Main Scenario/Yuuzen in Pursuit

Nishiki Great Curse Magic Episode
38-1	Nishiki Great Curse Magic
38-2	Cursed Spirit
38-3	Par for the Course
38-4	Combination Art
38-5	Cheating Each Other
38-6	Miyako's Blunder
38-7	Despite Being Visible
38-8	Visitor From the Otherworld
38-9	The Worst Enemy
38-10	Yuuzen in Pursuit

Hone Ningyou	"ーーーーーー!!"
Mary	"This is tough. I can't get close enough because of the sorceries."
Queensway	"She will go after Miss Yuuzen and Miss Yoshino thoroughly if they even attempt to counter it with sorceries, she's not even looking at Miss Miyako..."
Mary	"Yuuzen, your thoughts?"
Yuuzen	"Bit of a shrug. Not as strong as I thought she would be."
Mary	"HAH?"
Yuuzen	"She can't use most of her strength. She's too weak."
Yoshino	"Chotto chotto. If this is too weak, what is normal strength?"
Yuuzen	"I told y'all before. One opening, and ya will be eaten immediately. Youko who can't even move should have been the first one she would pounce on."
Yuuzen	"Besides, Hone Ningyou can use sorcery. That means she can talk. But now she just barks like a monster. No matter how I look at it, she's weakened."
Youko	"So if we could revert her back to her original form, she would be stronger then? Isn't that wonderful? Let me restore her to her original form."
Youko	"So come this way. Come, come closer to me."
Hone Ningyou	"......?"
Yuuzen	"Ya little, what are ya thinking? Yer really this eager to be killed?"
Youko	"I doubt it. Maybe she will think of me as one of their own."
Hone Ningyou seemed to understand human language and seemed to respond to Yuuzen and Youko's words. When Youko extended her hand and said 'Come here', the Hone Ningyou walked up to Youko, growling like a wild animal.
And then... The seal that had bound Youko was lifted.
Youko	"Ufufufu, now I am free too. As I thought, this girl is the true Hone Ningyou."
Yuuzen	"My art is completely broken...? How in the world did ya do that?"
Youko	"It was the Hone Ningyou who broke the art, not me, and since Hone Ningyou broke the Great Curse Magic, she must be able to nullify Yuuzen's art."
Yuuzen	"When that bugger broke the sorcery art, Youko's art had not yet been broken. If that's the case, there's no way it could have been broken on its own."
Youko	"Therefore, it was not broken, but 'broken'. Hone Ningyou also has a will. Intention activates sorceries."
Youko	"Maybe she thinks of me as her mother."
Yuuzen	"No, that's not true. Look behind ya."
Youko	"Behind?"
Hone Ningyou	"ーーーーーー!!"
Youko	"ーー!!"
Hone Ningyou struck Youko from behind, and Youko's body flew away.
It didn't give chase. The Hone Ningyou didn't do anything else and just stood there looking at Yuuzen's face.
Hitting the ground, Youko quickly opened a Gate while doing a passive flip. Since the sorcery art has begun to collapse, she deployed defensive sorcery to protect the Gate so as not to get caught.
Youko	"Hone Ningyou, I like you. Someday, I will surely make you mine."
Youko	"Yuuzen-san, let's call this time a draw. We will meet again in the near future by the Giant Tree. Please be prepared by then."
Youko	"Well then, nice to meet to you all."
Youko hid herself inside the Gate. It is unclear whether she escaped into the dimensional realm or headed for another exit.
However... the Hone Ningyou had her sights set on the moment the Gate was about to close.
Hone Ningyou	"ーーーー!"
Queensway	"The Hone Ningyou is prying open the Gate!"
Putra	"Wait, that's crazy! The thing's that big..."
Vivienne	"But the Gate is getting bigger and bigger. If we don't do something, it will escape."
Hone Ningyou	"ーーーー!"
Yuuzen	"She's calculating the exit. Are you kidding me... she learned how to connect Gates in one go just now?"
Prying open the Gate Youko used, Hone Ningyou forced it to widen and create a rift in space, then twisted her massive body into the Gate and disappeared.
Mary	"The Hone Ningyou's escaped... This is grave."
Mary	"Yuuzen, do you know where that bugger went?"
Yuuzen	"Yeah, pretty much."
Yuuzen	"She's going where she wants to go. She wasn't chasing Youko, she's going to where she wanted to go."
