Suffering of Ninko Page #2

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I've heard that name before.

Ah...

Aren't you that monk from Enmei-ji?

No.

My name is...

...Ninko-bo.

It sounds similar, but I have

nothing to do with that Ninko.

Yet...

Didn't you just say "Ninko"?

"Abstain from falsehoods"

It's a Buddhist precept.

Village chief,

a monk cannot lie.

You're right,

I'm sorry.

Please forgive me.

A virtuous monk like Ninko-bo-san here...

...could not be that dirty satyr.

Anyway, leave it to me,

village chief.

Osen...

...prepare a meal and

wait for me to return.

You have no objection to this?

Osen...

For the sake of the village,

please accept.

If he can avenge my husband...

...I'll do whatever he wants.

"The Heart Sutra"

Ninko pondered

Yama-onna and himself.

"If Yama-onna is a demon

who captivates men..."

"...what does that make me?"

he thought.

"The way I attract women

seems rather similar."

"What was the masked woman

I met in the forest?"

"Perhaps I'm the same as..."

It's crazy.

This is madness.

Madness, Madness,

Madness, Madness!

It's madness!

Ninko wanted to escape the madness.

The situation was intolerable.

It's impossible!

A newly widowed woman...

...given to a new husband...

...desires a monk she just met!

He has the power to

attract any woman.

I'm no different from...

Ninko thought he was

no different from...

No different from the spectre!

You're an interesting fellow.

Follow me.

We're nearly there.

I can smell that we're alike.

You want women...

...yet you don't want women.

I cannot catch your meaning.

Let me put it another way.

You don't want women...

...yet you cannot stop wanting them.

Isn't that exactly

what you said before?

And I...

I am not like that.

Never mind.

This is like "preaching to Buddha".

Listen to me, monk.

I never wanted to kill anyone.

In fact...

...I used to hate swords.

But the truth was...

...that I truly did want to kill someone.

Monk...

It's two sides of one coin.

Since I realized that...

...I've become like a devil

who kills people.

"Kanzo, the manslayer".

There are even

ukiyo-e pictures of me in Edo.

Don't you think that...

...I'm very much like Yama-onna?

A kind of monster?

You too will soon become

what you are meant to be.

I...

I will not...

What about you f***

Yama-onna once I've killed her.

She'll no longer be a woman

when she's dead.

Stop it!

I know that's what you were thinking.

You can't go back to being

the monk you once were.

Or even a human being,

for that matter.

Huh?

I see.

It's the missing man.

It all makes sense now.

He blinded himself to avoid

Yama-onna's charm.

Monk...

"The Acala Mantra"

You need no longer resist.

Ninko thought that...

...he could no longer resist because

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