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Ringo! Ugh.
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Customer. Big hat.
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Welcome, sir. I'll bring you some tea.
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It's not good tea,
but it's hot, and you're frozen,
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and I'll bring you a rag
because when I'm frozen, my snot drips.
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Then a nice big soba.
We make the best soba.
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Honest. Bad tea, great soba. Okay?
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Stumpy! More noodles, fast.
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Finish your bowls.
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I paid your fathers good money for you.
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The brothels will pay me even more
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once you get some curve on,
you skinny country nothings. Eat!
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- Go! Hurry!
- Huh?
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If that flesh-trader kills anyone here,
it'd be bad for business.
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Go and don't spill!
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It's good, right?
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Ah.
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Finally!
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Eat up, girls. Eat it all!
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Oh.
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What are you? A dog?
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You let a dog serve food!
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Forgive my son.
Can't go a day without breaking dishes.
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Ringo, clean him!
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I'm sorry.
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- Ah!
- Argh!
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Sorry, sorry.
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I should put down this lame dog.
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I'm not a dog.
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Did you just bark?
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Do you know who I am?
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I am Hachiman the Flesh-Trader.
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No one messes with Hachi!
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Hmm. Impressive.
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I've never seen a gun like it.
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Front loading, not a Japanese pistol.
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A European design, isn't it?
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Ugh!
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That would make it illegal.
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Hachiman the Flesh-Trader.
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Of course, I've heard of you.
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Never leaves a village
without buying one of its daughters.
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You must have important friends
to own a weapon like that.
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Why do you know so much about Hachi?
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Maybe I've been following you.
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The famous Hachi
with the famous gun.
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I'd love a gun like that.
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You can tell me who sold it to you.
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Hmm. Fuck off.
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You will tell me who sold you that gun.
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You put my bullet against your blade?
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You don't deserve my blade.
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You don't even deserve this blade.
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Take the gun if you want it! Take it!
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Ah! No!
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It's a filthy gun from a filthy place.
I don't want it.
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I wanna know who sold it to you.
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Tell me now.
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Heiji Shindo.
I bought it from Heiji Shindo!
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Heiji Shindo.
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Where is Heiji Shindo?
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I don't know! I swear.
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Ah!
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You dead-eyed, half-blooded demon bastard.
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You look like an onryō.
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Hoo!
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Hm?
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I found you!
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I'd never catch up on the path,
but I remember this shortcut
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'cause when we traveled
to the Izushi shrine for my 7th birthday,
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I went to pee and got lost,
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so I slept with a family
of tanuki for three days
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and ate leaves and scarabs, and got to
know the forest really, really well, so...
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Go home.
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I hate home!
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Please. My whole life,
I couldn't do anything right,
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but now I know what I'm supposed to do.
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Be a samurai, like you.
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Please. Let me be your apprentice.
Uh, I'll do anything.
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A breeze can throw
a crane off course.
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You... are a typhoon.
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Please! I'm strong.
I can carry your things,
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and you can have
the best soba in the world every day!
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And I'll do anything you ask... Master.
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Uh, anything so I can learn
to be just like you.
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Like me?
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You're deformed, but you're still strong.
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To a man lost in the dark,
an ember can light the way.
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Thank you for my ember.
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I was lost without course so long.
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Please.
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Let this ember's light brighten a path
from this Heiji Shindo to the men I seek.
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Please guide my steps until I find them.
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Please give me the strength to kill them.
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Or let me die.
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Please
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protect Swordfather from time and harm.
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Agh!
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You wanna go?
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Go ahead.
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Just jump.
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You think you can fight us?
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An orphan?
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I know what you are.
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Your whore mother killed herself
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because your father is a white devil.
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Told you.
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Round eyes.
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Like a dog.
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Hmm. The heavens throw treasure.
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One, two, and...
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Hmm.
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Take the bowl as you go. Thank you.
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You did not go.
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Hmm. Have you somewhere to go?
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Yes.
