Isshin Kira falls unconscious, yet Satou is not satisfied by what has he done to his opponent. Therefore, he grabs Isshin Kira's face and smacks Isshin Kira's face one more time.
"You've killed so many lives… Including Sanada!"
He keeps smacking Isshin Kira's face.
"If only you were not to exist, this wouldn't have happened."
He keeps smacking Isshin Kira's face without knowing when to stop.
"Sanada has a dream, you dickhead! He wanted to protect Japan! But, that wouldn't happen because of a piece of shit like you, you retarded degenerate!"
For Satou pummeling Isshin Kira's face, his face now is full of bruises and blood, and this time, Satou is about to launch a heavy smash to Isshin Kira.
"Die!!!"
As he is about to hit Isshin Kira's face, suddenly his fist is held by Yumeno.
"Stop it, Satou!!!"
"Let me go!!"
Satou exclaimed trying to let off his hand from her grasp, yet she is still trying her best not to let it go regardless it's hard for her.
"You did say that he doesn't want a grudge, right? Then why are you still avenging him?!"
Hearing that from her manages to make him remain silent. He is considering what she said, and finally, he is discouraged to beat Isshin Kira anymore.
"That's right, if Tanaka knew this, he would give me an earful. Crap!"
Suddenly, he feels something from his back and finds that it's Yumeno hugging him to soothe him up. But he still has that regretful look and he sighs for what he has done.
On the other side, the war is over by the defeat of Isshin Kira alongside the terrorists. Some of the WTM members are injured, so are Satou and Yumeno. They then are evacuated to the hospital.
Because of the strange regeneration of Satou's body, he is not advised to stay at the hospital too long. He just has no idea what to say, but he sees Yumeno who approaches him at the entrance of the hospital out of the blue.
"Satou, how are you? Does anywhere feel hurt?"
"Nah, how about you?"
She just nods. He just remains silent staring straight ahead and sighs. He stares far enough, but he feels sadness from that. He puts his hands to his pockets and says,
"Do you know? His dream was to protect Japan from danger. That's why he joined the WTM…"
"With that, he could protect the Yggdrasil so Japan will be safe from the void, right?"
"Yeah, that's why I decided to…"
"What is it?"
"I'll assist the WTM. With that, his dream won't vanish, right? As I have no idea about the WTM, please teach me how to be a good member of the WTM!"
Satou bowed his head to show respect to her. She is surprised and panicked by it.
"Please raise your head, you don't need to do that far! Well, after what you did, I'm sure most of us will welcome you."
She smiled.
"Really? I hope so."
As they leave the hospital to head to the base, they spend their time talking about stuff that they arrive. She then brings Satou to Stephen Smith.
Seeing Stephen Smith, Yumeno then tells what they talked about to Stephen Smith.
"As I thought you'd say that!"
Stephen Smith smiles after hearing what they told him. He lets out a sigh as staring at Satou. Satou just gulps his saliva for being stared at like that.
"Please! Scout me as a member of the WTM! I don't want to let his dream fade away like that. It's my job as his best friend to realize his dream!"
Satou said in a firm tone while bowing his head, but he feels his shoulder being patted by someone, it's Stephen Smith who nods and smiles at him.
"Of course we will welcome you! Not to mention you possess a power like Yumeno, that will help us a lot, of course! Of course, we won't just let you go."
"Thank you, Jesen!"
"My name is Stephen! Who the hell is Jesen?!"
Stephen Smith yelled at him for misspelling his name. Yumeno and Satou just burst out a laugh for responding to their boss. Satou now is officially a new member of the organization called the World Tree Miracle or WTM for short.
"With this, no more void, eh?"
Satou asked.
"That's what I concern. Now, the government is convincing the citizen to leave the Yggdrasil to the WTM. Even the security of Yawata no Yabushirazu forest has been strengthened."
"For Isshin, Kira is up to something no good to the Yggdrasil, then the disaster would come?"
She asked.
"Exactly."
"If that happens, I'll do as I can!"
Satou said.
Later, Satou and Yumeno leave Stephen Smith's office and they encounter Charlee by accident. He then greets her warmly.
"Yo Caroline!"
"What is it, Satou?"
"From now on, I am a member of the WTM! It's pleasure to work with you!"
Satou bows his head followed by Charlee.
"Likewise, Satou!".
Yumeno who sees that remains confused about their formality, but she doesn't ask a thing as she feels like they will give her an absurd answer, especially if it comes from Satou.
---
For everything he's done, Isshin Kira is imprisoned and treated well by the WTM. For instance, they still treat him as a human being and interrogate him for useful intel related to the WTM, the armies, and the Yggdrasil.
"Did you do all of this just to be the strongest?"
One of the WTM members asked him.
"Heh, of course. I want to show that the world doesn't need the Yggdrasil, but everything is over already…"
"What do you mean?"
