1 Kyo: You're the... first Aka no Ou...!? Aka-san: Yes... Although I was absorbed into the spirit of Tenrou, the Muramasa Demon Blade, I have always been watching you... Text: The ancient founder of the Mibu Clan, the First Aka no Ou... is this truth or myth!? Aka-san: The last blood descendant of the TRUE Mibu Clan... Onime no Kyo... 2 Kyo: You're just some damed ghost... Aka-san: ...A monster? (The word Kyo used was "bakemono", which means both monster and ghost - Aka-san misunderstands and pulls off his horns) Aka-san: Wait, these come off! Kyo: ...... Aka-san: Pretty cool, huh? I've been waiting forever to meet you for real, so I though I'd surprise you a litte~ Kyo: ......... Kyo: ... Aka-san: Hmm? There's something missing from your eyes now... Aka-san: That's too bad... the real demon is in the eyes, not the horns, you know. Aka-chan: The True Mibu Clan bears the true red eyes. 3 Kyo: True red eyes...? Kyo: ...What the hell do you want with me? You used to be Tenrou, you've been spying on me, and now you drag me to this fucked-up place. What do you want? Aka-san What do I want? I'm still thinking about that~ Aka-san: I suppose I was worried, because you're so weak. Aka-san: And you're so tough that you won't listen to me, no matter how I worry... well, no one escapes me with strength alone~!! Aka-san: I'm going to show you how weak you are... even weaker, in fact, because Mibu Kyoushirou's body has been infected with disease!! Kyo: Bastard!! Kyo: Quit it... Aka-san: Why? Aka-san: Why bother, when you can't move it, Kyo...? 4 Kyo: Ugh... ah... Aka-san: This is not even the full strength of the Mibu... Aka-san: And you, Kyo, you have it inside you as well... you've only awakened a fraction of it thus far. Kyo: ...What!? Aka-san: Look, Kyo... Aka-san: These are the glory days of the Mibu Clan! Our Clan held absolute power in the palm of its hand... Aka-san: Money... beauty... abundance... pepetual youth and immortality...!! Aka-san: Even the power to create life... 5 Kyo: ... Kyo: So what? It has nothing to do with me. Aka-san: Kyo.... Aka-san: Can't you feel it? The problem with having absolute power? When you have everything you want, you don't have anything to strive for anymore, do you...? Aka-san: This is the story of the Mibu Clan... Kyo: ... Aka-san: You might not feel it now, but hasn't the sleeping blood withing you always hungered to be free? Aka-san: It was a masscre... Kyo: !? Kyo: What the fuck...? Aka-san: Limitless power and immortality proved to be too much for the Mibu Clan. And there could only be one survivor... 6 Aka-san: They began to kill their own families. Aka-san: And in the end, the Mibu were destroyed, only a handful left alive. Aka-san: ..... Kyo: Destroyed...? What kind of crp is that? In my time, there's loads of the Mibu bastards. Aka-san: They are... Aka-san: They are of the Mibu Clan, and yet not of the Mibu Clan Akari: Y... Akari: Yuan...!! Hishigi: What's wrong? Hishigi: Finished already, Yuan...? 8 Yuan: Gah... Yuan: You bastards... Yuan: Why... why did it have to be like this... my mom... she said... she said she trusted you... so... why...? Fubuki: These are traitorous words... Hishigi: ...Don't worry, Yuan... you won't die alone... Hishigi: Your friends will die with you... and soon after, your family will join you... Yuan: You... Yuan: YOU BASTARD!! 9 Yuan: !! Hishigi: Well, Yuan, it looks like we won't be fighting together much longer... Hishigi: Goodbye. Akari: No... Akari: STOP!! 10 Yuan: Dad... Akari: J... Julian...!! Fubuki: .... Fubuki: As usual, the swordsman intrudes... getting in the way again... Fubuki: Needles...? Julian: I... I've been waiting for this chance... Julian: ...I made those swords... But I don't just create swords... 11 Julian: I can kill them, too...!! Akari: What...? Akari: The swords... they broke...!! Julian: I... I've been saving this one... I can't help you again, stupid kid... Yuan: You're the stupid one, stupid Dad!! Hishigi: Impressive show of effort... 12 Hishigi: But to win just with that... is a little idealistic. 13 Akari: Y... Yuan!? Julian: Yu...an... Fubuki: There is no place for idealism... Fubuki: Have you forgotten? I am a necromancer... Fubuki: Even from fragments... Fubuki: I can ressurect these dead swords... Akari: The... the swords... Akari: They're coming back to life...!? 14 Fubuki: Now all that remains is to erase Onime no Kyo from this world... Akari: You won't... Akari: You won't lay a hand on Kyo!! Fubuki: ...Don't be ridiculous. Fubuki: No matter how many times I cut you people down, you just keep getting in my way... what shall I do about you...? Kyo: Damn it, you've got me, you've got friends... that's enough!! Kyo: What we've got... it's something unbreakable, ain't it? Akari: Kyo saved my life... don't tell me what to do with it!! Fubuki: Then you can die together... 15 Akari: H... Akari: Hotaru...!! Fubuki: ...It's that bastard again... Akari: H... Hotaru!! With your body like that, how can you even move...? Hotaru: I hate you. Akari: Huh!? Hotaru: ...I really believed in Shinrei, but that's not all you took from me... Hotaru: You killed Taihaku, who was the most important person in the Mibu for me... Hotaru: Then Yun-yun and his dad... Hotaru: And now you want to kill Akari-chan and Kyo, two people who are really important to me... Hotaru: I hate you... Hotaru: No, I really... 16 Hotaru: I REALLY hate you!! Somebody, probably Fubuki: Red eyes...!! Hishigi: Ordinarily, you'd have turned to stone and I'd be rid of you by now... I suppose since you're a Taishirou, you think you're going to wake up? Hishigi: ...I suppose there's no rush to turn to ash. Hishigi: You're just as foolish and traitorous against the former Aka no Ou as your mother, Ian, was... Just bad blood, hmm? Hishigi: Don't worry, Julian... Before you and your son leave this world together, there's something I want to tell you... Hishigi: I killed Ian by my own hand. 17 Julian: You... you bastard.... Hishigi: I have never had any desire to see beyond the doors that hide the Great Secret of the Mibu... Hishigi: !? Hishigi: The stone... impossible... Yuan: ...shi..gi... Yuan: HISHIGI!! 18 Akari: H... Hotaru!! Yuan!! Akari: [A... amazing... the latent power of the Mibu Clan... is this the power of the red eyes...!? Akari: They're going to win...!! Hotaru and Yuan: AHHHH!!!!! 19 Hotaru and Yuan: Gah!! Akari: What!? Akari: Hotaru!! Yuan!! Akari: What... what happened...!? Akari: ...They were beaten... 20 Akari: No... no way... Fubuki: For our own sake... Fubuki: For the sake of the Mibu Clan... Akari: They... they have red eyes too!! Fubuki: We cannot be defeated!! Text: How much more can they exceed the limits of human existance?! What is the source of this power!? Next Chapter: Daydream!!