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Hello?
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Hello in there!
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Please. You have to help us.
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I have dying people or…
Maybe they're already dead.
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I'm too scared to look,
but I'm trying to save them,
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even though I'm really mad at one of them.
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I think you know him.
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Please! I've been walking for days,
and bad guys are after us,
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and I don't know where else to go.
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What do I do?
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Mizu.
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Come inside.
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My cage. So many years.
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Took them forever
to build a proper jakes.
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Made the shogun unspeakably rich,
and all I had to do was hide.
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I spun so much gold in there.
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Fucked 10,000 times.
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I never want to see it again.
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Adieu!
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Our spring procession to Edo.
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You promised we wouldn't be bored.
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We won't be.
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Every night, a delicacy.
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I'm glad to see
you got your appetite back.
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You lost an arm, not your prick.
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Ha. We, uh, should send word
of when the weapons arrive.
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Our friends are nervous.
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Ah, let them be nervous.
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When they stop worrying,
they stop thinking they need us.
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But you do know when.
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Now, what's planned for tonight?
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That is… something new.
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Pleasure as always,
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Madame Kaji.
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Always a pleasure to serve you.
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Safest travels to Edo.
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Heiji Shindo, you promised, you delivered.
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Every stop a surprise and a delight.
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I like to think
we gain strength from pleasure.
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But our army is nothing without guns.
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Ah, you worry like an old woman.
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I worry like someone about to go to war
with the entire shogunate.
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Ah, the guns will be smuggled in
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on fishing boats in two days.
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Clever.
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Our army will take the castle,
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and I'll personally execute
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the shogun and the entire Itoh Clan
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during the Council of Elders
at the Spring Matsuri.
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The lords can then choose.
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Die with him or bow to my puppet,
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who will take his orders from me!
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I didn't say stop.
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The shipment comes in two days.
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Scour every port and fish yard.
Search every boat.
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Open every box.
Bribe any man at any price.
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We must get the guns before Fowler.
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Once you've secured them,
it will be my privilege to kill Fowler.
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"That man would be a plague on Japan.
There is no sharing power with him."
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Find those guns before they reach Edo.
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Bring them to me. Now.
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The convergence of your wedding
and the Spring Matsuri.
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The timing couldn't be more perfect
if I planned it myself.
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Ah!
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Every lord has brought us their finest.
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Find a smile.
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What can you possibly want
that isn't right here?
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I want to not be forced
to marry some horrible man I don't know.
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I want to leave Edo.
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Daughter.
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When in your whole life
have you not gotten what you wanted?
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When you blackened my teeth.
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Just… trust me.
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Hello, friend.
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How long have you been in there?
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Hmm?
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Too long. It's spring outside.
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A bird that small, caught on the wing.
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I tell you, you were born to kill.
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Ugh! You saw something beautiful,
and your first thought was to kill it.
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You're as cruel as they say.
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You have nothing to say for yourself?
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You are bold to speak
to the young master so plainly.
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Bold is unwise.
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A wife should be like tofu.
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Unnoticed, colorless,
and bland.
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He's as terrible as they say.
He won't even talk to me.
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Oh, the young master doesn't converse
with any woman. Lady Itoh's rule.
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His first wife wishes she followed it.
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- What happened to her?
- Oh, she went back to her family.
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In an urn.
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He is as ruthless in bed as in battle.
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Your fiancé's favorite position?
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With an obi around her neck.
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Akemi! Heavens, child.
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Get away from that window.
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This is your ambition now? Death?
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Is there another way out?
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It's the window or the knife.
Or wait for an obi.
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Save your worries, Seki.
Sadly, I lack the courage.
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Go away.
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I don't need your advice
on marriage or love
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or whatever you think
you're an expert on today.
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Hmm.
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I've never understood a thing about love,
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or battle, or politics, or art,
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or anything I was supposed to.
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I was a miserable warrior.
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The only thing I have ever known
everything about is you.
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Here. A gift from me.
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A Go set?
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We stopped playing when I was 12.
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Why?
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Because I beat you every time.
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Why?
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Because you learned.
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You're determined to resent me
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when what you resent
is being someone else's property.
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Women shouldn't be property.
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Well, they are.
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And tomorrow, you go
from your father's to Master Takayoshi's.
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I've always known this day would come.
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Since your mother died,
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I tried with the time I had
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to ready you for the world that is,
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not the world you'd have it be.
