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- 1: Mihono and Kagutsuchi (1)
- Tsugumi: Then, the operation will commence. I'm starting the countdown-.
- Mirja: Investigation team, are you ready?
- Mihono: I'm ready whenever!
- Chie: No issues here.
- Kofuki: Let's just do this already.
- Kiyoka: I-I'm starting to get nervous.
- Yui: Don't worry, I'll be right with you, Kiyoka-chan!
- Mirja: ...It doesn't seem there's any problems. What about you three, Satsuki Yomi, Inago Akira, Nitta Hirona?
- Yomi: I'm ready.
- Akira: All good here too.
- Hirona: Riiight, I'm readyy.
- Mirja: All members report no issues. Please begin the countdown.
- Tsugumi: I'll start then. Three, two, one...
- Tsugumi: Launch.
- Tsugumi: ...Please make it back safe.
- Chie: Is everyone okay!?
- Mirja: Everyone seems to have landed safely!
- Kiyoka: Look out, Mirja-san!
- Kiyoka: YAHH!!
- Mirja: Thank you, Musumi Kiyoka!
- Kagutsuchi: ...
- Mihono: That's...
- Kagutsuchi: ...Kanaymahime...
- Mihono: --!? Kanayamahime? She's reacting to Kagutsuchi...!?
- Mihono: This is...
- Kagutsuchi: ...Give her back...!
- Mihono: Listen to me, Kagutsuchi! We didn't come here to fight you!
- Kagutsuchi: ...Give her back...
- Akira: ORAH!
- Akira: What now, Mihono! Kagutsuchi's not about to start letting us talk!
- Kagutsuchi: ...Kanayamahime... Give her back.
- Mihono: Kagutsuchi...
- Kofuki: Quit just standing there, Mihocchi!
- Kofuki: Let's show her a good time first! Otherwise we're never getting this talk started!
- Mihono: Talking with our swords... That's the Kanami way of doing things.
- Kofuki: Am I supposed to care!
- Mihono: Still... Yeah. Here I come, Kagutsuchi!!
- Mihono: Tell me how you're feeling!!
- 2: Mihono and Kagutsuchi (2)
- Mihono: ...I guess I can't really do it like Kanami can.
- Mihono: But... I can tell from where you're looking and how you're moving, you're scared of us.
- Mihono: Can't we just stop this?
- Kagutsuchi: ...
- Yui: She ran off!?
- Mirja: What's she after?
- Yui: Maybe she thought she couldn't beat Mihono-chan...?
- Kiyoka: I don't think she can fix that by running though...
- Kofuki: Besides that, it's friggin' hot... Let's just get after her.
- Chie: ...The heat?
- Yomi: ...The surrounding temperature is rising.
- Akira: Oh yeah!? That jackass Kagutsuchi's tryin' to boil us alive!!
- Makoto: Please listen to me, Kagutsuchi! Akira-chan and the others only want to talk!!
- Kagutsuchi: ...No.
- Makoto: The toji aren't going to exorcise you!
- Kagutsuchi: ...No.
- Makoto: If you keep doing this, Akira-chan will die... Please... Stop this, Kagutsuchi!!
- 3: Time Limit
- Yui: [pant pant].... Nngh, this's rough!
- Mirja: Don't lose speed! If you get too far from Kagutsuchi, you'll be engulfed in the heat!
- Aradama: GYAOOOOO!
- Kofuki: Shit! If we weren't in this oven, I could get all the aradama-chan I wanted!
- Kofuki: Sorry, aradama-chan! I'll play with you next time! So outta the way!!
- Chie: I don't know how long we can keep running like this... This could be bad if we don't reach Kagutsuchi soon.
- Kiyoka: There's even more aradama coming after us too...
- Kofuki: Tch, they're bringin' out all the cheap tricks.
- Chie: What should we do, Mirja? At this rate...
- Mirja: I do have a plan, but...
- Akira: Just say it! No matter how bad it is, we gotta do something here!!
- Mirja: ...
- Mirja: We need to ensure Mihono reaches Kagutsuchi untouched by the aradama.
- Mihono: Eh!?
- Mirja: Whether we exorcise her or persuade her... Asakura Mihono is the only one who can stand a chance.
