Though it was the usual morning to the Vessels, most of them had thought that something was still wrong. It was because of Itsuki's weird actions that they noticed had started right after Eichirou's photo exhibit. Even if the composer would say to the others that he was just fine and that nothing was wrong, his unusual silence said otherwise. As for the concerned person, his mind was still traveling back to that one time he saw that mysterious woman's apparition. And to make things weirder, that vision only mentioned the same thing as the one he would always hear in his dreams. However, there was an addition to that. She told him about the coming of another Vessel, one that could help them defy a tragic fate. Itsuki remembered that while they were supposed to train together with Helen who would help them when it comes to dealing with monsters specializing in casting illusions. They learned that Helen's Hasureiki allowed her to do the same thing.
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In the middle of training, Itsuki decided to leave for a while without a word to the others and go to the lake where he would usually unwind. The dreams he would always see hadn't stopped bothering him. In fact, no one knew that the appearances of those dreams had escalated after the awakening of his powers as a Vessel. He was frustrated with the fact that even reading books doesn't help him that much anymore. When he finally reached the place, he took out the music sheet where the latest song he was trying to write and complete was placed. However, his head ached for some reason upon seeing a certain line of the song lyrics that he wrote there. That particular line was something that he would always hear in his dreams. Soon after, his mind's focus shifted to the newcomer Helen. Even he couldn't understand the reason why he was irritated at the sight of her when she hadn't even done anything bad to him, his sister, and his friends. To be honest, she had always been helpful to them. He knew that there was a plausible reason for him to feel something like that towards Erika's childhood friend. He just had to find that out.
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Back at the Mizuhashi mansion, Misae decided to ask Helen if she knew the reason why Itsuki was being hostile (though not really that obvious) to her. But the young novelist just shrugged it off and Helen even said that she was used to it, which confused the others. They couldn't believe that Helen was taking the issue lightly whereas the rest couldn't even breathe properly because of the thick tension that would immediately surround them whenever Itsuki and Helen were in the same area. Erika voiced out her worries since it was really unusual for Itsuki to act that hostile towards anyone without any valid reason. And yet Helen just assured her childhood friend that it was okay and she shouldn't worry about anything with regards to the issue. Erika had thought of something when it comes to that, though. Confronting her brother might not be the best idea, but she had to know the truth about Itsuki's behavior towards her childhood friend. But Helen must not know about it.
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In the Tareus Dimension, the five Great Shadow Defenders were frustrated by the fact that two of the Seitengers were able to get ahold of their Elemental Guides' powers in such a short time in which the previous Seitengers had never achieved before. In fact, it was a complete surprise to them. The gathered negative energies were not enough to fully awaken the emperor again and only the Triske Monsters could get in and out of the broken Tarean Seal for a given amount of time. Though Siriso was able to get out that one time, he was unable to do it again after that for some reason. Because of that, Orcus was able to figure out who among the Seitengers could possibly awaken another Elemental Guide's power. So he decided to bring out one of the Triske Monsters under his command with features largely resembled that of a combination between a lyre and a griffin.
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While he was by the lake, Itsuki couldn't believe that he was able to finish another composition despite his mind being in pieces. He wasn't sure if he should be glad with that or not. When he looked at his finished composition, his heart hurt for some reason since it talked about one of his dreams about the young girl that usually appeared there ever since. As he was thinking things through, his phone rang. He was surprised and at the same time confused to receive a call from Kuraki Makoto who haven't seen in so long. But in the end, he decided to answer it since it was a rare chance after all. The man was his father's former piano student before he decided to focus on studying history under one of the famous historians in the country whom he only knew by the name of Taiga Mitsuharu. What added more to the surprise he initially felt was the fact that Makoto was asking him as to what he thought about Helen. Though before he could ask more about it, the phone call was abruptly cut. Soon after, he heard a series of explosions coming from the nearby cell towers followed by his Celestial Shifter beeping.
