Everyone wakes up and gets out of their rooms.

Yuji looks over to see Cassandra in her pajamas, wearing face cream and a towel over her head.

Yuji: "Morning...Casssandra?"

Cassandra turns around to respond to Yuji.

Cassandra: "What? Do you think I look this good naturally? A woman's gotta work for the good stuff sometimes, you know?!"

Yuji: "Right...?"

Yuji turns around and attempts to wake N up.

Yuji: "N...you awake?"

N: "No."

Yuji: "Haha...look like you're a heavy sleeper."

N: "I wish I didn't wake up."

Yuji: "What?"

N: "Let me sleep, damn it!"

Ashlyn sits up from her bed.

Yuji walks over and kneels.

Yuji: "Good morning, sleepy head!"

Ashlyn lifts both of her arms.

Ashlyn: "Hug...now!"

Yuji: "Haha. I already know the drill."

Yuji stands back and hugs Ashlyn.

Cassandra and Mallory are peaking over the door of Yuji, Ash, and N's room.

Mallory: "Well, aren't you two a happy couple?"

Yuji gets flustered as he yells back at Mallory and Cassandra.

Yuji: "W-WHAT?! NO NEVER?! SHE JUST...likes morning hugs, is that so wrong?"

Cassandra: "Sure buddy..."

Cassandra and Mallory slowly slide away.

Cassandra: "Where the hell is that damn nerd?!"

Cassandra stomps over to Jizzabelle's room and aggressively opens the door.

Cassandra: "Oi, GLASSE-"

Jizzabelle is in her pajamas, drooling from her mouth and her hair is frizzled up.

Cassandra: "Uhh..."

Jizzabelle SLAMS the door then opens it again revealing her in formal wear.

Jizzabelle: "Good morning everyone, what exactly will we be consuming on this wonderful morning?"

Cassandra and Mallory look at each other then back and Jizzabelle.

Cassandra and Mallory: "Wow..."

Ashlyn lets go of Yuji's hug and rubs her eyes.

Ashlyn: "What's for breakfast."

Yuji: "We were just about to head down!"

Ashlyn changes from her pajamas into her clothes then holds Yuji's hand as they head down to the cafeteria.

N gets up from his bed and sits for a moment.

N: "Sigh...god damn it."

N stands up from his and wears his oversized hoodie and exits his room.

Everyone except N is now eating in the cafeteria.

Tatsuki: "So what are we fighting this time, eh, Jacob?"

Jacob is laying back on a chair with his eyes flaming blue.

Jacob: "It's so weird...I don't sense any omen around anywhere in the world...that can't be right."

Tatsuki: "HA! They were probably too scared and ran back to whatever the hell their home is."

Jacob: "Yeah well, the problem is, we can't really get a lead on the source of the omen if the omen aren't appearing-huh?"

Jacob has a vision of a figure in a red hood dragging a woman into an alley.

Jacob: "The fuck?"

Cassandra: "Got something?"

Jacob: "Yeah, and I don't think you're going to like it."

Jacob transfers the vision back to everyone else.

Cassandra: "The fuck?! Why the hell aren't we-"

A rift appears right behind Cassandra.

Jacob: "I already got you covered."

Cassandra: "Be right back!"

Tatsuki: "Hold on, I want some of this ass whooping come on!"

Everyone but Jacob and Banishment jump out of the rift.

Jacob looks over to see Mallory sitting next to Jacob eating soup.

Jacob: "Right...forgot you can't really fight, huh."

Mallory: "Yeah, sorry...can't really do much around here."

Jacob: "Awe don't say that, everyone's got their own kind of use, besides, I've got something that will be perfect for you."

Mallory: "Oh yeah? what is it?"

Jacob: "I would rather show it once everyone else is here."

Mallory: "Alright."

N enters the cafeteria and sits down for a bowl of soup.

Jacob: "Morning bud."

N says nothing as he looks at the soup.

Jacob: "You allergic to soup or something?

N: "No."

N picks up and starts drinking the soup.

Jacob: (Someone's pretty fucking monotone...and how does he eat with a mask on?)

Cassandra looks down the alley to see a red hooded figure running away.

Cassandra: "WE GOT A RUNNER, YEE FUCKING HAWW"

Cassandra runs down the alley to chase the red-hooded figure as everyone else runs after her.

Ashlyn: "CASSANDRA, WAIT!"

Cassandra lights her shoes on fire and runs off of the wall of the alley and GRABS the red hooded figure by the head and SLAMS them into the ground.

Cassandra pulls the figure's collar right up to her face.

Cassandra: "THE FUCK WERE YOU TRYING TO DO WITH THAT GIRL, HUH?! WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!"

