Episode 5: REAL | DURRUN by Aito Kitazaki

Episode 5: Synopsis In the rubble left by the last fight, Janga is still amused by the strange girl who got away, and Yu-ri is still refusing a word he never agreed to. The word is partner. In flashback, the transformed Soujun had cheerfully proposed they climb to the top of TOKYO together, and Yu-ri had listed the reasons not to: draw the Yamori-gumi here and it is not only the Fuser who gets hunted, but his sister too. Soujun answered that when it is for Utaki, the arithmetic changes. Now Yu-ri wants answers instead. Why come to the edge of TOKYO, and who moved the Carabiner. Janga answers with a question of his own about an Ash of Nue deal struck outside the city, so Yu-ri strikes with Ten and says plainly that he is no Fuser. What unsettles Janga is the blade itself: it does not behave like steel. It moves as though it were alive. Across MACHIDA the other half of the night is a chase, Soujun running flat out with Utaki on his back. It stops when Sergeant Komori shoves the bakery girl Komugi to the ground and walks on. Utaki bandages her, asks for the bread nobody bought, and then turns the Carabiner’s own creed back on the sergeant: if anyone who gets in their way deserves what follows, so does he. In the duel Yu-ri tells Janga to leave decent people out of it, and answers his boasting with the spinning Mystic Marten One-Sword style. He ends it with Territory Seizer and leaves Janga breathing, because he still has questions. Then Ten lets the shape go, and what clings to his arm is a small, frightened marten.