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Courageous death in combat.
A heroic death.
Honorable suicide.
A graceful suicide.
A warrior's honor is awarded only through battle and death.
To fight and die in battle is the greatest honor for a warrior.
Takauji Ashikaga, a hero
This is the tale of a hero who lived through such a raging age
who flourished during this turbulent time…
in spectacular fashion.
…wasn't the protagonist.
One known as Takauji Ashikaga.
Or so you might think.
Lord Tokiyuki!
Lord Tokiyuki!
It is time for archery practice.
It's time to practice your archery!
You can't run away anymore, Lord Tokiyuki!
You're not going anywhere, Lord Tokiyuki!
Sorry.
Oh, sorry!
How nimble!
He's so nimble...
Fool! It's not the time to be impressed!
Fool! This is no time to admire his skills!
You'll slip and fall, Lord Tokiyuki!
It's dangerous up there, Lord Tokiyuki!
Please come down.
Please come down!
You don't want to get hurt!
You'll get hurt!
Someone stop him!
Somebody stop him!
What's all this commotion?
What's the commotion here?!
We're in the middle of Takauji's send-off.
Lord Ashikaga is about to depart!
But Lord Tokiyuki--
Well... Lord Tokiyuki...
What of the Young Lord?
What about Young Master?
Huh? What an escape artist.
Huh?
That's enough. You may go.
He's so quick on his feet!
But, sir…
That's enough! Dismissed!
Excuse me, will you let me through?
But...
As always, you're a masterful player of hide-and-seek, Young Lord.
Sorry, let me through.
Mr. Takauji.
My...
Takauji Ashikaga.
You're always so good at hide-and-seek, Young Master.
I depart today for Kyo to quell the former Emperor Godaigo's uprising.
L-Lord Takauji?
I wish to prove my allegiance to you, our future leader, and the Hojo clan.
I, Takauji Ashikaga,
I put my trust in you.
will go to the capital,
I pray the gods be with us
to quell the rebellion of Emperor Go-Daigo's predecessors.
and may they bestow prosperity to Kamakura and the warrior families.
I'd love for you, the future lord of Hojo Clan,
Now, let's get going.
to witness my loyalty to the clan.
That's reassuring.
I shall pray for the prosperity of Kamakura and the warriors,
and also for your success.
Well, then.
- Thanks for waiting. - Sir.
Don't be so nervous around Ashikaga.
Kiyoko?
You're the heir to the shogunate.
You'll be the one giving orders to him someday.
You're also my future husband, so get a grip.
I don't remember being engaged to you...
Lord Tokiyuki!
Where did he go?
Maybe he's hiding over there?
Sorry, Kiyoko!
See you later!
Oh, my.
Good grief...
All he's good at is running and hiding.
He's just so different from Takauji, even though he's a fellow warrior.
Even if he were to succeed the shogunate,
he'd just be a puppet king like his father.
Indeed, Sir Takatoki.
Then leave this matter to us.
Yes.
Yes.
Don't get nervous over Takauji.
Oh, come on, Father.
Kiyoko.
Even a puppet can live a life of luxury.
You are the rightful heir of the shogunate.
Lord Tokiyuki is talentless and only good at running,
One day, you'll be giving him orders.
but he's kind.
And I'm going to be your betrothed, too, so keep your head up.
He'd make for a good husband of a prominent family!
Funny, I don't remember making such a promise.
I can't find him...
-Smooch. -Lord Tokiyuki!
If he does his best to hide, it's out of my hands.
Where did he run off to?
The other day, he hid in the armor box for two whole days. It became a commotion!
I'll bet he's hiding nearby.
If he'd go that far, wouldn't it be easier for him to practice?
Sorry, I gotta go, Kiyoko.
Well, although nominal, he is the successor to the shogunate.
Catch you later!
He's just so lazy and cowardly, nothing goes through his head.
There he goes.
Good grief.
All that boy is good at is running and hiding.
Technically, they're both samurai, but Lord Tokiyuki is nothing like Takauji.
