Hitomi no Catoblepas 12

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[side text: VS Toutetsu! Just as Tokio was on the verge of death, water of "healing" falls from above... Shakara-Ou has awakened!!]
Tokio: (My wounds are healing...) // Michiru-san...
Toutetsu: What's going on?!! // The water from the pond...
Onken: Aaaaahhhh!!
Youken: Ojou-sama! / Sh...Shakara-Ou has finally...!!

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Hitomi no Catoblepas
#12 The Triumph of Resolve
Michiru: I too can fight! // I am the 21st Head of the House of Kuramochi, Kuramochi Michiru!
[insert text: Lances of water... swelling up!]

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Toukotsu: That was an interesting trick you had there...... // But I'm sorry. // I am the "Wind User" Toukotsu... // The air itself is my ally!
Mitsuki: I've lost... too much blood....... // ...My body is powerless... // Dammit......
Toukotsu: At the moment of impact, I encased your "bullet" in air... // I caught it at the last second...

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Toukotsu: ...and the wind can bare its fangs!
Mitsuki: I... I'm beaten, onee-san... // This is...... // (This is bad... My eyes are... growing hazy...
Toukotsu: Noooow then... Ahahahahah... / How shall I go about... // Mincing up that body of yours...? <3
Mitsuki: Damn it... Not here... // The heat... it's as though my back is burning...
Flashback!Mitsuki: The heat... It's so hot...... // Dad... Mum...

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[box: 8 years ago // Nanao Mitsuki will never forget the boy he met on this day...]
Igarashi: Young master! It's dangerous in there! Leave this to us!
Kazuo: Shaddup, Igarashi!! // I can sense leftover Yoma presence... / So it was a Yoma that did this......
Igarashi: How terrible... Nobody could have survived...
Kazuo: Igarashi! There's a kid! He's alive!!
Igarashi: What...?!
Mitsuki: Ugh...

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Igarashi: He has terrible burns... and the bones in both legs are broken... // We must get him to a hospital immediately!
Mitsuki: Leave me... alone... // My father... and... my mother... they both died... // Let me die too... / Just leave me here to burn......
Igarashi: Y - young master?!
Mitsuki: !!
Kazuo: If you want to die that much, shall I just kill you right now?! // I've not got the freakin' spare time... // ...to go around fighting for idiots who want to die.

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Kazuo: Let me avenge your losses for you. // After that, if you still want to die, I'll burn you to death myself!!
Mitsuki: ...!! // (He told me his name was Hosomi Kazuto.) // Back then... // The young master told me to keep on living...
Toukotsu: What exactly are you grumbling on about...? // You're about to die right here. / I'm going to make a diced steak out of you!
Mitsuki: I already died once back then... // And then I was reborn......!

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Toukotsu: F... from behind?! // What... the... // This bike... why....?!
Mitsuki: I had already touched the bike. // This life that the young master gave me... / I can't go giving it away to someone like you...!!

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Toukotsu: GUAAH!!
Mitsuki: The bullets fire themselves straight towards the place where I'm pointing... // The bullets can't only be fired from where I'm standing. // Don't underestimate... the Mitsura Suzaku.... // ...But what should I do...? I... I really can't move my body at all... // And I used the bike and the soba... as bullets... // Hahah... The young master's going to be mad at me again...

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Toutetsu: Wha... // What the heeeeeell?! // (Damn that girl...!! // Using the pondwater... she made... "Lances" of holy water!! // This is bad... Right now, I can't even move...!!
Tokio: ......!!
Youken: Ah!
Onken: The lances of water are... disappearing?!

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Youken/Onken: Ojou-sama!!
Shakara-Ou: ZZZ
[TN: Shakara-Ou is too cute >.<]
Toutetsu: .................. // ...Huh... // HAHAH!! // That's freakin' hilarious! Was that just a bluff, Kuramochi Michiru?!! // AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHH!!!
Michiru: I'm... I'm sorry, everyone... Tokio-kun... I'm still not... strong enough yet... / It looks like this... is my limit...
Tokio: ...That's fine, Michiru-san. // You've done brilliantly... / This lance of water you created is just perfect...

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Michiru: Ah...
Toutetsu: Wha... Just one of them...! // He stopped its time...!! // WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

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Youken: Did...
Onken: Did he do it...?!

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Toutetsu: Not... / Not yet... You've not got me yet, Shimura... / The chance of a brat like you defeating me... // IS NOT EVEN 0.000000000000000000000000000000000001 PERCEEEEEEENT!!
Michiru: No... no way! // The lance... / It's being pushed back......!!
Tokio: Ugh...
Toutetsu: UNNNGHAAAAAAAAAHHH...!!

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Toutetsu: UAGH?! // AGK... // AGGHKKK... // WHAT THE?!

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Toutetsu: (Wha...... // WHAT IS THAT FOOOOOOOORM?!)

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Hakutaku: You must not, Tokio-sama!! / You cannot allow it to synchronise with your body to that extent! / Catoblepas will seize control of your body......!!
Toutetsu: No way... // He's exceeding my own Yoma power level...!! // Data like this......!!
Tokio: ................ / Personally, I'm... // ...ready for this. // How about you? // Toutetsu.
Toutetsu: This guy... // For him to come this far...! This level of resolve...!! I was the one underestimating him... // The most dangerous one is the "brother"..... // ......Now I understand... what Hajun-sama... meant....

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[side text: "I will stop my brother"...!! As a Guardian House Head, as a brother, he swore to fulfill this task if he must burn his own life to ashes in the process... The fist of resolve... triumphs!!]