"The Divine Comedy of Ayashi" "Inferno Two" " The City of Dis" "Warden." "Warden!" "Over here!" "What's going on?" "Some kind of stomach pains." "He's not going to make it at this rate." "To the doctor, perhaps..." "Is this the holding ward?" "Please, send a messenger..." "Boss." "Too bad for you." "If you become terribly ill, you may be taken out of prison and transferred to the holding ward, which is overseen by vagrants." "There, you could make contact with the outside, so you resolved to risk your life and eat like a crazy man." "You are the convict boss?" "Yeah." "And the convict boss at this farmers' prison is a bit unusual." "This one has no trouble curing most ills." "After all, I am the greatest doctor of Western medicine in the country." "That's our boss!" "Best in all of Japan!" "What a refreshing story." "Tenpo Year 10" " Yataro Uchida Mathematica Society" "Tenpo Year 10" " Yataro Uchida Mathematica Society That Mitsugu Ogasawara and the rest that Torii took with him..." "That Mitsugu Ogasawara and the rest that Torii took with him..." "I hear all they did was watch Uchida and Okumura do surveying work." "Inspector Lord Torii of Kai must have lost face for that, then..." "And you are?" "Hozaburo Shiroyama, Master." "Shiroyama?" "Oh, Okumura's nephew, right?" "Yes." "Of course it's not good for Torii." "The authorities ordered that the coast be surveyed to position themselves against the encroachment of foreign ships." "And to have bungled the job..." "With this, the changing times cannot be stopped now." "The authorities have no choice but to acknowledge Uchida and Okumura." "However!" "The greatest of them all is their master, me, Choei Takano!" "Master..." "Choei Takano..." "What's this?" "You finally recognized me, Shiroyama?" "I thought you had passed away..." "After five years, I'm the convict boss, now." "Even now, I still maintain correspondence with Uchida." "You hadn't heard?" "What's wrong?" "You look pale." "Want me to take a look here?" "Oh-ho..." "Oh, that's right." "You got expelled, didn't you?" "Because you betrayed us." "Betrayed the master?" "!" "Is it true?" "!" "What might this be about, South Magistrate?" "Yesterday, a messenger arrived from Prison Magistrate Tatewaki Ishide." "Mitsugu Ogasawara's son, Hozaburo, who was being investigated while being held in detainment, has reportedly died due to illness." "Ogasawara has?" "!" "Ogasawara..." "Now, who was this again?" "Oh, as I recall, was it not the vassal who was arrested in the first month of this year for the crime of bringing harm to the fishermen of Tsukudashima?" "Put your minds at ease." "With this, even if Lord Mizuno is promoted once again, as rumored, there is no longer anyone who will bring up the issue of Ayashi." "It seems we made it in time somehow." "Yes, the Shogun is serious about making my elder brother a senior councilor again." "That Ogasawara died before that happened is..." "Where the hell do you think you're looking?" "!" "It's a lie!" "To prevent Lord Mizuno from exploiting any weaknesses, they want to claim they had nothing to do with the Ayashi..." "No, they want to say that there never was any such thing as the Ayashi." "That is likely how Atobe and Abe really feel." "Lord Ogasawara..." "Damn it!" "We should have rescued him somehow, after all!" "They're after us, too." "No, the truth is..." "It is I." "Genbatsu..." "We have a problem." "Saizo has run off." "Please!" "Let me claim his remains!" "There is no Ogasawara or other here!" "You're lying!" "I heard he passed away!" "Please!" "Let me see Lord Ogasawara!" "That's..." "What the hell?" "!" "Owowow!" "Run, Saizo." "Ryudo..." "Lord Ogasawara is alive." "What?" "Then..." "There will be trouble if they summon any officials right now." "Go!" "Yuki, I got you!" "Chief, chasing after us won't be of any merit to you." "I knew it..." "I knew you were alive!" "They were saying you'd all died and that the Ayashi never existed, but..." "Yeah, we're as good as ghosts now." "You're alive!" "Alive!" "Hey, are you still doing the Ayashi thing?" "Are you slaying