Shoujo Kakumei Utena Vol.5, P.133-161 P.133 (title page) narrator: Ever since that time, my hourglass has stopped moving. narrator: Someone has broken it for me. title: The Black Rose Seal P.134 narrator: I will continue searching for you. (inside a formidable-looking Ohtori building, someone is working at his computer) (he taps the mouse, and a picture of Utena and some info appear on the screen) {click} text: (on computer) The first person to manifest the power of Dios. Tenjou Utena, Ohtori Academy, junior high section 2nd year student. (a young man with long pale hair stares at the screen thoughtfully) P.135 (a video of the first duel plays) man: Saionji Kyouichi. man: Tenjou Utena. man: Victory. man: The sword of Dios. (a young boy with dark skin appears behind the young man) boy: Sempai... boy: That is Tenjou Utena, isn't it? If you defeat her you'll obtain the power of miracles. P.136 (the computer displays images of Utena and Himemiya, with the captions "rose bride" and "rose seal") boy: And there are the engaged Tenjou Utena and Himemiya Anthy together. boy: They certainly do resemble us. boy: Tenjou Utena has contined to win the duels, and now her life is revolving around Himemiya Anthy. They're even living together. boy: They look like they're having a lot of fun. It's disgusting... (beads of sweat appear on his face) man: Mamiya. (the boy collapses to the floor) man: Are you in pain? This is why I said you should stay in bed... P.137 Mamiya: I don't... want to die. Mamiya: Please, get the power of miracles for me... the power to make me immortal! Mamiya: There's no other hope for me left. (the young man embraces Mamiya) man: If my research is not enough... If dueling is the only way left, man: then I will defeat Tenjou Utena for your sake, Mamiya...! man: Without fail...... P.138 man: First, man: I must take care of that woman. (Utena pauses as she strolls through campus) Wakaba: Utena? Utena: Am I just being paranoid? Utena: Recently I've been feeling someone's eyes on my back all the time. (the young man from before appears behind a bush) Utena: That guy... Wakaba: Ehh? Hey, hey-- Wakaba: You don't know that famous guy, Utena?! [although it's always that way] Wakaba: If he's been watching you all this time, then maybe... (the young man approaches them) Wakaba: Hey, he's coming over here! I can't believe it! Kyaaaaa! P.139 man: Pardon me, Utena-san. man: I am Mikage Souji, from the high school section. Utena: ... "Mikage". (Wakaba hides behind Utena shyly) Wakaba: He's the one who runs the Mikage seminar. Wakaba: He's a college professor himself, and the members of the seminar are all supposed to be geniuses...... Mikage: I've had interest in you for quite some time. Would you like to join my seminar? Utena: Me? But I just had to do a make-up test the other day. I'm hardly...... Mikage: We also look for unique personalities. Mikage: Why don't you come to Nemuro Memorial Hall at least once to take a look...? (he waves as he walks away) Mikage: I can teach you about anything you want to know. P.140 Utena: Anything? (Utena hangs out with Miki in the library) Miki: You were invited into the Mikage seminar, Utena-san? Miki: That's strange. I was invited too, but... Utena: Miki-kun... Are you implying that I'm a moron? Miki: I'm sorry, that's not what I meant...... Miki: I refused to join, anyway. Miki: It's true that they gather a lot of intelligence there, and that Mikage-sempai knows about practically everything, Miki: but there's something eerie about that old Nemuro Memorial Hall... Utena: Eerie? (Miki pulls out a book entitled "History of Ohtori Academy") Miki: Yeah. A few decades ago, there was a fire there. 100 boys connected with some sort of secret research were all buried alive in it. Utena: Buried alive?! P.141 Miki: The person in charge of the research was a genius by the name of Professor Nemuro. (Miki points to a picture within the book of a young man with glasses and semi-long pale hair) Miki: Ah... here's a photo of him. His work was highly esteemed, and after the accident the place was rebuilt as a memorial hall in his name. Utena: Hmmm... I feel like I've seen him somewhere before... (around campus) Utena: Himemiya! Utena: Himemiya! Utena: (to some girls) Have you seen Himemiya? Chuchu: Chu! Chuu!! Utena: Chuchu... Himemiya's disappeared into thin air again. Chuchu: (pointing his little hand) Chuu! Utena: Over there...? (she looks over to the building Chuchu was pointing at) Utena: Nemuro Memorial Hall? P.142 (Mikage appears behind her) Mikage: I've been waiting for you, Utena-san. Mikage: You're searching for "the rose bride", aren't you? Utena: ...... How do you know about "the rose bride"? Mikage: There is nothing about which I do not know. Mikage: Come... I'll guide you to her. (he shows her into the building) Mikage: Welcome to Nemuro Memorial Hall. P.143 Utena: What is Himemiya doing here? Is she a member of the Mikage seminar? Mikage: No. Utena: Do you know a lot about Himemiya? Mikage: Yes. Mikage: I know all the secrets she doesn't want you to know about. Mikage: For example, where she goes when she slips out of her bed in the middle of the night...... Mikage: Utena-san? Utena: If they're secrets that Himemiya