"Yo, yo, yonaka ni bakko suru chimi mouryou" "Marude ikaino ichimi routou" "Mitai na rhymer rhyme shini toujou" "Kikoetarou?" "Yamini hibiku oto" "Bibitte kyomi nai furi shiyouto" "Koukishin wa hini hini jyoushou" "Nara check shini ikou, here we, here we go ya'll!" "Ayashi ayaushi shima no chimi mouryou" "Tabun jigoku wa manpai" "Afure dashita renchuu ga dantai de retsu wo nashite" "Kono yo ni stand-by" "Yatsura no bun basho ga mazu tannai" "Dooride kisetsu towazu atsui hazu" "Aete heat up sasu ikatsui verse wo" "Kamashite ase kakasuzo" "Douse yakedaro kikasena gasshou wo yo!" "HA!" "Koitsuwa marude kajiba" "Sugee nekki tamacchimau shimaguni" "DANGER!" "Masu masu agacchimau COME ON!" "(Kono Jipangu mouchoi de panku!" ")" "HA!" "Koitsuwa marude kajiba" "Sugee nekki tamacchimau shimaguni" "DANGER!" "Masu masu agacchimau COME ON!" "(Kono Jipangu mouchoi de panku!" ")" "Act Two" "Our domain has... failed to pay taxes and is on the brink of collapse." "The future of this domain depends greatly on the Shogun's disposition." "Now, if we break the promise of presenting the falcon, matters will get worse and our domain will be dissolved." "The falcon must be brought back at all costs." "M-My apologies!" "It's okay." "Do not worry." "Do what you feel is most appropriate." "You do know what this katana represents." "Sir!" "How did it go?" "I must go to Castle Shirasagi again." "For what purpose?" "To bring Kojiro, the falcon, back." "Are you speaking the truth?" "What do you mean?" "Zushonosuke-san, you've been acting strange since that time." "It's as though you've left your heart somewhere." "That girl you were just with..." "she's a forgotten god." "She's the princess of the forgotten gods." "Is there not a reason for this?" "There is no reason." " But..." " The Lord has granted me this sword." "Your skill in swordsmanship has finally been acknowledged." "It means I must commit seppuku, if I don't bring back the falcon." "The matter does not concern you." "You're back again?" "Haven't learned the lesson, huh?" "You must have a death wish." "You're in the way." "We'll come with you, if you want." "What are you saying?" "We've been eyeing this castle for a while now." "Rumor has it, there are lots of treasures here." "Didn't know there were thieves among evil spirits." "In any case, a weak human like you... wouldn't make it to the keep tower." "The princess you're wanting to see resides in the keep tower." "Keep tower?" "I-I don't particularly want to see her." "Besides, if you want to go burglarize, we don't need to go together." "Well, the door to the tower is protected by a spell." "Ones with power cannot enter and ones without power would never survive." "Great, we are friends then." "We are not friends." "Seijyuro!" "It seems your friends were all eaten by your princess." "Shut up!" "Whoa!" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "So where could the treasure be?" "Where could it be?" "Where could it be?" "Hey, how do you get to that keep tower?" "!" "Hold on, let me light it." "Don't worry, it's about to get bright any minute now." "They came rather quickly." "What are you talking about?" "Well, well." "We didn't have to search too hard after all." "W-What is this place?" "Wow, their presence is stronger than I expected." "Sorry, I made a mistake." "Looks like even the one with power won't be able to go home alive." "If you're lucky, maybe one in ten..." "No, one in a hundred may make it." " Can we win?" " Probably outrun them." "At least one of us." "Here I come!" "Here I come!" "Hey, what are you doing?" "!" "No, that's not what I meant!" "You fool!" "You won't stand a chance!" "Hurry!" "Run!" "Kojiro!" "Kojiro!" "Kojiro!" "You're unharmed!" "Aguri?" "So then you are..." "I am a resident of this castle." "My name is Tomihime." "I'm Himekawa Zushonosuke." "What is your business here?" "I have come to retrieve the falcon." "The name of that falcon is Kojiro." "It belongs to the Lord of this domain, Harima no Kami." "Please return it." "I cannot return this falcon." "Furthermore, it does not belong to the likes of him." "What are you saying?" "!" "That falcon was entrusted to me by Lord Harima when it was just a chick." "I've raised it with my own hands." "What I am referring to happened before then." "The falcon cannot be returned." "I must ask you to leave." "Please, wait..." "Kojiro!" "Kojiro!" "Come to me!" "Kojiro!" "K-Kojiro." "Wow, you're alive?" "Thought you were a corpse." "I survived?" "You didn't survive..." "You were saved." "Why won't you kill them?" "Hime-sama!" "We cannot keep them in there forever." "Nor can we set them free!" "Could it be?" "You haven't developed feelings for that human, have you?" "There is no reason for you to think so." "Do you think the hime-sama...?" "In love with the human...?" "How frightening..." "What are you chattering about!" "Susuki." "Yes." "We cannot allow that human to live." "I understand..." "What will become of us?" "Who knows?" "Maybe they'll keep us here until we die." "Or maybe just finish us off." "It seems I was right." "Go now." "Follow the path and you will find your way out." "What about us?" "Do as you wish." "Go now!" "Please return the falcon." "Please, give up on the bird." "I cannot return the falcon." "Then, I cannot return home." "A day