--Perspective Shift-
Bang!
"What did you say?! Kisaragi, are you really sure those Great Shocker guys have allied with them?!"
Shinnosuke Tomari slapped both hands down on the table, then stood up and looked at Gentaro Kisaragi in front of him.
"Whoa! Don't look at me like that! I only just heard it from Kengo too!" Gentaro Kisaragi seemed startled by Shinnosuke Tomari's reaction. Suddenly, the phone on Shinnosuke Tomari's desk rang, and when he looked at the caller ID on the screen...
"Who's calling? Don't tell me it's your wife?" Gentaro Kisaragi looked at Shinnosuke Tomari with a somewhat teasing expression.
"Get lost! It's Haruto."
"Haruto! He's awake?!" Gentaro Kisaragi said, sounding a little excited.
"Yeah, he woke up a few days ago. He just went out to buy doughnuts right before you came, though. But why is he calling me? Did he get lost?" As he spoke, Shinnosuke Tomari answered the phone.
"Hello, Haruto? Why are you calling me? You didn't get lost, did you?"
"I'd be glad if that were the case. At least then I could finish my doughnuts. Anyway, no time for that. I ran into the kid you told us about before, but it looks like he fell into Great Shocker's trap." At the same time, Haruto Soma glanced at Senba Gari and Silver Phantom lying on the ground. However, the injuries on Senba Gari's body had somehow vanished. If not for the dried blood still on his clothes, there probably would have been no way to tell anything had happened. As for Silver Phantom...
Beep beep. Damage to unit detected. Initiating automatic repair program. Estimated time: ten minutes.
Then the parts on Silver Phantom's body actually began moving on their own.
Back at Shinnosuke Tomari's side, he said with some concern,