4-6 The Final Battle
1: Mihono Arrives#
Kaoru: In the end, we couldn't go along with them...
Nene: Ne-...
Sayaka: Fourth level jin'i...
Ellen: But you managed to keep up until third level jin'i, Saaya. That's amazing.
Mai: Kanami-chan, Hiyori-chan, Yukari-sama... Please be...
Mihono: --I made it! The roof! Where's Tagitsuhime!?
Mai: Eh... Mihono-chan!?
Mihono: Ah-! Mai! And Itomi-san, Ellen-san, and Kaoru-san!
Mihono: Hey, what's going on now!?
Sayaka: Hiyori is fighting Tagitsuhime, in the threshold of the netherworld.
Kaoru: And probably Kanami and Origami Yukari are too.
Ellen: As they kept raising the level of their jin'i, we got left behind...
Mihono: Nnng, alright... I don't get it at all!
Mihono: Anyway, I'm going on after them, okay!
Mihono: Eh-!? Hang on, Mihono-chan!?
Kaoru: Hold it! You can't get to where Tagitsuhime is now. You can't use fourth level jin'i, can you?
Mihono: Ugh... Can't I make it if I try really hard?
Kaoru: Like that's going to work here...
Mihono: B-But, I have to do something to help here... If I just do nothing, then I'm wasting the chance the rest of the investigation team gave me by sending me ahead...
Ellen: --!? Everybody! Yukari-sama is coming back!
Yukari: ...Grgh!
Mai: Oh no!! She's badly wounded!!
Yukari: It missed my vitals. I'm fine.
Yukari: ...!? Asakura Mihono, you came as well...!?
Yukari: .........Though, it seems you're too late.
2: Kashuu Kiyomitsu's Will and Destiny#
Mihono: I'm too late...? But...
Yukari: --Wait, Asakura. Look at the sky.
Yukari: ...This isn't good. Along with the border between this world and the netherworld, Hirukomitama is... drawing much too close to the earth.
Mihono: Hiruko mitama? What's that?
Yukari: Tagitsuhime's true body, left in the netherworld.
Mihono: Ehh-!? Then, if that falls down to the ground, won't it be really bad!?
Yukari: Yes... If Tagitsuhime manages to combine with her true body, Hirukomitama, Etou and Juujou will stand no chance. However...
Yukari: More than that, Hirukomitama making landfall is something we must avoid at all costs.
Yukari: Hirukomitama is estimated to be 600 square kilometers... Roughly the same size as the 23 wards of Tokyo.
Kaoru: The same size as the 23 wards of Tokyo!? Are you sure someone didn't get their math wrong!?
Yukari: I wish that were the case too. ...When Hirukomitama makes landfall, it will without a doubt mean the world's destruction.
Yukari: If we don't destroy Hirukomitama soon... If we can destroy Hirukomitama, then I'll deal with Tagitsuhime...!
Mai: -!? Yukari-sama, you don't mean, you plan to keep fighting!?
Ellen: That's insane!! Look at all the blood coming from your stomach!!
Sayaka: I'll go.
Kaoru: I'm going too.
Yukari: ...You two, you must be exhausted by now. Can you still apply utsushi?
Kaoru: No, that's...
Sayaka: I can't use utsushi anymore...
Yukari: Then, I cannot allow you to go. If you cannot apply utsushi... I won't stand helplessly by as more lives are lost in vain.
Mihono: In that case, I'll go! --Yukari-sama! I can still use utsushi! Please let me go!
Yukari: Asakura... You would...? But, what could you...
Mihono: Where there's a will, there's a way! ...Kanami's waiting on me-!!
Mihono: I need the strength...! To protect Kanami... The strength to protect everyone!! Right now!! Right here!!
Mihono: Please! Kiyomitsu!!
Yukari: Asakura Mihono... That state you're in...!?
Mihono: This is the power of me and Kiyomitsu!
Mihono: Yukari-sama! Please, leave Hirukomitama to me... To me and Kiyomitsu!
Yukari: The will of Kashuu Kiyomitsu. And, it's destiny too...
Mihono: I'll win for sure! I'll beat Hirukomitama, and even Tagitsuhime! So, please, let me go!
Yukari: This must be the reason Sana sent you here...
Yukari: --Very well. Asakura Mihono, I leave Hirukomitama to you.
Mihono: Yes ma'am-!
3: Yume Arrives#
Yukari: Now, Asakura Mihono, I will briefly explain--
Yume: Here I ammm-!! Okay, where could Tagitsuhime be-?
Yukari: --Yume!?
Yume: Ah-! Yukari-sama-!
Yume: --Wait, why are you hurt!? Where's Tagitsuhime!?
Yukari: What are you doing here...
Yukari: Yume... Can you use utsushi?
Yume: Huh? Utsushi? Of course I can, but...
Yukari: Then, there's something I want you to do.
Yukari: Go now with Asakura Mihono, into the boundary between this world and the netherworld, and destroy Tagitsuhime's true body, Hirukomitama.
Yume: Destroy Hirukomitama?
Yume: I don't really get it, but is that some kind of super strong enemy that only I can handle?
