"From Fushigi Yugi Gaiden" "I know that you must be the courage that I feel." "I know that you must be the courage that I feel." "I know that you must be the courage that I feel." "I know that you must be the light in my life." "I know that you must be the light in my life." "I know that you must be the light in my life." "I know that you must be the light in my life." "I know that you must be the light in my life." "EIKODEN The Legend of Eternal Light Chapter 3" " Rebirth of the Seven Stars" "The light I find amidst all the darkness..." "It looks like this city is still all right, you know?" "Hey!" "It's flashing again!" ""WARRIOR"" "Hey!" "That character...!" "Isn't that...?" "!" "Hey there, guys!" "Looking for a place to stay, right?" "I know a good place you can use." ""WILLOW"" "Who-a-a-a!" "You're...!" "Who-a-a-a!" "You're...!" "It's Nuriko!" "Nuriko's showed up!" " Does he remember?" " I don't know yet." "What about Mayo?" "Let's see, where's Mayo...?" "Mayo..." "What's she done?" "!" "Oh, this is really irritating!" "Dammit all..." "If something isn't done soon, they're all going to be back together!" "Wow, that's pretty!" "Are you Nuriko...?" "My name's Ko Reishun!" "Let me have this!" " No way!" " You can't!" "That's..." "Just give it back, okay?" "Uh-uh!" "I said give it back, ya little...!" "Don't wanna!" "Don't wanna!" "Give it to me!" "Come on!" "Hey!" "Come back here!" "Wait for us, you know?" "!" "Pretty fast for a little shrimp!" "Hey!" "Stop that!" "This ain't somethin' for kids to play with." "No!" "It's mine!" "It's mine!" "No, it ain't yours!" "HEY!" "What are ya doin'?" "!" "Mine!" "Leggo!" "You let go!" "I can't leggo, ya idiot!" "Cut... it..." "OUT!" "Nuriko..." "WHAT THE HELL ARE YA DOIN'?" "!" "It's Nuriko..." "With that strength, it's gotta be him..." "MY CRYSTAL BALL!" "Our magic hint ball..." "Oh, no!" "We're too late, you know?" "My ball!" "My ball!" "My ball!" "Look, it wasn't yours to start with..." "IT WAS MY BALL!" "I should be the one crying' here, man..." "Oh, well..." "What if we get you a new ball, hm?" "You want it or not?" "Of course I want it!" "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "She seems to have gotten her energy back, you know?" "She's just like him..." "Getting what she wants..." "Just like Nuriko." "Wow!" "So pretty!" "This one's nice, and so is this one." "I wonder which one I should get?" "Let's see..." "Let's see..." "I didn't notice, but those black clouds are back." "You're right." "Does this mean the next enemy's ready to appear?" "Hold it!" "Dammit!" "I can't use my holy fire in this crowd!" "You can't get away, you know?" "!" "You ain't gettin' away!" "And the winner is ME!" "Hey!" "Look!" "Here it comes!" "What is that?" "A dragon?" "!" "A fake Seiryu!" "Another freakin' big one, too!" "Stick close to us, okay?" "!" "REKKA SHI NEN!" "Hah!" "Too easy!" "What's up with that?" "!" "Your attack had no effect?" "!" "We have to combine our powers!" "All right!" "HERE WE GO!" "You ain't comin' back this time!" "We aren't going to lose!" "KAI-HAA!" "It worked, you know?" "Man, that thing was a handful!" "That was just pathetic." "Release your hatred..." "Release more hatred, new Priestess..." "Hatred?" "Just a little more..." "Then my power will be fully charged." "Once it has, destroying the Suzaku Seven...  ... will be a trifling matter." "What do you mean by that?" "Taka..." "Taka will be spared, right?" "What are you doing there?" "What are we gonna do?" "We took her without her parents' permission." "I feel sorry about it, too but we can't go back to that town, you know?" "The risk of involving the people there is just too high." "Yeah, but she's barely eight years old..." "Oops!" "Got away!" "We should at least tell her folks..." "Hey!" "Hey!" "What?" "!" "We're busy talkin' about you!" "There's some place I want to go." "Some place ya wanna go?" "!" "Will you please take me there?" "So, where do you want to go?" "Suzaku Village!" "Well, yes, I know about everything in this world." "Then tell me about the Suzaku Seven from before I was born." "Oh!" "You want to hear about how unfaithful Hotohori was?" "!" "Do you really want to know...?" "Your father Hotohori was really in love with the Priestess of Suzaku." "With the Priestess of Suzaku...?" "You really don't know anything about it, do you?" "Both Hotohori and Tamahome were used by her." "Miaka Yuki jumped between the two time after time." "That's a lie!" "It's no lie." "But, in the end, Hotohori married Houki." "I wonder if your parents really loved each other..." "It's always the children who suffer, isn't it?" "How can you talk like that?" "Taka is..." "He's important to you now, isn't he?" "I was told that the Priestess of Suzaku was a person of boundless love." "And yet you talk about