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[Japanese theme music playing]

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BAKI-DOU: THE INVINCIBLE SAMURAI

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[lyrics in Japanese]

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[music fades]

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[tense music playing]

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[air whooshing]

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-[shocked murmuring]
-[man 1] Huh?

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What happened?

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Point-blank?
He slashed him at point-blank.

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I should've known.
He's good with close-range attacks.

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[narrator] The boy could feel it.

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He had been cut.
Of course, there was no physical wound.

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After all, he wasn't actually cut
by a real sword.

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And yet, all the same.

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[Doppo] There it is.

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[Shibukawa] As effective as ever.

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[narrator] No matter how hard
he may try to resist it,

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Baki was overwhelmed
by the feeling of being cut.

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Though he willed his mind to deny it,
his body simply could not ignore it.

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I enjoy close quarters as well.

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[Baki groans]

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-[bones crunching]
-[Baki moaning]

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[pained yelling]

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Looks like he's mastered it.

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-[pained groaning]
-[Musashi] Hmm.

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[Baki groans, gasps]

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-[sword slicing]
-[Musashi grunts]

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[air whooshing]

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[Baki grunts painfully]

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[gasps] A tackle?

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He'll hit him with anything!

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A battle is a battle.

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That's a move
we haven't seen Musashi use yet.

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He's at war.

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It's as if we plucked him
from the battlefield.

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Skirmishes like that aren't won
with just swords.

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Chopping, thrusting,
stabbing, choking, throwing.

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To hope that Musashi's diminished
without his sword

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is like wishing for a miracle.

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[Baki shuddering painfully]

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[dramatic music playing]

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[narrator] It is said
the brain emits a signal

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half a second before a choice is made.

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So if one can catch
their opponent's intention

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before they know it…

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The battle becomes
about suppressing an action

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before it can be started.

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[zinging]

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[air whooshing]

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[thwack]

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Oh… He's leading him on!

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[music fades]

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[boy] There was this time
where one of our classmates

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pulled out his chair as a joke.

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-He pulled it right out from under him.
-Huh?

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[boy] Yeah,
everyone understood right away.

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Huh? Oh.

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[boy] This guy just had to be training.

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CLASSMATE
HAJIME KUBOI

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Nah, I didn't say it out loud at the time,
but I was sure of it.

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This wasn't the first time either.
I'd noticed his strength before.

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Even compared to the big guys
in sports club. Baki has 'em all beat.

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-[dramatic music playing]
-[crowd murmuring]

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-He's so strong!
-How do you fight that?!

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He's on a whole different level!

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It's no wonder.
I likely would've fallen for the bait too.

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If the brain signals the intention
before they know it,

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then Baki should have been able
to stop his next move.

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But by the time that Baki got to him,
Musashi was already ahead.

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It's an intense mental battle.

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Each desperately trying
to outpace the other.

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I thought I'd understood it,
but this is something else entirely.

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Musashi isn't trying to outpace him.

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He's deliberately sending false signals
to bait him.

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One singular contact decided the match.

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An era where defeat meant certain death.

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For the trained practitioners
of that time,

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these skills of heightened perception
were probably taken for granted.

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[Gaia breathing nervously]

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Then he'll never win. How could he?

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-Is that what you think?
-Huh?

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[Shibukawa] He's facing
the real Musashi Miyamoto,

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a veritable god of war,

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revered by modern martial artists
all over the world.

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Is this where we'll see it?

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See the greatest masterpiece
of modern martial arts fall to defeat?

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[music fades]

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[Shibukawa] On the morning of the day
that Izo squared off against Musashi,

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I visited him at his residence.

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The conversation turned
to the topic of daily training volume,

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which is when Motobe decided
to drop this cheeky line.

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A few times a day,
my heart strays from martial arts.

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[Shibukawa] He's at his craft all day.

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Whether walking, standing,
sitting, or lying down.

