1. Ignore her. Do it quick.Copy !req
2. It's only an infant.Copy !req
3. No, it doesn't even cry.
What child makes no sound?Copy !req
4. Just look at it.Copy !req
5. You see? A half-breed.Copy !req
6. It's hardly human.Copy !req
7. Killing it is a mercy. Do it already.Copy !req
8. I can't.Copy !req
9. Oh, coward. I'll do it.Copy !req
10. No!Copy !req
11. Take it.Copy !req
12. Take the devil child and go!Copy !req
13. Get off of my master!
What did you do to him?Copy !req
14. Not me. Not me! The Fangs.Copy !req
15. Master, no.Copy !req
16. Don't touch him.Copy !req
17. There's a shrine up the mountain.Copy !req
18. He'll be safe there.Copy !req
19. No, Mizu! No one can see your face.Copy !req
20. The bad men will find you.
If that door opens, we die.Copy !req
21. Dead?Copy !req
22. Which one of the Four Fangs is dead?Copy !req
23. All of them.Copy !req
24. All Four Fangs.Copy !req
25. You solve the problem.Copy !req
26. Is that an order?Copy !req
27. Ten years I've waited for this moment.Copy !req
28. Ten years of planningCopy !req
29. to make our control
of the shogunate absolute.Copy !req
30. It's right there.Copy !req
31. On the bed, cheeks parted, waiting.Copy !req
32. And you want me to gift my attentionCopy !req
33. to some malformed half-breedCopy !req
34. who's handy with a sword.Copy !req
35. So, if you might, my dear, dear friend,Copy !req
36. my trusted partner and clear equal,Copy !req
37. my right hand
and both feet on land, fondest heart,Copy !req
38. spare a cup of concern
towards our purpose.Copy !req
39. And do it your fucking self.Copy !req
40. Prepare a tea ceremony.Copy !req
41. Hmm.Copy !req
42. Hmm. Making soup now?Copy !req
43. Medicine.Copy !req
44. It will heal him.Copy !req
45. It better.Copy !req
46. If he dies, you die.Copy !req
47. That one's poison.Copy !req
48. Snowcap. One bite... Dehh.Copy !req
49. Two bites... Ekkk.Copy !req
50. Drink this.Copy !req
51. See?Copy !req
52. Useful.Copy !req
53. You can barely stand,
let alone hold that sword for long.Copy !req
54. I didn't kill you
when I easily could have.Copy !req
55. Now put that down and sit.
I'm nearly finished.Copy !req
56. It's a contract for a duel.Copy !req
57. The rematch you owe me
to be registered, legal, and witnessed.Copy !req
58. Only thing left is the date.Copy !req
59. How many days do you need
before you're well enough to die?Copy !req
60. You barely survived our last match.Copy !req
61. That was no match.
You're nowhere near my level.Copy !req
62. Hmm. I like your hair.Copy !req
63. I was blind drunk when we fought.
I was celebrating my engagement.Copy !req
64. - Congratulations.
- Which is now broken.Copy !req
65. You cost me my station and my honor.Copy !req
66. I'll have it all back
when I return with your corpse.Copy !req
67. How long?Copy !req
68. Two days.Copy !req
69. Make it three.Copy !req
70. If you wanted me dead, you should've
struck when you had the chance.Copy !req
71. The time to kill your enemy
is when you can.Copy !req
72. There would be no honor in that.Copy !req
73. You don't want revenge. You want a party.Copy !req
74. When I find the men I've set out to kill,Copy !req
75. I promise you I won't waste
a second on ceremony.Copy !req
76. Then you are not a samurai at all.Copy !req
77. Still a stray dog eating out of my trash.Copy !req
78. Three days.Copy !req
79. More medicine.Copy !req
80. The first brought your fever down.Copy !req
81. This one will speed your healing
and rebuild your strength.Copy !req
82. It has vegetables, cod liver, herbs—Copy !req
83. Oh...Copy !req
84. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
85. Master Eiji's broken blade
is a good fit for him.Copy !req
86. Hmm.Copy !req
87. "As I trust you are a man of honor,
I hope you can credit the same of me."Copy !req
88. "If you would follow my man, Okiyama,
he will lead you to a medial placeCopy !req
89. where we can,
in common safety, meet for tea."Copy !req
90. "Please accept this gift
as a token of sincerityCopy !req
91. from one eager for your acquaintance."Copy !req
92. "From Heiji Shindo."Copy !req
93. Whoa. Wait. Where are you going?Copy !req
94. - For tea.