Miaka, a fellow priestess, as though..." "I didn't come to this world so that I could be a priestess!" "Will you really be able to save this land from destruction?" "!" "How dare you speak so rudely to me!" "I'm the Priestess of Suzaku!" "I can summon Suzaku all by myself!" "Why did I bother talking to a little kid?" "!" "Mayo..." "Mayo, do you hear me?" "Where are you, Mayo?" "Answer me." "Saori!" "Saori, is that you?" "But how?" "Where are you?" "!" "In the hospital, where Miaka's been hospitalized." "Mayo, she's been unconscious since yesterday." "Yesterday...?" "It's only been that long?" ""Only that long?" What do you mean?" "Mayo, can you hear me?" "Your mother was crying last night." "She called me in the middle of the night." "Your father's worried, too..." "You're lying!" "I'm not lying!" "You should just..." "I don't trust them at all!" "Sakaki, listen to me." "You shouldn't be there." "Your being there won't bring any happiness to that world." "Listen, Sakaki." "You're being manipulated." "You're being used." "Used by some evil entity that wants to destroy that world by using you." "That won't work." "Lying like that won't get me to come back." "I'm never going home." "I'll live here with Taka and the baby." "Mayo!" "Please, come back!" "Sakaki!" "At least let the baby come back!" "What do you think you're...?" "!" "Look!" "A message from Mayo?" "!" ""I HOPE YOU ALL DROP DEAD"" "They're no help to me..." "It... can't be..." "What's with you?" "!" "You wanna go to Suzaku Village to see some guy?" "!" "Look at her!" "Tryin' to be a grown-up!" "Don't just call him "some guy!"" "I've talked to him a lot in the marketplace!" "Hmpf!" "Whatever, kid!" "No, if she really is the reincarnation of Nuriko, then..." "She'd only be attracted to one guy, you know?" "You mean the reincarnation of Lord Hotohori?" "No kiddin'?" "No wonder she's so hot to get there." "Hurry up!" "Hurry up!" "Lady Mayo?" "Lady Mayo!" "STAY AWAY!" "It's impossible..." "There's just no way..." "I'm disappearing..." "Lady Mayo...?" "Lady Mayo!" "What's wrong?" "!" "No use..." "No use..." "It's all over..." "Lady Mayo, you shouldn't strain yourself." "Come, let's go back to your room." "Lady Mayo..." ""SUZAKU VILLAGE"" "What's with all the graveyards here?" "This village was raided by Kutou in the war 10 years ago." "By the time reinforcements came, it was all over." "Was everyone in the village killed?" "Everyone here now migrated from other towns, you know?" "You aren't feeling well, Mayo?" "Don't get up." "I wanted to tell you a story." "Yes..." "A story from long ago..." "From..." "long ago...?" "Once upon a time, there was a very small and very poor village." "One day, messengers arrived from the capital." "They came looking for girls of appropriate age to be imperial courtesans." "The daughter of a poor family who could not even pay their land rent was selected." "There was a man, two years older than the girl whom she had loved like a brother since childhood and with whom she had hoped to share her future." "But, to save her family the girl chose to go to the capital instead." "Then, in an ironic twist, a year and a half later the girl's home village suffered a Kutou sneak attack and was destroyed in a single night." "The young man, the sole survivor, was waiting for her and, gentle as he ever was, said:" ""Come back to me." "Let us rebuild our village together."" "But the girl simply shook her head." "Why?" "Why didn't she go back?" "Didn't she realize how he felt about her?" ""Is life in the capital that much fun?" "!"" ""Do you prefer the company of men of wealth and property?" "!"" "And with a glare stained with rage directed at her the young man then turned to the emperor who had appeared there and seen everything." "The emperor...?" "You mean Hotohori...?" "The young man, whose name was Tendou Shu then said this to her:" ""Had I been the emperor, would you have taken me over him?"" "What does that mean?" "Your Highness!" "The truth is that you have a brother a year older than you!" "His life had been threatened during a struggle for the throne and he ended up being adopted to a wandering peasant." "That can't be." "Are you saying...?" "That you are my brother...?" "The young man knew the secret of his birth." "That they were brothers, sharing the same blood." ""I will never forgive you."" "Saying that, the young man left." "Not three months later he reappeared before his younger brother as a rebel." "No, he wasn't to blame." "His false hatred was allowing another to control him." "Kill me!" "If it will lessen your hatred even a little, then do it..." "However..." "I absolutely will not allow you to harm His Highness!" "Houki..." "Houki..." "Do you really love Hotohori that much...?" "Why are you hesitating?" "!" "If you won't attack