New Vampire Miyu, Volume 1 - Chapter 1: The Western Shinma written by Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi illustrated by Kakinouchi Narumi copyright 1992 by Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi translation (such as it is) by Paul M. Aoki (aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU) $Revision: 1.0 $ of $Date: 1992/11/23 09:12:15 $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES 1. I use the following markings: [] = textual comment {} = translator's comment <> = "sound" (or action) FX "" = speech (x,y) = page x, panel y 2. Some notes on a few of the Western Shinma: CAIT SITH - Since he is named for the monstrous Celtic fairy cat (note: "Sith" is pronounced "shee"), it's not surprising that his attack consists of a pack of cat-headed wraiths. NIGHT GIA - A shaper of dreams, like Baku (on whom Raen, from OAV 1, is based). He's not actually Baku, though someone calls him that at one point in the story. PAZUSU - The undisputed leader of the Western Shinma, the Arabic-looking Pazusu is often addressed as "Pazusu-sama," "Pazusu-dono" or even just "Master." WATER LIPPER - A standard-issue water nixie (pale, webbed extremities, etc.) 3. I couldn't come up with a word for "makai" ("spirit/magic world") that sounded right, so (as with "shinma") I left it as-is. Ditto for "mashujutsu" -- it's something like "exorcism," literally "magical operation." 4. The weird writing (e.g., @#$%^&*) in the second half of the book is not swearing, it's a way to represent the incantations that were originally written in...well, weird writing. 5. We know that Miyu's chronological age is at least 30 even though her physiological age is 13. Carlua and Lemunia were very young children when Larva left for Japan, putting them in their mid-20s. They are not more than a few years younger than Miyu, and in fact they appear just a few years older (mid- to late-teens). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (7,1) [In the dim, cold world of the Dark, the spirits sleep. The time does not pass peacefully. People with troubled hearts summon the spirits from the makai, and these spirits stray into the world of humans and exploit them. The Japanese Shinma have a hunter for their strays and a guardian of their sleep -- Vampire Miyu.] (8,2) {gasps} (8,3) {rushing through foliage} A hooded man runs, panic-stricken, along a forest path. He is being pursued by a taller hooded figure wearing a pale mask. The torii gate of a shrine marks the end of the path ahead of them. (8,4) {thump} A girl lands lightly on a wooden beam. (9,2) (9,4) The man being pursued halts, gasping in horror at the sight of the young girl now perched on the cross-beam of the torii. The girl is pale, pretty and very young in appearance, perhaps thirteen. She wears plain white yukata trimmed in scarlet -- hair-ribbon, sash, slip, ankle-ribbon, all bright red. {Note, Stanford fans, it's scarlet and white, not cardinal and white!} She stares with golden eyes at the panting man, smiling faintly at his distress, her ponytail fluttering in the breeze. (10,1) [New Vampire Miyu: The Western Shinma, Chapter 1] (12,1) (12,2) The girl leaps off of the beam and descends lightly to the ground. (13,1) Miyu: "I am Miyu..." (13,2) (13,3) {burst of flame} A flame appears in her hand, and several others appear around the man as well. (13,3) Miyu: "...vampire warder of the Dark." (13,5) Larva: "Return the stray shinma to the Dark..." (14,1) {flame crackling} (14,3) Miyu: "Bye bye!" (14,3) {"niko" = "smile" FX} (15,2) {crash} (16,1) The crackling flames engulf her quarry (now revealed by his pointed ears and extra eye as something other than human), then subside. But another figure watches from the trees... (16,5) {rustling leaves} (16,5) shinma: --Miyu. (17,1) shinma: Warder of stray shinma. (17,1) Miyu: "C'mon, Larva." (17,2) shinma: Miyu... (17,3) {flapping wings} (17,4) Miyu: "Who's calling?" The spying figure, a bird with a man's head, crashes out of the trees and soars into the sky. (17,4) (17,5) Miyu: "What, a bird...?" (18,1) Miyu: "What do you think, Larva..." (18,2) Miyu: "Just now...did you hear a voice call me?" (18,3) Larva: "No, I..." (18,4) Miyu: "I see." (19,1) Miyu: "Well, let's go. C'mon!" (19,2) shinma: --Miyu. (19,3) shinma: Miyu. Vampire Miyu. On a cold winter day, bundled-up Japanese teenagers troop off to enjoy another fulfilling day of high school. Two girls, one with a familiar scarlet-wrapped ponytail and another with short hair and glasses, walk together. Another (somewhat insipid-looking) girl runs up to catch up with them. (20,2) Asako: "Hiiiii!" (20,3) friend: "Oh, hi!" Asako: "Cold, isn't it?" (20,4) Asako: "Hi, Miyu. The day'll go by slowly, don't you think?" (20,5) Miyu: "Oh?" Asako: "But then, you're always the biggest brain in the classroom, aren't you!" (21,1) Asako: "Done with your literature assignment?" Miyu: "Uh huh." Asako: "C'mon, let me copy it, please?" friend: "Not again! You've done this a lot since she moved here." (21,2) {giggle} (21,2) Miyu: (to friend) "It's all right..." (21,3) Asako: "But Miyu has a good head for this stuff..." (21,4) friend: "Wouldn't it still make more sense for you to do your own homework?" (21,5) Asako: Yeah, yeah, Madam Head-of-the-Class-Committee. You'll get yours. (21,5) Asako nods to herself and turns to run off. (21,6) friend: "Asako!" (21,6) (21,6) Asako: "See you later. I have to find someone to copy my math assignment from." (21,7) friend: "Asakoo! You... Aa!" (22,1) friend: "Asako! Ahead of y--" (22,1) (22,1) Asako: "Kyaa!" Asako looks ahead of her just in time to mash her face against a man's back. (22,2) Asako: "Oh, geez...I ran into someone?" (22,3) Hanyuu: "Are you alright?" Talk about handsome! Miyu stares. Asako burbles. Miyu's friend gives up on Asako. (22,5) friend: "What an airhead." Asako: (thinking out loud) "Oh, COOL!" {actually "suteki," but...