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Vixen Hunters

Season 1:

On the eve of her 18th birthday, Keiko is finally eligible to apply to Bellatrix’s School for Vixen Hunters. Having been told her parents were slaughtered by the foul creatures, Keiko planned her entire life to leave her orphanage to become the best Vixen Hunter. In order to be accepted into the school, Keiko has to participate in a real life Vixen Hunting simulation entry exam. During the exam, Keiko met a girl named Aimi who could summon a scythe that gave her supernatural abilities. The two teamed up as they had to fight a teacher pretending to be a vixen. After the exams…Keiko miraculously just settled the lowest possible score to be eligible to join the school. As she settled into the school…Bellatrix, the principal and best professional Mage, had Keiko transfer to The Shadow XIII (the best class in the school) due to her innate drive to protect people…which the other students lacked. Training swiftly kicked in where Keiko learned what it takes to be a Mage. She honed her sword skills to perfectly strike a Vixen in the heart. She trained in hand to hand combat…utilizing mana to create powerful punches and attacks. She trained with her classmates as hard as she possibly could to quickly achieve her goal of becoming the best Vixen Hunter. All the while she befriended her classmates Aimi (the girl from entry exams who’s extremely sweet and capable), Shun (a hardheaded but determined girl), Rin (an introverted but nice boy), and Luna (an anthropomorphic cat who’s very prideful and hotheaded).

After being able to get a better hang of her Inherited Spell, Keiko and the rest of The Shadow XIII were sent on their first mission. There’s been rumblings of children and students going missing after hearing singing from the woods. Suspecting one of the students is a mole, Bellatrix has The Shadow XIII help snuff out the mole. As more students mysteriously disappear, Rin suspects the culprit is a student named Sara…an upper class student who’s proficient with musical instruments. After Keiko and Luna are investigating Rin’s claims, they discover evidence in Sara’s room that she’s a Vixen belonging to something called The Hex. Rin, Aimi, and Shadow XIII classmate Rōnin (a docile and very kind boy) discover Sara attempting to lure a student into the woods. They budge in to stop Sara…all while Keiko and Luna bring the evidence to Bellatrix who gathers the remaining members of The Shadow XIII. After being told where Rin, Aimi, and Rōnin had gone, The Shadow XIII head to the woods only to find Rin and them fighting Sara…who revealed herself to be the Vixen Yama-Uba who has the power to entice people with music. Facing their first real challenge, The Shadow XIII face all out battle as Bellatrix fends off Yama-Uba’s slaves. They get close to defeating Yama-Uba but she overpowers them…however Bellatrix quickly comes in and strikes the Vixen through her heart relatively easily. Her easy defeat reveals she wasn’t a member of The Hex…as Bellatrix explains that The Hex are Lilith’s strongest most powerful Vixens.

Season 2:

After a month of pondering how a Vixen was able to slip into her school, Bellatrix gets her students ready for the yearly Tournament. The tournament is held to determine which students are actually fit for Vixen Hunting…as well as allowing professional Vixen Hunters to choose who they might wanna tutor. The students of The Shadow XIII train relentlessly yet a bit carelessly…all while wondering why Bellatrix is constantly getting harsher towards her students. As the day comes, The Shadow XIII enter the colosseum and Bellatrix introduces them to Giichi. Giichi is revealed to be the head of the Government of Witches…the most important witch in the world…and he’s surrounded by his followers, bodyguards, and fellow government members. It’s revealed he comes to watch the tournaments every year to scout out who might wanna join the Royal Guard. The students of the school are then told about the tournament…phase 1 is an obstacle course that requires students to use magic and their inherited spells to avoid “Vixens” on the battlefield. Phase 2 involves the remaining students who didn’t fail the obstacle course to team up in small groups and wander an arena filled with traps in search of three survivors. Each team can only rescue one survivor…and the first teams to bring the three survivors back to the start win. And finally…Phase 3 has the remaining teams fight in one on ones in a bracket style…defeat is determined by whose vest with a heart trigger is triggered first.

The obstacle course begins and The Shadow XIII quickly take the lead along with other schoolmates from The Shadow XI…Kuroneko (a girl who can turn into a werecat), Hanzo (a boy who can clone himself), and Ryu (a boy who can breathe the elements fire and ice). Aimi and Akimitsu (a dim witted but nice boy) eventually tie in first place having avoided multiple traps, Rin in second, Shun in third, Himiko (a rude and cold girl) in fourth, Mai (an introverted and cold girl) in fifth, Kaito and Rōnin tie in sixth, The Shadow XI members take 8 and 9, and Keiko finishes in last place possible to move on to the next round in thirtieth. That leaves Luna and Harley (a sweet and lighthearted girl) the only ones to not pass the obstacle course. During the Survivor Hunt…Keiko, Aimi, and Shun team up…Rin, Rōnin, and Himiko team up…and Kuroneko, Hanzo, and Akimitsu team up. After utilizing Keiko’s fire arm ability as a farce…Aimi and Shun were able to rescue a survivor and rush her back to start. Having sabotaged teams around them by utilizing Himiko’s mana blocker ability, Rin’s ability to freeze people, and Rōnin being able to launch surprise attacks…the group rescue a survivor. After Kuroneko fended off attackers and Hanzo utilized his clones to confuse enemy teams…Akimitsu was able to zap him and the survivor back to the start. Before Phase 3…Bellatrix receives news from Giichi that multiple students from her school have gone missing searching for a vixen at the foot of Mt. Yukionna…and he wishes for her to send the Shadow XIII.

Phase 3 then begins with Kuroneko vs. Mai. Kuroneko is quickly taken out by Mai’s long range blood attacks…but she’s not discouraged after her classmates say she was really cool being able to fight against a Shadow XIII. Next is Aimi vs. Rōnin which proved to be a long struggle…but ultimately Aimi won after Rōnin was rendered useless at overuse of his power. Akimitsu vs. Hayate resulted in Akimitsu winning due to his incomprehensible speed. Shun vs. Himiko resulted in Himiko winning because she was faster…being able to shut down Shun’s Inherited Spell before she could copy hers. Hanzo vs. Kaito resulted in Kaito winning due to creating relentless water limbs that Hanzo couldn’t account for. Keiko vs. Rin was extremely close…but Keiko’s relative carelessness resulted in her losing to a small ice shard. The Next part of phase 3 commenced with the rules that all three pairs fight at the same time…and their top three placement would be decided by who defeats their opponent fastest. Aimi quickly beat Kaito with her Scythe granting unnatural speed…resulting in first place. Rin was able to make quick way through Mai’s blood attacks…resulting in second place. Akimitsu had more trouble with Himiko due to her Inherited spell but still won…resulting in third. After congratulating their teammates…The Shadow XIII didn’t have much time to rest as Bellatrix approached them solemnly…revealing that they have a new mission that may reveal what being a Vixen Hunter is actually like.

After the tournament, The Shadow XIII make the treacherous journey to the foot of Mt. Yukionna. Quickly, Bellatrix takes note of the eerie silence emanating from the mountain…no birds, no bugs, not even the rustling of leaves…just silence. Hayate and Kaito quickly take notice of what seem to be the torn bloodied uniform of Bellatrix’s school scattered through the trees. As the kids enter the forest, Akimitsu, Mai, Himiko, and Luna take quick notice of the over abundance of cobwebs. Keiko, Aimi, and Shun take notice of the trails of torn bloodied uniforms belonging to the freshman of the Shadow I. Rin and Rōnin quickly notice the cocoons stuffed up in the trees. As the group wanders further into the forest…Bellatrix has a suspicion of who the Vixen might be. The group come onto a three path split on the road…and believing it to be safer to travel in groups…she sent Keiko, Aimi, Luna, and Shun down path one…Mai, Himiko, Hayate, and Harley down path two…and herself, Akimitsu, Kaito, Rin, and Rōnin down path three. Keiko’s group stumble upon a horrid sight…slaughtered children from the Shadow I. Luckily…the freshman boy Sanosuke was able to survive but not without injury. He told them a little girl swooped from the trees and began eating his classmates. Bellatrix’s group stumble upon an old family home that seemed to be abandoned…but upon entering the building, they found the freshly eaten corpses of the freshman of the Shadow I. Mai’s group found themselves discovering a trail of their slaughtered classmates leading down to a river.

As Keiko’s group searches further through the woods…Keiko hears a voice…”You’d make a perfect sister”. Sanosuke stops in fear…realizing who the voice is…Keiko then turns to find a little girl in a black kimono peering from behind a tree. The girl reveals herself as “Nini”…and Keiko’s group think that she’s the Vixen behind everything that happened in the woods. As Bellatrix’s group wander around the house sensing the presence of a Vixen…they hear rustling from the basement. Opening it to find a giant cavern filled with more child corpses, they eventually discover an unnaturally tall and lanky pale man who refers to himself as “Bubba”. Bellatrix begins suspecting that her initial suspicion was incorrect and believes Bubba to be the Vixen behind the child deaths on Mt. Yukionna. Mai’s group then find an unnaturally tall and pale woman with long black hair who calls herself “Sweetie”…believing her to be responsible for the deaths on the mountain. As Keiko’s group fights Nini…it’s revealed she has the ability to jump like a spider and create Mandibles to bite with. Bubba is revealed to be able to grow eight sets of arms and contort his body. Sweetie is revealed to be able to detach her hands…which grow mouths that have acidic bites. Even though all three vixens were tough…each group managed to beat their respective Vixen…but as each Vixen died…they screamed out about “Mother” being “disappointed” which reignites Bellatrix’s initial suspicion. As Keiko’s group find a path…they head back to find the others and tell them about their strange Vixen…which culminates in Bellatrix inquiring her class to explore the path Keiko found.

The Shadow XIII and Sanosuke then head up the path to find the real Vixen behind the slaughter…but notice the path gets increasingly foggier. As they reach an opening in the forest…Sanosuke is swiftly abducted by something large into the mist. As the mist clears…the Shadow XIII come face to face with the horrified face of Sanosuke as he’s being eaten alive by a geisha woman with the bottom half of a spider. The woman drops the 14 year old’s half eaten torso as Keiko stares into her schoolmates dead eyes. The grotesque spider woman apologizes for her “bad manners”…Bellatrix then confirms her suspicion was right…the Vixen they’ve been sent to hunt is Lesser Hex 13 Jorogumo…an actual Hex member who can create Miasma that forces people to kill themselves. As the Shadow XIII come face to face with the actual reality of Vixen Hunting…Jorogumo’s children appear from the woods. Bellatrix, Keiko, Aimi, Shun, Luna, Rin, and Rōnin have to help fight Jorogumo while the others fend off her children. A grueling fight commences that results in Hayate losing an arm to venom…and multiple deep and serious injuries to Keiko, Rōnin, and Bellatrix…as well as Akimitsu almost dying. However the group succeeds and is able to overcome Jorogumo and her children…but as Jorogumo slowly disintegrates…Keiko mysteriously receives visions of Jorogumo’s last thoughts. It’s revealed that Jorogumo was once a living person…She was an abused housewife named Aiya who was raped and impregnated by her husband who was a samurai. He had her taken away from her job as a geisha by forcing her into an arranged marriage. She escaped him while still pregnant but he tracked her footsteps up the snowy mountain. He stabbed her and left her for dead…but before she died, a mysterious woman appeared…promising her immense power to exact her revenge upon her husband as long as she served the woman. Keiko then watched as Jorogumo’s thoughts filled with sudden remorse over the hundreds of people she forcefully impregnated with her spider eggs…turning them into her children…and she felt remorse over the innocent children she forced to kill themselves.

As the vision ended…Keiko inquired about the mysterious woman she saw. Bellatrix then revealed the full story of Dianna and Lilith. Dianna was the first goddess and Lilith the first demon. They both inhabited Earth but Dianna damned Lilith to Apocalypse after she began corrupting living people in a lust for power. Lilith’s influence was still able to carry on after banishment however…she would entice witches at their lowest point into becoming her Vixens. Bellatrix revealed that the ultimate goal was to stop Lilith from infiltrating the world by killing her mortal form…resulting in the destruction of Vixens. We then watch as Kuroneko, Hanzo, Ryu and the rest of the Shadow XI enjoy their lunch with smiles on their faces. But that changes when the Shadow XIII enter school…traumatized by the events they just witnessed…traumatized by the reality of Vixen Hunting. The Shadow XI try to cheer them up by reminding them of the Kappa Festival the town is throwing tomorrow.

Season 3:

As the night passes, The Shadow XIII actually try to overcome what they just experienced with fighting a real Hex member. But Keiko cannot bring herself to forget the look of Sanosuke’s dead face being eaten by Jorogumo. The day finally comes and the Shadow XIII are able to get to the festival where they meet up with other schoolmates. Keiko, Rin, Rōnin, Shun, Aimi, and Luna split off as they go for the fair grounds and enjoy rides. Himiko, Mai, and Harley go to one of the concerts and the others go off to play games and eat food. Rin and Rōnin split off from Keiko and friends to go through a haunted maze, where it’s revealed they might have feelings for each other as they hold hands the entire maze. As Bellatrix searches the fair ground for other teachers, she notices a little girl asking if anyone's seen her brother. As night quickly approaches, all Shadow XIII members notice people asking for their missing friends and relatives. Bellatrix quickly suspects a vixen is at play and gathers her students. They all talk about the disappearances they’ve heard reported. Bellatrix entrusts her students to wander the fairground to scout out if a vixen is at play.

