00:00I gotta hand it to you, Tsukumi. You've got good taste.
00:10Hey, when this war is over, let's rip through town on motorcycles together.
00:15No license? Just hop on the back of mine.
00:18My seats even come with fancy leopard print.
00:20It's a deal, yeah? We'll go faster and fast and see what happens.
00:30Hey, Tsukumi, you wanna come with me to our next meetup?
00:37I gotta introduce you to some of my pals. Don't be afraid. They're all good people.
00:42Just one thing. They're like morning people.
00:46Old folks tend to be early risers.
00:49You wanna know what the meetup's for?
00:51Working out to keep everyone healthy. What else?
00:54Our frenzy dance moves put the pros to shame. You gotta see it to believe it.
01:00Hey, so after the war's over, wanna come hang out at my place sometime?
01:12I mean, it's just a run-down shack, but I guarantee you won't find better food out there than what my mom makes.
01:19People are always visiting her bar for the food, so there's gotta be something about it, right?
01:24She doesn't have the best temper in the world, but she did raise me single-handed.
01:28I think she'd be relieved to see that I've got myself a friend like you, Tsukumi.
01:33One warning, though. She looks really young for her age.
01:37People always think she's my sister or something.
01:40Don't you dare hit on her. You getting me?
01:43Let's not make this weird.
01:44I always used to watch the house by myself when I was a kid.
01:57Couldn't stand to see anything unfair or wrong, so I'd always be fighting with someone.
02:02My mom was busy with her bar work all day and night.
02:05I'd be bored out of my brains.
02:07That's why the old coots in the neighborhood basically raised me.
02:11They taught me to play chess and made my meals.
02:14Real old-fashioned eating, you know?
02:16And that was how Takamaru the Tyrant was born.
02:20I want to do all I can to repay those old folks by building their strength and helping out with their housework.
02:26That way, they can keep living for as long as humanly possible.
02:30My old man died when I was a kid.
02:41Don't remember much about him.
02:43Only thing I remember clearly is how he'd tell me not to be trashy and to always be cool.
02:48A trashy guy bullies the weak, and a cool guy stands up against the powerful.
02:54And we can talk all day about what weak and powerful really mean,
02:57but my old man was definitely thinking about brute force.
03:01Women, children, and the elderly tend to be weaker, you know?
03:05So he'd always tell me it was a real man's duty to protect them.
03:09He died doing just that.
03:12He pushed a kid out of the way of a fallen girder from a construction site and took the hit himself.
03:17I promised my old man I'd be a cool guy.
03:20That's why I'll never hit women or kids, even if it kills me.
03:25And I'd do all I can to help old folks, too.
03:28That's the Takemaru Yakushiji way of life.
03:31Shit, man.
03:41I was trying not to think about it, but it just keeps coming up.
03:46This pain is too freaking real.
03:49My mom, her bar, my old man, the old folks in the neighborhood, my pals, none of them were real.
03:57Just figments of my imagination?
04:01This is a bunch of BS.
04:03It's like nothing matters anymore.
04:06But you know what?
04:07I ain't gonna give up on life.
04:09I know you guys are going through the same hell I am right now.
04:13I don't know what's right or what's wrong anymore, but one thing's for sure.
04:16I'll protect all of you if it's the last thing I do.
04:19Because that's the real Takemaru Yakushiji way of life.
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