One thing Ike Hayato, the brains of the group, cannot deal with is his affection toward Yoshida Kazumi.
At the Fancy Park, where he planned the day thoroughly, all of his calculations failed.
But that, itself, was carved into everyone's mind as a memory.
Stop it!
I'm the one who'll kill them!
Did I say something?
I don't know.
Tada!
Wait.
You can do it, Yuji!
Crush down!
Well done.
That was so nasty of you.
You had to bring that Rinne out of all the choices you had.
It was requested by the Flame of Heaven and his contractor ~de arimasu.
Committed with permission.
Alastor.
I guess it's time we moved on to the next step.
Next step?
Formulating an unrestricted spell.
Unrestricted spell?
Me?
You can.
Regarding feeling and controlling power of existence, you're at a pretty advanced level.
I-I am?
Oh yeah!
Did you find anything out about Reiji Maigo's Keeper?
It's still under investigation ~de arimasu.
Information from Outlaw has just arrived.
Currently analyzing it ~de arimasu.
No concerns.
Don't bother with things you don't have to.
Just focus on the task presented to you.
I don't think it's necessarily something I shouldn't be bothering with.
You'll first learn how to formulate an unrestricted spell.
We'll train how to cast a Fuzetsu starting tomorrow.
Next is...
Isolated observed case.
This is not very important to our situation.
Th-This is...
Could it be...
Pheles...
Good morning.
Wilhelmina?
I will be away for some time ~de arimasu.
Look at this mess.
What's the problem?
Hey, great timing. Give me a hand here.
Margery-san.
I have a request.
What?
Say it?
Please... train me.
What?
That's idiotic.
What we do right now isn't enough!
If we can't get stronger physically, is there anything else we can do?
Hey, what's gotten into you?
Anything! I want power!
For what?
That's...
To follow you!
I'll leave the city with you and go anywhere!
I want to be able to help you!
You'd die.
You two don't understand anything.
About what?
Fine.
Then I'll tell you.
What the world I've been living in is really like.
Who I really am.
Several years after the Great Depression.
When New York, the cause of the event, was desperate to retain its past glory...
Hello there, Guze no Tomogara.
Sorry for the suddenness, but die!
I'm the Cavern of Scrupulous Impaling, Annaberg.
Judging from the color of your flame,
I presume you're the Fang of Devastation, Marcosius-dono...
...and the Interpreter of Condolence, Margery Daw, famous even in Guze.
What if we are?!
Keep your mouth shut and die!
That was easy.
He had a fairly large presence, but he wasn't much of a fight.
Where is he?
Below us!
Thank you for your aid, Metamorphosis Sydonay-dono.
It's what I was hired for.
Should I finish her?
It'll be a bother to leave her be.
Is she an acquaintance of yours?
This is my first time facing her personally, but hundreds of my fellows have been killed by her.
So he was the one with the big presence?
What a screw up.
If you'll have trouble, then let's forget about her.
I don't want to waste time,
since I went through the trouble of coming to Manhattan, picking the moment when the Flame Haze are gone.
Okay. I'll follow my client.
Humans! I praise you!
Change more!
Make more!
And show me!
Show me the power that changes this world!
Now, both of you. Observe my amusement, the acceleration of civilization.
Coming soon. Coming soon.
Looks like we're saved.
Y'know, I liked this dress, too.
It's cheap if it's in exchange for your life.
Treat me more neatly, will you, my capricious thrower, Margery Daw?
It's a lady's privilege to be able to ask for a prompt dismissal.
The purification flame, please.
Aye, aye, yo.
Give me a suit.
The one I bought in Marseilles.
Are you all right?
H-Huh?
I-I'm the Hauler of Prevailing Ghouls, Yuri Chvojka, Flame Haze of the Marshal of Diminutive Lizards, Valac.
Um... I'm sixteen years old.
This includes the one year I've been a Flame Haze.
You fool. What's the point for Flame Haze to keep track of their age?
Oh, I'm sorry, Valac.
Don't apologize so easily.
I'm sorry.
Um, I've always admired you, Interpreter of Condolence.
I've heard you've killed many Tomogara in many battles.
How far are you going to follow me for?
I have business at the Summoner of Milky Ways, not with you!
I-I'm sorry.
If you understand, then get out of my sight.
Ah, no, that's not what I mean.
I'm working at the Summoner of Milky Ways, Eastedge-san's Outlaw.
Huh?
A brat like you?
This is hilarious!
This is like a mission for the newly recruited private, Marshal of Diminutive Lizards?
I must be at my lowest point to be pitied by the Fang of Devastation.
You got that right.
Yes, that's when I felt something strange.
Yuri was a strange Flame Haze that didn't possess the spirit for killing Tomogara,
or the act of hiding it,
or the calmness after achieving enlightenment.
