Intrigue in the Bakumatsu
Tsukikage kooru daichi wo
Korogari fumiwakete yuku
Horobi to saisei no jidai ga hajimaru
Jiyuu wo omoku kakagete
Michinaki michi wo erande
Mahiru yori mabushii nichibotsu wo koete
Yume wo kataru you ni toki no fune wa yuku
Sono yamiji no mukou ni atarashii yoake
Bokura wa kitto kurayami no kaina kara umarete kita
Kanawanu koi wo suruyou ni
Hikari e to samayotteku
Doko made mo hateshino nai kono michi wo
Kaeru sube wa nai
Where is he?
Right now I'm free, embraced by her tenderness! I'm completely free!
To protect her...
Yojiro Akizuki...
I'll kill you!
You're not going to get away!
There's no way out.
Yeah... But I'll put an end to this!
Those annoying flies...
Shit!
We've lost two ships...
No one told me the Republic Army was this powerful!
What?
The sky is bleeding!
How ominous...
Blood has been shed!
Shed for victory!
Don't stop moving forward, my comrades!
Show them the power of the Republic!
Leader...
Together with him! Together with our Republic!
Together with the Republic! Together with the Republic!
Jeanne d'Arc, huh?
So she invoked our French hero, huh?
But it's just a play.
Now I truly understand that we should never let some random author write history!
"THE MYSTERIOUS TALE OF THE GHOST-SEALING MOON TEAR ASSASSIN" ROLE: KAKUNOJO YUYAMA
They're completely different from French civilians who defeated a corrupt monarchy.
Tell me how a pack of dogs like that is going to build a beautiful nation!
There was a man who said something very similar before.
Oh?
He was neither writer nor audience member.
He destroyed the stage he chose to perform on and then fled,
saying he'd perform on a bigger stage...
Ryoma Sakamoto, huh?
So you made this play because of him?
Don't give me that nonsense!
Look at this castle! Look at Enomoto!
I don't know what kind of witchcraft you used, but either way this is no revolution!
This is no nation!
The request submitted by Jules Brunet and his subordinates to return to their unit is granted.
They return home via Yokohama and Saigon.
For the Republic! With the Republic! For the Republic! With the Republic!
Tayu, it's not safe around here. Maybe we should...
I wonder what's going to happen... Seriously...
Exactly! Now that it's come to this I think we should get together and...
You must be Lady Kotoha.
Has Katsu-sensei been doing well?
I'm sorry, but I'm associated with someone close to him, but not directly with him.
But this will get to him, won't it?
I'll take that for you. Do you have any message for him?
I hate to admit it, but maybe he was right all along...
That man... He's no good... He's dangerous.
I've already decided that I'm going to watch until the curtain falls.
I'll be sure to tell him that.
Hey, Tayu, it's a problem. She's a spy, right?
Moreover, she's connected to Kaishu Katsu...
But at this rate things will be much worse for this place.
I really appreciate your concern,
but if you're planning to go back to Yokohama, find someone else to do it with.
What? Hey!
Don't be so cold, Tayu!
But this isn't enough to make me give up on you!
It looks like he's got quite the vixen working for him, huh? But this isn't enough to make me give up on you!
Katsu Awanokami Kaishu...
It's inevitable that sooner or later he'll eventually work out a far-sighted scheme
and make inroads with the New Government,
which means he'll become an enemy someday.
But I've already taken measures.
I hope you have no objection.
Well, just wait and see the result.
Who are you? Let me guess. Is this what you're after?
This is something a beautiful woman tearfully wrote.
And it is now in the hands of another beautiful woman.
You'll have to kill me to get it!
I'm freezing! Hey, why don't we stop and get something to drink?
I guess we could.
Now you're talking!
Hey, Mister! Can we get some sake?
Who are you?
You sneaking vixen!
Die!
T-Tayu!
How dare you?!
You're that guy from back then!
So that means Enomoto is...
Sensei, too?
Tayu, are you okay?
I'm not going to die... The curtain hasn't fallen yet...
I haven't seen the end of it... I can't die...
A kabuki actor and a prostitute!
Shut up!
We're both better than you two samurai!
What did you say?
You! You're no ordinary playboy.
So what?
We need a doctor!
You got it!
I won't forgive him!
Even if it's the Master, I still won't forgive him!
He has... He has his own agenda...
So forgive him... Please take care of him for me...
Tayu!
Shiryokaku
On this day, after the fall of Shiryokaku, the fortress that had been bolstering the Republic's rear,
the anti-Republic Yuguntai and a group of civilians rally together.
They collaborate with the New Government Army's forces and begin their march,
seizing strategic points all across the area.
After sacrificing many lives, they finally begin to close in on Goryokaku, however...
What's happening?
We've brought what you desire.
Long time no see, young one.
After the demise of Shinsaku Takasugi, the founder of the legendary Kiheitai,
the Head vanished; you have once again found it...
Once, we were defeated and forced to leave the stage of history.
Thanks to you, that which we have greatly desired for five hundred years...
All of this is to purge the poison from this rotten nation...
and create a beautiful, cherished nation.
Now is the time.
Why are you hesitating?
The enemy is right in front of us! Charge!
What the... Is this some kind of magic?
Kamikaze!
The gods are on the Republic's side?
Once, many young orphans gathered in our village of Koma.
The reason for this was...
...find the wielder of the Yin Moontear Sword.
In other words, to find the one with the destiny to be the new Eternal Assassin.
The sword chose a child, and that was...
Yojiro.
The rest were sent out for adoption; no one knew what became of them after that.
Who knew the wielder of the Yang Moontear was among those children?
It is now clear who my enemy is.
I shall risk my life and attack her with the Yin Moontear.
Now is the time for me to fulfill my destiny as the Eternal Assassin.
If I ever see her again, I promise I'll kill her in one stroke with my sword.
This means...
If that's his desire, let us accept it no matter how it is to end.
It is our duty as the ones who sent him out as the Eternal Assassin.
GORYOKAKU EMERGES
Sono te wa ai no tsurugi
Subete no hajimari no akashi
Hikaru sora no hate
Yume wa mada maboroshi
Tsuki no akari kage ouyouni hashiru kono michi
Chigireta ai no tsurugi
Sashidasu saki wa ikusen no namida ga hitotsu ni nari
Ashita wo kagayakaseru
Kono te wa ai no tsurugi
Subete no hajimari no akashi
EPISODE 26 TO GO TOWARDS THE SEA
Yojiro Akizuki...
Just like I thought, you managed to break my bloody destiny of 500 years.
Everything was just a dream...
Now the curtain of the play written by Sotetsu Ibaragi is falling.
TO GO TOWARDS THE SEA
Now the curtain of the play written by Sotetsu Ibaragi is falling.
Sensei!
Ryoma, the world, which exists beyond this sea that you wanted to see...
I'll go out there and see it with my own eyes!