She came back to where she was before, in the middle of the fight between three of them and Saega. Noticing another attack from Saega, she tries to create another energy shield,
"Sorry I'm late guys!" A man voice heard by them and illuminated their eyes,
Saega's attack hits nothing but a shining light.
"Finally…"
That word followed by the light getting dissolved, showing a figure with a red armor, and very familiar.
"TAKAYA!!" Ai shouted seeing Takaya's arrival.
All seems surprised but not for Saega dan expecting him to come.
"Prince… Are you really going to protect that girl?" Saega points at Asahi.
"She's my friend. And also yours." He calmly answered her.
"(Chuckle) So you are here to stop me?" Saega asked.
"It depends on you. Last time we met you are looking for someone, if you need help-"
"Help?! Hah! You think you can?" She's became angry,
"If you need it. I'll give it a try, as fellow warriors, I intend to do that, not only for them, but for everyone." he said.
Saega oddly stops answering back, looking down and seeming confused. But she suddenly appeared in front of Takaya and punched him, blowing him away until he crashed at the wall destroying it.
The three girls, stunned, see the more powerful attack from Saega. Nothing to compare their previous fight.
Asahi tries to stand and help Takaya but her hand holded by trembling Sanna,
"Sanna? Let me go-"
"No, Asahi…" Sanna wobbles as her head indicates not getting involved.
The pile of the destroyed walls began to shake, Takaya easily rises from it,
"Damn, that… is powerful enough to kill normal people you know, better watch out next time or you'll break some of your bones as well." Takaya said that without showing any effect of the attack.
But Saega quickly realized her right hand armor was broken, leaving only her bare hand.
"Impossible… That time.. You actually couldn't-"
"Oh that, well Saega, just a matter of working out. I lost to you once, but not for the second time." Takaya casually walks toward Saega.
Ai, Asahi seems not to believe what just happened except for Sanna who already knows Takaya's strength.
"So, Saega… How about we discuss about your sister's condition-"
"You talk too much!!"
Saega attacked him aggressively, making a huge sound of exchanging blows. While Takaya stands offensively.
"Takaya… He really means something when he says it…" Sanna said while watching them fight.
"What do you mean?" Asahi asked her.
"He would probably end this fight instantly, but he still wants to know Saega's reason. He even did not lay any attack on her." Ai said.
Asahi looked at Takaya, slowly realized that he had changed a lot.
—----
"See?? My little brother is very strong is he? Let him handle it." Suddenly Asagi appears beside Asahi.
"Asagi-"
"Oh those eyes, don't tell me…" She tries to tease her,
"Don't ever think that!" Asahi screamed, making Ai and Sanna confused by her suddenness.
Asagi lay her hand at Asahi's shoulder,
"Stay calm… And, let me rest a bit." she disappeared.
—-----
Asahi's right eye began to dissolve as normal, she reverted back into her first shift form.
"Huh… huh…" Asahi became more weaker,
"Asahi!" Ai tries to hold her.
Asahi breathing exhaustion clearly signs the effect of her power.
"Shit… I overdo it…" she said.
"What?!" Ai asked.
"I..-"
Crashing sound coming from Takaya, he beat Saega until she fell for the first time since the battle.
"Now speak! Before I change my mind." Takaya sinisterly talks to Saega.
The three are shocked by Takaya, they never think Takaya will do such a sinister action. But seeing this as an opportunity for Takaya.
Saega laughing hard mocks Takaya confidence,
"(Standing up) Is that all you've got?" Saega said.
"Girl. I can be rougher if you wish." Takaya walks forward towards Saega.
Saega managed to stand and saw Takaya with hateful eyes, clenched her hands and summoned a great powerful darkness energy around her body.
"If you really want to know it, then let's change our place shall we?!"
The air arounds them drags towards Saega, like a tornado pulls everything towards her. A powerful swirling hole suddenly appears behind her, she opens a dark portal that sucks her and Takaya inside that portal then quickly vanishes.
The three girls holding their place to not getting suck suddenly realized both Takaya or Saega are gone,
"Where is he?!" Ai shouted anxiously.
—----
"This unexpected…" Asagi suddenly appears beside Asahi once again.
"What do you mean?!" Asahi asked her,
"That is a portal, she summons that portal to go inside the realm of darkness.. I don't expect she'll do that." Asagi explained.
"Realm of darkness? Like another world?" Asahi said.
"Indeed, the realm that can only be accessed by darkness energy." Asagi said.
"Wait.. We have that energy don't we? We have to go there-"
"We can't. Your body won't stand a chance not even for opening the portal-"
"But we don't know how things happened there! This is going too far! We can't let him there alone!" Asahi argued,
Asagi didn't say anything to answer Asahi, knowing that is exactly what she also thinks. But after she saw Sanna, she finally had a thought.
"We can go there. But we need that girl." Asagi points her hand at Sanna.
"Wait what? Sann-"
"We don't have much time! Now go hold her hands. I'll take it from there." Asagi said in a serious tone.
—-----
With no idea what Asagi's plan, Asahi haste to hold Sanna's hands,
"Sanna, I promise you I'll explain everything…" Asahi anxiously said that assure the sudden weirdness.
"Asahi??" Sanna getting confused,
But soon after she touches Asahi hands she feels power began to flow inside her and suddenly she see figure behind Asahi,
"Asahi! Who is tha-"
"Hello there…" Asagi wave her hand to Sanna.
"Wh- who are you?" Sanna looked at her eyes and began to be frightened.
"Don't worry, I won't do any harm… As she said, she'll explain it to you later on. But we need to get her to Takaya's place." Asagi said it casually.
"Wai- how?" Sanna asked.
"I need to borrow your power to hold her body can safely enter and exit the portal because her body won't stand a chance to hold it."
"But, how can I do that?!"
