#dragon quest rivals ace

[dq-journal]

July Models

So! Its now the month of July and I have decided that 3D DQ models did really not work out for me....at all 

I decided the best way to go about this is to take art and rip pieces out of it to make a sprite of. But of course I am starting with Terry. 

So far I have a total of like three eye colors for him and I have re-edit / created the rest of the shoe on the model. Ideally most of the model should be able to be animated, which should be pretty simple if it is in pieces (and not something that i can do) 

I haven’t gotten very far but thgis is the progress I have for one sitting. Which is not terrible but it could be going better. I will have this one ripped apart and probably just aklternate colors right now. After that I would like to have it with different clothing and SOMEDAY WE SHALL HAVE TERRY HATLESS AND I WILL DRAW HIS HAIR  side note if you have canon art of Terry without a hat you are legally obligated to message it to me 

If you have a model you would like me to work on this month you may send me a request! I also just like getting cute little letters in my inbox so if you don’t have a model that you’d like send me some colors you think woudl be fun !! 

Because I can totally do that 

#dragon quest #ドラクエ #ドラゴンクエスト #Terry #DQ #dragon quest rivals #dragon quest rivals ace #テリー #ドラクエテリー

[6ad6ro]

top 5 games from every console -nes- -game boy- -pc engine- 1. ninja gaiden 1. castlevania ii 1. castlevania rb 2. river city ransom 2. zelda la 2. ys book 1 and 2 3. akumajou densetsu 3. wario land 3. lords of thunder 4. mario 3 4. pokemon red 4. r-type 5. zelda 2 5. kirby's dreamland 2 5. galaga '90

-genesis- -snes- -neo geo- 1. streets of rage 2 1. earthbound 1. garou mow 2. castlevania bl 2. zelda lttp 2. windjammers 3. sonic 3ak 3. chrono trigger 3. king of fighters 99 4. contra hard corps 4. super mario world 4. metal slug 5. sonic 2 5. super metroid 5. king of fighters 2001 -sega cd- -ps1- -saturn- 1. snatcher 1. final fantasy vii 1. vampire savior 2. sonic cd 2. castlevania sotn 2. street fighter alpha 3 3. final fight cd 3. resident evil 3 3. virtua fighter 2 4. lunar 4. rival schools 4. virtua cop 2 5. monkey island 5. final fantasy ix 5. castlevania sotn (really) -n64- -dreamcast- -ps2- 1. mario 64 1. jet grind radio 1. silent hill 2 2. mystical ninja 2. shenmue 2. gta vice city 3. zelda oot 3. thps 2 3. smt nocturne 4. banjo kazooie 4. crazy taxi 4. we love katamari 5. mario kart 64 5. ecoo dotf 5. dragon quest viii

-gamecube- -xbox- -gba- 1. resident evil rm 1. jet set radio future 1. castlevania aos 2. f-zero gx 2. shenmue 2 2. castlevania hod 3. zelda tp 3. morrowind 3. metroid fusion 4. killer7 4. fable 4. river city ransom ex 5. mario sunshine 5. guilty gear xx #ac 5. metroid zm -nds- -psp- -xbox 360- 1. castlevania ooe 1. castlevania dxc 1. dead rising 2. castlevania dos 2. gta vcs 2. deadly premonition 3. castlevania por 3. ffvii cc 3. half-life 2 4. tingle's balloon trip of love 4. persona 3p 4. skyrim 5. phoenix wright 5. power stone 5. gta iv -ps3- -wii- -wii u- 1. dead rising 2 1. mario galaxy 1. zelda ww hd 2. sfiii 3s oe 2. no more heroes 2. mario kart 8 3. yakuza 5 3. okami 3. tekken tag 2 4. gta v 4. wii sports 4. zelda botw 5. 3d dot game heroes 5. castlevania rb 5. nintendo land -3ds- -vita- -ps4- 1. smt iv 1. persona 4 golden 1. ff vii rm 2. zelda oot 3d 2. undertale 2. elden ring 3. zelda mm 3d 3. jet set radio hd 3. persona 5 4. star fox 64 3d 4. hotline miami 2 4. resident evil 2 rm 5. river city rs 5. spelunky 5. dragon quest xi -switch- -steam deck/pc- -virtual boy (forgot)- 1. mario odyssey 1. half-life 1. vb wario land 2. sonic mania 2. unreal tournament 2. mario's tennis 3. smash ultimate 3. dead cells castlevania 3. galactic pinball 4. metroid dread 4. lba2 twinsen's odyssey 4. teleroboxer 5. mario wonder 5. bomb rush cyberfunk 5. jack bros

#not including systems im unfamiliar with #or are too new #some are ports #top 5 #gaming #list #mine

[captainswanapproved]

An Indecent Proposal- Chapter 19

A03,Prologue, Chapter 1,Chapter 2,Chapter 3, Chapter 4,Chapter 5,Chapter 6,Interlude,Chapter 7,Chapter 8,Chapter 9,Chapter 10,Chapter 11,Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15, Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18

Daemon x Rhaenyra Multichapter AU:

Daemon leaves Rhaenyra at her wedding feast. Rhaenyra marries Laenor. After a year of trying to do their duty and produce an heir, Rhaenyra writes to Daemon.

She needs a true Targaryen heir.

It only needs to be an arrangement of business, she says. And it would result in Daemon’s child one day taking the Iron Throne.

Daemon accepts the proposal and returns to court.

Only, ventures like these are never simple. As much as they would wish to, Daemon and Rhaenyra cannot let go of the past, or the feelings they once had for each other.

124 AC

“Muña!” Aegon the Younger cried in the middle of a stormy night.

Rhaenyra burst into her youngest son’s bedchamber at Dragonstone. She wrapped her arms around the child. “What is it, my love.”

“Egg,” Aegon said, pointing to the iron egg warmer in the fire. “Gone.”

Rhaenyra hurried over and withdrew the warmer from the fire, ignoring the heat as she opened the lid. Thank goodness true Targaryens did not burn. Her son had yet to learn this though, and was frightened by some sort of vision that had intruded his dreams.

The egg was not gone though. It had solidified into stone. A dragon would not hatch from this egg.

***

Alicent was beginning to wonder if the gods were punishing her.

Her beloved Daeron had lost his eye. The maesters had been able to save his life, but only just.

Then, the first month of the year, she had felt the quickening of a baby. To make matters worse, this pregnancy had been her most difficult yet, making her weak and bedridden since having felt the first movements. She feared that this would be the last child she could cary, which would leave her amount of heirs smaller than her rivals.

Her saving grace was that she knew this one belonged to her husband. But Ser Criston was joyful that he would soon have another child.

Alicent knew that her lover was becoming a liability, seeing as she had denied him access to her bed for months. Still, their last joining had been close enough that Criston could be convinced that the babe was his. That would keep him loyal.

But only until the babe was born and Ser Criston saw signature Targaryen features. Then her knight would turn on her and Alicent would have to dispose of him.

Alicent looked down at her rounded abdomen. She would know how to act soon enough.

***

Three months later, Alicent gave birth to a little girl with silver-gold hair and brilliant amethyst eyes.

She was named Maegelle, and declared to be the epitome of Targaryen beauty by the king.

Alicent’s lip curled in satisfaction as Viserys presented the babe to court.

Ser Criston was blessedly out of King’s Landing on a quest. Daemon, Rhaenyra, and their horde of bastard children had arrived to see the new Targaryen child.

But thanks to her father’s machinations, the false Aegon had no dragon. Alicent would ensure that Maegelle had one.

At this very moment, Criston Cole was journeying to Dragonstone to steal the last of Syrax’s most recent clutch of eggs. The foolish little bitch had left it barely protected at her ancestral seat.

The eggs in King’s Landing were tainted. But the last egg in Dragonstone was unmolested and sure to produce a dragon.

Maegelle, a true Targaryen princess, would have what she deserved.

Ser Criston would bring back an egg, and if he was caught in his attempt, Alicent would not have to dispose of him herself.

Her fortunes had turned.

***

“Must you leave us?” Rhaenyra asked, after the children were safely tucked away in their chambers.

“It will only be for one night, my love,” Dameon said, kissing her tenderly, then he bent to kiss Rhaenyra’s abdomen.

“Our new prince or princess will need a dragon egg.”

“Our next child will not be born for months, my love,” Rhaenyra said, only having felt the quickening that afternoon, but it had spurred Daemon to action.

“Perhaps not, but as much as it pains me to say, I believe it is best if we move our permanent residence to King’s Landing.”

“Why? We have been so content at Dradonstone. You have been able to maintain your position as Hand while the children have not been forced into the proximity of our enemies.”

Daemon smiled sadly. Indeed, he had been happier in the recent years than he ever had been in his life, solely because of Rhaenyra and his children. But happiness had a price. “In our absence, the Green Bitch has brought Viserys under her thrall once again. And now she has given him a daughter. You, more than anyone, know his weakness for daughters. We cannot keep travelling back and forth. We must keep a closer eye on the little harlot and her spawn.”

Rhaenyra nodded. It was a wise move to make, but the idea of living in King’s Landing full time after spending so many happy months at Dragonstone with her family made Rhaenyra’s heart ache.

Daemon seemed to sense her thoughts. “I will make the arrangements and return to you and our family as soon as I can.”

Rhaenyra nodded and squeezed his hand. “See that you do.”

***

Ser Criston Cole panted as he leaned against the damp stone wall.

The caverns of Dragonstone were nearly endless. How was he meant to find Syrax’s last egg?

His second child deserved a dragon, especially considering how poor Daeron had suffered.

Ser Criston knew his relationship with his queen had been imperfect as of late. He had been unable to bed her in months. But he still loved her, and would serve her until his dying day.

With that in mind, Ser Criston hurried through the catacombs. He would find that egg and present it to his beloved queen, and she would finally welcome him back to her bed.

So caught up in his fantasies of pleasuring Alicent, Criston was unaware of the footsteps that joined his.

A moment later, the knight felt a blade at his back. A strong arm wrapped around his neck. “What are you doing here, Ser Crispin?”

Ser Criston’s blood turned to ice.

He’d been caught. And Prince Daemon would surely stop at nothing to ensure a deadly punishment was doled out.

When Ser Criston refused to reveal his purpose—though it would surely be obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence—the world faded away.

***

Ser Criston awoke the following night in the dungeon of the Red Keep, his wrists shackled to the wall.

“What is the meaning of this? I am the Queen’s protector!”

A guard appeared at the door of his cell. “You were,” the man said, his voice disdainful, “And now you are guilty of treason. Your trial will take place on the morrow.”

“I need to see the Queen,” Ser Criston argued. “Surely she will pardon me. Please, I will see to it that you are rewarded with gold if you bring her here with haste.”

The guard appeared to be conflicted, but eventually the promise of gold won out.

Alicent appeared in the dungeon half an hour later, resplendent in a gown of green brocade. But her lovely face was drawn and pinched.

“You are a fool. I have no use for fools at my side in these dangerous times,” Alicent hissed.

“I went to Dragonstone on your orders,” Ser Criston argued.

“And you failed. You were caught by Prince Daemon, who has spent the day providing the king with evidence of your treachery.”

“My treachery? I have only ever done your bidding.”

Alicent smiled. “I believe you’ll find, Ser Criston, that I am completely innocent of your attempts to unlawfully obtain a dragon. The witness I sent to Prince Daemon has ensured your guilt. You will be tried and sentenced tomorrow.”

Ser Criston stared in disbelief at the queen. “Why would you do this to me? I am the father of two of your children.”

“You are the father of my third son. I was a fool to let you get me with child. You have never been the most clever or ruthless, and now, even your loyalty has run its course.”

“I would do anything for you, Alicent, and for our children.” Ser Criston protested.

Alicent’s eyes gleamed malevolently. “Would you? Maegelle is a true Targaryen with true Targaryen features. I knew the moment she was born that you would betray us. Your pride will not allow you to defend her. And so I am forced to act in the interest of her protection. Goodbye, Ser Criston.”

Alicent swept out of the dungeons, leaving Ser Criston to stew in anger and betrayal. How dare Alicent open her legs to the old king again, when she had already given Viserys three legitimate children. Ser Criston thought that his queen belonged to him, body, soul and heart.

He curled his fingers into a fist. If his fate was to die on the morrow, Criston Cole vowed that he would drag Alicent down with him.

***

All things considered, convincing Viserys of Ser Criston’s guilt had been almost too easy.

Especially when one of the Queen’s attendants came to him with a story of Ser Criston’s betrayal, swearing that the knight had acted alone in trying to procure a dragon egg. That Queen Alicent had begged him to reconsider and ordered him to go to Dorne instead of Dragonstone.

Daemon knew that Alicent was complicit. Furthermore, he was certain that Cole and the Green Bitch had conspired to steal the egg that had been presented to Daeron. Fate had taken care of that. But another attempt could not go unpunished. As it was, the attendant's testimony was a neat little tale that ensured Ser Criston’s death sentence and absolved the queen of guilt, which had been enough for Viserys. Daemon would settle for the result.

The next day, the court assembled in the throne room.

Daemon’s fingers curled around the hilt of Dark Sister as the evidence against Ser Criston was presented. Daemon kept his eyes on the Green Bitch, wondering why she had turned against her protector. Likely it was due to the birth of her daughter, who once again, had the looks of a Targaryen.

Princess Maegelle was still a half-breed, but Daemon knew that Viserys was the girl’s father.

He suppose it didn’t matter why Alicent lost faith in her lover. Soon, another in opposition to Rhaenyra’s rule would be disposed of. Daemon was certain the queen would eventually take a new lover, and when she did, Daemon would ensure that she was discovered and cast off.

After a quarter of an hour, the evidence was presented. Viserys rose from his throne and declared the verdict. “Ser Criston Cole, you are charged with attempted theft of a dragon egg and high treason against the Crown. For this, you will be put to death.”

The crowd’s response to the declaration was mixed. Those loyal to the Blacks began to shout for Ser Criston’s head, while those loyal to the Greens looked saddened and dismayed. The Green Bitch, however, looked carefully triumphant.

Daemon supposed he could not blame her. He had always hated the Dornish knight.

To his left, Rhaenyra stood still, her beautiful face carefully composed. She had once harbored a tendré for the knight, but Daemon knew that nothing remained of that youthful infatuation. Still, Rhaenyra had always been compassionate, never taking death lightly. Her mercy and benevolence often stayed his hand, but it would not do so today.

Daemon left Rhaenyra’s side, stepping up to where Ser Criston knelt. As the Hand, and the executioner, Daemon prepared to do his duty to his king. He held Dark Sister to Ser Criston’s throat. “Do you have any last words?”

The knight drew a breath. “Yes. Prince Daeron is my son. The Queen is a traitorous whore.”

Many in the crowd gasped. Daeron the Dornish was what people called the one-eyed prince when not in hearing of the king. Daemon spared a glance for his brother, but Viserys had Alicent’s hand in his, and Daemon could tell that it would take more than this confession to turn the king against the queen. Viserys was willfully blind when it came to his family.

“You deserve each other,” Daemon sneered.  Then he swung Dark Sister in a graceful arc, beheading the foolish knight at last.

#daemyra #daemon x rhaenyra #hotd #hotd fanfic #hotd an indecent proposal #my writing

[questersrest]

btw

dragon quest rivals ace voice line compilation for: aquila (イザヤール), erinn (リッカ), stella (サンディ), patty (ルイーダ), sellma (ロクサーヌ), pavo (ラヴィエル), celestria (セレシア), corvus (エルギオス)

if you’ve ever wondered what they might sound like

#i am not translating their japanese names bc some of them idk how to romanise #like literally aquila’s is izayāru. idk like what is that izayarl? #erinn is rikka which i don’t think needs changing #stella’s is sandi which is obviously sandy #patty’s is ruiida which is officially luida as the irl dq bar in japan is called luida’s bar ofc #sellma’s is rokusānu. which is obviously roxanne #pavo’s is ravieru which i’m pretty sure is raviel #celestria’s is sereshia. idk maybe it’s just seletia? celetia? #corvus’ is erugiosu which i think is elgios but idk #dq9

[liquidmetalslime]

Red (thief) & Dragonlord (magic swordman), from the 2nd cardpack from Dragon Quest Rivals Ace.

#forgot to post dragonlord lol #dqr #dragon quest rivals ace #basically red is a skin for erik and dragonlord is a skin for psaro

[famigeki]

Dragon Quest Rivals Ace

#Dragon Quest Rivals Ace #Dragon Quest Rivals #Dragon Quest #Switch #PC #Android #iOS #Smartphone #Mobile #Famitsu #Scans

[ladykinrannoch]

MM Reading 6 June 2021

What is going on with MM right now?

