This is an improved translation, courtesy of the sharp eyes and (considerably) greater linguistic talents of rei@athena.mit.edu. Whatever clumsy comments and poorly-worded phrases you find are the remains of my original posting. ^_^; (The backup story to this volume should be posted sometime this week or next ..) ---------------------------- >8 cut here 8< ---------------------------- New Vampire Miyu, Volume 1 - Chapter 1: Seiyou shinma hen 1 The Western Shinma, Part 1 written by Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi illustrated by Kakinouchi Narumi copyright 1992 Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi translation by: Paul M. Aoki (aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU) revision 1.0 translation Eri Izawa (rei@athena.MIT.EDU) proof-reading and corrections for revisions > 1.0 $Revision: 2.0 $ of $Date: 1992/12/08 04:40:40 $ No part of this translation may be quoted, published or distributed for any commercial purpose without the express permission of the translator. It may be distributed on a non-profit basis provided the text is maintained as it was originally released. This translation is distributed as-is, without any claims or warranty of accuracy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES 1. I use the following markings: [] = textual comment {} = my comments <> = "sound" (or action) FX "" = speech (x,y) = page x, panel y 2. Some notes on a few of the Western Shinma: CAIT SITH - Since he is named for the monstrous Celtic fairy cat (note: "Sith" is pronounced "shee"), it's not surprising that his attack consists of a pack of cat-headed wraiths. NIGHT GIA - A shaper of dreams, like Baku (on whom Raen, from OAV 1, is based). He's not actually Baku, though someone calls him that at one point in the story. PAZUSU - The undisputed leader of the Western Shinma, the Arabic-looking Pazusu is often addressed as "Pazusu-sama," "Pazusu-dono" or even just "Master." WATER LIPPER - A standard-issue water nixie (pale, webbed extremities, etc.) 3. I couldn't come up with a word for "makai" ("spirit/magic world") that sounded right, so (as with "shinma") I left it as-is. Ditto for "mashujutsu" -- it's something like "exorcism," literally "magical operation." 4. The weird writing (e.g., @#$%^&*) in the second half of the book is not swearing, it's a way to represent incantations that were originally written in...well, weird writing. (Kind of like Lightning-Speed Language, for you A!MG! fans.) 5. We know that Miyu's chronological age is at least 30 even though her physiological age is 13. Carlua and Lemunia were very young children when Larva left for Japan, putting them in their mid-20s. They are not more than a few years younger than Miyu, and in fact they appear just a few years older (mid- to late-teens). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (7,1) [In the dim, cold world of the Dark, the spirits sleep. The time does not pass peacefully. People with troubled hearts summon the spirits from the makai, and these spirits stray into the world of humans and exploit them. The Japanese Shinma have a hunter for their strays and a guardian of their sleep -- Vampire Miyu.] (8,2) {gasps} (8,3) {rushing through foliage} A hooded man runs, panic-stricken, along a forest path. He is being pursued by a taller hooded figure wearing a pale mask. The torii gate of a shrine marks the end of the path ahead of them. (8,4) {thump} A girl lands lightly on a wooden beam. (9,2) (9,4) The man being pursued halts, gasping in horror at the sight of the young girl now perched on the cross-beam of the torii. The girl is pale, pretty and very young in appearance, perhaps thirteen. She wears plain white yukata trimmed in scarlet -- hair-ribbon, sash, slip, ankle-ribbon, all bright red. She stares with golden eyes at the panting man, smiling faintly at his distress, her ponytail fluttering in the breeze. (10,1) [New Vampire Miyu: The Western Shinma, Part 1] (12,1) (12,2) The girl leaps off of the beam and descends lightly to the ground. (13,1) Miyu: "I am Miyu..." (13,2) (13,3) {burst of flame} A flame appears in her hand, and several others appear around the man as well. (13,3) Miyu: "...vampire warder of the Dark." (13,5) Larva: "Return the stray shinma to the Dark..." (14,1) {flame crackling} (14,3) Miyu: "Bye bye!" (14,3) {"niko" = "smile" FX} (15,2) {crash} (16,1) The crackling flames engulf her quarry (now revealed by his pointed ears and extra eye as something other than human), then subside. But another figure watches from the trees... (16,5) {rustling leaves} (16,5) shinma: --Miyu. (17,1) shinma: Warder of stray shinma. (17,1) Miyu: "C'mon, Larva." (17,2) shinma: Miyu... (17,3) {flapping wings} (17,4) Miyu: "Who's calling?" The spying figure, a bird with a man's head, crashes out of the trees and soars into the sky. (17,4) (17,5) Miyu: "Oh, it's (only) a bird." (18,1) Miyu: "What do you think, Larva..." (18,2) Miyu: "Just now...did you hear a voice call me?" (18,3) Larva: "No, not to me...." (18,4) Miyu: "I see." (19,1) Miyu: "Well, let's not worry about it. C'mon!" (19,2) shinma: --Miyu. (19,3) shinma: Miyu. Vampire Miyu. On a cold winter day, bundled-up Japanese teenagers troop off to enjoy another fulfilling day of high school. Two girls, one with a familiar scarlet-wrapped ponytail and another with short hair and glasses, walk together. Another (somewhat insipid-looking) girl runs up to catch up with them. (20,2) Asako: "Hiiiii!" (20,3) friend: "Oh, hi!" Asako: "Cold, isn't it?" (20,4) Asako: "Hi, Miyu. Hi, Miyu. Going slowly today, aren't you?" (20,5) Miyu: "Oh?" Asako: "But then, you're always the first to class, aren't you!" (21,1) Asako: "Done with your literature assignment?" Miyu: "Uh huh." Asako: "C'mon, let me copy it, please?" friend: "Not again! You've done this a lot since she moved here." (21,2) {giggle} (21,2) Miyu: (to friend) "It's all right..." (21,3) Asako: "But Miyu has