Ikkitousen - Toushi Otherworldly Private Dates

by MakeBelieve0914

This is a series comprised of one-shot lemon-y dates featuring an new OC named Namashi and the various female Toushi of the Ikkitousen world. [Comprised of some of the events of the mobile game, Ikkitousen Extra Burst with the characters that are currently in Ikkitousen Extra Burst and using the artwork from Pixiv artist - MIY as a base for the various lemons and stories.]

1. Chapter 1 - Prologue

Toushi Otherworldly Private Dates

-A lemon one-shot series featuring all the girls from MIY's Ikkitousen pictures (basically all important Nanyo, Seito and Kyosho generals and the Kansai characters that were introduced in Ikkitousen Extravaganza Epoch/Western Wolves as well as the important Other generals (Ukitsu, Koshaji, Rakuyo Academy, Goei and the Nanban sisters), the three video game characters and the four new characters in Ikkitousen Extra Burst (Keijuu, Shion, Shiyou and Kuroyuri). The stories will be taken place akin to the Ikkitousen OVAs (but with lemons obviously) and will feature a new male OC [that is based on a series of videos on The HUB for a game called Honey Select which allows you to dress up any girl as any sort of anime (mostly), or game or cartoon character that you want as well as dress up your male character and have then perform a series of actions [mostly of the sexual nature] towards each other. This such male character came from the video featuring Kaku Bunwa. This series will also be a series of one-shots (some will reference others) but mostly they will be self-contained.

Chapter Zero: The Prologous Final Battle and Introduction

The setting is a desolate wasteland surrounded by nothing but bones and other sorts of carrion. This area is called the Yomotsuhirasaka and we see a woman wearing a black and purple kimono floating on black air in sitting position holding a fan up to the sky with a triumphant sneer on her face. And on the other side we see Nanyo, Seito and Kyosho Academies along side Ryofu's group (Ryofu herself, Chinkyuu and Chousen) all looking worse for the wear barely holding themselves up. The woman is named Kuroyuri and she amasses a huge quantity of black Ki-infused air above her head as she retains her sneer towards the nearly defeated Toushi.

"So, have you decided to yield to me yet, my dear Toushi? Do you understand my might yet? It was foolish, yes, quite foolish of you all to ever oppose me. You should have just let yourselves be swept in the tides of my void. But you just HAD to awaken from my dreams, didn't you? Hahaha. And look where that's gotten you! Look where all your pointless struggling got you. Fools." Kuroyuri taunts as she shoots black Ki tendrils at the coalition causing them to disperse.

The Toushi were slowing down considerably knowing full well that Kuroyuri was now much stronger than them at this point. How did this happen one might ask? She managed to kill her fellow void warriors in Shiyou, Shion and Keijuu and absorb their powers into her which significantly boosted her own already impressive powers. She had then grabbed the other anomaly (which she also was) that Keijuu constantly referred to as Namashi who was the person who helped the Toushi break free from the constant dreams Kuroyuri placed them in, and had tied him up to a energy-stealing sigil and was draining the life out of him as well. The Toushi led by Sonsaku Hakufu, Ryuubi Gentoku and Sousou Moutoku had ran to Yomotsuhirasaka to stop Kuroyuri and save the other anomaly. He was a slightly older man in what could be, most likely very early twenties. Probably like 20 itself. He had slicked-back blonde hair with blonde-mutton chops, blue eyes and fair skin complexion. His clothing had been ripped leaving him shirtless and his black pants in tatters.

"L-Let him go, Yuri-chan. Why are you doing this? Weren't we friends?" Sonsaku had naively asked Kuroyuri while barely hiding her anger towards her betrayal. Kuroyuri just smiles at her and states.

"No. No, not really. I was just using you all to form this new world of mine. Pitting you fools against each other and rewriting certain events was so damn easy. Far too easy if you ask me." Kuroyuri flips her hair back as she drones to further taunt the Toushi. "Although there were a few hiccups along the way, but not to worry because we're now back on track. The Voids are now inside of me and soon, so will Namashi be as well. And then once I am fully complete, I'll erase all of you. And then, those Kansai fools will be next. And after them, all the rest of the Toushi conclaves throughout the world, I will destroy them as well. Haha!"

"H-how could you? You killed them and for what? Some stupid power-up?" Ryuubi accused of her and Kuroyuri merely rolled her eyes before continuing.

"Some stupid power-up you say? I'm doing this to EXIST! I won't just be some supporting cast member to be thrown away once all of this is over like those other trash. I will reign supreme and I will accomplish what Toutaku Chuuei, Shiba'i Chuutatsu nor even that Himiko girl's worthless hides never could. I'll destroy this farcical concept of fate. I'll erase the concept of "Toushi" and those damnable Toushi Genes you Toushi gain your powers from as well. Hahaha! And I'll start with him. That 'anomaly', Namashi!"

"Like hell you will. Let's go Chuubou!" Sonsaku stated

"Right, big sis." Sonken Chubou agreed (The true Sonken Chuubou is a lithe girl with purple pig-tails) tried to launch themselves at Kuroyuri who merely held a hand in front of her which pushed the Toushi further away from her. Sonsaku and Sonken were then covered by a black barrier around them. They both looked to where the originator of the barrier was and saw a worn-down Saji who had held her hand out in front of her, her hand fizzling with her Dark Ki surrounding her.

"Ah, thanks Saji-chan."

"Yes thank you very much, Ms. Saji."

"You're welcome sisters. Also, next time, please think before you launch yourselves at her. I don't know if I have enough energy to do that again."

"Hehe, sorry. But, I-I I have to protect Nama-chi."

"Understood. Sister Saku, however you need to think more. If you get killed trying to fight for him, you'll just make him sadder." Saji chides, afterwards Sonsaku then looks down temporarily ashamed by her impulsiveness, to which Sonken then pats her on the back comfortingly.

"I-it's okay, Big Sis. We know how he's important to you. I don't want to see him disappear either."

"Ur~ R-right. I'll do better, for him Saji-chan. But I just can't stand there and let him get killed. Not for fighting for us!"

"We'll come up with something. I also don't want him to be killed either. I still need to figure out why he feels so similar to myself after all." Saji said in agreement. Kuroyuri then turns her back on everyone and begins to fix her kimono as she smirks to herself.

"Yes, yes. I know how gung-ho you are. However, we're not doing this again as I've grown quite bored of all of you Toushi at this point. Especially you, Sonsaku Hakufu! You who were supposed to be the "fate-changer". Hah. You were so useless in the grand scheme of things. You might have defeated Sousou Moutoku, but you're still nothing in the end." Kuroyuri droned on in a bored manner as Sonsaku glowered at her needling her, however Kuroyuri turns her attention back to Namashi. "However, you Namashi. I'll NEVER be bored of you! You're really interesting. Despite your general worthlessness, I can never be bored of your pointless struggling. You've still some value to me after all."

More of Namashi's physical attributes reveals that he has a double-snake tattoo which covers a good portion on his upper chest which is glowing with the same coloring of Kuroyuri's Black-Ki. Kuroyuri notices that he was thrashing against his bindings to no avail whatsoever. She continues taunting him and his pitiful state of being. "It seems that you've woken up in time just to watch everyone die. All these pawns and you're the reason that I can't control them anymore. Why did she help you out in the first place. That damn Keijuu just couldn't follow directions, and I made them so simple too. And of course, Shion and Shiyou were useless as all. Feh, good help is so hard to find these days. Whatever. It doesn't matter, because soon, very very soon my little anomaly, you and I will be fused together as well. And then, I will conquer everything. I will be the one to destroy fate. I WILL EXIST. TRULY EXIST! And I will create the ultimate reality using one as it's base. But I won't just end you all, I'll make sure you all come back as well. I'll strip everyone of their powers, and make them regular boring humans just like Ryuubi always wished for." Ryuubi visibly flinched at that comment, but Kuroyuri continues, "The Magatama, the Toushi gene and everything else having to do with the Toushi will have no reason to exist. Not with me as this world's true ruler, no I will be it's arbiter. Now that sounds so much better. An arbiter, the one who controls every facet of the world and everything around them. Sorta like a god would. Ahn! I, Kuroyuri will be the most beautiful goddess ever. And good news for you, you're going to help me, Namashi. You know, I think that you should be ever so grateful. Honestly speaking, you should be so grateful to me because I am allowing you to contribute to my plan. You're helping a beautiful goddess such as myself, you worthlessly ordinary man you. AHAHAHA!"

