"That's..." "Th-That scar..." "They enforce Yoshiwara's laws and punish all who resist." "The Hyakka." "and the most powerful guard in Yoshiwara." "I am Tsukuyo." "Why?" "!" "Why are we being attacked by the defense force?" "!" "I-I don't know!" "This isn't the time!" "Get Seita out of here now!" "Shinpa" "My target... is you!" "Yo!" "Gin..." "Sorry for the wait." "["Beware of those who use an Umbrella on a sunny day!"]" "U-Umm..." "Gin-san." "You... got... stabbed." "By what?" "Well..." "You were definitely stabbed just now." "Are you alright?" "What are you talking about?" "I wasn't stabbed by anything." "See?" "you're... so please don't push yourself." "Are you really alright?" "I'm telling you I wasn't stabbed." "This is... you know... and it bled a little." "I definitely wasn't stabbed." "No... but..." "I'm telling you I wasn't stabbed!" "Do you really want me to get stabbed that much?" "I got it." "Then let's just say I was stabbed!" "Even though I wasn't actually stabbed!" "you really were stabbed." "Don't push your luck!" "The one who was stabbed is saying he wasn't stabbed!" "So let's just say I wasn't stabbed!" "You just admitted it." "You know... you should... really... read the situation around you." "Just let this one slip." "Just pretend I wasn't stabbed." "It'll make me look really bad." "I even posed like I had just deflected all the attacks." "This is totally embarrassing!" "Damn..." "I'm too embarrassed to even turn around." "Are they laughing?" "Is everyone laughing at me?" "Is everything alright?" "everything's alright." "who are you?" "She's trying to help me out!" "She's pretending that I struck them all down!" "She's a good kid!" "She's definitely a good kid!" "Attack?" "Sorry about that." "I thought those kunai were just taking a stroll. how about I use something better to sta" "Oh damn..." "She got my hand too!" "They saw it!" "They must have seen it!" "You didn't strike them all down at all!" "You got stabbed all over the place!" "This is bad." "What should I do?" "right?" "That's it." "I'm going home." "I'm going to the hospital." "just calm down." "It's embarrassing because you acted like you deflected everything." "Let's just pretend that you were using your body to shield Seita-kun." "I'm impressed that you would use your body to shield the kid." "Who are you?" "She was listening to us!" "She's going along with our plan!" "She's a good kid!" "She really is a good kid!" "Your attack was something else." "It took all my strength just to shield him." "Oi!" "Seita?" "Seita... kun...?" "No way..." "You're kidding!" "S-Seita..." "Seita!" "Gin-san!" "This!" "Look!" "He was totally stabbed!" "but he got stabbed anyway!" "What the hell did you come here for?" "!" "You bastards..." "You bastards!" "I hope you're all prepared to die!" "He's blaming them!" "He's pretending to be angry so that he can blame them!" "Umm..." "I saw the whole thing. one of the kunai that got deflected... stabbed him." "Uh..." "I saw it too." "Me too." "Me too." "it wouldn't have hit him." "Then it's as if that man killed him." "Gin-san...?" "Hey..." "Gin-san!" "You bastards..." "You bastards!" "I hope you're all prepared to die!" "He's pretending that whole conversation never happened and re-edited the scene!" "You shall also fall prey to my kunai." "You will soon be joining the kid I killed." "She's trying to help me so much!" "She's taking the blame all by herself!" "She's a good person!" "She really is a good person!" "Wait..." "Please stop helping me." "I'll feel like crying if you're this kind to me." "What the hell are you talking about?" "!" "I'm not helping you." "none of this would've happened." "I started it." "I killed him." "but I killed him." "Why are you two consoling each other?" "!" "You're both enemies!" "I said that I killed him." "it was me!" "it was me!" "It was me!" "Me!" "Me!" "G-Gin-san!" "I took care of all of them." "Go report to Housen-sama accordingly." "I'll clean up here." "Oi!" "Get up." "I'm going to use a real kunai on you." "We're still alive? so you should escape through here." "but you should eventually reach the surface." "Get out of here quickly!" "I'll kill you for real." "You sent your subordinates away and put up an act to let us escape?" "do that?" "I am the guard of Yoshiwara." "I eliminate any problematic elements in Yoshiwara." "That is all. and we don't intend to let you kill us either." "to meet Hinowa." "That's all!" "Then I advise you to leave all the more." "The one who asked me to let you guys off is none other than..." "Hinowa herself." "Mother did?" "Mother knows about me?" "She knows that I'm here?" "is afraid of letting you come into contact with Hinowa." "and you will lose your life." "Why?" "What reason does he have to stop a mother and her son from meeting?" "Because Hinowa may then try to escape from Yoshiwara." "Just like when she tried to escape with you when you were still a baby eight years ago." "With me... Yoshiwara was razed to the ground." "the Amanto were interested in its potential profit and colluded with the Bakufu creating the Yoshiwara Tougenkyou. it is ignored by the Bakufu and allowed to operate under its own jurisdiction." "it became a place infested with the rich and powerful indulging themselves." "it is a breeding ground of corruption." "Any courtesan knows at least one or two of the country's most confidential secrets." "the women who arrive are never allowed to see the Sun again." "they're treated like commercial entities." "They are bound to this cavern and are exploited until they become useless." "Those that are no longer of any value are just thrown away." "Those who try to escape are killed." "This place is not called the land of everlasting night... solely due to its rotten reputation." "I only understood this once I was sold here." "the dawn of hope will