On the other side, Rachel is walking alongside Hayari and Raven. Speaking of the latter, she thought back on what the masked warrior's response to her question last night.
"What's the promise you're going to fulfill by killing her?" Raven asked.
"To save my future, that's what. She had some connection to the person I was going to kill," the warrior responded to the question. "In my past, I lost the man I loved named Jin Kisaragi because he fought this man. When I came to his rescue, a Murakumo Unit attacked us. She was crazy about that person he was fighting if I'm not mistaken. I fought this Murakumo as best as I could, but she just wouldn't die. We fought and fought until I was drained of my strength. Just as I was about to meet death at this very moment, Jin took the blow in my stead, and he died from it. I pursued her and that man through the portal, despite my weakened state."
"That was some determination coming from you," the dark-haired woman commented.
"You know her, she's fighting for someone she loves," Rachel commented.
"What happened next?" Raven asked for a continuation.
"I landed in the past, and that's where I met her..." Hayari looked at Rachel. "She made me an offer to become a hero in my own right, so I accepted it. She bit me, and that turned me into a dhampir. It granted me powers, including super strength and immortality. I wielded this large sword you see before you called Okami. I lived through years fighting off monsters, becoming a hero in the legend everybody sees. And that's when I met her to fulfill the promise."
After recalling the events, she couldn't wait to meet this person they're talking about. Hayari might have already sensed he is here in this world.
Author's Note: Just adding a chapter. What do you think of the reverse origin that made future-past Tsubaki become like Hakumen except she doesn't wield the Susanoo Unit, not after it was lost in the Boundary forever after the events of Central Fiction?