Hello everyone! Please enjoy this episode.
(This is a recap from the last episode)
"You saw, didn't you?" Saeko asked, as she stood up towards Yuka. "If you think helping me will make me believe in your beliefs…you're mistaken."
"Are you sure it isn't too late to rejoin the humans?" Yuka asked. "I know what it's like to be unloved. Believe me, we're the same! Isn't that why you hit Michiko with you car…to help me feel your pain?!"
"You are very naïve. I have already abandoned my humanity. I don't need your pity," Saeko said as she put the Kaixa gear on her waist. Yuka's eyes widen, shocked to see the Kaixa gear stolen.
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Standing By!
Henshin
Complete!
Saeko became Kaixa, and looked at herself.
"So, this how Smart Brain's third belt feels like?" Saeko said to herself.
"Saeko…please. Smart Brain…" Yuka tried to explained, but Saeko took out her blaygun, and fired it at Yuka, who quickly transformed into the Crane Orphnoch, to protect herself from the blasts, but fell due to the impact.
Ready!
The blaygun generated a yellow blade from the bottom, and Saeko walked to Yuka, and prepared to stab her.
"Saeko…please," Yuka begged. Saeko then did a stabbing motion towards Yuka.
Howver, Yuka managed to catch it in time. Just then, in a speed blitz, something tackled Saeko to one of concrete cylinders in the driveway. Saeko turned to see an Orphnoch, with the motif of a Wolf, land on his, from what it looked, feet.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Saeko asked. The Wolf Orphnoch answered by jumping towards Saeko, and clawing her face. Saeko then fired her blaygun, at the Wolf, but he withstood the damage like nothing happened. Saeko then took out the Kaixa phone, and side-flipped it open.
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Side Basshar, Come Closer!
Side Basshar, in Battle Mode, then had stormed into the battlefield, knocking some concreate. Saeko jumped onto Side Basshar.
Vehicle Mode!
Side Basshar had reverted into its vehicle mode, and Saeko sped off. The Wolf Orphnoch turned to Yuka, who already reverted back to her human form. The Wolf Orphnoch started to walk closer to Yuka, until he saw the laundary van from Kikuchi Cleaners. The Wolf then jumped across the van, which made Keitaro pull the brakes. Mari and Keitaro got out of the van, and turned behind them, and saw that the Orphnoch was gone.
"Where did it go?" Mari asked, before she turned to see Yuka, injured. "Osada-san!"
(cue Justiφs's by ISSA; same as the original except a switch in places: Michael in Takumi's place, Yuka in Mari's place, Kiba in Keitaro's place, Sawada in Kiba's place, Saeko in Yuka's place, and Takuma in Kaido's place. Kaido, Mari, Keitaro, Murakami, and Kaixa will also be included. Faiz's Axel Form is now added.)
(Created by Shotaro Ishinomori)
Hirogaru uchuu no naka Can you feel?
Chiisa na hoshi no hanashi wo shiyou
Tell me the truth shinjite 'ta mirai ga
Kuzure sarou to shite'ru
Kanashimi wo kurikaeshi (Written by Shoji Imai; Music by Kazunori Miyake)
Boku-ra wa doko e yuku no darou?
Ima hitori-hitori no mune no naka (Creature Designer by Tamotsu Shinohara)
Me wo samase The time to go
Tsuyoku aru tame ni (Produced by Jun Hikasa, Naomi Takebe and Takaai Ustunomiya)
Mata mamoru koto to tatakau koto
Dilemma wa owaranai... hashiri-tsuzukete mo (Directed by Naoki Tamura)
(The) end justiφ's the mean
Episode 26: The Dark Laboratory
Kikuchi Cleaners
Yuka remanded silent after she was rescued by Mari and Keitaro, who hasn't said a word to her. This got Mari annoyed, since both of them weren't talking to each other.
"Hey, Keitaro! Are you still mad?!" Mari asked. "Osada-san likes someone else!"
Keitaro didn't respond.
"Mou! You are very stubborn!" Mari snapped.
"Mari-san! Please let me handle this," Yuka requested, and Mari stood down. "Um…Keitaro-san."
That name made Keitaro turned to Yuka.