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Without your father knowing,
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often without you knowing.
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You think you sneaked into the library
to read all those years?
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Why do you think you wanted to?
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Know it or not,
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you are equipped
to do more than survive here…
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but succeed.
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Expand your territory.
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Find the vulnerabilities. Capture.
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Win.
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You learned.
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You can stop pretending to be my mother.
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After tomorrow,
I won't be your responsibility ever again.
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Blame me if you must.
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Hate me.
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I was no better a mother
than I was a warrior.
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I did enjoy the job more.
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Hmm. Someone is awake.
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Tell me if Taigen ever wakes up.
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Thanks to your apprentice,
you did not die.
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Your soul is stubborn.
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I'm not Mizu's apprentice.
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Will Taigen live?
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Hmm. His soul is also stubborn.
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How can I help you today, Master?
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I washed your clothes. You probably
didn't know they were so dirty.
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They will look so much nicer now.
And white.
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Did you know they're actually white?
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The legendary Master Eiji
deserves clean white underwear.
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Especially if he's gonna train me.
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Hmm.
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You can help me by providing silence.
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My dad loved silence too.
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You're alive.
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Everything hurts.
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That's a good sign.
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Salt and fish guts.
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Kohama?
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Near it.
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This is Master Eiji's forge.
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So this is where you disappeared to
all those years ago.
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This is where you trained.
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No one in town cared if I starved or died.
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He took me in.
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Rest. I'll be back.
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Wait. You have to let me thank you
for saving me.
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It's hard enough to admit you did.
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You don't owe me anything.
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Lady Itoh hoped
a ride would lighten Miss's mood.
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Look at the trees.
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It's as if they bloomed
especially for the wedding.
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Even the prostitutes
are working night and day.
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Stop! Stop here.
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You're a long way from home.
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Yes, Madame Kaji.
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It's me.
Or do I have to recite some renga?
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Akemi?
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Akemi! You have wife teeth.
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Every paying customer in the country
is in Edo for the Spring Matsuri
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and some lavish royal wedding.
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We rented rooms
at a tea house here in the Yoshiwara.
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We worked the whole highway getting here.
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Fucked our way through
all 69 Stations of the Nakasendo.
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But why are you here?
And in the shogun's crest?
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Oh. The lavish royal wedding,
it seems, is… mine.
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Wait. That wedding is your wedding?
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She really is a real princess.
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Of course she is.
Bet she lives in a castle.
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I'm in a snare, surrounded by snakes.
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I will trade lives with you right now.
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We've been servicing
the road-weary crotches of every man here
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to pay obeisance to your new family.
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You need only service one, freshly washed.
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You don't understand.
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That he's a beast? He's weak.
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He's a man. All men are weak.
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The ones who act beastly are weakest.
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They penetrate women
and think that makes them powerful.
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Really, their pricks are fragile.
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Exposed. You saw it yourself.
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They want to be diapered,
spanked, and breastfed,
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then strut away
like they conquered an army.
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Nurture his weakness.
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Be his strength,
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and he'll worship you.
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I… don't know if I can.
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Stop running to and from men,
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and decide what you want
for your fucking self.
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I want to be in control of my life.
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Then take control of his,
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Princess.
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Poor thing.
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That white man is going to kill her
with the rest of them.
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I will not be a burden to you long.
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You had a place here once.
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I have no place until I've had my revenge.
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For that, I need my sword.
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Can you fit them back together?
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No.
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Broken is broken.
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Then it must be remelted and reforged.
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Your sword broke
because the blend was wrong.
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It was perfect.
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It was too pure.
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Your metal
wants to be blended with new steel.
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Do you have steel for me?
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No.
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Then give me a sword.
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No.
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The fire in you rages beyond control.
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I'm not the child you once knew.
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No.
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00:17:28,875 --> 00:17:31,583
That child would see you and run.
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That child understood
the meaning of a sword,
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the line separating life and death.
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I have no steel for you.
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Then I will make my own.
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Mizu!
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How'd you know I was here?
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Your tools you use in place of hands,
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who made them?
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Huh. Mm…
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I did.
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Why?
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To be useful.
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Is that all?
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I want to be a samurai.
I want to be great.
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Hmm.
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Most people laugh when I tell them that.
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Is it funny?
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Samurai needs hands.
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Do they?
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As a swordmaker needs eyes?
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Your hands.
