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[door banging]

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[Ringo] Hello?

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Hello in there!

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Please. You have to help us.

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I have dying people or--
Maybe they're already dead.

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I'm too scared to look,
but I'm trying to save them,

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even though I'm really mad at one of them.

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I think you know him.

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Please! I've been walking for days,
and bad guys are after us,

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and I don't know where else to go.

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[sighs]

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What do I do?

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[clanging, echoing]

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Mizu.

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Come inside.

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[mysterious music swelling]

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[music ends]

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-[Fowler] My cage. So many years.
-[waves crashing]

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[chuckles wryly] Took them forever
to build a proper jakes.

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Made the shogun unspeakably rich,
and all I had to do was hide.

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I spun so much gold in there.

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Fucked 10,000 times.

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I never want to see it again.

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Adieu!

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[dramatic music playing]

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[horse neighing]

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Our spring procession to Edo.

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You promised we wouldn't be bored.

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We won't be.

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Every night, a delicacy.

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I'm glad to see
you got your appetite back.

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You lost an arm, not your prick.

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Ha. We, uh, should send word
of when the weapons arrive.

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Our friends are nervous.

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Ah, let them be nervous.

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When they stop worrying,
they stop thinking they need us.

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But you do know when.

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[chuckles]

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Now, what's planned for tonight?

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[ambient music playing]

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[music ends]

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That is… something new.

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Pleasure as always,

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Madame Kaji.

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Always a pleasure to serve you.

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Safest travels to Edo.

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Heiji Shindo, you promised, you delivered.

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Every stop a surprise and a delight.

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I like to think
we gain strength from pleasure.

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But our army is nothing without guns.

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Ah, you worry like an old woman.

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I worry like someone about to go to war
with the entire shogunate.

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Ah, the guns will be smuggled in

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on fishing boats in two days.

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Clever.

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Our army will take the castle,

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and I'll personally execute

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the shogun and the entire Itoh Clan

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during the Council of Elders
at the Spring Matsuri.

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The lords can then choose.

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[pants] Die with him or bow to my puppet,

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who will take his orders from me!

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[Ise pants]

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[Fowler] I didn't say stop.

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[sighs]

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[breathes deeply]

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[Fowler grunts]

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[Shindo] The shipment comes in two days.

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Scour every port and fish yard.
Search every boat.

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Open every box.
Bribe any man at any price.

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We must get the guns before Fowler.

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Once you've secured them,
it will be my privilege to kill Fowler.

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"That man would be a plague on Japan.
There is no sharing power with him."

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Find those guns before they reach Edo.

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-Bring them to me. Now.
-[tense music accelerates, fades]

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[chirping]

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The convergence of your wedding
and the Spring Matsuri.

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The timing couldn't be more perfect
if I planned it myself.

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Ah!

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Every lord has brought us their finest.

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Find a smile.

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[chuckles] What can you possibly want
that isn't right here?

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I want to not be forced
to marry some horrible man I don't know.

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I want to leave Edo.

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[sighs]

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Daughter.

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When in your whole life
have you not gotten what you wanted?

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When you blackened my teeth.

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Just… trust me.

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[footsteps receding]

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[sighs deeply]

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[chirping]

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[twittering]

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[twittering continues]

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[chirps]

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Hello, friend.

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How long have you been in there?

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-[twittering, flapping]
-Hmm?

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Too long. It's spring outside.

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[theme music playing]

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-[clapping]
-[gasps]

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A bird that small, caught on the wing.

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I tell you, you were born to kill.

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Ugh! You saw something beautiful,
and your first thought was to kill it.

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You're as cruel as they say.

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You have nothing to say for yourself?

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[gasps]

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[regal music playing]

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[music fades]

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[woman 1] You are bold to speak
to the young master so plainly.

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[woman 2] Bold is unwise.

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A wife should be like tofu.

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Unnoticed, colorless,
and bland. [chuckles]

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He's as terrible as they say.
He won't even talk to me.

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Oh, the young master doesn't converse
with any woman. Lady Itoh's rule.

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His first wife wishes she followed it.

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-What happened to her?
-Oh, she went back to her family.

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In an urn.

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He is as ruthless in bed as in battle.

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Your fiancé's favorite position?

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With an obi around her neck.

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-[imitates choking]
-[both chuckling]

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[tense music playing]

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-Akemi! Heavens, child.
-[gasps]

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Get away from that window.