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Just as he thought, the Triske Monster had already made several cell towers explodes for some reasons, cutting off connections. When Itsuki reached the sight of the attack, he was surprised to see his friend untransformed, injured, and unconscious. He was about to approach them but stopped to his tracks abruptly when he couldn't detect anything from the ground. His eyes soon narrowed at one spot of the area before he took out his HyakuReiDer and fired several beams towards it. He was caught off-guard when all of a sudden, he saw that the unconscious Erika was the one who got hit by the beams. He was still debating within himself if he should trust his ability to detect disturbances using his powers over earth when a familiar voice echoed around the area. It was the voice of the young girl in his dreams. Itsuki asked who it was but no answer came. Around the same time, he felt a strong surge of Hasureiki coming from the ground. That sensation soon threw off the Triske Monster he felt was hiding from the spot he was firing beams at earlier. It appeared that the surge of Hasureiki was too much for the monster to contain and hide from him. Before he could even stop himself, he transformed into SeitenEarth and decided to fight the monster alone who introduced itself as the Triske Monster Otoguri. And from what he could tell, this one was an illusionist. At that moment, he regretted not listening and paying attention to Helen while she was discussing on certain counterattacks to deal with monsters able to cast illusions like that. SeitenEarth nearly succeeded in dealing with Otoguri on his own. But then a horrific vision of a young girl being chased and already injured distracted him completely. Otoguri took that as an opportunity to attack the green warrior. Itsuki's transformation was disabled and now he was the one who ended up injured because of the intensity of the attack.
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At that same moment, the other Vessels reached the site of the attack and Misae was able to detect some disturbances in the air using her powers over wind. But what she was sure about was the fact that Misae was also able to detect Itsuki's Hasureiki in the area. Erika couldn't help feeling worried about her brother but their concerns at the moment was the Gargonemas that seemed to guard the area. But what she found weird was the fact that the cell towers in the area were destroyed for some reason. Why was that? Before she could find answers to that questions, the group was forced to fight the Gargonemas as Seitengers. SeitenFire and SeitenWater were busy trying to figure out of a way to destroy the barrier that trapped Itsuki inside while the two female Seitengers SeitenWind and SeitenLight were dealing with fighting the Gargonemas on their own. It was an easy task to the girls but not to the boys. It seemed that SeitenFire and SeitenWater's powers couldn't get through the barrier. Even the rest of the Seitengers' powers weren't enough to get through. At that moment, Helen arrived at the scene much to Erika's surprise and told them that the soundwaves and signal coming from the cell towers could possibly hold something that might help them defeat the Triske Monster responsible for putting up the barrier.
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Inside the barrier, Itsuki was about to lose consciousness when that young girl's voice resonated once again, bringing him back to his senses. He couldn't help wondering about the identity of that young girl but before he became totally lost to it, another voice resonated in the area. This time, he knew it was from Helen. Her instructions made him able to throw an attack towards Otoguri that injured the said monster and destroy the barrier around the area that prevented his comrades to come and help him. But even if the monster retreated for the meantime, the vision of the young girl whose back was facing him didn't disappear. Warily, he asked for her identity even though a part of him was telling that it was futile. Slowly, the girl turned around and smiled at him. But that gesture alone had given him one of the greatest shocks of his life as it allowed him to know who was the girl that constantly appeared in his dreams since the fire. Not long after, the burden from Otoguri's previous attack took a toll on Itsuki's body and made him collapse. But before he completely lost consciousness, he heard his friends' voices calling to him. And yet the voice that stood out the most to him was that of Helen's. He even held her hand tight when she was about to touch him. The last words that came out of his mouth were: "You finally came to life."
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Everyone was worried because of what happened to Itsuki. They couldn't believe that he had to deal with the Triske Monster alone in that illusion-filled barrier. Of course, it only made them wonder just what kind of illusions did Itsuki see inside. But what really concerned them the most was the last thing that Itsuki said to Helen before he passed out. At the moment, Erika became firm with her decision to talk to her brother as soon as he would wake up. Though Misae did her best to heal Itsuki, it seemed that the damage the monster had done was too much for her healing powers to cover up. As for Helen, she was just in one corner just staring at he unconscious Itsuki. What he said to her was truly confusing her but she was sure about one thing with regards to that. itsuki's voice was laced with fear. In the middle of her musing, Shuichi approached her and said that Itsuki always had the habit of confusing people. He even said that the next time the monster would appear, she should be there to protect him and help him deal with it. Perhaps she could be able to learn a thing or two from him when she do that.
