Koutetsu Sangokushi: ep 25 spolier main theme

now that i'm alone..i can cry all i want, i've broken down crying watching this ep

i jumped ep, cos i can't wait any longer - i want to know the truth

i still am crying..if someone holds me now, i'll cry so badly that the neighbours will think another member in my family has passed on

the final ep - 25 - reveals everything

Everything, in the Sovereign Seal, where all gathered

The Sovereign Seal had chosen two people: Shoukatsuryou Koumei (copy n paste...oh please, i only know him as Zhu Ge Liang - which this name i TYPE *smile*) and Rikuson Hakugen. Koumei was to be the ultimate darkness while Rikuson becomes the ultimate light.

But in order to let Rikuson (who had changed into the ultimate form: looks like a butterfly but it's red-fire in colour..oh please, Loveless has butterflies too but the colour theme is blue) be the ulimate light Koumei had to sacrifice the good that he himself had known to BE the ultimate darkness: in his heartbroken state remembering betraying and hurting the ones he loved, including Rikuson - all the while still raising Rikuson (n teaching him about humanity, wisdom - all the good that one should know)

It hurts Shoukatsukin Shiyu (yesyes, also copy and paste), Koumei's elder brother as he and Rikuson watch helplessly as Koumei (who had changed into another form) slowly disappears

one could say that Shoukatsukin - or Kin, as affectionately known - had been Koumei's sane pillar of support. A sad flashback reveals the two brothers in their younger years looking at the night sky and Koumei suddenly asked his brother, "Why can't I see?" wrenches my heart even more - and now i'm crying again

So Rikuson decided. "If it's the Seal that's causing all these then -"

Flying up to the Sovereign Seal which was floating some distance behind and above Koumei, he grabbed it - "it is not needed!"

and wrenched the Seal into his heart, much to the shock and dismay of everyone: Shoukatsuryou Koumei (tried to type, scrolling up n down to type), Shoukatsukin Shiyu (also scrolled up n down to type Koumei's brother), Ryoutou Kouseki (copied) Rikuson's self-declared sworn brother), Taishiji Shigi (copy n paste), Kannei Kouha (copy n paste), Ryomou Shimei (copy n paste) and Sonken Chuubou (ya la, copy n paste)

Koumei cries to Rikuson to stop but Rikuson cried out - in pain as he forced the Seal into his heart - and in sorrow that he did not want to be parted from his teacher (Koumei) anymore

The white light brought all of them out of the Seal, bringing them back to the barren land where they all stood at the edge of a cliff of where a bare altar which - previously where the Seal was - stood

as Koumei sat holding Rikuson's illuminating form, Rikuson, leaning upon his teacher for one last time, gave a cute smile - and disappeared into the sky

oh i'm crying again..

Koumei tried to hold the disappearing form - but couldn't - only to hold onto himself alone in sorrow

the wind blew and suddenly peach blossom flower petals floated by them as they hear Rikuson's voice that this is the flower that he remembers by as he looks up to his teacher

the scene ended as Koumei walks alone in a vast land of flowers,

his silent tears
an endless tale of sadness

*「わが師匠...」
- 陸遜伯言

*waga shisho ("shi'o", as pronounced in the anime)
= "my teacher", fan-subbed as "my master"

- Rikuson Hakugen