a good head for this stuff..." (21,4) friend: "You should do your own homework. What's the point, if you don't?" (21,5) Asako: Yeah, yeah, Madam Head-of-the-Class-Committee. You're absolutely right. (21,5) Asako nods to herself and turns to run off. (21,6) friend: "Asako!" (21,6) (21,6) Asako: "See you later. I have to find someone to copy my math assignment from." (21,7) friend: "Asakoo! You... Aa!" (22,1) friend: "Asako! Ahead of y--" (22,1) (22,1) Asako: "Kyaa!" {scream} Asako looks ahead of her just in time to mash her face against a man's back. (22,2) Asako: "Oh, geez...I ran into someone?" (22,3) Hanyuu: "Are you alright?" Talk about handsome! Miyu stares. Asako burbles. Miyu's friend gives up on Asako. (22,5) friend: "What an airhead." Asako: (thinking out loud) "Oh, he's handsome!" (to Hanyuu) "Sorry." Hanyuu: "No, that's all right." (23,1) friend: "She's riding high, isn't she..." (23,2) friend: "Miyu, you should've turned her down. That girl's taking advantage of you." (23,3) (23,3) Miyu: "Homework is something she has to do (by herself) anyway. It's not clear if it'll produce anything good for her." (23,4) friend: "That's true, isn't it." In the classroom, the sailor-fuku bishoujo find a surprise... (23,5) Hanyuu: "Good morning, everyone." (23,6) Hanyuu: "I'm the new teacher, Mr. Hannyu. As I think you've already heard, your teacher became ill and was hospitalized. I am Mr. Miuchi's substitute." (24,1) Hanyuu: "Pleased to meet you." (24,2) Miyu sighs, preoccupied, cupping her chin with her hand. Asako is ecstatic. (24,3) Asako: The guy from this morning turned out to be the new teacher. Haha, he's so good-looking; what luck!" (24,4) (24,5) Miyu is still daydreaming as Mr. Hanyuu comes up from behind her and raps on her desk. (24,6) Hanyuu: "Where are you looking?" (25,1) Hanyuu: "You're the model student I heard about from Mr. Miuchi. Are you acting like this because you dislike my teaching?" (25,2) Miyu: "No..." (25,3) Hanyuu: "Well, please come to the teachers' room after class. I want some help in arranging some reports." (25,4) Miyu: "Yes, sir." (25,5) Miyu: Larva...Larva, can you hear my voice? Meanwhile, in a field... (25,5) (26,1) {walking through grass} (26,2) (26,2) Larva: "Miyu..." And later, in the hall... (26,3) (26,4) SIGN: "TEACHERS' ROOM - LITERATURE" {shiryou shitsu - kobun} {"shiryou" = "data/material," but teachers do their paperwork and prepare for upcoming classes as well as store their books/notes in this sort of room.} {"kobun" is really "ancient writing" or "classics," but who in America says "classics" anymore? ^_^;} (26,4) (27,1) Miyu: "Mr. Hanyuu, may I come in?" (27,2) Hanyuu: "Yes. Yamano, right? Come on in." (27,2) Mr. Hanyuu is fumbling with a stack of binders, trying to reorganize and shelve them. (27,3) Miyu: "Excuse me." (27,3) (27,4) Hanyuu: "Bring me those files on the desk." Miyu: "Yes, sir..." (27,5) (27,6) (27,6) Hanyuu: "You're...Yamano *Miyu*?" Teacher knows who she really is. Miyu smiles as she hands Mr. Hanyuu his files. (28,1) Miyu: "That's right, ``teacher''!" Hanyuu: "Thanks." (28,2) (28,2) Miyu: "How did you learn my name?" (28,3) Hanyuu: "It was Tanaka Miyu before, and I've also heard of Satou Miyu, and then there was Hayashi, and Yamamoto, Shimada, Hirano, and so many others..." {Yes, "Hirano" is written with the same kanji as in "Hirano Toshihiro."} Hanyuu: "So..." (28,4) Hanyuu: "...which is it, really?" (28,6) Miyu: (smiling) "I've forgotten." (29,1) Miyu: "What are *you* doing here, revealing yourself to me like this?" {where "anata" is written in furigana, the kanji is actually "shinma".} (29,2) Miyu: "If you aren't a good boy, I'll have to return you to the Dark." Hanyuu chuckles and goes back to organizing his books and papers. (29,3) (29,3) Hanyuu: "No, I'm just here as a substitute teacher." (29,4) Hanyuu: "I'll be a good boy." (29,4) Miyu sits on a nearby table. (29,4) Miyu: Oh, is that so... (30,1) Miyu: "Isn't there something you want from me?" Miyu smiles sweetly at Hanyuu. (30,3) (30,4) (30,4) Asako: "Teacher! I decided to help you arrange your material!" (30,5) Asako: "Having lots of people is better than having just one, isn't it?" (30,6) Hanyuu: "Much obliged, but...well, your assignment was totally copied from Miyu's. Do it over yourself now." (31,1) Asako: "HUUUHH!?" (31,2) Asako: "MIYU! You ratted on me?" Miyu: "Uh uh, did not." (31,3) Hanyuu: "She didn't have to, I understood after one look at what you turned in. We've finished here, so..." (31,4) Hanyuu: "Go back to the classroom and redo your assignment. I'll be right there." (31,5) Miyu: He's a shinma...but not a stray shinma. There doesn't seem to be any purpose behind his appearance here... or is there...? What will he do next? And he even came and revealed himself to me. (32,1) Hanyuu: "We can't be alone here at school. Tonight at the shrine...I'd like to see you there." It's a windy night at the forest shrine. As Miyu approaches the torii, she notices a black feather and picks it up, only to have it blow out of her hand. (32,4) (32,5) (33,2) (33,3) {wind blowing} (33,4) shinma: "Good evening." It's the bird-shinma from page 19! He perches on the torii cross-beam, right where Miyu was sitting on page 10. (34,1) shinma: "I'm so glad you came alone." (34,2) (34,3) (34,4) (34,4) Miyu: "I don't like being looked down upon." (35,1) Miyu: "Besides...that's a favorite place of mine." (35,2) shinma: "How rude of me!" (35,3) (35,3) shinma: "Hahaha...I don't want us to be interrupted by your handsome fellow.... So before that happens, I would like you to come to my space (plane, dimension)." (35,4) Miyu looks more closely at the bird-shinma, and realizes that it has the same face as her erstwhile teacher. (36,1) Miyu: "So what do you want with me?" (36,2) Miyu: "I'm going to get angry!" (36,3) Hanyuu: "By all means, feel free to be angry. You're going to send me back to the Dark anyway." (36,4) (36,5) (36,6) (37,1) Miyu ignites a ball of flame, throws ... (37,2) (37,3) (37,3) Hanyuu: "Hah!" {"otto," comment one makes while successfully saving oneself from danger} (38,1) ...and the bird-shinma, grinning, dodges. (38,1) Hanyuu: "Oh, now..." (38,4) The bird-shinma stoops. One of his feet has talons, and he grabs for Miyu but slashes her upraised arm. (39,5) Miyu: "I'm hurt..." (39,6) Miyu: "My...blood." (39,7) (Miyu licks her bleeding arm.) (40,1) Miyu: "To think you've injured my arm..." arm..." (40,2) Miyu: "I won't forgive you for this!" (40,3) The bird-shinma laughs and prepares to stoop again. (40,4) Hanyuu: "Here I come, Miyu!" {lit. "Come over, Miyu!"