1 Kyo: Akari... Fighting doesn't suit you... Kyo: Stop playing around... 2 Kyo: What...? Hotaru: Kyo...!! Hotaru: [Did her hand really morph just like that...?] Hotaru: [And what power... to shove Kyo aside so easily...] 3 Hotaru: [This must be the true power of the "Medusa Eye"... Hotaru: Akari-chan... are you really trying to kill Kyo...!? Text: Onime no Kyo lies helpless before this merciless human weapon!? Akari: ...Die... 4-5 Akari: "Cable Cross!!" Kyo: Gah...!! Julian & Hotaru: Kyo!! Kyo: Gah... 6 Akari: Die... Kyo: Akari... Hotaru: ...She's so strong... I think... Akari-chan really means to kill Kyo... Hotaru: But maybe she's being controlled by that "Medusa Eye" thing... Julian: I don't know... maybe this is the real Nee-chan... Hotaru: ...Huh!? Julian: When I released Nee-chan's dormant power with my acupuncture, I never sensed that she had power like this... Hotaru: That's what I was saying - this isn't Akari-chan's power, it's that Eye thing... Julian: No... I don't think so... 7 Julian: Or maybe... it's because of that Eye that Neechan's real powers came out...? Julian: Didn't her power start to awaken when that Eye opened? She's been trained to become "Ashura"... and now it looks like that power is waking from its long dreaming... Hotaru: Dreaming...? Akari: Kyo...!! Kyo: ...Sorry. Did I wake you? Akari: No... 8 Kyo: Drink some of this and you'll sleep better. Kyo: I don't know what you think about, Akari, but I hardly ever see you sleep. Akari Kyo... Akari: ...That's because... I'm afraid to sleep... Akari: If I sleep... maybe I'll wake from this dream of my life... Akari: Oh Kyo, don't make that face! Did I say something too weird...? Akari: I mean, why shouldn't I want to dream forever? I have my friends here... Akari: I mean, I'm so happy when I'm with you... but I guess you can't hold onto a moment forever. Hotaru: [...Akari-chan...] Hotaru: [I always though you were kind of mean...] 9 Kyo: Quit running away. And stop talking weird shit. Go to sleep. Akari: Kyo... I... Akari: When people are dreaming, everything seems real... I think that's what frightens me... that reality as I know it may be a dream. Akari: And if I ever did decide to wake up, I might forget everything, and would be too sad... Akari: People's dreams are such fleeting things... Hotaru: [Reality... just a fleeting dream...?] Kyo: .... Kyo: We're out of here early tomorrow. Would you please get some sleep? Akari: Kyo... as I thought, you didn't listen to a word I said. Akari: You don't care about this Eye, or my past... you make your own judgements... Akari: Thank you... Kyo... 10 Hotaru: Reality...? Is this what Akari-chan meant by "reality"...? Hotaru: Did she mean that the time we spent together was just a dream...? Hotaru: The more I think about it, the more I wonder... Hotaru: Did he know...? Hotaru: Did Kyo...? Akari: [I just want to be with Kyo... and all of you, of course.] Julian: [You look so happy...] Hotaru: [He probably...] Julian: .... Hotaru: [Kyo must have known that the dream would end...] Julian: ...This is too much to watch. Julian: ...And what are Yuan and I supposed to do? We're turning to stone... And Onime no Kyo, too - Neechan's supposed to reverse the petrification.... What do we do? (even my needles don't work) Julian: And it's spreading... I don't think we've got a lot of time left... Hotaru: I don't think there is anything we can do... 11 Akari: I will control everything in heaven and on the earth... My life and its darkness together... I put my faith in my left hand. (o__o Yeah, I couldn't read like half of that line. What a weird, blurry font...) Julian: He's chanting something... Julian: Watch out! He's going to do something big! Kyo: ...That sounds fun. Kyo: Hey, Akari... let me show you why I'm the best there is. Kyo: There's still one ougi (master technique) left of the four in Mumyou Jinpuu Ryuu... "Genbu." Hotaru: ...Huh? Julian: "Genbu!?" Hotaru: Kyo... Hotaru: [No way... he's really going to fight Akari-chan seriously...!?] 12 Shinrei: Gaah!! Shinrei: Gah.. ugh... Fubuki: Finished? Shinrei: Ah!! Shinrei: This is it!! 13 Shinrei: Suiha Nanahouryou!! Shinrei: Suiha Houryuujin!! Shinrei: Suiha Bakuryuusen!! Shinrei: Shiryuu Reppashou!! (The names of Shinrei's attacks look much cooler in Japanese than they do translated~) 14 Shinrei: He absorbed all of my water dragons!? Shinrei: GAAAH!!! 15 Shinrei: He... he turned my own attack on me...!? Shinrei: He's strong...! I can't let this unexpected force throw me off... but I can't use my own attacks...!! Shinrei: Shit... Shinrei: SHIT...!! WHY!? What am I supposed to do now...!? Fubuki: Your loyalty and determination will be your undoing, Shinrei. Fubuki: It was I who taught you those techniques, after all... Fubuki: So your attacks are nothing more than cheap imitations of mine... Fubuki: But do you know why it is that I will defeat you...? Shinrei: Guh... Fubuki: There is a place appropriate to every person... Fubuki: And your place is in the palm of my hand... Shinrei: Wh... Shinrei: WHAT!? Shinrei: Taihaku said the same thing... 16 Fubuki: I know what should be done to weaklings who are disloyal to the Mibu... and I will dispose of you thusly. Fubuki: And out of gratitude for those who live for the Mibu, and die for the Mibu... Fubuki: I will take any disloyal worms that dare crawl from my grasp... Fubuki: And crush them one by one!! 17 Shinrei: Fubuki-sama!! I had a dream!! Fubuki: What was it? Shinrei: The highest master of water magic was at a party, where he put on a water show for the benefit of Aka no Ou... Shinrei: One day, I just know I'm going to be able to use my skills to praise the glory and prosperity of the Mibu, from the bottom of my heart - just like Fubuki-sama!! Fubuki: From the bottom of your heart? That's good. You will need to show the Aka no Ou your utmost loyalty through your art... Shinrei: Yes!! 18 Shinrei: I thank you very much, Fubuki-sama. Shinrei: I... Shinrei: I've wanted to be just like you ever since I was born... it was always my dream... Shinrei: And no matter how desparately I've tried to supress it, I think that in my heart, I've still been chasing after my dream of you... (I'm not even going to *attempt* to read that tiny print...) Shinrei: But... your words now have opened my eyes... 19 Shinrei: Dreams are, after all, such fleeting things... Shinrei: You made me see this... Fubuki: ...Oh? Fubuki: That's something to be proud of... how so? Shinrei: You called your fellow Mibu comrades "worms!!" What kind of loyalty is that!? Shinrei: I won't forgive you... Shinrei: You, the leader of the Taishirou... no, you, who has been entrusted with the future of the Mibu... Taihaku: [Shinrei... live, so that you may change the Mibu...] Taihaku: [Please, protect the children of the Mibu...] Saisei: No-one else can go where you can... Shinrei: For my clan, for my friends, for the dead whose spirits you have mocked... 20 Shinrei: I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU...!! Text: What lies behind the open door!? A sudden, unexpected comeback!! Shinrei: Watch and see my true show of loyalty!! Fubuki: ...Red eyes... like the previous generation...? Text: It's our 6th anniversary!! Next issue - 23 color pages at the beginning of the magazine!!