} (to Hanyuu) "Sorry." Hanyuu: "No, that's all right." (23,1) friend: "What a situation." (23,2) friend: "Miyu, you shouldn't have said it was all right. That girl's taking advantage of you." (23,3) (23,3) Miyu: "It's *is* all right. If she has to cheat on the homework, how can she be understanding enough to do well in the class?" (23,4) friend: "That's true, isn't it." In the classroom, the seeraa-fuku bishoujo find a surprise... (23,5) Hanyuu: "Good morning, everyone." (23,6) Hanyuu: "I'm the new teacher, Mr. Hannyu. Your teacher became ill and was hospitalized. I am Mr. Miuchi's substitute." (24,1) Hanyuu: "Pleased to meet you." (24,2) Miyu sighs, preoccupied, cupping her chin with her hand. Asako is ecstatic. (24,3) Asako: The guy from this morning turned out to be the new teacher. Haha, what a lucky turn of events! (24,4) (24,5) Miyu is still daydreaming as Mr. Hanyuu comes up from behind her and raps on her desk. (24,6) Hanyuu: "Where have I seen you before?" (25,1) Hanyuu: "You're the model student I heard about from Mr. Miuchi. Are you acting like this because you dislike my teaching?" (25,2) Miyu: "No..." (25,3) Hanyuu: "Well, please come to the teachers' room after class. I want some help in arranging some reports." (25,4) Miyu: "Yes, sir." (25,5) Miyu: Larva...Larva, can you hear my voice? Meanwhile, in a field... (25,5) (26,1) {walking through grass} (26,2) (26,2) Larva: "Miyu..." And later, in the hall... (26,3) (26,4) SIGN: "TEACHERS' ROOM - LITERATURE" {shiryou shitsu - kobun} {"shiryou" = "data/material," but teachers do their paperwork and prepare for upcoming classes as well as store their books/notes in this sort of room.} (26,4) (27,1) Miyu: "Mr. Hanyuu, may I come in?" (27,2) Hanyuu: "Uh, Yamano? Yes, come on in." (27,2) Mr. Hanyuu is fumbling with a stack of binders, trying to reorganize and shelve them. (27,3) Miyu: "Excuse me." (27,3) (27,4) Hanyuu: "Bring me those files on the desk." Miyu: "Yes, sir..." (27,5) (27,6) (27,6) Hanyuu: "You're...Yamano *Miyu*?" Surprise! Evidently he really did recognize her from somewhere. Well, nothing to do but try to brazen it out. Miyu smiles as she hands Mr. Hanyuu his files. (28,1) Miyu: "That's right, sir!" Hanyuu: "Thanks." (28,2) (28,2) Miyu: "Where did you learn my name?" (28,3) Miyu: "It was Tanaka Miyu before, and you might have heard of Satou Miyu, and then there was Hayashi, and Yamamoto, Shimada, Hirano, and so many others..." {Yes, "Hirano" is written with the same kanji as in "Hirano Toshihiro."} Hanyuu: "So..." (28,4) Hanyuu: "...which is it, really?" Momentary blank look. (28,6) Miyu: (smiling) "I seem to have forgotten." (29,1) Miyu: "What are you going to do now? You could get me in trouble." (29,2) Miyu: "I haven't been a good girl, but that doesn't mean you have to turn me out into the dark...?" {note: I had trouble with these two frames.} Hanyuu chuckles and goes back to organizing his books and papers. (29,3) (29,3) Hanyuu: "No, no! I'm just a substitute teacher." (29,4) Hanyuu: "You're a good kid." (29,4) Miyu sits on a nearby table. (29,4) Miyu: Oh, is that so... (30,1) Miyu: "Isn't there something you want from me?" Miyu smiles sweetly at Hanyuu. Hanyuu gives her an appreciative sidelong look. (30,3) (30,4) (30,4) Asako: "Teacher! I decided to help you arrange your stuff!" (30,5) Asako: "Having lots of people is better than having just one, isn't it?" (30,6) Hanyuu: "Much obliged, but...well, your assignment was totally copied from Miyu's." (31,1) Asako: "HUUUHH!?" (31,2) Asako: "MIYU! You ratted on me?" Miyu: "Uh uh, did not." (31,3) Hanyuu: "She didn't have to, I understood after one look at what you turned in. End of discussion." (31,4) Hanyuu: "Go back to the classroom and redo your assignment. I'll be right there." (31,5) Miyu: He's a shinma...but not a stray shinma. There doesn't seem to be any purpose behind his appearance here... or is there...? What will he do next? He can't have come here just to be near me. (32,1) Hanyuu: "We can't get to know each other at school. Tonight at the shrine...I want to meet you there." It's a windy night at the forest shrine. As Miyu approaches the torii, she notices a black feather and picks it up, only to have it blow out of her hand. (32,4) (32,5) (33,2) (33,3) {wind blowing} (33,4) shinma: "Good evening." It's the bird-shinma from page 19! He perches on the torii cross-beam, right where Miyu was sitting on page 10. (34,1) shinma: "I'm so glad you came alone." (34,2) (34,3) (34,4) (34,4) Miyu: "I don't like you watching from up there." (35,1) Miyu: "Besides...that's a favorite place of mine." (35,2) shinma: "How rude of me!" (35,3) (35,3) shinma: "Hahaha...you're troubled by my interruption of the rendezvous with your handsome lover to which you came so faithfully. Weren't you coming here to be with me for a while?" {I guess "hansamu," used as a noun, isn't *quite* "handsome lover," but what the heck.