Jyan jyan~ here's a long-awaited update of Indestructible Fire for you awesome readers who have been waiting for it! Yes yes, expect more question marks popping out of your head and hopefully some closures on how their 'game'/'war' works. I've been using those terms instantaneously that I kinda lost track halfway what I called their whole battle royale initially
I've actually written this Act a month or two ago, but it had undergone many (and I mean seriously many) attempts of drafting and changing and crazy editing because I was really unsatisfied with how boring the Act is (and it still probably is due to the fact there's a lot of explanation that's done in this chapter, sort of ><). Plus, new ideas come and replace my old ideas and I would have to figure out which should I be using. Tough decisions were made and lots of brainstorming was done, but I really hope it was worth all the work...
Enough of my tiring ramblings. Please enjoy this latest update!
Replying time~:
@Rinca: They're a special case and it'll definitely be explained in their backstory in one of the future chapters.
@TeenyTae: Spot on As for how many times these games have taken place... hmm... I thought of it as well after you posted the question. And all I can say is, it'll be mentioned in one of the future chapters Thanks for the support so far, TeenyTae-san!
@junchan48: Here's the surprise for you. Thank you so much for waiting and asking me about it constantly through FB It makes me never take my mind off this fic in a good way.
@kuro_black29: Yep, they'll continue being a part of it. Exhibit A would be the SayaMilky pair
@Raizel: Hmm that~ well~ I'll leave it to your imagination for now
@wmatsuified: Thank you very much for reading! Though... JR is rather the most 'useless' pair at the moment but like any movie, the weak protagonists will turn strong in due time Hope you'll enjoy this update
@fael_c00l: Jigsaw? Mmm... no. SayaMilky were the only exceptions. That is... hmm. I won't spoil, please do continue tuning in and do not hesitate to PM me if you're seriously confused about stuff in the chapters posted yeah? I'll try to answer you, without giving anything in the future chapters away. Indestructible Fire
ACT IX
Silence.
Both Jurina and Rena were flabbergasted and in disbelief after hearing what Sayaka had just revealed to them. Miyuki had also looked downwards at her sad reflection displayed on the surface of her cup of tea, as if to strengthen the authenticity of Sayaka’s statement.
Sayaka let out a sigh once more before shifting her gaze to Jurina and then Rena, preparing to speak.
“Miyuki and I... we were the winners of the previous war.”
“WHAT?!!” Jurina and Rena jolted up from their seats with a shout of disbelief. Who could blame them after what Airi said about the winning Guardian being reincarnated into flesh and blood to live on as a human being. Just how could Sayaka and Miyuki be the winners if they were still here, paired up to fight? It was completely nonsensical.
“The thing is... we don’t know. Our memories of when we won were completely wiped out, what remains is our experience in the previous war... at the expense of our initial memories, or at least mine,” Sayaka winced, and seeing that, Miyuki decided to continue for her.
“What do you mean...?” Jurina squeaked, eyes still wide open due to Sayaka’s revelation.
“I was Sayaka’s Master the previous game, so she had her memories of when she was alive and my death intact previously... but when we were both reincarnated here… apparently she lost her initial memories but the both of us remember whatever transpired in the previous game till the point of winning though now...” Miyuki let out a sigh, arching her body forward, “We swapped roles for unknown reasons, not to mention, elements.”
“What was Sayaka-senpai’s element previously then?” Rena asked.
Sayaka shrugged, “I was the previous Guardian of Fire,” Sayaka noticed Jurina’s darkened expression and nodded, “Yeah like you, Kid.”
“... H-How... is this possible...?” Jurina’s legs gave into the shock and she fell backwards onto the sofa that she had shot up from and buried her face into her hands, finding ways to comfort herself.
Rena followed suit by slowly taking a seat to calm herself down as well, while rubbing Jurina’s back softly in hopes of helping her partner digest the revelations her two seniors just thrown at them without warning.
“Sayaka and I were thinking it was probably because we weren’t the ones who were supposed to win... though it sounds really unfair in context huh?” Miyuki said softly.
“What do you mean by that?” Rena questioned on, wanting to understand more and to see if they were lying to them.