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An accident, or by birth?
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Birth.
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Your eyes?
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A fire.
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And now, fire listens to you.
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Hmm.
267
00:21:11,416 --> 00:21:13,875
You worked all night.
Thought you might be hungry.
268
00:21:17,583 --> 00:21:20,000
Old man Itagaki's famous fish dumplings.
269
00:21:20,708 --> 00:21:22,416
Only good thing about Kohama.
270
00:21:23,875 --> 00:21:25,416
I've never tried them before.
271
00:21:25,916 --> 00:21:29,166
Remember?
I was just a dog who ate gutter scraps.
272
00:21:33,833 --> 00:21:34,833
Your blade.
273
00:21:35,416 --> 00:21:37,250
The steel wouldn't form for me.
274
00:21:37,750 --> 00:21:38,750
So what?
275
00:21:39,083 --> 00:21:40,083
You have to go after
276
00:21:40,166 --> 00:21:42,416
that son-of-a-bitch Fowler
before it's too late.
277
00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:45,291
"The sword is the soul of the samurai."
278
00:21:45,375 --> 00:21:48,708
No, that's just what they tell
first-year students in the dojo.
279
00:21:48,791 --> 00:21:51,416
You're good. Maybe better than me.
280
00:21:52,125 --> 00:21:55,208
And no one is better than me.
281
00:21:56,875 --> 00:21:58,541
Look, the weapon doesn't matter.
282
00:22:00,791 --> 00:22:02,375
You could beat him with a hammer.
283
00:22:02,875 --> 00:22:04,166
Here. Get up.
284
00:22:04,750 --> 00:22:06,833
Master Eiji won't like you moving things.
285
00:22:09,458 --> 00:22:10,458
Ha-ha!
286
00:22:12,416 --> 00:22:14,958
Ah, I'm in way too much pain to spar.
287
00:22:24,250 --> 00:22:26,250
You think you can take me down twice?
288
00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:44,250
Uh. Oh. Uh… I… I… I'm… I'm…
289
00:22:44,916 --> 00:22:45,916
I'm sorry.
290
00:22:50,375 --> 00:22:51,666
Don't be sorry, Taigen.
291
00:22:54,375 --> 00:22:55,708
Taigen?
292
00:22:56,208 --> 00:22:58,333
Must be missing Akemi.
293
00:23:00,958 --> 00:23:02,958
There's something I need to tell you.
294
00:23:12,083 --> 00:23:14,000
You'll never see Akemi again.
295
00:23:14,083 --> 00:23:15,000
What?
296
00:23:15,083 --> 00:23:17,500
She's in Edo, marrying Takayoshi Itoh.
297
00:23:18,041 --> 00:23:19,666
How do you know this?
298
00:23:19,750 --> 00:23:22,541
I stood by
as the Tokunobu guards took her away.
299
00:23:23,041 --> 00:23:25,416
She came looking for me
to save your engagement.
300
00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:27,333
And you just let them take her?
301
00:23:27,416 --> 00:23:29,208
It was for her own good.
302
00:23:29,833 --> 00:23:32,083
I have to go to Edo.
303
00:23:32,166 --> 00:23:35,833
No. It's too dangerous.
Fowler's plotting an attack on Edo Castle.
304
00:23:35,916 --> 00:23:36,750
What?
305
00:23:36,833 --> 00:23:40,583
I saw his plans.
He has an army armed with foreign rifles.
306
00:23:40,666 --> 00:23:43,125
He's smart. He'll move to strike
during the Council of Elders.
307
00:23:43,208 --> 00:23:45,291
You've known all this time.
308
00:23:46,125 --> 00:23:49,416
The shogun is in danger.
Akemi is in danger.
309
00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:51,625
What kind of samurai are you?
310
00:23:51,708 --> 00:23:54,041
I'm going to kill Fowler.
311
00:23:54,125 --> 00:23:55,250
Not for honor.
312
00:23:55,833 --> 00:23:56,833
For hate.
313
00:23:57,291 --> 00:23:58,791
You really are a demon.
314
00:24:05,916 --> 00:24:07,833
I'm going to Edo to warn the shogun,
315
00:24:07,916 --> 00:24:10,958
and then I'm going
to find you and kill you.
316
00:24:21,541 --> 00:24:24,000
The greatest gift
I ever received
317
00:24:24,083 --> 00:24:27,916
was from Lady Itoh, who gave me two sons.
