Nurarihyon no Mago 97

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Kitsune: What's this?
Kitsune: He had a grandson too?

Kitsune: I'm sure I cursed him so that he couldn't have children.
Starred text: Terrible memories resurface...
Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Kitsune: Ah, I see... Another one who lay with a human...
Kitsune: How disappointing! I just can't seem to read that blood of his...

Kitsune: The grandson... of Nurarihyon, huh...

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Kitsune: Still, a kitsune's curse will never disappear.
Text: Act 97: Nightmare
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Starred: A whispered curse echoes from the depths of his memory...

Kitsune: I guarantee this blood will cease to flow
Kitsune: The blood of the hateful Nurarihyon...

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DADDEH: RIKUO
Daddeh: RUN!

Daddeh: Run, Rikuo...

Daddeh: Run...

Daddeh: Run from the darkness...
Text: Who was that?

Text: Who was it that stabbed my father?

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Rikuo: Haa
Riikuo: Haaa
Rikuo: Haa

SFX: shiku shiku
SFX: shiku
[TN: sobbing]

Text: Who was it?

Text: Who was it
Text: That made my mother so sad?

Rikuo: You're...
Rikuo: Tsuchigumo!

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Rikuo: TSUUUCHIII
Rikuo: GUUMOOOOOO

Text: I am the inheritor of the blood of Nurarihyon!!

Rikuo: OOOOOOOHHHHHH
Text: Shift his awareness
Text: Sever his Fear!!

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Text: I can't reach him

Text: Why?
Text: I dodge, and I dodge... and I get past his guard

Text: But even when I slash straight at him
Text: There's nothing... that can touch him.

Rikuo: Why can't I reach him?
Rikuo: Why?... WHY?!

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Rikuo: AH

SFX: *ba-dump*
SFX: *ba-dump*

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Rikuo: Gyuuki...!

Rikuo: Where... are we?
Rikuo: Where is everyone? What happened to me?

Gyuuki: I carried you here, Rikuo...

Gyuuki: Where are you going, Rikuo?

Rikuo: I'm going to defeat Tsuchigumo!!
Rikuo: There's no time! I have to go save Tsurara!!

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[FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU]

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Gyuuki: Right now, that is impossible for you.

Gyuuki: You'd be overpowered
Gyuuki: By the Fear of a subordinate in the Hyakki Yakou.

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Rikuo: Uu...
Rikuo: Uuuh...
Text: Th... This is...

Text: Gyuuki's
Gyuuki: The leader of the Nura Clan must never lose.
Text: Fear?!

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Rikuo: Haa
Rikuo: Haaa

Gyuuki: You dodged... but now what will you do?

Rikuo: Huh?...

Gyuuki: Rikuo
Gyuuki: You went to Toono... and seem to have come to understand "yourself" better.

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Gyuuki: However. The essence of the ayakashi "Nurarihyon"...
Gyuuki: Stops there.

Rikuo: ......?!

Gyuuki: You are able to sever an opponent's Fear, and move past their guard.
Gyuuki: That's as far as your ability can take you.

Rikuo: Huh?...
Rikuo: What... do you mean—

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Rikuo: Haaa... Haaa...
Gyuuki: Rikuo... There's no doubt that you have become stronger in the past few months.
Gyuuki: But here in the capital, that won't be enough.

Gyuuki: In order to make your own blade reach
Gyuuki: There are two things you must do...

Gyuuki: If there is indeed no time, then you have 3 days.
Gyuuki: In that time... become stronger than Nurarihyon, than yourself.

Rikuo: ......
Rikuo: Become stronger than... myself...?

Rikuo: Wh...
Rikuo: What does that even mean?!

Tengu: Gyuuki...

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Tengu: You telling him won't make him understand.
Tengu: It will only come through actual combat.

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Rikuo: ?!
Text: Who's that...?
Gyuuki: You're right...
Gyuuki: Rikuo, draw your sword. Within 3 days, you must obtain the "capability" the leader of a Hyakki must possess...

Text: Capability...?

Rikuo: Capability...?!
Rikuo: What do you mean, "capability," Gyuuki?!

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Gyuuki: Draw your sword, Rikuo.

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Text: What... was that?...
Text: Gyuuki... He's... completely different... from before...
Text: Is this Gyuuki's true strength...?

Gyuuki: Rikuo
Gyuuki: Try to surpass yourself!
Text: How will Rikuo respond to Gyuuki...?

Text bottom right: ...Act 97 / END
Text bottom right: Next time, cover & centre colour to celebrate our 2nd year running!