The captured man glares at her with hate in his eyes and speaks. "Fuck you, you goddamn psycho. You murdered them for nothing! This world is good as it is, the hell you mean the "real" world? I'll break out and I'll help them kill you, you psychotic bitch! For everyone's sake! I WILL DESTROY YOU, KUROYURI!" As he screams that out and continues thrashing against the restraints, he begins glowing with a weird colored energy that not even the Toushi could define.

Shokatsuryou looks towards the captured man named nicknamed Namashi and gasps at this showing of this new energy of his. "I-impossible. He's radiating a similar energy to the Dragon's Jewel. How? A Non-Toushi like him is surviving the Life Extraction is something of an a mystery in and of itself. Just what are you, Namashi?Wait! I think I got it. This might be our chance! Shiba'i, Kaku, Rikuson!" The aforementioned named strategists managed to hobble (or painfully wheel in Shibai's case over to her.)

"Koumei? You have a plan or something?" Shibai spat out clearly not in any sort of mood after being tossed around and physically beaten by the powered-up Kuroyuri. Her pride was destroyed as well since she fell victim to Kuroyuri's schemes twice and was ripped apart as Shikyou and crumbled into dust as Shiba'i only to be revived and have forced upon her by Kuroyuri, some rather vivid images of her deaths and powerlessness while originally shattered her until a combined effort by Ten'i, Sousou and even Namashi managed to bring her back to her senses. Then she found herself being a rather unwilling (at first) assistant to Shokatsuryou and the other strategists who had pooled together in order to defeat the Void Warriors and Kuroyuri herself. Then during the battle, Kuroyuri had turned on the Void Warriors by stabbing throughout their bodies with her Dark Ki and absorbing their flesh into herself, further powering her up.

"Yes, as a matter of fact I do. You noticed that Namashi's there powering up right?" Shokatsuryou said pointing at the chest tattoos on Namashi which were glowing causing his whole body to glean a green coloring which was his Ki expelling from it.

"Master Koumei, I don't understand...Wait." Rikuson stammered out before she looked at him and noticed the three void demons that created Shion, Shiyou and Keijuu were surrounding his snake tattoos. "Huh? What's going on? He was damn near dead, five seconds ago. And why do those demons...No way! They're still alive?! How!"

"It seems that Kuroyuri didn't drain all of their existences as she thought that she did. I wonder how long before she notices this and tries again? Tch! We need to save Namashi while she's still gloating and preening."

"So she rushed it, just to kill us all? In that case, why go through with all of this planning and scheming? What a complete moron. She and Lord Toutaku deserved each other." Kaku asked.

"So it seems that she did rush it, Kaku. I guess she wanted to repeat everything that we went through just to "fatten" up the girls with fighting energy to absorb them. However, the ultimate question is why? What does she have to gain from all of this?"

"Take a look at where we are, Koumei. Why in the world would she drag us here?" Shibai stated matter-of-factly. "She, much like those other Void Warriors, much like myself and Ryofu and Chinkyu are very much dead. But the thing that I'm confused on is how in the world did she even come back to life? Saji Genpou I doubt had anything to do with any of this, I doubt she even has the power to pull something off on this scale."

"I think I might have an answer as to why. I have a working theory that Kuroyuri and the other voids were once the same entity. Now, as for why we're in Yomotsuhirasaka, I'm stuck on that one." Rikuson said, getting the other three strategists to turn to her direction.

"What do you mean by that, Hakugen?" Kaku asked intrigued by what Rikuson was saying.

"Did you notice that Kuroyuri is emitting the same aura the other three were?"

"Hm, that is certainly interesting. However, I also use Dark Ki as well. What are you implying?" Shibai asked.

"Yeah, you and Toutaku do use Dark Ki, Master Shibai. However, hers is different."

"Different as in how, Rikuson?" Shokatsuryou asked, sort of seeing where she was coming from.

"Toutaku's dark Ki comes from his arrogance, Shibai's comes from her hatred. However, I couldn't feel anything coming from Kuroyuri or the other girls."

"That probably explains why that Keijuu girl couldn't really use that power. She actually felt stuff, despite being a Void Demon like the rest of them." Kaku stated, before it hit her like a ton of bricks. "Ah, I get what you're saying now, Hakugen. Kuroyuri's dark Ki is comprised of pure emptiness. Which explains why she could sneak up on anyone at any point in time despite being as strong as she is. Not even Ukitsu could pull that off, and she doesn't use Ki whatsoever."

"Alright, that I get. What I don't get is if she's not emotionless, then how can her energy be so vast yet so empty?" Shokatsuryou inquired.

"If your little theory is true, and at this point. It's rather hard to deny that it is, then I'm guessing something is redirecting her emotions away from her energy source. Something that is now breaking apart, which is why she needs Namashi's power. In other words, she's breaking apart." Shibai quipped while thinking of a way to potentially take advantage of that fact. "But what I'm wondering is, why is Namashi suddenly getting stronger? Like Hakugen stated, he was at death's door not five seconds ago...Wait, no.."

"What is it, Shibai?" Kaku asked.

"Somehow, his bonding with each of us has allowed him to unintentionally snag a piece of our individual souls which I guess is the same for those three Void Demons which is why..." Before Shibai could finish, the four strategists noticed that the demonic entities had swirled around Namashi which the other Toushi also noticed.

"Wow. Nama-chi's getting stronger. Hehe, this is so exciting. I knew he was special. Ufu, I'm so happy that he's mine." Sonsaku exclaimed happily as she had powered down.

"Hm. I made the right choice in wanting to pursue his power. This is absolutely incredible. And look, the three girls are even reforming as well." Sousou stated quite intrigued by what was happening. Off to the side, Himiko and her Kansai faction were watching the fight with keen interest wondering if she'd have to do battle with Namashi once more.

"I just hope he can win this." Sonken said quietly to herself, as she was also impressed with the man that her big sister had fallen for.

-To Himiko and the Kansai Alliance-

"Hmph. Those Kanto losers might actually be somewhat impressive. Somehow during this farce of a battle, that boy managed to utilize some of their powers for his own purposes. Hm, to snag a piece of their soul without harvesting their Magatama. Hm...He might be a worthwhile opponent yet." Himiko quipped quite intrigued with the turn of events.

"Lady Himiko. What troubles you?" Benkei asked concerned by the fact that Himiko's right hand was trembling (unbeknownst to Himiko herself.)

"Not much. Just the idea that we might have to fight a stronger version of them at some point is somewhat troubling, especially now that we know how things were supposed to go. That Kuroyuri woman really made a mess of things and somehow dragged us into this. She also activated the power within Yomotsuhirasaka, which isn't something a disembodied ghoul or really anyone without high spiritual abilities should do."

"Peh. Who cares about that? So what? Okay so that old man's gotten stronger, we'll just crush them like the bugs they actually are. I can't believe that you're actually worried about them. That old bastard's just gonna get himself killed before you even get to do anything, Lady Himiko." Yoshitsune spat out before turning her back to the action, with a small blush on her cheeks. Reason for that is Namashi was able to bond with her as he did with virtually everyone, and Yoshitsune had a rather cute crush on him. Mitsuyoshi just rolled her eyes at Yoshitsune's brattish nature.

"Heh. It seems like you actually care about him despite that, Tsune. Haha. I got to admit, I'm excited to see what he does myself. And I've not been like that since I reunited with that gopher, Chouhi." Mitsuyoshi happily stated which caused Yoshitsune to glare at her at being called out like that.

"(*sigh*. They're like damn children, those two. Whatever. However, I can't deny that Namashi's gotten more interesting than when we first met.)" Himiko thought to herself as she continued to watch the ensuing battle.

"Yoshitsune-nyan's right though. We'll be able to crush them once more, meow! After all, we're still a much higher rank than any of them with or without that Namashi myan." Douman stated from within her kitsune mask.

