WEBVTT 01:37.190 --> 01:39.280 Now, where should I begin? 01:39.360 --> 01:40.760 Old man... 01:42.090 --> 01:44.260 I understand exactly what you want to know. 01:44.700 --> 01:47.170 Why is Shorty still fighting? 01:47.230 --> 01:49.930 Why did Mitsuomi kill Shin?! 01:50.770 --> 01:53.070 You heard a little bit from Natsume, right? 01:53.140 --> 01:54.070 Yeah... 01:55.310 --> 01:56.770 You, Shorty... 01:56.840 --> 01:58.710 ...Mitsuomi Takayanagi... 01:58.780 --> 02:00.970 ...and Shin Natsume... 02:02.350 --> 02:06.150 Just a little tidbit of the story of your past... 02:07.720 --> 02:10.380 But we heard none of the important details. 02:12.260 --> 02:14.890 Then I guess I'll start from where Shin got out of the hospital... 02:14.960 --> 02:18.050 ...and came back to school. 02:40.950 --> 02:41.720 It's Mr. Shin! 02:41.790 --> 02:42.980 Mr. Shin is back! 02:41.790 --> 02:42.980 Are you kidding me? 02:43.060 --> 02:44.920 No way! 02:43.060 --> 02:44.920 Damn it! 02:44.990 --> 02:46.620 Crap! 02:44.990 --> 02:46.620 Whoa! 02:50.830 --> 02:53.920 In the short time since I've seen them, they've all gotten roguish... 02:54.000 --> 02:59.670 Most of the Executive Council higher-ups were KATANA members... 02:59.740 --> 03:02.430 So now the student council activities have come to a standstill... 03:02.510 --> 03:04.340 The entire campus is a lawless state. 03:04.410 --> 03:06.610 Though that is fun in its own way. 03:06.680 --> 03:08.200 Damn both of you! 03:09.220 --> 03:13.150 I heard you two held a disbanding ceremony for KATANA last night! 03:13.220 --> 03:14.740 B-Bunshichi? 03:14.820 --> 03:16.250 You heartless bastards! 03:16.320 --> 03:18.980 Ouch! More importantly, you stink! 03:19.060 --> 03:19.850 Of course I do! 03:19.930 --> 03:23.490 I just did 50 squats over there, so I'm nice and toasty! 03:23.560 --> 03:25.790 What silly things are you up to?! 03:27.370 --> 03:29.300 Dammit, he's still got his cast on...! 03:30.400 --> 03:32.530 This is my armpit beam of anger... 03:33.640 --> 03:36.300 Take your time and eat it up! 03:36.380 --> 03:39.280 What? Natsume's back? 03:39.980 --> 03:41.470 That loser... 03:41.550 --> 03:45.540 He came all the way back here to serve under me, Kato... 03:45.620 --> 03:49.380 That's strange coming from a guy who got pummeled by the guy's sister. 03:51.060 --> 03:52.020 You're so right... 03:56.260 --> 03:58.360 To be at the top of this school... 03:58.430 --> 04:00.800 ...you just have to be the president of the Executive Council. 04:00.870 --> 04:03.030 And to do that you must fight in the Preliminaries... 04:03.100 --> 04:05.660 ...held between 5-member teams representing each club. 04:05.740 --> 04:07.670 The Preliminaries are coming up soon, but... 04:08.970 --> 04:11.170 Natsume can't possibly gather five talented people... 04:11.240 --> 04:15.080 ...so soon after the disbanding of KATANA... 04:15.150 --> 04:16.980 Oh, about that... 04:18.050 --> 04:21.750 I heard Mr. Natsume crushed KATANA... 04:21.820 --> 04:24.190 ...and created a new club. 04:25.930 --> 04:28.950 This time, I hear it's a martial arts club fair and square... 04:29.030 --> 04:30.590 What was the name again? 04:53.520 --> 04:54.350 Mitsuomi! 05:04.160 --> 05:06.630 I don't like painful club activities. 05:06.700 --> 05:09.220 My injuries haven't healed yet, either... 05:09.300 --> 05:10.000 Here. 05:14.710 --> 05:16.230 Only in name. 05:20.810 --> 05:23.940 We need two more people to enter the Preliminaries. 05:24.020 --> 05:25.450 Do you have any good leads? 