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Thirty-Seven - Halloween Town

“Kai.” Kaoru breathed.
The redhead seemed to materialize out of the darkness, standing in front of him with his back to Kaoru. His armor encased his left shoulder and chest, his left arm all the way down to his wrist, and over his hand which held Sanctuary’s hilt. The Keyblade itself glowed with violet light, brighter than Kaoru had ever seen it glow before. Kai had dropped into a stance that was both defensive and offensive, shielding Kaoru as much as it left him ready to respond to anything Hiromu might throw at him. Even Hiromu looked shocked to see Kai standing there, but he could’ve just been shocked to see Kai’s eyes. Kaoru had no doubt that his friend was glaring at Hiromu with those black and yellow Heartless eyes.
“Get up, Kaoru.” Kai growled.
“I-“
“If you don’t stand right now, I will kick your ass.”
“I’m wounded, you know.” Kaoru responded, though it didn’t have the humor he wished it did. He knew Kai heard it because those black-clad shoulders tightened. He didn’t turn around to look, taking Kaoru’s words at face value.
“Get up.” Kai snarled. “Stay behind me.”
As Kaoru did what he was told, he saw Hiromu gauge the distance between them and wonder if trying to kill him was worth tangling with Kai. Then he suddenly tensed and whirled around. Kaoru followed his gaze and found Rinally almost within touching distance of Tae. Hiromu let out a bellow of pure rage and launched himself at Rinally, his Keyblade leading. She saw him coming, let out a squeak of surprise, and flung herself away from Tae. She hit the ground and rolled, a barrier appearing between her and Hiromu just in time to stop the Keyblade he wielded from ripping at her back. She retaliated with a Thundara, which hit him square in the chest and flung him backwards by a good ten feet.
Using the spare seconds bought for them by that move, Kai turned toward Kaoru and scooped him up into his arms. Kaoru cried out as his wound was agitated, for which Kai apologized, but it didn’t stop him from roughly manhandling Kaoru. He leaped from the cage with his burden, landed on the floor in a crouch, then set Kaoru down. Rinally quickly clambered down to join them, immediately falling to her knees beside Kaoru. Her hands glowed with the green healing magic of Curaga, and Kaoru winced as he felt his wound begin to close.
“If I ever find you in that state again,” Kai snarled, “I’ll kill you myself, got me?”
Kaoru stared up at the redhead in shock and disbelief. “But... but he’s... he’s my friend!”
“He was going to kill you! That’s no friend!”
“But it’s my fault, Kai! It’s my fault he’s like this! If I hadn’t wasted so much time, if I had fought harder to find them, he wouldn’t have turned like this!”
“You don’t know that!” Kai reached down and snagged Kaoru’s jacket, bunching the cloth in his hand as he pulled Kaoru upright, their noses almost touching. “You don’t know that at all! But you know what I know? I know that if you hadn’t fought so hard for me, I would be dead or worse! I know that if you hadn’t put yourself in my path, I wouldn’t be here right now! Neither would Rinally. Don’t look at what you didn’t do, Kaoru! Look at what you did do! Or are we so insignificant now?”
Kaoru’s eyes watered. Kai hated seeing him cry. He hated seeing Kaoru so broken. But he knew he had to say the words, because if he didn’t, he would lose Kaoru forever. They all would. His Light was too important to be extinguished, and not just to Kai. Kaoru was important to Rin and to Tae. He was even important to Hiromu, even if the bastard had forgotten that piece of information. He gave Kaoru a slight shake. “Hiromu may be your friend, but you didn’t make him do anything. You didn’t make him embrace what he has, you didn’t make him choose. That’s the whole thing about choice: the person gets to make it, not you. You can only give them the rope. It’s up to them to swing or hang. Hiromu chose his path not because of anything you did or didn’t do, but because of the information given to him. Him blaming you for his mistakes is only showing how much of a coward he is. If he can’t see you for the friend you are to him, then he doesn’t deserve you.”
The tears in Kaoru’s eyes began to fall. Kai released Kaoru’s jacket and pulled him into a tight, almost breath-stealing hug. “You saved me, Kaoru. You showed me the choices I had and what paths I would walk depending on what I picked. I picked you, Kaoru. You’re my Light, no one else’s, and I’m going to protect you, no matter what or who I have to face.”
