▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : A condemned storyteller once asked to be beheaded while telling a story.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : My father, Yamada Asaemon Kichiji, accepted his request.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Even after he was beheaded,
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : the storyteller finished his tale.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : He didn't even realize he'd been beheaded.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : It was the perfect blow, painless and devoid of emotion.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : After that, I made it my goal to duplicate that stroke my father made.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Thank you.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : There's fear.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : In your swordsmanship.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Doubt and fear.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : You'll make the condemned die painful deaths.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : I'll work on it.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Sagiri...
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Look at your blade.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : The truth is reflected in the blade.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : My blade, heavy with fear, causes the condemned to suffer,
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : which makes my blade heavier still.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : What should I do?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : How can I eliminate doubt and fear from my heart?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Like my father.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Perhaps...
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : if it were a life I could take without doubt or hesitation.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : A burglar who killed 30 people, Tanio Seikichi.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : The serial arsonist, Nikimaru.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : The former constable and murderer, Kido Shukan.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : They're all heinous criminals who've caused chaos.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : You cannot.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : The atmosphere changed.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Adachi Matagoro...
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : A fiend who killed only woman and children, and only for pleasure.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Could I kill a truly evil person who's better off dead without doubt or hesitation?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : I was certainly wary of him at first.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : But now he's so listless, like he's a different person.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Is this man just like the other criminals?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Or is he even more evil than that, as the rumors claim?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Yes.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : I can't tell if he's brave or just dumb.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Feeling overwhelmed, Sagiri?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Eizen-dono...
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : It'll be even more brutal on the island.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Not just among the criminals.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : You'll be exposed to harm as well.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : When that happens, will you be able to kill?
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Let me take this opportunity to tell you...
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : you're not suited to this job.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Why would a woman bother to wield a sword?
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : The daughter of a warrior should live quietly in her mansion
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : and stay far away from the fate of an executioner.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : With all due respect, Eizen-dono, I would have if I could.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Testing swords on bodies, beheading criminals, making medicines from corpses...
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Even if you don't wield a sword,
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : everyone born into the Yamada clan makes their living through people's deaths.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : You can try to turn a blind eye to it.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : But the truth is reflected in the blade.
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Can you kill him?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : I can't escape the executioner's fate.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : In that case...
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : I refuse to quietly accept it.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : I'll see for myself what my fate is.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Why?
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Why?
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : His methods are brutal.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : Is it possible that what I needed wasn't the strength not to fear killing...
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : But the resolve to take on the burden of that fear and the lives I took?
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Sagiri, are you all right?
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▶ Eizen Yamada Asaemon : Perhaps this was too great a responsibility for you after all.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : No.
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▶ Sagiri Yamada Asaemon : I will kill him.
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