57 Haruka: That onmyou barrier surrounds everything from the walls up... and it's an anti-youkai barrier... Haruka: It doesn't feel like one of Kantarou's techniques... Haruka: So how are you supposed to get in there? Haruka: There's no way to jump from the fence to the roof, even... Handwritten: [Servant's entrance] Haruk: ...... Haruka: ! 58-59 Text: The Wisteria Diary - Or, The Night in which the Oni-kui Tengu Regains His Past: Epilogue 60 *all in Engrish* 61 Maid: Kyaa!! SFX: *crash* Maid: Oh no, what's wrong!? Haruka: Please excuse me... I was... overcome... aaaHaruka: I've been struck by a mysterious illness... an illness where I must rest my head in the lap of a beautiful girl, or I may die... SFX: *huff huff* Haruka: But if I were to lay with a beautiful girl like you... Haruka: Surely I'd be cured... SFX: *gasp* 62 Haruka: But... we'd have to go someplace quiet... I wouldn't want anyone to see... Box: Youko's Gigolo Training Class Youko: [Get up! Get up, Haruka-chan!] Kantarou: [You can do it, Haruka!!] Haruka: ...This is the first time I'm actually glad I had that horrible special training......!] Maid: Right this way~! *heart* Maid: Well, my room is over here~ Maid: You can put your head in my lap for a long as you like... Maid: Huh? Handwritten: [Not There.] Maid: What!? Haruka: Now let's see what's hiding in this oversized house. Haruka: Maybe whatever is making me feel so strange is here... 63 SFX: *step* Haruka: I guess I could break a window and get in that way... Dog: GRRRR~~~ Haruka: ! Dog: GRRRRR!! Dog: GRRRR... 64 Dog: Woof woof! Haruka: Oh, stop! Haruka: I know you love me, but you've got to wait! Haruka: I'm kind of busy... Dog: *I'm assuming this is some kind of happy doggy noise, but I really don't know what kind of noises a dog would make.* Man: And what kind of business would that be? Haruka: WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!? Haruka: WAAAH!! SFX: *getting lciked by dogs* Watanabe: ...... (Is that Watanabe? o_O) 65 Watanabe: Ichinomiya-dono didn't tell me that you would be here. Haruka: I said I'd come without attracting attention. Haruka: But I've got a question. Haruka: Why are you treating me like a guest? Watanabe: Like a guest? Oh, you're funny. Watanabe: Is there anything strange about offering tea to an acquaintance? Haruka: ...... Haruka: Is Ayame really Minamoto Raikou's sister? SFX: *swish* Watanabe: Yes, that's true. Haruka: ...It's... strange... she... she looks some much like someone else I know... and then there's that strange feeling I get here... Haruka: What if... Ayame and that person... are the same? 66 Watanabe: I don't think so... Watanabe: Ayame-dono is Ayame-dono, and nothing more... SFX: *slam* Haruka: You close your eyes so calmly... Haruka: What is it that you know about my past!? Haruka: Answer me!! There's no way she could still be alive... so how...... Watanabe: Perhaps both Ayame-dono and you, Oni-kui-dono, are not who you think you are... Haruka: Yeah, well maybe I should go back to the way I was. Watanabe: With that arm? Haruka: ...I have another arm! Watanabe: I'm just a mild-mannered man with too much spare time, that's all. Haruka: Huh? Watanabe: Did you know that tea was first introduced to Japan during the Kamakura Period? It's written about in "Kissa Yojoki" (A Chronicle of the Health Benefits of Tea) by the Zen priest Eisai, and the practice was popularised by Murata Shuukou. Sen Rikyuu, Oda Nobunaga's personal tea master, elevated the Zen aesthetic of simplicity and poverty in the tea ceremony to an art form. Watanabe: Sen Rikyu once said "Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea, then you drink the tea, and that is all you need to know" and thus exemplified the essence of tea philosophy. Taking that interpretation into account, we must be aware of the atmosphere as an essential contributor to the proper enjoyment of the subtle flavor of tea, and so choosing those we share tea is the first step in the Way of Tea... Watanabe: Oni-kui-dono? SFX: *head down* Haruka: ~~~~~~~~ 67 Watanabe: I've been interested in your story for some time, Oni-kui-dono. Watanabe: We're really in the same position. Haruka: No, you're just freaky. Haruka: We don't have anything in common. Haruka: So what about that jerk, anyway? Watanabe: ...... Haruka: