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{\an8}YAMATO - BUO - SEII
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{\an8}Year 60 of the Yamato era. Spring.
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{\an8}Ohga Wajima,
Commander-in-Chief of the northern Seii,
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set as her next target Reihoku,
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where Borderland General Mitsuhide Ryumon
was stationed,
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and advanced her forces.
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In response, Mitsuhide countered
with The Empty Fort Stratagem,
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and slipped free of the tiger's jaws.
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Despite commanding an overwhelming force,
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Ohga Wajima recoiled
before a lone tea master,
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retreating in fear of an ambush.
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Her loss of authority
was plain for all to see.
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{\an8}MARUOKA CASTLE
21:15, 8 DEGREES CELSIUS
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"I don't know why she retreated
when all she faced was an old tea master."
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"Overwhelmed by his presence,
she panicked and retreated."
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"Absolutely pathetic."
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"A disappointing call."
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"I'm done supporting you."
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What a bunch of idiots!
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They can make such misguided criticisms
only because later investigations revealed
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that there were no soldiers
lying in ambush.
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Exactly!
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Had we been struck by a surprise attack
from Yamato's forces at Kuzuryu Bridge,
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we would have lost our Commander-in-Chief
along with countless troops,
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plunging us into total chaos!
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You should ignore the opinions of fools
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who can only see things
from such a narrow, limited perspective!
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I urge you to severely punish
those who wrote these letters!
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- That's right!
- Right!
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Enough.
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SEII COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
OHGA WAJIMA
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No matter how many reasons
I give for retreating,
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the fact remains
that there were no ambush troops.
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That is the undeniable truth.
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The blame lies with me
for making the wrong call.
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Those who wrote these letters
are to go unpunished.
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Unpunished?
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But there are no small number calling
for your resignation, Commander!
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To prevent future trouble,
we must set them right--
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That's enough.
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STRATEGIST
YAYAKICHI HEI
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The Commander-in-Chief appears tired.
All of you, return to your camps.
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Excuse us.
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NIPPON SANGOKU:
THE THREE NATIONS OF THE CRIMSON SUN
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{\an8}FUKUI REIHOKU CASTLE
SAME TIME, 8 DEGREES CELSIUS
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STRATEGIST
YASUAKI KAKU
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- How's progress looking?
- Sir!
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{\an8}About 70% of the civilians
have been moved into the castle shelters.
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{\an8}TEARS FOR YAYAKICHI
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Good. Continue evacuating everyone
inside the castle.
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Respectfully, I believe
we should close the gates at once
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and prepare for the Seii army's attack.
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Then, what about the civilians
still outside the walls?
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To save the many already inside the walls,
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the sacrifice of the few outside
may be unavoidable.
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Do you know
why the Great Violent Revolution
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broke out in this country?
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I believe it was because those in power
embraced extreme utilitarianism
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and repeatedly forced through policies
that ignored the will of the people.
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Your choice may be right
from a utilitarian standpoint.
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But in a reality shaped by "heaven,"
"land," and the "people,"
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we should consider every angle
and perspective
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until the very last moment
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to think through what is truly best,
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and pour our efforts
into solving the problem.
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For those of us
in a position to save people,
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- all the more so.
- Exactly.
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If we cannot even try to save the lives
we can save right now,
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how could an age of peace ever come?
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Right, sir! I'll take that to heart!
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Strategist Kaku!
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It's Borderland General Ryumon!
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Hey.
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{\an8}BORDERLAND GENERAL
MITSUHIDE RYUMON
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Honestly, I'm so relieved
you made it back alive.
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Welcome back, sir!
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Welcome back, sir!
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General Ryumon, your shoulder...
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Hurry, get Dr. Kata.
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Kaku.
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Commander Wajima's arrow
did not waver for an instant.
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If my tea preparation
had even the slightest hesitation,
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I wouldn't be here now.
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The fact that you sent me off, Kaku,
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is one of the reasons
I avoided a worse outcome.
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Truly, thank you.
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Honestly, what are you saying?
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It's because it was you, Mr. Ryumon,
that I could send you off.
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I trusted you would come back.
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Well then, back to state affairs.
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What... the...
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Strategist Kaku... Strategist Kaku!
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Get a doctor now!
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{\an8}MARUOKA CASTLE
SAME TIME
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Yayakichi.
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I'm sorry I couldn't believe in you.
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I lacked the insight
to see what lay ahead.
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I did not punish those who slaughtered
the Yamato people in Okuetsu,
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all to keep morale intact.
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I doubted my strategist's counsel,
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and I could not even carry out the revenge
I had longed for.
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I'm unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.
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Tora,
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why would the one who chose to retreat
for the sake of the people and nation,
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instead of carrying out the revenge
they longed for,
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be unfit to be Commander-in-Chief?
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So long as we live on this earth,
we cannot escape fate.
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Heaven's timing,
the land's advantage, the people's unity...
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Tonight, fortune simply did not favor us.
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Yayakichi...
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Even if you retreat, as long as
you're alive, you can press forward again.
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Do not despair.
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Yes.
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From here on, this will be the true test.
