Episode 9 Hakone-chan and Otamagaike
Incredible!
This is much faster than the baskets.
We may be going faster than a messenger scout.
You know nothing, do you, Hakone?
Why are you here?
W-Well...
To watch over you and make sure you don't steal the steamed buns we're delivering.
I would do no such thing.
Quiet down.
Where is this bus going?
To Motohakone, south of Ashinoko.
Ashinoko Lake
Motohakone
Otamagaike
Hakone Yumoto
Miyanoshita
Gora
Togendai
Owakudani
We're getting off part-way, though.
Thanks for the delivery.
You should stay a while, since you're here.
Thank you.
Lucky us, huh?
We got some steamed buns.
Gone already?!
Mine's gone, too.
How many times do I have to tell you not to eat others'?
It's not me.
They probably just vanished into thin air.
Excuses? Fine.
Otamagaike
What is this?
It's a monument for the Hakone Checkpoint.
Back during the Edo period, a woman tried to sneak through
the checkpoint without a pass.
Alas, she was caught by the officers and sentenced to death.
It's said that a woman's ghost has been showing up here since.
She may be right there.
I am an onsen spirit. I do not fear ghosts!
Come at me if you must!
Oh?
Is that you, Hakone-sama?
Is that you, Otama?
Oh, my! It is you!
I didn't notice you; you're so small.
Does she know her?
It seems that way.
Has it been about three hundred years now?
How have you been?
Well, I'm a ghost now, so not so great.
I haven't seen you since that time you let me
take a bath, after I'd escaped from Edo.
I could never forget taking a bath in those hot springs.
I wish I could go again.
A ghost, take a hot spring bath?
All right.
Then I shall let you.
But I'm a bound spirit.
Not to worry.
This is my land.
There are channels everywhere.
Behold, the hot spring spirit's evolution!
Now!
This warmth, this touch.
It's the same hot spring I bathed in with you last time.
Thank you, Hakone-sama.
It is my duty as a hot spring spirit.
I guess I'll forgive her for stealing the steamed buns.
You had better keep an eye out so that no one comes.
Fine, fine.
Finally, we've got you!
You're not getting—
Ghost!
What was that?
Are those girls who I think they are?
It looks like I can pass on now.
Thanks so much, Hakone-sama.
Let's meet in the next life.
Excellent.
Be well in the afterlife.