Yuuzen	"I must go after her..."
Mary	"Hold it. Hold it, Yuuzen. No. First, tell me where she went."
Yuuzen	"Not to worry. No one lives where she's headed. There are no wards, so no one can get close to her."
Mary	"That's why I'm asking you to tell me where it is."
Yuuzen	"The place where she gave birth to me. The place where I made that doll."
Yuuzen	"It was our house. It was burned down with the dolls, so there's nothing there now."
Mary	"I wonder if your mother's memories are still there..."
Yuuzen	"......"
Yuuzen	"Miyako... Come here for a minute."
Miyako	"Yes."
Yuuzen	"Put on this hair ornament. Don't worry, it's nothing extraordinary. It's the one my dolls wear."
Yuuzen	"While wearing it, ya should ask Yoshino and Shimoamazu to share their power with ya. Then yer stolen magic power will be restored. Ya will be able to use sorceries as before."
Miyako	"Thank you very much."
Miyako	"Um, Yuuzen-san."
Yuuzen	"Yes?"
Miyako	"Please wait until my power returns. Let's make a plan together."
Miyako	"Please, don't leave me. Don't try to go alone..."
Yuuzen	"No. I can't wait for ya to recover. Besides, without someone skilled in the art of sorcery, ya'll only slow me down."
Yuuzen	"Y'all and the rest of the Nishiki Army need to gather the sorcery team and fortify your defenses. Ya can drive the people out of all the towns near my hometown and set up a ward for said entire town."
Yuuzen	"Tell this to Shimoamazu the First, we will need her help when Hone Ningyou regains her original strength. Hone Ningyou in her full form is a monster comparable to Daiyaki."
Miyako	"So I can't be of any help to you?"
Yuuzen	"Yes, yer of no help."
Yuuzen	"Miyako yer a capable girl. Yer a really good sorceress. But I'm the only one who can use the sorcery to stop Hone Ningyou."
Yuuzen	"I'm working on my sorcery skills to stop Hone Ningyou. I did everything to become stronger. I read the military manuals and even bowed down to Shimoamazu the First."
Yuuzen	"Stopping Hone Ningyou is my mission. I have prepared a special Counting Curse so that I can do it alone."
Miyako	"But the situation is different now than it was in the past. If we all work together, we may be able to appease your oka-sama down..."
Yuuzen	"Shut up. An insolent brat like you should not talk about sorcery so recklessly."
Miyako	"Yuuzen-san..."
Yuuzen	"Strong curses often have only one correct answer. If one makes a mistake in how to use it or the procedure, it will be irreversible. Does Miyako know the curse that stops Hone Ningyou?"
Miyako	"No... I don't know..."
Yuuzen	"Then don't have the shamelessness to say 'appease' so carelessly. A sorceress should be responsible for her words."
Mary	"Yuuzen, stop. Calm down. Don't use your power here."
Yuuzen	"I know."
Mary	"You don't know. Your eyes are changing color. Don't use words in that state."
Unusually for Yuuzen, she sounded very emotional. However, the reason Mary grabbed Yuuzen's arm and stopped her wasn't because Yuuzen had hit Miyako too hard.
Yuuzen was clearly intending to kill, to unleash her lethal force. Her furs bristled, her eyes changed color, and her fangs bared. Even the eyes of the old Nishikese doll she held under her arm are filled with evil intent.
Mary	"Not everyone knows who you are as a person. I'm the only one who knows how you really feel about Hone Ningyou, and... What kind of determination you have, and the resolve to do so."
Mary	"So, alright? Supress it. You have changed after your journey with Ricardo. Yuuzen's the strongest now. I am sure you can defeat Hone Ningyou."
Yuuzen	"It's okay. It's okay now, please let go of my hand."
Mary	"Okay. I'll let go."
Yuuzen	"I'm sorry. This wasn't like me."
Miyako	"No, I'm really sorry too. I don't know anything about you, but you're the one apologizing. I just made a total mistake a few minutes ago..."
Yuuzen	"......"
Yuuzen	"...... When Daiyaki appeared on Mount Ooe, there were many sorceresses in the strike team."
Yuuzen	"Believing that she had a good chance of winning if sorcery is used, Ooenomiya took a large number of sorceresses to challenge him. Even the kijin who had fled to the secret village also showed themselves and risked their lives 'for the sake of the people'.
