Dororo (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 24 - Dororo and Hyakkimaru - full transcript

Daigo's castle is engulfed in flames. Within, two brothers by blood are at the mercy of fate. Dororo, Jukai and Lady Nui also head for the castle, each with their own thoughts weighing down...

I won't be much of a guide.

But I can support you.

Priest Biwamaru.

There was once a cry
that should've been heard in this land.

No sooner was it uttered
than it was silenced.

Yet even so, it reverberated
throughout the land.

And it still does.

Betrayed this world

And it simmers within

Rupturing my innards

Swelling a reddish black

Until the sun burnt skin ruptures

There is a light
in the depths of the seething darkness

Confirming each other's voices
in the distance

As if to stroke with wet fingertips

I'd like to touch you one day

There is a light
in the depths of the darkness

Confirming each other's voices
in the distance

As if to stroke with wet fingertips

I'd like to touch you one day

#24 Dororo and Hyakkimaru

Repulsive.
How dare you stain the castle of Daigo!

This is no place for you to be.

The castle of Daigo?

Then it is mine!

It never has been and never will be!

This is my castle!

I was born and raised here.

I played here, I trained here.

This is my room.

Father gave me that desk. Horses, too.

As with Mother!

Mother always...

Always...

Mother...

My son...

Mother?

She is my mother!

You were never here.

Nothing here is a testimony
of your existence.

You... Why is it?

Why what?

You were here. Always.

Yeah, unlike you.

-Then why are you lacking?
-What?

You are lacking. Just like me.

-Me? Never.
-Why? Why do you lack something?

Shut up! If I am lacking something,
you took it from me.

Mutsu and Hyogo. Mother, too.

I did? From you?

So give it back.
All of you, give it back to this land!

Bro's got to be up there.

But I can't reach it.

Bro, Bro...

-Bro!
-Dororo.

Priest, you came.
Everything's gone up in flames.

What are you doing?

A secret passage. Lady Nui is down there.

It's you!

Dororo, wait for me up there.

I will need you to pull this back up.

I'm going too.

Dororo.

Please stay by my son's side.
Just as you have always done.

You mean...

You must be Hyakkimaru's mother.

He truly has your face.

And you are...?

Why?

Why didn't you slice through me?

You could've severed my head.

Why?

I don't know.

But you're the same as me.

You're human.

I lose.

Nay, I've always been losing to you.
Always.

Tahomaru.

Tis my chance to fulfill the contract!

Demon.

Demons don't give up easily, huh?

Brother, I will give these back to you.

What's going on, dang it!

I can't just stand around.
Priest, you wait here.

Hey, you're leaving me here?

B-Brother...

Hyakkimaru.

My son.

Finally, I can hold you.

I never should have let you go.

I should've just held you like this.

How I love you, how I love you so dearly.

It's warm.

Forgive me, Hyakkimaru.

What I should've given you
wasn't arms or legs.

Listen, Hyakkimaru. You must live.

Let a human and not a demon
reside in your bloodstained body.

You already have
the embers glowing within you.

Bro!

Go now.

You have a child who is waiting for you.
One who will stay by your side.

Go.

Mama...

-Bro!
-Dororo.

We gotta get out of here. Come on!

This way. The fire is spreading, hurry.

Don't breathe in the smoke.
You'll burn your lungs.

Mother...

Tahomaru.

Forgive me for making you feel so lonely.

But I will stay by your side forever now.

Do not worry.

I will never leave you.

Finally, it all ends.

-Priest!
-You're back.

Hyakkimaru too? Good.
I'll pull you up. Ready?

One second.

-Ready.
-Okay.

We're saved.

Bro's arms are soft and warm.

He finally got them back, huh.

Pretty. The sky is pretty.

The sky?

Dororo. You are pretty.

What... Shut up, whatever!

Wait, you can see? You see my face?

-Careful, you'll fall.
-You can see my face?

Hey, bro!

This is the closure to your fate.

Watch it closely,
with those eyes of yours.

Huh? What's that?

