"...The ever-changing relationship between the two poles is responsible for the constant flux of the universe and the determination for all life in general.

When there is too great an imbalance between Yin and Yang, catastrophes can occur such as floods, droughts, ands plagues." - I Ching(Book of Changes)

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Young Katsu: "Seeeet...GO!"

A dirty, tattered American football spirals under the bright, warm, sunny afternoon sky. There is no SeiõrSnow falling around the soaring ball, indicating it is a time before Leviathan’s apocalypse.

Saku(thinking): *Finally, I have someone who is willing to throw to me...*

As the leather "egg" is on it’s downward descent, a scraped, grass stained hand perfectly snags the ball out of the air. The nose of the ball lands precisely in the palm.

The excited shouts of a younger Katsu can be heard as a younger Saku stumbles backwards on his landing from the one-handed catch. Finally falling to his back but most importantly, maintaining full control of the catch to the ground.

Y. Katsu: "Oh my God! Did you actually manage to catch that?!

Holy crap, you’re literally the freaking coolest person ever, Saku!"

While on his back, holding the successful catch firmly, young Saku’s eyes are closed...and he is trying to hold back a smile.

Saku(thinking): *Now that I have a QB, it’s us against the world. I actually found a ’brother’...

...w-wait a second...*

The eager right green eye of the potential 5 star recruit opens, but in clear disappointment, his large pupil, shrinks.

From his PoV, replacing the beautiful blue sky above Hanabi City Park, is a bloody mist, smoke filled, fire tinted night sky of dead Roronora City. The SeiõrSnow is falling, signifying the current apocalypse.

A pitch black aura, escaping from the Yin Vessel’s left Anjell Eye can barley be seen from the inner corner of his right human eye.

Saku: "Where...am...I?"

While still on his back, and in his PoV, Saku raises his lightly clenched fist above him. The physically and mentally exhausted Vessel doesn’t even flinch once he notices there is but blood, teeth, and hair in his loose grip.

Suddenly, blocking his zenith view of the universe directly above him, the bottom of a giant Iceman foot gradually hovers over the Yin Vessel.

Saku: "Oh... Yea... I think I remember now..."

The young man protected by his pitch black SoulSeiõrShield doesn’t move as the bottom of the alien’s foot stomps down on top of him and the flowing blood flood quickly fills in the humongous imprint.

Because of those vibrations, a nearby car alarm goes off, but the siren is immediately silenced by the pressure of another gargantuan ice diamond sole.

The entire vehicle is crushed like a soda can, pushed into the earth, and submerged under red.

Crashing, crunching, electrical explosions, and smashing, repeats over, and over, and over.

Piles of mangled flesh get put under pressure by the giant Icemen, like grapes.

The encircling army of giant Icemen are continuing to pancake every indication of humanity’s existence.

Every carefully redesigned and rebuilt structure.

Every vehicle, store, home, office, statue, generator, bed, picture, stroller, microscope, appliance, shoe, ball, leash, phone, watch, bike, doll, toy, make-up kit, book, gun, sword, meal, article of clothing, piece of furniture, and memory of the slaughtered city, is incrementally being erased.

Every nook and cranny.

Step by step.

As a result of the outrageous weight and durability of the 60ft(~30m) aliens, their strides not only crush and push the city’s existence into the Earth, but they are also gradually sinking the ground in.

As the destructive monsters move deeper into the city, they are also creating a shallow "bowl".

Filling the "bowl" is the mixture of "juices" from the squished human corpses, along with the thousands of gallons of water, still escaping from multiple broken hydrants scattered throughout the defeated sanctuary.

In the middle of the city, at the sight of the remodeled ’True Bloom Arena’ the last of the dry blood covered smaller Icemen, packs into the stadium, and the double doors automatically shut behind them.

The terrifying combined growls and snarling of the alien mob goes silent once they are all inside.

As if they are now... hibernating.

1.5 miles South of True Bloom Arena, two giant Icemen are halfway finished with decimating a Roronora City police station.

Mid-stomp, the pair of monstrous E.T.s cease their demolition, and stand as if frozen in fear.

One of the aliens carefully lowers it’s hand to the ground, dipping it’s "fingers" into the pool of red.

Like bugs in comparison, Katsu and Shelly, both covered in their respective SoulSeiõrShields, jump onto the controlled alien’s open palm.

From the slice in her sweatshirt, Shelly’s shoulder wound is no longer glowing, indicating the SeiõrSeed has finished healing her.

The Yang Vessel has his Communication Eye of Wisdom activated to 2nd Stage, with his two toned aura matching his contemporary role.

The Iceman is diligently acting as an elevating platform for the two humans.

It slowly gets up from one knee, and gives the adopted siblings a complete view of the surrounding layout.

From a top view, only 40% of the city remains standing for the time being.

Scanning over the remainder of the city she was just running through, the young woman with Valkyrie blood coursing through her veins, gets wide-eyed, her jaw dropping in pure fascination and admiration over the sight no artist could ever truly replicate.

Katsu is carefully side eyeing her, as if discreetly and closely analyzing his purpose’s immediate reaction to the overwhelming sight.

Shelly(thinking): *With all the innocent people who were unnecessarily killed tonight, am...am I a terrible person if I can see a hidden beauty within all this mass destruction?

Why would there be beauty to this pandemonium at all?

But...still...*

Cutting off her train of thought, Katsu talks to her while he and his Anjell Eye survey the entire area for a sign of their target.

