Suddenly, the reason the the stillness in the Dangai was apparent.
Kage wasn't the first to notice, but he wasn't the last. The spiritual pressure had changed as the cleaner approached them. Where it had come from, or why it was coming now was anyones guess, but he didn't need to guess what would happen if it caught them.
"EVERYONE! GO THROUGH THE GATE, ILL BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!"
Kage looked forward toward Brad, seeing everyone ahead of him vanishing through the gate, and then looked back at the yellow eye of the cleaner. He had to move now. Running forward in a panic, his steps became clumsy and he stumbled off to the side. He realised that he couldn't touch the wall and pulled away, but the sleeve of his robe touched it. The wall of the Dangai grabbed the cloth and tried to rip him in with it, digging in his feet to keep from being pulled in. It needed to be cut, but his sword was unavailable.
"Ah! Let me go!" he yelled out, pulling hard away from the wall. His sword unavailable, he did the only thing he could do.
"Hado #2: Katto!
Reaching across himself, he waved his finger over the sleeve of his garb. The spiritual energy cut through it like a knife in a single, clean slice. Severed from the wall, he stumbled backwards and fall on the ground, looking up at the cleaner as it got closer. A few more seconds and it would run him over.
"Sorry for this pal."
Kage never heard him approach, but he felt him leave. Holding the back of his collar, the familiar pull overwhelmed him as Brad flash stepped back through the gate and dragged him with. Sitting on the ground just in front of the gateway, he watched as the cleaner approached and the doors shut on the single, great, yellow eye.
He was in the human world. For the first time in over two hundred years, he stood up and looked around. This wasn't his hometown, but it still all looked the same. Nothing ever seemed to change here. Brad and the others were talking o someone that had met them. Kage didn't know who it was, but apparently they were following him now, everyone walking into a shop just off the street.