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Hakuri Sazanami vs. Soya Sazanami is a battle between Hakuri Sazanami and Soya Sazanami.
Hakuri comes face-to-face with his brother, who had abused him ceaselessly when he was younger. Refusing to continue being a burden to his allies, Hakuri prepares to confront the source of his torment head-on, as his latent potential for sorcery begins to awaken. Soya wishes to return Hakuri to the Sazanami; or rather, his idyllic vision of what Hakuri should be like.
Prologue[]
During their planning phase, Shiba had told Chihiro he would deal with the Tou. Hakuri brought up that while Soya usually acted highly intelligently at a level similar to Kyora, he acted completely differently around Hakuri, which was a weakness Hakuri and Shiba planned on taking advantage of.
While usually the Tou were posted at the four corners of the auction hall's stage, this year Kyora had posted them by the Naginojoen's door. The four discussed the reasoning behind their non-standard posting, assuming their father believed Chihiro would show up and deciding to focus on their post. Abruptly, Hakuri peeked out from the other end of the long corridor where the Naginojoen door was. Hakuri disappeared back up the stairs and Soya immediately charged after him, shouting for him to come back.
Hakuri is blocked off by a wall of trees
As the other Tou members questioned Hakuri's presence, Shiba teleported in front of the door, seemingly unable to teleport into the room due to its heavy sealing. He recalled thanking Hakuri for agreeing to distract Soya, and Chihiro instructed Hakuri to run towards the surface so Chihiro could back him up against Soya. In the present, Hakuri aimed to reach Chihiro as fast as possible, dashing up the stairs and into a hallway where Chihiro was descending the stairs on the other end.
Only four guards stood in Chihiro's way; but as Hakuri came close, he saw one of the guards giving Chihiro trouble before a wall of trees suddenly emerged from the ground, preventing Hakuri from advancing. Soya caught up and grabbed onto him, but as Hakuri wondered if he should head back to Shiba as the older sorcerer had told him to wait for Chihiro to come save him, he decided not to take advantage of their kindness and stand up for himself (motivated by an image of his pet praying mantis Samurai). Black shadows erupted from Hakuri's left eye as he pulled away from Soya and declared he was going to defeat him, readying his hands to activate Isou.