Volume 14! 407 yen [real value, 390 yen] //page 4// [Tooya is hovering in front of the moon w/wings] aya: No....way... //dokun dokun dokun// //page 5// everyone (thinking) could it....be...? Kagami: Too.......ya.......?! Alec: .......No........way //page 6+7// [Tooya's wings dissolve and turn into mana] Kagami:.......Hagoromo?! //page 8// Ceres: Ma......na.....!!! Kagami: What nonsense........!! Why -----?! Aya: (thinking) Tooya[Ceres runs to Tooya but is pulled back by Kagami] Kagami: Ceres!! //page 9// Aya: (slowly changes from Ceres) (thinking) Tooya, Tooya , Tooya!! //page 10// Aya: (shouts) TOOYAAAA!! Tooya: Aya!! //page 11// [someone throws a dart at Tooya. He catches it] Wei:....Why.......?! Why are you here?!.....Why are you alive?! You're supposed to be dead!! //poage 12// Aya: (to Kagami) let me go!! Kagami: Wei! Wei: .......back then you must've.......my master shot your head.....!! You have to have died!! Tooya:.......Ah, Naturally that healed itself //page 13// Alec: He's completely healed...?! Wei: KK.....Chief!! Take Ceres inside![for the first time we see Wei's hurt eye. Unlike Chichiri's it's still open and his pupil is transparent] I'll fight this Bastard!! Aya:[being dragged off] Tooya!! Wei: You rotten old Bastard!! This time I'll put you away for good!! //page 14// Tooya:......is that to.......[the mana Tooya's holding glows] Come! Wei: [charging] Haaaaaaaaa!!! //page 15// [a little airplane is flying near the boat] Yuuhi:....there it is!! That's the boat where Aya is!! //pahge 16// [we see the inside of the plane and get a surprise] Yuuhi: But why is Q-san the Piolet?! What ARE you? Q: So how's my flying!! [thumbs-up] hmhmhmhmhm don't mistake me for an ORDINARY maid of the Aogiri household!! Yuuhi: Um, I never considered you ordinary! Just look at your face! Q: That goes for you too, Yuhhi..........isn't that thing on your forehead that old "Tennyo symbol belt"?! Yuuhi: Yeah....Nee-san made it for me again! She said it was to give me powers to be able to fight.....All right, here we go!! Land this plane!! //page 17// [they arrive on the ship]. Aya: Lemme go! Tooya's.... [freetalk] //page 18// [Yuuhi jumps out of the plane and lands infront of Kagami, sticking his chopsticks into his neck]. Aya: Yuuhi??! //page 19// aya: Did you come to rescue me.......!? Yuuhi: Backup's comin' soon!! Kagami!! Let Aya go!! Aya: No, Yuuhi! The hagoromo's still not.....and besides Tooya is.........! //page 20// [Wei attacks Tooya with his chain-thing and hits the ground]. Wei: Running away, eh? Aren't you gonna fight.....? [a man shoots two bullets into Tooya's arm. They heal]. Tooya: Stop this insanity. //page 21// Wei: [very pissed and charging at Tooya] You monster!! //page 22// [Tooya pins wei down and directs energy into his hurt eye] Tooya:.....I'm sorry. I took your left eye away.....I'll give it back now. //page 23// Wei: AAAAAAAAH!![In the distraction Kagami points a gun to Yuuhi's head]. Kagami:...What are you playing at, kid.... Yuuhi: Damn...... Aya: Yuuhi.... Kagami: You wanna play hero? You don't know anything. //page 24// kagami: Aya....Ceres is the one thing I can't give up. //pages 25-28// [back at the lab where all the tennyo are dying, men with guns come in. They indicate to the tennyo that they want them to leave. The tennyo smile at them and then disintigrate everyone. The explosion can be seen from the ship]. //page 29// Aya: (thinking) power?! [she gets knocked back by it] Ahh!! //page 30// [tooya catches her] //page 31// aya: Too......ya......!! Tooya: Aya..... //dokun dokun dokun// Aya: (thinking) A heart beat....Tooya's....I can hear it........ //page 32// aya: (thinking) You're alive....(screaming) Tooya! [clings tightly onto him]. (thinking)You're alive! Yuuhi: Tooya!! Y - y - ....you're...alive... Tooya: Save the talk for later, Aogiri! //page 33// Kagami: Wait! Guy: Chief!! The laboratory!! The C-genoma!! They committed suicide!! Wei:....W - Why? Who IS that guy!! //page 34// [Tooyn - carrying Aya - and Yuuhi are running] Yuuhi: (finding an open door) Tooya! It's open! Tooya:......a chapel......? //page 35/ Yuuhi Let's hide in here for a while....... //Yuuhi closes the door ("patan")// Tooya:......Aya, are you okay?..........[Aya pounds her fists into Tooya] Tooya: Aya Aya: ...n....(Aya talks through her sniffles) Did you know....? How I felt......! always........I.........alone....