Cardfight Gakuen's infirmary. One of the most high-tech rooms equipped with the latest medical technology, although at a glance it may look like a normal school infirmary.

"How is he, Sol Kage?"

"Hmm… Well, from what I see he's not in any particular kind of danger. He's just unconscious, that's all."

"I see… That's good to hear. By the way, what's with that outfit?"

"You don't know? When taking care of a patient, one should wear the appropriate outfit in order to help the patient recover faster. Besides, it's cute you know?"

Sol Kage twirled around and gave a cute pose in that white nurse outfit she was wearing, her fox ears and tails wagged a bit in happiness.

"Well, I agree that it's cute. It's even cuter if a certain person who has already exceeded her expiry date isn't wearing it however."

"Hahaha! That's a good one, Ki-chan. Want me to send you falling into a pit filled with lava?"

"You're welcome to try, old hag."

Sparks flew between the fairy-like dark princess and the flame fox goddess.

"Sol Kage-sama, now's not the time to be doing something like that."

"I know, Judge."

Letting out a sigh, Sol Kage turned towards the sleeping Aaron on the infirmary bed. His expression was as peaceful as ever, as if the incident which happened a while ago never happened.

"But you know, A-chan never ceases to amaze me. To think that he can even do stuffs like making illusions real… I'm quite impressed even as one who can do the same."

"So you know something about that power he used? That dark power filled with malice and destructive impulse?"

"Nope, I have no idea. Even someone like me who has lived for a long time has never seen anything like that before. However, I can say one thing about that mysterious power he unleashed. It's not Psyqualia, however it's something similar to it."

"I see…"

"Well, for now I've erased the memories of everyone present there at that time and replaced them with new ones. They now have the memory of that female Amethyst Class Rep experiencing a rather horrible situation due to a slight malfunction on the VR System when she was dueling you where she was surrounded by hundreds of that male Sapphire Class Rep with only one piece of clothing on him."

"…You really hate Juchen, don't you?"

"Those who dare lust for my divine body should just go and burn themselves."

"Well… I can't argue with you there. He's an incurable lolicon, after all."

For reasons beyond her, Akiye suddenly heard "I'm not a lolicon!" passing through her mind in the voice of a certain Aqua Force maniac, but she ignored it as she continued to look at Aaron.

"So how long would he remain unconscious?"

"Probably around a day or so. His body did undergo a sudden change like that, so it would be impossible for him to recover that easily."

"I see… You sure know a lot even though you're not there when Aaron-kun was dueling with Selnia."

"Hahaha! Don't underestimate my intelligence network, Ki-chan."

"Actually, Sol Kage-sama was watching Aaron-san using the video cameras installed inside the academy since a month ago due to her personal interests on him."

"H-Hey! Don't say unneeded things, Judge!"

"I see… So you are interested in Aaron-kun, huh? You shotacon loli old hag."

"Hmph! I don't want to be called a shotacon by another one."

Again, sparks fell between the two which caused Judge to let out a sigh while looking at his wristwatch.

"Sol Kage-sama, it's almost time."

"Umu. Now then, I shall take my leave now Ki-chan. I have a meeting with that female Amethyst Class Rep's father who wants an explanation over the malfunction of the VR system which caused harm to his daughter. Geez, dealing with the sponsors is really troublesome, especially since I have to possess Judge's body while doing so. Anyway, here."

Sol Kage held out a paper bag to Akiye.

"Hmm? What is this?"

"I don't like to repeat what I've already said a second time. Take a look and think about it for yourself. Anyway, I'm counting on you to look after him Ki-chan."

With a snap of her fingers, both Sol Kage and Judge disappeared from the room. Without even a blink of surprise from her, Akiye took a look on the contents of the bag.

"…Heh, so this is what you meant. Interesting, I'll do it. I always wanted to try something like this anyway."

A smile like a devil appeared on Akiye's face as she held the bag in both hands.

"This idiotic human!"

"Ouch!"

"How many times have I warned you not to lose control of your emotions like that?! Are you planning to give us more work to handle?!"

"Now, now, please calm down Tsukuyomi-sama. He's already reflecting on it, so can you please stop hitting him?"

"Shut up, Amaterasu. This boy needs to be hit more in order for him to realize the importance of this matter. Don't tell me you already forgave him for forgetting about our warnings?"

