In a flashback/memory, Ougai was the last to be defeated of a small Dakini group, his first horn broken off. He wonders why the perpetrator, known as the strongest Dakini with the nickname "Horn of God", decided to betray his people and abandon the battlefield. He admits to feeling regret that his battle-hungry species had destroyed countless civilizations before their prime and now wishes to understand what these civilizations will 'bloom' into, like how the Dakini were born to fight and fight to live. Ougai reveals that the traitor had been infected with a plant-like parasite and was undergoing treatment. But the parasite affects the brain and, he believed changed the traitor; said Dakini refuted this, he believed that that both he and the parasite "bloomed".