Chapter 34: Life as a Vigilante

Returning back to the UN Main Headquarters, the fighters are happy to see them okay. But to their surprise, Reina was present since they had made a getaway against her while personally meets them again.

"Reina... I would expect you waited for us there."

"Well I was outsmarted by someone who threw a smoke bomb on me and that smarty lady." Reina said pointing out on Rhima who is with Jin, Lee, Leroy, Victor, Roderick and Alisa which she confronts Rhima. "Listen smarty lady, I'm not through talking to you. I want to know more about you with your smart brain of yours."

That insult causing Rhima to make pranks by sending a swarm of flying cockroaches to the fighters, much to everyone's disgust and to the surprise of Jin, Lee, Alisa and Roderick.

"When did you get those cockroaches?" Roderick scolds Rhima for bringing the flying cockroaches which she coldly replies on Reina.

"If you keep insulting over my intelligence, my pranks can be more lethal for them. And also, they're just crickets disguised a cockroaches. They're harmless."

As Rhima walks off alone and Hwoarang was relieved that they're just crickets disguised as cockroaches using paper cut-outs. Zafina looked to see her and decided to confront her personally.

"Jin, I've never seen the young lady was not happy when she was confronted by that woman." Leroy said which he warns Reina about Rhima.

"That's what happens if you insulted her intelligence. I must warn you, she cannot be underestimated."

Reina smiles when she noticed that she was not joking about her lethal pranks and Victor sees her high intelligence.


At the volcanic island within Taal, it reveals that the authorities are trying to evacuate the residents due to the last and final bomb was remained at the main crater lake. Brian eventually meets Kevin Figeroa when he explains to them about Hunyo's current situation.

"So this is his plan, if he takes down that bomb terrorist then these moving boats would form into many flames where most of them had their gasolines to light it up. He wants to make the entire Taal Lake into the lake of flames."

"Wow... the entire Taal is going to become a limbo?" Rolento surprised and Brian reassures him.

"Nope, Hunyo made this up to think our enemy was about to be dragged in Hell. He was a creative genius to deceive the enemy."

"We can help Hunyo on his charade." Ibrahim smiled when they knew about Hunyo's plan as Rei came to see them.

"I guess using my Onmiyoji magics as a way to make illusions to think Hunyo was sided with deadly malevolent spirits on him."

Because of this, Brian asked one of the residents who was helped by the authorities to rescue his pet horses.

"How many hours to reach into the main crater lake?"

"Well they need to get through the view deck first by walking the trail in 30 minutes. Then, they need to hike on downhill to make way into the main crater lake by another 30 minutes walk."

"So it takes an hour to reach through the main crater lake." Brian said knowing the time and became concern to his friend. "In Hunyo's current age at 50, he needs to be careful. He actually go there without wearing some hiking equipment and shoes if you wanna go to that place."

At the view deck within the main crater lake, Hunyo sensed the detonating device might be planted on the main crater lake itself as he thought.

So it leads downhill, all right. It's going to be whack my shoes if I made it to the crater lake. But this threat needs to be stopped.


At Victor's office, Rhima finally tells Victor while he was with Leroy, Lee, Lars and Raven about her father Hunyo and his life as an infamous vigilante.

"My dad was a street vigilante just like Asuka's way of life in vigilantism who uses martial arts to fight any forms of street crime as he started teaching as a college sports professor. I was a kid at the time when he participated an illegal fighting tournament, thinking it was a sports tournament until we got saved by the authorities. His best friend, Uncle Kei convinces him to fight injustice with his assistance in Silveria Corporation so that he can fight against any forms of terrorism not just the Metro, the entire provinces in the Philippines or somewhere in Asian countries."

"He and I we actually fought when he's keeping secrets about this at his college office." Lee said remember the times he wants to know more of Hunyo's secrets and Leroy sees this.

"Your father was indeed a martial artist as well, young lady. I never expected that he's just like me back in those days when I mastered Wing Chun to fight those gangs who had killed my parents."