“You guys are apparently the Chosen Ones. The ones who are favoured by whatever God that is overseeing this game to win. The last ones to appear before the game begins are usually the ones with not much knowledge on what’s going on unlike the others but as compensation, you have an ability that the other Guardians don’t have. The ‘Burst Stream’ ability,” Sayaka explained with a tint of anger fuelling in her voice as she balled up her fists.
“It’s the state Jurina-chan was in halfway through fighting with Oshima Yuko-san. The berserk state that can be controlled were she to learn how to hone it in this short period of time,” Miyuki continued, noticing the question that Rena was about to ask when the latter was seen biting her lip.
“In the previous game, there was a pair who had the same conditions as you both... Shimazaki Haruka and... Yokoyama... Yui,” Sayaka’s expression strained at the mention of the second person’s name, in which Miyuki quickly placed a hand on Sayaka’s shoulder as if it was a form of remedy to the unknown pain Sayaka was facing, which Rena took note of, “... Yui was the Guardian of Ice in the previous war and was deemed the Chosen One... however, an unexpected turn of events occurred and we won… guess the Gods were angry at the outcome and sent us back to fight instead of returning us to the land of the living as promised when we were thrown into this whole ordeal...”
“I’m sure you realized it by now but we’re not in the world that we once lived... we were gathered here to do battle against one another in this alternate universe... it looks like where we came from but fundamentally different. I mean... with the Dolls and all...” Miyuki let out a sigh, followed by a grimace.
Jurina finally lifted up her head from her hands with full understanding of the situation so far and could not help but had that darkened expression on her face as negativity loomed the living room’s atmosphere.
“... So why tell us all this? Do you guys tell everyone your sappy story so that we’d let our guard down?” Jurina said with a supposed-to-be- intimidating smirk that just looked awkward. She knew what was being shown on her face and mentally hit herself for that. So much for trying to act courageous and stand up for both her and Rena.
“J-Jurina--!”
Rena cried out, shaking Jurina as a gesture of asking why she had said what she said and on the other hand, Miyuki looked like she was about to give Jurina a good smack but Sayaka reached out for her and shook her head, pulling her back down to the seat beside her and looked straight into Jurina’s intimidating eyes which she knew were just because Jurina was being defensive around the two suspicious seniors.
“... It’s understandable that you’d doubt us. I’m well aware of that. That’s why you can choose to leave here after you’ve rested for the night or you can choose to team up with us so we can question Charon and whatever Gods out there about this whole charade,” Sayaka answered with confidence that instantly shook Jurina’s.
The hot-headed Matsui looked away momentarily, embarrassed of her outburst when Sayaka handled her without hesitation and returned her gaze after she had briefly given the choices some thought.
“... Why team up with us when you could’ve teamed up with Yuko-senpai? Or the Guardian of Ice?”
“Because you’re the closest chance we’ll get to questioning Charon or some other God in charge of this were we to have defeated both Oshima Yuko and Maeda Atsuko. You both are the Chosen Ones after all. It’d be pointless to team up with anyone else other than you both if we want to know the reasons for us remaining here,” Sayaka swiftly answered again, with the same confidence displayed a short while ago.
Jurina shook her head and exclaimed back in annoyance, “Are you crazy? Sure we may be the Chosen Ones or whatever but we--... no... I can’t even
hold a candle to Yuko-senpai! I can’t even fight properly! How is THAT supposed to be a fighting chance overall?!”
“Simple,” Sayaka smiled to herself, “I’ll just have to pass down my fighting skills to you. Do not forget, I was once, like you, the Guardian of Fire. And it so happens we had the same Guardian weaponry— our fists.”
“So what you’re saying is that if we joined you, you’d teach Jurina how to fight while on your end, you’ll be able to confront the mastermind behind all this?” Sayaka nodded to Rena’s question in confirmation.
“When the last two Guardians are left, it’s a given that Charon would be there to oversee the proceedings personally. And at that time... you’ll be
made the victor. We just want to know the reasonings for this unfair system.”
“But--!”
Jurina was cut off by Miyuki, “As Sayaka said, you’ll most probably have to win by default no matter how much we want to attack you due to what we have experienced however, that doesn’t mean we would go easy on you both~” Miyuki had a mischievous smile formed on her lips.
