That's it for the precautions.
If you have no issues, then please sign the pledge,
and show me your license card.
TAIYO ASANO
APPLICATION FOR VISITATION ENEMY
The procedure is now complete.
I'll show you the way, so please wait over there.
Thank you very much.
You be careful, okay?
If anything happens, let us know right away.
We'll all come running.
Please. Nothing's going to happen.
See you.
I'll be going now.
Will he be okay all by himself?
Taiyo's the one who said he wanted to do this on his own.
That's why he got his Silver rank license...
to talk to that guy.
Well, how odd.
MAKOTO KAWASHITA FORMER EXECUTIVE OF CRIME SYNDICATE "TANPOPO"
I can sense her inside you.
She sent you here, didn't she?
I have a message from Tsubomi.
"I'm going to end it all."
"Please kill me."
YOZAKURA FAMILY
MISSION 33 NEW CHERRY BLOSSOMS
I can't remember any of it.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
The name of the mountain I was born on.
What color flowers I liked.
The scents that make me nostalgic.
Not even how I met the doctor.
Instead, all that keeps growing stronger in me is my pain and anger.
The more I long for freedom, the more I resent people.
The "normal" future that you and I talked about, Doctor,
most likely, I'll never get to see it.
I won't be able to die, either.
I'm going to go on living as the me who's no longer me, aren't I?
In this day and age,
we can no longer live, even if we want to.
It's really no different than not being able to die even if one wants to.
But in the far-off future, if the research on your body keeps advancing,
when you're nothing but a shell of yourself,
I might be able to let you rest in peace at last.
That's something to look forward to.
I'm counting on you, Dr. Kawashita.
Over the last couple of decades,
I thought that the memories that served as her foundation had virtually vanished.
Who knew that some still remained?
So that woman was right, huh?
I'll grant Tsubomi her wish.
I'm going to tell you
how to destroy Tsubomi Yozakura.
You and I were both enchanted by the Yozakuras.
Tsubomi's blood is our bond.
So let's wipe out this curse.
These flowers bloomed on you, too, didn't they?
The someinine in Tsubomi's blood is totally different
than that of her descendants, and far more vicious.
In exchange for granting its host power, it unfailingly drains it of life.
In the past, when I dosed test subjects with it,
none of them lasted a week.
I've managed to fake it 'til now using every available treatment,
but that can't continue under the circumstances I'm in now.
Soon, I'll die.
The curse of this blood bared its fangs even towards its progenitor.
Her body was able to maintain a miraculous balance,
but once it crumbled, it was hell.
The power to eat away at her body and the power to heal it.
These opposing forces clashed, accelerated,
and warped her, turning her into something else.
The Book of Buds...
you couldn't read it, could you?
It was written with colorless ink made from Tsubomi's blood.
You need a special power to read it.
And that power is...
the Profuse Blooming of 10,000 Flowers...
an older and more potent awakening than Blooming.
To conquer and use the power of the blood that was consuming me...
in the end, I was never able to master that skill.
Though indispensable for destroying Tsubomi...
it's also a double-edged sword.
While Tsubomi's blood does generate devastating power,
it also resonates with others.
Just as you and Tsubomi made a connection,
just as I was able to sense the connection between you two...
those sharing the same blood also share their emotions.
Most likely, he'll realize that you and I are talking.
The one person other than us who was given that blood...
No.
In his case, that's the least of it.
That's enough.
That's some superhuman hearing.
I don't have long to live, yet you're here to silence me?
It's still too soon for him.
Where'd he come from?
Kawashita, is this just your ego talking about her?
You're the one who's self-serving.
Good job, Taiyo. You've become quicker.
If you increase the speed of your snap judgments,
you'll make even greater strides.
Father. There are so many things I'd like to talk to you about.
But right now, I'm talking to him.
So if you don't mind...
I'll have to ask you to leave.
Yozakura Jujutsu, Cascading Kumite.
Spring Gale!
We'll buy time for you.
Keep doing your job.
Roger that.
Shall we continue our conversation?
What's going on out there?
There was an explosion underground. Access is cut off!
Father.
I just turned 100 Kengo dolls into police and a SWAT team to evacuate the civilians.
I've reconfigured the police and traffic networks
to designate this location as a restricted area.
You can rampage to your heart's content.
Thanks, all of you.
The question is, how long can we keep him at bay?
That depends.
If he's in shape, maybe five minutes at most?
My children...
how you've all grown.
During the attack on the mansion, it was all I could do to hold back.
The truth is, right now I want to hug you all so hard you'll break.
Every time I heard about your exploits, my heart would race with pride.
The fact that we've been reunited must be--
Enough of this farce, Father.
We knew you were coming.
To stop Kawashita from revealing the truth.
That's right.
The day that you, Mom, and Mutsumi suddenly disappeared...
you'd killed them both.
Where are you now, Kyoichiro?
The three of them aren't at the villa or our other residence.
- I've found them. - Huh?
All three of them are here,
right before my eyes.
All right. I'm heading over there now!
Are they all safe?
Yes.
It was Father...
...who took Mother?
Does Mutsumi know about this?
She just found out now.
Our parents died that day.
It's too late for redemption or remorse from you.
Go back to being a memory, Father.
