After inspecting the secret compartment his father built, Kyuuto concluded that his father was not as normal as he remembered. The moment when he heard his father telepathically talking to him also surfaced in his mind. He is an Ookami after all, and Hikiri pointed out that every line of the Ookami lineage has unique abilities and/or elements.

"I know it sounds crazy but... what if it's interdimensional?" a bulb suddenly appeared on top of Rin's head, "you know, all of that crazy sciency stuff... what if your father has the ability to access alternate dimensions where-- you know, he could store some stuff, or displace something entirely from this one, so that---"

"Yamisuke wouldn't be able to find me..." the bulb moved to Kyuuto now as he remembered the moment where he hid in there, and Yamisuke looked for him but failed. He was shielded by this compartment which may be in an entirely different dimension than this one.

"Incoming!!" Kazuki suddenly yelled from the outside, as a horde of hunters approached. He and Ishigaki stood by with their fighting stance, while the other warriors soon joined them too.

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The warriors once again fought like their first mission, clearing the area from the possessed, and purifying their souls to make sure they would not get possessed again. Kazuki was on fire to eliminate them, his accuracy was better than before, and with new teammates like Ishigaki, they proved to be a good combo.

"Kyuuto, your turn!!" Kazuki stabbed one of the hunters, then pushed him with his feet, Kyuuto then finished that hunter with one more slash and made him unconscious. Rin behind him then followed up by purifying his soul.

While the warriors were busy taking care of the hunters, on the horizon, the demons appeared. This kind of the possessed was never seen again since the last time the warriors fought Yamato. The demons were people who agreed to help Yamisuke achieve his means, so there was additional pressure while fighting them.

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Some of the demons snatched the warriors and released them mid-air, making them suffer from lethal injuries. Kyuuto's team decided to focus on the hunters first while dodging the flying demons. Their concentration was at their peak when suddenly a long wooden spear rocketed towards Kyuuto from where the demons initially appeared. Luckily, Kanata saw that and was able to hit it from the side, breaking it before hitting its target. Yamato then emerged from the direction of the spear.

"Finally, I was waiting for you to come back," he said, with some demons beside him.

Kyuuto, after knowing Aotori's backstory, tried to console him, "Yamato, look. I understand why you're like this, it's because of your old team, right? They didn't agree with you, but you're right all along,"

At first Yamato did not reply, he seemed shocked that Kyuuto knew about his past. Yamato then charged up his left hand, ready to command his demons without saying anything further. Hikiri then moved to protect Kyuuto. "Look, you're right, maybe we should confess back then. But now, there's another way! We don't need to sacrifice Kyuuto for the things he didn't do, we don't know what will happen next!" he tried to convince him.

"It's easy to say, isn't it, Hikiri? But no, that is the only way. This is what we believe, to prevent Volkus from being released, we must kill the vessel," Yamato then took a step back, commanded his demons to attack first, then followed up with his Zodiac sword. He and Hikiri then clashed their blades, symbolizing their opposite ideology of letting Kyuuto survive and sacrificing him. While the team dealt with the demons, the two ancient souls got separated to the west.

When Kazuki was dealing with one of the demons, he saw someone hopping around and went through the defense line toward the base. He thought the person was familiar, so he followed him. It was Kuroyuki.

But right before he could chase him, the warriors were startled by a powerful lightning strike. Kuroyuki transformed right in the middle of the battlefield. He destroyed some buildings, causing some of the warriors to evacuate back into the base. Among those warriors was Hoshikawa, who tried to avoid Kuroyuki's rampage by hopping onto roofs.

But before he could reach the shield of the base, he got snatched by the grim and got taken away.

"Hoshikawa!!" his brother then put on a hot pursuit.