"I know you seem made, like I betrayed you, but don't. Me liking someone else doesn't mean you or Mari-san are not important. The reason I'm worried is…because…he's someone I can't see die," Yuka explained. "It's not just Michael…it's you, Mari-san, Kiba-san, Kaido-san, and my Mom. I want to save the people important to me."
Keitaro was taken aback, when he finally realizes who Yuka was.
"Yuka-san?" Keitaro asked. "Michael was right…and I forgot."
Yuka rushed to give Keitaro a hug.
"Michael is your friend to. Please…support us," Yuka begged as she hugged Keitaro.
"Yuka-san…I'm so sorry!" Keitaro cried, hugged Yuka back. Mari smiled at the moment, knowing that her friends have forgiving each other.
"I'm sorry to interrupt the moment…" Mari interrupted. "But I have a plan."
Smart Brain President Room
Michael woke up, and saw Murakami, Saeko, and Takuma, sitting in a table. Michael realized he wasn't strap to a chair.
"I see you're awake," Murakami greeted. "What would you like do? Would you want to eat and drink first? Or perhaps…could you answer my questions."
"What questions? Why am I not tied up?" Michael asked.
"I realize that you are well-gifted, Taylor Michael. You are able to use the Faiz Gear, despite not being an Orphnoch," Murakami said. "What is your secret?"
"Even I don't know how I can use it," Michael responded, as he then noticed that Saeko's hands were shaking in anger, and she was hitting her right fist on her left palm. "What's with her?"
"That is a good question," Murakami responded, turning to Saeko for a brief moment, then back to Michael. "But back on topic, Smart Brain has been making progress. Recently, we have obtained both the Faiz and Kaixa belts. Just one more remains. If we can get the Delta belt, the preparations for summoning the King will be complete."
"Do you even know where this Orphnoch King is? You shouldn't. The Orphnoch King shouldn't be messed with," Michael warned Murakami.
"And who told you about the Orphnoch King?" Murakami asked.
"The future," Michael replied.
"So you're a boy who can see through the future? Interesting," Murakami said. "Do you know any of our pasts?"
The word 'past', had Saeko out of her seat, with a fork in her hand.
"Well…" Michael tried to explain, but Saeko grabbed his head, and placed the fork near his throat.
"Murakami! Enough! Stop talking or I'll cut his throat!" Saeko threatened.
"I think you're overreacting, Saeko-san," Takuma commented.
"Shut up!" Saeko snapped. "What do you know?!"
(Cue Stabbing by VideoHelper)
Murakami's face then faded white. He transformed into the Rose Orphnoch, and fired a blue fireball at Michael and Saeko, sending them flying into a wall, knocking them both out. Murakami then reverted back to his human form, and walked towards the two.
"I'm sure their attitude might change by the time they awake. It seems like he still doesn't understand the situation he's in," Mirakami said to Takuma.
"Don't look at me. You said it," Takuma said.
(End Track)
Kiba's Apartment
"No way. I'm the odd man out," Kaido said, when he heard Mari's plan.
"Kaido! Michael is your friend too. Would you want to see a friend die?" Kiba reminded Kaido.
"That's not it. Smart Brain will detect us," Kaido explains, lying on the bed.
"Which is why we won't be going as ourselves," Mari added.
"Eh?" Kaido said in confusion.
"What we're saying is that we'll be disguising ourselves as Smart Brain Employees and Executives," Yuka explained.
"It's a plan we hope it can work," Keitaro added.
"Wait a minute…" Kaido said, but he couldn't come up with an excuse. "You know what…I like this plan and I'm happy to be involved! Can I go out with Mari afterwards?"
"No," Mari declined.
"Yes," Yuka said, with Mari turning to Yuka with a coy smile.
Smart Brain
The first floor of Smart Brain, assumed to be the lobby, had a lot of people. One of them, was a young woman, with light blue pearl earrings, a light blue pearl necklace, wearing light blue dress, and light blue heels, with a dark blue flower pinned on the right side of her dress. The young woman turned, and it was Mari in disguised.
"I don't see anyone suspicious," Mari said to her friends on her earpiece.
"Me neither," Kaido, who was wearing an unbuttoned suit and tie, with a black fedora and sunglasses. "I think I should whistle to blend it. Also to impress you."
