I think I'm starting to suffer from every writers worst enemy. Yeah, I'm talking about writer's block...*Depressing look*. Anyways, here's the next chapter...

"Something's wrong…"

It was almost an hour since Kazu left to check the disturbance. The others began to worry about his safety.

"Kuina, can you feel anything?"

"Let me see…"

She gripped the charm around her neck, focusing on Kazu's image to get a glimpse of his situation. After a couple of minutes, she saw the image of a body lying on the ground. It was Kazu, and he appeared to be unconscious. But it was hard to tell since there was a lot of blood nearby.

"I found him, but it doesn't look good…"

"What?" Azuma began to panic. "S-Shouldn't we do something? We should tell someone!"

As he stood up, Kuina held her hand out to stop him. "Wait a moment…" She gave a serious face that seemed very unusual for someone who seemed carefree and brainless in class. "We can't cause a panic right now. He's still alive, and it doesn't look like there's anyone else nearby. Let's just pretend like nothing happened for now…"

"But…"

Kuina smiled at Azuma. "Don't worry, if things get too rough, we'll let them know…" She turned to the Angelic Duo. "Margot, Malga, go pick up Kazu and try to bring him over without the others noticing."

"Judge!" The two sped off towards the same direction Kazu went while Kuina gripped Suzu and Azuma's shoulders.

"Now then, let's go meet up with everyone else!"

"But what about…"

"It's ok, we'll go see the fireworks at some point!"

While pushing them away, her smile slightly faded away. It felt like something was about to change, but until then, she wanted everyone to enjoy themselves one last time.

"Damn it!"

Tadagatsu Sakai dashed through the streets of Mikawa, hoping to find his old friend and confront him about what he saw at his house. Along the way however, he noticed that the streets seemed too quiet, and stood still for a minute. There was nothing but silence, so e knocked on the doors of the houses nearby, and went inside when he heard no reply. But each house was revealed to be empty, not a soul was anywhere in the area.

"What's going on?"

Just then, he felt something poking his back as he slowly turned around. It was Tadakatsu, pointing an unusual spear at him while wearing his old battle armor.

"Honda! What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"Yo, Tadagatsu! I take it you saw it?" he took a pipe and started to smoke.

"Yeah, what the hell is going on here? Why are you doing all of this"

"Well, it's all Lord Matatsudaira's orders. I don't know what he intends to do, but my job is to carry out his orders, not question them…"

Tadagatsu began to take out his blade when he suddenly took a closer look at the spear being pointed at him. "That's…."

"Tonbokiri(Slicing Dragonfly), one of the few prototypes for the Armor of Deadly sins" His old friend commented. "It's able to sever the existence of whatever's reflected on its blade…"

"So then…"

"Yeah, I severed the existence of everyone in Mikawa, that's why it's so empty right now…"

"Damn it, what the hell is Matatsudaira thinking?"

"You want to ask him yourself?"

Sakai gave a surprised look.

"Come on, I'll let you see him…"

Honda started to walk away

"Tch…"

Sakai cautiously followed, wondering what to ask once they all meet together.

The two of them arrived at Shin-Nagoya Castle, Matatsudaira's home. However, shortly after their arrival, a pillar of light appeared in the middle of the building, releasing a large amount of energy that was spilling across the area. Earthquakes and small hurricanes occurred nearby as a barrier appeared around the source of the destruction, preventing any being or G.O.W(God of War) units from entering.

"This is…"

"A meltdown of the energy being accumulated in the Platonic Plate Reactor…"

The two of them quickly turned around to the source of the unfamiliar voice. A man stood nearby with light hair and a fairly muscular body. His uniform was red and white, informing them that he was a student of Tres Espana, but what caught their attention was the giant weapon, resembling a partially living gunblade, on his back, which was a Mortal Sin Armament known as Lype Katathlipse(Sorrowful Idleness).

"Muneshige Tachibana," The newcomer introduced himself. "Nice to meet you."

Honda made a stern face. "You're….the man who holds the title 'God-Speed'. What's a boy of your caliber doing here?"

"I'm here to receive answers. I wish to know why you are doing this, why you choose to bring this destruction to your own land!"

He scratched the back of his head. "You're asking the wrong guy, I don't know what the reason is either…"

"Then…"

"But on my lord's orders, I'm going to keep everyone else from stopping his plan, no matter what."

"I see, then I suppose I'll have just pass through and stop this myself!"

At the end of those words, Muneshige drew his weapon and activated a speed spell, increasing his movements by 5 times, making him appear as a blur as he charged straight towards Honda. The armored old man quickly swung his spear to counter the target's movements, but Muneshige ducked and sped past it before turning around and firing several blasts at both the weapon and wielder, knocking him off-balance for a moment.

"Hey, Sakai! Anytime you want to jump in is fine with me!"

Tadagatsu just stood nearby with his arms crossed, watching the battle. It didn't look like he was about to attack "God speed" any time soon

"Hey, hey, are you gonna let this kid kill me Sakai?"

Turning back to Muneshige, Tadakatsu made several swift strikes which slightly injured the quick student. He made several blows to the giant gunblade before turning the blade of the spear, flat-side facing "God speed" and crying out "Sever, Tonbokiri!". A flash of light had burst out from the blade as a purple scar filled the space where Tonbokiri was reflecting.

"Not bad kid, you ain't called 'God speed' for nothing…"

Tachibana was closer to Matasudaira's castle, having moved further away from where he was just a moment ago.

"I've already studied on Tonbokiri and its weaknesses. One is to avoid/block the reflection on its spearhead; the other is to simply keep away from its target area, which looks about 30 meters"

"Hmph, but I can't let you get any closer than where you are now!"

Tadakatsu began to move closer when he suddenly felt a sharp jolt in his left leg. Looking down, he saw that there was a gunshot wound that was leaking blood.

"Damn, did he get me while moving away from my last attack?"

He struggled to get closer, but Lype Katathilipse had already shifted its form to resemble a rifle.

"With this, it's over…"

A small beam of light blasted towards the castle, setting the aim for its Hyper Drive

"In a few moments, that castle will be 'shaved' away from existence, preventing the energy from going out of control, you have failed your mission, Tadakatsu Honda…"

Honda raised his head to watch as Muneshige focused on his target.

"I'm sorry…Lord Matatsudaira…"

A large blast shot out from the Mortal Sin Armament, temporarily blinding everyone nearby from the light. When everything was visible again, the castle continued to stand, complete and unharmed.

"What?!"

Muneshige stared in disbelief as Sakai groaned while stretching his arms.

"Geez, I forgot how much of a strain this thing takes on me…"

He held up his blade which appeared as an ancient artifact. It gave a faint glow before turning to normal.

"Damn Sakai, you waited this long before helping out?"

He took the sword and swung it once to check the weight.

"You know we're both getting old, and I wanted to give you a bit of a lesson before coming in…"

Honda held his spear lightly before finally making his stance towards Muneshige.

"Well now's a good as time as any to use it…"

Sakai made his own stance while glaring at his target.

"Maken…"

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