Sometime after Basara's problems had been solved, he had been summoned to Japan's hero village. Yuki, Kurumi and Mio went with him while Maria and Zest were on standby somewhere near.
On the village, Basara had to answer for his involvement on the battles that happened on the demon realm and also for what happened when he was targeted for extermination. That was within his expectations, but what he didn't expect was that a member from the Vatican would show up, or that that member of the Vatican would be another of his childhood friends he hadn't met on a long time, Celis Reinhartd.
Somehow, due to Shiba's interference, it became a fight against Celis. Basara won thanks to a new ability he had acquired, but that wasn't the end of Shiba's plans.
That same night, Shiba attacked the village and managed to take the four divine weapons. Someone would have to go after him, and Basara and his group offered to help.
However, no one even came close to guessing Shiba's plans.
"Here should be a good place."
Shiba was now very far from the village, outside of Japan even.
He had stolen the divine weapons with one purpose in mind, to become even more powerful. He had a plan that involved absorbing the powers of the sacred beasts for himself, but he gave that up for an even better one.
Using the powers of the divine weapons, Shiba tore a small hole between dimensions. He didn't plan to go anywhere, his plan was to suck out the power of that dimension and those inside it for himself.
"Now, to put the 'straw' that will transfer the power to me."
Shiba just left the four weapons there and his hand reached for the small crack, of course, he planned to keep a safe distance.
However…
"…! W-what?!"
The crack expanded and a hand came from inside it. It easily grabbed Shiba's arm before he could even react. Shiba tried to get rid of it, but he couldn't.
For as powerful as Shiba was, the grip on his arm was stronger.
"Yes, you'll do just fine."
The arm started pulling Shiba in. He tried to resist, but to no avail.
It didn't take long for Shiba to visit the other side of the crack.
"A-aaaaahh!"
The sound echoed out, but no one heard him. After Shiba was pulled in, the crack went back to its normal size, small enough that most people wouldn't even see it.
After Shiba was gone, the four weapons returned to the village on their own. This puzzled everyone present, who were getting ready to fight Shiba.
This didn't make any sense, no matter how much they thought about it. Basara and his group stayed on the village for a little while just to make sure everything was fine, but since there was no movement detected from Shiba, they just had to leave it be.
After they went back home, Basara and the girls' lives continued normally.
This would be their last moment of peace before war broke out.
