{Opening: "Sea of Fire" by SawanoHiroyuki [nZk]: mizuki}
"A few days after the battle against Azkel..."
"4:30 am"
Their alarm clocks rang at the same time, both of them getting ready almost at the same time.
- "Good morning Kat" - Kristen greeted somewhat drowsily when she saw Katsumi leave her room
- "Good morning Kristen, are you still sleepy?"
- "I don't remember the last time I woke up early... I think it was when I was at school" - Kristen replied
- "Oh... I'm already used to that, when I lived with master Maria, I always got up at this time to have everything ready, she just had to go downstairs, have breakfast and check what was happening on the news"
- "So, you used to make breakfast?" - Kristen asked
- "That's right, but it wasn't because she forced me or something like that, it was a way of thanking her for everything she has done for me..." - Katsumi replied
- "Wow, you really love Miss Maria..."
- "Yes, what would I be without her?" - Katsumi said with her eyes fixed on another place - "By the way, what was your life like before you got here?"
- "I suppose it is fair that I tell you something about myself... Let's say that until now I had had a normal life, I went to school, I lived with my parents in my hometown but 12 years ago I saw something that motivated me to follow this road" - Kristen replied
- "And that was...?" - Katsumi asked curiously
- "6 Meteors, falling, burning, disappearing and then... Ah, sorry! I got carried away" - Kristen said answering Katsumi's question
- "No, don't worry, I think I understand you, you mean 'the Shem-Ha incident', right?" - Katsumi asked again
- "Exactly, within that song I knew the path I should take, that's why, when I entered high school, I enrolled in the Lydian Academy, that was the starting point" - Kristen replied
At that moment Hibiki appears with several bags and dressed in a black hoodie with orange details
- "Good morning girls, are you ready?" - Hibiki asked
- "Yes!" - both young women answered with energy
"[Part.A]: The story of a Hero"
Hibiki drives her car down a somewhat lonely street between the mountains, meanwhile she sees Kristen and Katsumi sleep in the back seats of the car together as if they were sisters, in the rear-view mirror.
Meanwhile in the Headquarters...
- "Lara Meyer?" - Maria said entering the cell where she was in
- "Yes?" - Lara answered
- "Our investigation determined that your actions had no malicious intent and that is why you have been acquitted of all charges, therefore from today you are free" - Maria announced while holding some documents
- "I'll finally be by her side" - Lara thought while smiling.
The two men next to Maria proceed to unlock the detention shirt.
- "I appreciate it very much" - Lara said as she stood up and then turned around and showed a sincere smile
Meanwhile in the Toyama region...
- "Kristen, Katsumi, we're here" - Hibiki said as she got out of the car and took out some things
- "What is this place?" - Katsumi asked as she woke up
- "I think we are in the Toyama region" - Kristen replied
- "How do you know that?"
- "It says it here on the map of the screen"
- "It is true..."
Hibiki takes Kristen and Katsumi to a huge traditional Japanese house.
- "Here we are" - Hibiki said, in that moment a muscular man with reddish hair dressed in a traditional Japanese garment appears.
"Genjuro Kazanari (?) - Former Section 2 Commander and Owner of the Kazanari Dojo"
- "Hibiki, I'm glad you came to visit me" - Genjuro greeted
- "Master! I'm also happy to see you after a long time" - Hibiki replied to the greeting
- "Are they the new wielders you told me about?" - asked the man
- "That's right" - Hibiki replied
- "Nice to meet you, my name is Kristen Yuzuki!"
- "And I'm Katsumi Hayashi!"
- "Nice to meet you Mr. Kazanari!" - both greeted bowing
- "Welcome to the Kazanari dojo, come in please" - Genjuro said inviting them to come to the dojo
Once inside...
Hibiki, Kristen, and Katsumi are sitting around a table trying a traditional drink.
- "So, you guys have a vague combat experience and you want to unleash your full potential, right?" - asked Genjuro
- "Yes sir, the difficulty in the last fights has been a sign that our current skills are not enough" - Kristen replied - "And there is someone out there who has to be saved"
- "And I want to perfect my previous knowledge" - Katsumi replied - "That time my body was too worn out by the use of that energy and I don't want that to have a fatal effect on myself"
- "I see, Hibiki has spoken wonders about you two, so I hope you do not disappoint me" - Genjuro said standing up - "Let's begin"
Kristen and Katsumi smile excitedly.
