Izo (IZO)

Head Neck

Tail

He's coming.

A man is coming with malice in his heart.

Who...

...is this man?

He has a form but is formless.

He has a soul but is soulless.

In other words...

...he is the personification of irrationality.

He's coming.

Izo is coming.

Halt!

Izo!

I am the vengeful spirit...

...of a man brutally slain by your merciless sword.

Know that this pain carved deep in my soul...

...shall continue without end.

Damn you, Izo.

Tell me why on earth...

...you are so inhuman?

Because I was once human.

Can a human...

...be so cruel as this?

Cruelty...

...is a part of life.

On the leaf...

On the leaf...

Of a floating weed...

Crawling along is...

A snail living there.

The snail fell suddenly like a camellia.

It embarrassed a woman boiling flowers for supper.

People are dancing, stretching out toward the sky.

Toward the sky into the dark.

Who the hell are you?

A vengeful spirit unable to leave this world.

What is it that you bear such a grudge towards?

All that exists.

All that exists?

So? Where are you trying to go?

To see those who rule... from the safety of their stronghold.

And what will you do then?

Punish them!

Those men you speak of are my masters.

...so I can't allow you to go there.

I am suffering.

I never knew... it would be so painful to die.

Pain is...

...proof of existence.

Are you saying...

...that I existed?

For what reason?

We exist for no reason...

And then just disappear.

Oh, merciful Buddha...

Izo!

It's you, isn't it?

I've been waiting for you.

Izo...

Why did you abandon me?

After we spent so much time wallowing in lust together... You and I...

My penis once...

...stroked your hole, nothing more.

I was pregnant with your child. I lost the baby.

How are you going to make up for my anger and grief?

I remember how good your hole felt.

But I couldn't stand the smell.

It smelled terrible.

Even animals have their aversions...

All the more so for humans.

You brute!

Izo...

I'll never stop cursing you...

...even if it means that I shall burn in hellfire!

Your grudge proves that you have a soul.

Take it with you to the depths of hell.

Izo...

Have you not found peace? Are you still on the path to carnage?

Why don't you put an end to it?

Let it all go, and stop writhing in pain.

You bastards!

If we touch a horse, we shall kill it.

If we touch a human, we shall kill him.

If we run into a demon, then, in other words...

...we shall kill the demon.

Damn you, you rotten heretic of a vengeful spirit.

You're a swindler's pawn. You have the face of a swindler.

You wretch... The sight of you sickens us, you damned ghost.

We shall dispose of you now.

Damn you for cheating death, you wretch!

Where are you headed?

You have destroyed your body. Do you also wish to destroy your very soul?

Kneel before the gods and pray, you sinner!

If you do so, there might be a chance...

...that the gods will grant even your evil soul the least bit of mercy.

Swindlers!

What is it that you control?

What is it that you create?

Get out of my sight!

Insolent man. Prostrate yourself before the authority.

Then why don't you summon all your gods and also Buddha here?

If you're so sure they truly exist, then expose them so that I might see them!

You idiot!

How could anything divine appear before scum like you?

You are nothing but swindlers, pretending they exist when they do not.

If no gods exist...

...then that makes you the biggest frauds of all!

You damned fool...

It is hopeless to try to save a lowly heart like yours.

Leave!

You disturb my meditation, evil one.

Who the hell are you?

I speak on behalf of...

...the gods and Buddha.

I am the saint of saints.

Bastard...

That hurts.

You have inherited my flesh and blood.

I am glad that you have come.

After I entrusted your mitochondria...

...with all my emotions...

...you became the answer.

It was I who gave...

...birth to all living things.

I am your original mother.

Come on.

Fill your testicles with...

...obscene carnal desire.

Thrust...Gyrate...Ram yourself through me!

Until my womb breaks!

Come out. Come on out.

Come out and fill the earth...

...with my flesh and blood!

The archbishop is dead.

That damned ghost...

...you don't suppose that the dead have come back to life? Your Excellency?

That is precisely what has been worrying those of us in finance, sir.

Please, rest assured, sir.

The humble remain castrated by the rules and customs we have devised.

They are like sheep in a corral...

...they have been tamed and could not be more obedient.

The theory for that purpose has been...

...firmly established by us scholars, with airtight precision.

All the same, in the event a riot breaks out...

I shall order my most formidable troops to suppress it in a single blow.

This close union of us rulers...

...weaves a brilliant history from the past, to the present, to the future.

So...

...we shall find a replacement for that archbishop.

Control, suppression and deceit...

...they constitute human nature.

Izo is coming.

He is filled with rage.

Who is Izo in the first place?

Just a negligible fragment of a grudge.

Yet he wreaks revenge upon us aristocrats.

That is to say...

He is a contradiction of unknown causes that occasionally disturbs the system.

Where is this Izo?

Izo springs forth from everywhere.

Izo is nothing but dust.

Izo is a detestable insignificance.

We don't know what you're looking for, but it's no use... no use.

Isn't it just a lot of trouble for nothing?

You must learn to compromise once in a while, you know.

Irrationality? What about it?

In other words, the feelings in your heart...that's the source of all evil, right?

At least in your case.

Seriously.

Seriously.

I haven't introduced myself yet. I sell vacation homes to the aged.

So they can enjoy their golden years.

Here's my card...

That hurts, doesn't it? It really does, eh?

It hurts, eh? If it does, say so.

Say it hurts! You don't have to take it.

Say it hurts.

Ahh!

You don't have to take it. Say it hurts!

It hurts!

Oww...

Look what you've done. It's too much.

Wait a sec. You stabbed me. That hurts!

It hurts.

Hell is in your own mind.

You can search all over the world, and you'll never find it.

I mean ''salvation''... that's such drivel!

I'm bleeding, eh?

Where are you going, Izo?

I said, where are you going? You mustn't go!

How can you abandon your mother?

I gave birth to you. How can you possibly forsake your mother?

To kill your mother is to kill yourself.

Izo...

You must repent.

You are condemned for your inhumanity.

You betrayed God.

Your existence is a sin.

You try to pass off that which did not happen as the truth... you are a criminal!