The worst future Seimei's trying to create...
I came from the moon to put a stop to it.
The moon?
It's true.
I come from a city on the moon's surface, a thousand years in the future.
Um, this is too much for my brain to keep up with.
It's similar to time travel.
I've come to Denji Heian-kyo using future technology.
Then you're a time traveler?
Loosely speaking.
Okay...
If I told you that in my world a thousand years from now,
all living things including humans die out, would you believe me?
That's the worst future.
I've come to change it.
This is where they were spotted?
They must still be inside. Let's search!
Let's relocate. There's a secret path underground.
Sure!
Re:Birth Verse
Episode Eight Don't Screw Around with People Desperately Trying to Get By! The Wailing of Seiryu Tower
Oh hey.
If it isn't Yura.
Iruka, have you seen a suspicious male-female pair?
I did see a well-matched couple.
Where?!
I mean you and Kajiki.
No wonder Seimei tore us apart so he could pair you up.
That's not...
In fact, we should throw a party!
Stop.
Still got Atsunaga on your mind?
No worries! The dead don't get jealous!
Hit me.
Just hit me!
Kajiki's doing his best.
He looks up to you. Why're you letting him down?
Evacuation
That's an entrance to an underground shelter?
Yeah.
But it's wrecked.
Uh, what do you mean, everyone dies out?
What does that have to do with Hareaki?
I'm not sure where to begin.
I'm originally from a world where environmental degradation has gotten so bad on Earth,
humanity has migrated to the moon.
Right.
Resources keep deteriorating, and even air costs money.
The wealth disparity is extreme, and I was one of the poor.
Just surviving each day was a struggle.
But then, a temporal immigration project was announced
to send people to an age of peace and plenty.
Hearing that inspired me.
I studied as hard as I could and became a scientist,
then was eventually chosen as a senior engineer on the project.
That sounds impressive.
Several years later, the technology was developed to
digitize the mind and transplant it into someone in the past.
But it required so much in resources to send even one person,
the project was never fully implemented.
Then when the research had come to a standstill...
it happened.
Maybe out of hopelessness, or sadness,
one woman took everyone with her...
when she killed the world.
What a selfish thing to do.
Then, as I felt my body dying, what came to mind was a certain essay.
Its view was that the biggest contributing factor to the state of my world
was the World Whittle during the Heian era.
I decided I alone would take a shot at sending my mind back in time.
I would bet on the possibility of altering the future.
Thus was I born again in Heian-kyo,
as a girl in a dance troupe.
After that I got dragged repeatedly and powerlessly into the World Whittle.
Which brings us to now.
But I can't give up.
I know I'm being selfish.
For the sake of a future a thousand years away,
I'm destroying the possibilities for so many people born in the interim.
But even so, if what awaits everyone is a hopeless extinction,
I want to do something.
Is that wrong of me?
Well...
The truth is, I'm still not sure I really get it.
All this time, I thought it was impossible to stop Seimei.
It was so discouraging.
But at one point, I found you.
That night, when you were running through Denji Heian-kyo.
You remember that?
I guess it really happened after all!
You looked weak, but you said, "I never lose."
It gave me courage.
And then I ran into you again.
You appeared before me over and over, and each time you got stronger.
You know, it's crazy that the first you I met was the you from this world!
Oh, sorry. Strictly speaking, that wasn't me.
Huh?
It's like this.
A hundred of me exist in the parallel worlds, each of us living separate lives.
But thanks to the one protecting me, I'm able to share the memories from all hundred worlds.
Uh, share...?
But I didn't want Seimei finding out about that,
so I acted each time like it was my first time meeting you.
Sorry to keep you in the dark.
That's okay.
You remember everything that's happened up to now, right?
Yeah!
All that delicious food you made, and when we went to the festival together!
Gotcha!
Oh, but wait.
I guess that means Hareaki can do that memory-sharing thing too.
Huh?
I do hope we can win this time.
He was the only one who knew what I'd done in the previous worlds.
So, Seimei can do it too...
Which means...
Listen, here.
The yasha mask!
I prepared one in this world.
Takeru-kun, the reason I revealed all this is because now
I think you might have a chance at stopping Seimei.
Huh?
Isn't your Yasha Mode a totally different power than onmyo techniques?
I think there's a chance.
I'm not sure.
I can't use my power except in the black mist.
Oh, but one that time...
Did Seimei say anything about the source of your power?
Oh yeah.
He said something about world particles!
Just as I hypothesized!
Well then, maybe it's this little one's turn.
It seems we still have not found those two.
Seimei-sama?
It looks like, when Narihira Takeru moves between parallel worlds,
the level of world particles changes by a whole lot.
When he uses his ability, he's gathering the surrounding world particles.
That is peculiar, but not surprising.
However, similar movements of world particles have also sometimes been noted in the past.
Despite the fact that Narihira Takeru was not observed.
