LYNXIAN[p001]
(top left, star)
The enemy's whole story becomes clear!!
This new arc gets moving!! With center color as thanks for the popularity!!
(left) With tea and sweets... we are also "soldiers at rest."
お茶と甘味で"戦士の休息"
(right) Act 190: A Time of Cleansing
[p002]
(left) That power... could split even the heavens...!!
Akifusa: The skies... over Mount Osore are so clear...
(Akifusa): This is
(Akifusa): Nenekirimaru's
(Akifusa): True power!!
[p003]
(right) Rikuo-samaaaa
(center) Are you alriiiiight?
Rikuo: Tsurara!!
Rikuo: You guys destroyed the barrier... thank goodness!!
Rikuo: Wah!
Tsurara: Th-th-that was amazing!
Tsurara: There was a super☆natural☆phenomenon!! I don't know how it happened, but... Suddenly there was a shwoooosh and all the spirits blew away...
Tsurara: the sky cleared, and
Tsurara: Huh?
Tsurara: Wait, wha? The katana's good as new...
Tsurara: EHHHH?! Don't tell meeee?!
Tsurara: Those spirits before were all defeated by Rikuo-samaaa?!
(left of Tsurara) Awawaa
(above Yukari) Busy guy.
Rikuo: C-calm down, Tsurara...
Ryuuji: What... so it was complete, just like I thought.
[p004]
Ryuuji: At least contact us...
(left of Ryuuji): I thought you were dead for sure.
Akifusa: Ryuuji.
Akifusa: Sorry about that... I'd secluded myself here for a few days.
Akifusa: That one time, I'd told you it had been completed, but... I just felt that it was missing something...
(right of Ryuuji) You're annoyingly honest.
Ryuuji: I thought that might be the case, but
Ryuuji: We considered a lot of other possibilities, like the messenger shikigami having been destroyed.
Akifusa: A-ahh, she's an "Itako" who lives on this mountain...
Akifusa: She's the benefactor who's been looking after me.
Ryuuji: You shouldn't lie...
Tsurara: Haaah? How suspicious, secluding yourself on a mountain like this...
Yukari: It really is~
Akifusa: I-I'm not lying!!
Akifusa: Ryuuji!! I don't want to hear that from you!!
[p005]
Akifusa: ...it's alright, Momoishi.
Akifusa: This katana... is one designed to sever the power of demons and spirits.
Akifusa: He is probably not uninjured, but
Akifusa: Nenekirimaru can by no means cause fatal injury to a human.
Momoishi: Really?
Akifusa: It's a nice katana, isn't it?
Momoishi: Y...
Momoishi: Yes!
(left, Ryuuji): If he's Seimei's descendant, he's probably got some yokai blood in him, though.
[p006]
Tsurara: Nenekirimaru is completely restored!
Rikuo: Yeah... but
Rikuo: Even though I ended up fighting him due to the circumstances, just who is he...
Rikuo: During our battle, he kept blurting out Seimei's name...
Akifusa: This man... is Gokadoin Taisei.
Akifusa: On this mountain... he is someone whose
Akifusa: talent and strict personality I have admired.
この山では。。。その実力と厳格な性格で 一角の人物として認められていた
Ryuuji: Oi.
Akifusa: !! Taisei-dono...
Taisei: Seimei-sama...
Taisei: Seimei-sama... please... accept my most humble apologies...
[p007]
Taisei: Akifusa
Taisei: and that yokai over there.
Taisei: No matter how much you claim to promote justice,
いくら正義をかかげようが
Taisei: so long as it opposes Seimei-sama's will,
Taisei: it will become the target of "purification".
Taisei: All that awaits you
Taisei: is "death".
(Ryuuji): Purification?
Taisei: Shit... with things like this, I will eternally be a Shugenja...
Taisei: So my fate is to die once my lifespan has ended, is it...
寿命がくれば死ぬ運命か。。。
(bottom, star) You can only read Shiibashi-sensei's manga in Jump!! Please support him!
[p008]
Taisei: Successive family heads "Kokusou Gokadoin", "Hakusou Abe no Sei"
Taisei: In the end... you were beyond my reach...
結局。。。オレには手が届かなかったか。。。
Rikuo: Look out!!
Rikuo: Tsurara!!
Tsurara: Yes!!
(sfx) Crackle crack
sfx bubble: Yank
Ryuuji: ...so he's not a family head, huh.
Ryuuji: What was that purification thing he spoke of?
Akifusa: Now that you mention it, he said that before, too.
Akifusa: That... together with Seimei's rebirth, the earth will become pure again.
[p009]
Ryuuji: The more I know, the more I don't understand.
Ryuuji: If the 13th head Hidemoto were here, he'd probably know something...
Ryuuji: Akifusa! We're going back to Kyoto.
Akifusa: Eh?
Ryuuji: You've already finished the katana... there's no reason to stay here, right.
Ryuuji: This is a bad omen... we'll gather information and set up countermeasures.
Momo: Um... That 13th head you spoke of... is the one Akifusa-sama called his teacher before, right?
Akifusa: Y-yeah...
Momo: Then he's dead, isn't he?
Akifusa: Eh?
Momo: Umm... I'm an Itako, so...
Akifusa: Eh?
[p010]
Momo: Bm Bhmm...
Momo: Bhm...
Tsurara: I-I wonder what she's doing.
Rikuo: Looks like an Itako's "channeling"...
Rikuo: They let the spirits of the dead take over their own bodies...
Tsurara: C-can she really do something like that?!
