They're both looking at each other as the sun was no longer above them. It was starting to get dark and the fog is starting to occur in the dense forest.
Hirishna was starting to get fired up because he can use the fog and power up his techniques. He was looking at the doll as he was catching his breath. As it was dark they can still see a little.
Their clash still goes on. The area is starting to turn even denser and darker. Kurokushima Scythe is still hanging in the distance.
"You will die with no honor," robotic sounds said of the mechanical doll that has so arms. It was speaking to Kaika politely as their eyes stared at each other.
The teeth of the doll are sharps. It was like they were building as a monster. "You creep doll... You were supposed to be protecting the Hidden Projects! Yet you refused to follow us and team up with the enemy!" Kaika said furiously as suddenly the threads around him got tight.
"Yes... I was supposed to do that, but we all change our minds... We are now part of the human beings, or we can change the world, eliminating every human alive, we are gonna use these hidden projects to build a replica of ourselves and made world domination. You! You can be one of us, an immortal, powerful, polite, honest, here's an actual gift or offer that I will give you, I will all let you live but one of you will stay to live... You! I will make you a mechanical doll and there you can enhance your techniques, even more, you will be one of us and will control this world in the future for a better future that no human is destroying," the doll said as his voice glitched. Suddenly the doll giggled. It was the doll that has six arms.
"And if you refuse I will chop you into pieces until nothing left," the doll said as he shows all his six swords changing colors menacingly. The blade of the sword of the mechanical doll suddenly changes its color of it. The doll stands in front of him menacingly.
"Now you see... I enhance these blades, the wind that I use lately is not all, that one just technique can cut a human being with one clash, but your friend is lucky and deflected the winding course by going up," the doll said as he smiles and shows his teeth around like a shark.
"Sounds pure... You know we humans live, we also protect," Kaika said as he stares at the doll and suddenly tighten his grip on his right as he holds his sword.
"Protect? No... You just all destroy, I'm once a human, and doesn't seem to have mercy, we live once and die once," the mechanical doll said as Kaika's eyes widen as he hears the word they're once also humans.
"Seems you lose yourself, just to be an immortal, I will be the one who will cut you into pieces and make those projects tremble in vain as we did in the past, you know dolls in these days have grown weak, and you have no way of defeating like me or Hirishna my partner, I refuse of becoming an immortal, even though I want it I still refuse because that's the cycle of this world... HAA!" he answered to the doll as he suddenly shouts and destroys the threads around his right hand. He quickly swings his sword around him and cut the thin threads and manages to get out.
Suddenly the mechanical doll that has six arms is in the shadows. He moves to a distance as he sees the dolls look furious. "I'll let you live because you said "even though I want it" I'll wait for your answers just go here, I'll also let your partner and the other life since the other one is dead and now we will turn him into a doll, be quiet and make sure no else knows that we will turn that man that got crushed by a tree into a like us, the consequences of telling this to the heads will be death and the death of your love ones and the village that you started with," the doll said as he sees the doll eyes glows in the dark.
Kaika we're trembling, his toes were trembling, and his fingertips. He was staring at the doll that has six arms as he suddenly can not see the doll in the distance. The doll suddenly vanished in the distance.
In the fighting where Hirishna and Kurokushima are. The doll that can divide itself was about to reach Hirishna's neck, but the doll suddenly stops and falls back. It suddenly landed on the ground smoothly as it suddenly turned around and run.
The other doll above suddenly jumps to the doll that is running on its back. It got absorbed. They see that the doll that jumped to the other doll got absorbed and suddenly its head and other parts of the doll are connected to it. It's running towards somewhere in the southern part of the north, it slowly vanished insight.
Hirishna we're catching his breath as he sat down. Kurokushima slowly falls to the ground and loses consciousness. He slammed to the ground where grass and dirt were. Suddenly his scythe falls to his right and stabs the ground, it made a sound of waking Kurokushima.
He slowly turns his head to his right and sees that there's a thin thread connected to the handle. He smiled as he closes his eyes. Hirishna stabs the ground using his sword. He looked up to the sky and sees the moon and the darkness.
He was also smiling as he sees the sky and caught his breath. He slowed down his head and looked around him and sees nothing but darkness and the dense forest.
"We've got out of that, but something strange, I need to get to Kaika and ask him myself, and I need to find Hirokushima's body before midnight, or else those dolls might do something..." he said as he slowly stands and walks towards Kaika in the distance that is kneeling holding his sword in his right.
He reaches his friend after walking. He leaves Kurokushima insight. "What happened, friend?" he ask.