- There's no tea.Copy !req
95. You know that, right?
He's leading you to an ambush.Copy !req
96. Hey, I need you alive!Copy !req
97. We have a contract, remember?Copy !req
98. No one gets to kill you but me.Copy !req
99. Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Right! Left!Copy !req
100. I'm on a horse!Copy !req
101. There is no possibility
this will be anything other than a trap.Copy !req
102. Heiji Shindo will be there.Copy !req
103. He is a direct line
to one of the men I am sworn to kill.Copy !req
104. Revenge does not hesitate.Copy !req
105. Chilly.Copy !req
106. Is it?Copy !req
107. You're not used to travel or the cold.Copy !req
108. You need extra provisions to keep warm.Copy !req
109. I have hot tea and money.
Provisions enough for anyone.Copy !req
110. The roads are full of danger, child.Copy !req
111. If we turn back now,
your father will never know you left.Copy !req
112. You can be on your way to Edo.Copy !req
113. The real danger is in Edo.
I have a precise plan to avoid it.Copy !req
114. I have four days till Father calls on me
to leave for the wedding.Copy !req
115. That gives me two days to find Taigen,Copy !req
116. one day to make sure
he fights his demon samurai,Copy !req
117. and one day to bring him back
with his honor restored.Copy !req
118. Hmm.Copy !req
119. I remember a case
when I was a young counsel.Copy !req
120. An insane monk went around
freeing pigs from the farmsCopy !req
121. believing he was saving them
from a cruel prandial fate.Copy !req
122. The pigs ran into the woods
squealing with the shock of freedom.Copy !req
123. Most ended up
being ripped to shreds by wolves.Copy !req
124. The rest starved.Copy !req
125. And the villagers went hungry that winter.Copy !req
126. Why do men keep comparing me to pigs?Copy !req
127. I mean to say,
there are only so many pathsCopy !req
128. available to each man and each girl.Copy !req
129. Fight within your confines,
not against them.Copy !req
130. I am not out here to learn a lesson.Copy !req
131. Brigands.Copy !req
132. You're about to learn a lesson.Copy !req
133. Count to ten,
then climb out that window. Run.Copy !req
134. Gentlemen, you have made
a poor choice in stopping us.Copy !req
135. Your expectations,
I assure you, are not worth your efforts.Copy !req
136. Just take my purse and go.
I have nothing else of value.Copy !req
137. Just some rice balls
and tea for my journey.Copy !req
138. I could eat.Copy !req
139. Been some time since I killed a man.Copy !req
140. I wonder if I still remember how.Copy !req
141. Those pretty feet sure run fast.Copy !req
142. But not fast enough.Copy !req
143. You're lucky I'm not a man.Copy !req
144. The other shoe, princess.Copy !req
145. - Are you—
- I'm fine.Copy !req
146. What did you use to say?Copy !req
147. If one god forsakes you,
another one will help you.Copy !req
148. My friend.Copy !req
149. Might you spare a ride to Kyoto?Copy !req
150. Not Kyoto!Copy !req
151. Mihonoseki, on the coast.
It's important I be there by morning.Copy !req
152. I can pay.Copy !req
153. Hmm.Copy !req
154. They scattered
white flowers on the Buddha,Copy !req
155. and the flowers they scattered
were piled as high as Mount Sumeru.Copy !req
156. I didn't see a mountain
until I was 12 and ran away from home.Copy !req
157. Nothing there but cliffs and boats.Copy !req
158. Fish guts and fish minds.Copy !req
159. Do you remember Kohama?Copy !req
160. Why would you? I try to forget it.Copy !req
161. My father lived and diedCopy !req
162. by how many fish he caught
in his net before sunrise.Copy !req
163. Enough fish, and he could drink his fill.Copy !req
164. Not enough, he beat me instead.Copy !req
165. And I could smell the cod on his fists.Copy !req
166. I smelled it on him on his deathbed.Copy !req
167. Eighty-four thousand Dharma doors.Copy !req
168. For me, there were only two.Copy !req
169. The net or the sword.Copy !req
170. I could become my father,
or I could cut my way free of the net.Copy !req
171. And I could forget all about Kohama.Copy !req
172. I remember Kohama.Copy !req
173. He needs a weapon to kill you
like you need two hands to piss.Copy !req
174. He could bite you in half while you sleep.Copy !req
175. All of it.Copy !req
176. Master.Copy !req
177. Well, I guess I'll just relax