- Akira: The hell, what's so bad about that! I'm in!
- Mihono: H-Hang on a minute!
- Mihono: If I mess up... You're all going to die!? Are you really okay with that!?
- Akira: Then just don't screw up then.
- Akira: I mean, we came here on a one way ride in the first place. We all put our lives on the line.
- Akira: I'm bettin' my life on you. ...Take care of Makocchan for me.
- Hirona: ......I guess that's all there is to it.
- Mihono: Hirona!?
- Yomi: Then, Akira, Nitta-san, and I will take the rear.
- Mihono: Even Satsuki-san...
- Yomi: I think this strategy has the highest chance of success.
- Yomi: We have the ceremonial attire too. We shouldn't succumb to the heat that quickly.
- Akira: So that's that. Let's go.
- Mirja: ...We're counting on you!
- Akira: You guys are real dumbasses, goin' out of your way to draw the short straw. This's the most likely place to die, y'know?
- Yomi: Did you come here planning to die, Akira? In that case, feel free to die on your own.
- Yomi: I'll be returning alive.
- Akira: Who said anything about tryin' to die? I'm makin' it outta here, and I'm bringing Makocchan with me!
- Hirona: ......
- Hiyori: You two sure get alongg.
- Akira/Yomi: Hell no we don't!/We're just normal.
- Akira: ...Don't go makin' me shout. It's hard enough keepin' breathing as it is.
- Yomi: They're here.
- Akira: Bring it on! I'm countin' on both of you, so don't go dyin' on me!!
- 4: Because it's You
- Mihono: Why are they doing this... Couldn't we have talked something better out!!
- Kofuki: This's the problem with you, Ahocchi. You think we got time for that?
- Mihono: But...
- Kiyoka: You were the one who said we should talk to Kagutsuchi first, Hono-chan. So you'd better take responsibility and talk.
- Mirja: Asakura Mihono. Just do as you wish.
- Yui: After we finish up here, we can all hop in the bath, Mihono-chan!
- Mihono: Fukki, Kiyoka, Mirja-san, Yui...
- Chie: Mihono-chan.
- Mihono: Chii-nee...
- Chie: You get the big role.
- Mihono: ...Okay.
- Chie: ...Mihono-chan. If it were anyone else, even if they had Kanayamahime with them, I would never stake my life for them. Only for you.
- Mihono: Eh?
- Chie: After all the worrying and suffering you've been through... after how hard you worked to get here, I know you'll do it, Mihono-chan.
- Chie: I'm sure we all feel the same.
- Mihono: ...Yeah.
- Mihono: I'll do it, Chii-nee. I'll talk Kagutsuchi out of it no matter what!
- Kofuki: Look at Chichie, tryin' to act all cool for her.
- Chie: I-I wasn't trying to act cool...
- Yui: No way, she was super precious!
- Mihono: Yeah, I actually felt a little embarrassed too.
- Chie: Mihono-chan!?
- Mirja: We can't afford any more chit chat. Thanks to our rear guard, there are less aradama attacking.
- Mirja: ...Asakura Mihono. Don't think about anything; just race to Kagutsuchi!
- Mirja: We'll keep your way clear!
- Mihono: Okay!!
- Kiyoka: I wonder if Hono-chan made it to Kagutsuchi...
- Chie: I'm sure Mihono-chan will be fine.
- Kofuki: This sucks... It's like fighting in a damn sauna.
- Yui: Haha, I want us all in a bath when we get back, but a sauna could work too...
- Mirja: ...Live so we can make it back! Endure it until Asakura Mihono persuades Kagutsuchi, Investigation team!
- 5: Three Intents
- Mihono: I made it, Kagutsuchi!
- Kagutsuchi: ...
- Mihono: Don't be scared... I just came so we could talk, okay!
- Kagutsuchi: ...No.
- Mihono: Kgh!
- Mihono: Please, just stop, Kagutsuchi! Just cause I'm a toji doesn't mean I want to hurt aradama!
- Mihono: I know we can talk to each other!!
- Kagutsuchi: ...No!
- Mihono: Kagutsuchi!!
- Mihono: It's no good; she's not listening... What do I do? Every second I take, everyone's...
- Mihono: (Do I kill her...? No; I can't do that!)
