Everything about him... all exactly the same!
He looks just like my prince that I saw in my dreams.
Come... with me.
Chapter Nine Maiden Unfulfilled
Shattered Angels Kyoshiro and the Eternal Sky
Grown-ups that I pictured as a child
Are nowhere to be found
Hearts at cross purposes, or moving as one
At times swell like the universe, or suffer solitude
Crossing hearts
Like the skies eternally blue
Your smiling face dazzles me
Velvety sighs echo into the dark
Moment to moment our emotions change
Longing for a warmth we can believe in
Behaving as we have been taught
Using shards of tears as armor
I frantically search for you
For there is something I must convey
Though it may hurt us
Is this... a dream?
No... it's not a dream.
He really is my prince, he's the real thing!
Come with me, my precious Cielo.
No!
You can't take her away from Kyoshiro!
You can't!
To what shall I compare you, Setsuna?
Absolute Angel, Megingjord!
The sun is setting... the wind has died down.
Yet, the color-turned trees bear no fruit whatsoever.
This... This angel's Mana...
In the sweet spring and the radiant summer,
those golden days in which you single-mindedly served, served, and served.
Yet, you never saw your desires fulfilled.
They were in vain, and all vanished.
Yes, you are the fall, a single leaf with nowhere to go.
A leaf forgotten by everybody, dancing in the cold wind, a lonely leaf.
You are Setsuna... of the fall.
It's tough to be alone, Setsuna.
But you don't need to bear it any longer.
I'll give you the restful winter filled with silence and tenderness.
Here.
I am Kyoshiro's Sword.
So, I will not leave.
I won't allow myself to go!
Setsuna...
No!
She's... me... Me?
Do you see who she is?
Come now, Cielo, and I will fill your emptiness.
And then, you will return to the real you, from that day.
Don't!
Setsuna, don't do it!
Kazuya!
Look... See your true prince!
A human being cannot survive exposure to an Absolute Angel's powerful Mana.
But, in extremely rare cases,
one unites with that power to gain the eternal strength of the Angels.
On that day, I was enveloped by yours, the purest of all Mana.
I was filled with you.
It was an extreme baptism, a celestial joy... No, it truly cannot be expressed.
Not in any language, even with a thousand words or a million sentences.
It cannot be conveyed in words.
I am full of you.
I am completely filled by you.
My sweet Cielo.
Kazuya...
And you are... The real you is...
Megingjord, oh you who shine brilliantly,
with guidance of the eternal spirit, appear before us now!
What is this?
I am you...
You are me...
"You are... me?"
The Absolute Angel awoke that day.
I was divided into four lights and scattered into the world.
Claiomh Solais, Murakumo, Batraz, I...
We were broken up into two, mind and body.
My body, which had lost all its Mana had become you in your youth.
What was left was my spirit.
Kazuya transferred my Mana which cannot exist by itself, into a steel angel,
creating me, Valteisha.
Spirit... Valteisha...
Yes, Kuu Shiratori.
Your young body was my original form.
I have been waiting... for you to grow into a size suitable for me.
I see... you're the spirit of empty old me.
Since you were absent, I was...
Now, awaken, my vessel.
We will become one again.
Become one...
Yes, one.
Yes, that's it...
That is you, your form!
Absolute Angel...
Megingjord's form...
Ah, how wonderful!
Simply wonderful, my precious Cielo.
Show me more, show me more!
Claimoh Solais!
Setsuna!
Kyoshiro...
Kyo... shi... ro...
Setsuna!
Kazuya! What is going on here?!
Why did you do this? Kazuya!
Shiro, it's been a while. Let's do it.
Ready... Go.
Big brother wins again.
You're so precious, Shiro.
You always followed me around like a puppy.
You stretched as far as you could, and copied everything I did.
And even after I was gone, you tried so hard on your own, for so long.
You are precious. Truly precious.
Why, Kazuya?
You are strong and kind.
And you saved the world by giving your life to seal the Absolute Angels.
But then, you, you go and do this...
Save the world?
Huh, I never even considered that.
Not even once...
Come to think of it, Grandfather Reitaro used to say the same thing...
We were wrong. We must not awaken the Absolute Angels.
If we do that, the world will be destroyed.
We must hide this plan away forever. Is that right?
Yeah, that's why you said never to touch the Absolute Angels.
You put your life on the line to seal them away... to protect the world...
But now you've...
Who cares if it's destroyed?
Compared to her magnificence, it matters about as much as a grain of sand.
The Earth's destruction is such a trifling matter.
A trifle, truly a trifle... wouldn't you say, Shiro?
Then, you forced the revival of the Absolute Angels?
