Military: Battle
As Aya arrives the following day and locates the party in Takuzawa's home, their investigation concludes after finding a hidden cellar below the floorboards where they find evidence of planar gate ritual experimentation, notes recorded by Takuzawa, as well as a one-way teleporter relic connected directly to their bounty, who they suspected was located in Kanamura. Travelling via the teleporter that sent them through the Astral Sea directly to Kanamura. There, Aya reckoned with her past as the lone survivor of the village's destruction, and the party confronted their ultimate bounty (joined by a greater fiend he summoned, as well as two agents of Maru) who is in the midst of a sacrificial ritual using the life of the survivor from Terawa Sanctuary to open a permanent gate between the Material Plane and The Abyss. Leaping into battle, the Hunting Party watch as the demon murders Takuzawa in front of them. After slaying the demon and lesser fiends pouring from the gate, the two Maru agents, Oni, make to escape, with only one managing to escape. Stopping the ritual in its tracks, the Hunting Party saves the life of Kaoru Yukimine, the shrine maiden about to be sacrificed, and puts a stop to a major disaster that could have meant the destruction of Terawa, if not Kyokai as a whole.