} (35,4) Miyu looks more closely at the bird-shinma, and realizes that it has the same face as her erstwhile teacher. (36,1) Miyu: "What do you want with me?" (36,2) Miyu: "You're making me angry!" (36,3) Hanyuu: "By all means, feel free to be angry. You'll try to send me back to the Dark anyway." (36,4) (36,5) (36,6) (37,1) Miyu ignites a ball of flame, throws ... (37,2) (37,3) (38,1) ...and the bird-shinma, grinning, dodges. (38,1) Hanyuu: "Oh, now..." (38,4) The bird-shinma stoops. One of his feet has talons, and he grabs for Miyu but slashes her upraised arm. (39,5) Miyu: "I'm hurt..." (39,6) Miyu: "My...blood." (39,7) (Miyu licks her bleeding arm.) (40,1) Miyu: "I'll have to do something about this cut on my arm..." (40,2) Miyu: "I won't forgive you for this!" (40,3) The bird-shinma laughs and prepares to stoop again. (40,4) Hanyuu: "Here I come, Miyu!" (40,5) (41,1) Miyu whips off her hair ribbon. (41,2) Miyu: "COME ON!" (42,2) (42,3) Miyu uses her ribbon just as Ranka used her obi in OAV 2, snaring the bird-shinma's claw. (42,4) Miyu: "You won't escape." (42,5) She begins to haul in the struggling bird-shinma. Unlike Miyu in OAV 2, Hanyuu is unable to break the strip of cloth. (43,1) (43,1) Hanyuu: "Whaa...?" (43,2) Miyu: "I'm ANGRY with you, you fool." {"o-baka-san"} (43,3) Miyu: "Well, you're struggling too much and you're too close..." (43,5) Miyu ignites another ball of flame and drags the bird-shinma into it. (43,5) Miyu: "Does that hurt?" (43,4) (43,5) Miyu: "I might have spared a ``handsome lover''..." Having dragged the bird-shinma to the ground, Miyu finds herself at the end of her ribbon. She yanks him down to a rough landing. (44,1) Miyu: "Well, this is the end!" (44,2) (44,3) (44,4) (44,4) Miyu: "Now, back to the Dark, like a GOOD BOY." (45,1) (45,2) Hanyuu: "You might not expect this, but I'm not going to say anything bad." (45,3) Hanyuu: "I didn't do this without reason, warder of shinma." Miyu: "Prepare yourself." (45,4) Miyu, annoyed by his verbosity, lights another fireball. (45,4) Miyu: "You've spilled my blood, which I simply cannot permit. I'm going to burn you to ashes." (45,5) (46,1) But Larva catches her arm as she prepares to throw the fireball. (46,2) Larva: "That's enough, isn't it, Miyu?" (46,3) Larva: "We should let him finish." (47,1) Miyu: "Larva...?" (47,2) Larva: "Yes?" (47,3) Miyu: (pouting) "...you're late." (47,4) Larva: "I'm sorry, I hadn't realized how much time had passed. His mind sent out confusion, and it finally forced its way into mine." (47,5) Larva: "He felt as if he needed to learn what your strength was, alone." Miyu: "What? I..." (47,6) Hanyuu: --Miyu. (48,1) Hanyuu: From our sea makai, a ship...a threat to the Japanese Shinma... (48,2) Miyu: "Ship?" (48,3) Miyu: "What?" (48,3) (48,4) Miyu: "It's...it's what?" (48,5) Hanyuu: A...ship... Flashback...a sailing ship looms out of the fog, moving forward even though its sails hang in tatters. Its rigging and hull gently creak as it makes its way through the calm seas. Hanyuu and his mate, Saya, fly ahead of the ship. (49,2) Hanyuu: "A western ghostship..." (49,2) {creaking} (49,3) Hanyuu: "I wonder if there's anyone left on board?" A hooded figure in black materializes in the prow of the ghostship. (49,4) Hanyuu: "Shall we go and take a closer look?" Saya: "Well..." (49,5) Hanyuu: "Aa, something glinted?" The hooded figure, which can now be made out as female, walks out over the stem and onto the bowsprit, passing beyond the crudely-carved figurehead. The wind blows a stray lock of golden hair from her hood. (50,1) (50,1) Hanyuu: "A shinma? No, it can't be." The hooded female strides out along the bowsprit and onto the jib boom. The jibs are draped on their sheets and the jib boom, blowing in shreds like the rest of the sails. (50,3) Saya: "At the end of the boom...what type of...blond?" (50,4) Hanyuu: "--A woman?" (50,4) (51,1) Hanyuu: "She's masked!" (51,2) Saya: "Alone...? No, there's more of them." (51,3) Hanyuu: "My...my body won't move!" Saya: "Nooo...I'm being drawn toward the ship!" (51,4) Hanyuu: "Western Shinma!" (51,4) The hooded woman opens her hand and a small, transparent sphere appears in it. Fiery tendrils shoot out and surround Saya, drawing her toward the ship. (52,1) Carlua: "Come..." Saya: "NOOOO!!!" (52,2) Carlua: "Hahaha...Welcome into my crystal ball." (52,3) The hooded woman laughs as Saya is drawn completely into her sphere. Saya has been shrunk to the size of Carlua's hand. (53,1) Saya: "KYAAAA!!!" (53,2) Hanyuu: "SAYA!" (53,3) Saya: "Flee, Hanyuu!" (53,3) Hanyuu discovers that he can flap again, but he remains, helpless to save his mate. (53,4) Hanyuu: "Darling...I can't leave you!" (53,4) (53,5) Saya: "FLEEE!" (54,2) Hanyuu: Saya! Saya's gone... (54,3) (54,4) The hooded woman closes her fist, causing the sphere...and Saya's tiny figure...to vanish. She looks down at her hand, as if unable to believe the ease with which she defeated the bird-shinma. (54,5) Hanyuu: "Saya!" (54,6) Carlua: "How absurd. Are the Japanese Shinma like this, after all?" (55,1) Carlua: (looking at Hanyuu) "And yet, why is he..." (55,2) Hanyuu: "Sa...ya. The masked woman is a sorceress..." (55,3) Hanyuu: "My beloved Saya..." (55,4) Saya: (mental echoes) "FLEE. --FLEE!" (55,5) Hanyuu: --So I fled, barely escaping alive...but for what reason? (56,1) Hanyuu: To ask for revenge! (56,2) (56,2) Hanyuu: It was in order to enlist your strength that I sacrificed my life. Vampires are...known to be the elite of the shinma. (56,3) Miyu: "Hmph, and pretty selfish shinma." (56,4) (56,4) Miyu: "Your little revenge-drama doesn't appeal to me. Western Shinma...really." (56,5) Miyu: Larva...? (57,1) (57,1) Hanyuu: I beg you...Miyu. The Western Shinma are landing in the Japanese makai. (57,2) (57,2) Miyu: "Hmph. In Japan, indeed." (57,3) (57,3) Miyu: "C'mon, Larva." Larva: "--All right." The ghostship, of course, continues to approach Japan. (57,4) (58,1) Carlua: "--Miyu. Just wait; this cold, deep magical sea...will engulf you." {lit. "you will be sunk into"} (59,1) (59,3) Flashback. Carlua is a young child, waist-high, standing in a field of tall grass. A man walks through the field and, seeing the crying girl, walks toward her. (59,5) (60,1) (60,3) (60,4) (60,4) man: "What's wrong? Are you trying to play hide-and-seek here?" (61,1) (61,1) Carlua: "Don't treat me like a child, or I'll get angry." man: "You wanted to see me?" (61,2) Carlua: "That's right!" (61,3) Carlua: "Grownups always try to leave me out of