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If we do not want Yamato's history books
to remember you as someone who
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"cowered before Ryumon's resolve
and fled,"
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then we must win this war.
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You are right.
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To that end,
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before we march at dawn,
we must restore your authority
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and set right the laws
that have fallen into disarray.
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But what I do now
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could be taken as a purge
in response to those protest letters.
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Yayakichi, lend me your wisdom.
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I have just the plan.
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Leave it to me, your strategist.
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I will. I'm counting on you, Yayakichi.
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Completely understood.
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Seii Strategist Yayakichi Hei,
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in order to restore
Ohga Wajima's authority
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and set right the laws
thrown into disarray,
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resolved to shoulder all the blame.
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He penned a letter blending truth
with fabrication about his own deeds,
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and had it circulated
throughout the Seii camp as
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"An Indictment by Several
of Strategist Hei's Subordinates."
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He wrote that he murdered
the Commander's elder brothers
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and made Ohga the head of the Wajima clan
when she was still a child.
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He wrote that he exploited her patriotism
and desire for revenge,
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securing his place at her side for years.
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He wrote that the retreat
at the Kuzuryu River
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and the massacre
of the Yamato civilians in Okuetsu
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were both carried out on his orders,
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and that all were part of a scheme
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to undermine
the Commander-in-Chief's authority
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in order to seize full control
of the nation for himself.
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Although the accusations in the confession
were largely unsubstantiated,
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it all unfolded as Yayakichi had planned.
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Senior officers who harbored resentment
toward Yayakichi rallied to the cause...
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{\an8}JIEN HIBI
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{\an8}...and by the end of the night,
many had added their names...
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{\an8}HAKUYAKU TABUCHI
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{\an8}...to a petition demanding his removal.
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{\an8}STRATEGIST HEI'S QUARTERS
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{\an8}Dad!
Why would you put out a letter like that?
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{\an8}YASUKE HEI - DAIKICHI HEI
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{\an8}Are you trying to take all the blame?
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{\an8}You are the person Commander Wajima
and this nation need most!
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Please speak
to the Commander-in-Chief directly
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and tell her the letter is false!
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My decision is already made.
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Dad!
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History tells us how dictators
who lose their authority inevitably end.
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With both the nation's leader
and its laws being disregarded,
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we could face the worst-case scenario.
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If by bearing all the blame myself
I can break this impasse
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and allow everyone to unite once more
under Commander-in-Chief Wajima,
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there would be no greater joy.
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Father...
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To break the impasse gripping this nation,
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Daikichi, Yasuke,
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I need you both to cooperate
in bringing charges against me.
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There's no need to panic.
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I'm only stepping down from this position,
not dying.
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For the people and the nation,
I'll be counting on you two.
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- Yes, sir!
- Yes, sir!
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- Are the preparations complete?
- Yes, sir.
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The soldiers I brought
know nothing of the matter at hand.
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They have only been told to follow you
and apprehend a certain individual.
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We will now lay siege
to the Commander-in-Chief's residence.
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Year 60 of the Yamato era. March 21.
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Seii Strategist Yayakichi Hei
led several dozen Seii soldiers
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in an operation to lay siege
to the Commander-in-Chief's residence.
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This became known
as the Yayakichi Rebellion.
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One guard patrolling the residence
was stabbed to death,
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but Yayakichi was soon apprehended.
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The accompanying soldiers,
learning the operation's true objective
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was the assassination of the
Commander-in-Chief, surrendered.
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Through a swift operation
that claimed only a single life,
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Yayakichi took upon himself
the disgrace of being branded a traitor.
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Everything unfolded
exactly as he had planned.
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HOW TO MAKE YAYAKICHI'S GLOVE PUPPET
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No way!
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What the hell were you thinking?
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You've been playing
Lady Ohga all this time!
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You make my blood boil!
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Commander-in-Chief Wajima,
give a heavy sentence to that old bastard!
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Nah, it's gotta be death!
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Death! Death! Death!
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Give him death!
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This was
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your plan?
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You ordered your subordinates to circulate
that letter of indictment, didn't you?
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Enough of this!
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Explain yourself, to me and to everyone,
right now!
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It is my great regret that,
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through my own inadequacy,
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I failed to kill you
when the opportunity arose.
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Yayakichi, what are you saying?
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"Even if you retreat, as long as you're
alive, you can press forward again"!
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You are the one who told me that.
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So why would you of all people
sacrifice yourself for my mistake?
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I'm afraid I have no idea
what you are talking about.
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Twelve years ago,
I killed your elder brothers.
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In this war,
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I issued orders for the massacre and rape
of Yamato civilians in Okuetsu.
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I urged retreat at the Kuzuryu River
to deliberately damage your authority.
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And tonight, through rebellion,
I sought to replace you.
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My ambition was left unfulfilled,
but such is life.
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I ask that you judge me
strictly by the law,
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and sentence me to death.
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Father...
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Wait!
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Allow me to speak.
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Is there any tactician
who could replace Strategist Hei
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in achieving the conquest of Yamato?
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No, there is not.
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I foolishly believed
the letter of indictment,
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incited the soldiers,
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and had them submit a petition
demanding his dismissal.