//sniff//........//sniff//........!!Jerk .......Too...........you jer........//sniff..... //page 36// Tooya: (hugging Aya) Sorry. Sorry Aya. Sorry ---------(Tooya kissesAya) //page 37// Yuuhi: (angrily kicking Tooya) Tooya, you idiot!!! Stupid stupidstupid!! Tooya: (SD'ed with anger symbols) Um......Aogiri......hey........ Aya: Yuuhi.......calm down. Yuuhi: You could at least give us some explanation!!//humph// we thought you were dead! Arrow: Rather complex person [freetalk] //page 38// Yuuhi: If you were alive, why didn't you come sooner... Tooya: No.....I REALLY DID DIE back then. Aya: Then why.....? And just a few minutes ago....... [flashbacks of flying-Tooya and Tooya with the mana] Aya: Why?!.....Why did you have mana?! //Tooya takes Aya's hands// Tooya: Aya. Listen closely......to what I have to say. //page 39// tooya: I was created from mana.....so that the mana.....could be returned to Ceres. [Ah, it seems as though someone already guessed that on the ancml a while ago. Good for you!] //page 40// [back at the wreckage of Mikagi's experimental lab - and the surrounding neighborhood - rescue workers are trying to save those trapped.] Voice:......presently a hard-working rescue and force has arrived..... Voice:: It happened all of a sudden! When I was asleep, suddenly there was a big "boom"! Voice: Thousands of homes were destroyed, casualties estimated at 10,000......... Voice: It looks as though it came from "Mikage International"'s science center //page 41// [It turns out that Kagami is on the phone while watching TV/listening to the radio - it's hard to tell what is going on.] Voice: An investigation to the cause of this accident will-- telephone-voice:.....mi. Kagami! Are you listening! Kagami: ....yes I'm listening....Father. Kagami's dad: This's bad....we won't be able to shut up the public opinion! Kagami:.....Isn't best to hide this from the government and police as we have been doing so far?......I mean.......there's no trace of the research center left. Dad: Kagami.......! Just don't let yourself become an enemy of "Ragunareku"! They're the dangerous men of their countries.! Give up the C-project..... Kagami: (seeing images of Ceres and the old picture he found of ceres)......The C-project is my responsibility ---- until the end...... //page 42// Dad: Kagami!! Wai..... //beep!!// (Kagami cuts him off) Kagami: (giving an insane sort of smile).....They committed....suicide? The C-genoma....the mothers of the future.......hmhm........ [images of the C-genoma] C-genoma: "Because we get hurt here" "because humans are ugly...." "We're returning to the Heavens" Kagami: Hahaha...... [I think he's lost it] C-genoma: "To the Heavens...." //page 43// Men: (running) Shiso....No, Aki; where'd he go?! Aki: (still cuffed and thinking) Now's the time to look for the hagoromo. It's gotta be somewhere down below-- //page 44// aki: (thinking) Aya...Are you somewhere on this ship? I'm sorry...for always.....being such a baby of an older brother. But I'll definitely get you the hagoromo, so.....wait for me,Aya! [Aki's attention is drawn by something] Aki: (think)...something's calling me.....? //page 45// [Back at the chapel} "I was created from mana--" Aya: What...do you mean......? Tooya: This story is......the memories of mana. It goes beyond 5,000 years ago. //page 46// [flashback to Mikagi stealing the mana and throwing it into the sea]. //page 47// Aya: ......Mikagi.....threw the mana into the ocean--!! ceres: Yes...that's what happened ceres: And no matter how hard I looked.....I could not find my other half. [image of Ceres looking for the mana] //page 48// Tooya: A mana without TENNYO is just an "individual". Tooya: Alone, it can't do anything.....It by itself for too long, it rots away......but that mana lived on.....Inside the oscean.......It got mixed up with the microorganisms, and eventually..."life" began inside the membrane..... //page 49// [visions of a pre-historic life] tooya: The mana continued to create, while retaining knowledge of the evolving species. Then in order to keep it'sself from moving, it made a new "master" ---- for 5 thousand years. It kept duplicating......and the last thing it made was------the strongest creature... //page 50// tooya: "man" [image of the old man finding Baby-Tooya]. Just one in the world....