Chapter 33: EPISODE 33: “Threadgrave Chorus”
🔺 "When the tower sings, it's not with a voice — it's with the dead."
❗ Previously on Tokyo Avengers:
Floor One was conquered — the Avengers overcame five Crimson Exaltors and shattered the tower's heart.
Now, Floor Two awaits: a cursed domain tied directly to Scarlet Onna's ancestral magic.
Her past — not a doppelgänger, not a ghost — has been physically built into this place.
[Scene 1 – Ascending the Stair of Bone]
The Avengers walk up the winding, cracked staircase of Floor One.
Each step feels like walking on snapped teeth.
At the landing, a new doorway waits — a silken archway woven from thread made of ash, humming low with vibration.
ONMYO FLARE:
"The sigils on the wall… They're musical. But wrong. They loop in impossible keys."
NEKOBURST (tail twitching):
"Feels like a haunted sewing machine had a baby with a radio."
SCARLET ONNA (pale, focused):
"These… these are spells that were banned.
'Threadgrave' was a punishment song used to silence rebels in the Crimson Needle Temple."
They step through.
[Scene 2 – Inside the Threadgrave]
They enter a massive circular chamber —
Ceiling covered in tangled thread chimes that jingle on their own.
A floor of bones stitched into a music scale.
Hanging from the air like puppets: dozens of mummified monks, all sealed with thread sigils across their lips.
🎵 Then the tower starts to sing.
A long, low humming rises — not from instruments, but from the bodies of the monks.
The entire room vibrates. Sonic pulses ripple through the floor.
STARWAVE (staggering):
"These harmonics… they're meant to kill."
BLOOD SERAPHIM (voice dripping):
"Welcome to the Chorus. One wrong move, and your heartbeat will be unraveled."
[Scene 3 – Battle Begins: The Soundbound]
Suddenly — from the stitched bodies emerge Soundbound, cursed sonic warriors wearing thread veils, armed with vibrating chain-hooks and musical-blade flutes.
Each one moves in sync with the tower's song.
They don't attack wildly — they move in rhythm, like cursed dancers.
There are ten Soundbound in total — five stay airborne, five drop to fight.
🩸 AVENGERS VS. THE SOUNDBOUND
🐺 KURO ŌKAMI
Faces a Soundbound who attacks with harmonic frequency waves using twin hook-chains.
Every strike distorts Kuro's vision and messes with his beast hearing.
He roars — shifting to Lunar Pulse Mode to shatter the air around him and cancel the frequencies.
KURO ŌKAMI (snarling):
"You're singing the wrong tune."
He leaps — claws slashing through the chain-bearer in midair.
🎤 STARWAVE
Steps onto the music-scale bone floor and syncs her footwork with the rhythm.
"If I'm going to fight a song…
I'll remix it."
She taps her heels — Tempo Override: Scatter Mode
Her kicks generate disruption shockwaves that throw the Soundbound's chorus out of tune, causing them to spiral.
She air-spins, kicks one into the ceiling threads — snap.
The corpse's melody ends.
🧧 ONMYO FLARE
Hovers above using a glyph platform —
He draws Sound-Seal Sigils midair to redirect the attacks.
The Soundbound flutist fires a burst-tone that almost cracks his ears — but Renji counters with Kanji of Silence: 静
The sonic burst is eaten by the seal — and he throws it back amplified, exploding the flute in a red pulse.
🐾 NEKOBURST
Dodges the Soundbound who flicks mono-threads like tuning forks, generating spatial pressure traps.
She teleports above him, lands on his back, and jabs her clawed heels into his shoulders.
NEKOBURST:
"You play music. I break sound barriers."
She rides him down, twisting mid-air and snapping his neck with a spin-kick.
🔮 SCARLET ONNA
She doesn't fight right away. She stares at the final monk — the only one still humming.
Her hands tremble.
"This is... Master Ayaki. My mother's teacher."
The Soundbound attacks her — and she responds by weaving a Forbidden Bloom Thread into her fingers, an ancient spell meant to grant peace to the restless.
She dodges his blade, wraps the glowing flower-thread around his throat… and pulls.
The Soundbound hums once more — then stops.
SCARLET ONNA (whispering):
"Rest now. That chorus was never yours."
[Scene 4 – The Final Note]
With all Soundbound silenced, the room ceases humming.
The thread chimes go limp. The monks disintegrate peacefully.
A set of stairs opens in the far wall — lit by a soft red glow.
A new carving appears:
🔺 FLOOR THREE: THE SINEW JAR
[Closing – What They Carry]
As they climb:
STARWAVE:
"These enemies weren't illusions. They were real. Bound. Tortured."
ONMYO FLARE:
"He's not summoning nightmares. He's repurposing suffering."
SCARLET ONNA (quietly):
"I swear, when we reach him — I'll end it. With my own thread."
They disappear into the stairwell.
🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]
EPISODE 33: "Threadgrave Chorus" — END
🩸 Next: Episode 34 – "The Sinew Jar"
Where pain is physical, and the walls pull back.