Harumi?
Kemonozume
UMI WA ARETERU
THE SEA IS ROUGH
FUKAI FUKAI BASHO NO
IN A DEEP DEEP PLACE
IRO WA TOTEMO NIGOTTE IRU
ITS COLOR IS VERY MUDDY
HISHOCHI NO KAMOME GA
THE SEAGULL OF THE SUMMER RESORT IS
ZUTTO NAITERU
CONTINUALLY CRYING
MASUTO NO UE ATARI DE
FROM THE TOP OF THE MAST
MOE AGAKU UNJOU NO SORA NO GOGO
STRUGGLING IN THE BURNING AFTERNOON SKY ABOVE THE CLOUDS
AUVERS, AUVERS BLUE
AUVERS, AUVERS BLUE BLUE BLUE
AUVERS, AUVERS BLUE
AUVERS, AUVERS BLU-BLUE
That's enough!
Who is he?
"Cleaver" Jyuuzou is curious too, hmm?
Give me a break!
They say he's some prodigy from the northeast branch.
Sixteen years old.
Just like me, huh?
I believe you are Momota Jyuuzou of the Kifuuken main branch?
I would like to request a match against you.
That was the first time we met Kakinoki Jin.
Jin remained at the Kifuuken main branch, and began training with me and Kyuutarou.
Together, we sharpened our skills until we became known as the "Kifuuken Triumvirate."
TRIALS OF THE PAST
Hey, wait! Hey! Wait up, sister!
Let's have some fun!
We'll show you a good tim—
What the fuck are you doing?
Are you insane, old man?
If you want to play with cars, there's a go-kart circuit at the amusement park.
Jerk!
You!
Ouch! Run! Run away!
Bro!
We won't forget this!
Uh...
Thank you very much!
You're incredibly strong.
Not really.
We sure are!
Her name was Kamitsuki Harumi.
When asked, she said she didn't have a place to call home.
She didn't seem to want to talk about her past, so we didn't pry.
Harumi was looking for work, so we persuaded the dojo's director to accept her as a live-in-worker.
The Kifuuken dojo became suffocatingly masculine after the director's wife passed away several years ago.
Our lives were refreshed with her arrival.
Harumi.
Yes?
Shouldn't you buy something for yourself as well?
I'm still waiting on my paycheck.
You're working so diligently every day.
Let me at least buy you some makeup.
Then...
This.
Rose scented cream? That's so like you.
Are you always up this late?
This is my only strong suit, after all.
I think it's admirable to devote yourself entirely to something.
Please help yourself to this.
Sorry for disturbing!
Hey, hurry up! Hurry, hurry!
Hold on!
Give me a hand.
Hey, bring that over here!
You guys all right?
Hey!
The morphine's over there!
What happened?
Well, we just faced our first Fle—
We were asked to kill a bear. This is the result.
That's dangerous!
Hey, watch your step!
I-I'm sorry!
Hurry up and pick up that claw!
Yes, sir!
Please believe me! I didn't know you hunted Flesh Eaters here!
I didn't want to become a monster, so I ran away from the others...
Until now, I've been restraining myself so I don't transform.
Believe me! Please believe me!
With a body like this, I can't stay in any one place for too long!
I didn't intend to remain at this dojo for this long, either...
But... but... everyone was so kind...
It's all right.
We're not going to mistreat you.
For a Flesh Eater to be living under the roof of the Kifuuken dojo...
Even so, we can't allow her to leave the dojo.
I couldn't possibly hunt Harumi down...
She hasn't killed anyone these past six months.
She was probably suppressing it with her will, as she said.
Are you saying that a Flesh Eater can live as a human being?
I'd like to believe it.
To protect her would be to betray the Kifuuken.
I will believe.
Then those who share the secret now belong to the Haru-chan alliance.
I will believe as well!
How about you, Jin?
I suppose I have no choice but to trust her.
Whatever happens, we must protect her identity.
At all costs!
Yes!
I have entered the three of you in an exhibition match at next month's festival.
Whoever wins the exhibition will inherit the Kifuuken.
What?
I've grown too old. I may have waited too long to resolve the issue of succession.
You three easily possess the skills to inherit my position.
The "Kifuuken Triumvirate" deserves its name.
Director.
Hmm?
To compete for the succession is a once in a lifetime opportunity for us.
I heard that the Kifuuken possess a secret technique known as the Kemonozume.
If such a skill does exist, I would like to add it to my repertoire before the festival.
Understandable.
The Kemonozume does indeed exist.
But it is no secret technique.
It's a cursed skill that allows one's body to absorb the life force of a Flesh Eater.
If someone like you, who have trained your minds and bodies, were to use it,
they would undoubtedly gain power far greater than that of the Flesh Eaters.