Kaoru’s arms came up around Kai’s back and clung tightly to him. Kai looked up at Rinally, knowing she could hear Kaoru’s muffled wailing. She looked like she might cry herself. Even Zero, who rested on Rinally’s tophat, looked sad.
“Very touching, coming from someone who’s practically a Heartless himself.” Hiromu snarled. “Do you even believe what you’re saying? He’s your Light? Are you kidding me?”
Kai went very still. He felt Kaoru tense in response to it. Even Rinally seemed to be holding her breath. Kai turned his gaze up to where Hiromu stood, the world slamming into its monochromatic shade as the darkness inside him began to boil with anger. He could see Hiromu’s heart, a blob of sickly colored light steadily pulsing without fear. There was darkness swirling in that light, a myriad of dark colors that steadily warred with the light. Hiromu hadn’t been taken fully yet by the darkness, Kai realized. Either he was fighting it, whether consciously or subconsciously, or Tae was protecting him, and Hiromu didn’t even know it.
Hiromu continued his taunting. “No one can have both! You’re either one or the other! You should know that better than anyone - what did he call you? - Kai? You’re two steps away from becoming a full-on monster, yourself. Why not just give in? I’m sure the Brotherhood could find a use for a monster like you.”
Kai bared his teeth. “If you spout crap like that, then you have really no idea what that weapon in your hand represents. You don’t deserve it. And I might be two steps away from becoming a darkness-infested monster, but that doesn’t mean I have to become one. And Kaoru is my Light in the Darkness. He’s an important Light that I refuse to allow to be extinguished.”
“You talk like you’ve got a choice in all this.”
“Everyone always has a choice.”
Hiromu lifted his Keyblade and pointed it toward Kaoru, who was still sheltered in Kai’s arms. “Choice? Bullshit! Do you think we had a choice in Paradise City being destroyed? Do you think we had a choice in being separated from Kaoru? Do you think we had a choice in where we ended up? Fate didn’t give us a choice. Fate decided. And Fate decided I got the same powers as Kaoru. I’ve got a Keyblade, just like he does. Like you do.”
“You made the choice to help the wrong team.” Kai said, almost growling. “You made the choice to lock Tae’s heart away, after she tried to get away from you. You made the choice to try to kill Kaoru. Who’s the real monster, huh, Hiromu?”
Kai saw Hiromu go very still and then an expression of pure rage and hate materialized onto his face. Hiromu’s arm cocked back, and he saw the attack coming before Hiromu had even begun to commit to it. He shoved Kaoru away into Rinally, mostly to get them both out of harm’s way, and then summoned Sanctuary. His Keyblade sparked against Hiromu’s as the two weapons came together with a violent clamor. Kai let his knees buckle, using Hiromu’s own weight to flip the other boy over his body as Kai went into a backbend slide to get away from his enemy.
Hiromu hit the ground and rolled to his feet, holding his Keyblade up and ready. He glanced toward Kaoru and Rinally, but Kai wasn’t going to let him attack them. He launched himself forward, not yet tapping into his powers of Darkness to give him the heightened speed he enjoyed when he went into his Nightmare Raid attack. Even still, he was fast, and Hiromu was forced to retreat, defending himself from Kai’s lightning-fast attacks. He was pushed further and further away from Kaoru and Rinally, and Kai wasn’t about to let up in his furious tempo of blows. Hiromu had to give all of his attention to Kai, which had been Kai’s intent.
Kaoru and Rinally seemed absolutely frozen as they watched Kai and Hiromu battle each other. Kaoru wanted to intervene, mostly because he didn’t want Kai to kill Hiromu, and mostly because Hiromu was his friend, and he wouldn’t last forever against Kai’s strength and speed. But he didn’t dare get between them, knowing Hiromu wouldn’t hesitate to kill him, and Kai might not be able to stop in time to keep from hurting Kaoru himself. That, and Rinally had an iron grip around his wrist and was squeezing it tight.
Zero lifted himself off Rinally’s tophat and flew in circles around them a few times before he froze, pointing with that red nose of his toward the platform Hiromu had abandoned. Kaoru realized immediately what the ghost dog was trying to tell him.
“Tae.” Kaoru breathed.
“What?”
“Tae isn’t guarded.” Kaoru said, almost excitedly. He pulled Rinally with him as he sought a way to get back up to the upper platform. “If we can get to her, maybe I can unlock her heart. If we can get her back, Hiromu will have to stop fighting Kai. He would have to come with us.”