As Keiko investigates, she becomes suspicious when Shadow XII members mention the Shadow XI is throwing the festival…when the Shadow XI said the school as a whole was. Himiko, Mai, and Harley become suspicious when they can no longer find the people who were missing family and friends. Hayate, Kaito, Akimitsu, and Luna then begin suspecting another student of being a vixen after noticing the people reported to be missing were fellow students. Rin and Rōnin then notice a strange looking shrine in the forests behind the festival. They investigate after grouping up with Aimi and Shun…only to discover countless corpses in the shrine…many belonging to freshman…only of the age 13. They leave to tell Bellatrix who regathers her students…who theorize the vixens are covert Shadow XI students. The Shadow XIII leave the festival to tell the other teachers in the school…but when the group reach town…they’re split up by two vixens…the Slime Vixen (a male vixen with blue hair, no eyes, and gray skin who creates acidic slime) and the Kappa Vixen (a female Vixen with green skin, long blond hair, and bird like features who can use a staff to launch attacks made of shadow). Keiko, Luna, Mai, Hayate, Kaito, and Rin split off to the East of their town to fight the Slime Vixen on the streets. Bellatrix, Aimi, Shun, Himiko, Harley, Akimitsu, and Rōnin fight the Kappa Vixen on the west side of town atop roofs. As the fights rage on…Bellatrix and Keiko realize just how strong their Vixens are…with unnatural speed, strength, and healing rates for just normal vixens. But eventually their respective Vixens fall at their blades…however…Keiko receives her strange visions upon each vixen's death. The visions reveal the same mysterious woman Bellatrix identified as Lillith…as well as Giichi's horrified face…but most importantly…the Slime vixen is revealed to be Hanzo and the Kappa Vixen was Kuroneko. Bellatrix begins to wonder how more students were able to hide as Vixens, but no matter how hard she thinks…she’s unable to fit the pieces together. Why are her students vixens? How is Lillith infiltrating her school? In what way is Giichi involved?

A month goes by without incident…and Bellatrix is able to start training her class for the upcoming Vixen Hunter License Exams so they can officially go under the wings of professionals to hopefully become professionals themselves. Eventually, Bellatrix receives the letters from the tournament to explain which students were scouted and by which professional Vixen Hunters. Surprisingly, this year…all of her students were scouted at the tournaments…and even more surprising…by members of the Shinobi Hunters (the 20 best professional Vixen Hunters). Aimi was scouted by Sakura Nishiya: the Nature Hunter who can manipulate plants. Shun was scouted by Amaya Gima: the Poison Hunter who can secrete extremely deadly poisons from her skin. Luna was scouted by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi: the Monster Hunter who could transform into a Chimera. Mai was scouted by Chisuke Kan: the Blood Hunter who could harden his blood to create extremely powerful armor. Himiko was scouted by Kaneki Usagiyama: the Psychic Hunter who could use extremely powerful telekinesis. Harley was scouted by Hoshi Bushida: the Matter Hunter who could disassemble and reassemble the matter of things she touches. Akimitsu was scouted by Kana Ryujin: the Electric Hunter who could spout extreme amounts of electricity from her arms. Hayate was scouted by Daichi Bushida: the Wind Hunter who is the brother to Hoshi and who could create and manipulate storms. Kaito was scouted by Chinami Aikawa: the Water Hunter who could have total water manipulation. Rin was scouted by Arakan Ahane: the Future Hunter who could temporarily jump into his own future and past. Rōnin was scouted by Uno Tatsuma: the Luck Hunter who could cause people bad luck to varying degrees. And lastly…Keiko was scouted by Bellatrix Kana (principal and teacher in Keiko's own school): the Power Hunter who’s able to create psionic energy.

The Shadow XIII eventually arrive to The Vixen Hunter License Exam Arena where they will have to compete with two other schools to get their licenses. The Exam instructor then tells the schools what they will be doing. The first phase has all three schools' students participate in an open arena fight that includes multiple biomes. Students can only fight students from a different school…a student wins a fight by hitting the heart trigger of another student. The first two schools to reach over two hundred “dead vixens” wins and can move on to the next phase. Phase 2 has the two schools left to compete over who can be the first to effectively save over 100 survivors. The last phase has the sole remaining school face off by protecting “survivors” from Shinobi Hunters creating the aftermath of Vixen Hunts (such as earthquakes, intense storms etc). The students who can defend their survivors will be the students to get their licenses. Sakura's school is the first to win phase 1, whereas Bellatrix’s also succeeds, leaving Chisuke's as the first school to lose…however, Ryu of the Shadow XI loses in phase 1. But during Phase 1, Sakura mentions to Bellatrix how her freshman class is yet to return from a mission in the Gifu Prefecture. Phase 2 commences and Bellatrix's school passes with flying colors due to firsthand experiences with powerful vixens including one of the 13 Hexes. However, Bellatrix agrees to help Sakura recover her missing students…but both agree that the circumstances are fishy at best. Phase 3 ends with all 12 Shadow XIII students succeeding and receiving their licenses. As each student enjoys their freshly acquired license, Bellatrix explains that they have a new and urgent mission.

Bellatrix prepares her class to head out to the Gifu Prefecture of Japan…said to be a hotspot of Vixen activity. The class arrives and meet with Aimi's VH trainer…Sakura Nishiya the Nature Hunter who explains that they’re searching for her missing freshman class. As night descends…the Shadow XIII split up and scatter all across the prefecture searching for hints as to the whereabouts of Sakura’s students. Sakura, Keiko, Aimi, and Shun stumble upon a young woman who explains that her husband went missing. After resolving to help her, she thanks them for being the only people to help her…the locals believe it to be fraught…believing he’s been eaten by the Night Vixen. Himiko, Mai, Harley, and Luna discover a man in a bar…begging them to find his daughters who disappeared from his house two months ago. The four agree to help him, but they’re laughed at by the locals who say that there’s no point in finding them cause they've been eaten by the Mistress Vixen. Rin and Rōnin hear people laughing at a beggar. When they intervene, he asks them to help find his nephew who he lost one night…but the locals say he killed him. The two agree to help him while the locals scoff, believing it to be in vain.

Bellatrix, Akimitsu, Hayate, and Kaito inquire through the night about Sakura's missing students. Believing they’ll leave empty handed, Bellatrix remembers seeing a store they neglected to enter. After entering the store, they find Sakura's students…all slaughtered however…but the brutalized corpses seemingly reanimate at their presence. Sakura, Keiko, Aimi, and Shun investigate the wife’s house…only to find a tunnel in her basement. After they all enter the tunnel…they realize it leads into an open area where they encounter the woman's husband who warns them to stay away or “she’ll get them”…he then raises his arms in agony and lunges at them. Himiko, Mai, Harley, and Luna investigate for the father until they find a tunnel behind his shed. The group enter the long treacherous tunnel only to come across the basement to an old abandoned theater. They encounter the father's two daughters who are nothing but lifeless corpses…that seemingly reanimate to attack Himiko's group. The daughters use their extremely powerful inherited spells but eventually fall to Harley’s tricks and Himiko's mana blocker ability. The group eventually find strange strings attached to the limbs of the daughters. Rin and Rōnin follow the beggar to the street his nephew went missing on…only to discover a tunnel leading underground into a vast chasm. On top of a stone laid the cannibalized corpse of the uncle's nephew. He then turns around and says “sorry” as he begins to attack Rin and Rōnin. They eventually beat him, only to find strings attached to his limbs.

Bellatrix’s group fight off the dead students only to discover they’re being controlled by puppet strings. They eventually get further into the abandoned store…only to find an entrance to the run down theater that Himiko's group is in. Sakura’s group beat the father who manages to survive after they find his strings and cut them off. But the wife is missing, so Sakura’s group head down a further tunnel way that leads to the theater. Rin and Rōnin wander further down the tunnel, only to enter the theater as well. As everyone regroups, they talk about their discoveries…including Sakura’s slaughtered students. As Hayate leads the group out of the theater, the door opens to the wife from Sakura’s group. But as Bellatrix begins to sense an overwhelming presence of a vixen…she tries to stop Hayate from leaving as the wife uses her inherited spell to constrict Hayate above the group…suspended in air…by sharp, constricting puppet strings.

The wife reveals herself as Harionna, Lesser Hex 12 of the 13 Hexes. She coldly tells no one to take another step, but as Bellatrix rushes towards her in a bout of emotion…Harionna pulls her strings constricting Hayate…slicing him into nothing but chunks of meat. The Shadow XIII watch in horror as their classmate's body parts rain down in front of them…the horror of the realities of Vixen Hunting fully returning to them since the Jorogumo incident. In pure rage, Keiko's arms ignite in a strange purple flame and she begins to attack Harionna with strength and speed not normal to an average Vixen Hunter. Bellatrix, Sakura, Shun, Rin, and Aimi join the fight while the others fend off the townsfolk revealed to be puppets under Harionna's control. The fight heads into the rooftops…as both sides are desperate to win. The resulting fight causes the destruction of multiple buildings. Keiko’s fire attacks seem more powerful and she was way more concentrated…while Bellatrix and Sakura attacked with a fury uncommon to most vixen hunters…leaving Harionna to wonder if they were even human. But eventually Lesser Hex 12 crumbled under the sheer power of the witches fighting her and she was bested by Shun’s sword. But as she died, Keiko received another strange vision…seemingly of Harionna's last memories.

Having grown up on the streets after their parents were killed by Vixens in front of them, Ito learned to use her gift of puppetry to raise money to protect her and her little brother Kage. However, when attacked by a group of belligerent drunkards…Ito realized Kage was mangled and near death. Wandering the streets for hours searching for help but not receiving it…Ito stumbled upon a woman who promised to take care of her and her brother…and she would grant them immense powers to exact revenge on the drunkards and bystanders as long as her and her brother treated the woman like their mother. After coming back from the vision, Keiko realized just how young Ito/Harionna was when she was taken by Lillith. But after connecting the dots of “The Night Vixen” (not Harionna) who supposedly attacked the husband of the “wife” according to some of the townsfolk…and Ito's little brother Kage also being turned into a vixen. Keiko realized that there’s another Vixen within the Gifu prefecture who they have to hunt…another Hex.

Season 4:

After scouring what was left of the village they traveled to in the Gifu Prefecture, The Shadow XIII and Sakura head for the city. After settling for the night in a hotel willing to host them, The Shadow XIII eventually fall asleep. However…Keiko begins having horrible nightmares involving Giichi torturing Kuroneko and Hanzo. Lilith’s face then interrupts the dream and the scene switches to their hometown interrupted by vixens fighting to the death. In the morning, the group wake up and Keiko relates her dream…believing it to be an omen of the days coming. The group ponder on what the dream could mean as Bellatrix and Sakura send the students off to help investigate the city. Rin and Rōnin head off to have breakfast together, however…they overhear an old man talking about a dream he had of “The Night Vixen” stalking him at night. Rin and Rōnin decide to entertain his story and the man leads them to a street where his dream supposedly took place…Himitsu Road. The boys laugh it off at first, until they both sense an ever present feeling of a vixen.

Mai, Himiko, and Harley go shopping all while asking customers of the stores about any vixen attacks. Most customers relate urban legends of a man in a red suit who wanders the streets at night. But only one woman’s story seemed relevant…the owner of a beauty store told how she was closing one night and walked home a few yards behind a couple. As they neared her house, the couple took a left turn as the woman headed straight home. But she heard a scream before she entered her house…the woman went to look down the dark street to see what happened…only to find no one. Mai, Himiko, and Harley asked the woman to take them to the road…only for it to be revealed to be the same road Rin and Rōnin discovered…Himitsu Road. Keiko, Aimi, Shun, and Luna spent the day at the library…only to uncover two hundred years worth of missing people records…all on one street…Himitsu Road. Akimitsu, Kaito, Bellatrix, and Sakura are unable to find anything but vague urban legends. After they all group up…they start realizing something…the old man Rin and Rōnin found seemed to have no memory and only recounted what he believed to be a dream. The store owner Mai’s group found…was unable to recall the appearance of the woman who disappeared. Aimi recounted how the missing people reports they found ended up in dead ends due to the families being unable to recount how their loved ones went missing. Bellatrix combines these with the fact that all of the urban legends were vague at best…and theorizes the vixen masks his kills by forcing people to forget key aspects of what they witnessed.

