Meanwhile, in Vale, the city is overrun with Grimm, and everyone who lived there evacuated. There is one man who didn't leave the area, even if it's overrun with those monsters.

"I thought the Grimm would just shut the hell up when I trashed them for the day," a white-haired man wearing a red coat grumbled as he defeated another set of Grimm coming after him using a big sword. He decapitate a gorilla-like Grimm known as a Beringel. "Well, it's not my fault if they don't stay quiet."

His name is Ragna the Bloodedge.

He recalled on his life story that he is now the new god of the Amaterasu Unit and that he stayed with the remaining small part of the Origin, the girl in the Unit. He even erased everyone's memories of him. He sacrificed his entire existence and became a god so no one would have to suffer anymore or be sad about losing him. As of this moment, he is given a second chance to go back to the land of the living to help defeat a great evil, and he accepted it. He is transported to a universe known as Remnant. He may not have his sword, Blood-Scythe, anymore but he still has the Azure Grimoire, which is now called the Azure Flame Grimoire. With it, he can make any weapon appear on his hands, including that sword during the last time he fought those monsters.

It's been two days since he's in Vale, and he has no idea what to do to get off this forsaken place and defeat this great evil. All that's about to change in the next day when he saw an orange-haired girl fighting off a group of Ursas and Beowolves.

"What the hell?" he asked as he decided to run to the area.

The girl has floating swords appearing from her back to cut down the Beowolves. Ragna couldn't believe of what he just saw. This reminded him of the Murakumo Units, especially Noel.

"Are there going to be Murakumo Units in this universe?" he asked skeptically. This girl he saw may be robotic, but she is not a Murakumo Unit.

She attempts to land a hit on the incoming Ursas in her direction, but her swords missed them. Luckily, she manages to use the strings from her swords to pull herself to them and grab one of them with her bare hands to toss it to the others. Then, she cuts them down.

"I guess that's that," she said in satisfaction.

"Hey, you," Ragna catches up to her and tries to catch his breath. "That was... impressive."

"Why, thank you."

"What's your name?"

"Penny Polendina, but you can call me Penny," was the robot girl's response.

"I'm Ragna the Bloodedge, but you can call me Ragna," Ragna introduced himself. "We should find a spot where there is no Grimm first before we can talk about what happened."

"Agreed."

They eventually find a spot in the alley where they could be safe from the Grimm lurking in the city.

"First question. What the hell happened here?" Ragna questioned first.

"To tell you the truth, I really don't know. I wasn't there when this happened," Penny responded to the question. "Last time I was 'living', I fought a girl named Pyrrha Nikos in the Vytal tournament, and I was destroyed by her."

"Ouch..."

"I don't blame her. She wasn't in her free will when that happened."

"Really?" Ragna crossed his arms in curiosity of this matter.

"She was under hypnosis believing I'm going to unleash a thousand of my swords to her, and she used my polarity Semblance to use my weapon against me," Penny continued. "If I'm not mistaken, someone had a Semblance that involves changing one's perspective."

"Any idea who that was?"

"I looked around after I was rebuilt months ago to investigate what happened in Vale. It took me days to learn what happened here. Before I know it, the Grimm were taking over the city. I went to the Vytal Festival and I managed to find out who hypnotized Pyrrha into destroying me."

"Who?"

"It was a woman named Emerald Sustrai, and she's partnered with Mercury Black. They work for a black-haired woman named Cinder Fall, the mastermind of Vale's downfall," she makes her response.

"I see. I would want to get a hold of three for letting this city rot," Ragna said with determination.

"I see your resolve is really impressive."

"Any idea where they are?"

"If I can venture a guess, they could be at Mistral. After all, I suspect more Grimm activity there more than Vale."

"Then that's where we going. If only we have some transportation to go there..."

"Did someone said, 'transportation'?" a voice called on them.

Ragna and Penny saw an airship landing near them, and four people coming out. It consists of a girl with dark-brown hair and wearing a beret, a boy with dark skin, a brown-haired girl with rabbit ears on her head, and a shaved-shirt black hair and wearing green and brown attire.

"Allow us to introduce ourselves," the girl with the beret introduced herself calmly. "We're Team CFVY."

"CFVY?" Ragna asked with confusion.

"It's pronounced 'coffee', and that's how we named our team."

"Okay..."

"Anyway, I'm Coco, and I'm the leader," the introductions are now in place and she showed the rest of her teammates. "This is Fox, Velvet, and Yatsuhashi."

"Nice to meet you all," the white-haired man shook his hands with them.

Coco has her eyes on Penny.

"It's good you're back to the land of the living," she smirked a compliment.

"You gotta thank my father for rebuilding me with a new body," Penny smiled and everyone can see how her body is now different from last time. She still has short, rather curly orange hair and her eyes are still green, but she now wears a different outfit. She still has her pink ribbon, but she now wears a white blouse, blue overalls, and black shoes. (Author's Note: Don't look at me. I just made up a new outfit for her, that's all.)

"I gotta be sure to remember that," Coco smirked as she changed the topic from Penny's return to giving her and her new friend transportation. "Anyway, you and your new friend here need transportation, right?" The robot girl nodded her head for confirmation. "Then you come to the right place. After all, we fight for Vale resistance, so you can trust us to take you to anywhere you want."

"Okay, Penny and I need to get to Mistral right now," Ragna stated.

"And we'll be happy to give you a lift," the brown-haired girl accepted the offer.

She let him and Penny to her team's airship as it took off from the ground and flying away from Vale. Ragna can only hope his new adventure would be exciting from before.

Author's Note: Nice chapter. At least Ragna won't be alone in his journey because Penny will be accompanying him.