[image of Tooya seeing seagulls fly, then sprouting wings and flying with them]. In order to be able to survive anywhere, the mana can change cells.....from the......memory of the microorganisms. //page 51// [image of Tooya sprouting fins and swimming in the ocean] [flashback - old man: No Tooya!! Humans don't have fins or wings, so don't change again....understand?! Humans use words, wits, and tools. You'll be a human, Tooya......."] [Tooya makes his daggar come out of his arm] Tooya:...Even though I lost all those memories in an accident....I wonder if the mana left me with only the strength to protect myself........ //page 52// Yuuhi: So.....! What happened a few minutes ago....was the mana giving you.....?! Tooya: It was too late to save my brain from being shot....but the shock from that brought my memories back..... Yuuhi: (suddenly standing up, embarrased) Ah, I think I'll stand guard outside! Yuuhi: (outside the chapel, thinking) A man....made from mana and the ocean? Is that possible!! //page 53// Tooya: Aya...The thing that attracted me to you was....the reason we fell in love was the mana's......(Tooya sees Aya's imploring face and then angrily closes his eyes) //page 54// tooya: No....No!! (Tooya hugs Aya) What attracted me to you was.....My own heart! No one decided it for us! [Well I don't exactly agree with that, but oh well] Aya:...I understand....! (think) Yes.....what brought us together was our hearts. We chose our path together..........No matter what's out there... //page 55// (Tooya and Aya kiss) After all, "fate" is something you decide yourself. Tooya: I'll give you.....your mana back now. That's my duty ......If I hadn't lost my memories, I woiuld have done it sooner....sorry.......! Aya: (think) That's ...right. The "hagoromo" thartr Ceres has always been looking for is inside of Tooya...... //dokundokundokun// "without mana, we (Tennyo) can't live"."Without mana........." Aya:....Wait!! //page 56// aya: What'll happen....to you?.........You said DUTY, right? Releasing the mana----Then! they......you wouldn't....... [Tooya smiles at Aya and Aya looks distressed] //page 57// Aya:....n.....o.........NO!! Don't let go of the mana!! Tooya: Aya! It's okay. Aya: N.........!!...... Ceres: "Aya....without the mana, your body won't survive. Neither will your child.......!!" Tooya:........Aya! It's okay with me..to give you........ Aya: I don't need it! I can live without mana! //page 58// aya: I'll even give birth to the baby......!! Tooya:....Huh?. //page 59// tooya:.......Aya....? Aya:.....I'm.....gonna have a baby....! //page 60// aya:.........It's your child,too......! //page 61// [back to Aki] aki: (thinking) What...? Something's....calling me...it's not....Aya. It's... //page 62+63// [aki sees teh mana] Aki: This is it....this is what's been calling me!....This can't....be [Suddenly the Tennyo symbol lights up on Aki's chest - but he's still Aki --- and the Mana's glass case breaks]. //page 64// [the glass case around the mana breaks. aki gets cut by it.] //page 65// aki: mana (the exposed mana flies at aki) //page 66// [back at the church] tooya:...my...child? aya: yes, that's right...your baby...! it's inside me now...! (aya puts her hand to her belly)i...am very happy about it! i mean, it's a life i was able to create with you! and what you said about "being alone"...is not true! you can have a child made from *your own blood*! you're not "alone in the world" anymore! you're not "alone"! //page 67// (tears roll down tooya's cheeks. aya's crying, too)we can be a "family"! because this child will link us! forever adn ever,we can...so...so...! //page 68// aya:...huh? tooya: (reaches over adn touches aya's belly)...in here...is...my...i wonder if...you'll have it...It's really.....my //page 69// aya: (putting her hand ocver tooya's and squeezing it.) yes...! //page 70// tooya: (embraces aya)...thank you //page 71// aya: (thinking) from loving you...and holding anohter life inside of me.,..i've learned somethign. loving someone is ensuring that life will continue in teh future... //page 72// [alec watches in horror as aki slowly transforms into...] //page 73// mikagi: ...ceres...!! //page 74// man: hey!...who are you?! what did you do with the hagoromo... mikagi: (blasts the men and kills them)...if it's "mana" you're talking about, I'VE got it. to think that this would give me so much power...! //page 75// tooya:hh! (feels mikagi's presence, or somehitgn) (thinking)he's here..?! //page 76// tooya: (outloud)aya!! wait here with aogiri, okay!! aya:...no...