Yomi no Kuni: Land of the Dead

Anger distorted Ami's face.

"N-no way… you actually did this!?"

"K-Keshita…" Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard in the middle of the sea of ​​blood.

He turned around and noticed Miku's hand reaching out to him.

"Y-you're alive!? Miku!"

Keshita immediately ran up to her, to help her get out of the sea, but suddenly felt a blade piercing his back.

"M-Miku!?" He looked into her eyes. "Izanami! Damn you!!!"

"She… has wrapped her roots around almost the entire Earth and… is 'resurrecting' the dead all over the planet!" Ami said in shock.

"Madness, madness, madness!!!" Omosa was perplexed.

"How is this possible?" Itsuki himself didn’t believe what he saw on the screen.

"She's my mother… that's why it's easier for me to penetrate her consciousness, although I can't see everything. Izanami has already reached Mikhail, who has captured the deadly MORS virus. The entire planet now belongs to her!"

"She uses information from all possible sources in conjunction with SAI to restore people's personalities, and the remaining DNA of the dead is used for the biological shell!" Itsuki analyzed the data.

"Hey, why are you frozen!?" Kamiko ran up, out of breath. "I bought you so much time, and you…"

Soda read their thoughts and froze in horror.

"She's even trying to recreate those from whom there is practically no information or biological material left…"

Suddenly, a powerful explosion was heard nearby, the guys took cover in the hole created by Omosa a moment earlier. Itsuki sent the device out for reconnaissance. An even more distorted resurrected Buki was emerging from the bloody sea.

"Toshi! W-what did she do to him!?" Jutsu exclaimed.

"I'll take him on!" Omosa went forward.

"No, he'll just shoot you in ranged combat… I can handle it." Itsuki objected.

Kamiko wanted to stop him, but looking at his back, she realized that it was better to wish.

"Good luck! Be careful!"

Ami rushed to the Sarcophagus and finally approached one of the ribs and ran along it, examining the Izanami tree. But she also noticed her daughter and attacked with everything in sight: sharp giant petals, thorns, branches and roots. And she also used a deafening sound. Ami covered her ears, while Kamiko and Omosa continued to cover her from the projectiles. But there were too many projectiles, and then Yomi decided to intervene.

He spun part of the ribs, creating a magnetic field. With its help, Yomi raised fallen pieces of mirror from the ground and threw them straight at the tree. Along the way, they cut through roots, branches and petals. But Izanami used a powerful gravitational field, distorting their trajectory, and they flew into the upper layers of the atmosphere.

Ami ran to the top and prepared to carry out her plan, but Izanami was too persistent and attacked from all sides. From below, the onslaught of roots was held back by Yomi, she was able to cut some in the air herself, using Kusanagi, but her back was left open, which Izanami took advantage of. Ami turned around, sensing danger, but it was too late.

"Watch out!"

At the last moment, Jan covered her with his healthy body, beating off the roots and branches with powerful fists reinforced with metal cables. But the branch only split, sharpening itself, and pierced Omosa, tearing him into pieces.

"Nooooo!" Ami extended her hand.

The sharpened tip of the Izanami tree branch touched Ami's finger.

"Finally, the three of them are gathered. Susanoo…"

Ningen's headless body grabbed Sanno and brought him straight to the sea of ​​blood.

"…Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu. It's time to go home to…

…Yomi no Kuni!"

Suddenly, the clouds opened up, revealing Mukibutsu helicopters. The 'night' sky opened up with a full moon that had appeared during Obon, although in reality it was still daytime. But the dense vapors emanating from the tree and forming a fog up to the sky refracted and absorbed the light.

The moon had time to make another revolution to appear here during the day, due to the changed gravitational field of the Earth after the explosion. The full moon eclipsed the sun, completely weakening Ami.

"Everything is in its place!"
Izanami continued.
"Welcome to the world of Darkness.
Shi no Hana! The Blooming of Death!"

The blooming and scattering petals Sakura of Death simultaneously delighted and scared to death. Izanami's resurrection in this world was accompanied by the uprising of millions… billions of people from the graves and beyond. The goddess learned perfect synthesis, capable of using energy to transform one atom into another - like in the stars.

