New Vampire Miyu, Volume 1 - Chapter 1: The Western Shinma
	written by Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi
	illustrated by Kakinouchi Narumi
	copyright 1992 by Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi

translation (such as it is) by Paul M. Aoki (aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU)
	$Revision: 1.0 $ of $Date: 1992/11/23 09:12:15 $
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 				      NOTES

1. I use the following markings:
	[]    = textual comment
	{}    = translator's comment
	<>    = "sound" (or action) FX
	""    = speech
	(x,y) = page x, panel y
2. Some notes on a few of the Western Shinma:
	CAIT SITH - Since he is named for the monstrous Celtic fairy
		    cat (note: "Sith" is pronounced "shee"), it's not
		    surprising that his attack consists of a pack of
		    cat-headed wraiths.
	NIGHT GIA - A shaper of dreams, like Baku (on whom Raen, from
		    OAV 1, is based).  He's not actually Baku, though
		    someone calls him that at one point in the story.
	PAZUSU - The undisputed leader of the Western Shinma, the
	         Arabic-looking Pazusu is often addressed as
		 "Pazusu-sama," "Pazusu-dono" or even just "Master."
	WATER LIPPER - A standard-issue water nixie (pale, webbed
		       extremities, etc.)
3. I couldn't come up with a word for "makai" ("spirit/magic world")
   that sounded right, so (as with "shinma") I left it as-is.  Ditto
   for "mashujutsu" -- it's something like "exorcism," literally
   "magical operation."
4. The weird writing (e.g., @#$%^&*) in the second half of the book
   is not swearing, it's a way to represent the incantations that were
   originally written in...well, weird writing.
5. We know that Miyu's chronological age is at least 30 even though
   her physiological age is 13.  Carlua and Lemunia were very young
   children when Larva left for Japan, putting them in their mid-20s.
   They are not more than a few years younger than Miyu, and in fact
   they appear just a few years older (mid- to late-teens).
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  (7,1) [In the dim, cold world of the Dark, the spirits sleep.  The
	 time does not pass peacefully.  People with troubled hearts
	 summon the spirits from the makai, and these spirits stray
	 into the world of humans and exploit them.  The Japanese
	 Shinma have a hunter for their strays and a guardian of their
	 sleep -- Vampire Miyu.] 
  (8,2) <haa haa> {gasps}
  (8,3) <za!> {rushing through foliage}

A hooded man runs, panic-stricken, along a forest path.  He is being
pursued by a taller hooded figure wearing a pale mask.  The torii gate
of a shrine marks the end of the path ahead of them.

  (8,4) <to...n> {thump}

A girl lands lightly on a wooden beam.

  (9,2) <za za za>
  (9,4) <ha...>

The man being pursued halts, gasping in horror at the sight of the
young girl now perched on the cross-beam of the torii.  The girl is
pale, pretty and very young in appearance, perhaps thirteen.  She
wears plain white yukata trimmed in scarlet -- hair-ribbon, sash,
slip, ankle-ribbon, all bright red.  {Note, Stanford fans, it's
scarlet and white, not cardinal and white!}  She stares with golden
eyes at the panting man, smiling faintly at his distress, her ponytail 
fluttering in the breeze.

 (10,1)	[New Vampire Miyu: The Western Shinma, Chapter 1]
 (12,1) <tan>
 (12,2) <fuwa!>

The girl leaps off of the beam and descends lightly to the ground.

 (13,1)	Miyu:   "I am Miyu..."
 (13,2) <sui>
 (13,3) <pou> {burst of flame}

A flame appears in her hand, and several others appear around the man
as well.

 (13,3)	Miyu:   "...vampire warder of the Dark."
 (13,5)	Larva:  "Return the stray shinma to the Dark..."
 (14,1) <bo...po...bo...> {flame crackling}
 (14,3) Miyu:   "Bye bye!"
 (14,3) <ni...> {"niko" = "smile" FX}
 (15,2) <bashii> {crash}
 (16,1) <goooo>

The crackling flames engulf her quarry (now revealed by his pointed
ears and extra eye as something other than human), then subside.  But
another figure watches from the trees...

 (16,5) <kasa> {rustling leaves}
 (16,5) shinma: --Miyu.
 (17,1) shinma: Warder of stray shinma.
 (17,1) Miyu:   "C'mon, Larva."
 (17,2) shinma: Miyu...
 (17,3) <basa!> {flapping wings}
 (17,4) Miyu:   "Who's calling?"

The spying figure, a bird with a man's head, crashes out of the trees
and soars into the sky.

 (17,4) <basa basa>
 (17,5) Miyu:   "What, a bird...?"
 (18,1) Miyu:   "What do you think, Larva..."
 (18,2) Miyu:   "Just now...did you hear a voice call me?"
 (18,3) Larva:  "No, I..."
 (18,4) Miyu:	"I see."
 (19,1) Miyu:   "Well, let's go.  C'mon!"
 (19,2) shinma: --Miyu.
 (19,3) shinma: Miyu.  Vampire Miyu.

On a cold winter day, bundled-up Japanese teenagers troop off to enjoy
another fulfilling day of high school.  Two girls, one with a familiar
scarlet-wrapped ponytail and another with short hair and glasses, walk
together.  Another (somewhat insipid-looking) girl runs up to catch up
with them.

 (20,2) Asako:  "Hiiiii!"
 (20,3) friend: "Oh, hi!"
	Asako:  "Cold, isn't it?"
 (20,4) Asako:  "Hi, Miyu.  The day'll go by slowly, don't you think?"
 (20,5) Miyu:   "Oh?"
	Asako:  "But then, you're always the biggest brain in the
		 classroom, aren't you!"
 (21,1) Asako:  "Done with your literature assignment?"
	Miyu:   "Uh huh."
	Asako:  "C'mon, let me copy it, please?"
	friend: "Not again!  You've done this a lot since she moved
		 here."
 (21,2) <kusu!> {giggle}
 (21,2) Miyu:   (to friend) "It's all right..."
 (21,3) Asako:	"But Miyu has a good head for this stuff..."
 (21,4) friend:	"Wouldn't it still make more sense for you to do your
		 own homework?"
 (21,5) Asako:  Yeah, yeah, Madam Head-of-the-Class-Committee.
		You'll get yours.
 (21,5) <un>

Asako nods to herself and turns to run off.

 (21,6) friend: "Asako!"
 (21,6) <kyahaha>
 (21,6) Asako:  "See you later.  I have to find someone to copy my
		 math assignment from."
 (21,7) friend: "Asakoo!  You...  Aa!"
 (22,1) friend: "Asako!  Ahead of y--"
 (22,1) <don!>
 (22,1) Asako:  "Kyaa!"

Asako looks ahead of her just in time to mash her face against a man's
back.

 (22,2) Asako:  "Oh, geez...I ran into someone?"
 (22,3) Hanyuu: "Are you alright?"

Talk about handsome!  Miyu stares.  Asako burbles.  Miyu's friend
gives up on Asako.

 (22,5) friend: "What an airhead."
	Asako:  (thinking out loud) "Oh, COOL!" {actually "suteki," 
		but...}
		(to Hanyuu) "Sorry."
	Hanyuu: "No, that's all right."
 (23,1) friend: "What a situation."
 (23,2) friend: "Miyu, you shouldn't have said it was all right.  That
		 girl's taking advantage of you."
 (23,3) <niko!>
 (23,3) Miyu:	"It's *is* all right.  If she has to cheat on the
		 homework, how can she be understanding enough to do
		 well in the class?"
 (23,4) friend:	"That's true, isn't it."

In the classroom, the seeraa-fuku bishoujo find a surprise...

 (23,5) Hanyuu: "Good morning, everyone."
 (23,6) Hanyuu: "I'm the new teacher, Mr. Hannyu.  Your teacher became
		 ill and was hospitalized.  I am Mr. Miuchi's
		 substitute."
 (24,1) Hanyuu: "Pleased to meet you."
 (24,2) <fui>

Miyu sighs, preoccupied, cupping her chin with her hand.  Asako is
ecstatic.

