Rainy Day

While the battle for power was going on in the Abyss, Ami woke up on the roof of the Sarcophagus.

"W-what happened?"

She sat up, clutching her head, and then remembered.

"Yomi!!!"

She placed her hand on the 'glass' surface and ran it.

"You sacrificed yourself for me again… But I can still feel you… in your new prison."

"Ami! Are you awake?"

Fumiko's voice was heard in the earpiece Kamiko had left just in case.

"Yes, how is the situation?"

"The Sun Guardians are helping the Self-Defense Forces evacuate civilians. We’ve captured the Mukibutsu headquarters. However, they’re preparing something terrible at a secret base near Fujiyama, from where a giant column of smoke is coming out! But we do not have enough time and strength to prevent it. Now I am using satellite communications to ‘fight’ the SAI before it reaches the US nuclear arsenal!"

"Fumiko… you’ve matured so much! What about Mikhail's expansion?"

"…we can't handle it yet. But he's busy fighting the deadly MORS virus that's taken over China and the surrounding countries, so there's still time. It's not in his interests to use nuclear weapons, since his goal is to control organic life."

"I hate to interrupt, but we’ve a big problem here, Mellow!" Kamiko intervened. "Something huge is falling from the sky!"

"W-what!? It can't be, it's…" The connection was cut off.

"Kamiko! Fumiko! What happened!?" Ami screamed anxiously into the microphone. "Damn it, what happened there?"

A giant Oni demon fell straight onto the Mukibutsu headquarters, destroying it right down to the underground rooms where the servers were hidden. Fumiko used them to fight SAI remotely. Holding off the Mukibutsu fighters from the outside, Kamiko followed the demons, leaving the Self-Defense Forces behind.

"I-It's Oni!" She recognized him and then assumed the worst. "N-No way. The guys lost to him!? N-No, Itsuki!"

Kamiko headed straight for the Oni's back in a furious attack, but suddenly the demon opened, transforming, and the remaining Mukibutsu fighters from the battle crawled out, along with the rest of them.

"Huh? Where am I? What's going on!? What year is it!?" Amidst the noise of the battle, a man with a stitch on his neck screamed, holding his head with his rosary in confusion.

Omosa silently attacked the Sun Guardians, sweeping them away as he made his way to the server room. Kamiko's path was blocked by Jutsu.

"I-Itsuki!? You're alive!"

Kamiko was overjoyed but was horrified when he attacked.

"What are you doing, hey! Jutsu! Itsuki!"

"Soda, can you hear me!? What was that explosion?" Fumiko restored the local connection. "Like a meteorite fell!"

"It's the Oni demon from the mountain in Izumo, and along with it… our guys. It seems their minds were captured."

"Damn it! Izanami probably took advantage of our weakened forces in Izumo…"

"What should we do!?"

Kamiko continued to hold back Itsuki's onslaught, whose devices were strengthened by Izanami.

"Ah-ah-ah!" Kamiko howled in pain from the electric discharge. "Itsuki… not you…"

Feeling hopeless, Kamiko recalled the first days after escaping from Mukibutsu. As a girl who had experienced such a thing, she rejected the prosthetics she’d received, not wanting to accept them from her brother's tormentors.

However, Kamiko met Itsuki at the Sun Guardians training center, who loved various devices, "playing" with them. They became friends, helping each other get through difficult times. Itsuki helped Kamiko realize that prosthetics are just tools, like weapons, their use depends on the owner. Then the girl decided to learn to masterfully use them in order to someday take revenge on Mukibutsu.

Unexpectedly, a newly infected Ningen came to Itsuki's aid, attacking Kamiko.

"You again!"

She blocked the blow, and then suddenly noticed the Oni who had started moving.

"Where are you going, hey!?"

The demon rushed with acceleration to the server room's security door, ramming it, but not breaking through the first time.

"Mellow! Damn it, I guess I’ve no choice."

She closed her eyes, exhaled, and concentrated on her body. Previously, Kamiko had only used the power of the evovirus to strengthen her cybernetic legs, otherwise her own strength was enough. But not now.

Strengthening her torso muscles, as well as further transforming her cybernetic limbs, Kamiko pushed Ningen and Itsuki away with a powerful blow, heading towards Oni. But on her way, she was met by Omosa's attacking "rhinoceros".