Yuuzen	"The kijin gave up their lives to shield the sorceress performing the Counting Curse. As a mountain of corpses piled up, Shimoamazu the First continued to recite the Curse, and the Daiyaki fed on the souls of the dead and continued to grow stronger."
Yuuzen	"No one knew that Daiyaki was getting stronger by feeding on the souls of the dead. The last trump card was played, and the Mount Ooe strike team was almost wiped out."
Yoshino	"Nishiki's sorceries are very deep. If one doesn't take proper countermeasures, it can all be for nashi."
Yoshino	"Haha Amazu thinks that the seal on Daiyaki is a shippai."
Yuuzen	"But it was the best that Shimoamazu the First could do at the time. When she had Counted to Curse Nine, she switched the last Curse to protect Ooenomiya from Daiyaki."
Yuuzen	"Some people think that's the right answer, some people don't."
Miyako	"So there are real people who can recite up to Counting Curse Nine..."
Yuuzen	"To seal the Hone Ningyou, one needs to Count to Nine. To finish her off completely, Count to Ten."
Miyako	"Eh..."
Yuuzen	"I have mastered the Counting Curse up to Ten solely for the Hone Ningyou. Did I tell ya that? To stop the Hone Ningyou, I'm honing my sorcery skills."
Miyako	"I'm sorry..."
Miyako	"I'm sorry for being so childlish knowing nothing. I'm sorry for wanting to be like Yuuzen-san. I'm sorry I said I wanted to appease your oka-sama."
Miyako	"But still ......"
Miyako	"But still, I can't just wait and do nothing. I left Hinayashiki so that I can help people. I learned sorcery so that I can help, both people and dolls."
Miyako	"How can I help? How can I successfully perform Yuuzen-san's sorceries?"
Yuuzen	"Warding sorcery..."
Miyako	"Warding sorcery, the kind that I would use?"
Yuuzen	"Preferably a highly accurate one. I'm sure you and Yoshino could work out combination techniques more or less, yes?"
Miyako	"Yuuzen-san...!"
Yuuzen	"Then, a sorceress who can fight right next to the enemy. If we have an all-rounder who can keep her mind sane even if she is trapped in sorcery for a long time and can also handle close combat, our chances of winning will increase."
Yuuzen	"I hate to say this, but we need someone like Youko. If we could team up with someone like that bugger, even y'all can be useful. If ya can put together a second team within two days, we can meet up there."
Mary	"I'm on it. I'll make sure we're back on our feet in two days. We'll use every means possible."
Mary	"So Yuuzen, you have to survive for two days to monitor and observe Hone Ningyou. That is your mission. Do not ever try to do it alone."
Yuuzen	"Two days. I will not wait longer than that. If the Hone Ningyou moves, I will follow her."
Yuuzen	"Conductor, ya okay with that? Even if ya stop me, I'll still go."
Conductor	Can you hide without the Hone Ningyou finding you? If she moves within two days, can you let us know where you are going?"
Yuuzen	"Absolutely. And the reason Mary didn't ask that question is because she knows I can do that."
Conductor	Then that's good. I'll order Yuuzen to track and monitor Hone Ningyou. We will regroup our forces within two days and go after her.
Conductor	Leave the coordination with the sorcery team to me. I will inform Shimoamazu the First as soon as possible.
Yuuzen	"I do hope yer powers will work. Well, let me take care of it for the time being."
Yuuzen	"Miyako, do you know what this is?"
Miyako	"This is Shimoamazu the First's black straw doll... I have one too. It is a training straw doll that is very difficult to move."
Yuuzen	"Casters who can make it dance freely. That's the bare minimum. If anyone can resist Shimoamazu's sealing technique, they'll be a good backup."
Miyako	"I understand."
Yuuzen	"Ya should focus on recovering your magic. There's no such thing as a sorceress who can do everything by herself."
Thus, the Great Curse Magic that had been created near the Giant Tree of Nishiki lost its power thanks to Yuuzen's efforts.
However the monster that was summoned from it, "Hone Ningyou," was on the loose. Yuuzen followed suit, closely monitoring and preparing for a reorganization.
We must join Yuuzen and stop Hone Ningyou at all costs. "The battle is in two days. We have no choice but to go." At Mary's words, all the Train Knights present nodded their heads.
Miyako	"Please wait for me, Yuuzen-san."

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