"No, whistling," Mari said to Kaido to her earpiece. "No one here does that."
Kiba, with slicked back hair, and a suit and tie with a Smart Brain pin on the left side of the jacket, didn't see anyone finding out their identity. Until he turned to see Sawada, whom he never met.
"Sonada-san…there's a young man with origami walking around. I have feeling that he's with Smart Brain," Kiba reported to Mari in his earpiece.
"Origami?" Mari asked Kiba through her earpiece. "Anything else?"
"Well…he has headphones on," Kiba added, which Mari run faster. "Sonada-san!"
Smart Brain President Room
Takuma entered the Smart Brain President room with his fingerprint, and saw that Michael was still knocked out. He kicked his side, to have Michael on his back.
"How long do you plan on sleeping? Not like I care if you stay asleep forever though," Takuma said. Takuma then heard a creek from the door, and saw a janitor, enter with a giant trash bin. Little did Takuma know, that the janitor was Keitaro in disguise. "What are doing in here?"
"Well…the boss said to secure the area. So, I'm…you know…securing the area," Keitaro lied.
"I'm the boss," Takuma said, as he walked towards Keitaro.
"Oh," Keitaro said. "5! 4! 3! 2! 1!"
Yuka came out of the trash bin and grabbed Takuma, causing her to fall out of the trash bin. Yuka then kicked Takuma into a wall. She then proceeded to run to Michael's side.
"Michael! Wake up!" Yuka cried. Michael woke up, just by hearing Yuka's voice.
"Osada-san," Michael said, and he and Yuka quickly hugged. Michael turned to see Keitaro.
"Kikuchi-san…I can explain," Michael said.
"You don't have to. It is Yuka-san's choice after all," Keitaro reminded Michael.
"So, you know?" Michael asked.
"I didn't believe it, so I forgot about it " Keitaro explained. "After see that Osada and Yuka were the same person, I realize that I have to accept what's happen and be of support."
Michael, Yuka, and Keitaro smiled at each other. But their moment was cut short after Takuma got up.
"Okay…do you guys have a new plan?" Michael asked.
"I just thought of one…run!" Yuka cried as she, Michael, and Keitaro ran from Takuma. Michael and Yuka got spilt up with Keitaro, who went on a left hallway. Takuma focused his target on Michael and Yuka.
Michael and Yuka stopped as they saw, on what appears to be a dead end.
"What the hell?!" Yuka asked. They turned to see Takuma catching up with them, which caused them to run to the dead end.
"Trust me, this isn't a dead end," Michael told Yuka.
"Did the future tell you that?" Yuka asked.
"Yep," Michael replied, as just then, the dead end opened like an elevator, and Michael and Yuka entered into an evaluator, that closed on Takuma just in time.
Smart Brain President Room
Murakami's cell phone, and he answered it.
"Yes? What do you mean he's gone? He had help? Where did they go?" Murakami asked Takuma on the phone.
Hallway
"Don't you know, Murakami-san? I never would have expected that there was an elevator here," Takuma told Murakami on the phone. Just then, Saeko, with her left arm sore, runs to Takuma.
"What happened?" Saeko asked Takuma.
Smart Brain President Room
"Follow them. Take Kageyama-san with you," Murakami told Takuma on the phone. "Also…I don't mind if you kill them."
Elevator
"We're going very down in this elevator," Yuka told Michael. "Are you sure you know where we're going?"
"Even I'm not certain," Michael responded. Just then, the elevator stopped, and Michael and Yuka run out of the elevator, only to come across a cream wall. "Did we just go up again? Because I'm pretty sure we went down."
Michael's response was when the cream doors opened like an elevator, and he and Yuka saw a hallway, that was dark, but had purple light. Both of them walked into the hallway.
"No way…" Michael said.
"What is this place?" Yuka asked, when she then remembered that this was the place from her dream with the Goat Orphnoch. "This is just like my dream."
"Your dream?" Michael asked Yuka, when he heard her muttering.
"I dreamt about being in this place. There were desk, a chalkboard, and a calendar that said 1995," Yuka said, as she and Michael walked through the hallway. Michael saw a door, and he side pushed the door, and saw a classroom. Which was the same one from Yuka's dream. "Just like this."
