1. Long ago, the stars glittering in the night sky
acted as a vital set of guideposts to travelers.Copy !req
2. These heavenly bodies were thought to be
everlasting, that they would shine forever.Copy !req
3. It is for this reason that when meteors
or comets suddenly fell from the skies,Copy !req
4. they were feared as sinister omens.Copy !req
5. It was believed that something terrible would
befall anyone who saw these shining objects.Copy !req
6. And no wonder.Copy !req
7. Even after a scholar named
Shunkai Shibukawa was appointedCopy !req
8. as the Shogunate's first official
astronomer at the start of the Edo era,Copy !req
9. most people were still unaware
that the Earth was round.Copy !req
10. "Cosmic Collisions "Copy !req
11. A shooting star!Copy !req
12. I wish that we find the samurai
who smells of sunflowers soon.Copy !req
13. I wish that we make it to Nagasaki safely.Copy !req
14. And I wanna eat until I'm stuffed!Copy !req
15. Isn't that a--Copy !req
16. Hey, isn't that a matsutake mushroom?Copy !req
17. What, you don't know what those are?Copy !req
18. They call them the jewels of the mountains.
They're worth a lot of money.Copy !req
19. Hey! C'mon, spit it out!Copy !req
20. Mushrooms are spread by spores.
In other words, if you see one, there are...Copy !req
21. --Don't eat that!
--Found another!Copy !req
22. Over here, too.Copy !req
23. Darn it!Copy !req
24. Geez, I'm stuffed...Copy !req
25. --I have heartburn...
--Gone... Gone... Gone! Gone!Copy !req
26. They're all gone...Copy !req
27. They ate every last one...Copy !req
28. Oh, that reminds me.Copy !req
29. The horoscope section in the newspaper
said to beware of mushrooms.Copy !req
30. --Hey.
--Bitch, you should've told
us that before we ate'em!Copy !req
31. Ow...Copy !req
32. Is everyone all right?Copy !req
33. Where are we?Copy !req
34. Jin?Copy !req
35. Mugen?Copy !req
36. Your hands are freezing. What's wrong with you?Copy !req
37. They're as cold as a corpse's.Copy !req
38. This is amazing... What is this place?Copy !req
39. They seem to be excavating something.Copy !req
40. Hey!Copy !req
41. D-Don't scare us like that!Copy !req
42. We thought you were ghosts or something.Copy !req
43. Sorry about that.Copy !req
44. Try to be more careful!Copy !req
45. ♪ Men piled onto horses, and horses
piled onto men, one atop the other. ♪Copy !req
46. ♪ In spite of the great depth of the valley, ♪Copy !req
47. ♪ the 70,000 soldiers of the Heike were
enough to fill the valley to the brim. ♪Copy !req
48. ♪ The corpses created a mountain of the dead, ♪Copy !req
49. ♪ and blood flowed from
the stones like a river! ♪Copy !req
50. "Tale of the Heike, volume 7.
