Mikael's thoughts: what a grotesque thing...

  Natalie's thoughts: this thing... I don't know how it would act, much less how strong it is.

  Joana's thoughts: this is a mistake, something that shouldn't exist, since the beginning of the universe all that existed were humans and dinosaurs, something between them is inconceivable, why would he create something like this?!

  Riley's thoughts: was that guy crazy or what?!

  Before anything else could happen, a Velociraptor invades the place, roaring at the hybrid dinosaur, and then jumps on top of it, starting to bite the back of its neck. Meanwhile, Mikael and the others leave, without first coming across the dead body of a Triceratops hybrid with a human, which, unlike the other, is more full-bodied, but short, and its head displays the classic horns of its family. The animal's skin is torn as it lies on its side, its belly open while some bitten remains of its entrails and a completely chewed lung, human and dinosaur organs together that formed a nauseating sight. They decide to pass by straight away, not wanting to pay too much attention to this macabre sight.

  Mikael: The urge to vomit is strong, even so, when we leave here, I'm going to ask Hirotomo about every detail of this, he never told us about these experiments.

  Joana: Of course, but for now... both of them!

  Natalie: That's true! What happened in their fight?

  Joana: Let's see... {closes her eyes} Vitalis... It's not so intense anymore, but since I ended up getting distracted, I don't know if it's because the fight ended with one of them dead, or both of them ran away, I can't track either of their Vitalis anymore, they must know how to hide it.

  Natalie: Are they that skilled now? Although… Kiko was a mercenary, she's kind of capable of learning about these things, Tatsuko… I don't know anything about her, until now I thought she was just some random employee of Hirotomo, what if… They're working together?

  Riley: A betrayal by Hirotomo? Did he send us here to kill us? Joana: Let's not jump to conclusions, we have to collect evidence, places like that are important for that.

  The door to the command center where they were is destroyed, while an injured Velociraptor comes out of there. He looks at them and then roars a call for help. Two more Velociraptors appear behind him, also injured, while two more come out of the forest behind Mikael's group. They start to flee from the dinosaurs, running through the forest, jumping between trees and branches. They reach a large area without many trees in the forest, where a herd of Corythosaurus is running, desperate to see the Velociraptors approaching. Mikael's group weaves through the herbivores, some of the Velociraptors are crushed, only to be revealed to be uncontrolled Dinosaurs. Everyone stops running, only to realize that those weren't Kiko's Velociraptors.

  Mikael: We don't need to run, these are normal dinosaurs, I wonder if Kiko is still alive?

  Natalie: If she dies... That damn thing humiliated me in a past fight, I wanted to hit her and her face!

  Joana: What matters is that it's one less challenge ahead.

  Tamao: Anyway, we have things to do, we have to find the command outposts for the paperwork of those animals.

  Joana: That's right, that's our goal now.

  Tamao: If I remember correctly, there was an aviary nearby, where there was a map. It'll be easier to guide ourselves with a map.

  Natalie: Which direction is it? We're also running away from that Tatsuko, while you worry about finding those papers, I'll worry about creating a strategy to defeat her.

  Riley: By the way, Joana! Hasn't that thing beeped yet?

  Joana: Oh? No, we're not infected yet, I think it's going to beep loudly.

  Riley: I get it, so let's get going, if we stay still, we'll be found too quickly.

  They start walking through the forest, soon arriving at the aviary, a small maintenance area that contains the map they want. They take the map and soon start leaving, guided by it. They already find another outpost near where they are, quickly heading to that location.

  Mikael: By the way, one thing you haven't taught me yet, about Vitalis detection, it kind of doesn't make much sense. If Vitalis is something that exists everywhere, and the person's soul is responsible for converting the region's Vitalis into techniques, then how do you detect someone?

  Joana: Simply put, the title “Vitalis detection” is quite misleading, as is saying that someone is running out of Vitalis. In this case, when we find someone, it's not through Vitalis, but rather through the soul's minimal reaction.

  Mikael: I didn't understand anything.

  Riley: Let me explain better, your soul is constantly transforming Vitalis through the air into vital energy to keep you alive, and this is unchangeable. In this reaction process, waves are sent through the air, like radio waves, which a Vitalis technique, called “Vitalis detection” can track and identify where they were emitted from.

  Mikael: I see, this world of Vitalis is quite comprehensive, huh, there must be a lot of things I don't know.

  Riley: You can be sure, but don't worry, with me here, you can learn this and much more.

  Tamao: You think you're all that, huh?

  Natalie: Riley, I think we better hurry, does Tatsuko have the ability to detect us?