 (24,3) Asako:  The guy from this morning turned out to be the new
		teacher.  Haha, what a lucky turn of events!
 (24,4) <ko!>
 (24,5) <kon>

Miyu is still daydreaming as Mr. Hanyuu comes up from behind her and
raps on her desk.

 (24,6) Hanyuu: "Where have I seen you before?"
 (25,1) Hanyuu: "You're the model student I heard about from Mr.
		 Miuchi.  Are you acting like this because you dislike
		 my teaching?"
 (25,2) Miyu:   "No..."
 (25,3) Hanyuu: "Well, please come to the teachers' room after class.
		 I want some help in arranging some reports."
 (25,4) Miyu:   "Yes, sir."
 (25,5) Miyu:   Larva...Larva, can you hear my voice?

Meanwhile, in a field...

 (25,5) <saa>
 (26,1) <saku> {walking through grass}
 (26,2) <saku saku>
 (26,2) Larva:  "Miyu..."

And later, in the hall...

 (26,3) <ko!...>
 (26,4) SIGN:  "TEACHERS' ROOM - LITERATURE" {shiryou shitsu - kobun}
		{"shiryou" = "data/material," but teachers do their
		 paperwork and prepare for upcoming classes as well 
 		 as store their books/notes in this sort of room.}
 (26,4) <kon kon>
 (27,1) Miyu:   "Mr. Hanyuu, may I come in?"
 (27,2) Hanyuu: "Uh, Yamano?  Yes, come on in."
 (27,2) <kacha>

Mr. Hanyuu is fumbling with a stack of binders, trying to reorganize
and shelve them.

 (27,3) Miyu:   "Excuse me."
 (27,3) <gon go...>
 (27,4) Hanyuu: "Bring me those files on the desk."
	Miyu:   "Yes, sir..."
 (27,5) <kata...>
 (27,6) <ku!>
 (27,6) Hanyuu:	"You're...Yamano *Miyu*?"

Surprise!  Evidently he really did recognize her from somewhere.  Well,
nothing to do but try to brazen it out.  Miyu smiles as she hands Mr. 
Hanyuu his files.

 (28,1) Miyu:	"That's right, sir!"
	Hanyuu:	"Thanks."
 (28,2) <niko!>
 (28,2) Miyu:	"Where did you learn my name?"
 (28,3) Miyu:	"It was Tanaka Miyu before, and you might have heard
		 of Satou Miyu, and then there was Hayashi, and
		 Yamamoto, Shimada, Hirano, and so many others..."
		 {Yes, "Hirano" is written with the same kanji as in
		  "Hirano Toshihiro."}
	Hanyuu:	"So..."
 (28,4) Hanyuu: "...which is it, really?"

Momentary blank look.

 (28,6) Miyu:	(smiling) "I seem to have forgotten."
 (29,1) Miyu:	"What are you going to do now?  You could get me in
		 trouble."
 (29,2) Miyu:	"I haven't been a good girl, but that doesn't mean you
		 have to turn me out into the dark...?"
		 {note: I had trouble with these two frames.}

Hanyuu chuckles and goes back to organizing his books and papers.

 (29,3) <ku ku!>
 (29,3) Hanyuu:	"No, no!  I'm just a substitute teacher."
 (29,4) Hanyuu: "You're a good kid."
 (29,4) <pyon!>

Miyu sits on a nearby table.

 (29,4) Miyu:	Oh, is that so...
 (30,1) Miyu:	"Isn't there something you want from me?"

Miyu smiles sweetly at Hanyuu.  Hanyuu gives her an appreciative
sidelong look.

 (30,3) <ko! ko!>
 (30,4) <kacha>
 (30,4) Asako: 	"Teacher!  I decided to help you arrange your stuff!"
 (30,5) Asako:	"Having lots of people is better than having just one,
		 isn't it?"
 (30,6) Hanyuu: "Much obliged, but...well, your assignment was totally
		 copied from Miyu's."
 (31,1) Asako:  "HUUUHH!?"
 (31,2) Asako:  "MIYU!  You ratted on me?"
	Miyu:	"Uh uh, did not."
 (31,3) Hanyuu: "She didn't have to, I understood after one look at what 
		 you turned in.  End of discussion."
 (31,4) Hanyuu: "Go back to the classroom and redo your assignment.
		 I'll be right there."
 (31,5) Miyu:	He's a shinma...but not a stray shinma.  There doesn't
		seem to be any purpose behind his appearance here...
		or is there...?  What will he do next?  He can't have
		come here just to be near me.
 (32,1) Hanyuu:	"We can't get to know each other at school.  Tonight
		 at the shrine...I want to meet you there."

It's a windy night at the forest shrine.  As Miyu approaches the
torii, she notices a black feather and picks it up, only to have it
blow out of her hand.

 (32,4) <saku saku>
 (32,5) <tsu...ku>
 (33,2) <su...>
 (33,3) <hyuu> {wind blowing}
 (33,4) shinma: "Good evening."

It's the bird-shinma from page 19!  He perches on the torii cross-beam,
right where Miyu was sitting on page 10.

 (34,1) shinma: "I'm so glad you came alone."
 (34,2) <basa!>
 (34,3) <basa basa>
 (34,4) <pui!>
 (34,4) Miyu:	"I don't like you watching from up there."
 (35,1) Miyu:	"Besides...that's a favorite place of mine."
 (35,2) shinma: "How rude of me!"
 (35,3) <basa>
 (35,3) shinma: "Hahaha...you're troubled by my interruption of the
		 rendezvous with your handsome lover to which you came
		 so faithfully.  Weren't you coming here to be with me
		 for a while?"
		 {I guess "hansamu," used as a noun, isn't *quite*
		 "handsome lover," but what the heck.}
 (35,4) <ha...>

Miyu looks more closely at the bird-shinma, and realizes that it has
the same face as her erstwhile teacher.

 (36,1) Miyu:	"What do you want with me?"
 (36,2) Miyu:	"You're making me angry!"
 (36,3) Hanyuu:	"By all means, feel free to be angry.  You'll try to
		 send me back to the Dark anyway."
 (36,4) <kaa!>
 (36,5) <ba!>
 (36,6) <gu!>
 (37,1) <buu>

Miyu ignites a ball of flame, throws ...

 (37,2) <nika>
 (37,3) <basa>
 (38,1) <fuo>

...and the bird-shinma, grinning, dodges.

 (38,1) Hanyuu: "Oh, now..."
 (38,4) <basa!>

The bird-shinma stoops.  One of his feet has talons, and he grabs for
Miyu but slashes her upraised arm.

 (39,5) Miyu:	"I'm hurt..."
 (39,6) Miyu:	"My...blood."
 (39,7) <paro> (Miyu licks her bleeding arm.)
 (40,1) Miyu:	"I'll have to do something about this cut on my
		 arm..." 
 (40,2) Miyu:	"I won't forgive you for this!"
 (40,3) <ku ku>

The bird-shinma laughs and prepares to stoop again.

 (40,4) Hanyuu: "Here I come, Miyu!"
 (40,5) <sharu>
 (41,1) <sara>

Miyu whips off her hair ribbon.

 (41,2) Miyu:	"COME ON!"
 (42,2) <shuru...ru>
 (42,3) <basa!>

Miyu uses her ribbon just as Ranka used her obi in OAV 2, snaring the
bird-shinma's claw. 

 (42,4) Miyu:	"You won't escape."
 (42,5) <pishi...>

She begins to haul in the struggling bird-shinma.  Unlike Miyu in OAV
2, Hanyuu is unable to break the strip of cloth.

 (43,1) <bata bata>
 (43,1) Hanyuu: "Whaa...?"
 (43,2) Miyu:	"I'm ANGRY with you, you fool." {"o-baka-san"}
 (43,3) Miyu:	"Well, you're struggling too much and you're too
		 close..." 
 (43,5) <buu>

Miyu ignites another ball of flame and drags the bird-shinma into it.

 (43,5) Miyu:	"Does that hurt?"
 (43,4) <gi>
 (43,5) Miyu:	"I might have spared a ``handsome lover''..."

Having dragged the bird-shinma to the ground, Miyu finds herself at
the end of her ribbon.  She yanks him down to a rough landing.

