"So this is your home town. Seichō Town."

Kuragami and Sasaki have agreed to meet each other to see how strong they are now.

“Yeah. The town I mainly grew up in.”

“So, where do you live?”

Sasaki pauses of a second.

“Follow me.”

Sasaki takes Kuragami to his care home, where 12 other orphans live. They are all different ages. Two of them are the same age as Sasaki. As they are standing outside the mansion full of kids, Kuragami looks around. He notices a few kids looking out their windows.

Sasaki knocks on the door. One of the kids his age opened. Her name is Yurika but some people call her Yuri for short.

Yurika has short black messy hair, with blue eyes. She has light skin.

“So you decided to come back after what you done.”

Sasaki pays no attention to what she just said.

“Yuri, this is my teammate Kuragami.”

Yurika walks past Sasaki and handshakes Kuragami.

“My name is Yurika. Nice to meet you. I'm sorry you have to be teammates with this psychopath.

Yurika gives Sasaki a dirty back look. Sasaki pays no attention to it.

“Nice to meet you. Your auras kind of potent, why didn’t you become shorai?”

“Why limit myself to a system when the whole world is out there.”

“True.”

“If you know that’s true, why wear that armband?”

Kuragami looks at Sasaki, then back at Yurika.

“I have my reasons.”

Yurika squints her eyes.

“Don’t we all. The D.O, I could never work for them.”

Yurika suddenly walks away and goes upstairs to her room.

“Let’s go. I need to get my sword from my care worker.”

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“Why do they have your sword?”

“Long story.”

The office is right next to the entrance. Sasaki knocks on the office door. The care worker signals to let Sasaki in. Sasaki opens the door and comes in. Kuragami waits outside. The door is left open.

“Let me guess. You came to get your sword back?”

“I need to prepare for the skirmish.”

“Do you at least know what you done to Bokura is wrong?”

“We were sparring. It’s not my fault that happened.

“You know, you do have a reputation for lying.”

“No one's in charge of the reputation they have.”

“Not true. Your actions reflect on your reputation.”

“So does other people's actions. Actions you have no control of. That's what's happening right now and you won't listen to me! Now give me my sword I need to train with Kuragami for the Shorai Skirmish!”

“Lower your voice when you speak to me boy! And who's Kuragami? That kid over there?”

“Yes. He's my teammate.”

“Tell your teammate you wont be joining him.”

“What?!”

The care workers looks to the direction of the sword. The sword is gone.

“Sasaki! Did you take your sword?!”

“You were looking at me the whole time! Of course I didn’t!”

They both look out the room. Kuragami is holding the sword.

“Let’s go Sasaki.”

“You gremlin! Sasaki stay here!”

Kuragami and Sasaki both run out the house. Kuragami give him his sword. Yurika looks out the window, watching them run.”

“So this is my hometown’s forest Kuragami. It's kinda destroyed because I was training here.”

“I see. Hey Sasaki want to see my new technique?”

“Sure.”

Kuragami starts raising aura on his right hand. The aura takes shape of a giant arm and solidifies into ice.

“This is called Blessed Arm. Its attacks are much stronger than what I can do normally. It's also indestructible.”

“Is that so?”

“Yeah. Try attack it.”

Sasaki wields his sword. He raises the aura inside and runs towards Kuragami. He runs and jumps in the air. He charges up a slash that will hit the Blessed Arm.

“Vicious Wolf Slash!”

His attack hits the Blessed Arm but right before it hits it, the area where it was hit glistens making it unaffected where impact happened.

“So that's it. You infused your Heavenly Ice with your Blessed Arm. Nice.”

Kuragami smiles. The fist starts glistening. Kuragami dashes to Sasaki with his Blessed Arm and goes in for a punch. Sasaki reacts quick enough to raise aura and attack back with his sword, causing a aura clash.

The clash is very powerful causing danger to the whole forest. Both Kuragami and Sasaki smile.

Kuragami and Sasaki have been fighting for 6 hours straight. There is no clear winner. They are both exhausted now.

“It's starting to get dark now.”

“Yeah. You should probably go home Kuragami. Same thing tomorrow?”

“Yeah. But let's just rest for a bit. I can barely stand.”

"Me too."

They both lie down for a bit talking about things. Soon, Sasaki goes home.

He climbs and enters the house through his window. He gets his bag and starts packing his things.

Yurika hears it and walks in his room, Bokura behind her. Yurika looks confused.

“You’re leaving?”

Bokura smiles.

“Running away, like you did when you killed Sashi.”

Furious, Sasaki throws his bag down.

“I didn’t leave because of that!”

Bokura lessens the space between them.

“Bullshit! You couldn’t stand him being the strongest in our dojo!”

“That’s not true!”

“Bokura stop!”

“Why do you think Sensei Jisai hasn’t even thought of asking you to come back?! You disgrace his dojo!”

The room gets silent. Sasaki takes a deep breath. He finishes packing his bag while they watch.

“I need to better myself. Anyone who associates with that dojo is now my enemy.”

He throws the bag out of the window. Bokura steps up.

“After that dumb little skirmish, come to the usual spot. We’ll duel for the sword Sensei Jisai keeps.”

Sasaki sighs.

“Fine.”

Sasaki jumps out the window.