For Ike Hayato, who seeks to be known as a prodigy,
only his unrequited feelings toward
Yoshida Kazumi are not to his satisfaction.
With do-or-die determination, he plans a day of fun at Fancy Park,
but his calculations end up entirely missing the mark.
Still, it becomes another memory left in everyone's hearts.
Stop!
I'm the one who's going to kill them!
Did I say anything?
I dunno.
Wait...
You can do it, Yuuji!
I'll crush you!
Well done.
Say what you will, that's a horrible choice.
Forming that Rinne, of all things...
The Flame of Heaven and his contractor requested it.
Compliance and execution.
Alastor.
Mm. It is about time to move on to the next stage.
The next stage?
Invoking Unrestricted Methods.
Unrestricted Methods? Me, use them?
You can. With just an understanding and control of power of existence,
you're approaching a considerable level of power.
I-I see.
Oh yeah, did you find out anything about the Kaikin on the Reiji Maigo?
That subject is now being investigated.
Information from Autorou only just reached
me. They are in the midst of earnest analysis.
Worrying is futile.
Do not keep fretting about irrelevant things.
Simply focus on refining the skills you have developed.
I don't think it's really irrelevant...
First, the invoking of Unrestricted Methods.
We'll start the Fuuzetsu training from tomorrow onwards.
Next is...
Sighting of a simple substance.
This is not particularly important to us at this point.
T-This is...
Could it be...
Pheles!
Morning...
Wilhelmina?
I will be going away for a while.
Leaving things so untidily...
Come on, it's fine!
Oh, you came at the right time. Help me out a bit, will ya.
Margery-san, I have a request.
What is it? Let's hear it.
Please...train me.
What's that? Pointless.
It's no good trying to do it on my own!
If you say it's impossible to strengthen my
body, isn't there anything else you can do...?
Hey, what the heck happened?
I don't care what it takes. I want power!
For what?
That's...
So I can support you.
So I can leave this town with you and go wherever you go...
I want to become your strength!
You will die, you know.
You guys understand nothing at all.
W-What don't we understand?
Fine, in that case I'll tell you...about the world I lived in.
About what sort of person I am.
It was several years after the Great Depression.
A time when the epicenter of the crash, New York,
was struggling to regain its former prosperity.
Good afternoon, Tomogara of Guze!
Hurry up...and die!
I am the Penetrating Cave, Annaberg.
Judging from the color of the flames,
I presume you are the famous Trampling Claws and Fangs, Marchosias,
and the Composer of Elegies, Margery
Daw, whose names are famous even in Guze?
And so what?
Shut your mouth and obediently die!
That was real easy!
It was an unexpected, powerful-feeling Tomogara,
but it didn't turn out to be much after all.
Where--?
It's below!
Thank you for your timely assistance, Shapeshifter Sydonai.
You did request it, after all.
Shall I finish her off?
This woman will become troublesome if we leave her alone.
An acquaintance of yours?
It's the first time we've actually fought,
but in these few hundred years, many of my sworn friends have fallen to her.
That powerful presence I sensed was actually his?
What an error I made...
If she's going to give you a hard time, let's leave her alone.
We should not waste any more time.
After all, Flame Hazes journey as they wish,
and she chose to come all the way to Manhattan.
Understood. I will do as requested.
O humans! I bring you my blessings.
Change more! Create more!
And show it!
The power to repaint this world...show it to me!
Well then, both of you, please observe my great
pleasure, the acceleration of civilization.
Soon...Very soon.
We're saved, eh.
This dress...I really liked it, you know.
In exchange for your life, it's pretty cheap!
Handle me with a little more courtesy!
My profligate thrower-around, Margery Daw.
Having others leave quickly when she changes clothes is a lady's privilege.
Purification flame, please.
Al-righty.
My suit, please. The one I bought in Marseilles.
Are you all right?
Uh...oops?
I-I'm the Flame Haze contracted to the General of Vipers and Lizards, Valac.
I'm called the Channeler of the Might of Spirits, Yuri Chvojka.
Um...I'm 16.
A-Ah, I've been a...a Flame Haze for a year now.
Idiot. Since when did Flame Hazes care about keeping track of their ages?
Ah...sorry, Valac.
Don't lower your head so easily.
Sorry--
U-Um, I've always really respected you, Composer of Elegies.
How you've defeated so many Tomogara in so many different battles...
Exactly how far are you intending to follow me?
I have business with the Caller of the River of Stars, not you.
S-Sorry.
If you understand, hurry up and go somewhere else.
Ahh - no, you've got me wrong.
I'm working in the Autorou of the
Caller of the River of Stars, East Edge.
Huh?
This ignorant kid?
What a piece of work!
New recruit always getting the hard
jobs, huh, General of Vipers and Lizards?
Being pitied by the Trampling Claws and Fangs, it's really the end of me.
No doubt about that.
Yes. At that time, I harbored a sense of unease.
With Yuri, it seemed any air of a destroyer had been
hidden away, with an enlightened calm in its stead.
He was a strange Flame Haze who projected no particular aura.
You're...a strange Flame Haze.
