Chapter 13 Episode 7: Opening Fire in the Storm 1 (Abridged)

Everyone thinks they know themselves best. They think they know everything there is to know in a closed off world. Do you remember how you spent your days in the past? Do you remember what kind of person you were?
There are many labels, and people have the sense they were given one before they had a dream about who they wanted to be. They had labels because they were slightly better than average at something, they didn't need to be perfect at it. They got labels whether or not they wanted it, and many people thought that was everything to their world.
One day, people hear things are coming to an end. People are thrown out of their ruts and think as they look back: what was I thinking? It doesn't take long for a memory to become part of the past. But what if those days never end? What future lies down that path?

Present
Weather Report: A giant storm is approaching fast! Incoming from the south and spreading to the east and west! Please head to your nearest shelter!
Masanori: Viva la revolución!
Somewhere in Tokyo
Randos: Oh my god this rain is weird!
Kabukicho
Policeman: Don't get wet! Head to shelter and--whomst
Camoflaugers appear!
Randos: OH NO THE ROOF COLLAPSED
Invaders mobs are pulling organized sabotage of roofs across Tokyo! Randos scream in fear upon being hit by the rain, but the tone changes over time. It's like their minds are being absorbed into something and feeling relief at finally finding home in terms of oddly specific comparisons.

Weird Elsewhere
It's warm and nostalgic, with a sense of homesickness. It feels like anything you've lost is here. It feels like home, like you can stop here and have a happily ever after.
???: Shirou! Shirou!
Who's calling?
Shirou: ...uungh?
So close. If he let go, he'd be together with that sense of nostalgia...
Kengo: WAKE THE FUCK UP SHIROU (slap)
Shirou: ...??? What? K-Kengo?
Kengo: Don't give me that! Where the hell are we, and is MC okay!?
Shirou: Oh! MC! Right, we got hit by some weird rain and...
Shirou looks around. There looks to be an abyss that goes on forever sucking things in like a black hole. The void, it CaLlS. And Shirou can't explain why it feels so tempting.
Kengo: seriously what the hell man. Figure anything out yet, nerdlin--OOF
Shirou: Oh good, that feels familiar. I remember now.
Kengo: OH MY GOD Shirou, you can't just hit people with the corner of your book!
Shirou: Shut up, you hit ME first! Anyways...how are we underwater but not drowning? Feels like if I let my guard down, my mind will melt into the water...but we have to get out of here. Any ideas Kengo? ...Kengo?
Kengo: Who's there!?

Isaac: ...wow, you could pick me out? Your Wild Animal Instinct skill must be amazing.
Shirou: ...a boy?
Kengo: Spill your guts before I make you spill them for real!
Isaac: Oh wow, you're treating me as an equal? Awesome, thanks.
Shirou: ...will you tell us what you know about this place? No wait actually, are you the reason we're here?
Kengo: !!
Isaac: Not really. You guys came to me.
Shirou: what
Isaac: Your minds came into contact with my existence. Everything you've lost is down here, which is why it feels so familiar to you. It's the Promised Land of Consciousness and Knowledge. A mind hive, I guess?
Shirou: Who are you...?
Isaac: Me? Well...they used to call me Isaac. I'm the Invaders guildmaster.

Hikarigaoka
Mobs: Halt! AttenTION!
Yoritomo: Hear me, soldiers. This rain is abnormal, a Mental Corruption attack by the Invaders. Touch it, and you will be taken elsewhere. But we still have Marduk and Teda, and as sun gods they can push back against the rain. We can't just defend the whole time though, so we need to send scouts. Nezha, you lead.
Nezha: Ooh, ooh! Is it time for me to do something?
Yoritomo: Yes, you can use your power to shield yourself and the group from rain and head to enemy territory.
Nezha: Okay, vroom vroom!
Yoritomo: Begin the operation. Fortune find you in battle.
Mobs: SIR YES SIR
Yoritomo: ...hmm. This reminds me of that one disastrous time.
There was this one loop where everything changed forever. Everyone thought they were innocent up until then, and they believed there'd be an end to the fighting. They thought someone would win the trophy.
Yoritomo: ...but Tokyo's game was set up to be endless since then. I was promised a political stalemate by the time I was summoned here.
The 23 other worlds have been gathered into the three big guilds and set up so that no majority will form. No complete ending will be reached, and the last majority is made to be forever prolonged...

Aoyama Cemetery
Israfil: Ye lost lambs wandering a wasteland for eternity. How saaaad. Which is why Tokyo's history must end. So many sins piling up as people can go nowhere. Oh, how I cannot stand to see such suffering. But therein lies the Lord's mercy. Hahaha, oh how SAAAD!
Jacob: Is that your goal? Allow me to respond. (punch!)
Jacob: I say to you: NO! Our guildmaster Maria says the greatest love is letting people choose their own paths and walking them. If the world has an ending, everyone should get there their own way, and I will punch out even God if he stands in the way of that.
Israfil: Oh, how NOBLE! But Jacob, do you understand what it is you've said!?

Elsewhere
Randos: Oh no, people with guns that way!
Camoflaugers approach!
???: Stop. Shinya wishes not for Tokyo's people to come to harm. If you persist...
Kalki: Then face me! Vishnu's Tenth Avatar! (stab!)
Kalki: ...stop standing there, citizens! Run!
Taromaiti: I'll never let anyone harm my paradise! Azi Dahaka Smash!
Randos: Oh my god, is that Phantom Thief Asterism, that mystery trio that protects the weak?
Temujin: HA! Shinya, the weak adore you. Fine scam you're pulling!
Shinya: ...Cupid, shoot his arrow down!
Temujin: You always were like that ever since I first met you that loop, weren't you? You were chosen to be Zeus's stand-in and given great power, so now the people can't help but love you. But how long do you plan to pretend to be their ally? You are WASTING your power. Do you know what you want to do? You could just act like a World Representative already!

Shinya: ...I didn't want this power. Or this role.
Temujin: Heh, yes. What you're doing is spiting the power that destroyed your family.
Shinya: ...Temujin--
Temujin: Everyone fights over you, and you could just play the proud king. But you keep playing at a humble life...and you lost your home. Former Invaders and ally, all you are doing trying to help people is struggling to retrieve what you lost. You know it is all in vain since it will never come back.
Shinya: YOU SHUT UP
Temujin: Hahah--(barfs blood)--urgh!
Shinya: Cupid, shoot his heart now!
Temujin: !!
???: HA!
Shinya: ...!
Perun: Haha, you slipped up because you keep playing around Temujin.
Temujin: ...Perun.
Perun: The Warmongers are moving, so playtime with the ignorant is over. Let us clean up like so much wheat to grind.
Kalki and Taromaiti step in!
Kalki and Taromaiti: Shinya!
Perun: Oh, a 3v3 is it? We've got no time for this. The revolution that will end it all is at hand!
End of Episode