Narration starts up by talking about how Ikebukuro in Toshima and Kabukicho in Shinjuku are the areas chosen for the big three's battlegrounds. Walls are built around these towns, isolating them from the surrounding areas. Random citizens start asking about the sudden evacuation order being put up as bug mobs appear to enforce it. They wonder if a fire broke out or if someone found an unexploded bomb somewhere, but the bugs push them to move, causing them to ask the bugs to not push.
The bug mobs are described as enforcers sent by the big three guilds through the judicial, legislative, and administrative branches. The citizens living in the above cities have been given a legal, compulsory evacuation order, and as soon as they are all out, battle breaks out within the walled areas. Ikebukuro is now a fierce war ground.
This is a battle of 10k versus 10k which eclipses previous battles from before. The soldiers sent to fight here know that this is only the opening act though. After all, this is where the people possessing powers that took them to the top of their worlds will be fighting, like battles of legend where they will compete with their wills. Teda is there and laughs about how great it is, saying that invading suits him. He then opens up by firing off his NP. Teda takes out an arrow, notches it, then shoots it. It goes off like a sun beam, and the light arrow starts melting the surrounding buildings like candy and vaporizing anything in the vicinity. In an instant, nothing is able to retain its previous state. Teda then challenges Koropokkur, Amaterasu, or anyone at all to come at him.
Shinya and Taromaiti turn out to be around, and Shinya comments that it's already started. He also talks about tremendous Teda's power is, one of the seven World Representatives in the Warmongers and the sun of Nirai Kanai. He on his own has the power to win against 10000 people, and narration compares what happened to the area to the heat of the sun manifesting there.
Shinya talks about how the other World Representatives possess powers appropriate for representing their worlds. It might be the power to cover the world in flames. It might be the power to cover it in a blizzard. Or it might be the power of the sun to shine and burn everything. In fact a number of Representatives have powers that relate to the sun, since if you put things in the world into a hierarchy the sun is the thing that stands above all others.
Taromaiti says she knows it well herself, and when she sees that light she starts remembering about the sun in Garothman. Narration questions how a normal person is supposed to win against a sun that illuminates the world, flames that cover the world, or a blizzard that covers the world. These are areas where human knowledge doesn't reach, the top of the System known as the world that towers over all else. If you come across any of these, all you can do is pray for it to pass as you have no means of overcoming it. Shinya looks over in silence for a moment before telling Taromaiti they should go and fulfill their goals.
Camera then jumps over to Kabukicho where the Warmongers bull is standing with a bunch of bug mobs. This is the battleground where the Warmongers have taken a 10000 man army to intercept the Invaders' attacks. Military Bull sees Temujin there and says he thought he'd be coming. Temujin shows up alone, unconcerned about the apparent odds against him as he smiles boldly against the other.
Temujin says it's been some time as he reveals the bull's name to be Marduk, the Warmongers' Calf of the Sun. He declares that today will be the day he shows him the difference between their bow skills as a fellow archer. Marduk expresses doubts that Temujin really came alone and asks where his troops are. Temujin laughs as he declines to tell him, suggesting he just use his sunlight to find out. Temujin then brags about defeating Dayan Khan (re: sun king) and dares him to jump into his wolf jaws. Marduk chooses to take him on, saying jumping into a trap and tearing out from it is how he rolls. He tells Temujin to see his reborn form, and he calls for Mushussu to come with him.
Scene then shifts to some bar the Outlaws are hiding in as Tetugyuu points out how bright the light is that's slipping through the blinds to Ibaraki. Ibaraki gets mad at the Warmongers and Invaders for messing up the neighborhood, and narration says the Outlaws ducked out of the evac order to hide in one of their buildings. Gyoubu points out that they'll just get burned if they try and go out now. He tells them to calm down since yakuza will get their fates sealed if they try to go up against the army or government.
Suzuka thanks Gyoubu but wonders if they're unable to protect the town. She sighs, wondering if karma is also in her destiny. She also expresses frustration that they were trying to break out of the old patterns this time around, only to follow previous paths again. Meanwhile, Tetsuya is grinding his teeth as he watches the App inform him about how the Outlaws' Portals are being taken away. Everyone is scowling at how the area is being trampled over. Gyoubu attempts to get everyone to relax and not make their blood pressures shoot up. If they can't do anything now, he suggests they just get some sleep and wait. Time can be your ally, as there is no such thing as a sun that doesn't set.
Scene then jumps over to the police station where Daikoku is with a bunch of mobs who are Shadows or brainwashed, including Tajikarao. This police station is not far from where Kabukicho is, and the station is described as a bastion that upholds the public order. However, Daikoku is there to throw oil into the fires instead of stopping the war. He talks about how the people who have territory in Shinjuku and Ikebukuro must be frustrated at having to watch it be snatched away.
Daikoku starts remembering things as he sends troops out. There was one a time in his home world where he had insufficient power to prevent his territory from being taken away. He was forced to kneel to the sun of Takamagahara, cede control of the land above ground, and was given the land where the dead sit, disgraced. He remembers the pools of blood streaming across the ground. He remembers the countless grudges and shadow memories he was burdened with. He swore in his heart to never feel such feelings again, to never surrender again. And so he amassed fortunes, power, and dyed his hands dirty in all things shady.
Daikoku talks to himself about needing to change his gloves to a clean white pair. He had been gripping his hands so hard that something black broke and dirtied his gloves, and he starts thinking again as he goes to change them. His presence there and his chance at ridding himself of his regrets is all due to Mahakala the Great Darkness. It is a System so huge and abyssal it'd be illegal, writhing within Tokyo as the city intertwines with the powers of the 23 other worlds. When it shows its true value, Tokyo will likely be plunged into an eternal darkness.
Daikoku laughs to himself about how that's okay, only to correct himself that it has to be that way. Both the sun and moon cannot win against time and must eventually set. But when the moon sets, the sun will eventually rise. Daikoku cannot stand for this. Nothing that reminds him of his disgusting past can be allowed to stand, he thinks. Daikoku swears aloud to offer everything to Mahakala's name. In one world's language, Mahakala means the One who Surpasses Time. Until that detestable sun never rises again, until it sinks beneath the underworld, Daikoku's dark grudges will never be cleared away.
Eventually, the first night comes and the battles end for the day. Tetsugyuu gets up yawning and notes that fights seem to be over. Ibaraki asks if that means even they have to follow the App's guild battle time rules. Tetsuya confirms that, though he notes that the lower ranking mobs out there still walked around like they own the place, and the camera quickly pans outside on the mobs out there.
Gyoubu notes the World Representatives seem to have pulled out too, then asks if everyone else got some rest during the day. The rest of the Outlaws present nod, and narration says it's a hard rule that App battles over Portal possession cannot take place at night. Due to that, guilds that are fighting over areas generally don't move at night.
Suzuka notes that their treasured girl is only helpful at night, which they can't really help. She then says that the Kabukicho Queen has finally woken up, and as a new girl's silhouette appears, Suzuka says she's normally never any help in guild disputes. But now that it's night time she asks her to step it up and help them out, calling her Ellie. Ellie reveals herself as she yawns and greets Suzuka, then everyone else before asking what time it is. The sleepy-eyed girl is the Outlaws guildmaster, generally known as the Kabukicho Queen. She's a native who's become the most famous monster of the dark, a nightwalker (re: vampire), and on that note, the episode ends.
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