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Clouds shroud a night with a waning moon quivering in the haze
A cruel trap involving a pair of crucified fledglings
Oh, since smoldering feelings lie firmly in their hearts...
...destruction!
Gently as the water, severely as a flower
pierce with a trembling blade
Even when I shut the fated tears deep within my eyes
my eyelids still remember you
"A Chance Meeting in the Next World"
She hasn't changed a bit...
Hey, Kouga.
We're at Hattori Hanzo-sama's residence.
"Hattori Hanzo's Sunpu Residence"
Iga-no-Oboro. May I enter?
Yes.
I am Kyohachiro, son of the second-generation Hanzo Masanari.
I am now son to the fourth-generation Masahiro.
It is nice to meet you...
Oh. I guess you do not remember me...
All that has happened...
I can only assume you bear some hatred for us
for driving your clan into the jaws of death...
It cannot be helped...
Where is your sword?
I do not have one...
I see...
Then take this.
It bears no name, but it is a fine sword.
I thank you.
Is there anything you would like?
How is Kouga Gennosuke?
Just barely conscious. However...
Then bring him quickly. He need simply stand.
Understood.
Truly as quick as a whirlwind...
To think that such a tragic end would come within a mere 10 days...
"Kouga Gennosuke"
"Oboro"
The harsh winter is ending at last...
How long I have looked forward to this season...
Oboro-dono.
No, it was very tranquil...
"West of Sunpu Castle- Abekawa River"
We were simply on our way to Ise.
It was just by sheer coincidence that we became involved in this feud.
As you are the referee for this war, we very much wanted you to see
that we've taken no part in this duel,
so that you may serve as a witness for the retired shogun...
I understand.
K- Kouga Gennosuke has been blinded and gravely injured by the Iga,
but that is just another part of a ninpou battle, is it not?
Of course.
Your tedious speech just now...
It will make you appear all the more suspicious, Ofuku-dono.
Is there anything you would like?
There is not much I can do at this point, but...
There... is nothing.
I see...
Hattori-sama.
There is one thing...
There is one thing I would like to ask of you...
I would like you to hold onto this...
An item associated with the Tsubagakure Ten...
It is... our prayer.
I duly accept this.
If...
If I should fall...
That is quite unlikely to happen...
Judging from Kouga Gennosuke's condition...
Oboro. I ask that you send him to the next world in one strike...
Yes...
Gennosuke-sama...
What are you doing?!
Oboro! Kill that Kouga this instant!
I love you...
Gennosuke-sama...
S-someone! Someone slay Gennosuke!
Someone!
Fool...
Oboro...
Oboro...
Father...
Don't tell me those two are-
"Oboro"
--Kyohachiro. --Right.
"The last one to write this..."
"...is the Iga ninja, Oboro."
To think that the Iga- and the Takechiyo faction-
would achieve a last-minute victory in such a manner...
We're done for... We're all done for...
What devilish luck this woman has...
The Iga have won. Go to the castle...
"The last one to write this is the Iga ninja, Oboro."
When the wind blows on us both...
When we both carve out a dream...
There is something that comes to my mind...
I wonder if you and I might have been a single spirit long ago...
I wonder if the spirit was split and now seeks to regain its true form...
And that's why I have such strong feelings for you...
A spirit split in two would come together.
No matter how many shoals or generations separate them...
...they will come together.
They will...
Melting away in the melody you whisper in the twilight
I sense eternity in our attracting eyes
and life sprouts silently
The dew of emotions that dances and flutters about in the spring wind
is a crumbling butterfly dream
"10th Month of Keichou 19 (1614) Winter Siege of Osaka" is a crumbling butterfly dream
"4th Month of Genna 1 (1615) Summer Siege of Osaka Toyotomi Clan Destroyed" is a crumbling butterfly dream
"4th Month of Genna 2 (1616) Retired Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Dies" is a crumbling butterfly dream
"4th Month of Genna 2 (1616) Retired Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu Dies" that wildly disturbs the path of the stars
"7th Month of Genna 9 (1623) Tokugawa Iemitsu (Takechiyo) becomes 3rd Tokugawa Shogun" that wildly disturbs the path of the stars
that wildly disturbs the path of the stars
You're going to Aekuni Shrine?
Yes. I have an offering I wish to make.
There is no reason for you to go personally...
It is something I really must deliver myself.
You're a truly laudable fellow...
Incidentally, Father...
The roster the late Ieyasu-sama left unnoticed...
Where is it now?
I haven't the slightest.
An age of peace has come...
Iga Tsubagakure, and Kouga Manjidani...
The two clans that fought to decide the Tokugawa successor
were promised equal, eternal stipends,
and now, little by little, more of them are said to come and go.
Oboro. Gennosuke.
Those who've fallen into the darkness...
The very least that I can do...
...is to never forget you...
"FIN"