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"Mushi-shi"
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While resting in the bamboo forest,
an odd fellow approached me.
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Excuse me. Are you a traveler?
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Yes, I am.
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Then you must be heading
down the mountain.
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Yes, I'm headed west.
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Just what I was hoping...
Mind if I joined you?
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You're lost?
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Yes... I can't seem to find
my way out of this bamboo forest.
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You must have a terrible
sense of direction.
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I've had an awful time...
No one's come through in three years...
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Three years?
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Yes. This might sound strange,
but I've been stuck here for a long time.
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"Inside the Cage"
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I'm originally from the village
at the foot of the mountain.
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So, you're a local...
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It's not as though you can't see the sun,
so how can you lose your way?
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I don't know how, either...
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I must say, though...
this is a huge bamboo forest.
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Damn! We're back to same place again...
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What's going on? The compass isn't off...
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We started by heading west.
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But before we knew it,
we were off course...
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Farther and farther off course until...
we went in a circle.
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That's what happens... You become
unable to control where you go.
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What's the heck is going on?!
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You've been caught, too.
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Now that it's happened,
do you want to live here with us?
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Hey, that's not funny.
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Hm? You mean there are others?
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Yes... A mother and
her daughter used to live here.
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Kisuke...
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The mother passed on,
but the daughter is now my wife.
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We're childhood friends, so at least
one good thing came out of it.
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I see...
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He's a traveler. We were just talking.
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My wife, Setsu.
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Ginko-san...
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Sorry about making you keep me company.
I'm going home now.
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Want to take a break at our place?
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No... I'm going to try to
figure another way out.
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I see...
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Okay, then, take care.
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"Take care"?
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That's odd...
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I made it out...
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Good grief...
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I wonder if he's all right?
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You never know...
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Yeah...
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Yes?
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Well, you came out from
that bamboo forest, didn't you?
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Yes.
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You saw a man in there, right?
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Yes... I wonder if
he was putting me on...
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Who is that man?
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He was captivated by a monster...
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You're lucky you're okay.
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A monster?
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Yes... There's a white bamboo
growing in there, and...
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Stop it... You mustn't tell stories
that taint our village to outsiders.
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Ginko-san!
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You weren't able to get out?
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I was. But there was something
I wanted to see, so I came back.
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I heard in the village that there's
a white bamboo growing in this forest.
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I also heard about you
and your wife... a little...
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When you see it, what do you intend to do?
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If it's within the scope of my work,
I want to ask you the details,
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since it's a very rare phenomenon.
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Perhaps there might be
a way to get you out of here.
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If you tell me not to get involved
any further, I'll do it alone.
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This way.
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Besides this one, there are four others.
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Hmm... just as I thought,
it's a Magari-dake.
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First, can you tell me...
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about everything that happened
in this bamboo forest?
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The kids in the village
grew up hearing the story...
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A young married couple lived
in this bamboo forest...
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For many years, the couple
could not conceive a child...
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The husband began to spend time
away from his depressing home.
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His wife was a strange woman
who talked to plants.
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Eventually she began to wander about
the bamboo forest night after night.
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Then one day, she said she
thought she was pregnant...
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The husband became suspicious of
his wife, so one night, he followed her...
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Then...
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He found his wife enthralled,
clinging to a white bamboo.
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The husband was frightened
out of his wits and ran off,
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but he returned home after
the villagers admonished him.
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There, he found his wife carrying
a bamboo shoot as if it were a baby.
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So she gave birth to a bamboo shoot?
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That's what they say she said.
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Couldn't she just have been
trying to annoy her husband?
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In the end, her husband
ran away from the village,
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so that was what we thought, as well.
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Also when we actually came
to see the "bamboo child",
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it looked just like an ordinary girl.
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That child was Setsu.
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By then, her mother had died. My sister,
my friends and I played there a lot,
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thinking she might be lonely by herself.
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But we did sense
something strange about Setsu.
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She never ate or drank anything but water
and never left the bamboo forest.
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Even so, we all still liked Setsu.
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But then... One day, we were
unable to leave the bamboo forest.
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We went in circles through the forest,
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until gradually, I lost
sight of one, then another...
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And then I realized I was
the only one left behind...
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The next day, those who made it back
to the village came looking for me,
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but if they stayed with me, they were
unable to leave the bamboo forest.
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Just as I thought... You knew that,
and messed with me.
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Sorry... I wondered if
it'd happen to an outsider as well.
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After that, I lived at Setsu's house.
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Since my little sister
was the only relative I had,
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villagers fed and took care of both of us.
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My sister and I were practically
raised by everyone in the village.
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Everyone was like family...
It was a fine village...
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But after living with Setsu for a while,
visits from the villagers decreased...
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Are you lonely, Kisuke?
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No...
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I'm glad to hear that.
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In time, Setsu became pregnant...
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But...
