Chapter 37: EPISODE 37: “Stillbirth Altar”
EPISODE 37: "Fall of the Scarlet Sky"
🔺 "The tower is gone. But it left its god behind."
❗ Previously on Tokyo Avengers:
The Avengers faced the corrupted Blood Seraphim in Floor 5's ritual chamber, believing they halted his ascension.
But the tower never needed them to complete the ritual — it was feeding on time, memory, and Tokyo itself.
Now, the city begins to change.
[Scene 1 – The Tower Crumbles]
It begins with silence.
The Scarlet Tower — massive, cursed, impossible — starts to tremble.
KURO ŌKAMI growls.
KURO ŌKAMI:
"This isn't another illusion."
The sky turns crimson. Clouds spin into spiral runes. Lightning cracks downward like claws.
Suddenly, the entire structure begins to collapse upward, not downward — floor by floor, like reverse-birth.
ONMYO FLARE (chanting):
"No… no, this is ritual inversion. The tower's not falling — it's finishing."
The Avengers brace—
But the floor gives way—
Each member is pulled into a different threadline — the tower's last trick: separation by fear.
[Scene 2 – Shattered Across Tokyo]
🧵 Scarlet Onna
She lands in Shibuya. But nothing is normal.
All the signs and billboards are stitched together, bleeding text that loops:
"BIND. BLOOM. BECOME. BIND. BLOOM. BECOME."
The people have no eyes.
Their faces are blank fabric. They walk in patterns — like thread puppets.
A girl tugs her sleeve.
"You're late to your own wedding, miss."
🎤 Starwave
She's in an empty Tokyo Dome.
Spotlights turn on. A voice announces her like a performer.
"Presenting the voice of false hope: STARWAVE."
Dozens of faceless clones of her — with broken heels, twitching — rise from the stage.
One whispers:
"You performed for no one. Let us show you the truth."
🐺 Kuro Ōkami
He wakes up in a shrine lit by a red moon.
Old photos of him — as a child, as a beast, as a murderer — hang everywhere.
"You're not cursed, Hiro," a familiar voice says.
"You are the curse."
His reflection snarls back in full beast form, eyes glowing white.
🧧 Onmyo Flare
He opens his eyes in a scroll room with all the blades of his ancestors stabbed into the floor.
The spirits whisper:
"We bound you to protect the world. You used us to delay your own grief."
Suddenly, a figure wearing his exact outfit — but faceless — picks up his twin blades.
"So now, I'll finish your job."
🐾 Nekoburst
She crashes into a ghost version of her old alley — the place she first lost control.
Cats stare at her with glowing red eyes.
A version of her — younger, unscarred, quiet — walks out and says:
"I didn't need claws. You made me into a weapon."
They pounce at each other — both teleporting mid-air — claws out, slashing in bursts.
[Scene 3 – Back at the Crater]
Above Tokyo, where the tower once stood, a giant glyph burns into the clouds. It glows like a red moon:
BLOOD SERAPHIM IS NOT DEAD
HE IS NOW THE SKY.
The ritual didn't make him a god inside the tower.
It made him a god of Tokyo itself.
The air itself chants:
"The Scarlet Sky rises. All shall bind. All shall bloom."
[Scene 4 – Final Image]
Each Avenger fights desperately, alone, scattered across a city that is no longer their own.
Red threadlines start connecting buildings, trains, traffic lights, humans.
The city is becoming something else.
A shot pulls high into the sky — the outline of Tokyo looks like a giant red sigil when seen from above.
And from deep in the clouds, Blood Seraphim's voice whispers:
"This world is my vow."
🎴 [END CARD – TOKYO AVENGERS]
EPISODE 37: "Fall of the Scarlet Sky" — END
🩸 Next: Episode 38 – "Unthreaded"
The Tokyo Avengers fight their own demons — literally — as the sky closes in.