Purification of Izanagi

"… we did the same with the bodies of the mercenaries that Mukibutsu killed as witnesses. We continued working on it…"

"What!? How could you!?"

"First, we’d to keep an eye on Takeshi's fate…" Great-grandfather replied.

"Second, it was our job as… spies for the Sun Guardians." Great-grandmother finished, as if lifting a weight off her shoulders.

"Spies? I can't believe it!"

"It's true."

Suddenly, Keshita's mother's consciousness joined the conversation.

"Mother! But then why…"

"You didn't know? You were still young to be the head of an organization. It was too important a secret. Before we could pass it on…"

"We were killed in front of your little sisters… But they weren't the only ones we could hide. We took that secret with us to the grave."

"And all this time…" Keshita continued.

"Yes…" Miku's grandfather picked up the baton.

"…we took over from our parents…" Grandma continued.

"…then it was our turn." Miku's parents finished.

"It can't be…"

"It was during our 'shift' that Takeshi's consciousness was copied and Ningen was created. They ordered the head to be destroyed, but we suggested sewing it onto one of the bodies…"

"What a horror, father!" Miku's consciousness began to swoon.

"We’d no other option to save Takeshi… Then the experiment failed, Shuichi Yamanaka left the room terribly upset, but in the end he was glad that the head of the Sun Guardians would not return." The mother justified herself.

"…we couldn't come to terms with this and continued using the defibrillator, when suddenly Takeshi came back to life! We screamed and thought we’d gone crazy."

"They heard us, and Takeshi was in shock after the resuscitation, so we administered tranquilizers. And to make it more convincing…"

"They threw his body in the human body dump… that day…"

"It was you!"

Miku remembered that fateful night and the dark silhouette in the forest during the thunderstorm.

"Yes…"

"But you… should have been at least a little older?"

"Probably the effects of cryosleep and the substances we tested on him."

"How much you’d to endure, son…"

"The worthiest representative of Miyata!"

Both families finally came to an agreement.

"But what happened to you?"

Miku looked sadly at her parents.

"Takeshi was the first. But Mukibutsu had extensive plans for… the dead. As your grandparents, who gave their lives for this information, found out, Ikari Sanno was in charge of Mukibutsu in the shadows." "How much evil did he bring…"

Miku gritted her teeth and looked haggard, not wanting to remember, but raised her head, wanting to know the truth to the end.

"Go on, mother…"

"Allow me, daughter… Our family has lived near Aokigahara since time immemorial, that's why we’ve such a surname. But after this beautiful forest earned a reputation as a suicide forest… we cursed 'Aoki', which has nothing to do with pure blue! Mukibutsu had 'gatherers'…"

"Rest, dear. The job of the gatherers was… to collect corpses from the suicide forest. But after that, even that wasn’t enough. Mukibutsu expanded the area of ​​'work' of the gatherers and entered the black market, and as a result…"

An incredible-sized dump of human bodies. That's what everyone saw in the space of consciousness, closing their eyes, unable to bear it.

"I don't know if Sanno did this on the orders of that… Izanami? But at some point, the experiments went too far. Even by the standards of all this horror." The mother continued.

"Mukibutsu fully justified their name 'inorganic life'. They tried to create a hybrid of thousands and thousands of people, planning to use it as a weapon in this war, but we…" The father helped.

"Stopped them."
Miku said, looking at the last memories of her parents.

The well-prepared and long-planned operation finally came to an end. The Aoki waited for the moment and burned all the "reserves" of bodies, carrying out the largest cremation in history.

Miku saw how her parents folded their palms in prayer in front of a giant column of smoke when the Mukibutsu soldiers shot them. The girl cried along with them, and when she turned around, no one was there except Keshita.

"Where…"

"…Everyone?"
Izanami suddenly intervened.

She took the form of an eye in the darkness, from which a bony hand reached out to Miku.

"It seems like the bugs have forgotten their place!"

"But you wanted to connect the worlds of the dead and the living, so why are you separating us again!?" Miku screamed.