It's true he will inherit the shogunate,
but he's only going to be a puppet ruler, just like his father.
All right, Lord Takatoki?
We'll handle the rest.
'Kay.
What's wrong with being a puppet ruler, Father?
They still get to lead lavish lives.
Lord Tokiyuki lacks talent, and he's weak-willed,
but he is kind.
He's the perfect marriage candidate
for someone from such a distinguished house as myself!
He's nowhere to be found.
We're powerless once the Young Lord starts taking hiding seriously.
Remember the commotion when he hid inside a chest of armor for two days?
Rather than all that trouble,
wouldn't it be easier to just go to training?
Even if it's just in name,
he will be the successor to the shogunate one day.
His cowardice and idleness set a bad example for the people.
Tokiyuki.
Tokiyuki.
Father is frail, and on top of that, he lacks the conviction to rule.
Father is sickly and unmotivated.
You'll do him a favor by taking over as soon as possible.
You should really succeed to the throne already.
What? But you're the firstborn.
Wait, shouldn't you be first in line for succession?
Not a chance.
No way.
If the child of a concubine were to be appointed, it would disturb the peace.
If I, the concubine's son, succeeded, it would be a source of strife.
It's in our bloodline to run away in plain sight from anything we don't like.
It's in our blood to run away from anything we don't like,
That's not something to be proud of.
fair and square.
Why are you so proud?
Lord Tokiyuki!
Lord Tokiyuki!
I finally found you.
Found you!
Let's get to our archery practice!
All right, let's go practice archery!
Come along!
Now!
Come along!
Come on!
Come! Come! Come!
Come on, come on, come on!
Big brother, take the dog.
Hold on to this, Brother.
Sure.
Huh? Sure...
-Tokiyuki! -Lord Tokiyuki!
Tokiyuki!
Lord Tokiyuki!
Lord Tokiyuki!
Wait, please!
Lord Tokiyuki!
Please stop!
Lord Tokiyuki!
Lord Tokiyuki!
Lord Tokiyuki!
Lord Tokiyuki!
My lord!
Young Master!
My lord!
Gosh!
Young Lord!
Young Master!
I like this Kamakura.
I love Kamakura.
And I like to see its people smile as they live in peace.
I love seeing the smiles on people's faces when they live in peace.
I don't need status or honor.
I don't need status or glory.
Just living in this city is enough for me.
All I'd need is to live peacefully in this town.
Lazy, cowardly. Sure, that's fine.
Call me lazy or a coward.
Why would a mere puppet like me need the power of pen and sword?
As a puppet, I have no use for civil and military power.
You are not lazy, nor are you a coward.
That is not laziness or cowardice.
Those are merely aspects of the monster asleep within you.
It is a fragment of a monster within you.
That is what Father says.
So spoke my father.
Who are you?
Who are you?
"Father"?
Father?
You're quite the elusive boy, just as I've heard.
I see you're as good at running away as they say!
What? Who's this? What's going on?
What in tarnation?!
Honored to make your acquaintance.
Nice to meet you!
I am a Shinto priest of Shinano Province.
My name is Yorishige Suwa, a priest of the Shinano province!
Yorishige Suwa.
A priest of Shinano? Wait, when did you climb here?
A Shinto priest from Shinano?
I've been here from the beginning! I knew you would be climbing this tree!
Wait, since when did you climb up here?
You're emitting quite a bright light...
I've been up here all along.
Oh, my apologies!
I foresaw a future where you'd climb this tree.
Because of the holiness of my nature, my divine power inevitably leaks out!
You've got this incredible sort of aura around your head.
I'll tone it down.
Excuse me if it's blinding!
I have been asked to pray for the protection
I was born with an innate, sacred, holy power,
of Kamakura against its enemies.
and I just can't stop the flow sometimes!
I have come to inform your father that it has been completed.
I'll dim it down.
She is Shizuku. She's excellent in secret arts and clerical work,
I came to pray for Kamakura. To pray for protection from its enemies.
so I'm allowing her to assist me.
