Meanwhile...

Ayano, Seto and Mary were distributing cloaks to the people of the kingdom. This kind of winter was kind of different from the other ones. It was colder and the fjords were covered in thick ice. That didn't usually happen.

As said, Kano left Ayano in charge of the kingdom, which of course she could not do alone. She asked the help of Seto and Mary and the two said yeas without any hesitation. As long as it was for a kingdom they would do anything.

"Cloak. Who else needs a cloak." Ayano said out loud with a numerous number of folded cloaks held on her hands.

A boy who was a lot younger than her approached her. His arms were around his and he only had short breaths. "Could I get two? One is for Madame Hiyori." he said, shivering.

"Hiyori?" Ayano said as she recognized the name. "Where is she?" she asked looking around to see any sign of the girl.

"Don't worry Princess. Your cousin is safe inside." he said.

"Must be cold even if your in front of the fire, huh?" she said as she lent the boy two cloaks, one being blue and the other being pink.

He nodded. "Thank you, your highness." he said with a bow and left.

Ayano bowed back and returned to distributing cloaks. As she did, a voice was heard. She saw the guy named Kuroha

"You know, this is pointless." he said.

Ayano turned around and saw the guy who took away Kido's glove. He partly had fault in this.

"You!" she said, a little anger in her tone. "You have fault in this as well, do you realize that?" she said. "You even had the gut to scare Tsu-chan. She's not a monster. You are!"

"How are you so sure about that." Kuroha said with a grin.

Ayano stopped. Her face expression turned from angry to worried and scared.

Just as Kuroha was about to reach for something from the back of his suit, a hand grabbed his arm. He immediately turned around and saw a short woman with very long curly hair tied at the back.

"Azami," Kuroha said sarcastically. "I wonder what a magnificent woman like you is still doing here?" he said.

"I couldn't go home with Mary if the fjords were that frozen." she said. "By the way, I wonder what a delusional madman is doing here?" she said in an expressionless tone and face.

"Delusional madman?" Kuroha said with a sarcastic giggle. "I'm a normal person."

"You're a spirit."

"Who is soon to be the weapon of mass destruction." he whispered.

Suddenly their conversation was cut off as two horses entered the palace gates. Only thing saw there weren't any riders. Ayano dropped the cloaks and ran towards the two horses. Seto followed her and they both calmed the two horses down.

"Onee-cahn, these are Kano's and Konoha's." Seto said in a worried expression.

Ayano held the reins of the horse she head and and looked at Seto with worry.

"Well, this might explain that they're dead." Kuroha said as he approached the two.

"You!" Ayano said angrily, hand curled into a fist ready to punch Kuroha. As she saw about to storm up on him, someone held her back. It was Seto.

"Kousuke-kun, let go of me!" she said.

Seto stood there holding her two arms without any expression. She then noticed the color of his eyes changed. From it's bright yellow color to the shade of mad red. She then looked at Kuroha who was laughing madly.

"Oh princess, you really are funny." he said.

"Who are you," she said, voice with a little growl full of anger.

"I'm the spirit who is going to take over this land." he said. "But first I have to give trouble toyou royalties, and if I've done enough I'll just have to take your blood." he said as he cocked a gun he took from the back of his shirt.

Ayano tried to break free from Seto's hold but couldn't. He was too strong. She tried calling out for the other's names, even Azami, but even so they were like Seto, eyes glowing in mad red.

Giving up, she let her head down. Even so, these guys wouldn't know if she was shot or not. They were all like mindless zombies at the time. Kuroha set the tip of the gun on Ayano's head. She felt her heart beat faster and faster. As he was about to pull the trigger a gush of wind suddenly blew on him. It was so strong that he flew with it and shot the gun somewhere else away from Ayano. Ayano lifted her head up as the felt the gun tip was no longer on her head. She saw Kuroha on the ground, trying to gain balance to stand up. As she did she felt Seto let go of her. He landed on her knees with her arms extended from the ground. She quickly turned and saw a person in a long black coat. Even thought the person wore a hood covering the hair and face, she could still see that it was a boy.

The boy immediately grabbed her from the waist and jumped up very high from the ground. Ayano screamed as he did and held on to him. Kuroha on the other hand watched and pointed the gun at them as soon as he wasn't dizzy. But they were too far so he placed his gun down in disappointment.

"I couldn't get any blood from these worthless zombies over here!" he said angrily looking at everyone who's eyes were glowing red in the area.

Meanwhile Ayano and the stranger jumped up and down, only thing was the his jumping was too high.

"Put me down Put me down! Put me down!" Ayano said as he jumped up high again.

"Alright." the guy said as he landed softly on the ground.

He let go of Ayano and she landed on the soft pillow of snow on her back.

"Oops! Sorry." he said as he helped her up.

"Hey! I don't know who you are and why you jump that high, but before you drag someone you barely know out of a particular place at least let them know before you do so!" Ayano said, soft yet angry tone of voice.

"Hey! I saved your life! If I hadn't then maybe this wonderful land of yours would be a place of snakes, blood, and fire." the guy said in a loud voice.

"Snakes? Blood? Fire?" Ayano said in shock. "What are you talking about?"

"That person is someone who could bring mass destruction to the land." he said pointing back at the direction to where the kingdom was. "He is a killing machine. Only reason why he hasn't killed anyone who he turned into a zombie, YET, is because he is going to use them as an army to take over everything else which is left, either in this weather or not."

"Oh," was all Ayano could say.

Ayano fell into silence. This was all coming to her all so suddenly. She fixed her scarf which was blown by the wind while he was jumping and took a deep breath in. She had to stay calm.

"Can anything.. or anyone stop him?" she asked, looking at the hooded guy.

"True love could." he said.

She laughed. "Then I couldn't do it." she said as she crouched on the ground, face buried in her knees. A sob was then heard from her.

The guy looked at her for a long moment. She sighed at keeled on one knee. "Hey," he said patting Ayano's head. "You know, maybe we could find someone with a true love, and maybe we could stop him."

Ayano looked up and sniffed. She was really crying. She wiped her tears with her bare hand and stood up. To guy followed.

She then shook her head in disagreement. "I'm not going to waste my time going around these parts looking for two people falling in love. Instead, I'm going to go find Tsu-chan and Shuuya and set things right with them." she said as she turned around and started walking. She lifted the skirt of her winter cloak up and walked her boots through the thick pillow of snow.

"Hey, you can't go alone. It's dangerous." he said.

"Tsu-chan is not dangerous." she said with a warm tone and smile while she was walking.

"Even so, I'm coming with you." he said walking after her.

Ayano stopped and turned around. The boy stopped as well and they were both looking at each other.. not really. Ayano was only looking at the boy's covered face.

"If you are coming with me, you have to lose that hood." she said. "And also, I still don't know your name."

"You can call me Shin." he said.

"Shin?" Ayano said tilting her head a little to her side. "What about Shin-kun." she said.

"Works for me." he said as he let unbuttoned the only button of his very long cloak. As he did, it faded with the wind and a boy with short black hair was revealed. His eyes were pure black and in stared at Ayano like daggers.

She gave out a nervous laugh. "Well then Shin-kun, let's go. We haven't got all day."

"Actually we do." he said as he followed Ayano.