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Episode 12: “Realm of the Inhuman”
Just when the path to coexistence finally seemed within reach…
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Usami: We’ve been killing the Kalyan…?
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Jabaloma: …Yes. A number of them are strongly asserting that…
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Usami: There must be some mistake.
There are no Kalyan—or anything like them—on Earth.
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Jabaloma: However… we confirmed tears falling from their third eye. They apparently witnessed a Kalyan being killed in Tokyo…
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Mino: Tokyo…?
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Tsurugi: Cursed spirits only manifest in Tokyo.
Maru: Hoh?
Yuuka: When the Culling Game forced the government to publicly acknowledge cursed spirits, they lied and said, “Cursed spirits only appear in Tokyo.”
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Tsurugi: By limiting the outlet of cursed energy to Tokyo—where almost no one goes— they turned that lie into the truth.
Yuuka: Even then, it’s not like the chance of them appearing outside Tokyo is literally zero.
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Yuuka: That’s why…
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Yuuka: Even in Kyoto, maintaining the protective wards is essential.
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Tsurugi: And right now, the Great Purification is happening too.
Maru: The… Great what?
Yuuka: It’s a regular mass cleansing to keep cursed spirits from spilling out of Tokyo. During events like this, the wards tend to destabilize.
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Tsurugi: Students don’t get called in for the Great Purification much, huh.
Maru: Are cursed spirits really that strong?
Yuuka: It varies a lot. Way more irregular than sorcerers.
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Yuuka: With that many things crawling around, the former capital is now called this.
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Tokyo — Realm of the Inhuman
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Sorcerer A: Nice, that’s 10 points for me~
Sorcerer B: No way, that’s worth 5. It’s the same size as the one I took down earlier, isn’t it?