Kotori's blood pressure was rising as the ride she was riding on, next to her was her big brother, Shido. Kotori was sweating bullets as the ride escalated her, higher and higher. She might've thrown up if she was afraid of heights. She turned to Shido, but he was grinning ear to ear. There was no exit from this escalating doom, and Shido knew this. Kotori asked. "Shido.. are you sure? Is it too late to get off? I want off."

"Oh, it's WAY too late now."

The ride suspended. For a minute, nobody moved. And then suddenly, without warning, it came swooping down. Kotori's screams filled the air.

"Should we depart now? I've gotten intel about strange otherworldly beings that are not Spirits." A female spoke in the darkness.

"Not Spirits you say?" A man in a darkly dimmed office thought to himself. "I do not suppose this was part of the plan?"

"It wasn't. I've managed to gather information for approximately seven otherworldly beings." The female passed down some documents that were somehow bypassed from Fraxinus over to this mysterious duo.

"Let's take a gander, shall we?" The man turned on a light, which revealed the man to have spiky, dark ash blond hair. "Hmm. These documents come with pictures. These could be helpful in the experimentations. First document... A man named... Mario. Strange. Out of all these 7 documents, only three are close to human. Mario and... Luigi, it seems And a lovely princess figure named... Peach. The rest definitely do not seem normal. How interesting. Yoshi, Bowser, a... smaller version, and Kamek.."

"If I believe correctly, we've already got one of them." The woman simply said.

"Yes, I'm aware. But it could not communicate whatsoever. It kept saying it's own name, unable to even talk. At least the DNA confirmed it was this Yoshi character. I have already dealt preparations to keep it contained in that place. Now," He looked at the documents again. "Do you know which one the potential leader of these beings could be?"

"If I recall correctly, every quest has been led by the red one. Very well. I shall test him soon. After we get rid of this other problem."

"Ah, yes. I should expect the Strongest Wizard In Humanity to know when to stand by when a great Flame Spirit comes soon." The man chuckled.

"I'm counting on you, Ellen. Please be patient." The man continued, and looked down at the picture of Mario, malicious intent in mind.

Mario was surfing down the jungle cruise on a log while standing up because he was that cool. "Yippee!"

Meanwhile, Luigi was crying for his life while he was tightly buckled in on a flume log. "Waaa-haaaa!" Of course, his ride was calmer than Mario's, but it was still nerve-wrecking to Luigi.

"C'mon, Luigi! Live a little! We're in-a this strange new dimension, far away from-a the Mushroom Kingdom! Might as well make-a the most out of it!" Mario was beaming as he was still log surfing.

"I.. I want to, Mario! But this flume is going way too fast!"

"It's going down a GENTLE stream!" Mario then backflipped onto another log flume and realised his mistake. The log flume that Mario jumped on was owned by Tohka and Yoshino.

"A-aaa!" Yoshino screamed.

"Whaaaaa-!" Tohka also screamed.

Luigi gave Mario a 'I told you so' expression as he gently rid down his log flume.

Another high ledge. This time it was a rollercoaster. Kotori was quivering and sweating, as she turned to Shido. "You got me..." The rollercoaster dropped down it's steep end, going a million miles an hour, just like the chair drop. Kotori screamed the same scream as she did before. The rollercoaster wasn't even really that intense. It was the steep bit and that was it. Kotori was much more of a crybaby than she let on to be. The Fraxinus crew were watching the aftermath of the ride, Kotori yelling at Shido.

"Is Shido going to be alright?" Kannazuki started.

"I believe so. This is probably the best way to approach the Kotori problem. Shin is doing better than expected. I might have jumped the gun by expecting this to end badly." Reine just watched the scene unfold.

"I hope your right." Kannazuki was worried as Shido and Kotori entered a ghost house called a Monster Horror House.

Skeletons, undead people, zombies... blue torches, all the sorts of things you'd expect from a horror house. Let's be thankful Luigi isn't here. Shido didn't mind the horror house, but Kotori looked as lifeless as the props themselves. Shido extended his hand. "Here, Kotori, take my hand."

"What?! Don't treat me like a kid! Shido, could it be that YOU'RE the one who's scared?!" Kotori tried to smoothly lie to hide her own fear.