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That was when Setsu's true origin...
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...hit me for the first time...
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The midwife ran off back to the village...
and after that, no one ever came here...
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You might find my story
hard to believe, though.
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Well, it did surprise me.
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So what is this...
Magari-dake that you mentioned?
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A bamboo in name only,
but it's not a plant.
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Bamboos in a bamboo forest
all share the same roots.
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Together, they are one, or a
family of successive generations.
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Magari-dake are mushi that live off
these roots, posing as one of the family.
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They grow by sucking nutrients
from the roots of the bamboo
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and in turn, return elements to
the roots that make the forest green,
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growing the forest and
increasing its own numbers...
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Your wife was born
from mushi and a human.
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We mushi-shi call them oniko.
An extremely rare mazari-mono...
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Was it a bit of a shock?
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No... Not after seeing what my daughter
looked like when she was born...
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Regardless of what her
parents were, Setsu is... Setsu.
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No one in the village thinks that way...
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But I'm sure they'll understand
once they meet Setsu.
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One day, the three of us living in
the village might even be possible...
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So is that why you want to
somehow get out of the forest?
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Yeah...
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And I'm also worried
about my little sister...
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if she's having a hard time because of me.
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I have an idea...
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If I connect all the points where
he abruptly changes directions,
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it forms an almost perfect circle...
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You become unable
to control where you go.
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The center of the circle is... that stalk.
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Is that the water that gives you life?
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Yes.
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Can you share some with me?
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I'm sorry... It's very precious water.
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Mother told me never to give it to others.
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Even to Kisuke?
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Huh?
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I gave him some just once...
when we were still children.
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Tell me... Do you find it difficult
to be so loathed by the villagers?
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Well, yes... But Kisuke
and my daughter are all I need...
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although I feel sorry for Kisuke
because he can't leave...
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But that... makes me happy...
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Sorry, but I'll take some...
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Just as I suspected... I can't get out.
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This is a problem...
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It's that time of the year
when the leaves fall...
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Mommy bamboo is feeding
her babies a meal of leaves...
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so that the baby bamboos can grow big...
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Really? Which one is the mommy?
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Every one of them.
They're raising their children together.
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Daddy thinks about the village
come this time of year...
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It's large, with lots of sunshine...
A bustling village...
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I want to show it to you, too...
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It'll be okay, right?
I'm sure Kisuke won't leave...
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Then... you found the cause?
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Yes. Mushi, unlike plants,
have their own will.
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They give commands to each part
of their body to carry out their will.
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This mushi's body is this central stalk
and the bamboo forest around it.
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And the medium that conveys
its will is this water Setsu drinks.
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Regular water shows no reaction
when brought near the stalk.
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Simply carrying this water around
puts one under this mushi's influence.
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Of course, those who drink it, as well.
And even those who are near them.
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Today sure is hot! I'm thirsty.
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You can have a sip.
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I doubt Setsu knew about it, though...
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I agree... But then,
what do we do about it?
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That's the problem... If we could get
the water completely out of your system...
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Frankly, though, I can't
come up with a means.
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There is... one other method...
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But it's one I'd rather not resort to since
I don't know what other effects it'll have.
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I... see...
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I see... If that's the case,
I can finally... give up...
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So you're the one who's been
keeping Kisuke here for me...
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Thank you...
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I'm sorry...
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Why?
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I don't think you can't do it...
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You're it's child... a part of its body.
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Just as our limbs can't
go against our brains.
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Did you hear everything I said?
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Because of me, Kisuke...
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But Kisuke wasn't unhappy.
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Kisuke made a woman like me happy.
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But I took his village away from him...
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Kisuke even said... Regardless of
what my parents were, I am me!
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That's enough!
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Setsu! Where could she have gone?
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The village!
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Hello! It's me! Kisuke!
I was finally able to get out!
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Big Brother?
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Yes, it's me. Have you been well?
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Is that... that child?
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Yes.
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Go back.
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Hear me out!
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Don't come down to the village
with that thing.
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I have a child of my own now...
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Don't make my child
feel miserable like I did...
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Where's Mommy?
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Yeah... Let's go home.
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For a while, the three of them
lived happily together.
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But then, six months later,
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when I returned to see the effects
of cutting down the parent stalk...
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Not a single Magari-dake...
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It's you...
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After that, the white bamboo
wilted and died one after the other...
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Their lives depended on that water...
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They suffered greatly...
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By the time I buried them here,
they became weak like dead trees.
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Setsu shouldn't have done what she did...
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That was Setsu's parent...
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I made her do it... Because I
could never give up the village...
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It's already that time of year again...
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A white bamboo... when did it?
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Babies crying...
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It's coming from...
the direction of their graves...
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"Inside The Cage"
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"Inside The Cage"
Pretense of spring.
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"Pretense of Spring"
Pretense of spring.
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"Pretense of Spring"
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