I have come to report to your father that it has been completed.
He's so suspicious... How could he tell I'd climb this tree?
This is Shizuku, my assistant.
Father can see the future with his divine power.
She is good at secret arts and general affairs,
Although, he sucks at praying.
and so I have her help me out.
Shizuku, no need to say the latter.
What a suspicious man.
If you're in doubt, have a look for yourself!
How did he know I'd be up here?
I can see it, Lord Tokiyuki...
Father has the gift to see into the future.
In the future, you...
His prayers, on the other hand, are a sham.
You... like that...
Shizuku, you didn't have to say that last part.
Oh, wait...
Do you still doubt me? Let me demonstrate some more.
If I had to say... Or maybe...
Yes, I can see, Lord Tokiyuki,
If you do, you'll surely be happy...
in the future…
Hang on, everyone has their own definition of happiness...
you will…
Well, you're in good health, and as for...
No, that's not right.
I guess whatever will be, will be?
It's rather that…
What?!
Actually, more like…
You're just murmuring stuff!
I feel like… he'll live a happy life if he…
I can only figure out fragments of it!
Wait, happy by whose standards though?
It wouldn't be fun if I knew everything in the first place!
That'd work, but…
But I could see it all now!
that's more of a life lesson.
In a double act, you'd play a straight man rather than a funny man.
For that…
Whose fault is it, you funny soothsayer?!
Well, it'll work out the way it's meant to?
And I also saw two years into the future.
Excuse me?
At the age of ten, you will be a hero who will shake the heavens.
Everything you said was vague.
You'll become the master of the great war, feared by some and respected by others,
I can only see in fragments!
and you could even change the future of the nation.
I'd spoil the fun if I saw everything!
I can tell this much, since it's a lot...
But I see something clearly now.
Oh, so quick!
If we were a comedy duo, you would be the straight man.
Father, that was too much for him...
That's because you're prattling nonsense!
What a great crisis-sensing ability...
I also saw two years into your future.
When you're ten years old,
you will become a hero, to shake the very foundations of heaven.
You will be a lord of war.
Some will cower in fear. Others will worship you.
You will even change the fate of the country.
This is all I can foretell.
You see, this is a very powerful…
He's the size of a bean!
Father, you revealed too much at once.
What a finely attuned instinct for detecting danger.
That was close.
That was close.
I don't get paid enough allowance to get involved with fake shamans.
I don't have enough money in my pocket to give a fake spirit channeler.
What a foolish man.
What a foolish man.
Even if he tricks someone like me, all he'll get is surface-level glory.
Even if he were to deceive me, he'd only gain superficial success.
And he looked so serious when he called me a hero.
Me, becoming a hero...
I can't believe someone like that was just walking around.
He looked serious when he said that...
Seriously.
To think someone like him could enter...
He was seriously shady.
For real...
But I think I know what this Mr. Yorishige meant.
He was so suspicious.
Your knack for elusiveness is nothing like mine or Father's.
Still...
You'd definitely be a hero if the right opportunity arose.
I understand a little of what this Suwa man said.
I have a gut feeling.
Your running skills are on a different level than me and Father.
Huh?
If the conditions are met,
What is it?
I feel like you can be a hero.
No… Where did I kick it to?
That's what I think.
Maybe it's caught in a tree.
What's wrong?
We will now raid Kyo and suppress the uprising.
Where did it go?
May we have the God of War's divine protection!
Maybe it got stuck in the tree?
Let's go!
We will now enter the capital to remove the rebel army.
Viceroy. Viceroy!
Blessings be upon us, O Great Bodhisattva Hachiman!
I bring news.
Come forth, everyone!
Takauji had been secretly communicating with Emperor Godaigo.
Lord Viceroy!
Our army in Kyo has been annihilated!
I am here with a report, Ashikaga secretly contacted Emperor Go-Daigo!
Samurai have gathered upon hearing of Takauji's valor.
They destroyed the shogunate forces in the capital!
The Nitta Army has exploded in the blink of an eye!
