The Numbers surround Lucy, Eiko, Kenji, and Kei. Number 1 walks up to Eiko, she moves Lucy behind her. "So you're the one boss tried to kill, how did he fail? What a brat, we'll finish what he couldn't." Number 1 makes a fist, covering it in black magic, Eiko stares at the man with fear. "No!" Kei runs in front of Eiko creating a barrier, #1 punched through it, punching Kei into the ground, he slams on the ground twitching with black electricity covering his body as he twitches in pain. "Kei!!!" Konami shouted with tears in her eyes, she looked at Shiro with anger and he felt it. "Kei!" Kenji tried to run over to them but chains wrapped around his arms, legs, and neck pulling him back. "Tsk, tsk, tsk, not so fast~" #4 grins as she moves her hair to the side. "Kenji! Shiro, we can play this game later but right now I can't let you get in my way! So move or be moved!" Daiki stepped up to Shiro but Araki dashed by them. "I'm not sitting here to watch my son get beat, so I'll deal with the bastards myself!" Shiro appears in front of her grabbing her arm and throws her back. She catches herself while staring at Shiro with anger. Daiki pulls his fist back punching Shiro in the chest, knocking the wind out of him for a second, Shiro recovers and roundhouse kicks him back. Shiro stood up, his hand on his chest looking at his old team in anger. "I won't repeat myself again.. Stay out of it.."
The wind starts to act weird as the ground rumbles, catching everyone's attention, the old heroes party look towards the dummies as was Yami pulling himself off the pile of dummies he was buried in and his eyes emitted by a black hue, he turns to look at them as his eyes are blue. Yami has that same black glow from before but it's bigger and they could see it but they couldn't feel it. His hands were in a fist, as the magical lights started to flicker everywhere. He looks at Kei who is twitching on the ground, he stares at him for a while before walking towards them. "Yami..?" Konami watched as he moved as a monstrous shadow followed him. The Queen watches Yami in horror but her daughter looks with lustful eyes. "#1, look." Number 4 pointed towards Yami and they all turned and looked at him. "What's that black glow around him? I feel no mana but we can all see that right?", "That bastard! He's the one that cut off my arm!" #2 charged at him holding onto a sword preparing an attack. "2 get back here!" #3 called out to him but he didn't listen, he was getting closer and closer towards Yami, they locked eyes. "Thousand Slashes!" #2 shouted slashing at the air at quick speeds. "Kid move! (Not even I can get out of that! He needs to move!)." Araki shouted but Yami swung his fist standing in one spot, he was getting cut in multiple places but he kept his fist pushing, he didn't even flinch. #2 notices and looks at Yami in fear, Yami reaches him, 2 tries to block the attack with his sword but Yami punches through the sword, shattering it as soon as he touches it. Yami doesn't blink once as he punches through 2's chest and he coughed up blood going limp. "1.." Yami whispered to himself. "Heal him 3!" #1 ordered 3, and they glowed a green hue but nothing happened, fear washes over him. "Why... why isn't anything happening..?" #5 shouted, 3 is sweating profusely. "He's... he's actually dead!" They all look at #2 who is on the ground in his own poodle of his own blood as Yami walks over him, the lights flicker even more changing colors. "The lights changed?" Someone from the crowd said, the Queen looks at Shiro who is recovering and can't move himself. "I'll deal with him!" #4 turns around creating a bunch of magic symbols and many types of elements flying towards Yami, he stops dead in his tracks looking up at the attack. "...." The attack hits him. They all look in worry as Shiro was looking at him with a cold expression. The lights change to red as the smoke covers the area. "That's what you get, kid!" #4 said sweating, but she couldn't move for some reason. "Did I... use too much mana? No, I should have more... right?" She looks up and as the smoke clears Yami was standing there with parts of his shirt ruined, everyone looking at him in shock could see the scars on his body. "Just what is that kid?", "Why are there so many scars on his body? Why that many for such a young age?", "He's a monster so we shouldn't care anyway, right?", "Even if that is true, he's just a kid." The crowd whispers to themselves. Yami looks right at #4 and she shakes in fear and she still can't move. "Move out the way 4!", "I-I can't!" Yami takes a step forward appearing in front of her, "I got this!" Yami looks up and saw #5, he swings at Yami but he grabs his fist and swiftly turns his fist around making #5 punch himself in the face full force, making him fly back. "2..." Yami turns to look at #4 raising his hand up to her face, the same ball he made in his hand before appeared. Yami eyes whip to the side and sees #5 rushing at him again, Yami steps back making #5 fly by him, #5 whips around throwing multiple punches at him. "Die you bastard!" Yami dodges the attack with ease, Yami spots an opening, he jumps up and comes down, axe-kicking him in the back of the head slamming into the ground. Yami jumps back doing back flips before landing on the ground, #4 is able to move now but her eyes are black. Yami looks at her, #5 jumps at him again landing a punch in his face. Yami catches himself punching 5 in the face then follows it with another punch in the gut. A huge magic symbol appears above them both. They leap back from each other, #5 is sweating and Yami looks at him unfazed. "You know, if you stop now you can join us-" Yami steps forward elbowing #5 in the face, blood leaks out his nose, with his other hand Yami holding his hand up to his face ball in his hand. "Shut up.." Yami shoots off the beam wave pointblank in #5's face engulfing him. #5 flies crashing into the ground, #5 is laying on the ground with steam coming off his body. Yami jumps up into the air as his fist covers in a black glow, he comes down at #5 with anger in his eyes. Blue chains shot out the ground wrapping all around Yami and brought him to the ground at full speed slamming against the ground. "Good job #4. #3 make sure you try to heal 5, and try to heal #2 if you can. I'll finish this kid once and for all." #1 walks over to Yami who is wrapped in the blue chains. "You're annoying, I don't know how you killed one of my men but I'll make sure you'll suffer the same fate as him." #1 brings back his fist with full force, his fist covers in dark mana. "Are you giving up already..?" A female voice asked Yami.
