"Since ancient times, the mermaid's flesh has been seeked by those searching immortality." "Legend has it that when you eat the flesh of a mermaid, you would live forever." "Here." "It's quite heavy." "Everything all right?" "Are you on your own?" "Where do you come from?" "Tokyo." "Did you hear that Mana?" "This boy came from Tokyo on his own." "Can you believe it?" "Well, will you see your mother?" "We will live together from now." "Will she get you?" "Ah, there she is!" "Okaa-san!" " How old are you?" " 20." "Are you sure?" "And the young lady?" "She's my sister." "Your sister, he?" "What difference does it make, they don't look bad." "Both look rather like nice guys." "If you say so." "Well it's alright, get changed." "Get the room in the back." "Thanks!" "Here." "It's time for the break." "What are you smiling at?" "Oh... nothing!" "Yukie." "Hello." "I heard that you are working in the mansion now." "Yes, that is right." "What are you doing over there?" "Since Masato lives with his mother again, she needs a little help..." "that's why..." "Okaa-san." "Hello." "Oh, Yukie!" "Masato, you are up early." "I just got up." "I'll be right back..." "Hello, madam." "Masato, please come with me." "Has she been raised like a princess?" "She doesn't even now how to prepare tea!" "I'm sorry, she had a very safe childhood." "What's wrong?" "Be quiet!" "Okaa-san." "Oh, Yukie." "We did some shopping, and we went by to have some tea." "You must be Masato!" "Yes." "Sorry, did I scare you?" "It's not that." "He just a little nervous." "Kids love you, don't they?" "Its wasn't even a week, no?" " We are already friends." " Yuta, that boy?" "Yes, he's the one from the train." "You know each other?" "Hello boy." "Do you remember us?" "We met, you were looking for your mother." "And?" "Are you happy to live with your mother again?" "He gets on very well with Yukie, but he almost never speaks to his mother." "Poor Yukie, stuck between them..." "And his mother isn't liked by many." "The master of the mansion was old... when he met this woman." "I don't think they ever married." "And then there was this accident." "An accident?" "Yes, I'll tell you:" "It happened a month ago, they went out with their boat, then they hit a rock, and the boat exploded." "The master and all other passengers died." "She was supposed to die from her terrible burns." "But the next morning, she came back to life." "... Back to life?" "And that's not all." "She was lying in the hospital, covered in bandages, burned to the 3rd degree, and only one week later, she was walking around without a scratch." "Nobody recovers that fast." "The villagers won't forget such a thing that fast." "Masato, would you ask your mother to come down for dinner?" "The scar's won't disappear." "Were did you hide it?" "I don't know!" "No!" "What is going on?" "This will be alright!" "The cut isn't as deep as I thought." "Yuta, right?" "It's a miracle that you arrived." "Where is she?" "I think she is back to normal now." "Perhaps we should call the police." "No!" "I don't want my mother get arrested!" "I beg you, don't tell anyone what happened just now." "Where are you going?" "I have to talk to her." "I will tell her to leave him alone." "The scar has disappeared." "Yes, nothing left." "I've been like this for 500 years now." "And you, how long have you been like that?" "How do you know?" "I heard about your story, about one woman being the only survivor." "I'm like you, my wounds heal immediately." "And even if someone kills me," "I'll come back to life, this may go on forever, until someone cuts my head off." "You ate of it as well... the mermaid's flesh?" "Tell me Yukie, Yuta and my mother won't fight?" "Don't worry, everything will be alright!" "Shall we go?" "I will prepare them something to drink." "Wait here for me!" "Everything happens just like in the legend." "Those who eat the mermaid's flesh won't die," "They'll live for years, almost for eternity." "Does it mean, anybody can eat it?" "No, the mermaid's flesh is too powerful." "Its a terrible poison." "It completely changes your body." "Those capable to survive the experience, and to become an immortal are very rare." "One all 50 years or every century." "I've been alone for 