No prey can escape without leaving tracks.
It's spring in the mountains, and there's still snow,
giving the pursuer an advantage.
I found tracks.
Is that bastard really hurt?
Hurt or not, he's a Matagi.
He knows everything there is to know about moving around on a mountain.
I don't think they saw my gun.
They're confident they won't be shot.
Should I set an ambush for them?
If I take down Private Ogata,
will Nikaidou leave?
No, he's not that soft.
I can't kill both of them with one bullet.
I'll keep running and look for a way to win.
But how much distance can I keep between us with this leg...
Bear tracks?!
The baby bear is walking on top of the mother's tracks.
Golden Kamuy
Episode Ten Fellow Traveler
We've completely lost him.
The sun will set soon.
It doesn't matter what Tanigaki's going to tell Lt. Tsurumi.
I don't care about the gold.
I want to kill Sugimoto Saichi as soon as I goddamn can!
Did whatever left these tracks bury it?
It's a greedy one.
It's patrolling this area daily until it's been out of hibernation
long enough to eat it.
From the way the snow melts, it's coming around in the morning.
Can I start a fire?
We'd be telling him exactly where we are.
He'll attack us in the darkness.
Fine by me!
We won't have to track him down, then!
I'm sick of this!
I'm sick of freezing my ass off in Hokkaido, of working for the military, of everything!
I want to go back home to Shizuoka!
Smoke from a fire.
Another hunter, maybe?
Tanigaki wouldn't start a fire.
We'll sneak up on it.
Go take a look.
If those are Tanigaki's tracks, give me a signal.
Am I bait?
I'll back you up from here.
It's a hundred meters at most.
No matter who it is, I won't miss.
One set of tracks. It's definitely Tanigaki.
That idiot was eating a deer instead of running?
It's definitely a trap.
What is he planning?
Where are you, Private Ogata?
So warm...
I'm hungry.
Maybe I'll have some, too.
Wait, how'd Tanigaki kill this deer?
There it is!
A bear?!
You bastard!
What's wrong, Private Ogata?
You're not going to help Nikaidou?
Is that what Tanigaki was after?
Then he should be looking for me right now.
If I shoot, he'll see the smoke from my gun barrel.
Shoot the goddamn thing already, Ogata!
Shoot already!
Ogata!
Okay. I'm right here, Tanigaki.
How will you fight me without a gun?
Throw rocks at me?
Boner.
Don't move, Tanigaki.
That voice... Mishima?
What are you doing here?
Private Ogata and Nikaidou were being tracked this whole time.
Their locations were being reported to Lt. Tsurumi.
Lt. Tsurumi was letting them go to smoke out the other rebels.
I was planning on not doing anything until Private Ogata made
contact with Corporal Tamai's group.
But you defeated them.
I...
I know. You didn't betray us.
That's why they came after you.
Lt. Tsurumi and the others are nearby.
Let's go back.
You can talk to the Lieutenant yourself.
Mishima, I...
What's wrong, Tanigaki?
Shit! He's still alive?
Private Ogata!
Was that Mishima?
I was careful about not being followed.
I need to kill Tanigaki before Lt. Tsurumi gets here.
Don't shoot him in the head.
That was fast.
I can see why his superior officers were terrified of the guy.
It's Mishima!
It seems that gunfire was a battle
between Mishima and Ogata, after Ogata found out he was being followed.
Nikaidou seems to be alive.
Okay, okay.
Now you can shoot him in the head.
Advance!
He's deliberately avoiding hitting vitals to slow us down!
He ran to the north! Follow him!
At this point, neither Private Ogata nor Nikaidou have any reason to follow me.
You just don't look as good with one ear.
You have to be symmetrical to be handsome.
If this was the Shinsengumi, you'd be committing seppuku the minute you fled.
And there's an Ainu punishment
that involves removing the ears and nose, then banishing you, I've heard.