"When Mr. Lee and the others showed up either getting summoned or being accidentally released by someone else from the gadgets we had played, everything changed. My dad had new friends who decided to join up on his side. Until I was kidnapped and experimented on by John Vanderkaum who is a rogue scientist from DIRGE at my world. Because of this, my dad and his friends had infiltrated the place to rescue me." Rhima explained to them. "Uncle Kei sacrifices his life by using the last ounce of his strength to use his Onmiyoji magics to destroy the entire base to make our escape. When Uncle Kei had died from his heart illness, my dad decided to keep fighting from any threats involved in terrorism."

"He's just like me in my youth, following my father's footsteps to help those in need and becoming a war veteran who is afraid of me." Victor said reminiscing about his younger years and soon asks Rhima about Hunyo's current state. "So where is your father now? His actions reminds me of Jin Kazama who is our humanity's last savior who can save all of us from a genocide."

"My dad is currently dealing against a bomb terrorist who just terrorized the Metro and now trying to stop him to setting the last bomb on the volcanic island in Taal." Rhima answered and Victor understands her personal mission.

"I understand about your personal mission is restoring the link between our world and yours and Jin is the real key to your cause. And now that his father Kazuya had changed his plan to prevent you from finishing your personal mission and we don't want this to happen. Ms. Rhima, everyone including me and Jin to protect you from both, which is the same way as how we protected Jin."

"You don't have to worry, Rhima-san... Lars and I we're going to protect you just like we did to Jin until the very end." Lee said calmly to Rhima and finally ask them.

"How did you protect Jin from both Kazuya and G Corporation? And I want to know more about this?"

"Why don't you ask Jin about this, Rhima. Because he has more things he had gone through." Lars answered plainly.

As Rhima leaves the office, she remains regretful to her previous actions to Jin and realizing he was the humanity's last savior. She was later confronted by Zafina since she wanted to confront her personally.

"It's been a while, Rhima... I predicted that your powers are now equal to one of the two evil stars."

"Zafina..." Rhima said and noticing her left arm was demonic. "Your left arm is demonic. Mr. Lee was right about you, sealing a monstrous spirit using a forbidden technique."

"When Jin Kazama had vanquished Azazel's physical form, it's spirit still lives so I used my ancient forbidden technique to seal him from my body." Zafina explained her reasons to seal Azazel's spirit. "I'm also capable of using its powers whenever I fight. However, it begins to lose control on my arm. If it wasn't for Claudio Serafino, I would be taken over from Azazel and being released from the seal."

Suddenly, her left demonic arm was losing control of her and attempts to attack Rhima. However, it was immobilized due to her powers and Claudio arrives in time using his purification sorcery powers to reseal her left arm and succeeds.

"Thank you..."

"Thanks for the power grip, milady. Otherwise, you would be clobbered by her demonic left hand." Claudio said thankfully on Rhima's powers which surprises her.

"I never done anything, we just have a pep talk until she started to attack me."

"Let's be honest, milady. Any forms of demonic entity like the people who inherits the Devil Gene are mostly affected by that power grip of yours. Since Kazuya Mishima has more power than his own son Jin whom we tried to search for him at Xiaoyu's behest along with her pet Panda." Claudio said pointing out on Rhima's powers and Zafina apologizes for attacking her.

"Please forgive me... And I will tell you about this. We are in a brink of annihilation back then and the two evil stars have changed its course, Jin had lost his light while Kazuya had became stronger even further from his dark malevolent powers."

As Rhima eventually learns about what is happening in their world before her arrival, Reina had overheard their conversation and leaves with an evil smirk, wanting to fight her personally.


As soon as Hunyo arrives on the mouth of the volcano which is the main crater lake, he found the black backpack which contains the last and final bomb to be diffused until Jang-geum attacks him with a katana which he dodges.

