It starts off with the three bandits bowing, inside a cave, with torches on the walls. They bow toward the end of the cave, where a tall shadowy figure with red eyes stands. The lead bandit just finishes his summary of events on what happened in Airy Town. “...And that’s what happened.”, the lead bandit says.

The tall shadow then goes to speak, and it speaks in a low-tone voice, “Hm. A “White Talon”.”. “He was real big and strong”, the lead bandit says. “Doesn’t matter! You will keep going back there.”, the tall shadow says. “We plan to boss.”, the lead bandit says. “Don’t interrupt me!! Now I’m hungry!!”, the shadow shouts. The second bandit chimes in, “Please don’t eat us boss.”. “I won’t. Of course not.”, the shadow says as the bandits smile with relief. “But bring me results like this again and I’ll consider it!”, the shadow says, as the bandits react in a scared manor. “Now... how to deal with this White Talon.”, The shadow ponders.

Meanwhile, as that talk takes place, Kelsey, Mai and Saige show up standing just a few meters away from the front of the bandits’ cave. The front of the cave appears to be unguarded. “How’d you even know the location of this place?”, Mai asks, Kelsey. “I scouted it out when I was smaller, but that was before bandits moved into it. I just had a hunch that this was where they would escape to.”, Kelsey answers. “Let’s see if your hunch was correct.”, Saige responds. “Let’s do battle.”, Kelsey says with a determined tone of voice. “Hooold on, you said to your mom that you would go home after you led us.”, Mai states.

“I lieeed.”, Kelsey says. “Underhanded.”, Saige responds. Kelsey then retorts to Mai, saying, “And you can’t make me retreat back.”. “Fine, you can come in, but you better not get in our way.”, Mai says with a defeated tone. Kelsey smiles. “Okay, let’s take out this bandit camp.”, Mai says, with a determined look.

Mai, Saige and Kelsey walk up to the cave and go inside. They walk for a bit inside the cave, then get confronted by the three bandits again. “It’s you three again.”, the lead bandit says. “I don’t know how you found us, but you came to the wrong territory.”, the second bandit states. “We’ll see about that.”, Mai retorts.

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The bandits snicker, then the lead bandit takes out a sledgehammer on fire, the second bandit takes out a bat on fire and the third bandit takes out a sword on fire. “What the heck?”, Mai says in surprise. “What’s going on with their weapons?”, Saige asks. “It’s demon magic. But how?”, Mai responds. “Doesn’t matter! Attack!”, the lead bandit says right before having himself and the other two bandits jump in to fight.

The lead bandit swings his sledgehammer high and goes to slam on Saige’s head, but Saige dodges the blow as the hammer hits the ground and makes a small crator. “How the hell did he do that!?”, Saige exclaims. Mai chimes in, “It’s demon magic. I’m guessing it’s enhancing their strength. As long as they’re holding onto those weapons.” Mai then dodges

Mai dodges a few sword slash blows and gets, but gets cut on the arm and winces in pain. Kelsey tries shooting, but can’t land a shot and gets batted by a bat, which sends her flying into a stalagmite. This also synches Kelsey’s suit abit. As Kelsey’s recovering, Mai then runs over, grabs Kelsey’s blaster and blasts it, hitting the second bandit a few times in the chest, before he goes down. “No!”, the lead bandit yells. “I’ll make smushed meat out of you!”, the lead bandit says, right before charging in to hit Mai.

Saige then grows his horns and grabs the lead bandit’s arm in time, halting the bandit in place. “What!?”, The lead bandit says in shock from Saige’s appearance. “The White Talon is.. a-a-demon!?”, the third bandit yells. “Not a demon”, Saige says. “Whoa whoa whoa whoa!”, the lead bandit says, still with shock, and in fear. Kelsey looks at Saige and notices too, and has a surprised expression on her face.

Saige then grabs the lead bandit by the back of the head and tosses him into the face of the third bandit, which knocks the two out. “So this whole time you were a demon?”, Kelsey asks. Saige turns toward her with a stern expression. Saige, “Not exactly a demon, but.. sigh, yeah, this is who I am”. There’s a brief pause before Kelsey starts speaking again, “That’s so cool!”. Huh?

Suddenly they get surrounded by many more bandits. The team of three then go back-to-back. “Get ready to fight.. again.”, Mai warns. “A demon, huh?”, a voice from the darkness says near the end of the cave. The figure then comes out of the darkness skin, with red skin, a pot belly, a pig nose, black beady eyes, big horns, and tattered brown shorts, while standing at 5 meters tall. Kelsey, Saige and Mai just look up at him. The giant demon then says, “Well why don’t you test that strength against me! The ex-demon general Gallagar!”