never arrive." "We can only live a life of endless despair in an everlasting night." "However... there was one woman... who had a different feel to her." "right?" "Did you argue with that woman again?" "She's a woman that loves to take out her anger on anyone around her. you know!" "Even children won't receive any mercy here." "You keep getting bullied because you always have that brazen look on your face." "give me a smile!" "What is it that you couldn't stand?" "Just let her kill me if she wants." "I'll end up a lifeless husk like the rest of you anyway." "I'd rather be killed." "eh?" "You think you'd be free if you were above ground?" "you would never be free no matter where you went." "humans... are locked in a prison known as Earth." "Whether you're above or below ground makes no difference." "It's just a question of wide or narrow." "People who feel that the prison is too narrow and can't take it... will never be free." "Theirs would be a life just watching the cell bars. you have to set up a prison inside your own heart. that is. you might end up realizing that this cell is pretty spacious." "That woman's eyes were not lifeless." "have you heard?" "A fight broke out between two prostitutes in the streets!" "Hinowa picked a fight with Kamekichi." "She's beat up pretty badly!" "scary!" "What was it about this time?" "What is it that pissed them off?" "Hell if I know." "Who knows what goes on in those prostitutes' heads..." "Wait. you'll get reprimanded too." "Don't be mistaken." "This is the stuff you left behind yesterday." "The rice balls that you made tasted so bad I couldn't eat it." "I'm just returning what belongs to you." "I'm not doing anything wrong." "Is that so?" "I don't recall my rice balls being this good." "Can you come over and help feed them to me?" "I can't use my hands." "Can I?" "I don't mind." "Apprentices are supposed to serve courtesans anyway." "I'll be your big sister. but I found a miniature sun. it was the same for the other lifeless women. they too naturally begin to smile." "that small sun... grew and eventually illuminated all of Yoshiwara. that is Hinowa." "I cut my face and gave up my right to live as a woman... nor because I wanted to become a Hyakka to protect Yoshiwara." "It was to protect Hinowa." "And Seita..." "You are the existence that Hinowa protected with her life." "Giving birth in Yoshiwara... means that both mother and child are to be killed." "you were born unto this world. she will be found and dealt with." "she still brought you up to the surface." "The child's not here." "Look's like the child's been handed over to someone else." "Kill me." "I've been mentally prepared." "It's unfortunate... but I can't let you off the hook just yet." "You shall suffer in that hell until the day you die." "you still have plenty of value to me." "I'm not joking around!" "I shall be your puppet... no longer!" "You still don't get it?" "Everything depends on you!" "I'm willing to let a mere child go." "But..." "I'm also willing to search under the bridge and kill that old geezer and the kid." "Now... what is it going to be? Seita." "The Sun cannot shine without clear skies." "I cannot allow you to die here." "Go home." "Hinowa's suffering will all have been in vain. but it looks like it's too late." "An umbrella?" "Don't tell me..." "That's..." "T-That..." "That umbrella is..." "A Yato?" "Why?" "Why are there Yato clan members here?" "Looks like the escape route you prepared for us... is already under their control." "No..." "He's not Housen's subordinate." "He's..." "Hand the brat over." "Hand that brat over to me." "this is bad." "That guy gives me a very bad feeling." "The stench of blood..." "He's covered in the smell of the blood of countless people." "The smell of a true Yato." "Why is he here?" "Hurry!" "Nows your chance!" "Run!" "Tsukuyo-san!" "From below?" "!" "Gin-chan!" "There are two Yato?" "!" "Dammit!" "Let me go!" "Seita!" "Move." "Get out of the way." "I already told you..." "I don't give a damn... about weaklings!" "Bro" "Kagura!" "Gin-san!" "Everybody!" "I think we went overboard." "We're gonna get yelled at by that annoying geezer." "It's fine." "Master Housen holds the courtesans of higher value than this city." "I'm sure he'll be in a better mood. she won't die." "Hmm?" "You know one of them?" "No." "It's none of my business anymore." "Is everyone alright?" "Kagura!" "Kagura!" "Seita-kun was taken by those guys..." "Who were they?" "they're... from Harusame." "Harusame?" "!" "You mean the Harusame space pirates?" "!" "They're more than just drug traffickers." "We've fought them before! they cooperated with the Kiheitai against Katsura-san's group. there are many more who end up in Yoshiwara as victims of human trafficking." "The Harusame space pirates have established their interest in this place since long ago." "No... it's much more than mere interest... was a former high-ranking official of Harusame." "Night King Housen." "He's called this... not only because of his lordship over the land of everlasting night." "The clan forsaken by the Sun..." "The ones who live in the shadows..." "The one controlling them..." "The one controlling the shadows... is the man who was once known as the King of the Yato." "The King of the Yato?" "!" "the Night King was one of the most powerful." "Umibouzu." "Against that baldy." "Looks like we're messing with some kind of monster." "G-Gin-chan..." "Kagura-chan!" "The really dangerous one... isn't him." "The baldy... has a son." "He's my... moron of a brother!" "To be continued" "A mutiny?" "you don't believe in hierarchies." "You only believe in the difference between the strong and the weak." "You would even bare your fangs against your master." "[Butting into A Fight is Dangerous"]" "Hosen vs Kamui!" "]" "["Those two were once master and pupil..."]"