Not anymore than Kingu noOriginally Posted by AmADo VII
Not anymore than Kingu no
Part 8 - The Day You Died
Another flashback intro.
Some people knock on the door of a house, asking for Sakamoto. When the opportunity presents itself, they rush into the house, cutting down the people within. One of the people among them was Nakaoka Shintarou, an associate of Ryoma. Oryou isn't there, so the men cut their way through the house, eventually getting to Ryoma himself. He manages to take them out, but is fatally wounded in the process. As he lay on the floor, dying, Oryou comes back from her trip, seeing the carnage. She begs for Ryoma to get up. If he doesn't, she'll eat him. But, he doesn't wake up.
That was Keio 3 (1867), 15th day of the 11th month - Omiya, the assassination of Sakamoto Ryoma. (btw I realized only now that the months and days don't line up with the christian calendar, so dates in previous summaries might be slightly off, lol)
Back with the guys at the Kinno-to HQ, Shinbei had cut Takechi, but fortunately he had survived it (for the time being). new!Ryoma explains that Shinbei did hold a grudge towards Takechi for being framed and having to die, even though he didn't realize it himself. That is the power of the head which Ryoma holds, and so Shinbei can't resist it. Takasugi very casually reveals here that Ryoma's evil, and Takasugi himself wasn't just playing evil, but actually is. They've been colluding since the beginning. Ryoma then commands Shinbei to attack you.
You beat him, to Ryoma's disappointment. The black mist that was possessing Shinbei now leaves him, making him collapse on the ground, and goes into Ryoma. Izumo now fully understands the situation, it's him. Ryoma says it's too late for her to notice now, and reiterates that just as he had said all this time, he is in fact Sakamoto Ryoma. chaldea!Ryoma appears, a little worse for wear, and confirms it. That's the other Ryoma, the one who didn't die that day at Omiya. He'll explain to you later, but first Takasugi summons his kiheitai to take you out. Izou arrives, covering for you so that you have time to escape. new!Ryoma commands Oryou to kill you all, and she slashes away, eventually constricting chaldea!Ryoma. new!Ryoma, despite his aversion to it, decides to use his spear to kill chaldea!Ryoma while he's incapable of resisting. However, upon seeing the spear again, something happens in Oryou, and so she takes the attack in Ryoma's stead. new!Ryoma thinks that's insane, being stabbed by this spear isn't just like any other spear, it causes an "inversion of existence" causing you to "diverge from the world". But Oryou would rather take the blow than let Ryoma die again, because "a world without Ryoma is...so lonely"
And with those words, Oryou passes away.
new!Ryoma isn't too phased, though, he'll still kill you all here. Suddenly, Shinbei stands up again, saying Takechi needs to get out of here and survive. Takechi tries to explain himself to Shinbei, but he'll hear none of it, because that's the kind of insecure coward he was. He ran away from helping Takechi when he needed him the most, even if it was after being framed. Takechi says that he's not the man Shinbei thinks he is, and Shinbei retorts, saying "then rise up to be that man". Izou is told to make sure Takechi and the others get out of there. Shinbei then uses his greatest attack, gouging himself with his sword before throwing himself at the enemy while you escape.
Full translation on Reddit.
Last edited by fumei; April 26th, 2022 at 01:20 PM.
Part 9 - Together with Friends
Back in Chaldea, the Servants remaining there have also been discussing the Omiya incident where Ryoma was assassinated. Da Vinci says that it appears to have been the origin point of this Singularity. The other restriction for who can enter is therefore having died before that date (December 10th, 1867). Da Vinci's plan for helping you inside the Singularity is to send someone in with a magical GPS so that they can pinpoint extremely accurate coordinates and (I guess) circumvent some of the restrictions for summoning by forcing a Rayshift.
