1 00:00:26,339 --> 00:00:27,423 Nanoka... 2 00:00:28,383 --> 00:00:33,429 There was so much more I wanted to teach you. 3 00:00:34,347 --> 00:00:35,181 Mao? 4 00:00:36,599 --> 00:00:37,517 Mao?! 5 00:00:39,519 --> 00:00:40,436 Mao! 6 00:00:41,437 --> 00:00:43,690 Mao... Hey! No! 7 00:00:44,148 --> 00:00:45,316 Don't leave me! 8 00:00:45,608 --> 00:00:47,902 I don't know anything! 9 00:00:48,695 --> 00:00:50,613 I can't do anything by myself. 10 00:00:50,947 --> 00:00:52,824 Please... Come on, Mao! 11 00:00:53,199 --> 00:00:55,410 No... Don't die! 12 00:00:55,576 --> 00:00:56,786 No! No! No! 13 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:58,746 Nooo! 14 00:00:58,913 --> 00:01:01,708 Maooo! 15 00:01:04,961 --> 00:01:05,920 Huh? 16 00:01:10,550 --> 00:01:12,135 What's... happening...?! 17 00:01:13,011 --> 00:01:14,470 I feel dizzy. 18 00:01:32,030 --> 00:01:33,531 Master Mao's wound... 19 00:01:34,115 --> 00:01:35,450 is healing. 20 00:01:41,998 --> 00:01:43,207 Na... noka... 21 00:01:47,670 --> 00:01:49,339 It seems your blood... 22 00:01:50,256 --> 00:01:52,675 somehow kept me alive. 23 00:01:54,135 --> 00:01:55,553 So that's what happened... 24 00:01:57,221 --> 00:01:58,556 My blood... 25 00:01:59,474 --> 00:02:00,975 is just like Mao's... 26 00:02:01,726 --> 00:02:03,603 Cursed by the Byoki. 27 00:02:05,271 --> 00:02:08,232 But I'm just glad... Mao is still alive. 28 00:02:10,735 --> 00:02:13,071 I'm up against a senior apprentice who is a Water sorcerer. 29 00:02:16,783 --> 00:02:18,409 Water is everywhere around us. 30 00:02:19,869 --> 00:02:22,914 Could they be watching me through the water? 31 00:02:23,956 --> 00:02:24,999 If that's the case... 32 00:02:25,667 --> 00:02:27,502 I shall take you to Kyoto. 33 00:02:28,211 --> 00:02:29,921 I shall take you to Kyoto. 34 00:02:31,964 --> 00:02:33,675 Why not come in person? 35 00:02:36,344 --> 00:02:38,971 What's keeping them from leaving Kyoto? 36 00:02:44,435 --> 00:02:46,437 My precious son and heir... 37 00:02:46,771 --> 00:02:49,691 fell gravely ill and even the doctors gave up on him. 38 00:02:50,108 --> 00:02:54,153 Just when I was at my wit's end, I heard the rumors about you. 39 00:02:54,445 --> 00:02:58,950 I realized an onmyoji of the Goko Clan was my last hope... 40 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,369 I'll pay whatever it takes. 41 00:03:02,870 --> 00:03:07,500 Preserving life is the duty of the Goko Clan. 42 00:03:04,247 --> 00:03:06,916 {\an8}SHIRANUI 43 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,294 I shall save your son. 44 00:03:12,380 --> 00:03:13,881 Please, put your mind at ease. 45 00:03:14,757 --> 00:03:18,636 Ahh... What a truly divine presence. 46 00:03:24,809 --> 00:03:26,144 Master Shiranui... 47 00:03:26,436 --> 00:03:29,188 Nothing's showing up in the water mirror anymore. 48 00:03:29,522 --> 00:03:32,984 What? You failed again? 49 00:03:36,028 --> 00:03:37,488 You shikigami... 50 00:03:37,989 --> 00:03:39,323 are so useless. 51 00:03:46,497 --> 00:03:47,498 Mao... 52 00:03:48,082 --> 00:03:50,793 I can't wait to see you again. 53 00:05:24,887 --> 00:05:27,974 {\an8}WATER SORCERER 54 00:05:29,892 --> 00:05:32,103 Where are we going today, Master? 55 00:05:32,728 --> 00:05:36,065 We're going to see how things are going at Northern Beach. 56 00:05:36,107 --> 00:05:37,650 Northern Beach... 57 00:05:36,190 --> 00:05:38,860 {\an8}MAO 58 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:39,610 That is where the Water sorcerers train. 