Everyone is back home, Imma-ite throws himself onto the sofa and lays Ashi beside him. Maya takes a seat on the floor, everyone else stays standing up.

Rinka: I feel like we did something illegal over there.

Minaro: We most definitely did.

Maya: Destroying buildings is really illegal.

Doa: Luckily I don't think any of the people of the town died.

Rinka: I hope no one else died… Do you think the guardians care about building damage?

Minaro: Probably.

Rinka: I feel like we're gonna get in trouble for the damage.

Imma-Ite: Eh... Who cares, I wanna know more about Bukkaru's black man form.

Minaro: Black man form?

Bukkaru: Meow Meow.

Doa: He said that he can only bring that form when he's somewhat hurt. None of you are willing to hit him to see that form right?

Imma-Ite: I'll do it.

Bukkaru: Meow.

Doa: He said no.

Minaro: What is the form?

Maya: The form looks like a giant buff black man.

Bukkaru: Meow.

Doa: He has the power to turn into a buff human.

Minaro: Oh, cool.

Rinka: Anyways, what do we do with these guys?

RInka looks at the 3 tied up unconscious guys they captured.

Doa: We can call Sumairu to come and take them to jail.

Rinka: Yeah, let's do that.

Imma-Ite: Well you guys do that, I'm going to sleep.

Rinka: I think we should all rest as well and tomorrow we can talk about this more…

Maya: Sounds good.

Rinka: Oh! I just remembered a guardian was supposed to go over to the town to help us.

Doa: Oh right.

Rinka: They're 100 percent going to find out about the building damage.

Imma-Ite: Damn, nothing we can do about that, so I'm just gonna continue sleeping.

Rinka: That's true I guess... Yeah, lets just talk about it tomorrow.

Everyone heads to their sleeping places.

…

It's morning now, Rinka places a flower near a stone in front of the skill center, Imma-Ite is staring down at him.

Imma-Ite: Is this a grave for Iwo?

Rinka: Yeah, I thought it would be nice to remember him here.

Minaro walks out of the Skill center.

Minaro: Hey, I brought pizza, come get some.

Imma-Ite: Hell yeah! Is there sausages on it?

Minaro: Yeah.

Imma-Ite rubs his hands together.

They all head inside, Sumairu comes out of the hallway.

Sumairu: Awesome news! The guardians thanked you guys for getting those guys arrested.

Rinka: Oh that's nice.

Minaro: Wow.

…

Everyone is happily eating pizza in the kitchen, Maya and Imma-Ite start arm wrestling, Rinka, Doa and Minaro are watching funny videos on her phone. Rinka and Doa are smiling, Minaro is watching calmly.

A few minutes go by...

Quick knocking can be heard, Rinka stands up to go open the door. It's sumairu, he looks serious.

Sumairu: A guardian is here and they want to talk to all of you...

Rinka: Guardian...? Here?

Doa: Really?

Sumairu: I need you to go talk to them.

…

Everyone walks into the main lobby of the skill center. They spot Rimin, he waves at them.

Sumairu: I brought them!

Rimin: Hello, my name is Rimin.

Rinka: Hello.

Doa: Hello.

Imma-Ite: Sup.

Maya: Hi.

Ashi hides behind Maya, Minaro stays silent.

Sumairu: So what did you want to talk to them about?

Rimin: The mission they went on yesterday…

Everyone is attentive.

Rimin quickly pulls his katana from it's holder and strings rapidly shoot out of it's tip that wrap around everyone.

Doa: Hey!

Imma-Ite: The hell do you think you're doing!

Ashi and Maya struggle trying to wiggle out the string.

Minaro looks confused, Rinka looks worried.

Rinka: Uh?

Sumairu: Rimin what's the meaning of this?

Rimin: A big building in Cazuya town was destroyed and several people were hurt. But those weren't the worst things to happen.

Everyone except Minaro and Imma-Ite look worried.

Rimin: 20 people were found dead.

Rinka and Doa are surprised.

Rinka: 20!? That's impossible!

Doa: We made sure no one died!

Minaro looks even more confused.

Rimin: Well clearly you didn't make sure enough, that's how many people were found dead.

Imma-Ite: It wasn't us then! We didn't kill anyone!