Katsu: "Damn!

Even though I can see them all, I can’t stop those other giant Icemen far away.

We’ll stay behind the rest that I can’t control and wait for Saku to eventually reveal himself.

I’m sure you’ve realized from your scrap with him, as long as Saku’s Anjell Eye has control and that black SoulSeiõrShield is covering him, his body takes no blunt trauma damage."

Shelly(nods): "Even if his body does get damaged, he doesn’t feel pain, or at least, his IceEye doesn’t.

I snapped his arm backwards earlier, and the bastard was still looking to fight me, while the symbiote was actively healing his arm faster than how we’re used to seeing other eye users heal."

Katsu watches as a few demolition Icemen in the distance jump up and down repeatedly in the same area.

Katsu: "Hmm, so even getting stepped on by larger Icemen probably won’t scratch him... that’s so freaking cool."

Shelly: "Katsu!

It’s not ’freaking cool’!

Saku almost killed you back there!

That Anjell Eye of his is dangerous..."

She can’t see, but after hearing Shelly’s concerns over Saku’s stability, makes Katsu smirk.

Katsu(thinking): *Yes! He is a detriment to the both of us! Just say the word, Shell, and we’ll kill him, here, tonight!*

Shelly: "...but Katsu..."

The Yang Vessel’s dastardly smirk vanishes before turning around to see Shelly with her head down in heartbreak.

Shelly: "...A-Are you 1000% sure, your special IceEye won’t ever go Berserk on you like Saku’s?"

Katsu: "Of course not, Shelly! Why wou-"

He stops talking immediately after seeing a single tear fall from his cherished adopted sister’s face, to the palm of the Iceman they are standing on.

Shelly keeps her head down, trying hard to avoid showing her emotions in the middle of their mission.

Shelly: *sniffle* "Katsu...you know I will never hesitate to fight anyone and anything for your sake... but I never want to have to fight you...

If you turned into something like Saku is right now...

I’m scared...

I’m scared, because I know I wouldn’t be able to stop you.

*sniffle* I’ll be Takamagahara’s Ace against anyone.

But please Katsu, anyone but you...

Please."

Hearing Shelly’s voice breaking on the last "please" sends an emotional spark up her adopted brother’s spine.

Katsu’s green eye tears up but he wipes his face before giving her one of his reassuring smiles.

Katsu: "Don’t worry Shelly.

You and I are an unbeatable tag team, remember?

Besides, I wasn’t able to keep the last promise I made to you..."

Katsu’s words send flashbacks to Shelly as she remembers his clone dying in her own replica’s arms, after Katsu has promised before their first squad meeting he wouldn’t die.

Katsu: "...And knowing I have already failed you once, I’m should be the one who is worried.

I’m worried that I might fail you again."

Again, Katsu’s careful and specific wording makes the Valkyrie descendant remember when she had failed Katsu for the first time. After her sparring loss to Itsuka, the familiar and heartfelt promise she made to her new Izanagi Captain, in front of all Takamagahara that day.

Katsu: "...But Shelly, you should remember with that awesome memory of yours, I’ve already made that promise to you.

I promised that you would never see me as someone my parents would be disappointed in and I think that includes whatever the Hell Saku has become, haha."

Shelly: "...Katsu..."

The charismatic young man looks back out to the remaining 30% of Roronora City.

Katsu: "You and I both know, that’s really not our Squadmate right now, and from the sound of his crying, he’s suffering..."

Shelly turns bright pink as Katsu perfectly uses key words to make her near photographic memory kick in.

Remembering when they were younger, watching the inspirational stories that made her "savior", her "sunshine", into the man she’s grown to love.

Katsu: "...Wherever there are people suffering in this world, we’re going to save them with a smile.

As long as I always have my ’reliable #2’, you and I are going to be the greatest of all time someday, Shelly!"

He holds out his white SoulSeiõrShield covered fist to her and chuckles.

Shelly’s shimmering blues stare on the man she conspicuously loves, and she smiles back.

Meeting his fist with a hard *THUD!* from her own SoulSeiõrShield protected fist.

Katsu: "Oww!"

Shelly: "Oh my God! I’m so sorry Katsu!

Are you okay?!"

Katsu quickly shakes out the pain in his knuckles with a giggle.

Katsu: "Haha, don’t worry about it, Shell.

Dang, your Seiõr is crazy strong!"

Taking a glance at the legendary sword in it’s sheath, stuck to her right hip, Katsu gets huge star eyes after remembering...

Katsu: "Oh, I forgot to ask you!

Please tell me that was you I saw flying on your grandma’s sword earlier when I was making my way over to you?!?"

Full of adorable energy because of his interest in her, Shelly gets flustered.

Providing the role of "WingWoman", Madame Fryer unsheathes herself and floats horizontally to her wielder’s feet.

Shelly cleanly jumps, both her feet landing on the friendly flaming falchion, and then hovers over the side off the Katsu controlled Iceman’s hand.

Katsu can’t contain his overall excitement anymore over the newest upgrade to his most trusted fighter.

He struggles for a moment, trying to hold back this new unprecedented enthusiasm he’s feeling, but as always...

Katsu: "Nnnnggghhgggggg.

YOU’RE LITERALLY, THE FREAKING COOLEST PERSON EVER, SHELLY!"

Katsu max volume proclamation, echoes over the city.

From an area underneath the blood flood, behind the circling Icemen, bubbles pop at the surface.