Chapter 3: Time Travel in the Chaotic World
Both Krelian and Kyun-bin are amazed to see Rhima's new look with her medium-length hair has been cut short while retaining her fringes in her hair.
"Wow... you look different today, Rhima."
Rhima looked at the mirror and she feels fine after her decision to cut her hair. Her reason for this is because of her father Hunyo who told her to go to Jin's world at the World of Tekken.
"How was it, Rhima? You feel okay with your new look." Kyun-bin asked which Rhima answers his question.
"It's okay. I just want to change my look for the better. Actually, those people who makes up with all of you is to make yourself clean and clear."
"Is Rhima is saying is true, Kyun-bin?" Krelian asked which Kyun-bin responds to his question.
"Uhm, yes... a lot of idols and celebrities in my place are always giving a makeover even us who put us with lipsticks."
"Guys in my place are never seen with lip gloss or a lipstick. I've never seen Koreans would do all this." Rhima commented and decided to leave. "I gotta go, you two."
"Rhima... there's something I want to tell you." Krelian said when trying to stop from leaving.
"What is it, Krelian?"
"You see, Rhima... Kyun-bin has a-?"
Rhima looked to see Kyun-bin who is indeed had a crush on her right from the beginning and noticing his interests in her. They begin to have a lunch date at Wymdell's Al Fresco which is far from La Franco's. Rhima still remembers about her last date with Jin before he returns back to his own world.
Flashback:
"There's so many motorcycles have parked in this restaurant. At least my motorcycle is much better than them." Jin commented about the other motorcycles had parked at La Franco's.
"I'd be honest with you, Jin. A lot of motorcycle riders usually eats here either lunch or dinner. Here in Tanay, Rizal, it's going to be a lot colder at night." Rhima said nicely to him.
Jin finally sees the Sierra Madre mountains, reminding him as how his mother Jun had raised him in the mountains of Yakushima as he feels the cold wind and he breathes in fresh air.
If only if I can take Rhima to my home place at Yakushima if our lives in my world became much more normal. But now it became chaotic because of my father Kazuya. It's my fault for starting a dumb war to make myself free from the Devil Gene within me. Her father, Mr. Panganiban had told me about my grandmother Kazumi Mishima who had started this Devil Gene bloodline and why I'm still alive because of my devil's blood in my veins.
Jin looked to see Rhima had put something on the wall with many sticker emblems in it and he goes to see her.
"What did you put on the wall, Rhima?"
"This is where all of the symbols from any motorcycle club had sticked into the wall. So that a lot of motorcycle riders can freely eat in this place." Rhima answered and Jin sees the sticker of a demon face.
"It was a hannya. Did you make one, Rhima?"
"I tried to drew this face and I asked to a friend of mine to make a sticker version for this." Rhima said and Jin smiles because she knows about the colors she had put on the sticker.
"You got my colors, Rhima."
"The colors that I've drawn on that demon face is the same colors that my father works in UE. Seems like you easily figured it out." Rhima smiles at Jin when he easily figured it out about the colors she had used for the drawing and he snickers.
"It is the same colors of my gauntlets and footpads that I wore on the fourth tournament. I wish if I could wear any sorts of designs from my karate outfits."
"Let's get order some lunch, Jin." Rhima said smiling towards him which he replies.
"Sure..."
Flashback over:
"Rhima, are you okay? You look so sad after we give you a make over." Kyun-bin asked worriedly about Rhima which she was surprised and apologize.
"Ah... sorry... I just remember someone who usually takes me here in Tanay. But it was my first time to eat lunch at Wymdell's."
"It's okay..."
As soon as they eat lunch, they privately had a conversation between the two of them and Kyun-bin was surprised after hearing her story.
"So you're travelling around the world. That was crazy."
"My dad told me that I had to deal with some people with difficult problems." Rhima said sadly and soon tells him. "I know you're getting interested in me or something."
"How did you know?"
"Krelian told me about you had a crush on me when you visited at the Alberto Magnus Building of UST." Rhima said with a calm tone of her voice.
"The first time I've saw you, you're always in a hurry for no good reason when I visited on that building to recruit some college students for my Christian D-Group. It was my first time to see a Filipino woman like you who is naturally beautiful. This is why I think if making a music composition about you." Kyun-bin finally admits his crush towards her.
"My heart belongs to someone that I knew." Rhima said finally rejecting his love and crush on her. "We maybe got separated for months, I still think about "him". I guess his calls on me was not a plagued after all. He just wanted to see me again."
"By God's grace, Rhima. I wanted to pray for your safe trip. I will wait for you in your return." Kyun-bin said and he decided to wait for her once she returns as she thought.
Guys like him can be a little hypocrite at times. Even Hwoarang would told me a lot of things about his home country at South Korea. He thinks that I would be travelling around the world. But not knowing that I'm going to Jin's world which is the World of Tekken. I feel sorry for Kyun-bin. He was a nice and gentle person and a Christian singer like Krelian. I guess a lot of people these days are always open for me to have lunch dates.
