Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ)

The seven Ainu killed each other.

As did Wilk and Kiroranke.

And the ones at Abashiri Prison.

The prisoners with the tattooed skins.

Hijikata Toshizou and his crew...

They all try to kill each other.

Shiraishi Yoshitake.

Sugimoto Saichi.

Everyone you love will be killed.

Just like Fina and Olga, the ones I loved...

Give up on the gold, Asirpa.

You already know how to crack the code, don't you?

No, Asirpa!

Stop it!

I knew from the start that threats were meaningless against you.

But if you need a little push, I'll give you an excuse.

Tell me, Asirpa.

I have an idea...

But I'm not certain... yet.

Tell me about this idea.

Aca's Ainu name. That only I know...

What is it, Asirpa?

Tell me.

Horkew Oskoni.

Golden Kamuy

Episode Fifty-Six Ipopte

Private Ariko. You're alive?

1905 Russo-Japanese War, Mukden

Yes, I'm alive, Warrant Officer Kikuta.

Talk about something, Ariko.

So that we both know we're alive.

What should I say?

Anything.

What you want to eat when you go home.

What you want to do.

Something about the future, ideally.

I want to practice making a makiri.

Makiri are those Ainu knives?

Yes.

A man gives the woman he likes a makiri.

The woman can tell how good a partner he is by looking at its quality.

So a man has to be able to make a makiri.

You're afraid the woman you like will reject you?

No.

I want to make one for myself.

Some parents might take the time to teach their children.

But instead, my father made me watch him make one, every step of the process,

so I could make one for myself when I grew up.

'Cause he knew if he forced me to make one, I'd rebel.

But it must've upset him terribly...

"To make a makiri,

you need the wood from an Ezo itaya tree, which is light and hard."

"If you make it with other wood,

the handle will break before you've finished dressing a single deer."

Someday he'd mumble things like that, loud enough so that I could hear.

But... I didn't really care.

If somebody made fun of me for being an Ainu, I'd fight back as hard as I could.

And if someone asked me for help, I'd help even if they were Japanese.

I didn't think about any of that stuff, but everyone else treated me as an Ainu.

I remember thinking that being an Ainu was a pain in the ass.

But the pattern on my dad's makiri had been passed down for generations.

So he probably wanted to make sure I knew it.

When I went off to war, he started making me a makiri, I heard.

"If he has a real one," he'd said, "He can someday learn to make his own."

But he died before he finished, I'm told.

And nobody knows where the makiri went.

I should've paid more attention...

Warrant Officer Kikuta, are you alive?

If you're alive, say something.

Oh... sorry.

Sorry, Ariko.

1908: Noboribetsu Hot Springs

What's this makiri doing here?

It's a shame...

You forgot the moon we saw from that trench, didn't you?

Horkew Oskoni...

Lieutenant Tsurumi.

Ariko?!

I've come to tell you the location of Hijikata Toshizou's hideout.

If we strike now we can kill them all and capture every last skin.

Ariko Rikimatsu...

You're sure that's the path you want to follow, right?

Give me all those skins!

Run, Asirpa, now!

Were those gunshots from the church?!

It's stuck!

Go! Go!

Asirpa-san!

Jump on, Asirpa-chan!

Ipopte was shot!

Sugimoto, stop!

Don't stop! Go!

Get down! It's too dangerous!

Asirpa-san! Get your head down!

Asirpa! Go!

It is Norabo...

It is Kikuta-san!

Ariko?

What are you doing here?

Warrant Officer Kikuta...

Ipopte!

The fire's almost all put out.

It's brick, anyway. It won't spread further.

Nice work. We've got enough people here, so go sleep.

Did he hesitate, I wonder?

I learned this trick from Hijikata Toshizou in Barato.

Don't push yourself too hard, Kadokura.

Let's get some rest.

Asirpa-chan, it's dangerous. Sit down.

Ipopte...

It's Ushiyama!

Call Hijikata Toshizou.

I know how to find the fakes.

Golden Kamuy

Don't die on me, Ariko!

Ariko!

Hey, wake up!

You still haven't made your makiri yet, right?

Ariko...

Your dad saved your life, huh?

Cultural Museum

Somewhere in the present day, at a cultural museum in Hokkaido,

Cepker (Salmon Skin Boots)

a makiri lies in a forgotten display.

Ecius Sake jug

Makiri (Knife)

Its description says that it was created by an Ariko Ipopte.

Makiri (Knife)

He copied his father's makiri exactly,

but added his own design at one single part.

But that's another story...

Warrant Officer Kikuta.