Hand over the Dark Oath Grimoire, Natsuki.
I cannot forgive this maddened world.
For your sake, as well...
You'll steal my memories?
The classmates you tried to protect will one day become adults.
They'll forget about you, the one who could go nowhere.
That might not be so bad.
Maybe I'll just become a teacher here
and watch over the growth of new students.
Fool...
Remember, you are a tool created by the Corporation
to control the prison barrier.
One day, you will fall into an eternal sleep
and be left behind, all alone, in the other world.
These are...
Memories of the battle that happened ten years ago.
Sana-chan's...
Minamiya-sensei's dream?
No, it may be your own dream, Sword Shaman.
Are you sure you want to abandon the Fourth Progenitor?
I'll leave the rest to Kojou.
It may be more interesting that way.
If we could just use some kind of first aid...
Hey, do human pain killers work on vampires?
Relax, Kirasaka.
Is this any time to relax?! You're on the verge of death!
Damn it, if I could just use a spell...
The Dark Oath Grimoire has negated
all superhuman powers in the demon district.
My wound shows no sign of regenerating, either.
Since this island's supported by magic, I guess it's a matter of time
before it sinks...
That's it! Blood!
Take mine! Quick!
Last time you almost died,
Yukina and the princess saved you that way!
The circumstances are different this time!
Besides, I'm dying because I've lost my powers as a vampire.
Giving me blood now won't—
Quiet!
Y-You can't complain about this, right?
If I didn't have a huge hole in my gut, I'm sure I'd be very turned on.
By the way, you're into string bikinis, huh?
Wh-What difference does that make?!
Anyway, what about your vampiric urges?
I hate to say it after you went to the trouble to help, but...
Y-You mean seeing my panties isn't enough?!
Whoa, hang on! Chill out!
Yuuma...
How did you get here?
I had enough magic left to find out where Kojou was.
Of course, with the warping in effect,
I couldn't exactly come straight here.
But... In your condition...
Between the two of us, I'd say you look closer to death.
Your mother did this, you know.
She's taken Yukina.
I know. So let's begin right away.
Begin what?
What you and Kojou were about to do.
The three of us this time.
Himeragi!
Yukina, you're okay?
Senpai! Sayaka-san!
Is your wound all right?
Yeah. I'm fine now.
Wanna see?
That hurt! I was just kidding!
It doesn't sound like a joke coming from you, pervert!
Don't go near my Yukina! You'll sully her!
This idiot aside, let's get to practice, Yukina.
Practice?
Senpai, you started playing basketball again?
What do you mean, "again"?
It may be weakened, but our basketball club isn't sunk yet.
But all magical powers are...
Masochist?
Is that the kind of thing you're into?
No!
Although, it's true that our manager is pretty sadistic.
Seriously, that practice regimen Asagi came up with...
Is she trying to kill us?
Come on, if you keep talking to this pervert, you'll catch his masochism.
Let's get to the archery range.
Himeragi?
So that's what's going on.
I meet you as a regular underclassman,
and the kind Sayaka-san is here.
I'm dreaming, aren't I?
Another world... One that could have been.
Schneesturm Wolfin!
If you wished it, I could have made that dream a reality.
And that's the power of the Dark Oath Grimoire?
Rebuilding the world to suit your own desires?
You used that power to eliminate all superhuman powers
except your own from the city of Itogami.
Why did you do that?
As proof that it is not us witches,
but the world that is cursed.
Proof?
This is an experiment.
An experiment to which you are a witness...
An observer,
Himeragi Yukina.
No more...
Let me go...
Please...
You're beautiful, Kirasaka-san.
Why are you doing something so cruel?
We don't have time. Can we do this now?
Huh?
If we don't hurry, the island will collapse.
We need Kojou's power to stop it.
I'm borrowing your sword.
Yuuma!
H-Hey!
Tokoyogi Aya used the Dark Oath Grimoire to
eliminate all superhuman powers from Itogami Island.