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This is your ambition now? Death?

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Is there another way out?

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It's the window or the knife.
Or wait for an obi. [sighs]

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Save your worries, Seki.
Sadly, I lack the courage.

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Go away.

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I don't need your advice
on marriage or love

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or whatever you think
you're an expert on today.

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Hmm.

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I've never understood a thing about love,

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or battle, or politics, or art,

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or anything I was supposed to.

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I was a miserable warrior.

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The only thing I have ever known
everything about is you.

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Here. A gift from me.

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[Akemi] A Go set?

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We stopped playing when I was 12.

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[Seki] Why?

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Because I beat you every time.

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Why?

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Because you learned.

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You're determined to resent me

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when what you resent
is being someone else's property.

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Women shouldn't be property.

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Well, they are.

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And tomorrow, you go
from your father's to Master Takayoshi's.

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[breathes deeply]

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I've always known this day would come.

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Since your mother died,

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I tried with the time I had

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to ready you for the world that is,

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not the world you'd have it be.

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Without your father knowing,

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often without you knowing.

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You think you sneaked into the library
to read all those years?

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Why do you think you wanted to?

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Know it or not,

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you are equipped
to do more than survive here…

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but succeed.

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Expand your territory.

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Find the vulnerabilities. Capture.

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Win.

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You learned.

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You can stop pretending to be my mother.

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After tomorrow,
I won't be your responsibility ever again.

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Blame me if you must.

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Hate me.

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I was no better a mother
than I was a warrior.

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I did enjoy the job more.

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[serene music playing]

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[grunts]

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[The Swordmaker] Hmm. Someone is awake.

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Tell me if Taigen ever wakes up.

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Thanks to your apprentice,
you did not die.

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Your soul is stubborn.

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I'm not Mizu's apprentice.

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Will Taigen live?

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Hmm. His soul is also stubborn.

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[Ringo] How can I help you today, Master?

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I washed your clothes. You probably
didn't know they were so dirty.

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They will look so much nicer now.
And white.

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Did you know they're actually white?

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The legendary Master Eiji
deserves clean white underwear.

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Especially if he's gonna train me.

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[The Swordmaker] Hmm.

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You can help me by providing silence.

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My dad loved silence too.

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[Taigen pants]

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You're alive.

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[grunts] Everything hurts.

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That's a good sign.

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[sniffing]

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Salt and fish guts.

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[gasps] Kohama?

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Near it.

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[chuckles]

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This is Master Eiji's forge.

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So this is where you disappeared to
all those years ago.

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This is where you trained.

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No one in town cared if I starved or died.

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He took me in.

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Rest. I'll be back.

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Wait. You have to let me thank you
for saving me.

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It's hard enough to admit you did.

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You don't owe me anything.

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-[theme music playing]
-[children laughing]

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[woman 1] Lady Itoh hoped
a ride would lighten Miss's mood.

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[woman 2] Look at the trees.

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It's as if they bloomed
especially for the wedding.

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Even the prostitutes
are working night and day.

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[both laughing]

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Stop! Stop here.

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[gasping]

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[grunts]

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-[dog barks in distance]
-[children laughing]

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[Akemi] You're a long way from home.

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Yes, Madame Kaji.

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It's me.
Or do I have to recite some renga?

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Akemi? [gasps]

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Akemi! You have wife teeth.

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Every paying customer in the country
is in Edo for the Spring Matsuri

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and some lavish royal wedding.

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We rented rooms
at a tea house here in the Yoshiwara.

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We worked the whole highway getting here.

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Fucked our way through
all 69 Stations of the Nakasendo.

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But why are you here?
And in the shogun's crest?

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Oh. The lavish royal wedding,
it seems, is… mine.

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Wait. That wedding is your wedding?

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She really is a real princess.

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[chuckles] Of course she is.
Bet she lives in a castle.

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I'm in a snare, surrounded by snakes.

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I will trade lives with you right now.

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We've been servicing
the road-weary crotches of every man here

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to pay obeisance to your new family.

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You need only service one, freshly washed.

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You don't understand.

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[Madame Kaji]
That he's a beast? He's weak.

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He's a man. All men are weak.

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The ones who act beastly are weakest.

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They penetrate women
and think that makes them powerful.

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Really, their pricks are fragile.

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Exposed. You saw it yourself.

