A few months after, Hekari and Shirley arrive with a dramatic intro. "Psst~ Hekari, this might not be my brother", Shirley smacks him to whisper. "Aghhh… is it because of the eyes not rainbow", Hekari panted to her, recovering from that smack. Shirley grumbled and just acted like it was normal. Hekari was confused about these gestures by Shirley, but went along with it. Hekari, while walking with Shirley and her brother sensed an earthly presence down to their house.
Hekari wakes up due to their noisy arguments and takes his leave, activating "stealth". He goes and investigates the imperial castle, due to hearing the argument from Shirley and her brother. When he infiltrated the castle, he saw what he expected, some ugly, handsome, and beautiful nobles, servants, royals. When he explores the castle, he ends up getting lost, decides to bathe in the soothing bath.
Once finished, he aimlessly wandered to the king's secret chamber. "I now need a distraction", he thought to himself. He noticed a awfully suspicious looking stone staircase filled him with curiosity. He threw a black needle to one of the stair supports and it collapse without detonation. He was really shocked how fragile it was to cause a commotion, and just ran so as not to be found. (This one stair support cause half of the second floor to collapse)
Shirley saw Hekari came back as if he committed a murder. But Hekari as he came back saw her "brother" as a musky goblin. "Is that a ugly, musky goblin, Shirley?", Hekari questioned. She replied furiously, "How did you not saw this among all people will literal element". The goblin swipes with its claws and Hekari defends Shirley with his sheath.
A man that looks like a green hair man version of Shirley appears in front of his eyes. "Help me if you want to live", the man calls. Hekari went accordingly what the man called and went into the offensive. "Urk, this already went south, Katanist", the man yells. "Hey I am a Bladen Sheathe soldier, man" Hekari thrusted himself back in confidence as he yelled. "This is gonna be fun for a bit", then gets into a wall crash.
He yells at Shirley, "Is this the person who saved our family?!" "Yes, he certainly is, but not use with the urban city, Thornwood!" She refuted. "And… he also passed out, literally got sledgehammered by the goblin". She had no choice, but grabs Hekari's blade and felt elemental surge flowing through her veins. She felt powerful for the first time and started to show the technique she learned from Hekari. Thornwood recovers and sees Shirley's transformation from rainbow hair and pupils to black.
"She even surpassed him", Thornwood mutters to himself. She hacked and slashed the goblin with her shadow power, she just obtained. The goblin could do nothing as it wished it was back to the moon. "Let's try, Shadow Slash!", she commanded the blade to finish the goblin up. (The blade is imbued with Shadow-like essence in physical form. It carves into the body of living or spiritual beings).
She looked into the reflection in the ruinous house, her hair and eyes were black. When she blinked after dropping Hekari's blade, her eyes and hair shifted back to rainbow. She looks around and see Hekari passed out on the pee tree, and a rising Thornwood from the bed. She observes the area and before the dark surge runs out see a girl with white, silky hair and white, glistening eyes. She passes out, and the two boys panic and bring her to a fine house.
She wakes up and sees the two helpless boys panicking. "Hekari, use your element to hide her colors!" The boys were freaking out shouting at each other. "Man, go use yours, you're her brother!" Shirley punches the wood and screams, "What is going on!"
After explaining to her about everything, she straight up said, "Hekari, just use your shadow powers." "What shadow powers… I only had Dark power, but okay", Hekari answered confusedly, but proceeded to lend her some elemental surge. Then Shirley asked Hekari, "Who's that girl in white? Is she a Shrine Maiden? What happened to her? How are you two related?" Hekari tries to ignore the question, stressing, "Who are you talking about, is it just a hypothetical situation". "Just te-", "Hey Shirley! This is something that you should not dig into" Thornwood cuts Shirley off.
Later in the night, Thornwood asked Hekari, "Did she make you uncomfortable, man?". "Yeah, especially how she knew her… really though, is there something unique about rainbow hair people?" Hekari continued, "It's like she delved into my memories, sometimes something should not be asked." Thornwood listened to Hekari's talks throughout the night.
Thornwood asks Hekari how to infiltrate the castle with as minimal damage as possible. He replied, "A few days ago, I found something strange in the king's chamber". Thornwood immediately told him, "Yep with that destroyed stone staircase you caused, I know. But I do know a way to strengthen your Elemental Rift." Hekari asked, "How?", he replied, "Your inner self, you will battle, but do that later."
Five days later, Thornwood and Hekari made 'flawless' plans to infiltrate the castle. "Why do we have to go to the sewers?" Hekari grumbles. "Well… it's the only way to travel with stealth for the both", Thornwood counters. Walking to the seamlessly unending tunnel, gets spooked by Shirley Chasmfell's screech.
Hekari dashes to block his allies from poisoned daggers. "Quickly jump away from the water, Shirley and Thorn" Hekari told them telepathically. "Continue without me now! I will be fine on my own." Thornwood followed through with Plan B - 'Flawed' and grabbed Shirley by her shirt.
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