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*Kyla glances over at Kold. His distress worries her, but she knows better than to call attention to it during a fight. Hien glows purple, and she dashes around the knightly figure, drawing a purple circle around it*

Blanc! Focus Marrow!!

*Kyla's yeti familiar Blanc unleashes the attack. Peircing bone spikes rise from the purple circle and converge on the armored individual*

"Gentaru....damn you. Why are you here?"


*despite his words, Kold looks like he feels a bit better. He must have been suppressing Gentaru deep within his soul since their last encounter....four years ago*

Kokujo blinked, a little confused as he watched on, then things started to click, the familiar figure- "You.....you're, Overlord Gentaru..." Kokujo narrowed his eyes and he hissed the name. "....What sort of trick is this? Kold killed you and your sorry ambitions years ago....." he added, not shifting from his battle stance.

Was it some sort of illusion? This place was strange like that after all, though something about this Gentaru told Kokujo that wasn't the case. He threw a quick look at Kold, as if to say 'the heck is going on?'.

"...yyyooooouu look familiar somehow" Corbenik scratched his chin as he also narrowed his eyes at Gentaru, though more in puzzlement than anger. "I hope that means you somehow owe me money. You look pretty rich and all. That hair though, I can swear I know someone else with the same ridicules blue hair.....are you related to Frowzen?" Corbenik added cluelessly.

(( rofl ))

"Second...Great...Cataclsm...." *Kold clutches his head, those words having an effect.*

"Megiddo.....Legion.....Ark.....Sodom...Gomorrah...Cu....guh!"

*Kold says the same names that King Seiryu mentioned after being free from Yokoshima's control, and two more names. There may be some truth to what "Gentaru" says. Kold rises, the pain in his head subsiding*


"Who....why...I don't understand....! But...somehow....it's true...."

Kokujo had since relaxed his stance some, taking in this new information, or as much of it as he could. Second great cataclysm? Remnant? Gentaru as the martyr? He wasn't sure whether things had started making sense or if the whole game had just been changed. In any case, it seemed like Kold had some answered locked away in his memories somewhere.

Kokujo looked over towards Kold and Kyla. Not being much of a comforting type, he kept his distance with a look of deep thought on his face as he listened to Kolds words.

He turned back to 'Gentaru', "So you're saying the real Gentaru was just testing us for this? That he somehow realised his wrong before we ever set foot in his dimension? Even so, why would he die as the tyrant, instead of giving us warning then?" Kokujo asked, then folded his arms and closed his eye "...hmf....still, there's not much we can do about that now. We're already in the thick of things, we can't turn back, there is only a path before us that leads to either victory or death, knowing the truth, and Kold's lost memories.....these things will likely be important, but right now, they hold no sway over our immediate future"

Kokujo glanced back at Kold again then back to Gentaru "The only thing that matters right now, is that we fight Yokoshima, whatever you would tell us, we must climb that wall first in order to do anything about what's beyond it"

*Kyla can't take it any longer* Grrrrr....enough! While I may eventually see a point in all this, and it may be helpful in the future, sending Kold into an identity crisis isn't going to help at this point.

*She looks Kold in the eye*
Kold is....Kold. That's what really matters. We can't deal with the things that we don't know or understand just yet. All we can do is move forward.

*She takes Kold's hands*
I...know I have little right to try and comfort you. I mean...I didn't know you all those years ago, and I suppose of all the people you've ever met in your long life, I've probably only known you for a short time. But...I know you as, the first person to recognize my ability and to consider me an equal. I know you as the fierce ally, whom I wish to fight beside until the end of my days. And I know you as the man who comes home, after training and fighting and always trying to improve yourself. The man who shows no weakness to his enemy, but allows me to give him comfort when his arms are tired from lifting his blade.

Please Kold...don't let these revelations cause you to question these things. Because whatever else may be in question at this moment, I know these things to be true.

"hmf...." a slight grin tugged at Kokujo's stony features as he listened to Kyla, then turned back to 'Gentaru'.

"That's right, Kold is Kold, and he'll be Kold tomorrow, and the days after. The past is set in stone, we cannot change it, even if we know it, and knowing the past does not change the fact he is Kold, as long as he remembers that".

He turned his gaze back towards Kold. "I hardly know what your going through, or how this is affecting you......Kold....but Kyla is right. Memories can't change you, as long as you remember who you are.....hmf....and as for the you that is right here, right now....that you doesn't need to worry about old ghosts right now.....we're about to go into battle with powerful opponents, no doubt. So what you need to do now is stay focused.....memories of any sort are worthless if you're dead, after all" he said, though perhaps it would have sounded a little more motivational without Kokujos gloomy voice behind it, it drove his point forth....they couldn't afford to get distracted at the critical point of their quest.

"Yeah seriously. I guess I must be pretty pathetic right now after all.

Well I appreciate it, Kokujo. Thanks."





*Gentaru vanishes, the knight reappearing, frozen.*






"This goes....against the rules." *the knight falls to the floor and shatters*





*X-chan appears and enters Save Point Mode*


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