(tooya stops her with a kiss) tooya: good girl. (runs out of the church //bam!//)aogiri, i'm leaving you in charge of aya! yuuhi: wah! you scared me! aya: (all alone)...tooya... //page 77+78// [tooya adn mikagi are runnign to each toher. they stop and stand face to face.] mikagi:...you...?! tooya:...mikagi...?! mikagi:...so you lived...! i see...OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!! //page 79+80// (mikagi yells angrilly at tooya) kagami: [from some other room]huh? aya/yuuhi: [from the church]?! //page 81// [mikagi punches tooya through a wall and falls after him] mikagi: where's ceres...!! [stabs at tooya wtih his spear] //page 82// tooya: [stabs mikagi's shoulder]where'd you get the mana from?! mikagi:...same to you...!! what the hell are you?! tooya: (hands turn all webby adn glowy and stuff)...the mana you dumped into teh ocean created me... mikagi:!! tooya: i exist... //page 83+84// tooya: ...Only for her! (blasts mikagi; mikagi blasts tooya; big explosions and stuff.] men: ...what the...?[the ceiling falls] ah! [tooya adn mikagi fly aroudn, fighting] //page 85// [they fight some more...] //page 86// mikagi: i'll kill you...you and the CHILD, and that woman, too!! [in the original mana room, alec is cowering in a corner. kagami finds him.] kagami: alec?! what the hell is going on?!...where's teh hagoromo...?! //page 87// alec:...i saw..the hagoromo wound its self around aki-kun...and he...became...a different person...! wei: chief!! [bursts intot he room] wei: the control rooma nd the main computer are badly damaged...and there's also flooding...that guy with tooya, is...! kagami: (yelling) WHERE'S AYA?! WERE'S CERES?! //page 88-90// [tooya and mikagi fight for a couple pages. tooya stabs mikagi's chest. mikagi falls into teh ocean. tooya jumps in after him] //page 91// tooya: (from underwater, thinking) ..did i do it...?! no, if someone puts the mana on, he should be able to come backto life many times...!....he's not here...?! (tooya comes out fromteh water)...where is he...?_! where is he?! //page 93// [back in the church] yuuhi:......hey, did you feel this boat stop? yuuhi: i thought i hurta voice...i'll go out adn see what it is! aya: yuuhi! me, too... //page 94// [mikagi appears behind aya through a window. the glass breaks.] aya: huh... //page 95// [mikagi stabs aya through the heart] //page 96// [the ship's windows are breaking and hte ship is basically falling apart, and stuff. aya is bleeding from the mouth] aya: (think) ...what? something's...happened? //page 97// aya: (feels glass in her heart)...now...there's...glass in me? (looks at her hand)...blood? //page 98// (we see a nice full-shot of aya being impailed through the heart by mikagi's spear growing out of his hand) //page 99// mikagi: it's best for you to die with your child, ceres. die with his child!! aya: (in severe pain)...mikagi...!!(think)tooya //page 100// [tooya feels something's amiss) yuuhi: (pissed/shocked/very cool)AYAAAAA!!!!!!! (charging at mikagi) damn...you...(he gets knocked away) //page 101// mikagi: hmph, it's you, huh...if you wanna die, then come. yuuhi: (looking at aya's apparent dead body)...rget...this...I'LL NEVER FORGET THIS!!!!!! //page 102// (stabs mikagi iwth his chopsticks of deathTM) //page 103// mikagi: ungh...poewr...?! Why...how'd YOU get.... //page 104// yuuhi: (feeling his forehead adn seign an image of suzumi, praying)...nee-san...?! mikagi; (blastign yuuhi) you bastartd...!! //page 105// [yuuhi blocks it and mikagi is sent flying. chidori's spirit appears above aya's body, smiling] yuuhi: ...chidori...you also...gave me power, huh... //page 106// (yuuhi rushes up to aya) yuuhi: aya..!! this can't be happening...!! aya...hey, aya!! (tooya rushes into the room) tooya! //page 107// tooya: aya..!! yuuhi: (standing up) i'll go get help!! tooya: aya! it's me! can you hear me...wake up!!aya!!! aya: (in her inner conscious)tooya...!...he's calling me... ceres: "at this rate...will i be finished?,..." //page 108// ceres: (recalling after she killed mikagi adn ran away with her children) just like back hten...after i killed mikagi, i continued to search for the mana. crossing over hte mountains, searching the oceans, and the final place i stopped at... //page 109// ceres:i wasn't able to find the mana. all i had left to do was die. [shot of ceres iwht a pained expresiion, holding her 2 children] i abandoned my children... [freetalk] //page 110// ceres: and i prayed, with my final strength "please give my children happiness"...and also someday, let me be with htem again... //page 111// ceres: ."but"..."i had wanted to live" "live..." (this is more aya-ish now, htinking)...i want...to live...