Yami opens his eyes, he sits in a chair, his clothes are fixed and the blood he saw on himself before is gone. Looking forward he sees a lady with red long hair, green eyes, and black horns on each side of her head, this lady sits on a throne. She had a grin on her face but it was sorrowful, like she was hurting. "Who are you..? And where am I...?" Yami asked the lady, she could only smile at him. "I would say we met before but I'm not sure if you remember me." She kept smiling like she was at ease, a tear was falling down the side of her face and she didn't even notice. "You're crying.." She looked at her hand and saw many tears falling down into her hands and she couldn't stop. "Enough.." She ordered her body to stop but the tears kept flowing. "I said ENOUGH.." The tears stopped but her eyes were still the same. "Where is this place? Kei..! I have to get back!" Yami stands up out of the chair looking for a way out. "Relax.." She stands up clapping her hands, the throne vanishes and a table with another chair appears in front of the chair Yami was sitting in. "You are in my... realm, time in this place is stopped. Outside of this realm, time stops. So there's nothing to worry about." Yami stops panicking but his guard is still up. The lady swipes her hand to the side as two cups appear on the table with a teapot. "Come now, sit." The teapot pours the tea into the cups on its own. Yami sits in the chair hesitantly, she laughs at Yami after seeing his face. "You remind me so much of him.." She sighs. The teapot sits back on the table, Yami picks up the cup confused. "Thank you?" He thanks the teapot. The lady drinks her tea while grinning, Yami watches her uneasy. "Was that you who spoke to me?" Yami asked her. She placed her cup on the table, as she stood up she appeared next to Yami. She lifted up his shirt seeing all the scars on his body. "For a seven year-old… this is unforgivable. They must really like testing me.." A bright red aura slowly appears around her body as her eyes glow, the white space slowly cracks around her.
"What's going on?! I feel as if I can't... breathe.." It soon stops and she brings Yami into her embrace. "I went a little too far.." She held Yami and the world slowly chipped away. "I don't…" Yami is confused and never felt this before, he doesn't know how to react. "We'll meet again Yami, I want you to get stronger and never lose to those who talk down to you… after all you can be the biggest threat to the whole world if you want. (She smiles) I have a feeling you want to help everyone, but at the same time you want everyone to learn. Do whatever you want, make as many friends and make your own Heroes Party." She said looking down at Yami. "I still don't know your name.." Tears fell on his head, making him look up at the Lady and the tears fell on his cheeks. "I can't tell you that yet.. But you'll find out later on.", "Well are you going to be okay?" Yami asked her but she just hugged him even tighter. "I'll be okay, you go and save your friends and be their Hero!" She looked down at Yami with a smile as tears still streamed down her face, everything turned white and blinded Yami.
