Mushi-Shi (2005–2006): Season 1, Episode 19 - String of Heaven - full transcript
A servant with high aspirations reaches up and disappears into the sky. For a time she resides in the shadow world of the mushi. Found by Ginko,he explains to her suitor she is now linked to both worlds.
Say, Fuki...
Yes?
Your contract with us was
through next year, right?
Yes...
What are your plans after that?
Do you have a job
waiting for you back home?
Nothing... yet...
Then... would you...
Uhm... Well, I'll discuss it
with you some other time.
Oh, there's the first star.
Seijiro-san... What is that?
Where?
There's a string hanging from the sky.
A string?
Where could this string have come from?
There... there... stop crying...
We can't go home until you stop.
Look, the sky is filled with stars.
Ah, I wonder what happened to that star?
The one with the long tail...
Say, did you really see one?
The long-tailed star? Yes, last night.
Whereabouts?
Around there...
Which way was it headed?
Um... that way. It was zigzagging
as it blinked on and off...
I wonder if such a comet exits...
But if it did, it'd be a great discovery...
All right, I'm definitely going to find it.
Your name was Fuki, right? Well done!
In the end... I never found such a star.
Fuki came to us to care for
my fretful youngest sister.
Because she would sometimes
say such mysterious things,
some people in the village
looked upon Fuki with disdain.
Fuki!
Fuki!
Ah, Master, she's not around here, either.
We've looked enough. She must've grown
tired of babysitting and run off.
That ingrate.
Father, Fuki would never
abandon her responsibility.
She attempted to grasp
a string on the riverbank
and then disappeared
right before my eyes.
Master Seijiro, if you want to help her,
you really should come up
with a better excuse for her...
It's the truth...
Fuki...
Where in heaven's name have you gone?
Hm?
What's going on?
Huh?
Where am 1?
Who is this person?
Why am ... walking with him
in the mountains?
Here, drink this.
Drink it and get better quickly.
I can't be looking after you forever.
You want to return to
the way you were, don't you?
The way I was?
You don't remember anything?
That's going to be a problem.
You've been affected
by a powerful mushi influence
and have become extremely ambiguous.
Other people probably can't even see you.
That white string
growing out of your hand...
Touching it was probably the cause.
Left as-is, you'll drift farther
and farther away from being a human...
Are you... trying to help me?
Well... I'm just doing what I want to do.
Oh... well, you'll just have to bear it.
Yes. Your color is
looking a little better...
--Really?
--Come on, let's go.
Where are we going?
We'll look for a village.
You'll recover faster
if you're around people.
If your memory doesn't come back,
stay at a nearby village
for the time being.
Now, which way should we go?
There's something glowing
inside the ground...
Yes... In your current condition,
you can probably see it very well...
It seems that we're on
the path of the light vein.
What is it that's glowing?
It's called Kouki.
Schools of embryonic mushi
swimming together...
Mushi... you mean those tiny things
that lay quietly in the shadows
or Float about in the air?
That's right.
I see... They're lovely...
Don't stare at them so much.
That glow is poison to the eyes...
If you become too accustomed to it,
you'll become unable to see sunlight.
There's a river of light
in the sky, as well.
Even at night, it glows
by the light of the sun.
Look at that river instead.
Wow... you're right...
It's as though ll was
looking at a reflection.
They're similar, but not the same.
Make sure you don't look
at the wrong one by mistake.
I slept well...
The little mistress
didn't cry last night...
Thank goodness...
What's wrong?
I have to go back...
Your memory returned??
It's over there... My village
is at the foot of that mountain.
You're... Fuki, aren't you?
The one who disappeared...
Oh, it is...
--It's Fuki!
--Where have you been?
In the mountains all this time...
We all searched the mountains thoroughly.
Where were you hiding?
1 wasn't hiding...
When ll pulled a string dangling
from the sky on the riverbank,
everything around me went black.
When I came to, I was in the mountains...
There you go with that nonsense again...
Did you run away but come back
because you were frightened?
But it's too late now...
Master already hired
someone to replace you.
Oh no...
Fuki!
Seijiro-san!
You're all right!
Yes!
Are you hurt?
I'm fine... That man helped me...
How can I thank you?
Please come to my place...
Let's go home, Fuki.
But... you already have a replacement...
I can't go back.
Then come back as my bride.
I was determined to ask you
when you came back...
Is that okay?
That's absurd! I won't allow it!
I'm sorry to keep you waiting...
Don't you have to go talk to him?
Sounded like you two were arguing.
It's okay. I didn't expect him
to approve right away.
So, what did you want to talk to me about?
Il want to hear how Fuki disappeared.
1 don't know if you'll believe me...
That day, Fuki said... she saw
a string dangling from the sky
and motioned as though she
were grasping at the sky.
