"I'm sorry for messing you up this bad," Kuroyuki apologized to Kaisuke as he walked in a circle and eventually sat in front of him. He looked at Kaisuke's injured state and broken blade.

"Why... Did you do this?"

He didn't answer, he just powered up his nails once again and looked like he was about to transform. Kaisuke was terrified to the point of closing his eyes in fear. "I'll explain it to ya," Kuroyuki then approached the wounded man, and grabbed his head with his dark hand.

Kaisuke then experienced something he'd never experienced before, he saw Kuroyuki's memories. Trying to comprehend what makes him act this way.

After what felt like eternity, the flashes of memories finally ended. Kaisuke, still on the track to understand what Kuroyuki tried to explain to him, his eyes stared blankly at the sky, as tears fell down to his cheeks.

"You get it now?" Kuroyuki asked him but he didn't respond. "I hope you get it now. The things you heard from your leaders are just plain lies... Kyuuto isn't the person you sought to protect with all your life," once again, Kuroyuki powered up his right hand.

"W-What are you planning to do?" Kaisuke asked one last time.

Kuroyuki chillingly replied with a smile, "Disposing the evidence," he then waved his hand for a short while, signalling to the surrounding hunters to attack Kaisuke at once, and changing him into one of the zombies because of his wounded state.

----

The migrating warriors soon came about a different base. Because their communication center was completely destroyed, they can not report to the island just yet. The base they found was in perfect condition, there is no sign of any struggle. After a short negotiation, base 37 finally accepted the arrival of base 24's warriors. They shared their story of the breach, and soon reported to the school.

A few days passed, and Kyuuto's team settled on base 37 and made new friends. They helped the base to further be developed into their new homes. While some of the warriors are frightened that the base will breached again just like base 24. Some warriors from base 24 even had trauma regarding the breach and rendered them ineffective for any mission.

Base 37 was located near the Ookami residence, only a few blocks outside of the boundaries. When Kyuuto was mesmerized with the sight of the road he usually took while going to school, he remembered the past in which he was just a normal schoolboy gossiping about school with other friends while walking home.

Among them, he remembered one shy friend who rarely talks, let alone plays with other kids. He then realized that this old friend had been missing for years. Kyuuto even struggled to actually paint this person in his imagination. But his remembrance suddenly stopped when Ishigaki interrupted him.

"I've been wanting to talk to you," he said as he hold the railing of that building's balcony, "but haven't got the opportunity yet,"

"What is it?"

Ishigaki sighed, then told a story about his ancestor who had delivered him a message about her true intention. "The soul inside my body was close to the one within yours. She failed to keep a promise to him, and she lost him forever,"

"Do you know her name?"

Ishigaki shrugged, then sighed once more. "She never actually mentioned her name, when I asked, she just vanished. Our dreams seem to be connected somehow, and I'm not sure as to why my whole body didn't just get totally controlled by her. We have the same fate,"

It is possible that Ishigaki also has some sort of family heirloom to prevent his soul to be taken over, just like the Ookami ring possessed by Kyuuto. But they were not sure as to what really transpired when an ancient soul doesn't just usurp one's body.