When evil threatens the world,
the warriors of hope will always appear.
Garbed in Cloths of the constellations,
they fight by exploding the energy within them:
their Cosmo.
They are the warriors who
protect the love and peace of the world...
The Saints!
Saint Koga's journey to find Athena continues.
At the thunder ruins, they encounter Aria and Eden.
Koga and Eden are fighting once more,
when a mysterious darkness appears from nowhere
and swallows them.
Young men, let the Cosmo in your hearts burn!
What is this?
What's going on?
What...
...is happening?
No!
Don't let the darkness suck you in!
Ryuho! Ryuho!
Yuna.
Where are we?
I don't know.
Where is everyone?
Looks like it's just us.
Haruto!
Let's go.
We're leaving.
How?
I don't know.
But if there's an entrance, there must be an exit.
Unknown Area! A Time for Meetings!
Unknown Area!
A Time for Meetings!
I can't feel any of the other's Cosmo.
What is this darkness?
Hey.
What's this?
"Regret...
Atonement"?
Regret and atone for what?
There's no other way out.
Looks like we'll have to go through it.
Yeah.
Where am I?
Over here!
Is this my village?
That's impossible...
It was destroyed during the war.
Yuna!
Riene?
Where've you been, Yuna?
You promised me.
What?
You promised me that friends would always be together.
It's been a while.
Brother!
The Palaestra?
And so, since the headmaster is absent,
I welcome you both, Dragon Ryuho
and Lynx Mirapolos, to the school.
The day I arrived at the Palaestra?
Mirapolos?
We swear before Athena-sama...
We shall be Saints worthy of our Guardian Constellations.
We swear it!
Nothing's started yet, right?
How can you already be scared, the second you get to the school?
Soma!
Yuna!
Class?
This really is my past.
Because Mirapolos is gone...
The new students are amazing.
Especially Lynx.
Only the Lynx gets to lean over like a cat.
Hold your chin up.
Look toward the heavens.
A dragon looks best when it's rising toward the heavens.
You've only been here three days, right?
You'll build some stamina soon, whether you want to or not.
I know what's bugging you.
A lynx has sharp eyes that can discern anything.
That's what the ancients believed when
they saw that lynxes could see in the dark.
If you ever want to show off that lynx trivia, go right ahead.
Anyway, just train hard, and you'll get strong.
What will you do when you're strong?
I'll become a Gold Saint.
A Gold Saint?
That's amazing!
I promised the village.
Promised them?
Yeah, my village is poor.
I promised to become a strong Saint and rid the world of poverty...
That I'd save my village!
So I'm going to earn the best grades in the Palaestra,
and become a Gold Saint as soon as I can.
I can't lose to anyone!
I don't know why I just got so fired up.
Well, it must've been fate that we arrived on the same day.
Let's both do our best.
I see...
So you took the Wolf Cloth in my place.
You died.
Did you think a cheap illusion like this
would fool a ninja like me?
It's no illusion.
These are the darkness ruins, Erebus.
The darkness ruins?
A place of regret and atonement.
Here, everyone confronts the darkness within them,
and falls into the abyss of hell, surrounded by eternal darkness.
I am the darkness within your heart.
My darkness?
Haruto...
Why did you run away?
Why did you abandon me and run?
And then, you took up the Wolf Cloth
in my place as an attempt to atone?
How selfish of you.
Do you expect me to forgive your sins?
And do you imagine I would entrust the Cloth to you,
when you abandoned me, fearing for yourself?
The village is gone.
Someone has created an illusion.
But...
Are Mom and Dad over there?
They went into town, to go shopping. Remember?
That's why you're watching the house.
Did you forget?
You're so silly, Yuna.
They'll be back soon.
Let's play while we wait.
It's the first snow of the year!
The first snow of the year...
That day?
The village is about to be attacked...
And Mom and Dad...
Everyone will...
Fire your Element!
Next!
To have learned to use your Element so well in just three months...
Impressive.
You're amazing, Mirapolos.
Stop admiring and fire.
R-Right.
With just one shot?
Seriously?
N-Not bad...
No, I just got lucky.
I can tell that you were trained by Dragon Shiryu.
Oh, no...
Mirapolos.
I guess running is something you're good at, Haruto.
But how about this?
Jumonji Ganseki Kuzushi!
You don't have the right to wear that Cloth.
I am a Saint.
I could use my power to save the village.
I don't care if it's an illusion...
I can't abandon them.
This time, I'll protect them!
I heard you put another big crack in the pillar with one shot again.
No, it was luck.
No one gets lucky that often.
I thought Mirapolos was the best,
but maybe you're better.
That's not true.
Mirapolos...
Today, you'll spar with Cloths equipped.
Ryuho-kun, Mirapolos-kun, come forward.
Ryuho and Mirapolos, huh?
This'll be good!
Don't...
Begin!
Ryuho!
Mirapolos...
Don't!
Don't do it!
That's enough!
Mirapolos did it.
You caught me off guard.
You did that deliberately...
What the hell?!
I don't want your sympathy!
You don't understand anything.
Mirapolos...
You have to stop him.
He'll leave to go on a journey to become stronger,
but he'll never return...
Mirapolos.
Well? Do you remember now?
The sin you committed.
Your unsought kindness hurt me.
Atone...
With your life!
Fool!
This form.
So, you cannot attack Mirapolos?
You can tell, can't you?
That I am not the real Mirapolos.
Because Mirapolos is gone...
You know I am not Mirapolos,
but you still cannot attack me.
What a tender heart you have...
That softness...
That compassion...
They hurt Mirapolos,
and guaranteed he'd never become a Saint.
Take off that Cloth.
And I won't kill you.
Riene, it's okay.
I'll protect you.
Aria?
I don't expect your forgiveness
simply because I wear the Wolf Cloth.
I swore to this Cloth
that I'd become a strong Saint.
That I'd become a man who'd never turn his back on a friend in danger.
That doesn't matter.
Because you're going to die here.
I must keep my head raised.
Because a dragon looks best as it rises toward the heavens.
I lost to Mirapolos deliberately.
Back then, I'd forgotten something important.
A Saint must practice as hard as they can.
And they'll become strong when they have someone
to grow alongside.
Mirapolos wanted me to fight for real.
That was all he wanted...
But I still
betrayed your heart.
But this time, I'll fight for real!
I'm sorry.
I have to go.
You promised we'd be together forever.
But you're leaving me again?
You'll be the only one who survives again?
Well?
You're already gone.
Others are waiting for me.
My regret over not saving you
lent me strength.
I won't let anyone suffer like you again.
So...
Yuna...
So...
I'm going.
You didn't run.
And now that I wear this cloth,
I can't run away, either.
No matter who it may be, I'll fight as hard as I can.
That's what being a Saint means.
You...
Lynx Arrow!
Fuji-Style Secret Technique: Houkou Tenro Kuzushi!
Hakurouken Denshin Muso!
Rozan Syoryu Ha!
Divine Tornado!
You're all safe.
Yeah.
Let's go.
To Be Continued