Hood: "For the maroon suns!"

Cassandra: "Huh?"

The red hooded figure pulls out a red crystal and breaks it.

The red hooded figure suddenly starts to glow as everything goes in slow motion.

Tatsuki completely on impulse, turns into a giant yellow-furred bear with a turtle shell on its back then hugs everyone into his stomach.

The hooded figure EXPLODES destroying the alleyway and leaving a crater.

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Ashlyn: "CASSANDRA NOO!!!!"

The dust clears, Tatsuki turns back to normal then Ashlyn comes running out to see nothing.

Irina: "MY...PARTNER...HAS PERISHED?!"

Tatsuki: "She's not dead...right? She's not....she's-"

Tatsuki falls to his knees.

Yuji: "Just like last time...I could have done something, but I didn't...why?"

Yuji gets a flashback of Chonkster and Bentley's death.

More dust clears revealing Cassandra completely naked with the dust covering her private parts.

Cassandra: "What the hell are y'all on about?"

Ashlyn looks up in confusion.

Ashlyn: "Huh?"

Irina runs over to Cassandra and jumps onto her.

Irina: "WAAAAAAAAAAAAA MY RIVAL LIVES!!!!! NOT THAT I WAS WORRIED OR ANYTHING!!!!!!"

Cassandra: "Haha I missed you too...I think?"

Tatuski is covering his eyes.

Tatsuki: "How the hell did you survive that?"

Cassandra: "I basically absorbed that explosion since most of that explosion was fire. *Burp* ew."

Tatsuki looks over to see Yuji not covering his eyes at all.

Tatuski: "Dude! Aren't you gonna-"

Yuji: "YOU HAD US WORRIED SICK, DAMN IT!"

Tatuski: "Bruh..."

Jizzabelle: "Returning back to the topic at hand, what exactly was that mysterious figure?"

Tatsuki:"...why do you talk like that?"

Cassandra: "I don't know, he was saying something about maroon suns?"

Ashlyn: "Maroon suns?"

Cassandra: "Girl, don't just ask me like I know what the fuck that is."

Jizzabelle: "Whatever the case may be, we must report this back to Jacob immediately!"

Tatsuki: "Right!...how do we get back?"

A rift appears behind Tatsuki and Jacob peeks out.

Jacob: "I was listening on the whole thing, come on now, oh also-"

Jacob looks over at Cassandra.

Jacob: "Nice tits."

Cassandra: "Thank you!"

Tatsuki: "DUDE YOU CAN'T JUST-"

Jacob puts his finger on Tatsuki's mouth.

Jacob: "Bitch I'm bisexual, I basically have the right to say so."

Jacob looks over at Cassandra again.

Jacob: "What size?"

Cassandra: "Double D."

Jacob: "Nice."

Jacob slowly pulls back into the rift.

Tatsuki: "Welp, the naked flaming woman first."

Cassandra: "Thank you very much."

Cassandra enters the rift as everyone but Tatsuki enters.

Tatsuki: "I'm too straight to handle this."

Tatsuki enters the rift as the rift closes behind him.

The group enters the cafeteria again to see Mallory again and N now eating a bowl of noodles.

N: "What the fuck happened to you?"

Cassandra PUNCHES N away.

N: "THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!"

Cassandra: "Pervert!"

N: "Huh?"

Holly enters the cafeteria drowsy.

Holly: "Yawn, morning everyone, what did I miss-"

Holly looks at the situation of Cassandra standing naked over N.

Holly: "Did I wake up at a bad time?"

Jacob covers Cassandra up with a towel.

Cassandra: "Okay, now I need a shower!"

Jacob: "Good thing you mentioned, because I was just about to show that."

Everyone but N: "Huh?"

Jacob opens the door to the outside revealing a stone path leading to several mysterious floating rooms.

Mallory: "What's with the heebie jeebie?"

Jacob: "Follow the path if you want to find out."

Everyone follows the stone path and all stand in front of one of the mysterious rooms.

Jacob snaps his fingers revealing the giant building to be a bathhouse.

Jacob: "Tada! I figured that I might as well add some slice-of-life qualities to-"

Tatsuki runs past Jacob and into the bathhouse.

Tatsuki: "Yeah yeah yeah, CANNONBALL!"

Tatsuki cannonballs into the giant pool then lets himself float along the water.

Tatsuki: "Oh yeah, goodbye wretched odor! WOOOO!!!"

Yuji: "WELL?! WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?!"

Everyone else jumps into the giant pool but Jacob stops Mallory.

Jacob: "Follow me."

Mallory: "Hm?"