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As for those in the Tareus Dimension, some of the Great Shadow Defenders were in rage with regards to Orcus' plan of only targeting one Seitenger instead of the entire team. But the strategist remained silent and didn't take notice of his comrades' frustration. However, he was mystified by the fact that someone's voice was able to break through Otoguri's barrier and managed to instruct the green warrior on what to do. Now it was a question as to what kind of person had the ability to do such a feat in which only one of the seven Great Shadow Defenders could do. Orcus was sure of one thing, though. There was an illusionist among the Seitengers or probably even the Vessel Supports that had appeared in the present times. One that could possibly compete with the powers of their illusionist comrade.
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It was night time already when Itsuki finally regained consciousness. He couldn't help cursing at himself for being so careless because of that one illusion that truly distracted him. But if what he had seen that time was the answer to the question that was bothering him for a long time, then perhaps he was left with no choice but to believe it. In the middle of that, the door of his room opened and soon revealed Erika carrying a tray of food for him. He smiled at her just to stop her from worrying too much but she was able to immediately see through him. The first thing he asked as soon as she served the food to him was Helen, which made her truly surprised. It was the first time that Itsuki looked for Erika's childhood friend. At that same time, Erika suddenly thought that perhaps it was the right time for her to ask Itsuki about the reason why he was treating Helen rather coldly. When she did, Itsuki hesitated to tell his sister the truth at first. But at the moment, he wanted her to know the real reason why he was acting like that towards Helen. And it wasn't even close to hate or disgust. It was fear because of his dreams about her. That was the first time Erika realized about the dreams that had been bothering Itsuki since the fire. And without a doubt, she was surprised to know all that. After making sure he ate all the food she served and that he was healed somehow, she told him where to find Helen.
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With Erika's help since Itsuki was having some hard time keeping his balance, the Hoshiyama siblings went to where Helen was. It was in the heart of Hoshizora Bookstore where they found her reading something that was written on a scroll. When Helen saw the siblings, it was no doubt that she was surprised but still helped Itsuki sit somewhere so that he could rest since he was still recovering. The tension had formed again, without a doubt, now that Itsuki and Helen were in the same room. Erika decided to break it by asking about the scroll that Helen was reading. It turned out that the scroll was about a certain illusionist among the seven Great Shadow Defenders. When Itsuki asked about Helen's reason for reading that particular scroll, she just said that it had something to do with her mission. But she didn't elaborate on that topic any longer. Instead, Helen asked for the reason why the siblings were in the basement of the bookstore when Itsuki was supposed to be resting because of injuries and exhaustion. Without running around the bush, Itsuki asked if someone important to Helen was killed when she was a child and that she had witnessed it first hand. Of course, it surprised the girl and was hesitant to answer the question. Before she could even say anything, Itsuki added that a young girl had been appearing in his dreams since the hotel fire ten years ago. He explained the common details of the dreams he had with Helen in it. That was when she understood the reason why he asked that question. Just as she said parts of the details to Shuichi before, Helen mentioned that her parents were murdered in front of her when she was five-by one of the Great Shadow Defenders whom she only knew could cast illusions. It was also possible that the same enemy was the one who killed the Hoshiyama siblings' parents and even Shuichi and Misae's parents that night, though there was nothing to confirm that as of the moment.
