"title sign:" "The Slashers" " III sign:" "The Endless Gravestones" " I" "Here we go." "Don't fall behind." "Same to you." "Impossible to fall to you people damn... it..." "You guys did it." "You guys really did it." "Really now..." "We have injuries all over the place." "The Awakened Being has perished." "What..." "Hm?" "You seem displeased." "Of course not." "I'm simply surprised for that Awakened Being was special." "I didn't foresee the end of the battle coming this quickly." "Mission accomplished." "Are all four of them alive?" "Only three." "If the last one is still alive, she is in an extremely weakened state." "For this mission to end with one casualty is a miracle in itself." "Watch them for a bit longer." "Is the mental state of comrades hunting down Awakened Beings that important?" "Think of it as parents being concerned for their children." "I see." "How is she doing?" "It doesn't look good." "She used up all her Yoki to regenerate her arm, thus preventing her stomach wounds from healing smoothly." "It's all up to her own vitality now." "You seem to be fine, eh?" "You got hit around the most." "She, however, did not get hit in the most critical parts of her body." "They are all injuries that will heal by themselves in time." "No way..." "You did that in those circumstances?" "!" "I need to ask you girls something." "What?" "Have any of you come close to awakening?" "It's a very important issue that concerns all of us." "I ask that you respond honestly." "I have." "I released my Yoma powers recklessly with my injured body and crossed my limits by mistake." "The process of awakening is painful but may also bring feelings of ecstasy." "The vast majority of warriors don't resist." "Yes, I was surprised I was able to return to normal." "I have, too." "I got carried away and went over my limits." "I'm like the guys." "I couldn't resist the impulse." "But you returned to normal." "I was able to regain myself somehow." "I'm pretty sure Deneve has, too." "She was trying to find out where her limits were." "Are you old friends with Deneve?" "Yes, we began working around the same time." "Then, answer me this." "Have either of you caused problems for your clients or other civilians?" "Well, you can tell from my personality that I have a few times." "And Deneve?" "She's a perfectionist and demands that from others, as well." "Rather than clients and civilians, she has more trouble with her own kind." "I see." "And the other one here is the lowest ranked warrior who disregards orders and runs wild from time to time." "In other words, you're all problem children that have come close to awakening." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Coincidentally, problem children are gathered here, and coincidentally, due to a mistake in our information, we had to fight a male Awakened Being." "What does that mean?" "That's like the organization's trying to get us..." "This is all hypothetical." "Miria, what about you?" "I don't know about coming close to awakening, but you don't seem like a problem child." "No one fits that label better than I do." "I, too, have come close to awakening." "You?" "!" "It was during my third hunting job for Awakened Beings." "After the battle was over, I realized the Awakened One was one of my friends." "Hilda?" "!" "It can't be..." "She was from the same period as you, right?" "You didn't hear anything from the organization?" "Why..." "Why?" "!" "Why didn't you say my name?" "!" "Why didn't you try to tell me it was you?" "Why?" "!" "Why, Hilda?" "Hilda!" "Don't dwell on this too much." "She didn't have much of her own consciousness left." "She was a monster at this point." "Damn, her Yoki is going berserk!" "Miria!" "Hmm..." ""Phantom Miria" is awakening, how interesting." "You're" "Because they say in group battles her performance surpasses even the Number One's." "I would love to fight her." "What?" "!" "What are you doing?" "Hurry up and awaken already." "And, you ended up not awakening?" "I was aware that I had gone over my limits, but I suppressed my Yoki as much as I could." "It might've also been because I didn't want to be provoked by her." "Her?" "Nothing, I'm talking to myself." "Anyway, I swore to take revenge on the organization at that moment." "The organization that makes our bodies like this and disposes of us like that after we're of no use I cannot forgive them." "Revenge... but how?" "On the surface, I pretend to be obedient to the organization, but I am conducting my own investigations." "What did you find out?" "Nothing as of now." "To the organization, I'm probably just annoying." "And so you've become a target of execution." "Like I was saying, all of this is hypothetical." "I have a question." "By almost awakening, has anything changed inside us?" "For you to be asking that, you must feel something, right?" "Before and after awakening, the quality of our Yoki has substantially changed." "The now vague point of our limit and the occasional bouts of hunger... am I right?" "We have already awakened..." "We're already Awakened Ones?" "What's the matter?" "Their Yoki have gone chaotic." "It appears the one with the strong Yoki said something that disturbed the other two." "The one with average Yoki is raising her emotions and arguing back." "Compared to her, the one with little Yoki is rather calm" "No." "Actually, she seems more disturbed." "For her to not be showing her emotions, it must mean that something happened in her past that caused her to close her heart to the external world." "How fearsome." "She can tell that much even when she's this far away." "Don't be joking!" "Don't group me with them!" "I haven't turned into a monster like that, and neither do I have the desire to devour humans!" "I absolutely have not awakened!" "I didn't say it right." "The awakening I meant isn't a complete awakening." "We're in a half-awakened-like state." "Half-awakened?" "Awakening normally happens in one shot, but we actually stopped in the middle of that." "Or, we could be awakening gradually." "No, but