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Well, go then.
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Now. Goodbye.
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It's a strange metal.
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Hmm. Cold morning.
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It would be nice if someone made tea.
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Hmm.
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Would be nice if someone got my tongs.
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The longer ones.
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Hmm.
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It would be nice
if somebody hammered out the impurities.
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Would be nice if someone kept proper time.
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Come on, people. Keep it moving. Let's go.
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Next!
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This travel pass is invalid.
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It's my husband's.
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It's invalid without him.
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Next!
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He died. I make the baskets.
He only sold them.
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Please. Or I can't feed my children.
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You know the rules.
Women can't travel without a chaperone.
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Next!
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Travel pass.
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- Next.
- Please!
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Excuse me.
Would you perhaps be able to tell me whe...
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Excuse me. Could you help me find the...
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Watch it, asshole.
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Apologies.
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I'm looking for something,
but Kyoto's very big.
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Do you know
where I can find the Shindo Dojo?
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Shindo?
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That's our dojo.
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You're gonna apply?
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You look like a blind beggar.
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If you would please show me
how to find your dojo,
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I would be grateful.
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Sure.
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Follow the road to the shrine.
Once you go around the gates,
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you'll see the sign
across the puppet show.
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Good luck.
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Hyah!
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You look lost, lost boy. Come on inside.
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Rest a while.
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I'm looking for the Shindo Dojo.
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Which... this I see is not.
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This is better. This is the Shindo House.
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If you wanna show off
your sword skills, you can do it here.
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We can polish the tip up for you.
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I must decline.
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My business is urgent.
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Most men grab first,
ask prices later.
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You're different.
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Polite, sweet.
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But firm.
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Okay, lost boy.
Walk east to the Kamo River.
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Take the bridge to the temple
with the thousand creepy statues.
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It's on the hill just past.
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I wish you a successful day of business.
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00:23:09,541 --> 00:23:11,166
Uh-oh. Oh!
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How much for one night?
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How much for three?
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It's all paid for.
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Just relax and enjoy.
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Have you ever been with a woman before?
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You just have to learn.
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Round, firm, like a pumpkin.
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You can be a little rough with it.
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These, you have to be gentler,
soft like ripe peaches.
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You like peaches?
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Peaches.
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Make way.
Make way for Princess Akemi!
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Make way!
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Father, I know your wisdom
is beyond reproach.
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I submit to your will wholeheartedly.
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I would be remiss
if I didn't speak my mind about my future.
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Did you talk to him, Seki? Tell me!
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Uh...
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I am well, Akemi-sama.
Thank you for asking.
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Hm.
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00:25:47,958 --> 00:25:51,333
This morning, I made indelicate mention,
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and now he told me to fetch you.
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00:25:55,583 --> 00:25:59,750
When you speak to him,
remember to lilt your voice.
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00:25:59,833 --> 00:26:02,708
So, I should speak like a child.
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00:26:03,208 --> 00:26:08,583
Or like a woman
who intends to get what she wants.
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{\an8}Father, forgive my interrup...
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00:26:24,041 --> 00:26:27,875
Tomoe will make a great lord one day.
He does what he wants.
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00:26:30,333 --> 00:26:33,583
Right now, Tomoe wants a mess!
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00:26:33,666 --> 00:26:35,625
But you, my pearl,
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you have a different duty, no?
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To create alliances by being
a pleasing wife to a great man.
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00:26:43,791 --> 00:26:45,583
Now I'm told you believe
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00:26:45,666 --> 00:26:48,541
you have an opinion
on who you might want to marry.
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00:26:51,875 --> 00:26:55,500
Father, I know your wisdom
is beyond reproach,
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00:26:55,583 --> 00:26:58,750
and I submit to your will wholly,
but I would be remiss if...
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00:26:58,833 --> 00:27:01,958
Do you know what happens
when you feed a pig sweets?
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Of course you don't.
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00:27:03,708 --> 00:27:06,291
Your life has been robed in silk.