- Mihono: Killing a scared aradama's definitely the wrong thing to do!
- Mihono: Ngh, huh, my chest feels hot... Is that... you, Kanayamahime?
- Kanayamahime: Please leave the rest to me, Mihono.
- Mihono: Kanayamahime?
- Kanayamahime: The aradama, Kagutsuchi, was fearful from the beginning.
- Mihono: She was?
- Kanayamahime: Do you not believe me?
- Mihono: ...No, I do. Seeing Kagutsuchi now... I get it.
- Mihono: She's kinda like... a scared kitty.
- Kanayamahime: ...Inside of Kagutsuchi, three intents resided.
- Kanayamahime: There was I, who sought to understand and if possible form friendly relations with toji to overcome that fear of toji.
- Kanayamahime: There was the intent to destroy all toji that would threaten it.
- Mihono: That's the Kagutsuchi who took me over, right...
- Kanayamahime: Yes.
- Kanayamahime: And the last remaining... The intent to reject and avoid all connection to toji.
- Mihono: To reject everyone...
- Kanayamahime: It has no intention of communicating with toji. It will reject everyone and everything toji, seeking the farthest from mutual understanding.
- Mihono: ...Then what're we supposed to do? Use your power to exorcise it?
- Mihono: I don't want to do that!
- Kanayamahime: Please leave it to me.
- Kanayamahime: I want to understand and form friendly relations with toji. It falls to me to convince that Kagutsuchi.
- Mihono: ...Alright, Kanayamahime. What should I do?
- Kanayamahime: Please touch Kagutsuchi.
- Mihono: I just have to touch her...? Okay, here goes, Kagutsuchi!!
- Kagutsuchi: !!
- 6: The Fearful and Timid Aradama
- Kagutsuchi: Kanayamahime... Become one with me...
- Kanayamahime: Yes. Let's return to one. I will offer everything to you.
- Kanayamahime: And then... please come to know. All the things I have seen alongside Mihono...
- Kagutsuchi: ...!?
- Kanayamahime: These girls are an answer. They are the potential for humanity and aradama to coexist.
- Kagutsuchi: This is...
- Kanayamahime: It is another possibility. The form of coexistence that is being fostered at this very moment.
- Kagutsuchi: Kanayamahime...
- Kanayamahime: Yes.
- Kanayamahime: These are... My memories together with Mihono. My very precious memories...
- Kanayamahime: Please look on and see, Kagutsuchi. This is the toji I have watched over for so very long.
- Kagutsuchi: ...
- Kanayamahime: Do you fear toji?
- Kagutsuchi: ...I do...
- Kanayamahime: I have learned. Toji are not something only to be feared.
- Kanayamahime: That is what Mihono has taught me.
- Kagutsuchi: ...No. I cannot...
- Kanayamahime: It can happen. In five hundred years I am certain.
- Kagutsuchi: ?
- Kanayamahime: It is the time I have spent with the Atago.
- Kagutsuchi: ...
- Kanayamahime: I have spent that much time myself. So you can take that same amount of time.
- Kanayamahime: And then, one day...
- 7: Mihono and Kanayamahime
- Kanayamahime: ...
- Mihono: Kanayamahime...?
- Kanayamahime: Yes, Mihono.
- Mihono: What happened with Kagutsuchi?
- Kanayamahime: She is within me.
- Mihono: So she didn't just go away.
- Kanayamahime: Yes.
- Mihono: Wait, hang on! What about everybody else!? We have to go save them!
- Kanayamahime: Please calm down, Mihono. None of their lives are in any danger.
- Mihono: Thank goodness! So then... then this can finally all go back to normal!
- Kanayamahime: Mihono.
- Mihono: First off, you've gotta meet Kohime! I bet you'll be really good friends!
- Kanayamahime: Mihono.
- Mihono: Hm? What?
- Kanayamahime: I will be going to the netherworld with Kagutsuchi.
- Mihono: ...Huh?
- Mihono: W-Wait, but why!? Kagutsuchi's not dangerous anymore, right!? So, just stay with me!
- Kanayamahime: Kagutsuchi's urges have not subsided. Even now, Kagutsuchi fears you.
- Mihono: ...