In the backyard of the dojo...
- "Well, let's start training!" - Genjuro said with a firm voice - "But first let me show you our objective"
Genjuro effortlessly brings a huge stone, then concentrates all his strength in his right fist which is manifested with thunder and orange sparks, then he delivers a powerful blow which breaks the stone completely.
- "Incredible!" - Kristen said completely surprised by such a demonstration
- "This is what you will learn to do after this training" - said Genjuro
Katsumi and Kristen look at each other somewhat confused.
{BGM: "Owaranai Yume" by Nanase Aikawa}
Kristen and Katsumi jog several kilometers with Genjuro, Kristen is left behind due to having no experience in physical activity.
Kristen does several push-ups with Katsumi on top of her, although she had difficulty managing to comply with the proposed routine.
Katsumi also did push-ups with Kristen on top of her.
Hibiki does his own martial arts practices using the same movement that Genjuro used in his demonstration with the stone.
Katsumi sleeps in an organized way on her futon while Kristen sleeps... In her own special way.
Genjuro, Kristen and Katsumi have raw eggs in glasses, as expected Kristen makes weird faces because of the taste of the concoction.
Then the girls find themselves doing a static pose trying to balance objects with their bodies.
At a nearby waterfall the girls are in meditation mode.
Kristen and Genjuro watch various action (martial arts) movies to learn various combat moves.
The routine is repeated, now Kristen can keep up and even compete (in a healthy way) with Katsumi.
Kristen fights a sparring match against Katsumi with a steady pace.
- "Now we will move on to our final goal, we will learn to use Reiki" - said Genjuro
- "Reiki?" asked Kristen
- "It also means 'Aura'" - Katsumi added
- "That is correct, Reiki is the technique to channel the energy that we all have within us, some call it vital energy or universal energy" - Genjuro explained - "After my retirement I discovered it through some teachers in another region"
- "And what does Reiki consist of?" - asked Kristen
- "It basically consists of channeling that universal energy into certain parts of the body and using them as a combat method" - Hibiki said appearing at the scene - "This is how I used my Gungnir"
- "What!? I thought it was because of the extensive training you had with Mr. Kazanari..." - Kristen said somewhat confused.
- "Well, let's say it was a bit of everything"
- "That explains why she did not suffer any fracture when she wielded her armed gear..." - thought the Trishula user
- "OK let's start!" - Genjuro said preparing the giant rock
- "I'll go first, I want to check how much I have improved" - Katsumi said, standing in front of the rock
- "Okay, whenever you want" - said Genjuro
Katsumi closes her eyes and focuses her energy on her right fist which manifests itself in the form of small rays of vibrant orange.
After a few seconds Katsumi hits the rock with all his might leaving the mark of her fist imprinted on the rock.
- "WOOW! Awesome Kat!" - Kristen said amazed
- "As I imagined, I still lack practice... but I'm on the right track" - Katsumi said upon seeing his result
- "Well, now it's my turn!" - Kristen said with a smile
Kristen closed her eyes and focused her energy on her right hand just like Katsumi did, this time the energy manifested in cyan colored rays, a few seconds later Kristen hit the same place that Katsumi hit causing a bigger crack.
- "Awesome Kristen" - Hibiki said - "You learned quickly"
- "Tch tch, ayayayay! Is it supposed to hurt this bad!?" - Kristen asked with a tear of pain
- "When you're not used to hitting hard things, yes" - Katsumi answered while laughing
Genjuro and Hibiki laughed too.
- "I see that we are on the same level, which I like because then I won't feel alone" - Katsumi said while winking - "Let's complete the training!"
- "Yes! Let's do it!" - Kristen answered with determination
Genjuro and Hibiki look at each other while reminiscing about old times.
Thus, Kristen and Katsumi continued their training in that forest in the Toyama region with the illusion of mastering Reiki and incorporating it into their missions as wielders.
"[Part.B]: Unti-L"
"A few days after the battle against Azkel..."
Lara was acquitted of all charges because her investigation found that her actions did not have an evil purpose.
Lucy was in the lab reviewing some reports.
- "Guess who!?" - Lara said covering Lucy's eyes
- "Eh... Eh..." - Lucy removes her hands from her face and turns to see Lara - "It's you!" - Lucy throws herself to hug Lara - "If you're here, that means they dropped your charges, right?"