500 years." "Everybody else who ate the mermaid's flesh, are either dead, or turned into lost souls." "Lost souls?" "It's the fate of those who can't gain immortality." "Didn't you know?" "Their body loses its human form, they lose everything human, they change into beasts." "If what you say is true..." "What?" "Okaa-san..." "Stop being sad." "I will tell you more next time." "Will it be alright if you leave you alone, Masato?" "Do you want to come with me Masato?" "No, it will be alright!" "We can't leave him here." "Oh my god, its already 7 p.m.!" "You have a meeting?" "Oh...yes!" "See you later!" "Thanks for your help." "The flesh of a mermaid is a poison..." "No everybody can gain immortality!" "Will I die?" "I have to hurry up, I have to find the mermaid's flesh." "Yuta!" "Yukie!" "I just came by to see you before going to work." "I feel a little responsible for yesterday." "There's nothing to be afraid of." "It's really nothing, really!" "Mana!" "Yuta, look at that." "Isn't it nice one?" "So that was your meeting?" "And when will you marry?" "We were already talking about it for quite some time already, but, this time it's for sure!" "Congratulations!" "But..." "It's about Masato?" "Yes." "I'm a little worried about him." "I don't want him to think that I avoid him." "You are a nice person, you will make an excellent wife." "Thanks." "We will meet again later, goodbye!" "Tell me, is she like us?" "Yes." "but she doesn't seem to be happy about it." "She worries without a doubt about it." "I don't think that she has been immortal for a long time." "Will she come with us?" "No, I don't think so!" "we can't leave the kid." "I see, you want to get married?" "That's great!" "I hope you'll be happy!" "Thank you Madam!" "Masato?" "Please excuse me!" "Little master..." "Yukie, you will leave me?" "Oh no, not that soon." "But one day you will." "I'm sorry." "I would like to always stay with you." "Say, Yukie..." "Yes?" "Look... please eat this!" "What is it?" "Thank you." "We have to hurry up!" "Masato!" "It's a lost soul!" "Hurry!" "Get out of here!" "Mana, take the kid with you and get out!" "Come!" "Give me some flesh..." "No, stop that!" "Come back!" "I will come back to get you." "You are wounded, don't go back!" "I will!" "Mana!" "Yukie!" "How do you do?" "Answer me!" "What did you do to Yukie?" "It's him, he did it to her." "He is trying to find someone to replace me." "Masato?" "Is it still far?" "We are almost there." "And then, what will you do with this poison, Masato?" "Come here." "This is my secret hideout." "So what?" "It's possible that my mother and Yuta are already dead by now." "No, don't say such a thing." "Your wound, it has already healed." "Do you know how you call this?" "An electroshock of death." "Manaa!" "Yes, Yuta..." "Don't worry, he's on his way." "Where did they go?" "I met Masato for the first time... during World War II," "the morning after an air raid on Tokyo." "My husband died not long ago." "The last night, my son died in front of my eyes." "I lost all will to live..." "Hello Madam!" "Here, eat some of this!" "He has been with me since that day." "In the beginning I was happy." "It' s was as if my son came back to me." "But soon the years passed, and he didn't grow at all." "My wounds healed under my eyes." "The flesh of a mermaid!" "He told me that he ate of it, very long ago, and that he made me eat it." "Since then I started to be afraid of him." "Because even when I killed him, he would come back to life." "I fled," "and the master of this house took me in, but this terrible accident started everything." "The newspapers talked about it..." "And he found me." "I thought to never see him again." "Bu I..." "Stay calm, it will be alright." "You have to find him soon." "Get the flesh of the mermaid..." "And bring him here..." "You wounds won't heal!" "It hurts so bad..." "What a pity that the flesh of a mermaid doesn't take the pain." "Untie me!" "I'm sorry, I can't." "You could join Yuta." "You are right, little bastard." "You will stay with me, forever.." "I would never stay with someone like you." "That woman doesn't serve me anymore, that's why I choose a replacement." "I want to go back to Yuta, you will untie me!" "Untie me!" "Yutaa!" "Well, if