318
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,916
So that should I die,
319
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,625
it would be
of no consequence to the nation,
320
00:24:32,708 --> 00:24:35,750
save the trouble
of a few prayers.
321
00:24:36,833 --> 00:24:42,500
It is with pleasure I offer a seat
to celebrate the union of my second son,
322
00:24:42,583 --> 00:24:44,166
Takayoshi Itoh,
323
00:24:44,250 --> 00:24:48,708
to the only daughter
of Lord Daichi Tokunobu.
324
00:24:49,875 --> 00:24:54,208
Each of you is here for your proven
devotion to the shogunate.
325
00:24:54,291 --> 00:24:58,083
May the bride
be as loyal as your clans are to me.
326
00:24:59,541 --> 00:25:02,458
May her womb
be as fruitful as your fields.
327
00:25:08,500 --> 00:25:12,750
Mmm. Oh…
328
00:25:14,166 --> 00:25:15,166
My dear,
329
00:25:15,625 --> 00:25:19,375
your meal was prepared especially for you.
330
00:25:26,583 --> 00:25:30,000
Rabbit liver in a velouté of horse semen.
331
00:25:30,083 --> 00:25:31,291
For fertility.
332
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,666
I do hope you can handle your duties
333
00:25:34,750 --> 00:25:35,916
as an Itoh wife.
334
00:25:41,166 --> 00:25:43,166
You'll find I can handle anything.
335
00:25:45,041 --> 00:25:46,041
Mmm.
336
00:25:48,333 --> 00:25:51,083
Chilled fox brain for wisdom.
337
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,666
A pottage from fetal pig's blood.
338
00:25:55,750 --> 00:25:57,916
For youth and vitality.
339
00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:08,708
This one was your husband's idea.
340
00:26:09,833 --> 00:26:11,875
Such a sweet boy.
341
00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:52,083
So… everything crumbled.
342
00:26:53,791 --> 00:26:54,916
Your steel.
343
00:26:55,916 --> 00:26:58,166
Perhaps a demon cannot make steel.
344
00:26:59,208 --> 00:27:00,458
Is that so?
345
00:27:02,458 --> 00:27:05,083
The world sees me
and sees a hateful monster.
346
00:27:05,666 --> 00:27:06,666
An onryō.
347
00:27:07,166 --> 00:27:08,708
My own mother saw it too…
348
00:27:09,666 --> 00:27:11,000
and could not love me.
349
00:27:12,083 --> 00:27:13,291
Maybe they're right.
350
00:27:14,125 --> 00:27:16,666
I did not train you to be a demon
351
00:27:17,250 --> 00:27:18,250
or a human.
352
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,375
I showed you how to be an artist.
353
00:27:22,375 --> 00:27:25,041
To be an artist is to do one thing only.
354
00:27:27,916 --> 00:27:28,916
Look at me.
355
00:27:29,708 --> 00:27:32,791
Cannot fight, or weave, or farm.
356
00:27:33,416 --> 00:27:34,708
I make swords.
357
00:27:35,208 --> 00:27:38,166
I cook for strength to make good swords.
358
00:27:39,416 --> 00:27:43,458
I study the sutras
to cleanse my heart to make good swords.
359
00:27:44,416 --> 00:27:46,083
You think revenge is an art?
360
00:27:46,916 --> 00:27:50,000
Swords, pots, noodles, death.
361
00:27:50,708 --> 00:27:52,958
It is all the same to an artist.
362
00:27:54,291 --> 00:27:55,666
Then I'm a bad artist.
363
00:27:58,125 --> 00:28:01,375
An artist gives all they have to the art,
364
00:28:01,458 --> 00:28:02,458
the whole.
365
00:28:04,250 --> 00:28:06,791
Your strengths and deficiencies,
366
00:28:06,875 --> 00:28:10,125
your loves and shames.
367
00:28:11,375 --> 00:28:13,333
Perhaps the people you collected.
368
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,791
I made my best blades
when I had an apprentice.
369
00:28:20,375 --> 00:28:22,125
I thought I annoyed you.
370
00:28:22,708 --> 00:28:23,791
Both are true.
371
00:28:26,125 --> 00:28:29,750
There may be a demon in you,
but there is more.
372
00:28:30,916 --> 00:28:32,916
If you do not invite the whole,
373
00:28:33,625 --> 00:28:35,458
the demon takes two chairs,
374
00:28:35,958 --> 00:28:37,958
and your art will suffer.
