1 Saizou: Ugh... Saizou: We're... we're alive!? Twins: Gah... Saizou: Yukimura-sama!! Yukimura: Ah... Saizou: Yukimura-sama! Don't over-exert yourself...!! Are you alright!? Twins: Sakuya-dono, are you alright...? Sakuya: Yes, I'm fime, thanks to the two of you... and Yukimura-san... Saizou: Damn that Mibu Kyoushirou...!! You believed in him, and he betrayed you...!! Yukimura: No... that's not it, Saizou... 2 Yukimura: This cut bleeds a lot, but it's pretty shallow... he could have wounded me a lot worse than this... Yukimura: With the power Kyoushirou-san has now, he could have cut me right in half... Saizou: But... but... Saizou: Mibu Kyoushirou did all that just to keep us away from the Former Aka no Ou!? Sakuya: .... Saizou: B... but she's still up there... Chinmei: If it's Yuya-han you mean... Chinmei: Don't you think the Former Aka no Ou would have caught her by now~~~? 3 Yukimura: Ch... Yukimura: Chinmei...!! Chinmei: Oh man~~ You guys look like hell~~!! You're too stubbron to die, huh? Saizou: Bastard.... Yukimura: Everyone stay back...!! Chinmei: I don't know what Kyoushirou was thinking by saving you... but I'll be sure to let the Former Aka no Ou know~ Chinmei: Oh well, it's doesn't matter anyhow. You're all still going to die. But first, why don't you hand over Sakuya-han? Yukimura: Chinmei... Chinmei: ...Yukimura-han. Chinmei: I guess you like to haggle before making a deal? Chinmei: Well, not this time... Sasuke: Just one minute... 4 Sasuke: That's enough, Chinmei... Saizou: S... Sasuke!! Kamanosuke: Sasuke!! Are you okay!? Jinpachi: Hey... what are you doing here...? Yukimura: ...Sasuke...!? (He uses the kanji for Sasuke here, so he means Shindara. In case you didn't notice, Sasuke Jr. writes his name in katakana letters.) Chinmei: Well, what have we here... it's the little lab rat~ You're looking well~ I guess you've seen Hishigi's reports, huh? Chinmei: So, did you put it all together and figure out the Mibu's secret plans yet? Kamanosuke or Jinpachi: Huh? Kamanosuke or Jinpachi: Sasuke's got the plans? Yukimura: ... Sasuke: Yeah, I get it now... Sasuke: Just what kind of monsters are they... 5 The Mibu Clan... they intend to play around with people's lives... Text next to long-haired dude whose name I forgot: [Those created by the Mibu Clan have been imprinted, so they are incapable of rising up against their creators.] Text just below that: [That was what our creator, Hishigi-sama, decided, and so it was done.] Text next to kid with big ears: [We're begging you!! Be our friend... be our hero! Text in the bottom right corner: Most of us won't even survive ten years...] Text next to Kotarou: [Sasuke... I beleive in you... Even if my body turns to dust, I'll always be by your side... I promise...] Text above Shindara's head: [We we failures... we won't even live ten years...] Text below Shindara's head: [Promise me... that you will protect Yukimura-sama from the Mibu...] Text in the upper left corner: Are you... in pain...!? Sasuke: All of your soldiers... your failed experiments... your little scientific freak show... even some of your scientists... all dead... Sasuke: It's death, isn't it...? Sasuke: I think I understand... Sasuke: What the Mibu Clan is all about... Sasuke: Are you listening to me?! Did I figure you out?! 6 Fubuki: We cannot be defeated... We live for the sake of the Mibu Clan... Akari: [Those two... they have red eyes, too...!!] Text: Finally, the door opens, revealing the Mibu's secrets...!! Akari: That's... Akari: That's not... Yuan: ...Don't fuck around... 7 Yuan: Bastards... we've all got the eyes. Yuan: Me, mom, the other Mibu, those kids you made in the lab... and you just kill us...?! Yuan: Those red eyes are sacred, but they're also taboo... and we get treated like shit. There are people out there who don't even know the truth hidden inside them... Akari: ...What!? Hotaru: All for the sake of the Mibu... Fubuki: The red eyes... very well, they can know the truth before they die. Hishigi: Fubuki...!? Fubuki: You removed your mask... it's time I did, too... Hishigi: .... Fubuki: It's too late, there's no going back... Fubuki: I cannot forgive any of you, but I can send you to your death with eloquent words. This is my parting gift to you. Fubuki: We Taishirou rule the Mibu in the name of our Aka no Ou, but we are not of them. Fubuki: We are Mibu, and yet we are not. 8 Kyo: I don't get it. What are you trying to say? Kyo: The Mibu Clan that exists now is the Mibu Clan, but it's not the Mibu Clan? Aka-san: The True Mibu Clan had money, beauty, abundance, power and eternal life in their hands. Aka-san: And we turned on our own kind. It was a horrific massacre... and the few survivors were left with nearly nothing. Aka-san: And then it came to us... Kyo: .... Aka-san: We could use those we had created... Kyo: ...They wouldn't.... Aka-san: There were those who said that, yes. But the battles were growing increasingly more violent. Aka-san: Before long, the True Mibu Clan was concerned with nothing but war. Aka-san: Our beautiful streets had turned into battlegrounds... 