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They want to be diapered,
spanked, and breastfed,

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then strut away
like they conquered an army.

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Nurture his weakness.

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Be his strength,

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and he'll worship you.

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I… don't know if I can.

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Stop running to and from men,

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and decide what you want
for your fucking self.

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I want to be in control of my life.

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Then take control of his,

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Princess.

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Poor thing.

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That white man is going to kill her
with the rest of them.

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I will not be a burden to you long.

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You had a place here once.

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I have no place until I've had my revenge.

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For that, I need my sword.

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[clanking, echoing]

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[Mizu] Can you fit them back together?

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No.

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Broken is broken.

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Then it must be remelted and reforged.

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Your sword broke
because the blend was wrong.

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It was perfect.

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It was too pure.

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Your metal
wants to be blended with new steel.

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Do you have steel for me?

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No.

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Then give me a sword.

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No.

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The fire in you rages beyond control.

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I'm not the child you once knew.

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[The Swordmaker] No.

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That child would see you and run.

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That child understood
the meaning of a sword,

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the line separating life and death.

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I have no steel for you.

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Then I will make my own.

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[grunts]

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[sighs]

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[various voices] Mizu!

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[wind whooshing]

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[window shutters slamming]

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[children laughing]

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[tense music accelerates, fades]

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[metal scraping]

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[gasps]

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[muffled] How'd you know I was here?

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Your tools you use in place of hands,

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who made them?

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Huh. Mm…

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I did.

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Why?

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To be useful.

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Is that all?

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I want to be a samurai.
I want to be great.

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[The Swordmaker] Hmm.

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Most people laugh when I tell them that.

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Is it funny?

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Samurai needs hands.

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Do they?

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As a swordmaker needs eyes?

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Your hands.

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An accident, or by birth?

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Birth.

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Your eyes?

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A fire.

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And now, fire listens to you.

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[The Swordmaker] Hmm.

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[pounding in distance]

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[grunts]

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[hissing]

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[clanking, echoing]

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[gasps]

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[grunts]

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You worked all night.
Thought you might be hungry.

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Old man Itagaki's famous fish dumplings.

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Only good thing about Kohama.

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I've never tried them before.

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Remember?
I was just a dog who ate gutter scraps.

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Your blade.

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The steel wouldn't form for me.

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So what?

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You have to go after

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that son-of-a-bitch Fowler
before it's too late.

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"The sword is the soul of the samurai."

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No, that's just what they tell
first-year students in the dojo.

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You're good. Maybe better than me.

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And no one is better than me.

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[chuckles]

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Look, the weapon doesn't matter.

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[grunts]

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You could beat him with a hammer.

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Here. Get up.

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Master Eiji won't like you moving things.

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[laughs]

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[Mizu] Ha-ha!

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Ah, I'm in way too much pain to spar.

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[chuckles]

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-[hammer clanks]
-[Taigen grunts]

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[Taigen chuckles]

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[both grunting]

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You think you can take me down twice?

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[both laughing]

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[both panting]

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Uh. Oh. Uh… I… I… I'm… I'm…

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I'm sorry.

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Don't be sorry, Taigen.

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-Taigen?
-[Taigen chuckles]

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Must be missing Akemi. [clears throat]

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There's something I need to tell you.

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You'll never see Akemi again.

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What?

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She's in Edo, marrying Takayoshi Itoh.

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How do you know this?

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I stood by
as the Tokunobu guards took her away.

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She came looking for me
to save your engagement.

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And you just let them take her?

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It was for her own good.

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[sighs] I have to go to Edo.

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No. It's too dangerous.
Fowler's plotting an attack on Edo Castle.

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What?

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I saw his plans.
He has an army armed with foreign rifles.

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He's smart. He'll move to strike
during the Council of Elders.

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You've known all this time.

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The shogun is in danger.
Akemi is in danger.

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What kind of samurai are you?

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I'm going to kill Fowler.

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Not for honor.

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For hate.

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You really are a demon.

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I'm going to Edo to warn the shogun,

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and then I'm going
to find you and kill you.

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[Shogun Itoh] The greatest gift
I ever received

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was from Lady Itoh, who gave me two sons.

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So that should I die,

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it would be
of no consequence to the nation,

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save the trouble
of a few prayers. [chuckles]

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It is with pleasure I offer a seat
to celebrate the union of my second son,

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Takayoshi Itoh,

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to the only daughter
of Lord Daichi Tokunobu.