and wait to be ambushed.Copy !req
178. Or maybe we'll get lucky,
and tomorrow we meet Heiji Shindo for tea,Copy !req
179. only there won't be any tea.Copy !req
180. There'll be an army of soldiers
to cut you into tiny slices,Copy !req
181. none of which can duel me.Copy !req
182. If you prefer, I can kill you now.Copy !req
183. Why'd you let me follow you, hmm?
Revenge doesn't hesitate.Copy !req
184. You need me because you're weak.Copy !req
185. Still a malnourished urchin on the street.Copy !req
186. I can beat you with any weapon you choose.Copy !req
187. A spear.Copy !req
188. A rock.Copy !req
189. - Master, your stitches.Copy !req
190. The bad men will find you.Copy !req
191. If that door opens, we die.Copy !req
192. The village kids used to scare
each other with stories about you.Copy !req
193. The hut at the end of the woods,Copy !req
194. where the monster boy lived
with his whore mother.Copy !req
195. We dared each other to touch the door.Copy !req
196. Until one day it was gone.Copy !req
197. You let them see you?
Men will come. Men will always come.Copy !req
198. Then you were a dog on our streets,Copy !req
199. living on gutter scraps.Copy !req
200. Mizu! Mizu!Copy !req
201. Huh.Copy !req
202. Your round.Copy !req
203. Ahh. I'll get my needle and thread.Copy !req
204. Whoa! Whoa!Copy !req
205. You know, you picked a ridiculous master,Copy !req
206. but you take good care of him.Copy !req
207. Hmm. I tell you what.
After I kill him, you come work for me.Copy !req
208. You can't be my apprentice.Copy !req
209. I mean, look at you,
half-limb to a half-wit.Copy !req
210. But I'll certainly
make a place for you in my kitchens.Copy !req
211. Oh, I could never work for you.Copy !req
212. I always dreamt of greatness.Copy !req
213. Gave every coin I ever collected
to the saisen box with a prayer on it.Copy !req
214. You think you can be great?Copy !req
215. As it says,
there are four paths through the world.Copy !req
216. The way of the farmer, the artisan,
the merchant, and the warrior.Copy !req
217. Each of these can lead to greatness.Copy !req
218. I never even cared which path,
so long as I found mine.Copy !req
219. I mean, I thought I'd
at least reach noodle greatness.Copy !req
220. But now I've actually seen
what greatness looks like.Copy !req
221. And I know I can't touch greatness
any more than I could swallow the sun,Copy !req
222. but I can help.Copy !req
223. I can help greatness.Copy !req
224. What? I'm great!Copy !req
225. Oh no. No, thank you.
We're not going in that death trap.Copy !req
226. Heiji Shindo is this way?Copy !req
227. Then I go this way.Copy !req
228. Hey! What do you think you're doing?Copy !req
229. I'm the only one who gets to kill him.Copy !req
230. So if he's walking in
to meet certain death,Copy !req
231. I'll be there to keep him and death
from getting too friendly. Got it?Copy !req
232. Hold.Copy !req
233. You talk?Copy !req
234. "Meet me for tea. It'll be fun."Copy !req
235. It opens up here. Get ready.Copy !req
236. Hello!Copy !req
237. Huh.Copy !req
238. I was just in the mood for tea.Copy !req
239. It's still a trap.Copy !req
240. Akemi! Akemi! Time to get out.Copy !req
241. This isn't Mihonoseki.Copy !req
242. We're nowhere near.
You took us further than when we started!Copy !req
243. Hyah!
Then you better start walking!Copy !req
244. After we paid him!Copy !req
245. It's called taking someone
for a ride.Copy !req
246. We're a day's walk
the opposite way.Copy !req
247. Two.Copy !req
248. What do we do?Copy !req
249. We have no money.
No way of getting anywhere.Copy !req
250. I'm going to freeze to death out here.
Covered in shit!Copy !req
251. I wish we were back home.Copy !req
252. Enough to get us there.Copy !req
253. You had that all along?Copy !req
254. You knew we'd end up like this?
And I'd give up?Copy !req
255. Child, who taught you to paint,Copy !req
256. to read, to wash, to dance?Copy !req
257. I know you.Copy !req
258. You're like an orchid.Copy !req
259. Lovely and singular
but suited for neither frost nor fry.Copy !req
260. And stubborn
as to when to bloom to reason.Copy !req
261. Now, thankfully you have.Copy !req
262. Let's hire a horse and go home.Copy !req
263. I can still find Taigen.Copy !req
264. You took a gamble on Taigen and lost.Copy !req
265. Now we have to secure
