Why should Yoh withdraw from the match?
There was an incident in which one Shaman killed his opponent in a match.
And that's Yoh's opponent today, right?
So what?
He just needs to beat him.
What if I told you
that this Shaman is a Necromancer?
-A Necromancer? -Yes.
These sorcerers use Over Soul
to send the spirits of the deceased into their remains.
CHOKOHAMA FOREIGNERS' CEMETERY
So this is the venue for the match…
It's full of weird gravestones.
Is this what people are into?
This is how most graves are in America and Europe!
It's their religion, actually!
This cemetery was started
around 150 years ago when an American ship landed here,
and now 4500 people from over 40 different countries are buried here!
Buried?
They bury their dead without cremating them first.
-Look who and where he's fighting. -What's the meaning of this?
Yoh's at a clear disadvantage!
The Great Spirit always chooses a time and place
that allows all Shamans to use their powers to their maximum potential.
He must not fight him.
A legendary Necromancer once used his magic to terrorize all of Germany.
And this man is descended from him,
inheriting all of that madness.
Hey! Yoh Asakura, I presume?
Nice to meet you.
I'm your opponent.
Faust VIII.
EPISODE 7 A FORM OF COURAGE
Nice to meet you too.
Thank goodness!
I was worried it would be someone really scary-looking!
I see. This guy seems like a bit of an oddball.
Master Yoh.
This man has the stench of death about him.
Gross, right?
That's probably because I used to be a doctor.
A doctor?
Yes. There is a long tradition of medicine in my family.
My family has found cures for hundreds of diseases.
Nevertheless, patients still die.
Old age, accidents…
In the end, death defeated me.
What can I do to overcome the hateful thing that is death?
Why must the flesh decay?
Why do people continue to be born when we know that fate awaits us?
Why do we frantically try to live as we head towards death?
There was once a man
who, seeking an answer to this eternal question,
decided he was going to conquer death.
Faust VIII? Could he be…
"Faust, a genius scholar said to have mastered alchemy and black magic…"
Is he his descendant?
The very same.
Exactly 500 years ago, he participated in the Shaman Fight.
But he was overly confident in his abilities
and, torn apart by the very devil he summoned,
he died.
So to discover the truth behind life,
I picked up his mission where he left off and learned his treasured secrets.
Necromancy.
The art of resurrecting the dead.
-A skeleton! -A skeleton!
This is my intermediary.
And if I use Over Soul…
-Manta! -I'm not good with this kind of thing!
That boy is called Manta, is he?
Most curious!
That stature, that frame…
I think I'll examine him.
O, wandering souls!
Hear my voice!
I shall grant you a chance to have your flesh and blood restored!
Those who wish for that, obey my command!
Catch that boy!
Skeletons!
Amidamaru!
This is my beloved Eliza.
She is both my assistant and my Spirit Ally.
There is still a little time before our fight.
Would you be so kind as to not obstruct my research?
Let go of me, Faust!
Please try to keep still.
We don't want my hand to slip.
No abnormalities in the breast.
Manta!
It hurts! I'm scared!
Yoh…
Hang in there!
I'll be right there, Manta!
Don't waste your breath. Yoh is trapped.
No matter--
Out of the way, Faust.
I'm sorry! It's my fault this happened to you!
No, it's not, Yoh.
I look pretty rough, don't I?
I can't believe I'm going to die looking like this…
Don't be silly!
If you die, I…
I…
I'll make you my Spirit Ally!
You idiot!
Damn, I couldn't help myself…
Don't die, Manta!
It's all right.
If we can get him to a doctor soon…
If you want a doctor, there's one right here!
But let me tell you, he doesn't appreciate being hit from behind,
Yoh.
Oh, dear.
And you've wasted that spare time I had too.
The examination will have to wait.
Eliza. Prepare a medical chart for Manta.
-Master Yoh! -I know!
Is everyone listening?
Those who have yet to show themselves,
obey my command and rise from your graves!
He took my skeletons out in an instant!
This must be his Over Soul!