Rinally followed behind him with a strange expression on her face. “Kaoru, do you realize how stupid you sound? Your friend just tried to kill you. He’s working for the bad guys.”
“I know.” Kaoru paused on the ladder he found, one hand and one foot on a rung each. He turned to look back at Rinally. “I know that. But... but if I give up on him now, what kind of friend does that make me? It’s like Kai said: it all comes down to choice. I know in my heart that I’ll never be able to end Hiromu. I couldn’t, even if I had him dead to rights. But I could give him the choice. If the Brotherhood has really gotten to him so badly that he’s about to fall on the wrong side of Darkness, or even, the wrong side of Light, then maybe he can’t be redeemed no matter what I do. But I can still try.”
Rinally stared at him for a long moment, then looked over to where Kai and Hiromu were, their Keyblades flicking gold and violet in the air and sending sparks wide when the two weapons collided. Then she looked back at him. “You’re banking on the fact he’s doing all this to protect Tae, aren’t you?”
“I’m pretty sure Hiromu’s in love with Tae.” Kaoru smiled. “You heard him. He sealed her heart away so I couldn’t find her, but it also made her useless to the Brotherhood. I think he sealed her heart away on purpose, and not because of me.”
Rinally thought about it for a minute. “I get it. Since you weren’t around to take pressure off him, he did the only thing he could think of, and is justifying it with jealousy-fueled, misinformed, thought-processes.”
Kaoru started climbing. “Exactly.”
“There are easier ways of going around getting yourself a girlfriend.” Rinally grumbled, climbing up after him.
They ignored the vicious barrage going on down below, slowly making their way over to Tae. Kaoru summoned Guardian; his arm and chest became encased in his opalescent armor, glowing brightly with Light. Kaoru picked up his pace, inching closer and closer to Tae, solely focused on his friend. He trusted Kai to keep Hiromu busy. Just a little longer. Just a few feet more.
“KAORU!” Rinally screamed, her entire tone a fierce warning cloaked in pure, unadulterated fear.
Kaoru looked up, his arm outstretched toward Tae and just barely brushing her skin with his fingertips. Hiromu was suddenly in his face, so close that Kaoru could see the individual veins in Hiromu’s eyes. He barely got Guardian between him and Hiromu’s Keyblade, but the momentum of the golden Keyblade was so fast and the power behind it so great that Kaoru’s own defense became his undoing. Guardian slammed back into his body with all the power and force of a freight train and Hiromu came with it, adding his weight to the blow. Kaoru’s back hit the wall and then he and Hiromu exploded out of it, into the open air of the canyon that Oogie Boogie’s mansion had been situated in. Kaoru felt weightless for all of a second and then he plummeted toward the ground more than a hundred feet below. Hiromu was above him, angling his body toward Kaoru with his Keyblade leading for a strike.
Kaoru somehow adjusted his body and gripped Guardian tightly. He didn’t want to hurt Hiromu, but Kai was right. If he didn’t fight back, if he didn’t fight to survive, then who would save Tae? Who would save Hiromu? Who would keep Kai from succumbing to his Darkness? Who would help Rinally find her family?
He owed it to Hiromu to fight.
Guardian hit the golden Keyblade in Hiromu’s hands with enough force to spin Hiromu halfway around. A look of pure shock crossed Hiromu’s features, and then the shock quickly faded into fury. They were still falling at a high rate of speed, and Kaoru didn’t have a way of stopping his descent. Neither, it seemed, did Hiromu. Yet Hiromu didn’t seem to care. He launched into a series of attacks that forced Kaoru to ply Guardian in a defensive manner. That golden Keyblade flashed like lightning, slamming against Guardian with enough force to produce multicolored sparks. Kaoru couldn’t even think of going on the offensive, as his opponent’s blows were coming so quickly and so hard that if he tried, he would certainly die.
He was going to die anyway, even if he managed to get a Holy Shield around himself, as the ground was rushing up to meet him with a terrible sense of finality.
