Infinite time stopped beating its heart, and humans burnt away without making any noise.
Not one person notices as the world becomes dislocated and is covered in the flames of Guze.
And stain this sky red.
Just walk through the times that approach you with your own body.
People that walk by you and things that get lost in the mess all have a time when they'll disappear.
Passionate unwavering strength...
Transient and wavering weakness...
In the end, it's the same future.
Melting down the rock hard Earth
As days start and the world ends.
Draw a line as the wind blows you.
Tips of paper flowing like water spear the enemy.
The determination wells up within me.
All I have to do at this moment is to complete the mission with these hands.
Right when the late-blooming cherry blossoms here in Misaki were in full bloom,
the high school life that just started for me, Sakai Yuji,
was about to become an everyday part of my life.
On this morning, the same as any other one...
The same old days.
On a day like any other...
But I never would have imagined it at that time...
The different world I was about to see soon...
And I never thought I would be dying.
Wh-What's this?
What's this?
Time to eat.
And...
...my encounter with a girl with flame-colored eyes and hair...
On that day... my world was dislocated.
That morning began with me meeting my best friend from middle school, Ike Hayato.
Too normal to have been my last morning.
Hey.
Sakai.
Hey.
Being with you doesn't make me feel like I'm at high school.
It lacks in freshness.
Don't make it my fault.
You could have gone to a higher level school.
Well, closer schools are easier to commute to.
What makes it worse is that you could've chosen here for that reason.
I barely made it in.
Whatever you say, you're the type who gets what he wants.
I might just be lucky.
It can also be said that you're shrewd.
You think?
My interest was focusing on my new life in high school.
'ey.
Morning.
I can hear you.
He's hard to talk to.
I heard Satou-kun was a delinquent in middle school.
But the athletic one standing next to him, Tanaka-kun, is it?
I hear he calmed down after hanging out with him.
To people like them, we must look like honor students that get on their nerves.
Honor students?
You might be, but I'm not...
Well, it's common how there's always one or two people in the class you can't get along with, so don't worry about it.
Yeah.
The week after enrollment.
My high school life wasn't filled with hope, yet at the same time it wasn't hopeless.
It was an ordinary life.
Besides...
Thank you.
I saw the girls here were cuter than at other schools, so being a guy, this part was filled with hope.
Sakai.
Sakai Yuji.
Eh, ah, yes.
What are you daydreaming about?
Read from where I left off.
Um...
Father came back from Tokyo.
I started going to the school established in place of the former feudal clan's school.
To go to school, I walked through the wooden door to the west of the field located outside the main gate.
The wooden door remains as it had from the old days, and an old man, about fifty years old, lives there.
That's right, nothing special, but nothing bad.
Who would have thought my ordinary life was so fragile that it could come apart in five minutes...
What are you doing today?
Mock exam at cram school.
You're getting ready for college already?
I've got to keep my parents happy, otherwise it affects my allowance.
What about you?
I got nothing to do, so I guess I'll walk around the station and check out CDs.
Hmm, see ya.
I still ask myself...
...what would have happened if I had gone straight home?
Would my destiny have been the same even if I were someplace else?
But either way, I was walking toward it without noticing...
To the point a few meters away from where the world would become dislocated.
Oh, so your house is on this side, too, Sakai-kun?
No, I just came to check out CDs.
My house is in Ogawa-chou.
Really? Ý'm in Aizawa-chou,
right as you enter New Misaki Street.
Oh really?
Then we're close.
Yup, we are.
Oh yeah, thanks for your help in Japanese class.
Oh, I do that, too, sometimes.
When it happens, I'm counting on you.
Okay.
So... weren't you with Ike-kun today?
Ah, he's at cram school today. Why?
Nothing, just that I see you two together all the time.
Not necessarily all the time, but...
And I was wondering... if he had a girlfriend or not and...
Well he doesn't, but...
Really now.
I'm stopping by the station building, too, so...
Gotcha, later.
Really... To that Ike, eh?
It might be worth seeing what kind of reaction he's going to have.
Stop running.
Watch out!
You're kidding...
Wait...
Wh-What's this?
Okay, preparations complete.
There aren't that many people, but it's enough.
Let's have them.
Chow time, chow time!
It's so delicious, so delicious.
Don't talk while you're eating.
