Monsters called Nemesis bring disaster.
The only ones who can fight these dangerous foes are the sorcerers.
However, the sorcerers are considered tainted beings and feared by most.
Sorcerers, hear me!
You have ten seconds to surrender!
Titan Punch!
First line, stand ready!
Meteor Drops!
Second line!
Melie!
Don't just stand around!
Give up, filthy sorcerers!
I am Konrad de Marbourg,
and I will protect Rumble Town...
as its protective wall!
The Bell Tolls the Sound of Destruction -Catastrophe-
"The Bell Tolls the Sound of Destruction."
Don't move, shaggy-haired witch.
Well, if it isn't Captain Dragunov.
Thank you for assisting in the capture of these sorcerers.
That's the guy from...
Now, now... I would advise against doing anything rash.
Your other friend just might end up dead.
Doc!
What are you doing?! Weren't you going back to Artemis?!
Seth...
Throw the witch in the cage with him.
Let go! Let go of me!
The infected brat goes over here.
Yes, sir.
Damn you!
Seth!
Konrad, don't be so rough.
General Torque wants him captured alive.
Very well.
I still have uses for this one, anyway.
Without your gloves, you can't use your dirty magic.
A warning...
You don't want to underestimate that one.
Huh? Are you suggesting I could lose?
Where are you going, Captain Dragunov?
I need to continue my investigation.
Captain!
Panic is spreading throughout Twelfth Street.
Armed citizens are attacking immigrants.
They're out of control!
I will speak to them.
Before Dragunov learns anything I don't want him to know.
Seth... Taj...
I have to do something.
But my wand...
It's no use.
This cage... is made with black silver.
You can't use... magic inside it.
Doc, you really aren't well!
More... importantly...
there are... Nemesis... in this town—
Doc?
Doc!
Doc, stay with me! Doc!
You citizens who have assembled on Twelfth Street!
The sorcerer has confessed!
The immigrants were indeed sheltering an infected!
So it really was true!
Way to go, Captain Konrad!
That's...
Taj!
Oh, no! After we had managed to run this far.
And that's not all!
We now know that they have been hiding a horde of Nemesis
in the slums as their trump card!
Nemesis?!
You're wrong!
The Domitor who's controlling the Nemesis is the one behind that!
I know.
Everyone, I believe you understand now.
What we need is not tolerance.
It is the courage to eradicate every last one of these vermin!
Yeah! Get rid of them!
Captain Konrad is right!
The courage to eradicate!
Thank you, everyone.
I now have the courage to make this difficult decision.
Close the gate!
Th-The gate!
Is he trying to trap us in here?!
H-Hey, we're not immigrants!
Why are we locked in, too?!
We haven't a moment to lose!
I do apologize, but everyone on Twelfth Street will be eradicated!
N-No way!
No! We're regular humans!
Save us!
Prepare the cannons!
Target the entirety of Twelfth Street!
Stop!
You're gonna blow the whole place up?!
How could you do that?!
Their antiquated, filthy culture and ideas...
Everything about them is different from us, and it sickens me!
For... For a stupid reason like that, you'd...
Impossible! How can you gather so much Fantasia without gloves?!
I'll blow you and your stupid reasons away!
Captain!
What the heck is he?!
Continue the bombardment.
Yes, sir!
Stop! Don't fire!
H-He absorbed the shells?
It's a new sorcerer!
Boy, it is time we had a heart-to-heart talk.
Grimm will know immediately if you lie.
You're...
Is the girl with the flute, the Domitor, a friend of yours?
I don't know her! I've never even met her!
Prepare the second round!
Then why were you acting with the Echo Nemesis?
I was only trying to capture them!
The pain's gone.
Grimm's bandages are made from a tree that grows feathers.
It's first aid using Fantasia.
Th-The tank corps are wiped out!
Why are you helping me?
My sincerest apologies.
Grimm must have forgotten to thank you.
It would seem there's been a mutual misunderstanding.
Unexpected Ally Grimm
Grimm came to this town in search of a certain Domitor.
The "girl with the flute" that you asked about?
If she is the Domitor whom Grimm is searching for...
What is all this Fantasia?!
Speak of the devil...
It appears she is finally making her move.
[White Silver] A rare metal which has a stronger power of resistance against Fantasia than black silver. The higher its degree of purity, the faster it penetrates magic.
L-Look at that!
There's a tornado around the clock tower!
Now go.
This bell will herald the beginning.
She's siccing the Nemesis on the town!
If she isn't dealt with quickly, there will be trouble.