The Descent into Kurikara."Copy !req
51. The end!Copy !req
52. Well, well, what have we here?Copy !req
53. To think that wayward travelers
would find their way to this place.Copy !req
54. Um... What is it that you're doing here?Copy !req
55. My good visitor, were you aware that these
two holes symbolize the sun and the moon?Copy !req
56. And were you aware that the music
that issues forth from the biwaCopy !req
57. is the sound of the stars themselves?Copy !req
58. Strum the strings of this biwa!Copy !req
59. Do so, and one can even call down
the stars from the night sky!Copy !req
60. Who the hell are you?Copy !req
61. Yes, yes, how rude of me.Copy !req
62. Even so, one must remember
that we were here first.Copy !req
63. It seems unreasonable for
visitors who have wandered inCopy !req
64. to demand to know who we are, does it not?Copy !req
65. Very well. Being sensitive to the order in
which one is introduced is old-fashioned.Copy !req
66. Also, I would find it mortifying to be
mocked as some official at a sports meet.Copy !req
67. What's your point?Copy !req
68. You may address me as Shige.
The blood of the Heike flows in me.Copy !req
69. I have taken it upon myself to excavate
the buried treasure of the Heike.Copy !req
70. Buried treasure? In a place like this?Copy !req
71. I can only say that it must exist.Copy !req
72. It is for that reason that I cannot
say for certain that it does not.Copy !req
73. Have you ever heard that expression before?Copy !req
74. I must admit, it would be unfair to demand
that you simply take my word for it.Copy !req
75. So I offer you this.Copy !req
76. "Abbreviated Heike Genealogy"Copy !req
77. That is why I have every right to
claim this buried treasure for myself.Copy !req
78. It is common knowledge that the treasure of
the Heike is buried here in the land of Kyushu.Copy !req
79. And its location is indicated right here.Copy !req
80. A map drawn in invisible ink...Copy !req
81. I don't buy it.Copy !req
82. Oh, I see that you remain skeptical.Copy !req
83. Surely you don't mean to
say that communicationCopy !req
84. can be built on a foundation of doubt, do you?Copy !req
85. Also, it is trivial statements
which give rise to the gapCopy !req
86. between your generation and mine, young lady.Copy !req
87. I have a bad feeling about this. Let's go.Copy !req
88. Yes, yes. It is the way of the world today to
see other people from only one perspective,Copy !req
89. rejecting all other possibilities in
the form of making up your mind.Copy !req
90. It cannot be helped.Copy !req
91. However, does one not need
money to keep oneself fed?Copy !req
92. It has been five years
since we began our search.Copy !req
93. And now, travelers appear just as we
are about to reach the buried treasure.Copy !req
94. Surely, the hand of fate is at work here.Copy !req
95. Perhaps you would care to assist us,
as we are shorthanded at the moment.Copy !req
96. What'll you pay us?Copy !req
97. Ten percent of the treasure once we find it.Copy !req
98. That is gold enough to fund the
restoration of an entire country.Copy !req
99. Even ten percent would be a large sum.Copy !req
100. Wait a minute! We don't have time for this!
We need to get to Nagasaki.Copy !req
101. If you are going to Nagasaki,
then you need it all the more.Copy !req
102. Battles cannot be fought on an empty stomach.Copy !req
103. Do they not say, "Those who do not
work deserve to eat, sleep, and play"?Copy !req
104. I guess you got a deal, then.Copy !req
105. I will have these two show you the way.
I leave them to you, Sabini. Fuupa.Copy !req
106. Yes, master.Copy !req
107. Geez, why does this always happen to us?Copy !req
108. We're only doing this
for a little while, got it?Copy !req
109. You needn't be in such a hurry.
Make yourselves at home.Copy !req
110. After all, there is no escape from this place.Copy !req
111. There's something fishy about that Shige guy.Copy !req
112. At the very least, we will save several days'
worth of lodging and food expenses.Copy !req
113. If we find the treasure,
let's snatch it and hightail it outta here.Copy !req
114. That map was kinda suspicious, too.Copy !req
115. Anyway, how about something to eat?Copy !req
116. Um, about that...Copy !req
117. You've got some food, right?Copy !req
118. If you don't mind eating these...Copy !req
119. Hey, wait a minute!Copy !req
120. --What are these things?
--They're wasabi.Copy !req
121. In recent years, it has been
said that life here on EarthCopy !req
122. sprang from organisms that
were brought here by meteors.Copy !req
123. No one can deny that unknown viruses
or organisms might lurk in these meteorsCopy !req
124. that have traveled here
from the far reaches of space.Copy !req
125. "Superdimension Period Drama Samurai Champloo"Copy !req
126. This is Penta, a self-professed psychic.Copy !req
127. It was he who divined the
location of the buried treasure.Copy !req
128. Explosives were then planted in the bedrock
that blocked the way to the treasure.Copy !req
129. I can only say that it must exist!Copy !req
130. Damn it, that bastard's working us like dogs...Copy !req
