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I don't believe it...

The Koma Sword is the Myoda sect's main object of worship,

and he had a connection to father through it?

Hurry up, keep reading!

Oh. Right!

Man, I'm getting a bad feeling about this...

I don't know what Suguro's dad wants to ask me to do, but...

Rin?

Yukio, keep reading that letter.

So, this is the former stronghold of the Myoda sect.

Goma Hall is in the back. We should hurry.

Indeed.

Do you really think it'll be safe in there, though?

Fudobu-ji Temple was built around Goma Hall to protect it.

I expect that the Right Eye was originally kept sealed there.

Returning it to its original resting place is the wisest choice, wouldn't you agree?

It's been a while since I last came up this mountain.

Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten!

Come back here, you monkeys!

Uh-oh, here she comes! Run!

It brings back memories...

Mamushi!

Stay away from this place!

Oh, dear.

So this is where you've been, Mamushi.

Your father has been worried sick.

Ready to come home?

Ms. Hojo.

Is this Goma Hall?

Yes.

This was once a sacrosanct place that only the head priest was allowed to enter.

If I do this, I doubt the others will ever forgive me.

But now, it's just an empty shell, without a master or holy relic...

The goma altar's sacred flame is lit!

There should be some sort of hidden door somewhere.

Let's look for it.

All right.

Until the Master... Until Tatsuma Suguro proves he is worthy of my trust,

I must do this!

Episode 6: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

The Koma Sword.

A demonic sword passed down as the Myo-O Dharani sect's main object of worship.

Also known as Kurikara.

It is said that Fukaku, Myoda's founder,

summoned a fire demon named Karura into this sword,

and used its flames to defeat the Impure King.

Ever since, the Myoda have passed down the sword as their main object of worship,

kept the Right Eye sealed away,

and have had a strict rule about remaining apart from the secular world.

Then, as if to mock all of that, he appeared before me.

Wh-What are you saying? That's Myoda's main object of worship!

Quit yapping! I know, chrome dome!

Anyway, the thing's empty, right?

How dare you speak of things you don't understand!

Yaozo!

How long do you intend to continue defiling our relic, you thief?

Did you get him, Yaozo?

That's our Yaozo!

N-No, it wasn't me...

The maniac was gravely injured the whole time!

What?

I'm amazed he could even move with these wounds.

Who is this guy?

What do you wish done with him, Master Tatsuma?

You awake?

Shiro Fujimoto, Senior Exorcist First Class. Order of the True Cross, Japan Branch.

Where am I?

Fudobu-ji, Kongo-Shinzan.

You collapsed.

We couldn't leave you like that, so we brought you to the temple.

Are you kidding? You should've just left me where I was!

You're a real soft touch, aren't you?

Uh, you got a light?

Hey, what are you—

That can wait, Fujimoto.

Just how much do you know about our relic... About Kurikara?

Why do you want to take it?

Hell if I know. I just came here on orders from my bosses.

But I think they're gonna use it to kill a kid...

Kill... a child?

He said that without batting an eye!

If you can move, I must ask you to leave at once!

Whatever the circumstances may be, I cannot tend to a child killer!

Don't worry, I'll leave. After I get the Koma Sword.

You haven't given up on that?

You don't have the slightest idea where in Fudobu-ji it might be!

No sweat, I'll just bust into all of your temples until I find it.

No, there's probably no time for that. It'd be faster to just ask you.

So tell me. Where's the sword?

Th-This man is—

Come on, really? You wanna fight me with that?

Stop it before you get hurt.

Hey! Wait!

Where are you—

No, that's— Don't go in there!

Wha—

Wh-What the hell is this?

Stop this!

What do you think you're doing?

Shut up! End this farce right now!

You monster! Do you know what you've done?

If we stop communing with the Buddha, he will forsake us and withdraw his power!

Then answer me this! Has all your praying helped these people?

You're a coward who plays the saint...

You're the kind of person I hate the most!

These people are way beyond prayer!

You have to pull the toxins that make up the miasma out of their bodies right now!

Y-You can help them?

Yeah! I can save them all. I think.

You there! Bring me radish, onion, heal-all, calamus, rock salt...

Oh, and some eagle claw chili!

Also, some petroleum jelly or beeswax or lard!

Um, right...

Will that save them?

Don't make me repeat myself! As for you, heat up a bunch of water!

Also...

I could use that light.

If this...

If this really helps them...

Then what have we...

Torako...

Tatsuma, I'm—

T...

To...

Torako!

Tatsuma...

I-I honestly thought I was done for!