375
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,125
Then what do I do?
376
00:28:41,541 --> 00:28:43,583
I only know how to make swords.
377
00:28:44,166 --> 00:28:46,500
Each morning, I start a fire.
378
00:28:47,750 --> 00:28:49,791
And begin again.
379
00:29:27,666 --> 00:29:30,666
Like tofu ready to be devoured.
380
00:29:31,333 --> 00:29:33,458
Master Takayoshi sent you a gift.
381
00:29:34,333 --> 00:29:36,583
Since you enjoyed
your dinner so much,
382
00:29:36,666 --> 00:29:38,750
he provided you breakfast and lunch.
383
00:29:51,708 --> 00:29:55,375
Is it funny to torment me?
Kill my bird and make me eat it?
384
00:29:55,458 --> 00:29:56,750
Give me two more?
385
00:29:59,458 --> 00:30:00,666
Say something.
386
00:30:00,750 --> 00:30:02,791
Or is it beneath you to speak to me?
387
00:30:06,083 --> 00:30:08,458
It was an… a… apology
388
00:30:09,208 --> 00:30:11,750
f… for my mother.
389
00:30:30,166 --> 00:30:31,166
I see.
390
00:30:32,625 --> 00:30:34,291
Your gift was sincere.
391
00:30:35,125 --> 00:30:37,625
Can my husband forgive me
for striking him?
392
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,791
My husband has no cause
for shame with his wife
393
00:30:47,583 --> 00:30:49,500
nor need he ever rush his reply.
394
00:30:50,083 --> 00:30:53,083
The most brilliant tutor
I ever had had a stammer.
395
00:30:53,166 --> 00:30:54,666
Lesser teachers laughed,
396
00:30:55,166 --> 00:30:58,375
but I knew it was because
his mind was so full of thoughts
397
00:30:58,458 --> 00:31:00,250
his mouth simply couldn't keep up.
398
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:03,250
When he recited poetry,
399
00:31:03,333 --> 00:31:07,125
the words filled with meaning
and filled me with fire.
400
00:31:07,916 --> 00:31:10,750
I… always had a devastating crush on him.
401
00:31:12,666 --> 00:31:13,666
Again,
402
00:31:14,166 --> 00:31:16,666
can my husband forgive me
for striking him?
403
00:31:18,291 --> 00:31:20,000
Mm… Yes.
404
00:31:21,583 --> 00:31:24,291
Would my husband recite for me?
405
00:31:54,958 --> 00:31:55,958
Ringo.
406
00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:03,250
You know the Heart Sutra?
407
00:32:05,666 --> 00:32:08,541
"The body is emptiness,
and emptiness body."
408
00:32:09,416 --> 00:32:10,958
"All things are only empty."
409
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,250
- "Nothing is born, nothing broken…"
- "Nothing is born, nothing broken…"
410
00:32:26,958 --> 00:32:29,500
There are some things I cannot do alone.
411
00:32:58,458 --> 00:32:59,708
I want to hear you.
412
00:33:03,625 --> 00:33:04,625
Go on.
413
00:33:08,708 --> 00:33:11,750
"If only for t… t… tonight."
414
00:33:13,291 --> 00:33:14,958
"Let us share this pillow."
415
00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:21,166
"For I have long traveled
416
00:33:22,416 --> 00:33:26,541
on the pathway of my dreams
to find reality."
417
00:34:46,458 --> 00:34:49,875
Searched every boat
and every cart on every coast.
418
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:51,875
And found nothing.
419
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,125
There are no Western guns in Japan.
420
00:34:55,666 --> 00:34:58,166
I fear your white man is a fraud,
421
00:34:58,250 --> 00:35:00,166
and you are on your way to your death.
422
00:35:02,916 --> 00:35:04,333
Hmm. A letter?
423
00:35:05,208 --> 00:35:06,291
Just business.
424
00:35:06,958 --> 00:35:10,041
Finish your business.
I have something to show you.
425
00:35:10,916 --> 00:35:13,083
A shiny new toy.
426
00:35:15,541 --> 00:35:18,000
I asked for two condemned men.
427
00:35:18,083 --> 00:35:19,125
They sent four.
428
00:35:19,625 --> 00:35:21,291
It's nice to be respected.
