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Previously on Phantasy Star Universe The Untold Legacy

The fight between Kuro and Mordakai came to a close with the arrival by Kura and Maya with Mordakai retreating. Magashi got a measure of revenge on Ethan nearly killing him before Leo, Tonnio and the rogue Tyler arrived to save him. Carnage 192 and the Cast Lou were able to use there SUV limits to finish off the Cast army. While these battles ending the battle continues to rage between Jiro and Vlad, their final fight to the death

Episode 26 – Seal Release Level 4 Revealed

Vlad smiles and stares into the eyes of his opponent as the beam saber pierces Jiro's stomach. Jiro coughs out some blood before saying "just as I thought."

Jiro steps back until the beam saber is no longer embedded in his stomach before continuing "this is not over".

Vlad removes the double sword from his back and throws it to Jiro who catches it easily. He then looks down at the stump of his arm and just says "Seal Release Level 3 Confirmed, Seal Release Level 3 Complete".

Vlad draws a staff and casts resta on himself causing a new arm to form before saying to Jiro "come on, heal yourself so we can continue old man".

Vlad watches as small flickers of photon energy appear from a point on Jiro's chest before it turns in to an aura of Photon energy surrounding his entire body. The hole in Jiro's stomach instantly heals before he throws both double sabers into the air and takes a small device from his pocket. As the first Double Saber comes down Jiro catches it and detacts them and reattaches them using the small device, he then catches the second doube saber and does the same thing turning the weapons into a windmill saber. He then says "Vlad, I told you I will give you my best and that is what I intend to do. SEAL RELEASE LEVEL 4 APPROVED"

The moment Jiro finishes saying that line from the seal mark on his hand symbols that are from the original Newman language start to work there way up his arm until they disappear under his shirt and reappear on his face. The ancient symbols finally stop when they have covered his entire body. The symbols closest to the seal turn red as Jiro says "Seal release level 4 complete. When all the symbols on my body turn red it is over for me. The seal will be irreversible. BUT I PLAN TO TAKE YOU TO HELL WITH ME VLAD"

Before Vlad can react Jiro throws the windmill saber at him. Vlad only just dodges out of the way but is unable to dodge as Jiro using the seals complete power moves almost as fast as the speed of light and appears infront of the ex-guardian forcing his fist into Vlads stomach. Vlad is forced back but isn't given any breathing space as Jiro starts continually punching Vlad. Jiro's final punch sends Vlad flying back several feet landing hard on the floor.

Jiro looks at the symbols on his arm and sees the redness has spread up to his bicep and thinks '30 seconds elapsed, using both photon control and the seals power might just allow me to win this.' Vlad pushes himself to his feet before taking out his beam saber and charging at Jiro. Jiro holds out his hand and the windmill saber returns to him. the moment the windmill saber returns it floats by his hand and start spinning. Jiro holds out the spinning saber in front of him as it continues to spin, he then uses some of his photon manipulation causing the blades of the saber to extend so that they are cutting into the floor as it rotates. Vlad, even though he is witnessing this continues to charge in swinging his saber, Jiro moves his saber to block and then attempts attack but Vlad dodges out of the way, Jiro uses the position vlad moved into to slice across his side before kicking Vlad away. The Windmill starts to rotate at a faster pace as Jiro charges in again this time Vlad doesn't bother to try and parry the attack he just jumps bouncing up into the trees trying to hide. Jiro throws the windmill saber where Vlad had gone controlling it's movement the best he can with his photon manipulation as it contines to slice through and cut down most the trees in the area around where they are.

Vlad quickly jumps out of the tree he is hiding in and down to floor, when he lands he instantly starts running as the blade follows him closely. Jiro already realising what Vlads plan is points two fingers upwards causing the windmill saber to fly directly up in then air. Jiro then jumps into the air retriving the blade only to throw it straight back down at Vlad who is looking around for where the blade went.

