We look the same, but men call us monsters. If we shadows, which lurk between eras, are destined to die, then I shall fall with the cherry blossoms. Then, I shall fall with the cherry blossoms.
What?
You can no longer bear my wounds?
Thank you for everything,
demon god...
The Demon Revives
I shall aid you.
Now, the only choice is to force them to shed their blood.
You're...
Then, you have come to your senses, Hibiki?
Joujin-sama, I shall handle them!
Wait!
Have you forgotten your wounds?
You are seriously injured.
Hachirou... Hibiki.
I am afraid I shall have to spill your blood
upon the corpse of the great demon king!
It hurts...
Hey, we've done enough, right?
It's so cold.
I see... I must've lost too much blood.
It was cold back then, too...
This picture's wonderful...
It makes me feel like I can use many more types of hallucinations,
since you gave it to me.
It makes me happy that you like it.
All I remember is taking baths with you...
See?
It's like red lipstick.
Hadaebou, why are you helping us?
So you can tell the shogun?
To see the ending of this.
To see the answer, the young ninjas,
and you young leaders, give...
To see its ending.
What will happen to us ninjas?
Come and get me, Hachirou.
Aren't you ashamed that you can rely on no power but your eyes?
There's no reason to be ashamed of the techniques I've inherited.
Ignorant, blind, and unwilling to learn.
My heart is like a calm sea.
Your eyes have no power over me!
A calm sea...
Then, I shall make it storm and rage!
Die!
Hadaebou!
Hachirou!
Farewell, Kouga Hachirou.
What's going... on?!
Ninja Technique... Butterfly!
This won't stop me!
Ninja Technique: Dreaming Reality...
You think hallucinations will work?
Nonsense!
How dare you... How dare you shame me in such a way?
This is the technique you gave me.
Have you felt its power?!
Joujin-sama...
Joujin-sama!
Maybe now...
I can show it to you...
Joujin-sama, I'll handle this!
Know your master.
Get back, Kujaku.
Fool!
Move, Hachirou.
I'll show you that her techniques will never work on me again.
He honored me...
He honored me... far too highly... by calling me simply "Kujaku."
My master!
Kujaku, what are you doing?
Shut up and just die already!
What is this?
Kujaku...
Kujaku?
Each time you call me that, it sickens me!
"Know your master." Isn't that what you said?
That's right!
I'm... I'm doing this for my master!
The one who called me "Kujaku"...
Tenth Year of the Tenshou Era, 1582 AD June 2 by the Old Calendar
Honnouji
Ranmaru.
Yes, sir!
What did you think of that demonic voice just now?
I'm sorry to tell you this, master,
but your obsession with conquest
is difficult for the simple-minded to understand.
And so, they call you...
Demon King of the Sixth Heaven?
Yes, sir.
Very well.
And?
You have spread the flames of conquest across the land, like a demon.
So it is possible that a demon itself...
has taken an interest.
No... There's no other possibility at all!
You're a clever one.
Help me commit seppuku, then, Ranmaru.
I shall follow you soon!
No.
Master, what do you mean?
Remember what I told everyone?
I can take pride in three things.
First, my white-spotted hawk. Second, my pale bird.
And third, Ranmaru. You.
You honor me too much, sir!
If you were a bird, you would be a peacock, which we call "kujaku"...
Yes, a kujaku.
I know not when I shall return.
But while you yet live,
will you keep your brilliant wings spread?
So that the embers of my conquest might not go out?
Yes, sir!
Well done, young warrior.
Are you the demon?
If your words were a lie,
then I shall become a demon to surpass you,
and plunge you into the lowest hell.
I am the servant of the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven...
Then, will you become a demon now?
What is your name?
I am... Kujaku.
Yes.
I am Kujaku...
I no longer need that name!
I am Ranmaru.
And the master who called me that,
Nobunaga-sama, will now revive!
I knew it.
Fifty years of a man's life
are like a dream,
compared to the heavens.
Once a man is born,
must he not die?
I would expect no less from you, Joujin-sama...
To think Kouga Hachirou and Iga Hibiki's blood was unnecessary.
That your blood alone was enough!
Devouring a demon opens the path to conquest.
My master shall devour the blood of a demon and return to life!
Impossible.
At last...
At last we meet, Lord Nobunaga.
Now, make of this world a hell on earth.
And bring about true salvation.
Let us bring my— no, our, desire to fruition!
Silence.
So with true salvation upon us, there is no further need for me...
So profound...
My master... I, Ranmaru,
have awaited this moment for so long!
How ugly.
Hachirou! Hibiki!
We're getting out of here!
Namenba?
This is the end!
What have you done?!
Is that Nobunaga?
Doesn't he have a pretty face?
Maybe I'll ask him for some fun in hell!
The Inverted Halberd of Time?
I will protect my master!
Disgusting monster...
with your ugly form, you would try to trick me by claiming to be
the beautiful Ranmaru?
Fool.
You are nothing like Ranmaru, who was as beautiful
as the kujaku bird.
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Let us stop this.
It's all over, Kujaku.
Your backward-flowing corridor of time
The Cherry Blossoms Scatter
must be sealed within my Adamantite Tower.