“... Nngh...” Jurina pouted.
“We can give you the time you need to think about this. However... I’m pretty sure you realize time is of the essence here. The longer we stay put, the harder it is to survive in such conditions and eventually if no winner can be declared in this ‘game’, it’s highly possible that there would be yet another ‘game’ that we may participate in or... we could very well die, not knowing what would happen to our partners in the actual world,” Sayaka explained, leaving a food for thought for Jurina as she contemplated on the choices presented to her.
Rena nudged Jurina on the waist, making the latter turn to her with a conflicted expression, speaking in a soft tone so that it sounds like they were mumbling to each other, preventing the seniors from tuning in to their conversation, “It seems like a good idea to team up with Sayaka-senpai don’t you think?”
“Yeah but... don’t you think a story like that and all the facts are kinda... convenient? Don’t you find them suspicious?” Jurina voiced her concerns in the same tone of voice.
Rena agreed but continued on, “True but... they don’t look like they’re going to backstab us though...”
She paused for a while, side-glancing at the serious expression on Sayaka’s face as she looked on at the two Matsui’s discussion and Miyuki who had a worried look and hands that were clasped together as if she was praying for them to join their side.
“Plus... Sayaka-senpai’s offering to train you.”
“... I’m doubting the whole situation now though...” Jurina cupped her chin before side glancing at Sayaka who still had her face of confidence on, “You two Senpai know about the Orb that we have on us right?”
Sayaka briefly nodded, “Yes, Rena had told me about it when you were knocked out cold just now. I’ve also inspected the object too.”
“... And?”
“As far as how an Orb looks like, that is exactly it. However, to ‘claim your victory’ properly per say, the Guardians must... hmm... absorb the Orb into their weaponry and you probably hadn’t noticed but, your glove has what, four unnoticeable indents on each knuckle. At least that was how my glove was previously.”
Jurina squinted her eyes and took a while to notice the small but still barely seeable indents that Sayaka was speaking of on her gloves and acknowledged her statement with a nod before Sayaka continued with her explanation.
“Those small little indents are where the Orbs are supposed to be ‘stored’ till the final two Guardians are ready to have their showdown. It’s the same for Miyuki’s bow. The thing is,” Sayaka sighed, “The Orb that you and everyone else claims as Furukawa Airi’s Orb, is just a dupe.”
“W-What?!” Both Matsui exclaimed in unison.
“And we think that it’s the Game Master’s way of giving this whole ‘game’ a flying start. Since neither of the pairs know how the storage of the Orbs actually work other than the both of us, everyone would have naturally assumed that the Orb is just carried around like that after every win.”
“... Hence pinning the blame on us,” Rena finished Miyuki’s sentence with a face of shock.
“Then doesn’t that mean Airi-san and Churi-san are actually still in the ‘game’?!” Jurina asked, hopeful eyes beaming at Sayaka.
“I don’t know… though we shouldn’t dismiss the idea that they could still be around somewhere,” Sayaka cupped her chin in thought, not wanting to jump the gun and give too much hope to her juniors.
Miyuki smiled, “But till then~ we’re probably the only allies you both would have since Yuko-chan’s out for your blood and Atsuko-chan should be too~”
Both Jurina and Rena gulped and shivered animatedly after Miyuki’s scare which got her a light chop on the head from Sayaka and she stood up slightly after.
“A night,” Sayaka received the confused looks of her juniors face before shrugging and continuing, “I’m giving you both a night to consider. Meanwhile, do feel free to use whatever utilities you need in my house. Miyuki and I will be out securing the area for the night ‘cuz well… I know that I said my place is safe from those Dolls but it doesn’t mean that the other two Guardians who would attack us, especially you both on sight, would just ignore our presence in this house.”
“With both our energy flow accumulated together, we stick out like a sore thumb,” Miyuki giggled, “So it’s best that we, the experienced combo, protect you both through the night~”
“I hope you can come to a decision even before tonight ends, it would speed up our course of proceedings,” Sayaka smiled before reaching out to a drawer near her shelf of books and taking an automatic pistol out of it, which gave arise to panic to the the two Matsui.
