"at that time..." "On that rainy day... but is it okay if I rest here a little bit?" "What's that for?" "I don't want to get hurt." "I ain't a thief!" "you can get hurt or scared no matter where you are." "Isn't that right?" "Think before you act." "or are you gonna give it all away?" "Well?" "What's it gonna be?" "Huh?" "What's your name?" "Kanami Yuta." "I'm Kazuma." "I don't have a last name." "It's just Kazuma." "Kazuma?" "Don't talk to me like I'm already your friend!" "Then I'll call you Kazu-kun because your name is Kazuma." "damn it!" "What's your problem?" "this is what I was wishing." "I wish that this moment will go on forever." "I couldn't help but wish that." "Well?" "Did I get any better?" "same as always." "But this taste really takes me back..." "Kazu-kun..." "Kanami?" "What have I been up to?" "Ryuho?" "I was..." "I was..." "Ryuho!" "Kazuma! Kazu-kun. ...I got captured by bad people and was brought here." "Kazu-kun..." "Kazu-kun..." "Won't I make it?" "Maybe I won't..." "T-Thank you." "you!" "Why have you stopped working?" "!" "you old hag!" "damn it!" "someone help her!" "Someone!" "Anyone!" "here's another!" "Please stop!" "You again?" "!" "Get outta the way!" "No." "suit yourself!" "Kazu-kun!" "Who the hell is that?" "right?" "dammit!" "That's..." "Please let these people go." "We're protecting these people." "we're having them work for us." "See?" "It's a perfect give and take relationship." "So you got no right to complain about it!" "Is that how you rationalize it?" "Bastard!" "That sort of rationalization won't overrule my own beliefs." "What?" "!" "I can tell." "Something inside of me makes me convinced that you are evil." "that's right." "You people are evil!" "you're a dead man!" "huh?" "Evil must be punished." "Crime must be punished." "really?" "Let's see you try." "I will." "You dumb bastard!" "Um... do you know where he..." " Do you know where he is?" " "Kazu-kun"?" "Kazu-kun." "His name is Kazuma." "Kazuma the Shell Bullet." "Kazuma..." "Kazuma?" "!" "I see." "So he lost his memories for a while..." "Kazu-kun?" "Me?" "Please..." "Tell me." "really." "not doing much of anything." "I was the only one who had it easy." "Kazu-kun." "Not fair at all..." "That's why I'm apologizing." "I can dream at night again." "Dream?" "the one with that guy you said you always dreamed about?" "but now I can do it again." "It looked like the man in my dream had been through a lot." "he wasn't sure what to do. ...so he deliberately went to a dangerous place and got hurt. he had no choice but to fight. ...fighting was never far behind." "But he made a choice." "He wouldn't be washed away by the sadness." "He would confront that sadness with his own power." "huh?" "that guy's an idiot." "A hopeless idiot." "can you tell me one thing?" "Like what?" "Why did you fight with Mr. Ryuho?" "I'm trying to remember... right!" "He labeled me as an Alter criminal and started everything." "I got so pissed off that I couldn't think straight." "I just felt that I couldn't rest until I beat him." "A C-minus level Alter user doing battle with me?" "Careful what labels you use!" "Bare handed suits me fine!" "I don't care what sort of life you live or what you're going to do with it." "so what?" "You Alter criminal!" "Don't slap labels on people!" "Your very existence throws society into turmoil!" "Who do you think you are?" "Too many have been sacrificed!" "Kimishima is dead!" "I will therefore..." "And so...!" " Pass judgment on you!" " I'll avenge his death!" "You!" "You!" " You are my enemy!" " You're my enemy!" "Is Mr. Ryuho your enemy?" "it's hard to explain." "But I knew for sure when I met him back there." "He's definitely the "wall" in front of me." "Mr. Ryuho is a good person." "too." "huh?" "Maybe he's not so bad." "Kazu-kun... okay?" "I can't guarantee that." "Because I'm an Alter user." "I'm Kazuma the Shell Bullet!" "I know that. ...was supposed to exist to capture Native Alters and bring order to the Lost Ground." "But its real objective was something else." "It was to send to the mainland those Alter users with inferior powers or who were unwilling to submit to