"Don't be so sure of our victory! Remember pride comes before the fall. Although it isn't too crazy to think that I agree with you two." Himiko states.

"Hmm. This should be coming to a close." Benkei states as she notices the powers swirling inside Namashi. She also notices a very bright light that seems to be getting closer to them. (Interesting. What's this? That light...)

"..." was all Takezou the spiritually adept yet mysterious bandaged katana wielder could say as she was also looking at the light that Benkei was alluding to. (Hm? Someone strong is in there. And it seems that she doesn't look too happy with the way things are going. Does this have to do with that Namashi man? Hehe, you are an interesting man, Anomaly.)

-Back to the Battle-

Namashi then breaks free from the Life Extractor and rushes at Kuroyuri and begins doing battle with her by throwing a flurry of punches at her only for her to block the assault with her fans and returning by firing many Dark Ki-infused air blades at Namashi who fires of a few small rainbow energy blasts at her.

"Hmph. You've recovered enough to actually give me pause. Well done, Namashi. I'll have you yet. You and those other girls who just refuses to die." Kuroyuri stated with a wicked smile on her face as Namashi just gritted his teeth at her.

"Like hell you will. You'll pay for what you've done. Even if it's the last thing that I do. Even if this world falls. I SWEAR THAT I WILL STOP YOU!" Namashi said as he flew back and began throwing hands at Kuroyuri again who wasn't as successful as last time with her blocking and managed to take a few blows to the face before successfully jabbing Namashi in the gut with her fan and blasting him in the face with her free hand sending him back. He wiped blood off of his cheek and his lips when he heard a familiar voice coming from inside him.

"Hmph! Quit rushing in like an idiot, you idiot! I was right after all, you desperately need me, so I've decided to bond with you, Namashi. You should be grateful, hmph! Anyways, I'll give you one of my moves so do use it well and do not make me look bad." Shion said and he smiled as he pictured her flipping her hair arrogantly before smiling at him.

"Heheh! Big Sis On really's got a mouth on her, eh Namas. It's too bad we couldn't spend any more time together. Could have had some real fun, if you know what I mean. You were a real warrior, after all. And because of that, I'll give you one of my moves as well. I know you won't disappoint, Namas." Shiyou said and he pictured her fist-bumping towards him.

"I'm not sure how much someone weak like me can do. But I know that you're strong, and much like Ms. Sonsaku, I'll put my trust in you and give you one of my super-cool moves. So use it well, Mr. Namashi." Keijuu states and he pictures her doing her new signature cute High-School girl pose.

"You girls are fucking amazing, you know that. I wish that I could have saved you all before. I'd want to spend more time with everyone, but I know that if I defeat Kuroyuri, everything will go back to normal and even I won't exist. And I'm not sure these Toushi will be okay, but I'll believe in them, like you believe in me. They've put their collective trust in me. AND I WON'T FAIL! KUROYURI! PREPARE TO DIE!" Namashi belted out as he began glowing with even more rainbow energy and on his back was the three Void Demon weapons. (Shion's Kusarigawa and Flail, Shiyo's War Hammer and Keijuu's Demon Cleaver Blade.)

"(Interesting. He's unknowingly manifesting their souls? Why?) Hm? Are you still on about that? Just give up already! This isn't fun anymore. Give yourself to me, and I'll give you the ultimate pleasure as you give me the ultimate power, Anomaly." Kuroyuri then ran her hands on her body as she smirked at Namashi temporarily getting him to blush before he glares at her again. "Not on your life! Prepare yourself." Namashi then rushes at Kuroyuri who then surrounds herself with her Dark Ki in the form of razor-sharp wind cutters which she sent at Namashi in order to rip him to shreds, however unlike the first encounter with the blades, Namashi had a counter this time. His eyes temporarily changed color from his normal ocean blue ones to Shion's more metallic blue as he pulled out Shion's kusarigawa and swung it around him in order to destroy the blades that were coming at him. After that, he swung the flailed end at Kuroyuri which knocked her fan out of her hand causing her to stare at Namashi in surprise before he recalled the flail to himself. Meanwhile Kuroyuri had jumped back wary of what he'll do next. He spun the chain around himself and flung the sickled blade at Kuroyuri which caused her to use more of her power to phase through the blade however, Namashi then allowed the blade to slam itself into the ground and impaling itself. He dropped the weighted flail which recoiled around the kusarigawa and this caused his eyes to return to normal. Little did he or Kuroyuri realize that the weapon created a small crater around itself and began surrounding itself with rainbow Ki. Shiyou's blade then manifested itself in Namashi's hand which once again changed the color of Namashi's eyes, but this time to lavender which were Shiyou's color. He swung the giant hammer in a circular arc with the intent of crushing Kuroyuri's ribs with how much force he put behind the blow. Kuroyuri then teleported out of the way before the blow could connect causing Namashi to temporarily spin out of control as he righted himself. Kuroyuri then re-phased out of his immediate sightline and snarled at him.

"D-D-DAMN YOU NAMASHI! Why won't you just DIE! You're insufferable! Argh!" Kuroyuri screamed as her irises became white and her sclera turned black once again. Namashi just flew at her with Shiyou's weapon and managed to strike the ground underneath him creating a huge crater filled with rainbow-colored energy as he implanted the blade into the ground although this time it was perpendicular to Shion's weapon parts which then caused a faint outline of a giant blue chain to surround the weapons but nothing else had happened at the time. Namashi then flew into the air and pulled out Keijuu's Demon Cleaver, which changed his eye color to olive green ones which was Keijuu's color. He looked down and finally noticed that he was expelling the rainbow Ki from his body and grew surprised at this. One of the girls had managed to reconnect a link with Namashi and began talking. "W-what are you doing, Mr. Namashi? Go go, finish this already. We've got to stop her now!" Keijuu animatedly stated.

"Huh? The hell's this energy though. Why do I feel so much stronger and why am I using your weapons? On top of that, why can't I fully control them?"

"Uh duh, we've bonded with you. It's weird though, I don't know why exactly. We've not had as much time with you as let's say Keijuu or anything, but I feel that I can totally trust you. Although your skills with my blade is laughable at best." Shion responded haughtily while in merely a jest.

"Hey! Screw you, Shion-chan! It's not like I necessarily needed to use a weapon before. And what the shit do you mean that we've bonded?" Namashi responded perturbed that Shion would choose now to jest with him.

"Hmph! It's like I said, we've all have a very similar power of "non-existence" which allows us to be able to change this world around us. Ehm, well also, the blades are our souls now. Let's just say that some voice inside of me is telling me to place our weapons in a certain fashion. She said it'll make sense once you sacrifice our weapons, which is why our weapons are trying to line up in some sort of pattern. I don't know to be honest, so don't ask." Shion stated kind of upset that her jesting was no-sold by Namashi.

"Ur, okay then. Wait, you said something about "Non-existence"?" Namashi asked

"Yup, yup. Big Sis On said that Kuroyuri mentioned that we didn't exist in the original timeline. So we're all anomalies here. So I think that's why we've not totally disappeared despite not having a physical body anymore." Shiyou said, which gave both Namashi and the other girls pause.

"So, any of you know what'll happen after this battle? If we win?" Namashi asked kind of fearfully, his mind already assuming the worst.

"..." None of the girls had a response.

"Uh, girls?"

"C'mon. It can't be that bad. Can it?" Namashi asked.

"Yeah it is that bad, Mr. Namashi. If you, um, well. If you do manage to somehow win...We'll...d-d-disappear..." Keijuu struggled to say which caused her to sniffle. "...W-w-we'll die again! M-M-Mr. N-N-Namashi! I-I-I don't wanna disappear. I wanna spend more time with Ms. Sonsaku and the others! I wanna spend more time with you! This isn't fair!"

"Hey hey, calm down Kei-chan. It's something that has to happen eventually. Kuroyuri has to be stopped. I-I'll..." Namashi then wipes a few tears out of his eyes and continues bravely to assuage Keijuu and calm himself as well. "I'll continue your wishes, I promise!"

"Uh. Not to be the bearer of bad news, but no. No, you won't Namas." Shiyou said.