So I decided to read from a different deck than usual. Based on the Legends of King Arthur. Pic attached.

I did the horseshoe layout.

So this will give you and idea of when I speak about specific placements.

Let's deal with the jumpers first. First out was 9 of Shields (pentacles) Rx. So this is the significator card identifying who we are reading for.

This is linked to the story of Ragnell, King Arthur and his nephew Gawain. Legend goes that Arthur entered and enchanted kingdom which drained his courage and strength. The ruler agreed to release Arthur for one year to get the answer to "What is it a woman wants most". If he failed he would remain imprisoned for the rest of his days. On his way Arthur meets a disfigured and cripple ugly crone but she was well spoken and offered to give Arthur the answer he sought. If granted her one request. The Loathly Lady wanted to marry Gawain, Arthur's nephew. Arthur refused and went on his way. Word of Arthur's predicament reached Gawain and in an effort to save his king Gawain went searching for the Loathly Lady. He found her and coaxed her to Arthur's court where they were we'd before a bewildered gathering. When they went to the bed chamber after the wedding he desperately thought how to avoid bedding her without insulting her. As he gazed into the fire, the Loathly Lady shed her skin and out stepped the beautiful Ragnell.

Ragnell explained he now faced a difficult choice.. crone by day and Ragnell by night or there other way around. He replied the choice should be hers and he would be content with what she chose. She smiled and told him that he had solved the riddle. What does a woman want? A: her own way. And she became his beautiful wife both day and night.

Well my first thought here was never a more apt card for Rachel. Rx means someone of shallow, spiteful behaviour. Lots of broken promises and discarded friends, a social climber and someone who humiliates others to boost her self-confidence!

So here we have it gallant Harry/Gawain in and effort to save his family was conned by a trickster.

Card 1 - another jumper. 2 of cups Rx. This is linked to the Legend of Tristram and Isolt, a beautiful Irish princess. For whom he slayed a dragon in order to win her hand in marriage on behalf of his uncle King Mark. To cut to the end of the story Tristram dying from a poison wound and he called for his lover Isolt to come and heal him. His wife Isolt the White Hands watched from the window. If Isolt was aboard it would be white sails, if not black. His wife answered black sail and Tristram succumbed in despair as his first love Isolt rushed ashore to help him, finding him dead she ran herself through with Tristram's sword. Upright this would spell true love, a happy partnership, but reversed it means an empty relationship, incompatible, lots of quarrels and betrayals of confidence. It also signifies separation and divorce.

As this is in past conditions.... I think this tells us that the trickster marriage broke down some time ago and that they are already separated. Or at least living in different parts of the same house.

Card 2 - another jumper. Kn Cups Rx so this represents my original question where is MM at right now?

This is linked to the legend of Sir Galahad. Who later embarked on the Quest for the Holy Grail. Upright it means a proposal and an opportunity. However reversed it suggests M meets a rival in a romantic situation. An affair is exposed. It also suggests that she is currently involved in some trickery, perhaps her other lover also has another lover. I see this as her targeting who comes after Harry since being with Harry has not worked out how she wanted it too. And then finding out he too has another lover.

Card 3 - future outlook. This is the Ace of Swords. Swords is decisions and/or conflict.

This card is linked to the legend of the sword of strange hangings. During the quest for the Holy Grail, Galahad, Percivale and Bors are guided to a miraculous ship. Within they found a beautiful bed with a crown of gold and silk. Lay alongside the crown was a magnificent sword covered in gems but the scabbard and hangings were of such poor quality, it seemed they could not carry the weight of such a sword. The sword was inscribed with a warning that anyone who dared to draw it would experience great sorrows. Only one person was allowed to draw the Sword and that was Galahad. Dindrane repaired the belt and hangings and put it Galahad.

So as I read this the future outlook for MM is not great, for if she dares to strike again against the BRF it will bring about her end. But as it is not reversed I expect she will forge ahead regardless. This says she has made a firm decision to fight them. But as you will see, it does not turn out well.

Card 4 - the best approach to the situation. 4 spears/wands. This is associated with the legend of La Cote Male Tail and Maledisant. A young man called Breunor came to court with and ill-made coat earning the bad nickname. He decided to take on the adventure of the Black Shield but had to be accompanied by the cruel tongued Maledisant. She rebukes him at every turn during the adventure. When he succeeds and is made a knight of the round table, she changes her demeanor to become more pleasant and changed her name to Beauvivante. They wed and lived at Castle Pendragon.

If this is not a clear message to change her approach then I don't know what will. The previous card already warns about who may draw the sword and what befalls those who may not. This card is suggesting she backs off and should not try her tactics now. This card is also associated with June and celebrations, as well as institutions. So she is well advised to stay quiet. Because the next card. Others Views... tells us more.

Card 5 - The attitude of others towards M. 2 Swords. This is associated with the legend of The Knight of Two Swords where Balin is tricked into a battle with a fierce opponent held captive on an island. The battle ensued the wounds were deep and mortal. The two knights fell to the ground and Balin asked the other Knight's name... he replied Balan. Whereupon the brothers recognized each other. In his last breath Balan explained how he had been kept against his will. The two knights died. And Merlin traveled to that land to bury them both together in the same tomb.

If M continues with her approach in June it will lead to an almighty fight in which H loses. There suggests that there are moments if indecision with M but that she proceeds with blind judgemdnt, without foresight and a very clouded perception. It becomes a massive stalemate. An impasse. In the views of the BRF she will have blindly played her last cards.

Card 6 - Challenges M faces..... 3 swords.... the legend of Palomides.

Palomides was a friend of Tristram, who was also in love with Tristram's lover Isolt. The lovers and his friend traveled to a tournament over which Queen Isolt would precide. Tristram aimed to participate in a disguise. Tristram did well as did Palomides in the first day. But on the second day Palomides took on a disguise which would see him face Tristram as his opponent. Isolt witnessed the deception and told Tristram about how his friend deceived him. Ashamed and hurt by Isolt's rejection Palomides fled into the forest to grieve forever.

This card represents distrwss and separation. The challenges M will face is being shut out and shunned for her betrayal. She will be haunted by what choices she made. This foretells many years of readjustment to being outcast.

Card 7 - the Final Outcome. And it is XlV in this deck the Horned God Cernunnos. In other decks The Devil. Interestingly this card is ruled by Capricorn. It is the only major arcana in the spread.

The traditional meaning of the card is bandage, violence, controlling relationships, promiscuity and drug abuse. All of which we know M has partaken in as a mattress actress. This card reflects a time of wild and reckless behaviour. Even self destructive. As it is a major arcana, I suggest her history comes to light, discredits her and sends her on a road to destruction... think Lindsay Lohan... fading into obscurity.

As there were zero pregnancy cards in this spread. M is not pregnant. I asked the question why.

I drew 5 swords, conflict, The High Priestess, secrets, the Hanged Man, sacrifice.

I interpret this is if there was a surrogate or more, one baby has been lost or they are fighting over it just as happened last time with Archie who I believe is with his biological mother. The Priestess signals that it is being kept a secret in the hope that a possible second surrogate will deliver successfully. But be prepared for the announcement of a "birth" probably and then an announcement of the death of the baby due to complications. Or it could be announced as a still birth.

Looking at the whole spread H is not with her in the conjugal sense. There is a lot of lies, deception and manipulation going on. I am really picking up Hostage Harry HH here, and I get the feeling he is like Balin remorseful that he is fighting his own brother by deception. I think MM is about to be exposed. Its going to start coming out very soon after whatever she tries in June, which will be the final straw for the BRF. By October all her lies and deception will be exposed. I mean the whole dossier. Harry will file for divorce and be free of her by January.

Time frames... by October because 2 and 3 of Swords are associated to Libra. The divorce will be final by January 2022. The Devil Capricorn.

Conclusion: this is one messed up relationship, founded on lies and deception. It is confirming for me there has been trickery since the start. I get such a bad energy off this reading. Really malevolent. And zero baby energy around M. So she is not pregnant. But a surrogate or two surrogates may be. But there is a lot of conflict and uncertainty there. I wouldn't hold out hopes for Princess Pippa. Because I get the feeling M has found out more about how H felt about Pippa, but I suspect Pippa found him fun, and funny but immature. So I will not be putting any bets on Phillipa .... #justsaying

Disclaimers:

*I have not used this deck in more than a year so there is no residual energy.

** The significator card said this is all about M and getting her way. But the prospects look extremely gloomy.

***no baby or child energy at all.

**** big ifs around surrogacy, how many, lots of conflict and secrets and NDA's. I get the feeling M will walk away. She hasn't got the money to keep the scam going and her and H are already living separately... hence the occasional appearance of Farry.

***** it was interesting to use this deck after so long. As it made me really think... and not jump to instinctive conclusions based on other readings and card associations built up over time.

[datcloudboi]

List of video games that turn 20 years old in 2021

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies

Advance Wars (Nintendo, please... a new one...)

The Adventures of Cookie & Cream (a cute, cuddly adventure game from the team that would go on to make Dark Souls. I'm not joking)

Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage (an RPG on the N64 I really liked as a kid)

Anachronox

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

Bejeweled

Black & White

The Bouncer

Burnout

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Civilization III

Clive Barker's Undying (remember when Clive Barker made video games?)

Conker's Bad Fur Day

Crazy Taxi 2

Dead or Alive 3

Devil May Cry

Dr. Mario 64

Dragon Warrior VII (NA version of Dragon Quest VII)

Extermination (a psychological horror game from Swery65, the guy who would go on to create Deadly Premonition)

Final Fantasy X

The Game Boy Advance

The GameCube

Golden Sun (plz, Nintendo... a new one... :'[)

Gothic

Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec

Grand Theft Auto III

Halo: Combat Evolved

Ico

Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble

Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons

Luigi's Mansion

Mario Kart: Super Circuit

Mario Party 3

Mario Tennis (N64)

Max Payne

Mega Man X5

Mega Man X6

Mega Man Battle Network

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Myst III: Exile

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

Oni (developed by Bungie)

Onimusha: Warlords

Paper Mario

Phantasy Star Online

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (in Japan)

Pikmin

Pokémon Stadium 2

Pokémon Crystal

Project Justice (the sequel to Rival Schools)

Red Faction

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

RuneScape

Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Shadow Hearts

Silent Hill 2

Silpheed: The Lost Planet

Sonic Adventure 2

SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader

Super Monkey Ball

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

Tribes 2

Twisted Metal: Black

Wario Land 4 (Nintendo... come on...)

The Xbox

Zone of the Enders

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Square Enix will host the “Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary Special” live stream on May 26 at 12:00 JST, the company announced. You will be able to watch it on YouTube in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

“May 27th is Dragon Quest Day, and to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the series, we’re bringing you a special broadcast to showcase all of the latest information about what’s going on—and what’s yet to come—in the world of Dragon Quest,” Square Enix said.

“For the first time in Dragon Quest history, the show will feature live interpretation from Japanese, so that our international fans can stay up-to-date with developments in the Dragon Quest series, too. Don’t miss it, or you’ll miss out!”

The broadcast will consist of the following two parts:

Part 1: Dragon Quest Day Latest News

Freelance announcer Natsumi Uga delivers the latest information on Dragon Quest series titles currently in operation and 35th anniversary merchandise, including:

Dragon Quest X Online

Dragon Quest Walk

Dragon Quest Tact

Dragon Quest of the Stars

Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light

Dragon Quest Rivals Ace

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai series

Dragon Quest series official goods

Dragon Quest: Great Demon Lord Zoma and the Island of Beginnings attraction

Part 2: Dragon Quest Series Latest Lineup Introduction

A talk show hosted by actor JOY with Dragon Quest creator and game designer Yuji Horii to announce the newest lineup in the Dragon Quest series.

The following Dragon Quest games are known to be underway:

Dragon Quest XII (TBA)

Dragon Quest Monsters New Title (TBA)

Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai: A Hero’s Bonds (iOS, Android)

Infinity Strash – Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (Console)

The first entry in the Dragon Quest series launched for Famicom on May 27, 1986 in Japan.

#Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary #Dragon Quest #Square Enix #Gematsu

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Games I Own List

Games I Own So Far

I may not be able to live stream all these games since some are not compatible with the systems I can live stream with. Also some are to high age rated for this channel so I will not play those also.

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Steam Games and Online Games:

100% Orange Juice – Demo | AdVenture Capitalist |

Adventure Communist | AdventureQuest 3D |

All is Dust | Anno2070 | Antenna | Atulos Online |

Awkward Dimensions Redux |

Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition | Banished |

Bendy and the Ink Machine | Blameless |

Boring Man – Online Tactical Stickman Combat |

Brawlhalla | Castle Clicker | CAYNE | Cities: Skylines |

Claire | Clicker Guild | Clicker Heroes |

Color Symphony | Confess My Love |

Cosmo Osmo | Counter-Strike: Source |

Creativerse | Crusaders of the Lost Idols |

Cry of Fear | The Cubicle |

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition |

The Desolate Hope | Destination Sol | Disturbed |

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed

Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist |

Don’t Starve | Don’t Starve Together |

Doorways: Old Prototype | Duelyst | Dwarfs F2P |

Electric Highways | Endless Sky | Epic Battle Fantasy 3 |

Epic Clicker Journey | Escape the Game: Intro |

Eternal Senia | Evoland | Evoland 2 | Fallout |

Fallout 2 | Fallout Shelter | Fallout Tactics |

Fingerbones | Firefall | First Person Lover |

Float Gallery VR | Forge of Gods (RPG) |

The Forgotten Ones | GameMaker Studio |

Garry’s Mod | Google Earth VR |

Guild Quest | Guns of Icarus Online |

Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy |

Happy Wars | Harvest Seasons | Heavenstrike Rivals |

Hero Zero | Heroes of Havoc | Holyday City Reloaded |

Idling to Rule the Gods | The Huntsman: Winter’s Curse |

IKEA VR Pancake Kitchen | Infestation: The New Z |

Insanity Clicker | Jade Empire: Special Edition |

Learn To Fly 3 | Legionwood: Tale of the Two Swords |

Loading Screen Simulator |  

Lost Lands: A Hidden Object Adventure | Mad Father |

Mandagon | Manhole | Maplestory | Midas Gold Plus |

Minds Eyes | Missing Translation | Mobius Final Fantasy |

Moirai | Moonbase Alpha | mrshifty beta | My Lands |

Myst V | Myst: Masterpiece Edition | The NADI Project |

Naev | Neverwinter | No Time To Explain Remastered |

NVIDIA VR Funhouse | Office Space Idle Profits |

Off-Peak | The Old Tree | One Finger Death Punch |

Only If | Orake | The Panic Room |

Passing Pineview Forest |

Path of Exile | Pick Crafter | Picross Touch |

Pixel Puzzels Ulimate | The Plan | Portal | Portal 2 |

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt | Quanero |

Ragnarok Clicker | Realm Grinder |

Realm of the Mad God | realMyst | Red Trigger |

Rexaura | Riven | The Room |

The Room Two | RPG MO |

RuneScape Idle Adventures | Sceal |

Scrap Garden – The Day Before | Serena |

The Settlers Online | Shadow Hunter |The Ship |

The Ship Single Player | Shop Heroes |

Sid Meier’s Civilization IV | Shakes & Fidget |

Shonen Idle Z | Shop Heroes |

Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword |

Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization |

Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords |

Sid Meier’s Civilization V | Simply Chess |

Soda Dungeon | Speech Trainer | Speed Runners |

Spelunx | Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion |

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic |

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords |

Subnautica | Tabletop Simulator |

Tap Adventure: Time Travel | Tap Tap Infinity |

Tap Tap Legions – Eic battles within 5 seconds! |

The Bellows VR Demo | The Cubicle. |

The Desolate Hope | The Elder Scrolls Legends |

The Flaws of Gravity | The Forgotten Ones |

The Huntsman Winter’s Curse |

The Lab | The NADI Project | The Old Tree |

The Panic Room | The Plan | The Room |

The Room Two | The Settlers Online |

The VR Museum of Fine Art |

The Way of Life Free Edition | Time Clickers |

To The Moon | Torchlight II |

Transmissions: Element 120 | Transport Defender |

Trick & Treat | Trick & Treat – Visual Novel |

True or False | Twisted Worlds | Unturned |

Uru: Complete Chronicles | Vindictus |

Waltz of the Wizard | War Thunder | Warframe |

welcome to heaven | We Were Here | Windward |

World of Guns: Gun Disassembly |

XCOM: Enemy Unknown |

You Have 10 Seconds | You Have 10 Seconds 2 |

You Have to Win the Game | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links |

Zombidle: REMONSTERED |                       

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PlayStation One Games:

Alundra | Brave Fencer Musashi | Breath of Fire 3 |

Breath of Fire 4 | Bushido Blade |

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | Chocobo Racing |

Chrono Cross | Darkstone | Dino Crisis | Dino Crisis 2 |

Einhander | Final Fantasy Anthology [FF5 and FF6] |

Final Fantasy Chronicles [FF4] (with) Chrono Trigger |  

Final Fantasy Origins [FF1 and FF2] |

Final Fantasy Tactics | Final Fantasy 7 |

Final Fantasy 8 | Final Fantasy 9 |

Front Mission 3 | Grandia |

Jade Cocoon Story of the Tamamayu | Legend of Mana |

Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete |

Mega Man Legends | Mega Man Legends 2 |

Parasite Eve | Parasite Eve 2 | Resident Evil 2 |

Saga Frontier | Saga Frontier 2 |

Sayuki: Journey West | Shadow Madness |

SimCity 2000 | Star Ocean The Second Story | Suikoden |

Suikoden 2 | The Legend Of Dragoon | Threads Of Fate |

Wild Arms | Wild Arms 2 | Vagrant Story | Xenogears |

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Playstation Portable Games:

Dissidia Final Fantasy | Dissidia 012 duodecim Final Fantasy |

Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core | Silent Hill Origins |

Star Ocean The First Departure | Star Ocean The Second Evolution |

Jeanne d’Arc | Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep |

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Playstation Vita Games and PS TV compatible:

10 Second Ninja X | 99Vidas | A Virus Named TOM |

Actual Sunlight | Amnesia: Memories |

Another World 20th Annaversary | Azkend 2: The World Below |

Bard’s Gold | Bastion | Bombing Busters |

Brandish: The Dark Revenant | Breath of Fire IV |

Broken Sword 5 The Serpent’s Curse: Episode 1 |

Castlevania: SotN | Chrono Trigger | Chrono Cross |

Claire: Extended Cut | Code: Realize ~Guardian of Rebirth |

Counter Spy | Curses ‘N Chaos |

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc |

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair |

Day of the Tentacle Remastered | Dino Crisis |

Dino Crisis 2 | Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy |

Don’t Die, Mr. Robot | Don’t Starve: Giant Edition |

Downwell | Dragon Fantasy Book I |

Dragon Fantasy Book II | Dragon Fin Soup |

Draw Slasher | Dungeon Punks |

Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires Free Alliances Version |

Entwined | Element4L | Final Fantasy Origins |

Final Fantasy Tactics |

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions | Final Fantasy III |

Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection | Final Fantasy V |

Final Fantasy VI | Final Fantasy VII | Final Fantasy VIII |

Final Fantasy IX | forma.8 | Front Mission 3 | Furmins |

Helldivers | Hitman: Contracts HD |

Hitman: Blood Money HD |

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin HD | King Oddball |

Laser Disco Defenders | Legend of Dragoon |

Legend of Mana | Level 22 | Lumo | Mega Man Legends |

Mega Man Legends 2 | Monster Hunter Freedom Unite |

Nihilumbra | Ninja Senki DX |

No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either! |

Nova-111 | Patapon 3 | Parasite Eve | Parasite Eve II |

Q*Bert Rebooted | Rainbow Moon | Resident Evil 2 |

Retro/Grade | Rogue Legacy | Saturday Morning RPG |

Severed | Sim City 2000 | Sky Force Anninersary |  

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona |

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment | Persona 4 Golden |

Ninja Senki DX | Pure Chess |

Severed | SPACE HULK | STARWHAL | Suikoden |

Suikoden II | Super Meat Boy | Tales of Hearts R |

The Legend of Dragoons | The Swindle | Titan Souls | TorqueL |

Type:Rider | Uncanny Valley | Vagrant Story | VVVVVV |

Wanted Corp. | Wild Arms | Wild Arms 2 | Whispering Willows |

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Playstation Two Games:      

And A Movie: Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter | Castlevania: Curse of Darkness |

Castlevania: Lament of Innocence | Chaos Legion |

Dawn of Mana | Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII |

Dokapon Kingdom |

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King |

Drakengard | Drakengard 2 | Gladius | Fatal Frame |

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly |

Fatal Frame 3: The Tormented |

Final Fantasy X | Final Fantasy X-2 |

Final Fantasy XI Online Vana’Diel Collection 2008 |

Final Fantasy XII | Final Fantasy XII Collector’s Edition |  

Front Mission 4 |

Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel |

Fullmetal Alchemist 2 Curse of the Crimson Elixir |

Grandia 2 | Grandia Xtreme | Grandia 3 |

Kingdom Hearts | Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories |

Kingdom Hearts II | Legaia 2: Duel Saga |

Radiata Stories | Romancing Saga |

Samurai Legend Musashi |

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner |

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2 |

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga |

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 |

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne |

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 |

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 |

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time | Suikoden Tactics |

The Bards Tale | The Bouncer |

The Bible Game | Unlimited Saga | Virtua Quest |

Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria | Xenosaga | Xenosaga 2 |

Xenosaga 3 | Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist of the Roses |

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner |  

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Playstation Three Games: PS1 Classics and PS2.

99Vidas |Ace Combat Infinity |  Alien Rage |

Anna – Extended Edition |

Another World - 20th Anniversary | Atomic Ninjas |

Batman Arkham Asylum | Batman Arkham City |

Best of Board Games | BioShock Infinite | BlazeRush |

Bleach: Soul Resurreccion | Blood Knights | Borderlands |

Borderlands 2 | Bound by Flame | Breath of Fire IV |

Castlevania Symphony of the Night | Chrono Cross |

Chrono Trigger | Counter Spy | Darkstalkers Resurrection |

Dark Souls | Dark Souls 2 | Datura |

Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut | Deadpool |

Demons Souls | Deus Ex: Human Revolution | Diablo 3 |

Diablo 3 Reaper Of Souls | Dino Crisis | Dino Crisis 2 |

Disgaea D2 A Brighter Darkness |

Disgaea 4 A Promise Unforgotten | Dishonored |

Don’t Starve: Giant Edition | Dragon Age: Origins |

Dragon Age II | Dragon Fantasy Book I |

Dragon Fantasy Book II | Dragon Fin Soup |

Dragon’s Crown | Drakengard 3 |

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara |

Earth Defence Force 2025 | Eat Them! | echochrome |

Enchanted Arms | Entwined | Eternal Sonata |

Extreme Exorcism | Fallout 3 | Fallout New Vegas |

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon | Fatal Frame |

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly |

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented | Fat Princess |

Final Fantasy Tactics | Final Fantasy Origins |

Final Fantasy V | Final Fantasy VI | Final Fantasy VII |

Final Fantasy VIII | Final Fantasy IX |

Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD Remaster | Final Fantasy 13 |

Final Fantasy 13-2 | Lightning Returns Final Fantasy 13 |

Final Fantasy 14 |  Front Mission 3 |

Front Mission Evolved | From Dust | Furmins |

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix |

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince |

Helldivers Democracy Strikes Back Edition |

Hitman: Blood Money HD | Hitman: Contracts HD |

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin HD |

Ico (with) Shadow of the Colossus | Iconoclasts |

In Space We Brawl | InviZimals: The Lost Kingdom | Journey |

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX | |

King Oddball | Legend of Dragoon |

Legend of Kay Anniversary | Legend of Mana |

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 | Mass Effect Trilogy |

Medal of Honor Warfighter |

Mega Man Legends | Mega Man Legends 2 |

Mighty No. 9 |

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch | Nova-111 |

Okami HD | Papers, Please | Parasite Eve |

Parasite Eve II |

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment | Persona 4 ARENA |

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax |

Pier Solar and the Great Architects |

Port Royal 3 Pirates & Merchants | Q*Bert Rebooted |

Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut | Ragnarok Odyssey ACE |

Rain | Rainbow Moon | Rayman 3 HD |

Red Dead Redemption | Resident Evil 2 | Resonance of Fate |

Retro/Grade | Risen 3: Titan Lords | Rogue Legacy |

Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny | Sacred 2 – Fallen Angel |

Sacred 3 | Savage Moon | Serious Sam 3: BFE |

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga | Silent Hill |

SimCity 2000 | Siren | Sky Force Anniversary |

Sniper Elite V2 | Sniper: Ghost Warrior |

Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 |

Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection |

South Park The Stick of Truth | Sparkle 2 | SSX |

Star Ocean The Last Hope – International | Starwhal |

Steins Gate | Steredenn: Classic | Super Motherload |

Suikoden | Suikoden II | Suikoden III | Suikoden IV |

Syberia | Syberia II | Tales of Graces f |

Tales of Symphonia Chronicles | Tales of Xillia |

Tales of Xillia 2 | The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 |

The Legend of Dragoons |

The Misadventures of Tron Bonne | The Swindle | Thief |

Titan Souls | Tokyo Jungle | Tomb Raider |

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier | Twisted Metal |

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late | Vagrant Story |

Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment | Wild Arms |

Wild Arms 2 | White Knight Chronicles |

White Knight Chronicles 2 | XBlaze Lost: Memories |

Zombie Driver HD | Zone of the Enders HD Edition |

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner HD Edition |

Xblaze Lost: Memories |

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Playstation Four Games: PS2 on PS4 also        

10 Second Ninja X | 2064: Read Only Memories |

99Vidas | A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV |

ABSOLVER | Abyss Odyssey: Extended Dream Edition |

ABZÛ | Adr1ft | AdventurePop | AeternoBlade |

Amnesia Collection | Among The Sleep |

Another World - 20th Anniversary Edition |

Apex Legends | Armello | Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry |

Azkend 2 | Bard’s Gold | Bastion | Batman The Telltale Series |

Batman Arkham Knight | Battle Ages | Battle Islands |

Battle Islands: Commanders | Beyond: Two Souls | Big City Stories |

Bioshock The Collection (with) Bioshock Infinite |

Bloodborne | Bombing Busters |

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection |

Bound | Call of Duty: Black Ops III |

Call of Dudy: Modern Warfare Remastered |

Catlateral Damage | Child of Light |

Chronicles of Teddy Exidus | Claire |

Clicker Heroes | Conan Exiles | Costume Quest 2 |

CounterSpy | Curses ‘N Chaos |

Cyber Danganronpa VR the Class Trial | Dark Cloud |

Dark Cloud 2 | Dark Souls III |

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition |

Darksiders III | Day of the Tentacle Remastered |

Daylight | Dead by Daylight |

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition |

Death Tales | Destiny 2 | Detroit Become Human |

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided |

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth |

DiRT Rally 2.0 | Disc Jam | Don’t Die Mr Robot |

Don’t Starve: Console Edition | Downwell |

Dragon Age: Inquisition |

Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tomb of Ice |

Dragon Fin Soup |

Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below |

Drawn to Death | Dungeon Punks | Dust: An Elysian Tail |

Erica | Entwined | Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture |

Extreme Exorcism | Fallout 4 | Fallout Shelter |

Final Fantasy Type-0 HD | Final Fantasy VII | Final Fantasy IX |

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster |

Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age |

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn | Final Fantasy XV |

Firewall Zero Hour | forma.8 | Fortnite | Foul Play |

Friday the 13th The Game | Furi | Game of Thrones |

Gauntlet | Goat Simulator | God of War III Remastered |

Gone Home: Console Edition | Grand Kingdom |

Gravity Rush 2 | Gunhouse | Guns Up! | Heavy Rain |

Helldivers | Here They Lie | Horizon Zero Dawn |

Horizon Chase Turbo | I am Bread | Iconoclasts |

In Space We Brawl | InFamous First Light |

InFamous Second Son | INSIDE | Invisible, Inc. Console Edition |

Ironclad Tactics | Jackal Assault (PSVR) | Journey |

Just Cause 3 | Killing Floor 2 | King Oddball |

Kingdom Hearts – HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX |

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter | Kingdom Hearts III |

Kitten Squad | Knack | Knowledge is Power |

Kung Fu Panda Showdown of Legendary Legends |

Laser Disco Defenders | Laser League | Let It Die |

Life Is Strange | Limbo | LittleBigPlanet 3 |

Lords of the Fallen | Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime |

Lumo | Mad Max | Mafia III | Magicka 2 |

Marvel’s Spider-Man | Mass Effect: Andromeda |

Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain |

Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition |

Mighty No. 9 | Minecraft | MLB The Show 19 |

Monster Energy Supercross – The Official | NBA2K20 |

Neverwinter | Ninja Senki DX |

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom | Nioh | NOT A HERO |

Nova-111 | Odin Sphere Leifthrasir |

Okage: Shadow King | Omega Quintet |

Onrush | Outlast | Outlast 2 | Overcooked |

PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 | Paragon |

Path of Exile | Pier Solar and the Great Architects |

Pirates: Treasure Hunters | Pneuma: Breath of Life |

Portal Knights | Psycho-Pass Mandatory Happiness |

Q*bert: Rebooted | Q.U.B.E Director’s Cut |

Qurare: Magic Library | Rainbow Moon | Ratchet & Clank |

Rayman Legends | Rebel Galaxy | Rec Room |

Resident Evil | RIGS Mechanized Combat | RiME |

Rise Of The Tomb Raider 20 Year Celebration |

Rocketbirds 2: Evolution | Rogue Aces | Rogue Galaxy |

Rogue Legacy | Saints Row: Gat out of Hell |

Saturday Morning RPG | Shadow Of The Colossus |

Skulls of the Shogun | Sky Force Anniversary |

Slender – The Arrival | Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition |

Sniper Elite 4 | SOMA | Sonic Forces |

Sonic Mania | Space Overlords | Sparkle 2 |

Spelunker World | Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time |

Star Trek Online | StarBlood Arena | Starwhal |

Stories: The Path of Destinies |

Strike Vector EX | Submerged | Super Meat Boy |

Super Motherload | Surgeon Simulator |

Table Top Racing: World Tour | Tales of Zestiria |

Tearaway Unfolded | Terraria | That’s You! |

The Banner Saga | The Bridge | The Deadly Tower of Monsters |

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition |

The Flame in the Flood | The Last of Us Remastered |

The Sims 4 | The Surge | The Swindle |

The Tomorrow Children | The Vanishing of Ethan Carter |

The Witness | This War of Mine: The Little Ones |

Titan Souls | Titanfall 2 | TorqueL | Trackmania Turbo |

Transformers: Devastation | Transistor | Trials Fusion |

Tricky Towers | Tropico 5 | Type:Rider | Uncanny Valley |

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End |

Uncharted: The Narhan Drake Collection | Until Dawn |

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (PSVR) |

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered | VirZOOM Arcade |

Warframe | What Remains of Edith Finch | Whispering Willows |

Wild Arms 3 | Wipeout Omega Collection |

Worms Battlegrounds | XCOM 2 |

Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist | Zen Pinball 2 |

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Wii and Wii U Games:                                                                  

Breath of Fire | Breath of Fire 2 | Excitebike 64 |

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water | Lost Reavers |

Lucadian Chronicles | Metroid | Metroid Fusion |

Nintendo Land | Super Mario 3D World |

Super Metroid | Swap Fire |

The Legend of Zelda |

Zelda II – The Adventure of Link |

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past |

The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time

The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker |

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess |

The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |

The Legend Of Zelda The Minish Cap |

Wii Sports Club |

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Wii and Game Cube Games:

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles | Luigi’s Mansion |

Super Mario Galaxy |

The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker HD |

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N64 Games:

Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage |

Command & Conquer | Golden Eye 007 |

Mission Impossible | Quest 64 |

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 | Top Gear Overdrive |

Top Gear Rally 2 | Wrestlemania 2000 |

Game Shark Pro

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Summer set for Dq rivals!

#dq #dragon quest #ドラクエ #ドラゴンクエスト #edit #rivals #rivals ace #wallpaper #アリーナ #ジェシカ #ピサロ #トルネコ #ドラゴンクエストライバルズ #ライバルズ #Alena #Psaro #Torneko

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Youtou Shinnoken: Demon Sword Chapter 57: Living Sin (Part 9)

Hiei does his best to take care of Usui Uonuma, who’s gunning for his Jagan. In turn, Yusuke deals with his old behemoth of an enemy who was once merely B-Class in power level.

Kenshin in turn deals with an enemy from his past with the assistance of one of the Spirit World ferry-girls.

Credit for the pictures goes to Ozzy Oz da Vyrus. 

The original source of this idea comes from Chad Yang. I continued his story idea found here.

The rest of the chapters of my Yuyu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin crossover fan fiction are available here and here. Enjoy.

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Up above the Okushiri Military Base....