that..." "Your ability to extend your limbs and use it without much effort in battle is because you've awakened, right?" "Deneve's regeneration capabilities are the same." "Normally, it's something we can only do at the limit of awakening and not something we can do many times." "For us to return back to normal after surpassing our limits that's supposed to be impossible." "I see." "These are all things I've been aware of." "Deneve!" "And... in our half-awakened state..." "What are we going to do from now on?" "Bite on our fingers and wait until we completely awaken?" "Unfortunately, that's all that I know of." "The only thing I can say is that we are in a dangerous situation where we might awaken at any given moment." "Fine." "I'll give it a try." "I'll be the test case." "Deneve!" "What do you think you're doing?" "!" "Stop it, Deneve!" "Shut up and just watch me!" "At this rate, if I regenerate while staying within my limits, I'm just going to die!" "Instead, I'll use my power to its limit and regenerate it all in one moment!" "That's reckless!" "If you surpass your limit with that body of yours..." "If Miria's hypothesis is correct, then we have already surpassed our limits." "I can use all of my Yoma powers all at once and return back to normal without awakening." "But, if I end up fully awakening, don't hesitate to kill me!" "What are you..." "Deneve..." "Helen, Clare!" "Hey, we're from the same class." "I'll make sure you leave without any pain." "Leave it to us." "We won't screw up." "One of them has awakened." "What?" "!" "It felt like she awakened from her own will, but how is that possible?" "She probably misjudged her limits from the damage she suffered in battle." "What a pity." "Is that all?" "Weren't you concerned for them as though they were your children?" "I don't recall making a monster my child." "Looks like I... returned to normal..." "Deneve!" "Really!" "Being so reckless..." "How's your stomach?" "Is it okay?" "Yeah, I managed to cover it up." "You're not guaranteed to return to normal next time." "If you plan on keeping your consciousness," "I suggest you refrain from reckless acts in the future." "I know." "I don't plan on taking a risk like this ever again." "What's the matter?" "I felt as if we were being watched." "Don't worry," "I checked around this area." "I don't sense any of our comrades inside this mountain area." "And even if someone were present outside the area, they should barely be able to sense our presence." "It was just my imagination?" "Someone is able to sense my presence from this far of a distance." "In any case, how was that possible?" "The Yoki of the one I thought had awakened has stabilized now." "Hey, what's the matter?" "Did something happen again?" "No, the awakening seems to be a mistake on my part." "All four of them are safe and sound." "A mistake?" "That sure is rare, coming from you." "Even for me, it is difficult to grasp information accurately at this distance." "Also, keep your "parental concern for your children" in check." "Let's go." "Memorize the Yoki of those four." "You may have to cross swords with them in the future." "You may be a parent, but you're a wily one, at that." "We shall go our separate ways here and return to our original posts." "We have carried out the job asked of us." "Nothing else has happened." "Okay?" "So that the organization doesn't think we have suspicions about them." "In the future, act obedient enough so the organization isn't suspicious of you." "You need to clear your image as problem children." "That's so much trouble..." "You all need to be careful and cannot let your guards down." "Do that and you should be fine for the time being." "For the time being, eh?" "Don't worry." "Your powers have risen significantly following your awakening." "I'm sure you can rival any of the single-digit warriors now." "Really?" "Don't feel that way at all." "I can guarantee that." "In the event you have to fight our comrades, you probably wouldn't have too much trouble." "However, Number Five and up is another issue." "If you meet any of them, discard the option of fighting them immediately." "Number Five and up so those that are higher than you, right, Miria?" "Not just "higher"." "To be honest, I want you to think there's a huge gulf between Number Five and Number Six." "You can't be serious..." "These are the symbols of the top five warriors." "Memorize them." "From the right," "Number One" " Alicia," "Number Two" " Beth," "Number Three" " Galatea," "Number Four " "Is there something wrong with Number Four?" "She cares nothing about the lives of her comrades or the lives of humans in general." "She has an abnormal obsession especially when she hunts Awakened Beings." "I see." "Then it's better if we don't get near her." "Yes." "Avoid contact even if you have to act a bit unnatural." "A woman who lusts for battle and the blood that spills during battles," "Ophelia." "This is her symbol." "And Number Five" " Rafaela." "What are you going to do now?" "I plan on continuing my investigation of the organization." "I will immediately inform you all if I uncover anything about the awakening issue." "You plan on doing this on your own?" "The risk is higher if we band together now." "Besides, the idea the organization is trying to rid themselves of us is just a hypothesis." "We have no evidence at all." "There's no need to have our comrades turn into our enemies so easily." "We just have to be very careful and never let our guards down toward anyone." "May we all live to meet again!" ""You may have to cross swords with them in the future", eh?" "How many of them will survive long enough to meet me in the end?" "A thorny path, indeed..." "Kid, give it up." "No Claymore that's gone into those mountains will come out alive." "She'll be back!" "Clare keeps her promises!" "She'll be back!" "Clare..." "Clare!" "I must survive." "I must." "Clare!" "A path filled with blood." "A warrior painted with blood." "The moment of the promise." "Next episode, "The Endless Gravestones" " I"."