59 00:05:40,111 --> 00:05:42,738 {\an8}MASTER OF THE GOKO CLAN 60 00:05:40,152 --> 00:05:41,070 Yes. 61 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,407 Mao, it will be good for you to observe them. 62 00:05:44,991 --> 00:05:46,033 Yes, Master. 63 00:06:16,564 --> 00:06:17,648 That's amazing! 64 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:24,906 Oh... Master... 65 00:06:25,948 --> 00:06:26,908 Master... 66 00:06:29,452 --> 00:06:31,913 Who cast that spell?! 67 00:06:33,956 --> 00:06:36,042 The caster was Masago? 68 00:06:51,349 --> 00:06:53,934 {\an8}MASAGO 69 00:06:56,270 --> 00:06:57,146 A woman?! 70 00:07:06,405 --> 00:07:07,865 Well done, Masago. 71 00:07:16,957 --> 00:07:18,167 You don't look familiar. 72 00:07:18,542 --> 00:07:19,502 Your name is Mao? 73 00:07:20,086 --> 00:07:23,214 Yes. I only recently arrived at the compound. 74 00:07:23,673 --> 00:07:24,590 I see... 75 00:07:25,049 --> 00:07:26,175 And yet, 76 00:07:26,550 --> 00:07:30,429 you've already been permitted to accompany Master on his rounds. 77 00:07:35,101 --> 00:07:36,477 Get out while you can. 78 00:07:36,936 --> 00:07:37,812 What...? 79 00:07:38,813 --> 00:07:42,149 If you stay here long enough, you'll understand why. 80 00:07:43,067 --> 00:07:44,360 Idiot! 81 00:07:45,403 --> 00:07:47,613 You have no talent! 82 00:07:47,947 --> 00:07:49,115 Just quit! 83 00:07:51,075 --> 00:07:54,078 Forgive me, Master! 84 00:07:55,496 --> 00:07:58,082 This is a cruel place. 85 00:08:00,167 --> 00:08:01,419 Among the Water sorcerers, 86 00:08:01,627 --> 00:08:04,338 {\an8}HYAKKA 87 00:08:01,752 --> 00:08:05,798 Masago was the most powerful, wasn't she? 88 00:08:06,424 --> 00:08:08,300 You think so as well, Hyakka? 89 00:08:09,093 --> 00:08:10,177 Yeah. 90 00:08:10,428 --> 00:08:12,680 {\an8}NANOKA KIBA 91 00:08:10,886 --> 00:08:12,471 She was a woman, but... 92 00:08:12,930 --> 00:08:15,141 if anyone was worthy of being summoned to the Goshikido, 93 00:08:15,182 --> 00:08:17,727 there was no sorcerer greater than Masago. 94 00:08:19,103 --> 00:08:22,857 But somehow, the way I'm being attacked now 95 00:08:22,982 --> 00:08:24,984 doesn't fit with the Masago I knew. 96 00:08:26,193 --> 00:08:29,864 Maybe living for hundreds of years changes a person? 97 00:08:31,407 --> 00:08:32,616 Alright, eat up! 98 00:08:33,534 --> 00:08:34,577 Why udon? 99 00:08:35,202 --> 00:08:36,579 It's my next gig. 100 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,875 The show I used to perform in was all based on fire. 101 00:08:41,333 --> 00:08:43,043 But that doesn't go over well these days. 102 00:08:43,377 --> 00:08:46,130 {\an8}OTOYA 103 00:08:43,711 --> 00:08:47,298 People are still traumatized by the earthquake and the fires, after all. 104 00:08:47,965 --> 00:08:48,924 In that case... 105 00:08:49,050 --> 00:08:50,384 Thank you for the food. 106 00:08:50,593 --> 00:08:52,595 Dig in! Tell me how it tastes. 107 00:09:05,149 --> 00:09:06,984 Hey, when are you going to start eating?! 108 00:09:07,693 --> 00:09:09,695 I'm like a cat, I can't handle hot food. 109 00:09:10,029 --> 00:09:12,406 Good grief, you're such a slowpoke. 110 00:09:14,992 --> 00:09:16,869 You, too, Mao?! 111 00:09:17,286 --> 00:09:18,287 Give me a moment. 112 00:09:33,969 --> 00:09:37,098 They gained access to a wealthy family whose daughter was near death 113 00:09:37,473 --> 00:09:41,060 and convinced them they could prolong her life. 114 00:09:41,227 --> 00:09:43,938 {\an8}KAMON 115 00:09:41,936 --> 00:09:44,939 But it was almost disappointingly easy to connect the dots. 116 00:09:46,398 --> 00:09:48,025 Claiming to be a member of the Goko Clan, 117 00:09:48,067 --> 00:09:52,363 they were peddling their crude spells to the upper class. 