I'll be the one
I guess you were lost when I met you
Still there were tears in your eyes
So out of trust and I knew
No more than mysteries and lies
There you were, wild and free
Reachin' out like you needed me
A helping hand to make it right
I am holding you all through the night
I'll be the one. I'll be the one
Who will make all your sorrows undone
I'll be the light. I'll be the light
When you feel like there's nowhere to run
I'll be the one
I'll be the light
Where you can run
To make it alright
Ichiro.
What?
Move away from that girl.
Huh? What was that?
How'd your face get like that in the short time since I last saw you?
You look like a bird's young chick.
Can't be helped.
Saburo's living in my stomach.
You got a problem with that?
Move away from that girl!
Don't mess with-
Rinko?
Rin...
Hey, Rinko!
Rinko!
Rink-
Ichiro!
Let go of me!
Hey, Horse Dung Priest!
It's because you said weird stuff that Rinko got mad and ran off!
How're you going to make this up to me?
Ow!
Open your eyes, Ichiro.
You must stop all dealings with that girl at once.
If not, you'll lose your life.
Your face is already showing the shadow of death.
Huh?!
What are you talking about?!
I don't understand!
That girl is not of this world!
MOTHER AND CHILD STATUES
Hey, Kei-chan!
I wonder if I-chan plans on skipping school today...
Or maybe he just went back to get something he'd forgotten!
He'll be scolded by the teacher again.
I wonder what I'll tell her if she asks me.
He took Rinko-chan with him too.
I wonder where the two of them went off to, Kei-chan...
How should I know?!
Why would I know anything about Ichiro?
Whether that ass skips out on school or not has nothing to do with me.
I hope the teacher scolds the life out of him.
And he's a guy, right? So why's he listening to everything that girl says?
What a moron.
I don't care if she's his relative or not.
But it's Rinko this and Rinko that.
She sticks to him day and night.
Talk about gross.
Even though he's a baldy.
That idiot Ichiro.
Dammit!
Let go of me!
Stop that, you murderer!
Hey, stop struggling!
Can't you just calm down for a moment and listen to me?
Somebody!
Kidnapper of minors! Pervert!
Murderer! Arsonist!
Quit messing with me!
So you're saying Rinko's a ghost or a monster?!
I wouldn't expect you to have noticed.
I wouldn't have noticed either if I wasn't a priest.
Don't be making fun of it.
When it comes to ghosts, I know a lot more than you!
Don't talk big when you're just horse dung!
Rinko is not a ghost.
If she was a ghost, nobody should have been able to see her but me.
Everyone can see her and talk to her.
And I can touch her too!
And besides, Rinko is a relative of ours come from the other side of Mount Enkiri.
You have no such relative.
The Hanada family has no relatives that live on the other side of Mount Enkin.
And just how would you know that about our family?
It's not just your family.
Nobody's relative lives on that side of the mountain.
What?
Simply because there aren't any people living over there.
You really have no idea where he may have gone?
Nope.
But he came together with you halfway to school, right?
Well, I-chan ran off with Rinko-chan all of a sudden without saying a word.
Well, Ichiro skipping out on school comes as no surprise.
But I have a bad feeling from what he was saying yesterday.
Huh?
It can't be, right?
What?
Maybe he's run off with Rinko or something...?
Run off?!
Yeah, like epoled.
You mean... eloped?
Or maybe...
Or maybe?
Suicide?
Y-You don't think its because you were against their wedding, do you?
What's that supposed to mean?!
You're going to make this my fault?
Th-That's not what I meant.
Your being able to see her and talk to her was not real.
You and the people around you were being shown an illusion.
Science would probably not be able to explain it.
But it's by some power not of this world.
Since the last big earthquake we had, nobody has been allowed on Mount Enkiri.
That's because there are fissures in the earth all over the place and it's dangerous.
And yet, for the past few nights, someone has been sneaking up the mountain.
And last night, when I climbed up the mountain after him,
I came upon something completely unexpected at the edge of the cliff.
It was a long-forgotten Buddhist statue.
The smaller statue had disappeared.
I thought that it might have fallen into the valley during the last earthquake.
When I looked closer, there were traces of a child's boots in the vicinity.
Entry into that place has always been forbidden.
Nobody has gone close to it for many years now.
Whatever.
I don't know nothing about no statue.
That statue has a long history behind it.
In the past the locals called them the Mother and Child Statues.
The bigger statue is...
Don't lie!
There's only one statue!
There's only the one that fell into the valley!
So that's how it is.
The smaller one is the child statue.
But what are you trying to do with it?
I don't know nothing about no big and small one.
All we tried to do is return the small one that had fallen into the valley back where it belongs.
We haven't done anything bad.
Well, you must stop doing that right away.
I'll do something about it.
But at this rate, you'll lose your soul.
I don't understand what you're talking about!
Listen to me, Ichiro!
There's not a single person who cares that the statue fell into the valley.
The only one who could possibly care is...
the statue itself.
What's that supposed to mean?!
I don't get it at all!
This is a story from many years ago.
I don't want to hear that story!