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Each of you is here for your proven
devotion to the shogunate.

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May the bride
be as loyal as your clans are to me.

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[gasps]

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May her womb
be as fruitful as your fields.

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Mmm. Oh…

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My dear,

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your meal was prepared especially for you.

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Rabbit liver in a velouté of horse semen.

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For fertility.

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I do hope you can handle your duties

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as an Itoh wife.

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You'll find I can handle anything.

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Mmm.

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[Lady Itoh] Chilled fox brain for wisdom.

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A pottage from fetal pig's blood.

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For youth and vitality.

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This one was your husband's idea.

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[gasps]

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[Lady Itoh] Such a sweet boy.

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[breathes sharply]

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[tense music accelerates]

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[waves crashing]

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[The Swordmaker] So… everything crumbled.

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Your steel.

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Perhaps a demon cannot make steel.

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[The Swordmaker] Is that so?

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The world sees me
and sees a hateful monster.

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An onryō.

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My own mother saw it too…

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and could not love me.

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Maybe they're right.

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I did not train you to be a demon

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or a human.

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I showed you how to be an artist.

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To be an artist is to do one thing only.

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Look at me.

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Cannot fight, or weave, or farm.

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I make swords.

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I cook for strength to make good swords.

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I study the sutras
to cleanse my heart to make good swords.

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You think revenge is an art?

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Swords, pots, noodles, death.

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It is all the same to an artist.

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Then I'm a bad artist.

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[grunts]

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An artist gives all they have to the art,

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the whole.

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Your strengths and deficiencies,

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your loves and shames.

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Perhaps the people you collected.

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I made my best blades
when I had an apprentice.

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I thought I annoyed you.

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Both are true.

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There may be a demon in you,
but there is more.

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If you do not invite the whole,

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the demon takes two chairs,

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and your art will suffer.

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Then what do I do?

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I only know how to make swords.

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Each morning, I start a fire.

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And begin again.

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[theme music playing]

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[music fades]

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[woman 1] Like tofu ready to be devoured.

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[woman 2]
Master Takayoshi sent you a gift.

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[woman 1] Since you enjoyed
your dinner so much,

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he provided you breakfast and lunch.

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[chuckles]

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[grunting]

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Is it funny to torment me?
Kill my bird and make me eat it?

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Give me two more?

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Say something.

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Or is it beneath you to speak to me?

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[stammers] It was an… a… apology

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f… for my mother.

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[theme music playing]

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I see.

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Your gift was sincere.

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Can my husband forgive me
for striking him?

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My husband has no cause
for shame with his wife

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nor need he ever rush his reply.

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The most brilliant tutor
I ever had had a stammer.

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Lesser teachers laughed,

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but I knew it was because
his mind was so full of thoughts

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his mouth simply couldn't keep up.

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When he recited poetry,

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the words filled with meaning
and filled me with fire.

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I… always had a devastating crush on him.

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Again,

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can my husband forgive me
for striking him?

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Mm… Yes.

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Would my husband recite for me?

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[theme music playing]

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[Mizu] Ringo.

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[gasps]

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You know the Heart Sutra?

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"The body is emptiness,
and emptiness body."

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"All things are only empty."

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-"Nothing is born, nothing broken…"
-"Nothing is born, nothing broken…"

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There are some things I cannot do alone.

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[dramatic music playing]

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[panting]

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[moaning]

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I want to hear you.

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[Akemi] Go on.

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[Takayoshi] "If only for t… t… tonight."

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"Let us share this pillow."

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"For I have long traveled

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on the pathway of my dreams
to find reality."

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[Akemi moans]

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[both panting]

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[Akemi moans]

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[grunts]

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[both groaning]

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[moaning]

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[pants]

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[dramatic music ends]

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[Chiba] Searched every boat
and every cart on every coast.

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And found nothing.

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There are no Western guns in Japan.

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I fear your white man is a fraud,

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and you are on your way to your death.

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[door opens]

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[Fowler] Hmm. A letter?

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Just business.

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Finish your business.
I have something to show you.

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A shiny new toy.

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I asked for two condemned men.

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They sent four.

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It's nice to be respected.

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Go on then!

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Do your worst.

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My turn.

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Time to test our guns.

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[Shindo] Our guns?