118 00:09:54,865 --> 00:09:57,618 That person is probably a Water sorcerer. 119 00:09:58,994 --> 00:10:00,287 If that's true, could it be... 120 00:10:01,497 --> 00:10:02,540 Masago?! 121 00:10:10,381 --> 00:10:11,757 Master Shiranui. 122 00:10:12,091 --> 00:10:14,135 A visitor has appeared in the water mirror. 123 00:10:21,517 --> 00:10:23,185 This fellow... 124 00:10:30,526 --> 00:10:32,444 Just as Master said... 125 00:10:33,362 --> 00:10:35,363 Whoever survives the battle of deadly curses 126 00:10:35,364 --> 00:10:38,576 and is the last one standing, is the true successor. 127 00:10:40,327 --> 00:10:43,289 But Mao, the sacrifice, was still alive. 128 00:10:43,998 --> 00:10:44,999 And also... 129 00:10:45,833 --> 00:10:49,378 Kamon, why are you still alive? 130 00:10:50,713 --> 00:10:52,673 Well, that's what I'd like to know. 131 00:10:59,597 --> 00:11:01,765 Welcome! Thank you for coming. 132 00:11:02,224 --> 00:11:05,811 Mr. Kuchinawa... Is that what they call you? 133 00:11:08,981 --> 00:11:10,274 It isn't Masago. 134 00:11:16,989 --> 00:11:18,991 What's with that look? 135 00:11:19,575 --> 00:11:21,827 Mr. Kuchinawa, you're... 136 00:11:22,661 --> 00:11:23,954 Kamon, aren't you? 137 00:11:29,543 --> 00:11:30,711 What a fool... 138 00:11:30,961 --> 00:11:33,881 To think you'd walk right into my trap. 139 00:11:49,688 --> 00:11:50,981 Who are... 140 00:11:51,482 --> 00:11:52,399 you again? 141 00:11:54,318 --> 00:11:56,779 If you don't remember, that's fine by me. 142 00:11:58,572 --> 00:11:59,865 Just to let you know... 143 00:12:00,074 --> 00:12:01,742 The killing... 144 00:12:02,117 --> 00:12:03,869 isn't over yet! 145 00:12:20,636 --> 00:12:22,554 Could it be that guy?! 146 00:12:24,348 --> 00:12:27,935 Kamon, I'd like some medicinal herbs that will stop bleeding. 147 00:12:28,769 --> 00:12:30,688 Did you injure yourself, Masago? 148 00:12:31,647 --> 00:12:32,940 They're not for me. 149 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,318 One of the junior apprentices pushed himself too hard during training. 150 00:12:38,946 --> 00:12:42,366 My apologies, Miss Masago. 151 00:12:44,702 --> 00:12:47,036 That's what happens when someone tries to use spells 152 00:12:47,037 --> 00:12:48,372 beyond their abilities. 153 00:12:48,956 --> 00:12:50,915 It seems he's been secretly watching my techniques 154 00:12:50,916 --> 00:12:52,418 and trying to imitate them. 155 00:12:53,168 --> 00:12:54,586 Then expel him. 156 00:12:55,045 --> 00:12:57,214 I'm afraid I can't do that. 157 00:12:58,465 --> 00:13:03,429 Masago was always looking after that hopeless junior apprentice... 158 00:13:15,316 --> 00:13:16,942 What was his name? 159 00:13:17,526 --> 00:13:20,112 I remember now. It's... 160 00:13:20,654 --> 00:13:21,739 Shiranui. 161 00:13:56,815 --> 00:13:57,983 So, Shiranui... 162 00:13:58,692 --> 00:14:01,612 The fact that you're alive in this era could only mean... 163 00:14:04,323 --> 00:14:05,324 You were... 164 00:14:05,783 --> 00:14:07,743 summoned to the Goshikido? 165 00:14:09,661 --> 00:14:10,621 Why you? 166 00:14:10,954 --> 00:14:13,372 If anyone was going to be summoned, it should've been Masago. 167 00:14:13,373 --> 00:14:15,834 You were completely hopeless back then. 168 00:14:16,835 --> 00:14:19,213 I'm not who I was back then. 169 00:14:19,922 --> 00:14:21,340 No, you haven't changed. 170 00:14:22,007 --> 00:14:23,884 Even now, 171 00:14:24,384 --> 00:14:27,638 all you can manage are half-baked life-extension spells. 