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00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:08,958
You've never seen the mud of the sty.
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00:27:09,041 --> 00:27:12,041
Your father wasn't a pig farmer like mine.
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00:27:12,541 --> 00:27:14,541
When a farmer
feeds his pig too many sweets,
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its teeth rot. Its gums fester.
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The infection goes to its brain,
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and it must be slaughtered
before it reaches full size.
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00:27:23,208 --> 00:27:26,791
The pig can't be blamed.
He's a pig and will eat all it can.
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The fault is with the farmer...
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00:27:30,791 --> 00:27:31,833
who knows better.
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00:27:32,833 --> 00:27:35,166
Am I a pig, Father?
223
00:27:35,666 --> 00:27:39,333
You want sugar
when there are proper options.
224
00:27:39,416 --> 00:27:42,458
More than a few lords
have taken notice of you and inquired.
225
00:27:42,541 --> 00:27:44,375
Ah! News came just this morning.
226
00:27:44,458 --> 00:27:48,083
Lord Saito's wife died in childbirth,
and he needs a new bride.
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00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:51,750
He's an old man!
And a drunk and a whoremonger!
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00:27:51,833 --> 00:27:54,583
Lord Saito earns 100,000 koku!
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00:27:55,583 --> 00:27:58,250
{\an8}Is that your price for me?
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00:28:01,291 --> 00:28:05,125
If I don't marry you off, you'll end up
in a brothel lying with him anyway.
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00:28:05,208 --> 00:28:09,083
So would you rather be
his wife or his whore?
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Father.
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I know your wisdom is beyond reproach,
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and I submit to your will wholeheartedly.
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I... I spoke from fear,
as these men live so far away,
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and I cannot imagine a life
without my father close.
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00:28:40,458 --> 00:28:43,291
Please, consider someone who lives near.
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Someone you trust to protect me
and the interests of our clan.
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My dove.
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I forget you are a simple girl.
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You know nothing of the world.
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00:28:57,375 --> 00:28:59,708
Perhaps I need a husband
who knows the toil of life
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and battle as you have.
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One who has seen the sty.
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00:29:05,125 --> 00:29:06,125
Hmm.
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00:29:06,833 --> 00:29:11,250
I do know of a fierce and undefeated
young samurai Seki told me of.
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00:29:11,333 --> 00:29:13,375
Ah, but Seki exaggerates.
248
00:29:14,291 --> 00:29:16,958
"Best swordsman
in the best school," he said.
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Won 24 duels with every opponent dead.
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00:29:21,041 --> 00:29:22,041
Not a noble family.
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00:29:22,125 --> 00:29:27,083
A fisherman's son from Kohama,
but his rise reminds me of my own.
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What was his name again?
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00:29:31,458 --> 00:29:33,625
Taigen, I believe.
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If his skills match his reputation,
he'll be offered a handsome salary.
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00:29:37,916 --> 00:29:40,666
Perhaps, even at the castle here,
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close to your father.
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00:29:43,791 --> 00:29:47,333
I only hope he's better than I am
at denying you sweets.
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00:30:09,041 --> 00:30:12,541
- One, two, three.
- One, two, three.
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00:30:12,625 --> 00:30:14,666
Gold? Wow. Uh.
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00:30:15,333 --> 00:30:18,625
That's too much. I only brought candy.
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Have I defeated the undefeatable Taigen?
262
00:30:25,541 --> 00:30:28,541
Think of it as an engagement gift.
263
00:30:30,416 --> 00:30:31,708
He said yes?
264
00:30:33,291 --> 00:30:35,958
He's sure? You're sure?
265
00:30:37,916 --> 00:30:42,583
The lord's daughter
marrying the son of a poor fisherman.
266
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,500
I'd marry you
if you were the son of a poor fish.
267
00:31:22,041 --> 00:31:25,208
No new students.
Find another school.
268
00:31:32,416 --> 00:31:33,500
I'm not a student.
