Main Scenario/Sorceresses' Bond

Cursed Forest Episode
39-1	Jusatsu Forest
39-2	Lord of Kijinga Castle
39-3	Village of Tragedy
39-4	When the "Line" is Crossed
39-5	Reasons to Believe
39-6	Apprentice of Koroshiya
39-7	Reverse Soul Technique
39-8	Yuuzen's Past
39-9	Effects of Poison
39-10	Sorceresses' Bond

Yuuzen	"It's moving much slower. This way I can apply the technique..."
Yuuzen	"Mary, Maki, y'all have a job to do. Protect me. Miyako and Yoshino, keep trying to suppress its movement. It can kill you with a single shot. Stay alert and focused until the very end."
Miyako	"Yoshino-chan, perform the warding sorcery!"
Yoshino	"Let's use the combined technique again."
Mary	"Stall for as much time as possible so that Yuuzen's Counting Curse will not be interrupted!"
Yuuzen	"Curse One ー Stone of sin on a dying riverbed. Curse Two ー Pile of stones on a field with four seasons."
Miyako	(So fast! She finished two Counts in one breath!)
Yoshino	"Daijoubu, Yoshino and Miyako are jyuubun fast enough. Calm down."
Maki	"Mary to guard the top. Maki will handle below."
Mary	"Affirmative, I'll take care of the back."
Yuuzen	"Curse Three. Poison arrows on the purple belt. Let it pass, let it pass, and the nue sings."
Hone Ningyou	"ーーーー!"
Mary	"It's responding to the Counting Curse..."
Maki	"Don't make the first move. Find what the enemy wants to do."
Hone Ningyou	"............!"
Queensway	"It's not moving. Is it using sorcery?"
Youko	"Yes, it is. It saved my life again."
Queensway	"Youko!"
Mary	"Tch, she's freed from Canaria's technique."
Youko	"Aah, you poor thing, so much pain. I will release you from your suffering."
Youko	"Cute little Hone Ningyou. You are a little smaller than before. But you have become stronger. Will you get stronger the closer you get to human form?"
Youko	"You have already been Poisoned. That Poison can take the lives of many. If you use it well, it can give you the power you desire."
Youko	"I will teach you how to use that power."
Despite still having some extra power, Hone Ningyou simply stood still in front of us, doing nothing. It showed no sign of alarm even when the excited Youko gradually moved closer to it.
Youko remained standing face to face with Hone Ningyou and did not look back at us. Yuuzen is chanting the Counting Curse, but Youko doesn't try to stop her.
ーーIt seems that Youko is seriously trying to tame Hone Ningyou.
Youko	"You hate this world. You hate people. So much you have suffered, you endured them all. It must have been so hard for you, not being able to live freely, not being able to die freely..."
Youko	"Do you understand words? Do you hear my voice? If you can hear me, put your arms around me..."
Yuuzen	"Curse Four..."
Youko	"Bones from the ground ......!"
Miyako	"That's the Fourth effect. It's a technique to stop people who wants to interrupt the curse."
Yoshino	"Of course it's a countermeasure. The curses get longer from this point on."
Youko	"Tch... You have some good tricks up your sleeve. Yuuzen-san."
Youko	"But it's more convenient to be attacked with a spell. If I let the technique continue, I can suck out your magic power. If I had to describe this technique in words, it would be... Counting Curse."
Youko	"... Blood-sucking demon sword, dispel the evil spirit!"
Youko	"GUGH..."
Maki	"I won't let you."
Mary	"She impaled Youko's body with her bare hands..."
Youko immediately used a Counting Curse against Yuuzen and a sword appears. As soon as the tip of the sword pointed toward Yuuzen, Maki jumped onto Youko's bosom, grabbed the sword, and stabbed Youko in the abdomen with her other hand.
Grabbing the sword with her bare hands and piercing Youko's body, Maki held Youko's body down with her two free legs so that she could not escape.
It is said that kijin are quicker than anyone else in making the decision to jump into a deadly situations. This is exactly what they say. Action.
In front of them is Hone Ningyou. For the enemy, she is within striking distance of Youko too. Yet, Maki is not intimidated at all, and continues to exert strength into her hands and feet.
Youko	"Damn you, let go of me. I have no time to be stopped by a kijin."
Youko's movements were blocked by Maki's sacrifice. After erupting with magic, she took a surprising action.
ーーShe used the sword Maki had grabbed to amputate one of her own arms.
Youko's right arm that was detached from her body conjured a curse seal by itself and used a technique.
Miyako	"MAKI-SAN, LOOK OUT!"
Maki	"!"
Miyako	"MAKI-SAN!"
Maki	"No! Stop Youko's arm instead!"
Miyako	"Arm..."
Floating in the air, Youko's right arm casts the next curse seal. It moves in sync with her left arm, which has been freed by pulling off Maki. It looks like she's going to use some kind of major technique...
Miyako	"Oh no, she's setting up a warding sorcery. The attack won't go through with this..."