 (44,1) Miyu:	"Well, this is the end!"
 (44,2) <mera>
 (44,3) <gui!>
 (44,4) <dosa>
 (44,4) Miyu:	"Now, back to the Dark, like a GOOD BOY."
 (45,1) <shuuu...>
 (45,2) Hanyuu: "You might not expect this, but I'm not going to say
		 anything bad."
 (45,3) Hanyuu: "I didn't do this without reason, warder of shinma."
	Miyu:	"Prepare yourself."
 (45,4) <pu>

Miyu, annoyed by his verbosity, lights another fireball.

 (45,4) Miyu:	"You've spilled my blood, which I simply cannot
		 permit.  I'm going to burn you to ashes."
 (45,5) <sui>
 (46,1) <pashi!>

But Larva catches her arm as she prepares to throw the fireball.

 (46,2) Larva:	"That's enough, isn't it, Miyu?"
 (46,3) Larva:	"We should let him finish."
 (47,1) Miyu:	"Larva...?"
 (47,2) Larva:	"Yes?"
 (47,3) Miyu:	(pouting) "...you're late."
 (47,4) Larva:	"I'm sorry, I hadn't realized how much time had
		 passed.  His mind sent out confusion, and it finally
		 forced its way into mine."
 (47,5) Larva:	"He felt as if he needed to learn what your strength
		 was, alone."
	Miyu:	"What?  I..."
 (47,6) Hanyuu:	--Miyu.
 (48,1) Hanyuu:	From our sea makai, a ship...a threat to the Japanese
		Shinma...
 (48,2) Miyu:	"Ship?"
 (48,3) Miyu:	"What?"
 (48,3) <basa>
 (48,4) Miyu:	"It's...it's what?"
 (48,5) Hanyuu:	A...ship...

Flashback...a sailing ship looms out of the fog, moving forward even
though its sails hang in tatters.  Its rigging and hull gently creak
as it makes its way through the calm seas.  Hanyuu and his mate, Saya,
fly ahead of the ship.

 (49,2) Hanyuu:	"A western ghostship..."
 (49,2) <kii> {creaking}
 (49,3) Hanyuu:	"I wonder if there's anyone left on board?"

A hooded figure in black materializes in the prow of the ghostship.

 (49,4) Hanyuu:	"Shall we go and take a closer look?"
	Saya:	"Well..."
 (49,5) Hanyuu:	"Aa, something glinted?"

The hooded figure, which can now be made out as female, walks out over
the stem and onto the bowsprit, passing beyond the crudely-carved
figurehead.  The wind blows a stray lock of golden hair from her hood.

 (50,1) <kii>
 (50,1) Hanyuu:	"A shinma?  No, it can't be."

The hooded female strides out along the bowsprit and onto the jib
boom.  The jibs are draped on their sheets and the jib boom, blowing
in shreds like the rest of the sails.

 (50,3) Saya:	"At the end of the boom...what type of...blond?"
 (50,4) Hanyuu:	"--A woman?"
 (50,4) <giii gii>
 (51,1) Hanyuu:	"She's masked!"
 (51,2) Saya:	"Alone...?  No, there's more of them."
 (51,3) Hanyuu:	"My...my body won't move!"
	Saya:	"Nooo...I'm being drawn toward the ship!"
 (51,4) Hanyuu:	"Western Shinma!"
 (51,4) <su>

The hooded woman opens her hand and a small, transparent sphere
appears in it.  Fiery tendrils shoot out and surround Saya, drawing
her toward the ship.

 (52,1) Carlua:	"Come..."
	Saya:	"NOOOO!!!"
 (52,2) Carlua:	"Hahaha...Welcome into my crystal ball."
 (52,3) <ku ku!>

The hooded woman laughs as Saya is drawn completely into her sphere.
Saya has been shrunk to the size of Carlua's hand.

 (53,1) Saya:	"KYAAAA!!!"
 (53,2) Hanyuu:	"SAYA!"
 (53,3) Saya:	"Flee, Hanyuu!"
 (53,3) <basa>

Hanyuu discovers that he can flap again, but he remains, helpless to
save his mate.

 (53,4) Hanyuu:	"Darling...I can't leave you!"
 (53,4) <basa basa>
 (53,5) Saya:	"FLEEE!"
 (54,2) Hanyuu:	Saya!  Saya's gone...
 (54,3) <gu..>
 (54,4) <bu...>

The hooded woman closes her fist, causing the sphere...and Saya's tiny
figure...to vanish.  She looks down at her hand, as if unable to
believe the ease with which she defeated the bird-shinma.

 (54,5) Hanyuu:	"Saya!"
 (54,6) Carlua:	"How absurd.  Are the Japanese Shinma like this, after
		 all?"
 (55,1) Carlua:	(looking at Hanyuu) "And yet, why is he..."
 (55,2) Hanyuu:	"Sa...ya.  The masked woman is a sorceress..."
 (55,3) Hanyuu:	"My beloved Saya..."
 (55,4) Saya:	(mental echoes) "FLEE.  --FLEE!"
 (55,5) Hanyuu:	--So I fled, barely escaping alive...but for what
		 reason?
 (56,1) Hanyuu:	To ask for revenge!
 (56,2) <shuuu>
 (56,2) Hanyuu:	It was in order to enlist your strength that I
		sacrificed my life.  Vampires are...known to be the
		elite of the shinma.
 (56,3)	Miyu:	"Hmph, and pretty selfish shinma."
 (56,4) <chu>
 (56,4) Miyu:	"Your little revenge-drama doesn't appeal to me.
		 Western Shinma...really."
 (56,5) Miyu:	Larva...?
 (57,1) <fu...>
 (57,1) Hanyuu:	I beg you...Miyu.  The Western Shinma are landing in
		the Japanese makai.
 (57,2) <sara>
 (57,2) Miyu:	"Hmph.  In Japan, indeed."
 (57,3) <saaa...>
 (57,3) Miyu:	"C'mon, Larva."
	Larva:	"--All right."

The ghostship, of course, continues to approach Japan.

 (57,4) <kii...>
 (58,1) Carlua:	"--Miyu.  Just wait; this cold, deep magical
		 sea...will engulf you." {lit. "you will be sunk 
		 into"}
 (59,1) <giii>
 (59,3) <kii>

Flashback.  Carlua is a young child, waist-high, standing in a field
of tall grass.  A man walks through the field and, seeing the crying
girl, walks toward her.

 (59,5) <saku...>
 (60,1) <saku>
 (60,3) <saku saku>
 (60,4) <kasa>
 (60,4) man:	"What's wrong?  Are you trying to play hide-and-seek
		 here?"
 (61,1) <saku saku saku>
 (61,1) Carlua:	"Don't treat me like a child, or I'll get angry."
	man:	"You wanted to see me?"
 (61,2) Carlua:	"That's right!"
 (61,3) Carlua:	"Grownups always try to leave me out of things."
 (61,4) Carlua:	"But you've been packing without any of your friends
		 noticing.  Pretty tricky, aren't you."
 (61,5) man:	"Not very brave, am I?  You..."
 (61,5) <saaa>

On the ghostship, the Western Shinma have sighted a foggy coastline.
A massive torii decorated with two shining orbs rises above the fog.

 (62,1) <kii...>
 (62,2) <giii...>
 (62,4) Cait Sith:    "It's..."
 (63,2) Cait Sith:    "...the gateway to the Japanese makai."
 (63,4) <ka!...>
 (63,5) <ka! ko!...ko!...>
 (63,5) Night Gia:    "The only..."
 (64,1) Night Gia:    "...gate?"
 (64,2) Pazusu:       "Destroy, break or tear off those two
		       horn-jewels...and the gate will be open."
 (64,3) Water Lipper: "We can easily do that."
 (65,1) Amy:	      "The problem is...there's a guardian."
 (65,1) <piku...>
 (65,3) Carlua:	      "--Miyu?"
 (65,4) Spartoi:      "That's all right."
 (66,1) Spartoi:      "We'll get inside."
 (66,1) Carlua:	      "I understand Miyu's pride."
 (66,2) <ku>
 (66,3) Cait Sith:    "Haha..."
 (66,4) Cait Sith:    "Pretty Carlua."
 (66,5) Cait Sith:    "Thinking of Larva again.  How you suffer."
 (67,1) Lemunia:      "It always comes back to Miyu, doesn't it."
 (67,2) Amy:	      "Doesn't it, Carlua...?"
 (67,3) <kii...>

Nettled by the taunts of her comrades, Carlua strides off and prepares
to teleport into the Japanese makai.  Someone has to take care of
Miyu...

