Asumu
Please sit in a well-lit room, at a comfortable distance, when watching.
Ibuki!
Harder.
You have to hit the beat with your whole body,
or you can't purify the earth.
Yes!
This is the real thing.
Right.
Ibuki!
He's in the middle of combat.
Ibuki!
Haruka tooku no chiheisen kara From the distant horizon
Hikari afurete kuru you ni The light overflows
Kimi no mirai wa hajimatta bakari Your future has only just begun!
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Dare mo isogu michi A road that everyone hurries along
Kimi dake ni mieru asu he hashire Run to the tomorrow that only you can see
Oozora ni ao daichi ni inochi The blue of the sky, the Earth full of life
Senaka wo osu kaze unabara ni nami The wind at your back, the waves in the sea
Kurikaesu hibiki… This recurring resonance...
Ima, hajimari no kimi e Passes now to you, at the beginning!
Volume Forty­Seven
Words to Follow
You're not doing too well...
Are you having doubts?
No.
I am an Oni.
I am prepared to risk my life at all times.
If you don't live after a fight, you've lost.
I will end it, no matter what. That is my mission.
No matter what.
Huh? You're being released already?
Yup! Fortunately.
Does that mean you're cured?
I can't be cured. I'm chronically ill.
I'm telling you now, don't pity me.
- I hate that kind of thing. - Naomi...!
Besides, it's my life. I've got to do what I want to.
Hey, what do you most want to do right now, Naomi?
Hmmm...
Oh, yeah!
I want to see Asumu's panel theater.
Mine?
Yeah!
Okay.
I'll show you... my panel theater.
Really?
Sorry!
I'm late.
They're coming.
Stay quiet and watch.
What do you mean? Hibiki!
- Hibiki! - Hibiki!
Hibiki!
Stop!
Stay quiet and watch me!
Lately...
he's been working like a fiend.
I'm starting to be ignored!
Doesn't it just mean that Todoroki has grown up after everything that's happened?
I understand that... but...
I'm a little lonely...
I understand how you feel,
but right now it's a critical time to suppress Orochi.
As members of Takeshi, we just have to watch over them.
Right.
I don't want to die.
I don't want to die yet!
What's wrong? Kasumi!
I just have a bad feeling...
I hope Orochi is stopped safely.
Hibiki!
Please transform.
Hibiki!
I was scared.
I was too...
Your face looked like a real Oni's.
Sorry about that, you two.
For making you come along for my training.
Training?
Fighting Makamou without transforming is training?
I wanted to show you two...
that transforming isn't what it means to be an Oni.
It's fighting against your fears.
That's what I think.
Is there something you're afraid of, Hibiki?
I'm always afraid.
That's why...
I train my hardest.
To keep living.
To keep living?
Hibiki...
There's something I want to talk about.
Even if it's just one, this is for Ibuki!
Didn't we tell you to protect the Oni?
I have my own will too. I won't be your lackey.
What?
Tell us...
What exactly are we?
What are we living for?
You don't need to think about that.
Then we'll find the answer.
By defeating the two of you!
It's okay. Leave them.
They'll die anyway.
If I don't feed them.
To think that they've become self-aware.
Poor things.
You want to take a break from Oni training?
Yes.
There's something I want to do, no matter what.
Something you want to do?
Yes.
Defeating Makamou and saving people...
I think it's amazing... but...
there is a lot more sorrow in the world...
and if I can help, then...
Didn't you say so, Hibiki?
That it's important to keep living.
I think that probably means...
that to die without regrets, you have to live life to the fullest.
Did you find another way to live life to the fullest?
Well...
What was it like when you became an Oni, Hibiki?
What should I do?
Asumu...
The path of the Oni...
is not one you can walk while hesitating.
Please wait. Hibiki!
Someone who can't decide on their own way of life...
How can they help other people?
I see.
So they've decided on tomorrow.
For the purification ceremony.
Yes.
Are you okay?
If you're not confident, you can get Hibiki to take over for you.
I'm sorry about the other day.
I'm okay now.
I may not be much of one, but I am an Oni.
Like they say, "Even an Oni can be moved to tears"?
You're good.
Promise me, Ibuki.
That you'll definitely live and come back.
Yes.
Tomorrow...
Hibiki and I will go support Ibuki.
And... I think everything will end.
End? That can't...
Ah, no! Not like that.
I mean...
everything will go well.
That's why...
when that happens... like I promised before,
please come to a hot spring with me.
Yes, of course!
I'm so happy!
Thank you.
I see...
He changed too.
Asumu.
Yeah.
Asumu said...
to die without regrets,
it's important to live life to the fullest.
I didn't have a teacher.
Even so, I became an Oni by myself.
That was always a big confidence boost.
But...
now that there's someone I want to teach,
I've realized something.
There are people who need me.
Yeah.
I got used to helping people with all my might.
That's why I became an Oni.
Help people,
and keep living my life to the fullest.
Help people,
and then keep living my life to the fullest.
For now and forever, that's how I want to live.
The greedy woodcutter...
peered impatiently at the surface of the lake.
And then... the water of the lake billowed and the goddess appeared.
The woodcutter deliberately made a worried face.
"Woodcutter, oh woodcutter..."
Adachi!
Kiriya.
You... This is what you wanted to do?
You're going to give up being an Oni for this?
Don't fool around.
Hey! Stop it!
What do you know?!
I wanted to win a proper contest against you.
But you betrayed that!
This doesn't concern you!
Hey! Stop it, you two!
I won't forgive you.
I'll never forgive you.
Adachi!
See you later.
We're counting on all of you.
Hibiki?
I think I just saw a Makamou.
Can you go take a look?
- Right! - Yes.
Huh?
They're gone...
The drumsticks.
Wait, what do you mean?!
It can't be...
Hibiki's going instead of me?!
What's wrong?
Hey...
Pull yourself together.
The answer...
Alright...
As the woodcutter looked on in shock,
a beautiful goddess appeared from within the lake.
"Woodcutter, oh woodcutter,"
"why are you so sad?"
"Well..."
"I dropped my precious axe into the lake."
Hibiki!
"Then I also dropped a silver axe."
"Please look for it again."
When the greedy woodcutter said that, the goddess said,
"What a greedy liar you are!"
Hibiki!
From then on,
the honest woodcutter did as the goddess told him,
worked very hard, and became very happy.
Words to Follow
Final Volume
Sorry for the wait.
When I met you,
we saw the morning sun on Yakushima together.
Do you remember?
Final Volume
of Tomorrow
A Dream
Final Volume: A Dream of Tomorrow.