The flying fortress made of solidified reiatsu (spiritual pressure or pressurized spirit energy) care of the Quest-Class powers of Detective Daiji Matsudaira (the reincarnation of Aoshi Shinomori) landed on the helipad of the base, startling the soldiers there.

Yahiko had earlier requested Botan to fly even higher up than the flying castle with purple beams of light shooting out of it in order to get the drop on the structure.

Literally.

From 50 kilometers above the earth, Yahiko descended straight towards the moving castle, its concentrated jaki beams dissipating against the ghostly human missile and his neutralizing reiki.

He first skydived from the ferry-girl's oar (much to her surprise and chagrin) up in the stratosphere and did his imitation of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu's "RYU TSUI SEN! (DRAGON HAMMER FLASH!)" for starters.

The impact then cracked the topmost outer shell of the dense fortress.

A trickle of reiatsu leaked off of the spiritual construct, like scattering fireflies in the night.

He then did one of his own Revisal Techniques of the Kamiya Kasshin School, named, "DOU GAMI! (GOD ON EARTH!)", which rocked the castle further at its core and spread cracks all over its very foundations.

Daiji's solidified reiatsu then turned into a shower of outright sparks, the solidified energy sublimating and ionizing into pure spirit energy.

Finally, the Tokyo Samurai Spirit executed a "TEN GAMI! (GOD IN HEAVEN!)" that started the downward spiral of the moving building, the cracks turning into outright crags and debris as the teenaged ghost got jettisoned high above even the stratosphere, reaching instead all the way to the mesosphere.

He reached a height about 70 kilometers or 43 miles away from earth.

The young samurai kid drove the Onmyouji's prison that whole distance from heaven to earth with a sky-cleaving, earth-shattering strike, or at least a strike powerful enough to send cloudy shockwaves behind them as they broke through the speed barrier.  

"INGA GAMI! (KARMIC GOD!)"

Yahiko's first of two ultimate attacks had enough jaki-neutralizing power to push that huge pillar right into the middle of the military base like a meteorite. A shooting star.

The sublime mix of reiki (spirit energy) and jaki (negative energy) then ionized into their base forms, the kenki (swordsman energy) that bound them fading away into the ether.

All of these forms of energy were neutralized by Yahiko's own strange spirit energy. His own reiatsu or unique mixture of reiki and kenki.

His strike from his self-made sakabatou (Kenshin's reverse-edged sword that Yahiko manifested using his reiki) was powerful enough to warp time and space itself. Like a blunt version of the Jigen Tou.

Only a single helipad-sized spire of the formerly huge fortress was left by the time it crash-landed unto the base.

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Youtou Shinnoken: Demon Sword

A Rurouni Kenshin/Yuyu Hakusho Crossover Fan Fiction Story by Chester Castañeda

Original Concept by Chad Yang

The Kenshingumi will now take care of their loose ends before fighting the final boss of this arc. This battle is about to explode! FIGHT!

Disclaimer: Yuyu Hakusho is the rightful property of Yoshihiro Togashi, Shueisha, Fuji TV, and Studio Pierrot. Rurouni Kenshin is the rightful property of Nobuhiro Watsuki, Shueisha, Shonen Jump, Viz, Sony Studios, Fuji TV, Studio Gallop, Studio Deen, and ADV. This disclaimer also covers all the other copyrighted materials that are far too many to mention here. Don't sue me please, I'm very poor.

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Chapter 57: Living Sin (Part 9)

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Back at Kitaoimisaki Park...

Usui Uonuma shook his head. The newbie member of the New Ten Swords, Kuronue, was outwitted by the legendary demon fox Youko Kurama as well.

If you wanted something done right, do it yourself.

Amidst the burned shadows and silhouettes that were once Kuronue stood Usui, his previously broken Tinbe practically whole now.

With it now capable of withstanding the heat and impact of multiple Jaou-En-Satsu Kokuryuha (Dragons of Darkness Flames) from Jaganshi (Evil Eye User) Hiei, the black serpentine flames were unable to affect the turtle shell one way or another.

But Uonuma knew that Jaganshi Hiei had one more ace up his sleeve. The Chojin's spies had briefed him about the fire demon and his ability to absorb the power of the fiery dragon beings unto himself.

As expected, Hiei boosted his speed and power tremendously by absorbing the flame dragons of the Kokuryuha right into his body, his youki (demon energy) rising to astonishing levels. To S-Level and beyond.

Under the old Reikai rules, Hiei's presence there would've been considered outright illegal. A demon that powerful shouldn't be in the Ningenkai (Human World).

A demon that powerful was on par with one of the Chojin's Ten Swords.

'So this demon's name is Hiei, huh?' thought the blind man, waxing nostalgic. That was also the name of the mountain where the old Juppon Gatana (Ten Swords) stronghold was.

What a curious demon. He had the speed of Souiro "Heaven Sword" Seta and the strength (or even firepower) of Makoto Shishio.

If Usui could conquer this strong demon, then he'd get one more step closer to standing as equals with the Youkiri (Demon-Slayer) Tenro.

To sit at the right hand of an unborn god. To be able to challenge an unborn god and become one himself.

Nah, perhaps that last one was still a bridge too far for him. But this, defeating the fire demon, wasn't.

The dragons roared and gnawed against the Tinbe but like a mountain standing above the earth with a crown of clouds, it wouldn't yield.

His Tinbe then reformed completely, but there was a gap the size of a sword slash right on its upper top left corner.

That was where Hiei focused his attack, sticking the tip of his Jaou-En-Satsu Ken (Sword of Darkness Flame) right into it, forcing its way in.

Hiei learned a lot from Kurama's little trick earlier with the Demon World Moss. This time around, the jaganshi found a weak point before the shield was able to fully heal or reconstitute itself.

Hiei's aura of youki and black flames flared to life, increasing the pressure on that one little crack, like a pressure cooker about to burst.

More cracks appeared on the shield as the pressure built up further and further. It reached the boiling point and then went beyond it. Through this one weakness, Hiei was able to focus his demonic energies and bust through.

The Tinbe cracked apart in twain and then into a million pieces, and from there Hiei released all of the Dragons of Darkness Flame unto Usui's hapless form.

However, that was actually a ruse.

The blind swordsman and spearman had actually activated a second illusion from Jine Udo's Jagan as Hiei attacked with the full power of the Kokuryuha inside of him, knowing full well that his Tinbe wasn't complete yet.

However, by making Hiei dream that he had broken the false Tinbe, this bought Usui enough time to completely manifest his real Tinbe with the small crack or gap finally filled in.

It was this shield that stopped the Dragons of Darkness Flame cold.

Usui baited Hiei into wasting his one shot at him and it worked. Hook, line, and sinker.

Every last one of the flame dragons crashed uselessly against the reinforced and complete Tinbe, like the waves of the ocean crashing against the sea wall or dam. The tides turned but the wall remained unperturbed.

Hiei's Jagan was now his...!

However, as Uonuma began his counter Rochin stab with the intension of pinning both Hiei and Kurama into the nearest wall like twin butterflies, something felt amiss.

His body then literally fell apart into tiny pieces of meat cubes, red mist spraying all around him.

Usui was able to seal the crack on his Tinbe, but the gap of time he needed to do his counterstrike was all Hiei required to strike back.

In that fraction of a fraction of a second, the super-powered fire demon slashed at him at the rate of a hundred times per second. Or more.

Before Usui could block one strike with his shield. Or counter with a thrown spear to the heart or face.  Or even activate Jine's Jagan at the last second and create another illusion to fool Hiei with.

Moving faster than his sensitive hearing could detect. Or predict.

Moving faster than his mind could fathom.

Moving faster than sound itself.

***

About a hundred years ago, around the 1870s, inside Shishio's hidden fortress within Mount Hiei...

From out of the blue, Usui Uonuma asked Makoto Shishio a simple question.

"Between the Ten Ken (Heaven Sword) and myself, who is more powerful?" he had asked out of whimsy. "Who would win in a fight?"

Shishio chuckled, swirling the wine inside his wineglass as he considered Uonuma's unusual query. He decided to humor his former hitokiri (manslayer) rival.

"You can keep up with Sou-kun's speed up until he uses the Shun Ten Satsu (Instant Heaven Kill), which is him using both battoujutsu (sword-drawing techniques) and the Shukuchi (Reduced Earth) at the same time. If you're able to disable him before that, then you will win."

"Shun Ten Satsu, huh?" repeated Usui. "Why do you think that?"

Makoto drunk his drink in one shot and then gave the glass back to his courtesan and lover, Yumi Komagata.

"It's simple. You can counter anything you can hear, smell, sense, and react to, right? Sou-kun's Shun Ten Satsu is faster than sound. Your Shingan won't even hear him coming."

***

Back in 1993, at Mount Kannon...

Kenshin Himura sighed as he trudged on foot back to Mt. Kannon within the Hidaka Mountain Range of Hokkaido.

He had Kazuma Kuwabara place him near the mountain care of the trusty Jigen Tou (Dimension Sword).

Like in the case of the battle at Mount Kamui, Mount Kannon was outside of Okushiri.

Kenshin had absorbed enough spirit energy from all the Reikai Tantei (Spirit Detectives) earlier to manifest himself and his spiritual body on his own, without being wielded by any of them.

Although he was kind of curious what sort of powers would manifest if his sword were held by the likes of Yahiko Myojin, Natsuki Shinkai, Likka Ikumi, or Daiji Matsudaira.

Perhaps another time, they'd find out.

Most of the energy he soaked up came from Yusuke Urameshi, in fact. It should last him until the rest of the battle.

The fact that Yusuke's reiki was that immense was both reassuring and worrying.

Reassuring in that they had the big guns against the Shin Juppon Gatana (New Ten Swords) this time around. Worrying in that he wasn't sure if it was Rando's Kugai (World of Suffering) curse or Urameshi's own developing powers that led him to have this surplus of energy.

Without all those multiple seals that held back his power, Yusuke might still suffer from power incontinence. He might still be unable to control his full immeasurable strength.

Regardless, Himura had other concerns to deal with. He was busy taking care of this Chinese warrior earlier, who wounded him in battle that made it difficult for him to save Hajime Saito from Feng Xinhai's schemes and Toguro Ani's attempt at possession.

A Chinese warrior that ended up related to him and his dark past after all.

The stranger with white hair and crazed eyes that Kenshin fought was no stranger to him after all. He remembered who the man was.

The man's name was Enishi Yukishiro, all grown up. The younger brother of Kenshin's ex-wife, Tomoe.

Since Tomoe was Kenshin's ex-wife, that made Enishi his brother-in-law. A brother-in-law with a century-old grudge regarding Kenshin's (accidental) murder of Tomoe Himura (nee Yukishiro).

"...Tell me, Battousai. Is my sister smiling down on you from heaven?" so said Tomoe's brother, Enishi.

Enishi had somehow ended up in the Heisei Era and got himself mixed up in Kenshin's current affairs. Himura could've almost sworn that his brother-in-law had died back in the Bakumatsu.

The younger brother of Tomoe was one of many unsettled debts Kenshin left when he died fighting against Makoto Shishio back at Mount Hiei.

In their first meeting in a hundred years, Enishi even gave Kenshin the same wound that ultimately killed Tomoe.

Meanwhile, as Himura neared where he previously defeated the martial artist, the cross-shaped scar on his cheek flared with a twinge of pain. No, actually the cuts felt as painful and fresh to him as the first time they were made.

The scar somehow ached even more than the much deeper laceration on his chest that still hadn't fully healed.

Like a paper cut that microscopically tore through skin and thousands of nerve endings like a jagged handsaw.

As though Enishi's very presence had reactivated Tomoe's curse on him. The curse of the cross-shaped scar.

***

At the helipad of the Okushiri Military Base...

"Get the HELL out of THERE! Sadojima Houji!" beckoned Yahiko as he sheathed his sakabatou while Botan herself swooped down from above then behind him.

He further chided, "That strike wasn't enough to take you down, right? No, you still have the Chojin's powers inside you, you dirty rat. Of course that wasn't enough!"

"You're being too loud, Yahiko! You're bothering the military people!" was what Botan resisted herself from saying, inwardly reminding the Kaoru inside her, 'He's supposed to be loud, you silly goose! The Chojin and his forces are invading Okushiri, remember? If not Hokkaido altogether!'

The aforementioned military base had long ago been put on high alert ever since supernatural beings started attacking different parts of the island at once.

Many of their deployed teams didn't return to the base hours after deployment.

"Stand aside, kid!" one of the soldiers said, who in Yahiko's eyes should've looked more shocked at seeing the seeming U.F.O. land in the middle of their base. "Civilians aren't allowed in here. This is now official military business!"

Another private attempted to grab hold of Myojin, only for him to slip his grasp. The teenaged version of Yahiko willed his ghostly self to become incorporeal.

The Jieitai or JSDF (Japanese Self-Defense Forces) then surrounded what was left of Daiji's solidified reiatsu structure, their guns cocked and ready to go.

What remained of Matsudaira's seal broke apart like a hatching egg.

And from there came forth the Onmyouji (Occult Priest) in all his glory, wearing a mix of a business suit with an occultist robe serving as his overcoat. The true right-hand man of the Overfiend.

With purple glowing eyes and a miasmic aura that flowed all over his body like thick black and crimson smoke from a smoldering flame, Houji spoke in askance.

"Why do you want to fight me, Myojin Yahiko? Do you bear a grudge against me? Do you hate me from the bottom of your heart?"

Yahiko was taken aback by the question. "W-What...?"

"Right now, you have no such hate in your heart," said Houji the Onmyouji. "You're fighting out of a sense of duty to your friends. To your idol, Himura Battousai. Otherwise, you'd have no such quarrel against me."

Or perhaps Sadojima was merely acting as the representative speaker to one other person.

Perhaps Myojin was actually talking to the Chojin (Overfiend) himself. The mastermind behind all these resurrected baddies from the Meiji Era to the Heisei Era.

Just who the hell was the Chojin anyway? Was he Makoto Shishio? Or someone else entirely?

The Onmyouji's ghoulish shikigami (familiars) with their tattered robes and sharp scythes flew at the gathered soldiers, who fired at them to no avail.

"STOP!" screamed both Yahiko and Botan at the familiars prior to the massacre that was about to take place.

None of the military men stood a chance against these supernatural beings.

***

Back in Hokkaido, far away from Okushiri, at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

Kenshin witnessed Enishi's strength firsthand.

The Chinese warrior had become so powerful he drove Himura Battousai himself from the forests of Okushiri all the way to a whole separate mountain range in Hokkaido, miles away from the island.

By pure willpower and hatred, Enishi grew strong enough to give pause to even the powered-up version of Battousai that had his own magical Demon Sword.

The Overfiend had indeed prepared for every last contingency. He was every bit as cunning as Youko Kurama himself.

Earlier, Kenshin's chest actually got hit by Enishi Yukishiro's ultimate attack, the Kofuku Zetsu Tou Sei or Kofuku Zettousei (Crouching Tiger Severing Sword Rush), as a counter to the Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki (Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash).

Kenshin was also distracted by the fact that Tomoe's brother managed to find him a century later to enact his rightful revenge. His Jinchu.

That was why he was defeated by a technique Enishi must've trained over and over again to counter all sorts of battoujutsu strikes, including the ultimate one devised for the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu.

Luckily, instead of doing the follow-up strike that would've also missed, Kenshin had the foresight to do a more powerful version of the Dou Ryu Sen on the ground that was enhanced by the vortex created by the succession technique.

This last-minute creative counter was what initially buried Enishi right into the heart of Mt. Kannon.

Regardless, Kenshin arrived back at his earlier starting point.

By Himura's estimation, only he or maybe Yusuke could take Yukishiro out one-on-one. Enishi should not be allowed to join forces with the rest of the Shin Ju.

***

Yahiko manifested his neutralizing reiki and kenki all over the military base with a sparkling blue and yellow light that blended together and formed a green glow. This then warded off the raggedy evil spirits that served as the Onmyouji's shikigami.

It was his own form of spirit pressure. His spirit energy interacted with his swordsman presence in a way that sealed or canceled out the spiritual power of his opponents.

Botan, in turn, flickered back and forth between her original shinigami (death goddess) form and Kaoru Kamiya's form as she saved the soldiers from being reaped by Houji's soul reapers by using her floating boat oar like a bokken (wooden sword) or naginata (glaive).

The two Kamiya Kasshin Ryu practitioners made short work of the familiars before they could take one life of the JSDF military corps.

"Please evacuate from here. You're no match against them," explained Botan to one of the soldiers before swatting multiple weakened shikigami away with her weaponized boat paddle.

One of Myojin's shikigami-dissipating swings swiped mere inches away from Houji's face, creating a thin cut over the bridge of his nose.

