-Today, soba with pork, with only sweet beans, complete soba, so what's going to be my young man? - smiling showing his teeth so white they shine like gold.
Haru: -aah – kind of not knowing what to say about that.
There was a man dressed in black, a chef's hat, sunglasses, thin, pointed mustaches, braided hair and dark skin.
Pastel uncle: -Hi Danzo, it's been a long time buddy. - smiling.
Danzo: -Oh no, not you! – horrified by what to see.
Pastel Uncle: -That's ugly, that's the way to treat an old friend. – approaching.
Danzo: -You're not someone I'd like to be friends with, W...
Pastel Uncle: -That's it, for old times' sake! - Interrupting Danzo by slapping him on the back.
Danzo: -What do you want anyway? – feeling uncomfortable with the slap.
Pastry uncle: -a little favor... - putting his hand on Danzo's shoulder.
Danzo: -Who do you want to kill this time? – looking at him with disgust.
Haru: -kill? This time? – with wide eyes.
Pastel uncle: -look, don't scare my new pupil, what will he think of me, and better yet, what do you think of me? – with a yellow smile.
Danzo: -pupil... - looking at Haru. -Look boy, if you love life, run, run as if your life depended on it.
Pastel Uncle: -Come on Danzo, he's going to scare the boy. – squeezing Danzo's shoulder.
Haru: -... - pale.
Pastel's Uncle: -He needs your help. – looking into Danzo's eyes.
Danzo: -my help? - narrowing his eyes.
Pastel's uncle: -Yes, his shinai broke at the moment of awakening.
Danzo: -You know very well that I don't do that anymore, it was the agreement. - taking his arm off him.
Pastel uncle: -he's the old man's grandson... - looking at Haru.
Danzo: -You can't be serious. – turns to Haru.
Pastel uncle: -ah, I am. - smiling.
Danzo: -This boy is that man's grandson... - Looking Haru up and down.
Haru: -Did you meet my grandfather? – approaching them.
Danzo: -Um...give me your hand boy. - Extending his arm towards Haru.
Haru a little afraid looks at the pastel uncle who nods in positivity so he extends his hand to Danzo who then takes it and puts his palm over his.
Danzo: -bijutsutendou... - emitting an aura of Hokkoshin in Haru's hand that appear written three kanji that mean strength, sound and courage.
Danzo: -This combination...it can't be.
Pastel uncle: -I knew I would like him.
Danzo: -Let's go inside, it's not safe here. – looking sideways.
When they enter the food truck, the same thing happens as at Tio's house, the inside is bigger than the outside.
Haru: -Here too... how do they do that? – looking at the two men sitting on the floor around a small table with cups of tea on it.
Danzo: -This is all thanks to Hokkoshin, boy. - Taking a sip of tea. -The Hokkoshin is an energy that is present in all living beings around us, but this is the case only in this world.
Haru: -of this world? – how about this world?
Danzo: -You didn't tell him, right... - Looking at the pastel uncle.
Pastel uncle: -only what is necessary. - drinking tea.
Danzo: -couldn't be different... it's still like that... - drinking tea.
Pastel's uncle: -what can I do...it's my way. - smiling.
Danzo: -aaaf, very well Haru, I will explain the concept of Zanzin wells. - Moving the mustache on the right side. -the wells as you know are portals through which the Ogres pass, but not only that, they are means of entering and leaving one of the 5 worlds that exist.
Haru: -five? – looking at Danzo and then at the pastel uncle.
Danzo: -real world, other world, hellish world, primordial world and in between them the parallel world. – getting up. – each of these worlds has its characteristics with Hokkoshin, however the level of Hokkoshin of each world is different, this world where we live is the real world, where living beings are rich in Hokkoshin, the other world is where everything but living beings is forming from Hokkoshin, the infernal world is where the Ogres come from, there only ogres have Hokkoshin but this is not well seen among them, as incredible as it seems boy, ogres have principles so they need to come to this world to evolve and survive, in the primordial world it's where everything and everyone is pure Hokkoshin energy and we have the parallel world, where only its walls have Hokkoshin, an inhospitable, dark and gloomy place that serves as a gateway to other worlds.
Pastel uncle: -that's where the Zanzin wells come from, they are created when Hokkoshin passes from one world to another through breaches in the ground, either naturally or artificially.
Danzo: -For them the Ogres come to this world, the only barrier that can be easily broken.
Haru: -Then what to say that this place, like in the uncle's store, are artificial wells, they are not here in this world, they are in another, right? – looking at Danzo.
Pastry uncle: -bingo.
Danzo: -That's right, we Hokkoshin artisans managed to manipulate this energy in such a way to create a physical space in time that allows it to be an artificial well, but it's not in some other world, but in a reserved space of Hokkoshin.
Tio do pastel: -it's something very complex to talk about, it takes years of study and practice to create an artificial space like this, even I can't create a place that well, that's why I brought you here, if someone who can make your shinai return to normal, that someone is Danzo.
Danzo: -I will regret this but very well, I'll try to fix your shinai. – going to a circle drawn on the floor. - give it to me.
Haru: -Right. – taking the shinai out of the backpack. -I hope it all right. – handing it over to Danzo.
Danzo in turn receives the broken shinai and puts it inside a circle less in front of him, after that he sits on the floor inside the larger circle and crosses his legs and starts saying something that Haru didn't understand, but he's heard his grandfather say .
Haru: -What happens now? – looking at the pastel uncle.