"Die!" #1 shouted, about hitting Yami. "You got this Yami.." Yami heard that same voice. Yami's eyes beamed and he broke out of the chains and grabbed #1's attack. "He snapped out the chains!" #3 shouted, #1 brought his other fist around but Yami with the same expression, he threw his own fist at him, they collided. They stood there for a few seconds before they both took a step back and they swung at each other clashing fist with each other. #1 punched Yami in the face but Yami uppercut him then #1 gut punched Yami and he replied with a punch to the face then one to the stomach. They trade blows over and over again until Yami ducks under #1's attack and bringing his fist around punching him in the face then as #1 tried to swing at him again, Yami dodged it and punch him in the rib and he heard a few cracks, #1 coughs up blood and swings at Yami again. Yami who has blood coming down from his head and coming from his mouth. It's like time freezes and he punches #1 multiple times in the face knocking him out for a second. As #1 comes back to his senses but Yami has a ball of energy over his fist. "(Just what the hell is this kid?!! How is he able-)" #1 eyes widen as Yami's fist punches him with full force and the energy ball; BOOOM, lifting dust around them. "#1!! 4 lock down that whole area!" #3 ordered #4 but they got no response. "What the hell is wrong with you?! Can you listen to my orders for once!" #3 turns to see #4 knocked out with Yami holding her by the shirt. "Stay back! (falls to the ground) Stay back you monster!" Yami walks over to #3, something flies right at him making him drop #4, Yami quickly grabs the sword from the blade causing his blood to drip from it. He looks forward and sees #1 all red and his eyes bloodshot. Before he could react, #1 quickly appears above him with a devilish grin, he roundhouse kicks him in the back of his neck sending him slamming into the ground, Yami bounces off the ground, #1 stomped on him slamming back into the ground as he coughed up blood. The castle started to shake. "Shiro..!" The Queen called out to Shiro and he nodded, he turned away from the Heroes Party and about to dash towards Yami, a yellow chain wrapped around his whole body. "Kyoya! Let me go!", "That's no normal earthquake is it..?" A bright yellow magic symbol appeared above his head. "Daiki, Araki go to Yami! Just what is wrong with this castle, Shiro.." Konami asked him with a serious look. As Daiki and Araki were running towards the kids and Yami black chains shot out the ground causing them to stop, the lights switched to a darker red beaming with rage, the crowd started to get scared. Shiro's face went pale and so did the Heroes Party, this power felt familiar to them, the chains went right for #1, wrapping around his arms. "What the-!" The chains pulled back ripping off his arms completely, as #1 yells out in pain a black chain wrapped around his neck, as it tightens and he grasps for air. Yami wobbles up and grabs the chain as it burns his hand. He looked at the chains in anger, the chains loosened letting go of #1. The world started to look as if it was shattering, making everyone afraid, they all heard a voice say, "Disappear.." And like that the world shattered and everyone was fine and some people passed out. Shiro was still being held by Kyoya and Konami with a pale face.
#1 checked his arms and they were fine. "That was... a soul attack... it felt too real.." Daiki fell on his knee with a pale face. "I haven't felt something like that, in a while..." Araki was afraid and confused, her whole body was shaking in fear. "No... This feeling... those chains.." Konami tried to say more but she was shaking and couldn't speak. Eiko turns around, where the statue of the Goddess with an angry look, Lucy tugs her leg, worried. Kenji snaps out of it and sees Yami struggling to stay standing up. "Eiko, can you stay with Kei? I'll help Yami." Kenji asked Eiko. "Fine, hurry up. Lucy, go with him, I'll be fine." Lucy made swords out of thin air, they started floated around her, Kenji breathed in then out, a deep blue aura covers his whole body. Eiko stares at #3 who is still trying to wake up #4. "Hang in there Kei, I can't sit around." Eiko rushes towards the healer and he notices, he puts up a wall of earth, with a swipe of her hand she creates a wall of ice. She stomps her foot, shattering it and then starts jumping up the ice debris. "Lava Fist!" Eiko whips around while her right fist is covered in lava, she punches the wall with her fist. "Dumb brat! You think lava could best, earth magic of tier 3!" A vein appears on her head as #3 said. "I'm not a brat!!" Eiko's eyes glowed a bright green, her lava fist changes to a different element. "Blizzard Punch!" Eiko fell downward as a icy blizzard surrounded them. "I'll show you who the 'brat' is!" She slams down on the wall as the ice stopped for a moment then rushed towards the hole she made in the mud wall, it freezes the wall and crumbles down, as Eiko punches with her left then her right, slamming him in the ground. She steps on his neck with a smile. "Call me a brat again... and this time I'll break your arms!" He grits his teeth, he soon smiles. "You're still just a brat!" Before Eiko could push down on his neck, he became smoke vanishing and creating a smoke cloud.
"You ready, Lucy?", "Her highness ordered me and I'll listen, so yes. Let's kill this trash." Kenji stops for a moment looking at Lucy who is staring forward with full determination in her eyes. "Rightttt.." Kenji runs at #1, he throws a powerful punch, hitting him in the face making #1 stumble to the side. Lucy runs over to Yami who is stumbling. Kei stands up with a yellow aura covering his body, he picks up his glasses placing them on his face. "Keep going you guys!" He slams his hand on the ground as a huge magic symbol covers the whole training yard. "Good stuff Kei! I feel so much lighter!" Kenji opens and closes his hand as the yellow symbol buffs him.