(flashback of hugging tooya and tooya saying "thank you") i want to live...!! (shot of aya's baby's fetus) //dokun.....dokun...// //page 112// [mikagi, pissed, pulls the chopsticks of deathTM out of his stomach) tooya: (think)...mikagi...?! he's coming closer...i sense him coming again! //page 113// (tooya glows all over and withdraws the mana from his body.) //page 114// tooya: aya. this is what you've...what ceres has always been looking for; mana. //page 115// aya: (htink)tooya?! tooya: ...t's best this way...this is what i was born for. [mikagi finds hte room and uses his energy to start to blast it open] tooya: this way, you can ...live, and give birht to our child...! aya: (think) no... //page 116// aya: if you give me the mana, you'll... tooya: i can't be one iwht the mana anymore....but, aya...i'm not becoming a normal human just so i can die...i just want to live with you...as a normal man. //page 117// tooya: no matter how short a time we spend together, i don't mind. [flashbacks of tooya and aya love-moments, including kid-aya givign tooya the shell) that has always been...what i wished for....ever since i met you...yes...always... //page 118// tooya: (holding aya's hand; aya is back to life now from receiving hte mana) i love you. //page 119// tooya: (tooya kisses aya) i love you. aya:...Too... tooya: forever... //page 120+121// tooya: i love you. (tooya runs up to face mikagi) //page 122// mikagi: tooya...!! get outta my way!! tooya: ...i won't let you lay a finger on her...on her...or on our child!! //page 123// //dokun...dokun...dokun...// mikagi: (clenching his fist)...did you...give it back to her...DID YOU GIVE CERES THE MANA???!!! //page 124// [big explosions] yuuhi: ?! kagami: aogiri! (grabbing his arm) aya...ceres; where is she??! yuuhi: ...kagami?! //page 125// //dokun...dokun...// aya/ceres:...i know my whole body is changing...is it because of hte hagoromo...? "that's right, aya, you and i are melting together." "aya...your personallity might disappear completely, but"...i won't disappear. because you are me. //page 126// [the ship is burning and slowly falling apart. Kagami and yuuhi come to the chapel. Beams have fallen, and the room is generally messed up.] //dokundokundokun// [is coming from this membrane which is pulsating in front of the alter] yuuhi/kagami: huhc?! yuuhi: Aya..? //page 127// [in another room, tooya is fighting with mikagi] //dokundokundokun// [the membrane slowly morphs into a humanoid glowingthing.] [tooya is still fighing]tooya; ayac!! //page 128// [tooya is all beat up, bloody, etc]tooya: kk. Mikagi: hmph. Without the mana, you're just a feeble human, huh, tooya!! Mikagi: I will kill you; you who took my woman from me!! Tooya: ...why, mikagi...! Why did you try to kill ceres....!! //page 129// Tooya: why is that the only feeling you have for her?!! Stop putting her through so much pain....!! //crash!// [mikagi smashes tooya through some glass] tooya: !! //page 130// //slash!// [mikagi pierces tooya's shoulder....ouch.] tooya: waaaaaaahh!! Mikagi: what can you possibly understand about humans?! You were just a doll created from mana. And -like a doll- you should rot away! Now I shall finish you off!! [tooya has a flashback from the old man who raised him] "tooya..become a human." //page 131// "use words and tools." "but you know....there's something that's even more important to humans." "a heart that can love someone" "and when you get that" "you can become a human" [mikagi's getting ready to kill tooya] tooya: (think) aya..... //page 132+133// [the glowing humanoid thingie in front of the cross in the chapel has fully transformed. It doesn't really look like aya or ceres (in the face). It is pretty much naked with strange ropes wrapped around it and a weird skirt-thingie and a headpiece with a jewl. Aya's spirit is beside this new life form.] //page 134// yuuhi: ....are you.....ceres?! Where's....aya..... aya: (think) I am here. Ceres: .....aya is together with me. Kagami: your body fully recovered.....no way. That is.....a tennyo who has transformed by the hagoromo!! Alec: (frightened) .....goddess..... //page 135// [ceres closes her eyes] //bang!