1. A heroic death.Copy !req
2. A graceful suicide.Copy !req
3. To fight and die in battle
is the greatest honor for a warrior.Copy !req
4. This is the tale of a hero who lived through
such a raging age in spectacular fashion.Copy !req
5. One known as Takauji Ashikaga.Copy !req
6. Or so you might think.Copy !req
7. Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
8. It's time to practice your archery!Copy !req
9. You're not going anywhere, Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
10. Oh, sorry!Copy !req
11. He's so nimble...Copy !req
12. Fool! This is no time to
admire his skills!Copy !req
13. It's dangerous up there, Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
14. Please come down!Copy !req
15. You'll get hurt!Copy !req
16. Somebody stop him!Copy !req
17. What's the commotion here?Copy !req
18. Lord Ashikaga is about to depart!Copy !req
19. Well... Lord Tokiyuki...Copy !req
20. What about Young Master?Copy !req
21. Huh?Copy !req
22. He's so quick on his feet!Copy !req
23. That's enough! Dismissed!Copy !req
24. But...Copy !req
25. Sorry, let me through.Copy !req
26. My...Copy !req
27. You're always so good
at hide-and-seek, Young Master.Copy !req
28. L-Lord Takauji?Copy !req
29. I, Takauji Ashikaga,Copy !req
30. will go to the capital,Copy !req
31. to quell the rebellion of
Emperor Godaigo's predecessors.Copy !req
32. I'd love for you,
the future lord of Hojo Clan,Copy !req
33. to witness my loyalty to the clan.Copy !req
34. That's reassuring.Copy !req
35. I shall pray for the prosperity
of Kamakura and the warriors,Copy !req
36. and also for your success.Copy !req
37. Well, then.Copy !req
38. Sorry to keep you waiting.Copy !req
39. Yes.Copy !req
40. Don't be so nervous around Ashikaga.Copy !req
41. Kiyoko?Copy !req
42. You're the heir to the shogunate.Copy !req
43. You'll be the one giving
orders to him someday.Copy !req
44. You're also my future
husband, so get a grip.Copy !req
45. I don't remember being engaged to you...Copy !req
46. Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
47. Where did he go?Copy !req
48. Maybe he's hiding over there?Copy !req
49. Sorry, Kiyoko!Copy !req
50. See you later!Copy !req
51. Oh, my.Copy !req
52. Good grief...Copy !req
53. All he's good at is running and hiding.Copy !req
54. He's just so different from Takauji,
even though he's a fellow warrior.Copy !req
55. Even if he were to succeed the shogunate,Copy !req
56. he'd just be a puppet king
like his father.Copy !req
57. Indeed, Sir Takatoki.Copy !req
58. Then leave this matter to us.Copy !req
59. Yes.Copy !req
60. Oh, come on, Father.Copy !req
61. Even a puppet can live a life of luxury.Copy !req
62. While Lord Tokiyuki is talentless
and only good at running,Copy !req
63. but he's kind.Copy !req
64. He'd make for a good
husband of a prominent family!Copy !req
65. I can't find him...Copy !req
66. I can't handle him when
he hides so seriously.Copy !req
67. The other day, he hid in the armor box for
two whole days, it became a commotion!Copy !req
68. Doing practice would be much easier...Copy !req
69. Well, despite nominal,
he is the successor to the shogunate.Copy !req
70. He's just so lazy and cowardly,
nothing goes through his head.Copy !req
71. Tokiyuki.Copy !req
72. Father is sickly and unmotivated.Copy !req
73. You should really
succeed to the throne already.Copy !req
74. Wait, shouldn't you be
the first line of succession?Copy !req
75. No way.Copy !req
76. If I, the concubine's son, succeeded,
it would be a source of strife.Copy !req
77. It's in our blood to run away
from anything we don't like,Copy !req
78. fair and square.Copy !req
79. Why are you so proud?Copy !req
80. Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
81. Found you!Copy !req
82. All right, let's go practice archery!Copy !req
83. Now!Copy !req
84. Come on!Copy !req
85. Let-us-go!Copy !req
86. Hold on to this, Brother.Copy !req
87. Huh? Sure...Copy !req
88. Tokiyuki!Copy !req
89. Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
90. Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
91. Please stop!Copy !req
92. Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
93. Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
94. Hey!Copy !req
95. Gosh!Copy !req
96. Young Master!Copy !req
97. I love Kamakura.Copy !req
98. I love seeing the smiles on people's
faces when they live in peace.Copy !req
99. I don't need status or glory.Copy !req
100. If I can live in this town
peacefully, that's all I need.Copy !req
101. Call me lazy or a coward.Copy !req
102. As a puppet, I have no
use for civil and military power.Copy !req
103. That is not laziness or cowardice.Copy !req
104. It is a fragment of monster within you.Copy !req
105. So spoke my father.Copy !req
106. Who are you?Copy !req
107. Father?Copy !req
108. I see you're as good at