monsters?" "Eh?" "Come on!" "These days, we're the monsters." "Yuki..." "Is the Shogun..." "Is the Shogun safe?" "!" "Tenpo Y ear 1 5, May Edo Castle burned to the ground." "Due to this blunder, Shogun Ieyoshi Tokugawa's distrust towards his senior councilors deepened and it became a certainty that Tadakuni Mizuno, who was relieved of his office in the previous year, would be reinstated as senior councilor." "What can I do?" ""Dispose of Youi"..." "It's called Ayashi or something, right?" "Your official duty?" "I am so very sorry!" "Like I told you, there's nothing for you to apologize about now." "Koseki!" "Damn it all!" "Koseki!" "Koseki!" "Why have you done this?" "!" "Takano..." "Burn that and run..." "What is that?" "The Christian tale of some child of God named Jesus." "I once heard he was translating it at the request of Watanabe." "Christian?" "!" "Torii and his men believe you are all involved in some plot, and are apprehending them one after another!" "If such a thing were to be found..." "Let's go." "Where to?" "The Magistrate's Office." "Who's on duty this month?" "North or South?" "Master Takano..." "What did Koseki or Watanabe ever do?" "All they did was lament the way of today's world, like me." "Commanding foreign ships be driven away, merely for approaching..." "There is something wrong with the current Shogunate!" "At this rate, not even in our wildest dreams will it be possible for us to go overseas." "I will openly and freely explain myself and let them see if I am guilty of any crimes!" "Aren't you coming?" "I must speak with my father and uncle..." "Of all people, I made the mistake of underestimating Torii." "He cooked up stories, mixing fact and fiction, and I ended up here." "Everyone else who got thrown in prison with me passed away." "They didn't even last half a year." "That must have been the fate that awaited me as well." "After things had worked out so well for you, too..." "Hozaburo." "Hanai is here to see you." "Also, someone named Lord Ogasawara." "Ogasawara?" "!" "Mitsugu Ogasawara, the Assistant Inspector?" "!" "The man who oversaw the crackdown on barbarian knowledge..." "I, too..." "I, too!" "Are we interrupting something?" "Lord Ogasawara says that he cannot bear to watch a youth such as you have his future destroyed merely for having studied Western learning." "Once this storm passes, an era will come when we need Western learning again." "And to that end, he would like to know if he might adopt you." "Having become the adopted son of Ogasawara, Torii's right-hand man, your future was all but secured." "And yet, you took command of these Ayashi and ended up being used by Atobe and Abe." "I do not think that my actions were mistaken." "Foolishness..." "Come here!" "Come here!" "Come over here!" "Beckoning to the Red Cat." "So, the Red Cat refers to fire..." "Beckoning to the sparks, like they're doing now, if the prison catches on fire, we'll be released on our own recognizance." "They let us out, so the prisoners do not burn to death." "Of course, we are made to promise that we will return, but we get to spend a couple days out in the city." "The Red Cat is also the name of a Youi." ""I want to go outside!" "Even if I have to start a fire!"" "When these wishes of theirs come together, it gives rise to a real fire monster." "It gets dangerous after a fire like we've got today." "Time for the Ayashi to get to work, eh?" "Boss..." "Saizo!" "Kyousai!" "Let me go!" "To the Boss!" "And what will you do there?" "That's..." "Saizo..." "The Boss has been declared dead and transferred to a prison for farmers." "Torii did all of this for us." "And will that keep him safe?" "Disease is said to run rampant in the great prison of Kodenmacho, and if you should come to the attention of some vicious inmates, they say you will be put to the fence and killed in no time." "But if we should go to rescue Ogasawara, everyone would only die in vain." "Ayashi are needless beings, who bring no benefit to anyone..." "You have been all but told that you cannot disappear fast enough." "Even if Ogasawara