the next best available outcome,Copy !req
266. and that is in Edo,
married to the shogun's son.Copy !req
267. I wouldn't have brought
your father the matchCopy !req
268. if I didn't think
it was the best thing for you.Copy !req
269. You. You brought in the shogun's man.Copy !req
270. This is the world.
It grants women a fixed number of paths.Copy !req
271. Proper wife or improper whore.Copy !req
272. Don't be shocked.
You're not a child anymore.Copy !req
273. You have to see things as they are.Copy !req
274. Yes, I picked a path for you.Copy !req
275. You sold me to a rich man's son.Copy !req
276. How's that any different
than being a whore?Copy !req
277. In a tavern like that right nowCopy !req
278. are purveyors and flesh-tradersCopy !req
279. traveling village to village
for girls to buy.Copy !req
280. And girls are bought,
sold by their own families.Copy !req
281. Ask them if it's different.Copy !req
282. There is happiness to be stolen
as a wife to the right man.Copy !req
283. Even to the wrong one.Copy !req
284. Bits and pieces, over time.Copy !req
285. To find out only nowCopy !req
286. you never believed in me.Copy !req
287. Akemi!Copy !req
288. These feet were never meant
for the open road.Copy !req
289. So soft, like... fresh tofu.Copy !req
290. Akemi.Copy !req
291. What is this?Copy !req
292. You old goat, stop following me.
You can't afford me.Copy !req
293. My fans follow me everywhere.Copy !req
294. I just left
Shimabara's most exclusive brothelCopy !req
295. to find employment somewhere
worthy of my talents as a courtesan.Copy !req
296. You'd fetch an astronomical price!Copy !req
297. I've been a purveyor all my life.
Plenty of girls pretend to be a princess.Copy !req
298. You really could be one.Copy !req
299. I never sold a girl
half as elegant as you.Copy !req
300. No one has.Copy !req
301. My koto playing once brought
an entire room of samurai to orgasm.Copy !req
302. Hmph.Copy !req
303. Didn't have to lift my hem.Copy !req
304. That's enough. Akemi, come with me.Copy !req
305. Take your shriveled old dick
and go cry for some other girl.Copy !req
306. This one's in Goro's care now.Copy !req
307. You were saying
you don't have a contract now?Copy !req
308. My last employer
tried to have me entertain a manCopy !req
309. I knew would raise a hand to me.Copy !req
310. He told me a woman has no choice
but to accept her fate.Copy !req
311. But I know there's another path.
One I choose for myself.Copy !req
312. I hear there's a fine parlor
in Mihonoseki.Copy !req
313. Oh, miss. You are in luck!Copy !req
314. You need someone to negotiate for you.Copy !req
315. Get you the best price!Copy !req
316. Goro knows everyone.Copy !req
317. All the best brothels from Kyoto to Edo,Copy !req
318. uh, or Mihonoseki if you like.Copy !req
319. We can be there in a day!Copy !req
320. You take my horse. Please.
Have to keep those feet supple.Copy !req
321. Akemi, you don't know what you're doing.Copy !req
322. In my youth,
I saw enough flawless swordsmenCopy !req
323. to know I'd never be one.Copy !req
324. I put my effort into other arts.Copy !req
325. Commerce. Tea.Copy !req
326. That kettle has been
in the Shindo clan for 300 years.Copy !req
327. Beautiful ironwork.Copy !req
328. We have no secrets here.Copy !req
329. You were meant to be alone.
Fair. You expected an attack.Copy !req
330. I am unarmed,
but for a small knife to cut bean cake.Copy !req
331. We have our swords.Copy !req
332. Maybe I have 500 archers
hidden in the cliffs around us.Copy !req
333. You are Heiji Shindo.Copy !req
334. You trade in flesh, opium, chiefly guns.Copy !req
335. Middleman to illegal traders
from the West.Copy !req
336. You have been looking for me.Copy !req
337. For a man you are connected with.Copy !req
338. I am connected with many men.Copy !req
339. The white man.Copy !req
340. There are no white men in Japan.Copy !req
341. That's the law.
No one would break the law.Copy !req
342. Abijah Fowler.Copy !req
343. Abijah Fowler.Copy !req
344. That is his name.Copy !req
345. And what business do you have with Fowler?Copy !req
346. He was one of the three white men
who were in Japan when I was born.Copy !req
347. I will kill all three of them.Copy !req
348. There were four white men
when you were born.Copy !req
349. There are three now.Copy !req