"You're mask is gone... Nothing happened here, those dolls can talk and say they were once humans if your mask is destroyed... Means something bad is gonna happen, that's why we protect our masks more than ourselves," he answered as Hirishna sat down in front of him.
They both pulled back their swords as they looked around them and in the sky. It was peaceful around them nothing but leaves getting blown by the wind. The peaceful sound of nature around them is making their minds heal and satisfy.
"We need to wait for that bad omen to come before proceeding in life, we are not strong enough to handle those dolls now we should train ourselves even more like the fox swordsmans did to themselves, there's still a total of ten of them left and two former ones we should ask them for advice," Kaika said to Hirishna as he smiled and nodded.
"Those are probably going back to the hidden project, I believe that Kurokushima is the only one who knows where it is, we should go back to the east report this to the heads, and ask for a whole operation team to destroy the hidden Project E," Kaika said as he sees Hirishna nodded again and slowly stands as he suddenly senses someone behind him.
"Hidden Project E?" an unknown man ask and suddenly speaks behind him in the shadows. Suddenly both of them were stunned and can't move because of fear.
"How did we?! Did not sense him?!... Who the hell is that behind me?...!" they both ask in one voice as Hirishna slowly turned around and stands up straight.
He sees a tall man standing in front of him wearing a fox mask with an orange pattern kimono and holding an orange sword in his right hand and blood dripping. The fox swordsman strokes his blade menacingly as he shows his blade in front of him.
"Who the hell are you?!" Hirishna asks furiously as he slowly backs away. "Sorry, we're late... We've got in a little trouble along the way, we see that you're beaten up. We killed a couple of men along the way, a part of our mission and part of. reinforcements, but I guess that's not necessary, where's this Kurokushima you said?" the unknown swordsman asks as Kaika quickly stands and looked around and sees that three more unknown swordsmans are showing up around them wearing a to. mask.
The other three have their swords on their waist except for the one in front of Hirishna. "His partner got killed... And he's right over there-" he answered as he pointed and suddenly got interrupted as he sees a girl wearing a mask in the distance treating Kurokushima in his chest where the wound is.
"We are the reinforcements that the heads command, now tell me what information you've got and we're gonna continue it, we saw a lot of thin threads thinner than a blade traps in our way, one of us got wounded but not that fatal, we fought one mechanical doll and tear it apart, the other one is going back to the village east to examine the doll that I believe is from the Hidden Project E, we're here for a long time, we got here when I see the dolls vanished," the unknown swordsman said that is Infront of Hirishna.
As he said he sees the doll vanish the other unknowns look at him. "I'm the leader of this group, the other duo fox swordsman is on the move, looking for Hidden Project Z in the far north, now we're here to follow their footsteps to destroy the Hidden Project E," the unknown swordsman said as he pointed his left hand towards Hirishna.
"Such Reinforcements, I want to know to the heads why you all are late, we could've died, those mechanical dolls let us live and you think that is not important?" he asks as he sees the swordsman lowered his head down.
"It's important, your life is more important than hundreds of men, and I and us is more important than thousands of men, were here to defend and stop the upcoming chaos, every man has a duty and that needed to be done or else, it would go into a deep hole that would take you more than time to complete," he answered as he raised his head. He slowly lowered his head and looked straight at them. Kaika step aside to the left side of Hirishna.
"The information is that there's a mechanical doll that has six arms, it surpassed a normal human speed and the speed of both of us, Kurokushima and Hirokushima is the first one who fought this dolls, these dolls are completely overpowered us and these dolls hold back on us, the doll that has six arms have a special blade, like me, the mist, it can also turn it into like that, he showed us one, the wind if I hadn't dodged it I would have split into two the other doll that is with the six arms can divide itself into two the one who can manipulate the threads thinner than a blade," Kaika said as the wind suddenly change and sees that the swordsmans around him suddenly got serious.
"Did you say the doll that has six arms?!" he asked in a furious calm voice. Suddenly the man in front of them both, suddenly heavily breaths and smiles inside the mask.
"That doll is the one who killed our master, I will tear that doll apart and I will be the one who destroys Hidden Project E!" he said furiously as he suddenly step onto the ground on his left foot and brakes the ground that he step on.
"Destroying the Hidden project E would give us great new honor to the other clans, now I just need to wait for Kurokushima, the patience is needed," the unknown man said as he turned around behind him. He looked at Kurokushima in the distance that is lying on the ground and slowly getting carried on the shoulders of the other fox swordsman.
The other was carrying his scythe on the back. They carried Kurokushima and suddenly both of the fox swordsmans in the distance vanished and cannot be seen in sight.