"Swinging a sword mindlessly at someone out of hatred is just violence. Kenshin taught me that," said Yahiko. "My duty as the Son of Tokyo Samurai is to defeat you. That is all. I'll even stake my life on it."

Sadojima smirked. "So be it. Samurai-san."

From behind Houji teleported the ever-reliable Gatekeeper Itsuki.

Yahiko turned towards the blue-haired shinigami and told her, "Quick, call Boke (Moron) and tell him to come here right now."

"Boke...?" trailed off Botan.

"KUWABARA! Kuwabara Kazuma! We need him here now! If he needs healing, heal him up as well! He and his space sword are the only ones who can take on that green-haired yoga guy and his goddamn portals!"

"All right! I'll call him! Jeez," said Botan, who turned on her communicator.

"Language, Yahiko!" reprimanded the Kaoru inside her in turn.

Afterwards, Itsuki summoned a multitude of warp gates, this time rectangular and doorway-shaped instead of circular and hole-shaped.

Inside each dimensional door was either the corpse (as well as ashes) or unconscious body of the many different Shin Juppon Gatana members.

It was through these gates that the Occult Priest blasted his purple beams of negative energy. Before, they served as destructive pillars of neon plasma. Now, they were probably used to give the killed or otherwise heavily injured Shin Ju another lease on life.

"Oh no," said Botan. "Not again. He's not going to revive all the New Ten again, is he? Jeez, we just defeated those goons! Learn how to stay down and give up!"

The shining eyes of Houji the Onmyouji then dimmed and faded away, replaced with his actual normal eyes.

"Ah, you returned. The snotty little brat. How does it feel to go back to zero after all the effort you've spent killing the Shin Ju? Like Sisyphus and his rock, right?"

The boisterous nature of the Chojin's conduit had returned. Houji was seemingly awakened from his brief slumber earlier, when he actually sounded "cool" and "aloof" for a hot minute.

"Hey," said Yahiko. "What happened to you earlier? You weren't the one talking, were you?"

Houji raised an eyebrow at that. "What do you mean?"

"Don't play dumb. It was the Chojin who talked to us back then, right?" asked Myojin. "Tell it to me straight: The Chojin is Shishio Makoto, isn't he? Of course, he is! Who else would start a war against the Spirit World with a team called the New Ten Swords? No one but him!"

The necromancer chuckled. "That's a... secret."

With a grunt, the samurai teen jumped and attacked the Chojin's right-hand man with a downward slash from the Jodan-no-Kamae (Fire Stance), which was then blocked by Houji's scythe.

They crossed blades, their different energies clashing against each other as arcs of lightning ripped through everywhere like light-filled cracks that broke through reality itself.

Houji's lack of formal training with his weapon was rendered moot due to his seemingly oceanic flow of negative energy that gave his simple block the weight of the world. Or at least the huge water pressure of the ocean depths.

However, regardless, the beams of purple plasma emanating from the dark priest flickered and wavered as it interacted with the reiatsu of Yahiko.

"That's it! You can do it, Yahiko!" said the Kaoru within Botan. "Show them why I consider you the number one pupil of the Kamiya Kasshin School!"

"Can you really do it, boy?" asked Houji, smirking. "Can you seal away the overflowing, overwhelming power of the Chojin himself? The Living Sin?"

The dimensional doors leading to the Shin Ju were then shut down. Or rather, slashed shut.

Gatekeeper Itsuki chuckled, his slashed eye that doubled as a dimensional portal opening. "He's here."

Sure enough, in one of the doors, the jaki beam was slashed in twain, the negative energy cut down by the spiritual might of the Jigen Tou.

It was from this door that Kazuma Kuwabara emerged, the transparent ghost of a recovering Sanosuke Sagara beside hiim.

"You called, Jo-chan (Missy)?" said Sano.

"YOSHA! (HELL YEAH!) Let's get this party started, samurai boy!" shouted Kazuma, the rambunctious teenager with bleached orange hair similarly styled like his best friend Yusuke Urameshi's hair.

***

And so there he was. Buried deep underneath Mt. Kannon itself like Son Goku the Monkey King from the literary masterpiece, "Journey to the West".

The rumbling inside the grumbling mountain roared deeper and harder. Like it was about to explode and turn into a volcano.

"...BATTOUSAI!" screamed Tomoe Yukishiro's little brother Enishi from underneath Kannon Mountain, spewing hot fire along with the brimstone and magma he was surrounded in.

His spectacles had long ago been lost or burned to smoke and ash by molten rock. The rest of his outfit remained intact though, probably protected by his body's significant aura.

Yukishiro crawled out of the hot magma pits of hell, or at least the otherwise dormant mountain in an explosion of fire, smoke, molten rock, and lava flow that scarred and burned the surrounding forest.

The singes and burns on Enishi's (literally) piping hot body, however, started healing right before Kenshin's eyes.

Not quite at the level of instantaneous regeneration as the Elder Toguro, but quick enough to survive a trip down a volcano and live to tell the tale. Still too quick compared to a normal mortal though.

Besides which, he wasn't supposed to only be burned from the fires of a river of magma anyway. It must've taken thousands of degrees of heat to even leave him slightly scalded at all.

His humongous amount of spirit energy kept him from suffering life-threatening injury. The same way Hiei or Yusuke would've survived such a predicament.

The red-hot blade of the Chinese-styled warrior didn't quite reach its melting point but it cooled down from the sheer blast of miasmic spirit energy from him.

If allowed to run rampant like the rest of the Ten Swords, Yukishiro could very well murder every last one of them. The Reikai Tantei, the Kenshingumi, and the Oniwabanshu.

All of them could die. This high-level martial artist could do what at least 8 of the 10 Shin Ju couldn't. He was a one-man army. He was like their Hajime Saito. A true wild card of sorts.

Kenshin foresaw it all through the Youtou Shinnoken.

The last thing Yahiko and the rest of the Reikai Senshi (Spirit World Warriors) needed right now while battling the Onmyouji and the Chojin's wealth of negative energy was a spanner in the works like Enishi.

***

The powers of most of the reincarnations or ghosts from the Meiji Era—most of Kenshin's comrades—were a result of how their spirit energy interacted with their swordsman energy or fighting spirit, creating what was known as reiatsu.

With Daiji Matsudaira (Aoshi Shinomori's reincarnation), it was the Quest-Class manifestation of objects and materials from his spirit energy.

With Natsuki Shinkai (Yutaro Tsukayama's reincarnation), it was the ability to manipulate kinetic momentum or acceleration, usually in the form of reflection or deflection.

With Likka Ikumi (Misao Makimachi's reincarnation), it was her skill to manifest her thoughts into reality, creating visual mirages or even holographic illusions seen by all.

With Sanosuke Sagara's soul, it was his pure fighting spirit that allowed his ghost to approach Regent-Class regeneration abilities, stamina, and pure brute force that allowed him to affect the physical plain like a rampaging poltergeist.

With Kaoru Kamiya's soul, it was a mix between Botan's soul reaper powers and Kaoru's past swordsmanship skills that allowed them to heal, boost, replenish, bind, manipulate, or otherwise enhance the spirit energy within them or of those around them.

With Kenshin Himura's soul, he became one with the Demon Sword, a demon-slaying blade that could arguably injure or kill a god. His own reiki, kenki, and reiatsu interacted with anyone who wielded his blade in ways that raised their very power levels.

Finally, with Yahiko Myojin's soul, his unique brand of spirit energy interacted with other spirit energy (whether it was human or demonic) in a way that suppressed or neutralized them into nothingness.

Yahiko's unique powers worked like how an acid and a base reacted quantitatively with each other when mixed until the acidity of the acid disappeared. Or how Hiei's Jaou-En-Satsu Kokuryuha was cancelled out by Shinobu Sensui's polar opposite power of Sei Kou Ki (Saint Light Ki).

Their reiatsu was different from the reiki and youki used by Yusuke Urameshi and their comrades due to the use of other forms of reiki within the Meiji Era reincarnations and the use of classic shinigami warrior techniques among the revived spirits.

Reiatsu was more comparable to something like Sensui's Saint Light Ki or Yusuke mixing his reiki and youki together to form something approaching Sei Kou Ki instead of either pure reiki or youki. Even jaki.

It was through these souls—these seeds of hope—that Koenma Daio intended to defeat the Chojin and his unnatural powers that defied death and the natural order of the Spirit World.

***

Kurama's board full of chess pieces were in their proper places, which kept the Chojin in check. They were practically on the verge of a checkmate, even.

The pawns were positioned to divide and conquer the Shin Juppon Gatana, with each Reikai Senshi paired up to their appropriate members.

Their source of power, Houji, had his borrowed negative energy suppressed by Yahiko. Their means of transportation, Itsuki, got sealed off by the Reikai's own Kuwabara and his Dimensional Sword.

Botan was there to heal and replenish reiki as well as assist Myojin tactics-wise care of Kaoru. Sanosuke himself was gradually recovering his spirit energy and fighting spirit for good measure as "Jo-chan" or the shinigami she fused with nursed his flickering body back to health.

Kuwabara regained his second wind even, which allowed him to not only create portals but to close or destroy them with his twin Dimension Swords.

This kept the annoying Gatekeeper from transporting jaki to the injured/dead Shin Ju or even getting the recovered members to help Houji out.

Even with his use of Sensui's seven personalities and the new powers it brought him, Kazuma kept him at bay.

As for the shikigami that served as the Onmyouji's infantry, Sanosuke punched them out with the "FUTAE NO KIWAMI! (DUAL EXTREME!)" while riding shotgun on Botan's oar.  

So why did Myojin feel like something was amiss? Like he had a bad feeling about everything? Like something terrible was about to happen?

A new enemy descended from an unseen sky portal that Kuwabara noticed, slashed apart, and closed too late.

"Huh!?" was Yahiko's reaction to the new arrival. This distracted him even as he ended up on the verge of disarming the untrained Houji. "Who is that? Is it another replacement Shin Ju?"

Kuwabara said, "We've already confirmed that Toguro Ani and Kuronue replaced Suzaku and Udo Jine! It's not one of the New Ten! Must be one of the Dai Shin Kan instead!"

Sanosuke's jaw dropped. "No way...!" which made Botan and Kaoru ask in unison, "Who is that supposed to be, Sano?"

Kazuma jumped into action, intending to slash a portal and kick the newcomer into it, only for his Jigen Tou's energy to start unraveling before his eyes.

The woman in courtesan clothes smiled as she floated down using her umbrella as a parachute (like goddamn Mary Poppins, Botan realized), crimson energy emanating from her pale white skin.

"Ah, it's all coming together now." Houji cackled. "Welcome back, Komagata Yumi. Get rid of these insects for me, if you would please."  

And so Makoto Shishio's personal courtesan and lover arrived, dressed in her classic Meiji Era garb but this time there was a hole in her chest where her heart used to be.

The very place where Shishio stabbed her in order to do a surprise attack on Battousai Himura.

Also, she had long fangs inside her mouth.

"Inner Blood Turmoil," Yumi said as she sapped Kuwabara of all his spirit energy using the Kyuuketsuki Kakuto Ryu (Vampire Martial Arts) that Rando stole from her.

"SHIT! Now even Shishio's girlfriend has superpowers too?!" said Sanosuke, remembering the woman whom he did a bridal carry with as they traversed Shishio's Mt. Hiei stronghold.

"...BLOOD WIND!" she screamed, releasing a red energy-sapping tornado at the Reikai Senshi.

***

Originally, Kenshin was barely able to defeat Enishi and get back in time and save Sanosuke Sagara, Kazuma Kuwabara, and Hajime Saito from the nefarious machinations of Karasu, Feng Xinhai, Usui Uonuma, and Gatekeeper Itsuki at Mt. Kamui.

But now that his detour was over, he had to get back to his original business.

He had to. Or else Enishi would undo everything they'd done so far to suppress the New Ten Swords from conquering the island of Okushiri as well as Hokkaido.

"Sessha (This one) wonders why even though I thought I'd never met you before, you seemed to know everything about me de gozaru (that you did)."

"'Sessha'? 'De gozaru'?" Enishi repeated the words with a snarl and a dismissive snort. "Are you kidding me, Battousai? Why is the most fearsome hitokiri of the Bakumatsu acting like a gentle fool with flowery samurai language? Enough of your lies!"

"This one never thought to see you again after a hundred years. I was sure you were already dead," confessed Kenshin.

"I did die. But I live again. Reincarnated in a new era," said Enishi. "I willed this weak new body I was reborn into to become even stronger than I already was before you died in the hands of Shishio Makoto."

'So he survived the Bakumatsu after all,' thought Kenshin, who believed that Enishi had died of starvation as a little boy in the ensuing revolution.

"Now I will enact the revenge that I was robbed of a hundred years ago! If you've been dispensing Tenchu (Heavenly Retribution) in your time as a hitokiri, then this is Jinchu (Earthly Retribution) for all your sins! Prepare yourself, Battousai! ZETSUGI...!"  

From there, he didn't even give Himura the chance to breathe or any breathing room as he attacked, attacked, an attacked some more.

Tomoe's little brother had grown ridiculously strong. As though he'd been training the last hundred years for this one moment. Empowered purely by hate.

However, one way or another, Kenshin was able to contain Yukishiro's growing threat long enough to assist Saito's rescue or allow the Kenshingumi to go through their mission of taking out Houji.

Himura figured out how his Wattoujutsu (a mixture of Japanese swordsmanship and Chinese kung fu) worked after only seeing a couple of techniques from it.

The Demon Sword's blade then shone with an ethereal light before Kenshin's form changed altogether.

From a 30-year-old man, his body returned to his more youthful 15- to-16-year-old self.

The form he had before he developed the cross-shaped scars. When he was still known as the Hitokiri Battousai. This way, he could engage Enishi the same way he did against any other opponent.

Free of bias. Free of shame or guilt.

"SHUUGEKI TOU SEI! (KICKING SWORD RUSH!)"

This technique of Enishí's involved hitting his opponent from below then kicking the blunt side of his sword at the last second to maximize damage.

Thusly, Kenshin answered the technique back with his own, "SOU RYU SEN! (TWIN DRAGON FLASH!)"

"KAISHI TOU SEI! (BAYONET SWORD RUSH!)"

As for the Bayonet Sword Rush, it was a follow-up whirling counterattack or riposte involving Enishi putting the hilt of his sword against his opponent's sword to add momentum to his pivoting swing.

However, Kenshin had a similar counterstrike technique like that as well in the form of "RYU KAN SEN! (DRAGON WRAP FLASH!)"

"SHO HA TOU SEI! (PALM BREAK SWORD RUSH!)"

From the Jodan Stance, Enishi swept his sword starting from over his head down to the ground. Afterwards, he then placed the palm of his hand on the sword's blunt side to push it forward at full force.

The answer to this move that resembled the Dragon Hammer Flash was the "RYU SHO SEN! (RISING DRAGON FLASH!)", which was the natural Ryu Tsui Sen counter that doubled as a two-handed sword block wherein the sword was held by its handle and tip with either hand.

"CHOU TEN TOU SEI! (UP-AND-DOWN SWORD RUSH!)"

This was Wattoujutsu's version of the Ryu Sho Sen. It allowed Enishi to leap upwards using his sword as his pole vault then attack from the air by pulling his sword towards him by its hilt cord immediately after jumping.

Kenshin drew out the fearsome technique with a feinted Ryu Tsui Sen only to do the "RYU KAN SEN ARASHI! (DRAGON WRAP FLASH STORM!) at the last second, the multi-hit forward somersault sword strikes catching Yukishiro off-guard.

"Ugh!" Enishi landed bad on his ankle, his knees buckling from the force of the centrifugal strikes, the chainsaw-like windmill of strikes drawing a fine mist and squall of blood. "Damn you, Battousai...!"

Kenshin cut Enishi's cursing short with a jarring punch to his jaw.

Battousai Himura had a Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu answer to every one of the white-haired young man's Wattoujutsu techniques. He took advantage of Enishi's barrage of hateful, unfocused strikes with clinical precision.

The fact that Himura didn't realize who exactly he was fighting against until the last second helped him figure out the proper counters to Enishi's Wattoujutsu early on and even bury him right inside the Kamui Mountain itself. Albeit temporarily.

Kenshin imagined he'd have a harder time with the kung fu master swordsman were he distracted by his guilt for killing Tomoe and knowing Enishi's identity from the start.

"Is that all you've got, Battousai?" demanded the scuffed-up, bleeding-from-the-mouth Enishi, who spat away blood as his veins—no, his very nerves themselves—hypertrophied or thickened enough to become visible underneath his skin with vascular density.

This was his Kyokei Myaku (Nerves of Insanity) in action.

