Aikuro: they've gone and done it now…
Tsumugu: but we still have our lives. as long we live we can still fight.
Aikuro: exactly…..ryuko-kun, you fought satsuki kiryuin to a draw. that was impressive. come with me.
aikuro then walks away.
Ryuko: oi, where are you going?
Aikuro: it's just like satsuki kiryuin said. the situation has shifted. now that it's come to this, it's pointless to keep things hidden. it's now time to show you everything.
Mako:ehhhhhhh, EH!? you! you're…mr. mikisugi, is that you!?
Aikuro: oh, right, you haven't seen me like this before, have you?
Mako: mr. mikisugi, you're an exhibitionist!
Aikuro: we are nudist—--
Mako: just like you, ryuko-chan!
Ryuko: i am nothing like them!
Varakiel: "oi i told you to put some clothes!"
Aikuro: well it's impossible to find clothes in all this rubble and my spare clothes were in the base sooooo...
Varakiel:....ryuko don't look at them you will get infected with their perversion.
Ryuko closes her eyes.
Ryuko: let's go mako.
Mako: eh? me?
Aikuro: oi, why are you bringing makanshoku-kun?
Ryuko: she is my trusted friend, i know she won't accept to be left behind.
Aikuro:...mankanshoku, if you follow, it will mean throwing yourself headlong into a whirlpool of battle. do you possess that resolve?
Mako: i don't!
Ryuko: eh!? mako!?
Mako: i'm not prepared to go around buck-naked just yet!
Ryuko: what do you mean yet!? oi you did this to mako!
ryuko yells at aikuro.
Mako: but what i do have is the desire to be ryuko's friend through thick and thin! varakiel-chan told me to always be her friend and mako mankanshoku always keeps her word, so i'm coming with you!
Ryuko: mako..
Varakiel: mhm, even mako has grown up, i am proud of all of you.
Ryuko: hehe….
Aikuro: all right, then!
tsumugu, mako and aikuro prepare to dive into the river of the city.
Aikuro: follow us.
Mako: Kay!
Aikuro: ou!
aikuro jumps into the water.
Mako: ou!
mako follows him.
Ryuko: mako? wait! why are you diving into the river?
Aikuro: ryuko-kun, this is the entryway to the truth you must know. let's go skinny di-
*smack*
Aikuro: *blub* *blub* *inhale* varakiel-san that is dangerous!
Varakiel: "try to do such joke on ryuko and ill do a literal skinny dipping with your body."
aikuro: *sigh* just follow us!
aikuro dives into the water.
Ryuko: ....
Varakiel: ryuko-chan let's go, we will be left behind.
Ryuko: huh? ah!, wait for me!
*Splash*
ryuko dives into the water.
...
Kiryuin mansion, grand bathroom.
Hououmaru: Please remove junketsu. i will see to it. you have a message from the president. please wait at the grand bath.
Satsuki:...
satsuki calmly dives into the water.
*shineeee*
Ragyo: you wear it well, but i hear you overexerted yourself.
Satsuki: mother-sama…..
Ragyo: this medicated bath water boosts life liber harmonization. soak yourself in it.
Satsuki: yes, ma'am.
Ragyo grabs satsuki face.
Ragyo: such lovely skin. give your heart over to me. i will conduct a ritual purification.
Satsuki:...(i hate this, i hate all of this…...)
Ragyo was touching satsuki body thoroughly.
Ragyo: humans are such frail things, are they not?
Satsuki: *moan*
Ragyo: when they become naked like this, they become so unbearably uncomfortable. they are immediately overcome with the desire to cover themselves in the miraculous thing that is clothing. that is instinct. a species that defies its instincts… will eventually…meet with extinction.
Satsuki: (i don't have gained this power on my own these aren't my efforts, i hate this. sensei i want to become stronger.)
"then stand up and walk forward"
those words resounded in satsuki mind. and she stands up.
Ragyo: good, there is somewhere you must go.
Satsuki: ! you mean—
Ragyo: i do. you have served me well, satsuki. as a member of the kiryuin clan, and as my successor, it is time for you to learn the origin of power.
.....
*splash*
Mako: pwah!
ryuko: pwah! woah, there was a cavern like this under osaka?
steam comes out from varakiel.
Ryuko: oh handy.
Mako: not fair!
Varakiel puts a tentacle into mako and her uniform begins to releases steam aswell.
Mako: ah thank you varakiel-san!
...…
Mako: it's busted up pretty bad, though, huh?
AIkuro: jakuzure did a number on it. but this isn't all there is to our base.
aikuro takes everyone to an artificial beach underground.
???: Mr.mikisugi! mr. kinagase!
Aikuro: this section made it through unscathed, huh?
Nudist: it was the right call for us to evacuate as you ordered.
Aikuro: being a worrywart sometimes pays off.
Ryuko talks to aikuro with her eyes closed.
Ryuko: (what a waste to use serene mind like this.) this nudist beach deal of yours sure must cost a lot of money.
Aikuro: your father saw to that.
Ryuko: my dad?
Aikuro: he was an amazing scientist, you see. thankt to all the patents he held, he cobbled together money from companies all over the world he used those funds to create this organization.
Ryuko: you mean—
Aikuro: yes! it was Dr. Isshin matoi who founded Nudish Beach!
Mako: ehhhh!
in mako imagination the dad of ryuko was surrounded by naked ladies.
Ryuko: i don't think that's what he meant mako-chan.
Mako: awawaw, how did you know what was going on inside my head!?
Varakiel: your connection must be pretty good already, ryuko-chan~.