Shido lies more, apparently. "That's right! Just hold my hand already!"

"W-what? You're grossing me out!"

"I'm so scared, Kotori! Please hold my hand!" He faked bawling his tears.

"Okay, whatever!" The two linked hands after Kotori grumbled a bit.

The one who screamed this time was Kannazuki. "You wasted a great opportunity, Shido! Had you hugged the commander instead, you could have felt her soft breasts and might have gotten her to mark your face with the hard sole of her shoes!"

Now they were in a go-kart, Doki Doki Racing, and Kannazuki was having a Doki Doki Panic."What? Why are they both in the kart?! Shido should have let her ride the kart after he frantically ran along ahead of her! The commander's kart would then close the gap with blinding speed! As he falls over, the bumpers would leave marks on his shoulders after the kart Rams straight into him!" Did he just capitalise 'Ram'? Goodness knows. "Ah! Commander!" He flailed around on the floor. "Have mercy! Have mercy!"

All the Fraxinus members just looked at him pathetically. "Shido was right. Throwing the communicator away was a good move."

They all nodded.

The scene was now a giant boat with Tohka, Yoshino, Mario and Luigi. There were no rough waves, just smooth sailing from here.

"Yeah! This jungle cruise is every bit as good as Shido suggested it would be!" They were all on the back seats of the boat, looking out to the boat's back, smooth water behind them.

"It is fun, right...?" Yoshino said.
"We can take it easy, too!" Yoshinon then said.

"But I had-a fun on the log flumes..." Mario pouted and folded his arms.

"Not everyone did!" Luigi cried out.

"Even still," Tohka turned to them. "All of this would've been even more fun if Shido and Kotori were here as well. Why didn't they come?" Yoshino tried to raise her hand as if to speak, but Tohka was persistent. "Alright! I should call them!"

"P-please don't, Tohka!" Yoshino whimpered.

"Why? The more the merrier!"

"That is not it..."
"We MIGHT have heard something major." A brief flashback began. Reine and Shido talking on the Fraxinus. Yoshino was there the whole time.

"Kotori's a Spirit?!" Tohka was shocked.

"Hey, now." Mario's pouty face turned into a serious one as he still folded his arms. "I thought-a we went over this last chapter."

"It's still hard to believe..." Luigi sighed.

Yoshino continued. "Shido is trying to seal her powers as he did with you and me..."
"I heard them say that no-one knows what will happen to Kotori if he fails. We shouldn't get in the way."

"I see..." Tohka sighed. "Is there anything we could do? We owe Kotori. I wish they'd also let me help."

"I think we owe Kotori too, Bro." Luigi said. "When I was carrying your unconscious body in that crazy rooftop battle, Kotori transported me up when I had nowhere to go!"

"Yeah. I think I was-a transported too when I got knocked out during my-a first fight with Origami..." Mario folded his arms again.

"Kotori..." Tohka continued. "How do I put it? She smells like Shido."

"That's because they use the same shampoo!" Yoshinon shouted. "Ahahahahaha!"

"All we can do.." Yoshino said quietly, "Is trust Shido."

"Emergency alert!" Sirens went off in the AST base. "Unit DW-029 is missing! All attempts to trace it are failing!"

Ryouko and an AST soldier just stared at the blank spot where the unit was meant to be. "The entirety of the White Licorice equips along with all of the unit's ammo are gone. We discovered the unit was missing when we returned from our break after the deployment inspection."

Ryouko remembered something Origami said. "With this, defeating Efreet might be possible."

"Origami..."

The brother and sister were now on a park bench. Kotori breathed a sigh of relief while Shido breathed a sigh of excitement. "Okay, I didn't know theme parks could be this much fun!" Shido was happy.

"Right, you're such a kid. I hope you grow up before graduating high school."

"I don't want to hear that from someone who enjoyed the splash coaster so much."

"What did you say?!" She gritted her teeth but then stopped. "I'll let it go since I'm tired. Anyway, I can say it wasn't boring."

"Okay, I see." Shido gazed into the distance, as a thought entered his head. "When was the last time we came to a theme park? If it was with our family, then..."

"Five years ago."