"Of course I haven't. However, seeing him being hit by someone smaller than him makes me pity him."

"…Amaterasu, you called me flat-chested just now didn't you?"

"Eh? O-Of course I didn't-"

"Don't lie! I can see it in your eyes even if you didn't speak the words out loud! What's good with having that 'boing' body anyway?! It only attracts unnecessary lust and affection from our believers!"

"I-It's not like I ask for this body you know! My shoulders ache once in a while and it really bothers me when I'm trying to work."

"Kuh… To think that you would use words like "my shoulders ache" and "it bothers me"… Are you trying to make me feel inferior, you huge-breasted cow-like goddess?!"

"What?! Even if you're the goddess who governed the moon, I won't let that insult pass that easily, you short loli goddess!"

"What was that?!"

"You want to fight?!"

Planet Cray, headquarters of Oracle Think Tank. After falling unconscious, Aaron was suddenly transported to this place and was brought to the front of the two leaders of the clan; the beautiful and elegant Amaterasu with her dynamite body and the cool and composed Tsukuyomi in her full transformation.

"Ahahaha… Ouch!"

Once again, Tsukuyomi landed a hit on top of Aaron's head using the flat surface of her sword.

"Don't you dare laugh, Master. This is your fault to begin with, remember?"

"I-I'm sorry…"

"Hmph! Well, it's not like I don't understand your feeling when that girl started mocking about the Royal Paladins… But still! You can't just lose control and use that power of like that! Did you know how shocked we were when Gancelot suddenly became mad and destroyed the whole of his surroundings?! Luckily he was training in a place where there was nobody around, or it would have been disastreous!"

"I'm really sorry… So is Gancelot okay then?"

"Ah, yes. Due to the quick actions of Alfred-sama and Garmore-sama, Tsukuyomi-sama and I managed to perform the purification on him. Other than having to restore the environment and asking the two to keep the incident a secret, there were no other problems."

"I see. That's a relief… Ouch!"

"If you didn't lose control like that, we wouldn't have to do something so troublesome in the first place!"

"…I'm sorry."

"Hmph, thankfully Gancelot was willing to forgive you and asked me to pass a message along. If not, I would have hit you more for his sake too."

"Eh? Gancelot has a message for me?"

"Umu. He said that he apologized for being unable to be of more help to you and he wished to express his gratitude for making him realize the limits of his strength and giving him the way to further improve himself. He's now training even harder somewhere above the clouds. Geez, this is why I can never understand knights. All they can think about is making themselves stronger."

"I see… Although I feel bad for suddenly affecting him with my power."

Aaron took a look at his open right hand, the hand which he used in order to transcend Gancelot to higher heights using the wrong method.

"Say, Amaterasu-san… Do you know anything about Psyqualia?"

"Hmm? Ah, of course. We had a couple of people receive them a couple of years ago when Cray was invaded by the Void in order to help us fight the threat. If I remember correctly…"

"It allows us to communicate with the chosen one and then show them the right path to victory. However, the current Psyqualia is different than before as we have no control over it like last time. That's why unlike the previous one which allows us to show them a possible future where they win, the current one allows people such as you to even enter our world in a limited time. We're still researching what caused the evolution by the way."

"I see… Then my power isn't Psyqualia right?"

The two goddesses fell silent upon hearing the words from Aaron. After a while, Amaterasu broke the silence as she looked at him.

"No… It may be similar, but yours is a mutated version of the current Psyqualia. Simply put, you have the same power to travel between our worlds plus the power to strengthen the people here using the power of emotions. For now, we're calling it Psy-R."

"Psy-R… I wonder if the reason I got this power is because of that fight with that Onee-chan and her strange clan."

"Probably… Although we do not know how that person came to possess the dark power of Void, and why he was using a deck which should not exist in your world. However, I can deduce this. When you were little you had the potential of using Psyqualia and when you had that fight with that girl, some of the Void's power affected you and it mutated into Psy-R."

"I see… In the end, I still owe my life to those girls huh?"

"…"

While still remaining silent until now, Tsukuyomi gave Aaron another hit on the head.

"Ouch! What was that for, Tsukuyomi-san?"