the system and continue Alter power research under top secret conditions. either." "That's just the way the world works." "Don't make it sound like it's nothing!" "Capture Native Alters and refining their Alter powers... too." "It's inhuman!" "What the hell is Commander Zigmarl..." "That's only an assumption." "What the mainland wants is the origin of Alter power." "The source of that tremendous power." "huh?" "That's right. ...but the mainland seems to think they can utilize that power for something." "they need Alter users who can open the door to the other side." "And the Alter users they want are... you're one." "huh?" "Yeah." "Now I get it." "The mainland's activities make sense now." "what the hell is that guy?" "He was floating there like he belonged in that place." "did Commander Zigmarl know about the mainland's intentions?" "Of course! ...all Alter users might have been destroyed by the mainland by now." "huh?" "None of this makes any sense." "Are you sure you don't just have a personal grudge against the Commander?" "Maybe." "don't change the subject!" "This is a serious matter!" "sorry." "The real problem is what will happen now." "shipping over refined Alter users." "invading us with them" might be closer to the truth." "right?" "That was a setup to give that guy an excuse to come over here." "And his name is..." "Kyoji Mujo." "You know him? ...my family has done some questionable things." "The Mujos are among the old power bases that the Ryu family crushed and absorbed." "What are we gonna do now?" "What else?" "We'll head to the city and we'll throw out this Mujo guy! ...not the mainlanders!" "What are you saying?" "!" "The mainland wants your power!" "they'll cut off our economic aid!" "this could turn into a war of independence!" "I know!" "I know all that!" "Ryuho!" "Oops!" "you should let him be by himself sometimes." "too. he can't do anything about it." "but really clumsy." "That's why he can release that much power ...but how is it that you know so much about Alter powers?" "boss?" "I was shipped off to the mainland once." "They said that I don't have enough power." "I ended up seeing the world on the other side." "It was only for an instant." "my body is a total wreck." "A wreck?" "So what do you think will happen to Ryuho if he keeps releasing that power?" "What will happen?" "Well..." "Death... is almost certain." "you could almost pass for an Inner." "You don't look like a spoiled brat from the city." "Don't joke around." "I still haven't forgiven you for hurting Scheris." "too." "but still I can't forgive you." "Are you going to be tossed around like that forever?" "The Alter user from the mainland has arrived." "He's after our powers." "That means nothing to me." "What?" "!" "I live by my own rules." "If there's somebody out there who's laughing over what happened to Kimishima and Ayase..." "If somebody is picking a fight with me... end of story." "A fight?" "HOLY is involved up to its ears in all this." "it's only natural that I deal with them." "What a stupid thing to say!" "What about Kanami?" "Don't talk like you're old buddies!" "I asked you what you're going to do about her." "Take her and run." "Run?" "Start a new life with her somewhere the mainlanders can't reach you." "Live a completely normal life without using your Alter powers." "What do you mean by "normal"!" "So are you calling yourself normal?" "What?" "!" "Don't make me repeat myself!" "I'm an Alter user!" "I use my Alter to make trouble!" "Aren't you the same?" "!" "I'm different." "The reason I joined HOLYwas to find the Native Alter who killed my mother." "The Alter with a black right arm and a white left arm." "I'll find that Alter that appeared as you and I were fighting..." "And I'll punish him!" "What's so funny?" "well..." "Talk about peas in a pod." "What are?" "You and me!" "but you basically do what you want." "The only difference is that you make excuses and I don't!" "Bastard!" "I'm ready if you are!" "you didn't go back to the mainland." "No." "Because of Ryuho?" "that's right." "I'm not surprised." "I'm also here because I love Ryuho." "Yes." "That's why I came