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[narrator] The True Demon King,
the enemy of the world

that filled the horizon with fear,
was defeated by somebody.

But the world still harbors deviant beings
capable of transforming the era,

with a hundred shura- like demons
writhing within it.

What the people seek is a True Hero
to lead the world to peace.

That person must now be chosen.

[♪ theme music playing]

ISHURA

Episode 21
Kazuki the Black Tone

[wind howling]

[♪ eerie music playing]

[Yukiharu] What strange timing.

We won't be able to enter Arimo Village
at this rate.

I smell something fishy.

[companion]
Well, they say many people died.

What I mean is I think
a nasty incident is behind all this.

For example…

For the past couple of days at least,

there have been a lot of carriages
heading to Arimo Village.

These footprints are leaving the village.

[companion] Even if you say that…

-Hmm?
-…I can't see inside this box.

[laughs] I forgot, sorry.

Many villagers left on foot,
but returned by carriage, which means…

[shutter snapping]

…that the villagers were all killed

and their bodies
were transported back to the village.

[companion]
The one dealing with this massacre

is Nofelt the Somber Wind, right?

He definitely transported the bodies.

But he's not the perpetrator.

[Yukiharu] He received
radzio communication about the incident

and a squad arrived at Arimo Village
one day later.

If he had ordered the massacre,
he could have done it more efficiently.

[companion] Which means?

Nofelt has no direct connection
to the culprit.

But he's trying to cover up
for the culprit that he discovered.

[companion] In the previous town,

they said there was a strange ogre
living with an old woman from the church.

Yeah. It must be the Royal Games.

[Yukiharu] If Nofelt appointed a Hero,
then we've got ourselves a story.

This will sell.

[companion]
Aureatia's methods really haven't changed…

-Uh…
-[Yukiharu] Hmm?

[companion] Soldiers are coming.
That's not how Aureatian soldiers walk.

[carriage rattling]

Hello there.

[mercenaries exclaim]

[Yukiharu] My, this is quite some work
for both of us.

[captain] Are you working on the incident?

[Yukiharu] Yes, I'm a reporter.
Yukiharu the Twilight Diver.

Covering the massacre?

[Yukiharu] Yes, that's right.

[Yukiharu] That's a new type of gun.

Must be those guys
from the Free City of Okahu.

But… you'd better not go any further.

After all, it's the Final Land.

[Yukiharu] Really? Gosh, I might be lost.

Same here.

Since those guys from Aureatia
blocked our usual route.

[Yukiharu]
It looks like they weren't expecting

to encounter anyone either.

[captain] Rumor has it

someone from the Final Land
was behind this massacre too.

[Yukiharu] Is that right?

Want a ride to town?

I'd like to hear what you know too.

-[Yukiharu] They're planning to kill me.
-[♪ tense music playing]

I appreciate it, but I have an interview
scheduled with an Aureatian squad.

That's too bad.

Um, hello?

[mercenaries exclaim]

This is the Twilight Diver.
I had an appointment, but…

[companion] This is Asnes the Veering.
What happened?

We're supposed to be meeting
at Arimo Village.

[Yukiharu] Well,
I actually got lost, you see.

[companion] What are you playing at?
Don't move, I'll send someone to get you.

-I won't tell Aureatia about you folks.
-[♪ music fades]

Right, I appreciate that.

[companion] Don't make me improvise
in such risky situations.

[chuckles] But you did well,
Asnes the Veering…

[chuckling]

[companion] That was a close call.

[Yukiharu] Thanks to that,
we learned something important.

Okahu is also investigating
the Final Land.

They might know some clues
about the True Demon King.

[companion] Okahu…

that's the city where Morio,
the self-proclaimed Demon King,

is gathering mercenaries, right?

Right. Man, Morio sure is scary.

Those guys we just ran into
were no joke either.

[companion]
If the Final Land doesn't work out either,

will we be heading to Okahu?

Well, who knows?

[Yukiharu]
I suppose that all depends on the client.