Ah...
My children, who've grown to become so strong and beautiful...
are calling me "Father."
All the joy and love I'm feeling...
I don't think I can take it.
You're talking about that day, huh?
Good timing.
In telling Tsubomi's story, I can't leave out Momo.
Let me tell you about it, including what I can only guess at.
Four years ago, when I was working on Tsubomi and managing Tanpopo,
he appeared before me with his wife and daughter in his arms.
It's all right, Dr. Kawashita.
At last, my body is here now.
Thank you, Momo.
My child...
Why did the husband of the Yozakura head
show up carrying his wife and child?
Why did Tsubomi call this man "my child"?
Amidst my confusion, the abnormally massive amount of someinine in his body...
resonated with Tsubomi's blood inside me, telling me that it was true.
Mutsumi's father is Tsubomi's child?
No, it's not as cut and dried as that.
The only birth records that exist for Tsubomi are for the second generation.
But Momo's DNA and his body, made of someinine crystals
made me draw the following conclusion.
That biologically, Momo Yozakura is one and the same as Tsubomi Yozakura.
Gender, age,
appearance, personality,
different in every respect.
But there's no question
that Momo Yozakura is another Tsubomi.
Whirlwind.
- Water God. - Water God.
Good teamwork.
Heavy...
hard...
profuse...
strong.
I'd expect no less from you.
It's not working.
The stats for his endurance data and his biometrics are total trash.
Is this thing fried?
No, my receptors are also detecting abnormalities.
And even my eyes can't capture any info.
He's not Father anymore.
He's something else.
Right. He's a monster.
When the someinine in Yozakura blood stimulates the cells, that's Blooming.
But Tsubomi's blood converts the cells themselves into crystallized someinine.
The entire body is transformed into high-energy crystallized someinine
That's the Profuse Blooming of 10,000 Flowers.
For a child, their father is an absolute ally...
their peace of mind, their support.
The child's joy is shared,
and if tears are being shed, I'd hold them close.
I wanted to stay by your sides forever that way.
But...
if you're going to diverge from the future I'm hoping for...
I'm going to have to stand in your way.
Right now is surely the time to do so.
No matter how much you hate me...
no matter how much you resent me...
I love you all.
Just shut the hell up!
Family get-togethers are so much fun.
How fun they are!
You guys!
Hold up.
He's not someone that you can stand up to.
Kawashita!
Talk about a late awakening.
Having no concern about what will become of me.
Trying to eliminate me once I've become a hindrance.
It just goes to show you how little I'm worth.
Huh?
Blooming is an enhancement based on the human body...
but the Profuse Blooming of 10,000 Flowers rebuilds the body from its base,
turning it into power itself.
It's a tremendous power, but you can't control it yourself.
No matter what, you'd need intervention from the root's origin, Tsubomi.
If you want to master it, there's just one way.
Increase the concentration of Tsubomi's blood,
and get closer to Tsubomi.
Yes, for example...
I'm crystallized someinine being taken over by Tsubomi.
You could perhaps absorb me.
If we combine the Tsubomi existing inside us both,
we might be able to conquer the Profuse Blooming of 10,000 Flowers.
That would open up the possibility of fighting them.
But on the other hand, there's also a good chance that she'd consume you.
Now, then, what will you do?
I don't even have to think about it
when it's for my family's sake.
So you'd join forces with the man who killed the Asano family
to save the Yozakura family?
Just as I thought, you're no normal human.
I'm sensing absorption.
So they're using that risky method that the fifth head informed me about.
I've got to stop it.
Father, surely that's enough.
Let's end this now.
I'm happy to see that you've all become strong.
But you're still works in progress.
Let us meet again
when you've all Bloomed.
Another blast?
No, this is... a gust of wind.
You were just a tad late, Momo.
You allied yourself with him to thwart me?
Why the change of heart?
Oh, I haven't changed at all.
It's the times that have changed.
Your family is like a nightmare.
No, you people are the nightmare itself.
But that nightmare...
for me, it was a good dream.
My dream, Tsubomi's wish, your intentions...
even a giant tree that's spread its unsightly roots will decay one day.
And bathed in the sunlight that the old tree once blocked,
new cherry blossoms will grow.
I loathe you from the bottom of my heart,
but I have sympathy for you, not being able to awaken.
I'll be going on ahead.
We were born in this wretched world...
and can only die.
Someday, when people like you become the norm...
It's so far in the future that it makes my head spin.
I couldn't see the future with you, but I was able to entrust it to someone.
That fleeting dream that I saw with you, it was a pleasant dream.
Thank you very much, Mr. Kawashita.
Good night.
Yes.
♪ The fox cries out Dancing in the frozen snow ♪
♪ As humans daydream ♪
♪ It leaps in the moonlit night ♪
The decayed cherry tree turns into a sign of spring, eh?
The branches that Tsubomi planted and Kawashita nurtured
will cause the surrounding trees to bloom.
I'll be watching over you, Taiyo.
KAWASHITA MEDICAL CLINIC
Makoto Kawashita.
Physician in the former Japanese Army.
After the war, he was involved in tens of thousands of crimes
while working as an executive of the crime syndicate Tanpopo.
Died while in the custody of the Spy Association.
He was 108 years old.
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