The 7th Division is attacking!
We're going to be killed!
Open the doors!
Sugimoto, what the hell do we do?
We run!
You're the Escape King, so think of a way to get us out!
I'm afraid you still need to stay here.
Golden Kamuy
Episode Twenty-Three Overwhelmed
So you were with Lt. Tsurumi this whole time, Inkarmat?
Sugimoto-san's group has failed.
Now that this has happened, only Lt. Tsurumi can get Nopperabo and Asirpa-chan out.
But then the 7th will get the Ainu gold!
Are you okay with that?
It doesn't matter to me, or to you, who gets the gold, does it?
Women are terrifying.
Follow your training, and get to your positions!
Put the Maxim guns on both sides of the gate!
Concentrate your fire on them when they break through the gate!
We'll rip them all apart.
And then we won't need to buy pig food for a long while.
We'll escape into the tunnel! Hurry!
Fire!
Don't you want to see your father?
This is bad.
Time to get the hell out!
That's the wall facing the Abashiri River.
They outsmarted us!
Lt. Tsurumi, what do you intend to tell Central Command?
Locusts.
Locusts?
It's happened before.
In 1882, the Japanese army used ship cannons in an attempt to disperse locusts.
Here's the scenario.
In order to disperse a swarm of locusts moving up the eastern coastline of Hokkaido,
we requested aid from Rear Admiral Koito, Commander of the Ominato Guard District.
Yup.
During our return to Shari, a riot broke out at Abashiri Prison.
We arrived to help end it.
Nobody from the mainland is going to come all the way out
to the ends of the earth to investigate either story for themselves.
They never do. They just read what we send them.
If even a single person from the prison survives, that's not going to work.
Survivors? From the prison?
That's the goddamn army! We can't beat them!
I'm surrendering!
But I heard you'll be killed.
That's a lie! It's a lie Warden Inudou spread to get us to fight!
There they are!
Don't shoot! I surrender!
Hurry! To the cells!
They've come to kill us all!
If you don't fight, the reaper will overwhelm you!
Inkarmat!
Inkarmat! Where are you?
Tanigaki Nispa!
Inkarmat!
Run...
I can't let you die here!
Move!
Ushiyama!
Go. Now.
Ushiyama-san, get out of there!
You two... had better damn well be happy together.
No! Ushiyama-san!
Umph!
My jacket got dirty.
Those are the star shells that were used in the Russo-Japanese War.
Sergeant Tsukishima, do it.
They threw something!
Charge forward, and kill them all!
Shiraishi, what are you doing?
There's a narrow space under each cell that allows air in and out.
Shut up, damn it!
Keep your damned mouth shut!
Did you know he was a fake?
Did Kadokura know, too?
After we escaped, Warden Inudou secretly switched out Nopperabo for a decoy.
Kadokura spent seven years seeing Nopperabo every day.
He's not stupid enough to have not noticed.
Did he know that when he sent them in there?
Just come with us, Asirpa.
You'll miss your chance.
There they are!
What are you doing? Run!
Where's Nopperabo?
Usami?!
Immortal Sugimoto...
I need to save Sugimoto.
If he's not with me, I'm not going.
If he sees his daughter, Nopperabo will tell us where the gold is.
That was our hope. That's why we all came here.
Sugimoto would want that more than he would care about himself.
Get back!
Just so we're clear, I haven't gotten the location of the gold from him yet!
Where is my aca?
I've got sixty-three of my men with me.
Do you think you can get away from us like that?
Let's find out!
All of you, throw down your weapons and—
Nikaidou!
Let me go! I'll kill him!
That was the deal!
Idiot! What if it hits Nopperabo?
All of you, out of the building!
I'll blow his head off! You got that?
Chief Kadokura!
It's good to see you again!
What's with that mole?
Sorry, Chief Kadokura. I aimed for your neck.
New kid... I didn't explain how this worked yet, did I?
It's a device that unlocks every single cell, first used in Kabato Prison.
Are you ready to fight 700 deadly criminals?
Affix bayonets!
Exterminate every last one of them!
Golden Kamuy
Sugimoto!
Sugimoto?
That old bastard Hijikata must've set this whole thing up.
If Toni Anji was working with him,
then Asirpa-chan might be with Hijikata right now.
If he sent us into the cell block with the fake Nopperabo and stirred up a ruckus,
he knew Inudou would panic and head for the place where the real Nopperabo was kept.
That was the plan all along.
While Kadokura kept us here,
he would bring Asirpa-san to meet her father,
learn the location of the gold, and escape.
He plans to use this chance to separate me from Asirpa-san,
because he knows I'll get in his way eventually.
Okay! All you have to do to get out is dislocate both shoulders.
I can't do that!
Damn it! Is there no way out?
I'll find something I can use to break the wall.
I'll find my own way out. Go look for Asirpa-san.
When you get her, wait at the main gate.
Take care of her, Shiraishi!
Chapel
There he is.
I knew it. The chapel.
Inudou goes there every day to practice, so I was already suspicious of it.
But no matter how many times Kadokura searched the place,
he couldn't find any hidden rooms.
So Aca is here, right?
We catch Inudou when he tries to move Nopperabo.
Are you okay?
Let's get into the building. My eardrums hurt.
Asirpa's gone!
Huh?
She headed back to Sugimoto, huh?
She vanished the second she heard where Nopperabo was.
Tough little girl, that one.
Do we bring her back?
No, for now we need to get Inudou.
I guess I'll have to use these to make him believe.
Quiet!
Hurry! Hurry!
Shiraishi!
Asirpa-chan!
Where's Sugimoto?
Trapped beneath the floors of the cells.
The air duct was so small that only I could get out.
Wait, wait. Don't go.
There are too many solders.
But...
Fine. I'll save Sugimoto.
Take him to the chapel.
Hijikata Toshizou says that's where Nopperabo is.
We can't do that, either.
Sugimoto told us to wait at the main gate.
No. I need to meet Aca and see if it's really him.
You can't go back to Hijikata!
He's trying to separate you from Sugimoto!
From Sugimoto?
Once I save Sugimoto, I'll go to the chapel.
I'll try to find some way to get Nopperabo to the main gate.
Wait.
Give this to Sugimoto.
How the hell do you dislocate your shoulders?
Sugimoto!
Kiroranke!
Are you stupid?
There's no way out of that.
What will you do?
Jam grenades between the wall and the dirt.
Find a safe place.
Hey, wait—
Did he fart?
The chapel?
Asirpa said to show this to Nopperabo.
It's Asirpa-san's makiri.
The one her father made.
Wait at the main gate.
I'm worried about leaving her alone with Shiraishi.
I'll take Nopperabo there.
Tell Asirpa-san I promise she'll see him soon.
Okay.
Chapel
I hear something from below.
So there was a basement?
Get out.
I'll put out both of Inudou's eyes.
Till death do us part.
What?
Yohei, Sugimoto's going that way!
Hey, look! Somebody's lying on the ground!
It's Nikaidou!
Is he alive?
Nopperabo...
I'll bring you to Asirpa-san.
To Asirpa-san...
Stop! Somebody's coming!
It's Ushiyama and the others!
Kiro-chan!
Where's Sugimoto?
I rescued him from the prison.
But he went to the chapel alone.
He promised he'd arrange for you to see Nopperabo.
Hijikata and Inudou are there, too.
Let's go.
You stay here.
But...
Inkarmat.
Maybe I can get a better view from up high.
Blue eyes!
Next Time Call Out
Next Time: "Call Out."