[center][b]Hideki, Yoshimi, Harashi[/b][/center] --- "...?! Now what?", Hideki said when something suddenly started banging on the doors. He was a tad surprised. He then remembered about the things that tried to attack them, and how Nikko said earlier that they could probably be wraiths. "Tch... Not again...", Hideki said. The banging grew louder and louder. Yoshimi put her guard up. She was prepared for any attack. Eventually the door finally broke, and behind it were five wraiths. As soon as they broke down the door she rushed at them. But she was stopped by something. "...! What is that?", Yoshimi asked as a wooden creature appeared and smashed its limbs against the dark beings. She didn't expect something like that to appear, though she wasn't afraid of it. She felt safe in the presence of the creature. "I-is that an ent?", Harashi said. "Ent?", Yoshimi asked. "They're beings that protect nature. They're mythological, but I don't understand why there's one in front of us," Harashi said. "Well, if there are wraiths and shades in Tokyo, then we should be surprised if there's also an ent running around," Hideki jokingly said. "...Whatever," Harashi embarrassingly said. "Well, that's that...", Hideki said. "I think there's a bunch of plywood in our household. I'm going to look for some to barricade the door again," he said. He stared at the ent for a second. "When will that thing disappear, I wonder...", Hideki pondered for a second. "Ah, whatever. If it's here we're safe. I'm just going to get some barricading materials. Stay here you three," Hideki said and then walked off. "Alright, I can finally rest...", Harashi said. "Excuse me... Don't you need any help?", Yoshimi approached the boy. Hideki turned to look at her and smiled. "Well, as much as I'd appreciate your help I can do it alone. And you need to protect those two just in case those things come back," Hideki pointed at Harashi and Nikko. "But the ent is still outside. It protected us earlier from those wraiths so it would probably remain here and keep protecting us. "Hmm... Touche, miss Kawakami. Fine, you can come search with me," Hideki said and then signaled her to follow. --- [center][b]Hideki, Yoshimi, Harashi[/b][/center] --- "Hmm. There's probably some wood in the storage room...", Hideki told Yoshimi. "We should just search the entire house," he said. He entered the storage room and turned on the lights but unfortunately there was no wood in there. "Sigh. Nothing. Well, there should be at least a hammer and some nails here...", he said. He searched around some more and eventually found an old hammer and container of nails. "Alright... Now all we need to search for is wood...", Hideki said to himself. "Let's split up," Hideki said as he put down the hammer and nails. "Let's meet back here after 10 minutes," he told Yoshimi. "Okay," she replied. They went into different directions after that. He entered a room which his family only goes into for special ceremonies. "I'm sure there's no wood here...", Hideki said then sighed. But then he remembered something. There was a katana in the room which was essential for his family's traditions. "This is...", Hideki said. He grabbed it and unsheathed it. It had a black blade and there was an engravement of a dragon with lightning bolts surrounding it on its hilt. He took a look at the scabbard and there was, yet again, another image of a dragon engraved on it. Just then he noticed that there was an inscription on the blade. "Hmm...? What's this?", Hideki wondered. It was hardly readable. "Ka... Kaminari o... What? I can't read the rest...", Hideki said. "Sigh, whatever," he said and then sheathed it again. "Though, having a sword would be handy. I could use it to protect myself...", he thought for a moment. "Alright, it might be rude to our family... But I need this to protect people," Hideki said. He took a long piece of cloth and tied it around his waist. He took the excess length of the cloth and tied it around the sword's scabbard. "Okay, I guess that's fine...", he said. "Time to search for wood once more." "Alright, I finally managed to gather some wood...", Hideki said to Yoshimi after meeting back with her. He'd gotten some from the shed at the back of their house. He just remembered that there was wood there. "I'm sorry, I wasn't able to help too much... Ehehe...", Yoshimi said. "It's fine, though this might not keep them away from entering the house for too long, it'd be enough of a distraction for us to be able to run away...", he said. "Oh? A sword?", Yoshimi pointed. "Ah, I found that earlier in our family's ceremonial room," Hideki replied. "Come on, let's go back to those two," Hideki and Yoshimi returned to the two. "Anything happen while I was gone?", Hideki asked, placing down the materials. "Nothing interesting in particular," Harashi said. "Alright then. Come on, help me with this," Hideki said. "Sigh... Do I have to? Well, fine. What a pain...", Harashi said as he stood up and scratched the back of his head. "Hmm... Nikko, you stay there and rest. You seem rather frail," he told the albino boy. "You too, Yoshimi. You must be tired what with all that running around and fending off those monsters earlier," he told Yoshimi. She nodded and sat down on the couch in the living room. Harashi and Hideki then proceeded to board up the doorway. --- [center][b]Kuruoshi[/b][/center] --- "More destruction! More death! Hahaha!", Kuruoshi yelled as he sent out more shades and wraiths. The tall man kept sending out even more of those evil monsters, he watched as they devoured and killed people. "Soon, I will be able to change this world! Hahahahaha!", Kuruoshi laughed insanely. He knew that there were two shrines in Tokyo so he sent even more monsters there. "DESTROY THEM ALL!", he yelled.