I... I'm really going to be able to have the baby?

Sure you will!

Thank goodness... I'm so relieved!

Thank you, Fujimoto!

When you showed up to steal the sword,

I thought you were some sort of bandit!

Was I ever wrong about you!

Huh?

That was that. And this is this. Cough up the sword.

I mean, I did save all those lives.

And even taught you the treatment.

I think I'm entitled to a little something for my trouble, don't you?

Tatsuma?

Y-You get some rest, okay?

I thought you were a good person!

Man, you really are the kind of person I hate the most...

Trust me, I ain't.

If you aren't gonna help, I'll find it myself.

You'll never get anywhere if you're afraid to get your hands dirty.

Father?

That's him.

Seize him!

What are you—

He's trying to escape! After him!

Don't let that bandit leave this mountain alive!

Father, what are you doing? That man—

Tatsuma! Don't think this fiasco will go unpunished!

An Order of the True Cross exorcist?

You brought an emissary from those unbelievers into our temple and let him work their foul magic!

You're wrong! Father, that man just saved many lives!

He saved them... He saved Torako!

That makes no difference!

Outsiders who learn anything of the Koma Sword and the secrets of the Myoda,

must be killed!

I have a responsibility to protect Myoda!

Father, what you're protecting is its rules.

I'm...

I'm not like you!

Tatsuma! Where are you going?

Tatsuma!

- He went that way! - Don't let him get away!

Crap, these guys don't give up!

I tore open my wounds, damn it!

Fujimoto!

Tatsuma?

Take it.

The Koma Sword?

I'll show you the way out. Follow me.

Hey, hang on!

What gives? Are you sure about this?

It's all right. I've known all along.

When I was a child, I once secretly drew that sword.

I wanted to see Karura.

But nothing came out. Not Karura, not flames, nothing.

That sword is empty. I've known all these years.

I'm through with praying over an empty sword!

I finally found the will to fight!

Thanks to you!

I'm gonna kill a kid with this, you know.

No, I know you won't.

I can tell.

You're a hopeless soft touch, you know that?

The trail leads this way!

Keep running in this direction. This makes us even!

Nope.

This makes us friends.

Over there!

- Drat, he jumped! - He's below! Head him off!

Here ends the tale of me and Father Fujimoto.

A few months later, the Blue Night occurred,

and my father passed on the true secret of the Myoda sect with his dying breath.

That secret was indeed a terrible thing.

So this is where it was hidden! Let's see what's down there.

It's a door!

I had no idea there was a chamber like this hidden beneath Goma Hall...

Give the Right Eye to me.

B-But you said that carrying both would put your life at risk!

We're practically there. And I'm more worried about you.

I'm beginning to regret

that my guesswork has caught up my dearest pupil in something dreadful.

When I think about the repercussions for you...

Are you having regrets?

No, sir.

I am the only one who can keep everyone safe now!

You really are a fine young lady.

Now, let's get this open.

What is that?

This is the Impure King.

Ansei year 5 (1858).

Fukaku, your founder,

made a pact with the demon sword Kurikara, inhabited by the fire demon Karura,

and battled the Impure King, but to no avail.

He finally subdued the Impure King by plucking out his eyes and sealing them away.

At that time, Karura departed from Kurikara.

That is the truth of the Myoda sect.

This is what the Myoda sect's secrets within secrets have protected.

This is the Impure King?

Impossible! Are you saying that it's existed down here for 150 years?

But then, the Right Eye and Left Eye—

Correct.

If the Right Eye and Left Eye were to be returned to the shrivelled Impure King,

he would be restored to his former glory.

Mr. Todo, just what are you?

Oh, Ms. Hojo.

You are my dearest student, and hearing that tone wounds me deeply.

However, I have no further use for you.

Well, well!

Master?

Mamushi!

Everything will be fine.

I'll get you back to your father safe and sound, you hear?

This is a cancer that corrupts all it comes in contact with!

It ends with me! I won't let it infect another generation!

I will protect everyone!

Master!

Any who would try to thwart that goal

will answer to Tatsuma Suguro, the 17th head priest of the Myoda sect!

Father!

Surrounded by blue flames,

Father! Can you hear me? Father! Father!

I learned all the secrets passed down among the head priests of Myoda.

Don't die! Father!

I am called Karura.

I serve the high priests of the Myo-O Dharani.

Are you descended from its founder, Fukaku?

Give me proof of your blood.

I... I am Tatsuma Suguro!

I am Fukaku's descendant!

You are indeed of Fukaku's blood.

