Hinatsuki Dormitory
Hinatsuki Dormitory Ruins
Rokuro's Feelings Shocking Confession
New Residence
Marry and have a child?!
You two agreed to this?
Of course not! Not with her!
Obviously not.
Then why are you living together?!
I told you, we're being forced to!
By the Chief Exorcist, Tsuchimikado Arima-sama.
Exorcist...
Yeah, that pervy underpants guy just decided—
Rokuro, I'm sure I'm wrong, but...
You're not thinking of being an exorcist again, are you?
You're not going to fight Kegare again, are you?
Well...
Wait, have you already been fighting?
Why?!
After all the pain you went through...
You said you didn't want to fight anymore...
I don't want to see you end up like that again!
You're still in middle school, you know! You're still just a kid!
Can't you leave the danger to the adults?!
May I say something?
It's true that he still has doubts about being an exorcist,
but his actions have saved people's lives.
Those lives would've been lost without him.
Only when he gets serious, mind you.
But when he gets serious...
He's earnest, and strong...
He inspires me to have a bit more courage, you might say.
Was she actually talking about Rokuro?
He deserves praise for overcoming his past and standing up again.
But if he dies, then what's the point?!
We've never forced him to fight.
It's the place where he belongs, where he's truly needed.
I'm saying that such a dangerous world can't be where Rokuro belongs!
Hey... Both of you, calm down!
Be quiet, Rokuro!
We're having an important discussion.
O-Okay...
I acknowledge and respect his strength.
But looking at it a different way, if you took exorcism from him, he'd have nothing.
Much the same as ohagi without red bean paste or mochi rice.
That's not true!
Rokuro has lots of things going for him besides being an exorcist.
Such as?
He's so accepting that he believed Santa was real until recently!
He keeps asking girls out, no matter how many times he's rejected!
He even knows the multiplication tables perfectly, up through six!
Rokuro, are you listening?!
We're talking about you here.
I'm sorry... And please stop...
How do you feel, Rokuro?
What do you really want?
Let's clear that up right now.
Do you want to fight as an exorcist or not? Which is it?
I...
I thought...
I thought all this time that I shouldn't be fighting, but...
If this power can be used to protect people, I want to do that.
No matter what may happen to me if I fight,
it's all right with me.
Rokuro...
Fine... Do what you want!
Stupid Rokuro...
You're like a summer sale on ignorance.
You don't even know how I feel...
Rokuro!
Why?!
They all died...
Because of me!
So much for being the strongest exorcist!
Rokuro...
Why?
Why, Rokuro?
Benio-sama, it's time for your lunch ohagi...
What's this?
That's Mayura's good luck charm.
A charm?
Yeah, she's carried it around for as long as I can remember.
Then you should return it to her right away.
That charm is made
to prevent potent spell power from detection by Kegare.
The reason Kegare attack people is
to consume their spell power and grow stronger.
If this charm was concealing it,
then Otomi-san must have fairly potent spell power.
Mayura does?
Oh, no!
Are you—
This place is...
Kegare!
Help...
No!
Rokuro...
What the hell are you doing to Mayura?!
You okay?
Hey, Mayura!
Y-Yeah...
Rokuro... You came to save me?
Yeah! I swear, I'm gonna protect you!
Stop it... If you do heroic things like that...
How can I tell you to stop fighting?
You bastard...
Stay back.
I'll defeat this one.
No way! I'm gonna crush it!
Twin Stars or not,
making her live under the same roof as the fang boy, just the two of them...
Arima-sama certainly is rushing things.
You don't need to worry.
Brash though he may seem, Rokuro is naïve in many ways.
Atsushi?!
What's the matter?
Y-You...
Seigen?!
Yo, Gramps...
You look good.
Nice to see you haven't croaked yet.
What brings a man of your standing here?
The old lady from Kyoto...
It's been a while.
As for why I was sent all the way out here...
Gramps, you probably have an inkling, don't you?
I hear a certain runt has been overdoing it with his power lately,
so teaching him a lesson is one reason.
As for the other...
It happened again, right?
A Kegare corruption.
Kegare corruption?
What's that?
So the Exorcist Union noticed, too...
Of course we did.
We've been bracing for the next one for two years now.
Now, then... Since I've said hi to Gramps, I'd better be on my way.
Magano gate, open.
Seigen, are you...
Yeah. I'm here clean up my idiot pupil's mess.
Benio-sama!
Leave the girl to me, and wipe the floor with that rotten Kegare!
It won't be purified...
And this speed, power, and resilience...
It's on a totally different level than other Kegare.
What're you dawdling around for?
That technique... Was that...
Tiger Strike: Kagutsuchi.
Tiger Strike: Kagutsuchi
Return to the stars.
Amazing...
Hey, so we meet again...
Runt.
Ow, ow, ow...
What happened?
That jerk with the bags under his eyes just hit me out of nowhere!
No, it was because you talked back to him.
Who is he anyway, Jissama?!
