The Asakusa Taoshis is the guild based in the gangster school of Umamichi Academy in Taitou. Their guildmaster is Sanzou, a current student who acts like he's their actual father. The person he calls his master Tianzun, however, is almost never around at Umamichi, and their relationship may have influenced the other members to be independent people going their own way. Some call them just a gang of hoodlums with a bad rep, but they themselves are busy doing whatever wherever, like hanging out with friends, skipping class, or being dads.
Slideshow of individual Taoshis social networks!
If there's anything all these members believe in, it would be the teachings of the Umamichi hermits: their paths are infinite and neverending. In other words, our paths are greater and bigger than the walled areas of Tokyo. People who think on a world-level scale can't understand and see all of it. Truth and lies, good and evil, life and death, none of that limits how far these paths go. They may disappear from history and memory, but the path will not. It is salvation, hope, and in one way, a thing more terrible than evil. Where does it go? Nobody knows, and that is the scariest thing of all...
Present
Phone: Ally guild Rule Makers requesting backup in large scale battle against Asakusa Taoshis and Aoyama Missionaries in Asakusa.
Barong: Time to go check it out, Newbie!
Amduscias: Uh, isn't the Missionaries where Gabriel--
Hmm, that sounds so familiar.
Asakusa
Fighting!
Gouryou: Hey Motosumi, they brought reinforcements!
Motosumi: Dammit, we got a bunch of kids to protect so we're stuck on the defensive!
Motosumi looks at the children behind them.
Taishakuten: Well don't just STAND there, dopes!
Motosumi: ...Taishakuten?
Taishakuten: Come on, it's ass kicking time!
???: HEY YOU GUYS!
Maria: Wait...
Gabriel: It's me! And look who I brought with me!
Maria: Gabriel! And the angels who ran off on us!
Ex-Missionaries: Please let us come back! We ran because we were afraid of going up against Michael, but Gabriel talked us into coming back! Please let us join again!
Tianzun: Taoshis, allow me to take care of the children. I will hide them where the eyes of this world cannot see them.
Tianzun shakes his stick, causing the children to disappear.
Children: Wow, we're invisible!
Motosumi: Hey, Old Man...I mean, Tianzun-sensei! What were you saying before about the guilds and alli--
Tianzun: You've already planted the seeds, now reach out forward in your own ways. Any by that, I mean...PARTY!
Motosumi: what
Tianzun: Fight fire with fire! The serious can't win against people having fun if that's all they have going for them. Join hands with those you know and move forward! I'mma skip on ahead, bye! (poof)
Motosumi: ...that stupid asshole! Fine, I get it! Well not really, but we just gotta do things Taoshis style, right!?
Gouryou: (calls Seth and Typhon) Hey boys, got a minute? Oink.
Li Chou: (calls Alp and Cait Sith) HEEELLLP
Motosumi: (calls Takemaru and Kagutsuchi) Hey, call everyone you know! We're having a goddamn block party!
BATTLE START (more happens later)
Gabriel: Hey, you guys! Angel Cheer!
Elsewhere in Asakusa
Barong: Nice! Get it all on camera, Newbie!
Amduscias: Senpai! D-doesn't it look like we're the bad guys here!?
Barong: Hmm, but to WHO?
Amduscias: T-to the people watching us!?
Barong: But there are no outsiders here. Everyone on stage in Tokyo is involved.
Asakusa melee
Maria: ...!
Gabriel: Maria, you look awful! What's wrong?
Maria: Sorry, I think the tension just flowed out of me.
Gabriel: You're pushing yourself too hard, liar! I'm like your other half! I can see how you really are. Jacob didn't just give you the guildmaster title. He gave you his loop memories too, didn't he?
Maria: ...he did.
Gabriel: So you're bearing the same weight the World Reps like Michael and the others ar--
Maria: ...no, I'm not.
Gabriel: What?
Maria grips her artifact tighter, enough to cut herself.
Maria: I saw the other side of things that the World Representatives didn't see.
Azathoth once showed people that everyone killed MC at one point or another. In mystery novel terms, everyone was the culprit. The World Representatives see that as them causing their worlds to loop. With no trophy to fight for, the game had to start over. They had majority power, so they could do so. That conclusion is correct, but only if you see things on the surface. Things look different to those behind the stage because the World Reps fundamentally could not see things from there. Nobody can see things from the front and back at the same time. Many can see things from perspectives not the World Representatives, like the managers, the wanderers like Jacob, and the ones who had always stood behind the stage of the game.
Yurakucho
Christine: Oof!
Beowulf: You done with your one lady villainess act yet!? Let's get her together, Wyrm!
Christine: ...Beowulf, you just called me a villainess, but isn't it true you generally plan to cut up the trophy to pieces and start the next loop? Perspective changes everything. You don't know how things look to outside watchers.
King Solomon: (stares in blank)
Beowulf: What, sour grapes or something?
Christine: Oh no, my backup is finally here.
Ahura Mazda appears and knocks Beowulf and Wyrm back!
Beowulf: OOF
Christine: Hello Entertainers ally and Garothman World Representative Ahura Mazda!
End of Episode
God I hate this psudeo intellectual bs. You can't claim "perspective changes everything," when your doing something objectively evil. This isn't Nier: Replicant.
ReplyDeleteIm just by the way. up the good work with the translations.