269
00:31:33,583 --> 00:31:36,583
I bring a message
for the master of the Shindo Dojo.
270
00:31:41,250 --> 00:31:43,166
I must deliver it personally.
271
00:32:39,166 --> 00:32:41,041
You may leave any message with me.
272
00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:44,750
What must be said
must be said to the master directly.
273
00:32:45,541 --> 00:32:49,083
I assure you,
what is for the master is for me,
274
00:32:49,833 --> 00:32:54,041
as I assure you
the master does not meet with messengers.
275
00:32:56,541 --> 00:32:57,583
He will for me.
276
00:32:59,833 --> 00:33:02,458
You stand before the Shindo School.
277
00:33:03,833 --> 00:33:07,333
For 200 years,
we have taught here the Shindo-Ryu,
278
00:33:07,416 --> 00:33:10,208
secret methods
passed down from Priest Soto,
279
00:33:10,291 --> 00:33:14,875
taught to him on the peak of Mount Kurama
by the mystic Tengu themselves.
280
00:33:14,958 --> 00:33:17,041
Show your respect.
281
00:33:19,666 --> 00:33:21,500
I must insist.
282
00:33:24,083 --> 00:33:27,666
Escort him anywhere you please
that is far from here.
283
00:33:28,708 --> 00:33:30,541
Come on, blind beggar.
284
00:33:30,625 --> 00:33:34,041
You are bound by hospitality
to feed a traveler within your gates.
285
00:33:34,125 --> 00:33:36,500
I came very far. I'm very hungry.
286
00:33:37,166 --> 00:33:39,666
Or has the Shindo Dojo
done away with etiquette?
287
00:33:40,958 --> 00:33:41,958
Feed him.
288
00:33:42,708 --> 00:33:44,291
Then throw him out.
289
00:33:48,125 --> 00:33:49,125
Eat.
290
00:33:51,541 --> 00:33:52,416
And leave.
291
00:34:20,666 --> 00:34:22,166
Show me everything.
292
00:34:23,041 --> 00:34:27,416
To make the right sword, I must know
all that a samurai will do with it.
293
00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,291
All his techniques.
294
00:34:30,041 --> 00:34:32,875
But my Shindo-Ryu is secret.
295
00:34:33,541 --> 00:34:36,583
Every secret is revealed here.
296
00:35:01,250 --> 00:35:03,500
The sword is the soul of the samurai,
297
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,416
and so it must match the man.
298
00:35:07,125 --> 00:35:09,375
His blade should be rigid and thin.
299
00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:13,583
And gaudy.
300
00:35:15,666 --> 00:35:17,666
We fold the steel to blend it.
301
00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:22,250
We beat the blend
to remove the impurities.
302
00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:25,541
The more pure the steel...
303
00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:28,375
...the harder it is.
304
00:35:30,541 --> 00:35:33,125
But too pure, and it becomes brittle.
305
00:35:36,041 --> 00:35:38,916
We must leave something
of how God made it.
306
00:35:40,875 --> 00:35:42,916
I thought we must beat out impurity.
307
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,625
Yes, yet an impurity
in the right place is a quality.
308
00:35:47,208 --> 00:35:51,041
Soft steel in the center.
Hard steel for the edge.
309
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:01,916
These together...
310
00:36:03,750 --> 00:36:05,583
...and there can be greatness.
311
00:36:17,041 --> 00:36:18,041
Hmm.
312
00:36:24,750 --> 00:36:25,750
This is good.
313
00:36:26,583 --> 00:36:29,333
But it is not perfect.
314
00:36:34,166 --> 00:36:35,291
What is a sword?
315
00:36:36,416 --> 00:36:38,500
The soul of a samurai.
316
00:36:39,041 --> 00:36:41,666
It is a line.
317
00:36:42,833 --> 00:36:44,833
On one side of the line is life.
318
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000
The other,
319
00:36:47,958 --> 00:36:48,958
death.