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The next day, Itsuki went out earlier that confused Shuichi, Eichirou and Misae but not Erika. When the older Vessels asked the pianist about what she knew with regards to that, Erika only said that her brother needed guidance as it was possible that the monster would target Itsuki once again for some reason. As for Helen, she was still in the bookstore's basement reading a few more materials. This time, she was reading something relating to the Elemental Guides awakened by the previous Seitengers from 25 years ago. One of those Elemental Guides appeared to have the ability to show illusions to its chosen warrior as part of a test needed to awaken its full powers, just as how it was to both Shuichi and Eichirou when they awakened their own Elemental Guides and used the powers of the Guardian Medallions to deal with the enemy. This time, they were hoping that Itsuki could do the same to defeat Otoguri and perhaps answer a few questions with regards to the vision that Itsuki saw at that time about the young girl in his dreams being the younger version of Helen all along.
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Otoguri's attack resumed and this time, it targeted several broadcast stations around the towns surrounding Tsukikage. Just as Helen had said, there was something about soundwaves that weakened the Triske Monster and Erika took advantage of it when she asked Helen to instruct Itsuki that day of what to do to stop Otoguri. Shuichi and Itsuki formulated a plan for them to deal with the monster and they were quite sure that Itsuki would be targeted once again, now that they knew who among the seven Great Shadow Defenders Otoguri was serving under. The Vessels arrived in time to stop Otoguri from destroying the radio station that lies in the western town border. But then, the monster soon summoned a greater number of Gargonema and even a few of two more groups of creatures that they had never seen before that were probably stronger than the Gargonemas. Itsuki was forced to deal with Otoguri alone once more, which only proved their theory that the monster was only targeting SeitenEarth for some reason. This time, Itsuki was more than ready to deal with the Triske Monster and he had Helen and Erika to thank for that.
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Outside of the barrier that Otoguri put up to deal with SeitenEarth alone, the four Seitengers dealt with foot soldiers after foot soldiers using their HyakuReiDers and even their individual weapons. SeitenFire even dealt with them with the help of the Lion Motor that he missed using again since his battle with Motross. For a while, it was going well. But a short earthquake soon distracted the team and the remaining grunts took advantage of that to strike down the Seitengers altogether in a cannon attack. It did injure the group but wasn't enough to finish them all at once as a pink glow emanated all of a sudden from the ground that boosted the Seitengers' lost Hasureiki and enabled them to destroy all of the remaining grunt soldiers. However, even after that was done, the question about the source of that pink glow remained in the Seitengers' mind. SeitenFire concluded that it could only come from the same source as the one that helped them a lot of times before.
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What the others didn't know was that the same pink glow emanated on the area where the monster's barrier was erected and that SeitenEarth was able to see it and distracted him from more illusions being showed to him as he tried his best to fight. But out of all the illusions that Otoguri had been showing him, the one that stood out was that of Helen's. And now he was sure where it came from. When the Triske Monster was about to fire an attack towards him, SeitenEarth closed his eyes instead and listened to the faint voice ringing in his mind. That voice was soon learned to belong to the third Elemental Guide named Bisearth-an Elemental Guide able to project certain visions that revealed an important part of its chosen warrior's life. Itsuki soon found himself standing in the middle of a green field with the transparent figure of a green-colored bison waiting for him there. When he was able to approach the said figure, Itsuki immediately asked it about the reason why he was showing him that particular vision. Bisearth didn't hesitate to tell him the reason, that it was because Helen was connected to two people related to him. Though he knew Erika was the first person Bisearth was talking about, the Elemental Guide revealed that the second person was Itsuki's Seitenger predecessor who happened to be someone close to Helen. Of course, he was surprised to know that part. The vision of the younger (not to mention scared) Helen that Bisearth showed him at his first battle with Otoguri was something that made him realize a hidden emotion that could affect him in the future. And Itsuki realized that it was the same emotion he was feeling ever since his sister decided to continue becoming a Seitenger, also the very same emotion that he was able to convey through his recently finished composition. It was the immeanse fear for her life and safety since Helen was someone important to Erika. He doesn't know at the moment why he was feeling that way aside from that, but it was enough for him to become determined to fight that fear since he couldn't afford to let the same tragedy happen again where he lost the people important to him and his sister. With that, Bisearth gave his blessing for Itsuki to finally use its powers as an Elemental Guide in order for him to fight the Tareans and defeat Otoguri.