05:25.520 --> 05:27.710 No... It doesn't matter who they are. 05:28.490 --> 05:31.750 There won't be any problems if the three of us make sure to win. 05:31.820 --> 05:34.950 You still have quite a lot of confidence, I see. 05:37.000 --> 05:39.970 Natsume, I don't care... 05:40.030 --> 05:42.500 ...whether or not you make a new club. 05:42.570 --> 05:43.830 But... 05:43.900 --> 05:48.100 ...this dojo is where the First and Second Karate Clubs practice... 05:48.170 --> 05:53.370 Let me hear about where you're going to put that sign up. 05:54.710 --> 05:56.910 Enough chatting, Iwao! 05:56.980 --> 05:59.850 If you think this sign is an eyesore, then take it away by force! 05:59.920 --> 06:03.510 In the meantime, I'm going to take over this dojo with my own force! 06:04.120 --> 06:05.350 Those were the rules here, right? 06:11.800 --> 06:13.890 I'd say there's around 40 or 50... 06:13.970 --> 06:15.870 A piece of cake for the three of us. 06:15.930 --> 06:18.700 Hey! I'll tell you right now, I've got nothing to do with this. 06:18.770 --> 06:21.210 If you two want to fight, you're on your own. 06:37.290 --> 06:38.650 I have nothing to do with this! 06:43.860 --> 06:48.930 Killer Super Dangerous Direct Armpit Stench Beam! 06:49.000 --> 06:51.440 S-So strong... 06:51.500 --> 06:53.660 Hey, join the fight, you guys in Second! 07:00.750 --> 07:03.080 We've secured a location. 07:03.150 --> 07:05.670 But it's a little too spacious forjust the three of us... 07:05.750 --> 07:09.880 I guess I could say I do have a lead on one more person... 07:22.430 --> 07:25.670 You've heard that Shin made a new club, right? 07:25.740 --> 07:27.070 Hey, would you like to join us? 07:27.140 --> 07:29.770 Sometime... in the past... 07:32.880 --> 07:38.320 ...I said that I never wanted to fight Shin, right? 07:38.380 --> 07:39.850 But now, if I can avoid fighting him... 07:39.920 --> 07:43.820 Even if I'm mocked, even if people look at me in disgust, I don't care. 07:43.890 --> 07:45.880 That was a lie. 07:45.960 --> 07:50.330 Actually, it's a battle that I long for more than anyone else does. 07:50.400 --> 07:53.020 My hands are still trembling... 07:53.100 --> 07:55.530 ...but not because of fear. 07:56.440 --> 07:58.460 They're trembling in anticipation. 07:58.540 --> 08:01.630 Right now, my heart is racing really fast... 08:01.710 --> 08:04.180 Hey, do you know how this feels? 08:05.510 --> 08:06.840 Come on... 08:06.910 --> 08:09.180 I know you're not asleep! 08:13.790 --> 08:17.220 Setup position eight. 08:17.290 --> 08:19.350 Ready, go! 08:27.900 --> 08:29.460 Mitsuomi is amazing... 08:29.540 --> 08:31.560 I've never seen anything like this before. 08:31.640 --> 08:34.130 The slump that he was in recently seems like one big joke. 08:34.870 --> 08:38.310 The true martial artist that can ward off any shadow, huh...? 08:39.040 --> 08:41.980 Our Takayanagi clan has mastered and seized control... 08:42.050 --> 08:44.480 ...of all types of martial arts from the ancient days. 08:44.550 --> 08:46.850 The final objective is to create the true martial artist... 08:46.920 --> 08:50.750 ...that can ward off any type of shadow. 08:56.800 --> 09:01.160 What is that old man planning to build... 09:01.230 --> 09:05.190 ...cramming bits of talent inside a sack in the shape of a human? 09:10.240 --> 09:14.200 Todo Academy's Imperial Martial Arts Contest... 09:25.120 --> 09:26.520 And so... 09:26.590 --> 09:29.030 ...for three days in the seventh month... 09:29.090 --> 09:31.430 ...we hold the Preliminaries for the Imperial Martial Arts Contest. 09:31.500 --> 09:34.620 This contest is the biggest event that we hold here on campus... 