That is what you would call a true gravekeeper.
Yo!
My, my!
It's a pleasure to meet you.
Um...
You're really... pretty.
You honour me with your compliment.
I am called Scar.
So you're Scar-san?
I'm Ai!
Hold up!
Scar is a label for someone who has been "marked".
It isn't a name.
So, Scar, what were you called before that?
Murderer.
Keep on going back, if you would.
Reaper, Beast, Scar, Maria, Mule, Reaper, Scar-
That's enough.
What was your first name?
I do not have one.
And you're okay with this?
But of course.
See?
This is a gravekeeper.
Although she is perfectly benevolent, she lacks any emotion.
So, let me ask: Are you a gravekeeper?
Please, my God. Tell me, what should I do?
dareka ga sashinobeta te o furihodoite susumu
誰かが差し伸べた手を 振りほどいて進む
I break free of the hand someone reached out to me with.
"jiyuu na fujiyuu" habikoru basho de
『自由な不自由』 蔓延る場所で
"freely restrained" in an infested place.
nani ga ni owareru you ni ikiisogu mainichi
何がに追われるように 生き急ぐ毎日
I live every day as if I'm chased by something.
shinjitsuzuke ta shinjitsu mo wakara naku naru
信じ続けた真実も わからなくなる
I become even unable to believe the truth I kept believing.
nani ga hontou no shiawase nandarou
何が本当の幸せなんだろう
What is true happiness?
sono kotae o shiru mono nado koko ni wa inai
その答えを知る者など 此処には居ない
There isn't a single person here who knows the answer.
Where is my God?
arehate ta yume ga nemuru daichi de
荒れ果てた夢が 眠る大地で
My shattered dreams lie in the sleeping ground.
shinda you ni ikirunte boku ni wa dekinakute
死んだように生きるんて 僕には出来なくて
Living as if I'm dead is something I just can't do.
umarekaware ima hikari o hime shi
生まれ変われ 今 光を秘めし
I shall trust the light to the new truth, being reborn.
saigo no kibou soshite kiseki
最後の希望 そして奇跡
My final hope, and then a miracle,
mou ichido sekai ni kagayaki o hanate
もう一度世界に 輝きを放て
release once again radiance to this world.
I swear, I can't lose my place.
Now, it's time to birth.
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By the way, Scar, I'd like to ask you something.
Question: Search-based.
Ask as you will.
I wish to inquire about a human who is called "Hana" or refers to herself as such.
It doesn't matter if she's dead or alive.
For that handle, there are eight matches.
Additional search.
She is between the age of 30 and 40,
with brown hair, black eyes and distinguished facial features.
She is roughly as tall as me and has a flat chest.
There are zero events that match those criteria.
Another dead end?
I have one other favour to ask.
Forty-seven people have been buried.
Please give them proper burials.
But I already buried them!
Gravekeepers are the only ones who can kill people.
The deceased don't truly die until a gravekeeper uses her shovel to bury them.
Despite blowing out their brains and burying them,
all we managed to do was immobilise them.
T-That's why I used my shovel to cover their caskets!
That's not the point!
There aren't any deceased.
I do not sense any deceased off yonder.
However, I can sense that people have been properly buried.
Impossible...
That's absurd!
In other words...
Did you hear that?
I am a true blue gravekeeper!
Is she a...
She is a gravekeeper.
Sorry to take your time.
Not at all.
It is our duty as gravekeepers to assist the living so that they may lead wonderful lives.
Now then, what are you going to do?
I am a gravekeeper.
So?
S-So I'm going to attend to the deceased and assist the living...
That's not what I meant!
Where will you sleep tomorrow?
What will you do the day after tomorrow?
How about in a week?
Or a year?
How are you gonna survive from here on out?
I will go wherever people need a gravekeeper.
Wha-
What are you doing?!
Forget everything!
Everything, from what happened in this village to how you're a gravekeeper!
Huh?
Otherwise, you won't make it in the outside world.
The world is overflowing with violence.
Imagine what'll happen if you go out as you are!
You'll get beaten to death in an instant.
I...
Forget.
I-I don't want to.
I can't!
I can't forget.
I couldn't forget.
Brat!
I could never forget!
I am a gravekeeper!
I could never put that behind me and forget!
All right.
I get it.
If that's the case,
how about you die right here and now as a gravekeeper?
Violence, avarice, carnage, corruption,
defeat, failure, infidelity, and decay.
You'll find all of those anywhere you go.
As long as you are alive, these things will violate you.
The chances that you won't lose sight of yourself before you die are painfully low.