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Which then made me wonder

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if I have that much love
for the martial arts.

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And what about my master, Mikoshiba?

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Or the founder of Aiki, Sokaku Takeda?

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Motobe, I'd like to know.
Where did you learn this discipline? Hmm?

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Let even my walking
be a form of martial arts.

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I once believed that I lived my life
by that precept, but…

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"But"?

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A certain someone flipped
my view of training on its head.

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It's someone
you're rather well acquainted with.

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It's Baki Hanma.

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-[intriguing music playing]
-Hm?

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He lives in it, in every moment.

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Whether he's striving or enduring,
he manages to make everything fun.

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He's at play.

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He spends all day playing around
with his martial arts.

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And that's his strength.

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That's what makes him unbeatable.

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No matter how much effort
one might put in,

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they'll never defeat someone
who enjoys it.

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Hey, boy!

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What do you hope to accomplish
by giving a samurai a sword?

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[dramatic music playing]

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I wanna copy you.

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What will copying me accomplish?

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I'll put us on even footing.

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Yes, but I can still cut,
even without a sword.

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But if I slaughter you
before you pull a blade,

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that wouldn't look good.

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[in unison] Did he say slaughter?

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Slaughter?

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Are you sure
you're not losing your mind, boy?

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Just who's gonna slaughter who?

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It ends here.
Time to say your goodbyes, Musashi.

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There will be a slaughter,
but I will be the one left standing.

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I'll continue to cut my way to the top.

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I'll slash, slash, slash my way up!

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And then I'll look down on this country
from the summit!

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[Baki] You're a liar.

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You can't cut your way to the top here,
and you know it.

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You've known it all along.

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Musashi, you don't belong here.

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[Motobe] The way he's holding it!

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[Tokugawa] That's Musashi's grip!

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-[man 1] He's throwing it?
-[man 2] That'll never work!

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[crowd gasping]

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-[man 3] He caught it with his bare hand!
-[man 4] Unbelievable!

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[Baki] You arrogant fool.
You played right into it.

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I knew you would catch it.

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And that when you did,
both of your hands would be occupied.

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[shocked gasping]

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Hello, again.

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Well, now.

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[music fades]

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[suspenseful music playing]

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[narrator] The boy couldn't help
but draw the comparison.

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The martial arts battles of the modern era
can be repeated numerous times.

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Whereas on the other hand,
during the age of the samurai,

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a match meant life or death.

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It's a simple inscrutable fact.

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There is no comparison in terms
of the severity of the consequences.

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There are no higher stakes
in a battle than death.

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That being said,
he also realized something else.

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Opponents might suffer
a ten-second knockout after a strike,

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or they might tap-out after a joint lock.

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Others pass out from being choked.

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Do you understand?

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In any of these outcomes,

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the winner holds the power
to grant or take life at will.

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Baki understood.

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Modern martial artists
are capable of taking life.

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But the practitioners have chosen
not to follow that path.

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All right, then.

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Yoo-hoo.

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Wakey, wakey.

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[shocked gasping]

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[crowd gasping]

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Musashi.

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It's time to end this.

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[dramatic music sting]

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I dropped both of them.

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Both swords left my hands.

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Things that can be held
can also be dropped. [chuckles]

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If you hadn't dropped them,
I'd probably be in pieces.

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And now you're trying to feed me modesty?

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Let's not put this off.

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Time to go back to the grave.

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Now.

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Back to the grave? By you?
And with that sword?

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You must be joking.

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[shocked gasping, murmuring]

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What? You don't think
I know how to use a sword?

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[chuckling]

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[shocked gasping]

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You're still an amateur,

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but you seem to understand
the basic concept well enough.

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Even an amateur can cut.

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Swords cut, and they slaughter.

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[Motobe] Is he going to cut him down?

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[gulps]

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Is he really gonna do it?

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Oh…

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[Musashi] You've seen it for yourself.

