Tenzir stood inside Jailen, the void-like prison that existed beyond the boundaries of time and space. The air was heavy, thick with the weight of forgotten souls—warriors, conquerors, and gods who had been sealed away for eternity.

  But none of them mattered to him.

  Only one person did.

  Raizo.

  He sat casually on a floating chunk of blackened stone, arms resting behind his head as if this infinite prison was nothing more than a boring vacation. His golden eyes shimmered with amusement as he looked at Tenzir.

  "You actually made it in," Raizo smirked. "Didn't think you'd be dumb enough to try."

  Tenzir crossed his arms, irritated. "Shut up. We’re getting out of here."

  Raizo chuckled, standing up. "And how exactly do you plan on doing that?"

  Tenzir hesitated. That was the problem.

  There was no plan.

  Jailen wasn’t just a prison—it was a dimension made specifically to hold beings like Raizo. It didn’t have exits, doors, or weak points. It was a space outside of space, a realm designed to trap those who could never be contained anywhere else.

  And worst of all—it adjusted to its prisoners.

  If someone was fast? Jailen made them slow.

  If someone had unlimited power? Jailen drained it.

  If someone could warp reality? Jailen made reality unchangeable.

  Which meant Raizo couldn’t break out on his own.

  And now, Tenzir was stuck here, too.

  Tenzir paced back and forth, trying to think. But Raizo? He was just grinning.

  "You're thinking too much," Raizo said. "We don't need to break the prison. We just need to make it let us go."

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  Tenzir frowned. "What? That makes no sense."

  Raizo stepped forward. "Jailen doesn't have an exit, right? Because the whole point is to stop guys like me from escaping. But there’s one thing we know for sure—"

  Tenzir's eyes widened as he realized what Raizo was getting at.

  "—Someone had to put you in here in the first place."

  Raizo snapped his fingers. "Exactly."

  Jailen doesn’t open from the inside. But it does open from the outside.

  Which meant…

  They had to force Ryuketsu to open it himself.

  Raizo cracked his knuckles. "Jailen adapts to its prisoners, right? That means it’s constantly adjusting to make sure we can’t break it."

  Tenzir nodded. "Yeah…?"

  Raizo’s grin widened. "But what happens if the prison suddenly detects something it wasn’t designed to handle?"

  Tenzir blinked. "Wait… you mean we have to do something so crazy that even Jailen can’t contain it?"

  Raizo simply smirked.

  "Exactly."

  Jailen had one flaw—it followed rules.

  It was designed to contain powerful beings, but it never expected two of them working together.

  Raizo placed a hand on Tenzir’s shoulder. "You’ve been getting stronger, huh? Show me."

  Tenzir hesitated, then let his energy surge. A brilliant aura of cosmic blue fire erupted around him, shaking the very foundations of the prison.

  Raizo grinned. "Good. Now watch this."

  His own aura exploded outward, golden and infinite, warping reality itself. The moment their energies clashed, Jailen reacted.

  The prison twisted. The black void rippled, cracking at the edges.

  And then—it began fighting back.

  Chains of anti-matter shot from the walls, trying to bind them. Space itself compressed, crushing down like an unbreakable vice. The realm started erasing them from existence.

  But Raizo didn’t stop.

  Neither did Tenzir.

  They pushed harder, their powers growing exponentially, forcing Jailen to counteract them faster and faster.

  Until—

  The prison reached its limit.

  Far away, in the depths of Hell, Ryuketsu’s eyes snapped open.

  He felt it.

  Jailen—was malfunctioning.

  The prison was supposed to be absolute. Nothing inside should have been able to fight back.

  Yet now? It was on the verge of collapse.

  Ryuketsu clenched his fist, his anger rising. He had no choice.

  If Jailen broke apart, Raizo wouldn’t just escape—he’d come back stronger.

  There was only one way to stop it.

  He had to manually open the prison…

  And kill Raizo himself.

  Back inside Jailen, Raizo and Tenzir stood side by side, their energies reaching catastrophic levels.

  Raizo exhaled, glancing at Tenzir. "You ready?"

  Tenzir grinned. "Hell yeah."

  And in that moment—Jailen cracked open.

  The doors of the ultimate prison were finally unlocked.