As night falls, Keiko notices a woman with a strange man…but after looking away…she forgot all the details of the people she just witnessed. Realizing this, she gathers her classmates and Bellatrix and Sakura…suspecting the man of being The Night Vixen. The group watch as the man leads the woman to Himitsu Road…but before he can attack, they stop the couple in their tracks. The woman turns around, revealing herself to be the store owner…who’s actually The Night Vixen named Kimi who has the ability to make people forget things. She reveals that she’s been working with Lesser Hex 11 Enenra to lure people to their death. Knowing what’s about to happen next, Shun, Aimi, Luna, Kaito, Akimitsu, and Sakura preemptively agree to take on Kimi…while Bellatrix, Mai, Himiko, Harley, Rin, Rōnin, and Keiko take on Enenra. The fights commence and Kimi proves to be extremely powerful, constantly causing the Shadow XIII to completely forget why they’re fighting. Kimi proves to be way stronger than she initially appeared, explaining that she was given more Darkness from Apocalypse by Enenra to participate in the Blood Wars. Enenra also proves to be way stronger than Harionna…being able to attack with ungodly strength and speed…even rivaling that of Bellatrix…and he hasn’t even used his inherited spell yet. Eventually Kimi is taken down by Sakura's blade…but before she disintegrates…she unleashed all of her inherited spell…causing mass bouts of amnesia and confusion to those fighting. As The Shadow XIII take on Enenra, he beats them one by one with relative ease…until Sakura, Bellatrix, Himiko, Mai, and Keiko are left. He then reveals his inherited spell, summoning the remaining Shadow XIII to his pocket dimension where he can manipulate the shadows to his whim. The fight then rages on as the Shadow XIII grow increasingly worried at an inevitable defeat…but as all hope seemed to be gone…Enenra's head was completely split open by Rōnin's surprise attack. Realizing Enenra never fought or accounted for Rōnin…the Shadow XIII regained hope and beat the seemingly impossible to kill Enenra as he was unable to regenerate his head due to Rōnin’s relentless attacks. But as they were returned to the real world and Enenra began to disintegrate…Keiko received a vision…Lilith’s face…and Bellatrix with not only the black and red eyes of a vixen…but the slit snake pupils of a Hex member. Keiko comes back from the vision as Enenra screams “Bellatrix! I remember you now! I re m e m b-“…Bellatrix stares at his disintegrating body with fear.

The days go by and The Shadow XIII have all finally recuperated enough from their wounds to make the trek back to Tokyo. As the Shadow XIII reach their part of Tokyo, they’re all dumbfounded as it seems to be in absolute shambles…as if destroyed by a natural disaster. Bellatrix and The Shadow XIII rush back to her school to figure out what happened. However, they find hundreds of Tokyo citizens being sheltered in the living quarters by Giichi and Chisuke. They explain that last night…Vixens began not only attacking and destroying Tokyo…but they seemed to be fighting each other out of all things. The Shadow XIII are demanded by Giichi to help Chisuke fight off the threat…despite the fact that they’re not entirely capable of fighting yet due to their injuries. Chisuke convinced them to help though, since no one else is around to be able to do it. The group then head out as Sakura stays to help tend to the survivors of the wreckage.

The Shadow XIII travel to downtown Tokyo where they encounter a sight never before seen…eight very powerful Vixens fighting it out all throughout the streets at night. A feminine male vixen (The Pin-Cushion Vixen who’s able to hurt himself to cause harm to others) with shoulder length black hair is seen fighting another male vixen with a muscular build and gray skin (The Flame Vixen who’s able to turn his body into flame). The two rage on, destroying buildings as Chisuke and Mai join the fight. They both fight the warring Vixens…causing collateral damage…until the Flame Vixen is killed by Mai…Chisuke’s able to subdue the Pin-Cushion Vixen. He asks the Vixen what’s happening…only for the Vixen to laugh in his face and reveal they’re fighting in the Blood Wars. The Blood Wars are when Lilith allows some of her higher ranking Vixens to fight each other and consume each others hearts until they’re eligible to fill a role as one of the 13 Hexes. Chisuke and Mai are knocked off the roof as more vixens begin fighting…specifically The Cement Vixen (a gray male Vixen who’s able to manipulate Concrete) and The Frog Vixen (a purplish female vixen who can utilize her tongue like a frog can). The two wage on as The Pin-Cushion Vixen joins the fight. As more Vixens show up fighting…the Shadow XIII is forced to intervene. Chisuke, Kaito, and Mai take on the first three vixens. Keiko and Aimi then take on The Boneblade Vixen (a white-skinned male vixen who can grow bone blades from his body) and The Screeching Vixen (a young female Vixen who has a Sonic scream). The two engage in bloody battle with the Vixens, but Keiko wonders why she’s unable to tap into her purple flame power like she could against Harionna…all while Aimi seems to outmatch the Vixens in her pure strength and speed. Himiko, Harley, Luna, and Akimitsu take on The Centipede Vixen (a female vixen with a centipede protruding from her right arm) who’s been fighting The Blood Sickle Vixen (a grayish male Vixen who’s able to launch poisoned blood sickles from his arms). Rin and Rōnin are able to take on The Frog Vixen by herself.

The fights wage on in bloody war that destroys half of the city as vixens try to kill each other and fend off the vixen hunters. After brutal difficult battles…all but one falls to the blade of the Vixen Hunters…The Pin-Cushion Vixen. He managed to kill the Cement Vixen and eat his heart…turning into Lesser Hex 13…but with the combined forces of the Shadow XIII, he eventually falls to Mai's blade. But before he dies…Chisuke mentions finally killing all of the Vixens…The Pin-Cushion Vixen begins smiling as he says “No, not all of us” as he stares deeply into Bellatrix’s eyes…making her nervous. But eventually he disintegrates…and the Shadow XIII are able to rest easy.

After three days go by…The Shadow XIII are then thrust into a new mission as suspicions of a deadly vixen begin bubbling in the Kyoto district. Making the tired trek to the Kyoto district…they meet up with Giichi and Shinobi Hunter Amaya Gima: The Poison Hunter. The Shadow XIII and Bellatrix are told that girls have gone missing all throughout the Pleasure Quarters. Giichi normally would’ve considered it girls running away, or simple Murder…but the styles of the attacks had Vixen written all over them. The Shadow XIII are to investigate the Kyoto District to find the culprit of the missing girls. All of the girls (Keiko, Aimi, Shun, Himiko, Harley, and Mai) are to hide as new geisha hires to the Pleasure Quarters whereas the boys (Rin, Rōnin, Luna, Akimitsu, Kaito, and Shadow XI recruit…Ryu) are to pretend to be customers at the Pleasure Quarters…both are to gather as much information as possible.

The two groups begin to investigate not only the Pleasure Quarters…but the nearby Kyoto district as a whole…and they uncover some disturbing secrets. Kaito is responsible for getting one of the girls of House Shimamiya to reveal the backstory of House Ito. She said the legend goes that a little girl was fed up with being sold to men…she snapped and murdered everyone…causing the entire Kyoto Prefecture to be haunted. Himiko, Mai, and Harley investigate House Ito only to uncover that four of their most looked after geishas recently disappeared over the span of three months. Keiko, Aimi, and Shun meet up with the Geishas Suzuka, Hirai, Rina, and Sola…who all reveal that they believe a Geisha they performed with was secretly a vixen. Bellatrix and Amaya begin seeing a suspicious Geisha who Bellatrix swears looks familiar. Himiko, Harley, and Mai begin suspecting the Vixen is within their respective Houses/Pleasure Quarters…so they begin talking to and interrogating the workers and performers. Ultimately revealing House Ito of supposedly being haunted by the vengeful spirit of a young girl. Believing it to be a hint as to what the vixen is capable of…the girls all group together to stay in House Ito. During their stay, more girls and geishas go missing from the house…ultimately resulting in the girls believing Geisha Michiko to possibly be the Vixen. The boys all begin suspecting the majority of geishas who perform for the houses to be Vixens.

During the night, Keiko begins suspecting the house is actually haunted…as she believes she hears footsteps in her room when no one’s there. The next morning, everyone regroups to talk about their discoveries…except Keiko who’s nowhere to be found. Kaito mentions remembering seeing the Geishas carry someone off to the attic of House Ito. During the night, The Shadow XIII and Amaya investigate…only to find Keiko tied up, gagged, and asleep. As they go to untie her…they’re confronted by the four geishas…Suzuka, Hirai, Rina, and Sola…revealing themselves to be Vixens…. A fight then breaks out in House Ito…Geisha Suzuka is revealed to be able to manipulate wind with traditional fans, Geisha Hirai is revealed to be able to attack enemies with her shadow…utilizing shadow puppets for deadly combat, Geisha Rina is revealed to be able to cause people to hallucinate at the scent of her blood, and Geisha Sola is revealed to be able to turn umbrellas into sentient saws. The deadly fights with the Geishas result in Sola murdering Ryu right in front of everyone…and the destruction of House Ito. But as the Vixens are almost beat by the Shadow XIII, Suzuka accidentally mentions her mistress’ name…resulting in an arm bursting through her chest as the other vixens cower in fear and bow. As Suzuka horrifically melts to death in front of everyone, the arm is revealed to belong to Geisha Michiko…Lesser Hex 10 Onryō. Onryō then announces herself and scoffs at the Shadow XIII. Keiko, Kaito, Bellatrix, Aimi, and Amaya agree to fight Onryō while the others take care of the other Vixens.

A grueling and intense fight then commences that reveals Onryō's power…she’s able to manipulate fabric strands. The fight is taken to the outside of the Pleasure Quarters where Onryō completely overpowers her opponents due to her sheer strength and speed…that which outmatched even Bellatrix and Amaya. Her sheer destructive force left multiple buildings destroyed under her feet. She then scoffs at Keiko standing with her sword drawn and Kaito standing behind her. Keiko then yells to her as Onryō scales a building and nonchalantly sits on its roof…”I’m not gonna let you hurt anymore people!”. Onryō literally and metaphorically looks down at her and calls her cute…she then unraveled the fabric in her sleeves and unleashed complete chaos around Keiko. Keiko looks down to reveal her arms have been completely severed…she then enters complete shock as she hears screams of hundreds of people behind her. She turns around in complete shock as she sees destroyed building after destroyed building…hundreds of slaughtered people…and screaming children and women. But worst of all…Kaito's dead headless body lying on the ground…as his head slowly rolls away with a horrified look on his face…he was only 17. As she revels in her victory and in the terrified screams of Keiko, Onryō begins to cackle as she stands up and begins to threaten to eat the other Shadow XIII…all revealed to be defeated by Onryō’s vixens. But just as she goes to jump down to eat them, something fast and unbelievably strong punches her from behind…causing a green explosion with such force Onryō gets sent across the entire nearby District…destroying multiple buildings the whole way. She then hears another fiery explosion…only to see Keiko standing before her…with her arms completely regenerated while ignited in a green flame…and her eyes not only the black and red of a vixen…but with the same slit pupils of a Hex member.

Keiko begins to fight Onryō again…this time, the two cause unbelievable damage to the pleasure quarters and Kyoto district with Onryō causing mass destruction with her fabric and pure rage…and Keiko brutalizing Onryō with extremely deadly and powerful explosions of her green fire and extreme strength and speed. No matter how much damage Onryō does to Keiko…no matter how much she severs her limbs…Keiko regenerates them as fast as a Greater Hex. The fight continues across the rooftops as both vixens beat each other into bloody regenerating pulps, carelessly wrecking everything around them to kill each other. Eventually Keiko beats Onryō down till she's nearly powerless…Keiko continues to punch and kick Onryō…and rip her limbs off…stomp her face in…rip her hair out…but all in pure glee. As she continues to brutalize Onryō, she begins salivating at the thought of cannibalizing Onryō. Bellatrix begins dreaming of Lilith screaming at her “YOU NEED TO SAVE HER BEFORE SHE CHANGES FOREVER! WAKE UP BELLATRIX!”. We then watch as Bellatrix pulls Keiko away from cannibalizing Onryō’s face…kicking and screaming. Bellatrix then fights the Vixen Keiko, revealing Bellatrix as having the same eyes. The fight is brutal as Bellatrix ruthlessly beats down her newly twisted and demented student. Eventually, Keiko is able to calm down…and her and Bellatrix gather the remaining Shadow XIII members…as well as Ryu and Kaito's corpses…also revealing the other vixens to have been killed by Keiko. But before they can leave, they hear a shrill voice from behind them…”You’re just gonna leave me like that? We just started having fun!”. The group turn around to find a permanently disfigured Onryō. Another grueling intense fight ensues that results in Bellatrix going full Vixen as well as Keiko…the fight destroying the majority of the nearby district. The fighters brutally beat Onryō and she returns the favor, all while chasing after the beastly Vixen across the rooftops at an ungodly speed. But due to Amaya poisoning Onryō who was empowered by pure rage…they were finally able to kill her.

As Onryō died…Keiko received a vision from Onryō's life. Ever since she was a young girl, Michiko was considered unnaturally beautiful and she had a gift for sewing. But she was abducted from her village and forced into the life of a geisha. Throughout her career, she was beaten and abused by her superiors for fear that her beauty would let her surpass them. And after years of being treated like a slave, a beautiful woman entered the geisha house and slaughtered all but Michiko. She promised Michiko immense powers to rule the Kyoto district to earn the respect she deserved, as long as Michiko served her. Keiko returned from the vision…and The Shadow XIII were finally able to return to school. Bellatrix then had to explain to her students that she in fact is a vixen as well as an ex-Hex member…but was able to break away from the darkness that caused Lilith's Vixens to be evil…and she came clean about actually being Keiko's mother…but explained that that’s all she’s able to tell until further events happen.

