Yoshi woke up in the middle of a cave. He remembered everything that had happened. He had no idea how long he had been out for. All he knew was how sick he was. Seeing his mom was the worst thing he'd ever seen since becoming a keeper. It was like every past mistake just slapped him in the face.
"Oh, look, it's the eavesdropping." a familiar feminine voice said from behind him. It was the girl with long white hair. "You caused problems for the commander. Now, you dead." A dark light encapsulation her body and she turned into her keeper form. A short anthropomorphic goat lady.
The goat pulled out two sickles and ran towards Yoshi. His battle instinct overrided his disgust and he drew for his sword to block the attack. However, he was still sent flying into the cave wall. The goat ran at Yoshi again to try and take his head off, but Yoshi managed to transform into his dragon keeper form and block the sickles with his scaly, muscular arm. He gut-punched her and sent her tumbling back into the opposite cave wall.
"Oh." the goat girl said while licking her lips. "Sexy dragon man. Maybe when I kill you, I'll ask the master if I can keep your corpse for sexual pleasure."
"Yeah. You're definitely Yerlen. I can tell."
The two charged at each other once again. She delivered 3 sickle slashes, all of which were blocked by Yoshi's 4 wings. He used his thick tail to smack her down the cave. Yoshi released a hydro breath from his mouth. The girl tried to block it with her sickles, but they shattered on impact, shocking her. In the next moment, Yoshi had speed-blitzed her into another wall. Before she could get back off, he slashed out his vocal cords with his claws. He then stomped on her head, killing her and soaking his feet and leg with blood.
"Wow, I'm stronger than I thought. Usually, it takes years for a keeper to rank up once, but I already feel more like an aether class than before. I guess Alice forced me to get stronger."
Ever since Alice came into his life, not only had Yoshi been training way more than is considered healthy, but he also became stronger day by day. He wanted to be strong enough to stand by her side, but she's growing so strong so quickly, that Yoshi would probably not be able to keep up forever. So, his desire to be with her has made his power skyrocket.
Yoshi detransformed and started searching for Belle with his phone tracker. He found her slaughtering a bunch of soldiers in Derozues. They may have had keeper weapons like guns and swords, but they lacked the skill to use them properly. Which made since, Derozues member were 99% humans, and most keepers could kill hundreds of them easily. It was really just their mass homicide, psychotic nature, and devotion to anomalies that made them dangerous.
The two hadn't found any of the Yelren soldiers who were there. They didn't want to either. They just wanted to get out of the cave. They would have to report back to Taiyo and Yoshi planned to complain that this mission was far too advanced for them.
The two reconvened and began searching for the way out. Belle remembered where she fell and thus remembered where the hole was. They started walking towards the hole, making small talk as they walked.
"So, Belle, what's the best cosplay you've ever made?"
"Ooh, that's a tuff one. If I had to say the best, it would probably be the fantasy queen cosplay I made a few months ago. It was really nice, but soon expensive to make."
"Well, as echo class keepers, we make 15 million yen a year. How expensive can it really be."
"It broke my bank... granted, I wasted hundreds of thousands of expensive material I didn't need, but-"
"Bruh."
The two eventually found the sinkhole that leads to the surface. Yoshi transformed into his dragon keeper and flew him and Belle up, then instantly turned back. He started to grow tired of how much he was going in and out of the form.
Belle piggybacks Yoshi to give his body a break and help him recover a bit of strength. What was weird was where everyone went. But then suddenly, the buff man and the white hair woman jumped in front of them. They looked incredibly pissed off as the girl held their broken machine.
Yoshi and Belle were beyond exhausted. They looked off towards the city, but nothing was destroyed. Everything was still in one piece. The members of Yerlen were also confused. But then, 8 of the 10 anomalous corpses fell in front of them; the only ones missing were Seiko and Yoshi's mom. They looked up to see who dropped them. They saw a man standing there. A spider-like dark-skinned male with 5 pretty blue eyes and a spider-themed kimono.
The members of Yelren began to bow and pray to the man as he walked down what looked like thin air. He landed in front of them, and Belle and Yoshi's hearts sank. This was a level of power they'd never even seen before. He was definitely zenith class. It took a minute, but Yoshi recognized him as Star, the leader of Yelren and the richest man on earth.
"Hello, you two." Star said cheerfully. In the next instant, both Yoshi and Belle fell unconscious.