EPISODE NINETEEN: Reconciliation

TRITHAL approaches the fallen ice-demon and holds his katana sword assasination-style over his head.

Liiche (defiantly): "Go ahead, Macha-Rei. Kill me. I'll just assimilate one of your friends... like that plant-fucker back there!"

TRITHAL: "No, Macha-Kun. Death isn't good enough for you. First, you perverted yourself by assimilating a demon... Then you deceived the people of Mount Sabretooth into going to war, resulting in many of your followers' honor-less death... including those of 7 macha; THEN you turned on your own followers at Kureganu; THEN you stooped to the level of kidnapping to try to get your way. I shall send you straight to hell."

Liiche: "You'll have to catch me first!"

A split second later, a black orb of energy bursts out of Liiche's mouth & his body begins to rapidly deteriorate. The black orb flies around the room, first trying to absorb into CHRIS without prevail, then tries AXEM, then Ali. TRITHAL then speaks in the weird language, "It's no use, Macha-Kun. Once you've assimilated a demon you can only assimilate other demons. Unfortunately for you, we killed all the other demons!" Then TRITHAL says in English, "Ali, hold him still with your energy field."

Ali reaches up and traps the black orb with a pink cloud of her own energy.

Macha-Kun (in weird language): "You bastard! If you kill me, your hands will be as dirty as mine!"

TRITHAL (in weird language): "What does it matter? Macha-Rei is dead! I am no longer bound by the code.... the very one you had forsaken over 200 years ago. And now, in the name of the gods of the elements, and the Grand Macha..."

TRITHAL extends his hands palm-forward toward the trapped black orb and recites some spell. While doing so, his eyes glow blue and an orb of blue energy eminates from his palms and builds up. As TRITHAL finished the spell, the blue energy lunges toward the black orb, which dissolves on impact. Macha-Kun is now dead.

Ali looks at TRITHAL with a caring expression, as she just witnessed him killing the entity who opressed the people of her homeland while permanently exiling himself from his own race by killing one of his own. In sympathy, she hugs TRITHAL around his neck and says, "You did the right thing. The people of this prefecture will thank you."

TRITHAL, snapping out of his momentary daze of depression, says "Ok, then. Now that's done let's carry on."

The party then discusses their next course of action. Deciding that the terrain down any other side of the mountain is too treacherous, and that Futsuka is the closest place of civilization, and that the party is too exhausted to go anywhere farther away, they decide to reign in the horse-lizzard animals and ride back to Futsuka.