1 Akari: Kyo...!! Hishigi: ...So you're still alive, Onime no Kyo... Kyo: I'm here to defeat the Former Aka no Ou... get in my way, and I'll kick your sorry ass. Kyo: If you don't want to die, then get out of my way... 2-3 Fubuki: Too cocky... (actually, he says "what a load of shit", but that doesn't sound like something Fubuki would say) Hishigi: Would you mind telling us how someone like you intends to do that? Kyo: ...Actually... Kyo: It's pretty interesting... Text: A demon blade wielded by one with a demon's heart - together, they're stronger than ever!! Kyo: Why don't you ask my sword? Yuan: Damn!! Just look at that power!! Hotaru: Tenrou is obeying Kyo's voice... Hotaru: This is... the voice of Tenrou itself...!! Julian: Heh... looks like you got some practice in... Julian: [Tenrou's still got stories to tell, I guess...] 4 Kyo: Take this!! Yuan: Hishigi got pushed back!? 5 Akari: Kyo... watch out!! 6 Kyo: AHHH!! Hotaru: He... he blew them away just like that...!! Kyo: AHHHHHHHH!!!!! 7 Kyo: [Mumyou Jinpuu Ryuu - Ougi (secret technique)] Kyo: "Suzaku"...!! 8 Yuan: Waah!! Hotaru: [That... that was... Suzuaku...!? Hotaru: [I've never seen a Suzaku like that...] Hotaru: [That Suzaku belongs to both Kyo and Tenrou...!!] Akari: Kyo, OMG, you're so cool~ *heart* Julian: ...I guess we got all worried over nothing... Hotaru: ...Not again... Hishigi: And just how do you intend to master Tenrou when you can't even deeat us? Hotaru: [There's not a scratch on them...!?] 9 Kyo: ... Fubuki: Onime no Kyo... there's no way you will make it anywhere near the Former Aka no Ou... Fubuki: Gods or not, the True Mibu Clan has not seen fit to lend you their power, and they have not seen fit to show you the way to reach our level of ability. Fubuki: I would give my life for the Mibu Clan... OUR Mibu Clan. Kyo: Fubuki... Hishigi: Onime no Kyo... You wish to confront the Former Aka no Ou and Mibu Kyoushirou in order to regain your true body, am I correct? Hishigi: ...If that is so, then why waste your time protecting these people? Hishigi: They are not worth protecting... Hishigi: Well, I suppose the same could be said of the current Mibu Clan. Akari: !? Yuan: Hishigi... What are you saying... Hotaru: Did you two break up? Fubuki: .... Hishigi: ...That's a very facile way of putting it... 10-11 Hishigi: Fubuki said he wanted to save this clan, so I have adied him. Hishigi: But I have been much more involved in my own work to create new, flawless "battle dolls"... Hishigi: And I have come to the conclusion that my way of doing things is superior. Yuan: You... you self-serving bastard... Hishigi: ...Oh yes, Yuan, your family is very important to you, is it not? Hishigi: If family is so important, then what of your clan? (this sentence was really clunky in Japanese, so I just went for the gist of it) Yuan: Huh...!? Hishigi: What of the failures, have they all died? Hishigi: What of all the demon children, all the monsters searching for a place to call home, a place they can belong... Hishigi: And Shinrei and Keikoku, thinking of nothing but sweet, sweet revenge... Hishigi: Who do you think made it possible for you to live today? Hishigi: ...Look at Fubuki. This man hasgiven up the woman he loved for the same of his clan. He has cast aside his friends, his child, and his very soul for your sake... Hishigi: Can any of you really profess to know the depth of Fubuki's pain, the depth of his sorrow...? Hishigi: No... you have only been concerned with your own dear, trivial lives... Hishigi: COmpared to the tragedy of losing our clan, the loss of insignificant induviduals means nothing. Yuan: What...? Hishigi: And you, Onime no Kyo, you wish to protect this selfish lot? Hishigi: You wish to save those who are not worth saving...? 12 Kyo: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Kyo: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Kyo: They're my SERVANTS!! Kyo: I could still get some useful work out of them! If they died now, that would be a pain in the ass!! Kyo (handwritten text): [Don't you dumbasses get it?] Kyo: You shitheads!! Who do you think you are, deciding which people get to live and what people get to do? What's wrong with doing anything you damned well please!? Huh? Shit, you really are stupid!! 13 Kyo: I mean, damn, you're so fucking BORING every time you open your mouth, Hishigi! Kyo: If you've got nothing better to do than bitch, I'll put you to work! I could use two more servants!! (can't read the small text here) Hotaru: Dumbass... Yuan: ...Idiot... Julian: Yeah, he's pretty stupid... [More of the BWHAHAHAHAHAHA laughter in the background there] Yuan: But you know... Yuan: He's okay for an idiot! Hishigi: ...I'm not even going to listen to something so stupid. 14 Hishigi: Just DIE!! Kyo: Grr... Kyo: Gah... Akari: Kyo!! Julian: Come on, push him back like you did before!! Fubuki: You can't use Tenrou fully when you're in that body... that is why we will be victorious... Hishigi: YOu fool... You are the last descendant of the True Mibu... you have power anyone would envy, and yet you squander it? You refuse to return to the way you once were... Kyo: What do you mean, the way I was!? 15 Kyo: I'll decide who I am... Kyo: I'll find my own strength!! Fubuki: If you want to whine like a pathetic brat... Fubuki: Then die like one!! 16 Yuya: Kyo.... KYO!! Yuya: [What... What happened...!? No... it can't be... that blast can't have hit Kyo...!? Kyoushirou: Gah... Yuya: Wh... what's wrong!? Kyoushirou... Yuya: Ah... Are you alright!? Yuya: That... that's... Yuya: The... the crimson cross mark!? 17 (FYI, that sound effect in the back is GOGOGOGOGO, which means fire. It's my favorite sound effect and I will never cease to find it amusing. Almost as amusing as the way Shinrei screams, UOOOOOOOOO!!!) Akari: K...Kyo!? Akari: No... no way!! Akari: Kyo didn't get those guys...!? 18 Fubuki and Hishigi: Gah!! Akari: What!? Hotaru: They... they got hurt!? Everybody: !? Shinrei: What...? Shinrei: [What is this... this thirst for blood...] Shinrei: [No... that's impossible...] 19 Kyo: If you want to be weak, then it's enough to unleash just a little power... but if you want to be strong, then you've got to go all the way... Kyo: If you keep looking back at the past, then you've got no future... Kyo: And it's all going to fall apart... SHinrei: [No... this can't be...] 20 Shinrei: [The legendary...] Shinrei: [True red eyes...!!] Text: The demon is called out!! The myth has come to life, and it's just beginning!! Next chapter - The heart of the demon!!