'About the person to realize the wonder realized is she prepared yet?'
- Mikoshiba -
"Please wait a bit longer, I can guarantee that will be done within several days."
'Things will be screwed up if you don't hurry up. If it goes well, it will be an incident that could change the political situation.'
- Mikoshiba -
"I know thy circumstances. Dost thou know how many times I have traded with people like thee? It's not the first time for thee to ask us for help"
'I got your contact information from my teacher, but whether I will trust you depends on how this case turns out.'
- Mikoshiba -
"Thy political rival hath come to contact me too, but the price thou suggest is much more favourable"
'Please don't be late I already paid for the wish'
- Mikoshiba -
"Let me tell thee, it will be just several days' wait"
- Mikoshiba -
"When that moment cometh the wish thou paid for will be granted and thou shalt be thankful to thy teacher too"
'Thanks. I'm counting on you'
- Mikoshiba -
"Besides, thou shouldst know that our conversations are all recorded as evidence and will become each other's Achilles' heels"
- Mikoshiba -
"Thou shalt never forget that for thy political career may end because of it."
'Of course I won't'
Sunao branch ends. The story continues on the main route (See All 15)
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Shizuka
Thanks for your hard work, Charu.
Sunao
Thanks.
Chiharu
It's my first time to stay overnight...
Sunao
The same to us.
Chiharu
Was it much harder for you to deal with?
Sunao
It's because Mikoshiba died...
Shizuka
And on top of that, the dancers died too, creating a fuss...
Chiharu
That's the reason why people were gathering...
Shizuka
Perhaps only people linked to diviners knew the fact...
Shizuka
The dancers were said to be adopted as Mikoshiba's successors.
Sunao
Then, what about Charu's side?
Chiharu
Here is it: though we didn't dig into every detail, it's comprehensible overall.
Chiharu's mother
Though almost all read by your mother.
Chiharu
Ur... I will learn it hard...
Sunao
But why should we come here?
Chiharu
This shrine is the root of Tokime, a good place to start things,
Chiharu
except it isn't — The Wavering Deity is nearby.
Shizuka
Why the Wavering Deity?
Chiharu
Just listen to it and you will understand.
Shizuka's mother
So can we listen to it now?
Shizuka's mother
Don't just give us cliffhangers and make us impatient.
Chiharu's mother
Okay, the story is divided into two chapters.
Chiharu
One is Mikoshiba's story, another Tokime's.
- Chiharu -
Let me begin with Mikoshiba's story She used to be a warrior dispatched to protect Tokime who managed to come into power when there happened to be no diviners in the village
- Chiharu -
Since then Mikoshiba altered many rules creating rituals like Nation's Guard's Holy Music, the ceremony of diviners, and the coming-of-age ceremony
- Chiharu -
By having the village's girls have their wishes granted she obtained the ability to manipulate devils
- Chiharu -
Then she hid the village in a labyrinth
- Chiharu -
Which is to say, Mikoshiba hid the village in which diviners are created for money in a labyrinth killing diviners in order to monopolize it so that no information would be leaked out
Shizuka
What Mikoshiba had done on me...
Chiharu
seems to have been long followed...
Shizuka
Then, we might one day become devils...
Chiharu
Seems to be true too...
Shizuka
How can that be...
Shizuka
... What followings that!
Chiharu
Okay, go on.
- Chiharu -
The following writes about the Wavering Deity
- Chiharu -
It is a devil formed by the dumped diviners who could neither go out nor return to the village hence becoming a drifting existence
- Chiharu -
The Wavering Deity would return to the village as soon as Mikoshiba and the labyrinth of the devil are eliminated
- Chiharu -
Ultimately, it will devour the village and erase all evidence of the diviners — That's all it writes
Chiharu's mother
It feels like an obsession that she would never surrender Tokime to anyone else...
Shizuka
Oh, wait...
Shizuka
Since there is already no labyrinth covering the village...!
Chiharu
Yeah, the Wavering Deity must be returning...
Chiharu
At that time, we must defeat it.
Sunao
We'll attacking our ancestors head-on...
Chiharu
Not exactly...
Chiharu
We are going to liberate the diviners who have always suffered...
Chiharu
By us the rules Mikoshiba had set up will be smashed...!
Shizuka
But, since our ancestors have grown for so many years,
Shizuka
are we three capable of defeating them...?
Shizuka
Though we know a battle is inevitable.
Shizuka
Wow!
Chiharu
This reaction... It's the Wavering Deity...
Shizuka
Now I understand the reason to get all the trouble to take up positions here.
Shizuka
We will attack it head-on here, right?