[narrator]
Okahu is a free city of mercenaries

created by a self-proclaimed Demon King,
Morio the Sentinel.

Now that
the New Principality of Lithia has fallen,

their military strength and numbers

surpass all nations except Aureatia.

However, Okahu is now under attack.

That attacker is a visitor.

[mercenary 1] Hey,
what's the meaning of this?

[mercenary 2] Huh?
What meaning could there be?

-Quit making a fuss. Do whatever you want!
-Hmm?

[mercenary 1] Stop messing around!
We had a contract!

[mercenary 2] Like I care! I'm out!

Darn you… [grunts]

-[yelps]
-[mercenary 2] Hey!

-That was dangerous, you jerk!
-[mercenary 1] It's your own fault!

There's no need to bring water next time.

Not to a seat
where arrows might come flying.

O-Okay.

-[♪ cheery medieval music playing]
-[indistinct chatter]

[mercenary 3 grunts]
Hey, are you a mercenary too?

I'm Milieu the Hemp Drop.

Would you like some tobacco
instead of water?

No, I hear alcohol and tobacco
are bad for longevity.

I'm cutting back.

[chuckles] What a dark joke.

Then you're here for work?

I arrived here this morning.

Whoever's trying to destroy Okahu
might know about me.

Oh, how mysterious.

I at least know nothing about you.

-The Sound Slicer.
-[exclaims]

Shalk the Sound Slicer.
But that's not my real name.

They say skeletons

have completely different personalities
from when they were alive.

How many years have you been alive?

That's a funny way to ask.

-I've been dead for two years.
-[puffs]

Never mind myself, I'm not sure
I understand this world either.

Then you need a guide.
Someone like me, for example.

-[glass shattering]
-[mercenary 1 groans, chokes]

If you want to die,
go ahead and die, you idiot.

Let's go.

[indistinct murmuring]

Well, the situation
doesn't look very good.

I want to know the number of enemies.
How many?

One. Funny, huh?

Kazuki the Black Tone is coming.

In the past month, many were taken down,
by just one person.

That makes things easy.

It's just a matter of who's stronger
between me and her.

Hey now, I was thinking it would be about
who's stronger between me and her.

[Shalk] You're saying
the newcomer should stay out of it?

[Milieu] Could you even beat her?

If you disrupt the plan,
it might not end well.

Then I'll stick to defense only.

You could switch to her side, you know?

I mean, protecting the country
of a self-proclaimed Demon King…

It's a mission, you scums!

I'm gathering people to secure the area
around the Great Bridge Gate!

Hold her off until tomorrow morning,
up to the Second Outer Wall!

Any ungrateful brats
willing to take this on?

[mercenary 1] Count me in today as well.

I've not earned enough
for my sister's medical treatment.

Come on, isn't the payment
even less than yesterday's?

Of course I'll do it.

[mercenary 2]
I'd like to confirm the conditions.

What happens if we defeat her?

All right, count me in too.

I'll join from today.
I'm Shalk the Sound Slicer.

Hey, how do you move
without eating anything?

Sorry, but I'm planning
to trade that information

to find out
why you guys can't move without eating.

[scoffs] You're a funny dude.

[Milieu] Better not mess with him.
Shalk isn't just all talk.

I'd like to think so.

This brings back memories.

In Lithia too, there were guys
who'd pester me like this.

[Shalk] Is this everyone?

There still seemed to be mercenaries
at the stronghold.

[Milieu]
They'll probably provide covering fire,

but don't expect too much.

[mercenary 1] Three skilled fighters
should be returning today.

If those guys are alive,
I might need to ask them.

If anyone here knows,
don't hesitate to tell me.

What are you talking about?

Has anyone seen the bones of a Hero?

ISHURA

Mercenaries: Those who commit violence
for money without ties to any faction.

[ogre 1] There must be many places

where she can ambush us
on the way to Okahu.

Do you think
Kazuki the Black Tone will come?

You'd be at a disadvantage as a swordsman.