 (67,5) <ka!>
 (68,1) <ka! ka!>
 (68,1) Carlua:	      "I'm going."
 (68,1) <fu fu fu>

Cait Sith snickers.

 (68,2) <ka! ka! ka!...>
 (68,3) <pa!>

Two of the older and wiser members of the expedition cut her off.
Pazusu grabs Carlua's hand.

 (68,3) Pazusu:	      "--Carlua."
 (68,4) <tsuku chaki>
 (68,4) Pazusu:	      "What are you doing?"
 (68,5) <ton>
 (68,5) Night Gia:    "Better to be calm, don't you think, Carlua?"
 (69,1) Night Gia:    "Leave it to me."
	Carlua:	      "But..."
 (69,2) Night Gia:    "Larva has become Miyu's friend for some reason,
		       hasn't he?" 
	Carlua:	      "That's..."
 (69,3) Carlua:	      "Larva..."
 (69,4) Spartoi:      "Was Larva's being a man why...?"
 (69,5) Pazusu:	      "Night Gia will go, Carlua...even so.
 (70,1) Pazusu:	      "You...shouldn't go out just yet."
 (70,3) Carlua:	      "Yes...I understand, master."
 (70,4) Lemunia:      "I'll go with ``Baku.''"
 (70,5) Lemunia:      (to Night Gia) "That OK?"
 (71,1) Night Gia:    "Fine...Will our precious kiddies eventually go
		       into battle?"
 (71,1) <kyuu>

Night Gia, pulling on his gloves, gets a dirty look from Carlua.

 (71,2) Cait Sith:    "Just leave Miyu to me."
 (71,3) Cait Sith:    "We'll tear this place apart!"
 (71,4) <su...>
 (71,4) Water Lipper: "--Well..."
 (71,6) Water Lipper: "...as for me..."
 (71,7) <fuku chabu>

Wasting no time, Water Lipper begins to prepare her attack.  The ocean
stirs.

Miyu wakes up in her room, at first hearing only the wind blowing
through the trees outside.

 (72,1) Larva:	Miyu.  --Miyu.
 (72,2) <saku...>
 (72,3) <kata kata>

She opens the shoji and steps outside, but Larva is not there.

 (72,3) Larva:	Miyu...
 (72,4) Miyu:	"Larva...?"
 (72,5) Miyu:	"What is it, Larva?"
 (73,1) <piku...>
 (73,1) Larva:	--Miyu.

A wave of sadness overcomes her, a single tear running down her face.

 (73,3) Miyu:	What?   Why am I crying?  I--

Suddenly, Miyu is a little girl of six or seven.  She sees Pipi, her
pet bird, in the grass.  But as she bends over to pick him up...

 (73,4) Miyu:	Aa...
 (73,5) Miyu:	Little bird...
 (73,6) Miyu:	--cold and stiff.
 (73,7) Miyu:	"He's dead."
 (73,8) <u! u...>

Miyu-chan begins to sob, pressing Pipi's body to her chest.

 (73,8) Miyu:	"My little bird..."
 (73,8) Larva:	Miyu.
 (74,1) Larva:	Miyu...

Miyu-chan looks up and sees Larva.

 (74,3) Miyu:	"Who is it?  Who are you?"
 (74,4) Larva:	Why are you crying?
 (74,5) Miyu:	"My little bird...he's dead."
	Larva:	This life is not eternal, so our time here is
		precious. {lit. "utsukushii" = "beautiful"}
 (74,6) Larva:	But that little bird has finished his precious moments
		here--and gone on.
 (75,1) <u!...u...uku...>
 (75,1) Miyu:	"Well...will this little bird live here with me again 
		 someday?"
 (75,2) <paro paro>

Miyu-chan presses Pipi to her cheek as she begins to sob again.  Larva
pats her on the head.

 (75,2) Larva:	"He lives."
 (75,3) <u! u>
 (75,3) Miyu:	"He's cold!  He shouldn't be like that when I pet
		 him."
 (75,4) Miyu:	"Make him warm again!  Make him warm again!  He's
		 cold and stiff...My little bird doesn't move."
 (75,5) Miyu:	--Larva.  Larva...

Larva is replaced by the smiling face of Night Gia.

 (75,6) Night Gia: --Miyu.
 (76,1) Night Gia: "Welcome to my dream."
 (76,1) <biku...>
 (76,2) Night Gia: "Haha...pretty sweet dreams you have, Miyu."
 (76,3) Miyu:	   (shocked) "You were..."
 (76,3) <kaa!>
 (76,4) Night Gia: "I am the Western Shinma, Night Gia.  I shape dreams."
 (77,1) <tan>
 (77,1) Miyu:	   "Western..."
 (77,2) Miyu:	   "...Shinma."
 (77,3) Miyu:	   He saw my dream?
		   "You...shape dreams?"
 (77,3) <pou>

As Miyu starts to become angry, Lemunia materializes behind her.

 (77,3)	Lemunia:   "There's more!"
 (77,5) Lemunia:   "You're getting careless, Miyu!  In the dream
		    world, you have no chance of winning."
 (78,1) Lemunia:   "I am...Lemunia."
 (78,2) Miyu:	   "Lemunia...?"
 (78,3) Lemunia:   "Who do you think I resemble?  Have you forgotten?"
 (78,4) Lemunia:   "I'm Lemures's younger brother."
 (78,5) Miyu:	   Lemures's...
 (79,1) Miyu:	   --Lemures.  Who tried to claim back Larva for the
		   Western Shinma.  Who was once Larva's friend...
		   "This is...a dream?  It hurts..."

She presses her hands against her head.

 (79,1) <zuki...>
 (79,2) Miyu:	   That's it!  I'm trapped in my dream.

But now Night Gia shifts her into another dream.  Miyu dreams of her
first encounter with Larva.  She recoils from Larva, her hand
slashed.

 (79,3) Larva:	   I found you in time.
		   {There's another short sentence, but I couldn't
		    translate "kousubeki" (written in hiragana only).}
 (79,4) Miyu:	   "Aa!"
 (80,1) Miyu:	   "Blood... My...blood."
 (80,2) Larva:	   "Yes...it's your blood.  Go to sleep."
 (80,3) Larva:	   "Sleep."
	Miyu:	   "N-NO!"
 (80,4) Miyu:	   Again...a dream?  My...
 (80,5) Miyu:	   "NO!"

Miyu reaches around Larva's neck and bites his neck.

 (81,1) Miyu:	   "Larva..."
		   --dream!
 (81,5) Miyu:	   A bitter...dream.
 (82,1) Miyu:	   Larva...my first man.
		   {The kanji read "emono" ("catch," in the hunting
		    sense), but the furigana read "hito" (man or
		    person).}
 (82,2) Miyu:	   I... Larva...

Strengthened by her recollection of Larva, Miyu fights free of the
dream long enough to call out with her thoughts.

 (82,2) Miyu:	   --Larva!
	Night Gia: "You're bewildered by your dream.  Hahaha, aren't
		    you enjoying it?"

Larva, standing in a grassy field, hears Miyu's call and races toward
it.

 (82,3) <za!  za za>
 (83,1) <za za>
 (83,1) Larva:  Miyu...?  Miyu's calling me?
 (83,2) <za za>
 (83,4) Larva:	What could it be?
 (83,6) <buu...>

A hooded, masked figure materializes in the field ahead of him, then
walks toward him.

 (83,7) Larva:	!?
 (83,8) <za>
 (84,1) <za za za>
 (84,2) <tsukua>
 (85,1) <shauuu>
 (85,2) Carlua: "--Larva...I wanted to meet you."
 (85,3) Larva:  "You..."
 (86,1) Larva:  "You're...?"
 (86,2) Carlua: "Miyu...is who you see in your dreams."
 (86,3) Carlua: "How sad...you have been fouled with Miyu's blood."
 (87,1) Larva:  "Miyu...Even so, what is Miyu to you?"
 (87,3) Carlua: "I will not forgive her...that shinma who has
		 degenerated into something like a human..."
 (87,4) Carlua: "You are..."