In that instant...
Fuki was whisked upwards into the sky...
...and disappeared into the sky.
No one believes me...
Until I saw it happen, even I thought
that the things Fuki claimed to see
were just figments of her imagination...
I see... That's Tenpengusa...
What?
They're mushi that live
high up in the sky.
Mushi?
Yes.
Born from yin, they gather
at the border with yang.
Fuki described them as tiny things
that lay quietly in the shadows
or Float about in the air...
Few people can see them, but they
exist in every corner of our world.
You can see what Fuki sees?
Well, I make my living from them.
Envy you...
Fuki is a lucky woman...
But watch out for her.
She still is not completely
free of the mushi's influence...
Tenpengusa normally appear as
balloon-like objects with a tail
and move about in the skies
above special ground
called the path of the light vein.
They live by feeding on
feebly luminescent mushi in the air.
So, at night, they also appear
like stars weaving through the sky.
That's why they're also
known as wayward stars.
That way... It was zigzagging
as it blinked on and off...
This rarely happens, but when
there isn't enough food in the sky,
they extend their tentacles down near
the ground like dropping a fishing line.
It looks like a string.
When an animal makes contact,
it reels the animal skyward,
but then spits it out high in the sky
because it is unable to swallow it...
Most times, the prey falls
to the ground and dies,
but Fuki was fortunate to get
caught in a tree, so she survived.
But perhaps because
she was partially swallowed,
Fuki became greatly affected by the mushi.
That was why you couldn't find her
when you searched the mountains.
Fuki had turned into something
human eyes could not see...
This medicine has helped her
recover considerably,
but she's still not completely cured.
She's still connected to the sky
by the string on her hand
and remains in an unstable condition.
So if things go wrong,
she'll have a relapse.
Fuki requires more than just this medicine
to return to being human again.
She also needs to feel that
she wants to remain a human being.
You must make her feel that way.
Well, maybe it's none of my business...
I'll take your words to heart...
Why not stay a bit longer?
I can't stay any longer
than I already have.
Well, we'll be holding our wedding
in the near future for sure...
Please be sure to attend.
Hmm? You don't have to bother.
But we owe you our thanks
for everything, Ginko-san...
Okay then, I'll drop by again.
However...
I later received a letter...
It said Fuki had disappeared once again.
What in the world happened?
Ginko-san...
My old man just wouldn't
give us his blessings.
Day after day, I tried
to change his mind...
And Fuki felt miserable the entire time.
As that went on, Fuki's body
gradually became lighter.
So light that the breeze would
send her floating up into the air.
And as the days went by, she became
unable to stay on the ground.
Fuki, please come on down.
I don't know how to come down...
I've almost got Father convinced,
but if he sees you like this...
I'm sorry... My body
floats up by itself...
Okay, stay right there. You have
to take your medicine as well.
Okay...
But then one day...
Fuki!
Fuki?!
I've looked everywhere, but...
1 thought I told you... that you
had to keep her tied to this world.
1 did try. I tried to
get others to accept Fuki.
But with her the way she was...
More than anyone else...
you are unable to accept Fuki.
Because you rejected her, she became
unable to maintain human form.
Unable to... maintain?
You can't see her,
but Fuki is still here...
That's ridiculous!
If you don't want to lose Fuki,
accept who she is.
You say to accept her...
But how, when I can'!
even see or touch her?
You're the only one who can save her.
You're probably the reason why
she's barely still around here even now...
What... what should I do... Fuki?
Master Seijiro... Why do you
always gaze at the stars?
Hmm... I wonder myself...
Even when unpleasant things
happen during the day,
the stars never fail to appear at night...
When ll see that, I feel calm
for some reason...
Me, too... When I feel sad because
the little mistress won't stop crying...
I take my mind off of it
by counting the stars.
So when dawn's light appears,
I somehow feel lonely...
The number of stars gets
smaller and smaller...
Before you know it,
there isn't a single one left,
Where do they all go during the daytime?
You're so silly, Fuki... The stars are
still there in the sky even during the day.
Really?
Yes. The sunlight is
too strong for us to see them,
but they're actually still up in the sky.
So they don't go anywhere...
...even if we can't see them...
...they're still up in the sky...
Fuki...
They said it was the strangest of sights...
A wedding was hastily held
without the bride being present.
--Despite that...
--Now, Fuki, it's your turn to drink.
...the groom behaved as
though his bride were there...
Maybe this way is better...
Seeing him act that way, people whispered
that the groom, too, had lost his mind...
in time, he took up his residence
alone on the outskirts of the village.
As always, he conversed with
his wife who wasn't there...
Eventually, the villagers
stopped coming around.
But as time passed...
Seijiro-san...
Oh? Isn't that...
