Shirahime-syo
CLAMP
Hiyoku-no-tori
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Man: I've lost my way.
I'm completely away from the battlefield
And there's not even a trace of another human being.
Where am I?
If it were daylight, then I could use the sun to get my bearings,
But everything's completely covered by darkness
And on top of that, this snow...
A pair of herons?
Yukino: Why is it that all young men love war so?
Man: It's not that we love it,
It's for the sake of our country.
Yukino: No, you love it. Every man loves these terrible wars in which
Countless numbers lose their lives,
And it's not certain if you yourselves will come back safely or not.
If that weren't so, men would never be able to leave the women they loved behind.
Man: Yukino...
If I prove myself on the battlefield, then your father will accept me,
And allow me to take you as my bride.
Because of my feelings for you--because I want to make sure that you're happy--
I'll fight.
Yukino...
Man: If I keep wandering around aimlessly like this,
I could die
Without seeing my beloved Yukino.
Even though those birds are said to mate for life,
I will...
I will!
How many days have passed since then?
Am I getting any closer to the foot of the mountain?
Th-this is my arrow.
This is the bird I pulled down earlier.
So I've been walking around in a circle
For the last several days?!!?
Yukino...
Yukino!
Will I ever get back to you?
Will I ever see you again?
The neck's gone...Did wild dogs eat it's head?
I wonder if the wild dogs will eat me as well, when I die...
Yukino...
You loved the snow because your name meant 'field of snow.'
Yukino...
You were the one who told me that the name of the goddess who controlled the snow was Shirahime.
And you said that the snow is Shirahime's tears.
Yukino...my beautiful Yukino...
Where am I?
Have I already died?
Who's that woman
Whose eyes look so sad...?
Am I dead?
Is she Death?
Is Death such a beautiful woman?
What's that thing she's cradling in her arms like that?
What's she pointing at?
Is there something on the other side?
What the hell?!!?
Was she really Death?
Will I die soon?
If I die, I can't see Yukino again.
Yukino...
I will not die!
I absolutely refuse to die!
The snow is getting to me.
I've just lost sight of things.
I will get home. I will get back to my home.
And I will get back to my beloved Yukino.
There's no point wandering aimlessly around in the snow,
But I don't know where the foot of the mountain is.
Who--or what--was that woman?
Is there something in the direction she pointed?
The foot of the mountain?
Or death?
In either case, I'm going to die if I keep wandering around in the snow like this.
Even if she might have been Death, I'll go the way she pointed.
I've been walking around for days since then.
But I don't feel like I've gotten any closer to the foot of the mountain.
Was that woman really Death?
No. I will absolutely not give up.
I am going back to Yukino.
Even if I have to chew ice, eat bird--
I will get back
To Yukino.
For that, I will eat bird...
A heron?!
I wonder what the mate of the heron that I just shot in the heat of the moment is doing.
There's something under one wing.
What's it cradling?
Th-this is--!
This skull...
Impossible...from before...
You were always cradling the skull of your dead mate.
I'm sorry...
It's the foot of the moutain! I can see a light!
So you were the woman.
Tho' I killed you when we met, you helped me.