Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas - The Myth of Hades

Since the age of myth,

with every passing of 200 years,

battles erupt between Goddess Athena and Hades, the Lord of the Underworld.

And now, a new Holy War is about to break out.

When the world is threatened by evil,

warriors of hope will surely appear.

They are Athena's Saints.

Wearing the Cloths represented by the 88 constellations,

they battle with their lives on the line.

With their fists, they split the sky and shatter the earth!

I just wanna know what my life is for

Winning every match I have to play

I haven't felt like this before

The truth is gonna be revealed today

I really don't have anyone to slay

No need to live this way

Love will fill the world

and it will reign supreme forever!

Saint Seiya, we're calling out for you

Saint Seiya, help us to come through

The nebulae of confusion

The clusters of trepidation

The whirlpools of indecision

Will lead us to the realm of Athena

18th Century - Europe

Hold it right there!

Damn. I missed.

You won't get away!

Yeah!

You deserve that.

Aim for its head next.

Got it!

Take this!

Please stop.

What?

Acting like a girl.

Oh! I know this guy.

He lives in the orphanage just outside town.

He's a freak who takes painting lessons at the city church!

Hey, you! Hand the dog over.

As a punishment for eating our lunch, we'll teach it a lesson.

Don't be cruel to the puppy.

You have a problem with that?

We worked hard for lunch money.

Then...

Please take this red paint in exchange for the puppy.

I bought it at the city yesterday.

If you sell it, you'll be able to buy lots of bread.

Let's go and sell it right away.

Yeah. Exchanging this runt for bread, it's a good deal.

Hey, don't you feel thirsty?

Let's buy some milk!

This is great.

It's not!

Tenma!

Ouch!

Idiot! What were you thinking?

You worked your ass off for that paint!

Now you have to start all over again.

You bastard!

You're overdoing it, Tenma.

They did this because they had no money!

Besides...

Besides?

I don't like to solve things using violence!

I know. Sorry.

Apologize to them!

I'm sorry.

Happy now?

Damn! I'll remember this!

I'll definitely make you pay!

Bring it on anytime!

Come on.

Who the hell is that?

He's from the orphanage too.

But, with such opposite personalities, how did they become friends?

Chapter 1 Promise

Your skills exceed rumors.

It looks like the painting could come alive at any moment.

You're?

Let me introduce you to him.

He's a priest from the Forest Cathedral.

Sensei.

Being interested in your work,

he specially came to visit you.

The Forest Cathedral?

I've never seen him before.

But I've always...

You come to our cathedral quite often, don't you?

Y-Yes.

I suppose you wanted to look at the painting of Saint Michael, which is kept deep inside our cathedral?

Yes, it's normally not opened to the public...

So I'm always sent away.

That painting is said to be so beautiful, that even sinners...

...would unconsciously feel remorse and shed sincere tears.

An ethereal painting.

It's my greatest dream to look at that painting in person.

Even sinners will shed tears, huh?

Just now...

By the way, why is it that the angel in the center has no color in her eyes?

That's because, I couldn't come up with a suitable color.

I wanted a shade of red which looked like the sunset.

I tried several shades but...

There is a limit to the colors which humans can create.

The colors that humans perceive are merely illusions created by the reflection of light.

In other words, they're fabricated colors,

not real colors.

Fabricated colors and...

real colors?

Correct...

A painting drawn with fabricated colors... How would it stir anyone's heart?

If you wish to seek the real colors...

Go to the mountain north of the city.

There, you'll find flowers and fruits dyed red...

...by the blood which flowed out when angels were stripped of their wings.

Those possess the truest red on Earth...

You could say it's a real color.

It's such a deep mountain.

Will I truly find real colors in a place like this?

Hey!

You'll get lost!

Is this...

Is this the place where real colors are found?

What a beautiful place.

It's like I'm inside a Greek myth.

At the paradise beyond the Banks of Lethe.

The place where one can only enter with permission from the gods.

The Elysium Fields...

Would this be the true red that the priest spoke of?

But, this isn't what I'm looking for.

Hey, since we've come all the way to such a lovely place.

Let me paint you, using this scenery as a background.

Even after what the priest told me,

I still like the various colors created by the reflection of light.

Red is red, but there are many kinds of red.

Intense ones, gentle ones.

Happy ones.

Just like our hearts, the light has its own feelings.

Don't you think that it's beautiful?

I like this world, where colors come from the same body and yet are unique in their own way.

And among all of them, there's also my favorite color.

Eh?

What's happening? Everyone's...

If you wish, you can acquire all the colors in the world.

Did you know?

If you put all the colors of light together...

...a dark color will be formed.

My name is Pandora.

Why?

A person who knows no hate...

I have always been searching for you.

Our Lord...

What are you saying?

Our God requires a human body, in order to return to this world.

The body of the human with the purest soul of this era.

I have been waiting for you.

Lord of the Underworld, Hades-sama!

What's that?

Fool.

Specters of the Underworld!

I have some questions for you guys.

Shut yer trap! This time, we'll surely shred you to pieces!

That Cloth!

Rozan Hyakuryu Ha!

You are Libra Dohko!

Impossible! Aren't you one of the omnipotent Gold Saints?

Why...?

Of course, I'm here to beat Hades up.

The fact that all of you are gathered like this...

...means that he has resurrected, ain't it?

Where's the Lord of the Underworld?!

No one's gonna tell you anything.

Moreover, we are aware of you guys.

Athena's Saints will never find him!

Before that time comes... No way...

Indeed, just recently, I could clearly sense a huge Cosmo that resembled that of Hades.

It has now disappeared completely.

It's as if the Lord of the Underworld had been reborn into a human.

I have to hurry!

Alone, are you awake?

That's great!