here." "What are you going to do now?" "I'm working on a solution." "A way that everyone can be happy." "The roots of this situation run deep." "The fact that it's gone on 22 years speaks volumes." "there probably won't be much we can do." "all right." "But I..." "I envy you." "You get to be so close to him." "but my feelings don't reach him." "It's really tough." "Is it selfish to want to be close to him in spite of that?" "What do you think they're talking about?" "but I don't want to know." "this story is so tragic." "I don't intend to bring out my Alter." "I don't want you to trigger another uprising since you don't have full control over your own power." "Don't talk so big!" "that's fine by me." "How many times does this make?" "if you count yesterday." "I thought you were just another Native Alter when we first met." "You beat the crap out of me!" "too!" "But I've already paid you back for that day." "With that surprise attack?" "What's wrong with that?" "!" "Nothing." "I etched your name deep into my mind." "But you weren't serious until then." "That royally pissed me off." "I hadn't shown my true form of Zetsuei even to my fellow HOLY members." "You should thank me!" "Watch your mouth!" "too!" "was it?" "It hurts like hell when I use it... either." "Always save your trump card until the very end." "Giving your opponent a chance runs totally counter to your own desire not to lose." "fighting with our fists... about to go at it again." "Why do we do it?" "myself." "But I can say this for sure." "When I see this guy he pisses me off!" "...he angers me!" " This feeling is not just an excuse!" " This feeling is not just an excuse!" "What's the point if they don't bring out their Alters?" "They leave me no choice." "Bring me their Achilles' heel." "and the next he's gone again." "I'm gonna make him say "This is delicious!" next time." "You must be so happy that the person you missed so much has come back." "I..." "An earthquake?" "Hammer!" "Mer!" "What the hell?" "!" "What's that?" "!" "Kanami!" "You son of a bitch!" "Huh?" "Hammer!" "Out of my way!" "Ham?" "dammit!" "Hammer!" "Kanami!" "Hammer!" "What?" "!" "Damn!" "Zetsuei!" "K-Kanami..." "Kanami!" "Grab it!" "Everything!" "To your heart!" "Even if you were knocked down by hopelessness and disappointment." "You will stand up at the end and become glorious yourself." "Unavoidable battlefield..." "If you are going to leave footprints toward the next place keep going forward even if you have to turn the white map red." "The risk and minus can be the priming powder." "Shoot into the future the seething arrow of "confidence." "Reckless Fire!" "fearlessly improve the means of life." "This world is a survival." "The only way you're heading is into either black or white." "This bonfire inside my heart can't be put out." "Always have a steady instinct and will." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Tsukame!" "Subete!" "{\cH80FF80\a6}Kokoro ni!" "{\cH80FF80\a6}Zetsubou shitsubou... {\cH80FF80\a6}...ni uchinomesarete mo." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Saigo wa tachiagari... {\cH80FF80\a6}...hitori no glorious." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Saketeyukenu battlefield... {\cH80FF80\a6}Tsugi no basho e... {\cH80FF80\a6}...ashiato tsukerunara... {\cH80FF80\a6}...shiroi chizu o akaku..." "{\cH80FF80\a6}...sometemo susume." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Risuku ya mainasu... {\cH80FF80\a6}...naraba kibakuzai sa." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Wakitatsu "kakushin" no ya o... {\cH80FF80\a6}...asu e to tokihanatsu." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Reckless Fire!" "{\cH80FF80\a6}Sou daitan ni... {\cH80FF80\a6}...inochi no sube o migake." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Kono yo wa sabaibaru." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Shiro ka kuro ka... {\cH80FF80\a6}...yuku michi wa hitotsu dake." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Tayasu wake ga nai... {\cH80FF80\a6}...kono mune no kagaribi wa." "{\cH80FF80\a6}Yuruginai chikara... {\cH80FF80\a6}...to ishi tsuranuku you ni."