Sumairu: Do you really think these guys would go against the rules of the guardians?

Rimin: They were working with skillers, so I have my reasons to believe that they did.

Doa: We would never kill that many people!

Rimin: As if I'm supposed to believe that. You are also working with one of the skillers who is above Rank 7.

Rinka: Huh? No we're not.

Rimin: The girl with brown hair is a skiller.

Everyone looks at Ashi, confused.

Rinka: What?

Maya: That's not true at all!

Rimin: She matches the description of the people who have seen Rank 9. Her eyes are the same as everyone has described.

Sumairu: Rank 9!?

Ashi looks nervous.

Ashi: T-that's not true! I can't even use my skills properly!

Rimin: Is that so?

The strings around Ashi unwrap and mix into each other to make one string that impales her.

Rimin: Attack me with your full power.

The area is filled with strong amounts of wind, Rimin holds onto his katana tightly. The wind knocks everyone else to the floor, Ashi runs towards him.

She attempts to punch Rimin, Rimin stares at her, she's quickly pinned to the floor.

Sumairu: Telekinesis. I forgot you have that skill.

Rimin grabs Ashi by the hair. She is emotionless under his control.

Rimin: Tell everyone your role as a skiller.

Ashi: I am Rank 9. My leader sen-

Rimin: Oh leader? The skillers have a leader? Tell us about the leader of the skillers. What's his name and what does he look like?

Ashi: Our leader is known as Yutsu. He has white hair, his eyes are red with yellow. He wears different button up shirts and shorts.

Imma-Ite: Wait you guys never knew about the skillers having a leader?

Rimin: Did you know?

Imma-Ite: No, but you could just assume they did.

Rinka: I also just assumed the guardians already knew.

Rimin: We didn't know, I guess their leader has never been seen. This is gonna be amazing to tell everyone else! I guess that means that there are actually 15 active skillers around.

Rimin lets Ashi go.

Rimin: So anyways tell us about your role as a skiller again.

Ashi: I am Rank 9, my leader sent me as a spy, I have to monitor the ones with black blood.

Rimin: Oh, so she wasn't even helping you guys.

Rinka, Doa and Maya look sad.

Maya: I refuse to believe you!

Rinka stares at the floor, He looks worried.

Rimin: Refuse all you want, this is the truth.

Rimin stops her hypnosis, she starts crying.

Ashi: I'm sorry for lying to you all! But even if I am a spy, I still care about you all, you are my friends, I was even planning to ditch my boss and just be a normal girl with you all!

Rinka looks distraught.

Doa: Let her go! She hasn't done anything wrong!

Rimin hypnotizes her again.

Rimin: How many people have you killed?

Ashi: I have killed around 10 people.

Rimin: Nothing wrong huh?

Doa looks hurt.

Rimin: Well I think it has been a fun time, but I've got to get going.

Rinka: Hold on, I want to ask her things while she's hypnotized… Ashi! Back then when we saved you at Hooligan mountain, why did you let yourself get hurt if you were Rank 9!

Ashi: I love pain, I love it when I'm hurt. At first it hurts but then I enjoy it silently.

Rinka looks mortified.

Rinka: Do you really care about us Ashi!?

Ashi: Not at all.

Rinka looks back down at the floor.

Rimin laughs.

Rimin removes his hypnosis off of Ashi, she just stares at the floor crying.

Rimin stabs Ashi's left shoulder, she covers her mouth with her other hand.

Maya: Stop it!

Rimin: Stop it?

Rimin kicks Ashi in the face, she lays on the floor.

Rimin: She likes this doesn't she?

Rimin stabs her back and starts slashing it repeatedly, Ashi trembles.

Rimin starts kicking her face repeatedly, everyone watches.

Rinka: Stop...

Maya: Stop! You're going to kill her!

Rinka: Stop please.

Rimin: You guys piss me off. She doesn't care about you at all and here you are trying to stand up for her.

Rinka: Just stop hitting her!

Rimin notices Rinka trying to look away from Ashi and pulls him towards him, he punches Rinka, everyone looks worried and surprised.

The strings around Rinka unwrap and form into one that impale him, he is now hypnotized.

Rimin: Torture Rank 9.

