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[serene music playing]

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Excuse me.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[flutes playing]

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[man 1] Faster, they're about to start!

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[man 2] Come on.
It's going to be a bloodbath. Hurry up.

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[indistinct chatter]

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A duel?

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[gasps] A death duel.

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[crowd cheering]

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[clicks sword]

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[wind whooshing]

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[ominous music playing]

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[music ends]

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[gasps]

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[sword clicks in place]

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[grunts]

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[crowd gasping]

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[crowd clapping]

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The Painter's Signature.

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Immaculate.

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[grunts]

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Should I find us an inn for the night?

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[Mizu] No. I need a brothel.

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Oh.

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[Ringo] Master.

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Master?

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You do know what they do in brothels?

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Master?

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[Mizu] Here.

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Welcome, sir. Welcome.

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We are pleased to have you
select us from options.

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Do you happen to have an appointment?

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Madame Kaji is the proprietor here.
I would like to see her.

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Madame Kaji's clients book months ahead.

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If you prefer older women,

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we cater to every taste.

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My taste is to be seen by Madame Kaji.

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[indistinct chatter]

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You can wait here.

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You do have money?

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Ah.

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Ringo, this will be some time.

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If you'd like to explore the harbor…

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An apprentice should stay with his master.

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[men laughing]

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[chuckles]

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-Mm.
-[man laughs]

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[prostitute] Oh, bad boy.

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Get back here. [chuckles]

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If that's to your liking,

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we have other mothers to keep you company.

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I asked for Madame Kaji.

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[sighs]

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[Madame Kaji] I bought your contracts.

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Gave each of you a place here.

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Do you think
you earned your place this week?

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Did you?

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Hands.

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[grunts]

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To be alive is to wake up
and do things you don't want to do,

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or don't bother waking up.

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[sighs]

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I like when you slap them.

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[grunts]

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Someone wants to see you.

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I said, "No, thank you," to company.

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The gentleman asked for me.

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Madame Kaji?

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I understand not one of my girls
caught the gentleman's interest.

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If it is boys he is after,
he need only ask.

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Many famous samurai
prefer the stamen to the pistil.

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Madam Kaji's tea house is known
for catering to peculiarities.

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Nothing desired is peculiar.

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Any woman can study woodcuts
and master the 12 and 20 positions.

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I offer what the rare heart hungers.

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[man laughs]

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[Ringo chuckles]

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Strong men come here
to be weak, uncentered.

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They make themselves fools.

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[Madame Kaji] I hope the gentleman
isn't one of those monkish samurai

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who cares only about the sword.

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Isn't it said,

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"To master the way of battle,

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one must become acquainted
with every art?"

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Sex? An art?

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Hmm.

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The gentleman was wise to seek me.

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Come.

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There is an art to sex, yes.

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Done correctly,
it may be a form of worship.

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The bud honors god by blooming.

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Some bloom to sun, some to rain.

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Look.

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What is it?

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A window. A mirror.

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Desire is beyond the need of my purpose.

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If you are only a sword,
are you even a man or a mere demon?

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"The Floating World."

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That's what they call
the pleasure quarters.

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Where one must travel to reach heaven.

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One can only ascend if willing to rise.

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To deny desire is to cut out
a corner of your own heart.

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To sever a limb
and still expect to fight true.

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He was honest with his desire.

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That is a swordsman
who knows the shape of his soul.

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Now, tell me what you want.

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Nothing desired is peculiar.

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If the gentleman cannot state his desire,

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perhaps he prefers to write it.

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How do you know that name?

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"Abijah Fowler."

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Peculiarities.

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Fowler's tastes are… loathsome.

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Curating his entertainment
requires a specialist.

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You have murder in your eyes.
I see your desire now.

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His castle allows no one in,

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but you've sent your prostitutes to him.

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You've been inside. You've seen him.

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Enough times to know you never want to.

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He's a man who began life
taking pleasure in others' pain.

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Boredom has only made him experimental.

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Some men's eyes say plainly
they've tasted human flesh.

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Raw.

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If you serviced him at his keep,
then there's a way inside.

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You will tell me where it is.

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Why would I help you kill my customer?

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Because he deserves to die.

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If you killed every man I've seen
who couldn't come till someone bled,

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you'd wear your blade to a stump.

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Hmm.

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The gentleman and I have no business.