***

It was bedlam at the Military Base of Okushiri.

Ten things were happening at once, and barely anyone could keep up.

More soldiers were deployed to rescue the fallen and suppress the invaders.

They waged war against the Onmyouji's shikigami, even though many of them couldn't even see the grim reaper familiars.

They had to use their special thermal goggles to detect and shoot the enemy, but neither bullets nor grenades worked on them.

Botan had more luck dissipating the strange creatures into the ether, but that was because it was part of her job description as a soul reaper.

She did double duty in casting her healing and reiki-replenishing spells on Yahiko, Sanosuke, and Kuwabara while at the same time defeating her share of scythe-wielding reapers created from wayward earthbound spirits infected with the Chojin's jaki.

Also, the bodies were really hitting the floor now. Not due to the Kenshingumi (they were basically all ghosts) or their Reikai Tantei comrade falling into a dead faint.

It was because the vampire (or perhaps succubus) Yumi bit the necks and absorbed the blood of all the nearest JSDF soldiers to power her Kyuuketsuki Kakuto Ryu.

As for Gatekeeper Itsuki, he and Kuwabara were having a portal contest of sorts. He kept making portals while Kazuma kept slicing them apart.

Regardless, it took much longer for Yahiko to seal the power of the Chojin, the borrowed ocean of jaki overflowing with immense pressure from within gleeful Sadojima.

"TSUI GAMI...!? (HAMMER OF GOD...!?)"

Myojin's attempt at the sword-breaking, jaki-neutralizing Hammer of God was thwarted with a simple yet shuddering one-handed scythe swipe that belied Houji's actual physical strength.

"So you intend to beat me at this level of strength?" asked a smug Sadojima before releasing a pillar of jaki that made Yahiko kneel before him, as though bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Yahiko felt like he had plunged deep underwater, drowning in negative energy as the oceanic water pressure increased further and further the deeper he went.

Myojin grunted, grit his teeth, and rose up against the harsh and dense waves of pure jaki that bore down on him in waves, his green aura of reiatsu resisting the crushing force of the Overfiend's distant yet overbearing presence.

Like a black sun whose dark rays and heat reached the earth all the way from space despite being millions of miles away.

It was a tug of war between the Chojin's power boosts and Yahiko's neutralization skill.

Thanks to Botan and Kaoru, the ghost of Sanosuke had healed up and reenergized himself with reiki enough to summon his signature Zanbatou (Horse-Chopping Sword) again at long last.

He had more bandages than usual, half of which were spirit seals from Botan that kept his ectoplasm from escaping his ghostly form.

"ZANBATOU ATE! (ZANBATOU DISTANCE HIT!)"

Sanosuke's Zanbatou Ate, based on Anji Yukyuzan's Tou Ate (Bladed Distance Hit), created a landslide aimed at Houji, who shielded himself with his shikigami ghouls.

"ZANKUU ZANBATOU ATE! (ZANBATOU VACUUM DISTANCE HIT!) "

As for his Zankuu Zanbatou Ate, Sanosuke aimed it at the ensuing Blood Wind air funnel that the courtesan in revealing clothing fired off at him.

The last thing Sano expected was to use that 12-foot longsword against Shishio's lover, the non-fighter known as Yumi.

***

Enishi did a low split-legged crouch, only to charge with an onslaught of strikes instead of doing another Zettousei when he saw Kenshin sink his stance low in kind instead of taking his bait and attacking with the Hirameki.

"SENRAN TOU SEI! (WAR SWORD RUSH!)"

"RYU SOU SEN! (DRAGON NEST FLASH!)"

Sparks flew everywhere as though they were in a steel mill or foundry as they parried and attacked each other with impunity, their swords crossing and chipping at their edges.

Blood and ectoplasm stained the ground soon afterward from both combatants.

Enishi moved faster than Kenshin could react. Like an unswattable fly. Or perhaps a whole swarm of flies. Locusts. Bees. Wasps, even. A plague of wasps. His twitch muscles able to react to attacks or counterattacks by lightning-fast reflexes.

It was like dealing with Soujiro Seta's Shukuchi all over again. Himura couldn't even predict Enishi's strikes by reading his sakki (bloodlust) because he was exuding hatred and killer instinct at all times. At every waking moment.

Like the polar opposite of the Heaven Sword. It was no different to deal with someone who lacked bloodlust compared to someone who always exuded bloodlust. There was no sudden spike of killer instinct you could use to read an opponent's moves.

This forced Kenshin to take the initiative and jump high into the air in order to become the aggressor for a change, even if only to draw out a counterstrike that he could then counter.

"RYU TSUI SEN! (DRAGON HAMMER FLASH!)"

Yukishiro countered by also leaping vertically before Kenshin could drop him with the Dragon Hammer Flash. Afterwards, at the point where his jump force was equal to Earth's gravity, he jumped even further, thus essentially doing a double jump or what was known to basketball players as an airwalk.

"SHIKKU TOU SEI! (SLASHER SWORD RUSH!)"

Kenshin's youtou (demon sword) and Enishi's watou (Chinese-style katana) clashed hard against each other, their impactful vibrations strong enough to shatter steel. However, their mystical swords forged from spirit energy and the life force of their very souls both held true.

However, Battousai or no Battousai, the scarless Kenshin realized he had to take Yukishiro out before his own feelings of despair, depression, shame, and remorse got the better of him.

For even now, he felt like he deserved to get hit by every last strike from Enishi for the sin of accidentally killing his ex-wife in an attempt to rescue her from her kidnapper.

"KUZU RYU SEN! (NINE-HEADED DRAGON FLASH!)"

"UGH!"

Like water crushing rock over time, the constant barrage of counters from earlier finally took its toll on Enishi, leading to several lapses of attention that the Battousai took advantage of to great effect.

Kenshin's persistence paid off, with that last multi-hit attack finally landing on his nerve-filled brother-in-law.

He then prepared to do a supersonic noutoujutsu (sword-sheathing technique). The same one he used to disable the super sensitive hearing of Usui Uonuma's Shingan.

"RYU MEI...! (DRAGON CRY...!)"

Kenshin stopped short of doing his high-pitched sheathing technique when he saw a familiar young woman with jet-black hair, doe eyes, a white kimono, and purple shawl appear out of the half-burnt forest.

She brought with her a nostalgic, heartbreaking scent.

"T-Tomoe...?!" stuttered Kenshin before Enishi's Watou ended up stabbing him right in his chest, on the same wound made by the Zettousei that got him earlier.

The pair of scars on his left cheek reappeared. Bleeding with fresh blood (or, in his case, ectoplasm).

***

Back at the Okushiri Military Base...

The Blood Wind dissipated from the strength of Sanosuke's vacuum slash, but Yumi herself blocked the wind pressure with her open, glowing-red umbrella serving as her shield.

Ah, yes. The Blood Wind.

The double-edged, energy-sapping red tornado created from the heat of the spirit energy it stole and the coldness of an injured body that was losing blood.

However, this woman somehow managed to do Blood Winds without the need to be injured. Or perhaps the hole in her chest served as her injury?

Sagara originally thought it was one of Rando's ultimate moves, only to remember something about him stealing techniques. So this energy-sapping technique was actually her move, wasn't it?

Regardless, what was a desperation move for Rando was a normal move for her. It all made sense now. Or at least that part did.

"How the hell did you get superpowers too, lady?" Sano demanded to Yumi. "You even went so far as to change yourself into a vampire! You really are something else!"

"Stop acting so friendly around me, you boorish lout," said Komagata to Sagara with half-lidded eyes, parrying his probing zanbatou stab from more than 12 feet away with her closed umbrella that doubled as her sword. "You should've stayed as a ghost in the Spirit World. You'll regret crossing paths with us again after a hundred years, Sagara Sanosuke."

Sano left his cumbersome giant sword behind, charged unimpeded, and backhanded the woman. "Nothing personal, Neechan. We can't let you or your psycho boyfriend run amok again in this era either."

"...Bastard! You dare hit a lady?! Youki Duantoutai! (Spirit Guillotine!)" Yumi reeled from the slap that caught her by surprise but then kept Sanosuke at bay with the Spirit Guillotines.

"...Son of a bitch! Rando stole that move from you too?!" said Yahiko before breaking the paper-thin waves of demon energy with "Men (Head)" strikes from the Fire Stance and flying skyward with the God in Heaven technique.

"Not exactly," Yumi chatted with a nonchalant smirk. "I stole some of Rando's moves myself in exchange for the moves he stole from me. Tit-for-tat."

As for Sanosuke, his follow-up attempt at chopping Komagata in half with his 12-foot sword led to it getting blasted full of huge holes care of Itsuki. This made the zanbatou look like a macroscopic slice of grey Swiss cheese.

The scattershot blasts responsible for Sano's predicament originated from a gun attached to Itsuki's right arm. It shot out miniature black holes the size of pinholes but had event horizons the size of bowling balls or bigger. They ate up any type of matter nearest them.

It was a (literal) handgun with black holes as its bullets that the Gatekeeper developed through the help of Shinobu Sensui's Kazuya personality.

Itsuki's Black Hole Gun also ate up chunks of Sano's ghostly flesh whole.

"GUUAAAHH!"

The Gatekeeper had taken advantage of Sanosuke's moment of hesitation in killing Yumi. Sano remembered mid-swing how she had originally died by Shishio's hand and then had her corpse burn along with his in a sudden unintended funeral pyre.

Meanwhile, as the flying Myojin attacked Yumi from above, Botan attacked from below. She flew on her oar mere inches from the ground before getting off her ride and using her forward momentum to smash her paddle right into the vampire. She then let the more athletic Kaoru inside her do the rest.

Using jaki and youki together, the succubus imbued her foldable fan and her closed umbrella with enough blood-red energy to stop the oar cold with a cross-block. She then unfurled her umbrella in time to also prevent Yahiko's Ryu Tsui Sen from hitting her noggin.

From this close proximity, she then used her Inner Blood Turmoil to absorb her attackers' spirit energy unto herself, sapping the two of their reiki and making their souls flicker and fade.

Neither the living nor the dead were safe from this vampire queen.

***

"GOU TSUI TOU SEI! (FALLING BLADE SWORD RUSH!)" screamed Enishi after impaling the distracted Kenshin in the chest.

The Falling Blade Sword Rush allowed the white-haired martial artist to pin Battousai at last, lifting him high up and over his head with his sword and upper-body strength.

"At last. At long last. You're going to die, Battousai! You scum! You criminal! You took away everything from me! Now I will return the favor and take away everything from you! This is my Jinchu!"

The Guardian of the Youtou Shinnoken grunted and coughed, his eyes unable to tear themselves away at the visage and silhouette of his ex-wife Tomoe Yukishiro.

Red tears streamed down his cheeks and bloodstained scar.

"T-Tomoe? I-Is that really you?" he mumbled in disbelief, as though not even noticing Enishi's watou inside of him.

He was no longer Hitokiri Battousai (Battousai the Manslayer). Instead, he transformed back to Rurouni Kenshin (Kenshin the Vagabond).

"Tomoe" then told Enishi with an old man's deep voice, "My apologies. This is the best help I can give you for now. That damn Okashira stole all of the jaki that the Chojin gave me and sealed me and my precious Iwanbos away with it, turning the energy into solidified reiatsu."

"You did splendidly, Gein," said Enishi, who smiled for once. He couldn't face the reanimated corpse of his elder sister eye-to-eye, though. "Now please take that puppet away. I don't want you to soil my sister's memory with it."

Kenshin went pale. He'd been duped by one of Gein's puppets. However, his trickery paid off. He didn't feel like hurting Tomoe's little brother any longer.

"Did you know what I went through to get to this moment, Battousai? As an orphaned boy, I ate human flesh in the battlefield to survive. I was adopted by a rich couple, only for me to kill them because I hated how happy they were. I ended up becoming an arms dealer using their wealth for good measure. I then found out you already died, which sapped me of my will to live. Only to be reborn in this era after I found out you became the Demon Sword's guardian."

Enishi dragged Kenshin's bloody (or ectoplasmic) body all over the forest at the foot of Mt. Kannon, savoring the moment before pulling his sword out and stomping on the Battousai's bleeding wound for good measure.

"I'm not sure whether I should wield your damn sword myself or just destroy you along with that sword. Oh well. It doesn't matter. You could die a thousand deaths and it won't bring back my sister. Even after I died, I couldn't find her anymore. I've lost her forever. All that's left is to make you feel the despair I felt when you stole her away from me."

***

Back at the Okushiri Military Base...

Chaos continued. Fires broke out everywhere.  The wind howled like wolves to the moon. The base crumbled and turned into shambles. It was Hell on Earth.

Hell in Hokkaido.

Komagata's Inner Blood Turmoil created her own version of reiatsu—her youki mixed with the Kenshingumi's reiki, the blood of the soldiers she fed on, and the Chojin's jaki—before releasing that pent-up energy towards Yahiko in the form of the "BLOOD FIRE WAVE!" projectile.

However, thinking fast on her feet, Botan purified the surplus of jaki around them then used it to replenish the reiki she and Myojin lost from being in contact with Yumi.

'Wow. She's doing the thing! The same thing Urameshi did when he got hold of the Meikai's crystal ball thingy,' thought Kuwabara. 'She's purifying jaki into reiki!'

Again, Botan used spirit bandages that doubled as spiritual energy seals, acting more like a priestess than Hinageshi the Shrine Maiden or Houji the Onmyouji.

"Nice one, Tanuki-chan!" said Yahiko. "I mean, thank you, Botan."

Botan smiled at the samurai boy. "You're welcome. Now go get 'em."

'This woman is seriously getting on my nerves,' thought Yumi while eyeing the ferry-girl whose astral body housed two souls instead of just one.

A rejuvenated Myojin then did the sword-breaking "TSUI GAMI!" to neutralize the Blood Fire Wave and the pinhole-sized black holes that Itsuki's sneaky Kazuya personality shot right into his heart and head with the Black Hole Gun.

The samurai kid kept moving forward, practically swimming in the thick of "it", with "it" being the Chojin's ocean of jaki.

Meanwhile, Houji frowned, his arms crossed. 'This goddamn brat! For Chojin's sake, he sure is persistent.'

He thought that the Chojin allowing him more access to his boundless negative energy—enough jaki to, quite frankly, revive the long-dead kingdom of Meikai (Nether World)—was sufficient to neutralize the neutralizer.

However, Houji's jaki output remained relatively low and it even started dwindling.

Like opening your water main at full capacity yet still ending up with less water than you expected when filling up your bathtub. Defying the very will of the Overfiend himself.

'The boy is starting to get better control of his neutralization powers, isn't he?' the Onmyouji thought, tapping his scythe's handle to the ground impatiently.

To Yumi and Itsuki, he only had one command. "Kill him."

Yumi then made it rain blood like the Battousai would back in the Bakumatsu.

A literal rain of blood poured down on them, but each droplet contained razor-sharp scalpels. A bloody rain that cut you apart in order to induce a thicker bloodbath afterwards. It pelted the ground like suppressive fire from a machine gun.

She aptly named the technique, "Bloody Rain."

It was the bloodsucker's way of creating the energy-absorbing Blood Wind without having to sacrifice all the plasma that she had already drained from her other victims.

"I don't know who you are, lady, but you leave that boy alone!" said Kuwabara, who finally had time to intervene.

***

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island...

Yusuke Urameshi had actually been in a punching match with Toguro Ototo all this time.

Right in the middle of Okushiri Island, in fact. Along the Tsurikake River.

Instead of playing with the percentages of his power, the Younger Toguro instead went all out from the start, displaying 100% of his full strength.

'His B-Level strength,' was Yusuke's unsaid sentiment. He recalled how easily he manhandled the A-Level Rando earlier now that he wasn't faced with any distractions or dirty tactics.

So dealing with Toguro should be a cakewalk now, right?

In kind, Urameshi himself released his first pair of Spirit Cuffs. Just like the good ol' days, they ended up in a slugfest that turned the peaceful river into roiling rapids from the shockwaves of their punches.

"You've struggled in every encounter you've faced with the Chojin's forces so far yet won every time," said the Younger Toguro. "Why is that?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, man," said Yusuke before blasting the gigantic hulking grey behemoth before him with the "SHOT GUN!" technique, bombarding him with the purest of reiki bullets.

The vascular and muscular Toguro pressed on, healing the missing pieces of his flesh instantly like his older brother would.

An impressive feat a power level or two ago. To Yusuke, it had somehow become old hat. Any S-Level worth their salt should be able to regenerate fast enough as long as they had an abundance of spirit or demon energy inside them.