Hiromu seemed to sense their predicament and took his eyes off Kaoru for a second. Kaoru took the chance and launched into an attack of his own, putting all the power he could muster behind his swings. Guardian began to glow brightly, a prismatic streamer left in the air each time Kaoru swung his weapon, connecting with Hiromu’s Keyblade again and again. Hiromu seemed to flinch each time the two weapons impacted each other, his eyes growing wide and his expression becoming more and more desperate. They exchanged blow after terrible blow, unable to get the upper hand against one another. They were unable to get past each other’s defenses. The ground was still a very real threat. Then Kaoru slapped Hiromu’s Keyblade wide...
And hesitated.
Hiromu didn’t. That golden Keyblade came howling in, hit Guardian with titanic force and sent it to the left, across Kaoru’s body. Then Hiromu spun his body, swung his Keyblade and connected with Guardian again, this time sending it out wide to the right. Kaoru felt the beginnings of his Holy Shield even as he tried to recover from the damaging blow. Hiromu’s golden Keyblade glimmered with a tarnished tone as he drew his arm back.
“I’ll tell Tae you died doing the right thing!” Hiromu shouted. “I’ll make sure to take real good care of Rinally and Kai! And I’ll make sure that Kai remembers exactly how his Light was extinguished!”
“Don’t!” Kaoru cried.
Hiromu leered, and swung his Keyblade down. It met resistance in the form of Kaoru’s Holy Shield, and started bowing the shield of light inward, toward Kaoru. The golden Keyblade pierced the barrier only by a few inches, but the breach was enough to make the shield shatter the very second Kaoru hit the ground. His body dropped the last few feet unprotected, the shield dissipating in a shower of bright motes. He lost his grip on Guardian. The breath was driven out of his lungs. His body was one giant source of pain.
Then Hiromu’s Keyblade struck the plate armor on Kaoru’s chest, above his heart, and Hiromu’s body landed nearly on top of Kaoru. The weight of him, combined with the speed of the fall, applied itself to his Keyblade and cracked the top layer of the armor covering Kaoru’s chest. Kaoru screamed in pain.
A black bullet, nearly invisible at the high rate of speed it was traveling, hit Hiromu so hard that the boy was flung twenty feet across the canyon. Hiromu hit the ground on his side and tumbled and rolled uncontrollably before coming to a halt now thirty feet away from Kaoru. He spat out blood and raised his head to stare at the creature that could have possibly hurt him so. Kaoru saw Hiromu’s face become bloodless and his eyes become full of fear. He slammed his Keyblade into the ground and used it as a crutch to stand, looking ready to bolt but afraid to, as if the movement would provoke the monster that was between him and Kaoru.
It was painful for Kaoru to turn his head enough to look at his savior. His entire body seemed like it was on fire, and not just because of the impact it had taken when landing from such a high fall. He felt like he couldn’t breathe, even though he was taking small, harsh gasps of air to try and fill his lungs. Tears filled his eyes from the pain. He briefly wondered where Rinally and Kai were. Then he realized that Kai was already there.
Kai’s armor had changed. It no longer just covered his left arm, left shoulder, and chest. Now it encased his entire body. The plate armor looked form-fitting and light for all of its protective appearance. Hard plates of pure darkness encrusted his chest, stomach, and thighs. Glimmers of radiant, violet light could be seen each time Kai moved. His legs and arms were encased in scale-like armor, these greaves and bracers seeming more like shadows had coalesced around his limbs rather than pure darkness. Even his feet, up to the ankles, were covered in armored boots. He bore no helmet, but his fiery red hair was bound up in a tail by tendrils of darkness. A diadem of black wound around his forehead. Wisps of shadow followed him around like a torn and tattered cloak, concealing and revealing him as they saw fit. Even Sanctuary looked more threatening, held in Kai’s usual reverse grip.
Kaoru was sure Kai’s eyes were burning in their Heartless black and gold colors.
Hiromu smirked. “I told you. I told you that you were two steps away from becoming a monster!”
Kai turned his head and looked at Kaoru with cold, Heartless eyes. “Stay right there, Kaoru. Rin’s coming. I’ll be back soon.”
Don’t kill him. Please. So Kaoru wanted to say. Instead, his voice came out more like a croak, pathetic and helpless.
“Don’t worry.” Kai said, turning his attention back to Hiromu. “I won’t.”
Then he simply vanished.