} (40,5) (41,1) Miyu whips off her hair ribbon. (41,2) Miyu: "COME ON!" {lit. "I'm coming!"} (42,2) (42,3) Miyu uses her ribbon just as Ranka used her obi in OAV 2, snaring the bird-shinma's claw. (42,4) Miyu: "You won't escape." (42,5) She begins to haul in the struggling bird-shinma. Unlike Miyu in OAV 2, Hanyuu is unable to break the strip of cloth. (43,1) (43,1) Hanyuu: "Whaa...?" (43,2) Miyu: "Silly, it's because you made me angry at you." (43,3) Miyu: "If you keep struggling you'll just tighten it." (43,5) Miyu ignites another ball of flame and drags the bird-shinma into it. (43,5) Miyu: "Does that hurt?" (43,4) (43,5) Miyu: "I would have been lenient because you were handsome..." Having dragged the bird-shinma to the ground, Miyu finds herself at the end of her ribbon. She yanks him down to a rough landing. (44,1) Miyu: "Well, this is the end!" (44,2) (44,3) (44,4) (44,4) Miyu: "Be a good boy in the Dark." (45,1) (45,2) Hanyuu: "I'm impressed. It happened so quickly." (45,3) Hanyuu: "It appears you aren't being a warder of shinma just for show." Miyu: "Prepare yourself." (45,4) Miyu, annoyed by his verbosity, lights another fireball. (45,4) Miyu: "You've seen my blood, so I'm not going to let you off easy. I'm going to burn you to ashes." (45,5) (46,1) But Larva catches her arm as she prepares to throw the fireball. (46,2) Larva: "That's enough, isn't it, Miyu?" (46,3) Larva: "Why don't we listen to his story to the end." (47,1) Miyu: "Larva...?" (47,2) Larva: "Yes?" (47,3) Miyu: (pouting) "...you're late." (47,4) Larva: "I'm sorry. I couldn't find a way into this world. Only when his spirit weakened could I finally slip inside." (47,5) Larva: "He felt as if he needed to learn what your strength was, alone." Miyu: "What? I..." (47,6) Hanyuu: --Miyu. (48,1) Hanyuu: To our makai, from the sea, a ship...a threat to the Japanese Shinma... (48,2) Miyu: "Ship?" (48,3) Saya: "What's that?" (48,3) (48,4) Saya: "It's...it's what?" (48,5) Hanyuu: A...ship... Flashback...a sailing ship looms out of the fog, moving forward even though its sails hang in tatters. Its rigging and hull gently creak as it makes its way through the calm seas. Hanyuu and his mate, Saya, fly ahead of the ship. (49,2) Hanyuu: "A western ghostship..." (49,2) {creaking} (49,3) Hanyuu: "I wonder if there's anyone left on board?" A hooded figure in black materializes in the prow of the ghostship. (49,4) Hanyuu: "Shall we go and take a closer look?" Saya: "But..." (49,5) Hanyuu: "Aa, something glinted." The hooded figure, which can now be made out as female, walks out over the stem and onto the bowsprit, passing beyond the crudely-carved figurehead. The wind blows a stray lock of golden hair from her hood. (50,1) (50,1) Hanyuu: "A shinma? No, it can't be?" The hooded female strides out along the bowsprit and onto the jib boom. The jibs are draped on their sheets and the jib boom, blowing in shreds like the rest of the sails. (50,3) Saya: "At the end of the boom...what type of...blond?" (50,4) Hanyuu: "--A woman?" (50,4) (51,1) Hanyuu: "A mask!" (51,2) Saya: "Alone...? No, there's more of them." (51,3) Hanyuu: "My...my body won't move!" Saya: "Nooo...We're being drawn toward the ship!" (51,4) Hanyuu: "Western Shinma!" (51,4) The hooded woman opens her hand and a small, transparent sphere appears in it. Fiery tendrils shoot out and surround Saya, drawing her toward the ship. (52,1) Carlua: "Come..." Saya: "NOOOO!!!" (52,2) Carlua: "Hahaha...Welcome into my crystal ball." (52,3) The hooded woman laughs as Saya is drawn completely into her sphere. Saya has been shrunk to the size of Carlua's hand. (53,1) Saya: "KYAAAA!!!" (53,2) Hanyuu: "SAYA!" (53,3) Saya: "Flee, Hanyuu!" (53,3) Hanyuu discovers that he can flap again, but he remains, helpless to save his mate. (53,4) Hanyuu: "Darling...I can't leave you!" (53,4) (53,5) Saya: "FLEEE!" (54,2) Hanyuu: Saya! Saya's disappearing... (54,3) (54,4) The hooded woman closes her fist, causing the sphere...and Saya's tiny figure...to vanish. She looks down at her hand, as if unable to believe the ease with which she defeated the bird-shinma. (54,5) Hanyuu: "Saya!" (54,6) Carlua: "How absurd. Are the Japanese Shinma like this?" (55,1) Carlua: (looking at Hanyuu) "And yet, why is he..." (55,2) Hanyuu: "Sa...ya. The masked woman is a sorceress..." (55,3) Hanyuu: "My beloved Saya..." (55,4) Saya: (mental echoes) "FLEE. --FLEE!" (55,5) Miyu: "--So... You're saying you barely escaped?" (56,1) Hanyuu: Yes. I'd like to ask you for revenge! (56,2) (56,2) Hanyuu: That's why I wanted to learn your strength, even if it cost me my life. Vampires are...known to be the elite of the shinma. (56,3) Miyu: "Hmph. You're a pretty selfish shinma." (56,4) (56,4) Miyu: "Although I have no interest in some revenge-drama ... Western Shinma, huh?" (56,5) Miyu: Larva...? (57,1) (57,1) Hanyuu: I beg you...Miyu. The Western Shinma will be landing in the Japanese makai. (57,2) (57,2) Miyu: "Hmm. In Japan." (57,3) (57,3) Miyu: "C'mon, Larva." Larva: "--All right." The ghostship, of course, continues to approach Japan. (57,4) (58,1) Carlua: "--Miyu. Just wait, I will sink you into the depths of this cold spirit-world sea...." (59,1) (59,3) Flashback. Carlua is a young child, waist-high, standing in a field of