"It's been that long?" Shido remembered the similarities. Origami's parents died 5 years ago. Kotori became a Spirit 5 years ago. Shido stared at Kotori, in which she took notice.

"What?" Kotori asked, but Shido continued staring. "Huh? Could it be-?"

"Kotori."

"Y-yes?" Kotori started fidgeting. "S-shido, um... Your timing is perfect, but don't you think we should head to some place that's less crowded?"

"Why?"

"A-are you serious?"

"This place is as good as any other. So.. Kotori?"

"What is it...?"

"I have a question for you."

"Y-you shouldn't ask me to kiss you like that out of the blue!" She then turned to Shido. "Wait, what?" She stuttered, then proceed "N-nothing! What do you want to ask me? Just get it over with already!"

"S-sure thing." Shido then told her. "S-so, Kotori, five years ago, what did you-" Shido's sentence was interrupted by a green forcefield of some kind. Not even a a second later, an explosion happened literally millimeters away from him. The dust eventually went away, Shido quickly stood up and looked to his left where the explosion happened. Replacing Kotori's spot was an incinerated bench, with smoke still spewing out. It took Shido a second to realise what had just happened. He ran towards the blasted part of the bench. "Kotori!" He ran but was immediately blocked by the green forcefield again. He turned his head to the sky. And there he saw a familiar short-white-hair girl. Origami, wearing a not-so-familiar battle outfit.

"Shido, this place is dangerous. Get away from here." Origami was as serious as ever.

"Origami...?!" Shido was still mentally shocked over what just happened. His sister COMPLETELY obliterated within a single second. "Origami! Do you have any idea what you just did?!" Shido kept yelling while the people around him started to evacuate to safety.

"I killed Kotori Itsuka." Origami said as if it was nothing.

Shido gritted his teeth, but then heard a voice. It sounded like... Kotori. "You've killed me? I dare you to say that again. Keep boasting, girl." A giant burst of flames cleared away the smoke, revealing Kotori in the air. The flame aura around her continued as she floated to the ground. The flames disappeared as soon as she landed. "Origami, I thought you were wiser than this." The people were still evacuating, but Kotori, Shido and Origami were just still. "No alert had been issued. No one had evacuated the premises either. Even so, you fire your missiles around with no discretion whatsoever. You didn't strike ME as being a crazy bitch."

Origami gritted her teeth at Kotori's curse, and then fired her bullets mercilessly. "Kotori!" Shido's screams were useless, as Kotori summoned a flame barrier when the bullets got closer.

"Elohim Gibor." Kotori called out. The flames around her intensifies. Her current cute-sy clothes disintegrated and was now replaced with firey smoke. Her clothing then materialised from the flames and the fire, revealing her own Astral Dress. She now wears a white kimono and has a pair of horns sticking out from her ribbons. The ribbons also gain gold flower patterns on them. She stopped transforming and grinned at Origami.

Origami couldn't believe her eyes. There, standing before her, was the Spirit of Flame itself. The same one that killed her parents five years ago. Kotori still wasn't finished as she summoned her weapon. "Camael." A giant axe formed in Kotori's hand and she swung it, preparing for battle.

Origami took no funny business and charged in. "I found you... FINALLY!" The battle between the two knocked Shido back a bit as he stumbled and hit the ground.

"Kotori! Origami! Stop it!" Shido's screams were muffled by the explosions of missiles and flames between Origami and Kotori. "Stop it! Please!"

Tohka and Yoshino were confused. They heard explosions and saw people running. "Blasts? Don't tell me... Kotori?!" Tohka instantly tried to go save Kotori but was stopped by the hand puppet, Yoshinon. "W-what are you doing?"

"You can't go, Tohka! Remember, your powers are sealed inside Shido now! Judging from these explosions, the enemy is quite powerful! If you get involved, you might not survive!" Tohka then patted Yoshinon for trying their best to protect Tohka. She gripped Yoshinon's hand.

"Thanks for the warning. But I can't just abandon Shido." She suddenly started glowing, as limited parts of her Astral Dress came back to her. "Since Shido is doing his best to save Kotori, I have to do all I can to protect him. Now, before I leave..."

"...?"

"Where's Mario and that green guy?" Tohka turned with a serious look on her face. Just then, an Italian voice rose.