"Do not think that you're at fault for what is happening to those girls right now. They did what they think is right and protected you. It's not like you're the one who forced them to receive the full force of Void's influence."

"I know… But if I were stronger back then, they wouldn't have to…"

"Master, regretting about the past is a foolish thing to do. You can't change what happened, and you must not chain yourself with 'what ifs'. Even we goddesses cannot change the deaths of the past warriors. The only thing that you can do is to look forward and 'keep swimming'."

"…Amaterasu-san, you watched another movie from the human world again right?"

"E-Eh? W-Why would you say that? It's not like I decided that I'll go watch one every month or so."

"Heh… Well, it doesn't matter. So is there anything else? If not, I would like to go do something which I haven't done for a while now."

"Of course there is, you idiot. Do you think that your recklessness on using Psy-R will not cause any harm to the seal we made on you? Of course, I believe that my seal would still be intact. However, Amaterasu wants to make sure that the seal remains to be functioning so we would be doing the re-sealing ritual today."

"I see… Okay. Then please tell me what I have to do in this ritual of yours."

A smile appeared on Tsukuyomi's face.

"Good. Then please follow us."

"Wow, this place is amazing…"

The place which Aaron entered was among the secrets of Oracle Think Tank's headquarters; a huge natural outdoor bath where everything from waterfalls to the vast sky could be seen.

"O sun, give me strength. Cross, Goddess of the Sun Amaterasu!"

As Aaron admired the beauty of the bath, Amaterasu used the mirror in her hands and focused the sunlight to her. This transformed her to her Cross version, Goddess of the Sun.

"So what do I have to do?"

"Umu, first of all, enter the purification spring in front of you and stand in the middle."

"Okay…"

Aaron moved as instructed by Tsukuyomi and stopped at the heart of the spring. Although he was in spirit form, he could still feel the refreshing water on his skin as if he was not wearing any clothes over his body.

"Okay, let's get started Amaterasu."

"Yes, Tsukuyomi-sama."

With one movement from them, Aaron started to panic.

"W-W-Wait! W-Why are the two of you stripping?"

"Hmm? Of course it's because we're going to enter the spring too. We will be performing the re-sealing ritual while our bodies touch the water in order to allow our powers to flow into your body more smoothly. Is there any problem, Master?"

"O-Of course there is! I'm a guy while the two of you are girls. P-People from opposite genders shouldn't get into baths together after the age of nine!"

"My, that's a classic line."

"Hehe, don't worry Master. We're not going to strip all of our clothes off. We'll be leaving our hakama on, so it would be fine I guess. Although… it would be of great help if you don't look at my direction."

"E-Even if you say that…"

As Aaron pondered on what to do, Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi had stripped off most of their clothes, leaving only the white hakama covering the whole of their bodies. Amaterasu then entered the spring slowly and move towards Aaron while Tsukuyomi flew over him and entered the spring somewhere behind him. With his heart beating madly due to nervousness, Aaron looked away from the approaching Amaterasu whose hakama had became wet from the water, resulting in the thin cloth to be sticking to her body which revealed the curves usually hidden under her kimono.

"Now then… We will start the ritual now, Master."

"I-I'll be in you care."

Just like that, Aaron participated in the ritual to seal the powers of Psy-R in order for him to not be affected by the phenomenon he was told as Reverse. And that ritual was:

"Alright, we will now bath with our bodies sticking together for around 30 minutes. That should strengthen the seal inside you."

"EHHHHHH?!"

Something that Aaron would store in his head as one of the most unforgettable moments during his time at Cray.

"Phew, that was tiring. If only those two didn't start fighting during the ritual, I wouldn't be this tired… No,no, I shouldn't be thinking about it. It's wrong no matter from what point of view I'm seeing it from. In the first place, it would make me a pervert if I started thinking about other people's na- No, what am I thinking?!"

Aaron tried to shake the thought off his head as he walked through the plains. Although he was technically a spirit there, the rules of gravity seemed to still apply to him as he could not float on the skies.

"Well I'm not dead yet technically, so my soul is still connected to my living body which means the rules of the living would still apply to me… probably."

As Aaron thought about the reason he could not fly like a ghost, he was nearing his destination as time passed. Yes, his destination was…

"You're going to the ruined castle?"

"Yes. It's been a while since I've visited that place, and it would be rude of me not to see those girls once in a while."