His name is Amawaka Seigen.
He's an exorcist who was once assigned to this town for a time, and...
Well, er, that is...
My son-in-law.
Son-in-law?
What do you mean?
He used to be married to my daughter.
What? Does that mean...
Yes...
Seigen is Mayura's father.
No resemblance!
He's definitely powerful, though.
Seigen's one of the Twelve Guardians.
The Twelve Guardians...
So he's on the same level as the guy from the other day?
Who do you mean?
While you were in the hospital, we met one of them in Magano.
The Suzaku of the Twelve Guardians, Ikaruga Shimon.
He was crazy strong, too!
He wiped out an entire swarm of Kegare in one shot!
Man, I wish you could've seen it, Ryogo-san!
I know more about the strength of the Twelve Guardians than I'd like, actually.
Seigen-san was the one who taught Rokuro and me how to fight.
He was our exorcist master.
Hey, kid...
You have something to say to me, don't you?
That's...
It's good to see you again!
You look as young as ever, Master!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Keep goofing around and I'll slap you silly, got it?
Arima told me all about it.
The pervy underpants guy?
You've been putting that arm's power through its paces, huh?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but...
You're not saying you wanna be an exorcist again, are you?
That's...
For the world, for the future...
I know I don't have the right to fight for anything that big anymore,
but I can't just ignore people around me getting hurt!
If this arm, despite how it looks, can reach out to someone,
I want to hold it out to them!
You think that power of yours is something that noble?
There's no sense in spewing that idealistic crap now.
Idealistic crap...
My idealistic crap
all burned to ashes on that day, two years ago!
If you feel that strongly, then why don't you show me?
Show me what you're capable of with that arm,
and just how committed you are.
Fight me, runt.
You beat me, and it'll prove you've got both the grit and the skill, right?
Then you can do whatever you want.
But...
I won't hold back.
Come at me as if you intend to kill me, too.
I don't really care what happens to the imp,
but this looks kinda bad for him, don't you think?
Benio-sama?
Two years ago...
So, Jissama...
What's this "Kegare corruption" that Seigen-san mentioned?
I suppose I should tell you all...
They used to say, "Undyed cloth loses its color fastest."
When people hate one another, they become demons in both mind and body.
But in the same fashion,
the bodies of those with potent spell power will,
at times, become Kegare, for some reason.
This phenomenon is called Kegare corruption.
That's crazy... You mean people can become Kegare?
The first confirmed case of Kegare corruption was two years ago.
Don't tell me...
The Hinatsuki tragedy.
So, back then, Rokuro was...
What are you saying?
What happened to the fang boy?
You mean you didn't know? Rokuro survived the Hinatsuki tragedy.
Gran?
How can this be?
Let's do this.
Let those who turn away from divine blessings
be shot down by the divine arrow.
Air Fissure Bullet, come forth at once.
Look at that!
It's the same move the imp uses!
But the amount of spell power contained in it is incomparable...
And that's a wrap.
Air Fissure Bullet, come forth at once!
Size isn't everything, you know.
He got him!
I can't sense any intent to kill in your punch.
When did you—
Didn't I tell you to show me how committed you are?
I guess you were just spouting idealistic crap, after all.
A little idiot like you, talking about being an exorcist...
Give it back, Seige—
That arm of yours isn't for saving people.
It's for pushing aside the hands of people who are looking for help, isn't it?
You haven't forgotten what you did
at Hinatsuki, have you?
Hinatsuki...
What do you mean by that?
What are you talking about?
I see...
There shouldn't be any secrets between husband and wife, right?
Seigen!
I'll tell you about how his right arm is stained with blood.
S-Stop! Please, don't!
I don't know why the hell Arima didn't tell her before now,
but the girl definitely deserves to know.
Is there some tie between Benio-san and the Hinatsuki Dorm?
Benio-sama's family was killed by Kegare.
They were originally a family of four. Her father, her mother, and...
She had a twin brother.
Two years ago,
the home of several exorcist trainees, the Hinatsuki Dorm,
was attacked by several Kegare from Magano,
and nearly all the trainees were killed.
This is what people know as the Hinatsuki tragedy.
However...
That's not what really happened.
On that day, two years ago,
the night the tragedy happened...
Not a single Kegare had actually appeared from Magano.
So why was it that all the exorcist trainee children perished?
It's simple.
The sole survivor,
Enmado Rokuro,
killed all the other trainees himself.
After the death of her parents,
Benio-sama remained with the Adashino house to inherit it.
Her brother, Yuto-sama,
was adopted by his father's side of family, the Ijika house.
Ijika... Yuto?
Yes, Benio-sama's brother
was at the Hinatsuki Dorm.
Is what he just said... the truth?
Don't just stand there. Say something!
Please, say something!
Answer me, Enmado Rokuro!
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What is this, Seigen? You're doing the preview, too?
Turgenev said that people need unhappiness, poverty,
or illness, because without them, they become conceited.
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Just shut up!
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