"Your clever to ambush me, Jang-geum. Don't tell me that you planned to blow up here in this main crater lake. If you do this then you will awaken the active volcano by making a massive eruption."

"The bomb you attempting to be diffused by those bomb squads. This bomb will be activate by clicking with my controller." Jang-geum evilly said as he shows the remote device.

"You heartless bastard!"

"I know this place is freaking hot in here... I'm going to end your life with this sword." Jang-geum said while keeping the remote device on his coat and wielding his katana and Hunyo warns him before fighting him.

"You know if we keep staying here, because I can feel the heat of the ground within the mouth of this main crater lake of Taal volcano. You can't kill me cause I'm going to stop you!"


On the arena where previously the fighters are taking sparring sessions, Rhima was confronted by Reina who evilly smirks on her presence.

"Hey, smarty lady. You were so lucky not to get clobbered by a monster hand."

"What are you doing here?" Rhima said refusing to fight her which she reveals it.

"Instead of insulting your smart head of yours, you'd even tell me about my secret as being the aunt of Jin-senpai. I was so surprised that you have a very smart mouth."

"I was saying about my aunt in the real world. Wait, you don't mean-"

Reina evilly smiles and she attempted to attack her with a heel drop which she dodges.

"I know about all my relatives with the Mishimas. No wonder why Jin-senpai was very interested in you."

"I guess that you want to guess them who you really were. Figures, you're just a high school student in Mishima Polytechnic who loves to fight with lightning fast punches and most Mishima family relatives don't know that you're one of them." Rhima coldly grinned at her actions which makes Reina evilly smirks at her words and enjoys to fight her.

"How about just you and me fighting. I want to see how Jin-senpai had taught you to fight for real."

Rhima sees Reina's fighting stance was in Taido and knowing that her fighting abilities might be from the Mishima bloodline as she had thought and goes to her fighting stance.

When Jin spar with me at Azucena's coffee farm branch in Italy, it was very intense and knowing that he retrains me to fight not just about the G Corporation soldiers and the JACKs but his father Kazuya and his devil powers. But now I'm gonna face Reina...

As both girls are about to face one-on-one spar, Jin arrives along with Roderick and Xiaoyu and seeing Reina wants to fight Rhima personally.

"It's Rhima-san... and she's fighting that girl over there." Xiaoyu pointed out both Reina and Rhima are about to fight.

"Man, that girl was feisty." Roderick commented and Jin angrily raises his brow and he quickly runs to stop them from fighting.

"Jin!" Xiaoyu shouted while calling his name and Jin became uneasy and dismayed over Reina's decisions to fight Rhima as he angrily states.

"I already told her that Rhima-san had nothing to do this and you personally challenging her to a fight. Damn you!"

With that, Jin stops and unleashing his Heat Burst to activate his Heat, instead of using the 38FP, he does his Zanshin stance and continues to run in his Heat state, being followed by both Xiaoyu and Roderick to stop Reina from fighting Rhima.


Trivia:

*Prior to the volcanic eruption in the Taal volcano 4 years ago, hikers can get through the main crater lake in 1 hour which they take 30 minutes walk through the view deck and another 30 minutes walk downhill through the main crater lake by taking pictures before departing.

*Rhima reveals about her father Hunyo's life as an infamous vigilante due to the influence of his late best friend, Keiya Cashimiro and to honor his death to continue fighting terrorism is more like Jin's main role in Tekken 8 Story Mode.

*When Jang-geum ambushes Hunyo with a slash of his katana as he quickly dodges the slash referencing Joo Dan-te's past where he as the original Baek Joon-ki kills the original Joo Dan-te now known as the present Baek Joon-ki's unnamed father was killed from being slashed at the back with his katana when he attempted to call the authorities.

*When Zafina attempts to attack Rhima due to Azazel's power and influence is from her new Rage Art, Semper Avarus Eget.

*Reina finally shows her current fighting stance in the game when she was about to face Rhima in a fight.