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You can drop a sword
like an iron club to a demon.

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It's a saying
that's meant to be reassuring.

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After all, the demon and the iron club
are separate entities.

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The demon can't always be wielding it.

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But a sword that can never be dropped?

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That's what I want,
a sword that I can never let go of.

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I can put up with loneliness,
but parting with a sword is misery.

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[shocked and confused murmuring]

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The swordless blade.

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He who fights barehanded.

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It's something you modern fighters
had already understood.

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Each of your bodies
has been forged into a weapon.

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And the body cannot be let go of.

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The way of the sword,
or rather, the way of the swordless blade.

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Where, in the end,

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the follower cannot recognize
the purpose of the original tool.

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[chuckles]

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That is the path I walk.

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[Baki] Well…

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Aah… [chuckles]

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Boy, this is awkward.

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I know you're still kinda at it.

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Like there's still more to learn,

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but do you mind doing it over there?

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Over there?

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[Baki] Yeah, you know,
like where you were before this.

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Where you were, you know,
drifting along or whatever.

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Not this world. That one.

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Okey-dokey, then.

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[dramatic music sting]

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Here I come.

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[air whooshing]

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-[Baki grunts]
-[blow landing]

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That was easier than I thought,
but then you do always catch it.

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[Musashi gasps]

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-[dramatic music sting]
-[Musashi grunts]

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[shocked gasping, murmuring]

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[Sabuko] Mm! Aaah!

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-[chanting Buddhist scripture]
-Who's that?

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-What the?
-With deepest reverence and respect,

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I bow before you
and declare my words in awe.

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[Sabuko] Hear my plea
and take now the soul of Musashi Miyamoto.

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Some old lady?

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May his spirit walk with you once more
as he returns to whence he came.

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To the great beyond.

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Through the power of my sacred vow,
may this humble request be fulfilled.

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I petition thee
with reverence and respect.

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So let it be done.

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[mysterious music playing]

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[rolling spit in mouth]

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[supernatural tinkling]

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-[man 1] Huh?!
-[man 2] Do you see that?!

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[crowd gasping]

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[man 3] He's dead?!

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METROPOLITAN POLICE
TOYOKAZU HINO

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And he wasn't defeated? He just died?

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00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,569
[officer] I'm as confused
by the report as you are.

255
00:15:03,652 --> 00:15:05,029
Our men on the inside…

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00:15:05,112 --> 00:15:06,322
DEPUTY INSPECTOR
HISASHI MABUCHI

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00:15:06,405 --> 00:15:09,325
…they all said that they witnessed
his soul leaving his body, sir.

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00:15:10,701 --> 00:15:14,330
His soul has left his body,
well, that's great.

259
00:15:14,413 --> 00:15:18,542
But now what am I supposed to do
with a thousand officers?!

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00:15:18,626 --> 00:15:20,336
[Mabuchi] Well, sir. I, uh…

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[officers murmuring]

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[shocked murmuring]

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[Baki] Sabuko.

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00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:36,769
Thank you for your help.

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00:15:36,852 --> 00:15:38,312
Too little, too late.

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00:15:38,395 --> 00:15:40,105
I was a reckless fool,

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calling the spirit of Musashi
into that body.

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00:15:43,943 --> 00:15:46,487
Then it became a reality,
and everything changed.

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Some things are destined to happen,
while others never occur at all.

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I should have been able
to conceive of the consequences.

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But there was little
that could convince me to stop.

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In the end,
we unleashed a ferocious monster

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00:16:00,209 --> 00:16:01,877
and set it loose on the city.

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00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:04,129
Somehow, I always knew it would happen,

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00:16:04,213 --> 00:16:06,382
but I could not cast aside my curiosity.

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[dramatic music sting]

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00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:12,262
Both I and this failure
have committed a grave sin.

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An act that deserves a thousand deaths.