"Yomi…"

Bleeding, Ami lay on top of the destroyed Sarcophagus.

"…this is the end…"

"No, Ami! You never gave up!" Her husband appealed to her essence. "You were able to return my soul! You can return the soul of the planet too!"

"The sun no longer answers my call… And the moon…"

"To hell with it! I'm ready for anything!"

"Our thoughts are intertwined… This is suicide… I don't want to lose you again!.. We were born to save them… You're right. But we’ll always love each other, right?"

"Yes… Even after death."

Ami threw herself from the top, as she did on Everest, straight into the Abyss, from which the living dead and the spawn of Yomi no Kuni emerged.

"How sad, my daughter… you decided to hide from the whole world in a dark cave again. This time forever."

Blood gushed from Keshita's back. He couldn't hurt Miku, even if she was an empty shell created by Izanami.

Tamiya kissed Aoki, wanting to bring her back from the bonds of sleep, like in a fairy tale.

Keshita continued to believe that he could bring her back, every time she stuck the blade into his back.

Suddenly, something stopped the blade, Keshita looked back and was shocked.

"M-Mom?"

His mother, formed by the sea of ​​Lilith's blood, held Miku's blade back with her bare hands, but she was too strong, and the blade was approaching Keshita again. To help his mother came…

"Father? What are you doing here!?"

But even that wasn't enough, then more and more relatives rose up to help Keshita, merging into a single mass.

"Grandmother! Grandfather! Great-grandfather! What's going on!?"

"Takeshi… you've grown so strong…"

"… and brave!" Father added.

"…a man." The mother finished.

"How are Kamiko and Fumiko?" The grandparents asked, smiling.

"G-good!" Keshita smiled, sobbing, not wanting to lie. "I'm so glad to see you!!!"

Suddenly, the blade began to move again, someone's new hands began to help push it from Miku's side.

"Who are you!?"

Keshita looked around, seeing a middle-aged man on one side and a woman of the same age on the other.

"We’ll help you…

darling."

"M-m-mother!!! D-d-daddy!!!"

The older generations followed them, joining in the help.

Unexpectedly, Miku came to her senses, sobbing and clenching her teeth.

"You died!?"

Keshita didn’t even understand at first and was speechless.

An incredible depth of pain and shock pulled Miku, and along with her, Keshita, into the memories of the Aoki clan.

"It's… you, Keshita! Kamiko was right."

Floating in the space of consciousness, Miku pointed to Takeshi's body in the hospital bed.

"Yeah… when would I Takeshi."

"But this equipment is from the last century!"

"I-it's a little sad, great-granddaughter."

"Eh?"

Miku was embarrassed, since she knew nothing about her great-grandfather and great-grandmother, since they died before she was born.

"Right, we haven't met yet. Kazumi."

"Makoto."

Her grandmother also introduced herself.

"Miku. What? Your names are like my mom and dad, only… switched."

"That happened a lot in our family, heh-heh."

Great-grandmother laughed.

"Pleased to meet you, even under such unusual circumstances…"

"Yes, that's about it… What did you do to Ke… Takeshi?"

"Miku, you don't have to…"

Keshita tried to stop her.

"I have to find out the truth! Have you forgotten?"

"You don't have to anymore…"

Tried to save Keshita, but then he realized.

"Sorry. You're right."

Miku suddenly realized something that was right in front of her.

"G-great-grandfather!?"

"?"

"Impossible! Who did Kamiko mean then? Keshita, how old are you!?"

"That's the thing… Back then, Makoto and I were working for Mukibutsu, but at some point they took a wrong turn… We continued working with them until the Takeshi incident. Then, only his head was left alive, they wanted to use it for experiments, but we… hm, hm!"

Great-grandfather couldn't clear his throat, remembering the hard times. Makoto continued for him.

"They could have resurrected us young! He-he-he. Anyway… we decided to protect Takeshi and suggested plunging his head into a kind of cryosleep along with a drug-induced coma until 'better' times…"

A dream that lasts for decades.