things." (61,4) Carlua: "But you've been packing without any of your friends noticing. Pretty tricky, aren't you." (61,5) man: "Not very brave, am I? You..." (61,5) On the ghostship, the Western Shinma have sighted a foggy coastline. A massive torii decorated with two shining orbs rises above the fog. (62,1) (62,2) (62,4) Cait Sith: "It's..." (63,2) Cait Sith: "...the gateway to the Japanese makai." (63,4) (63,5) (63,5) Night Gia: "The only..." (64,1) Night Gia: "...gate?" (64,2) Pazusu: "Destroy, break or tear off those two horn-jewels...and the gate will be open." (64,3) Water Lipper: "We can easily do that." (65,1) Amy: "The problem is...there's a guardian." (65,1) (65,3) Carlua: "--Miyu?" (65,4) Spartoi: "That's all right." (66,1) Spartoi: "We'll get inside." (66,1) Carlua: "I understand Miyu's pride." (66,2) (66,3) Cait Sith: "Haha..." (66,4) Cait Sith: "Pretty Carlua." (66,5) Cait Sith: "Thinking of Larva again. How you suffer." (67,1) Lemunia: "It always comes back to Miyu, doesn't it." (67,2) Amy: "Doesn't it, Carlua...?" (67,3) Nettled by the taunts of her comrades, Carlua strides off and prepares to teleport into the Japanese makai. Someone has to take care of Miyu... (67,5) (68,1) (68,1) Carlua: "I'm going." (68,1) Cait Sith snickers. (68,2) (68,3) Two of the older and wiser members of the expedition cut her off. Pazusu grabs Carlua's hand. (68,3) Pazusu: "--Carlua." (68,4) (68,4) Pazusu: "What are you doing?" (68,5) (68,5) Night Gia: "Better to be calm, don't you think, Carlua?" (69,1) Night Gia: "Leave it to me." Carlua: "But..." (69,2) Night Gia: "Larva has become Miyu's friend for some reason, hasn't he?" Carlua: "That's..." (69,3) Carlua: "Larva..." (69,4) Spartoi: "Was Larva's being a man why...?" (69,5) Pazusu: "Night Gia will go, Carlua...even so. (70,1) Pazusu: "You...shouldn't go out just yet." (70,3) Carlua: "Yes...I understand, master." (70,4) Lemunia: "I'll go with ``Baku.''" (70,5) Lemunia: (to Night Gia) "That OK?" (71,1) Night Gia: "Fine...Will our precious kiddies eventually go into battle?" (71,1) Night Gia, pulling on his gloves, gets a dirty look from Carlua. (71,2) Cait Sith: "Just leave Miyu to me." (71,3) Cait Sith: "We'll tear this place apart!" (71,4) (71,4) Water Lipper: "--Well..." (71,6) Water Lipper: "...as for me..." (71,7) Wasting no time, Water Lipper begins to prepare her attack. The ocean stirs. Miyu wakes up in her room, at first hearing only the wind blowing through the trees outside. (72,1) Larva: Miyu. --Miyu. (72,2) (72,3) She opens the shoji and steps outside, but Larva is not there. (72,3) Larva: Miyu... (72,4) Miyu: "Larva...?" (72,5) Miyu: "What is it, Larva?" (73,1) (73,1) Larva: --Miyu. A wave of sadness overcomes her, a single tear running down her face. (73,3) Miyu: What? Why am I crying? I-- Suddenly, Miyu is a little girl of six or seven. She sees Pipi, her pet bird, in the grass. But as she bends over to pick him up... (73,4) Miyu: Aa... (73,5) Miyu: Little bird... (73,6) Miyu: --cold and stiff. (73,7) Miyu: "He's dead." (73,8) Miyu-chan begins to sob, pressing Pipi's body to her chest. (73,8) Miyu: "My little bird..." (73,8) Larva: Miyu. (74,1) Larva: Miyu... Miyu-chan looks up and sees Larva. (74,3) Miyu: "Who is it? Who are you?" (74,4) Larva: Why are you crying? (74,5) Miyu: "My little bird...he's dead." Larva: This life is not eternal, so our time here is precious. {lit. "utsukushii" = "beautiful"} (74,6) Larva: But that little bird has finished his precious moments here--and gone on. (75,1) (75,1) Miyu: "Well...will this little bird live here with me again someday?" (75,2) Miyu-chan presses Pipi to her cheek as she begins to sob again. Larva pats her on the head. (75,2) Larva: "He lives." (75,3) (75,3) Miyu: "He's cold! He shouldn't be like that when I pet him." (75,4) Miyu: "Make him warm again! Make him warm again! He's cold and stiff...My little bird doesn't move." (75,5) Miyu: --Larva. Larva... Larva is replaced by the smiling face of Night Gia. (75,6) Night Gia: --Miyu. (76,1) Night Gia: "Welcome to my dream." (76,1) (76,2) Night Gia: "Haha...pretty sweet dreams you have, Miyu." (76,3) Miyu: (shocked) "You were..." (76,3) (76,4) Night Gia: "I am the Western Shinma, Night Gia. I shape dreams." (77,1) (77,1) Miyu: "Western..." (77,2) Miyu: "...Shinma." (77,3) Miyu: He saw my dream? "You...shape dreams?" (77,3) As Miyu starts to become angry, Lemunia materializes behind her. (77,3) Lemunia: "There's more!" (77,5) Lemunia: "You're getting careless, Miyu! In the dream world, you have no chance of winning." (78,1) Lemunia: "I am...Lemunia." (78,2) Miyu: "Lemunia...?" (78,3) Lemunia: "Who do you think I resemble? Have you forgotten?" (78,4) Lemunia: "I'm Lemures's younger brother." (78,5) Miyu: Lemures's... (79,1) Miyu: --Lemures. Who tried to claim back Larva for the Western Shinma. Who was once Larva's friend... "This is...a dream? It hurts..." She presses her hands against her head. (79,1) (79,2) Miyu: That's it! I'm trapped in my dream. But now Night Gia shifts her into another dream. Miyu dreams of her first encounter with Larva. She recoils from Larva, her hand slashed. (79,3) Larva: I found you in time. {There's another short sentence, but I couldn't translate "kousubeki" (written in hiragana only).} (79,4) Miyu: "Aa!" (80,1) Miyu: "Blood... My...blood." (80,2) Larva: "Yes...it's your blood. Go to sleep." (80,3) Larva: "Sleep." Miyu: "N-NO!" (80,4) Miyu: Again...a dream? My... (80,5) Miyu: "NO!" Miyu reaches around Larva's neck and bites his neck. (81,1) Miyu: "Larva..." --dream! (81,5) Miyu: A bitter...dream. (82,1) Miyu: Larva...my first man. {The kanji read "emono" ("catch," in the hunting sense), but the furigana read "hito" (man or person).