Yukari: Of course.
Yume: I thought so! After all, it's Tagitsuhime's true body, right! It sounds interesting! I'll do it!
Yume: It feels like it's finally time for us to break out the secret weapon!
Yukari: Whatever may happen, do not let your guard down. In both size and strength, Hirukomitama will be no ordinary foe.
Yukari: What's more, this operation comes with a time limit. If you are unable to defeat Hirukomitama before it makes landfall, all will be lost.
Yukari: And, after you have destroyed Hirukomitama, you are to return here at once. Do you understand?
Yume: So, the important bits are, I just have to beat it real quick and come right back, right?
Yukari: Yes. That's all I can ask for. You understand as well, don't you, Asakura?
Mihono: Huh...? But, then, what about Tagitsuhime...
Yukari: I'm telling you, there is no time. We have no choice but to trust Etou and Juujou with Tagitsuhime.
Yukari: Etou and Juujou as they are now will surely destroy Tagitsuhime! You will fulfill your own role!
Mihono: I just have to trust Kanami and Juujou-san then... I got it...!
Yume: Kashuu Kiyomitsu onee-san, don't slow me down out there, okay!
Mihono: Don't worry about that... Right now, I'm pretty strong too!
Yume: ...Heh, if you say so!
Mai: Mihono-chan! Be careful, will you!
Sayaka: Do your best.
Kaoru: We're counting on you, Mihono...
Nene: Nenne-!
Ellen: Please come back safe, no matter what!
Mihono: Then, I'll be going!!
4: Joint Struggle (1)#
Mihono: ...This is, the threshold between our world and the netherworld...
Yume: Hey hey, where's that Hirukomitama?
Mihono: I'm not sure, but, Yukari-sama said Hirukomitama should be really big, so we should be able to see it right away...
Mihono: We're running out of time, so let's look for it fast!
Yume: Hey-, I'm the stronger one here, so don't tell me what to do...
Aradama: --GUUOOOOO!
Yume: Aradama!?
Mihono: But we don't have time to deal with all these...!!
5: Joint Struggle (2)#
Mihono: Great-! My body feels light! I can cut through the aradama easy! If I can keep this up, the aradama won't be able to hold us back much at all!
Yume: I can't believe it-, you weren't lying after all. You really are strong, Onee-san.
Yume: The aradama here are way tougher than the ones on the ground too.
Mihono: Huh...? They are? It didn't feel like it to me...
Yume: I changed my mind a little. When we get back, maybe I'll want to have a match with you.
Mihono: Fine by me! But, before we can do that, we've gotta beat Hirukomitama! Let's look for it fast!
Yume: ...Wait, Onee-san! --Look over there! There's something weird!
Mihono: What is...!? No wait, that's...!!
6: Hirukomitama (1)#
Mihono: It disappeared!? What was that just now!? You saw that weird thing way over there, right!?
Yume: Onee-san! Behind you!!
Hirukomitama: .........
Yume: What is, that thing!?
Mihono: Maybe that's part of Hirukomitama...?
Yume: I get it now! It didn't just disappear... This place, what we're standing on, it's all Hirukomitama, so it can come out wherever it wants!
Mihono: Hirukomitama! We're here to destroy you!
Hirukomitama: .........
Yume: Sorry, but we're in a hurry here. Yukari-sama said we have to come back right away.
Mihono: We're gonna destroy you, to help out Kanami and Juujou-san!
Hirukomitama: .........
7: Hirukomitama (2)#
Mihono: What's with this thing... I doesn't feel like I'm doing any damage to it at all!
Hirukomitama: .........
Yume: What's wrong, Onee-san! You gonna start crying already!?
Mihono: I just felt like complaining a little! This isn't enough for me to give up yet!
Mihono: No matter how big its true body is, where there's a will, there's a way!
Yume: I think it might be a while since I've had this much fun! I'll show you! More and more, just what makes me so great!
Hirukomitama: .........
8: Hirukomitama (3)#
Hirukomitama: .........
Yume: Pant... Pant... Th-That was really tough...
Hirukomitama: .........
Mihono: We did it somehow, but it's still alive! If we don't finish it off fast--
Hirukomitama: .........
Mihono: Uwah-!! No! No no no-!! That's bad...!
Yume: We're getting blown back to the real world!
Mihono: Kanami! Juujou-san! NOOO----!!
9: The Depths of the Netherworld (1)#
At that time, the fighting continued between Juujou Hiyori and Tagitsuhime--
Hiyori: Tagitsuhime...!
Tagitsu: Heh... So Yukari has returned to your world.
Kanami: --Hiyori-chaaaan!
Tagitsu: Hm...?
Kanami: Hiyori-chan!
Hiyori: Kanami!? How did you manage fourth level jin'i!?
Kanami: I tried my hardest! I wanted to catch up to you, Hiyori-chan!
Hiyori: You tried your hardest...?
Hiyori: Sure... That's about what I expect from you.
Kanami: Hiyori-chan! Tagitsuhime is...!
Tagitsuhime: --The time is now. ...Hirukomitama!!