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He is welcome to all the hospitality
my tea house provides.

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Perhaps in your visits,
you met Heiji Shindo?

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Perhaps he laid a hand on you.

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If it was his right hand,
consider yourself avenged.

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You provide services.

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So do I.

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Name your desire.

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Under the law,
revenge is a luxury for men like you.

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Women like me must be practical.

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We must focus on our result.

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That gambling house
belongs to Boss Hamata.

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Everything belongs to Boss Hamata.

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[man grunts]

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Him and his Thousand Claw army.

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[wind whooshing]

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[grunts, groans]

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Half of what we make is his.

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At times, he asks for more.

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Anyone who challenges him

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wakes to find a Thousand Claws there
to destroy everything they love.

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Six months ago, Boss Hamata took Kinuyo.

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I bought Kinuyo from her father,
who'd grown tired of abusing her.

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He knew nothing about his daughter
except that she was deaf and mute.

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He had no idea there was a world inside.

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In time, she grew to trust me.

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She told me she would rather die
than be touched by a man again.

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I promised she never would be.

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But Boss Hamata likes
to break delicate things,

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so he took her.

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[muffled scream]

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He took her from me.

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I promised her.

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There is only one way to spare Kinuyo.

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You want me to kill Boss Hamata.

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No.

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Her.

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They know my love for Kinuyo.

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If anything should happen
to Boss Hamata or her,

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a Thousand Claws will come to my door
and kill every soul in my care.

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It must look like an accident.

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It will.

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There can be no witnesses.

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I will be like smoke.

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Swear it.

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I swear.

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[wind whooshing]

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[Madame Kaji] Then I will tell you
what you want to know.

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You can rest here tonight until it's time.

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No eyes will watch you.

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Can I send you anything?

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Only privacy.

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Before you open the door to heaven,

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I want you to face Kinuyo
and make this sign.

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She will know you are there as my hand,

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and she will be at peace.

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[Madame Kaji whimpers]

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[Akemi] Ahem.

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Ringo?

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[Akemi] May I serve you?

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I said I don't want any company.

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[Akemi] Please. If you don't let me in,
Madame will beat me.

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-[theme music swelling]
-[liquid trickling]

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[floorboards creaking]

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[Akemi's father] Akemi?

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How many days have you been at prayer?

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Don't exhaust the gods with your requests.
Save something for when you need them.

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Hmm. Be angry with me all you want.
We're still going to Edo in two days.

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You need to be ready
to get married and to be married.

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If your mother was here, she would've
taught you what it is to be a wife.

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But to be clear, she was not ideal.
She talked back often, like you, but…

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she knew how to please me.

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The 12 and 20 positions.

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A wife should be familiar with the 12.

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The 20 are for professionals,

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but you're marrying
into the shogunate, so…

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[sighs]

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Akemi. At some point,
you have to talk to me.

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[whimpers]

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[tense music accelerates]

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-Where would she have gone?
-I have no idea.

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[horses snorting]

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Find my daughter!

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-[horses neighing]
-[hoofbeats receding]

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["Kushimoto Bushi" by Chiemi Eri playing]

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Never seen him. Husband?

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[Akemi] Let's go. This place is too cheap.

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It's Mihonoseki.

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You said you wanted to work here.

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Don't you wanna make more money on me?
We can do better.

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[Goro sighs]

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-[Akemi] We can do better.
-[Goro sighs]

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[wind whooshing]

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[children laughing]

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We can do better.

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[Goro sighs]

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[music ends]

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[horses neighing]

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-[Akemi] We need to go. Now.
-Okay, one more town.

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-This way. I know it.
-Huh?

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[hoofbeats approaching]

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No, no, no.
That's the long way around, by the coast!

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We'll have good luck this way.
I have a feeling.

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[hoofbeats receding]

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[Akemi sighs]

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Oh, Taigen, where are you?

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He will hit you with a fist.

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[Taigen grunts]

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He will hit you with a club.

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[Taigen grunts]

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He will hit you with… a hammer.

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-[tense music accelerates]
-[Taigen coughs]

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[Fowler] This is boring. [yawns]

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I'm bored.

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I like it.

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You will tell me
everything you know about Mizu.

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[inhales, coughs]

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There's a reason
I haven't been down here in a decade.

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I'm not waiting on you for supper.

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[door opens, closes]

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He humiliated you.