Minamoto? Watanabe: And what business do you have with Raikou-sama? Haruka: I guess I can tell you... Haruka: Just so you don't get the idea that I came here to beat him by force, or anything like that... Haruka: But I just thought that Kantarou would want to be as prepared as possible... Watanabe: ? Watanabe: But why? 68 Haruka: ...No reason... Watanabe: Oni-kui-dono... Watanabe: The man you work for... what is he like? Haruka: Huh? Haruka: Well, I hate taking orders from anybody. Watanabe: But a youkai is bound to serve the human who gives it a name... you don't mind that? Watanabe: When you live for someone else's goals... Watanabe: That person becomes the source of your strength. Haruka: ...So you're saying I'm dependant on a human. 69 Watanabe: Oni-kui-dono. Watanabe: There is only one case in which I have failed to protect Raikou-sama. Watanabe: I refused to heed the warnings of others. I believed his safety to be my responsibility alone. Watanabe: And now, there are always alarm bells going off in my head. Watanabe: Does it bother you that I call you "Oni-kui?" Watanabe: Doesn't it give you an uncomfortable sense of warning as well? Haruka: ...Quit acting like you know me better than I know myself... Haruka: But yeah, maybe. SFX: *breeze* Watanabe: And does Ichinomiya-dono know how you feel? 70 Watanabe: You're bound to him as a servant. 71 Haruka: ...Not anymore. Watanabe: But we spoke of him just moments ago - is he not your new master? Haruka: That guy isn't my master. Haruka: I don't need humans. Watanabe: ...... Watanabe: Oni-kui-dono... you... Watanabe: Never mind, it's nothing. SFX: *closing door* Haruka: Don't act like you know everything. Haruka: It's annoying. 72 Watanabe: It's my job to investigate the rare youkai magic that is not recorded even in the libraries of the Minamoto clan. Watanabe: And yet... Watanabe: I know nothing about the person who sealed you, Oni-kui-dono. Haruka: Hmph. Haruka: I see. Haruka: Well, it's great that you put so much effort into research. FX: *slurp* 73 Haruka: ..... Haruka: It was good. Watanabe: Thank you. SFX: *sigh* Haruka: Whoever it was, they must have died a long time ago. Haruka: There's no way I'd ever meet that person again anyway... Haruka: I'm leaving. Haruka: I got off easy last time with just a minor injury, but next time I could lose an arm or something. Watanabe: That's too bad. Watanabe: I think we could become great friends. 74 Haruka: Oh really? Something you're keeping close to your heart says otherwise. Watanabe: Ah, you caught me. Watanabe: I am truly sorry, Oni-kui-dono. Watanabe: I just want you to know that... Youko: Kan-chaaan!! 75 Youko: Do you know where Haruka-chan went? Kantarou: ...He went for a walk. Youko: Awww, and I was gonna give him more gigolo lessons... Youko: I had some new moves I wanted to show him... Youko: Oh well, I'll do it when he comes home! SFX: *paper moving* Kantarou: ...... SFX: *rustle* Haruka: Big trees... Haruka: I just wanna get out... or take a nap... 76 Haruka: But this place is so goddamned huge... Haruka: And that lame-ass excuse I got from that guy earlier... I think that jerk was just messing with me... Sign: That Jerk Watanabe: Oh, there are lovely cedar trees in the courtyard, are you going to see them while you're here? Haruka: It's going to rain soon... Haruka: That's no good. Haruka: I should get going... Haruka: Whoa... is the entire building made of glass...? 77 SFX: *shock* SFX: *pain* Haruka: Ah... SFX: *shock* Haruka: It hurts... Haruka: No... Haruka: Stop... 78 Fuji: "Rin." ("rin" is the first word of the 9 seals incantation) Haruka: Don't!! SFX: *fall* Haruka: Ah... Haruka: Ah... Haruka: ......!! 79 Ayame: What are you doing here? Haruka: [Don't leave me...] 80 Haruka: [Don't leave me...] Ayame: How did you get in here!? Haruka: Ugh... Ayame: Explain yourself!! Haruka: [I don't want to belong to anyone else...] Ayame: I'm going to call for help! Haruka: Ah... Fuji: I love you... Fuji: My Oni-kui Tengu... Fuji: Mine... Ayame: What.. what are you doing...!? Haruka: SHUT UP!! Haruka: SHUT UP!! Haruka: JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!! SFX: *huff* Haruka: THAT'S RIGHT... JUST KEEP QUIET... I... 81 SFX: *grab* Ayame: Kyaa!! SFX: *shock* 82 Ayame: ...N... Ayame: No! Stop!! Haruka: What's wrong? Haruka: It was you... it was you who taught me this... Haruka: Fuji... SFX: *recoil* 83 Ayame: Let me go!! Ayame: You're a pig!! SFX: *slap* Watanabe: As expected, the Oni-kui Tengu's memories from before he was sealed are beginning to return. Watanabe: And by hinting that we had information that he did not have, we sucessfully lured him to have contact with Ayame-dono at the storehouse. 