"Damn it! Holy magic! #3, deal with him-." #1 shouted while getting punched in the face by Kenji. "Don't take your eyes off the enemy idiot!" Kenji swung at him and he blocked it, Kenji kicked his feet from under him, making 1# drop his guard as he looked up, he saw Kenji with a grin. Kenji quickly punched him downward and before #1 could hit the ground, Kenji quickly landed on the ground and brought his fist from below, he punched #1 upward. As he was lifted into the sky Kenji made a fist. "I hope you survive this, I tested this out on training dummies but never on a person. (Mana covers both of his fists)" Kenji vanished and you could only see his afterimage. Kenji jumps up getting above #1. "Barrage Fury!" Kenji with both of his eyes glowing and looking at #1 with a serious look, and before he could block Kenji punched him once and as the first punch landed multiple followed, punching him many times everywhere. Kenji pulled his final fist back focusing all his mana in that one fist. "Doom Fist!!!" Kenji punched #1 in the face with full force shooting him to the ground creating a crater causing a huge BOOM. "#1!" #3 shouted for the buff man but Eiko was dashing through the smoke with two fireballs following, #3 stomps his foot making three walls appear in front of him, but he doesn't hear an explosion he looks up and sees Eiko with the fireballs following her. "She can control them as well?! I see why they want her dead! Mud Wall!" He covers himself with an earth made wall, the fireballs explode on impact. Eiko jumps off a fireball as they hit, she was disappointed by the look on her face. "(So an earth magician? Or is that a lie? They still have that hood up so I can't tell if they're an elf or not. Elves are best with earth magic, but he used smoke.. Something off..)" Roots came out the ground catching her off guard they grabbed her and wrapped around her catching her, the man dropped the wall and saw his plan worked. "I see why they want you dead, you're able to use almost every element, even one that no one knows about. You sure are young, maybe 7 or 10." Eiko looks at the man annoyed. "As an elf your ego is as high as ever. What age are you 100 or something?" The man took off his hood angrily and before he could shout, Eiko smiled as a purple symbol glowed under them. "Bye bye~" A pillar of purple light shot into the sky clearing the clouds. Everyone is stunned by the attack, her father looks at the aftermath worried, the beam of light dissipates and Eiko is fine, she looks to her left and sees the half burnt elf. "Y-You m-monster!", "Heal yourself." Eiko cuts him off before he could finish. "The Princess of the Hope Kingdom is a rare case, she's strong and smart, that's a prodigy right there." Araki said, looking at Eiko with a grin. "Could she be a young Archmage? No, she's stronger than any ordinary Archmage." Kyoya thought to himself. "I don't get this magic stuff but I have to say, Mitsuharu would love this." They all stare at Daiki and he scratches his head knowing he messed up. "Don't be mad at him, you two, Subaru loves stuff like this. He was always the type to care for others without caring about his own life, and loved fighting strong people." Konami said with a smile, "This generation sure is different... I wish he could see it.."
The elf heals himself and Eiko looks at him dissatisfied, she gets into a fighting stance. "Hurry up and get up, and this time don't waste my time with that bad acting." The elf stares at the girl in rage. "I'll kill you!" His mana covers his body making a green aura around his body. Trees grow behind him and the roots break through the ground going towards Eiko, she follows the roots with her eyes. She jumps into the sky dodging roots that were going to attack her from behind her. "Pure Sun Coil." Eiko while in the air created a fireball that looked like a smaller sun that had a dark reddish color she shot it towards him, it exploded on the roots burning them. "I'm not done!" #3 creates many golem's. They rushed Eiko, as she landed on the ground they swung at her and she quickly moved out of the way, Eiko mixed water and lava creating a black ball with cracks of red on it. "Die.." She shoots it at the golem with a serious look on her face, as it crashes through one of the golem's. Her face changed from anger to serious. "Grow.." The black ball has green roots growing out of the ball and it blows up as a green tree grows out of it then it catches on fire burning the other golem. #3 bites his lip. "Holy magic stage 3, earth magic stage 5 mix! Holy Tree Knight!" A giant golem that take the look of a knight in full armor with only a sword appears in front of Eiko. She leaps back unimpressed. "Great.. Lucy!" A portal opens behind Eiko, she digs her hand into the portal. "What is she doing?!", "A storage..?", "Since when could little Lucy make portals? What magic type does she have?" Araki looks at Wakao, she looks away from Araki annoying her.