Shizuka's mother
I know it's a bad timing, but can you all return to my home...?
Shizuka
Mom!?
Shizuka's mother
I'll tell you about the sword I talked about last night while walking.
Shizuka's mother
Whew, it still raise my pulse despite my life experience.
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Shizuka
So what are you gonna inform me?
Shizuka's mother
Firstly, Hiroe family is the descendant of Mikoshiba, make no mistake.
Chiharu
Huh... By Mikoshiba, you mean the old woman?
Shizuka's mother
Exactly.
Chiharu
But why!?
Shizuka's mother
Only Mikoshiba's people can read that kind of script.
Chiharu
Though I heard from my mom that we came out from Tokime's Village
Chiharu's mother
I never expected that to be Mikoshiba...
Chiharu
It's complicated...
Shizuka's mother
Don't say so,
Shizuka's mother
because we Tokime's family have been waiting for you
Chiharu
You know we didn't come for that, right?
Shizuka's mother
Even I wasn't aware of that until last night.
Shizuka's mother
But finally, I understood the meaning of the story that has been passed down by Tokime's...
Shizuka's mother
When the ones who can read Mikoshiba's script appear, Mikoshiba will collapse.
Shizuka's mother
Before the collapse, diviners should sharpen a sword.
Shizuka's mother
There is a legend goes like this in Tokime's family.
Shizuka
............
Shizuka
This time we decided to decipher the book after witnessing the situation of the village.
Shizuka
Actually, could we read the book in the first place, we would be able to see the big picture of the plan...
Shizuka
And to annihilate the plan, we will battle against the Wavering Deity...
Sunao
Maybe Shizuka's and Charu's families used to cooperate with each other?
Sunao
And the plan was leaked, so one was banished and lived outside as Hiroe family...
Shizuka
My family has been sharpening the knife...
Chiharu
My family has been passing down Mikoshiba's script...
Shizuka's mother
Shizuka! Accept this!
Shizuka's mother
This is the treasured sword to which Tokime's diviners' power has infused.
Shizuka's mother
Use the power incorporated during the 100 years, 200 years, or even 300 years,
Shizuka's mother
and liberate the Wavering Deity.
Shizuka
I'll use it properly.
Sunao
This will be the final battle
Chiharu
Those who infused their emotions into the sword must be wandering as the Wavering Deity.
Shizuka
Go and welcome them back, as well as the bright feeling they once had.
Chiharu
At the end of the centuries-long time!
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Chiharu
The Wavering Deity is pretty close...
Sunao
No, it's still far away...
Chiharu
Will it become excited when seeing the village?
Shizuka
After hundreds of years of wandering, it will finally see its hometown...
Shizuka
Though they are no longer humans they used to be, but just a devil.
Shizuka
Still, seeing the place where it beloned
Shizuka
should make it happy, right?
- Chiharu -
-Chiharu- However, even if it wants to return happily it is just a venomous devil now
- Sunao -
-Sunao- We can't allow Tokime's village surrendered to it as its living space
Shizuka
That's why we should liberate it with our hands, right!
Chiharu
Yeah, exactly!
Chiharu
Their real destination is the Heaven.
→→→→!!!
Chiharu
O—kay!
Chiharu
The first shot — nah, the first jitte is mine!
→↑↓↑←!?!?
→→→⇒!!
Shizuka
Let us go your boss' place!
←↓←↑!?!?
→⇒→⇒!!!
Sunao
Go inward at one fling!
↓↓↓→...!?!?
Chiharu
Huh... Huh... Hey, Shizuka-chan!
Shizuka
What's up, Charu?
Chiharu
What's next after liberating the Wavering Deity!
Sunao
Too early to ask.
Shizuka
Though we don't know, I guess we will have to rebuild the village first,
Shizuka
then explain things that have happened so far.
Shizuka
Everyone will definitely be shocked just like what happened yesterday.
Chiharu
Not that—!
Shizuka
What!?
Chiharu
I mean what should we do as diviners!
Shizuka
Well, what should we do...?
Shizuka
We won't know until we defeat it.
Shizuka
You see, finish up what's right in front of you first!
Shizuka
We are entering the deepest part.
Chiharu
Okay.
壷*ｒｶ蟶縺ｫ螳ｰ縺Ы※!!
Sunao
--!?
Chiharu
The devil's power feels overwhelming...
Shizuka
It's existence per se... seems oppressive...
Sunao
...
Chiharu
Sunao-chan!
Sunao
Sorry, the strong power suddenly feels...
Chiharu
Really, my head... feels dizzy now...
Shizuka
Even the followers are bluffing...？It's hard to even stand up, why...