Season 5:

Not even allowed two days to grieve or fully recover from their wounds, the Royal Guard is already forcing the remaining Shadow XIII on a mission. The mission will have them travel to a kingdom to the North within the Fukushima prefecture. The Royal Guard believe the Kingdom to have rampant Vixen activity and also believe that Lesser Hex 9 resides within the kingdom. This new mission has The Shadow XIII begin to resent the Royal Guard, with Akimitsu claiming that after the mission…he no longer wishes to be a Vixen Hunter due to the Royal Guard's inhumane treatment. The Shadow XIII then travel on horseback to the kingdom in the north. As they do, they come upon the kingdom which is guarded by one giant wall surrounding the whole kingdom. Viewing it as suspicious, the Shadow XIII still decide to enter. Upon their arrival, they’re greeted by two nameless hosts. The hosts guide them all around the kingdom, showing them everything they need to know. The hosts then show the Shadow XIII the luxurious mansion they’ll be staying in. As the Shadow XIII talk about their plans to investigate for a Vixen within the kingdom, the girl host bursts into the room with a terrified look and says “I wouldn’t say that out loud…she’s everywhere, the Vixen might hear you”. The man host then barges in with a smile on his face and coldly whispers to the woman host “Now, we both know…there’s no such thing as a vixen. Didn’t they teach you that in the palace?”. He then carries her off into the night kicking and screaming.

The Shadow XIII are tasked with interrogating the locals about a potential Vixen the next morning all while Keiko, Bellatrix, and Aimi search for their hosts. Shun, Luna, Rin, and Rōnin travel to a local pub to inquire about a potential Vixen…but they’re met with nothing but confused looks from the locals. Himiko, Mai, Harley, and Akimitsu inquire with the guards of the city…but each guard tells them off with a threatening tone “Vixens don’t exist”. Bellatrix, Keiko, and Aimi traverse the same ground their hosts left on. They eventually lead themselves to the Palace of the kingdom. Thinking the woman host was arrested, they plan to break her out of jail…only to discover all the jail cells have been emptied. Viewing this as incredibly suspicious, they leave while theorizing one of the guards or jail keepers is the vixen. Shun begins to discover thrown away wanted and missing persons posters…while Himiko starts to become suspicious after learning from an old woman…that her daughter was arrested 40 years ago for believing someone important was a vixen. The old woman explained that she hasn’t seen her daughter since and that the people of the kingdom don’t believe in Vixens, but remains vigilant that they exist and took her daughter and the other missing people. Akimitsu meets up with Shun’s group as they look for Bellatrix, Keiko, and Aimi. They eventually find them back at the mansion as Bellatrix and them prepare for something. As Himiko, Mai, and Harley enter the mansion…they all ask what’s going on…only for Bellatrix to reveal her suspicion that the vixen is somewhere within the court. The rest of The Shadow XIII reveal their findings of a kingdom who refuses to believe in Vixens.

Bellatrix and her students then travel to the palace’s jail and break in again. She instructs her students to help investigate for the whereabouts of the hosts and the vixen. As the group investigate the jails, Akimitsu comes across a torture chamber with the woman host tied up. They all rescue her and ask her about what happened…but she’s unable to speak due to her tongue being completely ripped out. She then leads them to a different part of the jail, the empty guards barracks. Lying upon a table…is an old book Bellatrix remembers as being one of the three Black Books. The Black Books were Lilith’s Grimoires filled with unknowable knowledge only Lilith could interpret. But as Keiko approached the Black Book…she began receiving a vision…a strange series of vignettes that seemed like past memories. The visions involved what looked like members of the royal guard, Lilith’s horrified and distraught face, Dianna disappearing…and Lilith casting a spell that cured someone of illness. Keiko tries to interpret the vision but is interrupted by guards arresting her and The Shadow XIII. They’re held in prison for days on end…but they take notice of the prisoners who arrive and then mysteriously disappear during the night. Eventually, they’re released to have an audience with King and Queen Kon who eventually release The Shadow XIII from their sentence.

But Queen Kon decides to keep them around to learn what they were doing. Queen Kon completely pardons them after learning of their hunt and informs them that her kingdom doesn’t believe in Vixens because she didn’t want false accusations or hysteria to run rampant. But she heavily thanks them for helping with the Vixen pest in her kingdom. The King then allows them to stay in the Palace until the vixen has been slaughtered. During their stay, Keiko learns about the history and Mythology of the Kon kingdom who believe in Inari…the goddess of fertility and the harvest. But more importantly, Keiko uncovers aspects of Lilith’s story. Lilith had corrupted Dianna’s people in a lust for power…and Dianna’s cultists convinced her to banish Lilith into Apocalypse…which is essentially hell. Dianna then would mysteriously disappear but her Cultists would enforce her rule and law and create the Royal Guard which operates under the law of Dianna.

The Shadow XIII continue their investigation into the Kon Kingdom. The investigation led to multiple dead ends however…as none of the guards or jailers were revealed as Vixens, the hosts are nowhere to be seen again, and the locals being completely unable to help. However, Himiko and Mai notice the disappearance of the old lady who revealed she believed in Vixens. Akimitsu eventually helps Keiko, Bellatrix, and Aimi uncover an underground resistance of civilians who conspire that Vixens live within their midst. Bellatrix and Akimitsu gather the others, and inquire with the resistance who believe a vixen is in the palace and pulling strings behind the king and Queen’s back. As the investigation continues…the group feel like they’re wandering in the dark, unable to discover the Vixen. But all that changes when Akimitsu believes he hears someone yelling for help at night. As he goes to investigate the cries, he’s quickly surrounded by shadowed figures. Keiko wakes up and notices Akimitsu's gone, so she gathers the other Shadow XIII members. But as they go to leave the palace, Akimitsu’s dismembered corpse is thrown through the window. The group stare in horror but all of them are quickly taken out themselves. Eventually they’re awoken by the king’s booming yell…but as they look up…both rulers have the eyes of a vixen…even worse, Queen Kon’s is that of a 13 Hex’s. She eventually reveals herself as Lesser Hex 9 Inari. She reveals The Shadow XIII her plan…to eat them all and be promoted to Greater Hex status. But it’s soon revealed that Rōnin was able to escape due to his ability and travelled to the resistance…who all started gathering civilians who turned out to be believers of Vixens. As Inari prepares to eat the Shadow XIII like a delicacy, she’s interrupted by her guards barging in and telling how the civilians have turned against them and started an uprising. Inari then realizes Rōnin is missing…which gives the Shadow XIII enough hope, and they break from their chains and all begin fighting Inari and her King. The fights wage on where it’s revealed Inari has the ability to manipulate her body (create extra limbs, elongate her limbs, control her hair etc). As the fight continues, it becomes increasingly more desperate as Inari rages on destroying her Palace. All but Keiko, Bellatrix and Aimi are unable to fight Inari. Inari manages to strike multiple lucky hits against the Shadow XIII…leaving Bellatrix and Aimi unconscious and Keiko severely injured. But as Inari came to behead Keiko…Inari’s palace walls crumbled as the Civilians, Resistance, and Rōnin defeated her guards. Seeing her time to strike right in front of her…Keiko became filled with rage, turning her into a vixen. The fight against Inari continued as her and Keiko took blow after blow from each other…each becoming more enraged. Inari grew even more enraged at the insubordination of her prey, and she began malforming her body with her spell to eventually become an eldritch beast made of countless limbs and clones. But Keiko, now consumed with darkness and unbridled rage…struck the killing blow with glee. Finally coming back to humanity…Keiko received a vision from Inari’s death.

When Asami was a little girl, she was deemed the black sheep of her family for being relatively unattractive. Her poor family couldn’t sell her off for riches and would berate and belittle her for her appearance. Instead they forced her to work menial tasks for them until they eventually couldn’t afford to feed her anymore. As they planned to do an honor killing, a beautiful woman appeared in Asami’s room…promising her the beauty, power and respect she desired her whole pitiful life…as well as abilities to exact revenge on her abusive family…as long as she served the mysterious woman. But at the end of the vision…Asami said to Keiko…”Remember who the real enemy is”. Keiko then helps Bellatrix to her feet…and inquired about what Asami/Inari could’ve meant…but all Bellatrix could do was cry from frustration.

The remaining Shadow XIII members head back to Tokyo with the Black Book now in their possession. Bellatrix then reveals she’s not just not telling Keiko the truth…she’s physically unable to because she simply cannot remember anything. But she reveals to Keiko…that there’s a chance they could do something to reveal the truth from Bellatrix’s lost memory. But it requires them to travel to the Royal City in Tokyo…the city of the Royal Guard who The Shadow XIII have grown disdain for. As Bellatrix and Keiko leave for the Royal City…she assigns her remaining students to train with their Shinobi Hunters. The training commenced with the students and Shinobi Hunters…each going on a mission to kill certain vixens giving the locals trouble all while Bellatrix and Keiko arrive in the Royal City. Bellatrix takes Keiko to a priesthood where they meet the Nun who raised Keiko as a kid…Sister Amaterasu. Sister Amaterasu reveals she knows Bellatrix’s situation and they’ve known each other for many years. She reveals to Keiko that Keiko must go through purification lest she risk becoming a Vixen permanently…and this purification will hopefully reveal the secrets Keiko and Bellatrix are looking for.

Bellatrix’s students and their Shinobi Hunters eventually take down their vixens…but notice weird levels of strength that’s not normal for average vixens. Bellatrix and Keiko then settle for the purification where Sister Amaterasu recites chants from The Book of Dianna but Keiko can’t escape the feeling that the chants felt similar to the Spell Lilith casted to cleanse people of disease. As the purification commenced, Keiko was thrust into a deep sleep where she dreamed of all the events she witnessed since she became a Vixen Hunter but the scenery switched to Kingdom Kon…and the Black Book. Keiko touched the Black Book which revealed Lesser Hex 7 Komainu guarding the entrance to a strange looking castle. Keiko eventually woke up and revealed what her dream was about. Sister Amaterasu then recognized the castle after Keiko described it…Infinite Apocalypse…a building of myth said to hold Lilith’s mortal form. They then knew what they had to do…traverse Infinite Apocalypse to discover their truths and finally defeat Lilith. Sister Amaterasu then revealed that it exists atop Mount Fuji…and it’s actually an infinite pocket dimension that won’t be easy to traverse. Keiko and Bellatrix start heading back to Tokyo…all the while Keiko kept thinking about Inari’s words…”Remember who the real enemy is”.

As Bellatrix and Keiko return days later, they finally hold a funeral for Hayate, Kaito, and Akimitsu. Days later, Bellatrix gathers her students to traverse to Mount Fuji. We then see as the remaining 13 Hexes are summoned to an infinite building that defies the laws of physics. They’re all forced on their knees and bow before HER…Lilith…a beautiful woman in a long black floral Kimono. She then commands her Hexes to slaughter “the traitor Bellatrix”. As the group stops in Kanagawa…they learn of a town in Kyoto that requires their help. They eventually decide to stop in Kyoto first, and help its civilians with what is inevitably a Vixen. The Shadow XIII begin their investigation to discover the Vixen behind the struggling town. The investigation turns up the same on everyone’s part…Himiko, Mai, and Harley find people indulging in sinful behavior (stealing, murder, gambling etc)…Shun, Aimi, Keiko, and Bellatrix discover the exact same…and so do Rin, Rōnin, and Luna.

Each group eventually splits off into mostly individual investigations. Luna & Mai find a man named Kodaka who seems to be in love with himself. Rin believes a man named Tomiju is the Vixen as he seems to horde wealth. Keiko & Aimi presume the angry town drunk named Go is the Vixen as he seems to be the cause of a lot of intense negative energy. Himiko believes an old woman named Naomi is the vixen after many townsfolk relate how she drags everyone down due to her jealousy. Rōnin and Harley believe the town flirt Aiko is the Vixen as men seem to disappear after she flirts with them. Shun believes the town glutton Daiki is the Vixen after hearing rumors that he’s resorted to cannibalism. And Bellatrix believes the lazy town ruler Taida is the vixen due to his apathy of people. Each investigation results in The Shadow XIII figuring out their subject is actually a vixen with each each member starting a fight with their respective vixens. This results in town wide destruction as Kodaka is revealed to be able to create perfect clones of him from any mirrored surface. Tomiju is revealed to be able to manipulate coins as weapons. Go is revealed to grow endless amounts of muscle mass to increase his physical strength. Naomi is revealed to be able to steal other witch’s mana…making her attacks flashier and stronger. Aiko is revealed to be able to entice people with her beauty. Daiki is revealed to be able to eat anything and literally inhale things into his gaping mouth. And Taida is revealed to be able to cause people to fall asleep.

Each Vixen fight results in the Vixens being defeated but running away in cowardice before the final blow can be struck. Each Vixen runs into the town church…and each Shadow XIII member quickly follows…only to uncover a scene of cannibalized townsfolk and a sickly looking teenage boy…Lesser Hex 8 Akuma. Instead of fighting however…Akuma tempts Keiko with fresh corpses…ready to be cannibalized. Keiko begins drooling as her eyes start turning. She begins lurching forward no matter how much Bellatrix tries to convince her to stop. But Akuma’s temptation proves too strong…as Keiko begins eating away. The Shadow XIII then begin fighting Akuma as Bellatrix and Aimi take him to the rooftops and the others deal with his disciples. The resulting fights are grueling and ever destructive…causing mass chaos in the town at night with the destruction of multiple buildings. Eventually The Shadow XIII fall to Akuma’s ability…he’s able to force people to indulge in their ultimate sin until death…revealing he is all sin and has his disciple’s abilities. But just before he can begin cannibalizing The Shadow XIII…Keiko stops eating the heart of a child and begins crying as she receives visions from Inari “What are you doing Lilith? YOU NEED TO SAVE US”. Akuma looks around for his disciples…but is unable to find them.

