Evil Red: Where are they!?
Evil Green: We protest the armed subjugation of our brothers with vandalism and threats of violence! We also protest against government workers who would hide people inside public facilities and we will do so with terrorism! We demand that you come aPoLoGiZe!
Evil Yellow: We demand to be heard! Let this random destruction be a lesson if you won't!
Simple bombs explode! Books fall underfoot and get trampled on! The evil ninjas are looking for MC and the party.
Library Worker: Nooo, please don't deface the books! We don't know who it is you're looking for!
Evil Green: No playing dumb! Space Racist Punch!
Library Worker: Oh no!
Evil Purple: You call yourselves government workers? WE are the ones doing the real work saving the country and being REAL patriots!
Evil Blue: Take no prisoners!
Evil Green: The beatings will continue until we hear what we want to hear! (click)
Another bomb goes off inside the building!
MC: OH NO!
Santetsu: AAAHH!!
Danzo: Damn punks! There's about 20 of them! I took down a group of them but the rest didn't care! They're totally looking for MC even if they haven't said any names, and they'll blow up everything until they get them!
Ryekie: This is horrendous!
Seiichirou: I'm sure what they're calling a protest is an attempt to provoke us into action. It seems their real goal is to lure MC out and capture them before they've made any new allies, but we can't give you to them.
Roiker: 20 enemies...? Well we can't beat them with them spread out.
Akashi: We can't just sit here and strategize! We gotta go out and do something now!
Santetsu: >:C
Huckle: Yes, but with them after MC we can't be careless. We need to figure out how to keep MC safe while defeating 20 enemies inside the library.
Exio: ...hey, where's Santetsu?
MC: Oh, he's gone...
Danzo: Look, he's over there!
Danzo points to the center of the library, and all the villains look.
Santetsu: (stands menacingly)
Evil Red: ...what? You a librarian here?
Evil Yellow: You gonna spill where they are?
Santetsu: ...do you know what year the book you're standing on was published?
Evil Red: ...huh? Who cares ab--
Santetsu: 250 years ago, in a time of peace before Monsters appeared on this planet. It's a historical record with lessons over the regrets of war. In fact all the books on that shelf is filled with history from that time, filled with wishes that people of the future won't have pointless fights. (glares)
Santetsu: Is it your way of doing things to literally trample on the thoughts of those past and create conflicts to fulfill your own wishes? You dare claim to do so for the sake of the country? What honor is there in your shameful actions?
Evil Yellow: What!? You dare insult us!?
Akashi: Holy shit, what is he doing!?
Roiker: Welp, that was bound to happen when all these books got damaged.
Seiichirou: Yes, Santetsu cares about books as much as he does his own life.
Ryekie: Hey look, they're starting to gather together! It could be our chance, but we can't leave Santetsu to get ganged up on over there!
Seiichirou's phone rings. It's Santetsu on the line.
Santetsu: I'm sorry. I'll take you're scolding later. So...could I ask you to transform me?
Seiichirou: ...alright. The only way we can get out now is through all of them, so...kick their asses.
Santetsu: Yes Sir.
Santetsu's transformation activated!
Evil Red: Wait he's a HERO!?
MC: That's Santetsu's hero form!? / His weapon is...a book? / He seems so much cooler now!
Santetsu: I will destroy anyone who defaces the books written by our ancestors. It's embarrassing to say so...but they call me the Library Guardian. Are you ready to face your punishment?
Akashi: Wait, he can't go 1v20! MC, I'm going out there too!
Huckle: Akashi! ...well we should get out too since it's come to this. Danzo, can you watch MC again like last time?
Danzo: Yep! Good luck out there!
Huckle: Thank you. Let's go, Ryekie!
Ryekie: Right! Full power!
Roiker: ...okay. Let's leave the front lines to them while I take care of any stragglers around inside.
Roiker looks to Seiichirou. Seiichirou nods and holds his hand up to transform Roiker. Hero Roiker has a telescope rifle and a floating armillary sphere to projects a map when he holds a hand up to it.
MC: Whoa! / Cool! / Oh my god so cute
(BC) Roiker: ...please stop. Getting complimented about my appearance feels weird...
Roiker compares the armillary sphere map and his phone and nods.
Roiker: So there ARE stragglers further in. But I can take them alone. Seiichirou, can you back me up? I'd like to ask Exio and MC if they can handle it to operate the battle over here. I know we're outnumbered, but I won't force the issue...
MC: I'll do it!
Roiker: Thank you. Beginning the operation.
Exio: We have five heroes and three Operators versus 20 scattered villains...this might be pushing it a little.