I've dodged bullets four times so far.

I only failed to dodge once.

Darn, you ogre folks have insane reflexes.

-[ogre 2] Hey.
-Huh?

I heard it. The song.

[both grunt]

-[distant gunshots]
-[horse neighing]

[singing] ♪ La la la la la ♪

[horse whinnying]

-[bones crack]
-[horse yelps]

[worried grunt]

♪ La la la la la la… ♪

[gasps]

[♪ dramatic sting]

[ogre 2]
She took out two of us in one shot.

[worried grunt]

-[singing continues]
-Huh?

You darn crazy visitor. Huh?

I'll crush her!

-[whooshes]
-[gasps]

[blood splattering]

♪ La la la la la la… ♪

♪ La la la la la la… ♪

Do you always sing, Kazuki Mizumura?

[Kazuki] Yes, is there something strange
about that? Got a problem with it?

[Gray-Haired Child] No.

I just thought you haven't changed much
since 13 years ago.

[Kazuki] Same goes for you.
Visitors don't age after all.

Aren't you busy around the Old Kingdom?

[soft chuckle] Well then,
let's call this a progress check.

Things are pretty much the same.
These three weren't strong either.

The only notable one left
might be Milieu the Hemp Drop?

It'll probably take about a month
until Okahu's strength runs out.

Fighting alone continuously
is quite challenging.

Is it?

Even Aureatia, your client, must see
outstanding individual power as a threat.

[Gray-Haired Child]
In the battle with Lithia,

Regnejee the Wings of Sunset died.

And Dakai the Magpie, a visitor like us.

Even Vikeon the Smoldering, who lived
for nearly 1,000 years, was killed.

[♪ morose orchestral music playing]

Champions are being
deliberately eliminated.

[Gray-Haired Child]
The Lithia operation was intended

to double as preliminaries
for the Royal Games.

You're planning to participate
in the games too, right?

[Kazuki] So what?

[Gray-Haired Child]
It means you're in danger too.

Why are you alone?

Do you have a purpose
beyond Aureatia's operation?

Are you serious?

Morio Ariyama…

You have business with the self-proclaimed
Demon King, Morio, don't you?

As a fellow visitor.

Hmm… So you know Morio is a visitor.
You sure do know a lot.

[Gray-Haired Child]
Your goal is information, right?

Morio is gathering information
from various places.

That's right,
but I just need an answer for myself.

Yugo the Moving Decapitation Blade.

[Kazuki] Yukiharu the Twilight Diver.

Morio the Sentinel.

Kazuki the Black Tone.

-Hiroto the Paradox.
-[Gray-Haired Child] Hmm?

[Kazuki] These are the names of visitors
who appeared recently.

They all came from the same country
as we do.

There does seem to be a bias.

Visitors used to come
from different cultural spheres.

Something must have changed
somewhere, right?

There's a mystery
about how the world came to be as it is.

[Kazuki humming a tune]

So you don't intend to accept help?

[humming stops]

Nothing beyond the price of goods.

I always work alone.

I have to fulfill my responsibility
as a champion.

[carriage creaking]

[horses neighing]

[narrator] Nine years ago,
when the True Demon King lived…

a legend exists from that dark age.

A soldier who descended
from another world…

Wielding a weapon called a gun

that no one in this world
had ever seen before,

single-handedly liberated
the Northern City

that had been under the control
of the self-proclaimed Demon King.

Using rotation and inertia
within the gun barrel,

she can make any curved shot possible.

She is a visitor,
and her name is Kazuki the Black Tone.

-[hissing]
-[chuffing]

[rattling]

[engine idling]

[engine revving]

[rumbling]

Enemy attack!

-[mercenary 1 yells] Raise the bridge!
-[indistinct shouts]

She's coming!

[chokes]

[Kazuki] A car's mass doesn't change.

And unlike horses,
the wheel rotation speed remains constant.

[rumbling]

[loud crash]

When hitting an obstacle,
it bounces off at the appropriate angle.