- "That's right, I can be by your side as I promised that day" - Lara replied with a soft voice
- "Lara..." - Lucy said when she saw a strange aura around her friend
- "Well, what are you doing?" - Lara asked breaking the moment
- "Ahmm... I'm analyzing some reports that they gave me" - Lucy answered showing some documents
- "By the way, what did you do to get the charges dropped?" asked Lucy
- "You will see..."
** Retrospective **
Kristen came to the room where Lara was being held, sat next to her but turned her back to her.
- "Hey, I need to talk to you about something" - Kristen asked starting the conversation
- "About what?" - Lara said without encouragement
- "Why did you commit that outrage?" - Kristen asked seriously
- "That day?" - Lara said remembering the time she made Kristen angry using an innocent child as a trigger, then she lowered her face - "I'm not proud of that either"
- "Why did you do it?" - Kristen asked seriously
- "I was just acting, I shouldn't let Andrew suspect me, if that happened, he would discover my intentions" - Lara replied - "My goal in that place was to find the perfect moment to rescue them, Lucy and... Jean"
- "Jean...?" - Kristen wondered, then she remembered the girl who murdered Andrew, then Kristen was going to say something but stopped.
- "You know, that day I felt as if I really had the power to end the entire human race... but at the same time I felt powerless and weak, I believed that by letting that happen I would not be qualified to be a wielder"
- "I'm sorry" - Lara said apologetically - "I'm really sorry..."
- "Still I didn't like that one bit, you could have thought of something better" - Kristen said making a face of disgust
- "I'm already paying for what I did! What more do you want from me!?" - Lara shouted altered
Kristen saw in her eyes that she was being sincere and honest.
- "I think now I understand you, as you said, you were trying to save them" - Kristen said as she left the room, Lara didn't answer anything.
** End of retrospective **
- "Miss Yuzuki is a good person" - Lucy said smiling
- "I'll thank her when she comes back" - Lara said
At that moment the alarm in the headquarters goes off, Lucy goes to the barracks and Lara accompanies her.
- "Eh? And Commander Tachibana?" - Lucy asked once they got to the control room.
- "She is not available right now, I am the one who is in charge" - answered Maria who was in that place - "I am glad that you are here, as you can see we have a fairly large horde of Noise, I suppose you already know what you should do"- said Maria handing Laevateinn's gear to Lara, Lucy looks at her with a smile.
In that place indicated by Maria, there were several Noises causing damage and casualties.
- "The mission is being carried out without any mishap, Mrs. Anath" - said the girl from before telepathically from the top of a building
- "Make sure you don't get eliminated by those Symphogear; do you understand Inanna?" - Anath warned telepathically from her hiding place
- "Understood" - Inanna replied with a soft voice
Meanwhile, a helicopter was bringing the two girls straight to the battlefield.
- "Lucy, do you know what I should do with this?" - Lara asked while holding her pendant
- "You don't have to think about it too much, just let it flow" - Lucy replied, then she jumps out of the helicopter to transform
- "Zora Meridiem Gram Zizzl"
Lucy lands wielding Gram, opening her 4 blades.
- "Wow, so that's what it's all about... here I go" - Lara said jumping out of the helicopter
- "Sacris Laevatein Naktis Zizzl"
{BGM: "CSD"}
Lara lands wielding Laevanteinn which has metallic pieces of electric blue mixed with black.
Inanna watches Lara interested as she summons some Noise with her right hand.
- "Lara!" - Lucy arrives levitating with the help of her gear - "Are you ready?"
- "I think so... Come on!" - Lara said running towards the Noise followed by Lucy
Lara punches several Noise pulverizing them while Lucy uses her energy sword to slice them in half.
- "Hey! How can I do what you do?" - Lara asked while hitting several noises
- "Do what?" - asked Lucy
- "Have a gun or something!" - Lara answered
- "Ah, that, you just have to wish it, the rest you will do almost by inertia!"
- "Oh good" - Lara stepped back and using her mind she thought about getting an armed gear
In her hand appears a matte black bow with bright blue details, then as Lucy said, an energy arrow appeared in her other hand and with it she pointed towards a horde of Noise which were approaching rapidly.
- "Go!" - Lara yelled as she launched her attack
"KESSINGER SACRIS"
The blue energy arrow was fired towards the Noise which were instantly pulverized thus opening a kind of path.