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He ruined your marriage
into the Tokunobu clan.

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Why suffer so much to protect an enemy?

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[chuckles]

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He deserves better than you.

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He will cut you with a knife.

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-[slicing]
-[Taigen grunts]

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[Taigen groans, echoing]

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I never asked them to build this.

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They just assumed
the white man required a chapel

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and put it by the dungeon.

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We're not friends.

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I haven't, uh, spoken to you in some time.

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Wouldn't do you
the dishonor of asking for a favor.

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But I believe
there's something I can do for you.

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They've been godless here
as long as they've been.

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You saw what they did
to your priests and faithful.

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Kicked out and crucified,
the Word dead in their mouths, unspread.

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Heathens, surely, these Japanese.

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Lucky for you,
their man in charge is greedy.

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I plan to cut
that shogun's head from his shoulders

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and reimagine
this nation more to my liking.

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Now, normal days, I'd imagine
you're indifferent to that outcome.

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Fair enough, fair play.
Same as me to yours.

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But I'll tell you this, though.
If this all goes my way,

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I will go ahead and take it for a sign

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that you tilted the wind to my back,

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and I will, in kind,

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build into my new station a pulpit.

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I will send for your priests
to bring them your Word

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and hand you a nation of souls.

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My thanks if you see fit.

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It's no matter to me either way.

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I've got no use for souls.

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Ah, this way, that way.
Nothing's good enough for her!

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Too wet, too dry, too smelly.
Why do I listen?

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Most girls open a mouth,
and I pour in a drop of this.

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[sighs] Blessed silence.

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They wake up in their new home,
and Goro counts his fortune.

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But for Akemi, only respect and restraint.

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Goro?

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Forgive me.
You know I'd be lost without you.

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What's a few more towns together?

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[man] Come on, it's almost time.

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[crowd cheering]

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Keep up!
I'm not missing the duel 'cause of you.

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I wanna see blood!

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-A duel?
-A skinny guy and a big guy.

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I bet five mon on the skinny one.
He's got a face like a demon.

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A demon!

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[children laughing]

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This is our town.

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Huh?

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[crowd gasping]

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Aww, we missed the blood.

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[grunts]

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[Akemi] Taigen. That's his scarf.

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Demon.

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I found our brothel.

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[laughs]

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Oh no, no, no, no. Not Madame Kaji's.

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You should be
with the courtesans. Elegance.

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They're known for peculiarities.

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Well.

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[door opens]

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[soft music playing]

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[music ends]

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Goro!

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No, no! Out! Out! Get out.

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[laughs] Oh what,
what kind of welcome is that?

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You're not welcome!
Not since you sold us that poxy puss.

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Madame Kaji won't even
look at a girl from you.

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Oh, she'll look at this one.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[laughing]

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[suspenseful music playing]

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[man] Ahem.

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[sighs]

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[Goro] Oh, she'll pay a fortune for you.

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I always wanted to be rich.
Can you imagine?

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[gasps] What do you think it feels like?

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[Akemi] Like never thinking
about how you're rich.

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Madame Kaji. May I--

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[Madame Kaji]
The last words I said to you, Goro?

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"Speak to me again,
and I'll stab your nose."

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If you could put off violence a moment,

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may I introduce Akemi?

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A revered courtesan from Gion.

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A castle topper if I ever saw one.

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Her feet alone--

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We already have a princess act.

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Oh, not like Akemi.

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Sings, dances, calligraphy, koto.

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Can debate the sutras
like Takuan the Monk.

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Not one of your usual wrung-out widows,
nighthawks, and tea steepers.

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Hmm.

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Your richest client's favorite position?

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Me, on top.

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Goro, one thing to credit you
is you are consistent.

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-Mm.
-You're an idiot every day of your life.

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You've been had.
She's no more courtesan than I'm a maiden.

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You're the real thing, aren't you?

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An actual princess bathed in milk.

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-Virgin.
-I--

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You've barely seen
two cocks your whole life.

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Hmm. But your inexperience
may be a beauty mark, not a wart…

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if you want to work.

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I do.

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I will.

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This is no fancy pleasure house

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with hours of dance
and witty conversation.

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What the geisha hopes to avoid

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at the end of the night
is how we start the day.

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I don't pretend
it is work any woman likes,

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but if you can survive it,
you will be safe in my care.