繧ゅ＠ｸ縺ｪ縺??ｪ峨?∫ｧ√
Shizuka
AAaaah!!
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We kill people after becoming a devil We didn't become the existence that saved the Land of the Rising Sun We want to tell others, but we can no longer do anything
Shizuka
Hah...
Shizuka
What, is that voice...!
- ??? -
Though 'twas a diviner's body, as a devil, becometh tantamount to death Even if I save one person tomorrow may kill a hundred the day after
Shizuka
(The devil...?)
貞ｮ医溽ｩ｢繧後◆肴ｵ!!
Shizuka
Don't look at me...
- ??? -
Tainted, stained, we became unclean
Shizuka
Stop... Don't say that...！
- ??? -
'Tis a body for price evaluation
Shizuka
(This is...)
- ??? -
One silver coin, two silver coins, forty grammes, eighty grammes, price label'd, display'd in shops
Shizuka
(From within my body...!)
- Shizuka -
My life isn't mine I was kept, sold, then became a devil, staining this hateful mortal world
Shizuka
Ye... Yeah... I don't know about what's next.
Shizuka
Because we are existences that will become devils...
Shizuka
We didn't fight for the Land of the Rising Sun, so we are designed to be killed.
Shizuka
Even pricing lives...
Shizuka
Even what Mikoshiba had done might be right.
Shizuka
And that's why we have been living within the confine of these conventions...
Shizuka
I really don't want to consider about what's next after defeating it.
Shizuka
Because, isn't it too horrible!
蝨＊溷慍‡繧［］貞ｮ医ｌ!!
Shizuka
............
Sunao
Ough...！
Sunao
Pricing lives is wrong...!
Sunao
As you Shizuka said to me, I am the best person,
Sunao
there is no difference between lives!
Sunao
Wouldn't Shizuka be admirable if she maintains her honor, never surrendering it, and always does her best?
Sunao
Even if we become devils someday,
Sunao
won't it be good if we fight for the Land of the Rising Sun till the very end!
Sunao
Meanwhile, we may be able to find out...
Sunao
a new path for us, right!
Sunao
Let's find it out together, Shizuka！
Sunao
To compensate your forgiveness for me,
Sunao
I will heal your heart, always...!
Shizuka
Sunao...
薙Зｧ縲∫嚀俶純Лｵ縺ｦ!?
Sunao＆Shizuka
Ouuuugh! Aaah!
Chiharu
Cough cough...
Chiharu
I am too weak to be the cushion...
Shizuka
Chiharu...
Sunao
Sorry...
Chiharu
Hey, listen to me...
Chiharu
I didn't finish Tokime's story in the book, did I?
Shizuka
--!?
- Chiharu -
Before Mikoshiba came... Tokime's people think about national affairs on their own They made their wishes on their own mind too
- Chiharu -
Though when the war became fierce and nobody was trustwrothy and also when there were no diviners left they became under Mikoshiba's control
- Chiharu -
Those who became coming-of-age seemed to really have departed and gone out
- Chiharu -
After that, they knew their relationship with devils However, here's how Tokime's people thought
- Chiharu -
"Honor can be maintained as long as souls were sacrificed to the Land of the Rising Sun"
- Chiharu -
"Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted"
Shizuka
Which means...
Shizuka
If I literally sacrificed my soul to the Land of the Rising Sun...
Shizuka
my honor can be maintained...!
Shizuka
Even if I become a devil, what I have achieved won't be wasted.
Shizuka
Proud of that, I can fight till I eventually fall...!
Shizuka
That's what I said to Mikoshiba...
Chiharu
You did say so...
Chiharu
So, here's what I think:
Chiharu
there is no place for Mikoshiba inside Shizuka-chan's soul, which has always been Tokeme's.
Chiharu
Thus, as Sunao-chan said, let's find it out together!
Sunao
Shizuka!
Shizuka
Sorry...
Shizuka
I was the one who was beaten by the devil...
Shizuka
But I have woken up...!
蟆剰ｳ｢励＞滉Ч偵Щ九↑！
Shizuka
Let us three keep some distance!
Chiharu
Okay!
Shizuka
Fortunately, we are a trio.
Shizuka
I want us three to win together and find our new future!
Shizuka
So!
菫ｗｐ＊斬翫Лｑ!!
Shizuka
Let's watch over where our ancestors will be liberated!
Shizuka
Huh...
Shizuka
Oh, Tokime's sword...
Shizuka
Open a future for us...!!
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- Chiharu -
Time elapsed hurriedly after the Wavering Deity was liberated
- Chiharu -
That's because we had to tell everyone the history of Tokime and Mikoshiba
- Chiharu -
As well as to search Mikoshiba's home and investigate into her background so far
Chiharu
Is your family fine, Sunao-chan?
