Steel warriors!
Come here! Answer the call of your brethren!
Superior seek mate!
Line up, two steel warriors that gleam as if to light up the land!
Legion!
Aichi...
This is the strength of my feelings!
Aichi.
I swear I'll get you back to your old self!
Aichi!
Please remember!
Remember why you're here!
You chose to seal yourself away to save people!
You mustn't be possessed by Link Joker!
Aichi! Deep inside your chest is your heart!
Link Joker shouldn't be there!
The people who should be in your heart...
...are your friends! Your mates!
Kourin told me...
...that you have friends you risked your life to try to protect.
I'm going to put them back inside your chest!
I'm talking about your precious mates!
Call!
Remember the fights with your mates!
Remember the passionate fights in which you could understand each other's hearts.
Sin Buster's skill!
Fatal Cold Steel!
You can't use grade 1 or higher units to guard!
This way, Aichi can't use a perfect guard or Quintet Wall.
My feelings, reach him!
Aichi!
Is Aichi's heart...?
Aichi Awakens
Imaginary Plane Dragon.
Seek mate.
Legion.
Legion skill activated.
Three rear-guard units...
Lock!
Call.
Attack.
Bri Knuckle!
Quintet Wall!
Neve is going to attack next.
But at this rate, he won't be able to do any decent attacks.
Three of his rear-guards are locked.
Only Neve's Vanguard can attack.
On top of that, it's impossible to increase power
by linking with a rear-guard, Dimension Police's specialty.
I won't give up this easily.
Besides, your heart
actually wants to awaken!
Can you remember, Aichi?
Remember the time you came to my country.
I have to seal away the Link Joker within me.
Although that means sealing myself away...
I want you
to help me.
At the time, I thought...
This man...
Does he intend to save the world...
...even if it means sacrificing himself?
Neve?
But I had my doubts.
How far was he prepared to go?
Aichi Sendou, let's fight.
Just how serious was he?
Fighters can confirm that through fighting.
That's what I thought at the time.
Stand up, Vanguard!
I followed the path of Vanguard
to protect my fellow countrymen.
So I understood.
Aichi was the same as me.
He was seriously trying to protect his brethren.
No. Not just the citizens of his own country...
He was trying to protect fellow human beings all over the world.
After our fight was over,
I had my answer.
The man before me was serious.
More than me,
he had feelings for all of humanity.
I lost, Aichi, my lord.
Y-You don't need to say "lord"!
But that's how you deserve to be addressed.
I knew a huge, warm heart like that...
...couldn't sleep forever!
If my feelings reach you,
I'm sure you'll come to your senses!
Call!
Metalborg, Operator Kirika!
Give power to your brethren, the heroes
Sin Buster and Ur Buster!
Then I call another Kirika!
Again, I give my compatriots power!
He used an empty rear-guard circle to increase his power?!
I call Mist Ghost!
Now give power to your brothers-in-arms!
He increased his power, even with all those rear-guards locked...
Plus, with Neve's attacks,
Achi can't use perfect guards or a Quintet Wall!
I put all of my soul
into Sin Buster and Ur Buster!
I'm gonna strike Aichi!
Reach him, my passionate feelings!
Shatter Link Joker's evil, and awaken Aichi's heart!
Guard.
What?!
He had that many grade 0 guards in his hand?
Intercept.
A 50000 attack didn't get through?
My feelings didn't reach him?
Lock.
Call.
Attack.
Guard!
Imaginary Plane Dragon and Hakorium attack...
...Aichi?
Attack.
Is this the end?
He couldn't...
...return Aichi to normal.
I'm going to be judged by my prison.
The power of people and the strength of my feelings,
come to me at the critical moment!
Judgment!
Aichi, my lord...
Aichi!
Neve...
Aichi...
Neve...
What did I do?!
My attacks didn't get through,
but it looks like my feelings did.
I'm sorry...
Jeez!
No!
I can't go on...
Serra!