tall grass. A man walks through the field and, seeing the crying girl, walks toward her. (59,5) (60,1) (60,3) (60,4) (60,4) man: "What are you doing? Are you trying to play hide-and-seek here?" (61,1) (61,1) Carlua: "Don't treat me like a child, I'm angry." man: "About the meeting?" (61,2) Carlua: "That's right!" (61,3) Carlua: "Grownups always try to leave me out of things." (61,4) Carlua: "Even you were somehow included among them (the adults). That's not fair!" (61,5) man: "You're a bold child, aren't you?" (61,5) On the ghostship, the Western Shinma have sighted a foggy coastline. A massive torii decorated with two shining orbs rises above the fog. (62,1) (62,2) (62,4) Cait Sith: "It's..." (63,2) Cait Sith: "...the gateway to the Japanese makai." (63,4) (63,5) (63,5) Night Gia: "The only..." (64,1) Night Gia: "...gate?" (64,2) Pazusu: "Destroy, break or tear off those two horn-jewels...and the gate will be open." (64,3) Water Lipper: "We can easily do that." (65,1) Amy: "The problem is...there's a guardian." (65,1) (65,3) Carlua: "--Miyu?" (65,4) Spartoi: "She doesn't appear to be here." (66,1) Spartoi: "We'll get inside." (66,1) Carlua: "I can tell where Miyu is." (66,2) (66,3) Cait Sith: "Haha..." (66,4) Cait Sith: "Pretty Carlua." (66,5) Cait Sith: "You can feel Larva's presence." (67,1) Lemunia: "--and he's always with Miyu." (67,2) Amy: "Right, Carlua...?" (67,3) Nettled by the comments of her comrades, Carlua strides off and prepares to teleport into the Japanese makai. Someone has to take care of Miyu... (67,5) {steps on the wooden deck} (68,1) (68,1) Carlua: "I'm going." (68,1) Cait Sith snickers. (68,2) (68,3) Two of the older and wiser members of the expedition cut her off. Pazusu grabs Carlua's hand. (68,3) Pazusu: "--Carlua." (68,4) (68,4) Pazusu: "What are you doing?" (68,5) (68,5) Night Gia: "Better to be calm, don't you think, Carlua?" (69,1) Night Gia: "Leave it to me." Carlua: "But..." (69,2) Night Gia: "Don't you want to learn why Larva has taken up with Miyu?" Carlua: "I suppose..." (69,3) Carlua: "Larva..." (69,4) Spartoi: "How did a man (as powerful as) Larva (become Miyu's servant)?" (69,5) Pazusu: "Go with Night Gia, Carlua...but..." (70,1) Pazusu: "You...shouldn't go try just yet." (70,3) Carlua: "Yes...I understand, master." (70,4) Lemunia: "I'll go with ``Baku.''" (70,5) Lemunia: (to Night Gia) "That OK?" (71,1) Night Gia: "Sigh...Will our precious kiddies eventually go into battle?" (71,1) Night Gia, pulling on his gloves, gets a dirty look from Carlua. (71,2) Cait Sith: "I'll let you distract Miyu." (71,3) Cait Sith: "We'll tear this place apart!" (71,4) (71,4) Water Lipper: "--In that case..." (71,6) Water Lipper: "...I'll start..." (71,7) {float} {chappu> {splash} Wasting no time, Water Lipper begins to prepare her attack. The ocean stirs. Miyu wakes up in her room, at first hearing only the wind blowing through the trees outside. (72,1) Larva: Miyu. --Miyu. (72,2) (72,3) She opens the shoji and steps outside, but Larva is not there. (72,3) Larva: Miyu... (72,4) Miyu: "Larva...?" (72,5) Miyu: "Did you call me, Larva?" (73,1) (73,1) Larva: --Miyu. A wave of sadness overcomes her, a single tear running down her face. (73,3) Miyu: What? Why am I crying? I-- Suddenly, Miyu is a little girl of six or seven. She sees her pet bird in the grass. But as she bends over to pick him up... (73,4) Miyu: Aa... (73,5) Miyu: Little bird... (73,6) Miyu: --cold and stiff. (73,7) Miyu: "He's dead." (73,8) Miyu-chan begins to sob, pressing the little body to her chest. (73,8) Miyu: "My little bird..." (73,8) Larva: Miyu. (74,1) Larva: Miyu... Miyu-chan looks up and sees Larva. (74,3) Miyu: "Who? Who are you?" (74,4) Larva: Why are you crying? (74,5) Miyu: "My little bird...he's dead." Larva: This life is not eternal, so our time here is precious. {lit. "utsukushii" = "beautiful"} (74,6) Larva: But that little bird has finished his precious moments here--so it has left. (75,1) (75,1) Miyu: "Well...can I go to where the little bird has gone someday?" (75,2) Miyu-chan presses the bird to her cheek as she begins to sob again. Larva pats her on the head. (75,2) Larva: "(Someday) you can go." (75,3) (75,3) Miyu: "He's cold! Even when I rub him with my hands he doesn't get warm." (75,4) Miyu: "Even when I warm him and warm him... my little bird stays cold and stiff and doesn't move." (75,5) Miyu: --Larva. Larva... Larva is replaced by the smiling face of Night Gia. (75,6) Night Gia: --Miyu. (76,1) Night Gia: "Welcome to my dream." (76,1) (76,2) Night Gia: "Haha...pretty sweet dreams you have, Miyu." (76,3) Miyu: (shocked) "You are..." (76,3) (76,4) Night Gia: "I am the Western Shinma, Night Gia. I shape dreams." (77,1) (77,1) Miyu: "Western..." (77,2) Miyu: "...Shinma." (77,3) Miyu: He saw my dream? "You...shape dreams?" (77,3) As Miyu starts to become angry, Lemunia materializes behind her. (77,3) Lemunia: "(There's another of us) over here!" (77,5) Lemunia: "You're getting careless, Miyu! In the dream world, you have no chance of winning." (78,1) Lemunia: "I am...Lemunia." (78,2) Miyu: "Lemunia...?" (78,3) Lemunia: "Who do you think I resemble? Have you already forgotten?" (78,4) Lemunia: "I'm Lemures's younger brother." (78,5) Miyu: Lemures's... (79,1) Miyu: --Lemures. The Western Shinma who was trying for Larva. Who Larva said was once his old friend... "Is this...a dream? My head hurts..." She presses her hands against her head. (79,1) (79,2) Miyu: That's right! (The shinma) I forced back into the Dark. But now Night Gia shifts her into another dream. Miyu dreams of her first encounter with Larva. She recoils from Larva, her hand slashed. (79,3) Larva: "When I first found you, I should have done this immediately." (79,4) Miyu: "It hurts!" (80,1) Miyu: "Blood... My...blood." (80,2) Larva: "Yes. I am going to put that blood to sleep. (80,3) Larva: "If I don't put it to sleep..." {i.e., keep Miyu's powers from awakening) Miyu: "N-NO!" (80,4) Miyu: Again...a dream? I... (80,5) Miyu: "NO!" Miyu reaches around Larva's neck and bites his throat. (81,1) Miyu: "Larva..." --dream! (81,5) Miyu: A bitter...dream. {The kanji read "past," but the furigana read "dream."