Sunao
Yeah, perfectly.
Sunao
Papa and mama also apologized more than before.
Shizuka
I'm glad that everything returned to normal.
Shizuka
Now we have broken free from Mikoshiba's curse.
Sunao
Yes.
Chiharu
And we will be together from now on too, right?
Sunao
Of course. Why not?
Shizuka's mother
Ah—, I'm tired; I'm tired...
Chiharu's mother
It is a feeling of done and dusted though.
Shizuka's mother
Actually, everyone is so unfamiliar with modern society.
Shizuka's mother
Without you, Ms. Hiroe, we couldn't have made clear anything.
Chiharu
Welcome back, mom.
Shizuka
You must be tired.
Shizuka's mother
On the case of Mikoshiba, everything finally fell into place.
Chiharu
--!?
Chiharu
How was that!?
Shizuka's mother
Let Ms. Hiroe tell that.
Chiharu's mother
Eh, ah, okay...
- Chiharu's mother -
The root of this incident was indeed the village's convention but it seems that what triggered it was the Mikoshiba's debt
- Chiharu's mother -
After a huge investment failed she seemed in trouble of cash flow Therefore, she took advantages from diviners hurrily
Chiharu's mother
Regardless of reasons, she used others' kids...
Chiharu's mother
I can't forgive that, not even if I am dead...
Chiharu
Mom...
Chiharu's mother
I don't want to say like that before my daughter, but it's such a feeling of holding a grudge until the doomsday.
Chiharu's mother
Definitely...
Shizuka's mother
That being said, Ms. Hiroe, the doomsday hasn't come yet, right?
Chiharu's mother
... Don't carp at me pointlessly.
Sunao
Then, the reason she reached out to me and Chiharu was...
Chiharu's mother
Sunao-chan's becoming a diviner should be out of Mikoshiba's expectation.
Chiharu's mother
So she turned to us, triggering an unexpected chain of incidents.
Sunao
If so, had I never become a diviner, Charu wouldn't have to bear all of these.
Chiharu
There is no such thing!
Chiharu
We already decided to be together. Don't dither over such thing!
Sunao
O—okay, I know that.
Shizuka
By the way, what about other villagers? It seems that they never calm down...
Shizuka's mother
Eventually, the village has been blessed by diviners.
Shizuka's mother
In the past, people could grow their own crops and live good lives.
Shizuka's mother
In other words, adults become worried when losing their financial support.
Shizuka's mother
Of course, I am no exception.
Shizuka
Please don't say that indifferently...
Shizuka's mother
What Mikoshiba worried about included the funding of the village too.
Shizuka's mother
We have to take it into consideration.
Shizuka
... The same way we also worry everything about the future of diviners...
Shizuka
People in the village have their things to worry about in the future too.
Shizuka's mother
That's true.
Shizuka
Didn't you find anything else?
Shizuka's mother
Hmm, if you mean something interesting, I found something like Tokime's family tree.
Shizuka's mother
Actually, Tokime's bloodline seems to have scattered all around.
Shizuka's mother
It looks like our blood relatives live in other mountains and seaside areas too.
Shizuka
Hueh—
Chiharu's mother
On top of that, what will you do? That's what I concerned about.
Chiharu
We have a clear answer in our minds.
Chiharu
We already knew what we would fight for in our hearts and what we would aim at!
Shizuka's mother
Oh, you became pretty reliable.
Shizuka's mother
Then, what's your first step?
Chiharu
Firstly, we will have a conversation with Cubey-sama!
Shizuka's mother
With Cubey-sama?
Sunao
Yes, about any method for us to avoid becoming devils,
Sunao
we want to know if he knows anything about that.
Shizuka
Then, we will plan our future living according to the answer.
Chiharu's mother
Anyhow, we three will be together from now on.
Chiharu
Yeah!
Chiharu
Because we must change us diviners' fate!
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Sunao
Can we summon it out without dancers?
Shizuka
It is the god, but we are not the priestess. I'm afraid we can't.
Chiharu
We won't know unless we try!
Shizuka
Yeah.
Chiharu
Then, let's try shouting loudly!
Shizuka
Okay.
Chiharu
One, two,
- Three people -
"Kyu———be————sama————"
Shizuka
............
Sunao
............
Chiharu
............
Shizuka
It doesn't work?
Kyubey
Hey, it's you who called me out, right?
Chiharu
He came!
Shizuka
Then what's the meaning of the dance...?
Sunao
Probably a performance to make it felt solemn...
Kyubey
Did you summoned me for no reason?
