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It is said that life's encounters
are governed by fate.

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Tangled up in the threads of fate...

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...are the ill-fated blossoms,
pitiful and frail.

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Lost in anger, sorrow, and tears...

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Beyond the veil of midnight,

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the retribution that you are
helpless to reap shall be yours.

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A butterfly, hanging upside down,
that will head towards the light sometime

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The reflection in the mirror
as we cut our hair

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Footsteps echoing
in the hallway during class

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The sound of rain follows us ceaselessly

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Purely what we feel is blinding
and can take the shape of a sweet flower

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Or the shape of a poisonous fruit

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Rain again today

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I want to link that day to now, sky-to-sky

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In this craziness, uncertainty

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Will we be able to leave a trace
of each of our emotions somewhere?

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In this craziness, you gave me life

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To what bounds can we
safeguard one emotion?

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In this craziness, uncertainty

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Will we be able to leave a trace
of each of our selves somewhere?

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In this craziness, you gave me life

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To what bounds can we
safeguard each of our selves?

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I will not be killed!

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Be gone!

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You can't, Miss!

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Stop this!

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You mustn't kill at
the behest of your emotions!

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You will be banished to Hell!

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Even so, I do not care!

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This is bad. Her heart is
completely ruled by hatred!

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Miss!

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--Miss!
--Miss!

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I do not care.

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So be it!
Consign this grievance to Hell!

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Miss...

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This can't be...

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Miss!

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Hajime, I can't breathe...

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Tsugumi... Tsugumi...

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You awake, Sentaro?

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I made some rice balls. Eat.

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Right.

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Straw sandals?

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Yeah.

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You're making them for everyone again?

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You don't have to do that, Pa.

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It's fine.

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Then at least get paid
a little for them!

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It's fine. Just eat.

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Pa!

51
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My body's weak.

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I'm always a burden
on the village working the fields.

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This is like an apology for that.

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Eat.

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When I'm done, I'll help you.

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Never mind that. Go play.

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Ai came by earlier.

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What?

59
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You were sleeping,
so she said she'd come later.

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I don't have to today.
I'll make straw sandals.

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Go play with her.

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You're her cousin and you're about
the only one who'll play with her.

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But...

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Huh?

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Ai!

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What's wrong?!
Did you get bullied again?!

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Who was it?! Koukichi?!

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That bastard!

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Sentaro, hold on!

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Come back, Sentaro!

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That idiot...

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Koukichi!

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What was that for, Sentaro?!

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Shut up! You made Ai cry!

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You idiot! She's an evil spirit!

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Why are you bothering to defend her?!

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You know it, too, don't you?!

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Uncanny things happen when she's around!

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Just yesterday,

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she put a dead butterfly on her hand
and it came back to life!

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It's her power as an evil spirit!
No question about it!

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Shut up!

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Everyone in the village
is uneasy about her, too.

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They say if Ai stays here,

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the village is sure to suffer
some terrible calamity someday.

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So I told her to go away!

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Told her to disappear for
the sake of the village!

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What?!

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Why you!

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Anyone who defends Ai
isn't with the village!

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Get him!

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Yeah!

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Sorry...

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Nah...

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That butterfly wasn't dead.
That was why...

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Those bastards...
Don't pay them any mind.

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I'm sorry.

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Here.

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I...

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I don't think you're an evil spirit.

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You're just Ai.

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Tonight, your daughter will
be sacrificed to the mountain god...

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...to insure abundant harvests
for the next seven years.

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This is a great honor.

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A great honor.

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Everyone is waiting at the shrine.

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Come when you're done preparing.

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Why is it Ai?

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Because Ai's an evil spirit...

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Because everyone thinks that...

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That's why, right?!

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Sentaro...

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Because she's uncanny!

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Because you want her gone!

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That's why you chose Ai
to be the Seven Sending maiden!

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What?!

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You all just want to kick Ai out!

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Sentaro!

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Then bring us a replacement!

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Could you do that?

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It's for the village.

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I'll be waiting out front.
Hurry up now.

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Sentaro...

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We want to ask you for a favor.

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Now, go to the mountain god, cleansed.

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Are you serious?

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If we do that and the other
villagers find out...

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Please help us do this.

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What?

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We know it's something we shouldn't do.

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More than anything,

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when I think that the mountain god
might bring his wrath down upon us...

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But...

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I'm begging you, Sentaro!

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I'd feel wretched for Ai's sake
if we just let her go like this.

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We beg of you! Protect Ai for us!

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B-But...

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Ai...

139
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Hey, hurry it up!
I'm freezing out here!

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All right.

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I'll protect Ai!

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It's still no good.

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We don't have enough sunny days.

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What's a man to do?

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We'll just have to make a heartfelt
appeal to the mountain god.

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I'm sorry, but we'll be counting
on you again tonight.

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Right.

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It's me.

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I brought you a change
of clothes and food.

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Thank you...

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This is awful...

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Even if we scrape it all together,
it won't be enough for taxes.

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What do we do, Pa?

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We have no choice but
to have them settle...

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...for the barnyard and foxtail
millet in the storehouse.

156
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But that's what we're supposed to eat!
If we do that...

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He's been like that all the time lately.

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Must be hungry...

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It can't be helped.
Not with his ma's milk not flowing.

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Poor thing.

