Five months after the finale of Spiral Terra, Ryuuga finds himself having issues between his life as the new King of the Heiwa Royalty and everything else, despite knowing he must balance everything for Heiwa's sake. Everything changes when a person...
"Gin thinks none of us have noticed it yet, but it's been clear to me for ages. I've been the one closest to him up to now, so I can tell you this for sure. Out of everyone in the Arcana... He's the one who wants it to end the most. He began to notice how the damage he dealt to the Royalties is only making him become more like Sakuya, but he isn't brave enough to leave or disband the Arcana. He thinks he'll be doing to us what the world did to us. He thinks he'll be tossing us away like trash because he doesn't needs us anymore. Because of that mindset, he can't... Please, I ask you this as a friend of Gin's... Save Gin."
Masato looked forward and continued walking. "It's like I said. I'm just going to lay the groundwork. Saving Gin isn't up to me."
Now inside the elevator, Masato looked back at Karim. "I'm not the hero." Masato said, then looking forward once again as he slid his hands into the pockets of his jacket.
Karim simply nodded at Masato as the elevator doors began closing. Then, he looked up, clenching his fist. "Gin, it'll be over soon. You won't have to feel cursed with being the Arcana's leader any longer. Just wait... Just you wait!"
(Opening)
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As the elevator where he was started heading up towards the ninth floor of the Golden Tower, Masato let out a loud and heavy sigh, not of relief, but more of awareness of something stupid he had done.
"What the hell was that cringe ass line? 'I'm just going to lay the groundwork. Saving Gin isn't up to me.'? 'I'm not the hero.'? Those two alone brought shame to me and all my ancestors! Aaaaaaaaah!" Masato groaned as he rubbed his head. "Trying to look cool before the enemy bit me in the ass, it was even worse than Renji using 'damnation' and a whole quotation from a philosophy book as the answer of a yes or no question!" He leaned back on the elevator's doors, crossing his arms as one of his eyebrows twitched. "I don't think the cheesy lines are the worst part, the worst part will be everyone else finding out about them." He muttered with a confident smirk, but inside, he cried at himself.
By the time Masato put aside the words that cursed him and got his mind back in the game, the elevator stopped on the ninth floor. Masato walked out of the machine as it's doors opened and took a quick look around at the surrounding space. Across him, and to his right, were more two elevators, one of which guided to Gin's room and one that could be accessed through a fighting room on the sixth floor. Masato looked at his left and all he could see was a long hallway with a door in it's end, at least three times longer than the deadend hallways that lead to the fighting rooms. Masato turned to the face the direction of the final door, but didn't move forward. Instead, he took out his phone and looked at his reflection.
'Jokes aside, why am I actually here? Am I here because I want to help Ryuuga because he's my friend? Am I here because I want to forgive myself under the lie of wanting to be forgiven by others? Am I here just to not be left behind by everyone else? In the end, I'm just here because I'm just here, and that's what matters. For once in my life, I didn't got into a fight because of what I was defending, I just got into a fight because I wanted to. From an outsider's perspective, maybe I'm just fighting Gin because we were both Ryuuga's enemies at some point, but from where I stand, maybe I'm fighting him because we aren't so different.'