"I took on Rando, Souther (Xinhai), Suzaku, the blind guy (Usui), and the rest of the Chojin's New Ten Swords fair and square. All I'm doing now is killing time and keeping you from ruining Kurama's plans to take your new gang out. Right until your big bad boss, the Chojin, shows up."

Toguro's eyes narrowed behind his shades. 'His reiki is... overflowing. It almost reminds me of the Chojin's own jaki. Immeasurable.'

Yusuke dodged the Shi Dan (Finger Flip Bullets) by reflex even though he had a feeling he could survive direct hits from Toguro's unnaturally strong finger flicks at this point in time.

It was a B-Level against an S-Level (albeit one who was holding his strength back), after all.

The Shi Dan were even more powerful than the strongest human punches, capable of blasting through concrete, but against Urameshi's wealth of spirit energy, he doubted that they'd even penetrate his skin.

Even with his powers sealed, he teetered from being a high A-Level to a low S-Level.  

'Are you hiding your present power level, Toguro? Is your 100% form not your full power?' Urameshi thought.

There was just no way that the likes of Rando, Xinhai, Usui, Saito, or Suzaku would end up stronger than the Toguro Ototo himself.

Then again, while it took Toguro 50 years to reach B-Level, it took only 10 years for Sensui to reach S-Level. Meanwhile, it took less than 3 years for Yusuke to surpass them both and take on a centuries-old S-Level archdemon, Yomi, to the brink of defeat.

To Toguro, Urameshi asked, "What happened to you deciding to stay in Hell for 100 million years to atone for all the crimes you've committed? Were you plucked from Hell by the Chojin and forced to work for him? Answer me, Toguro!"

"...We're not so different, you and I."

"OH, COME ON! Not this tired cliché again!" the teenaged living warhead told off the demonized human strongman in between bone-crushing punches.

He didn't want to hear such things from someone much weaker than him.

***

The veiny (actually nervy) Enishi got talkative all of a sudden, Kenshin realized.

His life story was as unfortunate as the vagabond expected. Maybe even more so. So he even killed a family after he was given a new lease in life? How much of a monster had he become?

This was a lot for Himura to take in. He could barely breathe right now; much less digest Yukishiro's words.

Meanwhile, Enishi snarled in remembrance of the things he'd been through. The people he killed. The opportunities of happiness he turned his back on in favor of a century-old grudge.

The innocents he murdered in order to harden his heart enough to take on a monster like the Battousai. When he died, he resisted the reincarnation cycle for so long, hoping against hope he'd find Himura's soul in the afterlife and drag him to Hell along with him, torturing him for a million years.

However, his chance had finally arrived only a few decades ago. He reentered the reincarnation cycle and avoided becoming an insect or a slug, getting instead the body of a Chinese boy with his memories of the past as a Japanese man intact somehow.

He then trained his body in martial arts, went to prison more than a few times, became a career criminal, and climbed the ranks of organized Chinese crime known as The Triad (what the Shanghai Arms Dealers eventually developed into a hundred years down the line).

In fact, until a few couple of years ago, Enishi occupied the position of Dragon Head that his protégé, Feng Xinhai, currently had. He had a Chinese name himself, but he long ago abandoned that identity in order to completely become Enishi Yukishiro.

He dedicated himself into becoming what he was in his past life and more.

It was because the Chojin himself reawakened his soul's past memories for the purpose of taking down Kenshin Himura.

Under the guidance of the Chojin and his reformed Shin Juppon Gatana, he even learned how to use his spiritual powers on top of reviving the lost martial arts of Wattoujutsu. He studied the Japanese language.

He began slaying demons himself by helping fund technology that linked the Demon World to the Human World with the money he made by being the Triad Dragon Head.

And now, while serving under Tenro the Demon-Slayer's Yakuza Family as one of his enforcers, he finally crossed paths with the man who stole his happiness a hundred years ago.

His revenge, his Jinchu, was literally a hundred years in the making.

"I will kill you now and then the rest of your friends afterwards. I'll break apart the Demon Sword or steal it for myself. Become its new master. From there, in the Spirit World, I will also hunt your ghost and kill you again until all memory of you is erased. Suffer like I did. Suffer for eternity, Battousai!"

Something stirred inside Kenshin when he heard those words. It was one thing for Enishi to swear to kill him. However, what did the rest of his comrades have to do with his revenge? Was he really going to kill the Kenshingumi or even the Reikai Tantei and the Oniwabanshu all in the name of his Jinchu?

Just as Enishi prepared to finish Himura off, a shinigami flew between them like a bolt from the blue.

The woman who sported a black kimono and raven hair zeroed in not on Enishi and Kenshin but instead on the Tomoe puppet of the Puppet Master.

'Ah, I remember her,' thought the Guardian of the Demon Sword. He met that death goddess before while assisting the training of Sanosuke and Yahiko when they first arrived in the Human World.

From his limited interactions with the shinigami, Kenshin surmised that she mainly did research work for Koenma Daio, not unlike the child inspector Sayaka.

'Ayame, was it? She's the shinigami that Kurama assigned to the Southeast Quadrant of Okushiri. Did she follow us all the way here?'

***

Yusuke wanted to end the fight with Toguro using one gigaton punch or one Chou Rei-Gan (Mega Spirit Gun), but he held back. Kept his cool.

He wanted to bet on a "maybe".  As in, "Maybe Toguro is holding back and is about to show me something more amazing than 100% of his power".

Otherwise, Urameshi would've already blasted Toguro back to Hell where he belonged and had a 100 million year sentence to serve. From there, the teenager would've waited for the Chojin or someone to arrive and force him use 100% of his power instead.

Finishing this fight early presented too much of a risk. Like eating an unripe fruit or something. Besides which, if Yusuke went all out, he'd wipe out several mountain ranges and riverbanks off of the map.

But maybe he was risking hundreds of thousands of lives over his own selfish whims.

'Fine. I'll push a little harder, then.'

The ensuing "REI-KOU-DAN! (SPIRIT WAVE BULLET!)" that fissured the surrounding ground and threatened to break the world in half was mostly absorbed by Younger Toguro's beefy body.

Toguro's 100% form before might instead be his 000.1% now. Maybe he'd been training all this time in Hell. Training from Hell.

Or maybe this was all wishful thinking on Urameshi's part now that he had outgrown his boogeyman from his past.

Yusuke put his hip into his last punch, manhandling the "ultimate" form of Toguro that earlier on threw him around like a rag doll the first time they fought.

"You want to rise to your greatest potential, but unfortunately you've already been there and done that and more. You've become too powerful," Toguro said after fixing his twisted neck that had his head staring straight behind him.

"You're not somehow begging for mercy, are you?" asked Yusuke as he hit another bone-crushing uppercut to Toguro's jaw.

"...Nothing challenges you anymore, but you don't want to sever your attachment to this world of weaklings."

Toguro flexed and did a full-powered tackling punch with enough force to move or even obliterate mountains. Alas, this version of Yusuke ate mountains for breakfast ever since achieving S-Level during his fight against Sensui.

This was nothing to him. Drop a building on him, and he'd wonder if it was raining.

He hated to think in such a way, but to him fighting Toguro now was akin to fighting Kuwabara. It didn't help that the behemoth fought straightforwardly and without trickery, unlike Xinhai and Rando.

"You honestly sound pathetic now, Toguro. What happened to you? Keiko can hit harder than that. Put your hips into it!"

But nothing major really happened to Toguro after dying back in the Ankoku Bujutsukai (Dark Martial Arts Tournament). It was Urameshi who had changed.

Any of the current roster of Roku Youkai (Six Demons) could take him on and turn him into roadkill, to be honest.

Toguro's form doubled or even tripled in size. He was now doing his "100% of 100%" technique that had him stake his very soul's life force in order to unleash his fullest potential.

However, his fullest potential ended up just B-Plus in the end. Not even at A-Level.

'Quit messing around and go 1,000% power or something already, Toguro!' Yusuke inwardly begged. But that never happened. He kept dealing with a Toguro who could barely make him flinch.

"In order to continue to live the lie you call your life, you're someone strong pretending to be weak so you could fit in with the rest of the weaklings."

"Stop yammering! I'm more impressed with your big mouth than any of your punches!"

Yusuke did his signature finger gun pose and focused his ocean of reiki at a single point of his index finger, gathering all that limitless energy into one concentrated shot.

"Great fighters refuse to lose, but you refuse to win just to get back that feeling and exhilaration of conquering something greater than you. So what do you do now that you're in a world where nothing is greater than you?"

"Jeez. Shut up already."

Yusuke sighed. If Toguro really was going to unleash a new superpower on him, he would've done so by now. Meanwhile, he himself hadn't even worked up a sweat.

Was this some sort of long-con, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" deal? Was Toguro hiding his power level like he always had, using only a small percentage of his potential? Or was this indeed his limits after his defeat in the Dark Tournament?

"Maybe you're right. Maybe I have been a little careless in my fights lately. However, in the end, I kept winning anyway. So who cares? It's my curse, I know. REI-GAN!"

***

Back at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

Ayame the Shinigami grabbed hold of the corpse puppet of Gein and cut off its spiritual connection with the mad scientist using her reaper powers.

She then said to Enishi, "There's no way your sister is smiling down on you in heaven! Not while you're doing something as terrible as this, stalking Himura-san for decades! A whole century!"

Enishi scowled at the impudent ferry-girl. How dare she say such things to him.

"What do you know? How can you possibly know the pain I've been through? The pain that my sister and her fiancé suffered from? You're nothing but a stranger! You have nothing to do with me!"

Kenshin tried standing up, but Enishi kicked his chest wound and pinned him down with a foot stomp. "And as for you, stay down! I'm not done with you yet!"

Yukishiro was about to punch Koenma's ferry-girl away when she chanted an incantation that led to the body double of his sister Tomoe to frown at him and cry tears of blood.

"Don't you hear it? Don't you hear the cries of despair of your dearly departed sister Tomoe from a hundred years ago? The last thing she wants to see is you suffering or making everyone suffer along with you!"

Enishi shook and shuddered before he himself screamed in anguish, screaming until his throat became ragged. Clutching his chest at that baleful look that rocked him to his very core.

"Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! Enough of your lies, Reikai! I don't believe any of them for a second!

However, he couldn't for the life of him kill even a puppet of his sister. Any young woman who reminded him of his sister, he couldn't bring himself to kill.

He damn well tried to though, his hatred rising. His cognitive dissonance assuring him these were all lies. That his sister had wanted to kill Battousai all along to avenge her fiancé's death.

That the rumor of how Battousai pledged to not kill ever since he killed Enishi's sister was just a rumor.

That Enishi hadn't wasted his multiple chances at a new lease on life for nothing.

He slashed the Tomoe corpse puppet apart with the Sho Ha Tou Sei, his own tears flowing down as he did so. Nauseated by the act, he moved away and puked soon after.

Even though she wasn't the real Tomoe.

'I have to do this. I have to destroy all their lies!'

He had waited for so long and come so far. In the end, it should still matter, right? If it didn't matter then what was the point of all this?

It was all Battousai's fault. He was the one who ruined his life. He was the one who forced him to suffer like this. Everything was perfect until he came along.

Even in the afterlife, Himura haunted him.

"Himura Battousai must die! Suffer! Die a thousand deaths! A million deaths! I won't rest until he has suffered as much as I have and MORE!"

Yukishiro prepared to do his ultimate attack on Kenshin, only for Ayame to get in his way.

This looked mighty familiar.

He hesitated for a whole second in cleaving the shinigami in half. Here was another woman the same age as his sister. Everywhere he looked, such maidens like her kept reminding him of what he had lost.

A second was an eternity in a fight, though.

Kenshin rose up and blocked Enishi's ensuing sword strike even though, unbeknownst to him, his brother-in-law intended to miss Ayame by a mile anyway.

Himura's heart swelled at doing so. Here and now, the vagabond was able to do the sword block that he failed to do against Shishio.

Had he done the same block against his hitokiri successor, would he have survived their mutually assured destruction? Had he not given up back then and decided to fight on, would he have been able to come back to Tokyo with the rest of the Kenshingumi? With Miss Kaoru?

Kenshin really wished he had fought on instead of giving up and dying along with Shishio. That he did.

"...I will fight to the end to protect those I hold dear! That is my truth!"

Himura's resolve in defeating Enishi finally hardened after wavering for so long, his cross-shaped scar seemingly glowing with a red bioluminescent light.

The crouching tiger faced off against the unhidden dragon one more time.

"KOFUKU ZETTOUSEI! (CROUCHING TIGER SEVERING SWORD RUSH!)"

"AMAKAKERU RYU NO HIRAMEKI! (HEAVENS GLIDING DRAGON FLASH!)"

Last time, the tiger was able to cut deep wounds into the flying serpent even though it was driven deep underground by sharp dragon claws.

Would the tiger finish what it had started? Or would the dragon have something hidden behind its upward flight into the heavens?

***

Kazuma attempted to create a portal to serve as a shield over Yahiko, only for Itsuki to seal that portal with Kazuya's Black Hole Gun, the twin rips in space-time canceling each other out.

However, Kuwabara expected the maneuver and teleported right in front of Itsuki in order to slash apart the firearm at pointblank range with the Jigen Tou.

"Motherfucker...!" shouted the foul-mouthed Kazuya possessing Itsuki's body, grasping his damaged handgun.

Itsuki then awoke Sensui's George personality in order to gain access to a hyperdimensional gun vault filled with Tommy guns, pistols, Desert Eagles, mini guns, shotguns, AK-47 rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, and bazookas.

He had actually restocked his gun collection by stealing many of the armaments and ammunition available in the very military base they were invading right then and there. Knowing full well that ordinary guns were more useful against living, flesh-and-blood beings like Kuwabara versus the solidified souls of shinigami and ghosts from the past.

In retrospect, this made Houji's efforts to shoot Yahiko, a ghost, with a gun moot. However, Itsuki at least had a backup plan.

"I'll kill you all!" said Hitoshi. "I will purify the Human World by getting rid of all the humans!" His shtick was that he wished for human extinction.

However, before he could use one magazine or clip from his guns, he got pummeled to submission by a revived Sanosuke Sagara.

Botan had healed up the wounds of Sano's ghost yet again with purified jaki turned into reiki. He then got the jump on the green-haired youkai through brute strength instead of fancy teleportation techniques.

'Her again?' thought Houji, noticing how Battousai's woman served the same function as he did with the rest of the Shin Ju. 'That Reikai shinigami is making this mission of ours needlessly difficult.'

Furthermore, every attempt Itsuki made to get away from Sagara was blocked by Kuwabara, who himself punched the demon back into portals of his own that redirected him towards Sano's waiting fists and "FUTAE NO KIWAMI!"

"All right, enough of this!" declared Yumi, who shifted from targeting Yahiko to focusing her Spirit Guillotines and Blood Fire Waves at the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu kendoist turned shinigami Botan/Kaoru Kamiya.

Kaoru assisted Botan in deploying evasive maneuvers against the succubus, with her using the reiki-imbued boat paddle to bat and parry away the projectiles headed towards her before flying away from the bloodsucker.

She then ended up blocking the scythe of the unskilled but jaki-empowered Houji, which kept her from taking flight and escaping. "Keep still like a good girl."

Finally, a black hole appeared where her chest used to be. It was actually a dimensional rift that sucked the ferry-girl's ghostly flesh and ectoplasm away.

Gatekeeper Itsuki then closed the portal that mortally wounded Botan/Kaoru with a wave of his hand.

The ferry-girl's jaw opened, clenched, and froze at a silent scream, her red eyes rolling upwards until only her eye whites were visible.

"KAORUUU! BOTAAAAAN! NOOOO!" said Yahiko with an anguished, bloodcurdling shriek of his own.

Itsuki's mouth curved upwards in curiosity. 'What will you do now, Samurai-san? Is this enough to break you into pieces like what happened to my dearest Shinobu (Sensui) when he saw the Black Chapter Tapes?'

***

Back at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

As Enishi Yukishiro's heart wavered, Kenshin Himura's resolve hardened. Tempered by his will to protect those around him.

The Kofuku Zetsu Tou Sei should've countered the Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash by avoiding the first slash completely and countering the second slash with a well-time riposte, unfazed or even aided by the void created by the first slash.

The Zettousei was seemingly designed to break apart or deconstruct the Hirameki, as demonstrated earlier by Kenshin barely surviving it the first time it was used.

It should've halved the effectiveness of the second slash, but by Kenshin drawing the sword low and removing the ground-based leverage of his crouch, Enishi stood no chance.

Kenshin's much faster and stronger Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash hit low to weaken Enishi's strong crouch then hit high with the multiplied centrifugal force of the follow-up second strike of his ougi, the Crouching Tiger Severing Sword Rush buckling under pressure.