84 Raikou: However, because the Oni-kui Tengu was surprised, or perhaps just thickheaded, he was not completely awoken. Raikou: Oh well. Raikou: I'll go along with what Watanabe said. Raikou: This will be easy... Girl: He's wandering about outside now... Girl: It's a good time to strike. Sakata: Of course! Raikou-sama's plan is flawless! Old Man: Even if he's said to be the strongest youkai, he should be easy enough to deal with. 85 SFX: *nibble* Raikou: So perhaps Oni-kui still has some lingering attachment to Ayame? Hmm... Raikou: Well, in any case, I'll be satisfied as long as Oni-kui comes to me. Raikou: So you see how Ibaragi's goals and our goals are connected. Raikou: This is for everyone's happiness. Watanabe: But I think everyone here has a different idea of what happiness is. Raikou: Is that so? SFX: *poof* Raikou: But that doesn't change the ultimate happiness - everything else is just a part of that. Watanabe: ...... Raikou: Oni-kui has carried a wound in his heart for a thousand years. SFX: *flap* Raikou: And Ichinomiya's clumsy efforts to heal that wound are troublesome for us. Raikou: So... 86 Raikou: In order for a wound to heal, the dead flesh must be removed... and that man is what prevents the wound from healing... Raikou: Remove him, and Oni-kui will fly back to Koushingan... Raikou: Right? Oni-kui will come right to us, exactly as we want him to. Sakata: But Raikou-sama, I've heard that the Oni-kui Tengu is a very difficult youkai to control... Sakata: Will we be strong enough? Raikou: Ah, Sakata, you worry too much... to catch that youkai, we must be patient, like a Venus Fly-Trap. Raikou: He's not like other youkai... he's special. Girl: Special? Raikou: Oni-kui eats the flesh of oni... there are only two who do so. 87 Raikou: They eat the hearts of oni... Raikou: Am I right, Ibaragi? Old Man: Among oni, they must be the greatest enemies... Watanabe: Is that why we consider the Oni-kui Tengu to be our enemy? Raikou: Enemy? Oh no, that's too harsh... Raikou: I see this as justice being carried out. Raikou: This isn't about enemies and allies, this is about following our moral code! Is there anything wrong with that? 88 SFX: *slice* Raikou: We uphold our beliefs. This is our justice. Raikou: So... Raikou: I am justice. Watanabe & co.: We are the four sworn guardians... Watanabe & co.: The will of Minamoto Raikou is the will of God! SFX: *slam* Ayame: ...... Ayame: Brother... Ayame: ! 89 Ayame: Why are you crying? Ayame: Is something wrong? SFX: *slash* Ayame: Ah...! Ayame: What... Ayame: What's wrong with you? Ayame: Fuji... 90 Kantarou: Oni-kui Tengu: Kantarou: This extremely rare species of youkai slaughters oni. Kantarou: With its fearsome strength, the Oni-kui Tengu tears and devours the flesh of oni. Kantarou: In time, the other youkai and even humans knew of this terrible power. Weak creatures trembled in fear, while strong creatures coveted its might. Kantarou: By drawing out all of its power, the Oni-kui Tengu of Koushingan was born. Kantarou: In this form, it had the power of a god. 91 Kantarou: The greatest youkai, the Oni-kui Tengu. Kantarou: Only once has it been defeated and sealed... SFX: *raindrops* Kantarou: Rain... Youko: Haruka-chan!! Where have you been!? Youko: Just wait a minute!! I'll bring you a towel!! 92 Kantarou: ...Haruka... Kantarou: Come here... Haruka: DON'T TOUCH ME.....! SFX: *surprise* Haruka: I... I'm filthy... Kantarou: What are you talking about!? SFX: *tackle* Kantarou: You're soaking wet and you've been dawdling around outside!! Kantarou: I was worried about you!! Haruka: Uwaaah!! SFX: *whoosh* Haruka: Waah... 93 Youko: If you don't dry yourself off, you'll catch a cold!! SFX: *rub* Youko: Can't you just go into gigolo mode and get an umbrella off some girl!? Haruka: Oww!! It hurts, Youko!! Kantarou: Haruka... Kantarou: Welcome home... Haruka: Yeah... I'm home... SFX: *raindrops*