Protect me!
Bone Shell!
You'll pay for what you did, Faust VIII!
I'm going to make quick work of you
and take Manta to a proper doctor.
No chance.
They're…
It's never-ending!
If you aren't quick,
your dear little friend will die of excessive bleeding.
Yes. I know.
So I'm going to beat you right now!
Skull Scrummage!
You think that'll stop me?
Oh, how scary!
But are you sure
you should be getting so excited like that?
He's defeated himself
by letting his anger take over and not restraining his power…
His Mana will soon all be gone.
You seem to be suffering, Yoh.
I suppose it's my duty as a physician to put you out of your misery promptly.
We need to help Yoh!
If one of the Ten Officiants intervenes in a match,
the party we help will be disqualified.
As soon as he loses when his Mana runs out, we'll help him!
There's no way
this mad doctor will wait for his Mana to run out!
He's completely out of his mind and deadly to boot!
Not to mention that if he's controlling all of those skeletons,
his Mana must be running about as low as Yoh's is!
Despite how stubbornly you resist,
you must have at least realized that you can't defeat me.
It will all be so much easier if you just lose!
The only way
I'll lose is in your dreams!
I'll never let you get away with hurting Manta!
You're astonishingly foolish, you know?
How on earth is he still…
Because Manta is Yoh's friend.
And not only that.
He's Yoh's first-ever
human friend.
Anna!
Friend…
Why do you have to say stuff like that?
Be quiet.
Why shouldn't I?
It's the truth, isn't it?
People called you a monster.
Everyone in town loathed you.
This country of ours, Japan,
was once a Shaman nation, governed by soothsayers.
The Asakura Family is a great Shaman clan surviving from that time.
I see.
But those with such power
are feared as freaks by modern people and are persecuted.
Children, in particular,
are rejected by their peers for being different.
Yes.
Yoh was always lonely.
Then Yoh left the countryside
and for the first time, met someone who could see ghosts.
You.
Manta Oyamada.
I'm your friend,
and friends help each other.
So it's no wonder
that Yoh's still putting up a fight after all of this!
You damned girl!
Are you planning to make off with my test subject?
I thought I was your opponent.
That damn Anna!
I'm going to become the Shaman King so I can have an easy life.
That means I have to beat you. That's all there is to it.
Could Yoh be aspiring to be the Shaman King
because he wants to make a world free of that loneliness?
Beats me. I don't know everything.
For your friend?
I see. How splendid.
What's he planning?
Here it comes.
That is Faust VIII's true Over Soul.
Dear Eliza!
This is the Necromancer's ultimate technique.
The restoration of the flesh!
By using the spirit's very own remains,
the dead appear even closer to how they did in life.
Who is this Eliza, anyway?
That is of no concern to a child.
Her actual strength
is nothing remarkable compared with his past foes.
But with Yoh's Mana almost exhausted,
she poses a tremendous threat.
In other words, those skeletons were just a diversion to grind down
Yoh's Mana?
Faust only used
the bare minimum Mana on the skeletons.
He also only cut Manta open
to provoke Yoh into using his full power, most likely.
Yoh
has played completely into Faust's hands!
What?
How you use your Mana is down to your wits.
And the person wise enough to make the best use of it
is the one who ought to be the Shaman King!
What will you do, Yoh?
With your back against the wall,
what can you pull out of the bag?
Now, Eliza. Give him a nice, peaceful death.
Yoh!
Don't get involved!
I know.
I know a way to make this work out!
Time to stop playing with dolls,
Faust VIII!
"Dolls"?
"Playing"?
So that's his plan!
You call my darling Eliza a doll?
You bastard!
How dare you insult Eliza?
You're calling my beautiful and perfect Eliza, a doll?
And you have the nerve to say that I'm playing?
You've crossed the line!
I dare you! Say it again!
Go on! Say it!
Say it!
How is this supposed to beat him?
That Eliza woman…
She must have been an incredibly important person to Faust.
How do you mean?
