Chapter 4: The Distant Sound of Waves

Synopsis
Roxas is told by a girl to head for the Old Mansion. As he heads there, a group of white creatures try to capture him again. He encounters Seifer and his gang while escaping from them, but the creatures catch up, and they also proceed to attack Seifer, while Rai tries to fend off. Roxas tries to warn them that their attacks won't work, but suddenly, time is frozen. Suddenly, Roxas hears a voice; it's the girl from earlier. As Roxas defends himself from the creatures, the Keyblade reappears.

The next thing he knows, he's at an unknown location, standing on a platform that shows an image of Sora. A mysterious beast then appears and tells him "what he wants to know". The creature consumes the platform, causing darkness to nearly consume Roxas. He is then saved by the girl, Naminé. She asks him if he knows his true name. Suddenly, a man appears to prevent Naminé from revealing the truth. Roxas recognizes him as the thief from earlier. The man opens a portal, tosses Roxas back in, and tell Naminé that it's best he does not know the truth.

Roxas wakes up back in Twilight Town, where it's revealed that Seifer took a picture of him while knocked out. Seifer mentions that the creatures are gone. Suddenly, Hayner, Pence and Olette appear. Hayner gets mad and storms off. They thought that Roxas ditched them to hang out with Seifer's gang. Roxas asks how the beach was, but they mentioned that they didn't go. Roxas asks if they can go tomorrow, but Hayner says "I'd promise I'd be somewhere".

Roxas soon gains a headache from what he's gone through, and tells his friends that he's going home. He encounters a Struggle poster, and recalls his promise to Hayner. Meanwhile, DiZ is furious with Naminé for her connection with Roxas, on how she nearly revealed something to him. Of course, no matter what, DiZ knows that there is no knowledge that will change his upcoming fate.

The Struggle tournament is about to begin. The referee, Biggs, announces that the finalists are Seifer, Vivi, Hayner and Roxas, with the winner getting a Struggle Trophy, plus a chance to take on the defending champion, Setzer. The first round in the tournament is between Roxas and Hayner. The match between the two boys also doubles as an argument for what happened the previous day. Of course, they settle this, though the match wins in Roxas's favor. Biggs then announces the next round: Seifer vs. Vivi.

Meanwhile, the man in black visits Naminé and the pod she is guarding. The man tells her that more and more Nobodies are getting in, though she tells him that "it won't be much longer now". DiZ takes a look at the computer, and claims he isn't fooled that several Nobodies have blended in with the computer world.

Back at the tournament, Seifer loses his battle with Vivi, to the shock of everyone in town. Seifer withdraws from the Struggle for third place, and tells Roxas "That's not Vivi".

Covers

 * Front cover: Roxas with his friends on the ground, all eating sea-salt ice cream (with Pence already finished with his)

Continuity errors

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Artistic errors

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Kingdom Hearts references

 * Hayner's stick says "Winner" on it when he tells Roxas that "he promised he'd be somewhere".