Before long, your "light that can't help but shine" will get tainted.
And in the most vile and horrible ways imaginable.
So that's the deal.
Why don't you put it all to an end while you're still pure?
This is just a joke, right?
I don't want to.
I don't want to die!
Please don't kill me!
Nope.
That reason doesn't cut it.
Remember: Your path is not easy enough for "I don't wanna die" to keep you alive.
The only phrase that will keep you alive is:
"I want to live."
What... the hell?!
Tch!
My outfit!
D-Doesn't that hurt?
It hurts, moron!
The upper lobe of my left lung is toast!
And it went all the way throu-
Are you okay?!
Huh?!
W-What's going on?!
Wait!
He isn't dead yet!
Julie "Tiger of Koto" Dmitrievich!
The huntsman!
My friend!
Hampnie Hambart, the immortal man!
My enemy!
Good morning, ye of the living!
He's immortal?
Hasn't it been a while, Julie?
Five years?
Ten?
Six years!
Six since the day you killed my wife!
I didn't kill her.
She had already died a year earlier, remember?
Ai, this is Julie.
He's my best friend.
You see, he hid his belated wife from the gravekeepers and lived with her and his daughter off in some dark mountain.
So what if I did?!
We were...
I happen to hate the deceased.
From earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.
The deceased should quietly return to the earth like the dead they are.
We were happy!
But I just can't accept that form of happiness.
In that regard, you have my apologies.
I'm sorry.
I don't need your apologies!
Fight me in a duel!
Don't you find this strange?
If we fought to the death, what would happen to you?
Just a moment ago, you personally proved that I am immortal.
In other words, the reason you came was for me to kill you.
What are you talking about?
I came to get revenge!
Hey, Julie...
Where is your daughter?
Wasn't she turning 15 this year?
These past six years, haven't you been enjoying a relatively happy life with your daughter?
So why the sudden desire for revenge?
Did she die?
You bastard!
I see.
So she passed away.
Did you actually give her a funeral?
Bastard!
Answer me!
I gave her a proper burial.
I'm glad to hear it.
So, long story short, having lost your reason to live,
you came to die by my hands.
Don't be stupid!
I'm here for revenge!
Revenge, revenge, revenge, eh?
What a succulent sound!
But I won't tolerate an impure motive.
What?!
You're just fed up with life.
But you can't stand to end it yourself,
so you want to die doing something.
You're wrong!
You want to "die while on the path to avenging your wife".
Shut up!
If you don't shut up, I'll shoot the girl!
Hey!
I-I don't have anything to do with this!
What nonsense is this, Julie?
Is it your attempt at insanity?
Very well.
I'll help you commit suicide.
But, sadly, I have a mean streak.
I won't give meaning to your death.
If you find that acceptable,
meet me at the village square come sunrise.
I'll accept your challenge.
Listen, Ai.
You can't go through life in the dark.
This is a warning.
I...
You're here?
What about your duel?
Isn't that obvious?
I'm blowing it off.
Like I'm going to fight Julie to the death.
Oh, okay...
So then, have you decided to quit being a gravekeeper?
That is none of your business!
I...
I am going to leave the village...
...in search of people who need me.
Julie is a genuine huntsman.
We'll use this time to cover ground and make a break for it!
L-Like I said, this has nothing to do with-
You're one weak gravekeeper.
Please leave me alone!
Ow!
Come on.
Huh?
I'll give you a piggy-back ride.
Julie's going to catch up with us!
B-But...
...that would be far too embarrassing!
What?
We're talking about a piggy-back ride!
What if someone saw?
Your reactions always leave so much room for teasing.
Just hurry and get on.
Gotcha!
A-Aren't I heavy?
You're heavy.
But, hey, it's no big deal.
Are you ready to go?
I don't think that counts as a piggy-back ride.
How strange.
Back when I was a kid,
I loved it whenever my dad did that.
Please don't lump us together!
First he tried to kill me, then he saved me.
If he doesn't want Julie to catch up,
he should leave me behind.
Um...
I'll pass.
I'm a monster who can't age or die.
I don't need those.
I don't think that sort of thing is right.
What?
Calling yourself a monster.
Humans and monsters, the living and the deceased...
You don't need to classify everything by groups.
Uh, well, I'm not sure how to explain it.
Ai, how old are you?
I'm 12 years old.
Now I see.
What is it?
No wonder I didn't notice, at least,
not until that gravekeeper made it clear.
When people stopped dying 15 years ago,
they were no longer able to have children.