Michael then saw a flashlight on the floor, he picked it up, and turned it on. Michael flashed the light on one of the paintings, which had a nameplate of Sonada Mari.
"This is…the Ryusei School," Michael told Yuka.
Outside of Smart Brain
Mari ran out of the Smart Brain building to find Sawada.
"Sawada-kun, where did you go?" Mari asked herself before turning to see Sawada, eye to eye. "Sawada-kun."
Sawada smiles at Mari, which made her smile back. Sawada then took out an origami.
"Ah, that origami…" Mari said. "I remember. It's the origami that you gave me in the past. It was to comfort me…"
Instead of giving it tot Mari, he lit it on fire, and dropped it on the ground.
"Sawada-kun?" Mari said.
"I'm sorry, Mari. The Orphnoch power wants me to do this. I can't control it. I'm drowning…and you can't save me!" Sawada explained.
"What?! No…that can't be! I know you're still the kind person I know!" Mari cried.
"It's not a lie!" Sawada shouted, before transforming into the Spider Orphnoch, running towards Mari, and punching her in the stomach, sending her flying into a wall. Kiba witnessed this, and he clenched his fist. He jumped to Sawada, transforming into the Horse Orphnoch, without Mari noticing.
"You…weren't you Sonada-san's friend?" Kiba asked, as his human form appeared on his shadow.
"I'm sorry. I had no choice," Sawada said, as his human form appeared in his shadow.
"Yes you did," Kiba said, summoning his horse sword and slashing at Sawada. "Yes you did!"
Mari tried to get up, but she was too weak to stand. She had blood coming out of her forehead.
"S-Sawada-kun," Mari said, before the origami burn out entirely, causing Mari to lose conscious.
Ryusei School
Michael shined the flashlight around the paintings.
"This is Mari and Sawada's school when they were young," Yuka said in awe.
"Correct. This is the place where they were raised," Michael confirmed. He and Yuka could imagine Mari and Sawada making paintings.
"This doesn't make any sense. Why, out of all the places in Japan, is the Ryusei School here?" Yuka asked Michael.
"Even I don't know the answer to that," Michael responded, before hearing a sound of a chain, which made Michael shined his flashlight at a miner. "Who's there?!"
The miner (who appeared in Episode 21) turned to Micahel and Yuka and stood up, with a mysterious belt on his waist, before drying up like a mummy and falling to the ground. The belt then disappeared after the miner's death. Michael and Yuka run to the miner's, already dissolved, corpse.
"What the hell just happened?!" Yuka asked, but Michael didn't respond, meaning he didn't have an answer. Yuka leaned down to get a close up on the mummified miner, before Michael shined his flashlight on an elder man in black, fleeing after Michael shining his light on him.
"Hanagata-san," Michael muttered, following the man. Yuka got up and saw Michael was leaving, so he followed her.
Outside of Smart Brain
Kiba kept beating Sawada in anger, with his horse sword. Kaido ran to witness the fight, and decided to help.
"Kiba!" Kaido cried, jumping towards Sawada, transforming into the Snake Orphnoch, grabbing Sawada, who summoned his hapo shuriken for battle, slashing at Kaido.
"Kaido! Get Sonada-san out of here!" Kiba demanded, and Kaido nodded, grabbing Mari, and running away with her, to get her to safety.
Kiba did a stabbing motion to Sawada's chest, sending him flying to the ground, dropping his hapo shuriken. Kiba walked to Sawada, who was on the ground, and lifted his sword to stab him in the chest. He did so, but stopped himself. He was hesitating. Kiba dropped his after he hesitated, which gave Sawada the chance to get and run away. Kiba screamed and collapsed on the ground, reverting back to his human form, crying.
"Sonada-san! Sonada-san!" Kiba cried in regret, and screaming in agony.
Ryusei School
Michael ran to a hallway to find Hanagata, when Yuka catches up to him.
"What's wrong? What did you see?" Yuka asked, when she and Michael then saw a miner on the ground.
"Help me!" The miner begged, and Michael and Yuka ran to the miner.
"Hey! What's wrong? What happened?" Michael asked.