"Found it." Eiko starts to pull her hand out reliving the handle of the sword that was long and red with a small dragon symbol on it, she keeps pulling the sword out and it was a dragon-slayer sword, the blade was black with an white line in the middle. "This sword is too long.." Eiko pulls the sword out fully and slams the tip into the ground. "How can she use a sword like that?! It's taller than her!" Daiki shouted. "You sure are jealous… me too." Araki said with tears in her eyes. "It seems you kept your mother closer to you than I realized... Moonwalker, was always her favorite.." The King said looking at Eiko. Eiko picks up the sword, lifting it with one hand pointing it at the Tree Knight. "Show me what you got!" The Knight swung his blade downward at Eiko it was so fast she couldn't react, the blade slams on her lifting up rocks and smoke. The King makes a fist trying to control his anger. The Knight's sword was pushed back and even stumbled back, a slash cut through the smoke and there was Eiko swinging the dragon-slayer with one hand with ease. She had a smile on her face. "Let's go! Physical Enhancement!" Eiko vanishes with one step moving forward, The Knight looks at its sword and sees her running up it, it slammed the sword into the ground, she was already on its shoulder, where the elf is, he whips around looking at her. "I win!" She swung her sword, his eyes widened as her slash connects causing a huge BOOM. The smoke clears relieving the face of the golem. The elf barely dodged the attack, his arm is cut off and his eyes are bloodshot, a grin on his face as he laughs like a madman.
The face of the golem had a playful grin on its face and short hair made of rock and earth, its eyes were blue. The crowd, mouth drops and the Heroes Party are shaken. "What sick joke is this?!", "No way.. "Mitsuharu?!.." Konami said with a mix of shock and fear. Eiko lands on the ground sliding backward, she stops herself staring at the huge golem of Subaru Mitsuharu. "You all look like you saw a ghost. Could it be that the hero is right here? Not only that he can copy Subaru Mitsuharu moves!" Eiko readies herself, she brings the sword close to her head aiming at Mitsuharu and it does the same. Eiko ran towards Mitsuharu and it stood there still pointing its blade at her, Eiko is confused but she still charges towards it. "Eiko! Get back! Kyoya, shield everyone!" Araki told him and he nodded, Kyoya made a huge barrier blocking them. Something blue shines in the sky making Eiko stop running toward the huge Mitsuharu, she jumps back dodging a laser beam. "What the heck was that?" Eiko quickly looked up and saw multiple blue laser beams coming down towards her, towards the whole castle it was shooting down like many shooting stars. "I got you!" Araki grabs Eiko, getting her out of the way of one of the laser beams. "This is the real deal.." Araki said, landing on the ground with Eiko. "Just what is happening?" Araki could barely say anything. "It's a move Mitsuharu did when I was fighting him. Before I joined his party.." She replied with a pale face. "Why is your face pale?", "Because that move is to counter anyone who moves fast around him and it's a move that can destroy everything in the surrounding area but this is a stronger version of that attack. Stardust Valley." Another laser beam hit the ground then after that one more fell out of the sky, the shield that was up had Kyoya falling on one knee. "Where's Kei?.." Kyoya asked his wife. "He's fine, I just know he is. Daiki, get ready." Daiki nodded, cracking his knuckles with a smile. The attack kept going as Araki was still dodging them while holding Eiko, she was getting hit sometimes but she kept dodging. After a while the attack stopped, smoke covered the whole castle and the barrier was down. "Why didn't I just do this before? It would've saved us so much trouble, the idiots should be fine, I can't hurt them anyway. My arm.." The elf said to himself, he regenerated his arm. He quickly whips around then jumps back dodging a punch from Daiki. "You survived?!" While he was in the air a magic symbol appeared above him, Kyoya was below him. "Fireball!" Multiple magic symbols appeared all around 3 then many fireballs shot at him full speed. "Damn it!" #3 shouted as they all hit, blowing all the smoke away in the area. "Kyoya, I told you he was mine!", "There's no time for this Daiki, we still have a bigger problem to deal with." The two heroes stood behind the giant Mitsuharu, it turned around looking down at them and the elf was on its shoulder. "You didn't even hit him!" Daiki shouted at Kyoya. "That was a clone? But his mana matched his, so how is that possible?", "Forbidden magic maybe?" Araki said walking up from behind them all bruised. "Araki! You okay? Where's Eiko?" Daiki asked her while looking all around her for major injuries. "I'm fine, she's back with her father. We have a bigger problem on our hands, this 'Mitsuharu' and that mage or whatever he is." The three looked up at the giant Mitsuharu, it towered over them and swung its sword downward, they all got ready to move but white swords made of holy light fell out the sky cutting the arm of the giant, it stumbled back. "That damn Priestess!" #3 turned around with anger on his face, he saw Konami holding a staff with a halo over her head. "Attack that witch!" The giant uses its other hand to swing at Konami. "HAHAHA not so fast!" Daiki appeared in front of it catching the fist. "Your turn!" He shouted, #3 looks down and sees Araki below him glowing a dark red glow around her body with two daggers made of her aura in her hands. "Flash Step Slash!" She dashed upward, cutting the giant's legs off with a quick cut. "Damn you!" Chains wrapped around the giant and pulled it back. "Your crimes will be brought to justice! Using the hero-. Using Mitsuharu to attack a princess is a serious crime. Divine Swords!" Konami shouted as more swords fell out the sky and #3 looked at them then at her with a smile. "This isn't the end! You'll regret this!" The sword slams on the giant, crushing the giant into pieces and dust and sending a shockwave throwing some people back. The numbers on each of the numbers neck glow different colors, no one noticed it.
