SPARKS OF TOMORROW
CHAPTER TWO: THE MYSTERY OF THE CATALOG
- Smells like incense. - What's happening?
Found you, my wife.
What the hell?!
Not you! I have no use for you!
Time to go home, my wife!
With the 20th Century Electrical Catalog!
Catalog?
- What do you mean, "my wife"? - It means you are going to marry me.
Marry?
This guy is your fiancé?
No! I have no idea what he's...
Of course you don't.
After all, I only just received your father's approval.
I see you are speechless with surprise.
I don't blame you.
You will soon be the wife of Yosuke Mizoe,
heir to the Mizoe Firm.
I don't want to!
What's this?
It sounded like you said, "I don't want to."
I said I don't want to, because I don't!
You don't?
I don't!
Enough. Just hand over the catalog!
Let go!
Hey! Be careful with the catalog!
What are you doing, pretty boy?
Get out!
You're too late.
Ouch!
Yosuke!
What are--
Sakamot--
Pardon me.
My hair...
That will do.
Kihachi!
Damn it. Was that electricity?
I see. That little brat...
What shall we do now?
We're done here! Hurry up and take us back!
Kihachi, get it together!
The catalog... The electrical catalog!
Damn it!
Hold it right there!
You're a stubborn, sparky brat!
Give me the catalog, pretty boy!
Sakamoto! Here!
Stay in your seat!
This is all the electricity you have?
You're nothing compared to him.
Yosuke, I am going to accelerate.
Do it!
Looks like it's goodbye.
Please, stop the car.
That's quite enough.
As a Mizoe bride, cease this unseemly behavior!
You'll only bring shame to your father.
Damn it!
Why does he want my catalog?
A steam pipe has burst!
Someone contact Mizoe Firm right away!
Watch out!
There's an accident. I'll take another route.
Any route is fine. Just hurry! Damn this thing!
That sparky brat...
Fancy running into him here.
Anyway...
- Time to hand it over! - I won't!
I told you to behave.
- Do not defy me! - Don't come any closer!
- I'll throw it out the win-- - Stop this foolishness!
There's smoke in my eyes!
Yosuke?
The catalog!
The catalog?
- Retrieve it! - Yes, sir!
I'll go too.
What are those fellas up to?
Well, it is rather hot today.
Please take care of my honey.
You couldn't give it to Sakamoto?
Keep it up, fellas!
Kihachi, lend a hand, will you?
Are you okay, Kihachi?
He scared me.
That pretty boy came out of nowhere.
Why did he take the catalog?
I finally got it back.
Why'd he have to take it away?
Kihachi...
What will you do?
Damn it!
Without the catalog, I'm nothing but a coward.
I can't go any further!
Yosuke!
What now?
Father! How could you decide that Inako should marry Yosuke?
It was the branch manager's idea.
If Inako marries into the Mizoe family, they'll hold off collecting our debts.
If I refuse,
Momokawa Sake Brewery from the Meireki Era will go bankrupt.
Are you happy for that to happen?
That's absurd!
Even so, locking Inako in the storehouse...
Be rational.
Do you think another family will be happy to take Inako in,
when she can't even serve tea?
Anyway, a daughter is supposed to respect what her parents decide.
But Inako is only 15.
At her age, the whole world is open to her.
Inari.
Thank you, Inari.
When I told Father I didn't want to get married, he scolded me.
I understand him.
If we don't do something,
the Momokawa Sake Brewery Mother left us will collapse.
If I marry the branch manager...
It's always been this way.
First I refuse and make him angry.
Then I get locked in the storehouse.
Then Father comes to see me, and I apologize.
And then, after all that...
And then you'll just marry him?
Sakamoto?
Sakamoto, what are you doing here?
Call me Kihachi.
Ki... ha...
Yesterday you said, "Momokawa Sake Brewery in Fushimi"
into the phonograph.
Never mind that!
There'll be trouble if someone finds you!
There's something I want to confirm about the catalog.
In that case, it's right here.
He didn't take it?
I hid it.
THE 20TH CENTURY ELECTRICAL CATALOG
Now! Izo! Kuga!
Hand it over, quickly.
It's empty.
Now you've done it, my honey.
There's no mistaking it.
This is the catalog my big brother Seiroku gave me.
Your elder brother gave it to you?
He wanted me to write down ideas for electrical inventions.
He said the 20th century would be the Age of Electricity.
He took me to the world's fair.
Since then,
countless visions of the future began to take shape in my mind.
NUMBER 2 - ELECTRICITY
You really look up to your elder brother, don't you?
He said the Age of Electricity was coming,
but he took the catalog to war and never came back.
I believed him all that time.
I can't admire a jerk like that.
But now it's back.
I won't be fooled.
By what?
Why would your big sister have the catalog he took to war, Inago?
Anyway, it's only the first half.
He went to school in Shiga. Why involve someone from Kyoto?
He just knew her somehow.
Well enough to give her this precious catalog?
