p01
Jamir, Himalayas
Yuzuriha in pursuit of an evil cosmo!
Yuzuriha:
there!?
Yuzuriha: Just like the Elder said, this is where one of the Evil Stars of the Underworld's army landed...!
Yuzuriha: I can feel the evil cosmo all the way from here!
Yuzuriha: It's...!?
p02-03
Story this far: Hearing the voice of a childhood friend Ahimsa, Virgo Gold Saint Asmita appears to the rescue. But the man closest to a god in the Underworld, Atavaka, wants to lay his hands on Ahimsa. The two that are close to being gods feel mutual interest...!?
An unusual phenomenon on yet another plane, "our" world...!?
Yuzuriha: What is... this statue?...
Yuzuriha: The dreadful evil coming from it is melting the snow around...
Yuzuriha: This statue... is one of the 108 Evil Stars...
Yuzuriha: It's dangerous to just leave it here!
Yuzuriha: I will destroy it!!!
p04
Yuzuriha: ...What!?
Yuzuriha: How?...
Yuzuriha: It's just an evil will, how can it emit such strong energy...!?
Yuzuriha: Uwaaah!!!
p05
Hakurei: Good grief, Yuzuriha.
Hakurei: I told you specifically to not dash here on your own...
Hakurei: Even though you can tell the abominable feeling of the Underworld's army.
Yuzuriha: Elder... Master Hakurei!!!
Yuzuriha: ...It might be just a statue... but it's too dangerous!
Hakurei: Hm...
Hakurei: We felt an evil will growing stronger day by day, it must be the source.
p06
Hakurei: It's Atavaka.
Hakurei: Fierce, evil god of wastelands. He is said to attack and devour the weak.
Yuzuriha: An evil god...
Yuzuriha: So, we have to hurry
and destroy this statue...
Hakurei: ...No. I will now seal this evil will inside it.
Yuzuriha: But, why!?
Hakurei: Because it appears that his cosmo is not coming from this world.
Hakurei: It's coming from behind the gates of Sekishiki, from the depths of Yomotsu Hirasaka.
p07
Yuzuriha: From the Underworld...!? But we...
Hakurei: That's right! We cannot go into the Underworld with our living bodies.
Yuzuriha: Then... how can you make the seal reach that far...!?
Hakurei: Don't worry, Yuzuriha.
Hakurei: In Sanctuary, there is the only person who can confront Atavaka!
Yuzuriha: You don't mean...?
p08
Hakurei: Yes! Virgo Asmita!!!
Hakurei: The only Saint capable of wandering freely between this world and the Underworld, the one conversing with gods!
Yuzuriha: The evil will...
Yuzuriha: calmed down...?
p09
Yuzuriha: But, master... I'm not sure of his nature... First of all, is he even going to take part in this Holy War?...
Hakurei: Some time ago, it might have been hard to convince him.
Hakurei: But now...
Hakurei: He's encountered lady Athena.
Hakurei: In any case, we have no choice but to trust him...
Hakurei: Asmita...?
Hakurei: You said that by nature you receive the pain of others...
p10
Hakurei: So, what can you see down there
Hakurei: with your closed eyes...?
p11
Ahimsa: ...Tch.
Ahimsa: ...It's... cruel!
Ahimsa: Hey, Asmita! Why won't they escape!?
Ahimsa: It's because of those Spectres, right!?
Ahimsa: If they're in pain, they should just run away...
Ahimsa: Or maybe they just want to suffer, like those guys in the Forest of Austerity...
Asmita: It's not that they want to suffer.
Ahimsa: Then...
Asmita: ...But they cannot run away.
p12
Asmita: This is the law of the Underworld.
Ahimsa: Law... of the Underworld...?
Asmita: Yes. Since the age of myth, the lord of the Underworld's will has been flowing in here. That is why those who die are deprived of their personalities with only the sense of pain left...
Asmita: They suffer for eternity without even a single ray of hope!
p13
Ahimsa: Everyone has to suffer such fate...?
Ahimsa: That's cruel...
Asmita: To keep one's personality in the Underworld it is necessary to awaken the utmost sense, the one above the seventh sense. An ordinary human cannot achieve it.
Asmita: And yet, somehow you managed to awaken that sense.
Ahimsa: I'm not... ordinary...?
Asmita: ...Yes. This is probably why that Atavaka is interested in you.
Ahimsa: ...That's why you saved me.
Ahimsa: Because I'm not ordinary.
Ahimsa: ...Wait...!
Ahimsa: It means... that my mom, who died of an illness...?
p14
Ahimsa: Uoooh!!!
Ahimsa: Guaah! It's hot!
Asmita: ...What do you think you're doing?
Ahimsa: Sorry, Asmita...
Ahimsa: It's time for me to leave...!
p15
Ahimsa: She must've fallen in here. I'm finding and rescuing my mum...!
Ahimsa: This must be the reason why I didn't become a regular dead...!
Asmita: Fool... The Underworld is vast.
Asmita: Even if you find your mother, she's not a human any more! She will not recognize you!
Ahimsa: I don't care! If I'm here in the Underworld, I want to be with her!!!
p17
Ahimsa: ...Wha...?
Ahimsa: Black fire...?
Ahimsa: What's... this?
Ahimsa: Asmita... What's with these black flames?...
Ahimsa: They're burning out the dead...
Ahimsa: What's... this feeling?...
Ahimsa: It's entirely different than with that previous Spectre...
p18-19
Ahimsa: More overwhelming...