Shame on you.
Yes.
What's this?
What's this??
Hirai-san!
Huh?
What is this guy?
I don't know, but he's not a Tomogara.
But he's moving within the Fuzetsu.
He must be a Mistes.
Mistes?
You mean a Torch with treasure in it?
That's right, and it's a real special one.
We haven't had a good souvenir like this in a while. Our master will be happy.
Yeah! We've done a great job!
I caught you.
Time to eat.
Who is it?
What is this girl?
What do you think, Arastall?
They're not Tomogara, just Rinnes.
How dare you cut my hand!
Crush down!
What... What is she?
I get it, you're...
Don't!
Looks like that's just a shell.
So the main body left at the last moment.
It could still be around.
Is this a Mistes?
Yeah, and it seems like a unique one.
What?
Why...
You wanted to take what's inside of the Mistes at least?
Flame hair and red-hot eyes...
So you're Arastall, the Flame Haze of the Holy Flames.
You tool of hunting.
That's who I am. So what?
My master won't stay quiet about this!
You're right, he will be spouting his last words soon.
Why you...
But now...
...let me hear yours first.
Hold on a second!
What is this?
It's going inside me, and... and...
S- Stop...
She cut me...
I've been cut.
So that's the main part.
Behind you!
It got away.
From the way it was talking, sounds like someone strong is behind all of this.
We might be able to hunt the King of Guze in a while.
Putting all that aside...
H- Help me.
That really surprised me.
I had completely forgotten that this was moving.
You're right. It reminded me of Tenmoku Ikko.
But that time, we knew we were going to fight and that it could move, too.
Please, call an ambulance.
Augh, shut up, shut up, shut up!
Stop crying about being cut now!
How can you...
I can only imagine what you were like when you were alive.
If you were human, you would have been dead the moment you received that wound.
If I was human?
I've got to stop it from bleeding...
The blood!
There isn't any.
What's going on?
The fire! The fire!
Why?
Okay.
Hirai-san!
She's back.
Thank goodness.
That'll do for the Torches.
I'll use a few of them for fixing.
Yeah. And they sure ate a lot.
Her master must be a real big eater.
Finished.
No one noticed what happened?
Hirai-san! Hirai-san!
Wait!
What? What is that?
Hirai-san.
How is this... Why?
Don't tell me...
Hey, wait a minute.
What was that all about?
Where did that boy go?
And inside Hirai-san and others there are...
Shut up already.
Arastall, should we dispose of this?
No, we mustn't open Mistes carelessly.
Have you forgotten the chaos from Tenmoku Ikko's case?
I know, but this one is so noisy.
Just tell it the truth.
Then it should quiet down, too.
Stop talking me as an "it" and a "this", like an object or something.
That's right, you're not a human!
You're an object.
You're not the only one.
All of those with light in them are the same.
They're replacements for the humans that got their power of existence eaten by Guze no Tomogara.
They're Torches.
Replacements? What are you saying?
If an existence disappears all of a sudden, the world's balance collapses, right?
That's why we place a replacement as a shock absorber.
Just temporarily.
So... In other words...
My apologies, Master.
I've made you lose one of your favorite Rinne.
You haven't done anything wrong, Marian.
Getting attacked by Flame Haze is like encountering a catastrophe.
Please, will you give me another...
Sure.
But we don't have to rush.
You must be tired, so you go to bed for the night.
Good night, my cute Marian.
You don't have to worry about anything.
Flame hair and red-hot eyes, eh?
So in other words...
That's right.
The "real" you's existence was eaten a long time ago and has disappeared.
The you right now is only the remainder.
I'm... already...
On that ordinary day,
I found out that I was dead.
Those born with the dawn
Do not lose sight of it.
You are you, girl, it is time.
Shake it off and stand up.
There is not a single way to just gaze at you as you run through the wind
With that hidden wounded heart.
Are those eyes of yours searching for the you that stands somewhere ahead of you?
But I can hear your deep sad heart beat...
It's screaming!
I'm just telling, the darkness before the dawn
Could even determine the fate of the life
Don't worry girl, it is time.
There no need to be mortified or be ashamed.
Fire away!
Carry the cross on your back and run through the fire ready to die.
I am already dead.
The girl was about to disappear without me being able to truly understand what that meant.
Next time, Lit Flame.