🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

- No, buddy, you don't necessarily need to tell everyone around you about it, and you shouldn't blatantly deceive yourself and think you're better than others; everything needs moderation. But at least stop beating yourself up and start noticing the good things in moderation – that's a good start. Life is a gradual process," Gen said, patting his comrade on the shoulder, and briefly wondered if these tragic events had affected him so much, or if he had always been like this, and if so, he would like to see that famous girl. "Less reflection and more action – we have a fence to build."

Soon, Zumi joins Sunaro and Hisoka, and some time later, Nemyasu leads the trio somewhere north, making sure to blindfold them. "Now that you are part of 'Passionate Desire,' you are not yet allowed to know the location of the base." "There is no trust in us..." Hisoka suggested. "I understand..." "It's not even about that; it's primarily to ensure that if you are captured by the enemy, important information doesn't leak where it shouldn't." After an hour of walking, the mentor removed the blindfolds from the boys, and after many more hours, the quartet finds itself in Shingen. "Well, here we are."

- Uh... Where are we? And what are we doing here? - He was quite annoyed to be trudging through the desert with his eyes tied again and would have gladly grumbled if the situation allowed. - There are too few of us here; the likely enemy will again have an advantage.