"I want to become a shiki." "Hell no!" "Thank you for being kind to Ritsuko." "They're collaborators." "I'll do it." "You're still energetic, Chizuko." "It sure is a good thing to be young." "Young?" "I'm just used to handling heavy stuff since I was helping my family deliver rice." "I'm already a middle-age woman." "Oh, no, Chizuko." "If you're a middle-age woman, then what about us?" "I wonder if I'm still a middle-age woman?" "Oh, no." "Ah, I'll do it." "Let's have a tea break." "Oh, that looks yummy!" "I'm starving!" "Oh..." "A flower that cut itself off from the morning light begs for the rain that doesn't come and falls into an endless sleep" "I hear a soft voice that's calling out for someone is this dark paradise a lie or a dream?" "What I'll lose is my body and my sense of self" "If I offer them up as payment, what will I gain in return?" "Life is so fragile and fleeting that I can steal it away with my tears" "Do you bemoan the death that comes for us all as a thing to be "feared"?" "The calendula that sings of the curtain's fall quietly blossoms into full bloom" "Whether it's hatred or sadness, it pulls it in by its root" "The calendula that sings of life's end soaks up the loneliness" "It begs for the rain that doesn't come and falls into an endless sleep" ""Monday, November 7, Tomobiki"" "I don't want to fall asleep." "Don't worry." "I'm with you and so is Mr. Tatsumi." "I'm sure the villagers will charge in here when the morning comes." "And, that'll be the end for us." "I'll make sure you can escape, so don't worry and rest." "No!" "This may be the last time we see each other!" "I may not be able to see you two anymore." "I don't want this to be the last time!" "We'll be fine." "That's a lie!" "I won't believe it!" "I don't want the farewell to happen while I'm asleep!" "I want to be awake until that moment!" "Why...?" "Sunako"." "Yes'?" "I think I can now understand myself a little better, thanks to you." "Understand yourself?" "Yes." "Then, tell me." "Why did you try to kill yourself?" "Because I was in despair." "That can't be the answer..." "No..." "But... he killed his younger brother due to despair." ""He"?" "His younger brother was a point of contact between him and the world... as well as a point of contact between him and his despair at the same time." "He told his hollow-eyed younger brother, "it's not like I hated you."" "His brother said, "I know."" "That shiki spoke for the first time." "You set me free from that hill." "After all, that hill is under God's control." "That's why I played a good man in order to gain the favor of God." "I suppressed myself." "I hated and despised the hill." "I had no choice but to live that way... although I detested that way of living from the bottom my heart." "You were my total opposite; you were free." "That's the reason the younger brother followed his brother." "Yes..." "The younger brother wanted to be one with his brother..." "Just for that reason..." "But why did the older brother lose hope?" "Thank you." "I wanted you to kill me." "He stared at his younger brother." "And, the younger brother disappeared." "It was still not yet the time that shiki would return to their graves." "Despite that, his younger brother had disappeared." "He called for his younger brother out loud for the first time." "Then he remembered that this name belonged to himself." "He did not have a younger brother!" "He was the one who killed." "He was also the one who was killed." "The younger brother was born from his despair." "And, due to that despair, he killed his younger brother and himself." "Was my father also feeling despair acting as the head monk?" "This place isn't safe, either." "This is bad." "I can't fall asleep here." "Don't... fall asleep." "I can't..." "If I do, I'll be killed, like the others." "No way..." "Shimizu..." "You must've been killed too..." "If you were with me, I would've saved you." "Why?" "!" "What did I do to deserve this?" "!" "What did I do?" "!" "Oh, yeah..." "Who's there?" "!" "Sis?" "It's me, Masao." "Please help me." "I'll be killed." "Please let me in." "You're the only one who'd help me, Sis." "Please." "I'll behave." "I was always like that, right?" "I won't attack anyone, of course." "Right, I won't even attack Chika, either!" "I promise!" "I swear!" "I always keep my promise, don't I?" "So, Sis!" "Please!" "Okay." "Sis?" "!" "Come in..." "Masao." "The day is about to break." "Yeah." "I wonder if they've already gone into hiding somewhere." "You bastards!" "Attack those who're trying to hunt us down." "Attack even the old people." "Do it for us." "You two go back now." "It's only a matter of time before the villagers come to suspect Yamairi." "Close it securely." "Make it so that they can't easily get through." "What about you, Yoshie?" "I'll be fine as I'm a jinrou." "I'll take care of as many of them as I can." "It might be actually easier during the day since they let their guard down then." "Now, be quick!" "The day will break!" "You go to the shrine and kill the Junior Doctor." "Listen." "All you have to do is point at him and shoot." "Get as close to him as possible." "Seishirou..." "What are you doing?" "I was waiting..." "What?" "...for a jinrou to pass by." "I can go back to the village, but..." "What're we gonna