At the end of the pain you bear
A possibility you'd lost track of is waiting
You'll soon forget even your tears
And be drowned in a new pleasure
The story of history, striving towards its destruction
If I'm with you, it's not that scary
Even now, the hopeless world
Seems like it'll end, but it isn't ending
I'm sure the scene you've half given up on
Will look rose-colored if we're together too
Hot springs! Hot springs!
This'll be fun, right, Ban?!
For crying out loud. We're not going for fun!
I know, I know!
We're going to recover the ring stolen at the hot springs, right?
The client looked like she was rich too.
Would you recover this for me?
Man, it would sure be nice if all our jobs were like this.
You can say that again.
But why are you guys here?!
You're getting a lot of expenses from me, aren't you?
I'm always babysitting you guys! Don't be so stingy with me!
I'm a negotiator.
I have a responsibility as the one who introduced you to the client.
It's only natural that I'm going with you.
Gin, do you want a rice cracker?
Yay! I want one, I want one.
Hey, Paul, are you the one with the coffee?
Yep.
Now, give me some food too.
Would rice crackers be okay?
We're not going for fun!
Inn Hot Baths
Welcome, Recovery Service Group
This feels good.
I told you, we aren't here to have fun.
Ban, weren't you the one who said we should take a hot springs bath?
Geez, you don't get it, do you?
This is a stakeout. A stakeout!
A stakeout?
Listen up.
The old lady client had her diamond ring stolen after going into the women's bath next to us.
Like this, while she had it in the bath bucket.
They always say criminals return to the scene of the crime, right?
It's one of the basics of investigation that you can visit a scene a hundred times
and find something new each time.
If we stake the place out like this, eventually we'll find some clue about the thief, and...
And...
For all your talk, you're having fun too!
Women
It sounds like someone went in, huh?
Yeah, could it be...
Ban, are you sure this isn't a little sketchy after all?
Idiot! We're keeping the place secure!
What if the ring thief came and something happened to Natsumi and Hevn?
But we don't know for sure that it's Natsumi and Hevn.
Even if it's not, someone's got to protect them, don't they?!
Yeah, but...
What are you doing?!
I'm sorry! But...
Oh, do you hear something?
You're right, I wonder what it is?
Oh, dear!
They were quite young, weren't they?
The blond boy was cute, wasn't he?!
It reminds me of when Grandpa and I were young.
That's right, this time of year, it's just old hags, isn't it?
Ban, what about keeping the place secure?
After we take a break.
My necklace!
Ban!
We're following him!
Ban, it's exactly what we were planning for, huh?
Of course!
But he's really fast!
He's got some skill!
But he can't run from...
Huh?
Damn!
Where the hell did he go?
Inn Hot Baths
Damn!
That bastard, he led us there on purpose.
It looks like thief knows this area really well, huh?
I don't know who the hell he is,
but I'll show him what happens when someone makes me really angry!
I did it, I did it!
I'm awesome! I might be a genius.
What are you guys doing, Hevn?
Oh, Ban, Gin.
Natsumi is amazing!
She beat Paul at ping-pong three times in a row!
Natsumi, you're good!
Victory!
So, what's the deal with him?
Well, see, Paul said it'd be boring to just do it normally,
so he staked a hundred-yen raise to Natsumi's hourly wages on each game.
A hundred-yen raise and three wins in a row means...
A three hundred-yen raise!
That'd definitely put you at your wit's end.
Ban and Ginji's tab and now Natsumi's wages...
At this rate, the cafe will...
How about it, Paul? You want to try a match against us too?
If we win, half our tab gets forgiven.
And if you win...
If I win?
We'll give the whole fee for this job to you!
Come on!
The sure kill! Lightning Bolt Fireball!
Triumph!
Our tab is half forgiven!
Forgiven, forgiven!
So unscrupulous... Forgiven, forgiven!
So unscrupulous... Forgiven! Forgiven!
How about it? Natsumi, you wanna give it a quick go too?
Sure.
If I lose, I'll do whatever you say.
Okay, if I lose, I'll treat you to coffee every day for a month.
Ban...
I know, I know!
I won't use the Jagan on Natsumi!
I might have to use it later on for the job after all.
Well, even if I don't do that, it'll still be an easy win!
Yay! Yay!
Ban, maybe you should use the Jagan after all.
As if!
Why, you!
You too, Gin. Come on, hurry, hurry!
Uh, right!
Natsumi, time out, time out!
Natsumi, wait a sec...
Open Air Women's Bath
Boy, Natsumi was good.
Treat her to a Minami Sanjou cake every day for a month, she says?!
They all say the cakes there are really good.
Idiot! They're not good, they're expensive!
A little tiny one like this costs 800 yen a piece, you know!
800 yen!
So, Ban, why are we dressed like this?
Recovery service survival mode.
Until we can catch that bastard, we sleep here outside.
What? Outside? But what about meals?
There's a mess kit right there, isn't there?
Come on, Ginji, hurry up and cook the food!
Geez, Ban's got such a short fuse.
Ban!
That...
Juubei Kakei
Kazuki Fuchouin
A woman?
I wonder what she's doing in a place like this?
I can't really see, but it looks like a pretty good woman.
Gulp.
Let's go, Ginji!
What do you mean, go?
You don't mean...
Idiot! We're getting close and confirming who it is!
We can't just leave a suspicious person alone!
Ban, I'm telling you this is a bad idea.
I can't confirm anything yet. A little closer, then...
A little closer, a little closer...
A little closer...
Flying Needles?!
Thr...
Threads?
Sheesh...
You're as skilled as ever, getting behind me without giving a single hint of your presence.
But peeping Toms? Even vulgarity has its limits.