320
00:36:49,916 --> 00:36:53,666
The edge we forge
cuts the line between life and death.
321
00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:00,625
Good enough for cooking.
322
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,250
Kitchen knives.
323
00:37:03,333 --> 00:37:06,208
Make a thousand kitchen knives.
324
00:37:07,333 --> 00:37:10,041
Then you may be ready to make a sword.
325
00:37:12,458 --> 00:37:15,083
A smith signs his name.
326
00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:42,916
All these years, how many fires?
327
00:37:51,333 --> 00:37:52,333
No.
328
00:37:53,083 --> 00:37:55,583
No man can tame this cursed metal.
329
00:37:57,750 --> 00:37:59,958
Perhaps it does not want to be a sword.
330
00:38:00,041 --> 00:38:04,583
All metal wants to be a sword.
331
00:38:22,083 --> 00:38:23,916
Oof.
332
00:38:25,333 --> 00:38:26,583
A sword?
333
00:38:27,416 --> 00:38:29,291
Are you stealing from me?
334
00:38:30,958 --> 00:38:32,416
I'm not stealing.
335
00:38:33,291 --> 00:38:35,875
I... am practicing.
336
00:38:36,958 --> 00:38:39,958
Why does a sword maker's apprentice
practice swordplay?
337
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
Because I must become a great swordsman.
338
00:38:51,416 --> 00:38:53,541
I must become
the greatest swordsman alive.
339
00:38:54,416 --> 00:38:55,750
Is that all?
340
00:38:57,458 --> 00:39:00,500
And why must you become such a swordsman?
341
00:39:04,833 --> 00:39:05,833
Forgive me.
342
00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:08,750
I've kept from you a secret.
343
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,958
One everyone else knows
as plain as my face, but you do not.
344
00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:16,708
I know you're ugly.
345
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,250
What is ugly to me?
346
00:39:20,083 --> 00:39:21,125
{\an8}You are blind
347
00:39:21,791 --> 00:39:24,250
{\an8}and so cannot see the shame of my face.
348
00:39:25,666 --> 00:39:26,666
{\an8}I am...
349
00:39:27,625 --> 00:39:29,791
{\an8}made of mixed metal.
350
00:39:31,958 --> 00:39:34,666
{\an8}No amount of hammering
can remove my impurity.
351
00:39:38,625 --> 00:39:41,916
At the time I was born,
there were four white men in all of Japan.
352
00:39:43,375 --> 00:39:46,416
Men who traded in
weapons and opium and flesh.
353
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,708
One of them took my mother
354
00:39:54,916 --> 00:39:56,041
and made of me...
355
00:40:01,458 --> 00:40:02,500
{\an8}a monster.
356
00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:06,125
{\an8}A creature of shame.
357
00:40:08,208 --> 00:40:09,666
{\an8}I do not know their names.
358
00:40:11,708 --> 00:40:13,041
{\an8}I do know their fate.
359
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:17,458
{\an8}They will all die by my hand.
I have vowed this.
360
00:40:23,208 --> 00:40:25,333
What have I taught you about steel?
361
00:40:27,083 --> 00:40:29,250
The strongest sword is a blend of steel.
362
00:40:30,541 --> 00:40:31,625
Soft and hard.
363
00:40:32,375 --> 00:40:34,041
Pure and impure.
364
00:40:35,208 --> 00:40:36,750
You may be something shameful.
365
00:40:38,166 --> 00:40:39,333
You may also be strong.
366
00:40:43,458 --> 00:40:45,041
You may train at nights.
367
00:41:53,333 --> 00:41:54,333
Hey.
368
00:41:54,708 --> 00:41:56,625
Come on, beggar boy. Move it.
369
00:41:57,208 --> 00:42:00,583
This will be much simpler
if you allow me to speak with your master.
370
00:42:00,666 --> 00:42:02,500
No one sees the master.
371
00:42:07,708 --> 00:42:11,416
I cannot leave here
until I speak to the master of this dojo.