Hidemoto: Akifusa...
Hidemoto: Good job... restoring Nenekirimaru...
(Itaku): !! Is the 13th possessing her...?
(Rikuo): Is it really...?
[p011]
Hidemoto: Huh?! Where am I~~~~?!
Hidemoto: Did Yura-chan call me again~?
Hidemoto: Geez~ even though I told her not to call me until spring comes, since it's cold~♡
Hidemoto: Er, hm~~~~ who are all of you~~?
(Rikuo): ......it's the 13th...
(above Akifusa): Momoishi...
Ryuuji: Hidemoto... listen to this.
Hidemoto: Ah, have I been called forth by an Itako? Hmmmm~
(sfx) Pat pat
Ryuuji: Pay attention.
Hidemoto: Huh? Could it be that she’s a young girl? Wuah~ lucky!
Akifusa: Hidemoto!! Wah wah-!
[p012]
Box: At the same time.... in Toono.
Youbi: There it is!
Youbi: A record of Seimei from over a thousand years ago!
Awashima: Ya finally found it, but... is it seriously only in one book?!
Awashima: Fuguruma Youbi~~~ You didn't record it properly, did ya?!
Youbi: I didn't have a choice.
Youbi: Of the yokai records from over a thousand years ago, hardly any remain.
Awashima: Eh?
Youbi: Yes... like I thought, there was a "cleansing".
Hidemoto: Gokadoin? Of course I know of them... the descendants of the Abe family, right?
Hidemoto: It's just that they didn't come out in the open during my era, so I still don't know if they were up to anything~
Hidemoto: That "purification" you spoke of, is it different from when the yokai "Nue" went on a rampage?
Rikuo: A thousand years ago, you mean?
Hidemoto: You know that Seimei is also called the Nue, right?
[p013]
???: By day, as the onmyoji Abe no Seimei, he manipulated politics and people revered him.
???: And by night, as the "Nue", he was the commander of a Hyakki.
Youbi: A thousand years ago, he... lamented the depravity of the world and pursued his own ideal society.
Youbi: It is said that to that end, he advocated a system of absolute order... those who did not fit into that system... ayakashi who did not abide by the rules were eliminated.
[p014]
???: By the end of it... in every country, the history of ayakashi had thereupon ceased to exist.
Rikuo: The history of ayakashi...
Akifusa: Ceased... to exist?
Akifusa: H...how could that...
Hidemoto: It's because they were almost wiped out... except for the household of oni who had become his subordinates, that is.
Hidemoto: Incidentally, it was only then that our ancestors "the Ashiya House" issued a warning about the Nue...
唯一その時鵺に警鐘を鳴らし続けてたんがボクらの先祖〃あしやけ〃やったんが。。。
Hidemoto: That was also when Seimei fought with Tsuchigumo.
Rikuo: ...no way...
Awashima: And they're planning to do it again?!
Itaku: Don't fuck with me.
[p015]
Rikuo: Itaku...
Itaku: Ayakashi who didn't follow the rules were eliminated? Ridiculous... that's an insult to Toono.
Itaku: There are no more enemies here.
Itaku: Call me when it's time to fight those shitty Gokadoin bastards.
Akifusa: Ryuuji... I'm going to stay here.
Ryuuji: Hah?
Akifusa: I want to talk with Taisei-dono... and furthermore,
Akifusa: Where I will be most useful... is here, crafting weapons!
Ryuuji: Hmph...
Tsurara: Rikuo-sama...
Rikuo: Yeah... Ryuuji-san! Itaku!
Rikuo: I'm sure that this
Rikuo: is a problem that won't just end with us.
Rikuo: Ayakashi, humans...
Rikuo: I have a feeling it's a problem that concerns everyone...!!
[p016]
Encho: Well, well.
Encho: What a magnificent garden.
[p017]
Boy: Isn't it~?!
Boy: It's 'cause this is inside the Gokadoin House's barrier.
Boy: Even the pretty butterflies can't get in!
Woman: Oi. You're late.
Woman: What've you been doing, Ariyuki.
Ariyuki: Hey hey! If it isn't Hiruko!
Ariyuki: It took time to get all of this on, but it's alright now!
(sfx) Irritated
Hiruko: Your hat's... crooked...
Ariyuki: Huh?
(sfx) Adjust
(sfx) Flop
Ariyuki: Geez!
Ariyuki: Well, whatever~
(sfx) Irritated
[p018]
Hiruko: Ariyuki!!
Hiruko: Dammit, are you really 500 years older than me?!
(speech bubble, left) Haaah?
Ariyuki: Whatcha mad aboooout?
(above Ariyuki) It's hooot~ and cooold~
Hiruko: Just looking at you irritates me!!
???: I'll handle it, I'll handle it.
???: Those two children again, hm.
???: Ariyuki and Hiruko... are here, fufu.
???: Quiet, you.
???: You two,
???: Please hurry and come inside.
[p019]
???: You are both successive family heads, after all.
Box:
Abe no Orochi
3rd Family Head
Years in Power: 1185-1333
Ariyuki: Yeees,
Ariyuki: Orochi-sama!
Box:
Abe no Ariyuki
4th Family Head
Years in Power: 1334-1392
Hiruko: Tch...
Box:
Gokadoin Hiruko
9th Family Head
Years in Power: 1853-1867
[p020]
(center, top) Now, the time of cleansing
(center, bottom) has come!!
(right) Tthe successive family heads have begun to move at last...!!
(bottom right) Seimei's "purification" draws near!! Next time, there are new developments!?
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