You guys...
Kazu! Juubei!
Women
This feels good!
Miss Hevn, hurry, hurry!
You're sure in a good mood, Natsumi.
Hot springs feel good, I got a raise,
and I get free cake from Mr. Ban and them.
I've got nothing more to ask for!
I'm so glad I came!
Although the guy next door is probably feeling exactly the opposite.
Oh, Miss Hevn, that's...
Oh, no!
Oh, so that's it.
You came to this hot springs to treat Juubei's eyes.
Yes, recorded in the secret writings of the Fuchouin school
are things like the locations of little-known springs and hot baths
throughout Japan that work on all illnesses.
Because of wanton land development and things, there aren't so many that still exist,
but this is a medicinal spring that has absolute results in restoring the optic nerves.
Wow.
I said I didn't mind staying blind, but he insisted and dragged me out here.
What are you saying, Juubei?
Try thinking about how I feel, too, having done that to the eyes of a close friend.
I've told you, haven't I, Kazuki?
This is divine punishment.
I was born to protect you.
And yet I forgot that and tried to hurt you.
I won't ever leave your side.
I'll show you. No matter what happens I'll protect you.
Even at the cost of my life.
Juubei...
If you didn't know better,
this'd kind of seem like a newlyweds' lovey-dovey hot springs vacation, huh?
You've got that right.
Oh, Lightning Emperor.
Uh, yes?!
While we've been secluding ourselves in the mountains,
I've been trying to do a training regimen in my own way.
Could I have a little bit of your time?
I want to test my power.
No problem.
Juubei Kakei, a former VOLTS member,
a Kakei School Flying Needles user,
and Kazu's best friend.
I didn't really know about it in the VOLTS days because he was always backing up Kazu,
but his real ability was probably equal to Kazu's or Shido's.
I wonder just how much stronger he's gotten since then?
Here I come!
Right!
They say...
a bull is able!
Lame.
I've...
I've failed.
What kind of mountain seclusion was he doing?
Ever since the IL incident, he's kept blaming himself, you see.
Wondering if maybe they were the ones who made Makubex turn to doing things like that.
Wondering if without knowing it, they'd been driving Makubex into a corner.
And then...
Ya never get tired of makin' that face, do ya?
Times like this are when ya should laugh your brightest!
That'll do Makubex a lot more good.
I've never once laughed at a joke of yours.
Although if ya did laugh, it'd have to be 'cause of some kind of supernatural intervention.
No, your jokes are just bad, that's all.
Even I can understand a simple joke.
If I wanted to, I could even tell one.
No ya couldn't!
Yes, I could.
Could not!
Could too!
Oh! Well then, Mister Juubei, can ya do this?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers!
That's boring, Emishi.
Emishi, go home!
Moron! Moron!
Well, Mister Juubei?
That's right, that's right.
Pe... Pe...
Peter... Pipe...
That's right! Just like that! Break your shell, Mister Juubei!
I...
I can't.
WHAT?! What do ya think you're doin'?!
Do ya think ya can become a real entertainer like that?
The path of the performer is long and hard!
I overestimated ya!
Ya can't even throw away your pride and do one performance!
I can't leave Makubex to a guy like that!
Well, now, don't listen to what Emishi says.
He's absolutely right.
If I'm like this...
If I'm like this, I can't even protect you!
So now this?
He's a very straightforward man, you see.
A cat catapulted!
A car cartwheeled!
A Hippocratic hippo!
Where's the wares?
The best whales are in Wales!
Juubei, stop. Please, stop! Marry the merry Mary!
Juubei, stop. Please, stop! All the cans are in Cannes!
I'm going on a journey.
I haven't had enough training yet.
I'll isolate myself and start from the beginning again.
I thought you weren't going to leave his side ever again?
My heart is always with you.
Farewell.
Take care!
Women's Bath
Natsumi, your legs are so thin!
Oh, no, they aren't at all!
Thief!
Ban!
Yeah! Here we go, Ginji!
Oh, you two shouldn't go, in this woods there are...
Shut up! This is work. Work!
See you later, Kazu. Say goodbye to Juubei too!
There he is, Ban!
Right! This time we won't let him get away!
We won't fall for the same trick twice!
I won't let you get away!
Snakebite...
Huh?!
Ban?!
I'm saved.
Ban, I'm so glad! Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine, but...
Damn! Where the hell did that bastard go?!
Ban, look at this!
This is the ring stolen from the old lady client!
What? That means...
This is the thief's base.
Monkeys!
That means... What?
So the thief who stole the ring is, in other words...
Why, you!
And here I tried to tell them to be careful
because there's a group of ferocious monkeys in these woods.
What?
Pe... Peeper peeper peeper peeper peppipe?
No! Piper... Piper... Piper?
What a beautiful formation!
You damn little monkeys dare defy me, the great Ban Midou?!
The clouds are full of puddles
The sky looks like it's about to cry
In the midst of the drowning day-to-day
The backs of my eyelids are cold
I got through the long night alone
I erased morning's sounds with a sigh
It can't be taken back
The time that's slipped by can't be rewound
Mr. Déjà Vu, you aren't here
The days became illusions
I noticed, you aren't here
The hands on the clock don't move
Speak to me
Don't leave me alone without saying goodbye
Even if there's no such thing as eternity
I want to keep believing in the red threads that connect us
What are you the most scared of in this world?
You can't beat ghosts even if you punch them, so I'm scared of them,
and it'd be scary to get food poisoning from rotten rice balls.
Oh, but I do want to eat them.
You're carefree, aren't you?
Oh, and I'm scared of Mr. Akabane too!
There's someone even scarier than him. Look, right there!
Huh?
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