"I am the Pillager of Twilight – "Arsene"! To think that the one who call for me is a pretty girl with a strong rebellious will like you. I like it." said the man named Arsene happily to Keiko as he stand behind her while unfurling and spreading the wings behind his back once more.
"What the…?" said Ryuji as he glance at Keiko and Arsene with a shock look on his face before he glance at Aika. "Did you see what just happened to her and whoever it is that's standing behind her, Saito!? Holy crap, that was awesome and that's not all, she look gorgeous and hot in her new outfit." said Ryuji excitedly to Aika.
"Yeah, I did see what just happened to her, her change of clothes and the bizarre-looking man that suddenly appear and standing behind her and I'm shock about it, Sakamoto-kun." said Aika in shock and awed to Ryuji about Keiko.
"Don't worry, you two. I'm still me even though my clothes have change and that there's someone behind me." said Keiko reassuringly to both Aika and Ryuji.
"How right you are, my lady. I am the rebel's soul that resides within you. If you so desire, I shall consider granting you my power to break through this unjust crisis." Arsene said and explained to Keiko (who raised her head to glance calmly up at Arsene).
"Is that so? Then I'll take you up on your generous offer, Arsene. Please lend me your help and strength for myself, my cousin and Ryuji-kun!" said Keiko confidently to Arsene.
"Hmph, very well then, you kind-hearted and courageous lady." said Arsene as he glance down and smirked at Keiko.
"Who the hell are you…!?" demanded shadow Kamoshida as he glance in fear, confusion then anger at Keiko (who glance and smirked at him) before he glance down at the knights lying on the ground in the room. "Guards! Get up and dispose of her now!" Shadow Kamoshida ordered the knights as he raised and pointed a finger at Keiko before the knights stood up, shake and burst apart in a shower of red and black liquid before the liquid disappear to reveal some floating pumpkin-faced things wearing blue cloaks over their bodies, green hats on their heads while they hold fire glass lanterns in their right hands. "You'll learn the true strength of my men!" added Shadow Kamoshida as he smiled smugly at her.
"Bring it on then, your majesty!" said Keiko mockingly to shadow Kamoshida and the floating pumpkin things, which angered the floating pumpkin things before they got into their battle stances.
"Detest the enemies before you, my lady! Change that feeling of animosity into power… and unleash it on them!" said Arsene loudly from behind Keiko before she felt a surge of power rose up and gather into her mask until she can't bear it anymore and she yell out the first word that came into her mind.
"Eiga!" Keiko yelled the word out before a burst of red and black energy shot out from the ground underneath one of the floating pumpkin thing and stabbed through it's body, causing it to cry out in pain before it burst apart in a shower of black mists. When the other floating pumpkin things saw that Keiko had killed off one of their fellows, they immediately charge forward and swung their lanterns at her but she managed to jumped and dodged away from their lantern strikes.
"Now swing your weapon!" Arsene instructed Keiko before she felt something long and hard appear on her hands and when she glance down at her hands to see what kind of weapon it is, she saw that it's a pair of sharp-looking daggers. Keiko smirked and clench the daggers firmly in her hands before she charge toward the second floating pumpkin thing, raised, swung down and stabbed the daggers down on it and killed it off. "Very good, my lady. This power of mine is yours! Kill them however you want. Run wild to your heart's content!" said Arsene in an encouraging tone of voice to Keiko before she casts out a series of the same red and black energies to vanquish the rest of the floating pumpkin things. After Keiko defeat all of the floating pumpkin things, both Arsene and the dagger weapons that Keiko holds in her hands fade away into thin air.
"What… What was that just now?" said Ryuji as he still stared at Keiko (who glance down at her new outfit with a confused look on her face) before he stood up and walked toward Keiko.
"How should I know what it was, Ryuji-kun?" said Keiko in confusion to Ryuji, which make both of them and Aika unaware that Shadow Kamoshida subtly and quickly make his way toward Aika and grab hold of her firmly in his hands.
"What the!? Let go of me!" said Aika as she glared at Shadow Kamoshida while struggling to break free from his grip to no avail.
"Shut up and hold still, you wench!" snarled Shadow Kamoshida coldly to Aika.
"Aika!" said Keiko as she and Ryuji finally noticed and saw Aika being held captive by Shadow Kamoshida.
"Why you! Let go of her!" snarled Ryuji as he glared at Shadow Kamoshida.
"I don't think so and why the hell should I listen to you two? And if you two dare to come close then I'll easily snap this wench neck like a toothpick so don't think about it." snarled Shadow Kamoshida as he glared back at both Keiko and Ryuji.
"Damn you…" snarled Ryuji.
"No, Aika! Isn't there a way to get her away from him without him snapping her neck, Arsene?" said Keiko worriedly to Arsene.
"No, there isn't, my lady. Because his arms is holding her head very closely and if we get close then he'll snap her neck." said Arsene grimly to Keiko.
"Dammit! How could I not noticed him coming close to grab and used me as leverage against Keiko and Sakamoto-kun? Isn't there anything I can do to get away from him, anything at all!?" thought Aika in frustration to herself at failing to noticed and getting caught by Shadow Kamoshida.
"That's right, you were caught unaware by this reprehensible false king and allow him to used you as leverage against the young girl and young guy who's unable to do anything to help you out for the moment. So tell me, what're you going to do now, devchonka? Are you going to let yourself be held captive and helpless by this king or are you going to get away from him like you said you will?" said an unknown and ethereal woman's voice to Aika in her mind about her situation.
"No, I don't want that! I wanted to get away from him so that he won't used me as leverage against my cousin, the guy that's with us and anyone else out there and I want to make him pay for doing it!" said Aika determinedly and firmly to the woman's voice.
