The shattered insignia gives a sharp metallic pulse. Its fragments lift from the stone and form a sealed perimeter around the court, trapping Cold Yuichi, Janet, Marie, Friken, and the fallen Elara inside.
Beyond the boundary, Mare appears, a young Hispanic human man with warm brown skin, brown eyes, and an intimidating face in a dark fitted jacket in the pale courtlight, visibly spiritually awakened. His muscular frame and wavy black hair are clear now, while the sealed line rejects every step he takes toward them.
Mare
Cold Yuichi, I cannot cross. The Quiche has made this boundary recognize me as an outside witness.
Mare presses one hand against the invisible barrier. Frost crawls across it, then vanishes, carrying a faint echo of alarms toward the living world.
Mare
Its response reached the residence. Someone there is being questioned about Janet, and the people asking are not ordinary officials.
Janet
Then the Quiche is widening the accusation. If they connect the residence to me, your family and friends become witnesses or suspects.
Behind Cold Yuichi, Elara remains motionless beside her cracked insignia. Marie supports Janet, Friken retrieves the fading green bow, and Mare waits beyond the barrier for Cold Yuichi’s response.
✓ Quest Accepted
Establish a safe channel to protect Yuichi’s family
✓ Quest Accepted
Protect Yuichi’s family and friends from the Quiche’s investigation
“Mare how did you get here I ask looking at him as suddenly a captain of unit 2 appear and already uses the power of his blade as it turns into a snake and traps mare and Diego appear by his side with his blade awakened as well about to slash at me with a energy beam from his sword so I flash with a ice beam from my sword”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +3)
Cold Yuichi
Mare, how did you get here?
A young adult Blanko captain steps from the court’s pale archway, a lean woman with braided black hair, bronze skin, and a white mantle marked Unit 2. Her soul-blade uncoils into a silver-scaled snake, wrapping Mare beyond the barrier.
Mare
I followed the Quiche’s alarm through the residence connection. It pulled me here, but this captain was waiting.
Diego appears at Cold Yuichi’s side, towering and broad-shouldered, his awakened blade blazing along one arm. He slashes, releasing a concentrated beam across the sealed court.
Cold Yuichi flashes his ice sword forward. A white beam erupts and meets Diego’s attack head-on, freezing the energy into a jagged bridge of ice that locks both forces harmlessly in place.
Captain of Unit 2
So the transferred power has learned to answer instantly. Interesting. That makes you considerably more dangerous than the testimony described.
The frozen bridge spreads into the sealed perimeter, crystallizing its boundary and opening a clear path from Cold Yuichi to Mare. The Unit 2 captain’s snake loosens for one startled breath.
“I slash at Diego but he keeps his distance and cuts my chest leaving me on the floor bleeding as I stare at him angrily”
SUCCESS (Great Strength, rolled +1)
Cold Yuichi drives across the frozen bridge, white sword carving a hard arc toward Diego. The strike forces Diego to keep his distance, boots skidding across crystallized energy.
Diego
You are still choosing the direct path. Then take the consequence.
Diego’s awakened blade flashes along his arm. He slips beyond the sword’s reach and cuts across Cold Yuichi’s chest, opening his uniform and sending him heavily to the pale floor.
Blood darkens the black-and-white fabric as Cold Yuichi lands on his back. His ice sword remains clenched in one hand, its edge trembling beside him.
Marie
Cold Yuichi!
Marie starts toward him, but the crystallized perimeter flares and holds her back. Janet braces herself against Friken while the Unit 2 captain’s silver-scaled blade tightens around Mare.
The cut is across my chest, but I can still move.
“My ming goes back to the blank in my blade my blade i need more strenght”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled -2)
Cold Yuichi lies against the pale floor and turns his mind inward, past Diego’s blade and the blood soaking his uniform, toward the blank within his ice sword.
Cold Yuichi
The strength is still here.
His fingers tighten. The trembling blade falls silent, then draws a deep white cold from the hidden blank, flooding his arm and sealing the cut enough for him to rise.
The cost arrives as the sword fractures along its length. Frost burns through Cold Yuichi’s palm, and the sudden surge rings across the crystallized perimeter like a struck bell.
Diego
You found more strength after that wound? Then I will not give you time to understand it.
Diego advances, but the new power answers before his next cut. White frost spreads from Cold Yuichi’s boots, stabilizing the broken bridge and forcing the captain’s snake-blade to loosen around Mare.
Marie
Cold Yuichi, you are standing. The blade changed, but your hand is burning.