} (82,1) Miyu: Larva...my first man. {The kanji read "emono" ("catch," in the hunting sense), but the furigana read "hito" (man or person). Take your pick.} (82,2) Miyu: I did... to Larva... Strengthened by her recollection of Larva, Miyu fights free of the dream long enough to call out with her thoughts. (82,2) Miyu: --Larva! Night Gia: "The dreams are confusing you. Hahaha, I will have you entertain me some more." Larva, standing in a grassy field, hears Miyu's call and races toward it. (82,3) (83,1) (83,1) Larva: Miyu...? Miyu's calling me? (83,2) (83,4) Larva: She's crying? (83,6) A hooded, masked figure materializes in the field ahead of him, then walks toward him. (83,7) Larva: !? (83,8) (84,1) (84,2) (85,1) (85,2) Carlua: "--Larva...I've wanted to meet you." (85,3) Larva: "You..." (86,1) Larva: "You're...?" (86,2) Carlua: "I saw you ... inside Miyu's dreams." (86,3) Carlua: "How sad...you have been fouled with Miyu's blood." (87,1) Larva: "Miyu ... So something has happened to Miyu after all?" (87,3) Carlua: "I won't forgive her... that you've been (taken by) such a human-reject shinma." (87,4) Carlua: "(That she did this to...)" She lowers her hood, then her mask... (88,1) Carlua: "...my precious Larva..." Larva: CARLUA! (89,1) (89,2) Larva: "Car...lua?" (89,3) Carlua: "You're...Carlua?" (89,4) (89,5) Carlua: "Larva..." Larva briefly recalls the last time he saw Carlua as a waist-high child. Moving closer, Carlua touches him for the first time in twenty-odd years. (90,1) Carlua: "Yes, it's really Carlua...your ``little sister.''" (90,2) Carlua: "--All this time..." (90,3) Carlua: "I've been waiting, but you were so late in coming back...." (90,3) Carlua: "...I..." She wraps her arms around his neck. (91,1) Carlua: "...I came for you, Larva. --Larva." (91,2) Carlua: "Larva..." Flashback, again. Little Carlua is holding Larva tightly around his waist. (91,3) (91,3) Larva: "You're a bold child, you..." (91,3) Carlua: "I told you, I'm not a child." (92,1) Carlua: "What was that meeting? There hasn't been one in a long time." (92,3) Carlua: "What? Why aren't you saying anything?" (92,4) Larva: "You...You said you're a grown-up, right?" Carlua: "That's what I said!" Larva: "Well, then I don't need to give you a long explanation." (92,5) Larva: "I'm going to Japan." (93,1) (93,2) Carlua: "Ja...Japan?" (93,3) Carlua: "Japan...why...?" (93,4) (93,5) Carlua: "Larva...you're going to come back safely, aren't you?" (93,6) Larva: "Naturally, Carlua!" Carlua: "It can't be helped, then, can it." Giving in to the inevitable, little Carlua turns and walks a few steps away so that Larva will not see her tears. (94,1) Carlua: "I'll pass the time as Lemunia's friend. One gets tired of child friends, but it can't be helped, can it." (94,2) Carlua: "If you aren't going to be here anymore." (94,3) (94,4) Larva: "Carlua, be a good girl." Carlua: (angry, crying) "DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A CHILD!! (grump!)" Back at the torii, Water Lipper is making the first attempt to destroy the gate. (94,5) (95,1) (95,3) (95,4) (95,5) (96,1) (96,1) Water Lipper: "And now we wrap it up and then we're done." (96,1) (96,2) Water Lipper: "A gate without a guardian is just a toy." (96,3) (96,4) (97,2) Water Lipper delivers her "package," a small tsunami...but the torii still stands. Water Lipper calls off the waves and stands back. (97,3) Water Lipper: (annoyed) "Who's next?" (97,4) Spartoi: (macho) "I AM!!" (97,5) Spartoi's dragon begins to unwind itself from his shoulders. It grows from a man-sized snake into a full-sized, horned monster. (98,1) (98,2) (98,3) Spartoi: "All right, all right! Show them your strength, which can't be beaten by (the) water('s)." (98,4) (98,5) (98,6) Spartoi: "Go forth, my dragon!" (99,1) (99,2) Amy: "In that case, I will also..." (99,3) (99,4) Amy: "Spartoi...we're going." (99,5) Amy: "FIRE..." (99,6) A flash from Amy's eyes. (100,1) Amy: "CRUSH!!" {furigana="kurasshu"; kanji="geki" (on-reading)} (100,3) (100,4) (100,5) The flames from Spartoi's dragon and Amy's fire-attack leave the torii burning, but still in one piece. (101,2) (101,2) Cait Sith: "Splendid..." (101,3) Cait Sith: "...my comrades." Another dream...Miyu is again Miyu-chan, but now she is in the middle of a featureless wasteland where twin suns shine balefully down upon her. (102,1) (102,2) Miyu: "Where...am I?" (102,3) Miyu: "Maybe in the same place as my little bird?" (102,3) Miyu: "But my little bird isn't here." Panicking, lost and alone, Miyu-chan begins to run. (102,5) Lemunia: "Ha...she's lost. Isn't that just so human." (103,1) Night Gia: "She was brought up as a human. It's her weakness." (103,3) (103,3) Lemunia: "Hey, tease her some more." (103,4) Night Gia: "Hahaha...In that case..." (103,5) Night Gia draws his rapier, and he brings it down near the girl. What she sees is... (103,6) (103,7) (104,1) (104,3) (104,4) Miyu: "Yaaa...lightning..." Miyu-chan huddles on the ground, covering her eyes as the lightning bolts get closer and closer. (104,5) (104,6) (105,1) Lemunia: "Hahaha...what a pose!" (105,2) (105,3) (105,4) (105,4) Miyu: "Kyaaa!!" (105,6) Miyu-chan collapses as the lightning strikes her, but the pain clears Miyu's mind enough to bring back her memory. (105,6) Miyu: "It...hurts..." (106,1) Miyu: A dream--! (106,2) Miyu: A dream... (106,3) (106,3) Miyu: "I can't escape from this dream..." (106,4) (106,4) Night Gia: "--Quite right, hoho...I won't let you escape." (106,5) Night Gia: "But *this* ``lightning'' is quite genuine, Miyu!" (107,1) Standing behind her, Night Gia waves the rapier at her. Miyu does not see it, as her attempts to stand are taking all of her energy and concentration. (107,1) Night