A dark alley, tall buildings on both sides.
Sai and Geto walk with steady steps.
Geto says: "Yamato Zeno, why would he appear in a place like this?"
Sai replies: "I don't think it's Yamato. Haven't you noticed yet? I know Yamato's aura all too well."
Then they reach a dead end, but they see light eating away at the wall.
They get closer, and with every step their breathing grows heavier.
Until Sai puts his foot in a strange liquid. He lowers his head to see what happened, and his heartbeat stops for a moment—
As he sees a little girl lying in her own blood, his foot right in front of her face.
Before he can process it, he hears Geto's whispering voice filled with shock and fear, saying:
"Sai… look here."
Sai raises his head to see more than 20 corpses also lying in pools of blood in the same way.
Somewhere else, on top of a building, Yamato and Thorn are moving.
Thorn—a man with long black hair tied in a ponytail, blue eyes, and blue clothing—is one of the people from the Black Mark Organization, which Yamato has recently joined. While they move, Yamato says: "Someone with the Light Mark… is he strong?"
Thorn ignores him and says: "Give me a cigarette."
Yamato hands him a cigarette. He smokes it, then stops and says: "I don't care how strong he is… I'll kill him no matter what his technique is."
A man with hair split into half white and half black, one yellow eye and one black eye, and long fangs, sits in the middle of the blood and corpses.
He looks at Geto and Sai and says: "I know you… but I forgot where I saw you."
Geto speaks to himself: "Another vampire… how many of them are there now? What are their goals?"
The man stands and says: "What do you want?"
But suddenly, Sai is already in front of him, throwing a punch—
Only to realize he punched the wall instead of the man.
He turns to see Geto has vanished as well. Sai starts running quickly to find them.
But he realizes he's fallen to the ground. He doesn't understand what's happening, strange voices filling his ears as he tries to grasp the situation.
He finds himself falling into a dark place, then hears the vampire's whispers:
"What do you think of my technique??"
Sai understands—he's trapped in an illusion technique. But his curiosity grows when he hears in his mind: "A vampire with illusion technique… could it be—"
Then he hears Geto's screams, pulling him out of the illusion.
Geto says: "Snap out of it, it's just an illusion!"
Sai replies: "He also has a golden mark."
The vampire speaks: "Sai?? I've heard that name before. My name is… Igo Nowaka."
Elsewhere, Yamato and Thorn move, but on top of another building, they find a man sitting and looking down, holding a katana.
He raises his head—Ryo is standing right in front of Yamato and Thorn—and says:
"So… you've teamed up with them. Tell me, do you know me?"
Thorn speaks: "Leader of the Shinda… Kyoto Ryo."
Ryo stands, smiling. Then Yamato dashes toward him, throwing a punch. Ryo blocks the punch and counters with a kick that sends Yamato flying back.
Thorn appears from behind, holding a knife, and strikes—
But Ryo dodges skillfully and delivers a counterpunch to the stomach.
Thorn holds himself together and delivers a slash, wounding Ryo on the shoulder.
Yamato follows up with the "Holy Flame" strike, but Ryo dodges it.
Ryo draws his sword. Yamato runs toward him, but at the moment he reaches him, he begins floating—losing gravity and control over his body.
Ryo simply drives his sword into Yamato's neck and kicks him off the building. At that moment, we see Thorn activating his technique:
"Complete Manipulation!"