131. You've got nobody to blame but yourselves.Copy !req
132. Hang on for just a while longer.Copy !req
133. The dowsing rods apparently picked
something up just beyond that bedrock.Copy !req
134. Huh? I could have sworn
his right arm was cut off...Copy !req
135. Maybe I imagined it.Copy !req
136. Hey, how many days have we been here?Copy !req
137. It feels as if it's been several days,
or it could be several months.Copy !req
138. You lose track of time when you're working here.Copy !req
139. Once we get that treasure, the five years
that we've spent here will come to an end,Copy !req
140. along with the rule of those impudent Genji.Copy !req
141. Genji?Copy !req
142. I swear... "Onwards to Kamakura," my ass.Copy !req
143. That Yoritomo bastard is so full of himself.Copy !req
144. Kamakura?Copy !req
145. Um... We're in the Tokugawa Era now.Copy !req
146. Okay, let's take a quick break.Copy !req
147. Yeah.Copy !req
148. Come on, don't the people here
seem a little strange to you?Copy !req
149. I mean, how can they live
off of nothing but wasabi?Copy !req
150. As I recall, wasabi has antibacterial and
preservative properties, but even so...Copy !req
151. Hey, I could swear that those two guys were...Copy !req
152. They're rotting?!Copy !req
153. I can't believe it... They're eating wasabi
to keep their bodies from rotting?Copy !req
154. What do you think? Is this not the perfect place
to forget the troubles of the floating world?Copy !req
155. Who are you people?Copy !req
156. My goodness. That's quite a
philosophical question that you are asking.Copy !req
157. Who am I, indeed?Copy !req
158. I was hoping to learn the answer to that myself.Copy !req
159. Master. As expected, we simply
don't have enough manpower.Copy !req
160. I have no choice, then.Copy !req
161. I will go summon reinforcements. Excuse me.Copy !req
162. I'm beat, I'm beat...Copy !req
163. I have heartburn again...Copy !req
164. Now that he mentions it,Copy !req
165. maybe those weren't matsutake
mushrooms that they ate back then.Copy !req
166. This is fishy... Are you two also...?Copy !req
167. What's her problem?Copy !req
168. Come to think of it,
something has been bothering me.Copy !req
169. Didn't that Heike family tree
seem suspicious to you?Copy !req
170. Beats me. If that's what's
bothering you, it's in here.Copy !req
171. Shall we take a look?Copy !req
172. Damn thing looks like a game of ladders.Copy !req
173. Geez, I'm hungry...Copy !req
174. I guess I'll try some of this.Copy !req
175. No!Copy !req
176. Nooo!Copy !req
177. H-Help me!Copy !req
178. I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!Copy !req
179. Well, then. Now that you have
discovered our little secret,Copy !req
180. it seems that I have no choice
but to kill you, as well.Copy !req
181. That's how it's gonna be, huh?
You shoulda said so in the first place.Copy !req
182. I woulda been happy to fight
you guys whenever you wanted!Copy !req
183. Hey, what's the matter? You done already?Copy !req
184. What the--?Copy !req
185. What the hell? How come you guys ain't dead?Copy !req
186. What's goin' on here?!Copy !req
187. Hey!Copy !req
188. They're already dead, you see.Copy !req
189. It's impossible for you to kill them.Copy !req
190. Oh, it's all right. I'll bring you
back to life soon enough.Copy !req
191. There ain't nothing right about this!Copy !req
192. Goodness, that was a close call.
My head was hanging by a flap of skin.Copy !req
193. What's this? I don't believe it...Copy !req
194. Come, join us and let's give those
Genji scum a nasty surprise together.Copy !req
195. What're you talking about?Copy !req
196. Don't you get it?! This is the Edo Era!
The Heike and the Genji are both gone!Copy !req
197. What did you say?Copy !req
198. You think you've been digging here for five
years, but you've really been at it for 500!Copy !req
199. Don't you guys even realize
that you died a long time ago?Copy !req
200. You stupid little girl... Just listen
to the nonsense you're spouting!Copy !req
201. Just a minute!Copy !req
202. Take a close look at this.Copy !req
203. This family line here.Copy !req
204. Hey, it's not connected... But that means--Copy !req
205. You're totally unrelated!Copy !req
206. Yes. You are not a descendant of the Heike.Copy !req
207. You lie!Copy !req
208. It's not connected...Copy !req
209. --You're not related. Not one bit.
--That's too bad.Copy !req
210. It can't be... I've been digging for so long...Copy !req
211. After all I've gone through...
All of my hard work...Copy !req
212. It was all for nothing? All of it?!Copy !req
213. It can't be!Copy !req
214. At this point, the matter of
whether or not I'm related by bloodCopy !req
215. is a moot question, don't you think?Copy !req
216. After all, we don't have a drop
of blood left in our bodies, anyway.Copy !req
217. Why don't we forgive and forget, let bygones
be bygones, and carry on as before?Copy !req
218. Not gonna happen, huh?Copy !req
219. No?Copy !req
220. Thank you for watching!Copy !req
221. A mushroom!Copy !req
222. "The End "Copy !req
223. "Shige"Copy !req