"Kotoba dake ja tsutawaranai mono o The things you can't get across with just words" "Ichiban tsutaetai no wa naze?" "Why do you want to get those things across the most?" "Kutsuzoko o suriherashite Wearing down the soles of your shoes" "Hadashi demo tomarenai no wa naze?" "Why can't you stop, even when you're down to your bare feet?" "Kaban no naka ni hoshizora The starry sky is in your bag" "Arashi no yoru mo soko ni aru The stormy nights are in there too" "Soro-soro tabi ni dero It's about time you go on a journey" "Robou ni saku hana yo hana yo The flowers, the flowers that bloom by the wayside" "Goro-goro doro-darake Rolling around, covered in mud" "Mune o kogasu yoake yoake The dawn, the dawn that consumes your heart" "Soro-soro hashiri-dase It's about time you start running" "Kowareru made asobe asobe Play, play until you break down" "Odorou yo doro-darake Let's dance, covered in mud" "Mune o kogasu yoake yoake The dawn, the dawn that consumes your heart" "Cha pter Eig hteen Wa nderer's Paradise" "So Torii is in that palanquin..." "Halt!" "You ruffians!" "That is as far as you go!" "They get rid of evidence by dissolving the gun in water or by burning it." "In other words, their hiding place had to be near water." "Air guns also have shorter ranges than guns that use gunpowder, so it became easy to predict." "Yukiwa, let's just go." "What's this?" "You should watch." "It'll be far more fun than entertaining men indoors." "Humans are all idiots." "That's what makes them fun." "I was robbed of my country and do not have a place to live." "If these Mountain People are faced with the same situation," "I can understand wanting to fight and to choose where they live." "It's not as if I disagree with that, but if Yamazakiya is serious about calling the Ancient People gods, it's a different story." "Do you think so?" "Mountain People, People of Craft..." "We just happened to be born where we were, and we are merely desperate to survive." "This palanquin did not contain Lord Torii of Kai." "Do you understand what this means?" "Return to your mountains and oceans!" "You have your own places that you belong to!" "Is it so wrong for us to live in towns?" "!" "Yamazakiya..." "Why did you tell me you wished some of my men to be your bodyguards?" "Lord Ogasawara, I do not know the details of the work that you do, but I was under the impression that you were at odds with Torii." "So you said you wanted to have bodyguards referred to you, but your plan was to manipulate my men and draw me in to be your cohort as well." "The government goes so far as to meddle in scholarly affairs, determining what is proper and what is not." "Is such a thing to be tolerated?" "Arguing that we, Wandering People, are the descendants of gods..." "You call that scholarly?" "The truth is, you just want your henchmen, isn't that right?" "It is certain that the Ancient People are the descendant of gods." "But it is also Torii and Mizuno who label them vagrants, and refuse to allow them to live as they wish." "That is quite enough." "I'll handle this!" "Come, this way." "There's no Ayagami?" "!" "Sister!" "I'm trying to save you!" "Abi..." "Come..." "Saizo!" "Your new contraption!" "O butterflies!" "Sister..." "Reviving it again..." "Why would you, Sister?" "Medicine wholesaler Yamazakiya owner, Yoshinobu Narikawa!" "On suspicion of gathering vagrant scoundrels together, and being so brazen as to make an attempt on the life of an official, we have come to investigate!" "Hey, we're..." "Lord Ogasawara certainly knows how to get on in the world." "Well, fine." "You can pass." "We will overlook it, just this once." "That box..." "That's what Yamazakiya was feeding the bodyguards, isn't it?" "You know something about it?" "It's a deformity." "That's a child born to a Youi and a human." "What?" "!" "How could you know that?" "Because I've given birth to them too." "Could it be..." "Those things that look like water imps that the town magistrate uses..." "Go on now!" "You will be better off if you throw that thing away." "Otherwise, you people will become in thrall to it next." "This is like opening up a whole box of trouble." "This thing's from the netherworld." "The sacred gods partake of it." "We heard that this was born to a Youi and a human." "Yeah, this is the child of Lady Ninai and Ougu." "I definitely saw the Ayagami for "Ougu"." "Sister gave birth to a Youi child?" "Ridiculous!" "It's not ridiculous!" "Ridiculous!" "It's not ridiculous!" "A Youi took Lady Ninai to wife!" "We got