Taj, go and hide!
We'll take care of the Nemesis!
O-Okay!
Hold it!
I haven't settled the score with you yet!
Don't bother thinking you can escape.
This is no time to fight!
The town's in serious trouble!
Yes, I wasn't expecting a spectacle quite like this.
That blasted girl just had to go and do that.
But no matter.
Wait... Was all this really your doing?!
I paid a high price for it, you know.
To that little Domitor girl.
That's your reason for ignoring the Nemesis?!
Now that you know that, it's time for you to die!
Doc! Doc!
This can't be. Why?
No... There's no pulse.
It's all over!
I don't wanna die!
The cage...
I...
I'm sorry.
If only the other me hadn't shown up then,
I could've gotten them all out of here.
I won't... I won't...
I won't watch anyone else be killed!
Why did that girl decide to act now?
She'd been in hiding for so long.
Was it really necessary to take things this far?
This is unfathomable behavior from a hired stooge of the Inquisition.
Could it be that there is some other scheme at work?
Repulse!
I can't hold him off!
Skull Attack!
I was surprised when you used magic without gloves,
but it turns out that's all there is...
to your so-called "power"!
Now's my chance!
Fool!
Repulse!
Ah, you weakened the impact with magic!
Still, your magic will have no effect on my lance!
Wh-What the heck is up with that?
Why so surprised?
White silver of high purity is resistant to Fantasia.
And this lance...
has a purity of 72%!
I meant your mustache.
What's with that mustache? Do you style it like that every morning?
You think that's funny?!
S-Seth...
Everyone's trapped inside.
The only way to open the gate
is to get past there.
H-Help me!
Halt!
We have orders to let no one pass!
Please! At least save my baby!
A Nemesis!
Abandoning the citizens you're sworn to protect? Fleeing in the face of an enemy?
You boys deserve the death penalty.
Captain Dragunov!
It's the Nemesis we should be fighting right now,
not the people.
But the Nemesis...
It's all right.
If we face them with clear minds, we are more than a match for them.
B-But...
Fight them with us!
It's... dead?
I... I did it.
I beat it.
If I move, I'll be shot.
But I have to protect everyone from the remaining Nemesis!
Don't space out now.
We have a lot to do.
Y-Yes, sir!
Captain, what about that sorcerer?
Not our top priority. Understand?
Hey, look! The bell is...
People of Rumble Town...
It seems you've found yourselves in quite a tough situation.
Honestly, it serves you right.
A girl's voice?
But who?
Immigrants...
Sorcerers...
And Nemesis...
This panic... It's like a re-enactment of fifteen years ago.
I remember it well.
If there's anything missing this time,
it's that accident.
Yes, that tragic cave-in on Thirteenth Street...
What is she talking about?
Now, allow me to set a stage befitting this final act.
Is she going to...
There's no time to waste!
Seth's stuck fighting that guy now.
Someone has to open that gate!
The little mouse has leapt out, eh?
Go, Taj! Open the gate!
Seth...
Your struggles are in vain!
Meteor Drops!
Skull Attack!
Titan Punch!
You still don't get it?
That is the most you can do.
You can't hope to bring down a wall as sturdy as I—
Titan Boots!
Can you launch Fantasia from your feet, too?!
You are tainted to the core, you foul vermin!
"I am Konrad de Macho-man, two meters of all muscle and no brain!"
Y-You little...
I won't fall for that.
You're only trying to buy time.
You can't use your left arm anymore, can you?
It's over.
Is this really the right thing to do?
Sh-Shut up! These were Captain Konrad's orders!
But...
Open up!
You nasty little brat!
I've got you now!
I did it!
Looks like the brat just blew it.
Good thing I used two portcullises in that gate.
N-Not yet...
No, it's definitely over.
The bell!
If that thing hits the ground, everyone will...
Everyone?
The only ones who'll be crushed are the filth on the other side of the wall.
You mean...
Just how low can you go?!
Now is the time to pluck out those immigrants from the roots
so that a new, beautiful, balanced Rumble Town can be born!
At last... At last, the day has come!
Yes... At last, the day has come.
Now, let the final act begin...
To Be Continued
Next Time
The girl sorcerer, Hameline, attacks Rumble Town.
She who controls Nemesis
aims to take revenge on the town.
She tells the true story of what happened fifteen years ago,
and the tale is a tragedy far too cruel.
Next time on Radiant, "With Fists Like Shooting Stars."
With Fists Like Shooting Stars -Burst-
Look forward to the next episode.
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