Meanwhile, Nobu's sign-post head has caught on fire. Okita surmises that it must mean something bad is happening inside the Singularity. Someone will have to risk their life trying to get that GPS to you. Unfortunately, no one there at the moment are eligible to go there, but then Himiko and Kenshin return from their clam-fishing trip.
Back in SAITAMA, you've joined back up with Mori and Chacha, and made your way back to the detective agency. Mori wants to execute Takechi here and now, and while you stop him, Takechi says that he might as well go ahead. You've already lost. About the other Ryoma, they explain that it's likely a Ryoma who didn't make a contract with the Counter Force on that day when he was originally supposed to die. Instead, he would have been recorded as a regular Servant in the Throne, and that's how he was summoned into the Holy Grail War. The only thing that doesn't make sense is how any Ryoma could be okay with killing Oryou. Ryoma himself says that maybe that was always his true nature, but Izumo interjects, saying she'll take over from there. Basically, that Ryoma is definitely Sakamoto Ryoma, but his insides are different. She noticed when the magical power consumed Shinbei. It's the devious god she's been chasing all this time, Ama-no-Sakagami.
We get a narrated backstory for Izumo here, explaining that she came from a certain village in Izumo (hence her name). It was a village that produced shrine maidens for the sake of sealing away evil. But despite it outwardly appearing like a good thing, it was an awful place that only existed because sealing away evil was a necessity. The people who became shrine maidens there were kids who had been kidnapped from all over the place, and were forced into it. They show a little girl being beaten by her elders for not performing her prayers exactly as they should have been. Izumo intervenes, and likewise gets her ass beaten. They're both thrown in some sort of cave where they can think about what they've done.
Izumo asks the other girl what she wants to do when she grows up. The girl doesn't know, so Izumo says that she wants to be a dancer and travel the world. But of course, the girl says, they can't do that. They're fated to be shrine maidens in this village for life. When pressed about who decided for that to happen, the girl answers "the gods", but Izumo thinks that's bullshit, and that if any god knew what went down in this village, they'd wipe it off the map. Then they could all be free.
Jumping ahead in the narration, Izumo is searching for the girl in a temple when there's violent rumbling. The girl is trying to release the thing they've kept sealed there for ages. That being explains that he's a descendent of the gods that once inhabitated this land long ago, and if she sets him free, he'll set her free in return. And so she does, despite Izumo's attempt at trying to stop her. Once released, the evil god, taking the form of dark mist, begins to possess the girl. She says he promised to set her free, and he says that he will. She'll be set free from not only this village, but from all things in life. As he's possessing her, he mentions that she's frail, but that it doens't matter because if she breaks he can just switch to someone else. The possessed girl tells Izumo that she's always hated her because Izumo thought she was so superior. There's a lapse where the girl says she doesn't really think that, but the evil god insists that she does, deep down. In the end, the evil god killed almost everyone in the village, and while people tried covering it up, Izumo travelled the land in order to seek her revenge and seal him away again.
That god was Ama-no-Sakagami (or Ama-no-Sako), a demon descended from old gods, who amplifies and manipulates the tiniest bit of negative emotion in people's hearts. He would jump from person to person, spreading ruin and discord. And so Izumo had taken exorcism tools from the village, as well as digging up the statue of what was said to have once been an evil god made from the remains of an ancient god, but she modified it to be cooler. She says that it's likely because of Ama-no-Sakagami's presence here that she was even summoned to begin with.
Either way, that's why the other Ryoma is so different. He is genuinely Ryoma, but that god is possessing him, causing the tiniest negativity in his heart to flourish. Izou arrives at the agency, a little beat up, and gives both Takechi and Ryoma a gut punch. He reprimands them, saying they're always the ones to speak their mind, so this is the time to do so. To speak plainly about what they really feel, so that even an idiot like Izou can understand what they want. So they realize it was never the case that Izou was being manipulated as well, he was simply unhappy with how things were and how those close to him were acting.
