"There are no answers to be found anymore" "In this world, where storylines and rules no longer exist" "Tomorrow and today are the same future" "All I hope for now are unchanging days and something to look forward to..." "And maybe just a hint of the future" "Our two shadows sway together" "As time goes by..." "As the edges of the night start to unravel" "Right now I'm casting all the words that come to my mind into the distance" "I'm sending all the feelings I want to express from my heart to you" "As long as my voice keeps pouring out, I swear to you" "It's so chilly..." "Who knew the cherry blossoms would be blooming!" "She's burning!" "UENO" "What is this?" "What's going on?" "No!" "Help me!" "No!" "These photos my brother left behind, what do they mean?" "Hey!" "You could at least knock first!" "I did knock, but there was no answer." "If you're up, pick up your cell phone!" "Do you know how many times I called you?" "Oh, I didn't hear it." "Have you been sorting Raikou's pictures?" "Yes." "Oh, wait." "Tsuna, can you tell where these pictures were taken?" "Let's see them." "Where they were taken?" "But these aren't pictures of places, they're pictures of flowers." "Lotuses and cherry blossoms..." "They were in my dream last night." "For some reason, I could see everything so clearly it was frightening." "These two pictures are of the flowers I saw then." "If flowers are the only thing we have to go on..." "Why don't we try asking Sadamitsu?" "Right, he would know about the language of flowers and stuff, huh?" "The language of flowers?" "Well, you've certainly come to the right place." "In the language of flowers, a cherry blossom means "an elegant lady"..." "You know, a girl like Hikaru here." "And the symbolic meaning for lotus flowers is "eloquence."" "In other words, a guy like me." "And since the two pictures are in a pair that must be a sign from God that the two of us will..." "That I thought of consulting him even for a moment..." "What was I thinking?" "Hey, what's up?" "You need something?" "Let's ask him, just in case." "These are cherry blossoms and lotus flowers." "Does it remind you of anything, seeing these two together?" "Yeah!" "Really?" "Cherry blossom rice cakes and lotus root with mustard!" "We should've seen that coming." "True..." "Anyway, that's why we're asking around to see if these two pictures remind anyone of a particular place." "Do cherry blossoms and lotus flowers suggest anything at all to you?" "I guess nothing in particular, right?" "The heavens and the sea, perhaps?" "All right, thank you for your time..." "As for location..." "Ueno." "Ueno?" "But why there?" "Here's our next story." "Just before dawn, a small-scale fire broke out at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park." "Man, I'm hungry." "Go make lunch, will you?" "No way." "I'm always the one making lunch." "It's your day off for once, so you go make it, Sadamitsu." "I want to take it easy because it's my day off." "Come on, I said go make lunch!" "Man, what a pain." "I was planning to visit the Bentendo Shrine today so the timing couldn't have been better." "We were right to go to you, after all." "But what does this mean?" "Cherry blossoms dance in the heavens, lotus flowers scatter over the seas." "Those are famous words left behind by Tenkai, a Buddhist priest of the Edo Period." "And to prove it, the characters at the end of the two lines are Ten-Kai." "But did he really exist, this monk named Tenkai or whatever?" "Yes, of course he did." "He created Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, and had the Bentendo Shrine built." "Not only that, but he also built the Kaneiji Temple." "Ueno, Shinobazu Pond" "Cherry blossoms and lotus flowers!" "So this is what we see in these photos." "Tenkai had a deep love for cherry blossoms and lotus flowers." "Lotuses were to make Shinobazu a "pond to release the living"." "He also had a number of cherry trees transplanted from Yoshino." "I know this weather's abnormal, but who ever thought we'd see flowers from different seasons in bloom at the same time?" "Well?" "Is this where those pictures were taken?" "It is kind of similar, but it has a different feel to it, seeing it in the light." "Then why don't we split up and look?" "Okay." "If I find the place, I'll call you on your cell, so make sure you pick up this time." "Sure thing." "All right, I'll go that way." "What about you?" "Cherry blossoms and lotus flowers..." "Both flowers symbolize transmigration." "For both to be blooming at the same time is either the ultimate in good omens, or else..." "Or else what?" "Do you believe in reincarnation?" "In what?" "I could do a reading and tell you what your previous life was like..." "Such as, who you were in love with and who was in love with you." "Uh, I'll pass." "I-It's a ghost!" "What are you babbling about?" "That's really rude!" "You were here by the pond last night, weren't you?" "I saw you with my own eyes!" "But I was at home last night." "It was late last night, around 1 :30." "1 :30?" "Are you sure it was really me you saw?" "Oh, yeah, no question!" "It was over there." "I want you to tell me more!" "I'd stop right there if I were you." "Hikaru, you must stay away from here." "Excessive curiosity could very well lead to irreparable damage." "Who the heck are you, anyway?" "You were there at Manseibashi Station and at Shinjuku always one step ahead of me!" "How do you know my name?" "Hey, you!" "What do you think you're doing?" "Here comes trouble." "We'll have to do this another time." "Hikaru, are you all right?" "Tsuna..." "Urabe..." "I'm all right, but there's something else..." "What is it?" "These pictures my brother left behind, something's not right about them." "All the strange things we've seen in these pictures are happening the exact same way, one by one." "Just like at Manseibashi Station and the..." "Metropolitan Government Building, too." "These flower pictures have some kind of connection, too!" "Urabe, just