372
00:42:14,625 --> 00:42:15,625
Oh, good.
373
00:42:18,166 --> 00:42:19,500
We get to kill you.
374
00:42:28,083 --> 00:42:29,250
Argh!
375
00:42:34,541 --> 00:42:36,000
How dare you?
376
00:42:36,083 --> 00:42:39,083
Be warned. You face my Shindo-Ryu.
377
00:42:39,583 --> 00:42:41,250
The problem with Shindo-Ryu is
378
00:42:41,875 --> 00:42:42,958
it's trash.
379
00:42:48,208 --> 00:42:49,208
Hyah!
380
00:42:56,041 --> 00:42:59,083
A poor technique.
381
00:43:00,541 --> 00:43:01,625
Easily learned.
382
00:43:03,125 --> 00:43:04,250
Easily defeated.
383
00:43:06,958 --> 00:43:07,958
Ugh!
384
00:43:14,041 --> 00:43:15,708
The Swallow's Return crumbles
385
00:43:15,791 --> 00:43:18,541
against the Fisherman's Net
of the Rogen-Ryu.
386
00:43:20,750 --> 00:43:23,125
Hyah! Hyah!
387
00:43:46,666 --> 00:43:48,833
Then you fight with Rogen-Ryu?
388
00:43:49,666 --> 00:43:50,666
No.
389
00:43:51,458 --> 00:43:52,458
It is also trash.
390
00:43:52,958 --> 00:43:55,333
What school are you?
391
00:43:55,416 --> 00:43:56,750
Your name and teacher!
392
00:43:56,833 --> 00:43:58,125
Announce yourself!
393
00:44:15,250 --> 00:44:16,416
Hyah!
394
00:44:39,416 --> 00:44:42,416
You defeat children and take a bow?
395
00:44:46,041 --> 00:44:49,083
Do I duel the mystic Tengu themselves?
396
00:44:49,166 --> 00:44:52,708
Put down that toy and draw your sword!
397
00:44:52,791 --> 00:44:55,500
But... then you'll die.
398
00:44:57,833 --> 00:45:00,791
- To Taigen!
- To Taigen!
399
00:45:00,875 --> 00:45:02,333
The lord's daughter.
400
00:45:02,416 --> 00:45:05,250
His beautiful daughter. Not even ugly.
401
00:45:05,333 --> 00:45:08,250
And head of castle security
with 5,000 koku.
402
00:45:08,333 --> 00:45:09,500
Who would have thought?
403
00:45:09,583 --> 00:45:11,916
Me.
404
00:45:12,750 --> 00:45:14,583
Taigen, come quick!
405
00:45:15,166 --> 00:45:16,375
We have a problem.
406
00:45:35,375 --> 00:45:39,166
Who dares challenge the Shindo Dojo?
407
00:45:39,250 --> 00:45:42,083
I'm afraid no one in this dojo
has offered much of a ch...
408
00:45:59,125 --> 00:46:01,166
You're from Kohama Village.
409
00:46:02,416 --> 00:46:03,458
Do I know you?
410
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:06,625
You've climbed some heights
411
00:46:07,708 --> 00:46:09,708
to be the prize of a miserable lot.
412
00:46:10,208 --> 00:46:13,875
Taigen has won 24 duels.
How many have you won?
413
00:46:16,708 --> 00:46:18,041
Should I have been counting?
414
00:46:19,333 --> 00:46:22,416
Kill the son of a bitch, Taigen.
Teach him to respect Shindo.
415
00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:27,333
I've come to speak with your master
and will go on my way once I have.
416
00:46:28,708 --> 00:46:31,416
You won't go anywhere
except in the funeral cart.
417
00:47:16,416 --> 00:47:19,083
With a naked blade, you'd be dead.
418
00:47:26,750 --> 00:47:28,375
You had a name for me.
419
00:47:30,958 --> 00:47:37,000
Taigen. You cannot allow that
to dishonor us or you.