came back now, there would be nothing you could do." "Even so, I need the Boss!" "Did you have feelings for that young samurai?" "No, it's Yukiatsu that Saizo cares for." "You're wrong there." "It's Ogasawara that Saizo holds in her affections." "Besides, Yukiatsu's got Ouma." "Is that why you chose Ogasawara?" "En..." "Enough already!" "It is not for some frivolous reason, such as affection for another, that I determine how I live my life!" "You're a woman." "But also a man." "No, I am just Saizo." "I find meaning in my life by the fact that I am an Ayashi." "And I do not want to lose that." "The Magistrate will be coming tonight." "Torii will?" "A letter from Ogasawara, from within the prison." "So?" "Has he asked us for supplies or something?" "Apparently, a Youi may show up at the prison." "Let us go!" "Don't say that so simply." "What's the meaning of this?" "If we go to the prison and serve our duty as Ayashi, it's certain to cause a commotion." "Surely, you must not want that." "Not necessarily." "At the prison in Kodenmacho is a man who must under no circumstances be allowed to escape." "If a fire should break out, there is no telling what that man may do." "That's the Red Cat." "Numerous vagrants are hired to perform various chores," "like carrying out those who have died inside the prison." "The plan is to slip in disguised as one of those vagrants, correct?" "But there are some who know Ryudo from long ago, which may lead to a commotion." "Abi and Genbatsu would attract too much attention." "I am the only one who can do it." "The identifying characteristics of a vagrant are the tattoo and the fact that they do not have topknots." "How about giving this a little more thought?" "I am an Ayashi." "I will save the Boss!" "There is any number of ways for me to live." "But that would be merely staying alive." "A new vagrant assigned to this prison." "Named Eizo." "Saizo..." "Say, Shiroyama, as convict boss here, I can send him to run errands." "Give him orders, so he knows what to do." "Yukiatsu!" "I was hoping to simply let her be a woman somehow." "What are you saying, after everything we have been through?" "We cannot bear it if we do not have Youi flesh to eat." "We cannot possibly live normal lives." "Here are the sake and paper that you asked me to get." "Also, your change." "Keep it." "What of the Red Cat?" "I saw it twice again last night." "I feel as though it is growing larger." "What has the Boss said?" "He was saying that it might grow much, much larger." "Why?" "As hot as it is, Why?" "As hot as it is, everyone wants to get out, even for a short while." "If there should be a fire, will you be able to get outside?" "Yeah, it's called "being released on our own recognizance."" "That reminds me, I hear Mizuno has been reinstated as senior councilor?" "Yes." "Then neither Ogasawara nor I will have long to live." "We'll be finished off for sure this time." "Oh, no!" "No, you don't!" "What we want you to do is to extinguish the fire." "Not to set the fire." "It seems my dance has the power to do two things." "The ability to calm Youi." "And the ability to encourage and entice them to fight." "Grow!" "Burn everything down!" "Magistrate, fire in Kodenmacho!" "At this rate, that man..." "Choei Takano will be let out!" "It must not be." "That must not be permitted." "Come over here!" "Saizo!" "Where is she?" "!" "Tenpo Y ear 1 5, June 30th Kondenmacho Prison Compound Fire Breaks Out" "Choei Takano escapes from prison." "Ayakashi mukashi Mystic days of old" "Hana wa saiteta Flowers were blooming" "Yume no naka e hairi-komu Finding their way into dreams" "Tamashii no iro yo The colors of souls" "Akaku Turning red" "Aoku Turning blue" "Preview" "The mountain of the dead that towers at the far side of Hell." "Burdened with the seven deadly sins, people climb this mountain." "And the name of this mountain is Mount Purgatory." "Next Time Inferno Three" " Mou nt Purgatory" "Next Time Inferno Three" " Mount Purgatory The Divine Comedy of Ayashi." "Inferno Three." "Next Time Inferno Three" " Mount Purgatory"