now you mentioned a temple built by T enkai..." "You mean Kaneiji Temple?" "Yes, that's the one." "Is it somewhere nearby?" "Yes." "I think we might find out something if we go there." "Okay, then, let's go." "Toeizan Kaneiji Temple" "You can see how much history this place has." "This temple was actually built to resemble Enryakuji on Mt." "Hiei." "Oh, really?" "I thought I'd seen it before in one of my textbooks." "You really do know your stuff, T suna." "I don't write about occult happenings in Tokyo for nothing." "Actually, Ueno is reminiscent of Kyoto in more ways than one." "Shinobazu Pond was once connected to Tokyo Bay, but they sealed it off and turned it into a pond modeled on Lake Biwa." "Bentendo Shrine was also built in the image of Bentendo Shrine on Lake Biwa's Chikubujima islet." "I don't see why they were so anxious to make copies like that." "Most likely, they wanted to reproduce the scenery of Kyoto here in T okyo." "Tenkai built this temple in Ueno, which is northeast of Edo Castle in other words, in the direction of the demon's gate." "That would be here, Kaneiji Temple?" "Moreover, Zoujouji was built in the opposite direction from the capital, in Shiba, to the southwest, or the demon's back gate." "Most likely, Tenkai's intent was to protect all of Tokyo from evil by sealing off the demon's gate and demon's back gate with temples." "I see, so in other words, Tokyo is a colossal Feng Shui city." "Wait a second!" "Is something the matter?" "You said Zoujouji Temple..." "Oh, right, we were there the other day." "That day when we took Kintaro with us to Tokyo Tower." "You think that was just a coincidence?" "What do you mean?" "Something strange happened there too..." "So, the time has come..." "If it wasn't a coincidence, then what else could it have been?" "It could be that we're being led on by some force..." "Led on by a force?" "Then who?" "For what purpose?" "Well, I haven't figured that part out..." "Perhaps by Tenkai himself." "Oh, come on!" "You can't possibly be serious." "Tenkai's from the Edo Period, remember?" "Yes, that's true." "But Tenkai is said to have been an enigmatic figure shrouded in countless mysteries." "This is the man who served three generations of Tokugawa shoguns Ieyasu, Hidetada, and lemitsu they say he lived to be over 1 00 years old." "1 00?" "By the standards of his day, that was an extremely long lifespan." "I wonder if my brother was on to something, too?" "What do these pictures mean?" "Please tell me, Brother!" "A fire?" "It's not far." "Hey, where are you going?" "Something tells me that all these mysteries are connected somehow." "I've got to go!" "Hey, hold on!" "I'm coming with you!" "Does that mean I'm free to go now?" "Stay back, please!" "Another fire, they're saying." "I hear it's the cherry trees this time." "It's just so odd that these fires keep starting one after the other in areas that aren't even fire-prone." "Roger." "What's going on?" "A fire just broke out on the islet in the center of the pond." "What?" "But we just got word of a new fire breaking out on the northern bank." "Dammit!" "What the hell's going on?" "No. 2 here." "What?" "Another fire?" "Where are you going?" "Shinobazu Pond!" "Maybe the fires are breaking out somewhere else but I'll bet that the pond is at the center of it all!" "Hey!" "No civilians allowed through!" "Sorry!" "We won't be long!" "What's this?" "Tsuna, do you see that?" "Tsuna?" "What on Earth's going on?" "Hikaru!" "Where are you, Hikaru?" "Who are you?" "Sounds of the Gion Shoja bells echoes the impermanence of all things..." "W-What's going on?" "Hikaru!" "Hikaru!" "Hikaru!" "I'm coming for you now!" "Now is the time." "It is May, and rain is falling." "Men!" "We shall now set off." "The enemy is at Honnouji!" "Hikaru!" "Damn!" "Gotta psyche myself up..." "What the hell is this?" "Dammit!" "Cherry blossoms dance in the heavens..." "Lotus flowers scatter over the seas." "Tenkai?" "S-She's burning..." "What's going on here?" "Somebody!" "Help me!" "Don't let go of my hand, Hikaru!" "Who's this?" "Who are you?" "Hikaru, you've got to concentrate, or else you'll get sucked in!" "Hang on, now!" "You shouldn't move just yet, the distortion will correct itself soon." "It's all right." "Time will start flowing again soon." "What happened..." "What happened just now?" "You're hurt!" "It's just a scratch." "The distortion is gone." "Ueno will be all right now." "Wait!" "Who are you?" "You know what happened to my brother, don't you?" "Your brother is no longer with us." "That can't be..." "How can you say that?" "What is it that you know?" "Hikaru, where are you?" "Tsuna?" "That man is always putting himself on the line to protect you always has, always will." "We'll be crossing paths again soon." "I've been waiting all this time for you..." "Hey, come back here!" "Huh?" "What happened?" "So you've come to?" "Tsuna, what happened to me?" "I don't know how to explain it, either." "Before I knew it, you had disappeared." "Then, all of a sudden I saw you in the flames in the middle of the pond." "I feel as though I've been dreaming all this time..." "What kind of dream?" "I don't really remember." "Who in the world is he?" "How does he know about my brother and me?" "To be continued..." "You were the only one who knew the real me" "This is who I really am" "Maybe being alone has made it worse?" "Please don 't cry anymore" "Even if I can 't see you, I can still hear your voice" "All these memories we share" "I don 't want to shed even a single tear" "Cry baby cry..." "I don't understand it!" "No matter how many times I try to balance my savings account I'm always off by a single yen!" "Speaking of which, they say some strange things have been happening in Shibuya, too, all money-related." "I heard that the ATMs suddenly go on the blink in the middle of the night." "I have a feeling there may be some kind of connection here!" "Let's go, Hikaru!" "Act Nineteen, Shibuya." "Don't miss it!"