420
00:47:37,750 --> 00:47:38,750
Kill him!
421
00:47:59,583 --> 00:48:01,916
Are you afraid to fight with steel?
422
00:48:02,916 --> 00:48:03,916
Thank you.
423
00:48:04,416 --> 00:48:06,416
No one has yet deserved my blade.
424
00:48:19,625 --> 00:48:21,708
You have a blade by Master Eiji?
425
00:49:50,375 --> 00:49:52,500
Death comes for everyone.
426
00:49:53,458 --> 00:49:54,458
For you,
427
00:49:55,916 --> 00:49:56,916
today.
428
00:50:57,500 --> 00:50:58,500
Stop!
429
00:51:09,708 --> 00:51:12,958
You are the master of this school?
430
00:51:14,791 --> 00:51:15,791
Hmm.
431
00:51:18,583 --> 00:51:20,666
Your students need better training.
432
00:51:22,125 --> 00:51:24,166
You have a message for me.
433
00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:27,583
A question.
434
00:51:29,875 --> 00:51:34,833
Where may I find your brother,
the black market merchant Heiji Shindo?
435
00:51:36,875 --> 00:51:40,708
You did all this to find my brother?
436
00:51:41,375 --> 00:51:42,375
Why?
437
00:51:46,750 --> 00:51:49,791
Heiji Shindo is in the fortress
on Tanabe Island,
438
00:51:49,875 --> 00:51:51,625
protected by the Genken Clan.
439
00:51:52,458 --> 00:51:54,458
Whatever business you have with him,
440
00:51:55,041 --> 00:51:56,958
you will never reach him.
441
00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:11,166
You're still a dog.
442
00:53:01,583 --> 00:53:03,500
Thank you for my ember.
443
00:54:06,625 --> 00:54:09,708
Forgive me
for giving your location, my brother.
444
00:54:10,250 --> 00:54:13,125
He was unstoppable.
445
00:54:14,458 --> 00:54:16,666
He defeated my every student.
446
00:54:17,166 --> 00:54:20,500
Hmm. Your students need better training.
447
00:54:20,583 --> 00:54:24,166
The samurai, he's not human.
448
00:54:24,750 --> 00:54:26,375
I saw its eyes.
449
00:54:37,750 --> 00:54:39,583
The Four Fangs.
450
00:54:42,750 --> 00:54:46,333
Send the Four Fangs after this samurai.
451
00:54:48,208 --> 00:54:50,166
Double their price and be done with it.
452
00:55:19,666 --> 00:55:22,166
It is time for me to begin my quest.
453
00:55:24,208 --> 00:55:27,666
Revenge is like gold. It does not rust.
454
00:55:28,333 --> 00:55:29,416
It will wait.
455
00:55:30,916 --> 00:55:31,916
I am ready.
456
00:55:32,500 --> 00:55:34,208
You will get yourself killed.
457
00:55:34,291 --> 00:55:35,500
I am ready.
458
00:55:37,291 --> 00:55:38,291
I am.
459
00:55:43,333 --> 00:55:45,291
I can never repay your kindness.
460
00:55:47,666 --> 00:55:50,125
When I told you my shame,
you did not disown me,
461
00:55:51,625 --> 00:55:53,833
even though I'm hideous to men's eyes.
462
00:55:55,208 --> 00:55:57,125
I have no eyes, so...
463
00:55:58,750 --> 00:56:00,208
I can accept you.
464
00:56:02,625 --> 00:56:04,291
I will always be grateful to you,
465
00:56:05,875 --> 00:56:06,958
Swordfather.
466
00:56:27,583 --> 00:56:29,541
{\an8}Before I leave, Swordfather...
467
00:56:31,958 --> 00:56:33,666
{\an8}there's something more I must confess.
468
00:56:33,750 --> 00:56:36,208
You have spoken enough nonsense today.
469
00:56:36,291 --> 00:56:38,125
We cannot part in a lie.
470
00:56:38,208 --> 00:56:40,041
That is your burden to keep.