Gia: "The pain that runs through you is not a dream." (107,2) Night Gia: "You poor thing; aren't you in pain? Your dreams are too sad." (107,3) Lemunia: "Ho...hohahaha! Die in pain." (107,4) Miyu: --Larva. Larva... (108,1) Miyu: Larva! In a grassy field, Larva hears Miyu's voice. (108,1) (108,2) Larva: "Mi...yu... --I must go. (108,3) (108,3) Carlua: "I won't let go. We're going to go back!" (108,4) Carlua: "You're a Western Shinma, I won't let go of your hand." (108,5) Larva: "--I'm sorry, Carlua..." (109,1) (109,2) (109,2) Carlua: "--Aah..." {gasp} (109,4) Carlua: "Larva! LARVA!" (109,5) Carlua: "LARVAAAaaaa..." In the Dark, inside the gate, the leader of the Japanese Shinma (the black tree-like guy with the single red eye from OAV 4, who I will call "the osa" from now on) wakes. (110,3) osa: "What ... what a thing that has been done. Where is Miyu?" (110,4) osa: "What is Miyu doing!? (that she isn't here to defend the torii)" Meanwhile, just outside the gate... (111,1) Cait Sith: "Isn't it about time that we finished this, Lord Pazusu?" Pazusu: "--Yes..." (111,3) Pazusu: "@#$%^&*!!" (111,3) (111,4) But Pazusu's blast has not destroyed the gate. Cait Sith rushes forward to deliver his own blow. (112,1) Cait Sith: "FINISH!!" (112,4) (113,1) (113,2) (113,3) (113,4) (113,5) (114,1) osa: "MIYU--!!" At Cait Sith's demon-cats shatter the gate, the osa's cry wakes Miyu out of her dream. (114,2) Miyu: "KYAA!" (114,2) (114,4) (115,1) Miyu: (gasping) "Uh..." (115,3) (115,4) Night Gia: "Hohoho." (115,5) (115,6) (115,7) Gasping, struggling to stand, Miyu attempts to throw a fireball that goes out before it strikes. (115,7) Night Gia: "Hahaha..." (116,1) (116,1) Lemunia: "Futile! Futile!!" (116,2) Night Gia: "As I've been saying, Miyu..." (116,3) Night Gia: "...this is a dream. This is *your* dream! Hohoho..." (116,4) Night Gia: "Yet..." (116,4) (116,5) Miyu: (gasping) "Uh..." (116,6) Night Gia: "...you can be injured." (117,1) Night Gia: "--Well." (117,2) (117,3) Night Gia: "Well now, why don't we stop playing games now..." (117,4) (117,5) (117,5) Night Gia: "...and I will have you die." (118,1) (118,2) Miyu: --Larva... (118,3) Night Gia: "Goodbye." (118,4) (118,5) (119,1) But as Night Gia prepares to skewer Miyu, the dream-world shatters and falls to pieces. Miyu and the others find themselves in a dim forest. (119,3) (119,4) Night Gia: Reality!!? "Wha...?" (120,1) Larva: "Miyu!" (120,2) Lemunia: "You (bastard)!" (121,1) Night Gia: The dream-space been torn apart! {lit. "dream-area"} (121,2) (121,3) (121,4) Lemunia: Larva...he's truly in league with Miyu-- (122,1) Lemunia: --Larva... (122,2) Lemunia: Show us the face beneath the mask. Traitor that stands brazenly before us, even though he doesn't dare show his face. (122,3) Miyu: (to Larva) "This time...you were TOO late." (122,4) Miyu: "I got tired of waiting..." (122,5) (122,6) Larva: "--Night..." (123,1) Larva: "...Gia..." (123,2) (123,2) Night Gia: (sarcastically) "Oh, you still remember me?" (123,3) Night Gia: "I am most...thankful." (123,4) Lemunia: (to Larva) "Traitor." The Western Shinma have walked beyond the shattered gate, deeper into the makai. They reach a clump of gnarled roots. (123,5) (124,3) (124,4) Cait Sith: "Fragile..." (125,1) Cait Sith: "Too fragile." (125,2) Amy: "Hmph. Not very interesting at all." (125,3) Spartoi: "This isn't much of a fight." (125,5) (125,5) osa: "Y-you are..." (125,6) Cait Sith: "Hi, this is the first we've met ... or is it?" (126,1) (126,1) osa: "You're Western...Shinma. Why...?" (126,2) (126,2) Cait Sith: "It appears you didn't even think of the possibility of us attacking...Hahaha." (126,3) osa: "Wha...what happened to Miyu?" (126,4) Cait Sith: "Heh...what do you think? Hahaha..." (127,1) Cait Sith: "My comrades have gone to ``play'' with her." (127,2) Pazusu: "She will probably share the same fate as you (people)." (127,3) Amy: "Haha, what happened? You can't even speak any more?" (127,4) Amy: "The red life (spirit) is weakening. It's so sad how much agony it's in, right, Cait Sith?" (127,5) Cait Sith: "And now..." (128,1) (128,2) (128,3) Cait Sith: "Goodbye!" (128,4) (128,5) osa: "GYAAAA..." Cait Sith's demon-cats tear him apart. (128,7) (129,1) Cait Sith: "Hmph...This country is so steeped in peace that it poses no resistance. Because even shinma like you left everything to Miyu and spend your days in (quiet rest)..." (129,2) He gestures at the wreckage. (129,2) Cait Sith: "This is the result." (129,3) Amy: "Haha...The easiest nation to invade in the world." (129,5) Spartoi: "That's why we came here." (130,1) Water Lipper: "So was that the end of it?" (130,2) Cait Sith: "No! Even Japan isn't that easy." (130,3) Pazusu: "The realm of the Japanese Shinma is comprised of five levels. We have only conquered the first level." (130,4) Pazusu: "The true adepts are...at the bottom." Amy: "Don't bigshots always hide in the shadows?" Carlua materializes among the others, misery and rejection written on her face. (131,1) Carlua: "--Lord Pazusu." (131,3) (131,4) (131,8) Pazusu: "Carlua?" (132,1) (132,2) Pazusu: "I see..." In the forest, Larva and Miyu face off with Night Gia and Lemunia. Strengthened by Larva's presence, Miyu has recovered completely. (132,3) (132,4) (132,4) Larva: "My enemies are stray shinma." Larva: "I would like you to leave." (132,5) Miyu: "Larva! What do you mean, ``leave''?" (132,6) (133,1) Now perched in a tree, Miyu calls down to the others. (133,2) Miyu: "This is ridiculous! After all you've done, I just can't quietly let you leave! I'm angry!" (133,3) Miyu: (looking at Lemunia) "Come on, Larva... the nostalgic little boy's even here..." (133,4) Miyu: "I want to see how good he really is." (133,5) Larva: Nostalgic...little boy? (133,6) Larva: "You..." (134,1) Lemunia makes a break for it. (134,2) Miyu: "Trying to flee, Lemunia?" (134,3) Larva: Lemunia!? (134,5) Larva: Lemures's younger brother... (134,6) (134,7) As