"Huh? What do you mean, Shiyou? Of course I will, you deserve to be remembered and I feel that with our bonds, that I'm the best for doing that. Don't you agree, Shion-chan? Kei-chan?" Namashi states.

"Hah! Well, while I can't refute that, no matter how much it hurts me to say. My cute little sister's right, Namashi. When Keijuu says that we'll disappear, she meant all of us. Including you and Kuroyuri as well. None of us exist...And the world's collapsing as is. If we stay longer, Kuroyuri's Catastrophe will envelop all living creatures and kill everyone."

"B-b-but...All of...the...things that I... You mean to say that I'll die as well..." Namashi stated as he began faltering and some of the rainbow Ki began dissipating which alerted the Toushi as well as the still air-borne Kuroyuri who just sneered at him.

"We're anomalies, Namashi! We don't actually exist in this world. Think of our existence as akin to a fan who suddenly managed to rush the stage at a concert. We might be able to interact with the stars on stage, however we can't become a part of the act and eventually security will eject us from the stage and the building as a whole. Well, this is security 'ejecting' us." Shiyou stated.

"T-that...Can't be true! I-I won't accept this! We deserve to exist, goddamn it! J-just because..." Namashi began to get incredibly pissed at the estate of things and at his helplessness. Everything that they've went through meant nothing just because they didn't technically exist. He felt a horrible pang in his stomach at that realization.

"Accept it already! Acting like a child isn't going to change anything, Namashi. You're too old for that! Just enjoy the time you have left and let's fucking end this! Kuroyuri has to die!" Shion chided.

"Fuck that! You might be fine with giving up, Shion but I'm fucking not! So let me get this straight, if I let Kuroyuri win, we die! If I win, we die! So what you're telling me is that all we've accomplished meant nothing! That none of this is real?! That our struggles, even your deaths meant fucking nothing! I refuse to accept that reality! I-I just can't. Isn't there a third option?" Namashi lamely responded.

"No, there's isn't one! Grow up already! Didn't you tell Master Choushou that you wanted to be some use to the Toushi? Don't you remember when Ato said you were a hero? You remember how much pride you had when she said that? How you told me that you wanted to live up to her expectations of what a 'hero' was? All heroes become heroes once they die, you know this. Didn't you also say that you wanted to protect these Toushi from their fates? Look around, Mr. Namashi. Look at them." Keijuu responded trying to make Namashi look on the bright side.

Namashi does so and notices that the forces of Nanyo, Seito, Kyosho and Ryofu's brigade while beat up, were all still alive. He smiles at that and Keijuu continues. "So don't go saying hurtful things like that. You absolutely cannot give up like you're implying. The Namashi that I like wouldn't give up like some coward. Didn't Sonsaku put her faith in you, before this began. The kiss on the cheek and all of that? If you can't do it for us, or even yourself. Do it for everyone else! Don't they deserve to live?"

"B-But...Doesn't Ryofu, Chinkyu and Shiba'i die if we do this? Think about what that'll do to Ryomou or Ten'i or even Chouhi with what happens to Mitsuyoshi...I..I don't think that I can be responsible for destroying them." Namashi stated while looking down forlornly his eyes dulling having fell into the despair of such a massive revelation. Meanwhile Kuroyuri kept sneering at him and finally decided to speak to him which also caused the Toushi to look at her as well.

"So...It seems you finally understand why I'm doing this?"

It was then the Toushi coalition regained enough of their strength to rejoin Namashi in battle and the strategists join them only to see him trapped in the confines of despair.

"Nama-chi? What's going on? Why are you like this? C'mon shake it off." Sonsaku stated as Namashi continued to stare listlessly at the ground.

"What did she say to you, Namashi? What is it that you found out?" Shuuyu added.

"Come on sweetie, you've got to say something. Anything. Anything at all." Ryofu added sweetly smiling at Namashi.

"The girls said that...If I win...Then we'll disappear." Namashi said, lifelessly.

"Disappear? I assume she meant all of you? I was afraid of that." Shokatsuryou said.

"Kou-chan, what does that mean?" Ryuubi asked.

"Rikuson mentioned that the girls and Kuroyuri might have shared the same existence. But I had wondered about Namashi as well. His synchronizing with them proved that he was similar to them."

"Master Koumei? What are you saying?" Rikuson asked, temporarily becoming confused by Shokatsuryou explaining her theory before Shiba'i continued.

"She's saying that Namashi as well as the girls don't exist. That this little 'pocket space' of Kuroyuri's isn't our original timeline. I'm figuring that some events completely changed because of their meddling which altered the course we were supposed to follow. Kuroyuri must have taken advantage of something that happened in our original timeline to create this pseudo-reality." Shiba'i stated as if she was honestly impressed by all of that. "Although, I do wonder as to why you're here, Namashi? Some sort of miscalculation or something?"

"And you wouldn't be incorrect on that assumption. Shiba'i Chuutatsu of Kyosho Academy!" Kuroyuri stated as she began descending towards the ground still in her powered-up state, still holding the miasma in her hand.

"The reason that I was able to come here in the first place was because of a mistake YOU made. Well, not just you, but you were a huge component of it. Remember when you masqueraded as Kentei and became the conduit for all of the disembodied spirits of those Toushi who died? I was one of those disembodied bodies. And when Sonsaku Hakufu cut you down, I managed to escape that prison." As Kuroyuri stated that Shibai's eyes widened at the disbelief washed over her.

"How? How did you manage to not be absorbed into me at that time? And if that's so? How is Namashi even a thing? An outsider like him shouldn't even exist." Kuroyuri smirks at her and continues.

"I technically was. My fragments were not however."

"How would you learn how to do something like that?"

"I'm in a good mood, so I'll tell you. During my tenure at Enshou Honsho's Youshu Private Academy, I had indulged myself heavily in the process of rebirth and properties of the soul, and happened to find a way to split one's soul into multiple fragmented pieces. That was how. Heh. I was another of those girls who was killed when your "lover", Sousou Moutoku went on his rampage there. My fragmented souls continued to rage about as you and he continued to exist, and then it happened. Sonsaku Hakufu did the impossible, she actually managed to survive long enough to change the outcome of the Battle of Red Cliffs and managed to defeat Sousou Moutoku. But of course, something else happened. What was supposed to happen was Seito and Nanyo were supposed to begin fighting over their claim on the land and start the events that would kill most of you, however that woman Himiko showed up and mucked everything up. Her and her Kansai Samurai warriors. Then when that idiot adorned the crown of Amaterasu and subsequently lost control of her powers, that's when I took my chance. I used my remaining powers to morph those souls plus my personal fragment into my physical body and three other warriors. The girls I had split myself into were Shion, Shiyou and my personal favorite, Keijuu. They all represented pieces of myself at various points in my life. Now I have no idea as to how some lower-level demon scum managed to attach themselves to my split fragments, but whatever. It made them much stronger than I had anticipated, which worked out perfectly for me. As to Namashi, I'm not one-hundred percent sure as to why, but I figured that he's merely some super-fan of the Toushi or some worthless pervert from the "other world" maybe, who knows? Honestly, they're one in the same. Anywho, he somehow got caught up in these different realities, the one where Saji Genpou, then you and Nanban attacked the Toushi and the one where Himiko attacks Kanto, and the one where Chousen, Kanpei and Ato exist merging into this one. He got caught up somehow and someone I guess from above our reality is watching him or something of the like which gave him a similar ability to mine? It doesn't matter at this point, because I'll merge all these worlds together. Then I'll steal Namashi's existence, and I'LL END THE TOUSHI!"

Kuroyuri had then fired a couple of shots of her Dark Ki at the Toushi causing them to scatter, however the Dark Ki didn't dissipate and merely went into the ground. Meanwhile Namashi kept staring at the ground, lost to his own despair. Sonsaku, Ryubi and Sousou had banded together and began firing their elemental Ki at Kuroyuri who simply covered herself in a blackened miasma and merely shrugged off their best blasts.

"Hm? You lot are quite persistent. I'll give you that much. But as I am now, you'll never touch me. Much less hurt me. But do keep trying. I might feel SOMETHING. Haha." Kuroyuri beckoned with a fanning of herself which did agitate a few of the Toushi.

