--- simply because, you were there.


Ukoku: Well, bring back at least some souvenirs next time.
Koumyou: Oh? Are you going back already?
Ukoku: Dawn is breaking soon.
Koumyou: Ahaha   You might turn to ash or something if you bask in sunlight.
Ukoku: That's right, that's right.

Koumyou: Ah, that reminds me...
That time, when we went to Chou-an together for your taking over of the Sanzo title... the witness Jikaku-houshi spoke of something.
Ukoku: What?
Koumyou: That you and I are just like "darkness of the night" and the "moon".
So I said, I'm not as punctilious as the Moon.
Ukoku: Ne, Koumyou.

Koumyou: Yes?
Ukoku: Let's say, if you're the moon, and I'm the night. Then...
I wonder which side will be swallowed up.


Closely   Quietly   Sanguinely

Gently   Coldly   Warmly
Watching everything there is of this world.


Koumyou: Shall we bet? Ukoku.


This man, he took the form of moonlight.


Ukoku: Sure. What are we staking?
Koumyou: What indeed... ---The one rising next,
The "Sun".

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Nii: We have not fallen; not me, nor you.

That's because, you ---

--- are still there.


The entire tale, is a story only the moon saw