Um...
can you bring your friends back here?
What?
I hate to say it, but I'd feel better if there's more'n one of you samurai-sama.
You know, that leader of yours...
--Yeah, yeah... --If that samurai-sama was here...
We don't need Sensei!
Samurai-sama...
What?
You've become possessed by your sword somethin' powerful.
Samurai!
Kanbe-kun sure is persistent, huh?
Keep the capital heading for Kanna Village.
Except for the palace guard, all bandits come around to the right!
--As you wish. --As you wish.
Being able to understand each other,
and to share with each other,
are both as short-lived as a bubble on the water.
Obscured by the sands of time,
unable to hold on,
I gave up, until I saw you again, asking
"How much pain
have you been carrying, all alone?
And how much loneliness
is hidden behind your eyes when you smile?"
Embrace this miracle of an encounter now,
By gazing upon each other, we can become stronger.
And if this isn't what you call love,
then what is it you call love now?
They're here!
The bandits?
Hey!
Mosuke!
It's the samurai-sama!
They're all comin' back! Kanbe-sama and Kikuchiyo-sama too!
Naturally.
I'm getting so fired up! What do you say we crush these guys?!
Listen up, everyone. Knowing Kanbe-kun, he won't be attacking head-on.
He'll definitely have two or three tactics in store.
--Understood. --Understood.
Let them have it!
Head for the capital! Do not stray from our course!
You really don't have a strategy, then?
That goes without saying. Why would you ask me that now?
I thought that maybe you said it deliberately to turn away the girl's feelings.
Shall we go?
Samurai-sama, may you be victorious.
Kanbe-sama!
I...
Do not say a word.
Do not wait for me. My heart has long since withered up.
You will not be able to sniff out any water there.
You are a coldhearted man. You have always been like that.
That girl was going to throw away everything for you.
You talk too much.
What are you both grumbling about? Let's do this!
All righty, come on!
Hey there. Looks like I managed to make it in time.
Heihachi-dono?
Kanbe-dono has been worried about you, too. Come on.
Sensei was?
No, I will do this my way.
Those of you who can move, carry the injured back to the village!
Katsushiro-kun!
You're quite the rebellious fellow.
Oh! Not too shabby, Kyu-taro-san!
What's wrong with you, Kanbe-kun?
Aren't you going to spring something to try to outsmart us?
Why are you just flying straight at us like that?
Are you really that dumb a samurai?
Their responses are different from usual.
They appear to be machines that have had their souls removed from them.
That's all the better for us.
Shichi, get past them!
Very well!
Only a samurai is capable of defeating another samurai, right?!
Those bandits are useless!
It is because the bandits are now mere machines.
I know! Let's fire the main cannon.
That would be risky. If, by some chance,
they were able to reflect it back, as happened earlier...
Never mind, just shoot it!
You must not! You will hit our allies as well!
Huh? Allies? Who do you mean?
I was referring to the bandits...
Ah, them. They will be shields-- shields, in case they reflect it back at us.
Hurry and fire the main cannon.
Hey, Kanbe! Can I ask you to pull me up from here?!
If you are a samurai, then you will take care of your own problems yourself.
There are some things that I can and cannot do!
Here comes the main cannon!
They intend to take us out together with the bandits, do they?
Shichi, keep pushing forward!
I already knew that.
Why? What are we about to start?
Shichiroji, we're going to ride the light!
We did it! Take that!
Unfortunately, Honorable Emperor, they weren't killed.
Thank you, Momotaro!
This is no good, you bandits!
Are you trying to turn the capital into a hornet's nest?
What shall we do?
Everyone, go to Kanna Village and take the villagers hostage.
Once you do that, they won't be able to do anything to us.
As you command.
Don't kill any villagers until I say you can.
Understood.
It's Katsu-noji.
Katsushiro-sama!
It's ready, right?
Yes. It's a bit smaller than the one before, but goin' by my abacus,
it'll fly that much farther, as long as the direction is right.
You can set one huge fire!
Mm-hmm, great idea.
Bring a flame!
We are after the emperor alone!
Launch! Target the capital!
Katsushiro-sama, what about you?!
I will be fine where I am.
Fire!
Right!
Oh, dear. This isn't good.
It's no use! He won't reach it!
It's just like Katsu-noji to be weak on those last details.
So this is where it ends, is it?
This is why I told you to get in.
Heihachi-dono!
They're comin'! They're comin'!
Do not run away!
The samurai're gonna stop those bandits from comin' to our village.
Katsushiro-kun, here we go!
Kyuzo-dono!
I'm most displeased! You bandits are all fired!
Heihachi-dono, Kyuzo-dono has been...
This is a battlefield.
Cover me, please.
My task is to cut the main engine loose from the citadel.
A present from the Shikimori.
And this... is a present from Masamune-dono--
Carry out your mission. Let me take care of covering you!