running away as they say!Copy !req
109. What in tarnation?Copy !req
110. Nice to meet you!Copy !req
111. My name is Yorishige Suwa,
a priest of the Shinano Province!Copy !req
112. A priest of Shinano?
Wait, when did you climb here?Copy !req
113. I've been here from the beginning!
I knew you would be climbing this tree!Copy !req
114. You're emitting quite a bright light...Copy !req
115. Oh, my apologies!Copy !req
116. Because of the holiness of my nature,
my divine power inevitably leaks out!Copy !req
117. I'll tone it down.Copy !req
118. I have been asked to pray for the protection
of Kamakura against their enemies.Copy !req
119. I have come to inform your father
that it has been completed.Copy !req
120. She is Shizuku.Copy !req
121. She's excellent in secret arts and clerical
work, so I'm allowing her to assist me.Copy !req
122. He's so suspicious...
How could he tell I'd climb this tree?Copy !req
123. Father can see the future
with his divine power.Copy !req
124. Although, he sucks at exorcism.Copy !req
125. Shizuku, no need to say the latter.Copy !req
126. If you're in doubt,
have a look for yourself!Copy !req
127. I can see it, Lord Tokiyuki...Copy !req
128. In the future, you...Copy !req
129. You... like that...Copy !req
130. Oh, wait...Copy !req
131. If I had to say... Or maybe...Copy !req
132. If you do, you'll surely be happy...Copy !req
133. Hang on, everyone has their
own definition of happiness...Copy !req
134. Well, you're in good health, and as for...Copy !req
135. I guess whatever will be, will be?Copy !req
136. What?Copy !req
137. You're just murmuring stuff!Copy !req
138. I can only figure out fragments of it!Copy !req
139. It wouldn't be much fun if
I knew everything in the first place!Copy !req
140. But I could see it all now!Copy !req
141. If I had to say, you're playing
the straight man in a skit!Copy !req
142. Whose fault is it,
you funny soothsayer?Copy !req
143. And I also saw the future two years later.Copy !req
144. At the age of ten, you will be
a hero who will shake the heavens.Copy !req
145. You'll become the master of the great war,
feared by some and respected by others,Copy !req
146. and you can even change
the future of the nation.Copy !req
147. I can tell that much, since it's so big...Copy !req
148. Hm?Copy !req
149. Oh, so quick!Copy !req
150. You had to say such thing...Copy !req
151. What a great crisis-sensing ability...Copy !req
152. That was close.Copy !req
153. I don't have enough money in
my pocket to give a fake spirit channeler.Copy !req
154. What a foolish man.Copy !req
155. Even if he were to deceive me,
he'd only gain superficial prosperity.Copy !req
156. Me, becoming a hero...Copy !req
157. He said that with a serious look...Copy !req
158. Hmm...Copy !req
159. To think someone like him could enter...Copy !req
160. For real...Copy !req
161. He was so suspicious.Copy !req
162. Still...Copy !req
163. I understand a little of
what this Suwa man said.Copy !req
164. Your running skills are
on a different level from me and Father.Copy !req
165. If the conditions are met,Copy !req
166. I feel like you can be a hero.Copy !req
167. That's what I think.Copy !req
168. Huh?Copy !req
169. What's wrong?Copy !req
170. Where did it go?Copy !req
171. Maybe it got stuck in the tree?Copy !req
172. We will now enter the capital
to remove the rebel army.Copy !req
173. Blessings be upon us, O Hachiman!Copy !req
174. Come forth, everyone!Copy !req
175. Lord Viceroy!Copy !req
176. I am here with a report, Ashikaga secretly
contacted Emperor Godaigo!Copy !req
177. They destroyed the
shogunate forces in the capital!Copy !req
178. When the warriors heard of Takauchi's
fame, they gathered together.Copy !req
179. They say the Nitta army is swarming
in the blink of an eye!Copy !req
180. Not only that, but the enemy also
sent his son to Nitta Yoshisada...Copy !req
181. And they're also...Copy !req
182. sending troops to Kamakura!Copy !req
183. You... Why did you betray...Copy !req
184. I can hear a voice.Copy !req
185. Whose voice?Copy !req
186. Who...Copy !req
187. Who will raise me to the heavens?Copy !req
188. Father...Copy !req
189. I have been waiting for you,
Lord Tokiyuki.Copy !req
190. In his final moments,Copy !req
191. your father ordered me to help you escape,Copy !req
192. because his son was too young to die.Copy !req
193. From now on,
I will shelter you in my territory,Copy !req
194. which is Shinano-Suwa.Copy !req
195. Yorishige Suwa...Copy !req
196. What are you doing here?Copy !req
197. There's no time.Copy !req
198. Over here.Copy !req
199. My divine eye saw the
possibility of this happening.Copy !req
200. We had prepared ourselves
for any eventuality.Copy !req
201. We have our men
and horses in the hills ahead.Copy !req
202. Let's head there now.Copy !req
203. No...Copy !req
204. I'll just cut my stomach...Copy !req
