Lord of Vermilion: The Crimson King (ロード オブ ヴァーミリオン 紅蓮の王)

Um, I...

You were with him in the end.

Thanks.

Death is not the end of the Heroic Blood.

They simply transform into red stones.

Chaos controls the Heroic Blood and makes them fight each other

in the hope that they'll destroy one another.

The extinction of Heroic Blood...

Once all the Heroic Blood is gone, the world will be destroyed.

We must destroy Tokyo soon.

Only one of the Heroic Blood can survive.

They shall become the Lord of Vermilion and the foundation of the new world.

Only one.

I shall become the foundation of the new world.

Please Join Our Hands With the Holy Words

He could be the Lord of Vermilion.

Can I beat him?

Inuki...

We did it.

One of the Heroic Blood has disappeared from this world.

It sure took you long enough.

We're making the final adjustments to the experiment.

The day of the Second Great Collapse is soon.

And to do that...

Naturally, we'll have to pay with even more human lives.

But...

We should continue killing the enemy Heroic Blood.

If they interfere, we won't have time for the experiment.

You're right.

They're weakened right now. Ain't this a good time to strike?

Right, newbie?

Yeah, of course.

Do you agree, Yuri?

Yes.

Very well.

Then kill them.

Death to the Heroic Blood. For me.

Jun-san, I'll do my best!

What should we do? Who should we kill first?

We'll start with Kamina Chihiro.

But we won't just kill him.

He took my brother from me.

We'll inflict the same suffering on him and kill him on the brink of despair.

You stay out of this.

What?

Your personal feelings will get in our way.

Haru and I will handle this.

Let's go, Haru.

Yes, sir!

Inuki-san...

If you want to.

Show me the future you'll create.

Can someone like me be like Inuki-san?

Shiraki-san?

Thank goodness.

I—

Chihiro-kun, go ahead.

Shiraki-san, you can start.

I'm glad I got to see you again.

For no particular reason...

Really, for no reason at all, coming here calms me.

Me, too.

I come here whenever I want to think alone.

Today I wanted to see you, though.

Shiraki-san...

Here.

I've been trying to recreate that flavor.

Well?

It's good.

I-It's not good enough yet.

The one your mother made had a gentle, more calming flavor.

Mom.

"It's all because of your mother."

Huh?

It's what you said before.

What does it mean?

Well...

I want to know.

Your mother... Professor Mitsuki and my father worked together.

What?

During the accident 13 years ago,

we were here.

I don't know exactly what kind of experiment they were performing,

but it failed.

Your mother was swallowed up by another world.

Everything as we knew it changed.

My kind father stopped looking at me.

It's also when he started using Tokyo to open gates to other worlds.

You stopped coming here, too.

I wanted to look for you, but my father wouldn't let me.

I learned about your father only recently. I was lonely.

I missed you.

But I had no choice but to live as my father wanted.

It was the only place I belonged anymore.

But my father only saw me as Shiraki Yuri, vessel of Heroic Blood.

Not as Yuri, his daughter.

He forced me to fight as a vessel of Heroic Blood.

Though we were finally reunited, I was forced to try to kill you.

I wondered how this came to be.

Why?

So I...

I'm sorry.

Thanks. I feel a little better.

Thanks for the hot cocoa.

Sure.

Inuki-san... Mom...

Shiraki-san...

Kotetsu!

No. Kotetsu can't die.

Never!

I should be able to do it.

I have to fight it.

I won't be swept away by fate.

Kotetsu!

Domyoji Dojo

Hey, Tsubaki-chan.

I sure am glad you weren't busy!

Huh? I can't hear you.

Ignoring the fact that you saved me wouldn't be very honorable.

What? We're going where?

Let's ride.

I said, I can't hear—

Life and death are two faces of the same coin