Upon exiting the Green Bamboo Forest, the group arrived on a small road that was leading between two big rocks. However, they noticed an house to the left which was standing on the edge of the hill with the sea underneath. There was a sign at the entrance which Kasaiori decided to read.

"House of Tamaya, Master of Bombs and Creator of Fireworks." She rode.

"Creator of Fireworks?" Mantis said with a confused look. "I though the Royal Family of Gongmen were the ones who created fireworks?"

"We should go ask him about it." Reiya pointed out and was about to open the door, just as a huge explosion was heard from the inside and smoke jumped out from all the house's openings.

"What was that? Let's get in!" Alena said.

They quickly rushed into the house and found themselves in the middle of a strange scene: the house was unusual as there was a lot of equipement that Mantis saw at the firework's factory, during the fight against Shen all across the room and even formulas to make explosions on the walls. However, everything was upside down as there was two male goats, a tall and a small one, laying on the ground.

"Okay, that formula still need some innovation..." The tall one said. He had dark brown fur and was wearing a kind of straw helmet on his head with holes for his horns, a black vest that covered half of his upper body, but left the other half exposed, a pair of googles which were currently covered of dust, and bandages on his forearms.

"Are you okay? What happened?" Kasaiori asked as she helped him back up.

"No, I'm not okay, first, and second, I was trying a new formula to create a special bomb, but it didn't worked! I'm sure it's because Nuijiao gave me the wrong ingredients!" He said with pointing an accusating hoove at the little goat. This last one had grey fur and a green hat with holes for his horns too and troussers of the same colour.

"What are you talking about, Tamaya? I gave you everything you told me too!" He protested and got head-to-head with his friend.

"Then why did it explode, huh? Tell me!" He angrily replied, leaving a small awkward feeling around.

"Huh, say..." Mantis said which made the goats turn to look at him.

"Huh? A talking bug?!" He said before finally acknowledging the presence of the group. "For the love of cherries, where do I have my head for not introducing us! I am Tamaya the Master of Bombs and Creator of Fireworks!"

"Huh, but that's impossible: fireworks has been created by the Royal Family of Gongmen in China." Kasaiori interrupted his moment, but Reiya decided to present himself too.

"Nice to meet you, Tamaya! I am Reiya, descendant of the legend Izagui and greast warrior of Ni-"

He didn't got to finish his sentence as Saisuke jumped on his back, making him fall head first on the floor, and smiled innocently. "Nice to meet you, Tamaya: I am Saisuke. Who's your little friend?"

"I'm Nuijiao." He introduced himself. "Unlike this dumbhead, I'm specialized in medecine and not in bombs or fireworks."

"Okay..." Alena said. "Well, we were just passing by, but everything seems fine for you here, so we'll go. We need to bring back Sakuya's tree back to life." She said and was about to leave.

"Wait! The tree of Sakuya? What are you talking about? It's perfectly right, isn't it?" Tamaya said.

"Not since Orochi has returned, my friend." Saisuke said. This caused the two goats to widen their eyes.

"Orochi?! He's back?! How's that possible?!"

This caused the whole group to give dumbfounded looks. "Huh, he's been back for weeks." Saisuke pointed out.

"Oh boy! How long have we been locked in here, trying to make our new formulas?!" Tamaya started panicking.

The group explained them the whole situation and the two goats didn't liked it.

"So the Eight-headed Demon is back..." Tamaya said with looking down. "In that case, you're gonna need a lot of power to save our country! You can count of the Master of Bombs and Creator of Fireworks to help you!"

"And on the Mastrer of Medecine too!" Nuijiao added with a smile.

"Well, the more, the merrier, right?" Kasaiori said, a bit uncertain.

"Just let us pack up our things." Tamaya said as he and his friend left to go grab their equipement.

"I just hope they won't make everything explode..." Alena mumbled.


I'd like to benefit of this chapter to point out a few things:

First, the name "Reiya" in Japanese is usually given to people who are methodical and always want to finish what they started. Needless to say it doesn't suit him at all XD

Second, Kasaiori's name is a pun between "Kasai" that means "Fire" and "Tori" that means "Bird".

Third, in Japanese culture, Tamaya is the name of the guy who indvented fireworks which explains why they sometimes scream this name during fireworks shows.

Finally, "Nuijiao" translates to "Horns" in Chinese.