} (82,2) Miyu: I... Larva... Strengthened by her recollection of Larva, Miyu fights free of the dream long enough to call out with her thoughts. (82,2) Miyu: --Larva! Night Gia: "You're bewildered by your dream. Hahaha, aren't you enjoying it?" Larva, standing in a grassy field, hears Miyu's call and races toward it. (82,3) (83,1) (83,1) Larva: Miyu...? Miyu's calling me? (83,2) (83,4) Larva: What could it be? (83,6) A hooded, masked figure materializes in the field ahead of him, then walks toward him. (83,7) Larva: !? (83,8) (84,1) (84,2) (85,1) (85,2) Carlua: "--Larva...I wanted to meet you." (85,3) Larva: "You..." (86,1) Larva: "You're...?" (86,2) Carlua: "Miyu...is who you see in your dreams." (86,3) Carlua: "How sad...you have been fouled with Miyu's blood." (87,1) Larva: "Miyu...Even so, what is Miyu to you?" (87,3) Carlua: "I will not forgive her...that shinma who has degenerated into something like a human..." (87,4) Carlua: "You are..." She lowers her hood, then her mask... (88,1) Carlua: "...important to me, Larva..." Larva: CARLUA! (89,1) (89,2) Larva: "Car...lua?" (89,3) Carlua: "You're...Carlua?" (89,4) (89,5) Carlua: "Larva..." Larva briefly recalls the last time he saw Carlua as a waist-high child. Moving closer, Carlua touches him for the first time in twenty-odd years. (90,1) Carlua: "Yes, it's really Carlua...your ``little sister.''" (90,2) Carlua: "--So long ago..." (90,3) Carlua: "I waited, but you were so late in coming back...." (90,3) Carlua: "...I..." She wraps her arms around his neck. (91,1) Carlua: "...I came for you, Larva. --Larva." (91,2) Carlua: "Larva..." Flashback, again. Little Carlua is holding Larva tightly around his waist. (91,3) (91,3) Larva: "You're a brave child, you..." (91,3) Carlua: "I'm not a child." (92,1) Carlua: "We won't meet for a long time, will we?" (92,3) Carlua: "What? Why aren't you saying anything?" (92,4) Larva: "You...Well, you said you're all grown up now." Carlua: "That's what I said!" Larva: "Well, then I can just give you the straight explanation." (92,5) Larva: "I'm going to Japan." (93,1) (93,2) Carlua: "Ja...Japan?" (93,3) Carlua: "Japan...what..." (93,4) (93,5) Carlua: "Larva...you're going to come back safely, aren't you?" (93,6) Larva: "Naturally, Carlua!" Carlua: "It can't be helped, can it." Giving in to the inevitable, little Carlua turns and walks a few steps away so that Larva will not see her tears. (94,1) Carlua: "I'll pass the time as Lemunia's friend. One gets tired of child friends, but it can't be helped, can it." (94,2) Carlua: "Larva's not here anymore." (94,3) (94,4) Larva: "Carlua, be a good girl." Carlua: (angry, crying) "DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A CHILD!!" (94,4) Back at the torii, Water Lipper is making the first attempt to destroy the gate. (94,5) (95,1) (95,3) (95,4) (95,5) (96,1) (96,1) Water Lipper: "Well, I'm done ``filling the package''..." (96,1) (96,2) Water Lipper: "Absent guardian and gate alike...just toys." (96,3) (96,4) (97,2) Water Lipper delivers her "package," a small tsunami...but the torii still stands. Water Lipper calls off the waves and stands back. (97,3) Water Lipper: "Who's next?" (97,4) Spartoi: "I AM!!" (97,5) Spartoi's dragon begins to unwind itself from his shoulders. It grows from a man-sized snake into a full-sized, horned monster. (98,1) (98,2) (98,3) Spartoi: "All right! Show them that your strength is not less than that of the water-lover's." (98,4) (98,5) (98,6) Spartoi: "Go forth, my dragon!" (99,1) (99,2) Amy: "Me, too..." (99,3) (99,4) Amy: "Spartoi...go on." (99,5) Amy: "FIRE..." (99,6) A flash from Amy's eyes. (100,1) Amy: "CRASH!!" {furigana="kurasshu"; kanji="geki" (on-reading)} (100,3) (100,4) (100,5) The flames from Spartoi's dragon and Amy's fire-attack leave the torii burning, but still in one piece. Cait Sith, of course, is less than impressed and finds this hilarious. (101,2) (101,2) Cait Sith: "Splendid..." (101,3) Cait Sith: "...my comrades." Another dream...Miyu is again Miyu-chan, but now she is in the middle of a featureless wasteland where twin suns shine down balefully upon her. (102,1) (102,2) Miyu: "Where...am I?" (102,3) Miyu: "Maybe with my little bird?" (102,3) Miyu: "But my little bird isn't here." Panicking, lost and alone, Miyu-chan begins to run. (102,5) Lemunia: "Ha...she's lost. Isn't that just so human." (103,1) Night Gia: "She was brought up as a human. It's her weakness." (103,3) (103,3) Lemunia: "Let's tease her some more, shall we?" (103,4) Night Gia: "Hahaha...Let's." (103,5) Night Gia draws his rapier, and he brings it down near the running girl. What she sees is... (103,6) (103,7) (104,1) (104,3) (104,4) Miyu: "Yaaa...lightning..." Miyu-chan huddles on the ground, covering her eyes as the lightning bolts get closer and closer. (104,5) (104,6) (105,1) Lemunia: "Hahaha...give her a good one." (105,2) (105,3) (105,4) (105,4) Miyu: "Kyaaa!!" (105,6) Miyu-chan collapses as the lightning strikes her, but the pain clears Miyu's mind enough to bring back her memory. (105,6) Miyu: "It...hurts..." (106,1) Miyu: A dream--! (106,2) Miyu: A dream... (106,3) (106,3) Miyu: "I haven't escaped from this dream..." (106,4) (106,4) Night Gia: "--Quite right, hoho...you haven't escaped." (106,5) Night Gia: "But *this* ``lightning'' is quite genuine, Miyu!" (107,1) Standing behind her, Night Gia waves the rapier at her. Miyu does not see it, as her attempts to stand are taking all of her energy and concentration. (107,1) Night Gia: "Your agony when I run you through won't be just a dream." (107,2) Night Gia: "Isn't this just so painfully distressing? Your dream is so sad." (107,3) Lemunia: "Ho...hohahaha! The next pain'll be your death." (107,4) Miyu: --Larva. Larva... (108,1) Miyu: Larva! In a grassy field, Larva hears Miyu's voice. (108,1) (108,2) Larva: "Mi...yu... --I