I'm heading over there now!
Go!
You can't, Heihachi-dono!
Heihachi-dono!
I want to eat rice!
Kyuzo!
I need you alive, Katsushiro.
Just for a little while longer.
Being able to understand each other,
wakari aeru koto mo
and to share with each other,
wakachi au koto mo
are both as short-lived as a bubble on the water.
utakata no youni
Obscured by the sands of time,
toki no suna ni magire
unable to hold on,
tsukami kirenai to
I gave up, until I saw you again, asking
akirameteta anata ni au made wa
"How much pain
"dore kurai itami wo
have you been carrying, all alone?
hitori de kakaete kite tano?
And how much loneliness
dore kurai sabishisa
is hidden behind your eyes when you smile?"
hitomi ni kakushite hohoen dano?"
Embrace this miracle of an encounter now,
deai no kiseki wo ima dakishimete
By gazing upon each other, we can become stronger.
mitsume attara tsuyoku nareru
And if this isn't what you call love,
kore wo ai to yobanai tosuru nara
then what is it you call love now?
ima dore wo ai to yobu no?
"Episode 26 Sow!"
Heihachi-sama...
Honorable Emperor, where are you!? Honorable Emperor!
It doesn't look like this ship is going to stop, huh?
No. At this rate, I fear that a collision with Kanna Village is inevitable.
Well then, I guess we win. As long as it ends well, everything is fine.
So, where is the back door?
I will show you. Your state boat has been prepared.
Aren't you considerate?
And while we're at it, fire the main cannon until it's used up.
Yes, sir.
Aww, they're all dead.
T- The capital!
Why ain't it stoppin'? At this rate, it's gonna hit the village!
W- What is this?
Who did this?
This is most puzzling-
I asked you who did this!
Looks like Kanbe was right. He said the real one would flee.
The mechanical... samurai!
Could this one be an imposter, too?
Good question. He does smell better, though.
He smells better?
He smells just like the women here.
If you're picking up the smell of face powder on him,
then this is indeed the emperor.
W- What're you talkin' about? I'm a farmer!
Cut the lousy act!
You used to be a farmer, right?
It's not like I don't understand how you feel, having taken over the world.
I had my body changed into this form
so that I could rise up to become more than a farmer myself, after all.
However, if you're the emperor,
then how about you at least face your demise like a man!?
So you were a peasant, too? Then you understand, right?
Having been tormented by the bandits,
it's all the more significant that I became the emperor.
I'm the one who can set the peasants free.
As such, why would you cut me down? Have I done anything wrong?
Shut your mouth, you stupid bastard!
Don't shoot!
It's no use. Even if you cut me down, it won't change the way the world is.
The peasants and ronin both will just go back to their days of misery.
Once a samurai takes up his sword...
...he cannot be swayed!
Kikuchuyo-dono!
Why, you!
I hate mechanical samurai! I despise them! They treated me like I was a worm...
- Stop it! ...and I'll destroy them all!
Just like I did the emperor! He turned me into a peasant!
I'm the one who drew the shortest straw here, didn't!?
I'm going to turn this world upside-down!
The samurai, the peasants, and the merchants!
It's my turn to treat you all like worms now!
Well, shall we leave?
But the state boat is...
We just have to get one of the bandits outside to carry it, right?
You're such a nitwit, for pity's sake.
As you command.
Where is Kanbe-kun?
I don't know.
Oh, really?
Stop!
Where is Kanbe-kun!?
Emperor, please hurry onto the ship!
Oh yeah, how is Kirara-kun doing?
If we keep going at this rate, we're going to crush Kanna Village.
I'll have to go rescue Kirara-kun before that happens.
Honorable Emperor!
What is it? You're annoying me!
Why, you samurai...
If you raise your blade to the Honorable Emperor, I will shoot!
Stop! If you shoot that large a gun,
you're going to blow me to bits too, you know!
But...
Sensei! I will take the bandits!
W- W- Wait!
It was the emperor who kidnapped the women and took the rice, wasn't it!?
It was all the previous emperor's fault!
You're the emperor now.
But look! He's the one! He's the one to blame!
They're the ones who wanted to profit
off the backs of the peasants and city-dwellers!
They propped me up to be the emperor,
while they stayed behind the scenes and did anything they pleased!