"Why did that feel so easy?" Daiki asked the group, still holding the rock fist. "I agree but the good thing is that everyone is okay." Araki threw her mana made blades into the air and they evaporated. "Is everyone okay?" Konami asked everyone, and they nodded. "Where's the kids?" Kyoya asked. Kenji, Lucy, Eiko (With Moonwalker), and Kei. "Where's Yami?" Daiki asked and Kei walked forward to explain but a hand grabbed his shoulder, Yami was walking forward with black electricity covering his body, he's moving slow like he's hurting. Konami rushed to Yami who was on one knee and the black electricity covering his body. "This… this isn't mana, it's a curse..", "How do we get rid of it?!" She points her staff at Yami looking in sorrow. "This curse is not curable.. But I'll try." They all look at Yami in worry. Yami feels something is off, he feels someone has a killing intent towards Konami. "(Move! Move damn it! Faster I have to be faster!)" Yami said to himself, he forced his body to move. "Watch.... out..!" Yami pushes Konami as a blue beam goes through his chest, catching every off guard the black electricity stops. "Tsk, well I got him but I didn't want to kill him yet... too bad." A voice said behind them was a man with black hair with silver highlights, blue eyes, wearing gold and white knight armor while holding onto a katana that had a black and gold handle, and the sheath being black and a gold ribbon wrapped going down the whole thing. "Man, the fusion actually worked! This is the Hero? I feel so much power flowing inside me!" The man said, as he looked at his hands. Shiro appears in front of the figure with killing intent, with a sword he slashed at the man but something pushes him back burying him in the ground in front of Konami who is holding Yami's lifeless body. "You bastard!" Kenji rushed towards the man with rage. "You'll pay for that!!" Kei created a huge magic symbol above the man. Lucy disappeared from being next to Eiko, she was in the air with many swords raining down on the man. Eiko held up her hand and made a motion like she was about to flick something, a purple aura covered her body and all elements she could use circle around her. "I hate you.." She flicks her finger shooting the mix of all her elements towards the man. "Ha, as if I'll lose to a bunch of kids. (Holds up his hand) Soul Shatter." He whispered shutting off every mana based attack that went at him, the magic symbol shattered like glass before Kei could react something punched him in the face breaking his glasses, Kenji swung his fist at the man but he was punched multiple times by something before getting thrown back, Lucy releases her swords but before they could reach him they all fell apart and something punches her in the gut making her fall out the sky, Eiko's attack shattered like glass and she was punched by something throwing her to the ground. "This body is amazing!" The man towered above them still looking at his body, The Heroes Party faces are pale like they saw a ghost. "Snap out of it all of you!" A voice behind them shouted, it was Wakao holding a special sword where the blade was purple and the handle white with some type of text on it. "That isn't the Subaru Mitsuharu you all knew he's just some assassin with his face and you all know you can't let him get away! As his formal party members you'll want him to rest in peace but people like that guy never will let him rest. You know his weakness and what he's strong at, this isn't the person that saved our kingdom, Araki! This isn't the person who saved everyone and treated them the same! He doesn't know how to use his power so we should fight back with all we got!" Wakao shouted at the party. "She's right, as much as I hate to say it she's right. This isn't the Mitsuharu we fought with, this isn't the person that saved us and besides we can finally see who is the strongest between us all. Either way, I'll kill those who touch my Kenji.." Araki