205. like Father and the rest.Copy !req
206. Not happening.Copy !req
207. If you die, what will
be the future of Japan?Copy !req
208. Who cares about that?Copy !req
209. Well, that's...Copy !req
210. It'll become... That...Copy !req
211. I have a hunch,
but I can't just decide for myself...Copy !req
212. If he died, the effect would...Copy !req
213. While the effect on... It wouldn't be...Copy !req
214. He has to be there...Copy !req
215. A picture of Hell...Copy !req
216. Everything in Kamakura is
destroyed by traitorous warriors...Copy !req
217. Takauji Ashikaga...Copy !req
218. I can't believe you've
done it so thoroughly.Copy !req
219. Sir... Takauji...Copy !req
220. Who are you?Copy !req
221. I'm a feudal lord of Shimono.Copy !req
222. My name is Takauji Ashikaga.Copy !req
223. You can't escape from me, Young Master!Copy !req
224. He was just smiling the other day...Copy !req
225. Was that all a lie?Copy !req
226. Let's have our revenge, Lord Tokiyuki!Copy !req
227. I will certainly be of assistance!Copy !req
228. His smile is also completely fake.Copy !req
229. Go away.Copy !req
230. How can I believe a bogus prayer master?Copy !req
231. How rude!Copy !req
232. I am bursting with holiness,
and you call me bogus?Copy !req
233. Father.Copy !req
234. A bogus is a bogus. No need to argue.Copy !req
235. Back me up here, my family!Copy !req
236. I can't avenge anyone.Copy !req
237. You'll know it when you see this.Copy !req
238. Even Lord Minamoto-no-Yoritomo
took five years to destroy the Heike.Copy !req
239. And yet, there's a man who destroyed
a whole country in just 24 days.Copy !req
240. You said the other
day that I would be a hero...Copy !req
241. But it is powerful men
like Takauji Ashikaga,Copy !req
242. who will be called heroes
by future generations.Copy !req
243. The losers must die gracefully,
lest they be ashamed of themselves.Copy !req
244. So just please let me die.Copy !req
245. Just like the rest of the warriors.Copy !req
246. Is that so?Copy !req
247. Then die.Copy !req
248. He's from Hojo!Copy !req
249. From the depths of despair and beyond...Copy !req
250. Only on the brink of death...Copy !req
251. Hey!Copy !req
252. The hero inside you...Copy !req
253. may shine!Copy !req
254. Hey...Copy !req
255. What would you do if I died?Copy !req
256. You said you'd be a shame if you died,Copy !req
257. but it's the hero inside
you that made you...Copy !req
258. try to survive happily and undeterred.Copy !req
259. Being elusive is but one side of a hero.Copy !req
260. Up there! Shoot them down!Copy !req
261. You are the monster of survival instincts!Copy !req
262. You are most gifted for survival,Copy !req
263. and love the tingling tension
between life and death.Copy !req
264. You must mean trouble for Takauji,
who just murdered the emperor,Copy !req
265. and claimed the throne.Copy !req
266. The next heir to the Kamakura shogunate,
who must be killed more than anyone else,Copy !req
267. has the talent to survive
more than anyone else.Copy !req
268. Takauji becomes a hero by killing.Copy !req
269. And you will become a hero by surviving.Copy !req
270. You are two heroes
with opposite destinies.Copy !req
271. Of course, you can't win
by merely running and hiding.Copy !req
272. Companionship,
military strength, and intelligence.Copy !req
273. I will gather it all for you to win.Copy !req
274. If you keep on living, one day for sure,Copy !req
275. Takauji will come to kill you.Copy !req
276. Until then,Copy !req
277. you stay hidden, train yourself,
and take down the chasing demon!Copy !req
278. Now, we shall begin the game
of tag to reclaim the throne!Copy !req
279. Yorishige.Copy !req
280. What's your aim here?Copy !req
281. What's in it for you to
rescue an exiled kid?Copy !req
282. All for loyalty to the Hojo family!Copy !req
283. Well, I'm just a bogus,Copy !req
284. so I guess you won't believe me.Copy !req
285. I'll tell you in due time.Copy !req
286. After you have taken back Kamakura.Copy !req
287. I...Copy !req
288. I really know no shame.Copy !req
289. Even though my whole family was killed...Copy !req
290. It was only natural
for me to die as well...Copy !req
291. Thanks to you,
I swooned at the joy of living.Copy !req
292. Sir Yorishige.Copy !req
293. You will be responsible for this.Copy !req
294. Of course.Copy !req
295. I will serve you to the depths of Hell.Copy !req
296. Just like Yorishige predicted,Copy !req
297. two years later, Tokiyuki
shakes up the whole country.Copy !req
298. Hyeah!Copy !req
299. In an era where dying
gracefully was the norm,Copy !req
300. the boy kept on the run at all costs,Copy !req
301. and he was determined to get
the head of the new emperor.Copy !req
302. Thus marked the beginning of the
turbulent life of the elusive samurai.Copy !req
303. Coming forth!Copy !req