Nurarihyon no Mago 81

We're cool with using Hagun now in regular speech, right? ._. Though it sounded cooler to put Rending Army as a title.

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Right text: Akifusa was born the second son of the Keikain family's Yaso branch, who specialise in spirit blade production.
Bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Left text: Those with the ability to craft spirit blades – those talented individuals show up in maybe one out of a hundred onmyouji, but Akifusa created his first spirit blade when he was only 3 years old.
Bottom left: Nurarihyon no Mago

Speech right: "One day, he'll be a major force here, for sure."
Speech right2: "His talent is beyond comparison."
Text centre: Act 81: The Rending Army
Text left: Before he knew it, Akifusa became known as the Genius Onmyouji.

K: No doubt about it, the next family head will be the Yaso's Akifusa.
K2: The power of his spirit blades is amazing, and he himself is no pushover, either.
K3: And he's got both integrity and talent.
Starred vertical text, left: The darkness within the one they call the genius onmyouji is brought to light!

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K: But then what about Ryuuji?
K2: Right! It's been a while since one with ability has come from the blood of the main house...

K: Well then it should be Ryuuji!
K2: No way, Akifusa's the one!
K: Whaaaaat?

Text: At the time, the onmyouji would debate this night and day.

Text right: However, in time Akifusa was inducted as the 1st Seal, the very anchor of the Keichou Seal.
Text left: "Well that decides it." "Akifusa will be the next family head." "It's for the best. The Keikain family will develop even further."

Text right: "That's right, I have been chosen."
Text centre: "I will become the next family head."
Text left: There was no trace of haughtiness in him; it was rather his absolute trust in his own ability that gave him strength.

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Text: However...

K: O-Oi, is that true?!
K2: Well I know it's hard to believe all of a sudden...

K2: But apparently
K2: The main house's Yura summoned the Hagun.

K: Are you serious?
K2: That can't be true...
K: So then... Yura would have to become the head, right?
K2: No way
K: But the precedent set by the 13th was that the succeeding family head is to be someone with ability who can use the Hagun!

K: I mean, you can't defeat Hagoromo Gitsune without the Hagun...
Akifusa: .........

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Akifusa: What are you taking about...?
K: Oh, Akifusa-sama...

Pato: Well...
Akifusa: Yura is... still a child. You shouldn't impose such unreasonable expectations on her.

Akifusa: Even without the Hagun
Akifusa: As long as we seal Hagoromo Gitsune away, there won't be a problem!

Pato: Akifusa...
Eyeball Fail Guy Whose Name I Forget: B-But how...?

Akifusa: After years of research
Akifusa: I have finally found a way...!!
Box: About 250 years ago, when there was a family head born of the Yaso branch
Box: They had created a secret technique.

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Text right: Yaso Branch Demonic Possession Technique
Text centre: A secret technique which consists of incorporating a shikigami into one's weapon and one's body, thereby increasing one's attack power exponentially.
Text left: However, because this technique exerted an excessive amount of strain on one's mind and spirit, the user was forced to discard his human spirit. There was thus a fear that the user, his mind left in an unstable state, would be taken advantage of by the enemy.

Text: For this reason, activating demonic possession with a human spirit became a forbidden technique.

Akifusa text right: This would be for the sole purpose of defeating Hagoromo Gitsune.
Akifusa text left: I... have to do this.

Box: A few days earlier, Rokukin-ji

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Akifusa: *pant*
Akifusa: *pant*
Akifusa: *pant*

Akifusa: Hagoromo Gitsune...
Akifusa: Now... I shall defeat you...

Shoukera: This one...
Shoukera: Has some measure of skill...

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Akifusa: I... have to do this...

Kitsune: Hmm
Kitsune: You're human, and yet you look like a demon...

Akifusa: I will do it
Akifusa: I will... kill Hagoromo Gitsune...

Kitsune: Interesting...

Text right: I will... I will...... I will......
Text left: I have to do it... Not Yura... But me... I will do it

MJ: I've found the darkness
MJ: In your heart~

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Akifusa: AAAAAAAAHHHH
Akifusa: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Akifusa: AAAHHHHH
Akifusa: AAAAHHHHHH

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Kitsune: Fufu... Fascinating.
Kitsune: I've decided on our next performance.

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Y: ......
Y: What... What's that...?

Ryuuji: .........
Text right: Yura's gone and brought out the Hagun...
Text left: But even if she can summon it...

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Ryuuji: Mamiru...?!
Mamiru: Ryuuji, your wounds are serious.
Mamiru: Yura told me to save you.

Ryuuji: Yura!!
Ryuuji: Akifusa... He's been infected by my poison!

Ryuuji: Normally you'd be about to die if you don't take the antidote within a minute of being infected!
Yura: ?!
Ryuuji: Blast that guy out of him!!

MJ: Kekeke...
Akifusa: *gurgle*
Akifusa: *gurgle*

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Yura: Got it...!!
Yura: Let's go, Shikigami Hagun!!

Yura: Huh?

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MJ: ...What's this?
MJ: You can't use it...?

Akifusa: See, I told you...
Akifusa: Yura... can't do it...

MJ: Gegege... The darkness in this guy's heart just grew even more!

Yura: Why won't you go?! Hey!
Yura: Damn you, why aren't you responding?!
Yura: Move!... Hagun!... Why won't you move?!

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Hidemoto \o/ : Begging like that isn't going to make them move, you know.
Hidemoto: You see, the Hagun...

Yura: No way—
Text left of Yura: He spoke...
Hidemoto: ...is different from regular Shikigami.

Hidemoto: Clear your mind, you who possesses "ability".
Hidemoto: And then wish for that ability to grow stronger.

Ryuuji: That's...
Text: The Hagun...

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Hidemoto: That's it.
Hidemoto: Then recite the evil-cleansing words.
Text left: ...Is not merely a technique that summons former family heads to the present.

Text left: Instead—

Text right: It borrows the spirit power of the ancestral gods
Yura: Repel the demon forces
Yura: Purify the source of evil
Text left: And enhances the strength

Text right: Of the summoner's ability
Text left: To the utmost limit—

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Text right: HAGUN
Text left: INVOCATION

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SFX bubble: thud

Ryuuji: She did it...

Ryuuji: Akifusa...

Akifusa: ......Ryuuji
Akifusa: I'm sorry......

Ryuuji: It's alright

Kitsune: That face...
Kitsune: I could never forget it.

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Kitsune: I never forgot it for a single instant
Kitsune: In 400 years...
Text vertical: They meet once again

Hidemoto: .........Is that you, Hagoromo Gitsune?
Text vertical: Light and Dark...!!
Hidemoto: Well, well. It has certainly been a while.
Hidemoto: That's one cute little body you've found yourself...

Text bottom right: ...Act 81 / END

Chapter Note

Page 19 "body" / 依代 / よりしろ
Hidemoto uses the word "yorishiro" which among other things is a term for an object or creature inhabited by a kami / spirit.