He eventually spots Keiko, holding the disintegrating heads of his disciples. She then kicks him so hard, he’s launched through multiple buildings. The two begin an absolutely destructive fight of Vixen against Vixen…as they punch, kick, and demolish each other into nothing but regenerating pulps. The fight continues on as Akuma’s rage induces multiple kicks and punches that destroy half the town and Keiko’s fire ignites the rest of it…but neither can get the upper hand. Until Keiko’s Black Book opens inside her bag. Before she knows it…Keiko was able to create extra limbs…like Inari…she was able to manipulate her fabric like Onryō, she was able to create Miasma like Jorogumo…she controlled his limbs like Harionna…and she manipulated the shadows like Enenra. But as she powered up, so did he…creating massive amounts of armor made from muscle and utilizing his disciples immense abilities. But Keiko eventually was able to rip him in half and began eating his heart. But as she did, Keiko began receiving a vision. A young, abandoned, and nameless child wandered the streets and was taken in by a church who named him Akuma due to the church believing he was filled with sin. Akuma was abused for months on end in an attempt to reverse his “sinful” nature. Suffering the abuse of the church, he prayed to Dianna to let him die in peace. But in came a mysterious woman…who promised the child immense powers to kill those who did him wrong…as long as he served her.

Keiko returned from the vision and returned back to humanity…unable to make sense of what just happened. The others awakened to the destruction and Akuma’s disintegrating corpse. Keiko then revealed that she was able to use the abilities of the Dead Hexes. Bellatrix and Keiko then began theorizing that the visions she’s been receiving were actually her absorbing the Vixens’ souls and powers. The Shadow XIII stay in Kyoto as sin has left the town after Akuma’s demise. They begin helping rebuild the town in apology for the damage they created…but on one night…Mai decided to walk to a store by herself. But as she made the trek back to the house The Shadow XIII were staying at…she heard something behind her. As she turned around…a tall psychotic man stared down at her with a smile while he held the bisected corpse of a cannibalized woman. The man then kneeled down to stare her in the eyes…revealing himself as Greater Hex 5 Omoikane. He then gently giggled “Don’t worry Mai…I’m not gonna hurt you”. He then stuck his finger entirely through her forehead and painfully infected her with Darkness. He stared at her writhing body and said “Finally, one of you will survive the transformation”.

Season 6:

Spending the last few hours before they head for Mt. Fuji help clean up, the Shadow XIII inquire as to the whereabouts of Mai. The group spend half the day searching for her only to turn up nothing. All until they ask a woman if she’s seen someone who looks like Mai…and she described seeing a girl with a similar look traveling with a man outside the town. The group instantly suspect something incredibly fishy, but end up theorizing maybe for whatever reason Giichi is escorting her to Mt. Fuji. The group then begin their treacherous trek to Mt. Fuji to strike the heart of the Vixen plague. As they near Mt. Fuji…they run into the Shinobi Hunters Sakura, Chisuke, Kazuhiko, Kaneki, Hoshi, Arakan, Uno, and Amaya. They all reveal that Giichi has instructed them to journey with the Shadow XIII into Infinite Apocalypse. After making the treacherous climb, they eventually stumble upon a decrepit run-down looking shrine…that Keiko recognizes as an altered version of the palace she saw in her vision in the Royal City. All the Shinobi Hunters (including Bellatrix) utilize their mana to reveal Infinite Apocalypse and then enter the palace with the Shadow XIII.

The group then step through the entrance only to reveal the infinite pocket dimension filled with impossible architecture. Bellatrix then reveals that they’re looking for Lesser Hex 7 Komainu, the guard of Infinite Apocalypse. But as they step further into the impossible pocket dimension, it begins to shift, they then hear the striking of a gong…and everyone is transported away from the entrance. Keiko wakes up at home, with her mom Bellatrix and her dad…Akio. She then realizes that she’s only dreamt up Vixens, they no longer exist and she can finally be at peace with her family. Aimi wakes up at home with her family and little brother…she hugs him and begins to cry. Shun wakes up in High School…with Harley…and the two begin to hold hands as if they were lovers. Rin wakes up in Bellatrix’s school where all his friends are still alive. Rōnin wakes up at his home…married to Rin. Luna wakes up as a normal looking human being, and begins making genuine friendships with his classmates. Harley wakes up at the circus where she’s a world renowned circus performer with her own comic book series. Himiko wakes up as the head of the Government of Witches where everyone worships her very being. And the Shinobi Hunters all wake up at their homes with their families.

As each Shadow XIII member revels in these idealistic worlds, each begin to notice something strange. Keiko keeps seeing glitches in her world that shatter her reality. Aimi notices that her little brother has missing details in his appearance. Luna begins to notice the words “Wake Up” everywhere in his reality. Rin begins to hear distant voices that sound like him screaming “YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!”. Himiko begins to question her ability to be head of the Government of Witches…and begins having visions she realizes are actually memories of the real world. Rōnin begins noticing strange differences in Rin’s personality. Harley begins seeing people in her audience that she realizes are her classmates. Shun keeps noticing Harley casually say “Wake Up!”. But before they know it, each member is violently woken up by a Shinobi Hunter…only for it to be revealed a long-Haired Vixen was forcing them to see what they desired most. Each group fought and killed their respective Vixen…who mysteriously all looked the exact same.

As each Vixen is killed, the rooms they’re in begin to crumble. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters make a break for the doors at the end of each room. But as each escaped their room, they heard a striking of a gong…they stumble into a house to see the other Shadow XIII members. Everyone, realizing they’re trapped in the house, begin to desperately search for an exit. Keiko begins to see her classmates blame her for everything, including the existence of Vixens, the death of her classmates, and the failure to save Lilith. Luna begins seeing his classmates degrade him and cause him to be an outcast. Rin begins seeing Rōnin die in front of him. Aimi sees a memory from her past haunt her…when her inherited spell developed and she accidentally killed her brother…resulting in the abusive training her parents forced her through for years. Himiko watches as her classmates praise Keiko for being greater than her. Rōnin sees Rin degrade him and say he’ll never love him. Harley sees as her classmates call her useless for not helping fight the 13 Hexes. Shun watches as Harley calls her unlovable. And the Shinobi Hunters watch their students all die in front of them.

Everyone begins realizing that this is yet another visual trick and hallucination caused by a vixen, but they fail to understand how to break from the nightmares. As Keiko realizes she’s just in a nightmare…she begins ignoring her classmates and reminds herself that she’s worthy of the title Vixen Hunter. Luna begins arguing about how useful he is as a friend and classmate. Rin freezes Rōnin’s dying body, preventing his body from degrading and erasing from his memory. Aimi begins contrasting her memories with thoughts about how she endured her family’s abuse and the death of her little brother…and became a respectable Vixen Hunter. Himiko reminds herself that other people’s opinions don’t matter and Himiko is completely worthy of being a Vixen Hunter…and even admits that Keiko grew to be respectable. Rōnin begins remembering Rin’s previous kind words and ignores the doubts he clearly has and confesses to the fake Rin that he loves him. Harley, instead of beating herself up, promises to herself to be instrumental in the defeat of every Vixen going forwards. Shun reminds herself that unrequited love isn’t the end of the world, and promises to move on. And the Shinobi Hunters refuse to believe their students are dead…and instead begin seeing them as still living.

This causes all of them to wake up from the nightmares…only to find the same Vixen from before removing her eyeballs from their foreheads. Her eyes travel from her hands and into their sockets. Each member hears the banging of a gong and are transported outside the house. The house then begins malforming until it’s evidently alive. The house begins to attack The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters with powerful Mana-Imbued attacks…but the group were eventually able to break in and easily strike the Vixen in her heart…revealing her as the new Lesser Hex 9 Baku. As they recover from the attacks, Keiko begins wondering why her nightmares said she caused Vixens. Unable to think of an answer, the Shadow XIII assume the answer will be in Lilith’s Black Book that’s being guarded by Komainu.

As they talk, they all hear a booming laughter come from above them. They all look up to see Lesser Hex 7 Komainu…a tall and handsome man in a black suit with a long tail and teeth of a dog. He calls them cute as he drops the head of the real Baku revealed to be still alive yet unable to regenerate her body leaving her in painful agony. He drops off the platform, and begins fighting each member. He out-speeds even Hoshi and Bellatrix…the fastest Shinobi Hunters…and punches with strength yet unseen from a Vixen. As each side fights on…destroying everything in their path, Komainu stops fighting and says “Let’s spice up our little Soirée”. He then reveals his ability to manipulate architecture to his whim and sends all the Vixen Hunters down multiple paths in the infinite pocket dimension…disregarding the laws of physics and creating new architecture that transports each hunter through infinite separate pocket dimensions of Infinite Apocalypse…eventually losing them in the Vixen-Infested Infinity.

Keiko and Bellatrix begin traversing their part of Infinity, only to discover The Phasing Vixen…a male Vixen who’s able to cause things that touch his body to appear from a different part of his body. Aimi and Sakura traverse incredibly dark and long hallways…only to discover the Color Vixen…a female Vixen who can telekinetically control items the same color of her changing skin. Shun and Amaya eventually uncover the Arm Blade Vixen…a female Vixen who’s able to grow multiple types of blades from her forearms. Rin and Arakan discover The Magnet Vixen…a male vixen who can cause two things to be magnetically attracted to each other if he touches them. Rōnin and Uno uncover the Clap Vixen…a male vixen who can cause fiery explosions when he claps his hands. Luna and Kazuhiko uncover The Plush Vixen…a female Vixen who’s able to bring puppets, dolls, and plushes to life. Himiko and Kaneki discover The Invisible Vixen…a female Vixen who can simply just make herself invisible not visually but in all sense…she's invisible to reality making it so her hits aren’t even felt, her steps unheard, her scent unsmelled. Harley and Hoshi eventually discover The Sand Vixen…a male vixen who’s able to telekinetically manipulate sand. All groups engage in grueling and difficult fights…but eventually best their vixens…and miraculously find each other.

Giichi and his followers find Infinite Apocalypse atop Mt. Fuji. As they enter, Giichi talks to a mysterious black cat affectionately perched atop his shoulder. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters eventually find a giggling and gleeful Komainu who mockingly remarks about how resilient they are. He happily hops up and engages in battle. A grueling fight then commences as the Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters risk everything to grab Komainu’s Black Book. The fight results in multiple injuries as architecture after architecture is destroyed. Komainu’s ability causes the disregard of physics as architecture is created and destroyed centering gravity all over Infinity…keeping the fight aerial. Hallway after hallway, impossible house after impossible house, pointless wall after pointless wall, floating architecture after floating architecture are all destroyed…all until Keiko, Harley, and Aimi are left standing. The grueling fight continues as all four give it their everything. Komainu shifts and twists the inside reality of Infinite Apocalypse in complete disregard as to the laws of physics…but his power is proven useless under Harley’s determination to help. She relentlessly attacks him with her circus balls she turned back into demolition balls…constantly shattering Komainu into nothing but regenerating pulp leaving him open to Keiko and Aimi’s swords.

As Komainu dies, Keiko receives the mysterious vision she gets after each Hex dies. Hiraku was born into a strict family. After showing signs of mental illness, his family locked him in a disappointments room in the basement. For years on end he slowly wasted away, forgotten by his family…wishing to see what’s beyond his walls. Until a mysterious woman released him…and promised him powers to expand his territory and take revenge on his family…as long as he served her. Coming back from the vision, Keiko hoped the Black Book would bring insight into her visions and nightmare. But as she opened it…she received a vision of each of the 13 Hexes fusing into her…as well as Lilith traversing Infinite Apocalypse until she came across The NeverEnding Library where she left her third Black Book…she then looks Keiko in the eyes and gently whispers “this is for you”. As Keiko came back from the vision, she noticed a black cat rub up against her leg. She then felt a sword pressed to her back as Giichi coldly said “Keiko! I know exactly what you are!”.

Season 7:

Keiko turns around to find Giichi and his henchmen…who remark about how they know she’s a Vixen. As Keiko looks on in confusion, Giichi mentions how instrumental Keiko was in leading them to Lilith…and he has no more use of a Vixen. The Shadow XIII step in to confront Giichi…and a fight breaks out. Keiko's friends begin fighting Giichi’s cohorts, and Keiko and Bellatrix take on Giichi himself. Giichi proves to be extremely strong as his Inherited Spell makes him impervious to damage. The fights continue on as Giichi's mysterious black cat blankly stares off into the distance. Strike after strike, blow after blow, attack after attack…but nothing seems to break past Giichi’s Inherited Spell. The grueling fight continues…but Bellatrix falls, and as Giichi readies his blade to strike her through the heart…Keiko begins feeling complete and utter anguish. But before she even knows it, she hears a gong…and everyone is transported around Infinite Apocalypse. Keiko and Giichi are transported to the same room…and as Keiko becomes a Vixen, they begin fighting to the death. Shun and Himiko are transported to a part of Infinite Apocalypse defined by countless religious shrines continuously stacked atop each other. Everyone else is transported to an endless library. Giichi’s disciples are transported to a strange garden.

