The echoes of the battle had finally faded, leaving a haunting silence in their wake. Kyoto laid in ruins in a manner that spoke well enough to the ferocity of the clash between Bennosuke and Kaito.Smoke curled from the ruins mingled with the scent of scorched earth and shattered dreams. The once vibrant city was now a desolate wasteland, scarred by the ravages of war.Kai Nagano stood at the center of destruction and, with rue and resolution all over his eyes, scanned the vicinity. His enigmatic calm had been replaced with a look of vulnerability. The cost of battle was staggering, but it was a price that had to be paid for the safeguarding of the future.“Man, what the hell am I supposed to do now?” Kai thought out loud. ‘Kenji’s gonna kill me, isn’t he?’Bennosuke regained his consciousness and emerged from the shadows, surveying the damage that had been caused due to his incompetence. He felt the spiritual embrace of Kuronami as it raised his moral never to give up and grow strong

Kenjiro and Hayate faced off, and with contrasting resolve, they attacked one another with an outburst of core energy. The resultant effect of the technique destroyed the ground beneath them, and Hayate wielded the power of Susanoo-no-Mikoto to erupt an infinite storm of water to drown the shadow soldier.Kenjiro fought through the wave’s current but the uncontrollable force overwhelmed him. A blue light flashed within the waters, and a kun emerged from the ocean with the shadow soldier riding it on its back.Kenjiro piloted his subdued mythical beast and with menacing speeds, the kun opened its mouth to swallow the target whole. Indeed it succeeded, but Hayate destroyed the very core of the mythical beast with Raijin’s divine lightning.Kenjiro summoned a kraken, taking advantage of his enemy’s domain and utilised its tentacles to grab hold of him. Instantaneously, he summoned two dagons from the ocean to devour the entire being of Kenjiro.In an intuitive defense, Hayate manipulated

Kai unleashed a massive tornado like wind blast to his adversary. Reina zoomed through the attack, closing the distance between herself and her opponent. Kai smirked, launching azure dragons up in her face to which she destroyed with her bolts of lightning.Kai swapped places with Bennosuke for a brief moment and the latter launched a dimensional slash to his opponent, but Reina dodged the attack as Kai had anticipated.Kai summoned two ethereal lions to swallow her whole from opposite directions only for them to suffer electrocution by the hands of the Raijin Clan’s prodigy of the modern era.Kai took advantage of the situation to launch an explosive burst of energy from above his opponent. Reina barely dodged due to her being distracted by the previous attack, but she clapped back with thunderbolt to her adversary.Kai raised the ground below to take the attack for him, and destroyed it into boulders to hurl them towards Reina like swift projectiles. The latter vanished out of sight