"The guardian of the Yggdrasil will be born. Once he appears, then it's the end of the world."
"End?"
"Do you ever wonder why WTM is so eager to protect the Yggdrasil? It's because they don't want Jubboko to be born."
"Jubokko?"
"It's the name of the guardian. Many people worship him so that they will be safe from the disaster. At first, I thought I could defeat him, but…"
Isshin Kira suddenly remembers about his defeat by Satou and his word about the strongest must protect the one weaker than him.
"I am still weak… I need to learn more from the strongest. But, in the end, what I can do is believe in the miracle."
Isshin Kira said.
---
An earthquake occurs in Ichikawa city. Though the citizens are used to handling it calmly. But, little did they know, the roots from Yawata no Yabushirazu forest are spreading to the city in which the nearby forest.
The Yawata no Yabushirazu forest gets widened for its spreading roots destroying some buildings around making the citizens panic.
"Mama! Mama!"
Said a girl left by her mom.
"Run! Run!!"
"What is going on?!"
"Is it the end?!"
They exclaimed in panic.
Finally, the military and the cops are trying to evacuate the citizens. They are frightened in terror to see a plant getting a shape like a humanoid. It has 5 horns, red eyes, its mouth is covered by something, its shoulders have thorns, and its body is full of roots.
It's Jubokko, The true guardian of Yggdrasil.
"The judgment day is here…"
Jubokko said standing before the Yggdrasil.
The thing called Jubboko suddenly uses its power. It summons a horde of monsters and they are attacking the Ichikawa citizen. With so many monsters around, the military and cops who are evacuating the citizen are overwhelmed by them.
The reporters who are looking for information about the mysterious incident in Ichikawa are attacked by the monsters as well, the citizens are terrified to see the reporters die brutally.
Hearing that, WTM is holding a meeting. Stephen Smith just can't let this last long. Not to mention it's threatening the human race.
"Listen up! Your job is not to fight the monsters, but to evacuate the survived citizens in Ichikawa!"
Stephen Smith exclaimed.
"Right!!"
They responded.
Taking the order, Satou and the rest of the WTM armies are heading to Ishikawa.
"First mission, eh..?"
Satou said.
"Yeah, I didn't expect that you'd be in my army, Satou!"
The baldie said.
"Who are you again?"
"You didn't remember me?! Very well, I'll tell you. My name is…"
"Ah, you were the guy who gave me a ride to Sanada, right? I'm sorry that I couldn't save him."
Satou interrupted.
"Don't mind! Why does every time I want to introduce myself get interrupted?!"
The baldie sighed.
Finally, they arrive in Ichikawa city. The city has been ruined and it gives an eerie impression. Even the city now looks like a dense forest with creeping roots everywhere.
"It's Hell!"
Satou said.
"For the other causes, some unidentified monsters are lurking around. Stephen Smith told us to focus on evacuating the citizen!"
The baldie answered.
Stephen Smith plans to let Yumeno become a decoy for the monsters, while Satou and the others will be able to focus on the evacuation. Then, when the victims are managed to be saved, they have to leave the city with Yumeno as they will find it hard to find the monsters without her around.
Later, a horde of beast monsters appears before them. When one is about to attack them, Yumeno enters.
"Just do according to the plan!"
She said.
"Right!"
The baldie nods in agreement.
"If you are overwhelmed, I'll back you up, Yume!"
Saying that, he rushes following the baldie and the duo encounters a little girl who is crying over her dead mother for protecting her daughter.
"Mama! Mama!"
"There, there, I'll save you!"
Satou said.
"But, mama…"
"She's gone, sweetheart…"
"No! I won't go without her!"
She is whining. That makes Satou and the baldie uneasy and sympathize with her. Before the baldie tugs her, he says something.
"Leave this one to me! Just find another victim!"
"Roger!"
Nodding, Satou rushes to seek the other victim. Later, he finds a guy with a hat who is fighting a beast monster.
"As if I'm afraid of you, dammit!"
He said trying to dodge the barrage it launches. Then, when it lets its guard down, he pummels it that it falls unconscious,
"What's with this so-called 'monster'?! What a joke!"
He said arrogantly when he managed to defeat it.
"Oi! Have you lost your mind? Get away from here!"
Satou exclaimed.
"Didn't you see that, huh?"
Saying that, it gets up and attacks him from behind. But, realizing it, Satou shoots it consecutively that it perishes.
Once it's passed out, the guy with a hat turns around and becomes surprised. Satou then puts the gun to the holster and gives the guy an earful.
"Do you have a death wish or something?! If I were not here, you'd die!"
"What a bore! What I have to do is just get away from here, right?"
The guy with a hat said.
As the gunshot causes loud noise, the other monsters enter that Satou and the guy are ambushed by them. This makes the guy with a hat puts a grin on his face.