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I don't understand. Where are they?

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They're right here.

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Of course, I had to modify the designs

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to get 2,000 rifles
from my country into yours without notice.

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My country's history is one
of manufactured suffering.

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I was a boy when the Tudors

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burned any food the rebels
under O'Neill might think to eat.

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We starved. Everyone starved.

36:18.670 --> 36:21.790
Mouths on the dead
stained green from chewing nettles.

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You get resourceful in a famine.

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My parents died early.

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Left me and my sister catching rats.

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The rats ran out quick.
Fed my sister on my blood.

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It kept her alive an extra two weeks.

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I didn't sleep for three days

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to protect her body from the starving
till the ground thawed.

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I cut out her kidneys and buried her.

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Fat cap on them like a pea.

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I haven't eaten a single meal
since my mind didn't go to that bite.

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It was the last thing I ever did
because I had to.

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I control my life now.

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Every bite.

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[ominous music playing]

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-[gunshots]
-[grunts]

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[Fowler] Master Chiba tried
to steal my delivery.

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I think he had a mind
to lead our coup without us.

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You want his thumbs?

37:45.210 --> 37:46.830
What about his soldiers?

37:46.920 --> 37:48.420
[Fowler] They're your soldiers now.

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Seems we lost our man on the inside.

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Seems you'll have to do
Chiba's job in the castle.

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Think you can manage?

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[music fades]

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[chimes, echoes]

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A sword from this steel could kill a god.

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You will make a blade from this
worthy of your purpose.

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No. You're right.

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I don't deserve a sword. Not yet.

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This steel is for you.

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I must go to Edo
and kill the man I am sworn to kill.

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If I succeed and am still alive,
I will return.

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And you can determine
if I am worthy of a sword of this metal

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made by your hand.

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[Ringo] Forgive me
for leaving, Master Eiji.

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I know you were excited to be my teacher,
maybe for years.

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[whispers] But Master needs me.

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Goodbye, Swordfather.

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Bye, Swordfather!

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Hmm.

39:39.170 --> 39:42.870
[Akemi] Take your belongings.
Your services are no longer required.

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Tell Lady Itoh
she can stop curating my meals

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and my company.

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But who will attend to you?

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[theme music playing]

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[Madame Kaji] The princess summoned us.

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This isn't a summons.

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It's a business proposition, Madame Kaji.

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I now have money of my own

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and would like
to buy out your ladies' contracts.

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All of them.

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-[gasping]
-Five times what each owes you.

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On what terms?

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[Akemi] No terms

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other than that each woman
considers herself free and free to go.

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I don't have to become a prostitute?

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You don't owe us.

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I don't.

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But it seems I've decided
what I want for my fucking self.

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Also, I find myself
in need of new attendants.

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Good pay, new clothes.
You'd have to live here though.

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[gasping]

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Here? In your palace?

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There is opportunity here.
But I have much to learn.

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I need friends I can trust.

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Friends experienced in the world.

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[gasping]

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[laughing]

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This is the best thing
that's ever happened to me.

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Oh my gosh. I cannot believe this.

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[cries softly]

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I meant it. If you don't want to stay…

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[Ise] I was awful to you,

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and you offer me this?

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Please. Akemi, please listen to me.

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You have to leave.

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You're in terrible danger here.

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[ominous music playing]

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[Akemi] Father, I didn't know what to do
but to come to you.

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Tell him what you told me. Go on.

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There's a plot against the shogunate.

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A white man is planning
to attack Edo Castle

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and kill Shogun Itoh and his whole family.

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Everyone inside the castle walls.

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He has an army, foreign guns,

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accomplices within the court.

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Did he say when?

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The lords' assembly.

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You have to leave now.

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[Daichi] Thank you.

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You may have saved us all,

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including my daughter.

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Who else knows this?

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No one.

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I cannot thank you enough.

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[Ise screams]

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[gasps]

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[gasps] Ise.

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I told you to trust me.

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You won't be married
to some horrible man for long.

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You're a member of the Itoh Clan now.

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The people will rally around you
when the shogun and his sons are gone,

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allowing their power to fall to me…

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[grunts]

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…shared with my new partners.

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Many will die.

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[gasps]

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You'll be safe here till it's over.

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Then… you can thank me.

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[music crescendos]

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[Akemi screaming] No!

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[closing theme music playing]