it's because of Yuta that you resist me," "I will occupy myself with him." "I will bring back his head to you, and then he can't get between us anymore, right?" "What will you do to him?" "Mana." "I decided that we will live together." "Wake up, I beg you." "Don't die!" "It doesn't matter anymore." "She doesn't recover as fast anymore." "I think that the flesh of a mermaid doesn't taste her as good as it does for us." "I will have to get rid of her." "Where is Mana?" "Try to understand me:" "a little boy can't live on his own." "Mana will stay with me." "But I have to finish her first." "I will cut her head" "What, you want to..." "Come back!" "Piano wires!" "What a pity!" "I hoped that your head would roll here on his own." "It's a real one, see!" "I stole it in the last World War." "You want to kill me?" "If I would leave you alive," "Mana would seek you." "I would lose her like the others." "You are just a..." "You gave them the flesh of a mermaid because that helped you!" "Without thinking ... that you would condemn them to eternal life." "I was alone for 500 years, before meeting with Mana." "I know the pain to be alone good enough in that race for immortality." "It's evil." "How did you condemn to hell with that evil flesh?" "Go on, kill me!" "Perhaps you didn't suffer enough." "...You little bastard..." "I can't remember anymore whom I gave already." "You know," "I living my destiny for more than 800 years already." "You body is bigger than mine, but you shouldn't underestimate me." "800 years?" "The first time I gave someone the flesh of a mermaid..." "Okaa-san, try this." "It's the flesh of a mermaid" "It is meant to give eternal life." "Eat it, Okaa-san!" "I am asking myself if she was my real mother." "I can't remember anymore." "You knew..." "You knew that they would turn into monsters." "And still you did it." "I tried to live on my own for a century." "But those I lived with just continued to die." "Whatever may be the calamity," "I found myself on my own every time." "I had enough watching them like that, I thought of the flesh of a mermaid it wasn't because there was nobody like me, but I create one on my own." "Then, I had always one by my side." "Giving her some to eat in these years, she was able to live longer than any of the others." "In the beginning, she was very nice to me." "She gave me the name Masato." "But since she is of no use now," "You will drop her..." "That's why you made Yukie eat the flesh of a mermaid." "She who liked you so much." "You are the worst of the demons..." "I am very sorry Masato, but, see, I will get married." "Oh my God!" "How could you do that?" "They died by your hand." "The immortals, like us, can't allow themselves to live with simple mortals." "The pain is too great." "Untie me!" "What are you waiting for!" "Hurry up!" "I won't let that little monster, get out of this like that!" "Stop moving!" "I will have to shoot him." "You still have some power left." "I am pleased..." "Why do you flee?" "Are you afraid of dying?" "You lived for 500years." "Is there anything left to live for?" "Mana!" "Yuta!" "Bastard!" "You should calm down..." "Yuta ..." "If you kill Yuta," "I will kill you, monster." "Or I will hunt you for the rest of my life, until I cut off your head." "If you take my Yuta," "I won't have another choice..." "What temperament!" "I decided to let you live a little longer." "Wake up, come on, ah!" "She must be dead for good." "I still have lots of mermaid's flesh, we will meat again, perhaps one day." "Goodbye!" "Wait!" "Yuta!" "Mana!" "Where is he?" "He left the mermaid's flesh we have to get him." "When I come back," "I will find another one." "Is he dead?" "If he was burned entirely, yes." "The flesh of the mermaid too?" "I don't know." "Say, mana..." "Yes?" "When I came back to life, in the middle of the flames, were you crying?" "Yes..." "Were you afraid?" "Not at all!" "I never saw you crying before." "Was it the first time?" "I cried for the first time!" "I though you died and when you came back to life" "I felt my chest getting very tight." "And the tears just came..." "Immortals can't live and love simple immortals, otherwise, the pain would be too great." "No, that is not true." "Yuta!"