In the central deck of Qiu's ship, the priestess walks through the slow moving crowd of attackers.
She moves one aside casually as parting a curtain as real time returns and the attacker is slammed against the cracking hull.
~ Musashi strikes the steel, showered in sparks.
All slow, Chiyome moves to block the path to the door.
She moves faster than the others, but still half time as the priestess touches her forehead, curling her over backward and sending a vertical wave of destruction through the ship, cracking hull.
~ Musashi hammers.
Walking past Chiyome slow curling over, she moves the others aside in path to the door.
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Another man falls wet to the cracking floor as the dervish and the magistrate cross. Another man in a corner huddled, cut off by fissure, another running into growing paths through a crumbling landscape.
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The door to Qiu's chambers splinters across Shumi on the other side while she reaches out and catches the priestess. She's slammed hard against a beam with a torch hung over her head.
The priestess struggles against her, held firm.
Shumi - "Hi. She pours her bottle over them both as she holds tight against the struggle, taking painful punches to the side.
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Magistrate - Looks to the book with a smile as it grows over protected on the side table, then to the the dervish. "Did you know what this village produces ?"
~ With blades sparking against one another, Musashi pounds in a flash, sparks showering the dervish as it hisses between teeth.
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Shumi - "My name is Shumi."
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Magistrate - "Gunpowder."
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Shumi - As the priestess winces her eyes at the flowing drink, "Shall we dance ?"
She reaches behind over her head and takes the torch, lighting the fabric of the priestess' drenched robes.
Shumi leans in to kiss as the priestess starts to scream as it starts.
The priestess pulls away to scream, Shumi pulls closer, holding firm and grabbing the back of the priestess' head. The priestess grabs the back of Shumi's and closes her eyes as they relax into flames.
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The other priestesses investigate the empty decks, while beneath the powder kegs ignite.
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Outside the villagers run the platforms, launching their rockets to dervish hearts, they burst to mist one by one, exploding into sparks and burning scraps.
The twisting landscape between the islands passing around as it all begins to spin. Sparks fly from the works as the crumbling structures are grown over, a world created.
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In the night the rowboats make way through the mist, looking back. Karasu looks around and starts to call for Shumi.
The stranger sits up in tears staring as the remnants of ships begin exploding in their scuttling wave. She turns.
The spirit paddles the sleeping Qiu past in her floating bed.
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Musashi dips the hot blade into the water as the magistrate thrusts it through the burning chest of the dervish, holding the back of it's neck with a hand igniting.
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A wave across the mist, the first rowboat strikes calm shore, a light behind them.
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~ They kiss barely visible in the flames before the final explosion.
In a hotel room in a modern city, Nocturne sits up screaming from her bed. She desperately kicks and pats herself over across her arms as she stumbles and falls of of the bed, sobbing for the patio door.
~ They kiss ...
She crawls shaking in tears into the rain rubbing her arms and falling over in sobs. She pulls herself up by the rail and leans over the edge and looks down heaving over a busy city night.
Traffic and noise ...
Continuing to shake she convulses into a scream to the skies.
She moves one aside casually as parting a curtain as real time returns and the attacker is slammed against the cracking hull.
~ Musashi strikes the steel, showered in sparks.
All slow, Chiyome moves to block the path to the door.
She moves faster than the others, but still half time as the priestess touches her forehead, curling her over backward and sending a vertical wave of destruction through the ship, cracking hull.
~ Musashi hammers.
Walking past Chiyome slow curling over, she moves the others aside in path to the door.
________
Another man falls wet to the cracking floor as the dervish and the magistrate cross. Another man in a corner huddled, cut off by fissure, another running into growing paths through a crumbling landscape.
________
The door to Qiu's chambers splinters across Shumi on the other side while she reaches out and catches the priestess. She's slammed hard against a beam with a torch hung over her head.
The priestess struggles against her, held firm.
Shumi - "Hi. She pours her bottle over them both as she holds tight against the struggle, taking painful punches to the side.
____
Magistrate - Looks to the book with a smile as it grows over protected on the side table, then to the the dervish. "Did you know what this village produces ?"
~ With blades sparking against one another, Musashi pounds in a flash, sparks showering the dervish as it hisses between teeth.
____
Shumi - "My name is Shumi."
____
Magistrate - "Gunpowder."
____
Shumi - As the priestess winces her eyes at the flowing drink, "Shall we dance ?"
She reaches behind over her head and takes the torch, lighting the fabric of the priestess' drenched robes.
('Come On' by Prince and the NPG)
Shumi leans in to kiss as the priestess starts to scream as it starts.
The priestess pulls away to scream, Shumi pulls closer, holding firm and grabbing the back of the priestess' head. The priestess grabs the back of Shumi's and closes her eyes as they relax into flames.
____
The other priestesses investigate the empty decks, while beneath the powder kegs ignite.
____
Outside the villagers run the platforms, launching their rockets to dervish hearts, they burst to mist one by one, exploding into sparks and burning scraps.
The twisting landscape between the islands passing around as it all begins to spin. Sparks fly from the works as the crumbling structures are grown over, a world created.
____
In the night the rowboats make way through the mist, looking back. Karasu looks around and starts to call for Shumi.
The stranger sits up in tears staring as the remnants of ships begin exploding in their scuttling wave. She turns.
The spirit paddles the sleeping Qiu past in her floating bed.
____
Musashi dips the hot blade into the water as the magistrate thrusts it through the burning chest of the dervish, holding the back of it's neck with a hand igniting.
____
A wave across the mist, the first rowboat strikes calm shore, a light behind them.
________
~ They kiss barely visible in the flames before the final explosion.
In a hotel room in a modern city, Nocturne sits up screaming from her bed. She desperately kicks and pats herself over across her arms as she stumbles and falls of of the bed, sobbing for the patio door.
~ They kiss ...
She crawls shaking in tears into the rain rubbing her arms and falling over in sobs. She pulls herself up by the rail and leans over the edge and looks down heaving over a busy city night.
Traffic and noise ...
Continuing to shake she convulses into a scream to the skies.
~ credits ~
('Love Survive' by Scandal)
The moon and action below rocket across the sky into morning.
Through the credits all the people walk the streets, modern but attired as the west would call 'Manga style', all clearly in the distant future. The characters all walk through as different people, different lives, children and families.
~ The magistrate shakes the flame from his hand as the lady returns smiling, his hand growing anew.
The people walk to their business. Children rush for school, a wave of broom-witches flies over toward the great tree, populated with commotion.
The last of the students rush for the classroom door before it slams.
~ Musashi sheathes the blade.
! The End !