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00:16:16,350 --> 00:16:20,771
If I'm honest, everyone was afraid of him,
but we expected a lot too.

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Couldn't help but feel provoked.

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00:16:23,816 --> 00:16:26,777
And then, of course,
there's that curiosity. We had to know.

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00:16:27,695 --> 00:16:29,905
See the power of his sword.

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Its sharpness.

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To challenge it.

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00:16:33,367 --> 00:16:36,787
So even for his bloody rampage,
in some way,

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we're all guilty.

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The nation took action
the only way it knew how,

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and Musashi had no choice
but to respond in his own way.

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[awed music playing]

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00:16:53,762 --> 00:16:55,431
[Tokugawa] To everyone present,

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this is no funeral procession.

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It's a glorious send-off,
celebrating history's greatest swordsman!

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00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:03,814
Don't bow your heads in prayer,

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00:17:03,897 --> 00:17:06,942
but lift them high in salute
to an honorable warrior

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and offer him a send-off
befitting of so fine a soldier.

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[siren wailing]

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00:17:18,537 --> 00:17:19,788
[machines beeping]

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00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:23,459
[Nonomura] Pulse, respiration
blood pressure, and body temperature.

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All within normal levels.

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And, as you can plainly see,
there is no trace of brainwave activity.

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[Tokugawa] So then, he's returned.

302
00:17:32,926 --> 00:17:36,096
Yes, that's right. Back to his time.

303
00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,099
Musashi has returned to where he belongs.

304
00:17:39,183 --> 00:17:42,102
Will the vessel survive, Nonomura?

305
00:17:42,186 --> 00:17:46,732
You have me on the job.
I've already devised a plan to stop time.

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00:17:47,566 --> 00:17:49,568
[uneasy music playing]

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00:17:55,574 --> 00:17:57,826
What is this stuff?

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It's pure liquid nitrogen.

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[Tokugawa] But isn't that usually
minus a hundred-something degrees?

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[Nonomura] Yes, but I'm keeping it stable
around zero degrees,

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but will begin lowering
the temperature gradually.

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0.5 degrees every six hours,
to be precise.

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00:18:11,715 --> 00:18:16,136
It should take six weeks to reach
the final temperature of -196 degrees

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using our ultra-slow cooling method.

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00:18:18,514 --> 00:18:22,017
[Tokugawa] But won't freezing the body
destroy all his cells?

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00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:24,686
We have the finest team
of scientists in the world.

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00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:27,523
We solved that problem two years ago.

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00:18:28,357 --> 00:18:30,651
You see the tube inserted in his mouth?

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00:18:30,734 --> 00:18:32,611
It hasn't been officially announced yet,

320
00:18:32,694 --> 00:18:35,364
but it's a new pharmaceutical agent
we've developed.

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00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:39,493
He's being fed a steady stream
at 0.9 milliliters a minute.

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00:18:39,576 --> 00:18:42,538
Slowly, the fluid makes its way
down his throat

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and is swallowed and ingested
through normal digestive processes.

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That drip becomes 20 liters

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as, over 15 days,
he'll consume 20,000 milliliters.

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00:18:50,879 --> 00:18:53,507
It is this method
that allows the preservation liquid

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to permeate the cell
even at the nano level.

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00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:59,555
Put simply,
it's like antifreeze for flesh.

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00:18:59,638 --> 00:19:03,559
Antifreeze? And it actually protects
the cells from frost?

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00:19:03,642 --> 00:19:07,563
In the name of science,
our team's work will never be complete.

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00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:11,066
[Tokugawa] Will that also keep the blood
from freezing too?

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[Nonomura] Do you see the tube
connected to his thigh?

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That's a direct conduit
to his aorta and vena cava.

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00:19:16,530 --> 00:19:19,575
Adding the fluid to his circulatory system
is also going smoothly.

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00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:23,537
In less than77 hours,
the antifreeze will fill all his vessels,

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00:19:23,620 --> 00:19:26,081
making the process complete
by early next week.