9 Aka-san: To ensure that the creatures cmade by the Mibu would not turn on their creators, they imprinted them to show absolute loyalty. Aka-san: Some called them mere "battle dolls", but this was not the case. They were exquisititely crafted creatures. Aka-san: Stronger... More beautiful... longer lasting... Each one of them bearing amazzing power. We even gave them red eyes just like our own... Kyo: Red eyes just like...?! Aka-san: Yes.... Aka-san: The red eyes of your time... Aka-san: Those eyes, much like your own that still lie dormant, are a mere imitation of the true eyes. Aka-san: After the long war was over... we began to wonder if we had gone down the wrong path. Aka-san: There were so few of us True Mibu, and so many of the "battle dolls" crudely mimicing our red eyes... Aka-san: ...In time, they turned on us too. The True Mibu Clan was driven to the very brink of extinction, and the truth was swept away. Aka-san: It came to where the "battle dolls" forgot what they had once been... Aka-san: You see... 10-11 Aka-san: Those who now call themselves Mibu are nothing more than the creatures we created on a whim, no better than their own failed experiments... Aka-san: They are merely the descendants of the "battle dolls" created by the True Mibu Clan. 12 Akari: The... Akari: The Mibu Clan... Akari: Is just an experiment...? Shinrei: No... Akari: S... Shinrei!! Shinrei: That's not... true... 13 Shinrei: That... that's a lie...!! We Mibu are gods...!! Shinrei: We have the power to rule over all living things... we bear the power of the gods! Only we are capable of ruling over all creations...!! Shinrei: And you say we're not better than... than those failed experients...!? Were no different than ... than the monsters we've made!? Shinrei: I can't believe that... I won't believe that!! Hotaru: For a long time... I've thought something was wrong with us... Hotaru: Whenever normal people or animals die, they leave a corpse behind. Hotaru: But when one of the Mibu's soldiers, or a failed experiment, or any other Mibu Clan member dies, they turn to dust and disappear... there's nothing left. Hotaru: Nothing at all... Hotaru: Almost like there was nothing there to behi with... Akari: H... Akari: Hotaru...... 14 - 15 Shinrei: No... Shinrei: That's a lie... Muramasa: [The Mibu have always lived as phantoms... and one day they will disappear from this world...] Monster Guy: [Why couldn't I make it to the Red Tower...!? What kind of place is that underground maze...!?] Shinrei: [According to this, the red eyes of the previous generation and those of the mutants are identical...] SHinrei: [What? The Mibu Clan and their experiments are the same?] SHinrei: [The Mibu Clan and their experiments...] Shinrei: No... Shinrei: [Are the same...] Shinrei: THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!! Fubuki: It's all true. Fubuki: These imitation red eyes are proof that we, the former generation, are merely the descendents of those "battle dolls". Fubuki: I have decided to see the truth. Fubuki: If we are nothing more than illusions... then I must protect this clan... Fubuki: Whatever I must do... Fubuki: Whatever I must cast aside... Chinmei: (I can't read much of this, but it's something about Fubuki freezing his heart, I think... maybe) Fubuki: It doesn't matter who I have to kill... 16 Fubuki: It doesn't matter who I have to break...!! Fubuki: If all we are is an illusion... then there is no other way to live!! Fubuki: And even if I must become a demom to protect the glory and prosperity of our clan... Fubuki: With these hands, I will protect the Mibu Empire... I will protect the future of our people!! Yuan: F... Fubuki.... 17 Fubuki: You know now, so you can die!! Fubuki: The eyes of the one who bears the name Aka no Ou are genuine!! 18 Aka-chan: What a nice view... From up here, you can see everything! This will all be yours, you know? Aka-chan: Kyoushirou... Aka-chan: You can see the garden near here, where Fubuki, HIshigi, Yuan, Keikoku and SHinrei are all fighting! You really ought to look! Kyoushirou: ..... Yuya: [What is he saying...!? Those two Taishirou guys and Shinrei-san and everybody!? I don't think I'd want to watch a fight like that...] Yuya: And where are Sasuke-kun and everyone...? And Akira-san and Tora.... and Bontenmaru-san...? Yuya: Kyo... everybody... please be okay...!! Kyoushirou: ...Former Aka no Ou... what is it that you're reading? It seems to be a very interesting book... (He's reading the Analects of Confucious, of course....) Aka-chan: Ah, that's enough reading. It makes my eyes tired, you know... Aka-chan: And I've been waiting a long time... Aka-chan: For this day to come... 19 Aka-chan: Just look, Kyoushirou... They just don't make them like they used to~ I was getting a little bored with the fighting, but now it's quite apparent that the red eyes of the previous generation are rather a marvellous creation~ Aka-chan: Why, you'd think you were seeing one of the "battle dolls" from long ago~! Aka-chan: I certainly don't feel that the end is near for the Mibu Clan... Yuya: ..Huh!? Aka-chan: Say, Kyoushirou... why don't we go and do a little sightseeing? Aka-chan: Are you comfortable here yet? You and I are so alike, after all... it's the eyes... Aka-chan: See? Look... 20 Aka-chan: I can see it with my own eyes, as can you... the future of the True Mibu Clan. Aka-chan: We'll sweep away the false Mibu and restore our "battle dolls" to our full control~ Text: The secret has been exposed! In the face of the shocking truth, whay will Onime no Kyo and the other do?! Aka-chan: I want us to really enjoy killing off our creations...