Miyu flings a fireball at the departing Lemunia, Night Gia covers him by leaping to the attack. (135,1) Larva: You've come all the way to Japan... (135,2) Miyu: "Larva! Lemunia escaping! Go after him! I'll take Night Gia!" (135,3) Night Gia: "Miyu!" (135,4) Miyu: "What?" (135,4) (135,6) (136,1) (136,2) (136,3) Night Gia: "Uh...?" As Night Gia rushes forward, he is stunned and blinded by a lightning strike that snaps his sword blade. (136,4) (137,1) Night Gia: --this place!? (137,2) (137,2) Night Gia: My sword was broken. By my own lightning? How can this be? (137,3) Night Gia: What is this light? My eyes... (137,4) Night Gia: Am I defeated? Miyu: Hahaha... (137,5) Miyu: It's all right. Open your eyes and look around. This is my little world... As Night Gia's vision returns, he sees that he is in a different forest, one dotted with foot-wide spheres. Miyu floats in front on him. (138,1) Miyu: "Welcome, Night Gia." (138,2) Night Gia: "Miyu...but she was so weakened..." (138,3) Miyu fetches one of the spheres and gives Night Gia a closer look. (138,3) Miyu: "Look! Beautiful, isn't it? Do you like it?" (139,1) Miyu: "I think it's fine." (139,2) As Miyu hugs the little sphere, many flames ignite and surround Night Gia. (139,3) Miyu: "Oh, dear. My flames are saying that they can't wait...they're so impetuous, aren't they?" (139,4) Miyu: "They say they want you." (139,5) Night Gia: "How contemptuous..." (139,6) Miyu: "Night Gia, when you're not in a dream, you're very weak, aren't you." (140,1) Miyu throws the sphere into the air and admires it. (140,2) Miyu: "You can't move at all. It's punishment for having peeped into my dream." (140,2) (140,3) Night Gia: I'm being restrained by something... (140,4) Miyu: "But, I regret to say...there are no more dreams for you to watch." (140,5) Miyu: "My flames..." (140,6) Miyu: "...will burn you to ashes from your feet." (140,7) Miyu: "Watch..." (140,7) (141,1) Night Gia: !? (141,2) (141,3) (141,4) Night Gia: The flames are wrapping around me... (141,5) (141,5) Night Gia: "Uu...aa!" (142,1) (142,1) Night Gia: "Aa..." (142,2) Miyu: Hahaha... (142,3) Night Gia: "...... &^%$#*@" (142,4) Miyu: Your desperate struggles are futile... (142,5) (142,5) Miyu: Whaat? (142,6) Night Gia: "@$#%^&!! &%^$@#" (142,7) Miyu: Did you say something, Night Gia? (143,1) {mumble} (143,1) Night Gia: "&@^#$%!!" (143,1) (143,2) Miyu: "...you must be in pain, you poor thing. But I'll soon erase it all..." (143,2) (143,3) (143,4) (143,4) Miyu: "What...!?" (144,1) (144,4) (144,5) Miyu: ? (144,6) But before Miyu can take action, a dark figure rushes past her and slashes Night Gia's burning figure, silencing his incantation. (145,1) Night Gia: "W...?" (145,2) (145,3) Miyu: "Larva...?" (145,4) Night Gia: "W-why, Larva...? (To your) old friend..." (145,5) Night Gia: "Are you not a Western Shinma...?" (145,7) Larva: "Now I...am fighting alongside Miyu." (146,1) (146,3) Miyu: "Why (did you do that)? That was my prey." (146,4) (146,4) Miyu: (holding her sphere) "I was thinking this would have suited him..." (146,5) Larva: "--Miyu, don't underestimate the Western Shinma." (146,5) (146,6) Larva: "Night Gia was about to place a curse on you with his last breath..." (146,7) Miyu: "Hmm." (146,8) Miyu: "These Western Shinma are really arrogant." (147,1) Miyu: "But...I don't mind as long as I'm with Larva." (147,2) (147,2) Miyu: "Right?" (147,3) Larva: "--Yes." (147,4) (147,5) Miyu: "Larva, I love you so much..." (147,5) Miyu: "Aa! By the way, Larva, what happened to the kid?" Larva: "Ha?" (147,6) Larva: "Lemunia?" (148,1) Miyu: "That's right, Lemures's litle brother." (148,2) (148,2) Larva: "It appears he has escaped." (148,3) Miyu: "Grr...He must be fast, to have escaped...The next time we meet, I'll torment him back (for what he did to me)." (148,3) She leans back in his arms. (148,4) (148,4) Miyu: "He was saying whatever he wanted to, that jerk." (148,5) Miyu: "To think the whole family would come to take you back." (149,1) Larva: "No...I don't think that was his goal." (149,3) Miyu: "Larva? Is something wrong?" (149,4) Larva: "--No...It's nothing." (149,5) Larva: "I'm sorry I was late today." (150,1) Miyu: "Larva...?" I can tell. (150,2) Miyu: What's wrong? What's worrying you? (150,3) Miyu: "Ev-even if you weren't around I'd be fine." He's...hiding something. The Western Shinma are still standing around the osa's former home, discussing Larva's fate. (150,4) (151,1) Pazusu: "We must perform mashujutsu..." (151,2) Carlua: "Mashujutsu..." (151,3) Pazusu: "...or else Larva will be..." (151,4) Carlua: "Lord Pazusu..." Cait Sith: "That's right!" (151,4) (152,1) Cait Sith: "(We will) bring Larva (back) to us!" (152,1) (152,2) Carlua: (We will do () to) Larva... Water Lipper, Amy and Spartoi smirk along with Cait Sith, who has again forced a decision. Pazusu looks away as Carlua looks at each face in turn, then walks away to look at the night sky. (153,2) Carlua: --Larva... Meanwhile, Miyu and Larva are running after Lemunia, trying to catch him before he can alert the other Western Shinma. (153,3) (153,4) (153,5) Miyu: We've got to hurry to that place...But I don't think we'll be in time. (154,1) Miyu: I heard a cry during the fight, I'm sure it was the osa crying out. (154,2) Miyu: "Did it already disappear?" (154,4) Miyu: "Larva, let's hurry!" (154,4) (154,5) (155,1) (155,2) (155,3) Miyu and Larva gaze, shocked, at the shattered, smoking, hissing remains of the makai gate. (155,4) Miyu: "Hmm." (155,5) Miyu: "It's been destroyed, huh..." (155,6) Larva: "This... Could it be..." (155,7) Back at the osa's lair... (156,1) (156,2) Carlua: "Mashujutsu...you can't mean it's the only way?" (156,3) Pazusu: "It is." (156,4) Pazusu: "Larva is controlled and tainted by Miyu's blood. Mashujutsu will take Miyu's blood and..." (156,5) Pazusu: "...extract it from Larva, allowing us to purify him." (156,6) Cait Sith: "So..." (157,1) Cait Sith: "...Larva