Chapter 23: EPISODE 23: “Threads of the Forgotten”
☁️ [Scene 1 – The Training Courtyard, Break Academy, Just Before Dawn]
The early sky is bruised with static clouds. The courtyard, normally peaceful, flickers with lingering distortions. The Avengers stand in a protective formation. Each holds a sealed memory sigil — small scrolls wrapped in charms to resist Null's erasure.
ONMYO FLARE (drawing sigils):
"These memory anchors will help keep our minds intact. But they're temporary. The more you rely on emotion or instinct — the weaker the sigil becomes."
SCARLET ONNA (cold):
"Then we don't just fight with power anymore. We fight with who we are."
STARWAVE (sarcastic):
"Great. My personality is my weapon now? We're all screwed."
KURO ŌKAMI:
"I'll remember all of you. Even if the world forgets."
📍 [Scene 2 – Suginami Ward: Missing Zone]
The group splits into partners again, targeting one of the highest 'memory loss' hot spots in Tokyo.
👥 Team 1: Starwave & Onmyo Flare
They sneak through a school where every student and teacher is now gone. Their desks remain. Name tags faded. Hallways echo with whispered lectures from forgotten voices.
STARWAVE (holding a cracked ID badge):
"This school sponsored my first idol event. They loved me. Now it's… dust."
They enter the auditorium. The ceiling collapses — and a Memory Phantom, wearing a veil of report cards and childhood drawings, emerges.
ONMYO FLARE (casting quick scroll):
"Binding seal — HIBANA!"
He throws flame charms that explode around the phantom.
But it copies his voice.
PHANTOM (mocking):
"Flare. Forgotten. Flame. Flicker. Fading..."
STARWAVE (rage-kick):
"SHUT UP!"
She launches a resonance tempo crash, clearing the echo. But Onmyo Flare is visibly shaken.
ONMYO FLARE:
"That voice. It used my childhood name. One I haven't said in years…"
🧵 Team 2: Kuro Ōkami & Scarlet Onna
They track a memory bleed inside a textile warehouse. Threads unravel mid-air. The looms keep moving — weaving people's names into cloth that vanishes when touched.
SCARLET ONNA (softly):
"These are birth-names. Threads of lives already erased."
Suddenly, a glitch opens — and a monster appears, stitched together from lost garments, photos, name tags, and toy fabrics.
KURO ŌKAMI (claws ready):
"No mercy."
The beast swings a giant scarf-arm and knocks Kuro across the warehouse.
SCARLET ONNA (eyes wide):
"Wait—Kuro, it's wearing your jacket!"
The beast has absorbed his first uniform, and is now moving like him.
Kuro growls, forces himself upright, and activates Beast Surge: Midnight Howl Mode.
He dashes and tears the mimic apart — but he hesitates at the last moment.
The mimic smiles, wearing his childhood face.
Kuro drops to one knee.
KURO ŌKAMI (panting):
"That wasn't just memory. That was me."
🧠 [Scene 3 – Break Academy, Memory Crisis]
Back at HQ, all four return—clearly shaken.
Starwave can't remember one of her own album names.
Onmyo Flare forgets how to activate a basic flame charm.
Scarlet Onna finds one of her threads unraveling permanently.
Kuro Ōkami looks in the mirror… and doesn't recognize his face for a moment.
ONMYO FLARE:
"We're breaking. Bit by bit."
SCARLET ONNA (tight voice):
"Then we have to tie each other together. Reinforce who we are."
She brings out four enchanted silken cords.
SCARLET ONNA:
"These are Soul Knots. I wove them from my family shrine's ancestral threads."
They each tie one to their wrist.
STARWAVE:
"So we're just… bracelets away from erasure now?"
KURO ŌKAMI:
"No. We're memory-bound. To each other."
🧩 [Scene 4 – Null's Digital Shrine: Tower Grid Ritual]
Cut to Null's lair inside a floating cube above Tokyo Tower. His hooded monks now chant in binary, their bodies glitching from identity loss.
Null walks across a bridge made of broken nameplates.
NULL (calmly):
"They resist. As expected."
He reaches a massive shrine of shattered mirrors. One by one, the reflections of each Avenger appear — flickering.
NULL:
"Time to untether their truth."
He places a command scroll into the shrine. The command reads:
WIPE IDENTITY: TOKYO AVENGERS → GLOBAL SCOPE.
Tokyo's skies flicker.
💥 [Final Scene – Memory Quake Begins]
Suddenly, across the city:
ID cards lose names.
School registers wipe out student lists.
News articles about the Tokyo Avengers vanish mid-scroll.
Their names blur off of fan signs and police files.
Even photos begin glitching out their presence.
SCARLET ONNA (reading disappearing news feed):
"They've started global erasure. If this keeps up…"
STARWAVE (gritting teeth):
"We'll be legends no one ever remembers."
🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]
EPISODE 23: "Threads of the Forgotten" — END
🪢 Next: Episode 24 — "REM/ID Conflict"
The final stage of Null's purge has begun. But if memory defines the soul… what happens when the soul fights back?
Shall we go straight to Episode 24, or want a visual of Null's shrine and memory command screen?