// [a big explosion....ya know, with all these explosions, I'm surprised the ship hasn't sunk to the bottom of the ocean by now....^_^ ] yuuhi: wah! [yuuhi, alec, wei, and kagami recover and look up] //page 136// [ceres is not there] someone: .....she's gone.....! Yuuhi: where did she.....ah! Come to think of it, where's tooya....! .....is he over there! [yuuhi runs off] wei: .....chief.....! Wei: .....what should we do.....?! This ship can't hold up much longer. [you can sure say that again! ^_- ] Alec: we have to abandon ship quickly!! //page 137// Kagami: ....so..... ceres got her hagoromo back, huh.....hmhmhm. Alec: chief?! Kagami: ....alec, wei....I have one final job for you.... [[freetalk] //page 138+139// [mikagifs wrist is melted off by a blast] mikagi: ungh....?! Ceres: .....please get away from tooya. Ceres: mikagi. Mikagi: ceres..?! You..... //page 140// [ceres surrounds tooya with an (healing?) aura] ceres: ....thank you, tooya....you sucessfully returned the mana to me. And for aya's sake.....you gave up your immortality...... //page 141// Ceres: just like me in the pas....I also decided to get involved with humans. Ceres: (think) and I really did love that man from my heart...but.... Mikagi: ....ceres....?! Ceres: the time for use to part has come...mikagi. Ceres: the time for providence to end our long battle....has come into ourhands.... //page 142// [kagami's looking at the picture of ceres and of ceres in the past] wei: chief!....the fertilized eggs that weren't damaged have all been carried away successfully. Kagami: ....good, wei... you take command and start preparations for abandoning ship..... Wei: okay!!//stompstompstomp// [wei runs off] kagami; hmph....when I...had come this far.... alec: why?! Alec: you were next in line to run mikage international! But without the c-project.....!! //page 143// Alec: yes....chief....why?! Why did you hold onto the c-project for that long.... Kagami: I have something I would like to give you. Please come with me to my room....alec. [back to ceres] mikagi: ....the time for us....to part.....? Mikagi: ....don't give me that shit. Ceres: ....it was long....terribly....My descendants,....the Mikage family line,....the stupid humans; I thought of just ending it all.... //page 144// ceres: but I was reborn into aya's body....and loved tooya....yuuhi....shuro....and chidori. From meeting them, I was once again able to believe in "the human heart" Mikagi: (pissed) I won't let you have your way!! Mikagi: [his arm is all gross and globby now] we were both created from the same mana....[mikagi is shocked when he finds his arm is still globby and not back to normal] ...why....have I not been able to repair my arm....?! Ceres: ....your mana is not complete.... it is a thing that can not be used by humans. //page 145// ceres: Yes....we do not need the past anymore. Sleep. For your sake....and for the sake of the children! Mikagi: [blasting ceres with....stuff....] I won't allow it!! //page 146+147// [ceres closees her eyes and uses nifty powers. There's a BIG explosion.....yes, another one....] //BOOM!!!// voice: ceres!! //page 148// [itfs yuuhi, running into the room] aya: (think) yuuhi! Ceres: get down!! Tooya: ceres! [mikagi is charging at ceres while shefs distracted] //page 149+150// [mikagi is about to kill ceres, but hefs stopped bycaki!!! Holding him from behind.] //page 151// aki; [in severe pain from restraining mikagi] aya....now....now's the time to kill him!! //page 152// Aya/ceres/tooya: aki!! Mikagi: you.....bastard. Why.....!! Aki: just do it...I'm fine with it!! Tooya: ....oh....I see...by the mana's power, you got your real body back....aki...!! //page 153// Aki: (smiling) ...aya....! Sorry to be so late....!! [with a cool expression] didn't I tell ya I'd never let him beat me again...! Aki: ...aya!! Tooya!! This is all I can do to make up for what I've done!! //page 154// Aki: please kill me....hurry!! //page 155// [ceres closes her eyes, ready to do so] [aya is shocked] aya: (think)....wait...! Wait.....ceres!! Ceres: