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She didn't even
get angry with me.

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Most people, they attempt to accept
the fates that they cannot change

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and find a way to live on.

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I am no different from them!

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Was I not brought here against my will
for your pleasure?

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If you think you are the only one
who suffers and feels pain,

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you could not be more wrong!

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Oh, what have I done?

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I'm the one who childishly gave in
to anger and mistreated my liege.

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I didn't know, didn't want to know,

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that I had such dark emotions
festering inside of me.

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Uh... Excuse me, Master Arikoto?

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- Gyokuei.
- Uh-- Yes?

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You were behind the murder
of Waka-Murasaki, right?

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Sunami-dono really had
nothing to do with it, did he? Am I wrong?

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I do not know anything
about this, I swear!

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You shall die now by my hand!

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My liege!

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I beseech you to stop, my liege!

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Step aside, O-Man!

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No, I cannot do that.

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Out of my way!

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Our liege didn't dispose of him,
but in the end, Sunami-dono...

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I understand...

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I'm so sorry.

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I am the reason why you, too,
are stuck in this hell.

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Master Arikoto!

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Why won't you scold me already?

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I did something horrible.
I deserve punishment!

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I, with my very own hands,
killed Waka-Murasaki...

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I am also a murderer.

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I had suspected it was you at the time,

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but I kept my mouth shut
because I did not want you to be killed.

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If you are the one
that killed Waka-Murasaki,

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then I am responsible
for Sunami-dono committing seppuku.

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Besides, this isn't the first time
that I am responsible for a murder.

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Myokei, and that courtesan...
This is my third killing.

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And so, Gyokuei...

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there is absolutely no reason
for you to feel responsible.

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This is awful!

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I may have grown up covered in mud,

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but this kind of thing isn't meant
for a person like you!

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It's my fault. I wish that we had
never been brought to this horrible place.

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Gyokuei, you
You really do have such a kind soul.

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ŌTHE INNER CHAMBERS

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No, you don't have to kill him.

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I see.

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How about we punish him
a little bit instead?

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Huh?

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Hmm. Good idea...

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We'll gather all the Grooms as well,
and have them entertain us.

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Well, now, that's the spirit then.

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My liege never need worry and should only
think of joyful things from here on out.

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With that,
an over-robe was presented.

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What on Earth?

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This is a woman's kimono!

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You're saying
that Master Arikoto is to wear this

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and present himself in front of our liege?

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You will be required to wear makeup
and also don this hairpiece.

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And then you must present yourself
before our liege.

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A hairpiece...

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I didn't...

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I didn't choose to live my life like this,

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hiding away in the Ōoku,
spending my days dressed as a man!

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Master Arikoto, how are you
going to respond to this? It's laughable!

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- Of course I'll comply.

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Tell our liege
that I humbly accept the kimono

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and will present myself before her
in the manner in which she demands.

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What a great idea.
Don't you agree, Kasuga?

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Especially Sawamura Den'emon in the back.

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The look suits you.
The look suits you very well.

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Now, dance! Do it! Dance!

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Iyo!

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This is hilarious.

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Keep dancing! Yes! Keep dancing!

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More! More! Dance more!

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18, 19, 20.

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Hey, Mama. Did you watch?

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- I made it up to 20.

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Were you watching?

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Of course I was watching you.

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Chie, darling, you are talented
at everything you do.

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Huh?

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Waka-Murasaki.

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"Waka-Murasaki?"

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It's the name Lady Murasaki
from The Tale of Genji used

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when she was just a little girl herself.

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Hmph.

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And since she looked a lot like you
when she was young, my sweet Princess,

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I am sure you will grow up to be
just as beautiful as Lady Murasaki.

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You think so, Toyo?

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- I love you, Toyo!
- Oh!

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Oh, my sweet little Princess!

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- Hmm?

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- Huh?

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Chie, run!

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- Huh?

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Toyo!

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Oh!

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- The resemblance!

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Excuse me saying so, but those dark brows
and that mouth,

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you look just like your father.

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You truly are my liege,
the Shogun Lord Iemitsu's child.

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But who are you?

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My mama told me that my father is
a feudal lord in a faraway distant land.

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Now, let us leave this place together.

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Huh?

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What about Mama? Mama!

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- Was that Mama?
- Hurry, now.

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No! I heard her. It was her! Mama!

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Let go of me! Let go!

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I want Mama! I want Mama!

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I want Mama!

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- No! No!
- Please stop squirming. Be quiet.

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- Hold her down firmly, Den'emon.
- No! No!

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- I take the title Princess Chie from you.
- Please! No! Please!

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You are going to be your father's
replacement whether you want it or not.

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I don't want it! I don't want it!

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Somebody, please save me!

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Somebody...

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Hmph. Nyah!

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Serves you right anyway, Kasuga.

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If I can't leave the first wing,
what's the point of dressing like this?