She lowers her hood, then her mask...

 (88,1) Carlua: "...important to me, Larva..."
	Larva:  CARLUA!
 (89,1) <saku>
 (89,2) Larva:  "Car...lua?"
 (89,3) Carlua: "You're...Carlua?"
 (89,4) <so...ro>
 (89,5) Carlua: "Larva..."

Larva briefly recalls the last time he saw Carlua as a waist-high
child.  Moving closer, Carlua touches him for the first time in
twenty-odd years.

 (90,1) Carlua: "Yes, it's really Carlua...your ``little sister.''"
 (90,2) Carlua: "--So long ago..."
 (90,3) Carlua: "I waited, but you were so late in coming back...."
 (90,3) Carlua: "...I..."

She wraps her arms around his neck.

 (91,1) Carlua: "...I came for you, Larva.  --Larva."
 (91,2) Carlua: "Larva..."

Flashback, again.  Little Carlua is holding Larva tightly around his
waist.

 (91,3) <saku> <saku saku>
 (91,3) Larva:  "You're a brave child, you..."
 (91,3) Carlua: "I'm not a child."
 (92,1) Carlua: "We won't meet for a long time, will we?"
 (92,3) Carlua: "What?  Why aren't you saying anything?"
 (92,4) Larva:	"You...Well, you said you're all grown up now."
	Carlua:	"That's what I said!"
	Larva:	"Well, then I can just give you the straight
		 explanation."
 (92,5) Larva:	"I'm going to Japan."
 (93,1) <kyu...>
 (93,2) Carlua:	"Ja...Japan?"
 (93,3) Carlua:	"Japan...what..."
 (93,4) <ku...>
 (93,5) Carlua:	"Larva...you're going to come back safely, aren't
		 you?"
 (93,6) Larva:	"Naturally, Carlua!"
	Carlua:	"It can't be helped, can it."

Giving in to the inevitable, little Carlua turns and walks a few steps
away so that Larva will not see her tears.

 (94,1) Carlua:	"I'll pass the time as Lemunia's friend.  One gets
		 tired of child friends, but it can't be helped, can
		 it."
 (94,2) Carlua:	"Larva's not here anymore."
 (94,3) <saku saku>
 (94,4) Larva:	"Carlua, be a good girl."
	Carlua:	(angry, crying) "DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A CHILD!!"
 (94,4) <kyu!>

Back at the torii, Water Lipper is making the first attempt to destroy
the gate.

 (94,5) <saaaa... yuu...>
 (95,1) <chapu...>
 (95,3) <zava...>
 (95,4) <jau...>
 (95,5) <bashuu...>
 (96,1) <ku ku ku>
 (96,1) Water Lipper: "Well, I'm done ``filling the package''..."
 (96,1) <goooo>
 (96,2) Water Lipper: "Absent guardian and gate alike...just toys."
 (96,3) <fu fu>
 (96,4) <pi...pishi>
 (97,2) <zaaaa>

Water Lipper delivers her "package," a small tsunami...but the torii
still stands.  Water Lipper calls off the waves and stands back.

 (97,3) Water Lipper: "Who's next?"
 (97,4) Spartoi:      "I AM!!"
 (97,5) <kira>

Spartoi's dragon begins to unwind itself from his shoulders.  It grows
from a man-sized snake into a full-sized, horned monster.

 (98,1) <gugu>
 (98,2) <shaaa>
 (98,3) Spartoi:      "All right!  Show them that your strength is not
		       less than that of the water-lover's."
 (98,4) <zuzuzu...>
 (98,5) <zuzu>
 (98,6) Spartoi:      "Go forth, my dragon!"
 (99,1) <shaaaa>
 (99,2) Amy:	      "Me, too..."
 (99,3) <ton>
 (99,4) Amy:	      "Spartoi...go on."
 (99,5) Amy:	      "FIRE..."
 (99,6) <ki...n>

A flash from Amy's eyes.

(100,1) Amy:	      "CRASH!!"
		      {furigana="kurasshu"; kanji="geki" (on-reading)}
(100,3) <goo!>
(100,4) <mera...>
(100,5) <bachi bachi>

The flames from Spartoi's dragon and Amy's fire-attack leave the torii
burning, but still in one piece.  Cait Sith, of course, is less than
impressed and finds this hilarious.

(101,2) <ku ku ku!>
(101,2) Cait Sith:    "Splendid..."
(101,3) Cait Sith:    "...my comrades."

Another dream...Miyu is again Miyu-chan, but now she is in the middle
of a featureless wasteland where twin suns shine down balefully upon
her.

(102,1) <hyuu...>
(102,2) Miyu:	   "Where...am I?"
(102,3) Miyu:	   "Maybe with my little bird?"
(102,3) Miyu:	   "But my little bird isn't here."

Panicking, lost and alone, Miyu-chan begins to run.

(102,5) Lemunia:   "Ha...she's lost.  Isn't that just so human."
(103,1) Night Gia: "She was brought up as a human.  It's her
		    weakness."
(103,3) <ku ku ku>
(103,3) Lemunia:   "Let's tease her some more, shall we?"
(103,4) Night Gia: "Hahaha...Let's."
(103,5) <chaki...>

Night Gia draws his rapier, and he brings it down near the running
girl.  What she sees is...

(103,6) <haa haa>
(103,7) <sui>
(104,1) <kaa>
(104,3) <bashii>
(104,4) Miyu:	   "Yaaa...lightning..."

Miyu-chan huddles on the ground, covering her eyes as the lightning
bolts get closer and closer.

(104,5) <ka...!>
(104,6) <bashi>
(105,1) Lemunia:   "Hahaha...give her a good one."
(105,2) <ku ku ku>
(105,3) <katsu!>
(105,4) <bashii>
(105,4) Miyu:	   "Kyaaa!!"
(105,6) <ko...!>

Miyu-chan collapses as the lightning strikes her, but the pain clears
Miyu's mind enough to bring back her memory.

(105,6) Miyu:	   "It...hurts..."
(106,1) Miyu:	   A dream--!
(106,2) Miyu:	   A dream...
(106,3) <haa haa>
(106,3) Miyu:	   "I haven't escaped from this dream..."
(106,4) <chaki>
(106,4) Night Gia: "--Quite right, hoho...you haven't escaped."
(106,5) Night Gia: "But *this* ``lightning'' is quite genuine, Miyu!"
(107,1) <su...>

Standing behind her, Night Gia waves the rapier at her.  Miyu does not
see it, as her attempts to stand are taking all of her energy and
concentration.

(107,1) Night Gia: "Your agony when I run you through won't be just a
		    dream."
(107,2) Night Gia: "Isn't this just so painfully distressing?  Your
		    dream is so sad."
(107,3) Lemunia:   "Ho...hohahaha!  The next pain'll be your death."
(107,4) Miyu:	   --Larva.  Larva...
(108,1) Miyu:	   Larva!

In a grassy field, Larva hears Miyu's voice.

(108,1) <piku...>
(108,2) Larva:  "Mi...yu... --I must go.
(108,3) <gu>
(108,3) Carlua: "Don't go...come back!"
(108,4) Carlua: "You're a Western Shinma, you can't get away from
		 that."
(108,5) Larva:  "--I'm sorry, Carlua..."
(109,1) <pi...>
(109,2) <tsuu...>
(109,2) Carlua: "--Aah..."
(109,4) Carlua: "Larva!  LARVA!"
(109,5) Carlua: "LARVAAAaaaa..."

In the Dark, inside the gate, the leader of the Japanese Shinma (the
black tree-like guy with the single red eye from OAV 4, who I will
call "the osa" from now on) wakes.

(110,3) osa:	   "What...what was that cry?  Miyu!?"
(110,4) osa:	   "What has defeated Miyu!?"

Meanwhile, just outside the gate...

