Kushiro
Sunfish?
The sunfish float to the surface of the water in summer to take a nap,
so you get on top of them and take out their meat and organs.
You just want to eat some fish that's in season, don't you?
I sewed it back together.
Thank you.
You've done so much for me.
And Cikapasi, too.
Not at all.
I feel so much safer on the road while a man's with me.
You're cold to me, normally,
but when it counts, you're kind.
You two married?
Want some meat?
He's offering us some sea otter meat.
Sea otter? I've never had any.
Thank you.
Make sure the two of you eat it together.
What did he say?
I'll go get some beach rose fruit.
What's that black cloud?
Oh, no... I hate grasshoppers.
And you call yourself "immortal."
This ain't good.
Golden Kamuy
Aah!
They're biting at our clothes!
That police lodge!
Evacuate over there!
Episode Twenty Blue Eyes
Inkarmat should've been close...
It won't kill her!
Just get inside!
Ow!
What the hell is that?
A locust swarm.
When you get the right conditions, after a flood or something, you get a ton of locusts.
They move in swarms over dozens of kilometers.
They can cross the sea if they want to.
They'll eat your crops, of course,
but also the paper walls of your house and your kimono.
How long does it take for them to pass by?
I'm hungry...
Is Asirpa-san okay?
Inkarmat!
Come here!
You saved me.
It's safe out here.
I wanted to talk to you alone.
This is a good chance.
Tell me everything you know about my father.
Sea otter meat has a... unique... scent.
Can we really eat this?
Something's wrong...
Shiraishi just looked... sexy.
Sugimoto, you okay?
Oh, dear. My button burst off again.
That Matagi... is so hot!
I feel so dizzy...
Are you okay, Ogata?
Lie down! Now!
Let's unbutton your shirt so you can breathe better.
Take off his pants, too. No, everything!
Ow! They bit my ears!
Hey there, guys.
Kiroranke...
I knew your father well.
I met him when I was your age.
Do you hate him?
Of course not.
I've always been on his side, and yours.
Do you think I'll believe that?
You used lies to scare Huci, and used Tanigaki to follow me.
I didn't lie to Huci.
You should return to Otaru.
I don't believe in fortune-telling.
I'm going to find out the truth myself.
Nopperabo, the man in Abashiri Prison, isn't your father.
Your father, Wilk, wasn't the kind of man who could kill Ainu and steal their gold.
When I first met him, Wilk had just come to Hokkaido,
and spoke Ainu with a Sakhalin accent.
He had deep blue eyes, like yours.
He said he was born of a Polish father and a Sakhalin Ainu mother.
He said that Sakhalin was filled with Poles
Sakhalin
who had been oppressed by the czar and exiled to the Far East.
Ever since he was young, Wilk had worked with the other ethnic minorities
to try and obtain liberation from the czar.
He fought, was wounded,
and fled to Otaru in Hokkaido.
At the time, I'd already begun my career as a wandering fortune-teller.
I spent every day with him.
Wilk accepted what I told him of the Ainu.
Our beliefs, customs, language, food... everything.
He recovered from his wounds here, and came to love the Hokkaido Ainu.
I don't believe my father is Nopperabo, either.
But my father never told me about you!
My father said he learned everything from my mother.
I don't believe anything you say!
To Wilk, I was still a child.
Maybe he forgot me.
If you say Nopperabo is a different person,
then where is my father now?
He's gone.
Wilk was murdered.
By Kiroranke, his former friend.
I got separated from Hijikata's group at Asahikawa, and haven't seen them since.
I guessed that you'd head down the mountains to Tokachi to avoid the 7th.
And then I heard at a local kotan that someone saw you.
Anyway...
Sugimoto, you've gotten a lot... hotter... since we last met.
Stop it.
So cute.
So cute!
Kiro-chan, you look like you've been working out, too.
You think so?
What do you think, Tanigaki?
What is this feeling...?
I can't control it!
I've never felt this before!
How do I get rid of this feeling?
But... I can't... control it anymore!
Let's play sumo!
Wow, great idea!
Good times.
The grasshoppers are gone.
Yeah...
We got a little out of control.
Yeah...
Tell no one of this.
Yeah.
Inkarmat...
It's believed that the meat of the sea otters functions as a powerful aphrodisiac.
When one of them loses a partner, they have no outlet for their lusts, and they die.
W-Wait!
What's gotten into you?
You can blame it on the sea otter meat you ate, Tanigaki Nispa.
Golden Kamuy
If you go to Abashiri, you'll run into Kiroranke again.
He's a very dangerous man.
You'll lose both the gold and the tattoos in the end.
I can't imagine that Kiroranke Nispa would kill my father.
I have proof.
Asirpa-chan!
You were there all night?
Oh, there you are. It's Asirpa-chan!
I'm so glad you're safe.
Kiroranke!
What are you doing here?
Hey, Asirpa.