The story occurred during the transition from the Taisho era to the Showa era, in 1926.
A little girl threw herself off that cliff.
Stop it! I don't want to hear it!
Be quiet and listen.
Your life depends on it!
Long ago, many people used to live on the other side of Mount Enkiri, but...
Their lives were very, very poor.
Stop it!
No! You must listen.
- No! You must listen. - No! Let go!
I don't want to hear it!
Rin...
Rinko!
Ichiro...
Come on, Rinko.
We have to get that statue up here quickly.
There's no time to lose.
We've got to do our best.
Geez, that damn Horse Dung Priest
I wish he'd just stop getting in our way.
It's just a little more.
Dammit.
That little shithead!
You don't understand even after having heard that story?!
So you're saying that you don't mind dying?
Or are you so far possessed that my words don't reach you?
Come on, Bean Jelly!
You haven't bitten through the ropes yet?!
A little boy's life is depending on you!
If we don't hurry, we might be too late.
Long ago, there was a small village on the other side of Mount Enkin.
People lived there, but..
Their lives were very, very poor.
I've heard tell that they would sell their daughters to scrape a living.
The sons would take over the house.
They could work and so they were kept at home.
The daughters would cross the mountain to be sold at all kinds of places in the city to work.
But a parent could never sell their child because they wanted to.
And the daughters that were sold would not begrudge their parents.
It was a truly destitute and sorrowful era.
Since this mountain would part parent and child,
it began to be called Mount Enkiri, meaning "partings."
This temple, which lies at the foot of the mountains
came to be called the Enkiri Temple as well.
Hurry up, Bean Jelly!
You still can't bite through?!
There's no more time!
Please!
Please, Bean Jelly!
If Ichiro is to put that statue back where it belongs,
it should calm down the spirit of the child...
But if I'm right about this...
then at the same time, Ichiro will be taken along to the other world as well.
Before that happens, I must get him away from the spirit of that girl!
But...
How do I do that to someone who just doesn't listen?!
Considering the circumstances of that statue..
If I were to borrow the strength of Ichiro's mother, I might be able to...
Jiro...
What is it, Jiro?
You just ate a big dinner.
H-H-H-Hey, what are you doing, Jiro?!
Hang in there, Ichiro!
Most of the girls who were taken to the city met with a pitiful fate.
If they were lucky, they were sold to good-hearted people.
But the rest of them were treated worse than animals.
At that time, Kawashimo City had a red-light district.
What's a red-light district?
It's a place where men buy women and fool around with them.
There was one girl who was too young to take customers,
and was doing more menial tasks instead.
What does it mean to take customers?
It means to sing, dance, and sell your body.
You'll understand what that means when you get older.
And then, someone happened to lay his eyes upon her.
On the night she was supposed to take her first customer...
she ran away.
Should a girl who had been bought with money try to run away...
the owners would use the opportunity to give the other girls a warning.
If she was caught, she would be half-killed.
She was barely 10 years old.
Therefore, they guessed that she would run away to her parents.
So her pursuers were in no rush to catch her.
They figured they could either ambush her at Mount Enkiri
or hunt the mountains until they found her.
As fate would have it...
I don't know if luck was with her or against her, but..
She was pursued to the edge of the cliff...
And she fell off the edge.
Nobody knows if it was a suicide or an accident.
At the time, there was a deep river flowing at the bottom of the valley.
The girl's body never surfaced.
I hear that the chief priest of the temple at the time, my grandfather,
enshrined a small Buddhist statue there to mourn her death.
Well done, Bean Jelly!
After that incident, the girl's mother who had been ill for a long time, suddenly disappeared.
After a while, she was discovered.
They say that her body was cold as she held the statue in her embrace.
The sight of her grief prompted the villagers to help,
and so they built a statue for the mother...
and enshrined it next to the small one.
They prayed that mother and child would find each other
and never part again in the other world.
This is the story behind the Mother and Child Statues.
And you're saying that girl is Rinko?
I can't be sure, but that would be my guess.
No!
That's not Rinko!
Rinko is not a ghost!
- Rinko is not a ghost! - Stop it!
- She's not a ghost!
- Hey, stop that!
Geez, you gotta cut the crap, Horse Dung Priest.
You're amazing, Ichiro!
Just a little more.
It's just a little further.
All right!
Ichiro!
Wait!
Stop!
- Stop! - Wait right there!
Don't think that you can escape us.
Come on!
You're not getting away just 'cause you're a kid.
We're going to make you understand the consequences of running away.
Mommy!
Rinko...
Don't pretend you're sorry
I know you're not
You know you got the power
To make me weak inside
Girl you leave me breathless
But it's okay
'Cause you are my survival
Now hear me say
I can't imagine
Life without your love
Even forever don't seem like long enough
'Cause everytime I breathe I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me drowning in your love
Rinko, you were a ghost...
I-chan!
I see.
I fell off the cliff together with the statue.
- Ichiro!
Am I going to die?
Ichiro!
If I'm with you Rinko, I don't mind going to the other world.
Ichiro!
Answer me!
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Ichiro!