The man's armor slowly began to morph as it starts to become slimmer, then in an instant he would appear right in front of Shaniran and attempt to punch him in the gut, however three grenades would be right around him as it exploded on impact. The man leaps back and instantly kicks Shaniran in the gut, driving both him and the man to blast away from the pot heading to an incoming tree. They hit the tree, collapsing to the floor the armored man slowly begins to rise, but his eyes widen seeing multiple grenades on the floor as they denote as the armor man begins to fly upward from the blast, shaniran appears behind him and kicks his back causing the armor man to crash to the floor.
The armor man arose from his seat seething as he looks around to see Shaniran not there. Shaniran slowly walked back to where the pod was, checking in on Shoto, but he was nowhere to be found.
Shaniran sighs as he quickly rose up, but behind him the armor man, Sharing quickly turned around tossing another grenade at the man as it explodes on impact, the armor man guards himself quickly as Shaniran once again punches him, this time it was dead on his chin. The armor man stepped back a little and chuckled. "Are you going to stop messing around and give me the damn boy already? Stop being stupid for once Shaniran."
The boy didn't respond as another grenade was on the floor next to the knight. The armor man instantly jumped upward as he smiled widely "hahah-" behind him a devilish silhouette would approach him and as soon as he turned his head around Shoto would punch him square in the face as the knight instantly skyrocketed away from the forest and into a pond.
The knight slowly rose to his feet trying to get his bearings, but he couldn't, Shaniran slowly walked towards him, but the next thing that would happen to the knight was all a blur as he slowly dropped to his knees, unconscious. Shaniran sighs as he looks towards Shoto. The black scales on Shoto's face would slowly fade away as he began to stumble forward, breathing slowly from exhaustion. Shaniran picks up the knight and begins to walk towards Shoto. "That punch got him good, not knocked him out good, but good enough for me to do it myself." Shoto slowly looks at Shaniran before staring at the ground softly. "If you're gonna kill me, you might as well do it n-"
Shaniran interrupts him "Ahhh there's no point, besides that will ruin all the fun. And besides if we stay here we can complete our mission faster.." he'd look up at the sky noticing something has changed, he would detonate a grenade as a shiny wing would appear on his back. Shaniran turned his back to look at Shoto softly smiling towards him. "Ayato really wants you to be sacrificed to the gate. However, that's not what I'm looking for. We will meet again!" He would fly away out of the forest. Shoto would look on as he slowly walked in another direction.
Meanwhile Niazmish and Slyth was still on the rooftop, staring at the sky Slyth scoff as he tips his head downwards. "Pfft what a joke, imma go back to Zan-Xi and the others n-" Niazmish looked dead straight at Azul interrupted him "Something is not right." Azul would stare at the two of them, but with murder intent. "The war has just begun.." she said softly. Slyth looked at Azul nervously then right back at Niazmish with a derpy face, "what the hell is she talking about.." Niazmish glared at Slyth before slowly walking up to Azul slowly.
"You've been acting strange ever since we followed you up here, you care to explain what's going o-" Azul would softly smile at Niazmish, her gaze glows at him as Niazmish would stare at her confused.
"Oh Niazmish, you're still so naive and still dumb as ever." Sparks would fly between them as Sylph slowly pulls out a black whip as he grabs the Egyptian slowly pulling him back but a grenade was right in front of him, detonating instantly as the roof of the building explodes immensely.
Azul leaps back unscathed as she turns back into a white cat and is grabbed by Shaniran. "What took you so long empress? Thought you was getting your affairs in order?"
Azul would stare as the building which is now erupted in smoke. "It is, for now." They would fly away as the smoke clears off Sylph would return back into a lizard as Niazmish would turn back into a cat, Neko.
Neko began to cough slowly as he crawls out of the rubble "what the hell.."
Sylph became enraged "Okay what the hell is going on?! And what was with the fucking gernade!" Neko looked back at the lizard before looking around slowly.
"I don't know.. tch I need to find Shoto, come on, let's go."
Neko began to walk out as the lizard would quickly squirm behind him. "Wait up!!"