Why?
I don't understand...
But...
But why does my heart ache so much?
Zakuro.
My Zakuro.
Mother...
H O L L O W
T O U C H
michite yuku deai kara sakanobori
満ちてゆく出逢いからさかのぼり
Blooming fully, from the meeting during ascending up the slope.
sorezore no kanashimi kara unmei ga saita
それぞれの悲しみから運命が咲いた
From different sadness, fate blooms.
kirei da to iwanaide hana no na wa
綺麗だと言わないで花の名は
Please don't call it pretty, the flower's name.
yondarachitte shimau yo densetsu no hana
呼んだら散ってしまうよ伝説の花
If you call it it will scatter, the legendary flower.
mamoru toki ni wa jitto shizuka ni
守るときにはじっと静かに
It is quiet when it protects.
jounetsu te ni shita MERODII
情熱手にしたメロディー
The melody made in the passionate hand
tomaranai
とまらない
can't be stopped
nagarete furete
流れて触れて
It flows, it touches.
MOON SIGNAL COMES koyoi no tsuki wa
Moon signal comes 今宵の月は
Moon signal comes, tonight's moon
watashi no kokoro shitteiru no naze na no
私のこころ知っているのなぜなの
Why can it understand my heart？
MOON FOREIGNER yasashisa dake jya
Moon foreigner 優しさだけじゃ
Moon foreigner, just with kindness
daiji na hito ushinau kamo shirenai
大事なひと失うかもしれない
You might just lose your important ones.
nee kore wa…kore wa koi desuka
ねえこれは…これは恋ですか
Hey, is this... is this love?
kiko enaide to mu jun shiteru ne
聞こえないでと矛盾してるね
This would contradict with "please don't listen" though,
subete wo ima koso mite
すべてを今こそ見て
Please watch everything, now!
Mother...
I missed you...
I've been missing you for so long...
This is...
My mother's memories are flowing into me...
The Village of Oracles?
The place where us half-demons are born.
Why can't we go there?
And why is Zakuro-kun there?
Kushimatsu!
Oracles are god-like beings that are served by fox spirits, and have the ability to cast magic.
I served Zakuro's mother, Tsukuhane-sama, as a fox spirit in their home, the Village of Oracles.
Tsukuhane-sama was a maiden that possessed a rare power.
The village chief wanted that power for himself and took her as his wife.
However, after his successor, Omodaka-sama, was born,
Tsukuhane-sama was confined in the mountains away from the village.
Despite how often I come here, you still will not bear another child.
I'm very sorry.
Please wait!
Umm...
Is Omodaka doing well?
That's none of your business.
You're here, aren't you, Kushimatsu?
How cruel.
You haven't done anything to deserve that.
It's alright.
I am the first maiden of the village.
Whether I like it or not, I belong to the village chief.
I will give birth to a powerful child.
That's my only use.
Tsukuhane-sama.
I just want to see Omodaka.
I want to experience the gentle scent of that newborn child once more.
Before long, Tsukuhane-sama left the house and went to the top of the hill.
From there, she could see the home of the village chief, where Omodaka-sama lived.
Omodaka...
What?
No way!
Ouch!
What a surprise!
I've never heard of a woman falling from a tree when you cut it down.
You must be a monkey-like tomboy to climb a tree that high!
How dare you say that! That's rude!
I thought you were a goddess because you fell from the sky wearing those clothes!
But judging by your sharp tongue, I was mistaken!
I can fix this myself using my... it's alright!
What's the matter?
Nothing really...
I haven't seen you around here, were you from somewhere else?
Ah... Umm...
Will we see each other again?
I'm Enaga. What about you?
I'm Tsukuhane.
My name is Tsukuhane.
Where are you going?
I'm sorry!
Umm... I borrowed something...
I'm just going to return it.
That's all!
Her meeting with Enaga-sama was like a breath of fresh air to Tsukuhane-sama, who had lived without freedom.
What is this?
That was the first time I washed something.
Still, this is too much!
The man who marries you will have a pretty hard time.
Right...
Well, I don't mind a clumsy wife.
Tsukuhane-sama was able to enter a world she had never known because of Enaga-sama.
Sorry for making you help.
The time for harvest just began.
No, I'm having a lot of fun!
Sayuki!
Where are you?
Sayuki!
Hey!
Let go!
Stop!
That man...
Yes.
His wife, who was close to giving birth, got spirited away.