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This incident is my responsibility.
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I will accept punishment in his place.
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I beg you to show mercy to Strategist Hei.
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I am equally guilty.
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Please...
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Please forgive Strategist Hei,
who served you loyally for so many years.
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What a shameless farce.
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They intend to drive Father out for good,
just to save their own skins.
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I'm begging you as well.
Please forgive my dad!
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No, Brother!
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Even if you punish some token officer,
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people will just see it as shifting blame,
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and criticism of the
Commander-in-Chief will only grow.
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That would render
Father's plan meaningless.
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Father, I fully understand your resolve.
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I will see to it
that your wish is fulfilled.
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Commander-in-Chief Wajima,
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you must not forgive my father.
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Yasuke!
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Why?
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Whatever my father's
true intentions may have been,
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the fact remains, he led troops to
the residence of Seii's Commander Wajima,
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the nation's supreme authority,
and took a life in the process.
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This is an undeniable truth known to many.
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As for the retreat at Kuzuryu River,
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caution before nightfall is one thing,
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but at midnight,
vigilance is only natural.
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Yet despite being the nation's strategist,
he conducted no proper investigation
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and claimed foolishly that "there is
no exception to The Empty Fort Stratagem,"
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placing you, Commander-In-Chief,
in grave peril. For this,
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my father deserves death
a thousand times over.
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Death!
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Right now, resentment toward
my father is swirling through our ranks,
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and morale is in disarray.
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To defeat the enemy,
we must set the army right.
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To set the army right,
we must set the law right.
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Commander-In-Chief Wajima,
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I ask that you publicly execute my father,
the traitor,
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and show the nation the path of justice.
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Death! Death! Death!
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Yayakichi,
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this isn't the way I wanted
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to have to trust you or your plan.
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I hereby sentence the traitor,
Yayakichi Hei, to crucifixion.
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Born in Year 2 of the Yamato era,
in Uzen Province.
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As a child, he was raised under
the Seii regime's "anti-Yamato policy,"
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educated from an early age
to oppose Yamato.
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From a young age, he served
as district governor in his region,
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contributing to Seii's economic recovery
and improvements in public order.
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He was later appointed
as a foreign affairs official,
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entering repeated diplomatic negotiations
with the eastern state of Buo.
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Under the pretext of preparing for
invasion by their shared enemy, Yamato,
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he secured a de facto non-aggression pact.
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Afterward, he was deeply impressed
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by Byakko Wajima's
"Westward Advance Doctrine,"
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a policy to halt Yamato's expansion
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and address food shortages
brought on by cooling.
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He joined as a staff officer,
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earned Byakko's deep trust,
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and served as his adviser
in both public and private affairs.
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He was also cherished by the Wajima heirs,
raised in a single-father household,
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and came to be treated
as one of their own.
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After Byakko's death,
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seeking to fulfill their shared ambition
of the conquest of Yamato,
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Yayakichi poisoned and murdered Byakko's
inept sons and incited Ohga to rise.
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He devoted the remainder of his life
to the westward campaign alongside Ohga.
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Tora...
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though my life should end,
my wish will live on.
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From beyond the grave,
I will pray for this nation's prosperity
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and the happiness of its people.
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Yayakichi Hei. Fifty-eight.
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Under pelting rain, he died in Fukui,
his ambition left unfulfilled.
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Down with the traitor!
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Loyalty and patriotism!
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Long live our Commander-in-Chief!
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Down with the traitor!
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Loyalty and patriotism!
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Long live our Commander-in-Chief!
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Down with the traitor!
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Loyalty and patriotism!
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Long live our Commander-in-Chief!
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Come on, Yasuke, this is messed up.
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After all Dad did for this country,
for him to die like this...
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There's no way that's right!
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History will judge today's choice.
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But if we do not win this war,
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Seii has no future.
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I'm not our father. I'll do things my way.
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Under Commander-in-Chief Wajima,
I will lead this country to victory.
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Dammit!
All we can do is keep moving forward!
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Then I'll make damn sure
Dad didn't die for nothing!
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Down with the traitor!
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Loyalty and patriotism!
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Long live our Commander-in-Chief!
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Down with the traitor!
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Loyalty and patriotism!
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Long live our Commander-in-Chief!
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Down with the traitor!
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Loyalty and patriotism!
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Long live our Commander-in-Chief!
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TORA, DO NOT DESPAIR
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YAMATO
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I will not let this country,
or its people,
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be ruled by that nation
of utter corruption!
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Papa, Yayakichi,
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I will show the world
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the dream you devoted your lives to!
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The girl who had lost her family,
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and the strategist who had lost his lord,
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took each other's hands
and dreamed of conquering Yamato.
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Twelve years later,
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the parting of the two
who had shared joy and sorrow
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would make Commander-in-Chief
Ohga Wajima a true leader.
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Meanwhile, in Osaka...
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OSAKA
SAME TIME
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...where news of the death
of Seii's strategist had yet to reach...
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one young man
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was about to stake the fate of the realm
on a single, decisive gamble.
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THOUGH MY LIFE SHOULD END,
MY WISH WILL LIVE ON.