"Ah! Honoka!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. How pitiful." Yazawa Nico looked with some sympathy at Honoka Kosaka, whose background color had turned gray-white.
"Honoka-chan is so pitiful..."
"And Kotori-chan kind of feels a little dark inside, meow."
Off to the side, the Hanamaru-Rin combo whispered secretly to each other.
"You girls..." Eli Ayase shook her head, not sure whether to laugh or cry.
"Is her naturally dark side starting to show?" Senba Gari looked at the somewhat innocent-looking Minami Kotori from the side with lingering fear. In the past, he had suffered plenty because of the black-heartedness hidden beneath that airheaded exterior.
"Hahaha! I didn't expect your friends to be so interesting, Little Tojo."
Just then, a loud laugh suddenly came from inside the house. Immediately afterward, an elderly man with a head of white hair and a stooped back walked out. His wrinkled face wore a kindly smile, while his eyes, like candle flames, looked especially bright and piercing.
"I have finally waited for your arrival, chosen ones of Divine and Spirit."
The old man's words left everyone present stunned.
"Who are you?"
Torch Dragon the Prophet! Origin (Part One)
"Who are you?"
After the old man suddenly revealed the identities of Senba Gari and Takai Geki, everyone present stared at him in astonishment. Nozomi Tojo, in particular, widened her eyes, her uneasy gaze darting between Senba Gari and the old man.
Among them, Senba Gari and Takai Geki had already subconsciously stepped in front of the girls, the Beast Soul Drivers at their waists and on their arms ready to activate.
But in the next second, a strange stiffness spread through their entire bodies, as if some mysterious power had frozen the two of them in place.
"Wh-what's going on?!"
"My body... won't move..."
Then the old man suddenly