172 00:14:28,847 --> 00:14:29,764 And on top of that, 173 00:14:29,765 --> 00:14:32,309 you're going around using the name of the Goko Clan. 174 00:14:32,434 --> 00:14:33,602 Shut up! 175 00:14:35,104 --> 00:14:36,063 Die. 176 00:14:51,954 --> 00:14:52,955 Die. 177 00:15:40,210 --> 00:15:42,337 {\an8}BENIKO 178 00:15:49,428 --> 00:15:50,470 Master Kamon... 179 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:52,973 Were you injured? 180 00:15:53,390 --> 00:15:55,517 I paid him back twice over, though. 181 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,063 But what is up with Shiranui's legs? 182 00:16:02,733 --> 00:16:05,027 Damn it! I failed to kill him. 183 00:16:06,111 --> 00:16:07,821 What do you say, big brother? 184 00:16:09,823 --> 00:16:12,408 Instead of staying cooped up inside this barrier, 185 00:16:12,409 --> 00:16:15,078 {\an8}YURAKO 186 00:16:12,576 --> 00:16:15,120 why don't we go to the Imperial Capital? 187 00:16:16,079 --> 00:16:17,998 If only it were that simple. 188 00:16:18,415 --> 00:16:19,875 It is. 189 00:16:20,125 --> 00:16:24,046 There are powerful people everywhere who don't want to die. 190 00:16:25,964 --> 00:16:27,007 And besides... 191 00:16:27,925 --> 00:16:30,177 I want to see Mao, too. 192 00:16:31,553 --> 00:16:33,847 The Mao I saw in the water mirror 193 00:16:34,097 --> 00:16:36,642 has changed since those days... 194 00:16:37,643 --> 00:16:40,479 but I want to see Mao again. 195 00:16:45,859 --> 00:16:47,653 {\an8}FIFTH STREET SHOPPING 196 00:16:50,572 --> 00:16:52,658 I came back to this side... 197 00:16:53,408 --> 00:16:55,619 But if he gets attacked like that again... 198 00:16:56,703 --> 00:16:58,372 It seems your blood... 199 00:16:59,164 --> 00:17:01,625 somehow kept me alive. 200 00:17:03,835 --> 00:17:06,755 Maybe, I should stay by his side all the time. 201 00:17:15,472 --> 00:17:18,141 No... no... Am I some kind of blood bank? 202 00:17:18,684 --> 00:17:20,769 I don't want our relationship to be like that. 203 00:17:24,314 --> 00:17:26,900 {\an8}BYOKI 204 00:17:35,367 --> 00:17:37,244 What's Otoya up to? 205 00:17:37,744 --> 00:17:40,706 He's creating a new kodoku pot. 206 00:17:41,873 --> 00:17:44,876 The kodoku pot that sustained my life until now... 207 00:17:45,127 --> 00:17:46,295 was destroyed... 208 00:17:47,546 --> 00:17:51,091 It was a prized concoction Otoya spent centuries cultivating, but... 209 00:17:51,341 --> 00:17:52,593 Sounds like a secret sauce. 210 00:17:53,176 --> 00:17:54,761 I have to keep adding to it... 211 00:17:55,220 --> 00:17:58,932 And it will take forty-nine days for the first kodoku to be ready. 212 00:18:03,854 --> 00:18:07,149 Will your body be alright until then, Master Mao? 213 00:18:07,357 --> 00:18:08,525 For the time being, yes. 214 00:18:09,985 --> 00:18:10,861 If anything, 215 00:18:11,903 --> 00:18:13,238 ever since then... 216 00:18:13,780 --> 00:18:16,825 After Nanoka's blood flowed into me 217 00:18:17,451 --> 00:18:19,369 and my wounds healed... 218 00:18:22,914 --> 00:18:24,082 Na... noka... 219 00:18:24,625 --> 00:18:26,376 I've been overflowing with strength. 220 00:18:28,211 --> 00:18:30,631 Is it because our blood shares the same curse of the Byoki? 221 00:18:40,015 --> 00:18:42,100 {\an8}FUNA UOZUMI 222 00:18:54,279 --> 00:18:55,280 Oh dear... 223 00:18:56,448 --> 00:18:58,200 Mao gave me these protective stones. 224 00:18:58,909 --> 00:19:01,787 He said they would protect me from evil. 225 00:19:03,330 --> 00:19:04,998 She forgot to wear them... 226 00:19:13,590 --> 00:19:14,966 Miss Nanoka...! 