Necromancy was originally
conceived of as a way of using dead bodies to do your bidding.
So in most cases,
it doesn't work if the dead person has a will of their own.
Yoh learned that in his fight with Pyron,
and now he suspects that Eliza does not have any free will.
Looking at the lengths Faust has gone to,
Eliza must be someone he can't bear to be without.
So if someone called his beloved person a doll,
it's only natural he'd be furious.
Effectively, he provoked Faust.
Look.
He's blinded by his anger
and burning through his Mana.
He's concentrating what little Mana he has left on the tip of his sword!
Perhaps he can even emerge victorious in such a weak state!
That's if he can make the Mana last, though.
Are you going to keep running away forever,
Yoh Asakura?
Now! Just try saying it again!
The moment you do, I'll cut that wretched tongue out
and preserve it in formalin as a specimen!
I'll say it as many times as you like.
Time to stop playing with dolls,
Faust!
What does a brat like you know?
What do you know
of my pain at losing my beloved wife, Eliza!
Eliza is the only woman I ever loved.
I was born to a family of physicians.
My whole life was medicine.
I spent every day studying alone,
and she was the one girl to reach out to me with warmth!
My dear Eliza!
She was ravaged by an incurable illness,
but 20 years later, I finally defeated the disease!
We opened a small clinic together.
We were happy!
Until Eliza was killed by a robber!
I desperately tried to save her,
but there was no way I could overcome death.
Yet still, I longed to be reunited with her.
Even if it meant doing something inhuman.
That's when I finally found it.
Faust I's forbidden art of resurrection!
Necromancy!
"Beautiful moment, do not pass away!"
Those are the words Faust I said upon making his deal with the Devil.
Quite ironic, isn't it?
You call my poor Eliza a doll,
but I shall give her life again.
Once I become the Shaman King!
Everyone dies, sooner or later.
It's only because our lives are limited
that we can feel true sadness and true happiness!
Conquering death is no better than death in the first place!
Quiet, boy!
It's for the sake of humans doing their best in life
and to bring closure on the past
that Shamans summon the dead into this world.
Which means, Faust,
that someone who's enslaved to the past like you
has no right to be the Shaman King!
Eliza…
Way to go!
He's through to the next round now!
No. His Over Soul is still engaged.
Yoh, however,
is out of Mana.
This match is a loss for Yoh.
Master Yoh! Are you all right?
Damn it!
I…
I always believed
that no matter what came my way, things would work out!
That everything would fall into place!
Because thinking about an uncertain future would only make me worry!
That's what I told myself!
Master Yoh…
But things didn't all just work out!
All I wanted was an easy life!
I felt so sure
that if I didn't worry about wins and losses,
I wouldn't have to feel this pain!
But for the first time in my life, I can see how much it hurts to lose!
Damn it!
Could that be
because you've now found something truly important to you, Master Yoh?
Something you couldn't bear to lose.
And an enemy you couldn't forgive for hurting him.
Now, no matter how much you hide your feelings,
there are some things you can't conceal.
Do you feel it from the bottom of your heart now, Master Yoh?
Your desire to become the Shaman King?
From the bottom of my heart?
Because if you really were nothing but lazy and carefree,
you'd simply be a fool, Master Yoh!
What?
Everyone lives with worries, and they are not few in number.
But what matters is how you overcome those worries and fears.
Your philosophy that things will work out in the end…
I believe you are quite right to have that courage.
Amidamaru…
You're right!
That damn show-off samurai!
Yoh did well.
This loss could prove to be very valuable.
You're right. Yoh was remarkable today.
And he's drifting ever further away from me.
Anna!
All right, enough chat.
We need to get Yoh and Manta to a hospital…
She's broken!
My dear Eliza!
Yoh!
I'll kill you. You who broke my Eliza!
I'll kill your very soul!
Die!
Pathetic.
It seems these skeletons didn't drink much milk in life.
I drink three glasses a day.
You're…
I can't let you kill him.
He's my next opponent, you see.
Subtitle translation by: Lewis Williams