09:34.700 --> 09:36.330 ...and it doubles as the selection process... 09:36.400 --> 09:38.530 ...for Executive Council President and members. 09:38.600 --> 09:41.510 Those of you entering should focus and improve your skills... 09:41.570 --> 09:42.400 Um... 09:42.470 --> 09:44.410 ...can I say something? 09:44.480 --> 09:46.340 Those Preliminaries you talk of... 09:46.410 --> 09:49.850 ...are basically martial arts clubs going against one another, right? 09:49.920 --> 09:52.150 What happens if you're not in any of the clubs? 09:52.220 --> 09:53.380 What? 09:53.450 --> 09:54.980 Like me. 09:55.050 --> 09:57.280 I have no experience in any of the martial arts... 09:57.360 --> 10:01.220 ...but I think I'm the toughest one here when it comes to street fighting. 10:01.290 --> 10:02.060 Huh? 10:02.130 --> 10:04.690 This school is one where people with manners... 10:04.760 --> 10:07.490 ...intelligence, and good conduct gather. 10:07.570 --> 10:10.590 But sometimes we have scum like you mingling in. 10:10.670 --> 10:11.330 Huh? 10:11.400 --> 10:14.770 It's pathetic to see a crow making noise among a group of cranes... 10:14.840 --> 10:16.310 Don't you think? 10:30.190 --> 10:32.620 If you think you can rule over this school with a will so weak... 10:32.690 --> 10:36.790 ...that you fall to the ground after that, you can try, scum. 10:36.860 --> 10:40.420 That's right. As of today, your name will be Scum! 10:40.500 --> 10:42.020 Got that, Scum? 10:42.100 --> 10:45.040 Don't be so arrogant, Scum! 10:45.100 --> 10:47.540 What's wrong? Your back give out? 10:47.610 --> 10:49.730 Was there some giant or something? 10:52.680 --> 10:56.080 The Preliminaries for the Imperial Martial Arts Contest, huh...? 11:19.040 --> 11:21.100 What are you doing? 11:21.170 --> 11:23.610 Have you thought aboutjoining us? 11:23.680 --> 11:25.370 You pervert... 11:25.440 --> 11:29.850 Though, I think nothing of someone like you taking a look at my panties. 11:29.920 --> 11:31.850 Yeah. I've seen enough of them. 11:31.920 --> 11:33.980 It doesn't matter how many times you show up. 11:34.050 --> 11:36.850 I'm not one for club activities... 11:36.920 --> 11:40.860 Especially if it's a club that my older brother has created. 11:40.930 --> 11:42.890 Come on, I'm seriously asking you. 11:42.960 --> 11:44.790 Shin's image has never been worse... 11:44.860 --> 11:47.420 ...since the incident where the entire KATANA got wiped out. 11:47.500 --> 11:50.300 Everyone is scared of him, and I can't find anyone to join. 11:51.540 --> 11:52.500 Besides... 11:52.570 --> 11:56.100 You realize you deserve a small piece of the responsibility for all this... 11:58.480 --> 12:01.810 Well, not a small piece... pretty big, a lot, quite a bit! 12:05.950 --> 12:08.350 If you're gonna go that far, would you like to challenge me... 12:08.420 --> 12:10.080 ...like this school recommends? 12:10.160 --> 12:11.590 A fight over whether or not I join the club. 12:11.660 --> 12:12.920 I would love to. 12:32.210 --> 12:33.200 He's pretty good...! 12:33.910 --> 12:37.110 Oh, no! She's spent quite a bit of time playing this game!! 12:50.730 --> 12:51.750 You're too tricky! 12:51.830 --> 12:54.090 You looked like you never played this game in your life! 12:54.170 --> 12:55.390 Same goes for you! 12:55.470 --> 12:58.730 I thought you were never at school... So this is what you were doing!! 13:10.850 --> 13:12.750 L-Let's call it a draw. 13:16.090 --> 13:18.450 All right, next up, we're going to settle it with a sing-off! 13:18.520 --> 13:19.250 I... 13:19.320 --> 13:21.380 I would love to! 14:12.340 --> 14:14.870 Y-You're pretty good... 14:14.950 --> 14:16.170 You're not bad yourself... 