"Sorry we're-a late. We were-a getting ready for the battle." Mario...

"Yeah. Let's save them." And Luigi...

But they were not in their swimming trunks right now. They were wearing red and green 'M' and 'L' hats. Mario wore a red shirt and blue overalls, and Luigi wore a green shirt and blue overalls. Yes, it's their classic looks that everyone knows them for. Mario grinned at Tohka. "So, whaddya say? Let's-a-go?"

Tohka grinned back, as Tohka flew up and the brothers jumped away, leaving Yoshino behind.

"Yoshinon... can I go too?"
"I won't stop you, if it's what you really wanna do."

Yoshino started to glow just like Tohka did.

The battle between Origami and Kotori was airborne as Kotori didn't have a single scratch. "You sure are using some nasty weapon there." Kotori remarked while Origami squinted her eyes. Kotori flew around, leaving a firery trail, very similar to the trail that Bowser had when crashlanding back down to the Mushroom Kingdom.

"Activate Territory!" Origami commanded as a green forcefield surrounded Kotori. "Lock coordinates!" Missiles fired towards Kotori's limited space. A giant explosion occured within the forcefield known as Territory, as there was nothing left but smoke and rubble. Origami panted for breath, but had an angry look when she realised Kotori STILL wasn't damaged at all.

"Not bad. I've never seen that unit before. Is it a new machine?" Kotori had a flame in her hands with a sadistic grin on her face. She then realised it as her eyes shrunk as she clasped her head. "No... I used too much..."

"Kotori!" Shido shouted.

Origami commanded another attack. "Activate Cleaveleaf!" Glowing green wires sprouted out of Origami's suit and latched onto Kotori, capturing her successfully. "Activate Territory!" The green forcefield appeared once again, completely trapping Kotori. "Erase her, Blasterq!" A green laser fired onto the Territory, which was so powerful, smaller green lasers bounced off and exploded everything in sight."

"Kotori!" Shido continued to plead.

Kotori, however, was more than okay as she swung her giant axe upon Origami's machine. It plummeted the both of them. Origami was panicking as Kotori kept hacking away at the machine with her axe. "Activate Defense Territory!" A green forcefield then surrounded the mech, as Origami got a stable flying level, but was constantly in pain by Kotori.

"What happened to that confidence you had a moment ago?" Kotori grinned ear to ear, showing her insane grin. "Weren't you going to defeat me? Weren't you going to dispose of me? Weren't you going to kill me? You have to fly much more quickly! Point your sword and guns at me! Otherwise, you're going to die first!"

"Kotori! Stop it!" Shido was now desperate to save BOTH of them.

Eventually, the axe swing broke the Territory, as the machine that Origami was piloting crashed down.

"What? Is that all you got?" Kotori continued. "What a buzzkill." She then raised her axe. "Camael. Megiddo." The axe instantly transformed into a cannon, as she aimed at Origami. "Oh well, if you are no longer able to fight, you aren't of any use to me."

"Kotori, STOP!" Shido started running.

The cannon started charging. "Efreet...!" Origami managed to utter that name.

"I don't like that name. Where did you learn about it?"

"Did you use that to kill them? Five years ago, to kill my parents?!"

Kotori stopped charging her cannon. "What? What're you talking about?"

"Five years ago, my parents were killed by the Spirit of fire. You were the one who did it! How could I forget? I'll NEVER forget! That's why I'll kill you. I'm going to kill you. I'll kill you even if it's the last I do, Efreet!"

Kotori took a step back in shock, and crouched down trying to fight back the truth. "No way... I..."

But this was a trap set up by Origami. She quickly reactivated her mech again and took off into the skies. "I won't miss this time!" More energy whips held Kotori hostage and activated a Territory around her.

"Kotori!" Shido kept running.

"White Licorice, overdrive mode."

Finally, Shido caught up and put his arms out like a shield in front of Kotori, very similar to the Kurumi scene back on the school rooftop. "Origami, stop! Please!"

"Don't get in my way, Shido."

"I won't let you do this!"

"As I've said before, avenging my parents is the only thing I live for. Killing Efreet, Kotori Itsuka, is my only reason for living!"

