Intro Song: https://youtu.be/AzsiE44Lz_w / Late Goodbye by Poets of the Fall
With bated breath...
The strong mist spread, all throughout the entire room...
Eyes of disbelief...
The effects of conflict...
Before their very eyes...
But more importantly...
He stood there, wondering...
Dropping...
Losing...
Is this reality?
Or was he still dreaming?
In a nightmare...
Like the one he had...
When Koyo struck him...
Pools of blood that spread across... all of Tokyo Bay...
Corpses littered...
As if human life...
Was just another commodity...
In this "world" we all live in...
"It can't be..." Manaka muttered...
Himura and Rushiko just like Jisei...
Just stood there...
With nothing left to say...
Was it out of shock?
Disappointment?
Sorrow?
Grief?
And in Jisei's case...
Everything...
All at once?
The mist muddied the gigantic panoramic windows that dwarfed over them...
The blizzard raging outside, swallowed all of Tokyo alive...
An omen?
Of things to come?
A weird calm...
If you can even call it that...
The calm before the storm...
Koyo saw it again...
Another dead person...
Just like her...
Jisei lost his parent...
His...
Dad...
Koyo stared at the elaborate floor tile's design...
Staring at her reflection...
Clenching her fist...
Knowing...
What it must be like...
For Jisei...
Hell...
What must it be like for Jisei?
Right now?
"I have failed you... Jisei..." Suzushii said bluntly, but with much ache in his voice...
"And Inari... Natsuno-chan too..."
His figure was obscured to everyone, and so was Shion...
But Atsushi's wasn't...
It's as if the mist didn't exist...
He lies there...
Unmoving...
Colder than the weather itself...
But Jisei didn't show any emotion...
Suzushii just stared at him...
A splitting image...
Just like Atsu's... he thought
His eyes were so cold and familiar...
Just like his...
But I'm sure...
Deep inside...
He's overflowing...
A silence so defeating...
So defeating...
So encompassing...
Suzushii dropped to his knees, bowing...
Sobbing...
"I'm sorry Jisei..."
"I'm sorry... Atsu-kun..."
He just couldn't bear to see Jisei like that...
The same as Atsushi...
With pain all hidden...
Only to swallow him whole...
Soon enough...
That moment...
Everybody left without having said any more words...
They knew this really was it...
The real effects...
Of The Final War...
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"Jisei-kun-"
They kept wandering about the hallways...
Dimly lit with an orange hue...
It's supposed to be comforting...
But this light...
Just seems to cause their vision...
To droop further...
Like it wasn't real...
"None of this is real..." Jisei whispered...
His hands gripping his arm...
Tightly squeezing...
Manaka kept holding his hand...
But Jisei was...
Understandably shaken...
To his very core...
This was the side...
He hid well from everyone...
This was what he felt...
Whenever his dad left for his numerous missions...
Just like his mom...
Wistful aching...
A quiet nature...
That seems to seep from him...
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It feels unnatural for Manaka...
To see him like this...
He looks just like...
...
Behind them...
Followed the one who understood this specific feeling the most...
But she kept a distance...
Conflicting feelings began to simmer...
Swirling thoughts...
Lulling her...
She couldn't shake it off...
Should she comfort him?
Try to be by his side?
But...
"B-but..." she bit her fingernails...
But...
Won't I be taking advantage of him right now?
Just because he's so vulnerable...
Just like what Rushiko-senpai said...
This is something...
I've got to face on my own...
Isn't this...
What you feel too?
"Jisei-kun..." she thought she had muttered it silently...
But with the current situation...
Her voice was louder than the silence...
Both their heads turned as their movements came to a stop
And without even realizing it...
She was face to face...
With a similar look she thought...
She'd ever see from him...
One that looks just like her sleepless nights...
One look...
That just screams from within...
Manaka just looks at them both...
Jisei's eyes pierce through Koyo's bewildered expression, right through her truest intentions...
She just twiddles her thumbs...
But...
She knows...
He needs this as well...
"Isn't this..."
"Something you have to deal with..."
"On your own?"
Her words cut deep within him...
His former lover...
And in this very moment...
The only one who can really understand him...
Yet...
The same applies for her too...
You can't turn back time...
It's too late now...
Koyo...
He doesn't address this...
He doesn't address her...
The both of them just turn their heads forward, continuing their march...
To wherever...
But suddenly...
Words were exchanged further...
"Koyo-san..."
"The same can be said for you too..."
"I-I..."
He proceeded to revert his gaze towards her once more...
Unable to not acknowledge her influence on him...
"I've always noticed... the way you handled your pain..."
"And now..."
"We're both the same..."
He smiled with a bittersweet shaking in his curves...
Struggling to hold it further...
Yet he still tries...
To get it across...
They both really leave...
This time...
With Koyo just standing there...
Pondering...
If only he understood her back then...
How they really were perfect for each other...
But it's all come to pass...
With her...
Still waiting...
