Chapter 66: EPISODE 66 — “Echoes from the Tenth”
"What was sealed can be broken. What was forgotten… never should've existed."
Previously:
Kuro, Heartlight, and Xylo completed the three sacred trials to unlock the Ninth Seal deep beneath Tokyo.
But as the seal broke, a chilling truth was revealed:
There was a Tenth Entity — never sealed, never spoken of — only erased from time.
Now, its influence is leaking into the city above.
🎬 [ACT I — Silent Tremors, Screaming Skies]
Scene: Tokyo — Early Morning
The city seems normal… but it's not.
Traffic lights flicker in reverse.
Birds fly in perfect geometric shapes.
People walk... but their reflections don't move.
CITIZEN (to his friend):
"Hey, did we have this conversation already?"
FRIEND (glassy-eyed):
"We always do."
Meanwhile, in the Avengers base:
Scarlet Onna's threads twist violently, out of sync. Her sigils crack.
SCARLET ONNA (shaken):
"Time loops are forming. But they aren't natural."
Nekoburst is mid-stretch, when she blinks and finds herself upside down, on the ceiling.
NEKOBURST:
"Nope. Nope. This ain't gravity's fault. This is demon s**t."
ONMYO FLARE (chanting over a scroll):
"The Tenth… is not of this world."
STARWAVE (nervously adjusting her boots):
"Did we just invite something in that even Mephisto didn't wanna mess with?"
🎬 [ACT II — Fragmented Reality]
Scene: Seal Temple – Twilight
The altar where the Ninth Seal broke is now fracturing the world. Floating kanji twist into errors, like corrupted language. The Warden of Silence stands still — bleeding glyphs, eyes closed.
Suddenly, the air splits like glass. And something crawls through:
A being wrapped in blinding void threads, covered in half-formed faces, mouths whispering ancient prayers in reverse.
XYLO (staring, fists clenched):
"That's not a person."
HEARTLIGHT:
"It's not even an idea. It's a mistake."
The Tenth Entity has no name. So the team gives it one:
✴️ NULLPRIEST
KURO (claws out, voice low):
"Nullpriest."
Nullpriest levitates, and as he does, the ground beneath Tokyo begins rewriting itself. Buildings start rearranging, people lose names mid-sentence, radios broadcast screams in musical scales.
He whispers — and Xylo suddenly collapses, coughing up ink.
STARWAVE:
"Xylo!"
SCARLET ONNA:
"He's losing his identity. It's unraveling him."
🎬 [ACT III — Counterstrike]
Kuro howls and charges — full lunar beast form — claws slashing.
But Nullpriest phases sideways through space like a concept, not a body. He brushes past Kuro — and the wolf collapses, temporarily shifting into his child form, memories shattered.
NEKOBURST (furious):
"I'm done with this freak."
She teleports in short bursts, launching a flurry of claw kicks and piercing heel strikes. One finally connects — and it rips away a face from Nullpriest's robes.
THE FACE (screaming):
"Remember me—?!"
NEKOBURST (cold):
"No."
Heartlight holds Kuro steady as Starwave begins charging her sonic rhythm.
STARWAVE:
"I don't care what you are.
Music's still louder than memory."
She slams her heels and triggers a shockwave in five tempo bursts — each frequency tuned to burn through dimensional distortion.
STARWAVE:
"Echo Pulse — FULL VOLT!"
The sound waves tear across Nullpriest. For a moment, its movements falter — and a child's voice inside it screams:
CHILD'S VOICE:
"Let me out…"
HEARTLIGHT (realizing):
"There's someone trapped inside."
🎬 [ACT IV — The Unraveling]
Scene: Tokyo Sky
Onmyo Flare begins casting the Sealing Flame Array, a rare spell meant to freeze conceptual beings.
ONMYO FLARE (chanting):
"East of sun, west of silence — bind the wordless, seal the ageless!"
Scarlet Onna wraps Nullpriest in blood-imbued threads, sealing runes stitched with her own skin.
The spell completes.
For a breath… silence.
Then—
Nullpriest shatters the array like glass.
It explodes outward. Kuro, Xylo, and Nekoburst are thrown back.
Scarlet Onna falls, her threads burned.
STARWAVE (voice trembling):
"This thing doesn't obey rules. It ISN'T a rule."
🎬 [ENDING SCENE — The Price of Memory]
NULLPRIEST (in multiple voices):
"You forget me again and again.
But I remember all of you."
He vanishes — not teleports, vanishes — like a memory overwritten.
Suddenly, the Avengers forget what just happened for three seconds.
HEARTLIGHT (looking around):
"Wait… why do I feel cold?"
XYLO (wiping ink from his mouth):
"He can steal time. Not just names."
Kuro leans against the altar, shaking.
KURO:
"If we don't stop him… we'll forget who we are."
💠 END CARD — TOKYO AVENGERS
EPISODE 66: "Echoes from the Tenth" — END
🩸 Next: Episode 67 – "Nullpoint Collapse"
Tokyo begins to disappear — block by block, idea by idea. The Avengers must split to defend what remains before their own names vanish from existence.