(111,1) Cait Sith: "Are you thinking of delivering the final blow,
		    Lord Pazusu?"
	Pazusu:	   "--tired of this..."
(111,3) Pazusu:	   "@#$%^&*!!"
(111,3) <suu...>
(111,4) <pishii>

But even Pazusu's blast has not destroyed the gate.  Cait Sith rushes
forward to deliver his own blow.

(112,1) Cait Sith: "FINISH!!"
(112,4) <kuwa!>
(113,1) <ba!>
(113,2) <shuuu...>
(113,3) <gi...>
(113,4) <chuuu>
(113,5) <bashii>
(114,1) osa:	   "MIYU--!!"

At Cait Sith's demon-cats shatter the gate, the osa's cry wakes Miyu
out of her dream.

(114,2) Miyu:	   "KYAA!"
(114,2) <za...>
(114,4) <haa haa>
(115,1) Miyu:	   (gasping) "Uh..."
(115,3) <po...> <haa haa haa>
(115,4) Night Gia: "Hohoho."
(115,5) <haa haa...>
(115,6) <ba!>
(115,7) <fu...>

Gasping, struggling to stand, Miyu attempts to throw a fireball and
misses.

(115,7) Night Gia: "Hahaha..."
(116,1) <hahaha>
(116,1) Lemunia:   "It's futile!  Futile!!"
(116,2) Night Gia: "Such bloodthirstiness, Miyu..."
(116,3) Miyu:	   "What kind of dream is this..."
	Night Gia: "Why, it's your dream!  Hohoho..."
(116,4) Night Gia: "Yet..."
(116,4) <za>
(116,5) Miyu:	   (gasping) "Uh..."
(116,6) Night Gia: "...you're injured."
(117,1) Night Gia: "--Well."
(117,2) <haa haa>
(117,3) Night Gia: "I haven't come to play games."
(117,4) <zu>
(117,5) <chaki>
(117,5) Night Gia: "Ready to die?"
(118,1) <su>
(118,2) Miyu:	   --Larva...
(118,3) Night Gia: "Goodbye."
(118,4) <ka...>
(118,5) <bishi!>
(119,1) <toku!>

But as Night Gia prepares to skewer Miyu, the dream-world shatters and
falls to pieces.  Miyu and the others find themselves in a dim forest.

(119,3) <zaaaaa...>
(119,4) Night Gia: Reality!!?
		   "Wha...?"
(120,1) Larva:	   "Miyu!"
(120,2) Lemunia:   "Dammit!"
(121,1) Night Gia: The dream's been torn apart!
(121,2) <za!>
(121,3) <zazaza>
(121,4) Lemunia:   Larva...he's truly in league with Miyu--
(122,1) Lemunia:   --Larva...
(122,2) Lemunia:   He shows a mask for a face.  He rises to betray us,
		   and calmly stands before us wearing that cowardly
		   thing...
(122,3) Miyu:	   (to Larva) "This time...you WERE late."
(122,4) Miyu:	   "I got tired of waiting..."
(122,5) <kyu>
(122,6) Larva:	   "--Night..."
(123,1) Larva:	   "...Gia..."
(123,2) <fu...>
(123,2) Night Gia: (sarcastically) "You've come to remember me again?"
(123,3) Night Gia: "I am most...thankful."
(123,4) Lemunia:   (to Larva) "Traitor."

The Western Shinma have walked beyond the shattered gate, deeper into
the makai.  They reach a clump of gnarled roots.

(123,5) <chu>
(124,3) <pa...ki>
(124,4) Cait Sith:    "Fragile..."
(125,1) Cait Sith:    "Too fragile."
(125,2) Amy:	      "Hmph.  Not very interesting after all."
(125,3) Spartoi:      "Quite.  Shouldn't there be someone--"
(125,5) <zu...>
(125,5) osa:	      "Y-you are..."
(125,6) Cait Sith:    "Hi, pleased to meet you...aren't we?
(126,1) <bou...>
(126,1) osa:	      "You're Western...Shinma.  Why...?"
(126,2) <ku ku ku>
(126,2) Cait Sith:    "You mean the surprise attack and all that?
		       Hahaha... Where did that idea come from."
(126,3) osa:	      "Wha...what happened to Miyu?"
(126,4) Cait Sith:    "Heh...what do you think?  Hahaha..."
(127,1) Cait Sith:    "My comrades have gone to ``play'' with her."
(127,2) Pazusu:	      "The rest of you will share the same fate."
(127,3) Amy:	      "Haha!  What?  Are we just going make empty
		       threats?"
(127,4) Amy:	      "Red-Eye's pitiful, embarassingly weak life...
		       How about it, Cait Sith?"
(127,5) Cait Sith:    "Well..."
(128,1) <bou...>
(128,2) <piki piki...>
(128,3) Cait Sith:    "Goodbye!"
(128,4) <doshui>
(128,5) osa:	      "GYAAAA..."

Cait Sith's demon-cats tear him apart.

(128,7) <para para>
(129,1) Cait Sith:    "Hmph...this country must be entirely peaceful.
		       Until we came, they had sent out Miyu and
		       entrusted their security to her."
(129,2) <hyuu>
(129,2) Cait Sith:    "Hah.  This is the result."
(129,3) Amy:	      "Haha...That just makes it easier for us to take
		       over the country."
(129,5) Spartoi:      "That's why we came here."
(130,1) Water Lipper: "So was that the end of it?"
(130,2) Cait Sith:    "No!  Don't underestimate Japan too much."
(130,3) Pazusu:	      "The realm of the Japanese Shinma is comprised
		       of five levels.  We have only conquered the
		       first level."
(130,4) Pazusu:	      "The true adepts are...at the bottom."
	Amy:	      "Don't bigshots always hide in the shadows?"

Carlua materializes among the others, misery and rejection written on
her face.

(131,1) Carlua:	      "--Pazusu."
(131,3) <ko...>
(131,4) <pou...>
(131,8) Pazusu:	      "Carlua?"
(132,1) <hyuu...>
(132,2) Pazusu:	      "I see..."

In the forest, Larva and Miyu face off with Night Gia and Lemunia.
Strengthened by Larva's presence, Miyu has recovered completely.

(132,3) <zaku...>
(132,4) <zaku zaku>
(132,4) Larva:	      "They are renegade shinma."
		       {c.f. the osa's comment to Larva in OAV 4.}
	Miyu:	      "I want them to leave..."
(132,5) Miyu:	      "Please, Larva!  Make them leave?"
(132,6) <za!>
(133,1) <ton>

Now perched in a tree, Miyu calls down to the others.

(133,2) Miyu:	      "That wasn't a joke!  I've been patient so far,
		       and won't be so again.  I'm getting angry."
(133,3) Miyu:	      (looking at Lemunia) "Take this darling little
		       boy, now, Larva..." 
(133,4) Miyu:	      "I want to see how good he really is."
(133,5) Larva:	      Darling...little boy?
(133,6) Larva:	      "You..."
(134,1) <su>

Lemunia makes a break for it.

(134,2) Miyu:	      "Thinking about running, Lemunia?"
(134,3) Larva:	      Lemunia!?
(134,5) Larva:	      Lemures's younger brother...
(134,6) <hyu>
(134,7) <tsui> <tan>

As Miyu flings a fireball at the departing Lemunia, Night Gia covers
him by leaping to the attack.

(135,1) Larva:	      You came as far as Japan...
(135,2) Miyu:	      "Larva!  Lemunia will escape soon!  I'll take
		       Night Gia!"
(135,3) Night Gia:    "Miyu!"
(135,4) Miyu:	      "What?"
(135,4) <fu fu>
(135,6) <kaaa...>
(136,1) <bashii...>
(136,2) <pikii!>
(136,3) Night Gia:    "Uh...?"

As Night Gia rushes forward, he is stunned and blinded by a lightning
strike that snaps his sword blade.

(136,4) <za...n>
(137,1) Night Gia:    --this place!?
(137,2) <za...>
(137,2) Night Gia:    My sword was broken.  My own lightning?  How
		      can this be?
(137,3) Night Gia:    Daylight?  My eyes...
(137,4) Night Gia:    What's happened to me?
	Miyu:	      Hahaha...
(137,5) Miyu:	      It's all right.  Open your eyes and look
		      around.  This is my little world...