14:16.250 --> 14:19.580 But at this rate, we'll never settle the score... 14:22.850 --> 14:27.260 We'll use this fortune capsule for the final showdown. 14:27.330 --> 14:28.790 Sure, I'd love to. 14:28.860 --> 14:31.390 If it's better than "moderate fortune", you win. 14:31.460 --> 14:33.360 If it's worse, I win. 14:33.430 --> 14:34.990 Is that all right? 14:37.070 --> 14:37.830 Yeah! 14:41.510 --> 14:42.360 I'm going to open it. 14:42.530 --> 14:43.410 Yeah... 14:55.490 --> 14:57.010 What's up with this?! 14:58.060 --> 14:59.550 Hey! 14:59.620 --> 15:01.350 We're splitting the bill! 15:01.430 --> 15:02.550 Pay up! 15:02.630 --> 15:04.060 Hey... Come on! 15:04.130 --> 15:06.030 You know, Mitsuomi... 15:08.970 --> 15:11.630 Have you ever killed a man? 15:13.740 --> 15:15.210 No... 15:15.270 --> 15:16.370 I haven't. 15:17.940 --> 15:20.540 That's to be expected. Neither have I. 15:20.610 --> 15:21.840 But someday... 15:21.910 --> 15:24.640 ...an opponent may end up dead. 15:24.720 --> 15:27.620 I have lots of fights that are that bad. 15:28.920 --> 15:31.120 My brother has. 15:31.190 --> 15:33.850 It wasn't that they died as a result of fighting... he killed them. 15:35.460 --> 15:37.120 Eight years ago... 15:37.200 --> 15:39.220 He was ten. 15:39.300 --> 15:41.130 I was eight. 15:43.470 --> 15:45.630 Brother! Brother! 15:45.700 --> 15:47.700 Don't come here, Maya! It's dangerous! 15:47.770 --> 15:49.100 This much doesn't bother me! 15:49.170 --> 15:51.800 I'm the child of martial artists, after all! 15:51.880 --> 15:54.340 See? I got this from Father. 15:54.410 --> 15:55.500 Oh, that's amazing. 15:57.320 --> 15:58.810 Look, but don't touch. 15:58.880 --> 16:02.220 Father gave me strict orders... 16:02.290 --> 16:05.220 ...that I can't let anyone else touch this katana. 16:06.120 --> 16:07.090 Why? 16:08.030 --> 16:09.520 I don't know exactly... 16:09.590 --> 16:13.960 But both Father and Mother said that no one can touch this katana. 16:14.030 --> 16:14.830 I see... 16:15.530 --> 16:19.560 You're so lucky, Maya, for getting a sword that great. 16:23.640 --> 16:27.370 But if you beg me that you just have to, Brother... 16:27.450 --> 16:30.140 ...I'll let you touch it a little bit. 16:37.160 --> 16:39.450 W-Why, Father? 16:39.520 --> 16:41.920 Why are you locking Brother up?! 16:44.630 --> 16:45.650 Brother! 16:45.730 --> 16:46.690 Sir Kaima... 16:46.660 --> 16:47.250 Brother! 16:47.100 --> 16:49.400 My foolish son... 16:49.470 --> 16:52.870 There is no way he can wield something so enormous... 16:52.940 --> 16:54.670 ...with such a frail, weak power. 16:54.740 --> 16:57.260 If the Twelve Clans find out about this... 16:57.340 --> 17:01.210 ...it will cause much trouble not only for him, but our entire family. 17:01.280 --> 17:03.580 For now, don't let anyone near here... 17:03.650 --> 17:06.340 ...especially Aya. 17:12.960 --> 17:13.790 Brother. 17:13.860 --> 17:17.060 I brought you your favorite rice crackers, Brother. 17:17.660 --> 17:18.560 Brother...? 17:21.970 --> 17:24.490 Where?! Where the hell... 17:24.570 --> 17:26.630 I'm right here... 17:26.710 --> 17:30.140 Where... Where the hell am I...? 17:30.210 --> 17:32.700 There are people here... lots of them... 17:32.780 --> 17:34.610 Even our dead grandma is here... 17:35.250 --> 17:36.740 Cats, dogs... 17:36.820 --> 17:38.780 The sky and the sea... 17:39.420 --> 17:42.250 Everything is right here... 17:43.390 --> 17:46.450 The Dragon Eye is a master of heaven and earth. 