"Well spoken and I've heeded your resolve, devchonka." said the woman's voice approvingly to Aika before the same indescribable feeling of pain that wracked upon Keiko's head and body now wracked upon Aika's head and body, causing her eyes to turned yellow before she scream out in pain and agony from it (while Shadow Kamoshida glance in confusion at her and both Keiko and Ryuji glance worriedly at her).
"Don't tell me…" said Shadow Kamoshida as he realised what happen to Aika.
"This feeling, could it be that she also…" thought Keiko curiously to herself at Aika.
"I am thou, thou art I… Show this king that you're not some helpless devchonka that he can take lightly for!" said the woman's voice firmly to Aika as she stop screaming, panted and felt the pain slowly fade away from her head and body before she felt a strong gust of wing suddenly blew out of her, causing Shadow Kamoshida to release his grip on her, crash hard against a wall behind him (which make him winced and groan in pain) before Aika realised that a mask had formed and appear on her face like Keiko and she quickly grab and try her best to get the mask off her face and managed to get the mask off, causing blood to run down her face and make her let out another scream of pain before she fell silent as the same dark blue flames that appear and covered Keiko's entire body earlier on before it dissipate away to reveal Aika wearing a different dark blue, purple and green-coloured sleeveless, knee-length dress with a waist-length black cape on her back, dark blue fingerless elbow-length gloves on her arms, thigh-high black stockings and knee-length grey boots on her legs instead of her uniform while a tall and large almost slender figure of a woman before the flames slowly fade away to reveal the looks of the woman standing behind Aika, which is a fair-skinned, long waist-length elegant braided brown-haired woman with a pristine white mask that had flaming orange slitted eyes and wide, wicked smile on it on the mask while the woman wears an elegant-looking short sleeve dark purple and black Russian dress with dozens of white rose designs on it, a matching purple hat with two white feathers sticking out on the hat, long golden gloves on her arms, dark blue wings behind her back while black chains rattled and swirl around her body and small remnants of the blue flames lingers on her dress.
"Yeah, I know, Sonya… What the? My uniform change into a different one like Keiko?" said Aika in agreement with the woman named Sonya (who nodded before she disappeared) before she glance down at herself and saw that her oufit had change into a different one like Keiko.
"Holy crap! You too?" said Ryuji in shock and disbelief at Aika.
"Looks like it, Ryuji-kun. And are you alright, Aika?" said Keiko as she nodded to Ryuji before she asked Aika a question with a concern look on her face.
"Yeah, I'm fine now, Keiko. Just that…" said Aika reassuringly to Keiko before she got cut off by Shadow Kamoshida.
"You two goddamn wenches…!" snarled Kamoshida as he stood up from the floor and walked toward both Keiko and Aika with a livid look on his face. But before he could get closer to them, Ryuji swiftly stood up from the ground and charge toward Shadow Kamoshida, slammed and tackled him hard and back down to the ground (which make him grunted in surprise and pain from Ryuji's tackle while a set of keys fell out of his cape and landed on the ground).
"Ha! You like that, you son of a bitch!?" Ryuji gloated at Kamoshida after he tackled him down.
"The keys, Ryuji-kun! Hurry and get the keys!" Keiko told Ryuji as she pointed her finger at the keys lying on the ground in front of Ryuji.
"Huh? Y-You mean this!?" said Ryuji as he glance down at the keys.
"Yeah so hurry and get it, Sakamoto-kun!" said Aika as she nodded to Ryuji, who quickly grabbed the keys up from the ground before he, Keiko and Aika run out of the cell room (and they saw that the place outside the cell room is a large room filled with dozens of empty cell rooms, wooden crates and barrels and with a clear river flowing swiftly in the middle of the room) away from Shadow Kamoshida and he quickly closed and locked the door, trapping Shadow Kamoshida inside the room.
"Okay, it's locked now, you two!" said Ryuji reassuringly to both Keiko and Aika.
"That's good, Ryuji-kun." said Keiko with a small smile on her face.
"Yeah, I agreed." said Aika in agreement with Keiko.
"Damn you all!" Shadow Kamoshida cursed loudly at them as he stood up from the ground with his hand on his head.
"Hey…! What was that just now, Amamiya and Saito!? Both of your uniforms change into hot-! I mean, different-looking outfits…!" demanded Ryuji as he turned to glance at both Keiko and Aika, completely ignoring Shadow Kamoshida.
"I don't know what is it, Ryuji-kun…" replied Keiko in a confused tone of voice at Ryuji.
"Yeah, how should we know what just happened to us?" said Aika as she scowled at Ryuji before she, Keiko and Ryuji gasped in surprise unison when her and Keiko's outfits disappear in a flash of white flames and change back into their Shujin school uniforms. "Huh? Our clothes turned back to normal? Getting weirder and weirder now…" thought Aika in confusion in her mind.
"Uwaaah!" exclaimed Ryuji loudly in sudden surprise (which make both Keiko and Aika jumped a little) as Shadow Kamoshida suddenly grabbed and banged his fists on the closed cell door while he glared angrily at the 3 of them.
"You bastard and wenches!" yelled Shadow Kamoshida angrily at them.
"God, this's effin' nuts!" said Ryuji as he raised his hand to scratch his head a little. "Anyways, let's scram! You lead the way!" Ryuji told Keiko, who nodded to him before she, Aika and Ryuji (who threw the keys into the river) turned and run away from the livid Shadow Kamoshida locked in the cell.
"Goddamn thieves…!" snarled Shadow Kamoshida before he yell out an order to his knights. "After them! Don't let them escape!"