He's the one who said it was unbecoming of Kanna Village-
of peasants, to arm themselves,
and that we ought to crush them!
Are you sure you want to do this!?
If you cut me down, you'll be a renegade for the rest of your life!
I do not care!
Miserable samurai!
Katsushiro, I'll leave the bandits up to you!
Right!
Kanbe-sama, are you hurt?
Nothing serious.
Shichiroji, we have to stop the capital!
Right.
Kikuchiyo!
Honorable Emperor!
Kikuchiyo-sama!
Nunky! Nunky!
Kikuchiyo-sama!
That hurt!
Kirara-kun, I found you!
Honorable Emperor, you need to be treated quickly!
Kirara-kun...
He's crazy! I'm scared!
You've come to save me...
You're such a nice girl...
Emperor!
Everyone else is dead, so you are my lawful wife...
You're such a pest!
Why, you!
- Nunky! - Kikuchiyo-sama!
Nunky, are you in pain?
How could I be in pain, Komachi?
Rikichi, take me right in front of the capital!
Hurry and get going!
Nunky, hang in there!
You bet!
May you find favor in battle!
Let me take care of this!
You're not getting even one inch closer to those rice fields!
Give it all you've got! Show them what kind of man you are!
Kanbe-sama!
Kirara-kun...
Lay down your guns and arrows.
It's over.
Bandits! Where are the bandits!?
Bandits! Bandits!
There aren't any more bandits. The capital has fallen, too.
We lived through it again.
That we did.
Grandmother?
Are you sure you want to turn your crystal over to Komachi?
You can see it too, can't you, Grandmother?
Yes, the muddy water.
It is the impurity of my sins.
There's no need to blame yourself so much.
Or is this your way of taking responsibility?
I meant to protect you, but I always wound up as the one being protected, huh?
I can't tell you how much your words-
that you would descend together with me- gave me support.
- I... - Can you now...
Can you now sense the smell of the battlefield about me?
Shall we go?
I've long been thinking about why you acknowledged me
as being the fifth when you did, Sensei.
Every time I suffered another injury, I think I came closer to the answer.
"Do not regard death as something great." Something you once said to me, Sensei.
However,
in this battle for neither territory nor prize,
it is these gentlemen, who gave their lives to defend the village,
that showed us what it truly is to be samurai, are they not?
Are you ashamed to have survived?
No.
For I can stand on the battlefield once again.
As you have done, Sensei.
Take it with you.
By your leave.
Sanae?
I remember this song.
Rikichi-san, you take it easy.
This was yet another losing battle, wasn't it?
Rather, it was the farmers who won. Not us.
The soil will remain here forever.
Old man...
Live well.
"The End"
The old man merely gazed off into the distance
kakurega ni sunda okina ga tada
from the hideaway in which he lived.
tooku wo mitsumete ita
The baby cries, seeking only
akanbou wa naku hahaoya kara
for the warmth of his mother.
atatakasa dake motomete
We are born paying the price
dareka no batsu to dareka no tsumi wo
for someone's punishment, for someone's sins,
tsugunainagara umareru
but there is no such thing as a future without salvation,
sukuiyou no nai mirai nante nai
and the present slips quietly into the past.
"ima" wa shizuka ni kako ni
We string together nothing but hollow ideas,
kireigoto dake wo narabete
and tell nothing but hollow lies.
kireigoto dake de usotsuite
And as the rain falls down upon us,
kakari furu ame no naka
something appears and then fades away.
nanika ga ukabi kieteku
The war is finally over.
But Nunky is no longer around.
Ukyo spoke to the world like he was a good person,
so there are some people who say bad things about Nunky and the others' war.
They say that samurai from the old age crushed the great merchants
who were making an effort to try to reform things.
The only ones who know what really happened are the people in the village,
and those who have been helping us up to now,
like Poppa Masamune, Yukino-san, and Honoka-san.
But Rikichi says that that's good enough.
He says that as long as we are proud of the samurai,
Nunky and the others' deaths will definitely not be in vain.
I won't ever forget them.
Nunky, and Hei-san, and Goro-san, and Kyuzo-sama.
And those that lived, too- Uncle, Momotaro, and Katsu-noji.
Thank you, all of you. I love you all! Bye now.