When the warriors heard of Takauji's fame, they gathered together.
Even more, Takauji's eldest son, Senjuo,
They say the Nitta army is swarming in rather quickly.
was entrusted to Yoshisada Nitta and appointed general.
Not only that, but the enemy also sent his son, Senjuō, to Yoshisada Nitta...
And they're sending the army towards Kamakura.
And they're also sending troops to Kamakura!
Damn you. Why have you betrayed us--
You... Why did you betray--
I hear a voice.
I can hear a voice.
Who speaks to me?
Whose voice?
Who is it that guides me to be ruler above all?
Who...
Father…
Who will raise me to the top of the country?
We've been waiting for you, Lord Tokiyuki.
Father...
In his last moments, your father commanded me to help you escape.
I have been waiting for you, Lord Tokiyuki.
He regrets such young life not seeing its days.
In his final moments,
I will shelter you in my territory of Suwa in Shinano.
your father ordered me to help you escape,
Yorishige Suwa…
because his son was too young to die.
How come you're here?
From now on, I will shelter you in my territory,
We're short on time.
which is Suwa, Shinano.
Now come.
Yorishige Suwa...
I foresaw this tragedy with my divine eye.
What are you doing here?
We have been taking defensive measures for this event
There's no time.
in the case of its slightest chance.
Over here.
My men and horses are hidden past this hill.
My divine eye saw the possibility of this happening.
We must go quickly.
We had prepared ourselves for any eventuality.
No.
We have our men and horses in the hills ahead.
I'll end my life like my father and our clan.
Let's head there now.
I won't allow it.
No...
What will happen to Japan if you were to die here?
I'll just cut my stomach...
What of it?
like Father and the rest.
You know, it'll…
Not happening.
I think…
If you die, what will be the future of Japan?
But who am I to decide that?
Who cares about that?
I guess your death won't bring that big of a change.
Well, that's...
It may be a little… for those guys, but…
It'll become... That...
Not that it's a big inconvenience…
I have a hunch, but I can't just decide for myself...
It's hell on earth.
If he died, the effect would...
Kamakura is being completely destroyed by the traitorous samurai.
While the effect on... It wouldn't be...
Takauji Ashikaga.
He has to be there...
For him to be this thorough…
A picture of hell...
Takauji…
Everything in Kamakura is destroyed by traitorous warriors...
Takauji Ashikaga...
I can't believe you've done it so thoroughly.
Sir... Takauji...
Who are you?
Who are you?
I'm a vassal from Shimotsuke.
I'm a feudal lord of Shimotsuke.
Takauji Ashikaga.
My name is Takauji Ashikaga.
Young Lord, you can't run from Takauji!
You can't escape from me, Young Master!
That smile of his before…
He was just smiling the other day...
Was it all a lie?
Was that all a lie?
Let's get revenge, Lord Tokiyuki.
Let's get our revenge, Lord Tokiyuki!
I, Yorishige, will help you.
I will certainly be of assistance!
This smile is also a lie. It's absolutely a lie.
His smile is also completely fake.
Go away.
Go away.
Do you really think I could trust a fake shaman like you?
How can I believe a bogus prayer master?
How rude!
How rude!
You dare call me a fake while I am simply overflowing with holy energy?
I am bursting with holiness, and you call me bogus?!
Father, a fake is a fake, so don't make excuses.
Father.
My own Shizuku! Back me up!
A bogus is a bogus. No need to argue.
We can't avenge my father.
Back me up here, my family!
It's obvious if you look.
I can't avenge anyone.
Even for Yoritomo Minamoto, it took five years to defeat the Heike clan.
You'll know it when you see this.
Was there a man before Takauji who destroyed an entire country in 24 days?
Even Lord Minamoto-no-Yoritomo took five years to destroy the Heike.
The other day, you spouted nonsense that I would become a hero,
And yet, there's a man who destroyed a whole country in just 24 days.
but future generations will only apply that word
You spoke nonsense the other day that I would be a hero...
to someone strong like Takauji Ashikaga.