- Kanayamahime: One day, when Kagutsuchi's fear has gone... On that day, I will come for you again.
- Mihono: ...That's no fair. When you tell me that, I can't just say no.
- Kanayamahime: Thank you, Mihono.
- Mihono: I'll get to see you again, right?
- Kanayamahime: ...One day, I promise.
- Mihono: ...Okay. Then, I'll see you again someday, Kanayamahime!!
- Kanayamahime: Yes.
- Kanayamahime: Goodbye, Mihono.
- 8: Visitation
- Mihono: Hello-!
- Makoto: Come on in, Asakura-san.
- Akira: Yo, Mihono. You came to see how she's doing?
- Yuuki: Hi, Mihono-san.
- Hirona: Hellooo.
- Mihono: Good, you're all here!
- Mihono: I got you a gift: a cake Ellen-san told me about! We should all have it together!
- Makoto: Thank you, Asakura-san.
- Makoto: If Kohagura-san recommended it, it must be delicious. Aren't you lucky, Akira-chan.
- Akira: Oi, Makocchan!? Not in front of Mihono!!
- Mihono: What do you mean?
- Yuuki: You probably didn't know, but Akira-nee-sama loves cakes.
- Mihono: Ehh!? Really, Akira-san!? I always thought you were into senbei or something!!
- Akira: Why!? I mean, I don't hate 'em, but... Well so what!? I like cake, okay!!
- Makoto: Fufu.
- Mihono: So that's what you're like when you're with Hitakami-san and them, Akira-san...
- Hirona: You have no idea; she's pretty much always like this.
- Mihono: Hmm~.
- Akira: What! Quit smilin' at me like that!
- Mihono: Anybody'd be smiling hearing them talk about you!
- Akira: Then we're talkin' about something else now!
- Mihono: That's tyranny!
- Mihono: Umm, uhh... Then, what were you talking about before I got here?
- Makoto: ...
- Makoto: It was about tamayori toji. We were told the Sword Administration Bureau has started their re-inspection of it, along with looking into the side-effects.
- Mihono: ...Yeah, I heard. They want me to help where I can too.
- Makoto: ...I'm sorry, Asakura-san. Because of what we did... you were forced through so many terrible experiences...
- Makoto: And also... Thank you, for saving Kagutsuchi.
- Mihono: You were with Kagutsuchi the whole time, weren't you, Hitakami-san?
- Makoto: I was.
- Makoto: Though... it isn't as if I could understand all of what Kagutsuchi was thinking either.
- Makoto: Even still... I could always feel how afraid she was of toji. Because of that... I started strongly hoping Kagutsuchi would be saved from it...
- Makoto: I couldn't bring myself to hate or want her destroyed anymore.
- Mihono: I'm sure it'll happen eventually.
- Mihono: Eh?
- Mihono: I'm sure someday Kagutsuchi won't be scared of toji anymore. After all, Kanayamahime's with her!
- Makoto: ...You're right.
- Makoto: Before that day comes, we have so much to do.
- Mihono: What are you doing?
- Akira: We're joining in the inspection of tamayori toji. We gotta do all we can for the ones who're victims of it, y'know?
- Yuuki: And there's no tamayori toji besides Onee-sama and I, after all!
- Hirona: ...I'll do what I can to help too.
- Hirona: I can't keep letting it be just Akira-san and Yuuki-san while Akira-san gets all full of herself about it.
- Akira: I'm not gettin' full of myself!
- Mihono: Ahahaha!
- Mihono: (I thought Hitakami-san was a scarier kind of person... I guess she's more like this.)
- Mihono: (I get the feeling we could all get along!)
- 9: Admiration
- Aradama: OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
- Kofuki: C'mon! I love you, aradama-chan!!
- Mirja: We've finished suppressing the aradama.
- Mirja: Even here, there's still no sign of aradama affected by Kagutsuchi.
- Mihono: I told you, everything's fine now! Kanayamahime talked Kagutsuchi out of it!
- Chie: It's not like we're doubting you, Mihono-chan. But still, we have to do our investigation.
- Mihono: I guess, but...
- Chie: Though, our investigation is done for now, so do you want to check back at the shelter?
- Mihono: Ah, sure! Let's go! I wonder how everyone's doing.