“O-Oi! I-If you’re thinking of threatening--”
“No stupid,” Sayaka retorted at Jurina’s exaggerated reaction before slowly handing it over to Rena, “This is for you. It’s a great advantage if the Master knows how to protect herself when needed. Even if you both decided to not join us, that gun’s for you to keep.”
“Sayaka-senpai…” Rena reached out for the gun with trembling hands in which Sayaka grabbed onto to stop her trembling and helped her grip hold of her new weapon, “T-Thank… you…”
“Sorry to interrupt the sweet Senpai-Kouhai moment but I sense company,” Miyuki voiced out with a deeper tone of voice which was a sharp contrast with her usual cutesy voice. Sayaka gave a nod to Miyuki who nodded in return and disappeared like a flash of lightning.
“W-Whoa where did she go?” Jurina asked, astounded at how Miyuki just vanished into thin air like that after an eye-hurting spark of light.
Sayaka took off her robe right then, revealing a cool, navy blue sleeveless karate outfit on her and took out a pair of gloves that had numbers engraved on them and put them on, cracking her knuckles right after.
“Miyuki went off in advance to check who’s in the parameters. I’m going after her so you two stay here and if anything… hmm…” She gave Jurina an unimpressed look, “... Find a way to signal to us you’re in trouble. I doubt you know what you should do--”
“Of course I do! I’ll just shoot a fireball to the sky if it’s necessary!” Jurina could not stand her senpai’s sarcasm and shot back at her promptly, receiving a reassuring pat on the shoulder with a thumbs-up gesture from her senpai.
“That’ll do,” Sayaka walked swiftly towards the entrance of her house and both Matsui followed suit, “I’ll see you both later.”
“Please be careful,” Rena said with concern, earning a nod from Sayaka before she dashed out of the house.
“... So uh… what should we do now…?” Jurina asked, feeling rather awkward to break the silence that filled the house, but at that moment, they felt slight tremor within the house, followed by a loud crashing sound coming from upstairs.
Rena immediately jumped behind Jurina, gripping hard on the fabric of her bathrobe from behind, hiding for security, despite having one solid weapon of defence clasped tightly in her right hand. The latter gulped and tensed her hands, allowing her pair of hands to be engulfed in fire in case any worst case scenarios occurs.
“... S-Should… we go upstairs to check…?” Jurina asked, earning just a few tugs on her back. She supposed Rena was a bit too shaken by the sudden transpiration of events to even answer her properly.
It was up to her to make the decisions then, so she took a step forward slowly, dragging Rena along behind her, as they made their way up the stairs to face the unknown.
- - - - - -
Miyuki was standing on the rooftop to find where the source of power came from only to see a tornado spinning towards their area, however it was an unusual tornado. It did not cause any damages more like, it just looked like a spiral or a cluster of wind blasting through the town without causing any apparent harm.
“Miyuki!” Sayaka called out to her from below.
“Sayaka, it’s dangerous!” Miyuki leapt down forthwith from the rooftop and landed right beside Sayaka, engaging with the source of the tornado right on queue when it turned into the junction that led to Sayaka’s place. The spiral of wind quickly subsided, revealing a squirrel-like figure who was princess carrying a much taller figure in her arms and let her down carefully. The figure stepped in front of the taller figure, summoning a spear twice her size and pointing it directly at Miyuki who just looked on smugly.
“Just the person I’m looking for... since you interrupted my fight with that killer of a kid!!!” Yuko roared.
“You jump to conclusions too fast, Yuko-chan,” Miyuki calmly said, summoning her bow and arrow, pointing at her target.
“Y-Yuu-chan...” Haruna softly called out in concern but Yuko quickly reassured her with a wink before returning a glare towards Miyuki.
“You’re acting too hastily, Miyuki,” Sayaka spoke in a soft tone of voice that was only audible to said person.
Miyuki smirked playfully, “It’ll be fine. Don’t be such a worrywart.”
“Oi,” Yuko caught their attention rudely, “Where’s the kid and her partner? Spill the beans and I won’t pay your mumbling with each other to mind.”
“It’s sad that your element doesn’t do well in scanning for people huh~... Too bad,” Miyuki briefly nudged Sayaka on her arm with the tip of her bow, the latter quickly understanding what she wanted, “You’ll just have to go through me if you ever want to find them!”
