Kinto, Baraka, Mori, Deo, Sōn and Kazuki were in Alex's house. Alex walked in and takes off his hoodie just to lay down on his sofa. Alex crosses his legs "Looks like we all are doing fine.", Kinto responds "Speak for yourself. Unlike you who still has the energy to be jumping around, I'm stuck on just walking and regular movements until a few months from now.". Baraka casually spoke "Well I only got a broken arm, although the bones in the arm were all completely shattered, but its fine. It should heal in no time.", Alex turned to Deo "So what of you? I heard your brother died, must be painful. Sughi and Diablo sensei seemed to be close, I wonder how Diablo feels about this.". Deo tells Alex, his voice was casual, almost tired even "Its fine, I'm fairing well. If I was still depressed about it, then I wouldn't have joined you and Kazuki in the continent of war.". Kinto's eyes widened, his back on the wall and his arms folded "You joined them?! Really?", Deo explained to Kinto "Let's not get into details. The point is that I helped out. But I had to toss my emotions aside in order to fight.". Sōn, on the other hand was sitted down on one of the couch, "Looks like everyone lost someone important to them. Kinto lost Levi who was like an elder brother figure to him, Deo lost his elder brother, I lost my deranged elder brother, and I'm not sure if my dad's still alive. We really are going through with this, huh". Kazuki while standing at a corner proceeded to explain "Well, it's as expected, one way or another some people would have died. I'm kind of surprised everyone of us is still breathing.", this was what gave everyone in the room a doll and depressed feeling, with Alex even stating "You can be so straight forward and hurtful, Kazuki.", Kinto adds "He said that with a straight face, bro is unhinged.". Kinto then asks "By the way, what was it like fighting the dark sign? Did you get to understand them and their reasonings?", the room went silent for a while. Mori says In response "I fought Zora, he had incredible power. His destructive power is that of a B-rank, he didn't have that much speed, but his ability to use light arrows were insane. Although, he did tell me about his past. Said something about he and his sister were treated like outcasts from their clan, so in order to survive he joined the dark sign. Pretty sad if you ask me.". Kinto explains "Well I fought the third strongest member of the dark sign, his name was Kenji. He was also on B-rank level, able to slice and burn through mountains with those flames and lightning of his. He was powerful as hell, made me wonder if I was actually going to die. Well he said something about the Iron country being separated into two. I cant say much, but his side of the country was killed due to the fear of them taking over the country because of their power, he said he was just a child at the time. So basically... his entire gist was revenge, that and protecting the people he genuinely cared about.". Sōn had his arms folded and his back resting on the couch "Well I fought my elder brother Sorata. He was ranked number 2 of the dark sign. His destructive energy and power was immense, stronger than my old man's, turns out he was holding back against me, he just wanted to see how strong i was, before he went to go fight Kojin.", Sōn continued to explain "He was just so unhinged and psychotic, he wasn't the same elder brother I grew up with. I lost to him at the end, and he went ahead to fight our dad. I heard he turned himself to a nuke, that's how crazy he was. Although I don't blame him, being neglected as a child must have built up his hate. He also said something about the world being corrupt with power and war. That's all I remember.". Baraka explains "Well I didn't do much fighting, took on three B-Rank shadow puppets in a row. So there's nothing much to say. Although i idid help other soldiers with their fight against the other shadow puppets.". Alex just sighedb "Well, everything you guys just said sounds similar, the villians we faced only became the monsters they were because of the past experience that society had to offer, guess he was right. The only thing beings with power know how to do Is corrupt one another and have wars with each other.", "Who's this *He* you're talking about?", Kinto asked, Alex and Kazuki make eyes contact with each other for a few seconds, contemplating in their heads whether to tell them or not. Deo just folded his arms "Trust me, you don't want to know", ALex adds "It's alright, I'll tell you guys.". His head was firmly raised as he looked forward "The person we fought at the beginning of the war... wasn't ukina. It was someone else, someone who was terrifying in power. Well, referring to him as *Someone* is kind of an insult to him. Considering the fact that he trashed Kazuki and I around like rag dolls, and took down the strongest people to have ever existed. He's someone you can define as a calamity that shouldn't exist.". Few hours later, the boys in the room except Alex and Kazuki, were In terror, "Well, that's the entire thing for you.", Kazuki explained he and Alex had spoken about their experience against Zodia. The only person who seemed to be less frightened was Deo, and even he had little sweat dropping down the side of his face despite him first handedly facing the true calamity known as Zodia. Kinto then exclaims "I can't believe you guys fought someone like that. Was that the reason why there were crazy natural disasters and explosions all over the sky?", Kazuki replied "Yep, that's the reason all right. He had enough power to end entire planets and dimensions. Let's be real here, this world shouldn't even still be existing right now.", Alex added to the conversation "Honestly, if not for Diablo's interference, we would have been cooked.", Deo was still a bit frightened from the battle he had with Zodia "Yeah, he was crazy powerful, he was just dodging our attacks like they weren't even a threat.". Mori then says "I'm shocked, so you Alex and Kazuki have reached God rank, huh? That wild, makes me wonder if there are bigger threats out there.", Alex flashbacks to when Zodia asked him "There are other threats stronger than I am out there! If you can't beat me, then you're as good as dead where something stronger pops up. Remember that. ". Alex clenched his fist before hearing a knock at the door. Alex walked over to the door and opened it just to realise it was Kazui "Hey, Kazui. What's up?". Kazui replied "Hey, Alex. Sorry to interrupt your meeting, but Veronica calls for us."
END OF CHAPTER.