350. Hmm.Copy !req
351. Fowler and I have dealings.Copy !req
352. Long-standing arrangements.Copy !req
353. Your business is unimportant.Copy !req
354. You can't muster
the appearance of concern for your host?Copy !req
355. I look your way and don't even see you.Copy !req
356. Mm.Copy !req
357. You mean to kill my partner.
I am bidden to prevent that.Copy !req
358. I sent the Four Fangs.Copy !req
359. I killed the Four Fangs.Copy !req
360. That proves you formidable, uncommonly.Copy !req
361. Now I can keep hiring more
and more expensive cutthroats,Copy !req
362. and you can keep killing them,
which will cost us money, and you, time.Copy !req
363. This benefits no one.Copy !req
364. But you're lucky.Copy !req
365. I am wise. Experienced.Copy !req
366. I know some problems
you simply can't kill.Copy !req
367. An offer.Copy !req
368. A very pretty one.Copy !req
369. Fifty thousand ryo.Copy !req
370. And we appoint you
the new lord of the Sendai-han.Copy !req
371. Rich in lumber, sake, and silk.Copy !req
372. The current lord is a debauch.Copy !req
373. The shogun will appoint
a successor at our request.Copy !req
374. He does most things at our request.Copy !req
375. I have the letters prepared.Copy !req
376. Lord Mizu of Sendai. Why not?Copy !req
377. In return,Copy !req
378. you would have to offer an assuranceCopy !req
379. you will let go
of all ill intention toward me...Copy !req
380. and Fowler.Copy !req
381. An assurance.Copy !req
382. Well, it's a small thing.
Nothing at all, really.Copy !req
383. Your right thumb.Copy !req
384. I take it with me as a promiseCopy !req
385. that you will never
grasp a sword against us again.Copy !req
386. Your knife cuts more than bean cake.Copy !req
387. There's no shame in it.Copy !req
388. Many of the most powerful lords
have reason to wear long sleeves.Copy !req
389. Oh, hold on, hold on.
You owe me a fight first. Me.Copy !req
390. What do you think they're doing?Copy !req
391. You cook?Copy !req
392. Then cook.Copy !req
393. I refuse.Copy !req
394. I have no interest in money or power.Copy !req
395. I have no interest in being happy.Copy !req
396. Only satisfied.Copy !req
397. This you expected.Copy !req
398. Did I?Copy !req
399. A man for whom commerce is art.Copy !req
400. This you planned forCopy !req
401. with an attack or a second offer.Copy !req
402. Perhaps not so pretty.Copy !req
403. If I may, how do you intend
to reach Fowler in his island castle?Copy !req
404. Through the front door.Copy !req
405. Really. He would.Copy !req
406. He won't.Copy !req
407. As a white man, Fowler is tolerated
only so long as he remains unseen.Copy !req
408. Fowler's castle is impenetrable.Copy !req
409. To reach him,
you'd have to cross violent waters.Copy !req
410. Eight levels to reach his chamber
at the top,Copy !req
411. each with a signature defense.Copy !req
412. And there is no door.Copy !req
413. The defenses are absolute.Copy !req
414. If you attempt an assault,
you'll die before you see his face.Copy !req
415. Unless someone were to help you.Copy !req
416. Commerce.Copy !req
417. Personal. You want to kill Fowler.
I want my partnership with him ended.Copy !req
418. I can get you inside the castle.Copy !req
419. How?Copy !req
420. A sake barrel.Copy !req
421. You want him to get in that?Copy !req
422. The ride will be long and horrible.Copy !req
423. But upon my return to the castle,
having failed to negotiate with you,Copy !req
424. the ten casks of sake
I purchased along the wayCopy !req
425. will be set in the kitchen stores.Copy !req
426. You're not actually considering
getting in that.Copy !req
427. Any path
that leads me to Fowler is a good one.Copy !req
428. That fever must've cooked your brain.Copy !req
429. That's not a cask. It's a coffin!Copy !req
430. He probably has a room full of barrelsCopy !req
431. stuffed with dead,
shriveled, stupid enemies.Copy !req
432. I have questions.Copy !req
433. You must.Copy !req
434. How do I trust
you don't leave me in there to die?Copy !req
435. You weigh
the inane complexity of that planCopy !req
436. against the simpler ambush you expected.Copy !req
437. Why do you want Fowler dead
when he makes you so rich,Copy !req
438. you can bribe me with 50,000 ryo?Copy !req
439. My reasons are my own.Copy !req
440. No. No, they're not.Copy !req