raised her head with a devious grin. "I wanted to prove this so long ago." Daiki loosened his tie, and rolled up his sleeves. "I never wanted to prove I was stronger than Mitsuharu, but I'll show him my magic was always something to never be messed with." Kyoya removes his tie looking calm. "I always knew he was stronger than me, I swore I would make sure he was okay even if he didn't want my healing." Konami slowly laid Yami on the ground with determination in her eyes, "Yami saved me so I'll make you pay." She held out her hand and a white staff appeared in her hand. "I don't care either way, you all better stay out my way." Shiro stands up as dirt and rocks fall off of him, he stares at the man who is Subaru Mitsuharu with anger. "You all want to fight me? Fine, let me show you the full power of this body! HAHAHAHA!" The ground shook as he was yelling, rocks around everyone started to rise, the man who was yelling with a dark blue aura covering his body, and his eyes glowing. A hard wind blows out when he finishes, he stares at the party with a smug smile. "Let's have fun everyone~"
Shiro rushed at him without a word, he slashed at Mitsuharu and he dodged everything by stepping to the side. "You're open~" Mitsuharu brought his fist up to punch Shiro in the stomach but Daiki pushed Shiro to the side and caught his fist with one hand. "You're mine!" Daiki pulls Mitsuharu towards himself then swings at him, punching him. "Hahahaha! You think I'll fall for such a foolish move?!" Mitsuharu caught Daiki's fist protecting his face, Mitsuharu kicked off Daiki creating space between the two. Araki appeared behind him with her mana blades. "Triple X." As she charged up her attack Mitsuharu grabbed her blade mid attack. "Did you get slower? Or could that be age catching up with you?" Araki lets go of her blades and swings at Mitsuharu, she throws the punches even faster making Mitsuharu stunned. "I hate how much you sound like him! It annoys me!!" Araki said with fire in her eyes, she punched Mitsuharu shocking everyone then she used her speed to punch him from one place to another over and over again, she finished it with a punch to the gut sending him back. "Hell yeah! I'm still as fast as I used to be!" Araki shouted while being out of breath. Mitsuharu stood there with his head looking at the ground, he looks back up at Araki with rage, he dashed at her, she couldn't react she was punched in the gut and she cough then Mitsuharu grabbed her head and ran with her then threw her into a wall breaking that wall. "Get away from her!" Wakao shouted at Mitsuharu behind him, he whipped around grabbing the blade throwing it to the ground leaving Wakao without any weapon, he looked up and saw a huge magic symbol, lightning strikes Mitsuharu. "Pathetic.." Mitsuharu walks out the smoking going for Kyoya, he puts up barriers but Mitsuharu bashes through them. "He's just coming at me head on?!" Kyoya tried to jump back but Mitsuharu grabbed his leg slamming him into the ground. "You're going to need to try harder." Mitsuharu stomps on his chest. "Ahh!" Kyoya held onto Mitsuharu's leg as if he's trying to fight him off. "I'll just end you now sage.." Mitsuharu told Kyoya with his eyes being lifeless. Mitsuharu looks up and sees a huge white sword, he backhands it away removing his foot off Kyoya. "I was going to save you for last but, you came to me~." Mitsuharu was walking towards Konami with the same lifeless expression on his face. "You think I can't defend myself?" Konami asked Mitsuharu, he just smiles. "We'll see about that." Mitsuharu dashed at Konami, a huge magic wall appeared in the distance, Mitsuharu punched the wall with full force shattering it. "Hey! Tell me you didn't forget about me!" Daiki grabbed Mitsuharu head from above him slamming him into the ground, Daiki dragged him through the ground throwing him into the air then Konami summoned a sword that came down on him impaling him into ground.
