Quiet Night; Home, Sweet Home

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It was late. Though many hours passed, it was still dark and the night, still young. As tired as he was, it was only a bit of a ways away to his home in the center of the Bamboo Jungle, of which was in his sights. "At last..." he muttered under his breath, propping up his carry-on more securely, "... We may be at rest, young one." Walking up to the porch, hand crafted of bamboo stalks securely fastened together, he would enter his humble home and take in the air of old with all such nostalgia filling his head and his heart. "Home, sweet home..."

As he stepped further inside, he realized that everything was mostly the same, down to the very Tatami Mats that were lain about and sliding paper doors that made up his traditional Japanese-style house.  He immediately brought the tired girl to Meo's old room, where there was still a palette lain out on the ground and pillow for her head, where she could finally rest easy. "Mmm..." he groaned with content, "... I suppose, it is my turn, now." The girl would be safe as long as he was here.

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"Perhaps," he began, gazing down fondly into his teacup, "... A special sort of partner made only for you." He chuckled tiredly as he finished his tea, placing the cup on the tray next to the kettle. He only felt like one cup for tonight; he was rather bushed. He rose slowly, looking at the girl with a warm smile on his face, saying to her, "I suppose it is something that will have to be figured out when you get there in the morning, hm...?" He lowered his head, as if trying to keep it awake, drowsily heading off to the doorway. "Forgive me for not keeping you company. I'm rather worn from the travel. If you wish to remain up, you may, but I must retire for the night." He opened the sliding door and walked into the next room, saying kindly to her before he shut the door, "Goodnight."

As the older man disappeared into the other room so he could rest for the night, Tama's father appeared before her again, knelt with a hand to the top of her head to stroke it gently. "Sorry about this, Tama, I know you, more than anyone, would have really liked it here." He allowed his hand to glow as he rolled his hand from the top of her head down to her cheek. He was smiling beneath his helmet, and he was sure she would be able to feel that.

"It's okay though, we'll find another place for you to play with your little brother." Working his ancient chakra techniques, Aeragon began to revert Tama back to her natural age and disappeared with her.

The man's eyes suddenly opened wide once he heard the voice of that old demon that once haunted him in the past. "... Waruze!?" He hopped up, trying to figure out where the girl went and why he was back. "How did you get here?! You've been slain, demon! Don't tell me you've come to claim another daughter that doesn't even belong to me?!" Somehow, the Yojimbo felt as he did in his youth... Not as the Yojimbo, but as Maruze Meikyuu. He didn't feel as tired as he once was at all, yet he couldn't figure out why.

*Note: These two topics cover how he got here, how he became the Yojimbo and how he went back into the past and got reborn anew twice at the exact same moment in time, and sent himself into the past to go make sure it all happened this way. Just for personal clarification

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When Maruze woke up, it would be with memories of a man named 'Shinra Tensei' within his head, and everything that he would have experienced after taking on Waruze and slaying him would be a flack back of the past and vision of the future at the same time. He would be named a Tensei in his dream through an Anomaly, and, in that, through the Phantom, he would be altered to harbor Tensei blood through receiving that of Khrona's father. Thus, in the unanimous acceptance of the name 'Tantra,'  Shinrona and Shintsuki could return to the Veritas along with the newest Tensei, who harbored the memories of the man he once was, the one he became and the new one that he is presently, his Living Shadow already awaiting him to wake up from his dream.

Shinrona stood at the edge of Tantra Tensei's dream of the past, and after the Past had passed in his head, Shinrona would be there to make his Dream into Reality with his arrival from out of his head.

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Through Shinrona, of whom needed to make the 'Phantasmagoria' into 'Absolution' and sustain it in Reality as a bound and stabilized reality in place of the anomaly, the Maruze would awaken after the Veritas had been removed from Vescrutia's influence and was at the cusp of its regeneration. Here is where they could monitor and manage the 'Dream' and the 'Data' from within the 'Veritas.'

When he woke up from his nightmare, he would be set in his place in the Tensei family as Khrona's Father; more specifically, Shinrona's Father, Shinra Tensei, now as Tantra Tensei.

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It seemed as though he'd been asleep for months. First, the Ambiguous Chaos where he fought his darkness. Then, his Daughter being separated from him just as his Son. Then, his taking shelter in a strange old Manor of sorts along the way. He wasn't sure what happened after he woke up, but he was no longer where he once was.

"... Where... Am I...?" Maruze said, opening his eyes weakly, "... I feel... Different, somehow... I just remember, for some reason, seeking shelter in a Manor and..."

He was unsure if he was still inside of it or not; in fact, he didn't know where he was at all. Perhaps that 'Ambiguous Chaos' he walked through in the Reversal Plains had more life-changing effects than he realized before.

After all of the events that transpired, all of which seemed to be the dreamy remnants of the End of the Dusk he endured before the move from Vescrutia, flashed in his head as if they'd been there since only moments ago. He awoke in a fright that morning, on the outside back porch, where he remembered it all happened so long ago... "..." The memories still felt fresh... Something one could never forget. "... I must have... fallen asleep outside on accident... I was so tired last night..." He rubbed his eyes, trying to come to a discernment between the present and the past. It seemed difficult when he first was awake, due to how vivid the dream was, and how much time it seemed elapsed inside of it... It had been quite a while since he saved that girl. He only wondered what happened to his honorary son... after taking his honorary niece away. Even to this day, perhaps, what nearly felt like centuries later, he worried about Koudo Tamura; the son he took up whilst his memory was lost. "Mmm. I hope he would recognize me in my rightful place, as Shinrona's father..." He, himself, could barely believe it sometimes, considering how his son found a way to save he and the entire family. "Mmm... Yes. You've done me proud, my boy..." He figured, he would simply bask in the peace of his humble home's beautiful Bamboo back yard. The serenity was to die for. "Both... My boys..." he muttered, falling back into slumber; hopefully more restful this time around.

The Shadow of a Man rested peacefully in the shadow of Tantra; an eternal memory of his past and time without memory. In that time, the Yojimbo would speak to his own son, the Phantom, in the midst of the temporal distortions and bid him farewell. "Well Done, My Son..." He was not expecting him to have unlocked such a great many Tensei Secrets and freed so many members of the family so easily. That was a feat that even Shinra couldn't accomplish... He barely found the way to save himself, and that was only through his son, here, who came back and made sure to do so. "Thank You..." As was customary for the Phantoms, the Dividing Enigma would don his crow-like Tengu mask before the Phantom and bow deeply to him, no longer as 'The Yojimbo,' but now as 'Allsgrim.' "I Love You..." He had to make sure that it was said.

"I will protect the Castle as its Guardian Spirit. When my duties are done, I will return to the Zero World. That is where the Devourists live, after all... And I do believe my kingdom needs its king." His memory had been shot for so long, simply because he wasn't connected to his own consciousness. He only hoped that his Devourist Children hadn't all destroyed themselves and all their resources... "I will be back to visit whenever my Vessel calls for me. But you may always reach me back at home, Khrona." He pat his son on his head as a form of endearment, "You've become much stronger since our last battle. Certainly living up to your potential; far beyond what even my eyes had originally anticipated." The memories of Shinra were present in Allsgrim, for, as Tantra's 'Living Shadow,' he harbored both they and the memories of his time in his lapse in memory. "Go on. I know we all have work to do. Businessmen, after all." He chuckled, letting the Phantom take his leave and assuring Shinrona and Shintsuki that all had been resolved with a serene calmness that washed over the atmosphere; as if things were brand new. With that, he would sink into the shadows and exit to the Trinity Plane, watching over the Manor from the shadows...