471
00:56:40,125 --> 00:56:42,750
- I have made your swords unclean.
- Quiet!
472
00:56:44,208 --> 00:56:46,916
You came to me as a stupid lost boy.
473
00:56:48,541 --> 00:56:52,166
If you insist on leaving now,
it will be as a stupid lost man.
474
00:57:07,708 --> 00:57:08,958
If you must do this,
475
00:57:10,208 --> 00:57:11,458
take a sword.
476
00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:17,166
I already have one, Swordfather.
477
00:57:47,375 --> 00:57:48,666
Ah!
478
00:57:55,416 --> 00:57:56,416
Peaches.
479
00:58:05,291 --> 00:58:07,583
This season,
on Blue Eye Samurai...
480
00:58:07,666 --> 00:58:10,000
You have enemies now. Rich ones.
481
00:58:11,416 --> 00:58:13,333
All Kyoto is talking about
482
00:58:13,416 --> 00:58:16,291
the unnamed Samurai
who cut through Shindo Dojo.
483
00:58:17,666 --> 00:58:20,291
You will not find
what you seek at my side.
484
00:58:20,375 --> 00:58:23,333
I know why you don't want me around,
but you can trust me.
485
00:58:23,416 --> 00:58:26,041
I'd never, ever, ever, ever tell anyone
that you're a g...
486
00:58:27,208 --> 00:58:30,166
If I see you again, I will kill you.
487
00:58:30,250 --> 00:58:31,750
The cut is so clean.
488
00:58:33,291 --> 00:58:34,875
It's not so bad. We'll be married.
489
00:58:34,958 --> 00:58:37,500
Your father
will never allow it now.
490
00:58:37,583 --> 00:58:39,791
It wasn't even a duel.
Therefore, you never lost.
491
00:58:40,416 --> 00:58:42,083
He must have left a trail.
492
00:58:44,333 --> 00:58:46,958
You cost me my station and my honor.
493
00:58:47,041 --> 00:58:49,458
I'll have it all back
when I return with your corpse.
494
00:58:49,541 --> 00:58:51,500
I've been a captive my whole life.
495
00:58:51,583 --> 00:58:54,208
I won't be locked away
married to a stranger.
496
00:58:54,291 --> 00:58:56,166
I just have to find Taigen.
497
00:58:56,708 --> 00:58:58,625
I always dreamt of greatness.
498
00:58:58,708 --> 00:58:59,750
Ahh!
499
00:58:59,833 --> 00:59:01,583
You think you can be great?
500
00:59:03,583 --> 00:59:06,541
I've actually seen
what greatness looks like.
501
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,041
You don't want revenge.
502
00:59:10,666 --> 00:59:12,458
Revenge does not hesitate.
503
00:59:13,541 --> 00:59:15,583
There's something I need to tell you.
504
00:59:15,666 --> 00:59:18,041
Fowler's castle is impenetrable.
505
00:59:18,125 --> 00:59:19,833
Some problems you can't kill.
506
00:59:19,916 --> 00:59:21,208
An offer?
507
00:59:21,708 --> 00:59:23,458
You have murder in your eyes.
508
00:59:24,125 --> 00:59:25,416
He deserves to die.
509
00:59:26,166 --> 00:59:28,958
Ten years
I've waited for this moment.
510
00:59:29,625 --> 00:59:31,333
Your guns will be ready?
511
00:59:31,416 --> 00:59:33,208
They are all ready.
512
00:59:35,125 --> 00:59:37,875
I want to see all of you. Show me.
513
00:59:37,958 --> 00:59:39,416
Don't hold back.
514
00:59:40,708 --> 00:59:41,916
I'm on the path of revenge.
515
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,000
There's no place on it
for love or friendship.
516
00:59:45,083 --> 00:59:47,291
I have no interest in money or power.
517
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:49,875
I have no interest in being happy.
518
00:59:52,458 --> 00:59:53,958
Only satisfied.