What's the problem?
You say it like my sister did something wrong.
No, I'm just suspicious.
You shouldn't doubt people!
Believing in one another is what keeps the bonds between us!
Fine.
I'll go.
Bye, then.
My father will be here soon to check on me.
Please leave before he gets here.
- It's stuck! - Huh?
This damn thing!
Damn it!
I made it out!
Why did I have to help you?
Well, I'm going back.
Is it okay for you to go back?
What?
I...
If I go back, then that man and I...
Do you want to marry him?
That's...
It's what my father has decided.
Inago.
Come on.
You've changed, Yosuke.
Wearing flashy outfits like that...
Can this wait?
Why do you want the catalog?
You don't know how valuable the catalog is, do you?
Valuable?
Izo! Hurry up!
Wow!
Well, I can always help you out if you need a distraction.
Kihachi,
thank you very much.
- Is that Inako? - What?
- Inako? Get someone-- - Father, I feel dizzy!
Oh my.
Noriko, what are you doing?
- Are you all right? Father! - Get off me!
Hey! Someone help!
They've seen us!
Make a run for it!
It'll be bad if they catch you!
- Wait, Inako! - Father!
What are you doing?
It's a kite. I can use it to fly away.
Wow. Can you really do that?
In theory.
But in reality... I'm not sure.
You even doubt yourself?
I never thought I'd actually use it.
- Restrain them! - Plus, my inventions...
If you compare them to his, there's no way it'll fly.
What are you doing?
- I believe in you! - Huh?
Let's go!
Wait! Hey! We'll fall, Inago! Stop!
- Here goes! - We're not going! I said stop!
Leap with all your might!
My lady!
Our girl's flying, Father!
Get off me already!
Suzu, what is that?
Inako is flying.
No way! Hey, let me use that!
Are we above the smoke?
- I can see Kyoto below the smoke! - We're flying! We're really flying!
The sky is so close.
It's so beautiful.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
I feel like I can touch the sky.
Yeah.
Can we see Mt. Fuji?
Mt. Fuji?
It feels like I'm dreaming.
Okay, let's keep flying like this...
Whoa!
Yosuke!
We've got no choice!
- Let's do this! - Okay!
- On three! - Okay!
One, two, th--
Are you okay?
You can't be serious!
What's going on? Inako...
- My fiancée! It's a kidnapping! - Did you say kidnapping?
Why did you stop, Izo? Circle round and trap them!
Ouch.
I think I sprained my ankle.
Lean on me.
What was that?
I found you, kidnapper!
Give back Inako!
Is that really a human?
My sister said Kengo is more steam engine than human!
You mean he's a locomotive?
Kihachi, this way!
Right.
- It's dark! - Kihachi?
It's no good. Darkness is the thing I hate the most.
But you were fine in the storehouse.
There was still some natural light in there.
Turn back, Izo! Something's off.
Let's go back.
If we go back, you'll be caught.
Kihachi.
I'll lead the way, and we can go together.
You're not worried?
I believe in Gracious Deity Akubi.
They must have gone this way.
Where's the kidnapper?
That damn steam engine Kuga.
Kuga! The kidnapper is in here!
- Izo, give him support. - Yes, sir!
That must be Kengo. Let's hurry.
We made it out!
You're giving me a hard time, my honey.
- Let her go! - I've finally caught you, kidnapper.
Who you calling "kidnapper"?
Kengo, you're mistaken!
No, there's no mistake.
You're my fiancée.
THE 20TH CENTURY ELECTRICAL CATALOG
The 20th Century Electrical Catalog.
This is mine!
It belongs to me and my brother Seiroku!
Your brother Seiro--
I'm Kihachi Sakamoto!
Seiroku Sakamoto's younger brother!
I know that.
- Izo. - Yes, sir.
Kihachi!
Hey, cut it out!
Please don't move.
Hey! I said let go of me!
I told you the catalog is mine! Hey!
Are you here, Jinemon?
I'm returning my honey to you.
- Inako! - Inako!
Big Sis, I... Ouch.
Did you hurt your leg?
My lady, I will treat your injury.
Thank you, Tome.
Huh?
The man who kidnapped your daughter.
Jeez, he certainly proved to be a handful.
How did you catch him, Branch Manager?
It was fate, I suppose.
- Is that Kihachi Sakamoto? - Yes.
I'm not entirely sure what's going on either.
Damn it!
Yosuke.
Finally...
Pretty boy! Give me back my catalog!
You can scream all you want.
Seiroku, the time has finally come for us to make our dream come true.
What the heck?
THE 20TH CENTURY, A NEW ERA--
It can't be...
This can't be all there...
Ridiculous!
It's all a child's doodling!
This catalog has tremendous power.
It's a secret.
No! This can't be it!
Right? The real catalog is...
Impossible!
This is a fake!
Huh?
I'm telling you, this catalog is a fake!
Where's the real one?
A fake?
Subtitle translation by: Daisy Savage