"You think you're so damn great huh? I'll show you that we aren't to be fucked with. C'mere you bitch." Ryofu snarled before she had began dashing at Kuroyuri, bounding around at lightning fast speeds before attempting a blast at Kuroyuri's back before having to retreat before Kuroyuri skewered her with one of her Dark Spikes that she had caused to protrude from her miasma barrier. Before she could turn around and gloat, Kanu had suddenly dashed at her and began slashing at her barrier. Kuroyuri repeated what she did to Ryofu and threw a Dark Spike at Kanu who then moved to the side before her attack was destroyed by Ryomou blasting it with her version of Ryofu's signature attack.

"Tenchi Hakuro-Geki! Kakouen, Now!" After saying that, Kakouen then dashes at Kuroyuri and tries to jab at her which causes Kuroyuri to levitate to avoid Kakouen's blast, however Kakouen threw that out as a feint as her real plan was to get close enough to her to throw her flail inside of Kuroyuri's barrier to attach itself to Kuroyuri herself. Kakouen had merely smirked at Kuroyuri who looked at her confusedly before suddenly feeling her right arm being dragged down. She turned her eyes to the offended limb and noticed that there was a wire tightly attached to it. Kuroyuri tried to use her fan to cut it before being struck by some "stray" arrows shot at the courtesy of Ten'i.

"D-D-DAMN YOU! HOW?" Kuroyuri screeched out.

"You've gotten far too cocky with all that power. You've made several stupid errors. You even showed us how we can get through your admittedly amazing defenses." Kanu states.

"And now that we know. Your end is nigh!" Kakouen said.

"Kuroyuri, give up now. You can't win any longer." Ryomou said.

"Is that so? Hahahah. I admit, I've been somewhat careless lately. But...I do still have the upper hand. My trump card will never be defeated. And I will have Namashi's soul...You can all count on it." Kuroyuri stated before attempting to raise her wired right arm in order to push the Toushi back again, before being struck by a two-pronged dropkick from Sonken and Ukitsu and then getting blasted in the chest by Chouhi which caused her to fall to the ground. Kuroyuri gets up obviously pissed by the latest exchange before glaring at Saji Genpou who had a small smirk on her face despite her tired expression, Shuuyu Koukin was beside her providing defense in case Kuroyuri threw something at her.

"Huh? What's that about not touching you. Hahah, take that you uppity bitch." Chouhi boisterously stated.

"Hm, I wouldn't brag about that too much, Miss Chouhi." Sonken chided causing Chouhi to look at her.

"Why? That was perfect, and with Saji giving us a boost, there was no way that we could mess that up."

"Exactly. That was a one-in-a-million chance. And now Miss Saji's exhausted and Kuroyuri knows what we can do. I doubt she'll let us do that again."

"Tch. You're right Chubou. Oh well, now that she's staggered, we'll just finish her off the old-fashioned way." Chouhi cracks her knuckles.

"Fine by me, we need to end this before this Yomotsuhirasaka spreads even further." Ukitsu said.

[Meanwhile Sonsaku had broken off from the other leaders and went over to Namashi.]

"Hey...Nama-chi. A-are you okay?" Sonsaku had asked in a nervous sort of voice most unlike her, but is explainable by noticing that Namashi had temporarily been shaken by what he has discovered about his fate and the fate of the Void Demons.

"Nama-chi.."

"NAMA-CHI!" Sonsaku had yelled at him before slapping him and began shaking him. "C-come on now. We still need you to finish this! Get up already!"

"...Why? Why do you need me? I don't...understand..."

"Huh?"

"Why? Why the hell do you need me!? ME! OF ALL PEOPLE! I-I DON'T EVEN FUCKING EXIST, WHY DO YOU TOUSHI NEED ME? I-I DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Namashi had screamed at her obviously afflicted by Kuroyuri's hatred and his own despondence.

"Huh? What do you mean? You're right here. Right?"

"You know what I mean. Please don't pretend to be stupid, Sonsaku. Not right now..."

"...I see. Well, it doesn't matter what Yuri-chan says, you're REAL. You exist right now, right!"

"...But if I win, then everything will go back to the way it was previously. I, nor the other girls will exist. Shiba'i, Ryofu and Chinkyu will die once again. Ten'i and Ryomou will suffer. A-a-and I-I-I-" Namashi breaks down in tears before finding himself being consoled by Sonsaku who just smiles at him before shedding a couple of tears as well.

"N-Nama-chi...I'm not good at this consoling others thing. I know that I am real dumb and sometimes I say and do the wrong thing. B-but everyone knows I do things from the heart, always have and I always will. And to be quite honest, I-I-I don't want you to go either. I feel like I finally have someone I can get really close to. And when I kissed you, I meant every word I said. I do like you, a lot. I know that you're not originally apart of our world or whatever, but what I feel towards you. I know for a fact is REAL. And I also know that you don't have to shoulder all of this alone. We'll spend whatever time you have left doing the coolest things we can. We all care about you, even those who act like they don't care. You've bonded with all of us. So, it's like you're one of us. No! You ARE one of us! You've helped us in ways we can't really repay you for. But if nothing else, I'll try to. So, come on, show me the Nama-chi who got himself involved with our problems and helped us out despite the fact that he originally was super weak. Come on, show me the Nama-chi that I began to like. Ehehe. Show me that something cool, and I, Sonsaku Hakufu will in turn, show you something amazing." As Sonsaku finished her speech to him, she framed his face with her hands and gave him a small, but very passionate kiss which caused his eyes to open as wide as dinner saucers. Meanwhile, Sousou and Ryuubi who were walking over to her had noticed that Sonsaku had went over to Namashi only to see the tail end of their conversation. This caused Ryubi to go red in the face while looking away super embarrassed while Sousou just ran a hand through his hair and smirked.

"Wow. I figured that was coming. But now of all times. That girl has no sense of time or urgency whatsoever. You think so too, Ryuubi?" Sousou lightly chided Sonsaku but it was more so him ribbing Ryuubi.

"Uh...Y-y-yeah. I-I guess so, Sousou. B-b-but that's what makes Miss Sonsaku, Miss Sonsaku, haha." Ryuubi stammered out still embarrassed by the whole thing.

"Hm? What's with you? Why are you embarrassed? Didn't you and Kanu..."

"Ahahaha. Y-yeah. But I wouldn't be lying if I said that I wasn't interested in seeing how Namashi and Sonsaku..would...um. Well, you know. Progress?"

"Hah. You're so innocent, Ryuubi. Haha, it's kind of adorable in a way." Sousou chided in a jesting tone.

"Ha! Sousou, don't be so mean." It was at that, Namashi had broken away from Sonsaku's kiss and noticed Sousou and Ryuubi just staring at the two.

"Oh, don't mind us. Go on and go be lost in your world, meanwhile there is a huge fight we're still in. You know. Madwoman with the power over life and death trying to kill us all and everything." Sousou chided the two, causing Sonsaku to back away and sheepishly scratch the back of her head, and for Namashi to look at the ground embarrassedly.

"Sorry Sou-chin/Sousou." Both managed to say respectively.

"Oh whatever, that was bound to happen sooner or later. But is your head back in the game now, Namashi?"

"Y-yes. I'm back, I just took a hard fall thanks to what I was told. And you're right Sonsaku, even if I don't exist, I DO EXIST now! And even if you all will forget me once this is said and done, I'll do what I can to help you all here and now! Alright then! No more games, no more doubt. I'll do this right! Watch me Saku, I'll go be the cool guy that you want me to be. Sousou, I'll show you why you were right to scout me out. And Ryubi, I'll pay you back for your kindness towards me. Even when you were the only one at the beginning who gave me a chance." Namashi said, getting his fire back. Sonsaku stepped back to be rejoined with Sousou and Ryuubi.

"Grrr. Why won't you all fucking die already! This bullshit second wind of yours is annoying." Kuroyuri screamed at the Toushi who were on the battlefield defying her.

"You need a lot more than that to kill us. You will die here." Ryofu said before smirking at her.