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Goro, 50 ryo for your virgin princess
if she performs to satisfaction tonight.

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A test.

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Come in the morning to collect

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your money or your girl.

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May the goddess Benzaiten
guide your hands and those feet.

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[door closes]

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Yes, girl. Just like that,
you've been bought and sold.

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Fast as a marriage.

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My name is Akemi.

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I'll bother to remember that
if you're still here tomorrow.

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Your first test, eat.

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Or be eaten.

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-[woman laughs]
-[indistinct chatter]

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This is Akemi, an actual highborn noble.

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More than just powder and priss, like Ise.

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Hmph.

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Right now, she's regretting
running away from her daddy's castle.

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Not at all.

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I'm eager to find a customer.

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Hmph.

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Here. One of Ise's old ones.

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It's torn, but if you drape it,
it hardly shows. [gasps]

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-Is that how they're wearing it now?
-It's the latest fashion in Kyoto.

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All of you,
finish preening and get out there.

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I counted four men still alone
with their pants on and purses tied.

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[sighs]

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[prostitute 1] I'm not taking
that blue-eyed freak.

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Why do I always get the ugly ones?

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[prostitute 2]
So far, he turned down everyone.

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[prostitute 1] Let him turn down me.

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[prostitute 3] And me.

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[Akemi] I'll take him.

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No one ever refuses me. May I, Madame?

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Isn't Watari the Walrus here tonight?

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On my first night, you made me
prove my skills under him for six hours.

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Cracked two ribs.

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He's gotten so fat,
he can't get it up anymore.

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I bet he'd give a big blubbery bonus

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if someone could make
his little seal bark again.

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[Madame Kaji] Hmm.

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Akemi will take Master Watari.

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You fail to make him rise and fall,

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you so much
as wrinkle your perfect nose at him,

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you wait in the cold for Goro.

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First, I'd much rather--

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There is no end
to that sentence that matters.

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[chuckles]

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[Madame Kaji] We'll be watching.

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[breathes deeply]

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[chuckles]

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Oh! You are uncommonly delicate.

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Take off your kimono.

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More sake?

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[chuckles]

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-[sighs]
-[Akemi gasps]

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You can drink so much.

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I bet you were a mighty warrior
in your day.

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[chuckles]

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Never won a fair fight.

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Come closer.

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If your sword isn't sharp, your wit is.

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I do enjoy the written arts.

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A fellow warrior of words. I knew it.

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Oh! You read?

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[Akemi] Of course.

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I used to sneak books
from my father's library

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and memorize
all the poetry my tutors forbade.

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[laughs] Really?
And who's your favorite poet?

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[Akemi] Oh, so many.

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Shotetsu. Minamoto no Shigeyuki.

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Oh, ah.

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My favorite is this poetess,

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Ono no Komachi.

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Her words light a fire
and fill me with smoke.

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Shall I recite?

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Mmm… [sighs]

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[Akemi] I yearn for you most

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-On this moonless night…
-[Watari chuckles]

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I lie awake

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Hot embers of passion in my breast

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Setting my heart aflame

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Oh. Oh-oh!

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Look who decided to join our party!

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Hello, old friend! I missed you.

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[chuckles]

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Do you enjoy renga?

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You know renga poetry too?

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[chuckles] What's a party without renga?

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You start with the haiku,
I answer with two lines.

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Your brushstroke. My brushstroke.

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Hmm. Ah!

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Drink streams from soft hand

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Its taste bitter on my tongue

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Soothing elixir

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From soft hands also streams milk

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Its taste sweet

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Warm to my breast

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Breasts like two full moons

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Illuminate the dark sea

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Envelop me with your light…

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Heavenly orbs you must drink from afar

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Or scorch your skin

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Show me your brushstroke

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[chuckles]

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[Watari] Fire cannot burn ice

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Its touch makes it a hot spring

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Sear me, I'll explode… [moans]

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No man can grasp the sunlight

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Only worship fleeting rays

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To the sun goddess

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I give

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Sweet

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Sweet…

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[groans, moans]

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Sweet nectar of your body

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A gift she declines

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One thing no man can resist.

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Himself.

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Still half the night left.
Any luck with blue eyes yet?

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Eh, he asked to be alone. Thank goodness.

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No one refuses me.

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[ominous music playing]

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May I serve you?

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[theme music playing]

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Your eyes!