Lord, grave news.

I hesitate to tell you, but...

Say it.

The castle is burning,
and it has spread throughout.

Young Master's residence
has been burnt down.

Young Master and Lady Nui
have gone missing.

It is feared that...

Justice.

We will crush the Asakura. Onward, march!

To fend off the Asakura army,

innumerable men lost their lives
for Daigo.

The final demon statue
also crumbled and fell that day.

Yet, there was nobody to notice it.

I get what you're saying about
not relying on samurai to make a living.

And we all would if we could.

But we don't have that power.

We don't know
how to use swords and spears.

Nah, I'm not talking about
that kind of power.

Then what do you have in mind?

Okay, listen up.

Money.

We won't use samurai or demons.
We won't do wars.

Then what else but money?

Yeah, but where do we get it?

We wouldn't suffer like this if we had it.

I have the money.

It's a bit far from here.
But it's a hidden mountain of gold.

You mean it?

Where is it?

Calm down guys.

I'll go get it in a couple of days,
so be ready.

I see. That's quite a bold idea.

You heard that?

You're the one who told me
to think of how to use the money.

I hadn't meant it so profoundly.

A land where the people
build up their own country, huh.

I guess I'd never thought of it
because I'm one of the samurai.

You? A samurai?

Never mind.
By the way, where's Hyakkimaru?

He seems to be deep in thought
ever since that day.

Yeah, so I told him about my plans
to cheer him up.

Then he left, saying he had something
he wanted to check.

Check? Check what?

He just said
it was something about himself.

I guess he wants to see
if the body he regained works okay.

"HALL OF HELL"

I see you've regained everything
from the demons.

How is this land you're finally seeing?
Is it beautiful?

It is not pretty.

Of course not.

The land and its people
has bled too much for you.

Nay, they will keep bleeding for you.

But I won't let it go down.

In this world,
you either kill or be killed. So be it.

I will live through this hell.

If the demons wish for a human,
I will just feed them another.

You will feed me to them again?

And why not? I am a samurai lord.
I wish for nothing but total rule.

I will strike as many deals
with the demons as it takes.

If I've ever been wrong,
it has only been once.

I shouldn't have left you to the midwife.

I should've strangled you
with my own two hands.

You must despise me.

Should I die, my soul shall reign
together with my son Tahomaru

as a demon protecting this land.

He's not back yet?

No. He wasn't at the castle, either.

He said he'd be back soon.

Maybe's he's already gone.

What do you mean?

He may have left on another journey.

Yeah right, he never would!

Why would he go without telling me?

Calm down now.

That boy has just been born.

Not because he's regained his body.
I mean his heart and mind.

I don't get it.

He must leave the path of evil
and retrace the path of humanity.

But he's killed too many people
for it to be easy to do that.

Yeah.

Bro's mama and brother are dead now, too.

I told him it's not his fault.

If Hyakkimaru walks down
the wrong path again, you may not be safe.

No, he's okay now.

Perhaps that's
what he's gone off to check.

You mean...

Why?

The path I take.

Does not lead that way.

I am human.

Don't you become a demon, either.

Live on as a human.

Hyakkimaru...

If I hadn't turned to these demons
that day.

If you had succeeded my reign,

the prosperity that I have so desired
may have...

Hyakkimaru.

Within you is a strength to live on,
a strength that demons craved so badly.

I'll be waiting, bro.

You'll come back.

Right?

Hyakkimaru has gone,
and Dororo walks on.

The Warring States Era draws near.

Yet, Biwamaru believes.

That something more than blood and despair
lies ahead for those two young souls.

Born into this world

There is no salvation

The distorted shape of the heart

Yet it beats courageously

There is no turning back

Even from the path of evil

Witnessing the withering seasons

We search for the truth

In our ugliness

We don't even recognize the pain

As we peel back the skin

We are forever tormented by our stupidity

But if the dawn never comes

Through the painful night

You who distrusts nothing

You will be able to love
this accursed world

Now that we carry the world
on our shoulders

It's time to take it back

THE END