Jacob leads Mallory to the right of the bathhouse into another mysterious room floating across from the bathhouse.

Mallory: "What was the thing you wanted to show me."

Jacob: "Here."

Jacob snaps his fingers again revealing the room to be smithy, with its anvil in the middle, a furnace with spitting fire, and several different shaped and sized hammers.

Mallory enters the smithy and is in complete awe.

Mallory: "W-what is all this?"

Jacob: "As I said, everyone has their own use."

Mallory runs and hugs Jacob.

Mallory: "YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I'M GEEKING OUT NOW!!!"

Jacob: (haha, she reminds me a lot of you, Ava.)

Jacob: "Sniff sniff, damn you smell."

Mallory: "I know, but can I at least test this out before going out?"

Jacob: "Be my guest."

Jacob snaps his fingers as everyone's weapons appear in a pile on a desk in the smithy.

Mallory: "Ahem ahem, if you'll excuse me."

Mallory closes the door of the smithy.

Jacob: "Go wild, girl."

Jacob: "Teleport."

Jacob teleports into the pool and lands on the boy's side with Yuji and Tatsuki.

Yuji: "Hahhh, I haven't felt this clean in so long..."

A giant grey brick wall drops into the middle of the giant pool.

Tatsuki: "HEY! WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?!"

Jacob: "I think it's best we split the boys and girls off for now...I'm looking at you, blondie."

Tatsuki: "Hey! it's not I'm gonna do anything...yet."

Jacob: "Exactly my point."

Jacob turns around to see all the girls swimming.

Jacob: "Everything alright ladies?"

Ashlyn gives a thumbs up.

Jacob: "Good! And on that note-"

Jacob jumps into the boy's side of the giant pool.

Jacob: "Oh yeah, that's nice...that's really nice."

Tatsuki: "Welcome to the club, bud!"

Yuji looks over to see N standing outside of the pool.

Yuji: "Come on, N! The water's all nice and warm."

N: "Am how am I supposed to believe none of you won't piss in the pool?"

Tatsuki: "Too late for that, bud."

Suddenly, bubbles come up from where Tatsuki is laying.

Yuji and Jacob both swim away from Tatsuki.

Tatsuki: "Oh don't act like you wouldn't do the same."

N: "Yeah, no thanks, Imma pass."

Jacob: "You're no fun."

N walks away and walks onto the rocky path.

Jacob: "He really isn't one for being around people huh?"

Yuji: "Yeah, I have no idea...he's more on the monotone side I guess."

Tatsuki: "Wierd guy if you ask me."

The girls continue to swim around.

Cassandra: "Phew...nothing like a good old batch of H20 to get you relieved."

Mallory: "You said it."

Jizzabelle notices a scar around Ashlyn's legs.

Jizzabelle: "You're hurt."

Ashlyn: "Hm? Oh yeah...meh, it's nothing."

Cassandra: "Hey, just out of curiosity, what were your guys' lives before this whole synvasion?...if you're comfortable, of course."

Holly: "Why do you ask?"

Mallory: "Well, since we might be with each other for quite a while, we might as well get to know each other, you know?"

Cassandra: "Welp, if we're doing this I might as well start."

Cassandra: "Me and my parents just got to the big city of Hestia, the biggest growing city in the world, I thought I could finally start a new life away from the country, then the next I knew-"

A giant skeleton comes out of a rift in the middle of the ocean.

Cassandra looks out from the window of the airplane that she's in. The giant skeleton opens its mouth and SHOOTS a giant black laser out of its mouth causing the plane to be split in half.

As Cassandra is falling she suddenly grows wings made of fire.

Cassandra: "I didn't know what to do, all I could do is let all those people die."

A rift appears from behind Cassandra as Jacob comes out floating.

Jacob: "Well, aren't you a sight for sore eyes?"

Cassandra: "And that's me, who's next?"

Holly: "Jesus, so then how did you get your Syn?"

Cassandra: "Hmmm, I could have helped those people and my parents...but I didn't...I wonder why..."

Cassandra gets a flashback of her dad holding a whip.

Cassandra: "Anyway, who's next?"

Jizzabelle: "I will go."

Jizzabelle: "I was a teacher for about 15 years, but I originally wanted to play piano but my mother never allowed me."

Jizzabelle attempts to sit down but accidentally spills her coffee onto the floor.

The high school students start laughing at Jizzabelle.

The laughs begin echoing all around Jizzabelle's head as everyone around her start turning into her mother.

Jizzabelle: "Then suddenly-"

Jizzabelle closes her eyes and suddenly, the entire classroom is splattered with blood.

Jizzabelle looks at her hand as Syn starts burning into her hands.