Returning back to the Panganiban residence, Rhima sees her room and she gets a jewelry box which contains a gold locket and it was a picture between her and Jin. She remembers about how Jin gives her this necklace as a memento for him once he returns back to his world. Rhima finally wears a black loose necklace where the gold locket was hanging loose after she replaced an actual gold chain necklace and soon leaves to her room. At the foot of Mt. Arayat where it kept Keiya's secret base of operations in Silveria Corporation. Rei decided to activate the time machine they had been tested for months and it was the same machine used where the Tekken characters can enter the portal leads to their own world.
"Can real people will enter the portal in a place like this?" Rolento asked and Rei tells them.
"This is just like what our game partners would go back to their own world. It was the first time that some of us could make a time travel on it."
"So you're dealing a tyrannical businessman, dad." Rhima asked which her father Hunyo reveals his answer.
"Yeah... he was the one who caused the bombing in Silveria Corporation and I want more information in order to stop him."
"..."
"Nice haircut you have there, Rhima. It will be a perfect disguise for you." Hunyo compliments on his daughter's hairstyle and finally tells her. "Your uncle Roddy is gonna accompany you when you travel to the World of Tekken. I know their world is a part of the game that we usually play so you don't get involved on their recent problems and their storylines. Your task is to restore the broken link between our world and theirs."
As soon as Roderick came to see them Hunyo decided to let him look after his daughter.
"Roddy. Just look after my daughter, okay."
"Sure, Hunyo. We'll not going to get separated once we arrived."
"Here take these controllers, if you press that button at the center, both of you will be back here in the real world in case if Kazuya had continued his bloody terrorism towards humanity. The World of Tekken is now in a complete destruction at Kazuya's hands." Rei gives them both a device similar to the remote control as the machine finally activates which created a time portal.
"I hope you can stop that man, dad." Rhima said telling her father as she looked at Roderick and both nod and both of them enters the time portal as it whited out in a flashes of light.
Both Roderick and Rhima are travelling through time and space filled with multicolors as it immediately whited out. Roderick immediately gets up after they got transported and to his horrible surprise, Rhima was not with him and they got separated as he thought.
Oh no! Rhima is not with me! Hunyo is gonna kill me if she and I got separated apart.
He noticed he was at the military base similar to what his colleagues at the Interpol who works at and was cornered by soldiers as their leader arrives to see him as he mumbles in a shock.
"Holy cow... Is Hunyo is saying this for real? These are the characters that they stayed at our world?"
"Another innocent civilian... what brings you here?"
Roderick was surprised that the man who leads with his soldiers was actually Lars. Meanwhile, Rhima soon gets up and seeing the debris and surroundings all over the alleyway. Her father Hunyo and her childhood friend Rei was right about Jin's world which is more chaotic due to bloody terrorism and the war against humanity. As she walks by, she realizes that she was at the destruction of New York City in which Kazuya had already terrorized the whole city within his devil form as she thought.
Why am I here at New York City? It's all in shambles...
Rhima remembers what her father's warning about Kazuya which is Jin's father who is mainly responsible for all these destructions until a vision where both Jin and Kazuya are about to clash each other because of their Devil Gene and it becomes an aerial but a deadly brawl. Rhima knows that Jin did his best to battle his own father until she saw another vision where Jin was overpowered in a fight which happens when his own father had defeated him and a close up of his face can be seen. Rhima realizes that she was not plagued after all where Jin had been calling her most of her time at her own world as she thought while showing her intellectual side in a grimace.
A brains like myself would be call upon by a man who is literally a total brawn as my game partner. Like my dad says, I won't be involved into their chaotic mess. But I sensed someone was behind in my shoes and my dad knew who it was.
With this, Rhima had no choice but to walk around the remains of New York City as well as to find Roderick due to both got separated during their time travel.
Trivia:
*Rhima noticed about Kyun-bin's crush on her which shows him being her second official love interest since Krelian tells her that he had a crush on her upon meeting each other from the beginning.
*Jin's current look during flashbacks is from his Story Mode appearance in Tekken 8 rather than his appearance in Tekken 7 Story Mode.
*Rhima's main outfit in Purging of Evil is an outfit worn by Fuko Kirisawa in the manga/anime Flame of Recca where she first battles Fujimaru as she wears a dark blue cargo vest beneath her white long sleeve shirt and her jeans-like slacks are blue gray.
*The time portal that Rhima and Roderick had travelled is much like in the crossover fic Powers and Fists: Next Warp Zone.
*Lars now appears in his new main outfit in Tekken 8.
*The way Rhima visions of how the battle takes place in an actual game is how Hunyo did in his travels in The Strangest Things: The Last Revelation. In her case, she personally sees a vision of Jin and the main reason of calling to her in the real world.