  Tamao: From what we've seen of her, she's undoubtedly powerful in combat, but if she has that versatility... So far, she's shown that she only wants to kill us, I imagine she hasn't left a skill like that aside.

  Natalie: That makes sense, so we have to get to the next outpost quickly.

  They stop walking when they come across a pile of dinosaur feces, simply mountains almost human-sized, they quickly cover their own noses. A small tremor in the ground distracts their attention, they turn to the direction of the sound, to observe a Ceratosaurus approaching. The dinosaur looks at them and then walks away, completely ignoring them.

  Mikael: What was that?

  Joana: All that feces must have scared him away. First, it must be an indication that we're in another dinosaur's territory, and second, no dinosaur would eat a hamburger that smells and tastes like shit.

  Mikael: That makes sense.

  Tamao: Instead of arguing about the meaning of this, let's get out of here!

  Riley: Look! It's starting to rain!

  Tamao: Here it comes, smelling like shit and still wet, let's get to this command center right away!

  Riley: You got really excited, huh? And we didn't even touch the shit, how could we stink like that?

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  Tamao: Eh... That makes sense, let's just leave, okay?

  They run away from there, obviously ignoring the direction the Ceratosaurus went. Soon arriving at the next outpost, which was located near a lake, they quickly enter there to hide from the heavy rain that was happening.

  Natalie: By the way, I finished developing our strategy to defeat Tatsuko.

  She begins to explain the plan, and immediately after, the remains of the building are devastated by a beam of green light sent by Tatsuko.

  Tatsuko: You've hidden too much, don't you think? Anyway, I'll finally be able to finish you off without interruptions.

  Mikael's thoughts: We don't even know why she's after us, and I don't even know if we will, but whatever, we're going to kill her anyway.

  Natalie: Following the plan guys!

  She says as everyone assumes combat position. Tatsuko expresses a devious smile, while making the dinosaurum seal, bringing her Spinosaurus to her side. He raises his bladed weapon and advances towards them. Mikael and Tamao advance together, while Riley and Joana begin to perform various stat boosts on both of them. Natalie surrounds the fight, then kicks the Spinosaurus in the chin for a critical hit, causing it to retreat backwards. Meanwhile, Riley sends out a unique flash technique, based on Jenny's unique technique.

  Riley: Luxquarxcaecat!

  She briefly blinds Tatsuko. In the meantime, Mikael and Tamao summon their creatures together, the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Rugops roar at the Spinosaurus, then they advance together against the large carnivore.

  Riley: And now…

  The small girl begins to accumulate her Vitalis for an aggressive discharge of power. Meanwhile, Tatsuko recovers from the blindness and takes out her blade. She fires three balls of green energy, which Natalie in turn steps in and defends the attacks with her forearms, absorbing the energy. Mikael swings his chains and then moves them horizontally, his saw trying to hit Tatsuko's stomach, but she dodges it, however, behind her back, Tamao cuts her arm.

  Tatsuko's thoughts: What? I didn't notice her approach, did she hide her Vitalis?

  Mikael's thoughts: Vitalis's concealment, Tamao managed to figure it out before me, but it seems like... She has a certain way of guiding herself through it.

  Tamao's thoughts: I didn't think this could be a weakness of hers, but unfortunately I can't use it very well yet

  Mikael moves his chains, trying to inform Tatsuko, but she holds the chains to the ground with her weapon, and then hits two green energy balls in the face of both of them, however, the one sent at Mikael is more powerful, enough to make him move further away. Tatsuko advances against Tamao, placing her open hand in front of her face, covering her field of vision, to execute a powerful left punch to her face, making her fall to the ground. Mikael approaches from behind, trying to land a right punch, but Tatsuko dodges it anyway. Afterwards, she kicks his nose with her left leg, and then, with her right leg, kicks his left heel, making him fall to his knees. She kneed him in the same area of ??his nose, making him fall backwards, she snapped her fingers and two beams of light fell from the sky towards the couple. However, Natalie intervened and received the attacks, then pulled Tamao and Mikael out of Tatsuko's reach.

  Tatsuko's thoughts: this girl... She's trying to absorb all my energy attacks, it's obvious that I can't afford to use Vitalis' attacks anymore.

  She kicked Natalie in the abdomen, throwing her into the forest. Mikael and Tamao recovered and advanced against her once more, but she dodged and slipped between their blades, with her impressive dodging ability. Tatsuko slashed Mikael's eyes, then pierced Tamao's stomach, almost cutting the katana she used to defend herself from the attack. She threw several energy spheres at the two, throwing them away. Joana approached and began to heal them at the same time.