must go. (108,3) (108,3) Carlua: "Don't go...come back!" (108,4) Carlua: "You're a Western Shinma, you can't get away from that." (108,5) Larva: "--I'm sorry, Carlua..." (109,1) (109,2) (109,2) Carlua: "--Aah..." (109,4) Carlua: "Larva! LARVA!" (109,5) Carlua: "LARVAAAaaaa..." In the Dark, inside the gate, the leader of the Japanese Shinma (the black tree-like guy with the single red eye from OAV 4, who I will call "the osa" from now on) wakes. (110,3) osa: "What...what was that cry? Miyu!?" (110,4) osa: "What has defeated Miyu!?" Meanwhile, just outside the gate... (111,1) Cait Sith: "Are you thinking of delivering the final blow, Lord Pazusu?" Pazusu: "--tired of this..." (111,3) Pazusu: "@#$%^&*!!" (111,3) (111,4) But even Pazusu's blast has not destroyed the gate. Cait Sith rushes forward to deliver his own blow. (112,1) Cait Sith: "FINISH!!" (112,4) (113,1) (113,2) (113,3) (113,4) (113,5) (114,1) osa: "MIYU--!!" At Cait Sith's demon-cats shatter the gate, the osa's cry wakes Miyu out of her dream. (114,2) Miyu: "KYAA!" (114,2) (114,4) (115,1) Miyu: (gasping) "Uh..." (115,3) (115,4) Night Gia: "Hohoho." (115,5) (115,6) (115,7) Gasping, struggling to stand, Miyu attempts to throw a fireball and misses. (115,7) Night Gia: "Hahaha..." (116,1) (116,1) Lemunia: "It's futile! Futile!!" (116,2) Night Gia: "Such bloodthirstiness, Miyu..." (116,3) Miyu: "What kind of dream is this..." Night Gia: "Why, it's your dream! Hohoho..." (116,4) Night Gia: "Yet..." (116,4) (116,5) Miyu: (gasping) "Uh..." (116,6) Night Gia: "...you're injured." (117,1) Night Gia: "--Well." (117,2) (117,3) Night Gia: "I haven't come to play games." (117,4) (117,5) (117,5) Night Gia: "Ready to die?" (118,1) (118,2) Miyu: --Larva... (118,3) Night Gia: "Goodbye." (118,4) (118,5) (119,1) But as Night Gia prepares to skewer Miyu, the dream-world shatters and falls to pieces. Miyu and the others find themselves in a dim forest. (119,3) (119,4) Night Gia: Reality!!? "Wha...?" (120,1) Larva: "Miyu!" (120,2) Lemunia: "Dammit!" (121,1) Night Gia: The dream's been torn apart! (121,2) (121,3) (121,4) Lemunia: Larva...he's truly in league with Miyu-- (122,1) Lemunia: --Larva... (122,2) Lemunia: He shows a mask for a face. He rises to betray us, and calmly stands before us wearing that cowardly thing... (122,3) Miyu: (to Larva) "This time...you WERE late." (122,4) Miyu: "I got tired of waiting..." (122,5) (122,6) Larva: "--Night..." (123,1) Larva: "...Gia..." (123,2) (123,2) Night Gia: (sarcastically) "You've come to remember me again?" (123,3) Night Gia: "I am most...thankful." (123,4) Lemunia: (to Larva) "Traitor." The Western Shinma have walked beyond the shattered gate, deeper into the makai. They reach a clump of gnarled roots. (123,5) (124,3) (124,4) Cait Sith: "Fragile..." (125,1) Cait Sith: "Too fragile." (125,2) Amy: "Hmph. Not very interesting after all." (125,3) Spartoi: "Quite. Shouldn't there be someone--" (125,5) (125,5) osa: "Y-you are..." (125,6) Cait Sith: "Hi, pleased to meet you...aren't we? (126,1) (126,1) osa: "You're Western...Shinma. Why...?" (126,2) (126,2) Cait Sith: "You mean the surprise attack and all that? Hahaha... Where did that idea come from." (126,3) osa: "Wha...what happened to Miyu?" (126,4) Cait Sith: "Heh...what do you think? Hahaha..." (127,1) Cait Sith: "My comrades have gone to ``play'' with her." (127,2) Pazusu: "The rest of you will share the same fate." (127,3) Amy: "Haha! What? Are we just going make empty threats?" (127,4) Amy: "Red-Eye's pitiful, embarassingly weak life... How about it, Cait Sith?" (127,5) Cait Sith: "Well..." (128,1) (128,2) (128,3) Cait Sith: "Goodbye!" (128,4) (128,5) osa: "GYAAAA..." Cait Sith's demon-cats tear him apart. (128,7) (129,1) Cait Sith: "Hmph...this country must be entirely peaceful. Until we came, they had sent out Miyu and entrusted their security to her." (129,2) (129,2) Cait Sith: "Hah. This is the result." (129,3) Amy: "Haha...That just makes it easier for us to take over the country." (129,5) Spartoi: "That's why we came here." (130,1) Water Lipper: "So was that the end of it?" (130,2) Cait Sith: "No! Don't underestimate Japan too much." (130,3) Pazusu: "The realm of the Japanese Shinma is comprised of five levels. We have only conquered the first level." (130,4) Pazusu: "The true adepts are...at the bottom." Amy: "Don't bigshots always hide in the shadows?" Carlua materializes among the others, misery and rejection written on her face. (131,1) Carlua: "--Pazusu." (131,3) (131,4) (131,8) Pazusu: "Carlua?" (132,1) (132,2) Pazusu: "I see..." In the forest, Larva and Miyu face off with Night Gia and Lemunia. Strengthened by Larva's presence, Miyu has recovered completely. (132,3) (132,4) (132,4) Larva: "They are renegade shinma." {c.f. the osa's comment to Larva in OAV 4.} Miyu: "I want them to leave..." (132,5) Miyu: "Please, Larva! Make them leave?" (132,6) (133,1) Now perched in a tree, Miyu calls down to the others. (133,2) Miyu: "That wasn't a joke! I've been patient so far, and won't be so again. I'm getting angry." (133,3) Miyu: (looking at Lemunia) "Take this darling little boy, now, Larva..." (133,4) Miyu: "I want to see how good he really is." (133,5) Larva: Darling...little boy? (133,6) Larva: "You..." (134,1) Lemunia makes a break for it. (134,2) Miyu: "Thinking about running, Lemunia?" (134,3) Larva: Lemunia!? (134,5) Larva: Lemures's younger brother... (134,6) (134,7) As Miyu flings a fireball at the departing Lemunia, Night Gia covers him by leaping to the attack. (135,1) Larva: You came as far as Japan... (135,2) Miyu: "Larva! Lemunia will escape soon! I'll take Night Gia!" (135,3) Night Gia: "Miyu!" (135,4) Miyu: "What?" (135,4) (135,6) (136,1) (136,2) (136,3) Night Gia: "Uh...?" As Night Gia rushes forward, he is stunned