[center][b]Hideki[/b][/center] --- Hideki stared out the small gap in the barricaded window, making sure there were no monsters around. Harashi was asleep on the floor. Yoshimi was asleep on the couch with Yuriko. Nikko was sitting on the floor looking as if he was meditating. "Hmm... No sign of the enemy yet... Good," Hideki said and then sighed. "I really hope those monsters don't come back, but that seems unlikely...", Hideki whispered to himself. He looked at the sword he was carrying, observing it. 'What was that engraved on the blade...? Kaminari o... I couldn't read the rest...', Hideki thought. He once again let out a sigh and leaned on the wall behind him. He ran a hand through his hair. 'I hope we can get through this...', he thought. Hideki wondered if the ent was still outside. He peeked out the crevice and saw that, indeed, it was still there. He let out a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness," he said softly. "But... That thing... Hmm?", Hideki noticed the naginata Nikko was carrying. It had a design as if it came from nature itself. 'Odd...', Hideki thought. He didn't go near the weapon though. Just observing it from a considerable distance was enough. 'Kaminari... Lightning?', these words ran into his mind as he thought of the engravement once more on the sword he acquired. 'Man... I should seriously stop thinking about that, I'll just be wasting my time...', Hideki thought and decided to get some shut-eye for a while. --- [center][b]Hideki, Harashi, Yoshimi, Yuriko[/b][/center] --- Hideki had fallen asleep for only a short time, about 30 minutes. "Ugh, my head hurts...", Hideki groaned. "Sigh... This is what happens when you wake up from a good nap... Oh well," Hideki said and stood up. He stretched out his body and then sighed. He decided to look outside the small gap again. "...Nothing's changed...", Hideki said. "This is boring, but at least we're not getting attacked... If Yuriko gets involved it'll be all my fault...", Hideki worriedly said. Just then Harashi woke up. "Unnngh... What time is it?", Harashi murmured. "Sigh... It's only been some time past lunchtime...", Hideki replied. "I see...", Harashi said and then sat up. Harashi looked down at the floor, seemingly in deep thought. "Hey...", Harashi said. "What?", Hideki replied. "I've been sensing a lot of odd things for a while now...", he said. "...? Like what?", Hideki asked. "Like, I can feel the ent outside move... For some reason," Harashi said. "Seriously?", Hideki said. "No joke," Harashi quickly replied. "Huh... Odd," the silver-haired boy said. "Hmm... Yeah," the lazy, brown-haired boy said. Then things fell silent for a while, Harashi was back to laying down on the floor and Hideki was staring out the window. A few minutes later something odd happened. "...Huh? You hear that sound?", Hideki said. "Yeah...", Harashi said. The ground started trembling soon after which woke up Yoshimi and Yuriko and most likely disturbed Nikko's meditation. "W-what the?! An earthquake? Now?!", Hideki exclaimed. "Yuriko, come here!", Hideki said and then embraced Yuriko in an attempt to protect her from any falling debris. Yoshimi took Nikko's hand and tried to hide with him under the table while Harashi ran into the middle of the room with which there was barely any furniture and crouched while covering his head with a cushion.. Suddenly the tremor stopped. Then the floor near Harashi cracked a little. "...?!", Harashi was surprised, but he was able to move back before the floor fell. Then one of the weirdest things soon happened. A huge sword suddenly rose from the ground. "H-huh? This is...", Harashi said. "Why is this here?", he said as he approached the blade. "Our shrine's artifact...", he said. He touched it and suddenly the damages that were done in the living room were gone, everything was back to normal. "...What the heck just happened?", Hideki was baffled. "Uh...", Yuriko was confused. "Harashi-san... Could that possibly be your shrine's artifact?", Yoshimi asked. "Ah, yes...", Harashi replied and looked at the greatsword. The large blade looked like it had drawings of cracked earth. "Wonder why it's here. But then again, a naginata flew through the roof earlier... So I shouldn't be surprised," he said. He put it down since it was pretty heavy. "H-how can you lift something that big?", Yuriko asked. "Ah, it's not really that heavy...", Harashi said. "Ahaha...", he laughed a bit.