Event TABA Reset

Kotaro using Asagi's body and Black in the center of the reset (reused art)

* Yomihara

The Reset was an important event which marked the destruction of a universe and the birth of many others, including the RPGX Universe. It is a result of a battle between Fuuma Kotaro and Edwin Black, near the end of Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena run.

A key event which occurred in a kinda parallel to the TA3 Reset of the canon/old Universe Timeline.

## Event Timeline

### Pre Event

Fuuma Kotaro (TABA) and Fuuma Tokiko are left behind by their father Fuuma Danjo, which after his lost in the Fuuma Revolt, escapes with his Fuuma clan to the UFS and Task Force G. Years later, ⁣ Kotaro creates a Rogue Taimanin, sometimes called the Fuuma Organization. Using his evil eye, which is able to steal the powers of others temporary, he recruits or kidnaps many Taimanin, UFS soldiers and demons. Edwin Black of Nomad, notices Kotaro, and after a confrontation in Amidahara, leaves him alive just to order him around. Forces a Kotaro into a conflict with the Corpse Lord and others as he observes Kotaro struggle, which now also wishes to take Black down. Kotaro, kills his father, Danjo, which was sent by Task Force G to take care of him. Danjo had sealed a part of Kotaro's power, which allowed not only to steal a single power but absorb the entire body of a targets, memories and all skills intact. Danjo also feared a confrontation between Kotaro and Black, fearful of possible consequences.

Black tests Kotaro's power with Kaliya's help by kidnapping him, Tokiko and other Taimanin. Members of Nomad like Fulst kidnapped one of Kotaro's crew members Igawa Sakura (Other), which had joined Kotaro after being displaced from her own universe, as a result Fulst had been beaten close to death by Amamiya Shisui. Astaroth a rival of Black tests Kotaro's power but warns him not to fight Black if he thinks he can win, Kaliya later also shares such a warning to Shijima Mugi.

Not long after, a DSO and Fuuma Organization operation against Task Force G begins, G's leader as confirmed at this point had been killed by Yulya a Nomad assassin and had been replaced by a Nomad member for years, making G pawns without knowing. Fuuma Kotaro and Mizuki Yukikaze as a stand-in for DSO, were sent for an observation of the house of the fake G leader but were discovered, as the information leak was probably a trap by Nomad itself. Yukikaze was sent home for backup, while Kotaro kept the troops away. Kotaro is at this point captured and brought to Yomihara, near the Palace of Darkness.

### Event

Fuuma Organization, Taimanin now informed by Yukikaze and the DSO start a frontal assault against the place, to strike against Nomad and rescue Kotaro. Fulst is fully killed, Ingrid is stopped by her former student, the hired Chevalier is knocked out, and other Nomad members are defeated one by one. Kotaro himself is freed by his own group, and makes his way to the stage of the Demon Arena, with many of his team members like Shisui, Sakura (Other), Murasaki (Other) and Fuuma Tokiko joining him later. Fuuma Kotaro defeats first Taimanin Mugi, which seems desperate to stop the confrontation, but can't be stopped.

Kotaro reaches the stage, and sees Igawa Asagi fighting Black, Asagi is pierced by one of Black's attacks, leaving her wounded, Kotaro absorbs Asagi's body into himself to keep her alive and now fights using her body against Black. However, even after some successful attacks Black seems unfazed, in the end he reveals his true form and pierces Asagi/Kotaro's body with his hand. Now absorbing Asagi into himself, Black explaining the process, his power is gravity. Gravity, is able to pull both the Human World and Dark World together, just as it can pull Asagi and him together, the realms will become one and be destroyed falling into Mother Ocean, as a result many new worlds will form, in which him and Asagi will be reborn as something new. Kotaro, which in Black's mind had been just an addition to this Adam and Eve tale, is considered a "Snake" harming the paradise he wishes to create.

However, before the black vortex that is starting to form can consume everything, Kotaro makes one last push. Activating his evil eye, in this strange situation, he starts to absorb Edwin Black, which in turn tries to absorb him. However, the destruction cannot be avoided and Kotaro loses consciousness as the universe of Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena comes to an end.

### Post Event

In a Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena epilogue event. One of the new worlds is shown, in which Kotaro still leads the Fuuma Organization, his crew still alive. While escaping the cold winter winds, in an artificial dome beach resort, he confronts some of the Taimanin and allies he made before. However, the dome breaks and Kotaro sees himself face to face with Vampire Asagi, his memories of the former world returns. This vampire Asagi made him a deal to become a demon himself, as the odd double absorption granted them both memories of the former world and a choice. Kotaro refused and stated, he wished to remain a human even if he wished also to be a criminal to rule the darkness. Defeating vampire Asagi in a fight, she as well seems to reject the idea of becoming a demon and reverts to her old human self. She promises as long as Kotaro remains human, she will also hunt him as a human. With that, the story of Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena comes to an end.

Another world created from this is the RPGX Universe, in which Kotaro's and Black's demonic and evil eye powers have switched between the two. Amamiya Shisui which now lives like a ghost in either Gosha Library, still remembers the battle between Black and Kotaro and informs him about some of the details of the world that came before. Kotaro does not remember himself and has become much younger in this world, without him being a criminal, he lives in Gosha Village as a Gosha Academy student. Outside Black (RPGX) and Kotaro, the Corpse Lord Teutates also seems to be connected to the world reset. However, as this still is an ongoing story, much is still unknown.

Yet another world created is the Dark Future Timeline an RPGX-Like Universe, which exists a dozen years into the future but had fallen victim to a Brain Flayer Invasion. Kotaro in this world had been killed, by the power of an artifact, these creatures used. This world, also, makes contact to the RPGX Universe to save them from their fate.

## Trivia

* Within that Dark Future Timeline also exist a Sakura (Other) and Murasaki (Other), both coming from a TABA-like world with a Fuuma Organization. It is unknown if it is just a TABA-like world which never faced a reset before or the one seen in the epilogue of TABA.
* It is unknown if Action Taimanin's Universe also is a result of the TABA reset, but it could be speculated.
* The artwork, used in TABA is the same as in TA3, Asuka Route. In which Asagi would pierce a kunai into Black's head, which disturbed the vortex, as she was behind his gravity barrier and Asuka's laser would fully destroy his body with Taima Particles.
* A key difference to the TA3 Reset, that possibly allowed Vampire Asagi to return to her human self in the epilogue, is that Asagi never gave up her humanity. She never used her Demon Asagi form or sacrificed people she loved in the final battle. Combining this with the faulty absorption/fusion, this might have allowed her to return to her old self with willpower.
* The TABA Universe might also be a result of the TA3 Reset or of another reset Black performed in the past. Recent information puts this reset in the same universe and timeframe of the old canon and plays out more so like the different routes of Asagi, Asuka and now Kotaro.
* However, it is part of the alternative Asuka Route, in which the reset could be stopped. This can be seen, as Asagi is not in her Demon Asagi form like in the Asagi Route. In TA3 Asuka Route, Asagi would pierce a kunai into Black's head, which disturbed the vortex, as she was behind his gravity barrier and Asuka's laser would fully destroy his body with Taima Particles.
* Assuming that TABA and RPGX roughly start at the same time. TABA would have begun in the year 2083 and Kotaro's actions took around 4 years (given that years do pass in accordance to the real life Anniversary). Meaning, the reset occurred in the year 2087.

## Notes and references

1. ↑  https://twitter.com/sasalilith/status/1684907101666349056?s=20