[Hayato thinks to the last thing he remembers. He was in Kyoto fighting the revived Black Shogun who, in his truest form, was a grotesque giant leech creature, sucking out the blood of hundreds of people who’d been put under a brainwashing spell. He remembers being strung up into the air, wrapped in a dozen leech tendrils as his blood got drained while his best friend fought wildly against an entire hoard of monsters, trying to protect a bunch of hypnotized people begging to have the blood sucked.]
[Hayato, for everyone’s sake, opts to simply nod rather than explain.]
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[Hayato, for everyone’s sake, opts to simply nod rather than explain.]