into a dispute with the Mountain People." "You people of the mountains don't even pay taxes, going from mountain to mountain." "What an easy life!" "Wait!" "You can have what's in the cottage." "The entire mountain belongs to us!" "Abi!" "Rather than caring about the fact that my family and friends had died, my only thought was that I wanted to become one of the Mountain People." "If I became one of the Mountain People," "I wouldn't have to strive to pay taxes or live crammed into tiny houses." "Roving and wandering..." "I wanted to live like that." "Who knows how long I walked in search of the Mountain People?" "And then..." "I saw..." "Lady Ninai." "Lady Ninai became that huge Youi's bride, and bestowed the child of that union upon this world." "Just as the gods of the heavens did." "After that," "I placed Lady Ninai's child in the care of the owner of Yamazakiya." "You're lying." "Ninai was abducted." "Ruido" ""Ruido"..." "What does "do" mean?" "A child." "An enslaved child." "The other Youi..." "Ougu." "Ougu Ougu." "Ougu" "Ougu "Guu" means "man-shaped"." "It refers to a doll made in the image of man." "A doll?" "What are you talking about?" "It means that someone made that Youi in the image of man." "Are you saying Ninai was not abducted, but that she created that Youi?" "!" "Why?" "!" "At any rate, if we harm Ruido, Ougu will appear." "We cannot act carelessly..." "There is no problem if we merely eat it, so shall we keep it, once and for all?" "It was a joke." "Now, then..." "You two did good work." "Stay away from here for a while." "Huh?" "Yamazakiya will come to take this guy back." "The time for sitting back and watching is over." "Your food is there." "I'll make you gods, so go get it." "You were a long time in coming." "We've been waiting for you." "Edogen!" "Did you know that this is the Office of Barbarian Knowledge Enforcement?" "!" "The meat!" "Hand over the Youi!" "Where's the meat?" "!" "I cannot let you have it." "Youi lead people astray." "Just as it has done to you!" "What am I doing?" "!" "Was it not my intent to save people in circumstances such as theirs?" "!" "Protecting Torii, and turning our blades against Ancient People, whom, if anything, we have more in common with." "Not a very rewarding position to be in." "Then leave the Youi and make yourselves scarce." "We can't do that after everything that's already happened." "Yukiatsu, you've been to the Other World." "I hear you've even become one with a Youi." "Just what does it feel like to become a person of that world?" "You would ask me that, wouldn't you?" "Yonekichi!" "After him!" "I'll handle things here!" "Right!" "Well done." "Now, hand it over." "Lady Ninai bestowed this upon me." "I'll return it to Lady Ninai." "And I'm going to have her make me one of the Mountain People." "Never you mind that!" "Hand it over!" "That belongs to the rightful gods..." "Yamazakiya!" "Do you know what the Assimilated are?" "What?" "It happened a long time ago." "Back when Michinoku was still beyond the Imperial Court's influence, there was a people called the Emishi." "The Imperial Court sent troops to subjugate them." "Led by what they call the Seii Taishogun." "And at that time, a great many of the Emishi were captured and forced to move where they lived." "Thus, the Emishi became scattered all across the nation." "They were the Assimilated." "What of them?" "They are apparently the ancestors of my people." "Do you understand?" "The Mountain People are the descendants of the Assimilated." "Descendants of the gods of the land?" "That is nonsense!" "We are nothing of the sort!" "Yonekichi," "living in villages or in the mountains, the suffering is the same." "No..." "The sort of life that you dream of does not exist in the mountains." "Every day, you think of nothing but where you'll sleep and what you'll eat." "It was like Hell itself." "You're lying!" "All that you have said is false." "This is Lady Ninai's true name." "She gave this to me..." "To me alone." "You people could not possibly understand." "I alone know the truth about this world and about the gods." "You only want to believe that!" "That you alone have been chosen!" "That you alone serve the gods!" "Are you saying I am the same as any of those worthless humans out there?" "!" "I am different!" "Lady Ninai will make me one of the gods!" "Hand that over!" ""The god Izanagi thought to see the goddess Izanami"" ""and he followed after her to the netherworld."" ""The god Izanagi bade her, 'Beloved goddess Izanami,"" ""'the