But Shido was persistent. "No! I won't let you kill her! As soon as you pull the trigger, there's no turning back!" Shido didn't want the same situation of Mana to happen to Origami. "I don't want to ever see you end up like THAT!"

"I don't care. I must kill Efreet, or I will never be at peace."

"Just tell me this, Origami! You want to take revenge on Efreet, not my sister, Kotori, right? It's the Spirit of fire, Efreet?"

"What are you saying?"

"Answer me! You want to take revenge on the Spirit of fire, not my human little sister, right?"

"What you say does not make sense. I certainly want to take revenge on the Spirit of fire, Efreet, but Kotori Itsuka is that Spirit. What you propose is never going to happen. Get away from there, Shido."

"No! Origami, give me some more time!"

"No, that is unacceptable. This is my best chance to slay Efreet." Origami's cannons had finished charging.

"Please! Call me naive if you want, but I can't just let my cute little sister get killed or watch my friend drown in despair!"

"Even still, I must..." Origami then summoned a second Territory around SHIDO.

"Origami!" Shido yelled, and Origami herself was reluctant to fire, as she screamed.

...and Tohka screamed at the same time as her. Tohka sliced one of the guns to weaken it. Then Mario stomped on it followed by Luigi. The gun was then frozen.

"Yahoo!" Mario landed, tipping his hat.

Shido was very relieved. "Tohka! Yoshino! Mario! Luigi! You guys are all here!"

"Are you and Kotori alright?" Tohka asked.

Yoshinon was transformed into the giant shark that was shown earlier. "Talk about great timing! That was a close call! You can thank us later!"
"B-but for now..." Yoshino quietly looked up.

"Yeah, eliminating a problem. Our-a specialty!" Mario raised his fist.

"Oh yeah!" Luigi raised his fist too.

"Don't get in the way!" Origami yelled. She then fired lasers at the four troublemakers. Tohka and Yoshino flew up while Mario and Luigi simply dodge-rolled out of the way.

Tohka somehow communicated with Shido from that height. "Shido, leave this to us and run!"

"You four..."

"Just hurry! We won't last very long!"

"Sorry!" Shido called out and grabbed Kotori princess-style and made a run for it.

Origami withdrew her laser cannons and equipped a beam sword. "I won't waste time on you!" She charged straight for Tohka, and the two of them clashed swords.

Meanwhile, on ground, Mario was struggling. "It's like-a all my shots are just ignored! How can we get-a up to her?"

"M-Mario? I hear several people!" Luigi pointed out, the crowd fleeing in terror - it was utter chaos.

"Alright, Luigi, we're-a entering combat at long last! I'm going in-a headfirst!" He nodded to Luigi as he ran straight in.

Meanwhile, in the clashing scene, Tohka and Origami were plummeting. "Stop it, Origami!" Tohka yelled. "Killing her won't change anything!"

"What the hell do you know?!" Origami yelled back.

"I know! I know all too well! Did you forget what you did to Shido?!" Tohka and Origami both remembered the same flashback of Shido getting shot. "During that incident, I felt terrible! It was unbearable! I was filled with grief! You must've felt the same way when you lost your parents! Do you really want Shido to go through all that?! I won't let that happen! I don't want to let Shido feel that pain!"

Origami eventually screamed during all of this and pushed Tohka back. However, that was part of Tohka's plan. She counterstriked with her sword, and Origami knocked her way back and shot missiles. Tohka yelled again. "MARIO!"

"I GOT IT! HERE I GO!" Mario jumped up using a Super Jump. Everything went in slow motion. Mario got a massive boost from his Super Jump and did a backflip while in the middle of all of this crossfire from all attacking parties. But Mario didn't quite make it. Just then, Mario got unstable ground in midair, gaining an extra boost. This ground was from Luigi, who used his naturally high jump to help Mario. Mario witnessed Tohka getting obliterated painfully with missiles. "You don't-a listen, huh?! MY TURN!" He twisted his foot, and stomped directly on Origami's machine, which sends it plummeting down again.

"Get away! You're not even in this grudge!" Origami yelled.

