is the same as getting the death penalty!"

"Am I wrong, Kasuga!?"

"It hurts... I don't want to give birth..."

"Don't want to give birth..."

"Shogun, you must certainly be of a mind..."

"...to exert yourself firmly."

- "Once again!" - "Shogun!"

"Just a little longer, please."

"Shogun..."

"...it is a Princess."

"Kasuga..."

"It's my daughter."

"She isn't sucking my milk. Why?"

"Kasuga, the baby is..."

"Suck! Suck my milk!"

"Suck it!"

"Suck! Suck!"

How do I put it... Such a sad laugh.

I have not seen the Shogun shed tears.

Not even at the time of the Princess's death, either.

Having been brought here to the Ooku at such a young age...

...she has been living alone ever since.

"Who is it thinks I really am the Shogun?"

"I am..."

"...nothing but a belly on loan for the sake of connecting the Tokugawa blood line."

"It wasn't my choice to become this way."

"I have no reason to want to live in the Ooku concealed as a boy!"

Enough already. Go away, all of you!

Shogun. The essential person of Oman...

Never mind.

Kasuga, go.

Hurry up and go!

Thank you for waiting. It is I, Oman.

Never mind anymore. Go away!

"It could be said I have been the conceited one."

"I understand full well..."

"...that I have fallen into the same bitter world as you."

"Why did I, this weak man..."

"...have to say such awful things to you, I wonder?"

Go away...

Go away, I said.

"I am sure this person has, many times over until now..."

"...tried to stamp out that she is a woman."

Don't come...

Don't come!

"I have lived..."

"...wanting to help as many people as I could from their suffering."

"And, when that could not come true..."

"...I was going to cast aside my heart as a person."

I told you to go away, didn't I?

"Why did I not realize it?"

"If I can save but one person alone..."

"Then the one person I must try and save..."

"...has been right here before me all this time."

"Right here before me like this..."

"...is a person struggling with such pain."

"Is not that one person alone enough?"

Arikoto...

Go ahead and, from now on...

...please call me Oman.

Ima mitsumete yukeru darou I wonder what to look at now

Futatsu no mabuta wo tojiru toki ai wa soko ni aru to When I close both my eyelids, love is there

Mirai to kako kara ima wo terashidasu Now illuminating both future and past

Anata dake mitsumeteru Staring at you alone

Kono sekai ga ima nanika wo sakende mo Even if this world is screaming out for something

Tada hitori dake mamoreru nara nanimo iranai I need nothing if I can protect only you

Kizutsuita sono hate ni If in the end I hurt you

Itsuka wakare no hi ga kite mo And the day comes when we must part

Ashita ga mienakute mo Then I'll won't see a tomorrow

Kono sekai wa futari dake no mono This world is just the two of us

This far better suits...

...the Shogun than it does I.

Anata sae ireba ii As long as there is you

Kono sekai de subete wo kanjite itai I want to feel everything in this world

Tada hitotsu dake daiji na mono dakishimete Embracing you is the one and only important thing to me

NEVER MAKE ME CRY AGAIN

Kono sekai de ima anata wo shinjiteru What I believe now in this world is you

Yurusareru nara ima anata ni subete sasageru If you let me, I'll give all I have now to you