Blue eyes...
Do you know what this is?
That's...
...the Makiri I made for Asirpa.
Why do you have it?
So it was true.
Nopperabo really is Asirpa-san's father?
Is she... here?
Come with me!
You're telling me everything!
If you want to know where the gold is, bring Asirpa to me!
I'll only tell my daughter!
Episode Twenty-Four Call Out
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Enomoto Takeaki is now a viscount!
And Hijikata Toshizou is an aged, fugitive prisoner!
If you'd only agreed to join the new Meiji government's army...
You wouldn't have spent more than thirty years in chains!
Beg for your life!
Obey me! Serve me!
Polish my boots every day, and do whatever it takes to keep me happy!
After all these years, you're still telling me to join the Meiji government?
You people in the new government returned the loyalty
shown to you by the Tokugawas with hatred,
and yet now you demand loyalty from the people.
You're scared.
The soldiers of the old shogunate who became martyrs scare you more than anything else.
In order to justify your brother, who died in the Battle of Hakodate,
as well as your own life,
you needed to lock me away until I became one of you.
And when that moment comes, the revenge of Inudou Shirosuke will be complete!
Until this moment,
you've been unable to bear the fact that a peasant from the countryside
like me was more loyal than the samurai!
I'll make you obey me,
even if I have to cut off your limbs!
I'm still young enough to take you alive.
Do it, last of the samurai.
You're going to tell me where the gold is,
but first, there's something I've wanted to say to you for a long time.
To tell you the truth,
I don't want Asirpa-san to see you!
She was terrified that the man who killed the Ainu and stole their gold
might really be her father.
Why did you tell Hijikata Toshizou the name Kochoube Asuko?
Why did you get Asirpa-san involved?
To entrust her with the future.
I made it so Asirpa could hide in the mountains,
fighting as a guerrilla.
My daughter will be a leader of the Ainu.
Lead the Ainu?
You want to use her for an Ainu independence movement?
You want her to be the Ainu Jeanne d'Arc?
What's wrong?
We haven't had enough fun here yet!
Come say hello to my friend here!
You want to make her a murderer like us?
Sure, maybe what you're doing is right!
Maybe somebody has to fight!
But it doesn't... it doesn't have to be her!
I want Asirpa-san to hunt deer in the mountains,
eat their brains,
turn them into chitatap,
and say, "Hinna, hinna!"
That girl seems to have had quite an effect on you, Sisam.
That kimono...
Red prisoner's clothes...
And next to him...
Asirpa-chan, get up here!
Well? Can you see her?
Inkarmat...
Nopperabo must be close!
Find him!
Over there!
Aca...
It's a red-haired Kimun Kamuy.
Asirpa...
You defeat it.
Aca?
The poison got it.
Congratulations, Asirpa.
You didn't get scared, and your movements were precise.
You're still so young, but you fought and defeated a bear!
I'm sorry.
I'm so proud of you, daughter.
Your mustache stinks.
Asirpa...
My daughter.
You are the future of the Ainu.
Well, Asirpa?
Is that your father?
Well?
It's Aca.
You're sure that's Wilk?
What's the look on her face?
Aca...
Why?
I wasn't the one who killed the Ainu.
Tell Asirpa that.
The gold—
Wilk was shot!
Sugimoto!
Asirpa-chan, run. Now.
Now the only key to the mystery of the gold is within you.
Everyone will start killing each other over you!
Aca! Sugimoto!
They're goners! Give up!
Let go of me! Let go!
We're leaving, Asirpa!
I won't believe it! I won't leave them!
Let me go! They're right there!
No!
Let go! Aca! Sugimoto!
Whoever shot them is close!
Sugimoto? Seriously?
What do we do?
I'll go.
You stay close to Asirpa.
Wait by the spare ship.
Tanigaki Nispa, don't go!
You'll be shot, too!
A little further to the left, huh?
That goddamn Matagi...
Abashiri Prison
Inkarmat!
What's wrong? What happened?
When Wilk was shot...
Kiroranke gave a signal to someone.
Kiroranke?
Private Tanigaki Genjirou...
This is probably the spare ship.
Let's wait for everyone here.
Huh? Where's Inkarmat-chan?
You know why the 7th was able to find out everything we did, right?
That woman's the only possible reason!
We can't take her with us.
Get the ship ready.
We're leaving.
Tanigaki was caught by Lt. Tsurumi's men.
And Aca and Sugimoto?
I got close and looked, but both were dead.
Golden Kamuy
Immortal Sugimoto...
How does it feel to be missing part of your brain?
We're brain damage pals now!
I can't believe a murderer like you was such a great doctor.
They say there's a thin line between genius and insanity, but...