Ending her sentence, Miyuki shot an arrow charged with electricity straight at Haruna which was swiftly deflected by Yuko’s spear and that broke the squirrel-like girl’s cool and made her lunge herself out of anger at Miyuki who smirked to herself and made Yuko follow her away from Sayaka’s home.
Haruna looked at Sayaka in fear, falling backwards and landing on her bum hardly when she accidentally tripped. Sayaka grinned intimidatingly and stared right into Haruna’s eyes, further scaring the poor soul.
“If I got rid of you now, we would have one less of a problem,” Sayaka let a puff of air escape her lips before cracking her neck and scanning her surroundings, noticing a few lifeless bodies on the floor beginning to rise to their feet.
Sayaka readied her stance which seemed like she was protecting Haruna, “... I have no interest in fighting someone who can’t even fend off for themselves,” she looked over her shoulder with a pair of cold, serious-looking orbs staring down at the helpless Haruna, “... so if you value the life you have now, get the heck outta here. NOW.”
Haruna scurried away towards the direction where Yuko possibly was at right after she struggled to get on her feet that was giving into fear, hence she had involuntarily limped to escape danger, bursting into tears of helplessness while cursing her partner for leaving her alone to enjoy a fight.
As for Sayaka, she was confident in defending herself and right now, she had to protect her house despite the fact the Dolls were prevented from access. She threw powerful punches at the enemies that approached her in a zombie-like manner, taking them down one by one with ease without even breaking a sweat. She truthfully enjoyed the thrill of boxing the ‘life’ out of her enemies even if she didn’t have any form of powers then.
“Hraahh!!!” She did a uppercut that sent a doll flying and slamming back down to the ground. Immediately after the coast was finally clear, a series of loud explosions could be heard a few blocks away from where she was. Feeling concerned about her partner’s safety, Sayaka quickly ran towards the source.
- - - - - -
Miyuki nearly ran out of breath trying to evade from Yuko’s constant waves of long-range attacks due to the reach of her spear and finally got a chance to catch her breath when she quickly found a narrow alleyway to dash into and hide momentarily,knowing eventually she might be found despite Yuko’s weaker accuracy in locating the aura of other Guardians.
“... Geez... I wanna chapu chapu when I get home...” Miyuki said softly to herself as she leaned against the wall behind her, wiping beads of sweat dripping from her forehead.
The next thing that happened were the sounds of buildings getting caught in some kind of destruction. She knew Yuko was a bit whacked out in the head but not as insane as to find her prey through crazy violence and all she could do was drag herself despite her worn out body and escape through the other end of the narrow alleyway which thankfully was Yuko’s blind spot at the moment.
“I... I’ve got to get back to Sayaka... I didn’t expect to use this much energy just to get away from Yuko-chan...” Miyuki said to herself once again, forcing her shaky legs to continue moving to safety but that didn’t help when she noticed a few lifeless bodies which are basically known as Dolls now, moving towards her in a horde of zombie-like manner.
“C-Crap...!” Miyuki cursed, lifting her arms as fast as she could and used whatever ounce of energy she had in her to summon her lightning bow to shoot a myriad of lightning arrows at her enemies, knowing full well this would lead to alerting Yuko. She had no choice if she wanted to get through and could only take the risk at this point to surrender to Yuko were they to clash right now.
Though mentally, she was blaming Sayaka for not giving her much energy due to Sayaka’s reluctance of skinship. Back in the previous game it was a different story. Miyuki was the Master and her fondness towards skinship definitely helped Sayaka gain victory in the end for both of them... is what she thought.
“Heh. Found you, Watanabe Miyuki!” A loud shout came from behind Miyuki and she closed her eyes, already fearing the worst for her.
“What’s wrong? Tired?” The voice mocked her, but she didn’t give in and continued moving forward after clearing the path before her that was previously blocked by Dolls.
“Oi!” Yuko appeared right in front of her and whacked her in the torso with the back of her spear, knocking the already-limping Miyuki backwards and right onto the cold, hard ground beneath her.
She cringed in pain, wanting to get back on her feet but the muscles in her body just wouldn’t allow her.
