SDK 303 The Terrible God - The 8th Sword ~ A Voice 1 Yuya: KYO!! Text: Their last-ditch attempt at victory crumbles... has the battle come to an end...!? Yuya: No... Yuya: Speak to me!! Aka: My "Kouryuu" is three times more powerful... you can't possibly have survived... Aka: If you do live, then stand up and face me again... Kyoushirou: How could you... 2 Kyoushirou: How could you do something like that!! Kyoushirou: Gaah!! Yuya: Kyoushirou!! Aka: ...You were the masterpiece of my creations... naturally the fire in your soul is incomparable to any other... Aka: ...But. Aka: You are powerless to your own blood... Kyoushirou: Ah... Kyo... Kyoushirou: Kyo... 3 Yuya: K... Kyoushirou...!! Yuya: Ch... Chinmei's body is breaking apart...!? Aka: ...He was the second of my Red Cross Knights, so his body contains more of my flesh and blood and will naturally break down faster... Aka: As for my fourth creation, Kyoushirou... there is little time left. Yuya: What...? Yuya: G... give Kyoushirou back his soul...! Aka: Do you care for him? Yuya: Kyaa!! Aka: I will destroy this world, and the future will be mine... isn't that right, my fortune teller!? Yuya: I... I don't know what you're talking about!! Yuya: But you can't be so selfish!! Kyo will come back, I know it!! And we'll win, and we'll be happy together!! 4 Aka: ... I have forgotten how easily people are satisfied by their hope for happiness... Aka: But what is happiness? And how can that be enough? I have forgotten it all... Aka: And when a person desires happiness, he is all too ready to steal the happiness of others... Aka: That is why men fight. That is the cause of destruction. Yuya: That's not true!! We... Aka: We just need a few comforts and good friends to be happy, right? Just believe that he'll come back... right...? Yuya: What...!? Aka: You'll risk everything to fight against me... your kind all say the same thing... Aka: But when happiness isn't enough anymore, war and destruction begin... Aka: And you forget the half-century of misery caused by your wars...!! Aka: And it has always been this way... Aka: Throughout human history, your kind have always reverted to war!! 5 Yuya: Ah... ah... Aka: So if humans must continute to satsify their hopes... their desires... their lusts... they cannot be allowed to live... Aka: And do you know why? It is because... Aka: It is because the ugly past must be purged... Aka: I... I can't bear to look at it anymore... so I have decided that the world must be returned to nothingness. Aka: ...There's no need to worry. You will die without pain or suffering... Aka: And there is no one who can stop me... Aka: And then... 6-7 Aka: ...The world will be at peace... Akari: Damn it...!! They just keep coming...!! Akari: S... Sakuya-san!? Akari: Gah!! Akari: Akira!! Bon: Ah!! Bon: Akari!! Akari!! Just hang in there!! Bon: [Hotaru... Shinrei...] Bon: [Yuan... Julian... Tokito... Sakuya...] Bon: [Kyo... forgive us...] Bon: [We can't...] THE CAT OMFG: Not yet!! 8-9 Akari: Wh... what...? Akari: [Everyone...!?] 10-11 Yuya: Hotaru-san!! And Shinrei too... Everyone is awake!! Aka: They overcame my control...!? But how... Bon: Y... You guys... Shinrei: Leave it to us...!! Hotaru: Sorry about that. I was kind of stuck. Yuan: My bad!! Julian: ...Ow, now I'm all stiff... Tokito: ...I heard something... a voice... it sounded like Dad and Hishigi and Uncle Muramasa... Tokito: ...They said "not yet"... Tokito: "It's not over yet"...!! Shinrei: Right...!! We're just getting started!! Shinrei: From here on... Shinrei: [Leave it to us!!] 12 Aka: ...But they are just a few Battle Dolls... Aka: My blood soliders now control the Mibu territory and are marching on the human world as we speak... You can't possibly take them all on, so this is meaningless... Yuya: ...Is it really? Yuya: Yukimura-san!! Thank goodness you're okay... Yukimura: ...You can see beyond the Mibu world, can't you? ...What do you see? Aka: ...What? Aka: What... what is this...? 13 Aka: My blood soldiers have been captured by humans...!? Aka: But what human could have planned a counterattack like that!? Yukimura: ...So you see how it is now? 14-15 Yukimura: I took advantage of Okuni-san's connections to the largest and fastest information network and combined the forces of the Tokugawa, the Sanada and the Date clans!! (And Anri-san, too~) Bon's Brute Squad: We're the Date Army's Black Coat Gang, and we're gonna make mincemeat outta ya!! Anri: I guess I should visit the family while I'm here... Ieyasu: They won't get past us!! Okuni: Well, well, Ieyasu-sama... what could Yukimura-san have written that could move even you? Okuni: Maybe that he was holding his son hostage? I wonder that raccoon-face would even bother... Ieyasu: ...... Nobuyuki: ...Yukimura... think of the position you've put me in... Tokugawa: I wasn't forced into this... Okuni: Hmm? Ieyasu: [That man... has always been one step ahead of me in his tactics.] Yukimura's letter: "The time for faither has come." Ieyasu: [I am a man of pride, and he asked me to throw my pride away... but his courage and spirit moved me.] Ieyasu: ...That man has no shame... I am proud to follow him. 16 Yukimura: Okuni-san and I have completely infiltrated the Mibu - you underestimated us, didn't you? Yukimura: And what's more... Yukimura: Shihoudou-san, Tora-san and Sasuke are working to open the door... yes, the door that conceals your precious secret will soon be opened. Aka: What...? Yukimura: Your blood soldiers have been stopped, and your plots have been out-plotted. Yukimura: ...Isn't that right~? Yukimura: Oh... I suppose you're angry at us... Aka: ...I am invincible, after all - you think you can win? You think you can defeat me? Ahahaha... Yukimura: ...Kyo-san is coming back. Yukimura: I know it...!! Aka: ...What? Yuya: Yukimura-san... Yuya: That's right! Kyo is coming back!! Yuya: You won't get away with this!! 17 Yuya: [We won't give up... Kyo is coming back...!! Aka: Kyo is dead... he's not coming back!! Aka: It's time you realised... Aka: That your fate is the same!! 18 Aka: Those who defy the will of god will perish!! Yuan: Shit...!! Yuan: They're tough!! And the bastards keep increasing!! Shinrei: There's no end...!! Shinrei: [We're not making any progress...!! At this rate, we'll exaust ourselves fighting these blood soldiers.....] 19 Shinrei: [And that evil light!!] Aka: What!? Yuya: Kyaaa!! Aka: ...This is insane!! How... how could the Red Tower have cracked... Aka: ...That's impossible... Kyo: I told you... Kyo: I could hear them. Kyo: I could hear them calling me..... 20 Kyo: So I'm gonna win this!! Text: The bonds between people can sharpen skills, touch hearts and strengthen bodies!! True strength is fighting for what is important to you!! Next Chapter: The Forbidden Door!!