Yuuzen	"Curse Six. Call for chicks with secret fire. Lilies bloom in the swamp where butterflies dance. Head of a man flies in its mouth. Land of the dead. Cross the river over the bridge.
Yuuzen	"'Tsuki-yo, Tsuki-yo', repeats the night-crying beast looking for its horns. People curse and look for substitutes, people hold grudges and look for substitutes, mother and daughter pass through the chasm of asura and walk hand in hand on the path of perdition."
Yuuzen	"Curse Seven..."
Youko	"I won't let you!"
Hone Ningyou	"ーーーー!"
Mary	"It's interrupted...!"
Yuuzen	"Damn, Six. I can't finish it off completely with this. In this condition, I wish I had at least one more..."
Maki	"But Youko's technique is not finished yet. She has a major one. She's after Yuuzen."
Miyako	"We can't stop her in time. We can't even dispel the ward. No one can get close."
Maki	"......"
Maki	"Break Iwato's rules when it's really necessary. Maki's priority is people's lives. That includes Maki's life."
Miyako	"Maki-san?"
Maki	"Miyako... This is a combination technique. Maki will do a Counting Curse. Read Maki's words. Recite Two."
Maki	"Speak to your soul. Just chant the words you see. Three will trigger it."
Youko	"My technique is faster than that."
Yuuzen	"No... I doubt that. The Six Curses I cast are not that sweet."
Youko	"......!"
Youko	(I can't speak! The curse seals are also set in what I unintended!)
Yuuzen	"Y'all take care of the rest......"
Mary	"YUUZEN! HANG ON!"
Maki	"Curse One. Death demon transcursion. Phantom spell card. Combination technique."
Miyako	"Speak to my soul..."
Miyako	"......"
Miyako	"Curse Two. Plant a tree in the lonely forest. Wolf that wanders the barren land loves people, loves people."
Mary	"Miyako's magic is flowing through Maki."
Yuuzen	"Maki is siphoning off Miyako's power, and Miyako alone must endure two Counting Curses."
Yuuzen	"It's alright. She can hold her own. She's even wearing my hair ornament."
Maki	"Curse Three. She who controls the straw of Iwato. Tie them, play with them, and open the door."
Maki	"Summoning technique... Shimoamazu the First."
Yuuzen	"Forbidden technique. That kijin was no ordinary person, was she?"
Mary	"What kind of forbidden technique?"
Yuuzen	"Ya'll know it when you see it."
Shimoamazu I	"Appearance! Shimoamazu the First!"
Queensway	"Miss Shimoamazu!"
Putra	"Wha, HAHA!?"
Maki and Miyako joined forces to use a summoning technique. It was a great feat to transfer Shimoamazu the First.
When they looked, they saw a huge hole in the space that Hone Ningyou had supposedly created. Shimoamazu the First had located Maki and cut through the dimension. In this space, unreachable even by Gates, Maki had summoned Nishiki's greatest sorceress.
Yuuzen	"I'm surprised. Ya can make a hole in a place like this?"
Shimoamazu I	"Possible. But it is not easy. There are holes that can only be made when my deshi put their lives on the line."
Shimoamazu I	"Pledge. Life of the deshi is the life of the shishou. When my deshi uses this art, I too put my life on the line."
Shimoamazu I	"Strong enemy. Maki, Yuuzen, you have endured well. Let me get you out of here."
Shimoamazu I	"But you must take care of yourself... I will share my magic with Yuuzen, and that should be enough for her."
Yuuzen	"Yes, this is enough for me. I'll finish it right away."
Hone Ningyou	"Yuuzen... Where is Yuuzen?"
Hone Ningyou	"Yuuzen......"
Yuuzen	"No questions asked. Be banished into the darkness."
Yuuzen	"Yer not my mother... If ya were my mother, Curse Six wouldn't be enough to defeat ya."
Hone Ningyou	"ーーーー!"
Youko	"No! My Hone Ningyou!"
Mary	"This realm is crumbling. If we don't do something, we'll be trapped."
Yuuzen	"Shimoamazu, if ya make a mistake, I'll be very pissed."
Shimoamazu I	"The hole is not gone. Not to worry."
Vivienne	"This is... Yuuzen's house."
Putra	"We're back. That weird vortex is gone."
Vivienne	"We won, did we...?"
Putra	"Maybe, we may have won."
Putra	"That's because we are all alive, Yuuzen, Maki, and Miyako too..."
Yuuzen	"Miyako, are ya okay?"
Miyako	"Yes, I'm not so bad at all compared to Maki-san."
Yuuzen	"Shimoamazu is checking on her. Don't worry."
Yuuzen	"Miyako, ya... Ya used a Counting Curse."
Miyako	"Yes...... But that is Maki's sorcery."
Yuuzen	"That is true, but it wouldn't have worked without yer help. An average sorcerer is unable to provide that same amount of magic power you did."
Yuuzen	"Shimoamazu the First's kijin disciple successfully completed a combination technique thanks to ya. Ya should be proud of yerself as a sorceress."
Miyako	"Yuuzen-san..."