Rinka grabs Ashi's fingers and breaks them one by one. Ashi yells each time, after the last one her face has a smile of warped happiness.

Minaro and Doa look extremely worried.

Minaro: Stop it! Stop fucking hypnotizing him!

Doa: Stop…

Minaro tries his best to break out of the strings but can't.

The others do their best to look away, Rimin gives his katana to Rinka.

Rimin: Torture her more with the blade and then kill her.

Rinka repeatedly slashes Ashi, her legs are cut open, then her arms, a giant puddle of blood has formed under her body.

Rinka then finally stabs her neck, ending her life.

Rimin stops his hypnosis.

Rinka's legs give in, he kneels on the floor and drops Rimin's katana, tears run down his face.

Rinka starts crying loudly, several memories of his dead family flash through his head, Minaro looks angry.

Minaro: You son of bitch! I'll kill you!

Rimin: I could kill you all right now, but I think instead I'm going to arrest all of you. I want to make you guys suffer.

Rinka's head is against the floor. Rimin ties him up.

Rimin: We should get going, I'm going to take you all to prison.

Rimin notices two piles of his strings just sprawled on the floor.

Suddenly Minaro appears beside Rimin holding a quasar and tries to punch his stomach, Rimin quickly dodges.

Doa appears on the other side and punches Rimin in the stomach.

Rimin: You have a lot of nerve to be attacking me.

Minaro and Doa are quickly wrapped under strings and put under hypnosis.

Rimin: Yeah, I've had enough.

Rimin drags both of them to a limousine parked near the skill center, he stuffs them inside, then he goes back and brings everyone else to his car.

Rimin lets the strings on Sumairu unwrap. Sumairu stares at him in disbelief.

Sumairu: Why would you do that to them?

Rimin: Killing 20 people is an extremely evil crime is it not?

Sumairu: Are you really sure they did it? I just don't believe they did.

Rimin: I am 100 percent sure they did. I'm going to take them away now, you can decide to defend them or not.

Sumairu looks bewildered and walks back into the skill center.

Around a few hours have gone by.

The limousine is driving around a city, Imma-Ite is inside causing a ruckus trying to escape the strings.

Maya looks annoyed and bites Imma-Ite's arm to try and get to him to stop.

Imma-Ite: Ow! What the hell!

Maya: Stop moving around, you keep bumping into me!

Doa stares at Rimin, who glances at her.

Doa: Are we at least going to go to court to defend ourselves!?

Rimin: Nope, straight to prison.

Doa: That is unjust! You don't even have the evidence to claim we did those things!

Rimin: I don't need evidence, who will they believe? Me? A strong guardian that has helped stopped several crimes or a bunch of lowly teens who are working with the skillers.

Doa: We aren't working with them!

Minaro is staring at Rinka, who is just staring at the floor, his eyes are soulless.

Minaro looks concerned.

…

Rinka is standing in a pitch black endless empty place.

"Where am I?" Rinka thinks.

Rinka looks around.

"What the hell?".

Rinka looks at his hand and body.

His clothes and skin are the same color as if he were in the real world during the day, the darkness doesn't affect the color.

Rinka starts running, his surroundings don't change.

It is just endless darkness.

Rinka stops, he tries pinching himself, nothing happens.

"I don't feel hungry, I don't feel anything… Am I dead?"

"Oh, I've finally found you..." Says an unknown voice near Rinka.

Rinka quickly turns around, a guy with dark pink hair resembling Rinka's hair is standing there. His eyes are all black and a creepy smile is plastered across his face. He has a dark green long sleeve shirt on and dark red pants.

Rinka: Who are you?

"I am Nunda, nice to meet you."

Rinka: Nunda? Do I know you?

Nunda: We've met before, but you most likely don't remember me…

Nunda starts laughing.

Rinka looks confused.

Nunda walks towards him and places his hand on Rinka's shoulder.

Nunda: You killed your family.

Rinka: What?

Nunda quickly sucker punches Rinka, Rinka hits the floor, Nunda starts to repeatedly pummel him.

Nunda laughs.

Nunda: You're killed them, didn't you!? YOU KILLED YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY!

Nunda pulls Rinka up by his neck staring down at him with a maniacal grin.

Rinka is tearing up.