So there can't possibly be any humans around your age.
In other words, I'm a gravekeeper.
No.
It's hard to believe, but I imagine you were probably conceived between a gravekeeper and a human.
Normal gravekeepers don't have children.
Your mother must have been a rather crazy gravekeeper.
My mother wasn't crazy!
There is nothing wrong with being crazy,
especially not in this world.
Um, how old are you?
I'm the same age as Julie, so I'm 32?
33?
Meh.
Somewhere around there.
You called him your best friend, didn't you?
Yeah.
Has been since we were kids.
We were always in the same class at school...
Do you know what school is?
Even I know that much.
Okay.
Well, just for the record,
schools are facilities where human society quarantines the troublesome children by age.
I've never heard of a school like that.
That day...
No, on that night.
I'm referring to the night God vanished.
Do you know about it?
What a stupid thing to ask!
"The other side is already full."
"This world will reach a standstill before much longer."
"Ah, I've failed", right?
That's what a lot of people say.
But that's not what they said until after the fact.
After the fact?
At first, no one even noticed that day had come.
In all actuality, nothing visually obvious had happened.
Care to hear my theory?
I bet God is probably a moron.
The phrase, "The fool who doth not fear God,"
was made for you, wasn't it?
Just listen.
He probably lost interest in our world.
The laws of physics he created were logical and he supplied us with energy.
It was an orderly world without any contradictions,
but at the same time, it lacked anything to make it interesting.
So at the very end, he decided to grant our wishes.
I'm not really sure why people quit reproducing,
but people probably stopped dying because that was humankind's wish.
That was the first wish he granted.
But after a while, the desire to die ultimately arose.
That's when he provided the gravekeepers.
Although he isn't getting it quite right,
I think he is truly trying to grant people's wishes.
That's the only way I see it.
I've honestly seen a bunch of miracles!
Like how you cannot age or die?
You're surprisingly sharp.
I'm an albino.
I was extremely sensitive to the light of the sun.
Because of that, I could hardly even go to school.
But around then, my body started to stabilise.
When I was 17, I made a wish.
"May these days last forever", I said.
Putting myself aside, after that day,
human society was forced to accept the existence of the living dead,
despite not knowing how do deal with them.
You're referring to the Half-Dead Fever, aren't you?
The new epidemic, Half-Dead Fever.
It took the lives of two hundred million people...
...and two hundred million deceased began roaming the earth.
Was yesterday the first time you encountered a deceased?
Then remember this:
If someone has a clean death, their outward appearance and personality won't differ much from when they were alive.
owaranai merodii o utaidashimashita.
終わらないメロディーを歌いだしました。
I started singing a neverending melody.
But if you give them time, they will gradually begin to change.
Both physically and mentally.
totemo daisuki de sukoshi setsunaku te
とても大好きで 少し切なくて
I liked it very much, yet it was a little lonely.
Even though they are dead, their survival instincts will begin to take over.
They'll become selfish.
demo
でも
Still,
tomaru koto ga dekinakute kirai ni narimashita
止まることができなくて嫌いになりました
there was nothing I could do to stop it, and I came to hate it.
Once that happens, it all goes down from there.
Even a saint will become no better than a beast.
tatoe taisetsu na kimi no soba demo
たとえ大切な君のそばでも
Even if it was my precious place by your side.
Imagine living with that!
It's tragic for the living who are bound by their emotions.
That's why you killed Julie's wife...
Life on the planet
Why?
mieru keshiki wa
見える景色は
The scenery I can see,
Why did you kill the villagers?
onaji ni wa dekinai no desu
同じにはできないのです
shall never look the same again.
Please answer me!
Even if I don't,
you will find the answer on your own eventually.
kokoro mo mirai mo egao mo
心も 未来も 笑顔も
Nor our hearts, future, or smiles.
Same for the secret that was sealed within that village.
Secret?
sou mada mimu ai mo
そう まだ見む愛も
Yes, even this unseen love.
Sweet love in love world
You know what you wanna be
wakattenda
わかってんだ
I understand.
I can believe you tonight
You see what I want tonight
eien to hakanasato
永遠と 儚さと
Although eternal, it is still fleeting.
furueru yoru mo aru keredo
震える夜もあるけれど
But there are still nights I tremble at.
The Land of Heaven welcomes the deceased.
Just imagine it! Imagine, imagine!
I have come to bury you.
Are you afraid?
They took him.
What a coincidence, Ai!
You want to become a monster, don't you?
You up, Hampnie Hambart?
No one! No one is here!
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You aren't a monster!