Shizuka
Ah, no! We have things to ask you!
Kyubey
I'll answer anything I can.
Kyubey
Then, Shizuka, what do you want to ask from me?
Shizuka
Well, we know that we will become devils...
Shizuka
Do you know any method to avoid that?
Shizuka
The means that we can keep living as diviners.
Shizuka
Because we fight for the Land of the Rising Sun and don't want others to suffer!
Kyubey
I'm sorry, but I cannot satisfy your expectation.
Chiharu
You don't know any...?
Kyubey
True.
Kyubey
At least I don't know any method to avoid it.
Kyubey
There haven't been many successful cases so far.
Chiharu
--!?
Chiharu
Did you just say "many"!?
Chiharu
Then it means it's just Cubey-sama doesn't know,
Chiharu
but the method exists, right!?
Sunao
Yet, Cubey-sama doesn't know, right...?
Kyubey
True. It's hard for me to tell you by myself.
Kyubey
But you can see how it works and obtain it.
Sunao
Obtain...?
Kyubey
Do you know a place called Kamihama City or not?
Chiharu
I don't...
Shizuka
Neither I...
Sunao
Ah, I once heard about it!
Kyubey
There is an automatic purification system in Kamihama City.
Kyubey
Thus, if you manage to obtain it,
Kyubey
I think you will be able to avoid becoming devils.
Kyubey
Of course, I cannot say I am sure about that.
Shizuka
That trivial thing doesn't matter...! I suddenly feel the overwhelming hope...!
Shizuka
Let's go! To Kamihama City!
Sunao
Yeah, I'll guide you using a map!
Chiharu
I will explain everything about modern society to Shizuka-chan!
Shizuka
That—that's not quite necessary.
Chiharu
Can you use an IC card...?
Shizuka
... Haven't even heard the name.
Chiharu
It's decided!
Kyubey
If you feel like to go to Kamihama, I have several things to explain.
Chiharu
Explain...?
Kyubey
First, there are dozens of girls like you in Kamihama City.
Kyubey
You'd better keep that in mind.
Kyubey
Second, they have some different terminology.
Chiharu
Huh...?
Kyubey
For example, except around Tokime's territory, girls like you
Kyubey
aren't known as diviners.
Shizuka
Then, how they call us?
Kyubey
You are called magical girls.
Epilogue
Sunao
Diviner.
Shizuka
Magical girl!
Sunao
Devil.
Shizuka
Witch!
Sunao
Devil's ghost.
Chiharu
Well! Grief seed!
Sunao
Jewel.
Shizuka
Soul gem!
Sunao
I lose the game!
Chiharu
While I remembered it well.
Shizuka
I am too familiar with the old names.
Shizuka
It's pretty hard to switch away...
Sunao
That's because of your long experience.
Shizuka
Speaking of which, Charu hasn't since felt the village's awful smell?
Chiharu
No. It's completely away. Now I breathe more freely.
Sunao
Eh, was that a real smell?
Chiharu
Actually not. It was like something from intuition?
Shizuka
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with witches, but is really like a power specialized for any case.
Chiharu
Yeah, I might have felt malice at that time.
Sunao
It somehow sounds like a power that may be useful in the future too.
Chiharu
I'll do my best for that!
Shizuka
That's reassuring.
Chiharu
But it still feels incredible.
Chiharu
It hasn't been long since I met with Shizuka-chan and Sunao-chan,
Chiharu
but we three are actually departing together.
Sunao
Looking back, I couldn't imagine it at all.
Chiharu
It's so exciting!
Shizuka
It's been just a couple of days since Charu became a magical girl.
Shizuka
But for me, it was quite a radical change?
Sunao
Shizuka is more like confused.
Shizuka
Nah, actually not quite.
Sunao
Really?
Shizuka
I don't really understand it, but I think something finally started,
Shizuka
and that's my life.
-Chiharu- We will obtain it someday The means for not becoming witches!
-Sunao- And we will keep fighting for the Land of the Rising Sun till death
-Shizuka- That's us Tokime Clan's long-maintained honor
-Chiharu- To do so, first, we have to?
-Shizuka- I already got the answer
-Chiharu- Great, Shizuka-chan!
-Sunao- Then, what's the answer?
-Shizuka- We should read the family tree remained in Mikoshiba's home and get into contact with people from Tokime clan and its branches
-Shizuka- We will recruit people who are willing to join us and found a group of Tokime clan
-Chiharu- Oooooh!
-Shizuka- When prepared let's go to the other side of this landscape!
-Sunao- Exactly over the mountains to the place beyond them
-Three people- To Kamihama City!
The End
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