Hakuouki (Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ (Drama))

Would you like some flowers?

March, Genji Year 1 (1864)

Will you buy some flowers?

Won't you buy some flowers?

Excuse me!

I was hoping to ask a question...

A man in his 40s, with a shaved head, like a monk, and an Edo accent...

He's a doctor who practices Western medicine...

I'm sorry, I don't know him.

Yukimura Chizuru

Hand it over.

We'll use it for the sake of the country.

Who goes there?

Dear, dear.

It's only at times like these that you work quickly.

Don't run.

Turn your back on me and I'll cut you down.

This person saw everything, you know?

We will deal with that one...

after we get back.

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Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom

Episode 1

Chizuru.

I must once again travel to the capital, Kyoto, for a while.

For work? How long is "a while"?

I see.

Don't worry.

Yukimura Kodo

You are far stronger than you think you are.

Hey, wake up!

Come with me.

Saito Hajime

Okita Soji

Hijikata Toshizo

Kondo Isami

We've checked your belongings.

What are your intentions here... Yukimura Chizuru?

Y-Yukimura?

Nagakura Shinpachi

Harada Sanosuke

Is that Kodo-san's...

Do you know my father?

I'm looking for him.

If you know something, then—

How much do you know?

How much?

You came here because you know what Yukimura Kodo has done, right?

My father was supposed to have come to the capital for work!

But... this summer, his letters suddenly stopped coming.

So I've come from Edo to...

Is the poorly executed male disguise

Sannan Keisuke

because of the current lawless state of the capital?

Todo Heisuke

A woman?

She's a woman?

After I came here,

I called upon an acquaintance of my father's, Doctor Matsumoto Ryojun,

but he was away.

I've been going around asking after my father's whereabouts, but...

in the end, I ran afoul of some ronin.

She may truly know nothing of it.

All of you and my father are...

How shall we deal with her?

Inoue Genzaburo

It's not like she found out the reason they've gone crazy for blood, right?

In that case...

The reason?

Dear, dear.

Things are even more complicated now.

Please, wait!

What has happened to my father?

Hey. Take her...

and put her back in that room.

Huh? You're not going to kill her?

Soji.

I'm joking.

Heisuke, take her to her room and keep watch over her.

Kondo-san.

Yes.

Wait!

Would it be all right if I untied her?

If she shows the slightest sign of trying to escape, kill her.

It's so tight! Soji...

This is tied way too tight.

Integrity

Integrity?

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She ended up clearly seeing a blood-crazed rasetsu.

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She's Kodo-san's family.

That same Kodo-san disappeared from our sight,

and soon after, his relative appeared.

Don't you think it's a little too much to be a simple coincidence?

Do you suppose...

Kodo-san was not kidnapped, but left of his own volition?

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Kodo-san has betrayed us and hidden himself.

And to sound out our movements, he's sent her as a spy...

When you consider the value of the rasetsu,

it looked like he had been kidnapped.

She doesn't seem like that kind of girl to me, though.

Soji. Go wait in the reception room.

It seems someone wants to have a word...

Be killed, or...

assist us in searching for Yukimura Kodo.

Make your choice.

Do it quickly.

Yes! I will help you!

Please allow me to search with you.

You aren't hiding anything else, are you?

I am not.

Forget the events of last night. Understand?

Yes.

As long as you're here at our command post you will be given no special treatment.

You will be treated as a man... as my page.

Then... was my father here, too?

We of the Shinsengumi are also searching for him.

He had been following the orders of the shogunate alongside us,

but he's been missing ever since a fire broke out in the infirmary.

We haven't found his remains.

It seemed like he'd been caught up in some kind of conflict.

It seems someone wants to have a word...

and it's Sannan-san.

As we are all looking for the same person,

why don't we have her assist us in our search?

I believe that having her under our control will prove convenient

once we've found Kodo-san.

And that's regardless of whether he was abducted,