227 00:19:20,847 --> 00:19:22,307 The Byo... ki... 228 00:19:23,558 --> 00:19:25,227 I found... you... 229 00:19:29,898 --> 00:19:31,817 No... How?! 230 00:19:33,026 --> 00:19:35,904 Unless it reclaims the body that fused with Mao, 231 00:19:36,238 --> 00:19:38,572 the Byoki shouldn't be able to transfer itself into me 232 00:19:38,573 --> 00:19:40,200 as its new vessel. 233 00:19:41,451 --> 00:19:43,161 So then why?! 234 00:19:48,917 --> 00:19:50,961 What does it want from me?! 235 00:19:58,218 --> 00:19:59,219 Help! 236 00:19:59,678 --> 00:20:00,762 Help! 237 00:20:03,223 --> 00:20:05,809 Help me, Mao! 238 00:20:21,783 --> 00:20:23,869 {\an8}SHIRAHA 239 00:20:22,659 --> 00:20:23,702 Nanoka? 240 00:20:36,590 --> 00:20:37,507 Huh? 241 00:20:50,854 --> 00:20:53,106 I think I'm safe now... 242 00:20:53,732 --> 00:20:54,900 I'll head home. 243 00:21:10,248 --> 00:21:11,416 Nanoka. 244 00:21:16,296 --> 00:21:18,507 My body... won't move! 245 00:21:22,344 --> 00:21:25,972 You can still turn back now... 246 00:21:28,433 --> 00:21:32,103 If you continue to give yourself to Mao... 247 00:21:32,813 --> 00:21:34,064 you will... 248 00:21:43,323 --> 00:21:44,449 Uozumi! 249 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:48,245 Are you alright? 250 00:21:50,121 --> 00:21:51,289 It's gone... 251 00:21:55,961 --> 00:21:58,797 It appears that the Byoki's wounds still haven't healed. 252 00:21:59,506 --> 00:22:02,050 Because of that, I was able to cut through its barrier. 253 00:22:03,593 --> 00:22:06,137 Thank you... Uozumi... 254 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:07,973 Miss Nanoka... 255 00:22:09,349 --> 00:22:10,851 I...was so afraid... 256 00:22:12,060 --> 00:22:13,603 What did it do to you? 257 00:22:14,396 --> 00:22:15,438 Nothing. 258 00:22:16,356 --> 00:22:17,524 But... 259 00:22:18,567 --> 00:22:22,112 If you continue to give yourself to Mao... 260 00:22:23,029 --> 00:22:24,114 you will... 261 00:22:24,990 --> 00:22:26,199 What... 262 00:22:27,033 --> 00:22:28,577 does that mean?! 263 00:22:35,584 --> 00:22:38,920 So, Mao... What's the plan from here? 264 00:22:39,546 --> 00:22:42,215 Are you going to Kyoto to kill that senior apprentice 265 00:22:42,340 --> 00:22:43,758 who's a Water sorcerer? 266 00:22:44,175 --> 00:22:47,262 Well... I'm not interested in killing... 267 00:22:48,263 --> 00:22:50,891 But, I do want answers... 268 00:22:52,142 --> 00:22:54,102 That day, when the compound burned down... 269 00:22:55,186 --> 00:22:57,397 What really happened that day? 270 00:22:58,940 --> 00:23:02,694 Did I really kill Lady Sana? 271 00:23:06,823 --> 00:23:08,199 Answers?! 272 00:23:08,241 --> 00:23:10,327 Hey, they came to kill you! 273 00:23:10,452 --> 00:23:13,622 You've always been such a softie. 274 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:15,790 Ahh, I'm exhausted. 275 00:23:16,499 --> 00:23:18,418 Mao, mind if I crash here? 276 00:23:19,127 --> 00:23:20,003 What? 277 00:23:21,129 --> 00:23:22,339 Kamon... 278 00:24:58,018 --> 00:24:59,853 {\an8}NEXT TIME 279 00:24:58,476 --> 00:25:01,479 I have to let Mao know that I encountered the Byoki. 280 00:25:01,688 --> 00:25:05,442 Why did the Byoki appear before Nanoka to warn her? 281 00:25:05,567 --> 00:25:07,944 I went to the mansion... 282 00:25:08,278 --> 00:25:09,404 But... 283 00:25:09,863 --> 00:25:11,948 a family I had never seen before was living there... 284 00:25:12,282 --> 00:25:13,783 and they politely turned me away. 285 00:25:13,950 --> 00:25:16,453 What was Lady Sana like? 286 00:25:16,870 --> 00:25:17,829 For you. 287 00:25:18,121 --> 00:25:19,164 Merry Christmas! 288 00:25:19,664 --> 00:25:21,750 I have something for you, too. 289 00:25:23,209 --> 00:25:25,128 Next time: Byoki