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Whatever clever insult comes next
is not as clever as you think.

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[gasps] They're beautiful.

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A color I've never seen
outside the sea and sky.

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Huh. I see.

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Your Madame explained
how it's some essential part of the soul

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that draws men to brothels
when it's only naked flattery.

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Do men usually fall for this?

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The ones I've known. Yes.

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I thought it was tea.

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I don't drink.

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Madame thought
you might prefer sake to help you relax.

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Maybe just a sip.

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If you'll join me.
I have ugly business coming.

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[tense music playing]

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Suddenly, I'm glad for company.

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To flattery.

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[music fades]

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Hot.

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Where I'm from,
that's how the men prefer it.

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Kyoto.

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I've only been there once, recently.

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Beautiful, isn't it?

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Dirty and crowded.

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Full of puffed-up crows
posing as swordsmen.

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I beat the most ridiculous samurai there.

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If you can call him that.

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I cut off his chignon.
Then he came chasing after me,

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demanding a rematch,
saying I ruined his engagement.

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[sighs] I think he was angrier
about his hair than his marriage.

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[breathes deeply] What was his name?

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[Mizu] Hmm.

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I can't remember.

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Anyway. He's dead now.

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[gasps] What?

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Oh yeah. I killed him.

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[grunts]

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She's good.

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[both grunting]

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Let me go!

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Get off me!

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-You think I don't remember you?
-[Akemi grunts]

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Princess Akemi of the Tokunobu clan.

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You drugged my cup.

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I wish it was poison!

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[whimpers] Oh, Taigen.

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[Akemi sobs]

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Oh, shut up.

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I didn't kill him.

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I left him with his life
and a contract to fight.

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He's alive? Where is he?

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You came all this way
to save a doomed engagement?

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[sighs] Your father probably lined up
a nice young replacement lord to marry.

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The shogun's son.

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Women in our world
don't have a single good option.

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Except you.

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Like some magical forest creature,

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you could have anything you want,

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and then you beg to eat trash.

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-[suspenseful music plays, fades]
-[Akemi grunts]

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[sighs] You got a girl.

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A pretty girl.

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Wait. How does that work?

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She's not a girl. She's a princess.

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She's Taigen's princess,
and she tried to kill me.

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She screams, kill her.

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She moves, kill her.

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What? I can't kill her.

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What do you think an apprentice does?

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Do you have to stare?

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Sorry.

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-[wind whooshing]
-[tense music swelling]

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[Madame Kaji] Hamata's gambling house
is filled with his Thousand Claws.

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He never lets Kinuyo out of his sight.

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Only when the moxa doctor comes each dawn

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to treat the sores Hamata gave her.

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Even then,
his trusted bodyguard keeps watch.

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[clanks]

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[music ends]

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[action music playing]

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[music fades]

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[music continues]

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[footsteps approaching]

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[breathes deeply]

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[action music continues]

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[music fades]

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[bird flapping]

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[yawns]

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[grunts]

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[gasps]

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[gasps]

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I'll protect you.

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[footsteps approaching]

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[gentle music playing]

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[sighs]

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[cracks]

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[clanks]

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[shaky breaths]

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[gasps]

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[sighs] Run to the night watchman.
Tell him there's been a fight.

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Two people.

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You hear me, boy?

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To the gate. Go!

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[footsteps receding]

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You showed her the sign?

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What did she sign back?

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She understood.

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[whimpers]

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At the furthest point,
before rock becomes shore, is a well.

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A hundred paces north
is a door covered by tide.

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It leads to a tunnel under the sea

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into the belly of Fowler's castle.

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Sleep the day. Then go and die.

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-[wind whooshing]
-[whimpers]

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[Akemi] I should have just killed you.

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That was my mistake.
I wanted to meet you first.

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To see what power you have over Taigen
to send him running from me.

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Under your mask,
you're not the killer you pretend to be.

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-[sword swishing]
-[Akemi grunts]

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Just go.

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I thought you had to be something special.

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Your face isn't even so scary.

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You're just… angry.

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I see why he likes you.

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You're just like Taigen
when we were children.

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A fucking brat.

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You knew him?

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[women screaming]

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[whimpering]

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[tense music playing]

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Boy.

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[grunts]

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Kill everyone. Then burn it down.

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[music crescendos, ends]

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[closing theme music playing]