Mekato felt again a cold chill on the back of his spine, but he ignored it. Mekato followed Sherman as he saw Yuudai teasing an old man that was holding a cat with the rest. When they arrived, Mekato pointed to the man.

"Who is this old man?" Mekato asked.

"Oh, that is a Village Head in Saburou's District." Hitomi said.

"You should have more respect to your elders, young one." The man said to Yuudai.

Mekato wanted to say something but Lio stopped him.

"And who are you?" Yuudai asked.

"My name is Aidono Mitoshi, you should better stop teasing me..." The man said.

"...Before you will regret it." The man said, activating his Kurenai. Yuudai smirked.

"Sure thing... I'll give you the advantage and won't use my Kurenai..." Yuudai followed up said.

"...You won't stop me on your own." Yuudai continued, smirking.

"Who said I was alone?" Aidono said, looking to his cat. He slowly walked to Yuudai.

"You should know that a man with the power of nature, could be the end of your luck..." He said, slowly putting his cat to the ground.

"...And you should know by my stride and the look in my eye that you're about to be massively forced to give up!" Aidono followed up, as he snapped his fingers.

Suddenly the cat grew into the same size as an average human and charged him.

Yuudai clashed his katana with his claw.

"What the?!-" "Every tree, Every plant, and every animal follows my lead. So you should watch your back, before it fades to black!" Aidono said, as he pointed behind him.

A small plant grew beneath Mekato's legg and made him trip over. He slammed his head onto the ground and his vision started to get blurry.

"Yuudai... Yuudai!!" He could hear people shouting.

Suddenly he sees something... It looked like two people. It was Joey and Yuri... But something was odd. They were screaming and shouting, something was going wrong. He saw smoke everywhere, gunshots and fire. Suddenly Yuri slowly turned to him, and Joey too. Yuudai blinked once and they were suddenly covered in blood, and Yuri was gone. Joey was grinning, looking down.

"I thought you would come back... Where are you?" Joey whispered.

Suddenly Yuudai opened his eyes. His heartbeat was racing up. When he looked around no one was around him. He looked like he was in a hospital room, he quickly stood up. 

Minato... I have to get back to Minato. Yuudai thought.

He tried to stand up as the door opened. Nobu walked through the door and saw him trying to get up. He quickly laid him back.

"Woah, Where are you going?" Nobu asked.

"We have to go back..." Yuudai said.

"What do you mean, what is going on?" Nobu asked.

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"Minato... I saw Joey... And Yuri..." Yuudai mumbled to him.

"I don't get it." Nobu said.

"I saw them, Minato was destroyed!" Yuudai followed up, pushing him a bit away so he could stand up.

Mekato was walking through with a basket full of fruit, he saw him stand up.

"Yuudai, Nobu, what is going on?" Mekato asked.

"Minato is being destroyed, we need to go back!" Yuudai shouted.

"Have you gone mad? We can't!" Mekato said back.

"I saw my friends being killed in the city!" Yuudai shouted louder.

Mekato walked until he was infront of him.

"You can't- " "I'll do what I want!" Yuudai stopped Mekato from explained and smacked the basket of fruit out of his hand.

Mekato's eyes widened up. The rest walked by too and saw it happen. Mekato turned his back.

"F-Fine... Go..." Mekato mumbled.

"Mekat-" "...And if you go..." Mekato stopped Ima.

"... Don't you ever call me your father..." He mumbled.

The others eyes widened up and were shocked. Mekato walked off, Lio wanted to stop him but he pushed him away. "Mekato! Wait up!" Sherman said, as he followed him. Lio looked frustrated to Yuudai.

"You took it too far, kid." Lio said as he followed Sherman.

Yuudai let out a sigh, as he walked out of the room too. Nobu wanted to follow him, but didn't. Yuudai started to sobb als he walked through the forest close to Espelda. He leaned his head onto a tree and fell to his knees.

"Why is everything... Like this?" He mumbled to himself.

He thought about what Mekato said. 

Don't you ever call me your father... He could hear it repeat in his head.

Suddenly he heard footsteps. He quickly turned and saw someone infront of him in the shadows of the forest.

"W-Who are you?" Yuudai asked as he looked at the person.

The person slowly walked out of the shadows, it was Harime.

"Well, Well, Well. Look who we have here?" She said, grinning.

Yuudai unholstered his katana but when he wanted to pull it out, she pulled a dagger infront of his neck. Yuudai slowly dropped his Katana.

"So? Why are you here?" Harime asked.

Yuudai let out a sigh.

"Why would I tell you- " "-Isn't Mekato a piece of shit?" She said, interrupting Yuudai from talking.

"...Why not join us?" Harime said, grinning.

She slowly brought the dagger closer to his neck.

"Well, you have no choice either way." She followed up. 

A small plant started to grow out of the ground, they both looked down. Suddenly the plant grew very fast and turned into vines, prisoning Harime.

"With the power of nature you're never alone..."

"W-What the-" "...And you can't let evil run amok." Aidono explained, looking at both of them.

Aidono put his cat on the ground, petting it. Yuudai ran his way, as Harime sliced the plants off her. Aidono clapped his hands and the cat turned into a human size, it charged Harime. Harime clashed her dagger with his claws.

"I never expected to fight an Animal this big!" She said, starting to laugh.

She continued clashing her dagger with the animal's claws. She then suddenly dodges the claw and kicks the cat away. Out of nowhere a bird flies and hits her, then flying back away.

"What the- !?" When she wanted to turn she was again, covered in plants.

"Didn't you listen? The Power Of Nature..." Aidono said.

"... Every beast every tree follows me to the end." Aidono continued.

Yuudai looked amazed by his power. Aidono put his arm on his shoulder.

"And you should watch out with what you say, you hurt your dad really bad. Right there." He said, as he put his finger on Yuudai's chest, where is heart is supposed to lay.

"You should listen to what he has to say- !" Just when Aidono was talking Harime dissapeared. Yuudai wanted to look around but Aidono stopped him.

"Let her go..." He said, looking to Yuudai.

"What do we do now?- ?!" When Yuudai asked an eagle flied onto Aidono's other arm. Aidono's eyes widened up.

"Something bad is happening..." Aidono said, as he looked back to the place where they came from.

"...With everyone at Espelda..." He followed up.

- - - - -

"Well hello!!..." Tumotu shouted from the distance.

The rest grabbed his weapons and looked to Tumotu.

"...Everyone, Welcome my new friend!" Tumotu followed up as someone appeared in the distance. 

It was the kid from before in the lab... The kid slowly looked up. Nobu's eyes widened up, 

That is.... He thought as he looked at the kid.

The kids eyes slowly turned purple... But then they turned Navy Blue with an X mark on it. 

Impossible... How did he find someone with that kind of eye!? 

Mekato thought by himself, he remembered what Hitoshi said.

"So..." The kid said as his hair turned from red to Navy Blue.

"...Where is Yuudai?" The kid asked, as he grinned.

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