and blinded by a lightning strike that snaps his sword blade. (136,4) (137,1) Night Gia: --this place!? (137,2) (137,2) Night Gia: My sword was broken. My own lightning? How can this be? (137,3) Night Gia: Daylight? My eyes... (137,4) Night Gia: What's happened to me? Miyu: Hahaha... (137,5) Miyu: It's all right. Open your eyes and look around. This is my little world... As Night Gia's vision returns, he sees that he is in a different forest, one dotted with foot-wide red spheres. Miyu floats in front on him. (138,1) Miyu: "Welcome, Night Gia." (138,2) Night Gia: "Miyu...you've weakened me." (138,3) Miyu fetches one of the red spheres and gives Night Gia a closer look. (138,3) Miyu: "Look! Beautiful, isn't it? Can you grow to like it?" (139,1) Miyu: "I think it's fine." (139,2) As Miyu hugs the little sphere, many flames ignite and surround Night Gia. (139,3) Miyu: "Oh, dear. My flames can't wait...they're so impetuous, aren't they?" (139,4) Night Gia: "What do you want." (139,5) Night Gia: "You've underestimated..." (139,6) Miyu: "Night Gia, we're not in a dream and you're entirely powerless." (140,1) Miyu throws the sphere into the air and admires it. (140,2) Miyu: "You aren't moving at all. It's punishment for having peeped into my dream." (140,2) (140,3) Night Gia: I'm being restrained by something... (140,4) Miyu: "But, I regret to say...you won't be looking into any more dreams." (140,5) Miyu: "My flames..." (140,6) Miyu: "...will swiftly burn you to ashes." (140,7) Miyu: "Watch..." (140,7) (141,1) Night Gia: !? (141,2) (141,3) (141,4) Night Gia: My body is coiled in flames... (141,5) (141,5) Night Gia: "Uu...aa!" (142,1) (142,1) Night Gia: "Aa..." (142,2) Miyu: Hahaha... (142,3) Night Gia: "...... &^%$#*@" (142,4) Miyu: Your feeble struggles are futile... (142,5) (142,5) Miyu: Whaat? (142,6) Night Gia: "@$#%^&!! &%^$@#" (142,7) Miyu: Trying to say something, Night Gia? (143,1) (143,1) Night Gia: "&@^#$%!!" (143,1) (143,2) Miyu: "A spell? It must be difficult, poor thing... but I'll have to put an end to it right now." (143,2) (143,3) (143,4) (143,4) Miyu: "What...!?" (144,1) (144,4) (144,5) Miyu: ? (144,6) But before Miyu can take action, a dark figure rushes past her and slashes Night Gia's burning figure, silencing his incantation. (145,1) Night Gia: "W...?" (145,2) (145,3) Miyu: "Larva...?" (145,4) Night Gia: "W-why? Why? Larva...old friend..." (145,5) Night Gia: "Are you not a Western Shinma...?" (145,7) Larva: "Now I...am fighting alongside Miyu." (146,1) (146,3) Miyu: "Whaat? You've stolen my prey." (146,4) (146,4) Miyu: (holding her sphere) "I was thinking this would have suited him..." (146,5) Larva: "--Miyu, don't underestimate the Western Shinma." (146,5) (146,6) Larva: "Night Gia was about to place a curse on you with his last breath..." (146,7) Miyu: "Hmph." (146,8) Miyu: "These Western Shinma are really arrogant." (147,1) Miyu: "But...it doesn't make any difference as long as we're together." (147,2) (147,2) Miyu: "Right?" (147,3) Larva: "--Yes." (147,4) (147,5) Miyu: "Larva, I love you so much..." And with that, Miyu grabs Larva's neck and, hauling herself up, kisses him on the mouth of his mask. (147,5) Miyu: "Aa! By the way, Larva, what happened to the kid?" Larva: "Ha?" (147,6) Larva: "Lemunia?" (148,1) Miyu: "That's right, Lemures's litle brother." (148,2) (148,2) Larva: "He...escaped." (148,3) Miyu: "Grr...He must be fast, to have escaped...The next time we meet, I'll be repaying him for tormenting me." (148,3) She leans back in his arms. (148,4) (148,4) Miyu: "I want to tell that guy something." (148,5) Miyu: "His brother was trying to get you back." (149,1) Larva: "No...I don't think that was his goal." (149,3) Miyu: "Larva? What do you mean?" (149,4) Larva: "--No...It's nothing." (149,5) Larva: "I'm sorry I was late today." (150,1) Miyu: "Larva...?" I don't understand. (150,2) Miyu: What's wrong? Why are you worried? (150,3) Miyu: "Y-you're especially worried about something." He's...hiding something. The Western Shinma are still standing around the osa's former home, discussing Larva's fate. (150,4) (151,1) Pazusu: "We must perform mashujutsu." (151,2) Carlua: "Mashujutsu..." (151,3) Pazusu: "Or we will lose Larva." (151,4) Carlua: "Lord Pazusu..." Cait Sith: "That's right!" (151,4) (152,1) Cait Sith: "And Larva is one of us!" (152,1) (152,2) Carlua: Larva is... Water Lipper, Amy and Spartoi smirk along with Cait Sith, who has again forced a decision. Pazusu looks away as Carlua looks at each face in turn, then walks away to look at the night sky. (153,2) Carlua: --Larva... Meanwhile, Miyu and Larva are running after Lemunia, trying to catch him before he can alert the other Western Shinma. (153,3) (153,4) (153,5) Miyu: Got to hurry to that place...I don't know if we can catch him. (154,1) Miyu: I heard a sound during the fight, I'm sure it was the osa crying out. (154,2) Miyu: "Is he gone at last?" (154,4) Miyu: "Larva, hurry!" (154,4) (154,5) (155,1) (155,2) (155,3) Miyu and Larva gaze, shocked, at the shattered, smoking, hissing remains of the makai gate. (155,4) Miyu: "Hmm." (155,5) Miyu: "It's been wrecked..." (155,6) Larva: "This...it can't be." (155,7) Back at the osa's lair... (156,1) (156,2) Carlua: "Mashujutsu...you can't mean it's the only way?" (156,3) Pazusu: "It is." (156,4) Pazusu: "Larva is controlled and tainted by Miyu's blood. Mashujutsu will take Miyu's blood and..." (156,5) Pazusu: "...extract it from Larva, allowing us to purify him." (156,6) Pazusu: "If you want it done..." (157,1) Cait Sith: "Well, we shouldn't have lost Larva in the first place." (157,1) (157,2) Carlua begins to realize that, in fact, the choice is between exorcising Larva and killing him. (157,3) Carlua: "L-lose him..." (157,4) Pazusu: "--Carlua, as a