Pastel uncle: -Danzo is trying to find the missing particles of his shinai in some of the worlds that exist, by doing this he will be able to gather these particles and join them to forge his other half, as I said before, the shinais once that are awakened are like keys, and cannot be changed without changing the padlock, so this process can be time consuming even for the best craftsman there is...and many can't even do it.
Haru: -What? So can it still go wrong?
Pastry Uncle: -Yes. But...
Danzo: -I found it!
Pastel Uncle: -Not for that man.
Haru: -ah!
Haru's shinai begins to have its blade restored with a very faint blue glow, so glow begins to gain strength and as if the blade was on hot coals from a forge the place starts to be filled with smoke and finally the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil is heard ending the process
Danzo: -It's done. – picking up the shinai that was on the floor. -It's your Haru. – handing it back to Haru.
Haru: -... - looking at that man who gave him a chance to follow in his grandfather's footsteps.
Danzo: -This is your real shinai, the shinai of echoes.
Haru holds the full shinai for the first time, at this moment the padlock is spruce like that night, and his clothes change to an ogre slaying kenshn robes, his Hakana is gray with echo designs and sounds in white, the top is white with gray and on his forehead the bandana of his family.
Danzo: -the boy has style...no wonder he's a "Maru"...
Pastry Uncle: -Very well Danzo. – slapping him on the back.
Danzo: -Of course, I'm the best after all. – closing his eyes.
Haru's eyes were shining amidst the happiness he felt, now he could fulfill the promise he made at his grandfather's grave...
(flashback)
Haru: -Grandpa...I don't know what happened, I don't know why you never told me about the ogres...or why you hid your true identity...but I know it was for a good reason...you taught me everything I know... taught me the values of a kendoka... now it's my turn... I will become a master like you, like in the books I read to me from the blind sage... I will do anything to char who has done this with you...I promise I will put an end to this curse on our family...my eternal sensei...I will take the name of our dojo to 'another world'.
(gift)
Haru: -Grandpa, I will honor your memory and find out what happened that night, now I know how. - Trusting.
Danzo: -Should I tell you where I found the particles? – looking sideways at him.
Pastel uncle: -I already suspected where it would be...
Danzo: -Um, as usual.
After some time Haru and the Pastry Uncle go back to the pastry shop where they find Kakui and Emma almost fainting from using Hokkoshin so much after hours of kendo tag.
Pastel's uncle: -Well, check it out... it was really fast.
Kakui: -Did you think we were weak? – sitting on Torah.
Emma: -don't underestimate us. – sitting on top of Kimi.
Haru: -Damn, they did it in such a short time. he thought. -they really are amazing. - astonished.
Pastry Uncle: -But don't find each other too much, Kimi, Tora, get out of there.
-Yes Dad.
Kimi and tora get up tossing Kakui and Emma back with another move by Ashi Sabaki.
Kakui: -What...? – punching the floor.
Emma: -did they still have that much Hokkoshin? - cleaning clothes,
Tio do pastel: -what you have learned now is just the beginning, now that everyone is able to train with everything, every day when they come back from school they come here to train, it will be hard, it will be hard, but soon they will be incredible Kendokas like their masters.
Kakui: -Then what to say that...
Emma: -Has Haru got the shinai?
Haru: -Yes! – shown the fully recovered shinai.
Write: -tsc...
Pastel uncle: -For today, they are dismissed.
Kakui: -I'm hungry!
Emma: -Me too.
Haru: -until eating something went well.
Pastel's uncle: -Let's go out together then... Kimi, Tora you too.
Everyone leaves the place together towards the main square, it was already night, all the streetlights were on, there was a certain movement in the city and soon such movement draws attention to something.
-aaaa, what a beautiful meal I was going to make...
A frog-like ogre comes out of a manhole near a Tayakis diner, its skin is yellow with green warts oozing a sticky liquid, it has four large eyes and six legs.
Kakui: -If I were you, I wouldn't count on it. – with a tayaki in his mouth.
Emma: -how timely... - shaking her hair.
Haru: -this thing of feeling the Hokkoshin is really right... - holding his shinai.
Pastel Uncle: -Very well boys, show what you've learned, this will be the ideal time, a low level ogre like that.
-yes sensei!
-Low level? Who do you think you're talking to... - feel the energy flow from the boys - no... are they kenshins? – She starts to jump away when she realizes that they weren't mere awakened humans.
Kakui: -Ashi...
Emma: -Sabaki!
Haru: -How fast! – seeing them leave in front of you. -I have to catch up with them soon...or I'll be left behind. - focuses. -Ashi-Sabaki!
Haru starts to run at high speed towards where the others are going. Pastel's uncle climbs on a roof to assess his pupils' behavior in a real fight now that they are fighting in a group.
-Die you bastards, sticky goo!
Emma: -Don't stay in front kakui.
Kakui: -He's mine, I told you.
Haru: -Guys don't need to fight.
Pastel Uncle: -This is going to be a problem...
-Looks like you got new toys... - Someone with a female voice appears in the shadows without revealing his face.
Pastel uncle: -ah it's you, I almost had a thing here. – looking sideways at the person behind him.
-It seems like you didn't know I was here, didn't you, Wawa. – looking at Wawa, the pastel's uncle. -Besides, what do you think you're doing? Will you try that again?
Wawa: -You know me well, Leyde... - Turning his gaze to the boys fighting the Ogre. - This time it will work. – A light breeze blows Wawa and the mysterious woman's hair. - It has to work. – with the face would be.