In the rift, he also hears someone calling to him, someone he thought he knew.Yoru then finds a part of the warship where the dimensional fabric was weaker and older, falling into rift through a space that didn’t feel like he was traveling to just a new place, but a new place in time.Yoru’s continued research there reveals there is dimensional scarring on the sides of an old Japanese warship there and that the ancient armor there is filled with radianite, despite claims that it had only been discovered 10 years ago.Yoru returns to S22 despite being told by Brimstone to leave the site alone.All his winnings are eventually confiscated by Sage after most of the agents finally defeated Max Bot as one large team. Yoru remains outside the training area winning large amounts of credits from Jett in several bets that Max Bot will win every fight he is in.Yoru is present during the Max Bot training exercise at VALORANT HQ.He eventually finishes off Omega Jett when she picks herself up and shoots Phoenix, with Yoru hitting her by shooting through Phoenix’s body. Yoru and Omega Jett fight over the planted spike, with Yoru eventually outmaneuvering Omega Jett to incapacitate her and allow him to defuse the spike.He is able to shoot Omega Cypher and then draw Omega Jett towards him, leaving only Omega Viper to deal with Phoenix. Yoru attempts to riftwalk into position as the hostiles try to fall back from a planted spike but is forced to reveal himself in order to save his fellow agent, Phoenix, from being eliminated by Omega Cypher.Yoru is assigned as a member of the S22 strike team.He breaks into a research room and takes a mask from a set of samurai armor being studied there.Kiritani has links to Yokohama and Ito.Left with even more questions, Yoru continues his research whilst serving as an agent of VALORANT, and hopes one day the Protocol's leadership will see the value in looking into these events along with him. He pushed forward as far as he could and heard a woman's voice calling out to him, one he thought he recognized, but before he could answer back, the rift closed. Finding a part of the ship with older dimensional fabric, Yoru suddenly fell through into a space that felt as if he was traveling from "now to then". His research led him to discovering new information relating to both radianite and the alternate dimension that he could access and enter with his powers. Still not done with S22 however, Yoru continued to return to the site despite having other missions to do for the Protocol and against the advice of his superiors. He was later recruited by the VALORANT Protocol as its fifteenth agent, "Yoru", and shortly after this his familiarity with S22 saw him returning there on assignment to prevent a spike detonation by hostiles from Omega Earth.
On his first visit, he broke into the facility and stole a mask from a set of samurai armor that allowed him to see into another dimension. Specifically interested in his ancestors and an ancient order of samurai, Kiritani's search has kept on bringing him to Kingdom's S22 container port. A radiant from Tokyo, Japan, Ryo Kiritani is a man dedicated to uncovering his past.