Tokyo Bay's morning was dyed lavender by Glyph Flowers. The Reverse Scale Squad's hovercar parked on a park lawn, its roof dusted with glowing dandelions—each puffball etched with tiny Reverse Scale spirals, like a scattering of luminous star candies.
"They're moving!" Xiaotao's star meteorite bracelet burned hot, deep blue energy condensing into a warning symbol. "Not from wind—glyphs are flowing!"
A Jiu's shadow crows burst from her hair, circling the flowers. Dark purple mist from their feathers outlined characters in the air: "To Reverse Scale Squad—thank you for awakening love."
"Are Glyph Flowers speaking?" Sakura's Cherry Glyph glowed pink as her fingertip touched a puffball. "I hear... my mother's voice."
Lanye's Glyph Core vibrated gently. He sensed each Glyph Flower held a forgotten memory: a mother's lullaby, a teenager's laughter in the rain, a grandparent's advice... These memories trickled into the Reverse Scale Core, warming its seven-color glyphs.
"Glyph Flowers are 'memory vessels'." Ming Yuan's voice came from the comms, his figure materializing in the flowers, spiral glyphs on his ornament glowing softly. "After Origin awakened, glyphs not only connect lives but record them. These flowers are the earth's 'love letters' to humanity."
Xiaotao knelt, picking a Glyph Flower. Her mother's image appeared: twenty years ago, holding infant Xiaotao in a hospital corridor as plane tree leaves fell, murmuring: "Xiaotao, always believe love is mightier than any glyph."
"Mom..." Xiaotao's tears fell on the puffball, clarifying the image—her mother wore a silver bracelet with Reverse Scale glyphs, a relic Xiaotao had never seen, now shimmering with the flower's light.
A Jiu's crows wailed. Her mist tugged a memory: Xiaokui's father in a lab, a tube oozing black slime. His core resonated with the tube, revealing the plan's last page: "Xiaokui, sorry—Dad needs your glyphs for the final experiment—to save more people."
"So that's why..." Su Li trembled as her Cherry Glyph resonated. "Xiaokui's father wasn't an accomplice—he was threatened."
Ming Yuan's ornament shimmered silver. Touching a Glyph Flower, it showed: five hundred years ago, seven guardians held a ceremony when one (like Wu Wang) went berserk, rejected the Origin. The other six sealed him with their lives, shattering the Origin into seven seeds.
"Therefore..." Lanye gripped his core. "Star Beast remnant, Mirror Turbulence—all because polluted shards seek hosts?"
Ming Yuan nodded: "Glyph Origin is the world's 'heart of life'. Shattered, each shard carried wills: protection (Xiaokui's mother), consumption (Star Beast), distortion (Mirror Tech). You, Reverse Scale Squad," his gaze swept them, "are heirs to the seven guardians—Lanye's Blazing Flame, Su Li's Cherry, Xiaotao's Star Meteorite, A Jiu's Crows, Sakura's Healing, Wu Wang's Mirror, my Time—exactly the seven Origin glyphs."
The sanctuary quaked. Wall spirals peeled to reveal dark gold chains—seals from the berserk guardian's core three hundred years ago.
"Not good!" Ming Yuan urged. "Origin shards sense contamination, awakening the remnant!"
The ground cracked, spilling black slime. Figures emerged: Xiaokui's father, Mechanical Glyph Master, Star Beast remnant—their cores merged with the Reverse Scale Core into a dark purple giant core.
"This is..." Lanye's core trembled. "All polluted shards are reforming the Origin!"
Ming Yuan's ornament shrieked. He touched the sanctuary's platform, where spirals glowed gold: "Now! Press your cores to the Origin! Use love to awaken its will!"
Lanye's core blazed. He held Xiaotao's hand to the Origin; A Jiu's crows bound the Mechanical Glyph Master; Sakura's Cherry Glyph wrapped the Mirror Symbiote; Su Li's glyph touched the Star Beast's chains; Wu Wang's ornament froze the berserk guardian's time.
"In the name of the Reverse Scale," Lanye's voice thundered, "By the oath of comrades,
"Awaken the true self, return to the light!"
Seven cores lit up, weaving a net of gold, pink, blue, purple, white, silver, and dark gold around the giant core. It quaked, cracking as shards struggled and yearned for redemption.
"Remember our original hearts?" Lanye looked at his team. "Xiaotao, to protect your mother's smile; A Jiu, to never lose loved ones; Sakura, to spread warmth; Su Li, to fulfill your mother's wish; Wu Wang, to guard time's truth; Ming Yuan, to return glyphs to love..."
His gaze fell on his core: "And we, to prove—glyph power is for connection and protection, not consumption."
The core's cracks healed. Dark purple faded to reveal a snow-white Origin inscribed: "Love is symbiosis; the heart is eternal."
Sanctuary walls smoothed, spirals glowing warm gold. Ming Yuan's ornament chimed as the Origin split into seven lights merging with their cores.
"Congratulations," he said warmly. "You've completed the 'Symbiosis Ceremony'. The Reverse Scale Core is now the collective will of seven guardians—remembering your love, passing it to all."
Morning light gilded them as Xiaokui's pendant floated up, resonating with the core in a clear ring.
"So that's it..." Xiaotao teared up. "Glyphs' meaning is to remember: love is the mightiest glyph."
A Jiu's crows circled, mist forming "Hope". Sakura's petals wove a new totem with the Origin.
Wu Wang's ornament shimmered: "Glyph power is the human heart. When we connect with love, glyphs protect the world."
Ming Yuan reinserted his ornament, tears in his wrinkles: "Three hundred years ago, I failed. Today, you showed me glyphs' most beautiful form."
Lanye felt a warm pulse in global glyph fluctuations—a "protection net" of seven guardians' will and ordinary love.
"Next," he turned to the team, "we'll go everywhere to show: glyphs aren't weapons—they're the heartbeat connecting us to the world."
As the hovercar started, its glyph trail stretched long. The squad's glyphs shone together—star meteorite blue, cherry pink, crow purple, time silver—weaving a star track to the future across heaven and earth.