Tsukuhane!
Human legend said that a woman who was spirited away would give birth to a child that was half-demon.
That was the fox spirit ceremony, which the Village of Oracles had carried out for many years,
in order to demonstrate their power.
Let go of me!
I...
What are you doing here?
She's here, isn't she?
The woman taken from the village!
Please!
Please let her go!
There are people that love her!
You're taking the side of the inferior human beings?
Feeling sorry for impure beings is foolish!
Father?
Don't come outside!
Stay back, Omodaka.
Omodaka!
You're there, aren't you?
Omodaka!
Take her away.
Wait!
I want to see Omodaka!
Omodaka...
Let me see his face...
Let me hear his voice!
Omodaka!
What's the matter with you today?
A goddess...
That's what you called me when we first met.
What did you mean?
Ah, it's a fairytale.
A beautiful woman that falls from the sky.
The man that sees her takes her robe and hides it.
Then he takes the goddess, who cannot return to heaven, as his wife.
But in the end, the goddess returns to heaven.
That's because humans are foolish.
That's not true!
They're not foolish!
Humans are wonderful!
Humans laugh happily.
They lovingly pat children's heads.
They try their hardest everyday of their lives.
Humans are wonderful.
I'm sure we're the ones they should hate the most.
We're the ones who are impure.
We?
Enaga?
What's the matter?
Ah, no...
There are a lot of things I haven't told you.
I'm...
I'll listen to everything.
Tsukuhane-sama entrusted Enaga-sama with everything, and he accepted everything about her.
And then...
How are you feeling, Tsukuhane-sama?
I'm feeling much better this morning.
Tsukuhane-sama?
Is this really alright?
Yes.
If I keep staying here, that person will keep coming.
And...
Let's go!
Tsukuhane!
I finally found you!
I was finally able to see you!
Why did you leave me?
Tsukuhane!
Enaga...
I told you that I'd listen to everything! That I'd accept everything!
Let's live somewhere far away from here.
Your son Omodaka can be with us too.
Enaga...
Tsukuhane-sama!
Enaga!
It's alright.
This is the fate of a human who loved a goddess.
No!
I learned how to love someone for the first time when I met you.
Tsukuhane!
And a part of you is inside me!
I see... I'm glad...
Enaga!
You've fallen to the ground.
What an impure woman.
I...
Don't speak!
Your smell will rub off onto me. Right, Omodaka?
Omo...daka?
Don't call my name so carelessly!
He was the one who told me about what you and that human did.
About your impure appearance.
Omo...
I thought I told you not to call my name!
An impure woman like you can't be my mother.
The fox spirit ceremony.
A ceremony to make her child with Enaga-sama into a half-demon.
The child has been born?
Yes.
Treat it like the other half-demons.
Make sure that it lives an accursed and humiliating life.
Yes, sir!
Village chief!
White lotuses have bloomed on the lake!
This is...
This power... Is it the child that was born?
Tsukuhane!
Chase her!
Catch her and bring her back!
Tsukuhane's child!
I'm sorry, Kushimatsu.
I've made you betray the village too.
Never mind about me!
More importantly...
Yes.
This child has tremendous power.
I'm sure she'll be used if she stays in the village.
Omodaka...
Mother...
That's right.
I betrayed your mother and killed her.
Although she is a corpse, she looks the same as when she was alive.
You look very similar.
Omodaka-sama.
How do you think she looks?
Her eyes...
What?
When she talks about her friends at the Ministry of Youjin, her eyes look a little like yours do now, Omodaka-sama.
You'll be the priestess at the marriage ceremony.
But a half-demon like me can't do something that important!
Are you going to betray me?
That's fine then.
At the same time that they were searching for Tsukuhane-sama,
the Village of Oracles continued to carry out the fox spirit ceremony
to create a half-demon with the same powers as Zakuro.
Many women were sacrificed.
How awful!
But none of the half-demons born were like Zakuro.
The half-demons that were born were considered failures and treated just like objects.
That's unforgivable! What a terrible thing!
You know that jade pendant Zakuro wears, right?
Yes, she said she got it from her mother.
That seals her power.
That pendant...
Many years passed, and it was time for Omodaka-sama to take over.
Omodaka-sama, whose power was greater than previous generations, became the village chief.
The more the pendant suppressed it, the stronger Zakuro's power became.
So it became difficult to hide from the Village of Oracles.