Emperor...
Ukyo-sama!
Heihachi-dono!
Please hold them off for a little while longer.
Once this is done... I'm going to...
...eat my fill... of rice...
Heihachi-dono!
Why, you!
Heihachi-dono!
I'm heading over there now!
Don't come over here!
Go!
You can't, Heihachi-dono!
Go on!
Whoa...
What was that?
Heihachi-dono!
I want to eat rice!
Heihachi-dono!!
Grandfather! The capital is comin' this way! Nobody can stop it!
Farmer's ain't capable of wagin' war after all! We're all gonna die!
We ain't gonna die.
The samurai-sama're wagin' war inside that thing.
Once the capital gets here, fire our guns to help them out. Go on.
Go on, get them ready!
--Right... --Right...
Kanbe-sama, who is that?
Yo, I found the emperor!
What's going on here?
Body doubles?
They must be venerable copies.
Maro said that the emperor had placed
noble reproductions of himself in towns and villages all over.
This is too much of a hassle!
At this point, let's just cut them all down! That will be the end of it!
Kikuchuyo!
You're starting to remind me of Kanbe-sama.
Hey, keep it together.
What is it, Kikuchiyo?
No doubt about it, these guys are farmers.
I can make out the smell of them having done farm labor just three days ago.
Kanbe-sama...
Yeah, I knew it. You, too.
You, too.
What is your name?
Please spare us! We were just brung along 'cause they said we'd have a better life!
Don't say nothin'!
The Honorable Emperor said we ain't allowed to say nothin', didn't he?
That bastard! He was a farmer once too, after all!
How long is he going to make fools out of farmers before he's had enough?!
Thanks to Kikuchiyo, we've been spared the unnecessary taking of life.
Be sure to tell your manure thanks. Now, where is the real one?
We dunno! We were just told to stay here!
What did you say?!
Stop! This is pointless.
Go on.
Thank you very much!
You were able to tell from the smell of manure?
I imagine the Young Lord will be surprised, too.
What are you up to?! Why did you kill them?!
Those guys didn't have anything to do with this!
You're a samurai?
A long time ago.
But now,
I am in the service of the Honorable Emperor.
Well, we have business with your emperor!
Withdraw from here!
Considering your valor, it would be most unfortunate for you to fall here!
You must be dreaming! What about you?!
You've gone and become that bastard's puppet!
You call yourself a samurai?!
Silence! Fulfilling one's duty to one's master, whoever he may be,
is the true way of the warrior.
Kanbe-sama!
Ee-yow!
Kikuchiyo!
You are truly samurai. Your pride, the way you live-- all deeply commendable.
Therefore, I will at least allow you to meet your end...
...at the edge of a blade.
Kyuzo!
Kyuzo?!
I will be the one who cuts him down.
What happened to your arm?!
I can still use my left one.
Katsushiro!
Kyuzo-dono!
Kyuzo!
Hurry... and finish your job...
Do not forget... we have a score... to settle...
I have not forgotten.
I will wait for you... at the village...
I will be there soon. Wait for me in the afterlife.
I... I...
I'm glad you returned.
I killed him with my own hands...
In order to save me.
I killed Kyuzo-dono with my own hands!
If I could give my own life to ask his forgiveness...
It's whoever dies first-- that's all there is to it.
I need you alive, Katsushiro. Just for a little while longer.
How did you get here?
Heihachi-dono brought me.
And where is Hei-san?
He was hit by gunfire, and went down with the main engine.
He's dead?!
Did he die too?!
How can this be happening?!
This is war.
And hey, we don't have much longer.
Who will take Ukyo's head?
The old man merely gazed off into the distance
from the hideaway in which he lived.
The baby cries, seeking only
for the warmth of his mother.
We are born paying the price
for someone's punishment, for someone's sins,
but there is no such thing as a future without salvation,
and the present slips quietly into the past.
We string together nothing but hollow ideas,
and tell nothing but hollow lies.
And as the rain falls down upon us,
something appears and then fades away.
Okara-chan, I finally understand how Sister feels. I'm heartbroken.
Uncle is a creep! He knew how Sister felt about him, and still rejected her.
I feel bad for Sister.
Momotaro-san and Hei-san say that Uncle is a nice man.
Maybe that's why Sister considered him
to be the one most likely to save the village.
Sanae-chan said that the reason Uncle was cold to Sister was out of kindness.
I just don't understand the world of grown-ups.
Oh yeah, it looked like Katsu-noji likes Sister,
but has she ever returned his love this whole time?
Ever since Katsu-noji defeated that foe,
Sister has felt indebted to him for making him suffer.
But she was careless in how she showed her kindness to Katsu-noji,
so he took it the wrong way.
Sister, you are a heartless woman.
It looks like this letter will be my last one to you. Okay then, bye now!