| 147 | [Masaki sits atop a Mugenjou building overlooking Tokyo, watching a small mirror fragment.] | |
| Kanou: | What are you doing, sir? | |
| Masaki: | Watching... the battle's course as it reaches me from the "observer". | |
| Kanou: | The Get Backers as usual... is it? | |
| Masaki: | Yes... | |
| 148 | It's this shard: he who possesses the unseen eye, Midou Ban. | |
| Kanou: | I dislike that man. Those eyes belong to a demonic nature. | |
| Masaki: | I do as well. That man stole "God's child" - Raitei - from us. |
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| Kanou: | ... Everything proceeds according to the Archive's records; according to God's will, doesn't it? |
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| 149 | If that is so, they will appear before you. At that time, sir, what do you plan to do with them? | |
| Masaki: | They won't be appearing. Amano Ginji will be defeated in the war against the Kiryudo, and will lose his life in that battle. That is the future recorded by the Archiver. |
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| Kanou: | ...That seems sad, truly. | |
| Masaki: | ... It is merely a matter for regret. Had it been possible, I would have liked to put him to sleep with these very hands. |
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| 150 151 |
As Kurusu Masaki, one of the Four Kings of the "Volts", who lived through that time by his side... | |
| 152 | Ginji: | ? |
| Hevn: | What is it, Gin-chan? | |
| Ginji: | Umh?? Felt like someone called my name-- | |
| Kadzuki: | It may be best to hurry. Once the sun goes down, our "insect" opponents will gain an advantage due to their special powers. | |
| Ginji: | ? ? (Something's weird~ something's weird~) *rolls around* | |
| Hevn: | What? | |
| Akabane: | ...Is it... the enemy? | |
| Ginji: | Yes! Around us -- they have us surrounded on all four sides!! |
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| Akabane: | You are indeed a finely-tuned sensor, to note the presence of enemies not even I can feel... As it is, we rely on you now. | |
| Juubei: | ...It's a marvel. | |
| Toshiki: | True... I've been trained since childhood to perceive the flow of ki, and your sixth sense has grown increasingly keen due to your blindness, but even we can't sense it. | |
| Kadzuki: | How exactly Ginji-san's sensor works is still a question. If there were enemies within some tens of meters of us, no matter how they worked to hide their presence, we three could not be expected to overlook it. | |
| 153 | Ginji: | But there's no mistaking it. They're about to attack us! |
| Akabane: | I see. So it's like that, then... | |
| Hevn: | What is it, Jackal? | |
| Akabane: | There's just one thing I'd like to ask Ginji-kun. Is it "humans" who are giving off this aggressive intent? |
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| Ginji: | Huh? | |
| Hevn: | What do you mean? | |
| Akabane: | Heh... Don't you understand, Miss Mediator? The presence of the enemy as perceived by these practitioners of the ancient schools, and even by me, is an energy -- what they call the "ki flow". Anger, fear, killing intention, all such "disturbances of ki". However, what triggers Ginji-kun's finely-tuned electromagnetic sensor is the minute current produced by living organisms. Yes. The "attacking intent" of everything-- |
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| 154 | Whether it be that of humans, or that of insects. | |
| [They're completely surrounded by giant spiders] | ||
| Ginji: | !? | |
| Spiders: | *chitter* | |
| 155 | Hevn: | They're insects! All of them! |
| Kadzuki: | Were they swallowed up by their insect Gou? | |
| Akabane: | No, say rather that they released them of their own will. | |
| Toshiki: | Is that so... they became insects for the sake of defeating us? Then we shall honour their determination with the answer of our full strength!! | |
| //Ginji: | This is fate -- is there really nothing I can do but fight...// | |
| Kadzuki: | ... Ginji-san, please take care of Hevn-san. |
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| Ginji: | Huh? | |
| Kadzuki: | And watch our battle from beginning to end, clearly, with your own eyes. | |
| Ginji: | Kazu-chan! I... | |
| Juubei: | Raitei is doubtful. | |
| 156 | The Kiryudo have staked their lives on this declaration of battle. To accept it without internal doubt is the courtesy of a samurai. | |
| Toshiki: | Even an unwished-for fight may have meaning; I learnt that from the battle that surrounded the matter of the "God's Narrative". | |
| Ginji: | Uryuu... Juubei... | |
| Hevn: | Wait... all of you!! There's a limitless number of insects opposing us! If we don't look for another route, we'll be killed for sure!! | |
| Toshiki: | We, the former "Fuuga" personal guards, do not know the meaning of retreat. | |
| (Hevn: These idiotic *men*...) | ||
| Kadzuki: | Ginji-san. We'd scattered and grown apart, but before we realised it we've gathered again like this, in order to face a common goal. I can't help but feel in that the tidal pull of some special destiny. |
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| Ginji: | Kazu-chan. | |
| 157 | Kadzuki: | Please watch, and see whether or not we're qualified to fight by your side in the great "war" that is to come!! |
| Ginji: | Fight... by my side? | |
| Akabane: | Shall we let the discussion rest there for the moment? Our adversaries appear terribly impatient. | |
| Spiders: | *chitter chitter* | |
| Akabane: | Well -- then. I may as well warm up for my rematch with Semimaru. | |
| 158 | Shall we begin? | |
| [He attacks] | ||
| Kadzuki: | We'll open a road for you, Ginji-san!! Please break through the web of their defenses and forge ahead to the Kiryudo's home base! | |
| Juubei: | Let's go!! | |
| Toshiki: | All right!! | |
| [They attack] | ||
| 159 | //Kadzuki: | Mother-- I feel as if I'm beginning to see why - when your life was almost at an end - you would at that time direct me to Mugenjou. I wish to let the tidal current of destiny take me; I can sense that it's also bound to my confrontation with the hidden ones, the users of the "black thread". That's why I want to fight alongside them... |
| 160 161 |
Amano Ginji and Midou Ban-- Alongside the Get Backers!!// |
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| 162 | Kirihito: | It's begun, Mother. |
| Onigumo: | Is this well, Jorougumo-sama? For us officers not to join in, and to rely on lower-level warriors... |
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| Kirihito: | Even counting the woman with no fighting ability, the enemy are six. We had four hundred warriors give themselves over to their insect "Gou". The odds are overwhelming against our loss. However, compared to enemies who've come before, there's something decisively different about these people. | |
| Jorougumo: | Is that the conclusion you reached from your battle with Midou Ban? | |
| Kirihito: | Yes. | |
| Jorougumo: | ... If what you say is true-- |
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| 163 | Then I do not wish you to fight. | |
| //Onigumo: | I must protect Jorougumo-sama. You and Kirihito-sama only, even if I have to exchange my life for your safety...// | |
| Kagegumo: | Kirihito-sama! | |
| Kirihito: | What is it? Tobigumo, Kagegumo!! | |
| Kagegumo: | It's... | |
| Kirihito: | You mean...! | |
| 164 | [Our heroes stand, much the worse for wear, surrounded by fallen spiders.] | |
| Kirihito: | Four hundred warriors become insects -- annihilated by six people only!? | |
| 165 | Onigumo: | For one... has the strength of a thousand... |