In the city, martial law is declared, and a sort of gravitational pull makes the citizens unable to move while they have their life force/magical energy absorbed by the city. It doesn't seem to affect Servants too badly, but the people of the city are in grave danger. Takechi says that it seems Takasugi is going to do what he once thought only an impossible dream, for man to construct a god, the Kishin Project.
Elsewhere, Takasugi and new!Ryoma say that it'll take half a day to gather the energy necessary. After that, their "strange god" will finally manifest with the help of the Holy Grail, Nobunaga's head, and all these materials from the city.
Your plan to stop them involves going to the reactors in each block and cut them off from the tower in the middle of the city so that they can't collect the energy. Of course, it'll be a bit difficult because it's six reactors and only seven servants, so it'll be tight depending on what level of opposition you face, but Izou reprimands you again, saying it's now or never to act. At the end of your meeting, a new, mysterious person arrives in the agency, asking if you're in need of help.
Full translation on Reddit.
Last edited by fumei; April 26th, 2022 at 01:21 PM.
5* Lancer, AoE Arts NP
Personal skill
That better not be an NP-exclusive costume like Zenobia's.
Btw, Lancer Ryoma gatcha is already available, they didn't wait until Wednesday like other times.
Other Servants in this gatcha are Okita swimsuit, Maou Nobu, Izo and Mori.
Also, Oryou awakens after getting stabbed by the spear instead of have it pulled out? Wonder what's the lore behind it if it's the same spear.
Wow, nice animated scenes in this new chapter.
Considering that it was Amaterasu who thrown the spear from heaven, I wonder why there are no lines from Tamamo to them. Maybe she had no idea the spear hit Oryou and Oryou had no idea who thrown it from the sky...but still...
Apparently, Maou got a buff. Buster Up on her stargen skill.
They can't just keep locking new 5-star arts lancers to dragons.
Brb, gotta grab more power for her.
Why am I not surprised that Ryoma is perfectly designed to loop, with 50% NP charge and Arts Up on skill and NP damage up for three turns on NP?
I'm frankly a bit tired of this usual design choice but hey, I suppose that's the only way they design Servants nowadays, just another checklist to cover when creating anything, make them NP loop.
Lancer Ryoma kit:
Skill 1: Increases party's Arts card effectiveness (10%-20%] and Increases party's Critical Strength [20%-30%] and Increases party's NP Overcharge by 100% (1 time, 3 turns)
Skill 2: Increases own NP gauge [30%-50%] and Grants self Debuff Immunity (3 times) and Grants self Buff Removal Resistance [50%-100%] (3 times)
Skill 3: Increases own Arts card effectiveness [20%-30%] and Increases own Buster card effectiveness [20%-30%] and Gains Critical Stars per turn [5-10]
Noble Phantasm (Arts): Increases own NP strength [OC:20%-40%] and Increases own Defense by 50% (1 turn) and deals significant damage to all enemies [450%-750%]
Passives:
Magic Resistance C+ - Increases own Debuff Resistance by 15.5%
Riding Skill EX - Increases own Quick card effectiveness by 12%
Transform (Big Snake) - Increases own Critical Strength by 10% and Increased resistance to critical attacks by 10%
Append skill 3 - Increases ATK for self against Alter Ego class enemies
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Maou Nobu Strengthening:
Skill 3 now grants Buster buff (20%-30%) on Burning Fields; increased NP charge (from 10%-20% to 20%-30%)
Because you are too young. Or too stupid. Or both.
The increased battery is also quite nice.
What I'm gonna be keeping from this is that the fate of Earth as we know it, past and present, was at grave risk because the founder of Japan and a medieval warlord went fishing.
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.
They killed Cthulhu in their fishing trip, so it's fine.
We finally know who voiced Shinbei:
SMT reference everywhere now
NP looping rotted people's brains and became an obsession ever since Skadi was released. DW tried to hold back the tide with gimped quick units but eventually they gave up and decided to make money off that obsession instead.
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