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At that rate, he might not
make it through this winter.

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? When will the cherry blossoms flower? ?

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? When will they flower
in the mountain village? ?

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? When will the cherry blossoms
grow fragrant? ?

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? When the laughing child
of seven plays ?

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? When will the cherry blossoms
dance about? ?

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? When the singing child
of seven goes to sleep ?

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? When will the cherry blossoms
wilt away? ?

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? When the dead child of seven ascends ?

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That scared me.

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I know.

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Sentaro?

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Is it safe to leave the shrine
on a moonlit night like this?

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l-It's fine.

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The villagers are all distracted
by the state of the rice paddies.

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I see...

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Does it feel good?

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Yes.

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The moon is so beautiful.

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Yeah.

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If only...

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If only things could
stay this way forever.

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Ai...

184
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Why don't we leave
the village together?

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What?

186
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Nah, it's nothing. Really...

187
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You're strange...

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Sentaro, what have you done?!

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How...

190
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There was a rumor going around...

191
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That you were going into
the mountains every night.

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Now we know.

193
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The reason our rice crops
are suffering...

194
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...is because she
defied the ritual!

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You brought down the wrath
of the mountain god on us!

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Did you ever think about how
our village is starving?!

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Ai... What a girl you are!
It's unforgivable!

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--Run, Ai! Run away!
--You're not getting away!

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--Why you!
--Move!

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Stop it!

201
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Let me go!

202
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Pa, let me go!

203
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Catch her!

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Don't let her escape!

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Stop it!

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Help me, Sentaro!

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Sentaro-

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Shut up!

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Ai!

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No...

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Nooo!

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It makes me hate myself...

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I want to help the Miss,

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but the crucial moment comes
and I can't do a thing for her.

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If the Miss hadn't taken us in,

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we'd have ended up
rotting away in Hell.

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We owe the Miss an enormous debt...

218
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Where could she have gone?

219
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Don't tell me she's really been
banished to Hell.

220
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Now, calm down.

221
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Panicking won't help anything.

222
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It's the way of things
to turn out as they will.

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--Let go! Let me go, Pa!

224
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--Don't go! Don't you go! Stay here!
--Let go! Let me go, Pa!

225
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--Don't go! Don't you go! Stay here!
--At this rate, Ai will... Ai will...

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--Listen to me!
--At this rate, Ai will... Ai will...

227
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Listen, Sentaro!

228
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You were helping to violate
the village's ritual, too!

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Do you want to die?!

230
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If you do something again,

231
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you won't be the only one
to pay the price!

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Pa...

233
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This was something Ai
once accepted, too.

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But that was...

235
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We have no choice but to do this.

236
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If we are to beg
the mountain god for forgiveness,

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we have to do this.

238
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It's for the sake of the village.
Bear with it.

239
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Don't...

240
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Please, don't do this!

241
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Ai...

242
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Ai!

243
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Sentaro...

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Ai!

245
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Come on, hurry up and finish it!

246
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Hurry up and do it!

247
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Hey, Sentaro!

248
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Sentaro, you have deceived
the mountain god these past six years.

249
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Atone for that sin.

250
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If you do not beg forgiveness,
this will be for nothing.

251
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I don't want to...

252
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It's for the village! At this rate,
everyone's going to starve to death!

253
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I'm hungry...

254
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At least, if next year...

255
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Please, Sentaro!

256
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Sentaro!

257
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It's because of you and Ai that
the village is suffering like this!

258
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Hurry up and beg for forgiveness!

259
00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:10,816
If my milk won't start flowing again,
he won't last much longer...

260
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Sentaro...

261
00:19:12,651 --> 00:19:14,312
Do it for the village!

262
00:19:16,221 --> 00:19:17,552
Do it.

263
00:19:32,237 --> 00:19:34,907
You said you would protect me...

264
00:19:34,907 --> 00:19:36,898
I trusted you...

265
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I trusted you!

266
00:19:41,213 --> 00:19:42,948
Move aside!

267
00:19:42,948 --> 00:19:44,850
Come on, bury them!

268
00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:46,010
Yeah!

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Sentaro...

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Great mountain god,

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the girl that violated
the ritual has been dealt with!

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So please...

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So please save the village!

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I will curse you!

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All of you!

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Even from beyond the grave,
I will curse you!

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A fire?

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? When will the cherry blossoms flower? ?

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? When will they flower
in the mountain village? ?

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Ai?!
? When will they flower
in the mountain village? ?

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? When will they flower
in the mountain village? ?

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? When will the cherry blossoms
grow fragrant? ?

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? When the laughing child
of seven plays ?

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? When will the cherry blossoms
dance about? ?

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? When the singing child of seven... ?

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You saw that?

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Yeah.

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I don't understand...

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I don't understand Sentaro...

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I do.

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What?

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I understand.

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Always a dead end

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There is no escape

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I place my sorrow upon a bird in the sky

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And I'll let it fly

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This place is ephemeral

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An eternity that binds me

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Coming or going

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All that passes by are dreams

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If you really want retribution,

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untie that red thread.

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However,

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once you have your retribution,

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you will have to pay the price
for it as well.

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Curses come home to roost.

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You know all that already, don't you?

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Now, all that remains
is for you to decide.

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Now, all that remains
is for you to decide.

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Tsugumi...