"Take this belt! The belt…!" The miner said, as it was revealed that he had the same belt the previous miner had in the classroom. Michael and Yuka tried to take it off, but they couldn't. It was easier for them with the Faiz and Kaixa belts, but this belt was different. The two then saw Saeko and Takuma, already with the Kaixa and Faiz belts, respectively, on their waists, walking down the stairs.
"I won't hold back anymore," Takuma said. "It seems you two have trespassed somewhere you shouldn't have."
"Goodbye…little brats," Saeko said. "Henshin!"
Takuma: Henshin!
Faiz Gear: Complete!
Kaixa Gear: Complete!
Takuma and Saeko transformed into Faiz and Kaixa, respectively. Just then, lightning came from the belt of the second miner, meaning it's malfunctioning. This gave the chance to have Michael and Yuka to escape. The second miner then dried up like a mummy, and dissolved, with the belt disappearing.
Kiba's Apartment
Mari woke up in a cold sweat, and rose from bed. She felt the pain from her forehead, but she then felt that is was wrapped in bandages.
"I see you're awake," A voice said, and Mari turned to see Kaido, trying to make tea.
"You," Mari said.
Ryusei School
Michael and Yuka went to, what appears to be, a laboratory. They heard Takuma and Sako's footsteps running, but they soon faded after they passed the room. Just then, lights started to flicker rapidly, before staying on.
"What is this place?" Yuka asked, before turning to see three belts, in three glass cylinders of red liquid. "That's the same belt those men wore!"
"But how would a belt do that?" Michael asked, picking up the belt with red outlines.
"It's best if you don't touch that belt," a voice said, which made Michael and Yuka jump. "Those are failed projects. More specifically, Projects Neo-Alpa, Pyron, and Seeda. You will become like those men if you put the belts on."
"You're...Hanagata-san, aren't you? Mari's foster father," Michael said. "Tell me! What are the Orphnoch? Where did they come from? Why is Smart Brain involved? Why did you create the Ryusei School? Why did you create the belts?"
"Not only that...why did you take Kageyama Saeko under your wing? What did you hope for with her?" Yuka asked.
Kiba's Apartment
Kaido sat down beside Mari on the bed.
"Sorry...turns out I'm not making tea," Kaido joked, but Mari was not amused. "Look...I didn't save you because I want you and I to be alone...it was Kiba's wish."
"Kiba-san...told you to save me?" Mari asked.
"Yes...I kind of like you. But...the reason I've been irritating you...was so you can talk to Kiba," Kaido explained, which made Mari confused. "I don't think you and I make a good pair...to be honest, you and Kiba seem to match more. Both of you are complete idiots in actually believing that the plan on recusing Michael would work. I wanted to set up a date between you two."
"So...all of this, because you want Kiba-san to be happy?" Mari asked. "I think the idiot is you."
"Are you sure? Have you seen yourself in the mirror?" Kaido joked, which made him and Mari laughed.
Ryusei School
"Answer us...Answer!" Michael demanded. "Why did you send the Ryusei School students the belts? Why are the Orphnoch after them and trying to kill them?"
"Don't just ignore us. Answer us... Hanagata-san!" Yuka demanded.
"Fight," Hanagata's voice echoed, which made Michael and Yuka confused on Hanagata's response. "Fight! If you keep winning the battle and survive...you will find the answer."
The two then saw Takuma and Saeko, as Faiz and Kaixa, respectively, finding them in the laboratory. Michael and Yuka took steps back, waiting for how things would play out. Then, a door opened, and Michael and Yuka turned to see the Goat Orphnoch.
"That's..." Yuka thought.
"Hanagata-san," Michael thought.
(Cue The Bludgeoning by VideoHelper)
Hanagata, as the Goat Orphnoch, then started to fight Takuma and Saeko, and was winning.
His speed was super-fast, he was like blur. It was so fast, that one of Hanagata's attacks broke one of the glass cylinders, having the Neo-Alpa belt fall on the floor.
Takuma and Saeko didn't even get a chance to attack Hanagata, he was just too quick. Hanagata uppercut Takuma, causing him to fly to the ground, having the Faiz suit disappear, due to the belt being released from his waist. It was now the teacher vs. the student, with the teacher winner.