Shun and Himiko begin wandering around the eerily lit shrines…but all they can find are the undying yet cannibalized corpses of Vixens. They continue wandering down the darkly lit crimson hallways of the shrines but continue to discover cannibalized vixen after cannibalized vixen as gasping in pleas of help. They continue down the shrines, and after entering each room…they find talismans warning about “The Demon of Kyoto”. They eventually stumble out of one shrine and onto a giant religious platform lined with mummified Vixens meditating…still living but cannibalized Vixens…and flies whiffing around the scent of rot. But right in the middle of the platform sat a priest cannibalizing the screaming remains of a Vixen desperately yelling at the girls to help him…the priest nonchalantly gets up and turns around with a devilish grin plastered across his face…revealing himself as Greater Hex 6 Oni…The Demon of Kyoto. Oni begins to speak with the girls…about what he loves most…feeling powerful…exerting dominance over other vixens by cannibalizing them…the joy of killing and suffering runs through his skin each time. The girls begin to erroneously fight him in vain…each move they make, he strikes them down with glee. But he refuses to kill them instantly…instead wishing to see the suffering and desperation on their faces as they realize they can’t kill him. But despite this, the girls keep getting back up to fight him…realizing that if they don’t kill him, he will kill them…and they don’t have a Shinobi Hunter to save them.

Oni begins to laugh at their pitiful attempts to strike his heart and punches them with an ungodly force. But both girls remained prescient…because they had a plan that Oni didn’t know about. Using herself as bait, Himiko did a clumsy stumble at Oni…who quickly violently struck her down. Knowing he’d have something to say, she grabbed his arm as he bent down to boast to her. He viewed it as a last ditch attempt to kill him so he struck her hand away and laughed…but what he didn’t know, is Himiko removed 50% of his power in one touch…after Shun copied his inherited Spell. Cause while both girls pretended to be weaklings to lower his expectations…they both picked up that he was getting stronger each passing minute of the fight…and they made a devastating plan to beat him. Shun would copy his Inherited Spell that seemed to slowly make him stronger and stronger, Himiko would then feign weakness in order to grab him to then remove at least half of his magic…leveling the playing field. The real fight then commenced as Shun punched him with so much devastating force his head exploded…but he almost instantaneously regenerated it and began to laugh, realizing the actual potency of the Vixen Hunters he was fighting. A new fight commenced as Oni refused to hold back…Shun and him began devastating each other with blow after blow. Shun then began to realize that his Inherited Spell affected more than just his strength…but also his speed, agility, physical endurance…and after he shattered her arm so hard it severed from her body…she realized that her healing rate is exponential as her arm completely regenerated within a matter of a few seconds.

Knowing she’s almost limitless…Shun began fighting in a reckless yet powerful style. She punched Oni over and over…obliterating his body…only for him to regenerate and return the favor. Their speed began racking up so fast that Shun saw everything around her except Oni in slow motion. Their punches grew so strong in strength that the mere wind power would destroy the nearby shrines and architecture. The intense and difficult fight raged on as they both destroyed each others bodies. But eventually, Oni began mutating…he grew even bigger, he began growing horns, his skin turned red, and his teeth protruding from his mouth. But Shun noticed something wrong with her as well…an intense desire to kill…having copied a Greater Hex's Inherited Spell for so long resulted in her turning into a Vixen. They both began fighting stronger and faster…each punch destroying their surrounding area and each other…each punch echoing through Infinite Apocalypse as the sound of Thunder. But Himiko continued draining Oni’s power while Shun continued to grow and grow…and after Oni's pride and fury caused him to make one misstep…Shun's singular punch destroyed his entire body. His lone heart was then pierced by Himiko's sword…Greater Hex 6 was finally beaten…and Shun returned to normal as Oni's body disappeared…along with his Inherited Spell.

As Keiko continued fighting Giichi, she received another vision. Katashi was born with a severe chronic illness. Having devoted his life to priesthood, he quickly lost all hope in Dianna to save him. As he lied in his lonely hospital bed…forgotten by his friends and family, consumed by grief and hatred, and on the verge of death…a beautiful woman entered the room…promising him everlasting life and strength that he lacked…with one price, he must serve her forever. Despite not having even fought Oni…she still somehow recognized him in her vision. She then felt a burst of power course through her body…but Giichi's cat appeared in their room and hopped on his shoulder. Keiko couldn’t understand what, but she saw him talk to the cat, and then vanish…into thin air. Giichi then ran out of Infinite Apocalypse and made his way back to the Royal City.

Keiko then begins feeling overly emotional as she realizes her rash decision to utilize Komainu's magic sent her friends to what could’ve been their death at Greater Hex 6 Oni. She then utilizes the same architectural power to summon her, her friends, and the Shinobi Hunters to a different part of Infinite Apocalypse. The group then realize that if they head forwards, they’ll come across the same endless library most of them were at. They continue the trek through Infinite Apocalypse until they come across what Keiko recognizes as The NeverEnding Library. The group continue through the endless and ever-changing library…as they get deeper, the bigger and more otherworldly it becomes as its sky begins turning bright blue and the architecture begins corrupting into eldritch shapes. They eventually start finding eldritch tentacled fish creatures searching through the books for lost knowledge not meant to be seen by any living creature. The beings don’t seem to be Vixen…or even human in nature…they’re completely otherworldly. But they finally come across the main section of The NeverEnding Library…in the middle…being read by a strange shirtless, red haired, light-blue skinned man (the same one who transformed and took Mai) with two sets of eyes and one cyclopian eye on his forehead…is the Third Black Book.

The man only has his one pair of eyes open, and looks up at the group in Dead seriousness. He then immediately starts fighting The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters. He quickly dodges all of their attacks and starts launching immense unbridled Mana attacks from the Black Book. He’s then revealed to be Greater Hex 5 Omoikane…the God of Knowledge. The fight rages on as Omoikane dodges every single attack thrown at him…and then he wakes up. His forehead eye and second set of eyes awaken with a grin plastered across his face…he then comments with glee “IM FINALLY AWAKE! I FORGOT HOW GREAT IT FEELS TO BE ME!”. Bellatrix and Keiko attempt to fight him but he moves with speed and agility never before seen and attacks with furious joy as he dodges all of their attacks. The Shinobi Hunters and rest of The Shadow XIII join in to fight but not a single attack touches Omoikane as he blocks or dodges all of them. He begins fighting faster and so low to the ground with unrivaled agility…so much so, that it becomes nigh impossible to even be able to reach his heart if their attacks can even land. He then strikes down every single Shinobi Hunter and punches Sakura right through the heart. He looks at her with a joyful gleam and comments how she doesn’t need to die, he perfected his ability to create Hex level Vixens. She refuses the offer and he joyfully rips her heart out…he then turns to the Shadow XIII and gestures behind them. They look to see Lesser Hex 8 Mai, she begins attacking The Shadow XIII. Omoikane then dodges Luna's pumpkin bombs and strikes him down…fatally…he then dies in Bellatrix's arms.

Himiko then begins hiding in the corner of the library and motions to Shun. Shun then copies Himiko's Inherited Spell, and begins using it on Mai to weaken her. Himiko then uses her Inherited Spell on Omoikane, and she begins to engage in a sword fight. Surprised at her surprisingly fast and unpredictable yet precise slices, he begins to fully engage with her fight. He laughs as he strikes her down easily defeating her…but as he stomps his foot on her head, she grabs his ankle. He looks on in confusion…then begins to realize…he neglected to fight Himiko because he didn’t think of her as a threat…when she was the first to realize his Inherited Spell…he can see into the future allowing him to see what their attacks are gonna be. She then devised a plan to severely lessen the effect of his Inherited Spell…he then begins to become overwrought with anxiety as he can now barely see the future. Himiko begins to smile…as Omoikane looks down at her, he’s bombarded by vicious attacks from Keiko and Bellatrix who have entered their Vixen states.

Another intense fight begins as Omoikane is struck again and again by Keiko and Bellatrix’s relentless attacks…unable to see the future and dodge them. They continue to blast him through The NeverEnding Library…but he can still see just enough to know when they’ll strike his heart. He begins to panic and summons Lilith's Black Book. As Shun and Chisuke fight Mai, Shun accesses her Vixen form that she gained from Oni. Their fight commenced as the NeverEnding Library gets destroyed with relentless blood attacks and Shun being able to destroy Mai's body with her Greater Hex strength. And Chisuke is eventually forced to strike his disciple through the heart…and watch as she begins to cry…realizing her humanity as she fades away. Omoikane continues to fight Keiko and Bellatrix with Lilith’s Black Book…but Keiko and Bellatrix prove to be too fast to hit in their Vixen forms. Omoikane unleashes attack after attack that results in his Library being destroyed even further. Bellatrix is eventually able to strike Omoikane down, but before Keiko could strike him through the heart…he launched a mana attack that sent him flying through the NeverEnding Library. Keiko and Bellatrix relentlessly follow after him, but as he comes across a fork in the path of the Library…Rōnin materializes with Harley who launches her circus ball down the hallway at Omoikane. The ball reverts back into a demolition ball and destroys Omoikane's body, leaving Keiko an opening to strike his heart and finally kill him.

Keiko then receives her vision of Omoikane's life. Kei was a dull boy born into a family that valued intelligence the most. Having been a disappointment, he was continuously abused by his father for his perceived lack of intelligence and responsibility. Disowned by his family and forced to wander the streets, he stumbled upon a beautiful woman who promised everything he desired…intelligence…but at the cost of serving her forever. Keiko began feeling a strange and unrecognizable remorse for the Hexes that she couldn’t explain. She then grabbed the final Black Book that has the answers she seeks. She opened the book…but she was not prepared for the revelations that would be dumped onto her. The book revealed in visions…that Dianna was convinced by the head of her cult (who had the same mysterious Black Cat) to banish Lilith to Apocalypse. But the Cult of Dianna was only seeking to commit an act of genocide against Lilith and her people…who were nothing but innocent people that they viewed as lesser than. Lilith herself wasn’t a demon…but Dianna’s sister…a goddess…and was never on a power hungry quest to rule the world. The cult new this would banish Dianna, and allow the cult to create the Government of Witches to rule over them all. But they didn’t account for Lilith still being able to create more of her people…who would eventually be corrupted by the darkness of Apocalypse…and turn into the creatures who inhabited Apocalypse…Vixens. Its then revealed that Giichi has been creating Vixens from people who originated from Lilith’s bloodline…so they’d have an excuse to kill them and continue genocide against Lilith’s people…this then explains Yama-Uba, Kuroneko, and Hanzo. It’s revealed that Lilith didn’t intend to ever create monsters…but to create her people who would birth her reincarnation that she could be reborn through to create balance on earth again. This reincarnation…is Keiko. Keiko's then shown Panacea…the spell that can cure a vixen of their darkness and revert them to humanity…the same spell Keiko saw in the first Black Book. Lilith then appears in the vision and tells Keiko that if she wants the world to be free of Vixens…she has to use Panacea on Lilith and sacrifice herself to allow Lilith to regain her powers in the mortal world…and deal with Giichi. Keiko has to enter the Garden of Sinners and the Garden of Sin to reach the Tower of Sin to use Panacea on Greater Hex 2 Nue…to summon Greater Hex 1 Lilith.

Now knowing the reality of what they’ve been doing…helping in acts of genocide…The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters vow to rebirth Lilith and cure her with Panacea to stop Giichi. They leave The NeverEnding Library in search of the Garden of Sinners. They wander for hours on end in Infinite Apocalypse but are unable to find the Garden of Sinners…until they reach a certain point of Infinite Apocalypse which they’re unable to traverse past. Realizing this is where they’re supposed to be…Keiko is able to tap into Omoikane's future sight…where she completely rejects reality…allowing her and the others Entrance to the Garden. They then enter the vast garden only to find Giichi's disciples slaughtered across the flower beds. Standing before them is Greater Hex 4 Kyunshii…she coldly stares them down as she starts manipulating the flesh of the dead corpses to create a scythe.

Kyunshii rushes towards the Shadow XIII and slaughters Amaya and Chisuke before everyone. A fight commences between the remaining Shadow XIII/Shinobi Hunters and Kyunshii who proves to be unbelievably strong. The Greater Hex attacks with speed, precision, and strength…ultimately downing everyone but Keiko, Rin, and Rōnin. The fight commences again as Kyunshii just immediately regenerates all the damage she takes and for whatever reason…Keiko is unable to enact Panacea. The fight wages on, and Rōnin is eventually almost able to strike Kyunshii in the heart. Realizing her opponents might actually be worthy, Kyunshii reveals the full extent of her power…being able to manipulate the blood, flesh, and bone of dead creatures…including herself. She turns her arms into flesh cannons that launch explosive acidic blood…she creates bone weapons from her body…she uses the dead Royal Guard as explosive corpses. The fight continues as the flower beds are laced with blood under the moonlight. But eventually Kyunshii is almost able to kill Keiko…as Kyunshii attempts to stick a bone blade through Keiko's heart…she screams in her head “YOU NEED TO SURVIVE!”. She then feels a hand on her shoulder…she looks to see Jorogumo when she was human…and behind her, every other Hex member solemnly yet reassuringly staring at her. Keiko then goes full Vixen and is able to brutally beat down Kyunshii…and she’s finally successful in utilizing Panacea. The spell hurts Kyunshii as it forcefully rips the darkness from her soul and Keiko absorbs it into her heart.