  Riley: Lumenpurificationis!

  The little girl discharges a huge beam of light that descends from the sky, circles and rings of energy forming to direct the attack on Tatsuko, burning her without stopping. Just as she had burned Mikael before, now she herself found herself with her back exposed in burns, she spits on the ground, while getting up, starting to regenerate.

  Tatsuko: Is that what you couldn't handle, Mikael?! A mere burn? That doesn't even hurt…

  She tries to release a Vitalis sphere at Riley. However, Natalie gets in the way, hugging the girl and jumping with her out of the target. She quickly lets go of the little girl and runs back, showing the middle finger to Tatsuko, which makes her very angry, more than she already is.

  Tatsuko: damn…

  Joana stops with the positive effects and throws a ball of golden energy at Tatsuko's face, drawing her attention to herself. With that, Natalie slides across the dirt floor towards her, landing a critical uppercut on Tatsuko, making her turn her face upwards at the same time, almost falling backwards.

  Natalie: Spot on!!!

  She screams as she kicks Tatsuko's abdomen, making her retreat quickly. Tamao and Mikael stand beside Tatsuko, the two of them creating their blade at her waist, almost dividing her in half, cutting only the ends of her waist, leaving a small part of the middle intact. The cut parts gush blood, but it soon stops as she begins to regenerate.

  Tatsuko: You pests!!!

  She opens her mouth and loads her Vitalis inside it, to then expel it in a powerful beam of light, which advances against everyone, but Natalie runs, putting her left arm in the middle of the path, absorbing all the energy released.

  Natalie: You useless!

  This offense makes Tatsuko's nerves boil even more. With each passing moment, she becomes more and more out of control and irrational, but before she can attack Natalie once more, she receives a punch on her left cheek from Mikael, who chains her arms, while Tamao distracts her. After getting what he wanted, he attaches the chains to two trees, pulling them, forcing her arms to open. With that, Mikael detaches his blade from the chains and advances forward, while Tamao comes up behind her and cuts off both of Tatsuko's arms. Afterwards, Mikael splits Tatsuko's face in a precise cut, the woman tries to regenerate. Tamao, behind her, spins around on his axis quickly, executing an exorbitant number of cuts on her cuts, making her briefly stop her regeneration. Mikael executes two more X-shaped cuts on her face, and then Tamao pulls her by the hair and throws her away.

  Natalie: My turn!

  She runs under Tatsuko, when she lands on the ground and tries to get up. Natalie executes a critical right kick to her stomach, then a left punch to the center of her face, which is equally critical. Finishing with a left punch to the middle of her abdomen, piercing her stomach and ripping out her guts, Natalie releases her guts, letting them fall backwards. Meanwhile, Tatsuko falls backwards, on top of her guts, almost lifeless. Natalie jumps away from there, while Joana uses all her Vitalis to provide more Vitalis damage to Riley, who in turn finishes charging her most destructive attack.

  Riley: Lumenpurificationis!

  She screams as the guide rings appear in the sky, one on top of the other, and a beam of light passes through the rings, falling on Tatsuko, quickly everything becomes a flash while the ground shakes violently, a huge mountain of smoke forming. All that's left is a crater from the impact, no trace of Tatsuko.

  Mikael: I think... She's dead, isn't she?

  Natalie: I have my doubts, that attack was strong, but... Maybe she could have dodged it.

  Joana: No... It's true that she ran away.

  Riley: Now that I think about it... It's true, that wasn't a critical attack, even though it was so strong.

  Joana: Right now, she must be hiding her Vitalis, we don't know anything about her, that is, we don't even know if she'll come back.

  Mikael: The important thing is that it seems like she won't be a problem anymore.

  A beep occurs, Joana looks at the device that informs them that they are infected.

  Joana: Well... Looks like we have to go back too.

  Tamao: We're still going to ask Hirotomo those questions, aren't we?

  Riley: Absolutely.

  They return to the Cruise they came in, which despite being broken, did not prevent the flight from functioning, even though it now flies much slower. A few days later, they arrive at Hirotomo's Mansion.

  Meanwhile...

  Crawling on the ground and occasionally bumping into some trees, Tatsuko spits blood, her disheveled hair and her body, showing wounds, leave trails of blood as intense as her vomiting of blood.

  Tatsuko: damn...

  Tatsuko's thoughts: I couldn't even use my unique technique, now that I realized... I lose control too easily, I was stupid for a while, next time... Eh, I won't let myself get carried away so easily.