Rinka: I didn't kill them! I don't know what happened! How do you even know about that!?

Nunda: Because I killed them... I'M THE ONE WHO TOOK CONTROL OF YOUR BODY THAT DAY, I'M THE ONE WHO BEAT THEM AND STABBED THEM TO DEATH IN YOUR BODY!

Rinka looks distraught.

Nunda slams Rinka into the floor.

Nunda: I would have killed more people in your body had I not been interrupted by another void user.

Rinka is trembling.

Rinka: Why?

Rinka quickly stands up and tries to punch Nunda, his punch connects but Nunda looks unfazed.

Nunda smiles.

Nunda: Oh so you don't know how the void works? I don't mind telling you how it works since I would like to have a fight with you that doesn't end in a minute.

Nunda grabs Rinka's arm and holds it tightly.

Nunda: Feel like you wanna hurt me, Imagine you wanna hurt me.

Rinka looks angry and sad.

Rinka punches Nunda and this time, Nunda is pushed back, he feels the punch.

Nunda: We are void users! We manipulate the void!

Rinka: Void users?

Nunda: Void users are people born with the skill to manipulate and use the void. How do you not know this?

Rinka tries to punch Nunda again, Nunda dodges it and grabs Rinka's hair pulling him down towards his knee. Nunda slams his knee into Rinka's face, Rinka stumbles back.

Rinka: Are we in the void right now!?

Nunda: Yup, this is where the souls of the dead go, they wander the endless darkness for eternity.

Rinka: ... Does that mean I'm dead?

Nunda: Currently yes, but that's because I managed to find your soul in the void and I brought your consciousness to it. If you knew how, you would be able to take your consciousness back into your body on earth and ignore me. But you don't, so I'm going to beat the shit out of you.

Rinka: What?

Rinka and Nunda throw several punches at each other but only Nunda's connect while Rinka's keep being blocked.

Nunda: When people die, their souls come to the void and so do their consciousness. Void users always have a soul here only that their consciousness is not inside of it until they are actually dead or are forced into the void. And since I am a void user I was able to force your consciousness in here.

Rinka: What the hell... I don't get how this place works. If it's an endless place of darkness, how were you able to find my soul?

Nunda: All void users are connected, I died in the real world after being executed. Once I was in the void, I felt the energy of a soul of a different void user who was currently alive. I was able to manipulate the void to track your location and started heading over here. I even had to fight other void users but they were no match for me. I'm the strongest void user.

Nunda punches Rinka in the stomach, Rinka grabs Nunda, but Nunda reacts quickly and lifts Rinka over his back and slams him into the floor.

Nunda: You can't beat me. I am just better at close combat than you.

Rinka: If I'm a soul, how am I feeling pain!?

Nunda: I don't know why we can feel pain when we're souls, I just know that it's possible to make others feel it if you manipulate the void.

Rinka stands up and tries to punch Nunda, Nunda quickly punches Rinka in the stomach.

Rinka: Why did you even bring me here!? Was it just to tell me you made me kill my family and beat me up!?

Nunda: I only told you that so that I could laugh at your suffering. I came here to steal your body again, I have unfinished business in the world… You seem to be the only void user alive in the world. Ever since the day I killed your family, I've been heading to the location where I tracked your soul. I ran in the void for years and I've finally found you so I can't let this opportunity go to waste.

Rinka: I won't let you control my body again!

Nunda: You say that as if you're strong enough to stop me.

Rinka tries to punch Nunda multiple times, he dodges it and pummels Rinka multiple times. Rinka falls to the floor, Nunda looks down at him.

Nunda: It was nice talking to you, but I've gotta get going. I'm glad I was able to answer all your questions about the void... So come and get me!

Rinka tries desperately to stop Nunda from moving forward, but Nunda kicks him and disappears.

Rinka lays on the floor crying, his eyes close.

...

Back in the limousine, Rinka stops staring at the floor and stares at the ceiling instead, Minaro notices his eyes are all black.

Rimin: Alright, we're here, Gybabay Prison.

The limousine stops in front of a somewhat massive prison, several guards are on duty.

Rimin takes everyone out of the car and starts walking them to the prison entrance.

A couple of hours go by.

TO BE CONTINUED...