As Night Gia's vision returns, he sees that he is in a different
forest, one dotted with foot-wide red spheres.  Miyu floats in front
on him.

(138,1) Miyu:	      "Welcome, Night Gia."
(138,2) Night Gia:    "Miyu...you've weakened me."
(138,3) <su>

Miyu fetches one of the red spheres and gives Night Gia a closer look.

(138,3) Miyu:	      "Look!  Beautiful, isn't it?  Can you grow to
		       like it?"
(139,1) Miyu:	      "I think it's fine."
(139,2) <po...pou...po pou pou>

As Miyu hugs the little sphere, many flames ignite and surround Night
Gia.

(139,3) Miyu:	      "Oh, dear.  My flames can't wait...they're so
		       impetuous, aren't they?"
(139,4) Night Gia:    "What do you want."
(139,5) Night Gia:    "You've underestimated..."
(139,6) Miyu:	      "Night Gia, we're not in a dream and you're
		       entirely powerless."
(140,1) <fuku>

Miyu throws the sphere into the air and admires it.

(140,2) Miyu:	      "You aren't moving at all.  It's punishment for
		       having peeped into my dream."
(140,2) <fu fu>
(140,3) Night Gia:    I'm being restrained by something...
(140,4) Miyu:	      "But, I regret to say...you won't be looking
		       into any more dreams."
(140,5) Miyu:	      "My flames..."
(140,6) Miyu:	      "...will swiftly burn you to ashes."
(140,7) Miyu:	      "Watch..."
(140,7) <niko>
(141,1) Night Gia:    !?
(141,2) <mera>
(141,3) <fuu!>
(141,4) Night Gia:    My body is coiled in flames...
(141,5) <bou>
(141,5) Night Gia:    "Uu...aa!"
(142,1) <goo>
(142,1) Night Gia:    "Aa..."
(142,2) Miyu:	      Hahaha...
(142,3) Night Gia:    "...... &^%$#*@"
(142,4) Miyu:	      Your feeble struggles are futile...
(142,5) <kusu kusu>
(142,5) Miyu:	      Whaat?
(142,6) Night Gia:    "@$#%^&!!  &%^$@#"
(142,7) Miyu:         Trying to say something, Night Gia?
(143,1) <bu!...>
(143,1) Night Gia:    "&@^#$%!!"
(143,1) <za!  zazaza>
(143,2) Miyu:	      "A spell?  It must be difficult, poor thing...
		       but I'll have to put an end to it right now."
(143,2) <fu fu fu>
(143,3) <zazaza>
(143,4) <bashii!>
(143,4) Miyu:	      "What...!?"
(144,1) <ba>
(144,4) <kira>
(144,5) Miyu:	      ?
(144,6) <ka!  ka!>

But before Miyu can take action, a dark figure rushes past her and
slashes Night Gia's burning figure, silencing his incantation.

(145,1) Night Gia:    "W...?"
(145,2) <zu...>
(145,3) Miyu:	      "Larva...?"
(145,4) Night Gia:    "W-why?  Why?  Larva...old friend..."
(145,5) Night Gia:    "Are you not a Western Shinma...?"
(145,7) Larva:	      "Now I...am fighting alongside Miyu."
(146,1) <bou...>
(146,3) Miyu:	      "Whaat?  You've stolen my prey."
(146,4) <musu>
(146,4) Miyu:	      (holding her sphere) "I was thinking this would
		      have suited him..." 
(146,5) Larva:	      "--Miyu, don't underestimate the Western
		       Shinma."
(146,5) <shu...uuu...>
(146,6) Larva:	      "Night Gia was about to place a curse on you
		       with his last breath..."
(146,7) Miyu:	      "Hmph."
(146,8) Miyu:	      "These Western Shinma are really arrogant."
(147,1) Miyu:	      "But...it doesn't make any difference as long
		       as we're together." 
(147,2) <kuru>
(147,2) Miyu:	      "Right?"
(147,3) Larva:	      "--Yes."
(147,4) <fu fu!>
(147,5) Miyu:	      "Larva, I love you so much..."

And with that, Miyu grabs Larva's neck and, hauling herself up, kisses
him on the mouth of his mask.

(147,5) Miyu:	      "Aa!  By the way, Larva, what happened to the
		       kid?"
	Larva:	      "Ha?"
(147,6) Larva:	      "Lemunia?"
(148,1) Miyu:	      "That's right, Lemures's litle brother."
(148,2) <su!>
(148,2) Larva:	      "He...escaped."
(148,3) Miyu:	      "Grr...He must be fast, to have escaped...The
		       next time we meet, I'll be repaying him
		       for tormenting me."
(148,3) <pafu>

She leans back in his arms.

(148,4) <musu!>
(148,4) Miyu:	      "I want to tell that guy something."
(148,5) Miyu:	      "His brother was trying to get you back."
(149,1) Larva:	      "No...I don't think that was his goal."
(149,3) Miyu:	      "Larva?  What do you mean?"
(149,4) Larva:	      "--No...It's nothing."
(149,5) Larva:	      "I'm sorry I was late today."
(150,1) Miyu:	      "Larva...?"
		      I don't understand.
(150,2) Miyu:	      What's wrong?  Why are you worried?
(150,3) Miyu:	      "Y-you're especially worried about something."
		      He's...hiding something.

The Western Shinma are still standing around the osa's former home,
discussing Larva's fate.

(150,4) <saku>
(151,1) Pazusu:	      "We must perform mashujutsu."
(151,2) Carlua:	      "Mashujutsu..."
(151,3) Pazusu:	      "Or we will lose Larva."
(151,4) Carlua:	      "Lord Pazusu..."
	Cait Sith:    "That's right!"
(151,4) <gu!>
(152,1) Cait Sith:    "And Larva is one of us!"
(152,1) <nii>
(152,2) Carlua:	      Larva is...

Water Lipper, Amy and Spartoi smirk along with Cait Sith, who has
again forced a decision.  Pazusu looks away as Carlua looks at each
face in turn, then walks away to look at the night sky.

(153,2) Carlua:	      --Larva...

Meanwhile, Miyu and Larva are running after Lemunia, trying to catch
him before he can alert the other Western Shinma.

(153,3) <za za>
(153,4) <tan>
(153,5) Miyu:	      Got to hurry to that place...I don't know if we
		      can catch him.
(154,1) Miyu:	      I heard a sound during the fight, I'm sure it
		      was the osa crying out.
(154,2) Miyu:	      "Is he gone at last?"
(154,4) Miyu:	      "Larva, hurry!"
(154,4) <za...>
(154,5) <shuuu...>
(155,1) <zu...zu>
(155,2) <poro...>
(155,3) <pau pau fu...>

Miyu and Larva gaze, shocked, at the shattered, smoking, hissing
remains of the makai gate.

(155,4) Miyu:	      "Hmm."
(155,5) Miyu:	      "It's been wrecked..."
(155,6) Larva:	      "This...it can't be."
(155,7) <chu...>

Back at the osa's lair...

(156,1) <gyu>
(156,2) Carlua:	      "Mashujutsu...you can't mean it's the only way?"
(156,3) Pazusu:	      "It is."
(156,4) Pazusu:	      "Larva is controlled and tainted by Miyu's
		       blood.  Mashujutsu will take Miyu's blood
		       and..."
(156,5) Pazusu:	      "...extract it from Larva, allowing us to purify
		       him."
(156,6) Pazusu:	      "If you want it done..."
(157,1) Cait Sith:    "Well, we shouldn't have lost Larva in the first
		       place."
(157,1) <nita>
(157,2) <biku...>

Carlua begins to realize that, in fact, the choice is between
exorcising Larva and killing him.

(157,3) Carlua:	      "L-lose him..."
(157,4) Pazusu:	      "--Carlua, as a relative of Larva, we'll need
		       your blood."
(158,1) Pazusu:	      "And a mistake will kill you both..."
	Carlua:	      "If my blood will bring Larva back, it's yours!"

As Carlua defiantly stares at the others, Cait Sith can hardly
suppress his laughter -- Carlua is so easy to manipulate.  Pazusu
returns her look soberly.