Ahimsa: Who... is this guy...? He's a Spectre... but he's so powerful... He can't be...!
Ahimsa: Is he Atavaka..!?
Kagaho: Tch!
Kagaho: Virgo, the man closest to a god on the earth...
Kagaho: Atavaka is concerned about you, so I would have never thought...
p20
Kagaho: That you're so spineless...!!!
Kagaho: I'm disappointed...
Kagaho: You wander around with this dead weakling... Let's see your strength...!
Kagaho: Maybe a coward like you can save only cowards!?
Kagaho: Virgo!!!
p21
Ahimsa: Uwaah...
Asmita: I'm not here to save anyone.
Asmita: And besides, isn't wandering around exactly what you Spectres do?
Asmita: Especially you!
Kagaho: Shut
...!
Kagaho: You're just a waste of time. This will be my final answer...
Kagaho: ...These black flames of Bennu Kagaho of the Celestial Violent Star!!!
p22-23
Kagaho: Corona Blast!!!
Ahimsa: ...Tch.
Ahimsa: A fierce, hot wind coming from a black sun...!
Ahimsa: Uwaaah!!!
p24
Asmita: Your flames seem a bit too fierce.
Asmita: They will consume you any time soon. These are the flames of denial and hostility.
p25
Asmita: Any time soon, the nothingness will swallow you.
Kagaho: Cut the crap!!!
p26
Ahimsa: ...Uwah!
Ahimsa: What... kind of fight is this...!?
Ahimsa: These flames are so violent,
Ahimsa: and yet he can reflect them back with twice the strength...!
Ahimsa: On the other hand, this guy...
Ahimsa: isn't defending at all!!!
Kagaho: Uoooooo!!!
p27
Ahimsa: His attack got through!!?
Ahimsa: ...But he...
Ahimsa: is receiving damage from his own attack...
Ahimsa: Wasn't he determined to win...?
Ahimsa: ...No, it's not that!
Ahimsa: He is not determined...
p28
Ahimsa: What?...
Ahimsa: You're... Kageboushi!
Ahimsa: But you were blown to pieces...
Ahimsa: You must be dead...
Kageboushi: This is exactly what an eternal life, "immortality", is.
p29
Ahimsa: Eternal life...
Kageboushi: We are different from the dead who can only suffer for eternity.
Kageboushi: We keep our own will and bodies to travel between the surface world and the Underworld.
Kageboushi: We can spend these lives as we see fit.
Ahimsa: I see... So...
Ahimsa: This is why you rush headlong into death...
Ahimsa: You can spend these lives as you see fit...!?
Ahimsa: Instead of wasting them, why don't you share this power with others!?
Ahimsa: Then...
Kageboushi: Like, for example...
p30
Kageboushi: With your mother?
Ahimsa: ...Huh?
p31
Kageboushi: Then share it with her yourself.
Kageboushi: Share with her your gift of eternal life!
Asmita: ...Don't do this...
Kagaho: You think you can look away from me...!
p32
Ahimsa: I can share my life...
Ahimsa: with my mother...?
Kageboushi: Would it be so different from your previous life?
Kageboushi: To help your ill mother,
Kageboushi: you would take food and clothes from those who don't need it, the dead people. Am I right?
p33
Kageboushi: If the dead waste the goods offered to them,
Kageboushi: then what about you, who waste a chance to get a life. You will forever be just a dead ready to steal from!!!
Kageboushi: ...Do you really understand?
p34
Ahimsa: In the shadow behind Kageboushi...
Ahimsa: I can see... the Hell of Needles...?
Ahimsa: That woman...
Ahimsa: She can't be...
Ahimsa: This is...
p35
Ahimsa: Mom!?
Ahimsa: ...kuh
Ahimsa: ....Shit...!!!
Ahimsa: Are you all right, mum!!?
Ahimsa: Were you tormented like this all this time...!!?
Kageboushi: So, what will you do, Ahimsa?
p36
Atavaka: Your poor mother must be in pain.
Atavaka: Do you want to relieve her of this pain?
Atavaka: Then call me.
Atavaka: Call Atavaka.
Atavaka: I will grant you eternal life.
Ahimsa: ...Mum...
p37
Ahimsa: You were a good person.
Ahimsa: Worn out and yet beautiful.
Ahimsa: You suffered so much in life,
Ahimsa: and you have to suffer after you died for eternity?...
Ahimsa: Asmita...!
Ahimsa: You chanted sutras for my mum!
Ahimsa: It was in vain...!
Ahimsa: Our voice cannot reach
Ahimsa: this cruel world!
Ahimsa: Then I will...
Ahimsa: I will...
p38-39
Atavaka: A fissure in my illusory room...
p40
Atavaka: Hm... Interesting!
Atavaka: Even involved in fight with Bennu, you were able to summon Chimimouryou and destroy my space...
Atavaka: Just what I expected!!! Virgo!!!
p41
Asmita: ...So, you must be Atavaka?
Asmita: You stole the body of Kageboushi to deceive Ahimsa.
Asmita: Is this how badly you want to lead him astray...?
Atavaka: No, Virgo. I only want to offer him salvation.
Atavaka: It's
to him to decide.
Atavaka:
to him to...
p42-43
Atavaka: ...wake
his soul!!!
Atavaka: Welcome, comrade,
p44
Atavaka: to your new life.
Asmita: Ahimsa!
His childhood friend has lost his way!?