This can't be true!
You ain't Tsukimiya-san!
Takeru-kun, I wonder which world we'll meet in next.
Tsukimiya, signing off. Bye-bye.
Dammit.
What've I gotten dragged into?!
A different world again, huh?
It's seen better days.
Don't worry. It'll be okay.
Hareaki.
Wait, Tsukimiya-san?
Which is it?
Are you ready?
Please do it.
Hey!
I never thought you'd come to this world next.
You're Hareaki?
Yes, I am not Tsukimiya.
Good.
Oh thank you, thank you.
What's this you're doing?
This world lost the Centennial Pandemonium, and its destruction is imminent.
This is the Stellarization.
Prior to destruction, everyone's feelings and all the world's experience
are linked to the next via this ritual.
That has to do with the World Whittle thing?
Yes. Those gathering here know all about it, and they wish for a peaceful death.
You mean...
They are offering up their souls.
In order to transfer them to the next world.
Huh?!
That means you're killing them!
Please do it.
Hold on!
Don't try to stop me.
Oh thank you, Seimei-sama.
Please do this.
It does not sit well with you?
'Course not. It's revolting.
But, a Narihira family motto:
"There are as many beliefs as there are people."
I want to hear the whole story.
Such a simpleton, and yet look how deeply involved you've become.
Huh?!
All right, I will tell you everything.
Re:Birth Verse
Episode Ten: Change the Future on Your Own! Seimei, across a Thousand Years
What's this place?
A tombstone for everyone who was sacrificed in the World Whittle.
It all started about a thousand years ago, in Year 6 of the Johei era.
Around the time I was becoming somewhat well known as an onmyoji, I met a certain man.
His name was Kunihito.
About a thousand years ago
Seimei-sama!
Abeno Seimei-sama!
What the hell, man?!
You're the one who started this.
You want me to intercede?
What's the big idea anyway?
Yes.
Clear the way!
As if you don't know.
Blocking traffic and causing trouble for people!
Well, Kunihito-sama's here to tie you up!
Oh great, a police chief.
Butt out, imperial dog!
Nah, he looks more like...
A monkey!
Don't call me a monkey!
Asshole!
You show 'em!
Such a nuisance.
What is this?!
Please settle down.
Are you a sorcerer?!
It's "onmyoji."
You're putting up impressive resistance.
This junk won't work on me!
The thing I hate most in this world is sorcery!
It's mysterious and sly!
I won't yield to it!
Huh?
C'mon!
C'mon, stand up! Let's see some grit!
I can't!
He's a fool.
Give us a break!
You gotta try harder than that!
Like you, he was rough and simple. The worst type, in my opinion.
Why're you dissing me too?
I thought I would have nothing further to do with him.
But then...
Heian-kyo
Abeno Seimei has divined that in two years, we will suffer major flood damage.
We therefore wish to recruit a Kamo River warden to oversee a flood-control project.
But we only recently repaired the levee.
The Minister of the Right has said to exercise extra caution.
Now, will anyone volunteer?
The Minister of the Right is partial to Seimei.
We have enough to do as it is.
The future branches like a tree, depending on the things we do.
That is the limitless potential of humanity.
This time, one of the possibilities my divination has shown is mass casualties.
It is fine by me if you collectively opt for that future.
It's just fortune-telling, in the end.
But there's always the off chance. I'll do it.
You're that police chief.
My hometown is prone to flooding.
I know a lot about flood-control work.
Ah, you sound suitable.
Hey, sorcerer!
It's "onmyoji."
Show up at the site.
Huh?
I'll pull off something your sly powers can't manage.
You should take a good look!
On occasion, then.
And so, the flood-control work began.
Drive it in deep and straight!
But things only went smoothly at the start.
Earthquake!
You okay?!
An earthquake? That wasn't in my divination.
Hang on, we'll get you out!
We were beset by unforeseen accidents and natural disasters,
and the work saw many interruptions.
No matter the approach we tried, the results were the same.
To provide clarity, I attempted to divine the future.
Eight gates in the heavens, leading to eight winds, and if there are eight ways in the earth,
this should mean eight trigrams!
What is going on?
In time, I realized.
The future I had predicted—the major flood damage—was fixed in place.
No matter what we did, or how we tried to prepare,
it was something that was going to occur.
Screw that!
You're saying this is all meaningless?!
That's right. This future is fixed in place.
No matter what we do, there will be major flood damage!
Screw you!
I thought humanity had limitless potential, sorcerer!
How many times must I say it, police chief?!
I... am an onmyoji!
I tried every onmyo technique I could!
But every future leads to the flood damage!
So you're giving up?!
You don't know everything!
What do you know thanks to your sly powers?!
The future's something you encounter, get to know, and put together head-on as you go!
That's right! That's how the future should be!
But this time, it's different!
No matter how much you hate onmyo techniques, that's the world I can see with my power!
Then you just have to change the future in that world you can see!
I'm going to do it my way.
There's no future you can't change on your own!
Thus the work continued, and before I knew it, I was taking part myself.
Like Kunihito, I too wanted to struggle against a future that was inevitable.
A few years later
Well, sorcerer? It's finished!
It's fine work, police chief.
Things still haven't changed, huh?
I intend not to give up.
Yeah!
You put effort into making this levee too.