in this castle is equivalent to a year in the human realm." "Your family and loved ones must be concerned by your absence." "You know what I am, don't you?" "A forgotten god." "Are you not afraid?" "I eat humans." "You've helped me in the past." "And even now you are willing to let me go." "Why are you doing this?" "Because you raised Aguri." "It seems Aguri is quite attached to you." "Why do you refer to Kojiro, the falcon, as Aguri?" "Please follow me." "We've arrived." "As promised, I can't accompany you any further." "I've heard there is an evil spirit disguised as a woman in there." "Is that woman beautiful?" "She's beautiful enough to take your breath away." "Even if you know she's a demon, you can't help, but feel like you want to hold her." "Is that so..." "Are you really going to go?" "You may never be able to get out of there!" "Aguri is my mother." "Long ago, someone was lost and wandered into our sacred territory in the mountains." "A human." "The man was on the brink of death." "On the first day my mother found him she simply observed from the distance." "On the second day, my mother noticed water streaming from the man's eyes." "She could not conceive what it was and was unable to take her eyes off of him." "On the third day, my mother saw that the man was thirsty." "My mother made it rain." "On the fourth day she realized the man was hungry." "She sent him a bird." "On the fifth day she watched as the man trembled from loneliness." "My mother made a single flower bloom by his side." "On the sixth day, my mother saw that the man had fully recovered... and was about to return to his homeland." "My mother went to meet him." "Disguised as a human, she descended into the human realm." "Thereafter, the man utilized my mother's powers to conquer the region's domains." "When all was done, he deserted my mother." "My mother, alone, had no home to return to." "She died while still in her human form." "In the end, my mother's soul took on this shape..." "All because she got attached to a human." "My mother was foolish." "After losing my mother, we became the forgotten gods." "Is this why you bear a grudge against humans?" "We bear no grudges." "Then why do you take the lives of humans?" "We do not take their lives." "We are consuming them." "My acquaintances were also killed." "Because they entered the castle." "That's no reason to eat humans!" "You humans eat fish and birds!" "But humans and fish are dif..." "Whether human or a fish, we each have one life." "If we do not eat, we become hungry." "If we do not eat, we suffer." "We become thin and... laid up with weakness." "We become incapable of moving, like withered grass..." "And yet we cannot die." "If you still ask why we eat humans, then please tell me." "Why do we exist?" "That is..." "What is that sensation which you call sweet?" "Why do I need to wear a kimono with such vivid colors?" "I can dance as if I'm human." "But I don't know what it means." "I don't understand the concept of how humans love one another." "We descended to earth." "We neither live nor die." "We continue to just be." "We simply continue existing for all eternity." "Please, go home." "I can't." "I've already explained it to you." "That falcon is my..." "No, I do not want you to return the falcon." "I cannot leave you behind." "I cannot leave you while you suffer here alone." "Such foolish talk..." "Please do not lie." "You do not genuinely believe what your mother did was wrong." "Your mother was happy, was she not?" "Let go of me!" "Then why did you appear in front of me?" "Why did you spare my life?" "You should already know why you are here." "And my feelings are the same." "That wasn't a dream within a dream." "Tomihime..." "If you still wish for me to leave, kill me right here right now, Tomihime." "I will never acknowledge my mother's ways." "But..." "Like my mother, I've developed a liking for imitating humans." "I want to know what love is..." "I want to make flowers bloom for your sake." "What are you thinking?" "Do you regret what you have done?" "No..." "From the moment we met, something has been bothering me." "It's as if we've met before." "I've been feeling this way for quite some time." "I was just remembering that now..." "We've never met." "When I was a child, I was fascinated with my father's kaleidoscope." "Kaleidoscope?" "The previous Lord gave it to my father." "It was our family heirloom." "When you look into it like this, the pieces inside would sparkle and change their shapes." "It was very beautiful." "Your eyes remind me of that." "I wish I was born as this kaleidoscope." "What are you saying?" "To be born in the human realm and be watched by you, in your hands." "It would have been enough." "But that is so far away." "We are so close together..." "Yet my world and your world are so far apart." "Let's go." "Let us go!" "If we go to the neighboring town, we can walk freely without being recognized." "Uba-sama!" "What is it?" "Tomihime-sama..." "She ran off with that man!" "Sora wo umeru hana no iro" "Utsuri ni kerina waga koi" "Yagate subete ga sugisaru atomo" "Anata dake wo omou" "Itsuka haruno yuumagure" "Hajimete kuchizuke shita" "Maboroshi no youna kaori no nakade" "Anata dake wo omou" "Anata no muneni kono mi wo makase" "Watashi wa shinde yukou"