- "Wow, you managed to do it on your first try, congratulations" - Maria said through the intercom of the Gear
- "Thank you, Miss Maria. Although I didn't think it was possible" - Lara replied as she watched Lucy deal with her respective hordes of Noise using her 4 blades of light
- "I think they will make it" - Maria thought as she watched the screen
- "Stop" - Inanna ordered in a soft voice, the Noise made a path to let her pass
- "I will finish with you and I will take you to Mrs. Anath" - Inanna said, then it rises to the sky and the Noise join on both of her sides forming six tentacles (3 on each side) of which several sharp objects are formed
Inanna in her full form begins to attack the users by throwing the sharp objects like projectiles, the girls dodge the attacks, Lucy uses the power of her 4 blades of light to launch a high-range quadruple beam to counter Inanna's attack, taking advantage of the counterattack, Lara tries again to attack with her blue energy bow and arrow but is hit by one of Inanna's arms.
The blow makes her collide with an abandoned car, leaving her without strength.
- "Lara!" - Lucy shouted worried
Inanna catches Lucy with one of her arms and lifts her up, immediately begins to squeeze her trying to suffocate her
- "Lucy... Lucy!" - Lara tried to shout while trying to stand up
Lucy screams in pain causing her echo to resonate throughout the place including the Section 2 headquarters.
- "No... I can't leave her like this, I promised that we would be together, that we would find a home... I promised!" - Lara said while preparing a new attack with her bow and arrows
- "I PROMISED IT AND FAILING IS NOT AN OPTION!" - Lara shouted while throwing the attack
That attack hit one of Inanna's arms, damaging it a little and releasing Lucy who falls hard to the ground.
- "You really love her very much..." - Inanna said
- "Of course! She's like a sister to me!" - Lara said - "I'm not going to let you hurt her!" - Lara runs at progressive speed towards Inanna
Inanna tries to hit her several times using her 6 fists but Lara manages to avoid them all, meanwhile Lucy recovers from the blow and goes to help Lara.
- "Lara!" - Lucy said taking her by the hand, immediately afterwards both run through one of Inanna's arms towards her face while avoiding the attacks of her enemy.
- "I won't let you!" - Inanna activates a multi-layered energy field
- "Now!" - Lucy said, placing herself on Lara's back while the latter prepares an attack with her bow
Lucy unfolds her blades of energy charging light energy while her body and gear channels it towards Lara's energy arrows making them a little bigger and unstable.
"Dual Movement: Solaris Endlave"
The combined attack between Lara and Lucy hits Inanna's force field creating a resistance fight.
The attack of the Gear users manages to penetrate Inanna's force field, hitting her squarely and causing her to lose her complete form.
Inanna falls to the ground and the users approach to see her.
- "You two really love each other... I hope you achieve your goal..." - with that said, Inanna disappeared in the shape of a trail of light, but not before giving them a smile.
The trail of light is directed towards the horizon until it is no longer visible
- "And she's gone..." - said Lucy
- "Yes... Looks like we did it" - Lara replied
- "Yes! You fought very well to be your first time, congratulations!" - Lucy said happily
- "Thank you, it was as you said, I did everything almost out of inertia" - Lara replied, immediately taking her hand - "And besides, our mutual trust also played a very important role, don't you think?"
- "Lara..." - Lucy said somewhat blushing - "Yes! Now we have to save Jean!" - Lucy looks up at the sky with determination
Meanwhile elsewhere...
The trail of light reaches the crystal that Inanna had before, when it joins with Azkel's energy, it forms a seed which is taken by Anath, who throws it to the ground.
Anath looks up at the sky and the Moon is close to the path of the Sun putting a smile on her face.
{Ending: "signs ~ Sakutsuki Hitoyo ~" by Minami Kuribayashi}
Hibiki, Kristen and Katsumi say goodbye to Genjuro and return to the city, in the middle of the trip Hibiki hears a news report on the radio.
- "Next week a solar eclipse will occur which will be visible almost all over the world, we still do not have the exact time for the start of this event but the North American Space Agency is expected to publish more information in the next few hours..." - Hibiki turns off the radio and puts on a serious expression
Yuna and Elfnein return from their journey to personally deliver the Mobile Gears to the users who were living their normal lives.
All the components for the final battle have been put together and a new event will define the history of the entire world.
Next Episode: "Cosmic Ballet"