Kazuma lays on the cold concrete and starts to laugh he ignores Masaki who is still glaring at him, and in all honesty, he doesn't know why he's laughing, the only thing that he does know is that this feels right.
This felt familiar in more ways than one.
He can feel his wet clothes sticking to his body and as he looks at the stars that are starting to come out now that the clouds are leaving he can't help but laugh.
"Kazuma?" Kazuma hears someone say to him and as he moves his head up to see who it is he finds that one of his classmates is standing behind him.
"Hey umm...sorry I forgot your name." Kazuma says to him.
"It's Shiki and" Shiki says to him as he shows Kazuma a card that's glowing with blue light.
"So your one of us." Kazuma says to Shiki as places his hands on the ground and listens to the splashing sound that his hands make the moment that they make contact with both the puddles of water and the ground beneath them.
Kazuma reaches into his pocket and takes out the disk that connects him to Masaki's spirit and squeezes it and making it create the sword of green light.
"So what do you want?" Kazuma asks Shiki who just keeps on staring at the sword that he's holding.
"I saw you fall from the roof and I thought that you might know something about the portals." Shiki says to Kazuma as he looks up to the sky and stares at the portals, which are still open even though the rain had stopped.
"So what does that card do?" Kazuma asks Shiki who doesn't answer him but instead points at Kazuas sword.
'What, it's a disk that makes a green sword, it's as simple as that." Kazuma says to Shiki.
"I saw the blue bow and arrow, but I didn't see who was holding them." Shiki says to Kazuma as he starts to look around.
"So you're able to see the energies but you are not able to see the forms." Kazuma says t Shiki as he walks up to him and loosens his grip on the disk causing the sword to vanish.
He quickly grabs the card out o Shiki's hand and allows his power to flow into it, Shiki watches as the card's blue light changes until it's glowing green instead of blue.
Even as Shiki takes his card back both Kazuma and Masaki can't help but gasp, as the glow of the portals, catches their attention, they're soon joined by Shiki who gasps at the sight of Masaki who he wasn't able to see before.
"I think he's connected to the South Side of the World." Masaki says to Kazuma as she looks at the portals where the whale-like creature was swimming in and out of earlier.
"How I mean that thins on top of us?" Kazuma asks Masaki.
'The sides of the word aren't just North, South, East, and West they're entire dimensions that are the same size as our world." Masaki answers Kazuma she turns to look at Shiki.
"So what are we going to do with him, his powers are connected to the South and you made him able to see someone that's connected to the East, that makes him your responsibility because you gave him that power." Masaki says to Kazuma.
"Waite, I wasn't able to see the portals before, doesn't that make me his responsibility?" Kazuma asks Maszki.
'No, because you stole this power from him." Masaki says to Kazuma.
'Hey I'm standing right here, but no I don't know anything about this." Shiki says to Masaki and Kazuma as he points to the portals and then to Masaki.
"That settles it, he's your responsibility." Masaki says to Kazuma.
Kazuma smirked, he didn't want to get his first teammate like this or maybe Shiki was his third-party member because Masaki and Kanade were technically his partners now.
"Come on, let's go get something hot to drink." Kazuma says to Shiki as he turns and starts to walk back to his apartment.
The walk back was silent with Shiki letting out small gasps whenever they walked past a ghost or something that was out of the ordinary.
At the same time, both Kazuma and Masaki kept looking at the things that they weren't able to see before.
They could see the lines that connected everything and they were quickly becoming used to ignoring them, as the lines didn't seem to do anything, except make it hard for them to see what was there and what wasn't.
The sound of something loudly crashing into a car caught their attention and Kazuma pulled Shiki towards a nearby alley.
He was forced to cover Shikis mouth when he was about to scream in terror when a Hollow landed on top of the woman that was usually killing them.
"No." Masaki says as she recognized the body that the Hollow is holding.
"Yuzu." she says as she summons her bow and arrow and is about to kill the Hollow when her son runs in front of her.
She watches how the creature tossed Ichigo aside and how her son is rescued by the Soul Reaper before he hits the ground.
She's forced to watch as the Soul Reaper stabs her son and turns him into a Soul Reaper by granting him her powers.
"Ichigo." Masaki tries to call her son, but her heart hurts too much as she watches him kill the hollow before grabbing both the Yuzu and the Soul Reaper and carrying them both home.
For a long moment none of them said anything and when they were all sure that it was safe for them to move Kazuma finally let go of Shiki and they both let out a breath of relief.
"Kazuma, we're going to the lab." Masaki says to Kazuma.
'Why now?" Kazuma asks Masaki but she doesn't answer.
"So what do we do about Shiki, I mean he's right here." Kazuma asks Masakiwho turns and glares at him.
"Bring him with us, he's a part of this now." she says to Kazuma.
Kazma doesn't say anything, not because he's afraid of Maaki but because he knows that she's planning to do something that she just hasn't told him yet.
He places his hand on Shiki's shoulder and they find themselves in the tunnels underneath the desert.
The three of them are forced to cover their eyes as their minds are flooded with the strings that cover Hueco Mundo, Kazuma teleports again and they find themselves inside the laboratory.
They all gasp for air as they struggle to control themselves after what their minds just went through.
Masaki can feel herself becoming more solid while she's in the laboratory, she originally wanted to tell Kazuma to grab a pair of disks and give them to her girls but she found that Ryūken had already separated the disks into two groups.
The ones that have spirits inside of them and the ones that didn't.
She walked towards a pair that didn't have spirits and picked them up before walking back to Kazumas side.