I couldn't move, again.
I'm going to save them!
I'm the one who should've been eaten.
I can't ignore this.
They might still be alive.
But, what will you do?
If we follow the path these pipes pass through,
it might take us to where Kanate and Ginchi are.
But there will also be...
I know. Tsutsuga...
The Sho who rules over Gatoya might be there, too.
It'll be dangerous, but to get out of here,
we'll have to meet him eventually anyway.
I'll protect you, no matter what happens.
Yes. I trust you.
Awakening
You can't just sit there crying forever!
What's your name?
Ginchi...
Ginchi! Hey, Ginchi! You alive?!
Ginchi!
Bro!
Just wait! I'm coming!
Foolish criminals.
Who's there?!
I am Tsutsuga, the watchman of Gatoya.
I will now judge your crimes.
Tsutsuga?!
Bro!
Ginchi...
Which way should we go?
Let's go!
Master Arata!
Are you all right, Master Arata?!
It's you!
Osome-san!
How nice. It looks like you found her.
Come down here.
No. We have to get to Tsutsuga, fast.
What are you thinking?!
I have to save some guys I know who just got eaten in The Reckoning.
Don't talk nonsense! If you go, you'll be killed, too!
But I can't leave them.
Besides, if I don't do something,
we'll just live in fear of Tsutsuga's judgment every day.
At least you'll still be alive!
Hiding in fear... I know it's a miserable way to live,
but there's nothing we can do about it.
Thanks, Osome-san.
But I have to go.
I'll be okay.
If worst comes to worst, I'm a fast runner.
You really are a good guy, Arata.
Here.
Don't you dare do anything to make that cute girlfriend of yours cry.
Okay!
Warden Tsutsuga! Please, wait!
Pleading for your life?
Then I shall give you one chance.
Fight.
Fight with the one you see before you.
The winner will be declared innocent and set free.
But that's...
Refuse, and you die.
I can't do that!
Ginchi is like my little brother!
Bro...
Then, you die.
Bro!
Stop!
Fight.
Bro, I don't want to do this.
I don't want to!
Get up.
Even if it's just one of us, the winner gets to leave this island.
No!
Shut up!
Where is it?
I'm sure we've come quite far down.
Let's go!
What's wrong with you, Ginchi?! Fight me!
Kanate-san and Ginchi-kun are...
Why?
Yes.
That's right.
If you wish to survive, kill your opponent.
No!
Tsutsuga!
Master Arata!
Tsutsuga!
Make them stop this!
The Sho who cannot use his Hayagami...
I will not allow you to interfere with my sacred judgment.
Those two are best friends!
But they are criminals.
But they're not bad guys!
Do they appear that way to you?
Look.
All people are the same.
They only care about themselves.
They only want to save themselves.
Those two are the same.
No...
Bro! Stop it, Bro!
Stop calling me Bro!
You're not my little brother anymore!
Hinohara and I were never friends.
Is it the same with you guys?
I'm gonna finish this!
This is the kid we nabbed yesterday.
You look after him, Kanate.
Drill him until he can work like a grown man.
What is that you've been holding all this time?
My mom's ring.
Oh...
Take good care of it.
I'll take you back to your mom someday.
Ginchi, you can get out...
You did that for Ginchi, on purpose.
The contest is over.
The criminal is the boy who has lost.
Bro!
And you, as well!
I am the watchman who judges crimes.
This boy has just committed a crime.
The crime of murder.
Tsutsuga...
Cut the crap!
Bro...
So this is what the Reckoning really is?!
You're just messing with their heads!
These guys are not your toys!
Quiet!
Bro!
Kanate-san...
I'm sorry...
I'm sorry, Bro.
Tsutsuga, where are you?! Show yourself!
Master Arata!
The Reckoning again?
Master Arata!
Hey, look at that!
Isn't he that kid from before?
Arata!
Why does Lord Kannagi want to go to Gatoya?
Yeah. What does he want with that princess murderer?
The Sho who cannot use his Hayagami
thinks to oppose me?
