Chapter
011pages
007-040
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Rapusodii
[Rhapsody]
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It's getting colder, so Hamel has a blazing fire going, over which
he is roasting Oboe. Raiel is wearing a table for no apparent reason,
and so Hamel produces a giant bowl of seafood and dresses up like a
food stall.. In the nearby town, a disfigured masked villain is about
to guillotine a child. Hamel and Raiel appear on the rooftop, but the
effect is rather lost since the forgot to remove their outfits. Both leap
down, and both miss their jumps. The villain was waiting for Hamel, and
he is quickly surrounded by swords... Raiel's hand is pinned to the top of
his piano by a spear, and Flute is captured and held. Hamel takes a
beating, and his head is put in the guillotine. The blade falls... and
Hamel walks away from the shattered ruins of the device, and tears through
the army of monsters as if they were paper. This is a new Hamel; a shaded,
frightening looking figure of mystery. He stalks off alone. {EIR}
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Chapter
012pages
041-076
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Yuki Furu Nakade
[In the Snow Fall]
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Bass is watching Hamel from afar. Hamel stands against a wall, cutoff
from the world. Flute clutches his violin, afraid to approach. Raiel
fears that Hamel will be overcome by his demonic side. The two, with
Oboe, try vainly to cheer him up. Eventually Flute gets a reaction out
of him... he hits her. Before he can strike again, Raiel grabs his arm,
and the two are at war once more. Raiel stands, battered, and Hamel
stands, his eyes white with rage... and his hat on the ground. A horn
can be seen on his head. Raiel plays again, and summons an army of
dragons, which attack Hamel. Raiel is forced to stop playing by his
injured hand, and Hamel prepares to kill him... but Flute has her arms
around Hamel's waist, and he stops. Picking up hat and violin, Hamel
plays, and is himself once more. The child he saved approaches to thank
him... and Hamel makes him dance naked while he laughs. {EIR}
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Chapter
013pages
077-112
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Hage Yama no ichita (Zenpen)
[Night on Bald Mountain (Part 1)]
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Flute awakens from a nightmare in which Hamel has become the King of Hell,
like his father Chestra before him. Downstairs, Hamel and Raiel are
fighting over the last fish, and as they destroy the dining hall, a kid
adresses them. Sipping wine casually, Trom Bone feeds the hungry heroes
off the floor like dogs. After discovering who they are, though, he
changes his tune, and asks to be taken along to the North Capital.
Ignoring a warning from the villagers, the party, Trom included, sets off
over the Fine Mountains. Hamel, embarrassed by Trom's continued assertions
that Hamel loves Flute, falls off a cliff, and Raiel collapses in
exhaustion under the weight of his piano as Flute and Trom are menaced by
wolfmen... and Trom pulls a sword from nowhere, blazes firey chi aura,
and slices through the wolves like paper.
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Chapter
014pages
113-148
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Hage Yama no ichita (Chuuhen)
[Night on Bald Mountain (Part 2)]
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Trom continues battling the Wolfmen, who soon run in fear. As Flute begins
to comfort the boy, he cries and buries his face in her chest, wailing "I
was so scared!" He shapes up suddenly when Hamel and Raiel reappear,
berating them for their incompetent heroics... though he accidently pushes
Flute off the cliff in the process. Just as the wolves stop running, they
run afoul of Mouthpiece, who is not amused by their faliure... and they
find themselves impaled on stakes that rise from the ground. Trom's
taunting has annoyed Hamel and Raiel so much that they agree for the first
time in years. They bask in the joys of friendship and love until Trom
bribes Hamel. While Raiel drinks milk through his nose, Oboe suddenly
remembers where he saw Trom's sword technique -- it's the royal technique
of the powerful country of Dal Segno. Raiel gasps; he'd heard in town that
Dal Segno was uttely destroyed. Trom denies this, hauling out his sword
and dramatically announcing himself as the 54th King of Dal Segno,
Trom Bone, and runs off crying. As Flute gives chase, Hamel tries to stop
her, and she slaps his hand. We see Trom's parents, his father, Syrinx,
who was eaten as a result of Bass's spell earlier... as they say goodbye
to him and order him carried away to safety while they make a last stand.
As Hamel and Raiel approach, the woods are suddenly filled with spikes...
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Chapter
015pages
149-186
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Hage Yama no ichita (kouhen)
[Night on Bald Mountain (Part 3)]
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Hamel theorizes that the spikes are, in fact, evil bamboo growing where
it will. Mouthpiece denies this indignantly, while Trom hatches a
prilliant totem poll plan to raise himself out of reach. Finally, Oboe
recognizes Mouthpiece, as his head fills the sky... though Trom's sword
is the best means of attack, he's too scared to fight. After Flute causes
him to flash back to his mother's death, he charges into battle to defend
his countries name... but is battered by the spikes. Hamel, enraged, plays
Sibelius Finlandia, Marionette Version, and Trom, aided by the spirits of
his parents, defeats the monster. As the congratulate him, Mouthpiece
suddenly rises again -- and is instantly cut in two by the giant scythe
of Sizer, who lands before them.
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