Ep. 9: Revolutionary
Sugimoto's group get closer to Asirpa who is with Kiroranke in Ako. At a Nivkh village in Ako, Kiroranke discovers that other revolutionaries in addition to Sofia are held in the Alexandrovskaya Prison and tells the others that they could help the Ainu. In a flashback, to the period following the assassination of Emperor Alexander II, Kiroranke, Wilk and Sofia fled to Vladivostok. There they met the Japanese photographer Koichi Hasegawa who had opened a photographic studio and married Fina, a local Russian woman. They paid him to teach them Japanese but when the secret police came to the studio, the fugitive revolutionaries thought that they had been discovered. However, the police had come for Hasegawa who was a Japanese spy. In the ensuing gunfight, the police were killed, but Fina and her child were shot by a stray bullet which Sofia thought that she fired, and blamed herself. The Russians decided to head north and cross the Strait of Tartary to Karafuto when it formed an ice bridge, but although Sofia declared her love for Wilk, she decided to stay and fight on as a revolutionary. Kiroranke's plan now is to free Sofia and other revolutionaries from prison and cross back into Russia to continue their fight. In an epilogue, as Fina died, Hasegawa revealed that his real name was Tokushirou Tsurumi. (Source: Wikipedia)