Chapter 281 1 Yuan: Kyo... Yuan: Fubuki...!! Yuan: Whichever one is left standing wins... right? Fubuki: Gah... Fubuki: Gah... ah.... Fubuki: Ugh... Fubuki: Gah... Fubuki: AHHH!!! 2 Kyo: Sorry, Fubuki. I win. Text: And now, it is time to decide who they are...!! (Um, I'm confused... the kanji used is for sexual identity... Shinrei, is there something you're not telling us?) 3 Akari: Kyo...!! Fubuki: .... Fubuki: And you say you're going to defeat the former Aka no Ou...? Fubuki: Then... then you kill us all...!! FUbuki: No children are being born... the usefulness of those created by scientific experimentation declines as the power of the red eyes continues to fade... Fubuki: Even if we fled from our lord's control, we would be headed straight for our own hell... the sickness is killing us... This phantom existence... is our fate...!! Fubuki: Why... Why, Onime no Kyo...? Fubuki: You've awakened your true power... but even if you have the strength to become Aka no Ou, could you really save our family like he can...? Fubuki: Why... why can't you just accept fate...? Kyo: Being Aka no Ou... means nothing to me. Kyo: Why the hell would I care about something so lame-ass... the only thing I care about... is being the strongest!! 4 Yuan: N... nothing?! The Aka no Ou is nothing!? Hotaru: Lame-ass... Yuan: Whoa, wait a minute... You sure you thought this out? Isn't the Aka no Ou the most insanely strong guy in the universe? Kyo: What's so stong about fucking with people's lives like they're your toys? Kyo: It's pathetic!! Whether they're Mibu or human or science experiment... ain't everybody the same?! Handrwitted text by Kyo: Is this his catchphrase? Kyo: Damn it! I ought to make all of you people my servants!! FUbuki: N... Fubuki: ...Never... Kyo: You've got people livin' and dyin' for you... and you still ain't happy, are you? Kyo: Don't you have something important to you? When your whole way of livin' turns to dust, what are you gonna have left? Julian: ...That's his kind of speech all right... Hotaru: Yay, go Kyo. Yuan: Yeah, kind of rough around the edges like him... Akari: [That's my Kyo...] Akari: It's all for his friends... 5 Akari: [No matter if they're Mibu, or human, or experiment...] Akari: [Or whether they're strong or weak...] Akari: [No matter if they're from a good family or bad, no matter what their fate or the color of their eyes... Regardless of illness ot fate or whether they're bad or good... he sees past it all...] Akari: [It all means nothing to him... he lives his own way and follows his own path...] Akari: [That's who he is...] Fubuki: .... Fubuki: No more of your talk... Fubuki: We're all going to die if no one saves the clan!! This is a battle of life and death between us...!! Kyo: Fubuki... 6 SHinrei: Ugh... Kyo: ...Shinrei... Shinrei: ...Please, stop this! Shinrei: Please... lower your sword, Fubuki-sama...!! Fubuki: .... Fubuki: ...Shinrei...!! Fubuki: I thought... I thought you had accepted your fate...!! Shinrei: ...Fubuki-sama... 7 Shinrei: I... I love the Mibu Clan... (ZOMG OTP!!!) Hotaru: ...Huh?! Shinrei: It's where I was born... I love the land, I love the prestige, I love the deep spiituality, I love the wealth and refinement, I love the beautiful buildings... Shinrei: But the thing I love the most... Shinrei: Is the person who loves our family the most... Shinrei: This is how I feel... Shinrei: Family... Shinrei: Friends... Shinrei: Teachers and students, children... Shinrei: Lovers... (he specifically says the opposite sex, but we all know he's gay.) Shinrei: These are all important things that we must protect.... and I think this is how we can become truly strong. 8 Shinrei: And this family is strong... Shinrei: And I don't think it's wrong to say that humans and mutants can't be strong too... Shinrei: The Mibu Clan is a proud family. Shinrei: Humans and mutants have been trampled over, but their happiness needs to be protected... Shinrei: I believe I can help make new happiness for the people... Kyo: Shinrei.... Hotaru: If you're weak, make yourself strong. 