Meaning?
I am going to Genbu Tower.
I leave the matter of those two to you, Kazura.
Y-Yes, sir.
Count on me!
Just like I thought.
See, the fire rat is an organic device for controlling world particles.
This worked well.
Yeah. I feel energy in my gut.
That might be the fire rat's power.
Producing world particles is supposed to consume its stamina,
so you might not be able to transform for long.
So, it's like there's a time limit.
Freaky-looking monster!
Yura!
Are you with the oni?
What's wrong?!
It's her bellflower star.
Seimei isn't too keen on this place.
The bellflower stars are designed to keep the people of Heian-kyo away from it.
They shouldn't normally even be aware it's here.
It's one clever curse.
Watch your mouth.
You must be that wanted pair!
Yura, listen to us!
Don't say my name like you know me!
You bet I'll say your name!
You and I have eaten Chinese food together!
Atsunaga was there too.
Huh?! I don't remember any of that!
I'm begging you, just listen!
It's all about Heian-kyo!
It's the truth about what's happening in those black mist battles!
I doubt you're gonna believe me,
but the oni we've been defeating are onmyoji from other Heian-kyos!
How can I believe this?
The World Whittle? A hundred Denji Heian-kyos?
This is all absurd.
A Narihira family motto: "Don't just focus on what you can see."
I can't give you any visible proof.
But haven't you ever felt anything?
Like, something felt off?
Of course I've never...
You have?!
I had a dream earlier.
You're finished!
I thought it was just a nightmare.
But it was strangely vivid.
I did that to Atsunaga?
It's not true!
You've got to be kidding!
It was the same for me.
Tsukimiya-san. About what you asked me earlier.
Huh?
I still don't really know if I want to change the future, or if it's okay to do so.
I think each person has to carve out their own future.
But the World Whittle thing's wrong.
Making the world stable through people killing each other?!
Nobody living in any world is expendable! Not you, Atsunaga, or anybody!
No more screwing around with people desperately trying to get by!
Yeah. Let's end it and defeat Seimei!
Yeah!
Genbu
Where's Seimei-sama?
Yura? Did you find that pair yet?
Tell me what the Centennial Pandemonium is truly about.
What are we fighting for?
What is the World Whittle?
What is that wasteland out there?!
What are these photos?!
Where did you learn this?
Is it true that the oni are the onmyoji of other worlds?!
Sever the sky, sever the ground,
sever all sides!
Rite
Yura, don't get in any deeper.
In the worst case, I have the option of eliminating you.
It's them.
Seiryu
We'll start here.
Seiryu
The tower?
Yes, I want to start by demolishing this.
Huh?
That's an energy source.
I want to destroy it and stop the towers from working.
But isn't it important?
Yes, to Seimei.
The Towers of the Four Gods seem to play a key role during the Centennial Pandemonium.
Which means they're heavily involved in the World Whittle.
Seiryu
Genbu
Suzaku
Byakko
If we wreck them all, it should have some effect on the World Whittle.
You needn't worry about everyone in town.
The defense system will activate, which rules out any casualties.
All right.
I'll do it.
Come on, once-in-a-millennium me.
Here goes!
Kazura!
How dare you attempt to destroy the Towers of the Four Gods!
Don't get in the way!
Get him, Seiryu, Rikugo!
Four vertical, five horizontal. Onslaught!
Bring it on, then!
Sever the sky, sever the ground, sever all sides!
No!
Pardon me.
Seimei-sa—
Kajiki! Good timing!
What?!
Quit bein' sneaky!
Rikugo!
Four vertical, five horizontal! Onslaught!
Don't interfere with Seimei-sama!
You're mine!
Crap!
Saiha!
Element
This is silly.
Die!
Tsukimiya-san!
Why?!
I told you... Because I'm alive in other worlds, too.
But... But!
I'm glad that... you care about every me.
But I... want to preserve the future.
This is how... determined I am...
She's not the only one who's determined!
Kazura!
One last question for you.
What does Atsunaga's tragic death mean to you,
after he put his life on the line fighting the oni?
There are always a few sacrifices for the greater good.
If you're an onmyoji—
You can stop parroting!
Did Atsunaga's death mean anything?
It meant something.
Even if not for this Denji Heian-kyo's sake.
You fiend!
I put a lid on that pain a thousand years ago!
Because all this is what Seimei-sama desires.
Kazura, clench your teeth.
I'm about to pound the ever-loving...
Rikugo! Stop him!
...shit outta you!
Stop!
Seiryu
Do you realize what you've done?!
I sure don't!
The hope you guys're aiming for, Tsukimiya-san's determination...
I have no idea what the right answer is.
But y'know, this much is clear to me.
The attitude that sacrifices are just the way it goes?
I don't like that one bit!
If you guys are too stubborn to change your minds, then I'm sticking to my guns too!
I'm gonna take down Hareaki!