| Vol. 26 Summary In China, at Shisen to be more exact, Kohuku and Kainan have re-roused some beast, which is like Tora resemble. Meanwhile Ushio and Hyô are training in the yard of Fugen-In, while Tora and Ushio’s father are watching them. Hyô wants to take Ushio to Tokagen, to train him seriously, when Ushio’s father leaves. When he does so, suddenly the Spear of the Beast sounds alarm. The beast, which is like Tora resemble, arrived!! Useless to say, that Tora attacks him immediately. The beast gets wounded, but hardly Ushio recognized, that the monster is similar to Tora, two others arrive as well. Meanwhile Hyô inspects the beasts, watching everything, but the 3 beasts aren’t the ones, he is looking for. Meantime, on the Chinese sea a strange black shadow attacks and kills another beast, similar to Tora. But back to Fugen-In, where Tora has taken the offensive again. The Chinese beasts are tougher than they were before: Tora throws some lightning, but it goes against a wall and it doesnt shows any effect against the beasts, which repulse. Tora is in danger, so Ushio intervenes with the Spear of the Beast against the beasts, but which the Chinese monsters evade with a strange reason. One of the beasts sees the Spear and speaks out its name and Ushio is surprised and is asking himself, how they know. The black shadow is coming closer: Now he is on the province of Shimane, far from Hinomisaki and kills another beasts, which is like Tora resemble as well, after the one, he killed above the skies of Osaka: He died, before speaking his name: Guren!! Hyô explains to Ushio, why these beasts are like tora resemble: They belong to a race of monsters called AzaFuse. To that point, Hyô confesses to Ushio, when he went into the cave of Kakmuikotan at Asahikawa, he travelled through the time to Tokisaki to the evening, 15 years ago, when his wife and his daughter had been murdered and he got wounded by a black AzaFuse, which is now looking for. Meanwhile he speaks with the black AzaFuse, which had arrived to Fugen-In right now!!! Hyô has waited to take revenge on this one!! The Chinese beasts attack Guren, but he, with his 3 swords he has in his muzzle, destroys one of them; stabs him and stands then face to face with Tora, Hyô and Ushio. How didn’t understand the situation now: Three monsters, which are like Tora resemble, appear in front of Hyô, Ushio and Tora. They came from the sky, are from various places of China. Hyô has called them AzaFuse and the blows of Tora don’t have any effects against them. Now another AzaFuse has arrived in Fugen-In, which killed of one them. A monster like Tora, but which is black!! The black beast says, he wants to kill all of them and insults Tora, calls him an idiot. After that Tora wants an explanation for his behaviour, but Guren doesn’t respond. Hyô tells Ushio the story of Guren. He used to be a cold-hearted man – a farmer to be more exact - , who called himself Sokuei and lived in China 1700 years ago. One day he went to a mountain, where he found the Spear of the Beast. On this mountain lived a monster and he defeated it with the help of the Spear. From this day on, he killed monsters for money, until the Spear of the Beast sucked out his soul and turned him into a black AzaFuse, as black as his heart. Until this part of the story, Ushio understands, that the AzaFuse are non other, than the humans, who used to be the users of the Spear, who turned into stone after the transformation, in expectation of being re-rouse for the final collision. That’s why Tora used to be human in his time!! The only point, which is still mysterious, is the reason of, while the other AzaFuse turned into stone, why this didn’t happened to Tora. Meanwhile Tora has attacked Guren, by shooting lighting against him. But Guren injures Tora arm with his swords in this muzzle. During the fight Guren reveals to Tora, that an incarnation of Hakumen no Mono demanded to him to defeat all AzaFuse, when he used to be stone. He agreed to the order and Hakumen gave him the swords, which found again itself in his muzzle and called them the swords of the soul. The have a special power, with which Guren defeats Tora!! This one is back to attack, but Ushio stops him: Only Hyô shall have his revenge for the murder on his wife and daughter!! The battle of Hyô vs Guren is very tiring: It comes to a point, when it looks like the swords of the soul are the better ones, even Hyô and Guren look weak. At this point, Hyô stabs with a surprising move a knife into Guren’s stomach. Now Guren calls his other black AzaFuse, who just arrived in the meantime and leaves. The 3 AzaFuse turn into stone again, reveal to Ushio, that Hakumen feeds the fear of the future. Hyô and Ushio flee into the house and Hyô drinks Sakè. Ushio, pushed by Tora, tries it as well, but obvious gets drunk! Completely drunk, he has a quarrel with Tora, after that he falls asleep!! While Ushio is sleeping, Hyô is leaving, on the search for Guren, hoping to be able to take his revenge. On the next day Ushio is on his way to school, but nobody there remembers him, because Hakumen, who is continual tormenting Ushio now, wants to erase the mind of his friends; every memory of Ushio and Tora. Ushio is thinking; the final collision is already close (it will be in June) and maybe there won’t be no other age of life for him. In that month there will two other important events: his birthday and the school outing!! Ushio meets Asako. At first both are having a quarrel, but then they come down again and Ushio decides to go home with the girl. While Asako remembers every happy passed moment with Ushio when they were children, all memories suddenly disappear out of her mind and she asks Ushio: “Who are you…?”. |