"I've had enough of this. (Damn them. Damn them. Damn them. Damn them. Damn them all. I... My power.) Augh!" After saying that Kuroyuri then used her left handed fan to break the wire constricting to her right arm and then re-phase in order to gain even more air height and to regroup as she began to feel pains shooting throughout the entirety of her body as she was expending way too much power and it was starting to corrode her body from the inside out forcing her to end her power-up and end up bleeding from her forehead.

"Huh? I see that she's either lost control of her power or that she's lost that power entirely. Either way, her body's going to start breaking down soon. We need to finish this NOW." Shokatsuryou stated to the other strategists.

"Look. Namashi's heading back in. Finish this, Namashi!" Rikuson said excitedly. Shibai and Kaku noticed this as well.

Namashi had shaken himself of his doubt and charged at the recently re-phased air-borne Kuroyuri who had surrounded herself with her Dark Ki in a circular barrier this time and had begun raising her right hand up and expelling a dark purple miasma from it.

"This has been fun, a lot more fun than I originally thought it would be. But it's all over now. Namashi, my Kanto friends. You will all have to die here. Catastrophe!" After stating this, Kuroyuri had began glowing a ghastly white as she raised her fan covered left hand to the sky. Eerily reminiscent of what she did to trap them all in the world in the first place.

"Not on my watch, Kuroyuri. Teyah!"

"W-what? H-how-" Before Kuroyuri could finish, Namashi had slashed at her with the remnants of Keijuu's blade while midair before letting the blade which had a mind of it's own go to rejoin the other planted blades which completed a blue energy sigil which surprised everyone.

"Huh? What's that?" Sonsaku asked about the blue pillar of light coming from the energy sigils. She however then notices several black clouds emerging from the ground. The clouds then took monstrous shapes. "Huh!?"

"I'm not sure, but I don't have a good feeling about this." Ryomou said.

"Is that? Tch. All those demons we've fought before. Get ready!" Kanu states as she notices the reanimated corpses of the demons they've faced up until that point. [The Jack-O-Lantern, Suzaku, Genbu, Byakko, Seiryu amongst other demons had reappeared in front of the Kanto forces.]

"TOUSHI. FEED. DEVOUR." One of the monsters had bellowed out, before the Toushi were surrounded by skeletal demons and lower level demons like Kappa and the likes.

-To Himiko and her forces-

"Tch! So she's managed to utilize Yomotsuhirasaka to bring them back huh?" (Damn, he can't possibly win now! Beloved, you ass.) Yoshitsune said, now worried about Namashi's chances of winning.

"Yeah! And Nama doesn't look so good now. It's like his energy's fallen off of a cliff. But on the other hand, neither does that woman. So maybe he might have a chance?" Mitsuyoshi said.

"Hmph! So even with those girls, Namashi still couldn't get the job done. What a pity! Now we'll have to kill her to stop this madness. I hope Basara can keep up the barrier for Daiwa Academy." Himiko said

(This situation isn't getting any better. We'll have to intervene before this madness spread. Hm? That light again. It's getting closer. Why does it feel both ominous yet strangely inviting. How strange.) Benkei though, which got the attention of Douman.

"Benkei-nyan, what is wrong, meow?"

"That light. It's getting stronger and closer now that the sigil's appeared. I'm just worried about whatever it could be. Maybe that Kuroyuri woman's triggered something else?"

"I wouldn't be surprised. She was toying around with powers from beyond life and death. Who know exactly what the hell she's wrought. But I have felt another, even stronger presence nearby." Himiko states.

"...Interesting. Fuhuhu." Takezou, the bandaged lavender woman states as she has a rather hungry look in her eyes as she continues pointing in the direction of the light. "Look. Look. Everyone look. That Kentei woman's about to send us all somewhere else. Hahah..."

"(Kentei? Why have I heard of that name before? Wait a minute. Wasn't she the woman who sealed Shibai's true self away alongside herself once Sonsaku beat her? If so, then how is she still around? Takezou's rather spiritually adept even if she doesn't look it. So if she said that, then that must mean...)" Himiko thought as she looked at the light as well.

[Kuroyuri and Namashi both saw the blue energy sigil then looked at each other angrily. Namashi however does look tired as was previously mentioned. Meanwhile with the Kanto forces, the demon creatures that they've fought up until that point had begun to resurface and began attacking them once more.]

Genbu, the giant war tortoise had began spinning at the Toushi forces which caused them to scatter. Ryofu had grimaced but had prepared her signature blast to throw at the beast, before being forced to cancel it when it threw a bone spike at her, causing her to use that energy to dash out of the way.

"Fucking demon! How the hell did you get even stronger!" Ryofu had cursed, obviously angry with these turn of events.

"Ryofu!" Chinkyu screamed as she fired a lightning chop at another blade that was heading for the area where Ryofu would have stopped at.

"Watch out yourself, Koudai!" Chousen said as she had picked up Chinkyu and jumped out of the way of a fireball by Suzaku who had meandered over to Genbu's location. Once they were out of the way, Chousen put Chinkyu down once they managed to catch up with Ryofu's retreating form. "Man, we can't just catch a break huh Housen?" Chousen had said as she appeared behind her with Ryomou, Chinkyu and Kakouen.

"Hm? Maybe these beasts respond accordingly to Kuroyuri's powers? They weren't that coordinated before." Ryomou inquired.

"That makes sense. However, shouldn't they then get weaker, not stronger?" Kakouen asked.

"Tch! I'm not going to lose to the likes of you!" Kuroyuri sneered.

"Like hell you won't. This ends now!" Namashi states.

"Even if you die? Even if you don't exist and these Toushi will forget everything you and those girls have done? Do you really want this to end? Do you really want to stop me, Namashi?" Kuroyuri taunted him hoping to break his will for a second time, but this time he just smirked at her. "Huh? What's the matter with you?"

"You know what. I don't really care about that anymore. Because I know that you'll be forgotten as well. The world will go back to the way it was before."

"And that's a good thing?"

"I'm not sure on that. However, you're even worse than these Toushi can be ever be by themselves. They don't need outsiders like us to interfere in their affairs. I believe in them to end all of this nonsense."

"Bah! What kind of dumb response is that? The reason we were able to exist here in the first place is because of the fact that they COULDN'T solve this themselves. And you know this as well. Do you really think that? Or are you just trying to "play hero"? All those Toushi you bonded with, especially that damnable Sonsaku Hakufu who you've fallen for. You're willing to just give all of that up? Just to stop me? What kind of moron are you?"

"..."

"Hm? No response, Namashi? I thought so. You can't come up with a worthwhile answer I see. Those girls are morons as well. But, I'm not mad at them, nor am I mad at you. In fact, I pity you. You feel that you have to be some kind of hero to impress one of these girls, and hopefully get laid. It must suck to be a man. Having to go above and beyond the call of duty, to try and get some "booty". Hahah, and at the end of it all you've failed at that because you'll still die alone and a virgin, hahaha. But, you don't have to. All you have to do, is just give yourself to me. Just give me your hand and I'll take away all of your suffering. I'll give you what they cannot. You know that all of their hopes and dreams alongside their worthless friendships, love and even their existences will fade away and die eventually. Nothing will be left of them whatsoever. And the world will move on as if they never existed. Stuck to be some fabled creatures in some history book. At least, this way they can all be at peace at the same time. Then they'll be revived, reborn as normal humans who don't have to worry about fate or any of those troublesome thoughts. And we'll be the balance of not only them, but all of the Earth. We'll be king and queen of the universe. And all you have to do is give yourself to me, Namashi." Kuroyuri's eyes shine temporarily, then she blushes as she finishes what she said and begins softly levitating to Namashi who just stays in place unable to move. This was because of the fact that Kuroyuri's eyes were shining red trapping him in place inside of a barrier that prevents his movements. Meanwhile there was a small, yet mature looking girl with blonde pigtails clothed in nothing but a sheet-like dress that exposed her shoulders who was watching the events transpire with a impassive look on her face.