The 7th will take the best of both worlds,
chop off your nose and ears, and then have you commit seppuku.
Who else is betraying us?
Tell us their names, Nikaidou!
This is the nose of a traitor.
No wonder I don't like its shape.
Maybe we can play "pin the tail on the donkey" with your face.
I hope you all have a good time, Lt. Tsurumi.
I'll let you kill Sugimoto.
Komiya, right there.
Wait! He's lying!
That explains the nose.
See you around, Lt. Tsurumi.
Sugimoto Saichi...
Golden Kamuy
We've got five tattoos.
Maybe Lt. Tsurumi only has the one that Shiraishi saw?
I'm not sure.
Who else is after the tattoos? That guy you were talking about... Hijikata?
He's recruiting the other prisoners, too.
If we find him, we might get a lot of tattoos at once.
Hijikata Toshizou... What's he like, I wonder?
He was right in front of you just a while ago.
He had a youth about him that made it impossible to believe he was over 70.
The other prisoners used to say he might've eaten mermaid flesh.
Mermaid?
A monster with the torso of a man and a bottom like a fish.
If you eat their flesh, you get eternal life and youth.
There's a legend called "Yaobikuni."
A girl who eats mermaid flesh becomes forever young,
but ends up living so long, she can do nothing but watch as everyone she loves dies.
She lives for centuries
before finally becoming a nun and retreating from the world into a cave.
The pain of not being able to die when you should, huh?
If I was immortal, I wouldn't care about the gold.
Hey, look, Sugimoto!
There's an Adonis' flower!
Oh, it's so cute!
Spring is coming, huh?
Cirai appapo. We call it the huchen flower.
Huchen? Like the fish?
Yup.
The huchen appear in spring.
The blooming of the cirai appapo is a sign that they're going to come up the river.
The river's been dammed.
It's a way the Ainu use to catch fish.
I've heard huchen's pretty good.
Can we catch some here?
It's not that easy.
What if it's an Iwan Onnechep Kamuy?
What's that?
Once there was a hunter being chased
by a bear who tried to escape across Shikaribetsu Lake.
A little later the bear vanished, so he went to see what had happened,
and he saw a huge huchen with the bear's front leg sticking out of its mouth.
The Iwan Onnechep Kamuy is the greatest of all huchen.
The greatest of 'em, huh?
It's really deep!
Help me! It's cold!
What are you doing? Grab on, you useless idiot!
It's the Iwan Onnechep Kamuy!
Shiraishi was eaten!
Shiraishi...
Shiraishi!
A mermaid.
Kiroranke Nispa!
Is that you, Asirpa?
You know him?
He's an old friend of my father's.
I finally found you, Asirpa.
We can take a ton of skin off this.
You could make a whole suit of clothes!
With fish skin?
It's called cepur.
It keeps the wind and rain out.
You can also use it to make boots or a sheath for a dagger.
There're lots of ways to use its skin, huh?
But the skin's also delicious.
Do we use the skin to make things or just eat it?
It's a tough question.
Want to just eat it?
The skin's so thick,
but it gets soft when you cook it!
Hinna, hinna!
A legendary giant fish...
Truly hinna!
The eyeballs taste like delicious boiled octopus!
You can suck on it if you want, Sugimoto.
So big...
Sugimoto?
Immortal Sugimoto?
How do you know that name?
I'm with the 7th.
You work for Lt. Tsurumi?
Wait, Sugimoto.
Lt. Tsurumi?
My platoon was commanded by a different lieutenant.
And I've had nothing to do with any of them since I left the army.
Well, there were 20,000 men in the 7th.
I guess not everyone works for Lt. Tsurumi, huh?
I recognized you from the name and the wound on your face.
I didn't think I'd see a hero from the war out here.
Hero?
I just didn't die when I should've, that's all.
Asirpa, what are you doing with these men?
He's my partner.
And Shiraishi here is useless.
I see.
If you say so, then they can be trusted.
Listen, Asirpa.