That's Fuki. When did she come back?
People began to see Fuki.
They say that ever since then,
Fuki's habit of disappearing
never returned.
"A Sea Of Writings."
Yes?
Your contract with us was
through next year, right?
Yes...
What are your plans after that?
Do you have a job
waiting for you back home?
Nothing... yet...
Then... would you...
Uhm... Well, I'll discuss it
with you some other time.
Oh, there's the first star.
Seijiro-san... What is that?
Where?
There's a string hanging from the sky.
A string?
Where could this string have come from?
There... there... stop crying...
We can't go home until you stop.
Look, the sky is filled with stars.
Ah, I wonder what happened to that star?
The one with the long tail...
Say, did you really see one?
The long-tailed star? Yes, last night.
Whereabouts?
Around there...
Which way was it headed?
Um... that way. It was zigzagging
as it blinked on and off...
I wonder if such a comet exits...
But if it did, it'd be a great discovery...
All right, I'm definitely going to find it.
Your name was Fuki, right? Well done!
In the end... I never found such a star.
Fuki came to us to care for
my fretful youngest sister.
Because she would sometimes
say such mysterious things,
some people in the village
looked upon Fuki with disdain.
Fuki!
Fuki!
Ah, Master, she's not around here, either.
We've looked enough. She must've grown
tired of babysitting and run off.
That ingrate.
Father, Fuki would never
abandon her responsibility.
She attempted to grasp
a string on the riverbank
and then disappeared
right before my eyes.
Master Seijiro, if you want to help her,
you really should come up
with a better excuse for her...
It's the truth...
Fuki...
Where in heaven's name have you gone?
Hm?
What's going on?
Huh?
Where am 1?
Who is this person?
Why am ... walking with him
in the mountains?
Here, drink this.
Drink it and get better quickly.
I can't be looking after you forever.
You want to return to
the way you were, don't you?
The way I was?
You don't remember anything?
That's going to be a problem.
You've been affected
by a powerful mushi influence
and have become extremely ambiguous.
Other people probably can't even see you.
That white string
growing out of your hand...
Touching it was probably the cause.
Left as-is, you'll drift farther
and farther away from being a human...
Are you... trying to help me?
Well... I'm just doing what I want to do.
Oh... well, you'll just have to bear it.
Yes. Your color is
looking a little better...
--Really?
--Come on, let's go.
Where are we going?
We'll look for a village.
You'll recover faster
if you're around people.
If your memory doesn't come back,
stay at a nearby village
for the time being.
Now, which way should we go?
There's something glowing
inside the ground...
Yes... In your current condition,
you can probably see it very well...
It seems that we're on
the path of the light vein.
What is it that's glowing?
It's called Kouki.
Schools of embryonic mushi
swimming together...
Mushi... you mean those tiny things
that lay quietly in the shadows
or Float about in the air?
That's right.
I see... They're lovely...
Don't stare at them so much.
That glow is poison to the eyes...
If you become too accustomed to it,
you'll become unable to see sunlight.
There's a river of light
in the sky, as well.
Even at night, it glows
by the light of the sun.
Look at that river instead.
Wow... you're right...
It's as though ll was
looking at a reflection.
They're similar, but not the same.
Make sure you don't look
at the wrong one by mistake.
I slept well...
The little mistress
didn't cry last night...
Thank goodness...
What's wrong?
I have to go back...
Your memory returned??
It's over there... My village
is at the foot of that mountain.
You're... Fuki, aren't you?
The one who disappeared...
Oh, it is...
--It's Fuki!
--Where have you been?
In the mountains all this time...
We all searched the mountains thoroughly.
Where were you hiding?
1 wasn't hiding...
When ll pulled a string dangling
from the sky on the riverbank,
everything around me went black.
When I came to, I was in the mountains...
There you go with that nonsense again...
Did you run away but come back
because you were frightened?
But it's too late now...
Master already hired
someone to replace you.
Oh no...
Fuki!
Seijiro-san!
You're all right!
Yes!
Are you hurt?
I'm fine... That man helped me...
How can I thank you?
Please come to my place...
Let's go home, Fuki.
But... you already have a replacement...
I can't go back.
Then come back as my bride.
I was determined to ask you
when you came back...
Is that okay?
That's absurd! I won't allow it!
I'm sorry to keep you waiting...
Don't you have to go talk to him?
Sounded like you two were arguing.
It's okay. I didn't expect him
to approve right away.
So, what did you want to talk to me about?
Il want to hear how Fuki disappeared.
1 don't know if you'll believe me...
That day, Fuki said... she saw
a string dangling from the sky
and motioned as though she
were grasping at the sky.
In that instant...
Fuki was whisked upwards into the sky...
...and disappeared into the sky.
No one believes me...
