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.
As the Weaponmaster hovered throughout 'Deep Thought,' thoroughly securing and protecting that space as well as monitoring whatever occurrences may have randomly ended up there, she stumbled upon a rather strange looking fellow that looked as if he were somehow related to her bloodline. "... A New Tensei...?" she muttered, attempting to figure out what he could be doing there.
"Ah, yes, Weaponmaster!" he said in a huff as he reached the Trinity Plane in back of the Manor, formerly the 'Pit of Havoc' that he lived in for most of his life. "Something that will be taken care of very soon, at that..." he buttoned his jacket, as if getting ready for something to occur, "And you, might I add, are about overdue for your upgrade, now aren't you?" Of course, he meant no disrespect to the Xanadu in any way, but he was merely making idle banter with her due to his foresight of the current situation. "I very much hope you like it, love." He would stand there next to the body noted by the Grand Excalibur, waiting for him to gain coherency.
"Oh, good. Maruze. You're awake, then." From his angelic blonde hair and relatively glowing disposition, he would probably not be able to tell that it was his former Kage, Khrona staring him in the face... Nor that he was part of the Tensei Family now. "Welcome back. You may be feeling a little weary, but don't worry, it's all natural. If you have any questions, please be sure to ask me immediately, unless you just want to wander around aimlessly for a while and figure out what you want to do with your life on your own." It was probably polite to give him as much of the synopsis as he could with the short time he had and the limited amount of information he had to give to promote the least amount of questions and most amount of understanding in the shortest amount of time... So he already had to be at work on that. Hopefully, Tsuki wouldn't take too long getting herself together (as she usually did) in order for them all to settle this in a timely manner.
Her clothes assembled themselves around her body, just as they'd assembled themselves off before she was carried to bed only moments before the man she was returning to her had come to her in the first place. She was so happy that they were able to make time for each other and somehow the kids in the middle of all of this chaotic madness. "Alright, I'm ready, lovey~!" She was actually gonna catch one of them on her own this time along with him! She didn't get to see it in action often, only its effects, so it was a fun result. She didn't know why she didn't just start doing this with him in the first place. Maybe because she thought she'd get in the way? Or, he's get in the way of hers... Legit...
"Well, as much as I'd love to explain everything in greater detail," he began, outstretching his arm as if awaiting his lady's placement at his side, "I believe I can just explain this to you further when we get down to the Veritas." He didn't even realize that he'd been living in a dream this entire time; lost in the Enigmas of the Dream World, from which his lady of whom he was wed hailed. They hadn't had a chance to formally enjoy their land yet, as they were once so busy keeping the gates opened and tending to the lands. Now that the lands were established, they could leave tending it to the children, and he, himself, along with his wife, could roam the land freely and help instruct them in every manner possible, as well as watch over them as they constructed 'Mysteria' in the image that his Beloved so chose; as, by tradition, should have been occurring simultaneously, if the union was proper. "I believe I hear the Phantom Calling, and it's important that we catch every last thread that we can." He would make his debut in both the Past and the Future as he descended in the Present, simply because when he appears in any timeline, he ALWAYS appears at the exact same time, no matter what. Therefore, they could always witness his rebirths.
With one of his Hands of God (the one that was not for Tsuki to grab hold of), of which was once a 'Reality Hand,' he would would snatch Maruze and slip down into the place of designated anomalous energy being held in distorted space by the Phantom's presence alone. With that, they could slip right into the time displacement and all be in the Future, Past and Present as they need be Absolutely Presently. "Ready, yet, Tsuki~chan~?"
"Heh. Don't play with me. You know you heard me say I was ready." She snatched his arm and smirked, hopping down out of the dream via 'Phantasmagoria.' 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.
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.'
"Consecration!" he cried immediately, locking up the Dream before he left. As he did, he would use his other Hand to spread some Crystal Thread to weave themselves into the scenario. "Just remember how and why your name is 'Tantra,' and you'll be fine. It' literally and legitimately all because of that dream you have." He smiled, knowing that would probably only make sense once he woke up and saw his shadow standing there before him. He couldn't wait to see how that played out.
At the moment of distortion, in place of Tantra, back in the Dream, would be Allsgrim, who lingered in his afterimage once he was rightfully placed as his Living Shadow. He looked up precariously to the Weaponmaster, finding a striking significance between his own relationship to her and Meo's to Maruze's. "... So. You were what was taken of the White Book; the Ultimate Weapon... mixed with the power from the Black Book. Hm." Vaguely, memories from the Allsgrim Manor came to him, though with his son referring to him as... 'Hades.' "Regardless of the damage we sustained, it seems as though we've returned as we're supposed to be." The White Book lived on within the Grand Excalibur, as did the Black Book, so that they could be drawn from or copied as seen fit. The Weaponmaster could erase the power from weapons as well as create new ones, including tomes. It was how the Tensei made sure to have enough space to document their work, and how if they fell into the wrong hands, they could be deactivated and their powers could be transferred immediately into the new Vessel for the book; similarly to how 'Soul Transfer' works (granting 'Energy' being embedded within the 'Book' equating to a 'Soul' entering a 'Body.')
"Hm... But, not quite..." he noticed that something was missing; the all access pass in order to obtain, draw from and become any weapon that she wished to. As it presently stood, if he was reviewing her correctly, she was in an incomplete form wherein her weapon making was unable to be accessed. Wielding the weapons would be easy, but replicating or generating new ones was completely impossible. "We cannot have anymore Legendary Family Weapons if our Weaponmaster isn't making them..." He remembered crafting the Pitch Black Blade long ago via the hand of the Weaponmaster, which got lost in the dimensions somewhere. He didn't know where it had gotten to, but hopefully, not into the wrong hands. He didn't think about some of the weapons he made before he made them so long ago. "When I return to the Zero World, I'll make sure to do that correctly, this time..." And price them accordingly. Hopefully his son, Thanytoz, had taken care of the Zero World in Allsgrim's absence.
After all the hullabaloo about the random string of events coming together pleasantly, Tabi would, after locating the Weaponmaster, sneak into the Trinity Plane that she was monitoring and appear before she and Allsgrim. "Heeheehee~! Hi Grampa~!" Tabi, who was beyond the 9th, already knew about her Devourist heritage, of which she flaunted much more than her 'Tensei' heritage, as well as the progenitor to all Grims and Living Shadows; her grandfather, Allsgrim. "... Looks like you came back, too. Sweet." She would whip out the Skeleton Key, which was the final missing component to the Grand Excalibur, which would make it the True Final Ultimate Weapon. "But here's that missing piece you were talking about. It should restore the Colorless Grimoire; the one that gives all the colored ones their powers and takes them away." It was, besides the Crystal Grimoire (The Omnipedia) and the Pandoire, one of the most important and powerful of all the Tensei Grimoires. "When she's got her Skeleton Key back, we can make more Legendary Weapons~!!!" Tabi was most excited because she liked to go treasure hunting, and wanted to see what kind of awesome weapons the Weaponmaster could make.
"Heeheehee~! Well, here we go~!" She would stick the Skeleton Key, which was part of Weaponmaster's body, back into her and allow them to assimilate as one. Once this occurred, she should have been able to return to her true form and use the power of the Skeleton Key (the only item that can unlock the Colorless Book) to bring the next Grimoire into play.
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