(158,5) Pazusu:	      "I see."
(159,1) Spartoi:      "Hmm...Larva will have to be ``turned,'' won't
		       he." 
(159,2) Amy:	      "That, too."
(159,3) <fui>
(159,3) Amy:	      "Well, we can purge Larva of that little girl."
(159,4) Water Lipper: "As for Miyu...just how much of an adept is
		       she..."

Lemunia runs up to the group, out of breath.

(159,5) <ha!>
(159,6) <za za...>
(160,1) Lemunia:      "N-Night Gia has been killed!  Miyu's coming!"
(160,2) Spartoi:      "WHAT!?  Night Gia...!?"
(160,3) Lemunia:      "Ku..." {cough}
(160,4) Lemunia:      "Larva intervened against us!"
(161,1) Lemunia:      "And when Miyu had nearly fallen!  THAT TRAITOR!"
(161,2) Carlua:	      "You're WRONG!  Larva was being controlled by
		       Miyu's blood!"
(161,3) Carlua:	      "Can't you see?  Miyu is even in his dreams."
(161,4) Lemunia:      "What the...?  Carlua--"
(161,5) Carlua:	      "WE'VE GOT TO GET LARVA BACK!"
(162,1) Cait Sith:    "Miyu is...coming here.  Isn't that convenient."
(162,2) Cait Sith:    "Hahaha..."
(162,3) Cait Sith:    (calling out) "Won't you come and meet everyone?"

Larva and Miyu appear at the osa's home.  They do not, as yet, see the
other shinma.  The osa, of course, is not there.

(162,4) <hyuu>
(163,2) <pou>
(163,3) <suu...>
(163,4) <fukua...>
(164,3) <ton>
(164,3) Miyu:	      "Hmm..."
(164,4) Miyu:	      "I thought so...Sad."
(164,5) Miyu:	      "This problem is forced onto me alone, now."
(165,1) Miyu:	      "It's not clear what other consequences there
		       are..."
(165,3) Miyu:	      "Is it?"

Miyu rises, and raises her voice.

(165,5) Miyu:	      "This lower level of the shinma..."
(165,6) Miyu:	      "...is no longer silent."
(165,6) <fuwa!>
(166,1) Miyu:	      "I wonder how this could be..."
(166,2) Miyu:	      "...o Western Shinma!"

Miyu has realized that she and Larva are being watched, but Larva is
surprised as the chuckling shinma appear out of the fog.

(166,3) <fu fu fu... ku ku... fu!>
(167,2) Cait Sith:    "How do you do, Miyu."
(167,3) Cait Sith:    "I am the Western Shinma, Cait Sith."
(167,5) Water Lipper: "Likewise, I am Water Lipper."
(167,6) Amy:	      "Amy..."
(167,7) Spartoi:      "I am Spartoi."
(168,1) Lemunia:      "Hmph..."
	Carlua:       "I am..."

Miyu knows who Lemunia is.  Carlua is intimidated by Miyu.

(168,2) Carlua:	      "........"
(168,3) Miyu:         "Hmmm?"
(168,4) Carlua:       ".........."
(168,5) <sara>

Miyu impatiently turns away from Carlua.

(168,7) Miyu:         "Coming all the way to this country must have tired 
		       you."

She addresses the rest of the Western Shinma.

(169,1) Miyu:	      "But shouldn't you have knocked first?  It's
		       very rude to force down the door.  Wouldn't you
		       say, Larva?"
(169,3) <ka!>
(169,3) Spartoi:      "It's been a long time, Larva."
(169,4) Amy:          "Huh.  You failed, Larva."
(169,6) Water Lipper: "To whom will we grant the pleasure of avenging
		       Night Gia?"

Carlua, a bit behind in the conversation, is still struggling to get 
words out.  Miyu turns her attention back to Carlua.

(170,1) Carlua:       "I am Carlua, Larva's..."
(170,3) Miyu:         "Mmm...``Larva's...''?"

Carlua pushes back her hood and looks defiantly at Miyu.

(170,4) Carlua:       "I am Larva's cousin."
(170,5) Miyu:         "Larva's...hmph."
(171,1) Miyu:         "What a frightful face you're making."
(171,2) <ku!>

Carlua chokes.

(171,3) <kusu!>
(171,3) Miyu:         (giggling) "``Cousin'' -- so what?"
(171,4) <su...>
(171,5) Carlua:       "I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU, MIYU!"
(171,6) <ba!>

Carlua prepares a spell as the other Western Shinma ready their own
attacks.  Larva, alarmed, rushes forward to defend Miyu.

(172,1) Larva:        "MIYU!"
(172,2) Miyu:         !?
(172,3) Larva:        "MIYU!"
(172,4) <pashi>

Cait Sith slashes Larva magically, forcing him to break off.

(172,5) Larva:        "Uuuhhhh...?"
(172,6) Cait Sith:    "Oh, now, Larva.  I'm your old comrade, don't
		       make me do more."
(172,6) <tsutu>
(173,1) Larva:        "Uuu..kuu." {cough}
(173,2) Cait Sith:    "Hahaha..."
(173,3) <suku> <tsuku>
(173,5) <chaki> <nii>
(173,6) <ba!>
(174,1) <ki...n>
(174,2) <kan>
(174,3) <kan>
(174,4) <kiii...n>

As Larva and Cait Sith face off and engage each other, Amy, Water
Lipper and Lemunia surround Miyu.

(174,5) <zuzaa>
(174,6) <su!>
(175,1) <fuku...>
(175,2) Miyu:	      "?"
(175,4) <youn>
(175,5) <ka!>
(175,7) <bashii!>
(175,8) <tan>
(175,9) <poon> <zuzaa>

Water Lipper lets fly with a wave, which Miyu avoids by springing into
the air.

(176,2) <bou!>
(176,3) <ba!>
(176,4) <ha!>
(176,4) Miyu:	      "Flame this time?"
(176,5) <gooooo>

Amy shoots a burst of flame at Miyu, who barely dodges aside.

(176,6) Carlua:	      "Hahaha..."
(177,1) Carlua:	      "Hahaha...@#$%^&*
(177,2) Carlua:	      "~#%&@$^"
(177,3) Lemunia:      "You're caught, aren't you, Miyu?"
(177,4) <pi...pipi>

Carlua's incantation forms a sorcerous design on the ground where Miyu
stands.  As Carlua continues her chant, the lines of the design lift
out of the earth and entwine Miyu's legs.

(178,1) Miyu:	      "What's..."
(178,2) <fu fu> <ku ku ku>
(178,3) <pipi...>
(177,5) Carlua:	      "@$^*#%"

Carlua puts her mask on, still chanting, as Lemunia and Amy approach
Miyu.

(179,1) Lemunia:      "Haha...a formation of magicians."
(179,2) Lemunia:      "You won't be escaping."
(179,3) Carlua:       "$&@%*"
(179,4) Miyu:	      "Carlua...?"
(179,5) Carlua:	      "*&^%$#@"
(179,6) <pou>
(180,1) <paaaaaa>
(180,1) Carlua:	      "#@$^%&*&^%$#!!"

Flames suddenly surround Miyu, still trapped in the circle.

(181,1) Miyu:	      "AAAAAAH!  My body...won't move, Larva!"
(181,2) <ha!>
(181,2) Larva:	      "MIYU!"
(181,3) Cait Sith:    "Hahaha...your precious Miyu is suffering, isn't
		       she."
(181,4) Cait Sith:    "And even you can't help her now!"
(181,4) <gu!>
(182,1) Miyu:	      --Larva.
(182,1) <ka!>
(182,2) <ka!>
(182,4) Larva:	      "Miyu!  I'm coming now."
(182,5) <za!>

Larva slashes at Cait Sith's cat-wraiths, but as he turns back toward
Miyu...

(182,6) Larva:	      "!!"
(182,8) Larva:	      "Pazusu!"
(183,1) Pazusu:	      "Until now...you..."
(183,2) Pazusu:	      "...have resisted..."
(183,3) Pazusu:	      "...now die, Larva."

And with that, Pazusu blasts through Larva's body.  From inside the
flaming circle, Miyu screams and watches helplessly as Larva
collapses.

(184,1) Miyu:	      "LARVAAAAAA!"
(184,3) <bota>
(184,4) Larva:	      "--Mi...yu."