So the reason Sugimoto's crew wasn't too concerned about me
was because they had another sniper on their team?
There aren't many people with that level of skill.
Who could it be?
No way.
He can't have come all the way to Sapporo.
No, if I were in his place, I would have come.
I'd follow me until one of us was dead.
I need to find a place to shoot back.
Kantarou, over there!
He's hiding somewhere around there!
There!
He's hiding somewhere around there!
Kantarou, circle around!
What do I do?
Straw bundles...
...used as packing materials for the beer bottles!
He set fire to them?
Oh no! Get out of here!
Toni-san, this way! This way!
Ainu...
I can't keep going...
You really are old.
No stamina.
I don't know enough to be worth capturing!
And look at your plump little belly.
How pathetic.
This is actually the skins that Hijikata gave you, right?
Of course not!
Lieutenant Tsurumi said that Hijikata Toshizou wouldn't hide the skins
somewhere he couldn't see them!
Just as a rich man splits his assets between several banks,
he must have split the skins up between people he can trust!
Then if someone loses them, he can keep the damage to a minimum!
See!
I knew you had one.
A copy of someone still alive?
Good, good.
You must have more, right?
Come on, show me!
You little piggy!
Let me see it!
Somebody's coming?
Hey, wait.
Golden Kamuy
Episode Fifty-Two Tokushirou-san's Number One
A dead end?
Ainu.
Those clothes... you're an Ainu, right?
I heard a wonderful story about Ainu!
An island with only Ainu women!
No men on the island!
But when they turn their butts to the east wind,
they get pregnant.
Wonderful!
I knew that women can give birth without men!
Hey Aca, do you know about an island called menaspa?
There are only women on the island.
And there's something called "menas hoku kor".
When you let the east wind touch your butt,
girls can get pregnant!
Was I born when Hapo let the east wind touch her butt?
You were born when I and your mother, Riratte, knew Uworamkote.
Uworamkote?
Who told you this story?
Our bible contains the same story!
The Holy Mother, Maria!
You're Jack the Ripper, aren't you?
That's why those women are wrong.
And I must forgive their sins!
With the holy water!
The women had to die for such a stupid reason?
Let the east wind touch your butt...
I want to see if you get pregnant.
You're an Ainu. That's how you were born, right?
I was born when my Aca and Hapo knew Uworamkote... loved one another!
The fire's gotten stronger!
Was it those fireworks?
Did someone call the fire department?
Out of the way! Water pump coming through!
Call all the fire departments in Sapporo!
Get all the pumps we can!
Get the pump ready!
Start spraying! Stop the fire!
They're here! They're here! They'll all here!
Even the pirate!
Wonderful!
I knew the the papers would bring them here to find the serial killer!
Okay...
Now's my only chance!
Push! Push!
A child born of love?
You lie!
You lie just like that woman!
That filthy prostitute...
She said I was her son!
A child born of the love between her and a member of the royal family!
And that if I was her child, I would have that birthmark...
I refuse to believe I was born from that woman...
Let go, or I'll stab you with this poison arrow!
I am a child of God! Born of a virgin!
Hey, partner.
That's my job, right?
Sugimoto...
Your mom's a virgin? Bullshit.
Killing women for disgusting reasons...
You're worse than any murderer I've ever met.
What matters isn't who your parents were, it's what you live for!
My Lord, into your hands I commend my...
What?
I see. So you're the one behind the killings.
Hmph. I'm sure to you, prostitutes may be sinners...
But to me, they're as holy as Kannon herself!
Two tattooed skins left!
Hyakunosuke...
Who's a cheap pawn now, huh?
What's wrong? Stand up.
Get your bayonet and run at me.
What?
Is a gun all you can ever cling to?
What are you gonna do with an empty gun?
Take these.
Let's see if you can load them faster than
I can stab your heart with your own bayonet.
And who are you calling the cheapest pawn, you piece of shit?
Son of a prostitute!