doesn't want me to know about, Utena: then I don't want to know them either. (he stares at her) P.144 Utena: Rather than the gossip of strangers, I'll believe in what comes from Himemiya's own mouth. Utena: That's what it means to be friends. Mikage: You merely want things to be the way that's convenient for you. Mikage: You refuse to see the reality. Utena: What you think is your business. I'm leaving. (he backs her against a wall) Mikage: I won't allow you to leave yet. P.145 (Anthy appears in her rose bride garb) Utena: Himemiya... why are you dressed like that? Anthy: Utena-sama... (Mikage displays the ring on his right hand) Utena: A black rose signet? Mikage: You will duel against me, Tenjou Utena. P.146 Utena: Himemiya? Anthy: He is a black rose duelist. Anthy: The black rose seal is accepted by "the end of the world". You have to fight him. Anthy: Obeying the rules of the black rose seal-- Mikage: I will defeat you in the duel, and then I will take the life of the rose bride. (Anthy fastens a dark rose onto his chest) Utena: Himemiya's life? Mikage: The power of Dios will make the secrets of eternity open to me, and then I will make Mamiya into the new rose bride. Mikage: I will give you eternal life, Mikage: Mamiya. P.147 (Mikage looks back to a figure behind him) Mikage: Now you will finally have it. Utena: This is nonsense!! Utena: I don't understand what you're saying!! Mikage: We will both stake our lives on this battle! Mikage: For that is...... Mikage: the law of the black rose seal!! (their swords clash) P.148 Utena: Why do you have to go that far? Why? Mikage: For a long time... I have been pursuing research into eternity. Mikage: But one of the experiments went wrong, and the building caught on fire... Utena: "Fire"? Mikage: 100 boys were sacrificed. Mikage: I alone managed to dig myself out of the ground, despite my injuries. Utena: "100 boys"? P.149 (as the duel continues, Utena recalls the book Miki showed her in the library) Utena: You're... Professor Nemuro?! It can't be..! Utena: Why...... haven't you aged?! What are you?? Mikage: What am I? I hardly know myself. Mikage: On the night of the fire, I was given the black rose seal by "the end of the world". Mikage: Ever since that moment, I've been different. P.150 Mikage: I was told "continue your research". Mikage: The photos of the 100 boys were hung on the wall, Mikage: so that I wouldn't forget their sacrifice. So said "the end of the world". Mikage: There has been only one hope remaining to me... that I might save Mamiya's life. (a tear glistens in his eye) Mikage: I've continued my research, thinking only of that, Mikage: alone for the past several decades... Utena: For the past several decades...? Utena: What has Mamiya been doing during all that time? He didn't age either?! (Mikage strikes at Utena fiercely) P.151 (she falls to the floor) Mikage: The victory is mine-- (he stares at a photograph on the wall, just above Utena's head) Mikage: Mamiya... P.152 Utena: (pointing to the photo) This is "Mamiya"? Utena: On the wall of the 100 dead boys...? Utena: ! Mamiya, is dead? Utena: He died in the fire with the rest of them, several decades ago? Mikage: Mamiya... P.153 (Mikage clutches at his head) Mikage: ?! Utena: ! (Utena takes the opportunity to attack) Anthy: Utena-sama! Utena: Himemiya...! You don't see Mamiya here either, do you? Utena: Mamiya is gone. Utena: He exists only in your delusions. P.154 Mikage: In my delusions-- (he clutches his head) Mikage: Ah... Mikage: That's right. I've been alone for all these years...!! Mikage: I've known that deep down. Mikage: But somewhere along the way, I started to deceive myself...!! P.155 Utena: ..... Mikage-sempai... (Anthy kneels down to comfort Mikage) Utena: I'm sure that it was an illusion necessary for you to go on living, but surely... Utena: your strings are being pulled by "the end of the world"... Mikage: My beloved Mamiya is dead. It's my fault. Mikage: Therefore...... (Mikage grabs Anthy, and holds his sword to her throat) Mikage: I will bring him back to life, Mikage: by killing the rose bride and obtaining the power of miracles. P.156 Utena: Himemiya...... Utena: [I won't let you...!] (she lunges) Mikage: That... which I had been waiting for, (Utena's sword strikes through him) Mikage: you have P.157 Mikage: given to me. Mikage: You have destroyed my hourglass which had gone mad. P.158 (the hourglass shatters on the floor, blood spills, and rose petals fall) (Nemuro Hall begins to crumble) Anthy: Utena-sama, the roof...! We have to flee! It's collapsing!! P.159 Utena: Mikage-sempai, hurry and come with us...! (he leans against the wall of pictures, with a hand over his wound) Mikage: Thank you. Because of you, Mikage: I am finally... Mikage: with Mamiya... (he smiles, as Mamiya's spirit surrounds him) P.160 Utena: Mikage-sempa...! (the building crumbles to the ground) (Ohtori students and teachers gather around) students: That building was very old. But still why so suddenly...? students: I heard that Mikage-kun is missing... students: Poor guy... (a hand reaches down to pick up a ring from the ground) P.161 (Utena stares at Mikage's black rose seal) Anthy: ... Utena-sama. (Anthy takes Utena's hand in hers)