I have already decided, aya. Aya: (think) aki is my brother!! My.... Ceres: he was....mikagi was made out of imperfect mana.....do you understand? [mikagi's body is slowly melting] //page 156// ceres: there is no way we can save him anymore. Just at least we can grant him his wishcand liberate him from the hell he has been through...! [ceres/aya holds her hands out] mikagi: ce...res..!.....you wouldn't....!! [aki is smiling] aya: (think) aki.....!! //page 157// [the whole page is aki's peaceful, smiling face over the ship] //page 158+159// [ceres floats down to aki's body - mikagi is gone now- and slowly transforms back into aya. She touches aki's face and kneels by him.] //page 160// [the ship is burning, breaking, sinking.] [aya stares vacantly at aki's face; his eyes are closed and he looks like he's sleeping peacefully.] aya:.......aki.......... //page 161// [yuuhi looks like he's about to cry and tooya closes his eyes to stop from crying] aya: .....aki.....aki. aya: [tears form in her eyes]....ki.... [flashback of aki holding mikagi back] aki: "please kill me...hurry!!" aki: "good bye, aya" //page 162+163// aki: "live, aya." "and be happy...for me...aya" aya:....cha... aya: [screaming] onii-chan...!! [as aya hugs aki's corpse, she gets flashbacks of them as kids and stuff] aya: (thinking) oniichan...oniichan!!! aya: onii... [aya collapses on aki] tooya: aya!! //page 164// [tooya starts to take off his jacket. Yuuhi turns around sharply and notices kagami standing behind them; watching the scene.] yuuhi:....kagami...!! [kagami, shocked, stares at aki] kagami: aki... //smack!// [yuuhi punches kagami. Yaaaay!!] //page 165// yuuhi: this is the consequence of what you...what you guys have done!! [in the background, tooya covers aki's face with his jacket.] yuuhi: [really pissed and on the verge of tears] you guys were forgetting what was most important...without that, what good can you do!! What the hell were you thinking!! You fucking bastard!!! [freetalk] //page 166// //hellicopter noises// q: yuuhi-saaaan, aya-saaan! Are you okaaaay?! Kagami: [quietly] she's come to pick you guys up...get out of here fast. //page 167// Kagami: [walking away] the ship will sink pretty soon. Don't waste time hanging around here. Tooya: kagami..what about you... kagami: hmph......aya...will certainly make a good mother...take good care of that child, tooya. If you're the father. Tooya: Ka... //page 168// [kagami runs off into the burning rubble on the ship] tooya: ...kagami... [everyone- except kagami - gets into the helicopters.] alec: [sadly] chief... //flashback// [kagami gives alec some papers] kagami: "alec...this is the mikage family's criminal record." Kagami: "once everything settles down...please release this to the public." Kagami: "if I go down, then the other mikages will go down with me." //page 169// Kagami: "..i'm not really a mikage." Kagami: ".....my mother married the father I have now after she had me. It seemed like I was just....a non-important member of the mikage family. Since we weren't really part of the mikage family, grandpa was mean to mom and me." Kagami: "so my mother, to get the mikages to notice me, pushed me too far...and in the end..."[shot of his mom in the insane assylum] //[age 170// [shot of kid-kagami crying] kid-kagami: "mom" alec: [on the verge of tears, clutching the criminal data to his chest] "chi..." kagami: "....alec...i'm leaving the children of the tennyo in your hands...because you...with different methods, will give them a better future." Kagami: "I'm counting on you...alec..." //page 171// [in the present, kagami sits alone in a room of the ship, staring his pictures of ceres adn of ceres in the past.] [yuuhi and tooya both look down at the ship from the helicopter. Aki is in a body bag attatched to a hellicopter, and aya is unconcious against tooya.] //page 172// [in a void-type place, mikagi has his head on ceres's lap] ceres: "....mikagi...can you hear me...?" mikagi: "...yes..." ceres: "I always...wanted to ask you this." //page 173// Ceres: "did you" ceres: "love me....?" mikagi: "......." mikagi: "......stand you....." //page 174// mikagi: "....maybe..." mikagi: "I just didn't understand you..." [ceres opens her eyes wide and then shuts them, crying] //page 175// ceres: "....i loved you, too." Ceres: (thinking while she sees