Chapter 36: EPISODE 36: “Blood Seraphim’s Vow”
🔺 "The tower was never built. It was spoken into existence by a single promise."
❗ Previously on Tokyo Avengers:
The team conquered Floor 4: Red Marriage, where Scarlet Onna faced the spectral Bride of the Abyss.
But as the chapel crumbled, a new floor opened — not a room, but a realm.
The Avengers now ascend into the final ceremony.
[Scene 1 – The Hall of Lies]
They step into a vast crimson hall.
The air buzzes. The floor is covered in ritual scrolls, each one whispering lies.
The walls shift endlessly, flickering between visions:
S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ burning.
Scarlet Onna alone in her childhood home.
Kuro tearing through civilians.
Nekoburst's claws stained with blood.
Starwave on stage — performing for corpses.
Renji's blades shattered, surrounded by his slain mentors.
ONMYO FLARE (narrowing his eyes):
"These are illusion bindings. But they shouldn't be this strong."
SCARLET ONNA:
"They're not illusions. They're attempts. He's trying to rewrite us."
The floor beneath them collapses.
They fall—
[Scene 2 – The Abyss Ceremony Begins]
The Avengers land in a giant inverted ritual ring, carved into the stomach of the tower.
There's no floor. They're standing on a pulsing magic glyph of floating stitches and runes.
At the center is BLOOD SERAPHIM —
Not yet fully formed.
Not yet god.
But more than human.
He floats, wrapped in thousands of blood-threads, suspended like a cocoon.
A heartbeat echoes — not from him… but from the tower itself.
BLOOD SERAPHIM (calm, cold):
"I vowed to become the final bloom of power.
To unmake death.
To create a world where memory never fades."
NEKOBURST (snarling):
"You stitched corpses together and called it heaven."
[Scene 3 – The Binding Battle]
Blood Seraphim snaps his fingers.
Dozens of bloodthread constructs emerge — living needles, blade familiars, puppets of former cultists.
🎤 STARWAVE
Spins through the constructs with Tempo Nova Kick, her heels unleashing rhythmic shockwaves.
One blood puppet mimics her form —
She double-kicks through its core, using Tempo Disrupt to desync its fake rhythm.
🐺 KURO ŌKAMI
Goes beast-mode early — Full Moon Surge activated.
He rips through the blood-chains like a rabid spirit wolf, dodging thread spears and mauling corrupted monks with savage precision.
🧧 ONMYO FLARE
Conjures Five Blade Seals, forming a star around Blood Seraphim's glyph ring, trying to collapse the ritual.
"I don't care what you want. This spell ends here."
Seraphim laughs — and bends the sigils, hijacking two of them.
[Scene 4 – Scarlet Onna's Choice]
Blood Seraphim turns to her, gently.
BLOOD SERAPHIM:
"You're the last descendant. The red thread is yours. Join me. Stitch the end of death."
SCARLET ONNA:
"I won't save the world by butchering it."
She begins weaving a new spell — one she invented.
Not a seal. Not a curse.
A counter-vow.
"If you stitch, I'll cut.
If you bind, I'll burn.
If you call yourself god—
—Then I'm the hand that pulls the thread."
She launches the Unbinding Sigil: THREAD ZERO, slicing toward his cocoon.
[Scene 5 – The Tower Cracks]
The spell hits. Blood Seraphim screams.
The glyph ring shatters.
The false sky of the tower bleeds open.
The cocoon rips apart — revealing not a god…
…but a broken man held together by stolen magic.
He collapses to one knee.
BLOOD SERAPHIM (snarling):
"You've delayed me. But the bloom...
will come."
[Scene 6 – Revelation: The Tower is Lying]
Suddenly, the tower groans — and rewinds itself slightly.
They're all lifted back to the starting position — the center of the ritual floor — as if the entire battle was a testing loop.
ONMYO FLARE (shocked):
"That wasn't the final floor. He was measuring our resistance."
SCARLET ONNA:
"How many floors are there really?"
A new glyph burns into the wall:
"🔺 FLOOR 5: STILLBIRTH ALTAR"
BLOOD SERAPHIM (whispering):
"You've rejected my vow.
Now face what I birthed."
🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]
EPISODE 36: "Blood Seraphim's Vow" — END
🩸 Next: Episode 37 – "Stillbirth Altar"
Where the first child of the Scarlet Tower lives... and it has no name.