Hiromu’s only warning was the black feather that drifted down from above him. Kaoru turned his eyes up in time to see Kai, suspended in the air by great, shadowy-feathered wings - the wisps of shadow that had seemed like a cloak, Kaoru realized -, bring Sanctuary to bear and dive toward Hiromu. Hiromu barely escaped the attack, jumping out of the way with the barest of inches between him and Kai. Scarlet still sprayed into the air, and a bright line of red appeared on Hiromu’s cheek.
Kai reappeared behind Hiromu and planted his foot into the other boy’s back, sending him flying forward. Hiromu hit the ground on his hands and knees, then shoved himself to the left to avoid being skewered by Sanctuary. Kaoru could see real fear on Hiromu’s face now. He didn’t know how the battle could have turned so quickly. He didn’t know how he could have ended up on the losing end when his victory had all but been assured. He didn’t know what Kai had become.
“Black Knight.” Rinally said. Kaoru tried to turn his head to look at her. He hadn’t even heard her approach. She hovered her hand over the rent in his armor, her palm glowing with the green light of healing magic. The pain began to recede quickly. “It just... when he saw you get blasted out the window, I thought he lost it. His armor suddenly went pitch black and this darkness wrapped itself around him. He came out of it like that and dove after you.”
Kaoru turned his head back to watch Kai and Hiromu battle. It was clear who would be the victor here. Kai had the speed, agility, and power to put Hiromu on his back over and over again. He was aided by the darkness that was his armor, every bit of it enhancing what he already possessed. Hiromu was bleeding and bruised. He was trying to retreat, but Kai wasn’t letting him. He couldn’t hear what Kai was saying to Hiromu anymore, but each word or sentence seemed to be punctuated with an attack of some kind. He kept beating Hiromu down, much like how Hiromu had beat Kaoru down, only with physical attacks rather than words. Hiromu tried to fight back, or at least deflect the attacks as much as he could, but they all knew that Hiromu wouldn’t be winning this fight.
Kai flicked his wrist. Sanctuary snapped across the open space between Kai and Hiromu and slashed Hiromu’s Keyblade from his hand. Hiromu stumbled backwards and landed on his rear, clutching his wrist. Kai lifted Sanctuary. Kaoru could only assume what Kai was saying, but he was pretty sure it was along the lines of “I’m not killing you only because Kaoru asked me not to.” Then Sanctuary started to fall toward Hiromu’s face.
It never reached him.
Tae was suddenly there, between Hiromu and Kai. Her arms were spread wide, as if to shield Hiromu from Sanctuary. Her face was still the blank, unemotional mask it had been up in the room in the mansion, but there was some kind of awareness about her that betrayed Hiromu’s story about her locked heart. Kai froze, staring at the Princess of Heart with wide, Heartless eyes. Sanctuary froze inches from Tae’s neck. Hiromu didn’t waste any time. He surged to his feet, grabbed Tae around the waist and slashed his hand at the air behind them. Then he thrust his hand toward his Keyblade, which burst into rust-colored motes before reappearing in his hand. Hiromu turned fearful eyes upon Kai, then hauled Tae back into the portal he had created. Their shadowed forms were quickly swallowed up as the portal collapsed in on itself, leaving behind tiny motes of darkness that dissipated quickly.
Kai slowly lowered Sanctuary, then allowed it to fade. His armor went with it, leaving him clad once more in his Halloween Town costume. Then he turned and quickly ran back to Kaoru.
Rinally was just helping Kaoru sit up when Kai slid to his knees beside them. Kaoru looked up at Kai and offered him a small smile. Kai didn’t return it, and whatever expression he was wearing on his face made Kaoru’s smile falter. Rinally frowned a little and drew Kaoru closer to her, which made Kai twitch. He at last reached out and pulled Kaoru tight against him, pressing his cheek to Kaoru’s soft blonde hair. The embrace that Kaoru gave him in return made something inside Kai relax, and he let out the breath he’d been holding. Then Kai released Kaoru and looked at the smaller boy’s armor. Fine cracks ran through it now rather than the huge fissures it had before, proving the armor was healing itself, but it wasn’t healing as fast as Kai had thought it would.
“I’m okay, really.” Kaoru said softly.
“If it weren’t for me, you’d still have trouble breathing.” Rinally said, an edge to her voice. “You hesitated.”
Kaoru flinched. “I...”
“You couldn’t help it, I know. Despite everything, Hiromu’s still your friend. But you aren’t going to hesitate next time, are you?”
Kaoru didn’t answer.