Exio sighs and holds his hand up to the party to transform them. The party readies to fight and goes to support Santetsu.
Evil Red: Fine, we'll bury all of you for justice!
Akashi: To hell with your justice and your blowing up the library!
Santetsu: What he said. Let's go!
BATTLE START (more happens later)
Evil Red: Eat it, punk!
Akashi: Stop using fire in here, dammit! Baseball Smash!
Evil Red: Ugh! (flop)
Evil Yellow: Zap the Justice! You are a part of the heroes who represent this country, so--
Ryekie: Are you really asking why I'm standing against you? I don't really know what you guys are plotting, but you don't hurt your country's citizens if you're doing things for your country! My justice leans on the side that punishes you all for using brute force on others! Justice Punnnnch!
Evil Yellow: AAAAHH!!
Evil Purple: Damn you, Zap the Justice!
Huckle: Hi, I'm here too.
Evil Purple: Whom--GAAH!
Huckle: Ryekie does the big sweeping moves, so it's my job to support him and deal with the smaller details.
Evil Green: H-how dare you look down on us!
One of the villains picks up a book and throws it at Santetsu. Santetsu catches it and looks at the cover.
Santetsu: Do you know what's written in this book?
Evil Green: What!? What are--
Santetsu: So that would be a no then. Allow me to tell you.
Santetsu closes his eyes and holds his hand up to the book. The book glows as letters of light float out of it.
Santetsu: This is a record of things from 1970, specifically of events caused by radicals and of their imprisonment. Sounds like you. Do you know how they were arrested? The criminals had barricaded themselves a building but lost morale and split apart when the police brought something out. Would you like to see how it felt?
The light words zoom over to the villains, enlarge, then...
Evil Green: Hey, it turned into an iron ball!
The ball starts spinning in circles, which then...
Evil Green: Ahhh!
Evil Blue: WHAT WAARGH
The chain on the ball catches the others around and slams them into the wall, knocking them out of their transformations.
MC: Whoa...
Santetsu: ...I can't use what hasn't been written down into books, and I have to close my eyes to focus.
Santetsu lowers his hand, which causes the book to stop glowing. That in turn causes the ball and chain to crystalize into light and disappear.
Evil Red: Urgh! Wait, the others! What are they--I can't reach them! Did those shits run away!?
Roiker: If you mean those stragglers I got them already. So, you want to keep going?
Evil Red: How dare you twerps--a call! Hey, where the hell are you!? Stop standing there and watching and start--what? HQ!? But...okay, fine. RETREAT!
The mobs stagger to their feet and scatter in different directions.
MC: Oh no, we gotta catch them!
Akashi: Yeah! Get back here, losers! You don't get to just run after all that--
Akashi chases after the closest mob when Mystery Man steps in to impede him.
Akashi: Wha? Who are--OOF!
Akashi gets sent flying.
Ryekie: Akashi! Who is that!?
Mystery Man turns around to leave, but MC gets a glimpse of his face.
MC: !? Akashi!
Huckle: ...what did you say, MC?
Mystery Man: (stops)
Akashi: ...what? MC...what does that mean!?
Mystery Man glares at MC through his bangs, then jumps out a window.
Huckle: ...he got away. I wished we got at least one of them.
Seiichirou: If we did catch one of them, they'd keep quiet and get cut off from the group. Then the group will come silence him later.
Ryekie: MC...was that really Akashi just now?
MC: I don't know, but I was sure that...
Exio: ...well this wouldn't the first time that's happened. Remember?
Yeah, remember Crowne Alter?
Huckle: Crowne...? Well, it's not impossible... But can parallel world selves coming over happen that often?
Ryekie: W-wait, even if that was Akashi, why would he be with those villains!? I can't imagine Akashi ever turning against society like that!
Huckle: I don't know... I don't want to believe that either.
Roiker: ...I suppose we should assume he's started to move then. But I don't understand why he would pick Akashi of all people.
Akashi: He's another me...? No way...
That night in the hotel room Seiichirou had set up, MC stares at Umeda while thinking about what happened. In hindsight the way Mystery Man looked and presented himself differed a lot from Akashi, but for some reason they saw him as Akashi.
MC: Is he...really Akashi?
He looks like he went through terrible despair and anguish. If that really was Akashi...he must have had one hell of a life. It must've been so bad for him to look so different from the Akashi we know.
MC: ...no way. What happened...?
Elsewhere, in space
Broker: ...
The Broker stares at some shining sphere, then snickers to himself.
End of Episode
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