"I see… Please be careful. Although the place is safe, but you will never know where danger might be hidden."

"Don't worry, I'll be fine. Even if I somehow got stuck in some kind of trouble, I still have a trump card in my sleeves."

"I wish we could send someone to watch you as your bodyguard, however all of our available personnel are busy with the sudden rise of work."

"Like I said, don't worry Amaterasu-san."

While recalling the conversation he had with Amaterasu, Aaron reached the huge gate of the ruined castle; a castle which once belonged to the Royal Paladins and still inhabited by a certain special unit, in the flesh that is. There, Aaron met with a person that he did not expect to encounter there.

"Eh? Blaster Blade? What are you doing here?"

"Ah, Master. It's nothing. I'm just trying to relieve old memories, that's all. After that duel with the Royal Paladins, I felt that I have to come and visit the place where I once lived."

"I see… "

"Did you come to visit them again?"

"Yes. Would you like to join me?"

"I would be honored to, but I am still on duty so I cannot leave my post for a long time."

"I see. Then see you later then."

After saying his goodbyes to Blaster Blade Liberator, Aaron went inside the castle and made his way through the old castle which paths were already filled with growing life. A moment later, he stopped in front of a wooden door; the words 'Infirmary' clearly printed on the steel plate above it. With a pause, Aaron pushed the door opened and entered the room.

"…"

Inside the large room which could accommodate a lot were several white beds with the common design of an infirmary bed. And on those beds were the forms of the ones who were once comrades to Aaron. Most of them were elves while some of them were human and the rest were animals, all of them were sleeping peacefully while still wearing their armor.

"So there's no change, huh. Well, I suspected as much."

After going through the rows of beds inside the room, Aaron finally arrived at a bed where the person he wanted to see the most was sleeping.

"…"

Her silver armor shined without any signs of rust while the blue jewels embedded in the armor remain sparkling as ever. Her calm and composed face remain unchanged even when she was sleeping, and her long beautiful brown hair remain as beautiful as from the time Aaron first met this long-eared female warrior. Whether or not it was due to her being an elf that her beauty remained even though time had passed for over ten years already, Aaron had no idea.

"Looks like you haven't changed one bit, Salome. Well, most of the people here in Cray never seem to age even after all these years, so maybe you're the same too."

Aaron gave a hearty laugh, although no response came from the girl who remained sleeping with her eyes closed. While smiling, Aaron tried to touch the beautiful face of the sleeping warrior. However before long a mysterious force suddenly pushed his hand back vigorously, causing some sort of dark barrier to appear while electrifying its surroundings around Salome before disappearing an instant later.

"…Still Locked,huh?"

The smile on Aaron's face darkened a bit. The reason for her and the rest to be sleeping in a coma-like state, the reason for him to be unable to touch any of them. He knew it all too well, for he was the person who caused all this to happen to them.

"…Say Salome, let's continue with what happened to my life from before okay?"

And like that, Aaron started to talk about his experience on the stadium. How he had fought Gai and gained his right to enter Cardfight Gakuen. How he helped an old man when he first came to Vanguard Island and got lots of new cards from him. How he somehow became a Vice Class Rep even after losing to his senpai. How he enjoyed the time he spent fighting the people from other dorms as well as his own. As Aaron talked all of this, Salome remained sleeping without giving any response. However, he knew somehow that she was listening to him even though she was sleeping thus he continued to talk to her.

"…And that's about it Salome. What do you think? I've grown up right? Well, if it's you I bet you will treat me like a kid since you're older than me. Hahaha. …I really missed you all, you know? Even though I've tried lots of clans with different builds already, I still feel that my heart belongs to playing you guys. That's why… please hurry up and come back, Salome."

While trying to control tears from flowing out of his eyes, Aaron gave another smile to the sleeping female warrior.

"Well, I'll see you soon Salome. I hope that the next time that we meet, you will all have awaken already."

Aaron gave another gaze at Salome for a while before turning and walked towards the door as he thought of going back home. As he had only taken three steps away from the bed which Salome was sleeping on, something unexpected caused him to freeze on his tracks.

"Are you… strong?"

When Aaron turned around to face the voice which came from behind him, a large sword had already covered most of his sight as it headed straight for his head.