But she didn't eliminate her own.
No... Since she's the one using the Dark Oath Grimoire,
I should say she couldn't.
That means,
since I was made as a copy of her, my powers work just fine.
So if Kojou drinks my blood...
Then he might get his vampire powers back?
Yuuma...
Wait, what was the point of stripping me, then?!
That was...
Yuuma...
I won't waste the pass you set up for me.
Kirasaka!
Y-Yes?!
W-Wait a minute... I'm not ready...
I haven't had a shower...
I-It hurts... Not there...
Not yet...
No one will die.
Akatsuki Kojou...
No one will die, Kirasaka.
I won't let anyone else die.
Okay.
Damn...
The wound from Schneesturm Wolfin still isn't healing?
You are pierced because you're too concerned with your body.
You fall apart because you're too concerned with form.
Vampires are beings that transcend the line between life and death,
beings that dwell between existence and nonexistence.
Holy and evil, life and death...
Return all things to the mist of chaos from which they originated.
I get it...
So that's what you meant, Avrora!
Akatsuki Kojou, what are you...
The fourth Familiar was already awakened...
when Himeragi stabbed me.
You mean the Familiar only half-materialized
and became the wound on your chest?
I, Akatsuki Kojou, successor to the blood of Kaleid Blood,
now release your constraints.
Come, fourth Familiar,
Natra Cinereus!
The collapse of the island has stopped.
It's the Fourth Progenitor's Familiar, isn't it?
Yeah.
Never expected him to turn the whole island to mist.
If everything is mist, it can't break.
You can't break something if it's incorporeal.
This proves once again
that he could destroy this island anytime if he wanted to.
I heard that Akatsuki Kojou
was an incomplete vampire who couldn't become mist,
but I never expected his first mist transformation to turn out like this.
Impressive, Fourth Progenitor.
That weapon, a Schneewalzer, was known as a demon assault lance
that could negate all magic and sever any barrier.
But is that really true?
What are you talking about?
Could it be that it's not negating magic,
but returning the world to what it was meant to be?
I wonder what that would make you, as one who can wield it freely.
Are you truly a human born of this world?
Did you bring me here just for these pointless speculations?
I've always thought...
that, perhaps, magic and the demon races only
exist within people's imaginations.
Perhaps a world in which they don't exist
is what this world was truly meant to be.
Superhuman abilities do exist in reality.
Even if it is wrong.
Indeed. That is why I say this world is cursed.
But mankind has lived in such a world all this time,
for thousands of years.
Thousands of years?
The five-minute hypothesis...
A hypothesis that all human memories and history
were created five minutes ago by an unknown entity.
It's only a hypothesis.
A thought experiment that no one can prove.
True, it is a hypothesis.
But there is a way to prove it.
If I recreate this world exactly as I want it,
there will be no room left to doubt the possibility, will there?
You mean, that's why you...
Yes. To rewrite this world as I desire,
into the form that I believe is correct.
You would kill the hundreds
of thousands of people on Itogami Island for that?
It serves them right for scorning us witches as loathsome
beings and using us to their own liking!
This magic...
It couldn't be!
Come, third Familiar,
Al-Maisan Mercury!
I never imagined you would devour my barrier
and come here, to the very core of my world.
This is our school.
You're the intruder,
Tokoyogi Aya!
Yukina, are you okay?
She didn't do anything weird to you?
Sayaka-san, your shirt is buttoned wrong.
Huh?!
You drank the blood of a doll made as a copy of me?
And that's how you regained your powers?
You hurt many people who are precious to me.
I don't care if you're Yuuma's mother.
Your goals don't mean a thing to me, either!
From now on,
this is my fight!
No, Senpai.
This is our fight!
You said you've been
scorned and used by humans because you are witches.
In that case, what do you call what you did to Yuuma?
Children who have only lived for ten years and some,
speaking like they know everything...