"Shh, I'm the law here!"

"Just like back in Shibuya!" Keshita remembered. "Now it's my turn to save you, Miku!!!"

He covered her with his body and hugged her tightly.

"I wanted to say…I still like your last name, Aoki. Those blue eyes don't seem so cold anymore, haha."

Miku started crying.

"Now is not the time for jokes!"

"I believe the sky will definitely turn bright blue again!" The giant bone hand approached the couple and was about to grab them, Keshita extended his hand, protecting Miku. The beads on the wrist clicked loudly, Izanami's palm stopped.

"!?"

"Why did it stop?" Miku opened her eyes slightly.

"Just like that time with the sound of the bells!"

Keshita shook the beads again and again, the bone hand at first returned back, but then suddenly attacked.

Tamiya felt a familiar feeling inside.

"I, Takeshi Miyata, who became Keshita Tamiya, didn’t walk this path to die and fade into darkness!"

The black curtain around the bone hand was filled with the changing memories that Keshita and Miku had gone through together.

The will resonated with the magatama beads, and light suddenly poured out from within them. At the same time, a ray of light broke through from outside…

"Saigo no Kibo no Hikari! The Last Ray of Hope!"

Came from the bottom of the Abyss. Ami's last will and the Amaterasu technique. Having broken through to the core of the Abyss of Evolution, Ami absorbed it. The two "stars" merged into one and collapsed. Ami was able to reach the Sun.

"I-Impossible!"
The Sakura of Death shuddered — the final form of Izanami.

An incredibly large prominence flared up on the surface of the Sun, emitting a powerful stream of sunlight a few minutes before Ami landed on the bottom.

Izanami formed a titanic hand woven from branches and directed it towards the Moon, holding it in place with gravity, Tokyo shook to its foundations, a new powerful earthquake began. By that time, in front of the far side of the moon, many of the Mukibutsu satellites and more had formed a giant magnifying lens, amplifying the flow of sunlight.

"Tsuki no Kokoro. Heart of the Moon."

Yomi used his technique, reactivating the blades of "Fujiyama" and forming a second magnifying lens in front of the front side of the moon from the fragments launched into space.

"Arashi no Wakare no Odori~ Farewell Dance of the Storms."

Sanno, dying, also decided to help, tearing one hand from the captivity of the roots, and lifting it into the air and spinning it. He caused a powerful tornado, simultaneously freeing the sky and enveloping the Sakura of Death in a storm.

Yomi used the accumulated energy from the Abyss to recreate the petals of Haku between the ribs. The translucent part passed the energy flow from the bottom sent by Ami, amplifying and refracting it towards Izanami. At the same time, a stream of light from the Mukibutsu satellites pierced the Moon and, breaking out, passed through a similar lens of Yomi, receiving a second increase.

"Dai Mitsu Domoe!
Three Great Tomoe!"

A sunbeam from space pierced the palm of Sakura of Death and passed through. It was refracted by Fujiyama Yomi, combining with the radiation from the Abyss, and reflected back at Izanami.

"No-o-o!"
Izanami howled, incinerating and cursing this world again.

The tree burst into flames, disintegrating. Miku woke up, felt an iron taste in her mouth, and saw Keshita.

"Glad you're back."

"F-forgive me!" She immediately began to cry.

Keshita was able to recover and immediately ran into the very heat, noticing the melting black magatama.

"Where are you going!?"

"I have to save my sister!" A silhouette fading into the fire was heard.

Biku suddenly came to his senses and stopped attacking Jutsu, then fell to his knees, screaming in horror.

Kamiko was thrown back the moment Yomi began to rotate the blades again. She was almost blinded by the light emitted by "Fujiyama". Coming to her senses, she noticed a tsunami rushing towards them and ordered an evacuation.

A giant wave extinguished the fire, washing away all the blood mixed with ash into the Abyss, filling it and turning it into what would later be called…

Cocytus, the Lake of Sorrows.