What They Say
Tamaki Otoya is the last in a line of ancient summoners tasked to battle evil forces that threaten mankind. Burdened by his duty as a summoner, Tamaki has always found strength from his childhood friend Asahi, with whom he has a deep, emotional bond. So when Asahi’s friend is found out to be possessed by a demon, he awakens as the one destined to exorcise demons out of tortured human souls…
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Tamaki has resigned himself to a death that will come sooner than he had wished for, but he refuses to let Eiji pass on so simply. To save her, Tamaki must travel to the sepulcher, a different dimension where the dark side of human consciousness resides, even though he has become blind as a result of his juzu beads. While there, he encounters Hyou, Eiji’s mother, but is saved from the battle by Asahi. She pretends to be the spirit of Suigekka rather than herself reincarnated as Suigekka (it’s less complicated than it sounds), and secretly returns Tamaki’s juzu. Though this solves the problem of Tamaki’s impending death, it ruined what was, for me, the single most effective element of the third volume: his determination to do what was right, even if it meant sacrificing himself.