In that case, I shall henceforth serve you, Tatsuma Suguro.

I don't believe it. The high priests have employed Karura for generations?

In exchange for what?

What I desire is secrets.

My existence. And the purpose I am made to serve you.

The truth of all that is sealed away and kept secret.

That is your price?

To be more precise,

the keeping of secrets is what gives me life, and I feed on lies and mistrust.

In exchange for those secrets, I lend you the flames that quell your enemy.

Our enemy?

The Impure King.

The remnant that has been slumbering beneath this temple for 150 years.

Karura!

The time has come for you to lend me your power!

Master!

Such is our pact. Ask, and I obey.

Karura!

Or do I call you the Vermillion bird or phoenix?

That is quite the magnificent familiar you have there!

Fiend! I don't know what you're planning,

but the Impure King cannot be controlled so easily!

Put down the Right and Left Eyes and leave this place!

I'm afraid I can't do that.

This is the moment I've lived for all these years!

Karura-en... Kashoku-no-in! (Karura Flames, Fire-eating Sigil)

I can't believe his physical abilities!

Such tends to be the case with humans who are inhabited by a demon.

All right, then...

Karura-en, kafun-no-in! (Karura Flames, Spark Sigil)

M-M-My regeneration can't keep up!

So this is Karura's power.

Mamushi!

Allow me to play my trump card, then.

No!

Mamushi! Hang in there!

Hold on tight to me!

The Impure King is awakening!

Goma Hall? Why would they come here?

What in the world?

Master! And Mamushi?

Juzo?

Juzo! Watch out for the droplets!

What is that?

Juzo, your timing is perfect.

Some of Yaozo's quick thinking, eh? Good, that helps.

I'll handle this, so take Mamushi back to the field office and bring help!

Yes, sir!

What is that monster?

Mamushi knows.

She's gravely wounded from carrying the Impure King's Right Eye inside her body.

Take her back to her father for me.

- What about you, Master? - I will hold him here.

- Mamushi. - Master...

You tell everyone everything. I'm counting on you.

I understand.

Master...

Get moving!

Let's go, Mamushi. Climb on!

Master!

My secret has been revealed.

My pact to serve the head priests of Myoda is at an end.

But your separate pact with me personally still stands.

Before the Impure King can reach maturity and release his miasma,

I have to try to pin him down here with the Joukafuu-no-in (Purifying Flame Seal Sigil)!

The Joukafuu-no-in demands a great deal of power.

I'll use Gouha-en (World-destroying Waves and Flames).

I was under the impression that Gouha-en was devised to defeat the Impure King.

If you use it now,

you will forever lose the chance to defeat the Impure King.

There's no choice.

Let's begin!

Gouha-en! Joukafuu-no-in!

Right, that should at least keep him confined here for the time being...

Whew, I'm beat.

I did warn you.

What, I ain't dead just yet.

And as long as there's life left in you, there's always a way—

Oh, dear.

I do feel terrible about what I did to Ms. Hojo.

Unfortunately, you're a man of mystery.

You rarely come out into the open, making it impossible to locate you.

I thought long and hard about what I would need to do to draw you out,

and I concluded that the only way was to revive the Impure King.

I was certain that you were using Karura to keep the Impure King sealed away.

But then I was forced to while away many a year waiting for this day to arrive.

You were my objective, Tatsuma Suguro.

Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say your familiar!

Tatsuma!

He's eating Karura?

What is this man?

Its power is even greater than I imagined!

He actually forced Karura to inhabit his body!

A human, forcing his will on a demon?

No human could possibly do that!

Oh, my. I feel like I'm quite a bit younger...

Perhaps this is an added bonus from gaining Karura's power.

It's flapping around like mad in my innards!

It would seem that I'm not quite up to fully controlling it just yet.

But... I'll get used to it soon enough.

This brings me one step closer to my ultimate goal.

Thank you, Tatsuma Suguro.

W-Wait...

Please.

I beg you, Okumura.

I want you to use the Koma Sword to defeat the Impure King.

I'm all too aware that this is an unreasonable and brazen request to make of you.

But if...

"If you have even the tiniest sliver of charity in your heart, as your father did,

I would like to appeal it.

Thank you for reading this far." Signed, Tatsuma Suguro.

Next Time

Episode 7: Like a Fire Burning Bright

Rin, give back the sword.

This idiot's flames have been effective against demons before.

It's worth a try.

Please defeat the Impure King!

By a majority vote of the Grigori's Court of Inquiry,

Rin Okumura has been sentenced to death.

Old Man, why'd you save me?