9 Hotaru: If you're really weak, then make yourself really strong. That... Hotaru: That's how I'm going to live. Julian: What's the big deal about this Aka no Ou... Having red eyes don't make you strong... it's the other way around. It's just an extra. Yuan: ...Hey, but there's more to life than just that. My big brother Anri left the Mibu Clan with Muramasa... Yuan: And he met this girl from Kyoto, Asuka-chan, and shacked up with her on Kurama Mountain. Kids SFX: Goo goo... Anri handwritten: So this is Mibu Clan domestic bliss...? Yuan: And now he's got 11 kids!! Baby SFX: Goo goo... Asuka handwritten: #12 on the way -> Julian: WHAT!? Yuan: Hey, don't get worked up, it's the natural way of things! Yuan: Now everybody knows you're a grandpa! Akari: I'll make myself understand... Akari: It might be difficult, but I can do it... Hishigi trusted me to find the cure... I'm going to save them...!! 10 Fubuki: .... Shinrei: We're all born for a reason... SHinrei: Even if there is physically nothing left when people die... we each leave behind our own path in life. Shinrei: This is all there is.... Shinrei: So there can be no hesitation. SHinrei: We might all die tomorrow, but I want to live... Shinrei: I want my family to live... Shinrei: It was you who taught me to be proud, Fubuki-sama.... you... 11 Muramasa: Fubuki... I believe... Muramasa: That Kyo... yes, Kyo and all other little children... I believe that they can open up a new future... Fubuki: ...And is that your chosen path, Shinrei...? FUbuki: Then I must follow my own path...!! Akari: What...?! Shinrei: Fubuki-sama!! 12 Akari: F... Yuan: FUBUKI!? Kyo: He intentionally impaled himself on Shinrei's blade...!? 13 Shinrei: W... Shinrei: Why...? Fubuki: Because I have become corrupt... Fubuki: I made my decision long ago... Fubuki: I knew this would be my last deed... after the terrible things Hishigi and I have done, I must atone for my sins with my life... and end this twisted saga. Shinrei: .... Shinrei: No... Shinrei: Please... 14 Shinrei: Please, don't go!! Shinrei: I still.. I still need you to guide me... Shinrei: I'm not ready!! I need you to teach me... SHinrei: W... What about the art of water!? Shinrei: Please, Fubuki-sama, make your dragons dance again!! Fubuki: ...Don't be stupid... Fubuki: From now on... it's you who will make them dance, Shinrei... Fubuki: ...There's no one who could make the water dance more beautifully than you... you must, for the sake of our family's new happiness... Fubuki: [Shinrei... do you know the true meaning of our art?] Fubuki: [It is how we show our loyalty.] Fubuki: No one is born into this world with only hatred in their heart... Fubuki: A beautiful dance is like victory, is like the future... Shinrei: No... Please, no, Fubuki-sama!! Shinrei: If you don't stop, you can never come back... (I really can't see most of the letters here) Disembodied voice of Muramasa?: You're wrong. 15 Shinrei: F... Fubuki-sama... Disembodied voice of Muramasa?: It's not that he can't be with you like old times... Fubuki: Shinrei.... we are... Muramasa: We are all looking towards the same future...] Muramasa: [Our paths may be different, but the things we must protect are the same.] Muramasa: [Even if our lives are just fleeting dreams.] 16-17 Muramasa: [We will all return to the good earth...] Muramasa: [And there will grow the buds of new flowers...] Muramasa: [And that will be the proof of our existance.] 18 Fubuki: [This is all... for the sake of our future...] Shinrei: Fubuki-sama.... 19 Shinrei: Fubuki-sama... Fubuki-sama!! Shinrei: Fubuki-sama!! Shinrei: I had a dream!! Shinrei: I just know it... Shinrei: One day, I'm going to be a real samurai that loves our family as much as you do, Fubuki-sama!! 20 Shinrei: T... Tokito...... Next Chapter: Hope!!