"Heh, interesting!"
"Crap!!! We have to get away from here!!"
Without warning the guy, Satou immediately pulls the guy with a hat to run away.
"I can run myself, you retard!!"
"Shut the fuck up!!"
Managing to get away from them, Satou and the guy encounter the other WTM members who seem to have evacuated many survivors. He puts the guy in care of one of them.
"We've gotta leave right now!"
Satou said.
"What's wrong?"
The baldie asked.
"They are coming and their number keeps increasing! Where's Yume?"
"She's still on her business!"
"Just go first, I'll bring her to get away from here!"
"Roger!"
Satou then rushes to where Yumeno is.
"It's kinda boring here! I am coming with him!"
The guy with a hat leaves following Satou and the baldie just realizes that the guy is following Satou leaving the other survivors.
"Oi!!!"
The baldie exclaimed.
On the other side, Yumeno is busy with the great number of beasty monsters ambushing her that what she can do right now is just dodging.
'I have to save up my energy!'
She said in her mind.
After a few minutes of trying to find Yumeno, finally Satou finds her and he calls her name.
"Yume!"
"Satou…? What are you doing here?"
"Hurry! We are getting outta here!"
"So the evacuation is finished, already?"
"I hope so as more of them are coming here!"
"Roger!"
Saying that, she releases gale to eliminate the monsters before her.
"Let's go, Satou!"
"Yeah, we'll figure out the cause of this incident later!"
As the duo is about to leave Ichikawa, the guy with a hat encounters them and suddenly says something surprising them.
"Eh? You are going? What a bore!
"What the heck are you doing here?"
Satou exclaimed.
"I am not like them who are scared of such a monster!"
"It's not a matter of fear… It's about life!"
She said.
As the duo is quarreling with the guy, a golem monster enters.
"Heh, then, let me show you how to do the job!"
Saying that, the guy charges the head of the golem with his baseball bat.
"Dammit! Not bad!"
"He is just like you, Satou…"
"It's not the time to goof around, Yume! Let's save him!"
"Okay!"
The guy with his confidence charges the golem with his bat, yet it doesn't work at all.
"What's with this guy?! No scratch at all?!"
He is shocked as the golem is about to wreck his body, yet Yumeno manages to protect him causing her to be heavily injured.
"Yume!!!"
Satou exclaimed.
The guy with a hat is trembling in horror before the golem who just hurt someone that he lets off his bat to the floor.
"What am I doing? What's weak? It's obvious that I am no match of it."
Seeing its opponent let his guard down, the golem is about to attack the guy again, but swiftly, Satou blocks its fist with the bat the guy just dropped.
"Oi! Can you… move?!"
Satou asked the guy and he just responds by nodding his head with a shocked look on his face.'
"Then… Just fuck off and take her to where WTM armies are! Got it?!"
"But, how about you?!"
Satou who is still holding the golem's fist gets upset.
"Just fuck off… Or I'll kill you!"
Satou exclaimed.
The guy just nods responding to Satou and he rushes bringing her body and getting away.
Satou has no more energy to hold any longer that he gets thudded that the bat breaks by the golem's fist.
"Damn, no weapon and a strong monster. Speaking of hopeless."
Satou gets up, and the golem is seen to be furious.
"I should have been furious, you bastard! Do you think, you, monsters are the strongest ones?! You think I am scared of you, huh?! As if! What I fear most is..."
He recalls Sanada's death.
"To fail to protect something. That's why I won't give up!"
If Satou has a hostile instinct that detects danger, regeneration, then...
"I want a power to protect something!"
He blocks its fist with both of his hands.
"Huoooo!!!!"
Satou becomes persistent, his body gets stronger out of the blue. Something looks strange when he is blocking it is the golem gets pushed behind as Satou keeps pushing and it thuds.
"What happened? Huh?"
He is wondering as he sees his right hand is enveloped in a pink light short blad.
"Is this my new power?"
The monster is right before him right now and it's about to attack again, but this time, he can't dodge it. He feels his heart beating so fast and he feels something different from him. He even didn't expect that he could match the golem's speed.
Satou starts attacking the hand, but it doesn't do a thing. Then he dodges its attack, as he finds the chance, he launches a counter-attack by kicking it, but it doesn't do a thing either.
'How about the chest? It's a vital part, right?'
Reconsidering it, Satou hits the chest and it screams in pain. He then back-dashes as it's about to charge.
'At this rate, I can tell its weakness. Now, the final blow!'
It's charging by launching its fist to Satou. He jumps to the hand and spins to its back to dodge another fist.
"Gotcha!!!"
Later, he jumps and launches his spinning kick to its chest. Then, he manages to defeat it.
"I did it, Sanada... Did you see that? I am getting stronger now..."
Saying that, Satou passes out.