Enishi's counter was ultimately overpowered by the much stronger and better applied succession technique.

However, like before, even after his counter was countered by a more experienced, worldlier version of Battousai guarding a powerful demonic sword, he still kept standing.

Sure, Yukishiro shook like a leaf and heaved belabored breaths because his double-edged, hypertrophied Nerves of Insanity multiplied his pain to the point where an ordinary man would've blacked out in a dead faint.

But he wouldn't go down. He refused to go down. He'd rather die than go down.

Whether he was thrown into magma inside a mountain or cut down to oblivion with the Legendary Youtou Shinnoken (Demon Sword: The True Blade), his willpower continued to defy fate and destiny itself.

He braced himself for Battousai to deliver the finishing blow, relying on his twitch reflexes and his thick pulsating nerves that were practically on fire at this point to launch another counter.

Instead, Kenshin told him, "You didn't really mean to raise your sword at Miss Ayame, did you? Cutting down the fake Tomoe puppet to you was like ripping your heart out."

He spat, "What of it, Battousai?! That's just a puppet I tore apart, not my real sister! My sister that you killed!"

"It doesn't matter if the puppet was fake or not. Ripping her apart hurt you at your core. The pain you felt is real."

"DAMN YOU TO HELL! Push me any further, and I'll do the same to the shinigami!"

Himura replied, "Even though you've murdered others because you couldn't stand how happy they were, you hesitated in killing Ayame-dono. She reminded you too much of Tomoe to go through with it, didn't she?"

"DON'T YOU DARE SAY HER NAME, BASTARD! Her murderer has no right to do so!"

"...In the end, what stopped you was your sister. So I ask you the same question you asked me. Is your sister smiling down on you from heaven?"

Delirious, he started having visions.

Visions of his sister taking care of him when he was sick with the flu, sleeping at his bedside. Cooking for him. Taking care of him. Serving as the only family and mother figure that he ever knew.

His revenge against Kenshin was all he had left. All that mattered. His only reason for being, since Battousai robbed him of the original reason for his being. Without this one goal, he'd be nothing.

He could do anything as long as his sister was smiling back at him.

He closed his eyes. All he could see—the face he claimed was a lie made by the Spirit World—was his sister frowning at him with sad eyes full of pity.

The things he'd ignored earlier that bothered him also started making sense.

Why his sister threw herself in between Battousai and the leader of the Yaminobu.

Why his sister stayed with Battousai for so long and even became his wife (being a deep cover agent wasn't enough to explain that away).

Why Battousai vowed never to kill after "easily" killing so many people for such a long time.

'He did that because he felt guilty after killing my sister! And everyone around him! He's a criminal who's celebrated as a hero because he killed during a war when it's 'legal' to do so!'

He opened his eyes. The image of his unhappy, melancholic sister coalesced into Shinigami Ayame's face while bearing the same grim expression with her mouth.

He fell to his knees and broke down bawling. A broken man.

It wasn't the strike from a mystical demonic blade or the most powerful technique of a ghostly guardian from the Bakumatsu that brought him down to his knees.

No. It was him realizing his sister's disapproval of his Jinchu that unraveled his single-minded determination to kill Kenshin and/or make him suffer for an eternity and a day.

Only sheer willpower kept Enishi standing. So when Kenshin broke even that, he had nothing left.

His will to fight went away. All that was left was anguish, despair, and hopelessness.

"Neesan... Neesan...! (Big sis... Big sis...!)"

What was he supposed to do now?

***

To Be Continued...

The main event is about to start, and it's a doozy. Tenro will finally make his appearance to complete the Okushiri Arc!

Ciao, Abdiel

#kenshin himura #yukishiro enishi #jinchu #hiei #yusuke urameshi #usui uonuma #toguro ototo #toguro #jaganshi hiei #yuyu hakusho #幽☆遊☆白書 #rurouni kenshin #るろうに剣心 #demon sword #youtou shinnoken #妖刀真の剣

[the-mic-drop]

 Shonen Jump Rap Cypher 2 by Rustage

Yeah, despite my disdain for a CERTAIN character in this cypher, I’m doing it.

Lyrics under the cut

Roronoa Zoro- One Piece (Performed by Rustage)

First mate

Shatter like Pica, an earthquake

The body I build with my work rate

These cursed blades are dooming you all to a worst fate

Surprise you like a birthday

I hurt, maim, need first aid

You want the shaft?

Then I guess I’m taking you to third base

One

Beast with my weapons, strength immense like gorillas

Two

Cut down in a second, one man army, guerilla

Three

Scary, no thriller, I’m stronger than imagined

Killed the beat but turn around and be like “nothing happened.”

Vegeta- Dragon Ball Z (Performed by Fabvl)

Uh

You don’t want it with the prince

Put you on your knees,

man there’s levels to this shit

That’s real

bunch of Mr. Satans in this bitch

Kill a petty rapper, bring em back to hold the tip

Call that draggin’ balls

Focused mind, like I’m overdosed on Adderall

Royal blood, turn the greatest into catalogues

They can call me number 2

I create the greatest, tell me, who the fuck are you?

Killua Zoldyck- Hunter x Hunter (Performed by DizzyEight)

Yeah

I’m cut from a different fabric

It’s shocking when you spot him, I was bred for the static

It’s tragic, but it happened

I’m bred to be a savage, y’all yappin’

You think you got heart? Then stare at it.

Know it’s god speed how I move when I smack you

Lose your head if you think I’m the one to talk back to

Assassin how I move, kill you without a trace

Ain’t talking yo-yos when I string rounds to your face

Seto Kaiba- Yu-Gi-Oh! (Performed by Gray Fox)

Rageki with my lyrics and Obelisk in my physics

I’m a monster reborn and I’m here with a vengeance

and then I Jinzo on these bitches ‘cause I don’t fall for these thirst traps

Write it and I spit it, ain’t no need for these rehearsed raps

Blue eyes, three heads, the smirk of a crook

Y’all motherfuckers just toons, ‘cause you go by the book

Pot of Greed, make money til I overdose

I kill my friends just to kill you,

call me King Barbaros

Tobia Kageyama- Haikyuu!! (Performed by Connor Quest)

Smack you down harder than my serve, make my hand sore

Had your turn, now it’s back to me, that’s a chance ball

I hold power, split second, pick an option

The control tower that you call like Houston if you have a problem

Flick of the wrist, they better get hit, I tend to get pissed, if ever they miss

Can’t keep up with me just go be subbed or quit

Orange-Black combo, shorty flies when I let him jump

Kageyama shittin’ on the mic, that’s a setter dump

Rukia Kuchiki- Bleach (Performed by Frivolous Shara)

Freeze!

Who wants to dance with the ice queen?

I go from 100 to absolute 0, ice stream

Is that the scoreboard or temperature?

To the thousand year blood war, I’m here, here’s the finisher

Big things come in small packages

They think that I’m fun-sized

‘til I open this third eye

this Bankai

Banish your soul from society

Leave your body in thirteen divisions for tryin’ me.

Katsuki Bakugo- My Hero Academia (Performed byShofu)

It’s Bakugo

My pressure got the opps on the ropes

Rest in peace to the goat, but I’m popping the smoke

I’m just tryna make a name, ain’t no time to be slow

Villains say they beating me?

Need to stop with the jokes

Since my rival got chosen, I’m not losing focus

Deku got me heated, don’t get caught in the explosion

All I need is power and strength

I got a vision, and I never needed help, I’ma do it myself

Inosuke Hashibira- Demon Slayer (Performed by Shao Dow)

Sugoidaro, ore wa shōbu shōbuda (Incredible, aren’t I? Fight me!)

Chototsumōshin imasuguda (Wild Pig Assault, right now!)

Hashibira Inosuke

Defeat you with crossed blades

The beast in the cosplay

These demons are not safe

Mad lad with no chill, the most skill, I go kill

Mountin’ Oni ‘til they mole hills

I’ll headbutt ya, hold still

I’m so pig headed, I’ll kick ya for no reason

Kedamono no kokyū (Breathing of a beast)

As long as this beast’s breathing

Yuno- Black Clover (Performed by Mega Ran)

You know, that I gotta protect what’s mine

Got the spirit of wind any my relatives by my side

I been raw, got that grimoire

Know I make a match tragic, black magic

Keep you wheezing like an asthmatic

I’ll keep this brief, if it’s beef, you minced meat

Trust me, you don’t wanna see my brother with that fifth leaf

Listen up, power levels never get debuffed

I’m not stoppin, I’m not movin, and I’m never givin up

You know!

Karma Akabane- Assassination Classroom (Performed by Shwabadi)

Red head, rockstar

No redemption deaded with a bowie, call it blackstar

When it comes to felling yellow foes, he is a monster

Pull and shoot in seconds with no questions like a cop car

GRATTATA

That’s red and blue together, feel the murder intent

The BB gun plastic plastering the back of your head

Got screws loose, I’m coocoo, but action’s intense

Only school kid to school you, you’re actually dead

L- Death Note (Performed by Zach Boucher)

Everything I do is calculated

Hide the fear, commandeer

and use my wits to compensate and make it clear if they appear

I’ve got lots of patience waiting, I’ll be here to persevere

and don’t you try to get up near and interfere with my career

I really hate to lose

That won’t be me, I play for keeps

Honestly, fuck the rules

May even cheat ‘cause talk is cheap

They see me as a tool

But I’m the key, you best believe

Get me a sugar cube

Need something sweet for victories

Hiei- Yu Yu Hakusho (Performed by GameBoyJones)

This Jagan make you be gone

Wouldn’t pee on these peons

They’re too weak, couldn’t be pawns

Cut them all down like a neat lawn

I got the steel in hand, meddle with me then you’re finished

‘Cause you ‘bout to get the business like retailers during Christmas

I’ve been in the cut, why you think I’m packing a blade?

I’ll chop your top off like a barber when you catching the fade

All eyes on me, yeah my demon form is dashing

You know I keep that heat, I’ll fire on you with the dragon

Erina Nakiri- Food Wars (Performed by Savvy Hyuga)

Ya meat ain’t a feast, it’s a B-class waste

I’m elite, not a piece, I’m the whole damn cake

Just a cheat, no heat, knowin’ nothin’ ‘bout taste

Take a seat, here’s a treat, and a lesson from an ace

Gotta leave people pleased, your dish is simply just a tease

You ain’t doin’ it right if they ain’t weak at the knees

Got every person lustin’ from the work of my tongue

Ya know, girls would bust if you just delivered for once

Sasuke Uchiha- Naruto (Performed by VI Seconds)

I’m about to kill the village

and my brother won’t be changin the story

Somethin shocking’s gonna fly from the arm,

you woulda thought that I screamed “Chidori”

Whole style Katon, they all see I’m fire y’all

Sharingan to Rinnegan, see the way that I evolve?

Kirin, can’t a medic ninja stop yo harm

Got more eyes on me than Danzo arm

Every time I black? Flame like Amaterasu

I’m vengeance, hard bodied, peep the Susanoo

#Nerdcore #Anime #Shonen Jump #Rap #Hip-Hop #Dragon Ball #Naruto #Demon Slayer #Death Note #Yu Yu Hakusho #Assassination Classroom #My Hero Academia #Bleach #Hunter x Hunter #One Piece #Food Wars #Black Clover #haikyuu!! #YuGiOh #Sasuke Uchiha #Vegeta #Hiei #L #Karma Akabane #Inosuke Hashibira #Rukia Kuchiki #Seto Kaiba #Killua Zoldyck #Roronoa Zoro #Katsuki Bakugo

[questersrest]

steam trading cards are a whole lot of nonsense if you ask me but each one has a small image that's cropped from a larger image and i was looking at the dq11s cards and thought hell yeah these would be good as wallpapers.

however, they only give you the option to open the full image for cards you own so i did a bit of digging and found the full images are all linked to on steamdb.

so i thought, y'know, other people might want these as wallpapers but not know a way to find them or that they even exist. i had a look and pulled out all the dragon quest ones.

dqh1 is on steam but has no cards. dragon quest rivals ace is actually on steam but only available in japan and has no cards... i mean it's literally a card game itself so perhaps that would be overdoing it

#saving adventure log

[liquidmetalslime]

Square Enix is also closing down Dragon Quest Rivals Ace in Japan on July 5th.

#dragon quest rivals ace #dqr

[onepieceaus]

One piece AU

I lost all of these before. So let's go. Percy Jackson AU

Luffy- I don't think he would be a son of the Big Three. The thing about Luffy is that he doesn't have a string power. But knows how to make it strong. So I think that he would be a son of Nike. The goddess of victorie itself. He came from a family of very powerful warriors. She would already have and eye on Dragon. Super excited about fighting but not so much about understanding the monsters.

Zoro- Really? There is doubt? This boy would be a son of Mars. He loves battle and lives for it. But he is very disciplined when it comes to it, training every day, respecting his swords, and all the bushido thing. And he would be Roman, you'll see in a minute why. The dictionary has a picture of him next to the word dyslexic.

Nami- She got me thinking. She would be greek, and daughter of Hermes. And because of her connection with the weather maybe she is also a legacy of Zeus, from the WW2. And who isn't related to Zeus? But she would take Capture the Flag a little too seriously. People get hurt when it happens.

Usopp- Almost went for Apollo, or Demeter, but still didn't fit. So I made some research and found Dolos, the god of Lies, cunning deception and craftiness. It makes sense for his elaborate lies, and how well he can make equipment for his friends. Read the wikipedia's article about him, and tell me it isn't some Usopp bullcrap.

Sanji- This one was very easy. Son of Athena. Sanji is a magnificent warrior, but his mains weapon is his brains. He always make amazing strategis. Since he would be greek and Zoro Roman that's a plus for their fights. And Zoro is also the son of Ares/Mars, Athena/Minerva's rival. He would do almost anything to be one the same team of the cabin of Hermes and the cabin of Aphrodite on Capture the Flag. He never is trusted to stay on watch when it's against Nami.

Chopper- He gave me the most thinking. First I tough Apollo, then Asclepio. But I decided him to be a spirit of nature. Maybe an Canadian Canadian satyr that is half reindeer instead of half goat. He would still be a healer and know a lot of cure songs.

Robin- Against popular belief, I don't think she would be a daughter of Athena. She is super smart and all, but still don't feel right for me. I think she would be a daughter of Pluto. Since she loves to study dead things (dead civilizations), has a really bad luck, and has a very morbid sense of humor. She would be in camp just like Annabeth, since she was very young. People would ask her to be preator, but she would refuse, because she wants to research and go on quests with her friends. Also got invited to join the Amazons and the Hunters of Artemis. Refused both.

Franky- It dosen't even has discussion. The man that transforms himself into a cyborg is an son of Hephaestus. He would never be Roman because a man that has a mechanism to give him a whale hairstyle, substituted his stomach to a fridge and has glowing nipples would never be Roman. Even some Hephaestus kids are worried.

Brook- Ok. He would be a son of Apollo(greek). He could do a lot of magic with music, and he spends a lot of time with satyrs studying. But he should have some kind of business with Hades/Pluto for being an skeleton.

Ace- Zeus. Just to still have spite and daddy issues.

Sabo- He would be a son of Vulcan. When he finds out he is not related to his father he would be so danm happy, and that his dad isn't a "fancy" god would make him go to the clouds. Probably a fire manipulator. Is preator and nobody understands how. Has an imperial bronze pipe.

Koala- Without a doubt a daughter of Neptune. She can control water and still fight Fishmen Karate, controlling the water inside people. When the creature isn't made of water she just stabs them with a knife or something like that.

Law- Edgy boi would be am Roman Roman legacy of Apollo. He would came from a line of doctors that were very respected in New Rome. But they were killed by monsters on a quest and he barely escaped from them. Because he flee from battle his family lost prestige, but he works hard to regain it. He's still creepy tough.

Hancock- OMG! ITS SO HARD! WHO IT COULD BE? IT'S JUST THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD! GODANM WHAT A MISTERY!! Aphrodite

Vivi- If I didn't did her y'all would kill me. I have no idea. Maybe Notus, the god of south wind (hot wind). No idea give me suggestions about it.

Well that's it. Tell me if I missed something and you opinions if they're different from mine. Mine opinions are just opinions, and I would love to discuss it with other people

#one piece #one piece au #one piece luffy #luffy #zorororonoa #cat burglar nami #nami one piece #nami op #zoro one piece #zoro op #captain usopp #ft. usopp #god usopp #chopper #chopper one piece #robin one piece #nico robin #franky op #franky one piece #brook one piece #sabo op #sabo one piece #koala one piece #law op #law one piece #hancock one piece #boa hancock #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #the heroes of olympus