429
00:35:31,291 --> 00:35:32,500
Go on then!
430
00:35:33,250 --> 00:35:34,833
Do your worst.
431
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:46,500
My turn.
432
00:35:46,875 --> 00:35:49,791
Time to test our guns.
433
00:35:50,875 --> 00:35:51,875
Our guns?
434
00:35:52,375 --> 00:35:55,250
I don't understand. Where are they?
435
00:35:58,875 --> 00:36:00,166
They're right here.
436
00:36:00,250 --> 00:36:02,250
Of course, I had to modify the designs
437
00:36:02,333 --> 00:36:06,291
to get 2,000 rifles
from my country into yours without notice.
438
00:36:06,875 --> 00:36:10,166
My country's history is one
of manufactured suffering.
439
00:36:10,250 --> 00:36:12,250
I was a boy when the Tudors
440
00:36:12,333 --> 00:36:16,083
burned any food the rebels
under O'Neill might think to eat.
441
00:36:16,166 --> 00:36:18,041
We starved. Everyone starved.
442
00:36:18,541 --> 00:36:21,666
Mouths on the dead
stained green from chewing nettles.
443
00:36:21,750 --> 00:36:23,500
You get resourceful in a famine.
444
00:36:23,583 --> 00:36:25,666
My parents died early.
445
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:28,875
Left me and my sister catching rats.
446
00:36:29,375 --> 00:36:33,791
The rats ran out quick.
Fed my sister on my blood.
447
00:36:33,875 --> 00:36:36,500
It kept her alive an extra two weeks.
448
00:36:37,125 --> 00:36:38,708
I didn't sleep for three days
449
00:36:38,791 --> 00:36:42,833
to protect her body from the starving
till the ground thawed.
450
00:36:43,541 --> 00:36:46,458
I cut out her kidneys and buried her.
451
00:36:47,291 --> 00:36:49,166
Fat cap on them like a pea.
452
00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:55,083
I haven't eaten a single meal
since my mind didn't go to that bite.
453
00:36:55,625 --> 00:36:59,166
It was the last thing I ever did
because I had to.
454
00:37:00,250 --> 00:37:02,583
I control my life now.
455
00:37:05,291 --> 00:37:06,291
Every bite.
456
00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:34,875
Master Chiba tried
to steal my delivery.
457
00:37:34,958 --> 00:37:38,083
I think he had a mind
to lead our coup without us.
458
00:37:40,125 --> 00:37:41,416
You want his thumbs?
459
00:37:45,083 --> 00:37:46,708
What about his soldiers?
460
00:37:46,791 --> 00:37:48,291
They're your soldiers now.
461
00:37:49,416 --> 00:37:51,750
Seems we lost our man on the inside.
462
00:37:52,583 --> 00:37:55,083
Seems you'll have to do
Chiba's job in the castle.
463
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,291
Think you can manage?
464
00:38:18,083 --> 00:38:21,500
A sword from this steel could kill a god.
465
00:38:23,375 --> 00:38:26,666
You will make a blade from this
worthy of your purpose.
466
00:38:28,208 --> 00:38:30,125
No. You're right.
467
00:38:30,625 --> 00:38:32,583
I don't deserve a sword. Not yet.
468
00:38:34,291 --> 00:38:35,625
This steel is for you.
469
00:38:37,166 --> 00:38:39,916
I must go to Edo
and kill the man I am sworn to kill.
470
00:38:40,416 --> 00:38:43,666
If I succeed and am still alive,
I will return.
471
00:38:43,750 --> 00:38:46,833
And you can determine
if I am worthy of a sword of this metal
472
00:38:47,333 --> 00:38:48,458
made by your hand.
473
00:38:55,291 --> 00:38:57,458
Forgive me
for leaving, Master Eiji.
474
00:38:57,958 --> 00:39:00,916
I know you were excited to be my teacher,
maybe for years.
475
00:39:01,416 --> 00:39:03,125
But Master needs me.
476
00:39:10,458 --> 00:39:11,875
Goodbye, Swordfather.
477
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,666
Bye, Swordfather!
478
00:39:24,666 --> 00:39:25,750
Hmm.
479
00:39:39,041 --> 00:39:42,750
Take your belongings.
Your services are no longer required.
480
00:39:43,708 --> 00:39:46,416
Tell Lady Itoh
she can stop curating my meals
481
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:47,583
and my company.