I've done lots of cranial surgeries while pursuing my hobby of torture.
I would cut out their brains little by little,
then fry and eat them in front of the victim while they were still conscious.
With ginger soy sauce!
Well, only someone like Sugimoto-san, with his incredible capacity for recovery,
could've survived that.
Inkarmat-san is the one who's in danger.
If you want to learn anything from her, do it now.
Kiroranke and his friends must've gone to Karafuto.
We'll get on another ship at the port.
Get a hold of yourself.
Let's go, Asirpa.
The sound of the gun that shot Wilk and Sugimoto-san
was covered up by the roar of the star shells.
I didn't hear it.
Only Ogata could fire a shot like that.
I felt him when I was shot.
Was there a need to shoot Sugimoto?
Right after we learned that Nopperabo was her father,
he and Sugimoto exchanged words.
Whether it was the location of the gold,
or the key to cracking some code only Asirpa knows...
Or perhaps it was about you?
He might be alive, you know.
With Asirpa taken from him,
Immortal Sugimoto is probably real pissed off.
I'll murder Ogata and Kiroranke both.
Henmi Kazuo, Nihei Tetsuzou...
You did a good job of catching them.
So what proves that Kiroranke's group made it to Karafuto?
Wait!
I just saw you on the roof—
Take Asirpa!
This woman is dangerous!
Don't believe him, Asirpa-chan!
Kiroranke just...
Shut up!
You'll pay for what you did to Wilk!
I didn't mean to stab—
Let go!
If we don't do something, the bigger countries will just swallow us up!
Why did Wilk have to die?
Because he changed!
The plan was to tell our old comrades where the gold was!
Abashiri Prison
After killing the seven Ainu, Nopperabo took a small amount of the gold
and headed to Karafuto. He was captured on the way.
I think he was carrying reliable information with him.
He was planning to bring in their main force.
With Asirpa, the critical key, in his possession,
Kiroranke will probably try to meet up with his former guerrilla friends in the far east.
If those partisans get their hands on Asirpa, we'll have a problem.
I'll get her back!
Take me to Karafuto.
Without me, she won't trust you.
I'll go, too.
Asirpa trusts us and nobody else.
You're sure?
I'll come back, I promise.
Stay alive until then.
I'll never forgive you if you die.
Bring back Asirpa-san, please!
Asirpa-san!
You ate some of my brains, didn't you?
I still have clean-up work to do at Abashiri, so I can't leave yet.
For now, we're going to send a small force ahead of the rest of us.
Sergeant Tsukishima, Lieutenant Koito...
You go with them!
"Why do I have to leave you, Lt. Tsurumi?" he asks.
It is a request from your father, Admiral Koito.
Chapel
The 7th knew exactly what we were doing at Abashiri.
That means Old Man Nagakura and the others at the kotan may have been captured.
In two or three days, things will calm down up there.
And there'll be fewer soldiers in the area.
Just wait until then.
Did Inudou make this?
It seems he was gathering information about the escaped prisoners to lure me to Abashiri.
Some of this is information we don't have.
If the skins we had are now in Lt. Tsurumi's hands...
We need to get at least one of the others so we can stop him from breaking the code.
I thought Abashiri had turned out to be a waste of time,
but at the very last moment, we found a glimmer of light.
We're leaving here and going to the south!
Sugimoto-don...
You want to send your kid on a journey, huh?
He might not come back alive.
He's ready to die.
My son will be a leader of men someday.
And a leader has to take responsibility for many young lives.
I need him to be a man who's worthy of that.
When Lieutenant General Hanazawa committed seppuku, he sent me a letter.
His son, Yuusaku-don, had died on the front lines,
upholding the honor of his foolish father.
The war our generation started sent the sons of many of our citizens to battle.
If I keep my own son from danger, what can I say to those whose sons died?
I think Nopperabo was the same way.
He was telling the Ainu to die,
so first, he had to send his own daughter into battle.
He didn't raise her just to be used, I think.
Sugimoto...
Asirpa-san.
Sugimoto...
You're...
I couldn't bring you to meet your father.
I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise.
Aca... left on his journey, then?
I'm sorry.
Just wait. I'll come for you.
I swear I'll come for you!
This is a dream.
If the kamuy are trying to tell me something, there must be some meaning.
No!
Asirpa-san! It's not the kamuy that are speaking!
It's me!
I'm alive! And there's so much I want to tell you!
What's wrong, Asirpa-chan?
I dreamed about Sugimoto.
He said he was coming for me.
That dream might be true.
I just can't imagine him dying.
What are you saying, Shiraishi?
Of course he's not dead.
Just wait, Asirpa-san...
He's...
I'm...
...Immortal Sugimoto!