Kiroranke Nispa, did you kill my father?
Me?
Where's this coming from?
She confronted him directly right after I told her. Silly girl.
The proof is...
...the fingerprints left on this betting ticket.
What?
Fingerprints?
Inkarmat!
Every set of fingerprints is different.
Outside of Japan, they've been using them in criminal investigations for several years.
At the horse racing track in Naganuma, I took fingerprints from the men,
and had them matched.
Hokkaido Horse Racing Association Betting Ticket
Kiroranke-san's matched those taken several years ago at a certain place...
The place where Asirpa-chan's father was murdered.
Murdered?
There were fingerprints on his makiri blade, she says.
You said you hadn't seen my father for years, right?
Come on.
If I'm the killer,
then who's Nopperabo, the guy in the prison?
Hold it.
She's working with Lt. Tsurumi.
Stop! What proof do you have?
Tanigaki Genjirou...
She seduced you over to her side, huh?
It was Lt. Tsurumi who recovered the items left at the murder scene.
In other words, he's the only one with the recorded fingerprints.
I was just using Lt. Tsurumi.
One hell of a woman, ain't she, Tanigaki?
You believe information given to you by Lt. Tsurumi?
If we start killing each other, that's just what he wants.
Right?
Asirpa...
I understand that you don't want to believe your father is Nopperabo.
But there can't be that many people in the world capable of coming up with the idea
of tattooing a code on human skins.
You know that, don't you?
Which of them is it?
Which one is telling the truth?
Shiraishi...
You're the only one here who met Nopperabo in jail.
Did he really have blue eyes like Asirpa-san?
I never said he had blue eyes.
I always tried to avoid staring at his nasty face.
Does Nopperabo really have no face?
All he ever did was silently make the tattoos.
The escape plan itself came down to the prisoners from Hijikata Toshizou.
Maybe Hijikata Toshizou set the whole thing up?
I don't know what you want, Inkarmat.
I want to protect the gold, as an Ainu woman.
Did Asirpa's father, Wilk, feel the same way?
Yes.
That's why he was killed by Kiroranke, a fellow member of his guerrilla organization.
That's what I think.
It's possible that the fingerprints were falsified by Lt. Tsurumi.
I can't prove that you're wrong.
But if I end up dead in the future,
it will be Kiroranke who kills me.
Did you sleep with me to protect yourself from him?
No.
What happened last night was due to the sea otter stew.
Sea otter!
Otaru
Another telegram came to the old Ainu lady in Otaru from Tanigaki in Kushiro.
He's met up with them, it seems.
Good.
I think it's time for us to head to Abashiri too, then.
My sons are Hokkaido Ainu.
The gold exists for the Ainu of this land.
My goal is the same as yours.
So, what do we do?
Everybody is suspicious of each other.
I don't want anybody killing me in my sleep.
We have to go.
When we meet Nopperabo, we'll know if he's Asirpa's father.
Our goal of going to Abashiri hasn't changed.
So let's do this.
Inkarmat, Kiroranke...
If one of you ends up dead on our journey...
I'll automatically kill the other one.
Just kidding.
New kid.
You curious about that guy?
Yeah, I guess.
You don't see many people with faces like that.
Let me give you a warning, since I've been here longer.
The first thing you have to learn here is to stay away from Nopperabo.
Nopperabo is transferred from one cell to another almost every day.
If there's any kind of pattern to the way they're moving him,
we may be able to predict where he'll be in a few days.
So this is a pig farm?
There are crates back there.
Carry them outside.
Okay.
New kid...
Leave your katana.
If you trip on it, you'll end up covered in pig shit.
Okay...
Where are the crates?
Chief Kadokura?
So that new kid is working with the 7th?
Take care of him, Security Chief Kadokura.
You want me to do it?
Use the prisoners.
They're all good at murder.
This is my prison.
Anybody who tries to mess with me will end up as pig food.
Don't hate me for this, new kid.
Ch-Chief Kadokura...?
Chief Kadokura!
Where are you?
Huh? My katana...
Chief Kadokura...
You've gotta be kidding me!
He's really strong!
I don't pick fights I can't win.
I fed him to the pigs. Just like you said.
He fought harder than expected,
and both the new kid and the prisoners were badly wounded.
I finished all three of them.
I reported the new kid as missing and the other two as dying after a brawl.
Chief Kadokura, you've been here seven years, right?
Yeah.
I always thought of you as a wimpy tanuki of a man, with limp, flaccid balls.
I assumed that if I looked up "useless" in the dictionary, I'd see your picture.
But today, I'm going to adjust my opinion of you just a little.
Thanks...
I'll never forget that.
I had more research to do here.
I underestimated Chief Kadokura.
Lt. Tsurumi will scold me!
What?
Damn it! I can't see a thing!
Where are they?
Leave the horses and the money.
Next Time: The Sound of an Ambush
Next Time: "The Sound of an Ambush."