do?" "We don't have any more space to bury them." "I'm sure the Junior Doctor will come up with something." "We can't take them out of the village." "Where's the doctor?" "He said he'd go check the hell hole." "Hell hole?" "He said that it's behind the main shrine." "Yeah?" "I've never heard of it." "He said it's there." "Wouldn't it work if we drop bodies in here and bore the upper ground?" "Yeah, that would make disposing of the bodies a lot easier." "Please let those at the cemetery know." "Toshio!" "Yasuyo is here to see you." "Yasuyo is?" "Yasuyo!" "What happened to you?" "!" "Wild dogs." "I fell, too." "Looks like I've still got luck on my side." "But why?" "I escaped from Yamairi." "Yamairi?" "There're..." "There're many okiagari there." "What?" "!" "They made that place their home." "So, uhm..." "Okay, Yasuyo." "Thank you." "Get everyone!" "Okay!" "Uhm..." "Doctor..." "It's closed!" "Who did it?" "!" "I see." "So it was their plan from the start to wipe out the Yamairi residents in order to isolate the area." "Let's go!" "Yeah!" "The Yasumoris should have a power shovel." "Someone, go get it." "Head Monk...!" "You were here..." "Mr. Ookawa..." "I-I can die..." "Now I can die." "Thank goodness..." "Thank you, Mr. Ookawa." "Junior Doctor..." "These are..." "Mutou's son and Ritsuko, one of your nurses." "I can't hammer a stake into my son to kill him." "I'm going to quit the clinic, too." "Please leave me alone." "h' my son committed a sin..." "I can't do this anymore." "Let's stop now." "Masa..." "There're still two more of the Kirishikis left." "Unless we take care of them, we can't call it quits." "But they may have already left the village, right?" "!" "There're some watchmen on the road heading out of the village, and we closed the national road, too." "Isn't it hard to escape like that?" "But we've already checked all the houses in Yamairi." "I can't think of..." "Like I said, there's nowhere else, right?" "It could be..." "Mr. Hirosawa?" "The Kirishiki's house." "But we've already checked it." "I just remembered..." "While that house was undergoing the groundwork, many trucks brought out lots of dirt." "There's no mistake." "They have a basement there... for hiding." "So they figured it out..." "Mr. Muroi, this place is no longer safe." "Let's escape." "Escape..." "The villagers are going to charge in here." "But the roads are closed, right?" "There's a secret path." "This can't shield the light perfectly." "Please put it in as dark a place as possible." "Mr. Muroi." "I'm sorry to ask all sorts of favors of you now, but please take good care of Sunako." "What about you?" "I'll act as a decoy." "May I ask you something?" "What is it?" "Why do you go this far to serve Sunako?" "To me, jinrou appear superior to shiki." "Are you saying that shiki are imperfect jinrou?" "If Chizuru were still alive, she would've been furious to hear that." "I wonder how Sunako would feel if she hears that." "It has nothing to do with our relative merits as living beings." "It's more of a matter of personal feelings." "To me, Sunako is a symbol of collapse." "Things eventually collapse." "Everything will disappear." "But she confronts it and struggles." "That part of Sunako fascinates me." "I think that about her is beautiful." "Is that all?" "That's enough, I guess, huh?" "Yep!" "They ran!" "Let's follow them!" "Let those at the national road know!" "Hurry!" "Don't lose them!" "After them!" "After them!" "So the secret path is no good..." "Junior Doctor!" "Did you see?" "!" "Yeah." "We'll go after him." "Please take care of the injured." "Yeah." "Those of you who can move, let's go!" "The temple?" "!" "There's no mistake!" "Some of you, go search ahead of here!" "There it is!" "That's the car from earlier!" "No one's in it." "Mr. Ookawa..." "We thought it wasn't possible for them to go inside the temple." "He hasn't been back." "I don't know what happened to him." "That's strange." "He must've come back just now." "Wh-What're you talking ab- -Please hold on a sec!" "Don't play dumb!" "We followed him here!" "Are they hiding him?" "!" "Mrs." "Muroi, we're gonna search the house, okay?" "Are they also on their side?" "!" "Mrs." "Muroi, we're gonna search the house, okay?" "That's right!" "They're collaborators!" "What do you mean, search?" "You must be hiding them!" "They're traitors!" "They're the temple people, and yet they betrayed us!" "Enough already!" "Take them down!" "Mom..." "There he is!" "They said that the Junior Monk escaped into the mountains." "The old man Ookawa and the others are after him." "Okay." "He's injured." "Follow the blood spots!" "Sunako"." "Under cover of darkness, you hold your breath" "Clad in darkness, you smile softly" "It's just your imagination, I'm sure no one knows you" "Only the moon is gazing at you" "Ahh, wandering in the endless night" "Ahh, just dreaming about you" "Ahh, wandering in the endless night" "Ahh, just dreaming about you" "Ahh..." "Not wanting to starve to death..." "Is that sin serious enough to warrant having a stake thrust into their heart?" "Humans, too, take other living beings' lives to stave off their hunger." "And yet, it's okay for humans to do it, but not okay for shiki." "Is it a sin for them to exist in this world?" "Are they committing such a serious sin?"