You're a strange Flame Haze.
D-Do you think so?
The purpose of my visit to New York was to deliver a letter to Eastedge.
At the time, Flame Haze around the world were gathering in Europe to fight an army of Tomogara called Revolution.
The contents of the letter were regarding said matter.
I thought it was some kind of joke not to feel any presence from my coworkers.
Looks like you guys have it rough.
Yeah, with only a trainee like him staying behind.
Even with the Marshal of Diminutive Lizards with him, it's a little too risky.
Right now, other than you two, there's us, the Four Gods of the Motherland.
And...
We. Cannot move. From here.
We know. If something were to happen, this megalopolis would be empty.
I'll take care of them.
What do you think of that boy?
He's not suited for the job.
I don't sense any anger or hatred against Tomogara.
And he's...
...something's strange.
The boy carries an aberration in his heart he shouldn't have.
It's too dangerous. We can't. Send him. Into battle.
I see.
So it was on his own responsibility that he came into the Fuzetsu.
I hate to ask, but could you do me a favor?
Train the new recruit, eh?
Only until I take care of them, you hear?
This isn't my kind of thing.
And I have to face that Metamorphosis.
Man, I hate this.
There won't be any worse accidents than having your naked body seen, so don't worry.
Shut up, stupid Marco!
I feel the Tomogaras' presence strongly.
Do you want to use the sonar unrestricted spell and declare war right off the bat?
I could, but that might only bring Metamorphosis out and get Hauler of Prevailing Ghouls to act somewhere else.
Observe my amusement, the acceleration of civilization.
Here.
Do you prefer alcohol?
Don't give me that puppy dog look.
This is fine.
It's an honor to be able to accompany you in your search.
I don't have a choice if it's Eastedge's request.
It's been half a century since you last came to New York, right?
Hasn't it changed a lot?
Yeah.
I guess I do see less horses and pigs in the city.
Pigs?
Back then, the street was covered in shit and trash was piled up everywhere.
Hunters Point was a den of toxic gas.
Was it...
Unforgivable!
To come to a place that overcame such days, and when it's still trying to overcome the Great Depression...
I can't forgive that Tomogara.
And it was talking about something strange like accelerating civilization or something, right?
It's them who eat and slow down humans!
And yet, accelerate? There's a limit to how much crudity he speaks with!
Hey bro, why don't you calm down a little?
Eh?
Ah, I'm sorry.
You care about humans too much.
The mission of Flame Haze is to maintain the world's balance.
Not to protect humans.
I understand that, but...
Stop thinking that you're a human.
Y-Yeah...
Do you think I'm a strange Flame Haze?
Yeah. I don't understand why someone like you made a contract.
A year ago-
Forget it.
I was on an immigrant ship headed for America.
And a Tomogara assaulted that ship.
My father... My mother...
And many of my kind got eaten by Tomogara and had their existences erased.
In the midst of that, Valac found me, and I became a Flame Haze.
I regret what I did that day.
Regret?
How you made a contract?
No, that's not what I meant.
I'm very grateful to Valac.
But that day, I couldn't save anyone.
I was too occupied with myself.
So this time... This time around, I want to protect someone.
Valac!
I know.
But what can you do?
Head home right now.
You don't qualify as a Flame Haze.
B-But, we need to search for the Tomogaras.
Then tell me what his goal is!
Why did he say "observe" when he's hiding?!
I have a hypothesis based on the Tomogara's nature and the result of the walking we did!
What about you?!
W-Well...
An amateur following me is nothing more than a nuisance!
Valac.
If you don't know, then we have no choice but to go back.
What?
Night's starting to fall, so I'm going now.
Give our apologies to Eastedge, will ya, Marshal of Diminutive Lizards?
W-Wait!
Don't follow us.
Don't you dare.
This is a fabulous building.
To build something like this in only four hundred and five days.
It's just like the Tower of Babel.
An accomplishment on par with the Babylonians.
Flame Haze use hatred and vengeance to live.
A dangerous kid like him is useless in a battle.
The Marshal of Diminutive Lizards made a contract with one heck of a pile of trouble.
Want to save someone?
Using the Flame Haze's rage for good intentions is the worst possible combination.
It's a not even a problem about fit or not fit for being one.
Although, it's nothing we should care about now.
I'll just kill them with everything I've got.
The product of human's infinite power and capacity for construction.
This building shall be recorded in history as a physical proof of both aspects.
Take part in my acceleration of civilization, Empire State Building!
Fuzetsu!
Yuri, a young Flame Haze who looks up to Margery.
A pure sense of justice sleeps within him.
However, Margery knows that it is an unnecessary aspect for a Flame Haze.
Yet, Yuri sets his flame afire.
Next time on Shakugan no Shana Second.
Milestone of Pity.