Just like a bullet.

-[loud thud]
-Impact.

[loud thud]

[Kazuki] ♪ Da da da, da da da da, dan! ♪

Hmm?

♪ In the scenery I'll never forget ♪

Huh? Why?

Nice voice. You should become a singer.

-[bullets clattering]
-Just how fast are you, huh?

[Kazuki] Are you just going to hide
behind the gate?

[Shalk] My job is defense.

I have things I want to ask too.

I'll keep you company
until you run out of bullets.

[Kazuki] Go ahead.

[glass shattering]

[mercenary 2] Kazuki the Black Tone.

You must be tired of just hunting.

Today the roles are reversed.

[echoing] From Hilka to the soil of Okahu.
Power of frost…

[Kazuki] ♪ Even if necessity
tears everything apart ♪

♪ My heart ♪

-[gunshot]
-♪ Still yearns ♪

[choking]

♪ There are things I can't give up
more than anything else ♪

-♪ Holding this pride in my heart… ♪
-[mercenaries exclaim]

-[singing continues]
-[grunts] From Hilka

-to the soil of Okahu… [grunts]
-[jabs]

-[mercenary 2] Hilka! [gasps]
-[Hilka chokes]

[Kazuki]
♪ In the scenery I'll never forget ♪

-♪ Even now, shadows remain vivid ♪
-[mercenary 3 grunts, yells]

♪ I'll live more alone than anyone else ♪

[growling]

-[gunshot]
-[chokes]

♪ I'll continue until my life ends ♪

♪ No matter what lies ahead ♪

-[running steps approaching]
-♪ I won't stop! ♪

-[gun clicks]
-[gunshot]

-[body thuds]
-[Kazuki] What a shame.

You were the most promising one.

-[footsteps approaching]
-Hmm?

-That one said he would guide me.
-[♪ suspenseful music playing]

This is why you shouldn't make promises.

[Kazuki] Oh?

I sent him ahead to make it easier
to guide you, that's all.

Shalk, retreat.
Challenge her and you'll die.

I'm already dead. I have nothing to lose.

[soft grunt]

[Shalk] Kazuki the Black Tone,
are you the Hero?

[Kazuki] No.

Though people sometimes make that mistake.

[Shalk] I see, then how about this?

If I win, you give me your entry rights
to Aureatia's Royal Games.

That's what you want?

Fine by me. Do as you like.

[Shalk] One more thing,
and I want an answer to this now.

You're much more presumptuous
than you look.

You've been to the Final Land,
haven't you?

You were in the initial search party

that confirmed
the Demon King's disappearance.

[Kazuki] So what if I was?

If the Demon King was really defeated,
then you must have seen a Hero.

If they were already dead,
then did that Hero's bones…

[bones cracking]

-Did they look like these bones?
-[♪ music fades]

Sorry…

but I've never seen you before.

I see.

[wind gusting, howling]

Kazuki the Black Tone

[silence]

[chokes]

[♪ dramatic sting]

Shalk the Sound Slicer

[choking] No way… Huh?

[narrator]
Whether in the New Principality of Lithia

or the Free City of Okahu,

-what he seeks remains the same.
-[♪ unsettling music playing]

The truth about the Hero
and the Demon King in this world.

Or perhaps who he really is.

Darn, she wasn't the one either.

[narrator] Where did he come from?

Why is he so incredibly strong?

Even he himself doesn't know.

He is the one who renders
both thrusts and shots futile,

possessing a dead body
that transcends reason.

The one who knows of spear techniques
that surpass even champions

yet does not know his own origin.

The one
whose instantaneous separation and fusion

makes any traditional understanding
of fighting distance obsolete.

He is an aberration
that was suddenly born into this world.

The fastest non-living being there is.

Who… am I?

[narrator] He is a spearhead.
He is a skeleton.

He is Shalk the Sound Slicer.

[♪ closing theme music playing]

Translated by Zak

Next: Episode 22
Tu the Magic