Jizzabelle looks over to see a giant slug outside of her classroom.

Jizzabelle: "Huh?"

A rift appears in front of Jizzabelle revealing Jacob as he points a finger gun at the slug.

Jacob: "Bang."

The slug suddenly explodes.

Jacob feels a sudden pain in his heart.

Jacob: "Oh man, I gotta get used to that."

Jizzabelle: "Who are you?"

Jacob: "We've got a lot to talk about."

Jizzabelle: "That about does it for me.."

Mallory: "And you're sure that aren't hungry for murder or anything?"

Jizzabelle: "Believe me when I say: I still regret it to his day."

Cassandra: "Good to hear, glasses."

Holly: "Ash? You wanna?"

Ashlyn: "I..."

Ashlyn gets a flashback of several suited men drugging her and dragging her into a bed.

Ashlyn: "Would rather not talk about it...at least for now..."

Holly: "I'll pass too, if that's alright."

Cassandra: "Fair enough, well, now you know me, I hope you don't see me differently is all."

Jizzabelle: " I second that opinion."

Holly: "Absolutely not!"

The boys are still swimming around in the giant pool.

Yuji: "Anyone want to-"

Tatsuki: "Nope."

Jacob: "Bitch, you ain't worth my time."

Yuji: "Okay..."

N is sitting on the edge of the school's roof and looks down to see the blue and black void.

N attempts to jump off but suddenly stops as he gets visions of a couple.

N steps away from the roof's edge.

N: "Why?"

Everyone exits the bathhouse with their clean new clothes.

Jacob gets a vision of a wolfman eating a human.

Jacob: "No fucking way."

Yuji: "What is it?"

Jacob: "I FOUND ONE! EVERYONE GET READY!"

Everyone summons their weapons and heads into the meeting room.

Jacob: "I'm opening the rift now!"

Tatuski: "What is it this time?"

Jacob: "There's no time to explain! That thing's on a rampage and we gotta stop him before he eats anyone else....SHIT, BUT YOUR WEAPONS ARE STILL-"

Mallory is in the smithy repairing everyone's weapons.

Mallory: "Oh man, These really took a beating huh? Well I mean...an upgrade wouldn't hurt right?"

Mallory looks over to the right to see N's snapped katana.

Mallory: "Oh boy, you'll need a new blade hm?"

The more Mallory looks at the katana, the katana releases dark red flames and attaches it to the snapped blade.

Mallory: "What the?"

Mallory attempts to pick up the katana but the katana SPITS dark red flames in response as Mallory jumps back.

Mallory: "Ok...got a bit of an attitude don't ya?"

Mallory hesitates at first but finally grabs the katana and inspects it.

Mallory: "Wow...it's almost like it never broke...what kind of weapon is this?"

Jacob KICKS the smithy's doors open.

Jacob: "Are everyone's weapons ready?!"

Mallory: "A-AH! they're not ready....the only one that's repaired is-"

Jacob looks at the repaired katana in Mallory's hands.

Jacob: "You've gotta be fucking kidding me..."

Jacob appears back in the meeting room again.

Holly: "So are they ready or..."

Jacob: "N! GET YOUR EDGY ASS OVER HERE!"

Jacob summons a rift and pulls N out of the said rift.

N: "Huh?"

Jacob: "Sorry bud, but I'm afraid you're going to have to do this on your own."

N: "Do what on my own?"

Jacob opens the rift to reveal a giant intersection in Japan.

Jacob puts his hand on N's shoulder.

Jacob: "Look, let me just be straightforward, You're going to have to beat this thing on your own....or at least until everyone else can join you."

N: "Seriously?"

Jacob: "Seriously. The best you can do right now is stall for time, until everyone else can join you."

N: "Sigh...fine, I'll try, but besides-"

N turns back to look at everyone.

N: "Everyone seems to be better off without me, if anything me dying wouldn't really matter would it."

N enters the rift as it closes behind him.

Cassandra: "You sure he's gonna do this?"

Jacob: "He's the best chance we've got right now...for now, we just have to hope."

Holly: "I still don't get why you can't go out there yourself."

Jacob: "Me and Banshee will only join unless it's an unbeatable or powerful threat. Plus from where I'm seeing....this threat isn't exactly strong."

N exits the rift to see Brusier about to consume a human.

N: "Welp, no time like the present...ahem-."

N: "HEY!"

Bruiser throws the human away and stomps towards N revealing Bruiser to be almost 10 feet tall. N looks up to stare at Bruiser.

N: "Well, aren't you a big guy?"

Bruiser looks down at N and shows his big smile revealing his sharp white teeth.

Ep 17-End