relative of Larva, we'll need your blood." (158,1) Pazusu: "And a mistake will kill you both..." Carlua: "If my blood will bring Larva back, it's yours!" As Carlua defiantly stares at the others, Cait Sith can hardly suppress his laughter -- Carlua is so easy to manipulate. Pazusu returns her look soberly. (158,5) Pazusu: "I see." (159,1) Spartoi: "Hmm...Larva will have to be ``turned,'' won't he." (159,2) Amy: "That, too." (159,3) (159,3) Amy: "Well, we can purge Larva of that little girl." (159,4) Water Lipper: "As for Miyu...just how much of an adept is she..." Lemunia runs up to the group, out of breath. (159,5) (159,6) (160,1) Lemunia: "N-Night Gia has been killed! Miyu's coming!" (160,2) Spartoi: "WHAT!? Night Gia...!?" (160,3) Lemunia: "Ku..." {cough} (160,4) Lemunia: "Larva intervened against us!" (161,1) Lemunia: "And when Miyu had nearly fallen! THAT TRAITOR!" (161,2) Carlua: "You're WRONG! Larva was being controlled by Miyu's blood!" (161,3) Carlua: "Can't you see? Miyu is even in his dreams." (161,4) Lemunia: "What the...? Carlua--" (161,5) Carlua: "WE'VE GOT TO GET LARVA BACK!" (162,1) Cait Sith: "Miyu is...coming here. Isn't that convenient." (162,2) Cait Sith: "Hahaha..." (162,3) Cait Sith: (calling out) "Won't you come and meet everyone?" Larva and Miyu appear at the osa's home. They do not, as yet, see the other shinma. The osa, of course, is not there. (162,4) (163,2) (163,3) (163,4) (164,3) (164,3) Miyu: "Hmm..." (164,4) Miyu: "I thought so...Sad." (164,5) Miyu: "This problem is forced onto me alone, now." (165,1) Miyu: "It's not clear what other consequences there are..." (165,3) Miyu: "Is it?" Miyu rises, and raises her voice. (165,5) Miyu: "This lower level of the shinma..." (165,6) Miyu: "...is no longer silent." (165,6) (166,1) Miyu: "I wonder how this could be..." (166,2) Miyu: "...o Western Shinma!" Miyu has realized that she and Larva are being watched, but Larva is surprised as the chuckling shinma appear out of the fog. (166,3) (167,2) Cait Sith: "How do you do, Miyu." (167,3) Cait Sith: "I am the Western Shinma, Cait Sith." (167,5) Water Lipper: "Likewise, I am Water Lipper." (167,6) Amy: "Amy..." (167,7) Spartoi: "I am Spartoi." (168,1) Lemunia: "Hmph..." Carlua: "I am..." Miyu knows who Lemunia is. Carlua is intimidated by Miyu. (168,2) Carlua: "........" (168,3) Miyu: "Hmmm?" (168,4) Carlua: ".........." (168,5) Miyu impatiently turns away from Carlua. (168,7) Miyu: "Coming all the way to this country must have tired you." She addresses the rest of the Western Shinma. (169,1) Miyu: "But shouldn't you have knocked first? It's very rude to force down the door. Wouldn't you say, Larva?" (169,3) (169,3) Spartoi: "It's been a long time, Larva." (169,4) Amy: "Huh. You failed, Larva." (169,6) Water Lipper: "To whom will we grant the pleasure of avenging Night Gia?" Carlua, a bit behind in the conversation, is still struggling to get words out. Miyu turns her attention back to Carlua. (170,1) Carlua: "I am Carlua, Larva's..." (170,3) Miyu: "Mmm...``Larva's...''?" Carlua pushes back her hood and looks defiantly at Miyu. (170,4) Carlua: "I am Larva's cousin." (170,5) Miyu: "Larva's...hmph." (171,1) Miyu: "What a frightful face you're making." (171,2) Carlua chokes. (171,3) (171,3) Miyu: (giggling) "``Cousin'' -- so what?" (171,4) (171,5) Carlua: "I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU, MIYU!" (171,6) Carlua prepares a spell as the other Western Shinma ready their own attacks. Larva, alarmed, rushes forward to defend Miyu. (172,1) Larva: "MIYU!" (172,2) Miyu: !? (172,3) Larva: "MIYU!" (172,4) Cait Sith slashes Larva magically, forcing him to break off. (172,5) Larva: "Uuuhhhh...?" (172,6) Cait Sith: "Oh, now, Larva. I'm your old comrade, don't make me do more." (172,6) (173,1) Larva: "Uuu..kuu." {cough} (173,2) Cait Sith: "Hahaha..." (173,3) (173,5) (173,6) (174,1) (174,2) (174,3) (174,4) As Larva and Cait Sith face off and engage each other, Amy, Water Lipper and Lemunia surround Miyu. (174,5) (174,6) (175,1) (175,2) Miyu: "?" (175,4) (175,5) (175,7) (175,8) (175,9) Water Lipper lets fly with a wave, which Miyu avoids by springing into the air. (176,2) (176,3) (176,4) (176,4) Miyu: "Flame this time?" (176,5) Amy shoots a burst of flame at Miyu, who barely dodges aside. (176,6) Carlua: "Hahaha..." (177,1) Carlua: "Hahaha...@#$%^&* (177,2) Carlua: "~#%&@$^" (177,3) Lemunia: "You're caught, aren't you, Miyu?" (177,4) Carlua's incantation forms a sorcerous design on the ground where Miyu stands. As Carlua continues her chant, the lines of the design lift out of the earth and entwine Miyu's legs. (178,1) Miyu: "What's..." (178,2) (178,3) (177,5) Carlua: "@$^*#%" Carlua puts her mask on, still chanting, as Lemunia and Amy approach Miyu. (179,1) Lemunia: "Haha...a formation of magicians." (179,2) Lemunia: "You won't be escaping." (179,3) Carlua: "$&@%*" (179,4) Miyu: "Carlua...?" (179,5) Carlua: "*&^%$#@" (179,6) (180,1) (180,1) Carlua: "#@$^%&*&^%$#!!" Flames suddenly surround Miyu, still trapped in the circle. (181,1) Miyu: "AAAAAAH! My body...won't move, Larva!" (181,2) (181,2) Larva: "MIYU!" (181,3) Cait Sith: "Hahaha...your precious Miyu is suffering, isn't she." (181,4) Cait Sith: "And even you can't help her now!" (181,4) (182,1) Miyu: --Larva. (182,1) (182,2) (182,4) Larva: "Miyu! I'm coming now." (182,5) Larva slashes at Cait Sith's cat-wraiths, but as he turns back toward Miyu... (182,6) Larva: "!!" (182,8) Larva: "Pazusu!" (183,1) Pazusu: "Until now...you..." (183,2) Pazusu: "...have resisted..." (183,3) Pazusu: "...now die, Larva." And with that, Pazusu blasts through Larva's body. From inside the flaming circle, Miyu screams and watches helplessly as Larva collapses. (184,1) Miyu: "LARVAAAAAA!" (184,3) (184,4) Larva: "--Mi...yu."