"This...this battle will not end well for them or for him. I...I have to do something. Something before she successfully absorbs him. But what?" The mature-looking girl said as she contemplated what she was going to do. "The bonds of that man doesn't seem to helping him as much as I thought it would. However, there seems to be some blockage that is preventing him from ending Kuroyuri's treachery. Hm." The girl then scans his memories and notices some desires that he has. Graphic ones, of course. Graphic as in, sexual in nature. "Well, he was apparently a "super-fan" of those Toushi. Hah. Why that though? I guess that his simple desire to be around these Toushi morphed over time? But hm. I guess I can use that as a way for him to solidify the powers that he's gained from bonding with those Toushi and complete the sigil to turn the world back to normal. I'm sorry that I have to sacrifice some of your purities, my Toushi. However, it is necessary to get everything back on track. But I have to make a way so that the powers he'll get from fulfilling his desires don't overtake him, causing him to explode. I'll just absorb whatever power he gains from successfully seducing these Toushi, then reset him so he can gather some energy from the rest of them, including those Kansai women and the other factions as well, and as well I'll strip Kuroyuri of her powers as well as she'll help with the World Reimaging. Hm? Oh! I got it. Now, how to get all of them into another world without destroying this one. Huh?" She then sees Namashi being kissed by Kuroyuri as she's beginning to absorb him into her. The girl decided to just wing it and push them all into a void which should lead them into the other world she's using to solidify the bonds and the powers that will come from it. But keeping the pocket world rather separate in order to collect fragments of the Toushi's powers in order to restore Yomotsuhirasaka and return the world back to it's proper balance, and as a reward for unknowingly aiding her. She decided that she could assist Namashi in getting laid with one of these Toushi he's desired to be with for so long. It's not like they'll remember that it ever happened once he disappears and everything is set back to the way it was beforehand or that it actually happened at all.

"D-damn her. Even after all of that, it wasn't enough. And these damn demons keep getting in our way. Fuckin' Kuroyuri." Chouhi said as she continues to fight off the demon warriors summoned by Kuroyuri's Catastrophe.

"Tch. We shouldn't have sent him alone...He wasn't strong enough." Kakouen agreed with her.

"Hey, that's not fair. He was plenty strong, just who knew that Kuroyuri was able to absorb the demons or those other girls." Ryomou defended.

"Ahahahahah! Finally! Finally! The ultimate power is mine!" Kuroyuri euphorically stated as she felt Namashi's powers weaken as his skin became duller and duller in tone, and the girls being reabsorbed into her. The Toushi were unable to do anything in time to stop her, however before Kuroyuri could succeed. The bright light Benkei noticed before had actually started enveloping the land beside them, burning all in it's wake.

"Ooh. What a pretty light. It feels so warm and inviting. I-I think I see something in the light. Huh? Is that Ken-chan? What's she doing there?" Sonsaku said as she noticed a small mature-looking girl in the front view merely looking at them impassively, which caused the other Toushi to notice it as well.

"Well, this is certainly interesting. Yomotsuhirasaka is being purified? That's good and all, but what the hell is that. A beach? Is that what Yomotsuhirasaka originally was?" Sousou states as he looks around and noticed that the skeletal structures began crumbling around them.

"W-what do we do? This doesn't look good. Kan-san, Chou-san...Everyone..." Ryubi states as she notices that they are starting to dissipate as well. "Ah!"

-Back to Himiko and her force-

"Hm? This can't be good. We need to escape. Lady Himiko! We need to go. Now!" Benkei said, panicked as she saw the light heading towards them.

"I agree, let's move." Himiko agreed as the others barring Takezou began moving away from the light.

"Fuhahaha. It's far too late for that. Everyone...Interesting...Namashi! Is this your doing? She's coming to save you! Haha! I-I knew you were special, Anomaly! Hahaha!" Takezou stated as they alongside everyone else were absorbed as well.

-To Namashi and Kuroyuri-

"Le-let me g-g-go damn it." Namashi had struggled as Kuroyuri was still peppering him with kisses, and he was still nearly unable to move whatsoever as he was getting weaker.

"Stop struggling already! We will become one, Namashi. No one will ever-What!" Kuroyuri had paused as she saw herself and Namashi dissipating into the light. Then she saw that young, mature girl retrieving Namashi and pulling him elsewhere. The girl gave Kuroyuri a heated glare, before speaking. "You shall not succeed."

"And who are you?"

"I am the true emperor of these Toushi! I am the one known as Kentei! You, Kuroyuri, the master behind the Ten Eunuchs will fall here. And that man, Namashi, will be my instrument in doing so."

"And how's that? He has no power left. His body is crumbling and his soul is mine. I won't fall to non-existence like you have."

"Are you sure about that? Hah." Kentei then placed a hand out in front of her and force-blasted Namashi out of Kuroyuri's hand which caused her to glare at her and gathering her power before Kentei floated over to her.

"You will play the game I forced upon all of you. Your body will give Namashi sustenance and I will use his power to right the wrong that you and others like you have wrought. This world will go back to the way it should be."

"Do you really think it'll be that easy, Kentei? What power do you actually have? You're just some trash child emperor who was murdered by that wretched Sousou Moutoku during one of his Dragon Infestation episodes. Do you suddenly think that you can play any sort of role now? How can you talk about beating me, when you couldn't beat Sousou Moutoku? You entrusted Sonsaku Hakufu and she failed against Himiko, and now you expect me to believe that Namashi, who you've also entrusted will survive? Haha, you're such a fool. And I will put you down, and absorb you too. You won't get in my way!" Kuroyuri then placed a hand out in front of her to attempt to absorb Kentei's essence only to instead find her power being stripped from her. She had to recoil once her outstretched arm began burning. Kentei just stared at her impassively.

"As I've said, I'm the real arbiter of this world. You are merely an actor who became cognizant of her own existence and is now lashing out. It's time for you to stop your prattling and moronic tantrum-throwing and fall back in line, Kuroyuri. In fact..." Kentei then outstretched her arms and shone a light through her hands and blasted Kuroyuri with it causing her to further lose her power-ups and she sent them into the portal as well. When Kuroyuri felt the sting of that, she then tried to rush Kentei who then grabbed her by the face and placed a soft kiss on her forehead and stole even more of her stolen power before blasting her into the portal as well. "D-D-DAMN YOU, KENTEI! I WILL NOT LOSE!" Kuroyuri futilely screamed as she was being absorbed by Kentei's portal. Once Kuroyuri was gone from her line of sight, Kentei then turned around and looked at the now coming to Namashi who had seen the last little bit of the fight.

"Ugh. Damn, I hurt all over. W-where am I?" Namashi asked as he looked around. He looked down and his skin tone had returned to normal and he felt himself getting a bit stronger. All he saw was a pure white field and a series of portals in front of him and some small girl staring at him. "Uh? Did you do this?"

"Yes, yes I did. I had no choice but to. You were going to let Kuroyuri win and doom the entire world." Kentei said causing Namashi to look down in shame. She then grabbed his face with her dainty right hand and caused him to look back up at her. "However, you can still make this right."

"H-how so? It seems like the world was destroyed anyways. And where is everyone?"

"They are all safe. They are in these various portals behind me. Well, at least the female Toushi are. The males are elsewhere. And that leads me to my proposal to you, Namashi."

"Um? How do you know me?" Namashi asked confusedly, Kentei only smiled at him.

"Because I am the very thing that Kuroyuri was trying to be. Once I had died, I was greeted by a very special dragon who fused with me. Offering me a second chance at life, unfortunately I was unable to return back to Earth. That dragon said that I had fulfilled my duty and I was to watch over the Toushi. He said that I would be able to see them break the chains of fate, but I was to be forever stuck like this. On the cusp of life and death forever. I fear that the true reason that Kuroyuri was able to become what she was is because of the fact that I interfered with the battle between Sonsaku Hakufu and the one you know as Shiba'i Chuutatsu. B-but with out my interference, Sonsaku would have died and Shiba'i would have become just as powerful as what Himiko or Kuroyuri and without anyone to stop her. And yet as a result of my actions, Kuroyuri was able to escape the confines of death and wreak havoc amongst the world. And for that, I am truly sorry. I am also sorry that you were drug into this world. And I don't even know how you managed to get her in the first place. You, who should have never been able to physically interact with the Toushi or anything in this world. I fear that you may have done just as much damage as Kuroyuri has by merely existing."