Soda deftly jumped over him, but suddenly a familiar device appeared from her side, launching a steel net. Omosa additionally grabbed her with his ropes from his backpack, and Itsuki and Ningen rushed to help, while Oni rammed the door.

"Soda, she won't hold out soon! I need more time to finish off SAI!"

"D-damn you, Izanami!" Kamiko tried to break free.

"I could easily kill them, but… they’re my comrades, my friends and… I’m back in a corner like that." Kamiko was tormented by doubts on the verge of death and then found a loophole. "It should work, although this isn’t how I imagined the first time!"

Kamiko expanded her jacket, turning it into a large, inflated bubble, and she slipped out of it, bounced off the wall and jumped on Ningen, throwing him far away with a kick. And then she grabbed Itsuki and pulled him towards her.

"S-soda, what are you planning!?" Fumiko noticed on the camera from her sister's glasses. "This could be dangerous!"

But her sister ignored her warning and leaned towards Itsuki's lips, kissing him and transferring her modified genes of the evovirus. Kamiko felt a powerful pounding in her heart and dizziness, but not only from the long-awaited kiss, but from Izanami suddenly invading her consciousness.

"Harae!" Kamiko said decisively. "Cleanse yourself!"

Kamiko, trained in Shinto by the monks of the Sun Guardians, was able to cope with the weak influence of Izanami with the help of norito, a strong prayer, and a strong spirit with will.

"J… Itsuki, can you hear me?" Soda hovered anxiously over his body until he opened his eyes.

"J-just now you…"

"I-it doesn't matter!" Kamiko was embarrassed. "We’ve a lot of work!"

There was a deafening screech and the fall of a huge protective door. Itsuki and Kamiko quickly neutralized Ningen and Omosa; for some reason, no one wanted to kiss him. Soda approached him, trying to overcome herself, when suddenly long dreadlocks-injectors appeared, flew out of the server room, and injected Omosa and Ningen.

"Done!" Fumiko solemnly proclaimed.

Ningen and Omosa came to their senses, and the Mukibutsu androids froze as Mellow finished protecting Mukibutsu and SAI. The guys were left alone with the terrifying Oni. Also, other cyborgs with a high level of augmentation, and androids throughout Japan were neutralized, which Ami noticed, watching the events in central Tokyo from the top of the Sarcophagus.

"Did they do it?"

Ami happily looked around the area with her special vision, noting how the situation was getting better. But a powerful rumble from below, knocking her off her feet, ruined the inspiring moment.

The girl looked down warily and saw large black hands made of smoke, holding back an unimaginable force rising from the Abyss. The sarcophagus began to move. Its ribs on the roof rose up and began to spin rapidly.

"Darling, stay away…" Yomi's voice gently asked, in which there was a strong sense of anxiety.

Ami used the spring mode of the okobo and jumped back to the neighboring surviving high-rise building, where she watched what was happening. The only weapon she’d left was the Kusanagi sword, and she wondered if it would be better to leave it in the sheath of the umbrella so that Yomi would have more options.

The ribs of the umbrella accelerated, creating a powerful air flow, forming a tornado and sucking clouds into it. An earthquake began from the centrifugal force of the sarcophagus, created by the vibration. Ami noticed a tsunami in Tokyo Bay. Her heart began to beat anxiously, transmitting her worries to her head with a thud.

Ami closed her eyes and felt that under the influence of the "evolutionary" waves from the Abyss, she’d changed and could sense the magatama, from which the okobo and elements of the yukata were made, differently. The magatama resonated with the magma under the lithospheric plates, which shifted and created new faults.

Fujiyama itself was ready to awaken at any moment. The girl's mental abilities also transformed, and she was able to penetrate the collective consciousness of the inhabitants of Tokyo. Their panic, anxiety and hope penetrated deep into her. Ami abruptly opened her eyes with a firm intention to fulfill her role.

Ami soared into the air, using the electromagnetic properties of the magatama, and headed high into the sky above the Sarcophagus.

"Residents of Tokyo… Japan!"
She addressed the people with authority through the collective consciousness.
"I am Tsukiyami Ami, the incarnation of Amaterasu Oomikami. I am here to help you on your rainy day.
Now it has arrived!"