flashbacks of them, happy) I was just scared I might lose you...with a feeling so strong it could destroy myself, I always deeply....deeply... //page 176// ceres:.....loved you. Ceres: rest now....mikagi...with me. [ceres hugs mikagi] now we can sleep....at last, this has come to an end...at last.... //page 177// ceres: at last.... [the ship finally explodes....took it long enough...] //page 178// one half year later... [suzumi and her dad are watching the news] news guy:....an investigator has now entered the office of "mikage international"....in the past, the mikages have murdered countless members of the family and... dad: ....so this finally ends the tennyo's suffering that has gone on for thousands of years... //page 179// suzumi: ...not quite, father. Aya...has her child. And that child...will be the first to be able to avoid this cruel fate.... dad: hm...so where's yuuhi? Suzumi: he went to see aya....to hachijou-island... [at the island] yuuhi: sooo, aya, how's your belly?! //page 180// [aya, very pregnant, is sitting on a couch outside, holding her hands protectively to her belly] aya: my belly, you say... why don't you ask me "how's your baby?"? [q and yuuhi teasingly pat at aya's belly] yuuhi: lemme see! Aya: [pissed] ah! Hey, you'll scare the baby! Q-chan, I'm surprised at you! Yuuhi: sheesh, don't act like a missle's fallen; you're fine! After all, it's your child! Aya: whaaat the hell is that supposed to mean!! Aya: [softening up] after it's born, I have to take it off to show mom! Yuuhi: ...glad to hear that! It seems like your mom's recovered a lot. Aya: yeah! //page 181// Yuuhi: I also....kinda wanna visit my mom someday....in peace, ya know. Aya: (smiling)....you should! And by then, you'll be the number one chef, right! Yuuhi: yeah! Q: yuuhi-san, we had better get to our shopping! [yuuhi and q turn to leave] [q goes off absent mindedly singing "happy birthday to you", but yuuhi stops when he sees tooya approach him.] //page 182// yuuhi:....i'm glad aya seems to be doing so well! I was kinda worried about her seeing her at shuro's and aki's funerals....but from now on, she can be happy...with you...and with your child... tooya: [closing his eyes] I probably don't have much time left. //page 183// Tooya: aya knows this, too. Tooya: ...i might last one year, or two years...or maybe not even that much, but...when that time comes... [yuuhi looks at tooya questioningly and shocked] [tooya nods with a smile] [yuuhi looks off towards aya with the kind of expression that says "you mean, I'm gonna take care of her?!"] q: yuuhi-san! Hurry uuuup! //page 184// [aya is asleep on the couch, crying] tooya: [touching aya's head] aya? Aya: huh?...tooya...! huh? I must've fallen asleep...[wiping her tears] tooya: ....what's wrong...? aya:....i had...a dream. //page 185// [image of a bunch of tennyo headed for the sky] aya: everyone was going to heaven. Aya: (thinking) shuro, chidori, urakawa-san, miori....i miss you already...ceres... //page 186// [image of ceres appears before aya and changes into aki] aki: "Happy....birthday, Aya.....thank you" //page 187// aki: "thank you for the earrings....the birthday present you weren't able to give me two years ago" [image of ceres taking aki's hand and leading him to heaven, too] aya: [touching her earrings] (out loud) everyone...everyone was smiling... //page 188// [tooya hugs aya and her belly] tooya: ...oh... aya: I have lots of things I want to tell our baby....things that everyone taught me...really precious things....being born, and the meaning of living...and loving... //page 189// aya: ...with you! Tooya:....yeah...Let's live //page 190// aya: we'll be together...forever... [images of yuuhi looking all noble, aya's mom in a wheelchair, and alec looking out the window] aya: (thinking/narrating) defying fate, and having love lead your life...even while you're burdened with sin...from now on, we can give the gift of life to so many children... [an image of the baby....but we can't tell if it's a boy or a girl...] //page 191// [an image of aya's hand, tooya's hand, and the baby's hand all reaching togehter with the earth behind them.] aya: (thinking/narrating) we will bless our child with "shifuku no yorokobi" [*this is the phrase ceres used to use a lot for her attack of flower petals; meaning something like "extreme joy"...] //the end.//