🎵 [Scene 1 – Cold Open: 15 Years Ago, Snowfall in Kyōto]
A little girl in white kneels in front of a shrine soaked in blood. Torn ceremonial cloth flutters in the wind. Snow falls on her trembling hands.
PRIESTESS (V.O.):
"Sayo… you must never weave for vengeance. A cursed stitch binds the soul forever."
The girl, silent, sews a single red thread through a talisman. Behind her, something writhes in the darkness…
🎬 [Scene 2 – Present Day, Tokyo outskirts: Abandoned Shrine Road]
The Tokyo Avengers ride a quiet train through the countryside—an eerie break from the chaos of the city.
ONMYO FLARE:
"You're sure the binding talismans broke here?"
SCARLET ONNA (gently):
"This shrine was the first. Where my threads were born. Something inside it has awakened."
STARWAVE (spinning a mic baton):
"I vote ghosts. I'll roundhouse them into holy water."
KURO ŌKAMI (arms folded, watching the forest):
"Don't joke. The woods here don't forgive easily."
🌲 [Scene 3 – The Forgotten Shrine]
The forest grows unnaturally silent as the team approaches the decayed torii gate. Vines twist over ancient wood. Paper seals flutter, burnt.
ONMYO FLARE (examining):
"These are old Onmyōdō tags… someone tried to reinforce them recently."
SCARLET ONNA:
"…Not me."
They enter. Inside, thousands of red threads sway from the ceiling—some moving against the wind. In the center: a massive, cracked charm mirror and a stone well covered in thread seals.
STARWAVE (nervous):
"This place is cursed."
🧵 [Scene 4 – Sayo's Memory Flashback, triggered by the threads.]
We see her younger self dancing kagura rituals with perfect elegance, guiding protective threads through a possessed girl's body. The crowd watches in awe. But suddenly—
VILLAGER (flashback):
"She's too powerful… it's not miko craft—it's witchcraft!"
They burn the shrine, attack her family. Her mother dies shielding her. She flees alone, carrying her enchanted needle.
🧿 [Scene 5 – Shrine Core, Now.]
SCARLET ONNA (placing a thread on the floor):
"This shrine rejected me once. But now it's calling. Something inside wants out."
The floor rumbles. Threads snap violently around them.
KURO ŌKAMI:
"…Incoming."
A monstrous yokai bursts from the well—Jorōgumo, the Spider Bride Demon—its upper half a beautiful woman in red, lower half a grotesque spider made of broken talismans and burnt silk. It speaks with a thousand voices.
JORŌGUMO:
"Sayo… my weaver child. Stitch your soul into me once more."
⚔️ [Scene 6 – Battle: The Spider Bride]
Kuro Ōkami lunges in first, claws glowing under the moonlight. He slashes one leg, dodges a thread-lash, but gets pinned against a pillar.
Starwave blasts the creature with a rising Sound Kick Shockwave, cracking its armor, but the threads absorb the sound and fling her away.
Onmyo Flare slashes his charm blades in an arc, casting "雷" (Thunder)—but the yokai's thread limbs wrap around the talismans and rip them apart.
JORŌGUMO:
"Your magic is mine, child."
🧵 [Scene 7 – Sayo vs. Jorōgumo: The Re-Stitching]
SCARLET ONNA (eyes burning):
"You don't own my threads anymore."
She raises her ceremonial needle. Her threads begin glowing pink with sacred fire. She dances—elegant, poised—her Battle Weave Form reactivating.
She threads a Crimson Spiral around the demon's limbs, anchoring them to the pillars.
Throws 10 enchanted needles into the beast's silk-sack chest—each stitch sealing another cursed soul inside.
JORŌGUMO:
"No! We are the same—"
SCARLET ONNA (firmly):
"I sew for protection. You sew to consume."
She releases her finishing move: "Purification Thread – FINAL SEAL", stitching a glowing "結" (Bind) symbol through midair. It explodes in a burst of sacred silk light, unraveling the demon's form completely.
☁️ [Scene 8 – Shrine, Aftermath. Moonlight returns.]
The mirror is repaired. The well sealed. Red threads gently float down around Sayo's shoulders.
KURO ŌKAMI (standing up, wiping blood):
"You stitched that spider into oblivion."
STARWAVE:
"I take back the ghost joke."
ONMYO FLARE:
"That was shrine-class exorcism. You're stronger than I thought."
SCARLET ONNA (quietly):
"I'm no exorcist. Just a witch… who sews better than she sins."
🕊️ [Final Shot – Tokyo skyline. The red rift in the sky pulses faintly, larger than before.]
A piece of scorched oni-core drops into Renji's hand. He studies it. Carved into the surface: a single foreign word—
"VOIDWALK."
🎴 [End Card – Tokyo Avengers]
EPISODE 2: "Thread of the Forgotten Shrine" — END
🌀 Next Time: Episode 3 — "Shockwave Syndrome"
When Starwave is targeted by anti-Alterborn hunters, she must fight onstage and off. But someone from her idol past returns… with a kill order.