Chapter 23

Chapter 23 (呪縛無キ空, Jubaku naki sora) is 23rd chapter in the Twin Star Exorcists manga series.

Summary
-Finally, it will be Benio’s appraisal ceremony next evening. She’s so worried that she wears the wrong outfit (uniform over bunny kigurumi pyjamas and full exorcist outfit + mask) out twice but Rokuro keeps silent about it and only screams the second time

-At school, some classmates comment to Rokuro at Benio has been muttering charms at the cafeteria and asks if she’s alright.

-Rokuro thinks about how he has to leave his classmates and Mayura when he goes to the island. He wonders about what Mayura would do, especially when she has so much enchanted powers and she would be a good exorcist.

-Mayura turns up with a broken arm. She dismisses it as an accident when cleaning and does not tell Rokuro about it, leading Rokuro to speculate that Mayura is involved in shady business.

-Sayo comes to meet Rokuro after school ends, flanked by her bodyguards. Rokuro tries to say hi to them but kind of gets judged?

-Anyway, Sayo asks Rokuro to bring her to eat tonkotsu ramen which she loves.

-Rokuro asks if eating before dinner would make her be unable to eat dinner, but Sayo says that she has to enjoy her remaining days in Tokyo.

-Sayo also comments that happy moments pass way too fast. She hasn’t even went to half the places that she had wanted to go in Tokyo.

-Rokuro sees all the sticky notes on the Tokyo guidebook and asks Sayo to keep them. The guidebook will be useful when Sayo grows up, when there are no more impurities in this world. A world where Sayo can go around in Tokyo freely without bodyguards, which Rokuro will create for her.

-It reminds Sayo of Shimon saying: Wait, your future isn’t all darkness. It’s as free and beautiful as the sky.

-She proceeds to say things about Rokuro being her prince and that she won’t mind living longer for him.

-While waiting, Sayo’s bodyguards comment about Rokuro. Generally negative comments along the lines of being too soft, doing what he wants just because he’s a twin star and ‘if it was me i wouldn’t want to go to the island’.

-Rokuro kind of reminds Sayo of Shimon in a flashback. Shimon brings Sayo to the place that has the most beautiful scenery within the limits of the barrier that Sayo can move in.

-Shimon tells Sayo about whatever Arima told him about separating exorcist and guardian spirit. However, Arima mentioned the possibility that if all the impurities were gone, guardian spirits may disappear since their job is done.

(t/n: a lot of implications for the plot hmm… all impurities disappearing sound like may happen since Arima says it and it’s literally Rokuro’s tagline. I wonder.)

-It may sound like a dream, but if there is hope, Shimon will put his life on the line to achieve it. He promises Sayo that he will do it before she grows up.

-Flashback ends. Sayo never thought that Rokuro would say the same thing as Shimon and she feels very happy from hearing that.

-As Sayo and her bodyguards make their way to the house, the leader gets possessed by impurity.

-A Basara appears., saying something like a group of people with high enchanted powers with somebody who seem to have no enchanted power (t/n: they hid it with spells) is very noticeable

-But a week ago, this spell/barrier was undone for a while during the appraisal ceremony, so the Basara noticed Sayo’s presence in Tokyo.

-RIP literally one of the squad members who try to attack the Basara since he got ripped into half. The Basara give condition of releasing Sayo if anyone of the bodyguards can even harm it.

-Shimon wonders why nobody is not back yet at 5pm when there’s appraisal ceremony at night. He’s annoyed because he ended training earlier for this. As he stands up and walks away, the phone shows that phone call is from Arima.

-Another bodyguard bites the dust. This Basara has a habit of saying that he’s so kind btw.

-1 last bodyguard is left. The Basara let her air her grievances. She didn’t want to be an exorcist. She was forced to become exorcist just by being born on the island.

-Her final rants along the line of everyone should just die, whether exorcists, impurities.

-Sayo asks the Basara why must he do such cruel things. This is how Basara gain power with the negative feelings that humans let out before they die. So he kills the bodyguards one by one until the last one can feel most despair and he can get more power.

-The Basara holds Sayo up and asks many questions: how would her family feel if she died, how should they die,

-…and Shimon to the rescue~

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