Wawa: -Don't come after us. – Looking at the three injured kendokas.
Haru: -Wawa... - Closing his eyes as he extends his arm towards the well that closes right after they all enter.
-We're back with more information about the east tower incident that happened last night during the festival.
- Witnesses say that the tower fell due to the large accumulation of rust at its base, specialists are doing the inspection of the place, but there are strong indications of an explosion that may have been caused by the fireworks that would be released at the end of the festival.
-the number of injured already reaches 35, two in serious condition are operators of the fires that were in the tower at the time, they had body parts amputated with the fall
Haru: -So that's what they called what happened yesterday? – sitting in a hospital bed with bandages over his head, arms and legs. -It's better this way... - Turning off the bedroom TV.
It is three days after the east tower incident, of the 35 people injured only the operators died due to the serious injuries done by the ogres, the city declared 3 days mourning so that was the first day of school after that happened, Haru hadn't spoken to Kakui and Emma since returning to the soba diner, everyone was very injured, of everyone in the room they were the ones who had been harmed the most, and it was no wonder, erma the only ones who knew exactly what had happened on that impetuous night, the night that doesn't get out of their heads, they don't even let them sleep peacefully at night, that last sentence Wawamaru said to them, was weighing more and more, and more and more they brooded and brooded until they could no longer shut up, so each one dealt with it. with the situation your way.
Lanna: -Haru, Haru, Haru! - looking down.
Haru: -Lanna... - blinking his eyes as if he had been taken out of a long nightmare.
Lanna: -What happened? It seemed to be asked in thoughts again. – running her hand through Haru's hair, who has her head in her lap, both of them then on a bench in a square near the school, a place they frequented quite regularly to talk and be alone, away from the eyes of others...
Haru: -I'm sorry. – turning his head up – I'm still not well after that. – with the body full of bandages.
Lanna: -the east tower incident...it was something terrible. – remembers something. - But was it really an accident?
Haru: -What do you mean? – looking at Lanna.
Lanna: -I don't know, this whole thing seems so weird, every year we have the festival and just that night something like this happens... - running his hands over Haru's bandages. -I waited for you there on the stairs... but you didn't go and I find you like this, injured and passed out near the tower thanks to Rayaka you went to the hospital before inhaling a lot of smoke, and not only you, Kakui and Emma too, you They seem to have become really good friends.
Haru: -I was going, but I saw what happened in the tower and we tried to help people, but we ended up in the middle of the confusion and got hurt. – trying to defuse the situation.
Lanna: -I know... you tried to help, but it was dangerous, and I don't know what I would do if... - Stopping talking.
Haru: -It's okay Lanna, I'm fine, I'm here... and that's what matters. - Deep breath.
Lanna: -There's something else bothering you, isn't it? – approaching his face. -I know you Haru, you can tell me, I'm your confidant remember? - smiling.
Haru: -Lanna...
(Flashback)
Wawa: -Look, ordinary people shouldn't know what we are or what we do, they couldn't bear to know that everything they see is actually not the way they imagined, don't tell anyone, family, friends, boyfriend, girlfriend, even your dog, you are responsible for lives now, don't mix things up, you carried this burden with yourself being heavy, so heavy it's hard to breathe.
Mileyde: -Now that you have passed the next phase of kenjutsu, know that people depend on you, they do not know about this world that you now understand, it is your duty to protect and care for them, show that the dojo we are creating here, there is a lot of honor and that comes from everyone, because we are all one, a single thought, a single objective.
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Haru: -if someone very important needed you... and even if she asked you not to do anything... what do you think that other person should do?
Lanna: -What silly question is that Haru? Of course I would help, even if she didn't want to, that's what friends are for... they help each other whenever the other needs it without the other needing to, that's how strong bonds are formed, like you and I. - smiling.
Haru: -.... - looking at her eyes so close to your face. -You really are amazing Lanna. – getting up. -Thank you, now I know what to do. - Trusting.
Lanna: -What are you talking about? Haru. – looking into his eyes.
Haru: -I'll be back soon. – kissing Lanna's forehead. -Don't worry about me, I'll fix everything. – running to the outside of the park where they were.
Lanna: - What happened to him? – blushing after that unexpected kiss.
Haru runs through the city until he reaches the place where Wawamaru's house is, the pastry shop was closed, but not the only one there.
Kakui: -Did you show up?
Emma: -I thought I had forgotten about us.
Haru: -Sorry, I wasn't sure what to do from now on...but I've already made up my mind that's why I came here, because I knew that things would be taken care of.
Emma: -What did you decide?
Haru: -Let's get Wawa and Mileyde in the other world.
Two days ago, the three met at Wawa's house to talk to Kimi and Tora about what had happened, after all, the two children depended on Wawamaru to live normally in that place, but things were a little different than they thought.
Tora: -Dad had already talked about them
Kimi: -that one day they could come after him and that we would be prepared.
Kakui: -That guy...
Emma: -And what did he say to do?
Kimi: -I opened the store every day, selling a lot of pastel, that was his legacy for us.
Emma: -You can only be kidding.
Haru: -That's his face...
Tora: -and that Uncle Danzo would help us prepare for adulthood.
Kakui: -Danzo is that guy from the soba?
Emma: -They were the ones who fixed Haru's shinai.
Haru: -If there's anyone who can tell us everything that's going on, it's him. – looking out through the open window.
The five leave the bakery and go to where Wawa had taken Haru but the place was deserted, the foodtruck was no longer there, it had disappeared.
Kakui: -See, he was also taken by those guys.
Haru: -No...he must have been hiding somewhere.
Emma: -and where could a guy like him hide?
Kimi: -I'm feeling a strong Hokkoshin coming from behind that tree.