Kai cupped Kaoru’s chin and forced the smaller boy to look into his eyes. “Are you?”
Small shoulders lifted and fell. “I don’t know.” Kaoru answered, helplessly and honestly. “I don’t know. He’s... he’s my friend. I don’t think... I don’t think I could hurt him any more than I could hurt you or Rin.”
Kai lifted his gaze and met Rinally’s eyes. Her expression was a serious one, and it contained a hidden message, one she didn’t want Kaoru seeing or interpreting. Kai gave her a slight nod. Hiromu was going to be Kaoru’s weakness in battle. If the two were pitted against one another again, there was a good chance that Kaoru wouldn’t come out of the next fight whole or alive. To that end, it was up to Kai and Rinally to protect Kaoru, to keep him from even engaging Hiromu again. Neither of them had the emotional attachment to the other boy like Kaoru did, and though they wouldn’t outright try to kill Hiromu - well, maybe Kai would, but that was only because he didn’t like Hiromu - they would ensure that he was at least hurt enough that he couldn’t come at their backs or Kaoru’s when they weren’t looking.
Rinally reached out to squeeze Kaoru’s shoulder. “We don’t want to lose you, Kaoru. You’re important to us, you know? I know it’s hard, but sometimes, you just have to choose.”
Kaoru’s blue eyes focused on Kai’s face. He shivered, looked away, and nodded. “I just... I didn’t think this is what I would deal with when we started this journey...”
“Neither did I.” Rin said, smiling sadly. “But nothing ever works out the way we want it to. But we know a few things now that we didn’t know then.” When both Kai and Kaoru looked at her questioningly, her smile became a little brighter. “We know that the Creepy Coats call themselves the Brotherhood. We know that they’re trying to figure out how to control both Light and Darkness for some purpose that we all know isn’t good. We know that they needed a Keyblade and got one with Hiromu, and they needed a Princess, which is Tae, except she’s useless to them now because Hiromu sealed her heart away.”
“And we know a name. Ennio.” Kaoru said. “That guy we saw on Belle’s world? The one that turned Gaston into a monster? Hiromu said his name was Ennio. He also said that Ennio told him that I killed both Gaston and John when I stopped the darkness inside them. He said destroying the darkness amounted to the same thing as a real death.”
“But that’s silly.” Rinally protested. “You can’t destroy the darkness inside someone. You can only put it into a sort of balance.”
“If you want to use someone, you don’t tell them the truth. You spin a believable, but false, tale and if they take it, hook, line, and sinker, then you can point them in any direction and let them go to town.” Kai pointed out. “I think Hiromu believes bits and pieces of the story he was told. He protected Tae in his own way, right? But he tried to kill you, Kaoru. There has to be a piece of the story we’re missing.”
“Hiromu said I have one of the rarest Keyblades.” Kaoru said softly. He lifted his hand, and with a slight effort of will, summoned Guardian to his hand. The Keyblade glowed with gentle light, and the ache in Kaoru’s chest began to ease. “And each time he attacked me, he went for my heart. He has to know something about my Keyblade that even I don’t. I didn’t think Keyblades could be sorted into types and one type be considered rare.”
“Well, the ability to use a Keyblade is rare,” Rinally pointed out, “but yeah, I didn’t think there were types of Keyblades either.”
Kaoru let Guardian disappear along with his armor. Then he allowed Kai to help him get to his feet. Rin rose as well, casting one last healing spell upon Kaoru for good measure. Kaoru shivered at the feel of the spell on his skin, mending the last of his bruises. “I don’t think there’s anything more we can do here.” Kaoru said. “Hiromu’s gone, and Tae with him. I don’t sense anything else.”
Kai agreed. “There’s only normal darkness here. Little Shadows, nothing that the people of Halloween Town can’t handle. Whatever was here, Hiromu must have taken it with him when he ran.”
“So what do we do?” Rinally asked.
Kaoru sighed softly. “We keep looking for Sora. We keep trying to reach Radiant Garden. Once we do, I’m sure we can find the answers we’re looking for.”
Kai took Kaoru’s hand in his own and squeezed tight. Rinally did the same with Kaoru’s other hand. Then Kai took a step forward and raised his hand, his Black Knight armor encasing his body once more. With a sharp movement, he ripped a hole in the fabric of reality before them, and then led them into the World Between Worlds.
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