Hiyori: Hirukomitama--!? Don't tell me, she's trying to combine with her true body in the netherworld!?
Hiyori: ...!? Something doesn't look right.
Tagitsu: Hmph... It seems we were unable to fully unite.
Tagisuhime: Well, no matter. Come, entertain me.
10: The Depths of the Netherworld (2)#
Tagitsu: Chidori... Kogarasumaru girl. Yet again, you have made my heart dance.
Kanami: Tagitsuhime's body is...!!
Hiyori: She still had strength to spare...?
Tagitsu: You've done well for yourselves. Even with myself united with Hirukomitama... Yet still!
Hiyori: Let's go, Kanami! Together, we'll...
Kanami: Yeah! We'll save Tagitsuhime together!
Hiyori: Save... her?
Kanami: After all, Tagitsuhime said it again now, didn't she? Her heart was dancing. That means she's having fun, isn't she?
Tagitsu: How peculiar you are. Do you intend to remain locked here in this moment close to eternity, just to entertain me by clashing swords?
Kanami: That's not it; this is for my own enjoyment! Your swords will teach me it all! All about you!
Hiyori: You're saying Tagitsuhime is having fun with this fight...?
Kanami: Yeah! It's the same for me! Crossing okatana against okatana, getting to spar with everyone... It's all a conversation happening through our swords!
Hiyori: This is a conversation too...? So that's how you treat a sword, Kanami!
Tagitsuhime: Conversing by sword...?
Hiyori: Let's go!
Kanami: Mm!
Tagitsu: Very well. Entertain me as best you can, with this conversation through sword of yours!
11: The Depths of the Netherworld (3)#
Tagitsu: Grg...
Hiyori: ...Sorry, Kanami. I lied to you.
Hiyori: I have to take Tagitsuhime with me now, down to the depths of the netherworld.
Kanami: ...I knew you did.
Hiyori: Oh.
Kanami: That's why... Let's go together.
Hiyori: ...Thank you.
Kanami/Hiyori: --UOOOOOOOO!!
12: Seal#
Yume: Urgh...
Mihono: ...We're, back on the roof...?
Mai: You two! You made it back okay!
Sayaka: Thank goodness.
Yukari: You've done well, you two.
Yume: ...Eh? But we didn't finish off Hirukomitama!
Kaoru: Oi, look up at the sky! Hirukomitama is going away...
Nene: Ne-...
Ellen: The gate to the netherworld is getting smaller...
Yukari: The gate is closing...!
Mihono: It's closing...? What does that mean!? Wait, wait! What about Kanami and Juujou-san!?
Yukari: I'm sorry...
Mihono: ...!! Was this what you planned... from the start!?
Yukari: Juujou and Etou... did their duty...
Mihono: Please just wait, Yukari-sama!! Kanami and Juujou-san, they can still--!!
Yukari: If we don't seal off the netherworld now, it would be a repeat of twenty years ago... Even if I were to devote my entire being as a toji to it!
Mihono: But, still! If that's the case, then why did I have to--!?
Yukari: If you would resent me for this... That's fine!
Yukari: Grant unto us, in all things, cleansing, purification, of wickedness, sin, and defilement...
Yukari: These wishes we most humbly entreat!
Mihono: Kanami... Juujou-san...
Yukari: ...Asakura, I'm grateful. Had you not defeated Hirukomitama, I wouldn't have been able to seal off the netherworld.
Mihono: -!? Th-Then... It's because of me, that Kanami and Juujou-san are...
Yukari: That's not it! It's because of you that the world was saved.
Kaoru: ...Goddamnit-!!
Sayaka: Ahh...
Mai: But...
Ellen: ...Kanamin... Hiyoyon...
Chie: --Everyone!
Mirja: If the gate to the netherworld has been closed, does that mean Tagitsuhime has been defeated!?
Kofuki: Oi, Mihocchi! Looks like you managed to help out some after all!
Kiyoka: -!? Yukari-sama is badly hurt!!
Suzuka: Yukari-sama-! I'll call a rescue team straight away!
Suzuka: For Yukari-sama to be wounded this badly... Still, you safely managed to defeat Tagitsuhime, didn't you?
Yui: ...Uh, I don't see Kanami-chan and Hiyori-chan anywhere. Where did they go?
Yume: Those two, they're...
Yukari: ......
Mihono: ...Kanami... Even though we promised, we'd have a rematch someday...
Mihono: Even though, I never even managed to beat you a single time... I feel like, I might have a chance now... But now... But now!!
Mihono: KANAMIIIIIIIIIIII-!!!
Other: Mission Accomplished
Sana: The gate to the netherworld is nearly sealed! According to observations, its size is minimal!
Yuzuki: Please, Yukari...! Keep at it!
Sana: ......The sealing has been completed! They did it!
Yuzuki: Good! You did a fine job, Yukari! Our mission is complete!
Toji A: Asakura and Tsubakuro's vital signs have stabilized! ......But...
Yuzuki: But, what? What is it!?
Toji A: ...Etou and Juujous vitals, they haven't returned.
Yuzuki: What does that mean... What's happened to them!? Confirm the situation, immediately!