Thank goodness you're here...
Tell me, what's happening?
What does all this mean?
I feel like I ran a marathon!
Oh dear...
But you don't have to run anymore.
Rati, your path ends here.
Because we're going to fight here.
What are you talking about?
Something happened to Aichi's seals.
This is no time to fight!
That's the reason we're going to fight.
I want to release the seals.
If you do that, Link Joker will be set free!
That's my goal.
Serra...
How much power does it have?
What happened all over the world?
You saw it clearly with your own eyes.
If one possessed that power, nothing would be impossible.
Don't you think so?
However...
...when they had all that power,
Takuto Tatsunagi and Toshiki Kai let it slip away.
Aichi Sendou beat them on his own.
How pathetic...
Those two didn't deserve to use Link Joker.
Now, me on the other hand,
I have confidence that I can achieve what they couldn't!
Serra, what are you saying?
It'll be possible for me to obtain everything.
I'll be able to do anything.
Everything in our world, as well as...
...everything on your beloved planet Cray.
Are you being serious?!
Yes, of course.
You were inspired by Aichi and became one of the Quatre Knights
as a favor to him!
Didn't you say that?!
Certainly, he did inspire me.
I was fascinated by the being in front of me.
Except...
Link Joker embedded a seed inside my body.
...what attracted me...
...wasn't Aichi Sendou himself...
...but the seed within him.
I'd been through hell in the Serra family wars.
Thanks to that, I have no difficulty wheeling and dealing behind the scenes.
Using Toshiki Kai and the others
would create the opening I needed to release the seals.
But in order to accomplish that,
I had to let them know that we Quatre Knights would lead to Aichi.
I stirred you three up, and had you fight Toshiki Kai and his friends.
Of course, I'm also the one who called them here.
And losing to Naoki Ishida was also...
...done to remove one of the seals.
How could I ever lose to him otherwise?
And for them,
it was their first victory against the Quatre Knights.
It gave them a lot of confidence.
And if that confidence increased their determination,
they'd be able to bring out even more ability than usual.
Especially Toshiki Kai...
He worked very hard for me.
He performed wonderfully, exactly as my scenario called for.
Which brings me to you, Rati Curti...
I want you to dance for me, as well.
And then, I'll be able to completely release
Aichi Sendou and Link Joker!
Got it! Fine, I'll fight you!
But I'm definitely gonna win!
Serra, you're treating everyone as toys.
Aichi and the others!
But I won't let you make my Cray
into your plaything!
And I'll never share my doughnuts with you again!
Please don't think of me as the person I've been portraying up to now.
I'll show you my fight field.
Come, my fairies...
Fairy Masquerade Prison!
Stand up, Vanguard!
Witch of Banquets, Lir!
Star-vader, Arc Fox!
Link Joker?!
Are you okay?!
There must be some way out of here...
What did I tell you?
It's a waste of time.
Serra has become even stronger.
It's impossible to get through those ice walls from the inside alone.
From the inside alone...
Then that means...
But you don't have even a single person
on the other side to help you break through the wall.
And Neve lost, too...
What?!
Escape is out of the question,
so it would be easier on you if you just stayed put.
Hot! I'm burning!
Hot! Hot!
It's hot! Please stop!
Please, mercy!
It's all over...
You're making a lot of work for us.
Entirely too much.
Ren!
Leon!
We opened an entrance for you.
No... shouldn't it be called "exit"?
It's an entrance to the previous path.
That's right.
You guys will have to be the ones to open a path from this point on.
I'll tell you one thing. You shouldn't think of us as allies.
Aichi Sendou is a good friend.
Whatever.
For now, I owe you.
Good grief...
Cringeworthy expressions just slip right out for you, don't they?
I don't know what you mean by that.
Anyway, I'm grateful to you for rescuing us.
Next time: Cold Jerk.
Cold Jerk
Serra, you've made me... you've made us all mad!
You must hurry. The wind is turning into a storm.