In 1986, as Otoya and Maya toast to the crafting of the Bloody Rose completed, with Otoya telling her this will be their last time together before playing a song he made for her, Yuri battles a Rat Fangire to vent her feelings about Otoya being with the other woman before the monster eludes her. Later, while seeing her son, Maya is visited by her husband, the Checkmate Four's King, lord of all Fangires. In 2008, as Shizuka notices Wataru no longer the shy person he was, the Bishop tells Taiga he'll begin the wedding preparations as Taiga meets with Mio to help him choose the designs for her wedding dress. However, though Mio admits to him that she loves another and cannot go through with it, Taiga refuses to accept it and asks Wataru to find out the one she truly is in love with.