Tsukuhane-sama willingly made the decision to return to the Village of Oracles.
In return for that, she asked for Zakuro to be spared.
And Omodaka-sama used this.
But she didn't know when he might betray her.
I was afraid that the Village of Oracles would discover Zakuro's power, so we lived whilst moving from place to place.
We took young half-demons that were secretly living in human villages along with us.
Tsukuhane-sama would have wanted that too.
So it was to make amends for things?
But Zakuro's power only became stronger and all of you began being influenced by that power.
That was when we met Amaryouju-sama.
Hey, you lot!
He said, "How about being proud of that power instead of running from place to place trying to hide it?"
Hey, wait!
Hey!
We were given the duty of helping other youjin thanks to Amaryouju-sama's recommendation.
But that might have been a mistake.
Amaryouju-sama!
This has happened to Zakuro because of that.
But because of that, we were able to meet and fight together!
There's no point in crying over the past.
The only thing we should be thinking of now is getting Zakuro back!
But you have to get past a barrier to reach the Village of Oracles.
Barrier?
Talismans that contain the magic of the oracles are the only things that link the village and the human world.
Containing the magic...
This is...
The Black Widow left it behind.
I'll go. If I use this and ask Aun-sama...
You can't go, Kushimatsu.
If a fox spirit turns against the Village of Oracles, which is served by fox spirits, they won't survive.
But...
I will...
No, we will definitely save Zakuro-kun!
Kushimatsu!
Please trust us!
You...
These youngsters are more reliable than you think.
Isn't that right?
I'll leave it to you.
Alright.
My sister is so mean!
She always gets to do everything.
Even though I could work better than her if I had the opportunity!
You're right, Daidai.
Rangui-sama!
You're fine as you are.
Rangui-sama?
My sister isn't here yet.
I don't care about Byakuroku.
I came here for you.
Ah! For me?
You came here for me?
Let's hurry! Before daybreak!
Zakuro-kun, you've always been the one protecting me until now.
But I'll save you this time!
You don't have to accept, but this time, I'll tell you properly...
uruwashiki BIROODO no sekai
麗しきビロードの世界
A beautiful velvet world
hikare au shinshi to shukujo ni natte
惹かれあう紳士と淑女になって
We'll become the lady and gentlemen charmed by one another
oki ni mesu mama oki no muku mama ni
お気に召すまま気の向くままに
Just the way you like it, just the way you like it
IROTORIDORI・YORIDORI MIDORI
イロトリドリ・ヨリドリミドリ
So many colours to choose form
DORESU wo erabu you ni tayasuku
ドレスを選raぶように容易く
As easy as choosing a dress
kamen no oku nozoiteiru hitomi ga
仮面の奥覗いている瞳が
The eyes I see within the mask
ayashiku kirameku setsuna
妖しく煌めく刹那
are bewitching, glittering, ephemeral
oshitai moushimasu
お慕い申します
I'll say "I love you"
utsurigi na HITO ni
移り気なヒトに
I want to give everything
sasagetai subete
捧げたいすべて
to that unpredictable person
kugizuke ni sarete
釘付けにされて
I've been caught
koi no riyuu wa itsumo aimai
恋の理由はいつも曖昧
The reason for love is always ambiguous
kizuita toki wa mou
気づいたときはもう
By the time I realized,
ugokidashita ato
動きだしたあと
things had already begun to move
sakaraenai suteki na shikumi
逆らえない素敵な仕組み
A wonderful trap that I cannot escape from
fuwa fuwa fuwa ukande yumegokuchi
ふわふわふわ浮かんで夢心地
A gently floating dream
yura yura yura yurasarete madou
ゆらゆらゆら揺らされて惑う
I'm shaken from side to side, bewildered
hira hira hira miekekure shiteru no wa
ひらひらひら見え隠れしてるのは
Is what flutters in and out of my sight
jounetsu teki na yokogao
情熱的な横顔
a passionate face?
odorimashou
踊りましょう
Let's dance
uruwashiki BIROODO no sekai
麗しきビロードの世界
A beautiful velvet world
hikare au shinshi to shukujo ni natte
惹かれあう紳士と淑女になって
We'll become the lady and gentlemen charmed by one another
I'm a show-off, useless, and unreliable person. And I'm always being protected by you.
Even so, I always want to be by your side!
Next time, Looming Crisis
Agemaki Kei!
L O O M I N G
C R I S I S
Now, I'll be bewitching!