Is that the reason we had the "Seven Days of Hot Snow"?
It... It can't be!
You, you saved me from that explosion!
I saved you?
You were in my way.
You were intruding on OUR world.
I never would have thought that you'd survive.
Aren't you glad to have lived, though, Shiro?
Congratulations.
Kazuya...
You are lying... Kazuya, Kazuya...
Kazuya!
You haven't changed. Sweet Shiro. I still like your crying face the best.
I can't help but hurt you just to see you look at me like that.
Shiro, you are strong.
But it means nothing unless you are the strongest.
Strong, kind, beautiful, always winning against any odds...
Like me, in other words.
Now, come with me.
Yes, my Prince.
Kuu...
Don't go...
My prince, who is that man?
Dunno.
Kazuya, you...
You were alive?
And long lost Megingjord...
So you were hiding her?
Murakumo, how brilliant you are!
Warm, gentle and yet strong...
Like a ray of spring sunshine, overflowing with life...
Stay away from my Murakumo!
Come, my lovely fragment of Cielo.
Back off, Kazuya!
Ah, every aspect of spring is here!
Kazuya!
The Heavenly Seventh Concerto: Angels' Requiem.
Kazuya!
How do you like it? This is the Mana-Buster.
This is what Grandfather Reitaro was preparing.
This is my trump card. It seals off Mana the Absolute Angels' energy source.
I finally completed it, after painstaking research, with the data that he left behind.
I will not let you have her, you devil!
I know!
I know the true face underneath that "holy and noble" mask.
You are a devil who has always stripped away everything I had.
Like picking flowers from the roadside for fun.
Just to get a moment's satisfaction!
I will not be fooled. You are a devil.
She is one thing I will not give up! I'll never hand her over to you!
My noble and beautiful Sword, the only of her kind in the entire world.
What is beautiful about the Sword?
That's because it can be tempered.
Tempered in the fires of a thousand hardships, and hammered by ten thousand hells,
it does not snap, but keeps on glowing...
For the one dearest to her.
What?
And who is that?
Shut up.
Poor Mika, you've struggled so, struggled until you spat blood,
amassing this mountain of lies and deceptions...
Quiet! Quiet! Quiet!
But still you are...
Quiet!
Do it now, Murakumo!
Surpassing frozen winter, flaming spring...
Oh, how beautiful!
Stop! Kaon will die! Kaon!
It will never snap... My Sword will never snap.
Kaon! Kaon!
Kaon...
Kaon!
Kaon...
Stay back.
Kaon...
You gave me so much...
Your bright smile, the warmth of your skin against mine, a loving heart...
Each moment with you was like an eternity of happiness.
But all I did was to take from you.
With cursed kisses, I plagued you.
Kaon...
I hurt you again and again, yet I can't live without you, so...
I will return everything to you, Himiko.
Kaon?
Himiko...
It's okay, Kaon... Even if you keep taking from me, even if it kills me,
I'll still have something that will never run out.
So, I'll be all right...
Himiko...
I love you.
Himiko...
Murakumo...
Mika, you are beautiful.
But what is the meaning in beauty you cannot adorn yourself with?
Be strong, kind, beautiful and always win against any odds...
Yes, in other words, you must have true beauty like me...
Give her back... Give Murakumo back to me!
Kaon...
Lady Mika!
It's no use... I'm not going to make it.
Lady Mika!
Why do you cry? I've tormented you for so long, and now I'm dying...
You should be glad.
What a funny thing... You're such a...
Yet Murakumo protected you she sacrificed everything... and saved you...
I wanted Murakumo.
I wanted to make that beautiful and noble Sword mine alone.
Murakumo's smile, her happy smile...
I did everything I could for that.
I sacrificed my body, life, and pride. It would have been worth it all.
In the end, I depended on such a...
I wanted Murakumo to love me.
Why, why you? Why not me?! Why?!
Lady Mika!
I hate you...
Tearing you to pieces wouldn't be enough to satisfy me...
But, you are the only one... who can save Murakumo.
Lady Mika...
Save Murakamo.
Don't hand her over to that devil...
not the Kaon that I loved so much...
I'm counting on you.
Lady Mika?
Oh... How warm...
The empty birdcage speaks of yesterday's leave-taking
I said good-bye in the glow of sunrise
Each day we awaken as different people
Two who are new, yet somehow familiar
"I want to love you" means nothing more than that
All I need is to touch you
I live protected by love that is promised, but
Why is it that ultramarine implies transience?
I want to see you
Will this sky give me eternity; this sea, life?
Flower petals quiver like wings coming to rest
In my paradise as I drowse
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