The Flesh Eaters derive their power from their arms.
It wouldn't be an understatement to call them the core of their being.
The Kemonozume involves severing those arms and using them to replace your own!
What happens to your own arms?
Naturally, you have to cut them off before you can attach the Flesh Eater's.
Apparently, once attached, they will bond with the person.
At this point, the Kemonozume tries to overcome the host's consciousness.
Fail to suppress it, and you become nothing more than a monster.
Is it possible to suppress the Kemonozume with your willpower alone?
In theory, yes.
But in the thousand year history of the Kifuuken, many have tried. All have failed.
They became the most fearsome Flesh Eaters of their age.
Don't make such faces!
You have enough power without it.
Regardless of who succeeds me, continue to support each other and bring the Kifuuken into a new age!
Yes, sir!
The time is finally here.
You're right. But I think I'll withdraw.
I'm no match for either of you!
Now, the exhibition match will commence!
Begin!
The winner... Kakinoki Jin!
Jyuuzou! Why did you throw the match?
You won with your own strength.
Don't kid around! I've been training long and hard for this day ever since I met you!
And... And now you've denied me my victory!
Harumi is bearing my child.
The next director cannot have a Flesh Eater as a wife.
A-A-A child?
Bastard!
You threw away your sword for a woman?
Is the way of the sword worth so little to you?
You're absolutely right.
From this day on, I will lay down my sword.
You will inherit the Kifuuken.
Ever since that day, Jin changed.
I withdrew from the battles of the Kifuuken and began training the younger members.
I started living in a small house near the dojo with Harumi.
However, we declined to register the baby.
Harumi had been married to a Flesh Eater, and was still in his family register.
I sent for Toshihiko, my previous wife's child, whom I had left with relatives.
Harumi raised Toshihiko as if he was her own.
Hello, Toshihiko. I'm your new mother!
Jin inherited the dojo and married Akemi, daughter of the old director.
Akemi had a daughter named Rie.
Ooba Industrial Enterprises
Ooba was busy trying to set up a new Kifuuken branch.
It was an intelligence agency to help track down Flesh Eaters.
The days of the Triumvirate were long gone.
Then Harumi gave birth to a boy.
Proposing already?
Then Rie is Toshihiko's wife!
A village of Flesh Eaters?
Yeah. There may be as many as a hundred of them.
The main branch doesn't have enough manpower.
Do you want to call for reinforcements from the other districts?
No need.
There is a method I would like to try.
Method?
You know, don't you?
The Kemonozume!
That's the place?
Are we really going to go through with this?
We can't back down now!
The history of Kifuuken will change today!
Kyuutarou! You too shall go down in history!
Now! Cut them off!
I can't! I just can't!
It's just not possible for me!
Give me that!
Jin...
It's the Kemonzume! He used the Kemonozume, and was engulfed!
It's an amazing power. There's no way we could defeat it!
Why didn't you stop him, Kyuutarou?
I couldn't. Jin has been looking for a chance to use it for a long time now.
He said that he would gain the power of the Kemonozume and surpass you!
Jin wanted to defeat you, but you threw away your sword.
The only way to triumph over one who has thrown away his sword is to become stronger than any man on Earth!
What a fool.
Jyuuzou!
They're talking about it on the news!
An unknown creature broke through police barriers south of Onigoyama, and is now on the run.
Three police officers were killed in the process.
Police headquarters has stated that it may have to request the Self-Defence Force to...
Jin used the Kemonozume.
Will you give me your arms?
I knew that this day would come.
Nothing could make me happier than having this monstrous body aid you.
I'm sorry.
The two years I've spent living with you have given me a lifetime of happiness.
What's wrong with you, Jin? To become something this despicable...
Do you know who I am?
Let's finish our match from the festival... just as you wanted!
Harumi... Harumi!
Harumi!
Harumi! Harumi!
Toshihiko!
Harumi...
Harumi!
Ame no shizuka wo kamu noga suki
I like to bite on the drops of rain
Amaku wa nai iya mushiro nigai
They're not sweet, in fact they're bitter
Kaori ga shita wo uragitte suki
I like how the smell betrays my tongue
Dakara ibitsuna kimi ga suki
That's why I like the misshapen you
Nante itazura na teido no kimi wa
You who does things that can only be seen as petty tricks
Konna watashi wo kakimidashite
You stir me up
Daitai no ryoubute ga kimi wo medatteru
The two shady hands make you stand out
Nante itazurano meido no kimi wa
The you whose petty tricks rumble
Konna hibi ja maigo ni natte shimau
With days like these, I become lost
Asamo hirumo yorumo itsudemo sarawareteku
Mornings, afternoons, nights, all the time, I get taken away