"Yuukai and Raizen are gods?" Kyuuto still could not believe what Kurouzu said to him. But to think of it, he did not know anything about those two since the moment he met them. He also remembered the time they mentioned the name 'Volkus' before and how it made him sick.

"That's what they said they are. Yuukai is the god of time, while Raizen is the god of space on earth. Now Anrui... he's the god of all living beings on earth," Kurouzu explained the gods' roles, and how Anrui is also as dangerous as the other two because, "he was able to mimic every creature on this planet so tracking him is basically impossible," Kurouzu remarked.

No one knows where the gods came from, and what their goal was. But their mythology dated back to the first Ookami king, the three were worshiped by the people, but never actually show their appearance until that fateful day, "I believe with Yuukai and Raizen's ability to manipulate space and time, they constructed this whole island and teleported all of the initial people here," he inquired, "but something isn't right... They do the same thing again. Instead of handling Yamisuke by themselves, as he became much bigger threat now--- they chose you... just like that time,"

Kyuuto once again was taken aback by Kurouzu's explanation dump. He then asked why he had not tell all of this before. Kurouzu admitted that, "I wanted to see where this is going. I don't want you to be overwhelmed, as there were so many things you had to focus on. From now, I want you to focus on yourself, and how to revert the curse,"

Kyuuto took some steps back and shook his head, "Wait a second, you want me to fix this chaos as if I know anything about the curse! Why didn't you come early and help us?! And--- and how about Yuukai and Raizen, are they the villains in this mess?! What about Yamisuke?!--- and my brothers?! Am I the enemy all along?!"

"Yes. Yes we are..." Kurouzu looked down, a shed of tears fell down his face, "there's no way of denying it now, WE are the enemy, Kyuuto. But I still believe there's hope... we have to find a way to separate Volkus, and kill him. I'll try to help you guide the way,"

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Kyuuto looked up to his ancestor, then his vision faded to white. He finally woke up surrounded by Rin and Kanata, who were all shocked hearing an explosion from where Yato and Natsuki were fighting.

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Natsuki was defending Yato with the Auric power while Akira rained down sharp shards he raised from the ground. Some of the shards crash-landed violently and exploded. When the bombardment stopped, Yato stepped from behind Kanata with his supercharged Zodiac sword trying to strike Akira head on.

"Get out of my teammate's body!!" Yato focused his energy on the edge of his blade, and even though Akira defended himself with multiple rock walls he conjured, Yato managed to go through them all.

Akira spat out blood as Yato's blade went through his chest, while he gradually lost control over Kentarou's body. But he was not ready to give up, he once again raised a mass of earth from behind Yato, turned it into sharp shards, and aimed them at him. Natsuki realized about the spikes, then tried to warn Yato and ran towards the two. But she was too late. "You've seen something, and closed your eyes to avoid it... this... is how your story will finally end," Akira's eyes glowed purple once again, and Yato suddenly shed tears out of the blue.

"See you on the other side," Akira then moved his fingers directing the spikes to his enemy. He then let his soul drift away from his descendant's body. Yato meanwhile didn't get to dodge the spikes in time, his back got stabbed by sharp spikes of earth, some even went through his body.

He pulled his sword out of Kentarou's chest, and fell to the front. Shortly after, Natsuki got to him. "Yato!!" she quickly tried to heal him with her aurics. She pulled the spikes off of him, but was unable to completely heal his wounds.

Kyuuto and the others soon arrived at the scene, the two Oras with him tried to heal Yato as well, but they failed miserably. Yato coughed out blood once again from the earlier injury after he was flipped over. "You guys have to continue without me..." he forced himself to speak, "... if--- you see your self talking to you... don't listen---" he then breathed his last breath on the team.

Yato did not survive.