land that thou and I sought to create is yet to be fully made."" ""'Hence, I bid you return.'"" ""The goddess Izanami replied, 'I have eaten the food of the netherworld."" ""'But even so...'"" "Do you remember?" "What happened that day..." "If we were attacked, all we would do was flee, and go to live on a different mountain." "That is the way of the Mountain People." "In that moment, I became sick of being one of the Mountain People." "Of fleeing continually." "Roaming from mountain to mountain, merely surviving." "What could we possibly accomplish?" "If so, once and for all, I would..." "My heart was crying out," ""Take me away!" "Destroy everything that there is!"" "Abi, come be an inhabitant of this place as well." "Mountain People, villagers..." "Those things have no meaning here." "You were strongest in the mountains, and I wanted to be with you." "Ninai, is that Youi your child?" "In order to live in the Other World, it was necessary for me to be joined with a Youi." "Why did you return it to our world?" "Because Youi are incapable of remaining in the Other World." "And because of that, many people have been led astray!" "They are led astray because they are weak." "If they would fight against the world as I have..." "What would that accomplish?" "Yukiatsu!" "Pleased to make your acquaintance, I suppose..." "Though I feel like I may have seen you somewhere before." "Written here is your true name, isn't it?" "Did you think you had hidden your Ayagami in this way?" ""Other"." "As in "the Other World"." "Other" "Other This character represents a demon with both its hands held high." "This character represents a demon with both its hands held high." "A demon?" "!" "That's right!" "Leading astray humans of this world, trying to live in earnest." "And that is a demon!" "Ninai!" "Abi!" "Ninai!" "Abi!" "She's already a demon now." "Not a human anymore." "Humans suffer and are led astray because of their foolishness, their weakness." "That suffering does not exist in the Other World." "So to you, the Other World is your paradise." "Abi..." "Mountain People..." "Hey, that is..." "No, it's fine." "That is a curse that Ninai has cast upon this world." "And they mean to accept that thing..." "Abi, will you be going with these people as well?" "After all, the matter concerning your elder sister has been cleared up." "Take this with you, too." "I see, so you did not return to the mountains." "I'm not one of the Mountain People or anything else now." "You have nowhere to go home to..." "Villagers envision sweet dreams about our lives." "Making up fairy tales about those who wander forever and ever." "But so you are really going to continue to roam and rove..." "I suppose I too am a demon..." "You're one of the Mountain People." "Even if every last one of the Ancient People vanished, you alone would be a true member of the Mountain People." "Mado no soto no sora o mitara Outside my window, looking at the sky" "Kumo ga haato no katachi ni mieta yo The clouds looked like they were in the shape of a heart" "Iki o ookiku suikome ba If you take in a deep breath" "Kokoro ga ookiku natta ki ga suru ne It makes you feel like your heart's grown bigger, doesn't it?" "Ai to wa nanika?" "What is love?" "Nante kono toshi ja wakaru wake nai kedo There's no way I'd know that at my age" "Itsu no hi ka wakaru toki ga kuru no kana I wonder if there'll come a day when I do know" "Mado kara mieru ki no eda mo ha mo Outside my window, I can see tree branches and leaves" "Mainichi mainichi nobite-iru yo And they grow every day, day after day" "Kore kara mo nobite-iku yo ne They'll continue to grow from now on too, won't they?" "Konna toki ni wa konna uta ga niau At times like this, a song like this is just the thing" "Jibun no ima omou kimochi o kuchizusame Sing whatever you're feeling right now" "Aishite-iru to iu suteki ni hibiku kotoba ga The words "I love you" have such a wonderful ring to them" "Mirai ni iru jibun o kitto ima no nanbai mo ookiku Surely they'll make my future self many times greater" "Yasashiku sasete kureru no kamo shirenai Maybe many times kinder than I am today" "Preview" "Preview Another man who claims his name is Yukiatsu Ryudo." "Another man who claims his name is Yukiatsu Ryudo." "Has the past he discarded turned into a shadow?" "They say a person dies when he meets his doppelganger." "And yet another one..." "Next Time Chapter Nineteen" " The Three Y ukiatsus" "Next Time Chapter Nineteen" " The Three Yukiatsus Chapter Nineteen." "The Three Yukiatsus."