Damn it... Is this the end?
Master Arata!
Kotoha...
I'm sorry, I can't...
And I'll always believe...
I can only trust you.
That's right. I want to live up to their trust.
Please, Hayagami...
Appear!
Wh-What's that?!
This light... Is it that a Hayagami?
Bro...
Master Arata...
Is that a Hayagami?
That kid is a Sho?!
Wow, he's blowing away Tsutsuga's pipes with the Hayagami!
He's a Sho?
This light... That Hayagami couldn't be...
Tsutsuga!
You're Tsutsuga?
A Hayagami? Why?
You're in pain?
Be careful, Master Arata!
Wh-What are you...
Is this...
Tsutsuga's memory?
I see. You killed another by accident.
You are an old friend, but a crime is a crime.
Tsutsuga!
Repent and mend your ways.
When your heart itself changes, perhaps you can leave this island.
My friend, I trust in you.
What have you...
You tell me to repent? You call me your friend?!
And with that righteous look on your face!
Die!
You would betray a friend who trusted you.
Curse you!
I suppose humans are all the same after all.
In that case, this Hayagami and I shall become not a god, but a demon!
With the power of a demon,
I will imprison all sinners for eternity!
How dare you look unbidden into my soul?
As if you could even understand what I feel.
Just hurry up and finish me off.
Kill him!
Avenge all those people he's taken!
Kill him!
Kill Tsutsuga!
Subside.
Wh-What are you doing?
What is he...
He's not trying to save him, is he?!
Fool...
You cannot defy a demonized Hayagami.
Hate... Hate...
Hate!
Hinohara and I were never friends.
Hate!
I won't acknowledge you.
Hate!
Take vengeance on the traitor!
Vengeance!
Now I see. You are like me.
Betrayed by a friend, left to become a demon...
No!
He was still... He was still
an important friend to me!
Arata...
I still...
I still don't understand!
I don't understand people at all!
But you shouldn't stay here alone!
What can resentment and suffering do for you?!
I'll save you! Whatever it takes, I'll save you!
Why? Why would you go so far?
When I saw your past, it hurt.
It was just like mine.
I trusted him, and it stung when he betrayed me.
But in truth, I still want to trust him.
I want to forgive him.
So, if I'd tested someone's trust and been hurt again,
I might have ended up like you did.
You've been in pain for a long time, huh?
Oh, man, I must look ridiculous.
I have been watching you.
Perhaps this is what I wanted.
Perhaps, in my heart, I wished for you to stop me.
The Hayagami...
That is the true form of Saniwa, the Hayagami of judgment.
Tsutsuga!
You are called Arata, correct?
I believe you have what it takes to wield Saniwa with justice.
The Hayagami...
Hayagami Saniwa, submit now to the great Sho before me.
My life shall be as one with the great Hayagami.
Now that the Hayagami and my life are submitted to you,
my duty is fulfilled.
I shall henceforth live within your Hayagami.
The Kamui of Saniwa now belongs to you.
Show it to me, Arata the Sho.
Return Gatoya to what it once was, as its new warden.
Appear, Saniwa!
This is...
Gatoya is changing...
Hey, look!
It's the guys who were taken in the Hour of Reckoning!
They're alive?!
Masahi...
Masahi!
Osome...
Thank you...
Thank you, Arata.
Arata...
You are in danger. Leave now.
Where is Arata?
I-If you want the Sho, he's on the lowest level.
Warden Tsutsuga lost.
What?!
Kanate-san, where're we going?
If this island is back to how it was,
our old home is probably back, too!
Tsutsuga?!
Kannagi?
What do the Twelve Shinsho want with that innocent boy?
You submitted to him?!
Arata is strong.
Is this...
You two lived inside a boat?
And that boy's Hayagami
is the sword of origins that will rule over this world.
The sword of origins?
Let's go to the capital and find the princess!
My wound aches, Emisu.
So you're a Sho, too.
Strangely enough, he had the same name as you.
Hayagami, Sho... What am I even doing?
Zokusho