Becoming enraged, Hyakuhei had done the one thing he’d never thought himself capable of. He had reached into the chest of his brother… ripping out the heart that had betrayed him. When Tadamichi vanished upon his death, the power Tadamichi had stolen from Kyoko manifested into an electric blue crystal. The crystal shattered into four spears of light that shot across the sky.
Knowing a guardian can never really die, Hyakuhei had been afraid he’d sent Tadamichi to the same place Kyoko had gone. In his anger and grief, he’d opened himself up to the demons that were lying in wait near the newly activated time portal. The least he could do was take in the demons that were trying to follow her to keep them from reaching her world.
As the demons entered him, his goodness was buried as evil fill
