Not long after seeing the projected image of the damaged cell towers, Itsuki decided to head to the scene of the attack. It was located a few miles near the border separating Tsukikage and Morizumi. It was a border evident in the presence of the mountains.

Itsuki was panting hard and doing his best to catch his breath as soon as he reached the area where the attack happened. The whole running he did nearly sapped his energy. But the sense of duty he felt as a Seitenger was stronger and so his body was able to keep up somehow.

The one that really caught his attention was the cell towers that the enemies had exploded. When he looked around, he couldn't see or even feel any presence of that Triske Monster or even the Gargonemas that had caused this. Further probing, however, made him stop in his tracks.

"Guys!" he yelled. But for some reason, he couldn't move to approach his friends now lying unconscious on the ground.

All four of them (Shuichi, Eichirou, Misae, and Erika) were on the ground face down, injured. His heart was beating fast at the sight of them like that. But something told him that he should just stay in his spot.

It was then that he knew he had to activate his Hasureiki over earth. He frowned as soon as he sensed… nothing. There was nothing there. It was strange, but it could have been the reason why a part of him was telling him that he shouldn't approach his friends.

On the spot where Itsuki saw his unconscious friends, his eyes narrowed. He made no sound as he pulled out his bladeless Hyakureider and fired several beams towards the vision. The resulting blast created a smoke, however, that made him unable to discern if he did hit something which was the one he intended to hit.

It took a while for the smoke to dissipate, but Itsuki did his best to remain alert as he waited. His Hyakureider was ready to fire shots when needed. Not long after, he got a clear visual of the area. But his blood ran cold and his eyes widened upon seeing that there was only an unconscious Erika on the spot where he fired the beams.

"What the —?" He shook his head and looked again. "This can't be! Something's definitely wrong here right now."

His mind was starting to go haywire with all the confusing visions of his friends, and now his sister, going about in front of him. He had to clear his mind or else, he would end up caught in an even bigger trap than he already was.

He took a deep breath while trying his best to stay alert. Then he stopped as his eyes narrowed at a small realization.

'That's definitely not Erika. And the earlier vision was not about my friends. I would've sensed them already if they really followed me all the way here,' Itsuki thought and soon looked around before his sight landed on the spot where the "supposed" unconscious Erika was lying.

It was then that he noticed that the figure was starting to become transparent, followed by a young girl's voice resonating in the area. It was faint, at first. He even had to strain his ears to make sure he wasn't imagining it at all. His eyes widened this time as soon as he realized that the voice was familiar.

"It can't be…" he uttered in disbelief. "That was the voice of the girl that I kept hearing in my dreams."

He looked around to see if there was someone in the area who could have been just hiding from whatever had trapped him there.

"Where are you? Tell me who you are!"

Those inquiries were only met with silence. The feeling around him was still foreboding. But for some reason, that little girl's voice that resonated in the area saying "it's okay" and "you can make it" was enough to calm his heart down. It was strange. But he didn't mind.

In the midst of that, Itsuki stopped trying to look for any signs of anyone in the area. He also stopped to his tracks as soon as he felt a surge of power beneath his feet. He soon frowned as he looked to the ground he was standing at.

"Hasureiki?"

It was when he heard a groan that gradually increased its volume until it became a full blown scream. He even had to cover his ears due to the intensity of the scream.

"What the heck?"

When his eyes landed on the spot where he saw that vision of the unconscious Erika, it exploded and out of it came a large griffin-like creature that he could now tell was a Triske Monster. The creature landed hard on the ground on its butt (or what he assumed to be its butt) after coming out of its hiding place.

"I guess that surge of Hasureiki earlier was too much for that Triske Monster to handle. Now it ended up revealing itself," Itsuki couldn't help commenting as he put his hands down covering his ears.

The Triske Monster stood up after an unsightly fall, its frustrated groan and screams continued.

"Damn it! Where the hell did that strange power source come from?" the Triske Monster grumbled as it continued to prepare and straighten itself.

"There you are…" he muttered as he started bringing out his Hyakureider once again as he extracted its blade.

After that, he inserted his Heaven's Medallion on his Celestial Shifter.

"Spirit Shift, Start!"

The command allowed him to don his Seitenger suit once again. SeitenEarth soon realized that whatever force had trapped him there didn't exactly prevent him from using his powers and becoming a Seitenger.

Right around that time, the Triske Monster was ready to attack and soon fired beams towards SeitenEarth. He was able to deflect all of it using his Hyakureider. However, he soon realized that the smoke created as soon as the beams hit some other place once he deflected them started to obscure his field of vision. More beams fired and deflected and the area was once again filled with smoke.

"Damn it! Why does this monster like so much smoke around it so much?" SeitenEarth couldn't help complaining as he tried to look around.

He strained his eyes once again to do its task, but nothing happened. There was nothing around him but smoke and more smoke.

"Why don't you fight some more, my dear green Seitenger? You seem to be the one who knew what he was doing when fighting us Tareans," the Triske Monster taunted.

SeitenEarth only gripped his Hyakureider tight as he concentrated on finding where the monster was.

"That jerk really trapped me here, huh?" he commented in a whisper.

"Not many could last in my illusions, you know. You're one of the very few who could withstand and last around Otoguri's illusions."

SeitenEarth didn't respond to that. But inside the helmet, Itsuki's eyes narrowed at what he had heard. Otoguri seemed to be the name of that Triske Monster. He couldn't help groaning inwardly at the thought that, of all days, he had ended up encountering an illusionist when he decided to skip Helen's lessons on counter attacking an illusionist enemy.

But he would deal with that later. At the moment, he had other things to worry about.

With that in mind, he dashed towards Otoguri that appeared to be busy laughing at its own work. Before SeitenEarth could even give it a chance to respond, he struck it with his Hyakureider powered by his Hasureiki. He was able to throw the creature far from its position and it hit a boulder nearby.

But he didn't want to celebrate yet at the sight.

He was able to discern that, for an illusionist, Otoguri seemed to have a tough exterior. His Hasureiki-powered slash didn't give it any scratches at all. At that moment, he knew he would have a hard time dealing with Otoguri.

"I have to endure it for a while. I'm sure the others will realize what was going on," he said to himself, preparing to go on an all-out fight with this new Triske Monster if he had to.

With a sharp sigh, he charged towards Otoguri once again. He threw barrage after barrage of energy blades to the Triske Monster before he could even give it a chance to strike at him.

SeitenEarth fueled his Hyakureider with his Hasureiki once again and faced the spot where Otoguri was. But then —

"What the —?"

His eyes widened and he froze at the vision he saw on that spot. The little girl in his dreams stood there, her back turned from him and her cream dress covered in blood. His blood ran cold at the sight. It was a scene just like from his recurring dreams about her.

The green Seitenger was about to take a step forward to check on the girl, when a large beam suddenly flashed from that girl's head that headed to him. It was too late to avoid it. The beam hit him before he could take a step away.

"Got you!"

His pained scream echoed in the area as the beam threw him hard. As soon as he hit the ground, his transformation disappeared. Indeed, the impact from that beam was too much. And at the moment, he felt as if his body went numb because of it.

"Damn it… I think that beam paralyzed my nerves…"