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It's completely pointless
and it's also stupid.

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- Hey. Servant page.
- Huh?

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My, my, my... Who do you work for?

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You've got quite the pretty face there.

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Huh? Uh--

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I am pregnant with a child? It can't be.

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No, I don't want to give birth.
I don't want to give birth.

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I don't want to give birth!

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The baby won't latch onto my breast.

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Such a sad laughter she has.

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I had to fall into
the same bitter world as her

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to understand
what she's going through.

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How could I have said such harsh words
to such a frail soul?

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Her life must have knocked her down
time after time after time again.

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All of her adult life,
she has been ignored as a woman.

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- My liege. It is I, O-Man.

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Oh...

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Huh?

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What do you think of the look, my liege?

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I tried the hairpiece.
Does it look nice to you?

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You always ruin a party
when you show your face.

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Hey, everyone, I've had enough.

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- Begone. Begone now!
- Yes, my lord.

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Well, now, I can't believe it.

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You can hardly tell whether
he or our liege is the woman.

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- Shhh!

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Kasuga, you leave too.
I want everyone out right now!

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Yes, my lord.

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Especially you, O-Man.

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I'm ordering you
to back down this instant!

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Uh--

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Why are you still here?
I demand that you leave immediately!

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Stay back.

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Back! I said stay back!

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Up until just now,

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I had thought
that the reason I had been born

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was because
I was fated to become a monk.

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Step back!

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I wanted to help
as many of the people

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who are suffering in this world
as I could.

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I had lived my entire life
according to the belief

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that I had the ability to save them.

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But when I realized that the goal I had
set out for myself could not be achieved,

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I became... desperate.

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00:11:04,746 --> 00:11:07,249
I even tried to throw away my human soul.

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How shallow of me.

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Why don't you stop?

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00:11:11,545 --> 00:11:14,047
Why didn't I realize it before?

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There was only ever one person
that I had the ability to save.

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The only person
that I truly needed to save

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has been right in front of me
this whole time.

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Uh...

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The one person
who reaches out for me,

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who struggles in unbearable pain,
is right in front of my eyes.

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Uh... uh...

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Ari... koto...

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00:11:42,993 --> 00:11:46,496
No, my liege, use your name for me.
O-Man is fine.

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Please address me as "O-Man."

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ONE YEAR LATER

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Marvelous!

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00:12:01,136 --> 00:12:04,056
That was an exceptional shot, Sir Arikoto.

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00:12:07,809 --> 00:12:11,313
No, no.
There's no need for flattery, Kiyonari.

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00:12:11,396 --> 00:12:14,441
I humbly apologize for
being such a lazy apprentice.

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I started archery as it suited me better.

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I don't hurt people this way.

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- I'm only aiming for a mark.
- Nonsense.

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00:12:20,155 --> 00:12:22,741
You hit the target 28 times out
of 30 arrows.

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00:12:22,824 --> 00:12:25,577
I'm amazed at your incredible improvement.

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00:12:25,660 --> 00:12:28,080
Humble indeed.
You always downplay it,

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00:12:28,163 --> 00:12:30,874
but you have a decent sense
for swordsmanship, as well.

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I think you're aware of that.

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No. I can no longer compete
with Gyokuei in swordsmanship.

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It is possible
that he adapted to life in the Ōoku

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more quickly and deftly than I did.

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00:12:47,808 --> 00:12:50,602
I-- I give up!
Gyokuei, please stop. I give up.

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All right, break it up!

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- Incredible.
- Did you see that?

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- Who will be my next victim?

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00:12:57,192 --> 00:12:58,610
Huh? Who's next?

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00:12:58,693 --> 00:13:01,279
I could do this all day! Come on!
Who's it gonna be?

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00:13:01,363 --> 00:13:03,365
- I'll fight you!
- All right!

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00:13:05,951 --> 00:13:09,204
Gyokuei, how is it you're taller
every time I see you?

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00:13:09,287 --> 00:13:13,125
I know, right? Isuke from the kitchen says
I'm growing faster than a bamboo shoot.

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00:13:13,208 --> 00:13:14,501
Master Arikoto.

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00:13:15,085 --> 00:13:18,880
I would like to know the date and time
you plan on giving your next lecture.

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00:13:18,964 --> 00:13:23,135
Very kind of you to ask. I would not
call it something as grand as a lecture.

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00:13:23,218 --> 00:13:24,970
We talk Hundred Schools of Thought,

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Chinese poetry,
sometimes waka poems, and story tales.

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00:13:27,973 --> 00:13:30,267
We just discuss whatever we feel like.

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00:13:30,350 --> 00:13:35,063
Well sir, the time we spend listening to
your words while delving in deep thought...

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You don't understand
how much comfort it gives to us

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who live out our depressing lives
here in the Ōoku.