Just like always...
"You're right..."
"It's all too late... me..."
She smirked...
With pangs striking at her once more...
"We've got to face all of this..."
"On our own..."
"We've got to..."
"We've got to..."
"No doubt..."
A single tear is shed...
With the rest to follow...
As usual...
She thought...
...
God do I hate all of this!
.
.
"Senpai..."
"Is this really true?"
"Yeah..."
"Atsu..."
"Atsu's in peace now..."
"Along with Akari-chan..."
"Isn't that right?"
"Shion?"
Rushiko and Himura gasped in hearing this...
Shion?
One of the great leaders?
What is she doing here?
Lightning struck as he said this...
The critical moment...
IS NOW...
This must mean...
Rushiko thought...
She's...
Just like them...
Atsu-senpai...
Her voice swirls all around them like it's enveloping their spirits...
"That's right..."
The blizzard outside...
Was joined by the thunderstorms...
Whirling around...
By the tip of Tokyo's skyline...
The whole city shook and beckoned
This feeling...
Was inevitable...
"Rushiko! Himura!"
Both of them stood in attention, their hands raised-
Ready
"Take care of Atsu's body for me!"
"Put him in the morgue here..."
"We'll all mourn him..."
"After all of this is..."
"Over..."
"Should we survive..."
"Yes sir!" they both said in unison
"But what will you two do?"
"Senpai?"
"Our secrets have been revealed to the enemy..."
"They all know of our security measures..."
"Our people... citizens..."
"Innocents..."
"Are in grave danger..."
"We will stop them..."
Suzushii's body is then filled with such a thick ominous aura...
Blue flames...
Swirling around like liquid...
It's just like that...
That day...
Rushiko gulped...
This is it...
He's in...
Full power now...
The mist around the hallway haunts all of their spirits...
Himura shivers at this...
"Well then..."
"We're off..."
They instantly vanished...
Into the foggy entrails of the hallway...
"Be careful..."
He grits his teeth...
"We'll join you..."
"Soon after..."
.
.
The clouds above...
That governs the skies...
Their black residue...
Softly flickers...
Signs of...
The enemy...
"Today..."
"We will win this war..."
"ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!!!!!"
And with the sudden thunderclap of the storm...
They have entered...
Multiple figures attach themselves to the instant surge of energy...
Riding it...
All of them wearing armor...
Befitting...
Samurai...
It jingles and rustles...
With the man in front...
Wearing...
The demon mask...
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https://youtu.be/JTn0mJb9o9A / Ilaw sa Daan by IV Of Spades
The endless tunnels lead to...
The grey concrete...
The watery depths...
The rocky roughness of it all...
Dimly lit...
To save...
Energy...
"RELEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Each and every one of the tunnels shifts and contorts irregularly...
Unnaturally...
"Tunnels 1 - 9, those of the titles: megane! mokuzai! gutai! shokubutsu! seishin! boei! hikari! jinsei! and lastly!-"
"Shibo!"
They twist and expand further-
Revealing...
Their truest forms...
Each one of them is covered with seals and barriers...
"Heh..."
"Tei-san!"
She just pouts, crossing her arms...
Nodding...
"Yeah yeah kid!"
"I know!!!!!"
"No need to show off-"
"Just cause you're the one and only "anomaly""
Kuroke grins, taking out his precious...
Newest blade...
The longest one of them all...
An odachi...
It only curls and struggles to get out of its scabbard...
It's tip only meeting...
The black flames...
His arm stretches out forward...
Reaching for...
A flash is seen...
All of the barriers and seals...
Are broken...
"GREAT KEY!!!!!!!!!!!"
He kneels to the ground...
Sealing his blade further...
Struggling under its weight...
"Why d'you even get that thing anyways?"
As all of the security measures of the bunkers are opened and revealed...
They are both surrounded...
From every direction possible...
By Grade A and S agents...
They don't even acknowledge this...
They back up against each other...
Facing what they deemed...
To be pests...
Underneath their heels...
"Well its useful to get trained to all sorts of blades y'know?"
"Yeah and get to underpower yourself in the process?"
"Jeez you're too reckless!"
"You absolute dumbass!"
"Kid!!!!!"
"Yeah well..."
"Like it matters..."
"We'll win anyways..."
And as the screams of the citizens filled their ears, with the many ishii abilities approaching their way, many in mid-air, halfway through their attack, getting closer and closer to their positions...
"DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"TEI-SAN!!!!!!!!!"
He gets ready to attack, bending his knees forward, with his stance formed...
With his hand on his back, where his blade currently lies...
"NO NEED TO SCREAM AT ME!!!!!!!!"
"KID!!!!!!!!!!"
She pouts once more...
With her hands planting...
Her numerous spheres all around his scabbard...
"PLANETARY TWIST!!!!!!!!!!" they both screamed in unison, her spheres being attracted to his long blade, with the eternal black flames of his
They obliterate everything in its path...
