If the flower bloomed on the first year, the second year, or the third year,
then let's stain them on the fourth year.
Will the wind die out on the fifth year?
The fourth year of the Showa Dynasty.
The global panic that ensued when New York's stock market crashed, also lead to a sharp decrease in the value of raw silk.
As a result of that, the majority of the Japanese farmers,
who had a strong secondary business with silkworms, suffered a large financial hit.
In addition to that, the record-setting harvest that was produced that year turned out to be disastrous.
The price for rice fell into a deep slump.
This was called the "Great Harvest Crises" and invoked a period of cynicism.
And so, the girls of houses which had fallen into poverty were quietly sent away as unnecessary mouths to feed.
In both Japan and China.
Pipe down!
What an awful thing to do, don't you agree?
Soryu would lose it if he hears about this.
Can you hear me?
There's a hole on this side that appears to lead down into the basement.
It may appear to be, but you don't know.
Can't you have Natsume see how...
Unfortunately tonight is a new moon.
Natsume can't use his power.
My bad.
I guess there's no way around it. Let's begin.
Since there are only two ways out, if we come in from both sides and prevent anyone from escaping we'll nab our spy.
Let's go.
Recently there is a new religious movement that is spreading amongst a number of Chinese outlaws,
which is said to set its members vitalities free.
In this basement they enact their suspicious rituals, which border on the lines of fanaticism.
We believe, that this place has become a gathering point for spies.
Not even an indication of escape, huh?
Yukina?!
I'm lost.
Hey.
Who are you?
Hey, will you play with me again?
Again?
What is your name?
Shoen!
Shoen, is it?
Have we met somewhere before?
Well, shall we play then.
What should we do?
This!
Ah, juggling. But do you have only one bag?
What, me? I am sorry but right now I...
Why do I...?
Can you show me how you do it?
If the flower bloomed on the first year, the second year, or the-
You messed up!
Yes I did.
Say, what was that song just now?
Ah. You know, in Japan, when you play juggling you sing it.
Go ahead and try it yourself.
If the flower bloomed on the first year, the second year, or the third year,
then let's stain them on the fourth year.
Will the wind die out on the fifth year?
I'm sorry.
Why?
Why are you apologizing?
I was so hungry.
Although you have such an abundant harvest?
Natsume?!
Natsume, wait!
So this is where you were. I've been looking for you.
Now come.
Please wait a moment!
Just who are you anyway?
This girl has an important service to fulfill for the movement, you know.
A service?
Wait!
Excuse me.
You again?
You barging in here will make trouble for us too, you know?
That girl won't be coming back here.
She won't come back? Where did she go to?
It wasn't a bad deal, at least for her that is.
The one coming to claim her is a respectable minister, you hear.
There is nothing suspicious about it.
Claim her?
All that is to be said about it is that the day has come.
You see, she can only help her relatives through her own self-perseverance.
That is the spirit of our time, after all.
How could...?
Hey, wait!
Opium.
Shoen.
How can they...?
Are you OK, Yukina?
I...
Don't you remember?
You read this man's conscious, didn't you?
I remember now.
I found a corpse, and then...
We deduced that this man who had collapsed at the scene to be our suspect, so our plan was for you to search him.
Plan?
Were you able to see anything?
There was a girl.
A girl?
No...
You're exhausted, aren't you?
Oh well.
Either way, that man had some rather valuable information.
It's the kind of intel that would cost a fortune to obtain from an informant.
With what we've gathered here so far, our work here is over for the time being.
As for the rest...
Police Chief, we'll leave it to you and your men.
I'm fine.
You, behave yourself!
Who?
Who is the one laughing?
Is it you?
Or you?
Or you?!
Don't you laugh, you maggots.
The devil had a good look at you beasts.
A rotten stench comes from you and this city.
Can you hear it?
Right beneath your feet, those who don't even now what laughter is are eaten by the devil of gluttony,
the voice of those dead guys.
Do you get it?
My soul was eaten by the devil.
I'm going to disappear from this world.
No, not only me. The one's who will really disappear are you people!
Laugh! I said laugh!
Before everything disappears, laugh!
What happened?
Open them, open the blinds!
There's just no way...
To get out of here was...
He disappeared.
That's not funny.
So, that girl had been sold for her body?
Certainly, that memory had sunk to the bottom of that mans heart.
That's why.
Who was that man?
I think I kind of understand him.
The feeling, when you would want to sell your soul to the devil, that is.
If the flower bloomed on the first year, the second year, or the third year,
That song, why?
Can you hear it, Natsume?
Natsume?
then let's stain them on the fourth year.
Will the wind die out on the fifth year?
If the starlings start a commotion on the sixth,
they'll cry out in return on the seventh.
In the eighth, the Yamabuki flower blooms.
In the ninth, the small butterfly begins its search for god.
This room.
Back then, there was a flower right here.
Wait.
What is it?
Excuse me.
It appears that I mistook you for someone else.
That flower...
It's beautiful, isn't it? I got it from the old man.
Old man?
The one from that room over there.
Miss, I'm going back home.
Going home?
Home, to my birth house. I don't have to go anywhere else anymore.
Somehow I managed to get a job, you see.
We will be able to feed her as well.
That sounds wonderful.
If the flower bloomed on the first year, the second year, or the third year,
Miss,
what are you doing in such a place?
Natsume.
I was worried about you.
For you to be away for three days without contacting me...
Three days? What are you saying?
Weren't you the one who suddenly...
Just how much of my memory has been...
Just how much...
Miss?
I'm sorry, I'm OK now.
A song...
A song?
You were singing one, right?
A children's song.
The "If the flower bloomed on the first year" one.
What about it?
It's nothing, I was just wondering, how someone as you knew something like that, Miss.
But, the one who taught it to me was you, wasn't it?
When we juggled while we were playing.
Right, that's how it was.
You're acting kind of strange today.
Although that counts for me as well.
Shall we go then?
Please wait for a moment.
In the eighth, the Yamabuki flower blooms.
In the ninth, the small butterfly begins its search for god.
The devil of the opium den