Keiko then receives the vision of Kyunshii's life. Akane and Midori were two sisters who lived a normal life…until they came home one day to find a vixen feeding on their parents. Being forced to stay in multiple girls houses where they were pimped out to abusive men much older…they pleaded for help to escape their circumstances. Their cries for help were heard but not by Dianna…but by a beautiful woman who promised to grant them the strength and power to escape their predicament…and take revenge on the men who did them wrong…under the condition that they serve her. Keiko then finally realized what the visions actually were…a way of Lilith repenting for her sins, the visions are the darkness that separates from the Hexes allowing them to move on from their suffering and sin…allowing them to move on to a better place in the afterlife. Keiko comes back from the vision…and sees Kyunshii revert back into 15 year old Akane. Akane then begins crying and hugging Keiko, thanking her for getting rid of her pain. As the other Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters recuperate…Akane reveals that Midori has become Greater Hex 3 Orochi…and is in the Garden of Sin just past the exit gates. Giichi then finally arrives to his palace and enters his empty room with his cat…Giichi can then be heard crying and pleading with someone. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters arrive at the gates of the Garden of Sin…and enter.

Season 8:

As the Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters enter The Garden of Sin, they’re immediately set off by an overwhelming presence of regret. That regret is soon taken over by fear, sadness, anger, and then happiness. Akane then reveals that The Garden of Sin is a place that brings back the memories of your life so you can reflect on your sin and mistakes. She mentions that Midori/Orochi lives in the Garden not to protect it like Lilith wanted, but to find her memories from when she wasn’t a vixen. But Akane is interrupted by Yamata no Orochi, Midori's eight headed guard snake. A fight then breaks out as The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters fight Yamata no Orochi. The giant snake takes them on bite after bite, but it doesn’t stand a chance against the hardened Vixen Hunters…but as it dies, it seems to scream out in pain while shedding a tear. The group then begin traversing the Garden of Sin in search of Midori/Orochi. But as they trek through the Red Spider Lillies, Akane starts mentioning more aspects of the garden. If you pluck the flowers and close your eyes with the flowers in your hand, you get to relive your most cherished memories. Each member plucks a flower and lives through their memories. Bellatrix remembers being home, pregnant with Keiko, as her husband Akio held her hand. Keiko remembered as she watched Himiko from her orphanage train with swords to be a vixen hunter in the Royal Guard Training School…inspiring her with awe. Aimi remembered befriending Keiko, Shun, and Luna when they first met. Rōnin remembered the Kappa Festival where him and Rin first held hands. Rin remembered first seeing Rōnin and befriending him. Shun remembered her dying mother whose last wish to 10 year old Shun was that she would become a world renowned Vixen Hunter. Himiko remembered the School Tournament when she realized that Keiko could truly become her rival. Harley remembered her circus family teaching her gymnastics while she befriended the other circus kids. Akane remembered the sweet moments her and her sister would share when they were humans. And the Shinobi Hunters Kazuhiko, Kaneki, Hoshi, Arakan, and Uno all remembered seeing their students succeed and achieve their dreams.

As everyone returned from their memories, they began to wander further into the Garden. Each step they took, each Red Spider Lily they passed…they dreaded the fight they were gonna have with Midori. But as they trekked up a small hill, they found Midori, Greater Hex 3 Orochi…weeping over a Red Spider Lily shrouded under the cold light of the Moon. Akane then screamed out in tears “MIDORI!”. Orochi then shed a tear in frustration and crushed the flower in her hand. She stood up and stared the group down with tears in her eyes. Akane then shouted “Keiko can help you! She can take your pain away!”. Orochi shouted back “I know! But no matter how much she tries, she can’t erase what I’ve done! I’ve killed people, Midori's dead, Akane!…Midori is a memory, this is unfortunately what I am now!”. Orochi began to fight the Shadow XIII and her pure rage of what Lilith turned her into allowed her to strike everyone down with ease. Even Keiko and Bellatrix's Vixen forms were no match for Greater Hex 3, as they were knocked off their feet time and time again as Orochi continuously shed tears. But Akane refused to let her new friends fall to Orochi, and she refused to let Orochi fall to her own grief. Seeing her determination to change someone for the better, Aimi continued to stand and fight with Akane. This angered Orochi who believed that there’s no changing the things she’s done as a Vixen…but as Aimi and Akane fought with each other to show Orochi that there is change…she became so angered that she unleashed her Inherited Spell…the ability to grow poisonous snakes from her body. Keiko, Rin, and Harley stood to their feet and began helping again…making sure that Orochi’s snakes can’t prove Orochi right, that she’s a heartless killer who can’t be redeemed. As Keiko smashed snake after snake, Rin froze snake head after snake head, and Harley crushed snake after snake…Aimi and Orochi got into an argument. Orochi screamed “THERE'S NO POINT IN SAVING ME! I KILLED TOO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE TO BE SAVED! JUST LET ME DIE HERE IN PEACE!”. Aimi began to scream “I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL MIDORI! BUT YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT YOU CAN RIGHT YOUR WRONGS!”. Orochi shouted in frustration “YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT ITS LIKE! YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BRANDED A MONSTER!”. Aimi began crying as she shrieked “I DO KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE! MIDORI! I KILLED MY OWN LITTLE BROTHER! BUT I DIDN'T WALLOW IN SELF PITY, I PROMISED TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AND NEVER LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!”.

Akane then came up behind Orochi and hugged her. She then said to Orochi “Midori, I know you can change…I just need you to know that you can change too”. As a tear of realization ran down Orochi's cheek, Keiko held Orochi's hand. Orochi looked down to Keiko as she gently smiled and used Panacea to take away Orochi's pain. As the darkness ripped from Orochi's heart in anguish…Keiko absorbed it and watched as Orochi reverted back into 15 year old Midori…who began to wail at her pain being lifted from her shoulders. She thanked everyone and began to hug Akane. Midori then revealed that she trapped herself in The Garden of Sin after she held a Red Spider Lily and realized she used to be human. She would continuously pick the flowers to relive her memories of being human, and promised to repent for her sins as a Vixen by killing herself after she lived her last memory. Akane then asked how many flowers Midori had left until she killed herself…and Midori replied with “One”. Midori then picked her last flower, and revealed the memory of Akane, Aimi, and Keiko saving her. As she came back, she cried out “I don’t wanna die anymore” and embraced her sister. Midori then took the group to her cabin that she lived in while she stayed in the garden, the group had dinner and reveled in their victory…then revealed to Midori that they plan to take on Greater Hex 2 Nue next. Midori then promised to help in the fight as a favor for them saving her.

As a week goes by to recuperate from their fights, Midori and Akane lead the group to The Tower of Sin. As they enter the tower, they all begin to wander around in search of Nue…except Akane and Midori. Both reveal that Nue isn’t actually within The Tower of Sin…but he lives on the Moon within Infinite Apocalypse that hovers above the tower. They then reveal that in order to be summoned to Nue's moon, they have to light three candles of chaos that can be found within the pocket dimensions behind each of the doors in the tower. Each pocket dimension is kept alive by a Candle of Chaos still burning…and when the candles are extinguished, it erases the pocket dimension while weakening Nue. Keiko, Aimi, Rin, Shun, and Shinobi Hunter Uno volunteer to be the ones to grab the candles. The first room throws them into a dimension of only the color white but everyone's shadow is a random color…they easily find the candle and extinguish it. The second room opens a pocket dimension that is a bleak forest with the exception of a good version of Nue having brunch with historical figures when they were children…Nue points them to the candle. And the third room releases them into a dream world that’s influenced by every living being's dreams…while one part of the world is made of chocolate and cookies…other parts of the world are made up of fascistic post-Apocalyptic chaos. After traversing a fifty-foot tower of books…they finally find the candle.

After they return from the third room, the group lights all three candles. The moon begins to shine bright and then disappear. The tower's walls begin to crumble around the group, revealing that they’ve been summoned to Nue's moon. As they walk out, they see him…the skeletal jester in red and black as he sits on his throne. Before they can begin the fight, Nue changes the look of his moon to that of a circus. Nue then announces to the audience his opponents…then as the roaring crowd cheers him on, he begins to fight. Nue plays dirty as he reveals his Inherited Spell…the ability to perfectly shapeshift into someone else. But as the others grow scared of Greater Hex 2 Nue…Harley respects his whole getup…and feels completely at home fighting in his arena. She then begins to fantasize about her being the hero of her own comic book and him being her own arch-nemesis. Harley tells the others to back off because she wants to fight Nue herself. Nue begins to love Harley's chaotic nature and agrees to fight solo. The two begin to fight, and we see the real efforts Harley’s actually been putting in since she lost in the school tournament as she mimicked Aimi and Himiko’s perfect sword skills, Keiko and Rōnin's agility, and Shun and Rin's smarts. She also put to use her acrobatic and gymnastic skills as she combined them with what she learned from fighting Omoikane…effortlessly dodging Nue’s chaotic attacks. As Nue begins to feel excitement for his worthy opponent, he ecstatically asked her if she would consider becoming a vixen so they can be unkillable sparring partners. She refused and said “Nue, as cool as I think your getup is…I’m never gonna settle for being Number 2's sparring partner! Unlike you, I aim for the top…that’s why I learn from my fights! It’s been how many years…and you still haven’t reached Lilith’s level? I’d never spar with someone who can’t learn and grow with me!”. Harley then began using her inherited spell to transform her katana into a comically large hammer she used to beat Nue into nothing but a pulp. Enraged by her insult, Nue transformed into past Hex members and used their immense powers. But just like him…she used their skills as well. She effortlessly dodged his attacks and fought so low to the ground like Omoikane, she fought with the unbridled unpredictability of Nue, and fought with the determination of her classmates and Bellatrix…ultimately beating Nue til he couldn’t move.

Keiko then stepped in to use panacea on the heavily weakened Nue. Keiko prepared for her vision. Ichirō was young when he was ran over by a carriage…leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Forced to live his life stuck in his room…left to his books and stories, Ichirō dreamed of exploring the outside world. His hope for a new life was granted when a beautiful and kind woman appeared in his room and promised him the ability to walk…and much more…enticing him to be her experiment…creating the first Vixen. But he was never intended to be evil, Lilith only merely intended to help him achieve his dreams of being like the heroes in the stories he read. Keiko then came back from the vision to watch Nue revert to the young and healthy Ichirō. He began to cry…because he knew that Lilith would still kill him after he was saved. He cried out “SHE'S GONNA KILL ME! AND THEN SHE'S GONNA KILL YOU!”. Infinite Apocalypse began to disappear and the group and Ichirō appeared on top of Mt. Fuji. As the moon in the night sky glowed crimson red and lit up the sky with the color of blood…Ichirō began disintegrating in front of everyone. Keiko and Bellatrix then heard ritual chimes and looked up…on the far side of the same plateau in the mountain…floated a beautiful woman in a black floral kimono with long flowing black hair…Greater Hex 1 Lilith.

Lilith stared at them blankly and spoke with a cold chill “So…you killed my hexes”. She then scoffed and began laughing “AND NOW YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO KILL ME…cute”. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters readied their blades…knowing that this might very well be their very last battle. Keiko, Bellatrix, and Shun then entered their Vixen forms. Everyone rushed at Lilith…she coldly stared them in the eyes…and with the swipe of one hand…sent them all flying without having even touched them. Uno of the Shinobi Hunters then devised a plan to utilize everyone’s inherited spells and cast his luck curse on Lilith to make her unlucky. This then allowed for Himiko to get close enough to touch Lilith as Lilith missed her attack…Himiko drained Lilith of 99% of her power right after Shun copied her Inherited Spell that allows her to create inherited spells to use. Kaneki would then use his telekinesis to slow Lilith's movement and Rin would freeze parts of her body for the same reason. Bellatrix, Kazuhiko, Hoshi, Harley, Aimi, and Shun would use their pure fighting abilities to distract Lilith. Rōnin would also distract Lilith by appearing and disappearing around her. All in an effort to get Arakan to be able to teleport Keiko behind Lilith to enact Panacea. But before they could, Lilith scoffed and turned around…telekinetically stopping Keiko and punching her straight down into the mountain ground.