But surely you haven't forgotten, have you?
We are still within my world!
Come, criminals within my memory!
You think some regenerated phantoms like them can beat us?!
Come, Al-Nasl Minium!
Schneesturm Wolfin!
I never thought a bunch of heretic rejects working
together could be such a nuisance!
In that case...
I'll be taking your memories, Sword Shaman.
Le Ombre!
Himeragi!
The golden guardian?!
So you finally brought that book out for me, Aya.
Natsuki...
I'll be taking my time back.
Natsuki-chan! You got your magic back?!
Just enough to use for one moment.
Thanks to a certain Progenitor for getting a nosebleed in the bath.
You insist on being my enemy, Natsuki?!
My name is the Void.
I am she who reduces broken vows to ashes by my eternal fires.
Tear off your yoke of black blood,
and return to where you belong!
Offer your sword to the blue maiden, the blessing of your honored soul!
Yuuma!
Le Bleu!
The doll I created defies my commands?!
The time has come, Aya.
Return to the prison barrier.
Your dream is already over.
I'm on my own, then?
But it's not over yet!
No! Don't, Aya!
What is that?
Lost...
A witch's final form.
She feeds her own soul to a demon,
turning into a demon herself!
No one can stop her now.
Aya is already...
You can't be serious...
No, Senpai.
We will stop her. For Yuuma-san.
Schneesturm Wolfin doesn't negate magic,
but returns the world to what it was meant to be.
She said that herself.
Which means...
Understood.
I've just about reached my limit, too.
Right! Let's go for it!
Come, Regulus Aurum!
I, Sword Shaman of the High God, as a priestess of the Lion, beseech thee...
Dawn light of exorcism, spirit wolf of snowy mist,
grant me the divine might of thy steel,
that I may smite a hundred evil spirits!
Demon District Museum
Have you been using Tokoyogi Aya,
knowing that this would happen?
Fangzahn...
Leaving it in the demon district was careless.
We were unable to carry it out.
It was a failed production, after all.
True.
In that way, it's a weapon perfectly suited to me.
Where are you going now, Itogami Meiga?
Oh? You're not going to stop me, Paper Noise?
I won't.
Now that you've shouldered Meigarou,
I know there's no way to stop you but to kill you.
Besides, even if I let you go,
the Lion King Organization will suffer no real harm.
I see. A wise decision.
I'll be going, then.
Well done, my students.
Nice viewing spot, isn't it?
This is my own secret place,
but I owe you both after all that happened.
Just this once.
Are you going back to the prison barrier?
Don't worry. We'll meet again soon.
Classes will resume as normal after the weekend, you know.
Make sure you don't show up late.
I got it, Natsuki-chan.
Don't call me Natsuki-chan.
Ow!
Yuuma!
Are your injuries okay now?
I asked the witch of...
I mean, Minamiya-sensei... to give me a bit of time.
Even if your mother was only using you,
you were a high-ranking Library official.
There'll be a lengthy investigation waiting for you.
But...
We'll meet again, right?
Yeah. Fairly soon, I think.
Hey, Yuu—
I'll leave Kojou to you until then, Himeragi-san.
I won't lose next time.
Senpai...
Hang on! That wasn't my fault!
That's true.
But don't you think you're a bit unguarded?
Do you know how worried I was yesterday,
thinking you were going to die?
Oh... Sorry...
If you really feel that way, then don't do strange things
when I can't see you!
Just stay beside me!
You mean until the fireworks are over?
I mean forever!
Was that...
A proposal?
I never thought you'd come straight out with it.
Good going.
Yukina-chan, you're so bold!
N-No! I just meant as Senpai's observer...
Darn it! You've got it all wrong!
Next Time
Senpai, would you close your eyes?
I was told to get this out of the way before we leave the island.
It's my first time, too, so I'm nervous...
The Alchemist's Return I
"The Alchemist's Return I."