441. Twenty years of that face.Copy !req
442. That stink.Copy !req
443. I hate him.Copy !req
444. I hate him so much.Copy !req
445. Hmm. Why does the sake smellCopy !req
446. bad?Copy !req
447. He wants to die in a fancy barrel.Copy !req
448. Ah. That's the cheap sake
we serve to the prostitutes.Copy !req
449. If you'd like, I have a cask
of my preferred sake. It's very dry.Copy !req
450. I have a question.Copy !req
451. Let's say he gets through all that
and guts your white man.Copy !req
452. How does he get out of the castle?Copy !req
453. I can guarantee your lifeCopy !req
454. within a blade's length
of Abijah Fowler's neck.Copy !req
455. Our business ends there.Copy !req
456. I wish you luck in your escape.Copy !req
457. A final question.Copy !req
458. That flower.Copy !req
459. Who cut that flower?Copy !req
460. The line is exquisite.Copy !req
461. Only a master could make that cut.Copy !req
462. It couldn't have been you.Copy !req
463. Enough questions.Copy !req
464. Get in the barrel.Copy !req
465. What happens if I refuse?Copy !req
466. You can't.Copy !req
467. I told you the truth about our situation
except on one point.Copy !req
468. I'm not here alone.Copy !req
469. On the cliffs surrounding this vale
are 500 of my best archers.Copy !req
470. My small joke earlier was no joke.Copy !req
471. It is an ambush. See?Copy !req
472. If you refuse to step in the cask,
I drop this ribbon,Copy !req
473. which is the signal for my archers
to blot the sun with their arrows,Copy !req
474. and you die where you stand.Copy !req
475. And Fowler lives.
Knowing him, probably forever.Copy !req
476. - Now get in.
- No!Copy !req
477. You can't get in there.
There aren't any archers—Copy !req
478. Shut up! You have no choice.Copy !req
479. Get in! Get in or die now!Copy !req
480. For a minute, I thought you believed him.
There aren't any archers.Copy !req
481. You bed with the devil.Copy !req
482. Huh. He wasn't lying.Copy !req
483. They're reloading. Count!Copy !req
484. - One, two, three, four...Copy !req
485. five, six, seven, eight.Copy !req
486. Bad sign.Copy !req
487. Reloading. Two, three, four,Copy !req
488. five, six, seven, eight.Copy !req
489. Two, three, four...Copy !req
490. Hyah!Copy !req
491. Snowcap.Copy !req
492. five, six, seven, eight!Copy !req
493. We'll never make it.Copy !req
494. We're trapped.Copy !req
495. - Two, three—
- Stop counting seconds till we die.Copy !req
496. Hell with it.
Hold me over your head and run.Copy !req
497. No reason for us both to die.Copy !req
498. Ringo.Copy !req
499. Useful.Copy !req
500. This guy!Copy !req
501. Some greatness in you, after all.
What did you do to the giant?Copy !req
502. Your shielding. That was...Copy !req
503. Your timing. You're deeply skilled.Copy !req
504. The broken blade fits well in your hand.Copy !req
505. Well, it's yours.Copy !req
506. You won it.Copy !req
507. You were never getting in that barrel.Copy !req
508. Men like him like to talk so much,Copy !req
509. they eventually tell you
how to destroy them.Copy !req
510. He told you how to get into the castle!Copy !req
511. How? What was it? The flower?Copy !req
512. The cheap sake.Copy !req
513. The prostitutes!Copy !req
514. You know,
it's a shame our duel's set for tomorrow.Copy !req
515. I have to kill you
before you can get your reven—Copy !req
516. The man I met...Copy !req
517. is no man.Copy !req
518. A demon.Copy !req
519. Eyes empty.Copy !req
520. Eyes like yours.Copy !req
521. Nothing can stop him.Copy !req
522. He'll come.Copy !req
523. He'll stand right here,
and he will open your throat.Copy !req
524. He'll watch you die.Copy !req
525. Your skill as a swordsman
merits an opponentCopy !req
526. with full strength and focus.Copy !req
527. I will be able to supply you with both
after I have fulfilled my task.Copy !req
528. On the second day of autumn,
I will meet you at the appointed shrine,Copy !req
529. and you shall have the duel you deserve.Copy !req
530. Thank you.Copy !req
531. As a surety, please accept this blade
which so well suits your hand.Copy !req
532. I want to knowCopy !req
533. everything there is to know
about your demon.Copy !req
534. I only know his name.Copy !req
535. Mizu.Copy !req
536. But someone knows more.Copy !req
537. He will tell us everything.Copy !req