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00:13:40,402 --> 00:13:42,154
Don't laugh. I'm such a softie.

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00:13:42,737 --> 00:13:45,991
Originally, we were sent here to protect
our liege at Edo Castle,

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but there are no battles to prepare for,

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00:13:48,243 --> 00:13:50,579
and so our days can feel
long and drifting.

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Very well, then.

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00:13:53,165 --> 00:13:57,127
How about from now on,
on days with the number five, every month,

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I will hold a gathering in my room.

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00:13:59,254 --> 00:14:01,715
Thank you.
I will let everyone know the good news.

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00:14:01,798 --> 00:14:04,301
I apologize
if I have caused you any trouble.

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00:14:07,596 --> 00:14:09,973
- Uh-- I want to join that lecture too!
- Uh...

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00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,893
Oh, that would make me very happy.

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00:14:12,976 --> 00:14:16,605
But I remember you saying you weren't
very fond of studying, if I recall.

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00:14:16,688 --> 00:14:18,481
Well, it's frustrating for me.

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00:14:18,565 --> 00:14:21,067
But I don't want to be inferior
to anyone in the Ōoku.

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00:14:24,863 --> 00:14:27,908
Hey, why did you laugh just now? Why?

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00:14:27,991 --> 00:14:29,284
Master Arikoto!

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Here.

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00:14:33,163 --> 00:14:35,624
I believe that we should relocate
the Dutch commercial house

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to this small island right here.

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00:14:37,584 --> 00:14:38,710
Eh, Masakatsu?

236
00:14:39,294 --> 00:14:40,378
Uh--

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00:14:40,462 --> 00:14:44,507
Are you suggesting moving them
to Dejima island of Nagasaki, my liege?

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00:14:44,591 --> 00:14:47,427
Right. Additionally,
we will prohibit the same director

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from residing in Japan
for more than a single year.

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Uh, do you really think that the Dutch
will agree to such strict conditions?

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They will.

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Because years ago, our country banned
the arrival of Portuguese ships,

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and we generously granted our
exclusive trading rights to the Dutch.

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And so, to protect their interests,

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interests they have
worked hard to obtain up until now,

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the Dutch will have no choice
but to agree to our terms.

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My liege, that's...

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Interesting, isn't it?

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Our country will be placed, lock and key,
inside a birdcage, just like the Ōoku,

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and it won't be visible from
the outside world for generations to come.

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By moving the Dutch
commercial house to Dejima Island,

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Japan's national isolation
would be completed.

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Currently, how widespread
is red-face smallpox?

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Any chance
of it clearing up in the near future?

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My lord. Quite the contrary, I am afraid.

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People are saying it might be impossible

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for a family to have a boy
come of age at all anymore.

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Not only are the townspeople
and peasants affected,

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but feudal lords are losing
their successors,

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and many clans are
experiencing much difficulty as well.

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Ah! That is good news for us.

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- Uh--
- Ah! You're so slow!

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Many of the feudal lords
who are losing their successors

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are the same lords
who are a threat to the shogunate!

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We can use this chance to diminish
the power of those feudal lords

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and keep our hands completely clean!

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Even if they ever wish to adopt,

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they will not be able to do so
without the approval of the shogunate.

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All we need to do then
is refuse their wish.

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What do you think? The Tokugawa
shogunate's power is rock solid now!

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It turns out I'm better at politics
than you, Masakatsu!

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Uhh...

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Truly... truly, your keen intelligence

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is even comparable to the wits
of your late father.

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Of my father?

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Hearing that doesn't make me happy at all.

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But, my liege!
Your late father, Lord Iemitsu,

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was a truly honorable
and incredibly intelligent shogun.

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If you were a boy, I am sure
things would have gone differently...

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What?

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I have nothing to
complain about in this life.

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Huh?

283
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You and I are the same, as we are both
incredibly bored people here in the Ōoku.

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Though, I do feel that all of your stories
about life outside of Edo Castle

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are a good way to pass the time.

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Uh-- Oh.

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My liege.

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- Please excuse my interruption.

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- It is I, Arikoto.
- Arikoto!

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Yes.
I have only just arrived back.

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The two of them seem to be
getting along quite well now.

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I guess one can say that Master Arikoto
has grown into a strong, self-assured man.

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In fact, many of our best men in the Ōoku
look up to Master Arikoto as a mentor now.

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Moreover, our liege has changed very much.

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- She no longer has temper tantrums--
- That is not my concern! I do not care.

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What I care about is
that it has been a year

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since our liege summoned Arikoto
to her bedchamber,

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but she is not yet with child.

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Yes, I understand that, but...

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- That won't do at all!
- Uh--

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What do you think I went through
all this trouble for, anyway? Damn it!

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Huh ?

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THE CHRONICLE OF THE DYING DAY

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THE CHRONICLE OF THE DYING DAY