A dangerous combo, one that inflicts great damage...
And the other one takes it away...
Sealing it...
As if whoever was there...
Wasn't there to begin with...
"Sis!!!!!!!!!"
"NOW!!!!!!!!!"
"Yeah yeah!!!! Got it!!!!!!!"
They...
Flashed forward...
And went in...
For the kill...
Each and every one of the bunkers fell...
Collapsing and spewing...
With the crushed remains...
Of those who were unlucky to be in there...
In the first place...
Wait actually...
One...
Stood firm...
With the black flames extinguished...
With an unusual weather phenomenon that arose...
Around here...
"That can't be..."
"H-how?"
"H-how are you still alive?!?!?!?!?"
Another two figures lay in wait in front of them...
The final bunker stood tall...
Unscathed...
"Kuroke?"
His blue flames gave him away...
So thick and potent...
He hadn't seen them...
In a long long long time...
Rushiko proceeds to glare at the blue aura...
Vehemently...
And with great scorn...
The source of his worst pain...
And anguish...
"You bastard..."
"It's you..."
"You piece of garbage..."
"Tch!"
Kuroke proceeds to wield his great blade right over his front...
Covering him...
With the black flames...
All around his blade...
And strangely...
His entire body as well...
"So you did it too huh?"
"So you used the sacrifice..."
"And it turns out..."
"Those black flames aren't just your unique property... and ability..."
"You're proof..."
"You're the one and only anomaly..."
"To escape death itself just like that..."
The mist covered their entire surroundings...
Once again...
Tei raised her eyebrows...
Recognizing this chill...
"The sacrifice..."
"Can't be used to evade such..."
"But not if you're..."
"An anomaly... an exception..."
"The laws of Ishii itself..."
"To think you were one this entire time..."
He raised his blade...
Aiming for his neck...
Gritting his teeth...
His hands sweating on the grip...
"That's enough talking..."
"I will show you..."
"Real pain..."
"You chose the wrong side..."
"You and Shion..."
"Especially that fool... that coward..."
"Atsushi..."
"What a pathetic death..."
"AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Suzushii suddenly lunges at him, his fist ever more potent...
It connects...
Sending his body flying...
Creating newer tunnels, with his form being painted with the entrails of those who he had slain...
"DON'T YOU EVER MENTION ATSU!!!!!!!!!!"
"EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO EVER SPEAK LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
In the kilometer long, freshly created tunnel...
Stood Kuroke, with a huge crater by his back...
But his look...
He...
Wasn't affected nor inflicted...
In the slightest...
"YEAH?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!"
"AND WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YOU'RE NO LONGER MY SENSEI NOR SENPAI!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YOU'RE JUST A PIECE OF GARBAGE WHO KILLED AND DESTROYED EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE I HAD EVER LOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"AND AS YOUR PUNISHMENT FROM THE GREAT EMPIRE ITSELF!!!!!!!!!"
"I SENTENCE YOU TO A PENANCE OF DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
They both meet each other, with their blows striking at each other...
His blade is no match for his blue flames...
But his aura is no match...
For his eternal black flames...
They both negate each other's attacks over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
Multiple blades are spawned and are sent flying to Suzushii, who just-
Dodges them one by one in a spiral direction, readying for his counter...
"ANCIENT CRUSHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He causes the entire ceiling above them to literally just open up...
Like the stone that was there-
Yeah well you get it...
The night sky is revealed to them...
The blizzard swallows them, with the lightning around them flashing...
Right at their positions...
He covers up where they just came from with more thicker rocks...
"AND NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"FLOWING WATERFALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The huge space around them is suddenly filled to the brim with enormous amounts of gushing water...
Spewing out from the very tips of the huge open space before them...
They chase each other, trading blows...
Sticking to the walls of the space, being chased by the water at the same time...
Knowing whoever gets left...
Is done for...
By that lightning...
Whoever controls it first...
Whoever reaches the top of this space...
Wins...
"I guess it's time..."
Suzushii's eyes widen...
Something is holding him in place...
A transparent mirror ball?
Wait...
W-WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
"TOO LATE SUZUSHII!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kuroke proceeds to step on his face, using it like a springboard-
He finally reaches the top...
An entire circle of the same orbs surround him...
But they are...
All now black...
With the same flames... he endues...
And they are sent...
To his position...
"BLACK VOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
...
I didn't want to use this so early on...
In the war...
But!
It seems I've got no choice...
"CLUSTER SURGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
All 4 of the elements he possesses, create this weird sphere that keeps forming and spinning...
Getting larger and larger...
It collides with Kuroke's attack...
And the both of them...
Are suddenly hit...
BY LIGHTNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...
Smoke rises from the space below...
With their presence...
All gone...
Erased...
It's safe to say...
It's only just starting to begin...
All of this is...
-To Be Continued-
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Ending Song: https://youtu.be/d8_YZ7QVQlQ / TEARS by HEALTH