But it is powerful men like Takauji Ashikaga,
Since I've been defeated, it would be a disgrace if I didn't die.
who will be called heroes by future generations.
So let me die like an honorable warrior, like my people did.
The losers must die gracefully, lest they be ashamed of themselves.
Very well.
So just please let me die.
Just like the rest of the warriors.
Is that so?
Then die.
Then die.
It's the Hojo child!
He's from Hojo!
When you're in the depths of despair and thrown into the abyss of death…
From the depths of despair and beyond...
Hey.
Only on the brink of death...
…that is where the hero within you shines!
Hey!
Hey. I could have died.
The hero inside you...
You said it would be a disgrace if you didn't die,
will shine!
yet you jumped out of there to save your skin.
Hey...
That was the hero in you.
What would you do if I died?
Running and hiding are good skills for a hero.
You said you'd be a shame if you died,
Above! Shoot to kill!
but it's the hero inside you that made you...
Your survival instinct is monstrous.
try and survive happily and undeterred.
You know better than anyone how to survive.
Being elusive is a glimpse of a hero.
You love the tingling tension between life and death.
Up there! Shoot them down!
What a pain for Takauji who just killed our lord and took a whole country.
You are the monster of survival instincts!
Because the one he should definitely kill next,
You are most gifted for survival,
the one who will inherit the Kamakura shogunate,
and love the tingling tension between life and death.
has more talent than anyone to escape death.
You must mean trouble for Takauji, who just murdered the emperor,
Takauji becomes a hero by killing, and you become a hero by living.
and claimed the throne.
You two are heroes with opposed fates.
The next heir to the Kamakura shogunate,
Of course, you can't win if you only run and hide.
who must be killed more so than anyone else,
Allies, military strength, intellect…
has the talent to survive better than anyone else.
Everything you need to win, I will give to you.
Takauji becomes a hero by killing.
As long as you're breathing, Takauji will eventually come to kill you himself.
And you will become a hero by surviving.
Till then, you'll run and hide, become stronger,
You are two heroes with opposite destinies.
and defeat the demons that come for you.
Of course, you can't win by merely running and hiding.
Now, it's time to start the game of tag to reclaim the throne!
Companionship, military strength, and intelligence...
Mr. Yorishige, what do you really want?
I will gather it all for you to win.
What do you gain by saving the child of a ruined country?
If you keep on living, one day for sure,
It is all for my devotion to the Hojo clan!
Takauji will come to kill you.
If a fake shaman were to say that, I doubt you would believe it.
Until then,
I'll tell you everything someday.
you stay hidden, train yourself, and take down the chasing demon!
When you take back Kamakura.
Now, we shall begin the game of tag to reclaim the throne!
I'm a disgrace.
Sir Yorishige.
As the son of a samurai,
What's your aim here?
I'm supposed to be dead alongside my people.
What's in it for you to rescue an exiled kid?
Because of you, I've awakened to the joy of living.
All for loyalty to the Hojo family!
Mr. Yorishige, I'll have you take responsibility for this.
Well, I'm just a bogus, so I guess you won't believe me.
I'll tell you in due time.
After you have taken back Kamakura.
I...
I really know no shame.
My whole family was killed...
It was only natural for me to die as well.
Thanks to you, I swooned at the joy of living.
Sir Yorishige.
You will be responsible for this.
Of course.
Of course.
I will serve you unto the pits of hell.
I will serve you to the depths of Hell.
Just as Yorishige prophesied,
Just like Yorishige predicted,
in two years, Tokiyuki would shake all of Japan.
two years later, Tokiyuki shook the whole country.
In a time when death is the honorable path,
In an era where dying gracefully was the norm,
this boy outraced all that befell him and attempted to overthrow the shogun.
the boy kept on the run at all costs,
Thus began the tumultuous life of the elusive samurai prince!
and he was determined to get the head of the new emperor.
Thus marked the beginning of the turbulent life of the elusive samurai.
Coming forth!