Tora: -The little sister is right, there's something hidden there.
Haru: -Mister Danzo! – spinning near the tree. -It's me, Haru!
Kakui: -great, he'll show up because you're the one calling.
Haru: -Do you have a better idea?
Emma: -I have, Tora, Kimi, release as much Hokkoshin power as you can.
Tora: -ta.
Kimi: -right
Emma: -I want to see if he doesn't show up.
The two begin to unleash their hokohsin grandiose local bond, which is flooded with energy that would soon attract ogres there.
Danzo: -Stop it now, you two, are you crazy then? – releasing the illusion of Hokkoshin that was hiding his foodtruck.
Kakui: -And it's not the little mustache it really did.
Emma: -See. - smiling.
Danzo: -What do you want from me? – frightened by the whole situation in which he was placed.
Haru: -answers. – looking seriously at Danzo.
Danzo: -Okay, come in, it's not safe out here. – entering the foodtruck.
Kakui: -Here is huge inside.
Emma: -Craftsmen are really very skilled.
Danzo: -thanks for the compliment... - looking at Emma. -you have your mother's eyes...
Emma: -Did you meet my mother? – stopped walking when he heard that.
Danzo: -Yes... as I also know your father. – looking at Kakui. -how all this is connected with your grandfather. – looking at Haru.
Haru: -My grandfather? – looking at Danzo who was sweating a lot.
Danzo: -sorry... I have a lot to explain to you... damn Wawa... always leaves me with the worst part. – rubbing his face with his hand. -Very well...remember what I said? About the worlds? - looking at Harry
Haru: -yes...real world, other world, hellish world, parallel world and primordial world.
Danzo: -exactly... listen well all of you, Zanzin was the first human to cross the borders between these worlds, according to his teachings... he discovered what came to be called the well of Zanzin shortly after an intense battle in the war civil society of Japan many centuries ago,
-I was lost and almost lifeless, when I came across a well in the middle of the forest, it was my salvation I thought that... but when I approached that place, I was sucked into it by a force that I now know as the Hokkoshin vortex .
-and I arrived in a world similar to the one I lived in, but the beings that lived there were complete strangers, but they welcomed me as one of them, and as a reward I helped them deal with creatures they called horn ogres, who went to that place every day to feed on the energy that surrounded that place, and to my surprise, the crossing had given me the ability to use that energy they called Hokkoshin and so my life began in the place I called another world, where I created a fortress called the circular city, where everyone who could use a shinai would be at home... thus kendo no kenjutsu was born.
Danzo: -kenjutsu teaching, 1:2,5. – looking at them. -that's how it all started...Zanzin created an entire civilization focused on kendo in the other world, Wawa, Mileyde, your mother, your father, your grandfather, and I...we are all other mundane exiles here in the real world.
Emma: -What?
Kakui: -Wait...what's this story?
Haru: -It can't be... is there a world full of people like us?
Danzo: -yes... those you saw are elite kenhsis from the other world, who were assigned to take Wawa and Mileyde for breaking the deal we made...
Kakui: -What deal?
Danzo: -of not using the real shinai.
Emma: -This can only be a lie...there's no way these people...they're identical to us.
Danzo: -but it's the truth... I'm like you in the physical, but my being belongs to the other world, that's why I keep this place, an artificial well where I'm protected from the effects of not being in our world for a long time, acquiring a human disease.
Haru: -Wait...my grandfather...was blind...
Danzo: -Yes...because it's not in the other world. – looking at Haru.
Haru: -That's not... running outside. -it can not be...
Emma: -Wait Haru!
Kakui: -aaar!
Haru: -All...all this? What is all this? - with eyes full of tears.
Emma: -I don't know either... - with a sad face.
Kakui: -But I know who knows... - He runs towards his house.
Emma: -Wait Kakui! Damn it.
Haru: -I have to go home. He ran away with tears streaming down his face.
Danzo: -I'm sorry...but that's the truth.
Emma: -We have something to talk about. – looking at Danzo.
After learning about the other world, the three were in doubt about everything they knew, Kakui tried to talk to his father but it was no use, Danzo told Emma about who his mother was in the other world, Haru was sniffling from all that until Lanna unknowingly made him change his mind about the whole thing.
Danzo: -I hope you know what you're doing because after this there's no turning back! – In front of Haru's old dojo.
Kakui: -Yes, we do. – holding his shinai.
Emma: -We've already decided. – crouched with shinai on the floor.
Haru: -Let's bring Mileyde and Wawa back! – placing the shinai on his waist.
Danzo: -Tora, Kimi release your Hokkoshin near the well. – with shining hands. -I will open the well that your grandfather hid here, but I'm not sure if it still works, and it's also been a long time since I used this technique of opening wells like this, I hope I don't kill you.
Emma: -What did you just say?
Kakui: -Take it easy there, little mustache, what's this story?
Haru: -we trust you Danzo, do what you do best.
Kakui: -What happened to him?
Emma: -is more confident.
Haru: -Let's put an end to it all...
Danzo: -Okay... I'll send you to where I think Wawa is, as soon as you get there, be quick, it won't be easy there. – opening the Zanzin well. -jump into the well, and be what Zanzin wants.
Haru is the first to jump, followed by Emma and soon after Kakui who is a little apprehensive for a second, but jumps anyway.
At that moment, the three are transformed into Hokkoshin energy that dissolves and then remakes itself in the air of the other world, but something happens and they go out of control.
Haru: -We're going to fall, protect yourselves!
emma
Kakui: -what shit is that!
-my vegetables! - Looking at the three who just fell on their stuff.
The three are thrown against a vegetable stand in the middle of the city.