"W-What? That's bullshit! I-I only...I only tried to do what's right. If I didn't "interfere" then many good people would have died. All over again. Are you seriously telling me that, I was just supposed to let them die? How would that have defeated their fates?" Namashi had then stood up and angrily got in Kentei's face who still impassive as she had let him grab her by her sheet dress. Although she did show little reaction at him saying, "again" as if this happened more than once.

"Feel whatever you want. That is reality, Namashi. Many, many people die everyday and you don't save them. Hell, Toutaku died and you didn't save him. What pray tell, makes them so special? Don't you realize that this makes you a hypocrite, Namashi? Don't feed me this heroic nonsense when you don't even believe it yourself. You're not a child, don't act like one."

"You!" Namashi growled as Kentei continued on, unperturbed by Namashi's anger.

"And on top of that, I've read your soul. I've seen what you truly want, and protecting them isn't it. Or should I say, not truly it. You're far too easily read, this isn't altruistic. Merely you just wanted excitement in your life. And like a foolish trill-seeker, you ran here just to get any sort of satisfaction in your meager existence. Well, how did that work out for you?" Kentei then looked at Namashi defiantly as she continued, "You were a super-fan of the Toushi. You studied them with such intensity and managed to happen upon one of those "enchanted devices" which allowed you to "live" with these Toushi. You even convinced yourself that you were "fighting" alongside of them, but you weren't winning against Kuroyuri whatsoever with all of your interfering. In fact she was winning and was about to reset this world, before I interfered on your behalf. From your memories, I see that you went on a trek after reading some literature about how to transfuse your existence to our world and began from there. I have no idea of what you found in your world nor do I know how that girl managed to get there in the first place, but that literature should have never been discovered by anyone. Yet more "possibilities" that should have never been. I digress and yet you managed to interfere with events that you should never have been a part of. Now we have to set things straight, and I have to send you back to your world..." As Kentei continued, Namashi then tilted his head in confusion.

"Wait a minute, Miss. "Enchanted devices?" ""Live with these Toushi?" And what do you mean by transfusing- Wait."

Then it dawned on him just what she meant. The book that the older Saji was looking for is what did this. This and his phone. The smartphone that he had gotten for his birthday, the year prior and managed to hear about this new Ikkitousen game, called "Extra Burst" or something and having liked the series enough (more like to much, watching the series, read all of the manga and even playing the games of the series, also looking at some rather "naughty" pictures of the Toushi (mostly the female warriors) doing some rather intimate things, and even at times roleplaying as one of these "lovers" the female Toushi would engage in certain coital activities with. All of these actions caused him to become something of a "super fan" of the series. He even researched the original author behind the series and had read his other works, but to Namashi, Ikkitousen was still the best work he's done so he was fiercely loyal to them. So he had downloaded the game on his smartphone and had began playing it when he noticed that when the game began, the first battle was all of the Kanto Toushi facing off against some beautiful demon conjurer (who looked an awful lot like Kuroyuri) who had managed to become ridiculously strong. He tried to do his best in pressing the buttons in time in order to do severe damage to this new enemy on his turn. But this was to no avail as she merely shrugged off the damage being done to her and when it was her turn to attack, she used an ? skill (later known as Catastrophe, the same as her Void Warrior group) to rend time and space and this insta-killed the Toushi.

"Oh..."

"Exactly. But that's unimportant right now, what is important is that you need to copulate with these female Toushi to power me up to send you back to your world and undo everything that Kuroyuri has done."

"Ah. So how does this work?"

"You'll go into one of these portals and will go out on a date with a particular Toushi. Since you've managed to "bond" with all of them, this shouldn't be that difficult. You'll use whatever method that will successfully seduce these Toushi into sleeping with you. Upon the completion of your tryst, you'll see a small green ball of Life Ki leave from the Toushi you've copulated with and that power will be siphoned into me. Now I will forewarn you, there are a couple of portals that will have two Toushi inside of them. You'll have to seduce both of them in order for that portal to close. And once the portal does close, you'll be brought back here in which I'll give you five or so minutes to rest then you'll head out to the next portal. This will continue until you've closed all of these portals. Once that happens, I should have enough power to send you back home."

"I see..."

"Do you truly understand, Anomalous man, Namashi?"

"Even if I said no, you wouldn't care would you?"

"Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of that. So...Um, good luck in there."

"Wait. I have a question. Will they remember what goes on in there? And what will you do with the Toushi that's still inside of the portal when it closes?"

"For the most part, no. Once you leave and Kuroyuri is erased, things will go back to the way they were beforehand."

"Oh...Well, I guess I'll remember it. Anyways let's get this on the road. Besides that, I would like to know something."

"...Yes?"

"Who are you?"

"My name is Kentei and as I've said, I'm the arbiter of this world."

"I see."

"Enough talk. Now choose which portal you'll go into and this will start your adventure, Namashi."

"Alright then."

Namashi then looks and sees the portals in front of him and thinks to himself. "So all of these Toushi I've bonded with over my time here. They're all in these portals? And Kentei said that these portals are other worlds tailored to each of their desires? And all I have to do to get them back is..." He then takes a gulp at the realization of having to have sex with these Toushi in order to steal some of the Life Force in order to give to Kentei to set things right. "...That's really weird now I think about it. But I have to. In order to bring them back. Alright Namashi, you got this. Let's get this on!"

He walks towards the portals and stops for a second. Kentei notices this and inquires about it.

"What's wrong, Namashi? I thought I explained everything well enough so that you would understand. I thought that this is what you wanted?"

"Oh no, I understand. It's just that I do this, you'll eventually get the power to send me back thus rendering any of this non-existent. I just don't know how to feel about that."

"This again? Look, you don't belong here. Your existence is destroying the natural balance of our world."

"I know that! Quit fucking saying that already! It's just-"

"Just what? You already know that you don't belong here. You've done more than enough damage to this world. At least you'll be going out "on top", heh. Right?"

"...You're telling jokes now. Hah. Fine, whatever Let's go then."

"Now you're getting it. Well, anyways. Choose a portal and walk into it. Best of luck to you, Namashi. Also remember, while you've bonded with these Toushi. You'll still need to put in the work required to seduce these Toushi. You might not actually succeed in fornicating with these Toushi in the time limit that you have inside of these portals."

"Wait, what! Why are you just dropping this piece of knowledge now? What the hell do you mean "time limit"?"

"Yes, I can't hold these portals indefinitely. They'll expire in roughly one day after you enter. So you'll have twenty-four hours to successfully copulate with the Toushi inside of the portal, or somehow get them to copulate so I can drain the excess energy out of them to use to power up the World Reimaging."

"Argh, you're insufferable! Say that shit at the beginning, please! Anyways, fine. I'm off, see you tomorrow."

"Oh, time here doesn't fluctuate in the same vein that it does in the portals. If I remember what the Fate Dragon told me, for every twenty-four hours in outer world, which these portals represent a fragment of, equates to merely, hm, what was it that he said. Fifteen minutes or so? Anyways, I'll see you when you return. Godspeed Namashi."

"Yeah. See ya, Kentei."

After finishing his talk with Kentei, Namashi looks in front of him and looks at the portals in front of him. All that he sees is a bunch of locations that he can go to. His eyes immediately are drawn to the one that looks most familiar to him. He grins like a loon and exclaims to himself. "Sonsaku! Hell yeah, I'm going in here first. She shouldn't be too hard to "seduce" as Kentei says. She and I've already kissed. But, how do I tell her all of this without completely confusing her? I hope I can be convincing enough to get her to believe me. Anyways, it's time to go in, now."

Namashi then walks towards the portal who's visage reflected was that of the Shuu residence where Sonsaku, Shuuyu, Sonken and Goei reside at. He then takes a deep breath and walks in. "This is for all of us. This is how we'll stop Kuroyuri and set things right. I don't want to go, but Kentei is right. I need to set things right, and I can with my own power, and libido apparently. Whatever, this is weird. Anyways, let's go." Namashi finally takes a deep breath and walks inside of the portal. The last thing he sees is a bright white light before everything goes dark and Namashi slips into a temporary unconscious lull.

-END of Prologue-