"Relax, I will take it from you like I just did now, but you need to transform yourself into your second stage armor. Can you do that?" Asagi said.
"I think so…"
"Good. Now focus on your power-" Asagi instructs Sanna,
Seeing Asagi instructing Sanna makes Asahi learn that Asagi really knows well about Sanna even in the first time they talked.
Eventually Sanna be able to transform herself into the next stage of her astral armor,
"Good, you are doing great, now look into my eyes." Asagi said.
Sanna looks at her eyes and is stunned and immediately let go of Asahi's hand and attempts to focus on her left hand. A bright green light appearing in left hand forming a long spear,
"Asagi, that is…" Asahi reacts to the action.
"Yes, I'm showing her fragments of the past Reincarnation Distortion abilities to her."
"With our power, we can see every memory of the things that happened to someone in the past, in order to let her effectively control her power, rather than trying to make her understand by words it's easier to show her."
Asagi explained.
Sanna managed to summon a Spear with a sharp big fork like on top of it, embedded with a sand clock in the middle of the fork.
"And that is the Great Distortion Spear. A special spear that is designed to reserve an infinite amount of her pure energy. The past Distortion uses that spear in order to defeat the past Forgotten Princess." Asagi said.
"Why did you show her that?" Asahi asked.
"We need her power to purify the darkness energy that we will unleash, preventing you from being affected with that energy and causing you a big problem."
"But I warn you from now. If you ever fight with her, intensional or not, you might lose to her." Asagi explained.
"Why is that?" She asked.
"Because only The Distortion's power can suppress the Forgotten's power, even their darkness energy."
"But if we use her ability in a better way, it benefits us to strengthen our power more. And it is very necessary to do this now."
"Enough talking. Now prepare yourself. Focus on receiving her energy as much as you can." Asagi said.
Both Asahi and Sanna standing prepares to do Asagi's plan, Sanna uses the spear to give the pure energy to Asahi.
"Now, you should be able to transform into your second stage armor like before but this time, you won't need my help to do it." Asagi said.
Asahi slowly changes her form into her second stage armor with no red eye, she proceeds without Asagi like before.
"Now the effect from before is gone, now you can freely transform into this armor as free as you want."
"Now I'll infuse the darkness energy into yours to open the portal. Soon after the portal opens quickly, get inside. And don't let others follow you."
Asagi summons her darkness power and infuses it to Asahi. The portal begins to open and she walks in the portal.
"What in the world you just did Asahi?!" Confused Ai demands an explanation from what is exactly happening.
"(Turn her head and see Ai's eye) I'll explain to you later. Do not follow me." Soon after she said that the portal closed.
Ai becomes overwhelmed by the situation and collapses, Sanna catches her before she hits the ground.
"... Sanna… What is… going on…" her last word before she passed out.
"I don't know… I wish I could tell you." Sanna also don't have any word to say after the suddenness.
—----
In the darkness, the loud sound of metal clashing could be heard echoing. They both fought extraordinary and continued to argue about the problems they were facing.
Saega looks very annoyed with Takaya. Who knows what Saega was thinking, she looked like she was panicking.
"I'm impressed you can hold this long…" Saega said.
"Not want to do this forever, now is about time we talk about 'Kanon'?" Takaya said someone's name. Makes Saega stopped her attack.
"Why do you know that name?!" She asked angrily.
"Thanks to my cute little sister, she is your sister's classmate." Takaya reveals the fact.
"What-"
"Now I know what happened, And I trying to see what happened during the day your sister is missing."
"That is neither X.A.G nor S.I.N fault." Takaya said that trying to convince Saega.
"Then who was it?! Where she is?!" Saega asked him more angrily.
"Is the other ancient warrior who take you sister." Takaya said that.
"Wh- prove it!" Saega is not convinced yet.
"I can prove it you, but you need to trust me and stop this meaningless fight." Takaya said.
"..." Saega stay shuted for a moment.
Seeing her own hand, and sees Takaya stare at his eyes deeply,
"Fine. I'll believe in you, but if you defeat me, I'll consider you as a friend." Saega said thay with calm and smile to him.
Gaining her trust, she stops herself from attacking Takaya.
"Talk." Saega asked Takaya.
"First thing first, I'm gonna ask you something…" he said
"I'm not here to answer your question, but if it has to do with my little sister then go ahead." she agrees.
"Do you know who other reincarnated warriors besides us?" he asked
"No. You and your bunch of friends are the reincarnated warriors." she answered.
"There are many others we still don't know yet. And they are probably in the same academy with us." he said.
"And what's the matter with that?" she demanded the reason.
"They probably planned all of this. Planned our fight." —-
"And what does it gain for that?"----
"I don't know. But I know they are planning to make you berserk, that's why they involved your little sister."----
"Strange, I thought no one beside X.A.G knows about the ancient warriors, even though they took all the people who may be one of them. Why do they know me? And my little sister actually vanished even before I was offered to join the academy." —-
"There was one ancient warrior that could see other ancient warrior presents. They can know if the person had the same power as theirs."
"Who are they?" questioned who they are
"The Verdant." he reveals.
Saega looked at Takaya's eyes, seeing his eyes made her realize that he wouldn't make things up only to win her down.
"Wh- agh!"
Like being choked, Saega seemed struggling with her breath and overwhelmed by the pain.
"Saega?"
Concerned about her, he flies closer to her, only being rejected by her raising her hand to him.
"you…. have to… get…. out of…. here…"
She tried so hard to talk, warning him about something that herself does not know what is going on.
"they… are… they…. will… kill-"
"Saega what's wrong-"
"i…. can't hold it much longer…. don't let me…. AAAARRGGGGHHHH!!!!"
A huge explosion of power shakes the atmosphere around them, along with her loudly hurtful scream.