Standing together, Mebius and Hikari were enveloped in light. To their surprise, their minds temporarily left the battlefield, and both returned to their human forms within a space filled with light.
"What's going on?" Mirai looked at his own body and at Serizawa beside him in confusion.
Before Serizawa could answer, a rough voice rang out behind them:
That voice made both Mirai and Serizawa freeze.
"Mirai..."
Mirai slowly turned around, and six figures gradually appeared before his eyes.
"Mirai!" The rough voice grew louder, brimming with deep emotion.
"It's... it's you..." In an instant, tears spilled from Mirai's eyes.
Ryu Aihara, Marina Kazama, George Ikaruga, Konomi Amagai, and Teppei Kurasaki stood behind him, smiling.
And Shingo Sakomizu stood tall behind them.
Golden light surrounded each of them, just as it once had.
Reuniting with his friends from GUYS was something Mirai had never even dreamed of in all those thousands of years.
"It really is you..."
Great drops of tears rolled down Mirai's cheeks.
"You idiot, why are you crying already?" Ryu was the first to step forward and pat Mirai's head.
"Mirai!" The others gathered around him too.
They had all missed Mirai as well.
Even with a thousand things to say, Mirai could not get a single word past the lump in his throat. All he could do was hug his friends tightly, expressing thousands of years of longing through that embrace.
"Captain Serizawa." Ryu turned to Serizawa with a smile.
"Ryu..." Even Serizawa found himself at a loss for words.
He, too, had deeply missed these human friends who had saved him and helped him truly become an "Ultra Warrior."
Captain Sakimori noticed Serizawa's confusion.
With a knowing smile, he pointed to the light radiating from his body and explained:
"What we are now is a