must die, first." (157,1) {smile} (157,2) (157,3) Carlua: "D-die..." (157,4) Pazusu: "--Carlua, as a relative of Larva, we'll need your blood." (158,1) Pazusu: "And a mistake will kill you both..." Carlua: "I'll do it! If we can bring Larva back with my blood!" Carlua defiantly stares at the others. Pazusu returns her look soberly. (158,5) Pazusu: "I see." (159,1) Spartoi: "Hmm...In that case, Larva didn't betray us (because it was Miyu's blood that made him do so). I see." (159,2) Amy: "Even so..." (159,3) (159,3) Amy: "To think Larva could have been defeated by such a little girl." (159,4) Water Lipper: "Can Miyu be such a powerful adept?" Lemunia runs up to the group, out of breath. (159,5) (159,6) (160,1) Lemunia: "N-Night Gia has been defeated! Miyu's coming!" (160,2) Spartoi: "WHAT!? Night Gia...!?" (160,3) Lemunia: "Ku..." {cough} (160,4) Lemunia: "Larva intervened against us!" (161,1) Lemunia: "And when Miyu had nearly fallen! THAT TRAITOR!" (161,2) Carlua: "You're WRONG! Larva was being controlled by Miyu's blood!" (161,3) Carlua: "Didn't you see it? In Miyu's dream!" (161,4) Lemunia: "What the...? Carlua--" (161,5) Carlua: "WE'VE GOT TO GET LARVA BACK!" (162,1) Cait Sith: "Miyu is...coming here. Isn't that convenient." (162,2) Cait Sith: "Hahaha..." (162,3) Cait Sith: "Why don't we go and meet her, everyone?" Larva and Miyu appear at the osa's home. They do not, as yet, see the other shinma. (162,4) (163,2) (163,3) (163,4) (164,3) (164,3) Miyu: "Hmm..." (164,4) Miyu: "Maybe it's just a little sad." (164,5) Miyu: "But, Lord Osa, it's because you forced the whole burden (of guarding the torii) upon me." (165,1) Miyu: "Maybe it's something you brought upon yourself, eh?" (165,3) Miyu: "Isn't it?" Miyu stands and raises her voice. (165,5) Miyu: "With this, the lower level shinma..." (165,6) Miyu: "...probably won't remain quiet." (165,6) (166,1) Miyu: "Why don't you come on out..." (166,2) Miyu: "...Western Shinma!" Miyu has realized that she and Larva are being watched, but Larva is surprised as the chuckling shinma appear out of the fog. (166,3) (167,2) Cait Sith: "How do you do, Miyu." (167,3) Cait Sith: "I am the Western Shinma, Cait Sith." (167,5) Water Lipper: "Likewise, I am Water Lipper." (167,6) Amy: "Amy..." (167,7) Spartoi: "I am Spartoi." (168,1) Lemunia: "Hmph..." Carlua: "I am..." Miyu knows who Lemunia is. Carlua is intimidated by Miyu. (168,2) Carlua: "........" (168,3) Miyu: "Hmmm?" (168,4) Carlua: ".........." (168,5) Miyu impatiently turns away from Carlua. (168,7) Miyu: "Coming all the way to this country must have tired you." {the implication is more of "welcome" -- "otsukare sama" is more of a welcome than its literal translation would imply.} She addresses the rest of the Western Shinma. (169,1) Miyu: "But shouldn't you have knocked first? It was very rude to break down the door. Wouldn't you say so, Larva?" (169,3) (169,3) Spartoi: "It's been a long time, Larva." (169,4) Amy: "Huh. You failed, Larva." (169,6) Water Lipper: "We will have revenge for Night Gia." Carlua, a bit behind in the conversation, is still struggling to get words out. Miyu turns her attention back to Carlua. (170,1) Carlua: "I am Carlua, Larva's..." (170,3) Miyu: "Mmm...``Larva's...''?" Carlua pushes back her hood and looks defiantly at Miyu. (170,4) Carlua: "I am Larva's cousin." (170,5) Miyu: "Larva's...hmm." (171,1) Miyu: "What a frightful face you're making." (171,2) Carlua chokes. (171,3) (171,3) Miyu: (giggling) "``Cousin'' -- so what?" (171,4) (171,5) Carlua: "I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU, MIYU!" (171,6) Carlua prepares a spell as the other Western Shinma ready their own attacks. Larva, alarmed, rushes forward to defend Miyu. (172,1) Larva: "MIYU!" (172,2) Miyu: !? (172,3) Larva: "MIYU!" (172,4) Cait Sith slashes Larva magically, forcing him to break off. (172,5) Larva: "Uuuhhhh...?" (172,6) Cait Sith: "Otto, Larva! I'll take you on." (172,6) (173,1) Larva: "Uuu..kuu." {snarl} (173,2) Cait Sith: "Hahaha..." (173,3) (173,5) (173,6) (174,1) (174,2) (174,3) (174,4) As Larva and Cait Sith face off and engage each other, Amy, Water Lipper and Lemunia surround Miyu. (174,5) (174,6) (175,1) (175,2) Miyu: "?" (175,4) (175,5) (175,7) (175,8) (175,9) Water Lipper lets fly with a wave, which Miyu avoids by springing into the air. (176,2) (176,3) (176,4) (176,4) Miyu: "Flame this time?" (176,5) Amy shoots a burst of flame at Miyu, who barely dodges aside. (176,6) Carlua: "Hahaha..." (177,1) Carlua: "Hahaha...@#$%^&* (177,2) Carlua: "~#%&@$^" (177,3) Lemunia: "You're caught, aren't you, Miyu?" (177,4) Carlua's incantation forms a sorcerous design on the ground where Miyu stands. As Carlua continues her chant, the lines of the design lift out of the earth and entwine Miyu's legs. (178,1) Miyu: "What's..." (178,2) (178,3) (177,5) Carlua: "@$^*#%" Carlua puts her mask on, still chanting, as Lemunia and Amy approach Miyu. (179,1) Lemunia: "Haha...A magical symbol." (179,2) Lemunia: "You can't escape anymore." (179,3) Carlua: "$&@%*" (179,4) Miyu: "Carlua...?" (179,5) Carlua: "*&^%$#@" (179,6) (180,1) (180,1) Carlua: "#@$^%&*&^%$#!!" Flames suddenly surround Miyu, still trapped in the circle. (181,1) Miyu: "AAAAAAH! My body...won't move, Larva!" (181,2) (181,2) Larva: "MIYU!" (181,3) Cait Sith: "Hahaha...your precious Miyu is suffering, isn't she." (181,4) Cait Sith: "But I won't let you go help her!" (181,4) (182,1) Miyu: --Larva. (182,1) (182,2) (182,4) Larva: "Miyu! I'm coming now." (182,5) Larva slashes at Cait Sith's cat-wraiths, but as he turns back toward Miyu... (182,6) Larva: "!!" (182,8) Larva: "Pazusu!" (183,1) Larva: "Even...you..." (183,2) Pazusu: "...It's not our will, but..." (183,3) Pazusu: "...die, Larva." And with that, Pazusu blasts through Larva's body. From inside the flaming circle, Miyu screams and watches helplessly as Larva collapses. (184,1) Miyu: "LARVA!" (184,3) (184,4) Larva: "--Mi...yu."