"Don't you-a know the PAIN of losing a relative?! We were-a sent to HELL before I finally reunited with-a my bro!" Mario yelled. "My bro was-a lonely for so long! Nobody helped him! He cowered all-a the time! It wasn't even his-a fault! Saving the world cost us our-a lives, and I don't-a want to see Shido in the same pain that I-a felt!" He screamed as he curbstomped harder. Origami shook him off as he fell towards the ground.

Explosions were only heard as Shido and Kotori were now safe from the all-out war.

Kotori was near-silent at this rate. "Shido..."

"It's okay. I'll sort this out somehow." He put his hand on her shoulder after looking at the explosions. "Kotori!"

"Y-yes?"

"I can't get in contact with Reine right now.." Shido thought... "I can't confirm her affection gauges... If I can't seal her powers..."

The battle with Tohka, Origami and Mario was right next to the safe zone, with Origami yelling out "Efreet!"

"Kotori!" Shido tried to get Kotori's attention. "Kotori, Kotori! You're my cute little sister! You're my greatest pride in this world! I love you so much! I love you!"

Kotori gasped.

"Kotori! Do you love me?"

"I-I can't just answer that!"

Explosions were EVERYWHERE from the battle between everyone, and it was only a matter of time before Shido and Kotori were obliterated.

"KOTORI!"

"I do! I love you too! I love you, big brother! More than anyth-" She was cut off as Shido performed the kiss seal. There was no time to think about incest for it was the heat of the moment. Shido ignored the explosions around him and they both got a flashback of when Kotori first turned into a Spirit. The glitchy figure from before was there, and just when Shido was knocked out, Kotori kissed him, sealing Efreet into Shido and healing his wounds. Shido gave Kotori the black ribbons back.

They broke apart the kiss, and Shido seemed to see it. "What we just saw..."

"I remembered... Back then, there was... someone else." Their emotional moment was cut by more explosions. Shido was then carrying Kotori princess-style as he ran away, his back getting hit by explosions. He groaned in pain.

Origami caught up eventually. "Shido!" She then saw the wounds of Shido's back getting healed by blue flames. "What was that?"

Shido got up, not even facing Origami. "Origami, do I remember correctly? You said your enemy is the Spirit of fire, Efreet, and not the human, Kotori Itsuka. Kotori's not a Spirit anymore. She's human." Shido then turned to Origami. "So, change your target. I'm Efreet now! Target ME!"

"What on earth..."

"I remembered what happened five years ago. I remembered what Kotori and I were doing at the time."

"Efreet killed my parents!"

"Efreet was certainly caused by the fire, but Kotori didn't kill anyone!"

"That's nonsense! I'm sure I saw a Spirit!"

"Because there was one, the Spirit who did this to Kotori!"

"And you expect me to believe that?"

"Yeah."

Origami descended onto the ground. "I want to believe you, but I can't!" She re-activated her beam sword.

"If you can't believe me, then shoot me."

Tohka, Yoshino, and the Mario cast were not fighting. They just stood back and watched.

"Origami, I remember what you said. You won't let anyone suffer the same way you did."

Origami was close to snapping, as her laser beam retracted. She fell to the ground, detached from the mech. "The operation limit...! No, I can't afford to fail!" She literally pulls out a normal gun.

"Please, don't take Kotori from me! She saved me! If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here! Please! Believe me!"

Origami was twitching and struggling to stay upright... and then collapsed. Shido ran to Origami.

A certain goth figure was still on top of the school roof. The one Spirit that Shido failed to save. Kurumi Tokisaki. Her clock eye was rewinding upon itself as her shadows retracted back to her normal shadow.

"That is still not enough." Kurumi looked to the sky as she ignored a giant flaming streak going straight through the sky, piercing through the clouds.

Everyone was on board the Fraxinus. "I'm sorry, Shin." Reine broke the silence. "Today's events spiraled out of control entirely because of my decision, which was wrong."

"Do you mean the decision to let the other two join in on our date? I think that was fine."

"No, you shouldn't have gone on a date in the first place. The best course of action would've been to seal Kotori's powers right after you woke up yesterday. But Kotori was looking forward to the date so much."

"Pardon? But that wouldn't have worked, would it? I can't seal them without raising the affection levels first."

Reine then pressed a button on the remote, revealing Kotori's status, including affection.