- Kofuki: Ugh, I'll pass! It's a waste of time.
- Kofuki: Oi, you listening? Tell me where some aradama-chan is around here!
- Tsugumi: You just can't work in a group, can you Shichinosato-san.
- Tsugumi: I'll keep an eye on Shichinosato-san, so the rest of you go on ahead to the shelter.
- Kid A: The tojis are back!
- Kid B: Thank you for beating the aradama!
- Kid C: Did you fight aradama too, onee-sans?
- Yui: Fu fu fu, would you believe it? Mihono-onee-san here beat Kagutsuchi herself!
- Mihono: Yui!?
- Kid A: Wowww!
- Kid B: Did you really?
- Kiyoka: She sure did. Hono-chan's an amazing toji.
- Mihono: You too, Kiyoka~!?
- Kid C: ......Um!
- Kiyoka: Mmhm, what is it?
- Kid C: I'm learning swordfighting! When I grow up, I want to be a toji too!
- Yui: Ohh, that's awesome! You're our kouhai then-!
- Kid C: Do you think I can be one?
- Mihono: Yeah, if you keep on trying, you'll definitely be one! Where there's a will, there's a way!
- Kid C: Where there's a will, there's a way... Thank you very much!!
- Kid C: Ah-- Could I show you my swordfighting?
- Kiyoka: Sure, go ahead.
- Yui: Wow, you're so good! You've got the hang of it!
- Kid C: You think so!?
- Mihono: (I wonder if I was just like her a few years ago.)
- Mihono: Fufu.
- Kiyoka: What are you laughing about, Hono-chan?
- Mihono: Oh, it's nothing!
- Mihono: We'd better keep doing our best so she never stops looking up to us, huh! Kiyoka, Yui!
- 10: The Day to Come
- Teacher: That's all for today's supplementary lessons. Be sure to review what you've learned.
- Mihono/Kanami: Okaaayyy...
- Mihono: Uugh, my head won't stop spinning...
- Kanami: Just when I thought the stuff with Kagutsuchi was calming down, makeup classes came back and made everything hard again...
- Mihono: Mmm... I hate studying...
- Mihono: Oh yeah, actually, what were you doing when we were fighting Kagutsuchi, Kanami?
- Kanami: I was on aradama suppression missions. They were sending me all over Japan; it was rough...
- Kanami: How'd it go for you, Mihono-chan?
- Mihono: I guess I realized, there's all kinds of different aradama, aren't there.
- Kanami: ...Huh?
- Mihono: I don't really know how to put it... Kagutsuchi had three different things she wanted.
- Mihono: See, there was Kanayamahime, who saved me, right?
- Mihono: And there was the scary Kagutsuchi you fought.
- Mihono: And then there was the scared Kagutsuchi that possessed Hitakami-san.
- Mihono: Aradama are weird, aren't they.
- Kanami: ...I know what you mean. It was the same with Tagitsuhime.
- Mihono: I made a promise with Kanayamahime. That, when Kagutsuchi stops being scared of toji, we'll see each other again.
- Mihono: But I mean, it took her 500 years to understand toji.
- Mihono: That's five hundred whole years. I can't live that long...
- Kanami: I hope Kagutsuchi starts to understand toji like Kanayamahime did.
- Mihono: Yeah!
- Mihono: If Kagutsuchi turned out like Nene or Kohime, we'd have even more aradama friends!
- Kanami: ...Mihono-chan, you're a genius.
- Mihono: Eh?
- Kanami: If more people could think like you do, we could get along a lot better with aradama!
- Mihono: Y-You think so?
- Mihono: Everybody in the investigation team calls me Ahocchi and stuff all the time though...
- Mihono: But maybe I was really smart all along!?
- Kanami: Yeah, you're smart, Mihono-chan!
- Kanami: Let's keep going for it together! And then we'll make a bunch more aradama friends!
- Mihono: That sounds good! We should make it a contest to see who can make the most aradama friends!
- Kanami: You're on!
- Mihono: Mmnn!
- Mihono: I used my brain too much, so now I feel like moving my body. Kanami, wanna spar with me right now?
- Kanami: You took the words out of my mouth!
- Mihono: Okayyy, today's the day I win a match with you!
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