Ryuko: i'm not too thrilled at the prospect of that.
Mako: that's amazing, ryuko-chan! you're a friend who's both inside and outside my head!
then aikuro bring ryuko and mako to a room.
Aikuro: hm….answer me this, ryuko-kun. which creatures do you think there are on this earth that wear clothing?
Ryuko: duh, just humans.
Aikuro: correct. of all the countless species on earth, only homo sapiens wears clothing. why is that!? "only humans wear clothing" isn't entirely correct. this "clothing-wearing creature" became what is now humanity! life fibers caused homo sapiens, which was just another anthropoid species, to evolve to its current state. yes, in this case, the clothes made the mankind!
...….
Kiryuin manor prohibited room - fiber castle.
ragyo took satsuki too the prohibited room of the manor. and she open the massive doors with ease.
Ragyo then goes inside.
and satsuki follows.
Satsuki:...this is the origin of power?
Ragyo: yes, this is the beginning of it all. the primordial life fiber.
there a giant red thread ball hangs on the room.
Ragyo: when this glowing ball of thread that had drifted through space arrived on earth, humanity was doomed to become a being that would serve clothing. for life fibers to become clothing and cover this world. they are COVERS, and no one in this world can oppose them. we of the kiryuin family are the spokesmen for the COVERS' will. you understand, i take it?
Satsuki: i do, mother-sama.
Satsuki looks around the clothes around the walls.
...…
Ryuko: clothes made humanity? what are you talking about?
Aikuro: life fibers are a lifeform that came here from outer space! they arrived on ancient earth and accelerated the evolution of humanity.
Mako: ehhh! then varakiel-chan is an alien!? he's a sailor uniform, but he's an alien!
Varakiel: "no, due to the experiment of Isshin matoi i am something more, i am a human that has become life fiber."
Ryuko: yeah, aniki isn't some crazy like an alien. what the hell is that crazy garbage!?
Aikuro: would you mind listening quietly? i'm explaining everything in due course.
Ryuko: fine.
ryuko sits back down.
Varakiel: calm down ryuko-chan life fibers are aliens, that's a fact.
Ryuko: i see.
Aikuro: life fibers are a lifeform that came here from outer space. they infest a world's lifeforms as parasites and breed by devouring using the electrical current of the creature's nervous system. however, if they infest the host directly, withing its body.
aikuro shows images of a mice being experimented on with life fiber.
Aikuro: the nervous system is unable to withstand the strain and burns out. it is for this reason that they decided to cover their host's body. although the current received via the skin is minimal, the infested animal does not die with this method. they chose homo sapiens, the terrestrial creature, the creature with the most developed brain in the surface to be their hosts and accelerated their evolution. humanity evolved. they developed humanity's brain far beyond that of any other terrestrial lifeform. their numbers multiplied, and they came to stand at the top of the ecosystem. but that pinnacle will be only be temporary, and we were led there by life fibers.
Tsumugu: in other words, we humans are the life fibers' food.
Varakiel: i see so that's how it is, satsuki is in danger.
Ryuko: !! you're right!
Varakiel: we can worry about that later let's keep hearing.
Ryuko: umu. if that's true, why doesn't all clothing have life fibers in them? we humans wear clothes and go about our lives every day. it's only the people at honnouji academy that wear that rare clothes isn't?
Aikuro: what you say is indeed true. the only conclusion is that the life fibers that accelerated human evolution went into a long period of dormancy, and humans became accustomed to wear clothes. they only emerged from their silence about 20 years ago. ragyo kiryuin made contact with the original life fiber, and they awoke once again. that's what we were told by dr. matoi.
Tsumugu: they were waiting for harvest time. they were waiting for their human livestock to grow!
Ryuko: and where does varakiel and me come in all of this?
Aikuro: you and varakiel are our only hope.
Ryuko: hope?
Aikuro: yes.
aikuro was whispering behind ryuko, but a tentacle pushes him again.
Aikuro: *cof* sorry, kamui varakiel was artificially created by dr. matoi not only to protect you, but also to fight life fibers. and the only one who can wear him is you ryuko-kun.
Ryuko:...and why only me..?
Aikuro: you have an unusually high life fiber tolerance. dr. matoi was probably aware of that. so he made varakiel for you. to thwart the kiryuins' ambitions. the doctor had originally studies life fibers under ragyo kiryuin's orders. but when he learned the threat they posed, he escaped from under her thumb and secretly founded a rebel organization. and that organization….is nudist beach.
Varakiel closes his eyes and see the memories that were flooding on his body, memories of senketsu.
Varakiel: mhm, that's pretty much almost all that we knew, well expect the part about ragyo and nudist beach.
Ryuko: *nod*
Aikuro: i apologize for keeping you in the dark all this time. but the kiryuins are powerful. until you were able to summon up all of varakiel's power at will, i couldn't tell you the whole story.
Ryuko: and if i got overwhelmed by the power of the life fibers, you'd put me down on the spot without mercy.
ryuko looks at tsumugu.
Tsumugu: yeah, that's right. and i still intend to do just that.
Aikuro: tsumugu.
Varakiel: "come at me then, if you feel ready"
Tsumugu: hmph.
Ryuko: but you're right, i wouldn't have believed any of this stuff if i didn't understand the length of varakiel power.
Aikuro: this is the truth. the clothing made by REVOCS, the company headed by ragyo kiryuin, is worn in almost every country around the world. life fibers are woven into all of them. they are still dormant right now, but when that clothing awakens, i can't begin to imagine what will happen. but one thing is for certain: it will be a great threat for humanity.