"There were people who loathed one other." "their souls soaked in blood..." "And their bonds were broken by blades... their sincerity walls... please die... please die..." "Clouds shroud a night with a waning moon quivering in the haze" "A cruel trap involving a pair of crucified fledglings since smoldering feelings lie firmly in their hearts destruction!" "severely as a flower pierce with a trembling blade" "Even when I shut the fated tears deep within my eyes my eyelids still remember you" "Fleeting Visions and Fantasies" "it should be Tokugawa." "Loathe the retired shogun in Sunpu..." "Loathe the world's greatest succession war..." "And curse yourself for being born a Kouga!" "Gennosuke-sama!" "It has been a long time... this day has come..." "Hyoma..." "Gennosuke-sama..." "Gennosuke-sama..." "Gennosuke-sama!" "Ge" "Gennosuke..." "Gennosuke-sama?" "!" "Oboro-dono..." "Yes..." "A sword..." "Do you have one?" "What?" "!" "Oboro is gone?" "!" "You heard people fighting?" "!" "Then what are you sitting there trembling for?" "!" "What if the worst has happened?" "!" "No..." "I do not have one..." "Oboro-dono." "I must slay you." "And you must slay me." "You may be able to." "My eyes have been sealed shut." "have been blinded..." "By an Iga?" "!" "No." "I sealed my own eyes shut..." "I did not want to see the war with the Manjidani clan..." "Oboro-dono..." "Gennosuke-sama..." "Please kill me..." "Before these eyes open..." "Oboro-dono..." "Yes..." "I am the only Kouga left." "And I am the only Iga left..." "Oboro!" "Gennosuke-sama..." "Why?" "Kagero!" "Why won't you slay Oboro?" "!" "The Kouga..." "Manjidani..." "And even me..." "Do you intend to betray us all?" "!" "Kagero..." "She lied to you and framed you!" "She's Tsubagakure's" "I know." "Then you must hurry and" "Gennosuke..." "Let us go..." "There is no safe refuge anywhere..." "for either of us..." "Gennosuke-sama?" "!" "Gennosuke-sama!" "Oboro..." "May you be the only one who lives on..." "Stop..." "Stop..." "Stop!" "Gennosuke-sama!" "The poison... is disappearing" "Gennosuke-sama!" "Gennosuke-sama..." "Oboro..." "Gennosuke-sama!" "Oboro..." "Gennosuke-sama..." "I didn't..." "I didn't want to kill anyone..." "I didn't want anyone to die..." "Gennosuke-sama..." "What happened here?" "!" "It was a Kouga!" "Kouga Gennosuke was here!" "Tenzen-dono!" "T" " T" " Tenzen-dono is dead again!" "Quiet!" "Keep your calm!" "Tenzen is an immortal ninja." "You all know that!" "Someone sit him up." "And put the head back where it belongs!" "What are you afraid of?" "!" "This concerns the fate of Takechiyo-sama and thus the fates of me and all of you as well!" "U-understood!" "U-understood!" "U-understood!" "Oboro..." "Grandmother..." "Oboro..." "Be wary of Yakushiji Tenzen." "but his technique is one of immortality." "either..." "Something has taken hold inside his body." "Not even I know what it is." "the story behind it took place long before I was ever born." "There is no need to make certain of it." "what has taken residence inside him is..." "G" " Grandmother?" "pay no mind..." "Forgive my blathering." "You've your whole life ahead of you;" "there is no need for you to know." "Dear me..." "Even I've turned senile now..." "Grandmother..." "Grandmother!" "O" " Oboro..." "Oboro?" "Your eyes have opened?" "!" "H-hey!" "Something's not right!" "Tenzen-dono?" "!" "Kouga..." "Gennosuke!" "Behind Oboro..." "Beneath... the steps..." "You've your whole life ahead of you..." "There is no need for you to know... the Kouga Manjidani Clan... the Iga Tsubagakure Clan... skilled with terrifying secret ninpou arts" "have loathed one another under the pretext of a long-standing hatred." "I feel..." "You've your whole life ahead of you..." "I feel..." "There is no need for you to know..." "I didn't want to kill anyone..." "Why..." "Why?" "I-is he dead?" "Oboro..." "Tenzen's words just now... behind me lies a wounded and poisoned Kouga..." "Oh!" "Well done!" "Killing an enemy who cannot fight will bring no honor to the Iga." "W-what un-ninja-like nonsense is this?" "Very well." "Send an urgent dispatch to Hattori Hanzo-dono!" "Understood!" "Ready the horses!" "Right!" "referee of this war." "Any objections?" "No objections..." "The mist of sorrow softly touches these lips blotted with red droplets" "The mirror in the sky beautifully illuminates the distance in the night" "Giving more than a passing thought to the myriad of showering stars firmly bind them" "Those beautiful eyes that sparkle with a lazuline hue..." "Even if they wind up closed by a harbinger from the darkness since no one can steal the bridge of connected dreams they still reflect the limitless tomorrow" "Next Episode" "The quiet spring comes to an end." "two souls fall into the blue darkness." "Like water foam that soon disappears a tragic love carries a bond into the blue moonlight of the next world." "May they meet again at a future time." "May they become one in a future life." "On the final episode of Basilisk ~ Kouga Ninpouchou" "A Chance Meeting in the Next World"