Takuma crawled to get the Faiz belt, and Michael's instincts told him to get the Neo-Alpa belt, and put it on Takuma's waist.
(End Track)
So, Michael did just that, and electricity started to surround Takuma, like a malfunction, which gave the chance to snatch the Faiz belt from Takuma's hands. The Neo-Alpha belt disappeared after Takuma transformed into the Centipede Orphnoch, due to the amount of pain.
Michael then put on the Faiz belt on his waist, and flipped open the Faiz phone.
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Standing By!
Henshin!
Complete!
(Insert The people with no name by m.c.A・T; TV Size)
Michael transformed in Faiz, and started to fight Saeko. With that, Hanagata leaves the battle.
After Michael punched Saeko in the fact, he put on the digital camera, which already became the gauntlet, with the mission memory inserted.
Exceed Charge!
At first, Michael missed, but the second time is when Michael hit Saeko in the metal chest of Kaixa, causing her to loose the Kaixa belt form her waist as she was knocked into a wall. Yuka quickly grabbed the Kaixa gear and put it on her waist. The Kaixa suit disappeared in yellow lasers, and Saeko transformed into the Lobster Orphnoch. Yuka then side-flipped open the Kaixa phone.
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Standing By!
Henshin!
Complete!
Michael and Yuka were managed to beat Takuma and Saeko in their respective fights. Takuma was kicked into the other two glass cylinders, which had the Pyron and Seeda belts. Takuma and Saeko, got up after a beating, and retreated out of the Ryusei School, with Michael and Yuka going after them.
(End Insert Song)
"Osada Yuka," Hangata's voice echoed. "Fight, Osada Yuka! Fight to survive!"
Just then, something from the ceiling, which landed in Yuka's hands.
"Binoculars?" Yuka asked in confusion.
Forest
Takuma and Saeko escaped from a shed, with Michael following them. Just then, something in Michael in the metal chest, and Michael turned to see Sawada, with his hapo shuriken, as the Spider Orphnoch.
"Sawada!" Michael cried, getting up. "I don't have time to spend with you!"
"Sorry. I must do this," Sawada said, then charging to fight Michael. Sawada got the upper hand with his hapo shuriken. Even though Michael caught it, Sawada spitting spider thread on Michael's throat, then punching him.
A car pulls up in a driveway of dirt to see the fight. It was the blonde man, and he had hate in his eyes.
"Faiz! My friend...I will avenge him today!" The blonde man said, remembering his friend, the Bat Orphnoch. As the fight started to move somewhere else in the forest, the blonde man got out of the car, and Yuka landed in front of him. The blonde's man face faded light gray and transformed into the Eel Orphnoch. Yuka then remembered what Hanagata said to her and Michael.
"Fight! If you keep winning the battle and survive...you will find the answer."
Yuka then took the binoculars, which we on the back of the belt, took out the Kaixa mission memory from the Kaixa phone, and inserted it in the binoculars.
Ready!
The binoculars transformed into a twin mark pointing device, and Yuka attached it to her ankle. She then charged at the Eel and punched him, but her punch slid off his body. Yuka then punched its legs, which caused pained. Yuka then realized the Eel's weakness...the armor, head, and feet, were slimed, but the rest of the body wasn't. Yuka successfully punched the monster, before kicking it in the stomach, sending it flying to grass.
As the Eel got up, Yuka side-kicked it in the stomach, side-flipped opened the Kaixa phone, and pressed the enter button.
Exceed Charge!
Yuka side-closed the Kaixa phone, and a bright yellow light came from the phone and went to the binoculars on her ankle. The Eel Orphnoch was pushed as a yellow drill appeared on his chest. Yuka jumped and did a flying corkscrew kick and entered the yellow drill, which went through the Eel. Yuka came back after kick, as a yellow figure, for a couple of seconds. The yellow Kaixa symbol appears on the Eel's chest and the Eel Orphnoch turns into ash.
Meanwhile, Sawada keeps beating and damaging Michael.
"Fight! Michael! Fight!" Sawada cried, doing my slashes with his hapo shuriken, before doing an upwards slash, which sends Michael flying into the tree, which made Faiz belt fly off of his waist. The Faiz suit disappears in red lasers. Sawada walks to Michael and lifts his hapo shuriken to kill Michael.