482
00:39:49,458 --> 00:39:51,083
But who will attend to you?
483
00:39:57,291 --> 00:39:59,250
The princess summoned us.
484
00:40:00,791 --> 00:40:02,166
This isn't a summons.
485
00:40:02,791 --> 00:40:05,166
It's a business proposition, Madame Kaji.
486
00:40:05,750 --> 00:40:07,166
I now have money of my own
487
00:40:07,250 --> 00:40:09,458
and would like
to buy out your ladies' contracts.
488
00:40:10,291 --> 00:40:11,291
All of them.
489
00:40:13,291 --> 00:40:15,375
Five times what each owes you.
490
00:40:15,958 --> 00:40:17,625
On what terms?
491
00:40:17,708 --> 00:40:18,833
No terms
492
00:40:18,916 --> 00:40:22,708
other than that each woman
considers herself free and free to go.
493
00:40:24,958 --> 00:40:26,791
I don't have to become a prostitute?
494
00:40:27,541 --> 00:40:29,375
You don't owe us.
495
00:40:29,458 --> 00:40:30,458
I don't.
496
00:40:30,833 --> 00:40:33,666
But it seems I've decided
what I want for my fucking self.
497
00:40:34,166 --> 00:40:37,041
Also, I find myself
in need of new attendants.
498
00:40:37,583 --> 00:40:40,833
Good pay, new clothes.
You'd have to live here though.
499
00:40:43,125 --> 00:40:45,958
Here? In your palace?
500
00:40:46,791 --> 00:40:49,791
There is opportunity here.
But I have much to learn.
501
00:40:50,291 --> 00:40:51,791
I need friends I can trust.
502
00:40:52,291 --> 00:40:54,041
Friends experienced in the world.
503
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:06,833
This is the best thing
that's ever happened to me.
504
00:41:07,416 --> 00:41:09,916
Oh my gosh. I cannot believe this.
505
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,041
I meant it. If you don't want to stay…
506
00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:19,375
I was awful to you,
507
00:41:20,166 --> 00:41:21,875
and you offer me this?
508
00:41:23,916 --> 00:41:27,333
Please. Akemi, please listen to me.
509
00:41:27,416 --> 00:41:28,750
You have to leave.
510
00:41:29,291 --> 00:41:31,166
You're in terrible danger here.
511
00:41:34,541 --> 00:41:37,125
Father, I didn't know what to do
but to come to you.
512
00:41:37,208 --> 00:41:39,791
Tell him what you told me. Go on.
513
00:41:41,041 --> 00:41:43,708
There's a plot against the shogunate.
514
00:41:43,791 --> 00:41:46,666
A white man is planning
to attack Edo Castle
515
00:41:46,750 --> 00:41:49,250
and kill Shogun Itoh and his whole family.
516
00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:51,375
Everyone inside the castle walls.
517
00:41:51,458 --> 00:41:54,416
He has an army, foreign guns,
518
00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:56,208
accomplices within the court.
519
00:41:58,041 --> 00:41:59,166
Did he say when?
520
00:41:59,708 --> 00:42:01,208
The lords' assembly.
521
00:42:01,291 --> 00:42:03,291
You have to leave now.
522
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,041
Thank you.
523
00:42:07,125 --> 00:42:08,708
You may have saved us all,
524
00:42:09,291 --> 00:42:10,625
including my daughter.
525
00:42:11,625 --> 00:42:12,916
Who else knows this?
526
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:15,500
No one.
527
00:42:15,958 --> 00:42:17,500
I cannot thank you enough.
528
00:42:25,041 --> 00:42:27,625
Ise.
529
00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:30,916
I told you to trust me.
530
00:42:32,791 --> 00:42:36,000
You won't be married
to some horrible man for long.
531
00:42:45,375 --> 00:42:47,250
You're a member of the Itoh Clan now.
532
00:42:47,916 --> 00:42:51,583
The people will rally around you
when the shogun and his sons are gone,
533
00:42:52,958 --> 00:42:54,833
allowing their power to fall to me…
534
00:42:57,291 --> 00:42:59,208
… shared with my new partners.
535
00:42:59,708 --> 00:43:01,375
Many will die.
536
00:43:03,125 --> 00:43:06,500
You'll be safe here till it's over.
537
00:43:07,750 --> 00:43:10,416
Then… you can thank me.
538
00:43:13,583 --> 00:43:14,750
No!