Yuuzen	"What is it, Miyako?"
Miyako	"Yuuzen-san...!"
Yuuzen	"I'm listening to ya. Don't worry. I'm watching ya."
Miyako	"I've been feeling strange lately. I know it in my head, but I can't use the right words, the sorceries don't work the way I want them to, and I feel like nothing I do is working..."
Miyako	"But my desire to help Yuuzen-san only grew. I was in such a hurry that I couldn't see what was going on around me, and I kept getting help from Yoshino-chan and Maki-san...!"
Miyako	"I became weak. I wasn't like this before. I could decide what I needed to do by myself. I didn't hesitate! But why did my mind hesitates so much?!"
Yuuzen	"Ya didn't become weak. On the contrary, the opposite is true. Ya have become stronger."
Miyako	"Stronger? How so?"
Yuuzen	"It's yer heart that makes ya hesitate to speak. Yer heart is growing."
Yuuzen	"It's okay to be hesitate. If ya can find the words in it, ya will be able to fight in any situation. Ya have become stronger. This victory is the result of that."
Yuuzen	"Be proud of yourself. Yer my lil' sister."
Miyako	"Little sister..."
Yuuzen	"Ya don't like it?"
Miyako	"No... I am happy."
Miyako	"I am happy! Very happy!"
Miyako	"I really love you, Yuuzen-san. I will always adore you. I will follow you everywhere."
After a fierce battle, we succeeded in defeating the monster Hone Ningyou.
However, Yuuzen found 'something' left behind at the scene after the battle, and told the Train Knights who participated in the battle an unbelievable fact.
ーーThat 'something' was Hone Ningyou's left arm.
Yuuzen	"This is unmistakably my mother's arm. Every other part is from a Koutetsu Ningyou. The only thing that was Hone Ningyou was her left arm.
Mary	"So it was Koutetsu Ningyou with a Hone Ningyou's arm."
Yuuzen	"Yeah, otherwise it wouldn't be defeated just like that. I failed my Counting Curse. I had to Count at least Nine to stop it..."
Mary	"What about Youko? Did she die? Or was she trapped alive in that realm?"
Yuuzen	"We were the only ones who escaped from there. I don't know if she's dead or alive, but at least she didn't come back. She can't even use sorcery. I don't think she's safe."
Yuuzen	"More importantly the Hone Ningyou. It would be troublesome if the Poison has affected the main body as well. We don't know when, where, and what kind of rampage it'll go on..."
Yuuzen	"She is still somewhere in this world. We only defeated one of her arms. Just one left arm was that difficult. The main body is nowhere near that..."
Conductor	Yuuzen's Hone Ningyou has only one left arm. That cursed power we experienced, was created with only one arm.
Conductor	The Poison of the Otherworld is poisoning the Giant Trees of Iris Cloud every day. We cannot leave alone those who have entered the Giant Tree and are working in secret. Finally, we need to get closer to the Steel Tree and start investigating as soon as possible...
Yuuzen	"Shimoamazu, ya there?"
Shimoamazu I	"Welcome. Yuuzen, are you alone today?"
Yuuzen	"Yeah, I'm alone. How's yer apprentice?"
Shimoamazu I	"Recovering. But she would have died if I had been a little later. Or rather, if she would have died were she not a kijin. As shishou, I think it was a good fight for Maki."
Shimoamazu I	"What more do you want? A favor?"
Yuuzen	"Yeah, I have a favor to ask ya."
Yuuzen	"I need ya to put a seal on my mother's bone. So, if it's possible..."
Yuuzen	"I want her to be mourned at yer place. I know it's a selfish request. But yer the only one I could ask."
Yuuzen	"I beg ya. It's the only remains I have in this world."
Shimoamazu I	"Of course, I will put the strongest seal on the name Shimoamazu. Then we will build a mound on the peak of Ooe and pay our respects. From there, you can see your home."
Shimoamazu I	"In Ooenomiya's mansion, there is also a doll made by Yuuzen the First."
Yuuzen	"Kijin no Ko, right? I was allowed to see it myself."
Shimoamazu I	"Your haha sleeps by the doll Yuuzen the First left behind. Kijin no Ko is a good doll, loved by many."
Yuuzen	"......"
Yuuzen	"...... Thank ya. I owe ya a lot."
Yuuzen	"I really thank ya so much, Shimoamazu."
Shimoamazu I	"Good, good. Feel free to come visit me again. Bring your friends and disciple. Haha will be pleased. It's okay to be a little noisy. That's the way, that's how it should be."
Yuuzen	"Yeah, I will. That person... has been living in a quiet place for a long time. She needs to hear people's voices once in a while."

Thorn Railway Episode
40-1	Commander's Instrument
40-2	"The Thorn Railway"
40-3	Unexpected Departure
40-4	Natural Lift?
40-5	The Weight of a Sword
40-6	Shoulder to Shoulder
40-7	An Honorable Battle
40-8	Samantha and the Altar
40-9	Obstacles That Stand in the Way
40-10	Iridescent Light of Absolution