"Search the Area! We have things to complete," he shouts.
"As you wish lead!" the other fox swordsmens said around Kaika and Hirishna suddenly vanished. "Go back to the east, I know that both of you still have the strength to go back, we are gonna finished this one off ourselves, and... My name is Kitsune, one of the fox swordsman's leaders, but I'm not the chief of my clan," the man said who is named Kitsune.
"We're not coming back, Kurokushima's partner is dead, Hirokushima his partner died protecting him, he was wounded in the chest, and Hirokushima we're protecting him while he's unconscious. The wound he got was deep, it also got his chest, and when we arrived there were two swordsmen on the move who has a package for the west, they come from the east, and they were carrying Kurokushima heavily wounded, but when we're going back to the east we encountered the dolls that have six arms and they're fast, they got past through our senses we couldn't do but defend, those two mechanical dolls are possibly a perfect combination, they can wipe out a whole country or even a nation with just one night," Hirishna said as he looked at Kitsune who is looking down on the ground.
"Hirokushima... I've been told that he's running a business in a country on the other continent in the far east, that business is to help kids in need and take care of kids, giving shelter for the kids that don't have parents, but now he's dead... I'll make sure I'll come back, but I think since Kurokushima is his partner I'm sure he runs this too, I'll visit this place once I'm done here," he said as he looked to his right and sees something lighting up in the distance.
He sees a man wearing a fox mask in the distance lighting up a bunch of dead small woods. "If you both are not going back to the village might as well join us for dinner, we bring meat," Kitsune said as he begins to walk towards the man in the distance.
Kaika and Hirishna followed kitsune from behind as they both looked around on guard. They don't see anything around them but darkness. There's no fog in the place.
"Every time there's someone who wants peace it always gets ruined because of the people who can't understand a single thing of what that man wants, we stand for those who cannot and fight for what they deserve," Kitsune said as they all suddenly went silent.
They reached the light after a couple of minutes of walking. It's a campfire, and there is also small wide wood around the campfire than can be sat on.
"Both of you have a seat, thank you foxy..." Kitsune said to the other fox swordsman in front of him who is named foxy. Kitsune walk to the left and have a sit. He's next to a big tree, he leaned on it as he sits down on the wide log enough for one man to sit on. The other swordsman who is foxy nodded at Kitsune and turned around and begin to walk.
"Where is he going?" Kaika ask as he sat down on the log, Hirishna also sat down next to Kaika on the right side of him as in front of the three is a campfire.
"Both of you should get some sleep, and I, I need to get some sleep, I haven't slept for three days," Kitsune said as he closes his eyes. Kaika and Hirishna look to their left and right before lying down on the grass. They both lay down and slowly close their eyes and fall asleep.
Kaminari Raiu is inside the steam train. He was walking inside towards the front part of the train. He was straight and has his sword in his right hand menacingly. In front of him was a large door towards the front part of the train, he hears someone running.
Suddenly the door opened and the engineer of the train comes out. The train is still moving. The engineer is catching his breath as he sees Kaminari Raiu in front of him.
"Swordsman...! Kaminari or Raiu whatever...! We lately entered the dark forest of the northeast the wilderness, there's a lot more there are four swordsmen outside following us, and they're as fast as this train currently, I think they're not human beings," the engineer said as he finally catches his breathe as Raiu got to thinking and got serious.
He begins to walk and pass the engineer. The engineer of the train follows him from behind, he closes the door behind him. Kaminari Raiu sees that the two swordsmen are still tied up in the sit and are looking out in the window.
"Go manage to train I'll take care of the rest," he said as he turned around to the engineer and turn to his right. He walk towards the window and opened it. The train is ascending again from a mountain. The wind is blowing him as he suddenly jumped out of the train.
"Are you out of your mind?!!" the engineer of the train shouts furiously as he sees Kaminari Raiu jump out of the train. He looked out the window and sees Kaminari on his left in the distance underneath a giant branch tree. The engineer pulls himself together and leaves the window open. He walks towards the main control room of the steam train.
Kaminari Raiu was standing as the train passed behind him. The wind stops blowing as the train was already a meters away. In front of him were darkness and shadows. He looked carefully in the distance and suddenly four swordsmans were standing menacingly.
He was holding his sword in his right hand when he sees that there were four unknown swordsmens in front of him in the distance. Standing and hiding in the shadows. The four unknowns slowly pulled out their swords and they stroked them menacingly as the light reflection of the moon shows the blade of the unknown swordsman, suddenly they flew towards him.