Chapter 29: EPISODE 29: “Split Reflections”
🪞 "When you run from your past, sometimes it grows claws."
🌀 [Scene 1 – Break Academy, Midnight Alarm]
The lights flicker red across Break Academy's control hall.
An emergency glyph pulses across the floor — a Mirror Distortion Pulse. The security system detects four unstable resonance signals inside the city — fragments of the team themselves.
SCARLET ONNA (reviewing threads):
"These aren't clones. They're broken identities, unfinished echoes… crafted from everything we repress."
KURO ŌKAMI (low growl):
"They're hunting us. Shadows born from our instincts."
ONMYO FLARE:
"Mystique is mimicking our worst… but she can't stabilize them. They're feral."
The team splits up across Tokyo — each member goes alone to face their own twisted self.
🩸 [Scene 2 – Kuro Ōkami vs. Mirror Kuro: The Moon Beast]
Kuro arrives at a shattered moonlit shrine.
The stone lanterns are clawed apart. His old training collar hangs from a tree.
From the shrine gates emerges Mirror Kuro — a savage, half-beast version of himself with spiraled horns, reverse-colored fur, and glowing red crescent scars. He walks on all fours, teeth bared.
MIRROR KURO:
"You still cage the howl. I let it devour me."
KURO ŌKAMI:
"I mastered it. You became it."
Fight begins:
Mirror Kuro dashes with pure beast velocity, slamming Kuro through trees.
Kuro uses calculated backflips, deflects with claw parries.
The fight becomes airborne under moonlight, claws sparking mid-leap.
MIRROR KURO (snarling):
"You're weaker because you care."
KURO (countering):
"I'm stronger because I choose who to protect."
He ends it with a Moon Fang Cross Slash, striking down Mirror Kuro in a burst of blue crescent light.
🧵 [Scene 3 – Scarlet Onna vs. Echo Onna: The Tangled Thread]
Sayo walks into a fog-laced kimono market — abandoned, woven with tangled red threads.
At the center: Echo Onna, a version of her younger self wearing a scorched ceremonial robe, eyes stitched shut, surrounded by ghostly thread puppets.
ECHO ONNA (smiling):
"You always feared becoming the weapon. So you made yourself useful. Predictable. Controlled."
SCARLET ONNA (calm):
"I studied to protect. Not to perform."
The puppets attack — silk blades, snapping threads.
Sayo parries with Needles of the Bloom, carving precise counterspells mid-air.
Fight moment:
Echo Onna wraps her in a memory-web, forcing her to relive being abandoned during her shrine training.
Scarlet Onna snaps all the threads with a single charm burn — her hands blistering.
SCARLET ONNA:
"I am no one's puppet. I stitch my own fate."
She seals Echo Onna inside a scarlet orb and dissolves her shadow self.
⚔️ [Scene 4 – Onmyo Flare vs. Ghost Flare: The Broken Spell]
Renji steps into a haunted corridor lined with cracked ofuda talismans.
At the center: Ghost Flare, a version of himself with burned scrolls fused to his arms, his face masked, no voice — just glyphs floating around him in rejection.
He attacks with erratic elemental bursts — lava kanji, flood kanji, void glyphs.
Renji deflects, but the chaos symbols begin tearing reality nearby.
ONMYO FLARE:
"This is what I'd become if I lost my balance… if I cast for power without control."
He centers himself and draws one kanji: 清 — pure.
The entire room stabilizes. He casts a Zero Flame Strike that seals Ghost Flare's form into a harmless scroll.
ONMYO FLARE:
"You're not my failure. Just a warning."
🎵 [Scene 5 – Starwave vs. Mirrorwave: The Hollow Beat]
Inside a soundless club, Riko meets Mirrorwave — a version of her draped in crystal, her eyes hollow, stomping the ground… but making no sound.
MIRRORWAVE (monotone):
"Without real feeling, you're just noise."
STARWAVE:
"I perform with truth. You echo with emptiness."
Fight begins:
Starwave unleashes tempo shockwaves from rapid heel stomps.
Mirrorwave absorbs tempo and reflects distortion waves — twisted versions of Starwave's own techniques.
Starwave charges forward, heel igniting:
STARWAVE:
"You can copy the kick — not the soul."
She hits her Signature Tempo Reverb Kick, blowing Mirrorwave into shards of silence.
🪞 [Scene 6 – Back at Break Academy: Shadows Fall, But One Remains]
All four return.
They're battered, but victorious.
NEKOBURST (arms crossed):
"No version of me? Guess I'm just perfect."
Suddenly… the alarms go off again.
The screen blinks:
"RESIDUAL SIGNAL DETECTED – CODE: KURO"
But Kuro's already back.
They descend into the null-cellar — the sublevel of Break Academy.
And there they find it…
The last echo: an incomplete beast — hunched, skeletal, stitched together with fangs and fury.
It's not a copy of Kuro…
…it's the sum of all their instincts.
SCARLET ONNA (wide-eyed):
"This isn't one of us. This is all of us — compressed."
It attacks.
🐺 [Scene 7 – Team Battle: All Against One]
They fight together:
Scarlet Onna binds it in spiritual thread rings.
Starwave keeps the tempo field going, rattling its footing.
Onmyo Flare drops a purifying barrier with unmarked kanji.
Kuro delivers the finishing blow — his eyes glowing blue with full beast power.
He doesn't slash it.
He embraces it.
KURO ŌKAMI (softly):
"I hear you now. But I'm not letting you lead."
The beast dissolves into silver mist.
🌌 [Scene 8 – A Still Tokyo… For Now]
Back upstairs, silence settles.
The echoes are gone.
But something deeper has started to shift.
Scarlet Onna glances at a nearby flower vase. The petals are glitching.
Starwave steps into the locker room… and pauses.
A faint, hollow breeze blows out of one locker — the one with no name.
STARWAVE (whispering):
"Why does this feel like a goodbye… to someone I never met?"
🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]
EPISODE 29: "Split Reflections" — EXTENDED END
🔮 Next: Episode 30 — "Echo Deletion"
Reality begins to blur. Tokyo's soul is changing. And something that was never supposed to exist... is replacing what was.