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00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:27,708
[Tokugawa] Mm.

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Thank you, Mr. Nonomura.

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00:19:30,252 --> 00:19:32,212
And thank you, everyone.

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00:19:32,296 --> 00:19:34,214
[scientists gasping]

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00:19:34,298 --> 00:19:36,258
Musashi may have broken our laws,

342
00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:38,969
but can the present really
bring charges against him?

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00:19:39,052 --> 00:19:40,971
These musings are irrelevant.

344
00:19:41,054 --> 00:19:43,223
How could you not preserve him?

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00:19:43,307 --> 00:19:45,851
Someone as scientifically valuable
as this?!

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00:19:45,934 --> 00:19:47,686
[Tokugawa gasping softly]

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00:19:47,769 --> 00:19:50,314
Musashi will remain!

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00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:53,192
[tense music playing]

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[all gasping]

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[Nonomura] We've employed
a liquid nitrogen preservation method.

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The process began five days ago.

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00:20:04,369 --> 00:20:07,956
The temperature's being lowered
at a rate of 2 degrees Celsius a day.

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00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,208
Now at day five,

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00:20:09,291 --> 00:20:11,919
the temperature of the liquid
is -10 degrees Celsius.

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00:20:12,002 --> 00:20:13,629
It'll take a total of five weeks

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00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:17,716
to reach the final temperature
of -196 degrees Celsius.

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00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:19,801
[confused gasping]

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00:20:24,806 --> 00:20:27,226
You all serve as witnesses.

359
00:20:27,809 --> 00:20:29,728
Musashi will remain.

360
00:20:29,811 --> 00:20:31,730
Why preserve him?

361
00:20:32,314 --> 00:20:35,484
Unless you intend to try
and bring him back again someday?

362
00:20:35,567 --> 00:20:36,610
Is that it?

363
00:20:36,693 --> 00:20:39,196
I don't think you get it, Kureha.

364
00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:42,699
So then he'll just stay preserved
like this forever?

365
00:20:43,492 --> 00:20:46,203
Does anyone assembled here
have a problem with that?

366
00:20:46,286 --> 00:20:49,456
It's not so much a problem
as it is a concern.

367
00:20:51,291 --> 00:20:55,170
Come on, Tokugawa.
You're the one who started all this.

368
00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:56,713
Just promise me

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00:20:56,797 --> 00:21:00,467
you're not keeping him
for ulterior motives.

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00:21:03,553 --> 00:21:05,973
Let me ask you this.

371
00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:09,101
Is the Musashi Miyamoto
here with us now alive?

372
00:21:09,184 --> 00:21:11,144
Of course he cannot be called alive.

373
00:21:11,228 --> 00:21:14,231
But then is he dead?
That is not entirely accurate either.

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00:21:14,815 --> 00:21:16,858
We've stopped the flow of time.

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00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:20,862
[Tokugawa] This is Musashi Miyamoto
in his most perfect form.

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00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:25,117
Could cremating him and interring him
even be considered proper rites?

377
00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:29,871
I'm not willing to accept that.

378
00:21:29,955 --> 00:21:34,126
Musashi has set out on a journey,
but he is always welcome to come back!

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00:21:34,209 --> 00:21:37,629
So I will look after his home,
should he return!

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00:21:40,215 --> 00:21:43,552
That is what it means
to offer sincere devotion to the departed.

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00:21:43,635 --> 00:21:46,305
Even if he never
crosses that threshold again,

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00:21:46,388 --> 00:21:48,515
his home will always be there for him.

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00:21:49,516 --> 00:21:52,102
The most powerful swordsman
the world has ever known

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deserves nothing less.

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00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:19,212
THE END

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00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:20,714
[music fades]

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00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,842
[Japanese theme music playing]

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00:23:47,592 --> 00:23:49,428
[music fades out]