Seeing as how their plan completely failed even with Lilith at 1% of her power, Himiko being in complete pain as Lilith’s darkness she holds inside her rips at her insides, and Shun becoming sick and incapacitated from the sheer strength of Lilith’s Inherited Spell…Aimi knew what she had to do as she saw Bellatrix get back up to attack. Aimi rushed at Bellatrix, and just as Bellatrix launched her powerful psionic energy in an uppercut…Aimi got in the way and took the punch instead. Miraculously surviving and being launched upwards…she threw her scythe into the sky. Aimi then summoned her scythe again as she began falling back to the ground right above Lilith. Lilith jumped back and grabbed Aimi…then snapped her neck in front of Bellatrix and Keiko. Lilith began to laugh as she punched Bellatrix to the ground, and incapacitated everyone else. As Lilith began to walk nonchalantly to Keiko to kill her…Keiko began crying in frustration at the death of Aimi and that she couldn’t do anything about her death. But as Lilith stood mere inches away from Keiko, Keiko looked up…and saw something gleaming in the sky. And before they knew it, Aimi's scythe pierced Lilith's heart as it fell from the sky. Keiko and Lilith both realized that Aimi never Re-summoned her scythe…she only pretended to so Lilith wouldn’t suspect Aimi's actual plan. But Keiko realized…the scythe isn’t killing Lilith…merely severely weakening her. Lilith removed the scythe but couldn’t heal the severe damage…she then severely kicked Keiko…launching her yards away. As Keiko watched Lilith trudge over to kill her, Keiko saw Aimi’s dead body and her friends and allies lying on the ground defeated. She began to scream in her head “DO SOMETHING! YOU NEED TO SURVIVE!”. As she did, she felt the world go numb and everything turn white…she then felt a small hand hold her hand…she looked up to see Asami (Lesser Hex 9 Inari) when she was a little girl. Asami then said “Keiko…we believe in you”. Keiko then began to cry as she saw all the Hexes when they were human grab each other’s hands…all connecting back to Keiko. Keiko then awakened as her arms ignited in a vicious blue flame and fury poured from her eyes as tears…now having the strength and will and power of the hexes she helped reach a better place…she accessed the form of Greater Hex 1 Keiko.

Keiko then stood in a calm rage as Lilith began approaching her in trepidation. But in no time, Keiko threw her first punch…that shattered half the mountain in a blinding blue explosion as the surrounding towns and cities heard the thunderous punch. Lilith withstood the singular punch…and began throwing her punches and kicks in a similar vigorous rage with blindingly powerful effects. The two threw immense punch after immense punch with the sounds and flashes of power being heard and seen even hundreds of miles away. As the two fought, their godly powers destroyed the mountain in bursts of flame and rage as their fight broke into the sky. Each punch ripping holes in the atmosphere, each kick causing an earthquake on the ground below, each attack breaking the sound barrier. Bellatrix woke up and saw nothing but raging auras of energy destroying the sky around them in a battle of life or death. The fight became a world bending mess as both vixens' punches were strong enough to rip holes through reality and launch the fighters through wholly different dimensions and planes of existence. But as Keiko heard the pleas of Jorogumo, Inari, and the others…and as she saw Midori and Akane lying helpless on the ground…she threw one last punch at Lilith. The punch was informed by rage and compassion…and packed so much power…when Lilith's unconscious body blasted into Mt. Fuji…it sunk the whole mountain down to nothing but a crater and rubble. Keiko fell back down to earth as Lilith awoke…but before she could do anything…Keiko punched her right through the heart…and as she screamed in pain…Keiko unleashed the strongest blast of panacea she possibly could. Lilith's darkness ripped from her skin and began lashing out to Keiko as she absorbed it painfully into her own heart. Keiko returned to normal…and she looked up to see the 15 year old goddess Lilith. Her hair having turned from black to white…but with one black streak…mirroring Keiko's black hair with one white streak. Lilith began to cry with fury as the others got up. Keiko stared into her eyes and began to hug her, saying “It's ok”. Lilith got up and ran to Bellatrix and hugged her, thanking her for never giving up on her even after the darkness took her. Lilith then touched Bellatrix's forehead…which brought back all of Bellatrix's memories. She was a Lilithian…somebody of Lilith’s bloodline…named Chitose Kana. Lilith gave her powers of a god before lilith became corrupted by Apocalypse's Darkness. This power would allow Chitose to reincarnate Lilith after she was corrupted to save her people from genocide. Chitose met another Lilithian named Akio hundreds of years later…but as they had a child, Giichi and his men attempted to slaughter the family for being “Vixens”. Akio used his Curse ability which would cause everyone to forget the events of that night within a few hours. Chitose escaped Giichi's men and fled to an orphanage where she dropped off Keiko. After Akio was killed but before his curse enacted, Chitose took up the pseudonym Bellatrix and months later began teaching Vixen Hunting.

After she came back from her memories, Lilith then stood to her weak feet and explained that Giichi is the only thing standing in their way now. They have to kill Giichi and the Royal Guard in order to end the era of Vixens. Lilith explained that through the years of his father's and grandfathers’ research…Giichi found a brutal way of turning people into Vixens…and he will continue his ancestors' attack on Lilith’s people. The group then made the trek back to Tokyo with Lilith to gather all their plans to kill Giichi and his disciples. As the group reach Tokyo and get to Bellatrix's school, they gather the rest of the Shinobi Hunters and reveal the reality of what they’ve been fighting for. They then unite Bellatrix's school, Sakura's school, Uno's school…and the schools of the other Shinobi Hunters. They reveal to their students the reality of everything that’s actually been happening under their noses. Bellatrix then makes a plan, on Giichi's Royal Birthday in three days, they infiltrate the Royal City and slaughter the Royal Guard all there like they did to Lilithians. They’ll have Vixen Hunters approach the city from the ground on horseback and wipe out the guards of the outer wall. They will then have multiple airships of Kazuhiko's where they will infiltrate the city from above. Giichi will most likely hide like a coward in the Royal Palace, the Shadow XIII, Bellatrix, Lilith, Akane, and Midori will infiltrate it and cut down Giichi where he stands.

The next day, Keiko mourns the death of her best friend Aimi while helping in preparing the airships. She notices Himiko closely studying everyone but doesn’t pay much mind. Keiko helps escort the airships back to Bellatrix's school. She finally feels some sort of freedom that she relishes, knowing that in the days to come…she’ll have to die in order to stop the reign of the Royal Guard and the Vixen Era. Keiko continued to help in escorting the horses to Bellatrix’s school. Bellatrix then laid out the full plan…Keiko and Shun are to lead the attack outside the walls of the Royal City, Bellatrix and Harley will lead the attack within the city…and Rin and Rōnin will escort Lilith to the Royal Palace to kill Giichi and they’re all to meet in the Royal Palace. Bellatrix then explains to her students to prepare for war…and to prepare to never see some of their friends ever again. The war against the Royal Guard won’t be easy and there will be many casualties. That night…all the Shadow XIII but Himiko group up together before war the next day. They all start playing party games…knowing many of their loved ones are gonna die the next day. The day eventually comes…and Keiko and Shun set out with their squad of other students on horseback to the Royal City. The others begin taking the airships and lining up for battle. Keiko and Shun's group eventually reach the forest outside the Royal City…but as they get further into the forest…they realize that they’re surrounded by countless members of the Royal Guard who begin attacking them. As the airships approach the Royal City, they begin being attacked by canon fire and magic of the Royal Mages. Bellatrix then begins suspecting one of the students or Shinobi Hunters of being a mole for the Royal Guard. Keiko and Shun quickly devise a strategy to lose the Royal Guard as they leave the forest…only to be met with barrages of arrows that Keiko is miraculously able to fend off.

After wondering how the Royal Guard figured out their plan, Himiko stepped forth and revealed herself to Bellatrix as a Royal Spy. Himiko drew her sword and began to spar with Bellatrix, the two’s sword fight was cut short as Bellatrix's airship was hit by a bomb that knocked Himiko off. As Himiko fell to the ground, she used Mana to soften the impact of her fall. Keiko then discovered Himiko and took her aboard her horse, not knowing Himiko's true intentions. The airships finally arrived over the Royal City, Bellatrix then gathers her warriors to recite Bellatrix's school mantra “Even if we die in the field of battle, our sacrifices will never be in vain!”. Giichi is shown publicly celebrating his birthday with hundreds of thousands of citizens…confident that Himiko's spying will save him from assassination. The airships then launch their zip wires down into the city and the Vixen Hunters start descending from the sky. Shun then wakes Keiko up who’s groggy and feeling hazy…she then learns that Himiko hijacked her horse and ran into the Royal City unphased. Keiko climbed onto Shun's horse and the two United their militia to attack the Royal Guard defending the walls of the Royal City. Rin and Rōnin take the zip lines down onto the walls of the Royal City with Lilith, Akane, and Midori. Lilith carried with her the flag of the Lilithians as they ran atop the walls and to the Royal Palace.

Seeing Himiko ride into the city with Airships still in tact hovering above the city, Giichi and his disciples took Himiko and ran into the Royal Palace. Giichi scolded Himiko who cowered in fear…and it’s revealed that Giichi is her father. As Harley and Bellatrix as well as thousands of other Vixen Hunters descended from the airships…they ripped through the city slaughtering any and all Royal Guard members they could find. The civilians began to fight back against the Vixen Hunters who began fighting with the restless civilians. Rin, Rōnin, Lilith, Akane, Midori, and countless other Vixen Hunters began fighting the Royal Guards as they neared the entrances to the Royal Palace. They grabbed their battering rams and began to smash the doors in. As the Vixen Hunters fought with the civilians…Keiko and Shun met up with Harley and Bellatrix who were heading for the Royal Palace. As Uno of the Shinobi Hunters struck citizen after citizen down…Sister Amaterasu revealed herself from her church. Due to the citizens respecting her as much if not more than Giichi…she utilized her ability to show events in the smoke of fire to show the civilians the truth behind their beloved ruler. As the civilians realized that their children were being sent to their deaths for virtually no reason, they began to turn against the Royal Guard and began helping the Vixen Hunters.

As Bellatrix, Harley, Keiko, and Shun reached the Royal Palace, they burst through the door. But they didn't expect Giichi's surprise attack which left Bellatrix mortally wounded. Giichi descended further into his palace…but Bellatrix began to slip away…as she laid dying in Keiko's arms…she whispered “I believe in you…Keiko. Finish this for me. Finish this…for us!”. As Bellatrix died, Keiko shed a single tear and promised to fulfill her role in life. They eventually reached Giichi's courtroom along with everyone else. Keiko began fighting a scared Giichi in a blind rage…but her emotional exhaustion left her movement sloppy. Giichi knocked her to her knees…but as he thrust his sword to Pierce her heart…Himiko took his attack instead and returned the favor with her own sword through his heart. She then coldly stared into his eyes with her hand grasping his shoulder. She then said “I might not like living in a world where Vixens were the good guys…but I’d hate living in a world knowing my dad lied to me in order to kill innocent people!”. She then revealed in her dying breath that she absorbed all of his mana…he was out of any way to attack. Realizing the upper hand Himiko gave them…Keiko rushed towards Giichi…but he pulled out a syringe. He injected himself and turned himself into a powerful Vixen that could grow into a 60 foot giant. Everyone then threw everything they had at him…the fight destroyed the palace and took to the streets of the city…revealing to the citizens the true monster Giichi is. Giichi began swiping at buildings in an effort to catch the Vixen Hunters swarming his body…but he ultimately fell to Keiko's fist as she struck him through the chest and burst from his back.

As the monster finally fell…his heart finally being fatally pierced by the chapel, the Vixen Hunters slaughtered the remaining Royal Guard that cowered in the Royal City. We then watch as the thousands of Vixen Hunters help fix up the fallen city over the course of a few weeks while also holding funerals for the thousands of fallen soldiers. Lilith then takes the remaining Shadow XIII to the newly rebuilt Royal Palace. Lilith promises with her whole heart to Keiko that she will utilize her new status as the High Queen to right her sins as a vixen…and she promises to make Keiko proud. Keiko tearfully looks her friends in the eyes and hugs them…Lilith and Keiko then commence Panacea on Keiko. The Spell drains Keiko of all the darkness she absorbed and cures it into pure energy that Lilith absorbs into her heart. The enactment of panacea was too much for Keiko's body to handle as was told in the black books…and she began to fall unconscious…and eventually slip from life. As Lilith, Rin, Rōnin, Harley, Shun, Akane, and Midori begin to grieve…Keiko feels a small hand gently hold her hand…and she wakes up in a pure white world. She looks down to see Inari who says “I told you, I believed in you! We believed in you!”. Keiko then saw the other Hexes when they were human approach her…Omoikane began to cry as he apologized to Keiko for being a “bad person”. Keiko began to embrace all 12 of them and promised that everything was going to be ok, they were all safe now. Keiko then mentioned how she missed her friends and wanted to see them. She then heard a sweet voice “What do you mean? We're right here!”. Keiko looked up to see Aimi holding her little brother's hand…she saw Akimitsu gently smiling…she saw Luna happily approach her…she saw Hayate and Kaito goofing off as they approached her…and she saw Himiko and Mai gently approach. And then she felt a hand on her shoulder and heard a deep voice “I’m really proud of you, Keiko”…she then looked up to see her father Akio…and her mother Chitose…Bellatrix. Her parents embraced her as she began to cry…she then looked back…and saw through her dying eyes Lilith, Rin, Harley, Rōnin, Shun, Akane, and Midori…she teared up even more as she whispered “I’m gonna miss you all”. Keiko then walked off into the light…and the series ends. The post credits show Harley asking “So, Lilith…what’s next?”…Lilith then says “Now…we find my sister, Dianna”. Sister Amaterasu then gets home…but she hears a small pounding at her window as well as a child's voice “Can I come in?”…she opens the window only to find Giichi’s blankly staring mysterious black cat.

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