17:46.520 --> 17:49.460 By accessing every form of chi... 17:49.530 --> 17:50.860 ...it reads into the past... 17:50.930 --> 17:53.400 ...and possesses the power to see the goings-on... 17:53.470 --> 17:55.560 ...of lands thousands of miles away as they happen. 17:59.040 --> 18:01.010 In other words... 18:01.070 --> 18:03.440 ...it was like being thrown out into the vast... 18:03.510 --> 18:06.200 ...unending sea of unconsciousness all alone. 18:09.510 --> 18:12.420 That was not something that the body and spirit... 18:12.480 --> 18:15.040 ...of a 10-year-old boy could handle. 18:15.120 --> 18:17.050 Everything is right here... 18:17.120 --> 18:19.920 But nobody looks at me at all... 18:20.830 --> 18:22.950 Nobody realizes I'm here... 18:23.030 --> 18:24.390 It's as if... 18:24.460 --> 18:27.360 ...I turned invisible or something... 18:28.030 --> 18:30.970 I'm in the shadows... 18:32.540 --> 18:34.270 It's all right, Brother... 18:34.340 --> 18:36.710 You are right here. 18:42.150 --> 18:45.450 I am holding on to you like this. 18:47.850 --> 18:49.010 And so... 18:49.090 --> 18:51.520 ...hoping to send him to the old clan living up in the Tohoku area... 18:51.590 --> 18:54.180 ...in order to escape the vigilant eyes of the Twelve Clans... 18:54.260 --> 18:56.490 ...Father let him out of the dungeon. 18:56.560 --> 18:58.190 And that night... 19:03.570 --> 19:05.040 Brother... 19:05.100 --> 19:09.040 Brother, Father and Mother... 19:11.180 --> 19:12.670 T-They're dead... 19:18.150 --> 19:19.380 Maya... 19:19.450 --> 19:22.250 ...we'll be together always from this day on. 19:29.430 --> 19:32.120 There was nothing left inside my brother... 19:32.200 --> 19:34.890 Nothing more than the power hidden within him. 19:37.570 --> 19:40.970 My brother had been burned by the powers... 19:41.940 --> 19:43.970 ...by the weakness of his own soul. 19:52.750 --> 19:56.950 It scares me to become stronger. 19:58.660 --> 20:01.780 But... you're also afraid of standing still, right? 20:01.860 --> 20:03.730 I'm going to go. 20:03.800 --> 20:07.730 It's scarier to lose sight of him... 20:08.570 --> 20:11.730 So I'm going to carry on my back what you've been carrying for so long... 20:11.800 --> 20:13.700 ...and chase after him. 20:15.770 --> 20:17.300 You're not alone anymore... 20:18.740 --> 20:21.440 There you go, rattling away cheap lines that make my nose twitch... 20:31.960 --> 20:33.290 Idiot. 20:40.730 --> 20:43.670 And so, with the Preliminaries coming next week... 20:43.740 --> 20:47.540 ...we need to augment our membership as soon as possible... 20:48.570 --> 20:52.170 Mitsuomi, you said you had a lead? 20:52.810 --> 20:55.240 It was no good after all. 20:55.310 --> 20:56.970 I see... 20:57.050 --> 20:59.780 I haven't looked. Never did. 21:01.950 --> 21:03.080 Damn you! 21:04.120 --> 21:05.780 Hurry up and go look, fool! 21:05.860 --> 21:09.420 Dammit, just be grateful I'm a member of the club! 21:11.260 --> 21:15.160 I brought Scum from our class as a souvenir. 21:15.230 --> 21:18.330 I brought him here because he mentioned something... 21:18.400 --> 21:20.370 ...about wanting to be in the Preliminaries. 21:20.440 --> 21:22.670 N-Nice to meet you. 21:26.610 --> 21:28.310 For now... 21:28.380 --> 21:30.470 ...I'll join the club, but our bet's still on. 21:33.150 --> 21:35.350 Our relationship is not so flimsy... 21:35.420 --> 21:38.050 ...that one fortune can settle everything, right? 23:14.590 --> 23:16.410 Light and Shadow... 23:16.490 --> 23:19.890 Throwing yourself before the flames that will burn you up. 23:19.960 --> 23:22.950 Next episode of Tenjho Tenge, "Stratagem". 23:23.030 --> 23:26.300 Brother, change the fate surrounding you!