  Before she could think of anything else, a missile hits her from behind, destroying the tree she was leaning on, throwing her away. From the forest, a tranquilizer dart hits the back of her head.

  Tatsuko's thoughts: what the hell is this?

  She grits her teeth as she removes the dart from the back of her neck, throwing it away. Metal Hirotome emerges from the forest, throwing a handcuff that binds her.

  MH: You have a lot to explain, young lady.

  Tatsuko: An interrogation? I'm not a big fan of that, if you want to know why I attacked... Why... Reason...

  She becomes numb with her own words as she falls to the ground, her eyes threatening to close.

  MH: Sleep, when you wake up, you will tell me clearly why you did it.

  Three days later...

  Mikael's group arrives at Hirotomo's mansion, entering the medical area there. Otome enters the place, fully dressed so as not to be infected, Mikael and the others remove the protective suits they wore so as not to infect anyone. She begins to draw their blood and sends it to another area, where Hirotomo was present. He is also dressed in the same way to avoid getting infected, starting to analyze the blood using microscopes and blood tests, chemical mixtures, among others. A few hours later, he arrives at the area with some injections.

  Hirotomo: The injection is ready.

  Mikael: Huh? So fast? Like, I know you were there for hours, but wasn't that too fast?

  Hirotomo: Well... That really was fast, but there are a few reasons: I already knew a good part of the origin of this disease, that is, all I needed at the moment was a few more specific samples.

  As he speaks, Otome approaches with the vaccines and begins to inject them into Mikael's group.

  Hirotomo: In this case, one of the ways it acts, more specifically, on people who have just been infected and who are human, like you, I will still develop another better vaccine, but this one is to cure you for a while, maybe some symptoms will return, but if not, then it's okay. Other than that... The retardants were already a beta version, which, apparently, has already worked very well.

  Joana: I see, so... How long have you been developing this?

  Hirotomo: A few months ago, since this disease started with the dinosaurs, I already had a lot of samples.

  Mikael's group looks at each other, analyzing the situation and wondering if this would be the perfect time to start questioning Hirotomo about his bizarre experiments.

  Joana: So... One of the questions that came to mind when we thought more about this issue is... Wouldn't it be impossible for a disease that appears in reptiles to spread to mammals like humans? Well... We had our doubts cleared up when... We found out about hybrid dinosaurs with humans, so...

  Riley: Hirotomo! What were you thinking when you did that?

  Hirotomo: {sigh} You guys seem to be acting as if I had committed an atrocity.

  Tamao: But you really did, it's bad enough that you think that Dinosaurs can be controlled and mistreated, but everything gets worse when you don't see the fine line between a human and a dinosaur, that... Like it or not, it had a human part, it was a human being! Do you understand?!

  Hirotomo: Uh... I hadn't thought about it that way.

  Riley: That thing looked like it was suffering.

  Hirotomo: Let me explain, I was just… Testing what I could do, I planned to make hybrids, I started with mutant dinosaurs, they worked out and weren't that bad, but… When it evolved into hybrids, it didn't work out so well, those things you saw… It's a result of that.

  Tamao: So what? Did you make more of that?

  Hirotomo: More or less {sighs} I discarded that, left it in cryogenics, but I didn't imagine that the meteor shower would awaken them. Besides that, they were the ones who caused this disease, so I already had a brief knowledge of the disease and was able to quickly make the antidote. Anyway, I evolved a little more, and… I decided not to be so abrupt, now… I made a hybrid dinosaur with only reptiles as ingredients.

  Mikael: And it worked?

  Hirotomo: uh... Almost, he's better and can survive longer than those dinosaurs and humans, but he still has a lot of psychological problems, now... I made him... A few weeks ago and right now, he's in that first enclosure I made, completely frozen.

  Riley: I get it, hybrids between dinosaurs are something completely understandable, let's say, after all, thousands of years ago, humans were already doing it, that technology was lost with the meteor strike, but now... The whole thing about them merging with humans is unacceptable.

  Hirotomo: I know, I know, now I know, I won't try that again, okay?

  Tamao: That's better, we don't want the next time we see each other... We'll be enemies.

  Hirotomo: uh, I promise, I won't do that again.

  After some more conversation and getting rid of the tense atmosphere, for a lighter one, they are fully treated and the vaccine begins to be transported to the test planet, to cure the dinosaurs there.

  [The regeneration ability works as the name says, regenerating lost limbs or cut skin, not working to rid the patient of diseases or viruses. The healing technique has the function not only of regenerating, but also of ridding oneself of diseases, but it only works with the knowledge of the disease that inflicts the patient or oneself]