Until I saw it happen, even I thought
that the things Fuki claimed to see
were just figments of her imagination...
I see... That's Tenpengusa...
What?
They're mushi that live
high up in the sky.
Mushi?
Yes.
Born from yin, they gather
at the border with yang.
Fuki described them as tiny things
that lay quietly in the shadows
or Float about in the air...
Few people can see them, but they
exist in every corner of our world.
You can see what Fuki sees?
Well, I make my living from them.
Envy you...
Fuki is a lucky woman...
But watch out for her.
She still is not completely
free of the mushi's influence...
Tenpengusa normally appear as
balloon-like objects with a tail
and move about in the skies
above special ground
called the path of the light vein.
They live by feeding on
feebly luminescent mushi in the air.
So, at night, they also appear
like stars weaving through the sky.
That's why they're also
known as wayward stars.
That way... It was zigzagging
as it blinked on and off...
This rarely happens, but when
there isn't enough food in the sky,
they extend their tentacles down near
the ground like dropping a fishing line.
It looks like a string.
When an animal makes contact,
it reels the animal skyward,
but then spits it out high in the sky
because it is unable to swallow it...
Most times, the prey falls
to the ground and dies,
but Fuki was fortunate to get
caught in a tree, so she survived.
But perhaps because
she was partially swallowed,
Fuki became greatly affected by the mushi.
That was why you couldn't find her
when you searched the mountains.
Fuki had turned into something
human eyes could not see...
This medicine has helped her
recover considerably,
but she's still not completely cured.
She's still connected to the sky
by the string on her hand
and remains in an unstable condition.
So if things go wrong,
she'll have a relapse.
Fuki requires more than just this medicine
to return to being human again.
She also needs to feel that
she wants to remain a human being.
You must make her feel that way.
Well, maybe it's none of my business...
I'll take your words to heart...
Why not stay a bit longer?
I can't stay any longer
than I already have.
Well, we'll be holding our wedding
in the near future for sure...
Please be sure to attend.
Hmm? You don't have to bother.
But we owe you our thanks
for everything, Ginko-san...
Okay then, I'll drop by again.
However...
I later received a letter...
It said Fuki had disappeared once again.
What in the world happened?
Ginko-san...
My old man just wouldn't
give us his blessings.
Day after day, I tried
to change his mind...
And Fuki felt miserable the entire time.
As that went on, Fuki's body
gradually became lighter.
So light that the breeze would
send her floating up into the air.
And as the days went by, she became
unable to stay on the ground.
Fuki, please come on down.
I don't know how to come down...
I've almost got Father convinced,
but if he sees you like this...
I'm sorry... My body
floats up by itself...
Okay, stay right there. You have
to take your medicine as well.
Okay...
But then one day...
Fuki!
Fuki?!
I've looked everywhere, but...
1 thought I told you... that you
had to keep her tied to this world.
1 did try. I tried to
get others to accept Fuki.
But with her the way she was...
More than anyone else...
you are unable to accept Fuki.
Because you rejected her, she became
unable to maintain human form.
Unable to... maintain?
You can't see her,
but Fuki is still here...
That's ridiculous!
If you don't want to lose Fuki,
accept who she is.
You say to accept her...
But how, when I can'!
even see or touch her?
You're the only one who can save her.
You're probably the reason why
she's barely still around here even now...
What... what should I do... Fuki?
Master Seijiro... Why do you
always gaze at the stars?
Hmm... I wonder myself...
Even when unpleasant things
happen during the day,
the stars never fail to appear at night...
When ll see that, I feel calm
for some reason...
Me, too... When I feel sad because
the little mistress won't stop crying...
I take my mind off of it
by counting the stars.
So when dawn's light appears,
I somehow feel lonely...
The number of stars gets
smaller and smaller...
Before you know it,
there isn't a single one left,
Where do they all go during the daytime?
You're so silly, Fuki... The stars are
still there in the sky even during the day.
Really?
Yes. The sunlight is
too strong for us to see them,
but they're actually still up in the sky.
So they don't go anywhere...
...even if we can't see them...
...they're still up in the sky...
Fuki...
They said it was the strangest of sights...
A wedding was hastily held
without the bride being present.
--Despite that...
--Now, Fuki, it's your turn to drink.
...the groom behaved as
though his bride were there...
Maybe this way is better...
Seeing him act that way, people whispered
that the groom, too, had lost his mind...
in time, he took up his residence
alone on the outskirts of the village.
As always, he conversed with
his wife who wasn't there...
Eventually, the villagers
stopped coming around.
But as time passed...
Seijiro-san...
Oh? Isn't that...
That's Fuki. When did she come back?
People began to see Fuki.
They say that ever since then,
Fuki's habit of disappearing
never returned.
"A Sea Of Writings."