Vlad notices the blade coming from above him just in time to move out of the way only to realise to late it was never Jiro's plan to hit him. The moment the blade hits the floor it releases 4 photon waves, Vlad manages to dodge all of them but the Photon Waves start circling round, occasionally one of the waves coming through the centre at Vlad but he continues to dodge. Finally just as it seems the waves are dispersing all 4 of them shoot through from different directions, Vlad manages to dodge 3 of them but the 4th one hits his arm during his dodge attempt and cuts it straight off.

Jiro, who had been standing on a branch of one of the few remaining trees, jumps down and lands a few feet away from Vlad, he laughs before saying "how do you like the Photon Whirlwind. You are the first and last to ever face it."

Before Vlad can retort Jiro charges forward forcing his fist into Vlads stomach, following up with punching Vlad with all his strength into the nearest tree. Jiro looks down at the symbols and sees the red symbols have spread across half of his body and continuing to spread at an increasing rate. He thinks to himself 'I have about 2 minutes before I am finished I have to kill Vlad in that time.' Jiro Charges again this time Vlad sees it and dodges out of the way just in time as Jiro's punch demolishes the tree. Vlad continues to dodge like a mad man as Jiro continues his assault. Jiro's punch finally makes contact with Vlads face sending him flying several feet to the ground. Jiro rips his shirt off showing that the red symbols now cover his entire upper body, both arms and are working there way up his neck. Jiro quickly thinks '30 seconds, maybe less. I have chance for one more assault and I need to end this with that.' Jiro charges forward connects with a powerful punch to the face of Vlad followed by a series of punches to his mid section. Vlad coughs up a lot of blood just before Jiro lands a perfectly placed kick to the side of his head sending him flying into another tree. Jiro charges forward as the barely conscious Vlad gets to his feet awaiting his doom, knowing that there is no time to dodge or enter the final release state himself. Jiro continues to charge at Vlad but is suddenly stopped in his tracks as the final symbol turns red. The moment the symbol turns Jiro collapses to the floor feeling as if every bit of energy has been suddenly sucked from his body. Vlad still using the Tree for support starts to laugh before saying "it's over Jiro, over for good. the seal has beaten you for me. Your 5 minutes are up. No more power left in the seal now. you will be dead within the next 30 minutes. I wish I could be here to see you die but I myself am almost out of power, one more shot and I think you would of killed me. well Jiro my old master, I guess this is good bye forever."

Vlad does a mock wave to Jiro before taking the staff from his belt and disappearing with his teleportation spell.

(With Kura, 20 minutes later)

Kura finally reaches the area he had seen a whirlwind of photon energy, the moment he had seen it he had changed course cursing himself because he had been going in the wrong direction. He looks over the area, the first thing he notices are the craters in the ground. Next he notices Trees cut down are so damaged that they will never grow back. Kura notices to the far side of the field someone is lying there, most likely a dead body. Kura slowly walks over to the body to find out who it is. The moment he ges close to the body he recognises it as his father. The Red symbols of the seal glowing and seemingly pulsating. Kura drops to his knees by his fathers body before saying "why did you do it"

A tear falls from his eye before he hears Jiro say "because I had no choice."

Kura's eyes instantly widen at the sound of his father voice, he quickly says "who was it? Who were you against that you didn't have a choice?"

Jiro now seemingly falling asleep as he speaks says "It was Vladimir Toshin, I was so close to killing him but it was all for nothing. Kura I want you to do me one favour"

Kura nods indicating for his father to continue, he says "finish training Kuro. I want you to have him complete the forbidden training. But warn him first about…"

Before Jiro can continue the symbols stop pulsating and fade away completely. Kura cries out and just lets his tears flow.

Episode End

Next time on Phantasy Star Universe – The Untold Legacy

Jiro's Funeral, Kura talks to Nav, Cain leaves, Kuro is given his training and The Master is revealed

Next time in Episode 27 – Hard Times Ahead

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