Kiba's Apartment
Mari felt a presence that far away. She felt a spider trying to bit one of her friends.
"Please, Sawada-kun...don't do this," Mari thought.
Forest
Sawada stopped, as if he could hear Mari's thoughts. Just then, the Wolf Orphnoch came, and grabbed Sawada.
Kiba's Apartment
"We have to go!" Mari cried. "I know where Michael and Osada-san are."
"But you're not..." Kaido then tried to say, but Mari left before Kaido could get his explanation, which made him groan and follow Mari. "Moh!"
Forest
Sawada's back was clawed by the Wolf Orphnoch, who lands on his feet. Sawada's human form appears in his shadow, with his eyes widen.
"You," Sawada said. The Wolf Orphnoch then ran to Sawada, who slashed his hapo shuriken at the Wolf, but the latter dodges, it manages to punch Sawada. In fact, the Wolf Orphnoch was managaed to over-power Sawada. The Wolf did a number of punches, before doing a side-kick, causing Sawada to drop his hapo shuriken, and fall off a cliff, reverting back to his human form before falling into the river.
"Ta...Ta..." Michael stuttered before losing consciousness. The Wolf Orphnoch walks to Michael, but instead of attacking him, he carries Michael.
Later
The laundry van stopped at where Mari said the location was. Keitaro was shocked that she knew where an Orphnoch was without the Orphnoch detector. Mari, Keitaro, and Kaido had got out of the laundry van, and tried to find Michael and Yuka.
"Michael! Osada-san!" Mari cried.
"Michael! Hey Michael!" Kaido cried.
"Yuka-san! Yuka-san!" Keitaro cried, before Yuka, who wasn't watching where she was going, knocked into Keitaro, and both of them fell on the ground.
"Sorry!" Yuka apologized, as she got up, before helping Keitaro up. "Have you seen Michael?!"
"No," Keitaro responded, before continuing the search. "Michael! Michael!"
"Michael!" Yuka cried. The rest of the group cried for Michael's name, before Mari saw an injured Michael, cunonscious by a tree.
"Michael! Guys!" Mari cried, which alerted the group and they ran to Michael's side.
"Michael! Wake up!" Kaido cried. "This is not the time to be taking a nap!"
"Michael! Please wake up! Sawada-kun...Where's Sawada-kun?!" Mari questioned.
"Michael! Please don't die on me!" Yuka begged. "I love you!"
Michael then started to groan, as he started to wake up.
"Did you have to say it that loud?" Michael joked, and Yuka quickly hugged Michael, and the two embraced each other. Mari noticed that Michael's injury had already been bandaged. Mari didn't sense Sawada, or any Orphnochs.
"Sawada-kun," Mari muttered.
(Cue Epic Adventure by VideoHelper)
Ryusei School
Hanagata walked into the laboratory and saw the Pyron and Seeda belts, which disappeared.
"Just one belt remains," Hanagata said.
Driveway
At a driveway, another figure, was walking out of the shadows. It was another rider, like Faiz and Kaixa. Except this one was black with white outlines, an orange visor, and had delta symbol on his forehead and shoulder armor. There was also a gun on the right side of this rider's gear. This was the last belt that Murakami was talking about. This was Delta.
(End Track as Closing Screen Appears)
To Be Continued
There are a few things I like to point out. One, I made a new cover, it's part of the illustration art of Reformed Flowers. If there's one thing that I like (even though I didn't read the novel) is the cover art by Tamotsu Shinohara, who designed the Orphnochs. Second, it Hanagata. This is more of a fun fact because, if you are a fan of Dairanger, Koji Naka, who protrayed Hanagata, protrayed Master Kaku in Dairanger, where Toshiki Inoue (the head writer of Faiz) was a secondary writer. And third, this is the end of the first story arc: A New Path (Episodes 1-26). The first 14 episodes are the Exposition, with Episode 15 to now, being the Rising Action of the story.
Thank you for reading this episode, everyone, and make sure to leave a review. I like the feedback. I'll see guys, girls, and all in between, next time. Bye.