R-Really?
My purpose in coming to New York was to deliver a letter to East Edge.
At the time, in order to combat a
powerful Tomogara group called Revolution,
the world's Flame Hazes were going to Europe.
The contents of the letter were related to that battle.
When I sensed no colleagues in all of Manhattan,
I wondered if it was some sort of joke.
You guys are also having it hard, it seems.
All you have left is that apprentice boy.
No matter how much the General of Vipers and Lizards
supports you, it's still pretty damn dangerous.
Mmm.
Right now, besides you two, there are only
us two pairs of partners in this place.
And...
We - cannot - take action.
I know.
But if by some thousand-to-one chance catastrophe
strikes, this megalopolis will be ripe for the picking.
I'll deal with them.
What do you think about that boy?
He's not suited to the job.
I sense no trace of hatred or wrath towards Tomogara in him at all.
And that boy...
He's strange somewhere.
In his heart lies an unallowable deviation.
Too dangerous - to be - used in - battle.
I see.
So that child entered the Fuuzetsu on his own judgment.
I'm sorry, but would you take care of him?
Me, mentor a rookie, huh.
But only until he's steady on his own. Training isn't my thing, you know.
Even though it's that Shapeshifter whom I'll be facing.
Ahhh...not fun.
Nothing happened beyond you being seen naked, so don't worry!
Shut up, idiot Marcho!
The presences of those Tomogara are thick here.
How about using a presence-sensing Unrestricted
Method to suddenly drag them into a fight?
That's not a bad idea,
but if I handle it badly, only the Shapeshifter might appear,
while the Penetrating Cave goes elsewhere to cause trouble.
...please observe my great pleasure, the acceleration of civilization!
Please.
Would an alcoholic drink have been better?
Don't look so much like a puppy!
This is fine.
I'm so happy to be able to assist you in your search!
Well, it couldn't be helped, since East Edge requested it.
It's been half a century since your last time in New York.
Hasn't it changed a lot?
I guess so...At the very least, there are
a lot fewer pigs and horses in the city.
Pigs?
In those days, there was excrement
everywhere, as well as mountains of garbage.
There was also poisonous gas around Hunter's Point, you know!
So that's how it was.
Inexcusable!
We surmounted that era, and even now we're
trying to recover from the Great Depression,
but they're coming to attack us while we're working so hard...
That Tomogara is absolutely unforgivable!
He even talked about perverse things like
the acceleration of civilization, didn't he?
Even though Tomogara eat people and set the world back,
he dares to talk recklessly about acceleration--
Kid, how about calming down a bit?
Ah...I'm sorry.
You worry too much about humans. The mission of
Flame Hazes is to preserve the world's balance.
It's not to protect humans.
I understand that, but...
How long more do you intend to stay a human?
M-Mm.
I'm really a weird Flame Haze after all, aren't I?
Yeah. Why did someone like you make a contract...
One year ago,
Don't start.
I was on a ship carrying immigrants to America.
And that ship...was attacked by a Tomogara.
My father...My mother...So many friends...all eaten by the Tomogara.
Their existences were completely terminated.
In the midst of it, I was chosen by Valac, and became a Flame Haze.
I'm regretting what happened at that time.
Regretting? Making the contract?
Oh, no! That's not what I mean.
I'm really grateful to Valac.
But...at that time,
I couldn't save anyone at all.
I just put all my strength into saving myself...
So this time...This time round, I want to save someone!
Valac!
I know. But what can I do?
Go home at once.
Ehh?
You can't function as a Flame Haze.
B-But we have to find the Tomogara...
Really? Then tell me what his goal is!
You sneakily stay hidden, and yet you speak such words!
I've already inferred the Tomogara's personality
as well as the results of us walking around today!
Have you?!
T-That's...
It's a bother having a rookie underling like
you sticking to me and getting in the way!
Valac...
If you don't know the answer, all you can do is go home.
But that's...
An evening show worth seeing is almost here, so I'll be off.
Give East Edge my apology, General.
W-Wait!
Don't follow me...don't you dare.
What an utterly magnificent building.
Such a great structure built in merely 405 days:
it is just like Babel of antiquity,
possessing a majesty that rivals Babylon.
Hatred and revenge are the food that sustains a Flame Haze.
A child as dangerous as him can't be used in battle.
The General of Vipers and Lizards sure made a contract with an awful kid.
So he wants to save someone?
A Flame Haze whose deviation stems from an intent to do good -
- that's the worst sort.
It's a more basic problem than whether he's suited to the job or not.
It doesn't matter to me at this point...
I'll slaughter all of them!
The boundless power of humanity, and the
achievement of civilization known as construction.
As an unwavering testimony to both,
this building will surely be recorded in history forever.
Submit to my acceleration of civilization,
Empire State Building!
Fuuzetsu!
A young Flame Haze filled with admiration for Margery, Yuri.
In him also was a pure sense of justice.
But all of this was unnecessary for a Flame Haze, Margery knew.
Nevertheless, Yuri began to reveal his own flame.
Next time on Shana of the Blazing Eyes Second:
The Milestone of Sorrow.