Alright! Chapter 6 of Father Thy Blood is up and ready! Recap: Ryoken has arrived at the mental hospital and there he meets Katsu Tanaka, Osamu Ando, Moriko Hirabayashi, Nobuyuki Mizushima, Tomone Ohno, and Chika Etsuko. Ryoken learns about Chika's past, where her mother committed suicide when her father send her to a mental hospital because of her behavior being a mental illness and her half-brother is living in her father's apartment by himself, and Ryoken knows who Chika's half-brother is, but not until he confirms it first. Then he learns about how Hirabayashi is transferred to the mental hospital when her ex-boyfriend abusive her and she called the police on him. And that's about it. This chapter will be on Yusaku's POV now and there will be some scenes from season 3 of VRAINS that will be added, if you guys don't mind. So, anyway, let's get on with the story!

It's that afternoon where Kusanagi opens up Cafe Nagi and there are a few people in the square around, so it's a good time to open up for business.

He flips over the meat as they cook a bit. "Kusanagi-san." He heard a voice and looks up from cooking the dogs and sees Yusaku greeting him at the truck. Yusaku is wearing his casual hoodie jacket and his jeans and sneakers.

The young adult gives a smile to his friend. "Hey Yusaku. Sit down." Yusaku goes over to the table and sat down. Kusanagi turns off the grill for a bit. He goes over to the coffee maker and makes coffee. When the coffee is done, he grabs two mugs from the top shelve and pours the coffee from the pot. He got out of the truck, puts the two mugs of coffee on the table and sat down at the table.

"Thanks for running the cart while I was away." He said with the smile.

"No problem. It was really booming, but Takeru and I manage to handle it," Yusaku told his friend, "is your brother okay?"

Kusanagi nods his head. "Yeah. After regaining consciousness, he's gotten a lot better now," he explained, "he might able to leave the hospital soon."

Yusaku gives out a smile when Kusanagi told him the good news. "I see. That's good."

"The doctor said that when he regained consciousness, Jin's memories of the Lost Incident vanished," Kusanagi told Yusaku, "weird, huh?"

Yusaku was surprised when Jin's memories of the Lost Incident are gone. Just like that. "His memories vanished?"

"Yeah. It's weird how all of the memories of the Lost Incident just disappeared for no reason at all."

Yusaku is confused on why Jin's memories of that… event disappeared like that. Then that one thing came to his mind. "Hm… I wonder…"

"What?" Kusanagi raises his eyebrow in curiosity.

"When Lightning dueled Revolver, he changed some of his consciousness data into extra life."

"Yeah. What about it?"

"I think it might have been those memories of the Lost Incident."

Kusanagi didn't react when Yusaku said that. He just smiles. "I see. If that's true, that's a blessing in disguise."

Yusaku looks down at his coffee, trying his best not to think about the Lost Incident. Too many bad and horrible memories. "That experience was painful," he said, "if he's no longer trapped by his past, that's good."

Kusanagi gives a nod. "His life will now begin."

Yusaku looks back up to his friend with a smile. "Yeah."

"By the way, how's Ai holding up?"

Yusaku frowns for a bit and looks back down at his coffee. He asked Ai to come with him to see Kusanagi, but Ai just told him he didn't feel like it. "Well, besides his goofy and annoying personality being the same, and still watching those dumb soap operas with Roboppy, not so good," he told Kusanagi, "he still feels guilty about what happened with the other Ignises back at Mirror Link VRAINS. He's not even ready to go back to the Cyberse World."

Kusanagi frowns too when Yusaku said that. "I see." Then he smiles again and gets up. "Once Ai feels better and feels like he's ready to leave, he'll begin his new life, and then your new life will also begin."

Yusaku nods for a bit. "Yeah. Maybe you're right."

"I know I'm right," Kusanagi said, "since you're here, eat something." And he goes inside his truck to resume his cooking.

"Thank you."

Yusaku grabs his coffee mug and drinks it a bit. He feels pretty bad that Ai is the only Ignis who survived this whole Ignis Warfare, so he must being having some survivor guilt right now. Right now, he needs to be there for his partner until he is ready to go back to the Cyberse World, even if it is destroyed…

"Hey, Fujiki-kun!"

Yusaku was surprised for a bit as a familiar voice called out his name. He turned around and he saw his upperclassman. He was wearing a t-shirt with a baseball logo on it and has a jean jacket over it, wearing some jeans as well, and sneakers too.

"Asahina-senpai? What are you doing here?" He asked.

"The boys in the baseball team told me about this business, so I thought I might try it out," he told his underclassman, "and I take it this is the place you and Homura-san helped out a bit."

Yusaku nods in replied.

Asahina gives out a big grin. "You're welcome! If I haven't stepped in, then you, Homura-san, and Zaizen-san would do all of the cleaning work."

"I really appreciate that, Asahina-senpai." He smiles for a bit.

Asahina gives Yusaku a thumbs up, then he goes up to Kusanagi to order. "Hi, can I get a chilly dog with a side a fries, please?"

"One chilly dog with fries coming right up." Kusanagi begins to cook Asahina's order.

Asahina goes over to the table to where Yusaku is sitting and sat down to wait for his order to come. "So, Fujiki-kun, do you come here often?" He asked.

"I guess so, but only for my studies." He said, trying to cover his secret as Playmaker.

"That's good," he said with a grin, "you have to study if you want to graduate, and since I'm on my last year of high school, I hope you do your best as an upperclassman in the 3rd year."

"Thanks." With the whole fighting the Knights of Hanoi back 3 months ago and stopping the Ignis Warfare a couple days ago, did Yusaku really had any time to study?

After a couple of minutes, Kusanagi comes out of the truck carrying Asahina and Yusaku's food. He placed them down at the table. "Enjoy." Then he went back to the truck.

Asahina took a bite on his chilly dog and he moans in a delicious way. "This is really good!" He exclaimed with his lunch in his mouth.

Yusaku laughs a little bit and then eats his hot dog.

Soon, Yusaku and Asahina finished their lunch already. "Man! Cafe Nagi really does make the best hotdogs! I should come here every lunch time nowadays." He said with a big grin.

"Probably not on school days, Asahina-senpai, you don't want Yamaguchi-senpai to give you cleaning duty again." Yusaku reminded his upperclassman.

"You're right. I'll come here on weekends then!" Then Asahina gets up from his seat and stretches a bit. Then he gives Yusaku a thumbs up. "See ya, Fujiki-kun! See you at school tomorrow!" And with that he left.

Yusaku smiles a bit as he watches his upperclassman leave. "He seems very energetic." Kusanagi commented.

"Well, that's Itsuki Asahina for you," Yusaku said, "always being energetic to his underclassmen."

Yusaku gets up from his seat and turns to look at his friend. "I should probably get going now. Thanks for the meal."

Kusanagi gives the teen a smile. "No problem. And again, thanks for running my cart."

After giving each other goodbye and saying they would see each other tomorrow, Yusaku heads home.

Welp. That was kind of short and a little normal in this chapter, even though the beginning is the scene at the beginning of episode 104 of VRAINS, but slightly different. But I hope you guys enjoyed it and I will post a new chapter for Father Thy Blood very soon, and it will be on Ryoken's POV this time. I'll see you guys soon!