In the Middle of the Large Crater, Tohka showed an aching yet desperate expression on her face.
It was a completely, out of nowhere Left Turn, just as the Spacequake she created covered the City upon going into her Inverse Form, that....Man, if you could even call it, showed up at simultaneously the same time, and after she started wielding Halvanhelev, this figure attacked her relentlessly.
As she lay there with her back against the Crater Wall, barely able to lift up her blade and stand, she was going to fight to the last breath, but she was sure the outcome was inevitable.
"Tohka!"
Oh...Him... Tohka thought regarding the man they called Shido, who's real identity she wasn't sure.
Shido ran into his closest friends arms, loudly begging her to stop, with zero resistance from the confused Spirit.
Then.....Like a moment of clarity, Tohka remembered, the human she first grew a bond with, the man she fell in love with, the dates they went on, the life they shared, along the other Spirits around them.
Tohka transformed back into her normal form, before hugging back sobbing.
"Now, I don't want to ruin the moment, but can someone tell me what the hell is going on?" The man that fought Tohka flew down before finally landing feat on the ground. The man looked like a relatively young but still fully grown Adult, he had bald hair, a normal shirt, he looked like an American.
Suddenly he felt himself feel drained, unsure why, he took the RFI out of his backpack, Cracked from his fight with the spirit. Not like it mattered, the fight was over, and the Beast....
"Wait, the BEAST!" Cole thought loudely at the idea. What happened? Did the RFI work? No, he was still alive, meaning it may not have cured the Plague, Cole was sent into a full panic mode at the idea that his closest friend and the East Coast might be dead because he risked using the RFI over Johns method.
But he was in a different city, that looked nothing like New Marais. Why, how, what put him here? His mind swirled with questions.
Nothing was different for Shido and the other spirits. This man, who exuded no form of a Spirit, has these incredible powers and managed to assist in Incapacitating Inverse Tohka. Either way, he seems like he wasn't against them, that was at the very least a plus.
Suddenly, the Flagship flew over them, Kotori at the helm, equally confused.
"You in the T shirt, Identify" The voice came over the Radio.
Cole wanted zero trouble and needed answers, thus cooperated.
"My name...is Cole.... Macgrath. I need to know where I am, what's going on?" He responded, desperate to know what happened in the East Coast.
"Shido, Tohka, all of you, board the ship, we'll try to answer as best we can"
Cole was worried, but he had no choice if he wanted answers.