Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura, Vol. 7

romantic lovely, action, funny times, and even past life of Sakura's brother, which is a bit strange even back in that era.

Okay, spoiling ahead, worse than an abandoned picnic in July.We rejoin the main group trying to rescue Sakura with Asagiri fighting Ukyo, her former lover, just as Ukyo has learned that Asagiri drank the blood that was meant to be offered with her as a sacrifice to save their village. Asagiri admits that when she accepted becoming the sacrifice, she fully intended to let it happen, but was distraught by her own unwillingness to die at the last moment. Ukyo then proves that he only joined Enju's side in the hope of one day finding her, and stops their fight to release Sakura from her magical confinement (Enju put her in it both to protect her and to keep the humans from being able to take her away). Ukyo then pushes Sakura to Aoba, and tells everyone to run.Ukyo carries the now-small Asagiri, and she realizes that she still loves him, and the entire Aoba team reunites just before Enju appears, holding the paper with Ukyo's soul expression on it. Enju burns the paper, setting Ukyo himself on fire, and Asagiri tries to hold onto him, unwilling to part with him again. But then Enju goes a step further, producing a whistle like the one used way back in the second volume that will blank out Sakura's human personality.Sakura re-appears at Enju's side, but as the Moon Princess with her sword, Chizakura. Enju declares that Sakura's will and personality are "asleep", but her body will obey his commands now, and to prove it, he orders her to kill Ukyo, which she does. Enju then orders Sakura to kill Aoba. But while this is going on, Sakura's soul, if you will, awakes inside Chizakura itself, and a weird figure starts to instruct her on how to escape. Sakura starts to learn what else her brother has been attempting in order to purge the world of humans, yet also faces the dilemma of freeing herself.And once she does free herself, Sakura knows she will have to finally choose... whether to side with her betrayed and broken brother, or to firmly ally herself with Aoba. And she knows that whatever she chooses, one day she will pay her own price for making that choice.Trauma drama!