"Whew, that was tougher than I thought.", "Shut up Daiki, you didn't even do anything." Araki said walking over to them cracking her neck, Kyoya was next to her with Wakao. "I have to agree with Araki for once." Kyoya replied. Shiro walked towards the group with anger, Araki sighs, Kyoya looked away from Shiro, Wakao looked at him in anger, Konami was calm. "I told you he was mine! You idiots always get in the way don't you!" He was yelling at them but he was looking right at Konami. "Are you doing this because of Yami or are you doing this because that's Mitsuharu. Are you so blinded from being behind him? Your son is dead!" They all stare at each other before looking at Konami whose face is serious. "He's dead Shiro! Put the past in the past!" Shiro turns away from Konami and the group. "What a waste of 7 years. His whole being was to protect others without dying, and he couldn't even survive that small attack." Daiki steps up to Shiro with anger, he gripped him by his shirt. "Just who do you think you are? Did the kid mean nothing to you? You said he was a waste if that was true why did he always protect you? Now he's dead because you decided not to save him even once!", "Watch what you say… Yami was my kid so I'll treat him how I like." Shiro pushes Daiki back, Araki walks past Daiki, standing in front of Shiro she spits to the side looking right into his eyes. "You're still mad aren't you? Mad because he reminds you of Mitsuharu, I would go as far to say he was Mitsuharu's kid because he does nothing but protect others, the kid gave his life to protect Konami and her son. He saved my kid from being alone, he saved Eiko and most importantly he saved your sorry ass. He never told anyone about those scars on his body, so that means you forced him or he loved you so much he couldn't do it. The kid lost his mom and all his father can do is be a selfish bastard! Are you so self centered you never cared for him or his mother?! He was born to be someone you can care for Shiro!" Araki shouted in his face with her eyes watery. "Mom?" Kenji called out to his mother worried. "He meant something to everyone here! Now you throw him to the side like nothing matters! You put too much on a 7-year-old kid! You trained him since he turned 4 didn't you?!" Daiki pulled her away from Shiro who had an unbothered look on his face. The wind started to blow a nice and relaxing flow, blowing Shiro's hair in the wind. "You wanted to know my real feelings? Let me tell you this, I never cared, yes I taught him everything I knew but he was always slowing me down, and what if I tell you he's not even mine? Would you all react the same? Either way I wouldn't care, only the strong survive." Shiro turned around readying his sword. "That's what made you idiots weaker than Mitsuharu. He was stronger than the Demon Queen, maybe even the god and goddess, so that little move you did, didn't even hurt him. That's why I hated Mitsuaru with a passion, he did nothing but help the weak and sadly so did my son." A figure walks out the hole in the ground, it was Mitsuharu and his armor shattered and he was still holding onto that katana. "That's not the real Mitsuharu so what do you mean? He's just some guy who looks like him, and he copied his moves and all that." Daiki thinks about it but Araki hits him on the head playfully. "I hate you with a passion, Shiro but we have to stop this copy either way." Kei is still shaken from Yami's death and can barely speak or move. "We can beat him, we just have to try." Eiko steps up with Lucy behind her, Wakao is next to them. "Stardust Valley..!" Mitsuharu shouted while looking down at the ground. Everyone looked into the sky and saw the same attack from before coming down at them, Mitsuharu pulls out the katana showing the blade was black then he throws the sheath to the ground slowly walking towards them, Mitsuharu raises his head showing his face is cracking and anger on his face but with a smile. "Come on! Show me!!" He shouted at the group. "Come to me, White Dragon, Masamune!" A white lightning strikes and Shiro grabs it, it transforms into a white handle katana with a white and gold sheath, Shiro pulls the sheath off and the blade of the katana is white. Shiro rushed at Mitsuharu cutting through the attacks getting closer to Mitsuharu, Shiro swung downward and Mitsuharu blocked the attack and the two stared into each other's eyes, Mitsuharu who was smiling at Shiro and Shiro looking at him in anger. "Shiro, the one who copied Mitsuharu. The Knight who was always behind him, the one most loyal to that person you call a Queen.", "Shut up!" Shiro pushed Mitsuharu back, as Mitsuharu was recovering Shiro rushed him swinging his sword at Mitsuharu, he dodged each swing while looking into Shiro's eyes. "Such determination for someone who could never be equal to Mitsuharu. After all he was the one that could use every weapon with ease but you could too but he was better, wasn't he?" Shiro swung upwards and Mitsuharu swung downward, their blades connecting, sending out a shockwave and creating a crater below them from the impact.
Kyoya is shielding everyone from the Stardust Valley, Araki is cutting through some while dodging the others. "How are you two keeping up!" Daiki punches through the attacks with ease while Kenji moves around dodging and parrying. "We're okay!" They said at the same time. Eiko slams her sword into the ground as the moonlight shines down on her, Lucy, and Wakao shielding them from the attacks. "...", "Are you okay Princess..?" Wakao asked Eiko. "No, I'm pissed... so pissed I might snap.." She turns to look at the barrier that's protecting Kei, Kyoya, Konami, and the lifeless Yami. "I hate it... I hate it!", "His death isn't-." Eiko cuts her off. "My fault? Wakao, I wanted to save him from this castle but... I failed... I failed to do one thing... ONE THING!" Eiko turns to look at Wakao with tears in her eyes as she stands there. Kei is looking at Yami's body with fear and shock, he's broken glasses lay on the ground as he stares at Yami, his eyes widened not even noticing what's going on around him. Konami looks at the sky as the attack rains down. She turns to look at Yami and notices the attack has disappeared. shocking everyone as they wonder what just happened. They stare towards Shiro and Mitsuharu and see Shiro bloody with cuts all over his body and him breathing heavily, his hands are shaking and a mix of sweat and blood is all over him. Mitsuharu is holding his katana with one hand but his face is more cracked and the rest of his armor is shattered. "I'm not finished with you all yet~.."