You can bet things are gonna be fine!
Three days later
It rained for three days and three nights, and the river raged.
But the levee did its job, and there was no flood damage.
And then, the day arrived.
Anyone having any problems?
Hey, Kunihito.
Roof's leaking like crazy, but that's all.
It's thanks to that levee you built.
Ah, that was a cakewalk.
The sun's coming out.
We won this one, sorcerer.
We got through this okay.
Yes, that we did.
What are those?
What happened?!
Evacuate.
Hurry! Run!
A future that's inevitable? Not on my watch!
Look out!
Sorcerer?
What about the child?
She's safe.
Okay.
But it looks like even sorcery won't save me.
I'm sorry.
Why apologize?
I knew your future.
The levee was flawless.
I thought you had changed the future!
And yet...
Why'd this happen?!
This outcome was wrenched back into place!
I'm sure you'd laugh at this, but I can only conclude the way the world works got rewritten!
The door was shut on humanity's limitless potential!
I won't laugh.
I'll go on saying it.
"There's no future you can't change on your own. So piss off."
Don't look so sad.
You'll do something about it, right?
Use those sly powers... to do something about this altered way of the world stuff.
You're sure to make the future you can imagine come true.
Right, Seimei?
Yes, that's right.
Kunihito...
After that, I discovered several more cases where the future was fixed,
but I didn't know the reason.
But over the course of my research, I made another discovery.
How to physically increase the world's potential by violating a taboo.
In other words, how to make parallel worlds.
Eventually I succeeded in making one hundred parallel worlds.
The price I paid for violating the taboo was losing the ability to age or die,
but it wasn't a bad deal, considering.
Thus, the hundred parallel worlds each continued in their development,
and it looked as if the world's potential had increased.
But when about five years had passed, all the parallel worlds suddenly began to collapse.
It took everything I could do just to preserve one of them,
but tens of millions of lives were lost.
Even so, I couldn't completely give up.
I used the remaining one to once again make a hundred parallel worlds.
But five years later, it was the same result.
I realized the parallel worlds were doomed to collapse.
The World Line Convergence Disaster.
That's what I named it.
There's a single clue.
White feathers and a mysterious light would always be witnessed at the time of collapse.
I conjectured there was some kind of entity behind this phenomenon.
I pondered a way to escape from it.
If I was unable to keep ninety-nine of them from perishing,
I would make the technology of those worlds be inherited prior to destruction.
And that was the World Whittle.
Yes.
And the results became apparent a little at a time.
The parallel worlds eventually extended their lifespans, the limit being one hundred years.
The Centennial Pandemonium was created based on that.
That is everything I'm able to explain.
I can't stand it.
I never expected you—
No!
I'm sayin', why do take on a burden this huge all alone?!
Rely on others more!
You've got all those onmyoji guys!
To expect them to understand is...
Tell them, dumbass! Give it to them head-on!
It's something you encounter, get to know, and put together head-on as you go!
No, I still can't burden them with all this insanity.
Then why did you tell me about it?
Because through you, I got my hands on it.
A piece of the entity that's eluded me for a millennium.
The one that causes the World Line Convergence Disaster.
With your power, I might reach it.
That entity that anchors the future and keeps snapping off the branches of possibility.
Narihira Takeru.
I ask you to lend me your power.
Help me in my fight!
Whoa! You're creepin' me out!
And anyway, what's this entity thing? A monster?
It's called the Great Timebird.
It's the entity that causes the World Line Convergence Disaster.
I built it on the moon in the future.
Good for you, Seimei-sama.
Your thousand-year mystery is solved.
What are you up to?
I'm not sure I should give it away that easily.
Who am I kidding?
See, GT-chan can terminate any future where there's a chance of it being attacked.
Terminate futures?
In other words, at the point in time when I told you its name,
the possibility arose that you would attack the Great Timebird.
Hence this Denji Heian-kyo became a target for termination.
Here it comes!
Feathers?!
It's starting.
This is how world lines that would be bad for the future are erased.
How dare you!
By the way.
Anything that gets swallowed up by these lasers can't be inherited by the next world.
Takeru-kun.
Come play with me.
I've experienced many thousands of lives these past thousand years,
and I'll teach you how to live the most stimulating Denji Heian-kyo life possible.
Tsukimiya-san...
Can't make up your mind?
Don't forget, he's a mass murderer.
It makes me sick.
Nice!
But!
I'll consider us square for now!
A Narihira family motto: "Don't ignore a buddy who's in trouble"!
Buddy?
After you go mano a mano, you're buddies.
Let's put an end to the World Whittle.
I'm not even sure we'd have a one-in-a-hundred chance of winning.
Huh? Haven't you been bettin' on that chance for a whole thousand years?
There's no future you can't change on your own!
I don't go for that side of you, Takeru-kun.
Tsukimiya-san, why'd you start acting like this?!
I was this way from the start.
Whatever.
We're gonna get erased?
Hareaki!
Are you sure?
Do it!
The next world is the last that remains.
Narihira Takeru!
The future!
Yeah. I'll change it!
Hey, are you okay?
Everyone in Denji Heian-kyo!
Your savior's gonna put a stop to all this!
By defeating the accursed Abeno Seimei!
Tsukimiya! Tsukimiya! Tsukimiya!
What the hell's goin' on?