"What is this?"

"It's a summary of Kotori's affection gauges for you since yesterday." They turned to the charts. A perfect maximum score. "That's right, there has been no flaws whatsoever. The gauges have been at their maximum all this time. She said it herself, didn't she? She loves her big brother."

"What?" Shido turned to Reine, but was immediately kicked in the back by Kotori. Shido collapsed to the floor.

Kotori was rambling. "That's either an error or some bug in the system!"

"That is not the case." Reine quietly said. "The numbers are correct."

Kotori pointed to Reine. "Ten Rapsel Limited Milk Cream Puffs!"

Reine turned to Shido with no emotion. "Sorry, Shin, it must be a calculation error."

Shido slowly got up. "I-if you say so..." He turned to Kotori. "Is your body alright? Shouldn't you stay in bed?"

"I don't have time for that. I must prepare some reports. I finally remembered the Spirit who appeared five years ago. Considering how it might be possible our memories might be erased again, records must be kept somewhere other than our heads."

"I see. Don't strain yourself."

"I'll be careful. By the way, Shido..." Kotori asked just before exiting the control room. "The thing you said before sealing my Spirit powers... Is it true?"

"Of course it's true. I love you, Kotori."

Kotori blushed and started to fidget. "Uh... I... Um... I..."

"As my little sister, that is."

Shido's mistake words were quickly delivered by a karma kick to the side by Kotori. "THAT'S WHAT YOU MEANT?!"

After groaning in pain, he quickly got up. "Kotori!"

"What?"

"Those ribbons look great on you."

"Yeah, thanks, big brother." The door closed, seperating Shido and Kotori.

Sunset. A good sunset. A daily life would begin now.

The AST were putting Origami's previously used mech back into it's original position.

Tonomachi was still showing off his virtual girlfriend. Of course, the three gossipers, Ai, Mai and Mii were not impressed. Tamae was laughing in the background.

Origami was in the hospital bed, but tied up to prevent any more issues.

Mario and the crew were tidying up the amusement park after the incident.

Shido and Tohka were staring into the sunset. "Thanks for helping me back then. If Yoshino, Mario's friends, or you hadn't arrived, who knows what would've happened to Kotori or Origami."

Tohka simply shook her head. "I just reacted to your feelings. I'm sure it was the same in Yoshino's case. As for Mario, I'm pretty sure he just followed us when we went to your direction. Shido, please, if other Spirits show up, please save them. Just like you saved Yoshino, Kotori and me."

"Sure, I can promise that."

"But don't kiss them." Tohka pouted.

"Come again?"

"I-I don't really understand why, but I don't like it when you kiss someone."

"Um... well, that might prove to be problematic."

"Then kiss me now!"

"Why?!"

Tohka's eyes started watering. "Shido... you can't?"

Shido sighed and put his hands on Tohka's shoulders, and slowly leaned in. Just as they were about to, Kotori interrupted on the intercom. "Not too shabby, Shido!" Shido looked up and saw the Fraxinus come into view. "Please don't mind us and carry on to whatever you were doing!"

"What are you peeking at?!" Shido retaliated.

"Shido!" Tohka grabbed his arm. "Come on..." They both leaned in again.

The Fraxinus crew chanted. "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!"

And they did...? No, wait, they were just interrupted by a random Yoshinon out of nowhere. "To be continued!"

Yoshino was just below "...sometime..."

"Ha ha!" Mario dusted his white gloves. "Well-a done, everybody!" The amusement park was now back to it's original state.

"Yeah. And it's getting dark too! Perfect timing!" Luigi cheered.

Mario was completely. "Thank goodness that's-a over. I need a break. And, hey, this world isn't so bad! We may stay a while!"

"Yeah, cuz there's no exit." Luigi reminded.

Mario chuckled. "Ah, come-a on! Gotta stay optimistic! We saved all of-a the Spirits!"

"Oh-ho!" Luigi was excited. "Everyone's in the same spot! Let's jump in victory!"

Mario looked around himself. Luigi was still alive and well, and Efreet had just been sealed. One Efreet down, one to go!

They turned into the sunset... and jumped!

"YAHOO!" And the freezeframe was complete!