🕯️ [Scene 1 – Kyoto, Abandoned Needle Shrine]
In the heart of a collapsed forest temple, a ceremonial altar cracks open. Red threads writhe like snakes from the soil. A single whisper slithers from the dark:
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"Bloodline… returned…"
A pair of glowing red eyes blink open in the earth—followed by long, tangled hair made of frayed cursed stitchwork.
🎬 [Scene 2 – Break Academy, Dawn]
The Tokyo Avengers awaken to emergency alarms. Scarlet Onna stumbles from her room, threads unraveling from her sleeves like they've been chewed apart.
KURO ŌKAMI:
"Sayo… what happened?"
SCARLET ONNA (dazed):
"I… stitched a memory scroll last night. But… it's gone. Like something ate it out of my head."
ONMYO FLARE (gravely):
"A curse that devours memory-thread. Only one spirit does that."
STARWAVE (tense):
"What kind of spirit?"
ONMYO FLARE:
"An Akai-Ori. A Thread-Eater."
🕸️ [Scene 3 – Mission Briefing]
ONMYO FLARE:
"It was born in the Warring States era—created from hundreds of battlefield deaths. It devours memory-based curses… and the weavers who carry them."
SCARLET ONNA (quiet):
"Which means it's after me."
STARWAVE (angrily):
"Then we go after it."
🏮 [Scene 4 – Return to Kyoto]
The Avengers travel to the ruins of the Himetsuru Needle Shrine, once home to generations of Spirit Weavers. The wind carries broken prayer chants. Scarlet Onna walks alone to the shattered altar, where blood-red needles float midair.
SCARLET ONNA (whispers):
"This is where my mother sealed it… with her life."
A sudden shriek tears through the shrine. The floor collapses. She falls into a catacomb of glowing thread-veins pulsing through stone—like a beating heart.
👁️ [Scene 5 – Underground Battle: The Thread-Eater]
THE AKAI-ORI emerges: a grotesque, feminine humanoid made of unraveling kimono fabric, stitched faces, and hundreds of blood-soaked needles for teeth.
AKAI-ORI (in multiple voices):
"Scarlet blood… mother's seal… daughter's thread…"
It lashes at her. Each strike rips a piece of her memory—causing her to stumble as she forgets how to counter, or why she's even here.
SCARLET ONNA:
"I can't… remember the spell…"
⚔️ [Scene 6 – Avengers Descend]
Kuro Ōkami crashes down like a silver meteor, clawing at the thread-maw.
Onmyo Flare casts Blazing Stitch Binders, flame-weaving into cursed kanji.
Starwave uses Sonic Needle Pulse kicks to break open the catacomb wall.
STARWAVE:
"We're not letting it eat you too!"
But the spirit grabs her mic arm—her own threads begin unraveling from the inside.
🧵 [Scene 7 – Memory Stitch: The Last Thread]
Sayo closes her eyes. In her mind: a young version of herself stitching by her mother's side.
MOTHER (softly):
"Never bind just for battle. Stitch for the ones you love. A single bond is stronger than a thousand weapons."
She opens her eyes, hands glowing crimson.
SCARLET ONNA:
"Then I'll stitch you shut forever."
She activates her ultimate:
🎴 "THREADLOCK: BLOOD KASANE"
She loops her thread through time itself—stitching old sealing spells her ancestors once used.
Threads pierce the spirit's mouth, binding its many voices.
She weaves the kanji for 縁 (EN – Connection) and slams it into the heart of the cave.
AKAI-ORI (gurgling):
"No… not again… I was… part of—!"
It dissolves into ash and floating red thread petals.
🩹 [Scene 8 – Aftermath: Shrine Rebound]
The team patches their wounds inside the shrine's ruins. Sayo holds a thread bracelet made from what's left of the Akai-Ori.
ONMYO FLARE:
"It's dead. But some of its curses… still linger."
SCARLET ONNA (resolute):
"I'll carry the thread. But I'll choose where it leads."
KURO ŌKAMI (smiling):
"That's the strongest stitch you've ever made."
🕳️ [Final Scene – VANQUISH Surveillance Chamber]
A scientist in a red coat analyzes the fight footage.
VANQUISH AGENT:
"They survived even that. She's more dangerous than we estimated."
COMMANDER (off-screen):
"No… she's exactly what we need."
They open a case. Inside: a preserved silk heart sealed with Himetsuru family thread… still pulsing.
🎴 [End Card – Tokyo Avengers]
EPISODE 8: "Ashes in the Thread" — END
🌀 Next Time: Episode 9 — "Hollow Claws"
A shadow-lurking assassin targets Kuro Ōkami, wielding cursed beast bone weapons designed to rip apart lunar physiology. It's hunter vs. hunted.
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