Saigo no chuushingura Page #4

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I'm told that a woman here...

...just had a baby.

A girl marked to a peasant

nearby is back with her baby.

Would she nurse this child?

Her mother's dead.

She'll never survive.

Please!

She's freezing cold!

Isn't she pretty!

You've raised her as if

she were your own daughter.

You've taught her etiquette, writing, music...

...everything.

Painting and music

are a courtesan's skills.

I'm embarrassed I can teach them.

However...

...going as a bride to

the land's richest merchants.

Why wouldn't you jump at the chance?

Magoza...

The authorities aren't after you

for anything, are they?

One day I swear

I will tell you everything.

Until then...

...forgive me.

Miss Kane...

...how old are you now?

What a strange thing to ask!

I'm 16.

Sixteen...

A proper age.

A proper age?

Yes.

Most woman marry at 15 or 16.

I have no wish to go into a house

of which I know nothing.

I'm happy here.

I can't agree to that.

My orders were to see to...

...your happiness.

Your orders?

Yes.

You raised me on orders?

Does my "happiness" mean going as a bride?

Miss Kane...

...your late mother....

...as she breathed her last..

...took my hand...

...and said. "A warrior's lot

is an unhappy one."

"If you can, make Kane the wife of a merchant."

The head of a merchant family....

...wants you to come into his household.

I won't have it.

I want to live here with you!

"We will be the stars that shine

for wives and for husbands."

"We will," she says and clings to him.

Between them...

...fall the tears...

...so many the river surface...

...must have...

...risen.

"How long will we go on talking like this?"

"To hesitate over death

is the shame of all shame!"

"Now is the moment!"

"Steel yourself!"

He swiftly draws...

...his dagger.

But against this skin...

...the blade...

...falters...

..and its point goes weak...

Um... I've been waiting here,

hoping to see you again.

The other time you left halfway through.

I've been waiting for you

to come and see the rest.

What do you want?

My name is Chaya Shuichiro.

My family are clothiers.

May I ask your name?

Kane.

Miss Kane? Where is your home?

Miss Kane? Where is your home?

I can't say.

I can't say.

Why not?

I've been told not to.

By whom?

I can't say.

So her name's "Kane"?

Yes.

That's all I know.

Very mysterious.

And she seems to be fond of someone.

You mean she has a man?

That I don't know.

We have found out at least

that her name is Kane.

Oh.

Does that name ring a bell?

Not yet, I'm afraid.

I'm told there's a man she's fond of.

I hear you met Mr. Chaya.

"Chaya"?

He spoke to you at the theater.

Oh, that gentleman...

Chaya Shuichiro. Heir to

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