Valletta Grede, a head executive of Evilus and currently a member of the Thanatos Familia, was in a light mood. Although she wasn't able to kill Finn, her hateful enemy since the time of the old Evilus, and the others escaped using their own monsters against her, she was able to relieve her stress on a left-behind member of the Loki Familia.

As of now, Valletta was roaming around the Knossos to check the integrity of the doors and walls after the beating it went through from the battle between them and the Loki Familia, when the wall on their right unbelievably collapsed and a young man with a big smile and Far Eastern attire went through it, "Excuse me~! I'd like to make a complaint to those who smell like my student's blood! And, in fact, a solution for that~!" ​​

The sight of a strange man suddenly destroying an almost indestructible wall and coming in a casual manner, incredibly confused Valletta and her underlings, "W-who are you!?"

All of a sudden, the strange man suddenly disappeared in front of them while leaving his words, "Kisuke Urahara, your everyday shopkeeper~!"

Something warm then suddenly touched Valletta's cheeks. Upon checking it, she was shocked to see that it was blood, 'What...? Whose blood... is... this?' She finally realized that her underlings didn't have their heads attached to their necks anymore, "W...what?"

Feeling a threat from behind her, Valletta immediately turned around while putting her cursed sword across her body before she was uncontrollably launched away by a kick.

"Gaha!!!" Valletta landed on the wall beyond the hole, cracking its stone exterior. But before she could drop down, a hand grabbed her neck and pinned her against the wall, "Guuhhh!"

A few seconds later, her vision cleared and she saw the strange man, and inescapably stared at his grey eyes full of coldness, "Hiih!!!"

With a terrified expression, Valletta immediately started pleading while the hand on her neck also started tightening, "P...please spare... me!"

But the strange man's smile only grew wider, "No can do~! You played with my student so I'll have you disappear."

The sudden flood of dense killing intent made Valletta frenzied as she suddenly swung her cursed sword towards his neck. But her actions were inadvertently stopped. When she looked at her sword, Valletta saw two fingers pinching it without any effort.

An attack from a Level 5 like her was effortlessly stopped, "...M-monster...!"

Those were her last words as Kisuke snapped her neck and threw her lifeless body away.

After he was done with issuing his 'complaints', Kisuke returned to where Line was and saw Ais' dazed expression and Bete's astonished expression with a hint of fear in it.

Without any words, Kisuke picked up Line in a princess carry and started walking away. The two others didn't say anything and just let them walk past them as they disappeared through the darkness of the man-made dungeon.

"Say... Did you know about his strength?", asked Bete suddenly.

Ais only nodded at his question but that was more than enough for Bete.

'So this is what the old hag meant by not making them our enemy... Even Ottar couldn't make me that helpless.', thought Bete as he recalled Riveria's words that confused him, Finn, and Gareth back then, 'Just what are they?'

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The moment Kisuke and Line appeared on Riveria and other's sights, they immediately ran towards them nervously. "How is she?", asked Riveria. It was then that she noticed multiple small magic circles placed on Line's wounds, 'This is?'

Guessing the question in her head, Kisuke spoke, "She's healing herself."

"T-this is Line's magic?", Riveria doubted her eyes, "But why?"

"If she can do it by herself, why not let her do it?", answered Kisuke as he walked past them.

"Where are you bringing her?"

"To my place. I need an assistant for a few of my projects.", answered Kisuke without turning around. But before he left completely he added, "I'll be talking to Loki-sama regarding this so you don't have to worry about it. And by the way, if you don't ramp up your efforts, she'll soon surpass you."

Remembering the magic circles on Line's body earlier, she thought, 'I know...'

As Kisuke left, the others from the Loki Familia asked, "Is that fine, Riveria-sama?" Since she didn't object to Kisuke's words, they'd remained quiet.

Riveria then turned back towards the entrance to Knossos as she felt Ais and Bete's presence coming towards them, "It's fine. She'll have a better time in his hands."

But as soon as she saw Bete's state and him being assisted by Ais to walk, Riveria asked, "Did he do it?"

In response, Bete just clicked his tongue and said, "You never told us how ridiculous that guy is."

"But I did warn you.", sighed Riveria.

Bete clicked his tongue again while others were substituting Ais in assisting him, "Couldn't he just clear this place all by himself?"

At those words, Riveria frowned deeply, "And then what? Letting him solve our problems for us and render everyone's efforts in vain? Are we that weak to depend on him?"

Bete's eyes widened as he understood Riveria's words, "Okay, enough... Don't start lecturing me now. I understand."

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A few minutes later, within the Dian Cecht Familia's clinic, everyone who was wounded was being treated by one of the only few people who could dispel curses, Airmid Teasanare.

Within five meters of Airmid's barrier, the wounded Loki Familia members were cramped together to heal their wounds. "How is it?", asked Loki with a concerned expression.

Airmid didn't speak for a few moments as she focused on strengthening her magic, "They're fine. I've already removed the curse from their wounds and the usual treatment methods should now work."

Loki and the others from the Loki Familia who were still awake sighed in relief, "Thank goodness... Now we only have to worry about Line.", said Tiona, who was currently covered in bandages.

Tione, who was in the same state, replied, "Ais and Bete are already on their way..."

But Finn, Gareth, and Loki knew that it was probably too late with her facing an opponent like Valletta, but they didn't say anything to discourage them. 'Unless...', Loki's mind wandered to a certain man, 'But knowing him, he wouldn't make a move even if the whole world was in chaos, unless his group was involved. And to be fair, I'd also do the same.'

Shaking her head and deciding to leave it to Line's fortune, Loki looked towards her grievously injured children again and vowed to take revenge on whoever was behind that man-made dungeon. At that time, she noticed Airmid's troubled expression and asked, "What's wrong, Airmid-chan?"

"Ah... No... I'm just wondering about something.", she replied.

"What is it?", asked Loki curiously.

After some hesitation, Airmid asked, "Well... Did you use some sort of potion before coming here?"

Loki and the others became confused at her question and asked, "What do you mean?"

Airmid hesitated even more but chose to continue, "I mean, I'm just really amazed. They've already lost so much blood when you brought them to me and normally, they would have fallen into shock and died at that point."

"However, every single one of them managed to survive and it seemed that they even had some spare energy. To be completely honest, this is a miracle that I haven't seen before."

While others looked at each other in confusion, Loki understood what was going on. But before she could explain, someone beat it to her, "Ah, that's because their vitality is now much stronger since they already can move their Ki. Although they can't utilize it in battle yet, its effects on overall health and vitality are tremendous, especially to first-time users."

Everyone hurriedly faced the direction where the voice originated and saw the man who became famous and disappeared a week ago, "Kisuke Urahara!"

Meanwhile, Loki immediately requested, "Kisuke, just this one time! Please save Line! She's still in the man-made dungeon!"

"You don't have to worry about her, Loki-sama. I already got her and brought her to my place. I'm actually here to tell you that I'd like to take care of her for a while."