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Aside from the pink glow coming from the ground that soon emanated brighter than how it was a while back, a green glow suddenly made the barrier burst and destroy that freed SeitenEarth from it. The rest of the Seitengers outside the barrier also did their best to help their friend destroy the barrier from their position and they succeeded. When the barrier was destroyed, they saw SeitenEarth holding a glowing medallion in which the others soon concluded that Itsuki had succeeded in awakening his Elemental Guide. And just as expected, with the help of his Elemental Guide, SeitenEarth was able to defeat Otoguri singlehandedly. SeitenEarth remembered something that Helen said with regards to that illusionist Elemental Guide, that it had the ability to unleash the powers hidden within a Vessel coming from his greatest emotion. That was how he was able to figure out that fear for losing another important person was the reason why he was treating Helen that way. He feared for her life that she already put on the line as she decided to do her best to help the Vessels in their battle with the Tareans. Not long after, Otoguri's second persona emerged and was ready to destroy the Seitengers but they managed to summon their respective Grand Vessel Spirits just in time that had saved them from being crushed by the giant monster. The five of them combined to become SeitenOh and used it to fight Otoguri. Since SeitenEarth was already familiar of the Triske Monster's tactics in using illusion, he was able to do something to counter it with the help of SeitenWater and SeitenWind's Hasureiki that they channeled through SeitenOh. But they never anticipated an ever more powerful illusion attack coming from Otoguri that pushed them back. Though it was an already frustrating situation, SeitenEarth tried his best to calm himself and instead asked Bisearth to lend its powers to SeitenOh in order to finish the monster. The Elemental Guide didn't hesitate in doing so, and with SeitenEarth's command, Bisearth combined with SeitenOh after transforming into twin axes with the rest of its parts becoming a helmet and a chest armor to the robot that soon formed SeitenOh Bisearth. The armor allowed SeitenOh to become unaffected with another of Otoguri's illusion attack and it didn't take long for them to finally defeat the Triske Monster with the twin axes attack called "Land Bison Supreme Evolution". After finally making sure that Otoguri was destroyed, SeitenEarth thanked his sister as inconspicuous as he could and as he looked at the sky, he also thanked Helen in silence.
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When the Vessels asked Akira and Natsume about the two more creatures that they fought besides the Gargonemas as soon as they returned to the mansion, they learned that they were groups of stronger foot soldiers of the Tareans mainly called the Amehidai (blue violet-colored) and the Kibarai (moss green-colored). That was when Hideoki concluded that the Seitengers now posed to be a greater threat to the Tareans' ultimate return to rule the world for those creatures to finally appear. Especially now that they had awakened the powers of three Elemental Guides in such a short time, which was something that had never happened even in the distant past. When Helen returned to the mansion, she brought the particular record written in a scroll that she was reading about the other two previous Seitengers who weren't able to awaken their respective Elemental Guides for some heavy reasons. She gave the said scroll record to Akira who soon thank her for it. She was supposed to rest upstairs in her room after that when Itsuki called out to her and there, he apologized for his unreasonable cold treatment since she arrived. When she accepted his apology and was about to turn around to go upstairs to rest, she soon collapsed and lost consciousness that surprised the Vessels and even the two adults. Misae checked on her condition and she was able to discern that Helen exhausted herself too much for some reason and it wasn't just because of her recent late night studies and researches. To their worries, Misae said that Helen had lost a considerable amount of Hasureiki in her body, thus affecting her health, as well.
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On one area of the racing stadium, Amuro who was still wearing his racing clothes was just sitting there. But his focus was on a picture he was holding. In that picture, it was the Seitengers pointing their bladeless HyakuReiDers to a certain direction and was about to fire beams towards the enemy. Then he remembered the reason why he was able to get ahold of that picture. With that in mind, he muttered that he was going to look for the Seitengers and perhaps, even though it was a crazy idea, he was going to make them a part of their team.
