"Kouga Manjidani" "uhh..." "Josuke!" "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 pierced with a trembling blade" "Even when I shut the fated tears deep within my eyes my eyelids still remember you" "Ephemeral Portrait of Days Gone By" "Keep quiet!" "You'll scare the fish away!" "Shogen." "I'd think twice about fishing today if I were you..." "That Jimushi." "What a fool..." "Shogen-dono." "Jimushi?" "!" "Your astromancy finally missed its mark!" "Josuke?" "!" "Get back here!" "Josuke!" "Gyobu..." "Okoi!" "Okoi-dono..." "But my hand has something to say about it..." "Your hand?" "It says that your bottom invited it!" ""Come here!" "Come here!" "Okoi?" "It'd probably be too heavy with all that fat but there'd definitely be a lot to go around..." "Okoi-dono!" "Please don't do that!" "If your rump were to grow even larger than it is now" "do you?" "Okoi-dono doesn't know moderation." "I was only joking around..." "Just be thankful you didn't wind up in a stew." "but I forgot to ask..." "Your substitute?" "I don't think even Saemon can copy your figure..." "That's true..." "You don't want to accompany Gennosuke-sama?" "given where he's going..." "To think he's going to meet with Ogen-ba's own successor... huh..." "I can only imagine it's hard and not pleasing at all..." "Hotarubi." "The men are out keeping watch along the road for the Kouga..." "Yashamaru-dono?" "Just to see the ugly Kouga?" "I think I'll pass." "Being here with you is much better." "Yashamaru-dono..." "Never mind." "Today just isn't my day..." "Yashamaru-dono!" "Big Sister so that I won't make nervous mistakes or say what I shouldn't say..." "Old woman." "but..." "Tenzen." "What is this pointy thing?" "But not if the Kouga will also be in attendance... your worries are unfounded." "Tenzen!" "Tenzen!" "But..." "The palanquin is ready." "Big Sister!" "I do not understand." "Why have you chosen that infant to be the Tsubagakure successor?" "One of your own children would be better and surely there are many other skilled people within your bloodline!" "huh..." "Hattori Hanzo Compound" "Second Hattori Hanzo" "Iga-no-Ogen... and instead chose successors from relatives..." "But to think they're both children who harbor power in their eyes..." "Kyohachiro." "Right." "do you?" "Go ahead and play." "Someone will come to get you later." "U-umm..." "U-uhh..." "I heard that the Iga are cowardly and filthy." "Cowardly?" "Iga is a bad place." "No!" "That's not true!" "Iga is a very nice place!" "How so?" "We have wild hares!" "So does Kouga." "T-the hares in Iga come in all kinds of colors!" "Gray and brown and" "Kouga even has white ones." "Uhh..." "Umm..." "The Iga's sun is really shiny!" "huh?" "Everyone in Iga is very nice to me..." "Nenki tosses me high into the air with his beard!" "Koshiro is very dexterous even though he's little." "Akeginu is" "I see..." "You've made me want to visit Iga." "Okay!" "Is she your daughter?" "I'm not really sure if we're related in that way." "I can't remember anymore." "Oboro-sama." "Wouldn't you prefer to be in the palanquin?" "I wish to walk!" "I hear that boy came from Kouga..." "Is that so?" "Do you think we can ever play again?" "I'm certain of it." "Oboro-sama..." "Oboro-sama?" "Oboro-sama?" "Oboro-sama?" "Oboro-sama!" "I'm sorry!" "you're sweating." "Your face powder is coming off..." "Oh no!" "There is still time." "Let us reapply it." "Oboro-sama." "Akeginu!" "Thank" "Kouga Manjidani- Kouga Danjo's Compound" "Fine!" "Never mind!" "Kagero?" "So many visitors today..." "What's wrong with Kagero?" "I refused when she asked me to foresee how Gennosuke-sama's marriage meeting will turn out." "I'm curious about that myself..." "Gennosuke-sama's fortune is of no importance to you or Kagero." "I doubt any answer would change your concern for him." "Can't argue with that... there is something these blind eyes seem to see..." "Beyond the gaze of Gennosuke-sama's eyes" "lies the ever-reaching "future" of the Kouga..." "Gennosuke." "I won't say that your notions are misguided but this grudge has been frozen solid for 400 years." "Melting it will not be easy." "Grandfather..." "I will not stop wishing that the chains of hatred that bind the Kouga Manjidani and Iga Tsubagakure be broken at last we can step into the outside world..." "How young you are..." "Urgh..." "Nenki!" "Rosai-rou!" "H-have your hiccups stopped?" "How about we lop off Kouga Gennosuke's head while she watches?" "Nenki!" "The Iga cannot afford to break the anti-war pact!" "I jest." "Not even I would go that far." "I wonder... then... in one breath." "Well?" "I think they've stopped..." "Kouga Danjo's party has arrived!" "A" " Akeginu!" "too." "I" " I'll take it!" "Oboro-sama..." "No!" "Please let me carry the tea!" "I can do it!" "Oboro-sama!" "J" " Jingoro-dono?" "after all." "W-was he planning to surprise Oboro-sama?" "!" "I see Tsubagakure hasn't changed..." "Time has stopped in Iga since that day..." "All that has changed is the number of wrinkles I have..." "Likewise." "I've brought tea." "I" " I'm so sorry!" "O" " Oboro-sama?" "!" "what's all the fuss?" "Sheesh." "The Iga have one nasty dog for a pet..." "Oboro..." "Grandmother!" "I've shamed the Iga name!" "that Kouga Gennosuke..." "Eh?" "He seems to be quite fond of you." "He says he would really like to see you again..." "Grandfather." "The eyes of that Oboro girl... you noticed?" "Oboro was born with "piercing eyes"." "I'm told they can disperse any ninpou technique they gaze upon... it appears she has not learned to control her power." "she could even ruin her allies." "and away from the real world." "To think their successor would not be informed about that day..." "What do you suppose would happen if you used your Dojutsu" "Gennosuke-sama?" "there was no bloodlust in her eyes..." "Ogen's hawk..." "How I'd like the Kouga and Iga to finally clasp hands as one clan and step into the world together!" "And step into the world together..." "Melting away in the melody you whisper in the twilight" "I sense eternity in our attracting eyes and life sprouts silently" "The dew of emotions that dances and flutters about in the spring wind is a crumbling butterfly dream that wildly disturbs the path of the stars" "Next Episode" "Bloody swords roar on the Chiryu plains along the Tokaido Road." "Deadly winds of hatred scatter the gathering clouds." "A mind's eye sees anguish in the forgiving of conflicting natures." "pray and eventually become shaking blades." "On the next Basilisk~ Kouga Ninpouchou" "Runoff in Darkness"