Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ)

It's a dead end. No windows, either! Let's go back!

We're doomed!

Botaro...

You came to save us?

I can't move...

Botaro...

Sugimoto! Asirpa-chan!

Botaro!

Asirpa-san!

Golden Kamuy

Episode Fifty-Three Making a Homeland

Ow...

Hey, pirate.

They let you out of solitary?

I heard you about killed someone.

Some shithead named Ueji.

If Gansoku hadn't gotten excited and jumped in, he'd be dead now.

He told me my aunt was waiting for me outside, when she wasn't.

He was mocking me.

Not sure who that is, but if you let every little thing get to you,

and end up in solitary all the time, it's not worth it.

Shiraishi, do you have anyone waiting for you on the outside? Any family?

Nope. I was abandoned at a temple.

So you must understand how I feel, a little.

Are you going back to the temple when you get out?

I ran away when I was a kid, and who knows if it's even still there?

It was falling apart, with only a single old priest.

Well, once I've got that gold,

maybe I'll go make friends with every prostitute in Japan.

Forget it. There's no way you're getting that gold.

Think of the tattoos just as a way to get out of here.

What about you, pirate?

I'm going to become a king.

Oh, yeah.

Gonna make your own kingdom on a small tropical island?

It's such a crazy dream. I don't get it.

You mean you want power?

I had both parents and twelve siblings,

but they all died of smallpox.

I want such a big family that they won't all die.

I'll make a country where they can live,

and the king's kids will tell the people about me for generations.

So nobody ever forgets I was alive.

So all the citizens will have to learn about you in school?

Okay, so who can tell me the name of our nation's first king?

Me! It's His Majesty, King Botaro the Pirate!

You know, I wouldn't mind another stay in solitary.

You're a really lonely man, huh?

It's just like you that your loneliness makes you want to be a king, though.

I'm a king already, you know.

The Escape King!

You're just a habitual escapee.

You gonna keep getting arrested and escaping your whole life?

Making your own country means making a homeland.

A place my family and myself can call home, where nobody will look down on us.

If you don't have a homeland, you should make one.

Sugimoto...

I can't make my dream come true if I have to share the gold with idiots who

want to make an Ezo Republic.

Just free yourself of the burden of trying to serve the Ainu people.

Asirpa-san!

Can you hear that?

It's Sugimoto's voice.

I could've killed him, you know.

He only made it this far out of luck.

Even if he was lucky enough to find the gold with you,

would he really stay by your side forever?

I'll steal all the gold for you.

And once he doesn't have a goal to drive him,

you can stay with him forever, right?

Asirpa-san...

I followed her all the way to Karafuto and finally got her back.

And I lost her again...

I'm useless!

Sugimoto! Can you stand?

Forget the gold.

Live in your homeland with Sugimoto, as family.

Who are you?

That's Asirpa, right?

Get back!

There's not much smoke underground.

We can find another exit down here and escape.

What the hell?

A flood of beer?

Without the gold, how are we to protect our homeland?

He swam away with that kind of heavy wound?

Who the hell is he?

Lieutenant Koito, where are you?

Tsukishima, I'm here! Hurry!

I've got Asirpa!

Tsukishima!

Lieutenant Koito!

What happened?

Where is Lieutenant Koito?

Wait!

Lieutenant Koito, is that you?

He was... dragged under...

No, Asirpa is more important than anything right now.

Lieutenant Koito!

Tsukishima!

Hurry upstairs!

He may come back!

Where's Asirpa?!

Tsukishima!

Don't tell me you gave up Asirpa to save me!

I'm sorry.

You idiot!

Don't forget which of us is more important!

Huh? Asirpa?!

The chopsticks came in handy!

Hooray! I got her!

Lieutenant Tsurumi!

Well done, Nikaidou!

Sugimoto was alive! But you said he was dead!

Was he? But that's great for you, isn't it?

Lieutenant Tsurumi, there was a tattooed prisoner underground, but he escaped.

Sugimoto and Ushiyama were there as well,

so Hijikata's forces must be... somewhere in the beer factory...

Good deduction, Lieutenant Koito.

But there's no need to chase after them.

What Private Usami brought us

is more than enough to decrypt the code on the skins!

I have the number of skins I wanted!

We can't waste any more of our forces on meaningless combat!

We have Asirpa! All of you, protect her with your lives!

We remain on high alert and withdraw!

Damn it. I need to get her back!

Give back Asirpa-san!

No sign of Shiraishi or the others.

What do we do?

If they don't show up soon, I'll go.

What about Kadokura? Has anyone seen him?

Hijikata-san, I'm sorry I can't stay with you until the end.

Kadokura!

It's collapsing! Be careful!