him, then...!" "Tendou!" "Brother..." "BROTHER!" "The god beast appears in the generation of a child born with the mark of Suzaku." "But his eyes will be closed forever without ever having seen Suzaku!" "Oh, the irony..." "This hand will end the life of the Suzaku King..." "To think, that I will fulfill my prophecy with my own hands." "The incarnation of evil was himself a pathetic pawn of his own hatred." "And Tendou..." "What happened to Tendou...?" "My little brother..." "My only brother..." "Brother..." "I'm glad that I could meet you..." "I wish you and Houki happiness..." "Hotohori..." "BROTHER!" "Tendou...!" ""TENDOU SHU" " The Suzaku King"" ""TENDOU SHU" " The Suzaku King"" ""TENDOU SHU" " The Suzaku King"" "I don't understand!" "Houki, why did you go so far for Hotohori?" "I made a promise to him." "On that rainy night..." "That night when misfortune drew Tamahome and Lord Hotohori to cross swords with each other." "When Miaka's power released Tamahome from the Kodoku poisoning's spell Hotohori said to him:" "I'm glad to see you back with us." "And as the two lovers embraced each other tightly and he turned his back..." "I made a promise." "That I would protect him, even if it cost me my life." "Um, excuse me." "I..." "You..." "We met in the town marketplace, right?" "Look at that!" "An eight-year-old kid, blushing!" "We were only man and wife for a month but I was happy that I was able to love Hotohori." "I'm sorry..." "Mayo?" "I..." "I said horrible things to Boushin." "Never mind that." "I just wanted to have a nice talk with you, that's all." "I..." "It's no use..." "Mayo?" "Mayo!" "You owned this sword before you were born." "Before I was born?" "Ten years ago, you carried it into battle to defend your country." "Along with the rest of us..." "I fought with this sword...?" "We're the Suzaku Seven!" "The Suzaku Seven?" "My son is one of the Suzaku Seven?" "And we need to borrow him for a while." "I see..." "That explains it!" "I actually saw Suzaku with my own eyes." "You saw Suzaku?" "!" "It was two days after the death of the former emperor." "We passed gravestones on a hill while we were travelling, when..." "As it spread its great wings it almost seemed to be visiting the grave." "We settled here and have been caring for the graves of the dead villagers ever since." "And then there's my son Eian." "The family name on the stone is Shu, like ours but we aren't related to the people buried there." "But he still visits the graves every day." "That grave must have something to do with Lord Hotohori..." "Those black clouds again...!" "Suzaku?" "!" "No!" "It's...!" "A fake Suzaku!" " Run for it!" " Right!" "Why, you..." "REKKA SHI NEN!" "Stand still, dammit!" "WHAT?" "!" "RUN!" "Dammit!" "Shit!" "EIAN!" "Please, listen!" "I'm begging you, just listen to me!" "I have no further need of you." "I have grown...  ... by devouring your hatred." "So..." "You were tricking me." "I alone shall rule this world." "I alone..." "You're better off dead..." "It's Suzaku..." "It can't be." "Taka and the others haven't..." "Of course it's not the real one!" "It's grown from the negative energy in Mayo's heart." "A mass of evil." "It may be my fault..." "I'm sure..." "I'm sure I'm to blame for this." "Yui..." "What are you talking about?" "A GHOST!" "Eian!" "I made it just in time." "It's a transformation spell, you know?" "Oh..." "It was Chichiri doing it." "Don't scare me like that!" "We must hurry!" "NOW THERE'S A HAG!" "Who are you calling a hag?" "!" "Chiriko?" "!" "That's everyone..." "No..." "Why are you suddenly...?" "The Shinzaho is in danger." "You all must return to the capital at once!" "All right!" "Let's go!" "Come back, Mayo!" "Come to us, Sakaki!" "There's no way I can go back now..." "You're better off dead..." "How can my phone be ringing here?" "I had a nightmare in the middle of the night." "Someone was chasing us." "Then I awoke, protecting you with my own hands." "You were sleeping quietly next to me." "Making sure of the gentle rhythm of your breathing I looked up into the sky above." "The neighborhood dim as the dawn approached." ""There's nothing more that I want."" "The thought echoed, so strong, in my mind." "All because I had met you." "Oh, yes!" "Forever and ever, stay by me any time." "I will protect you." "Yes, this is my answer to the question of why I live." "Oh, surely, surely, you'll stay by me all the time." "I'm always looking at you." "Yes, I'm at your side." "For you and you alone." "I'll be here forevermore." "The world seeks its own demise." "And Konan moves toward destruction." "The last hope for avoiding this cruel destiny rests in the hands of the Priestess of Suzaku and the Suzaku Seven." "The final chapter:" ""The Advent of Suzaku."" "Like a legend which passes on love..."