Barrier Master (結界師)

Hoi! Joso! Ketsu!

Ketsu! Ketsu! Ketsu!

Stop missing the small fry!

A little brat like you is going to protect Karasumori?

Don't make me laugh, brat!

Shut up! Don't call me a brat!

My name is Sumimura Yoshimori! I'm a Kekkaishi!

Now that's funny!

Obtaining the power of Karasumori will be easy!

You have to do more than dodge!

Hurry up and seal it with the Kekkai.

I would if I could!

Hoi! Joso!

Ketsu.

No fair. Tokine! He was mine!

Oh? I think it's your fault for taking too long.

Yoshi, you've got to be speedy in a challenge!

I can't take this anymore!

Screw this! I risk danger every single night!

And I get nothing out of a job like this!

Are you going to run away from your duty?

Making a kid work at night has to be against Child...

Child La... anyway, it must be illegal!

What are you talking about?

Fearing the light and favoring the night,

the Ayakashi are dwellers of the darkness.

As hunters of the Ayakashi,

the Kekkaishi must also live in the same world.

The laws of human society do not apply to you!

I'll kill you all!

Ketsu!

Metsu!

Tenketsu!

Whoa! That freaked me out!

Yoshimori... you're...

He lacks accuracy

but his raw power and agility are astonishing.

When he fully matures he just may become...

The dangerous forest invites me It's showtime again tonight

Everyone's rampaging with all their strength

Drive away all hesitation

Wanna take them on? Yeah

I will protect you

I will protect you that's all

Goodbye to the days when all I'd do was cry

Sha la la la la...

I hold words in my heart that I'd like to say

Standing in front of me is someone I don't want to lose

I can't stand watching people get hurt anymore

Yeah

I wanna be your knight

I wanna be your light

Someday I'll share with you my 100% smile

What the-

What are you doing, Grandpa?!

Maintain your concentration or your Kekkai will disperse!

Shut up! Stop trying to bother me while I'm training!

I heard from Madarao that you brought down an Ayakashi.

Job well done! However...

The Hazama Style Kekkai Technique is

the essence of simplicity and fortitude.

Utility and effectiveness over all else.

We take pride in effectiveness!

Now, what do you do when you find an Ayakashi?

Use Hoi to designate my target.

And then?

Use Joso to designate the location.

And to capture the Ayakashi?

Use Ketsu to create a Kekkai.

And what do you do after you capture it?

If it isn't dangerous, I let it go with Kai.

If it's dangerous, I vaporize it with Metsu.

And after that?

Use Tenketsu to open the door to the Other World

so that it doesn't regenerate.

Well done!

Listen carefully.

Defending the Karasumori Site is the family profession.

You must remember that! Now go train!

Why do I have to take over the family profession?

By the way, I found this inside your school bag.

This "School Survey" for third grade, class four.

"Favorite Subject: Art Class." "Favorite School Food: Coffee Milk."

"Best Summer Vacation: Lighting fireworks with a friend from my neighborhood."

But you don't have time to play at night, do you?

Don't tell me that this "friend" of yours is that Yukimura girl.

Ow!

You fool! How dare you play with that Yukimura!

When will you realize that

you are the legitimate heir to this family?

I never agreed to that.

You fool!

No matter what you say, the Hoin Mark appeared on you.

It is proof that you are the legitimate heir

to the Hazama Style Kekkai Techniques.

And since you have the Hoin Mark, you have no choice!

What do you mean by that?

I wish my brother was the one with this Hoin Mark.

Don't talk about Masamori...

But-

I said shut it!

Legitimate Heir Chop!

I can't take this life anymore.

You're crying again.

Tokine?

If you hate it so much, why don't you just quit?

Shut up! I'm not crying!

You were whining too.

No. I wasn't!

Stop acting like you're better than me just because you're older!

Well. It's not like I care if you cry or not.

What about you?

Aren't you sick of having to train every day?

I take pride in my work.

If Masamori-san had been the heir.

He would never have complained like this, and-

He's got nothing to do with this!

Don't talk about my brother!

Here she comes again!

Tokine!

How dare you speak to a man of the Sumimura clan?!

Grandma?

The Sumimura clan is nothing but an illegitimate sect that

came to existence because our founder. Master Hazama Tokimori.

Did not have any children.

The Yukimura clan. Master Tokimori's best student.

Is the only legitimate successor to the Hazama Style.

I don't care who the legitimate whatever is!

What are you doing, Yoshimori?!

How dare you have such a friendly chat with a Yukimura!

Does it look like we're having a friendly chat?!

Oh my. Fighting within the family?

I suppose it's only natural for a clan that's nothing but an accessory.

An accessory?! How dare you!

The Sumimura clan is the true legitimate successor

of the Hazama Style chosen by the founder himself!

This Hoin Mark is proof of that!

Shut your mouth!

The Yukimura clan is the true legitimate successor!

This Hoin Mark is proof of that!

Cover yourself, you hag! It's an eyesore!

How rude!

We'll settle this once and for all!

Very well! I welcome the challenge!

I can't take this anymore. Stop them, Tokine!

It's no use.

That was truly regrettable.

If Shuji-san hadn't called us in for dinner...

I could have ended this 400-year rivalry.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Toshimori, didn't you read the letter from your mother?

You have to eat your bell peppers.

How about just one?

Sure, but you'll have to eat two next time.

Okay!

Yoshimori, go to bed early if you're tired.

I'll come wake you up tonight.

Okay...

Shuji-san, would you please stop spoiling him like that?

Yes. But Yoshimori is still a child.

He may be a child,

but if he's to take over the family profession...

Hey! Straighten up!

This is pitiful!

It's that very attitude that prevents you from improving your techniques.

You'll never beat that Yukimura girl at this rate!

I-I can't help it! She's older than me!

That's no excuse! It's because you don't train enough!

No! It's because you're a terrible teacher!

Why, you! You ignore your own inexperience and blame me?!

Father? Yoshimori?

It's an Ayakashi.

Can you tell?

A little.

I guess you're a child of a Kekkaishi. After all.

It'll be a while before I go out there though.

The Karasumori family that ruled this land

was said to be a clan possessing

abnormally high levels of spiritual energy.

Because of that, many Ayakashi and

other eerie phenomena harassed them.

They called for a specialist in the ways of the Ayakashi.

That was the founder. Hazama Tokimori.

After that,

he served as the official Kekkaishi of the Karasumori clan.

But the Karasumori clan accumulated more spiritual energy

as generations passed.

The Ayakashi that came near them

absorbed that power, evolved,

and started to attack other people.

At one point, due to overwork and illness,