Golden Kamuy
I don't have time to deal with Hyakunosuke...
Need to tell... Lt. Tsurumi...
What the hell are you doing?
What's wrong with you?
Come down here!
What's he going to do?
What matters isn't who your parents were, it's what you live for!
If you're that worried about whether you're a cheap pawn or not...
Then just look at what kind of face Lieutenant Tsurumi makes at your funeral.
Lieutenant Tsurumi...
Thank you, Usami.
Your death has made me complete as a sniper.
Oops.
This is a copy of the skin...
Capture Warden Kadokura.
And one more thing...
Well done, Private Usami.
You really are a talented warrior I can trust.
And an important comrade to all of us.
From now on, we're together.
Tokishige-kun, you'll live on within me as my number one.
I'm so happy... I could cum...
Tokushirou-san...
Now, come one, come all!
Attention, everyone!
Keiji, you filled the yard with holes!
Father will be disappointed again if he sees it.
Where did Father bury Jirou?
I told you, he gave him to someone else.
Because all you do is play with Jirou, and not study.
Who'd take such an old dog?
Dad killed him!
I know he did!
How could you talk like that to your own mother, Keiji?
You're crazy!
Your father would be disappointed if he heard that!
You look filthy.
Wipe that off your face. What if someone sees you?
Dog
It's a tattoo. It won't go away.
What are you saying? Wipe it off!
Ow! Ow! Ow!
Ow...
Keiji... why would you...
What have you done?
You'll never solve the code now!
Nobody will ever have the gold!
Meh.
Huh?
The code can be cracked without all 24 skins.
The reason we kept collecting them anyway
was that we didn't know the minimum number needed,
and more skins in our hands made it harder for our enemies to crack the code.
Everybody realized that a long time ago.
Except Ueji Keiji, I guess.
Hey! This is bullshit! Don't ignore me! Look at me!
Fuck the gold, and fuck you!
What can you even do with gold?
Do you think it'll grant your every wish?
All you fools think you can fill the holes in your hearts with gold!
You were trying to rip the skin off my face and live happily ever after!
I'm more honest about my life than any of you!
I'm a much more beautiful creature than any of you!
I hope you all get cursed by the gold and turn ugly,
and then get real disappointed in yourselves!
Let me see your disappointed faces!
Oh shit!
No... no... no... no...
No!
Ueji Keiji made something in the story clear...
The code could be cracked without all 24 skins!
But nobody knew then that this would only escalate the war for the gold!
Oh no. The smoke's filling the place fast!
We don't have time to look for the exit!
We'll head for the second floor and jump out the window!
Kadokura!
Were you holding on to that?
Only some of them.
More importantly, which way are the stairs?
We have to get out of here.
Follow me.
Pretty sure it's this way.
Asirpa-san, are you okay?
Kadokura, your back!
Oh, yeah, it's just on my back.
After the mass escape...
Nopperabo said he'd let me have one, secretly.
But then the chief warden hid Nopperabo away before it could be finished.
This is the twenty-fourth, final tattoo.
We've got the culprit!
The 7th was at the scene! Don't let them find you!
Everyone, evacuate immediately.
Wait! I lost track of Sugimoto and the others!
I saw them in that building.
Is this really the way?
I think so.
Not this way!
Asirpa-san...
I'll soak your headband in water... Put it up to your mouth!
Sugimoto! Are you there?!
Shiraishi!
Shiraishi! Is that the exit?
Asirpa-chan, the exit is this way!
Can you make it?
The smoke's terrible.
Get back, Shiraishi Yoshitake.
I'll go find them.
There's no way! Not in this smoke!
It's too dangerous!
Shiraishi...
Happiness isn't something that just falls from heaven.
You have to run as hard as you can to grab it, even if it kills you.
Sugimoto's immortal. He'll make it out alive!
You'll die, Botaro!
I won't...
This is only a single scene in the heroic legend of King Botaro.
Sugimoto! Keep shouting!
Kadokura, this way!
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