There's something I have to tell you.
An old Japanese man came to my village.
He's looking for a certain woman, he said.
Kochoube Asuko.
How does he know that name?
That's my Japanese name!
Only my mom and dad knew it, and they're dead!
Asirpa-san's Japanese name?
What's her Japanese name?
I already knew what happened in Abashiri Prison.
Nopperabo gave the prisoners a hint so that they could
make contact with his friends on the outside.
"Kochoube Asuko in Otaru."
Nopperabo was trying to entrust the gold to Asirpa.
Wait, does that mean...
Nopperabo is Asirpa's father.
That's impossible!
Aca can't be...
He can't be the one who killed the Ainu and stole their gold.
That's not...
How do you know Asirpa's Japanese name?
I came to Japan with Asirpa's father.
Nopperabo isn't an Ainu from Japan.
Judging from the route he took after stealing the gold,
he was trying to take it through Otaru,
and eventually, out of the country.
I thought that if we found the gold, Nopperabo would be executed
and Asirpa could have revenge for her father's death, but...
I refuse to believe it.
Not until I see it for myself.
I'm going to meet Nopperabo.
If he really is my father,
he should be willing to tell me everything.
I'm sure it's easier
than finding the prisoners that are scattered all around Hokkaido.
At least you know where he is.
It ain't that easy.
I've escaped from prisons all over Japan,
and Abashiri's the worst of the lot.
There's no way you'll be able to meet him.
That is, without my help.
Scat King... No, Escape King!
Escape King?
What's that?
Shiraishi's one of the tattooed prisoners who escaped from Abashiri.
He's one of them?
Shiraishi?
I see.
So you're supposed to strip off the skin?
You can tell immediately after all, huh?
Only he could have done this.
Do you have others?
Nope.
I see.
As someone who came from the same country as Nopperabo,
I feel responsible for how he stole the gold.
I don't care if you take a fair share for yourselves,
but the rest must be returned to the Ainu.
I want to see that happen.
No way!
Tanigaki?
My uniform sticks out, so I started wearing an attus.
It's more comfortable than I expected.
That tonkori... I remember that.
Asirpa's father got it in Sakhalin.
Oh? You're...
You know him?
Asirpa's uncle?
You're heading to Abashiri?
Asahikawa marks the halfway point between here and Abashiri.
Otaru
Abashiri
Asahikawa
Asahikawa's where the 7th is headquartered.
I know! Why don't we tell the 7th about Lt. Tsurumi?
There's someone there working for him.
The regimental commander, Lieutenant Colonel Yodogawa.
During the battle for Hill 203,
Lt. Tsurumi pointed out the flaws in his attack plan multiple times,
but each time, the records were erased.
Ever since then, Yodogawa's been forced to do whatever Lt. Tsurumi says.
Then there's no point, huh?
Either way, we're going to have a fight on our hands somewhere.
Let's take this route.
Where does that take us?
Sapporo.
There's a gunsmith I know in that area.
We can buy weapons and explosives for cheap without worrying about being tracked.
Explosives?
I didn't tell you?
I used to be a sapper.
At 203, I made a ton of improvised grenades and blew up the Russians' pillbox.
I see.
I'm glad to hear that.
Shiraishi, that's the girl's toilet.
Hey, Sugimoto, are we sure about taking him?
I don't trust you, either.
It still feels like Kiroranke is hiding something about Nopperabo.
And if Asirpa likes him,
he can't be that bad of a guy.
These workhorses are precious to the village.
Bring them back by planting time.
Yeah.
Take care of Huci.
Dosanko
My horse seems kinda small...
Okay, let's go!
First, to Sapporo!
And then to Abashiri!
My horse still seems small!
Sapporo World Hotel
Sheesh, that was awful.
Sleet and lightning at this time of year...
"Spring thunder," they call it.
Like a cannon signaling the arrival of spring.
Please, come inside.
I'll show you the way.
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