Yuko spat at her angrily and stormed off with Haruna when she realized another horde of Dolls were coming from the direction that Miyuki was supposed to go to, leaving Miyuki on the ground, looking rather lifeless from afar. Her consciousness was fading and all she could do is curse herself and partially Sayaka, for just giving her 1/3 of her energy for the day thinking nothing grave would happen. She tried her best to keep her eyes opened, looking at the ominous dark clouds looming above her and the eerie zombie-like sounds of the Dolls approaching where she was.
She had already given up all hope and held in her tears when out of the blue, a cold sensation tingled all over her body when a wave of cold air passed through her whole body. It was the feeling of opening a fridge that had the lowest temperature, only a whole lot colder. Miyuki knew at the back of her head that this could only be the work of the Guardian of Ice—Maeda Atsuko.
Clear footsteps were approaching her and all Miyuki did was try to get up once again, but surprisingly succeeded this time, and feeling the injury on her torso slowly disappearing. She looked directly at the figures who were a few metres away from her and quickly stood up, preparing herself in a defensive stance.
“... Looks like we managed to rescue ya by accident huh. Guess this is a setback of Atsuko’s abilities...”
The shorter figure shrugged and stopped in her tracks when Atsuko walked pass her until she was in arm’s length with Miyuki.
“... I presume Yuko was here yes?” Miyuki just nodded, “... I see...”
“I don’t know what you did but... thank you...” Miyuki said in gratitude in which Atsuko just adjusted her glasses coolly and turned back to walk towards Minami after analysing the area.
“... Minami... Yuko and Haruna were really here.”
“NyanNyan and that midget huh...” Minami grinned, “...Great. Let’s proceed.”
“What about Watanabe-san here? Shouldn’t we finish her off?”
“Miyuki!!!” A familiar voice resounded in the cold,quiet surroundings along with loud footsteps that echoed thanks to the thin layer of hard snow on the ground.
“Our primary target ain’t them,” Minami looked over her shoulder with bloodshot eyes at Sayaka who was approaching them soon and clicked her tongue, “... Let’s go.”
Atsuko lowered her head submissively, “... Understood.”
They walked past Miyuki without another word, leaving her dumbstruck for a few seconds before noticing that her surroundings have actually turned into an ice-filled row of houses. In a way, it looked breathtaking like a Winter Wonderland but it just lacked any form of life that made it quite unnerving and above all, chilly. It was not even Winter in this supposed alternate world so it was unnatural.
But that made it extremely clear that the Guardian of Ice was not a force to be reckoned with, despite her abilities having some sort of healing effect that could even assist her opponents.
Miyuki fell back on her knees, hugging herself in hopes to stop her sudden shivers due to the cold.
“Miyuki!” Sayaka approached her and quickly supported her by wrapping an arm over her shoulders, “You alright?!”
“Y-Yeah… if it weren’t for Atsuko-chan’s healing effects, I probably would have ‘died’,” Miyuki pouted, “... You had better let me touch every part of your body tonight…”
Sayaka blushed, “D-DON’T SAY INAPPROPRIATE THINGS LIKE THAT, BAKA MIYUKI!” A nerve in Sayaka suddenly made her tense her muscles and made her susceptible to the cold around her, “C-Crap it’s cold! We better hurry out of here and back home!”
“W… What about Yuko-chan? And Atsuko--”
“Let’s forget about dealing with them right now and prioritise our safety,” Sayaka slowly supported Miyuki back to her feet until the latter gestured she was well enough to walk on her own. As much as Sayaka was genuinely concerned if Miyuki was truly alright, her getup was definitely in the way of playing the cool protagonist card.
She was thankful Atsuko froze most of the places they had to go through despite the fact they had to bear with the cold since they could get back without the intervention of any Dolls.
All they both hoped and prayed for at the moment was that Jurina and Rena were doing alright back at their home.
- - - - - -
Each step they took up the stairs felt like they still needed a thousand more years to get up to the first floor of Sayaka’s house. Jurina tried to put a brave act up halfway through but it crumbled after all when she imagined weird, haunted house-like sounds in her head. That definitely didn’t help Rena as well, who jerked whenever Jurina scared herself due to her wild imagination.
They tried to be as quiet as possible when they got to the room where the source of the noise should have come from. Peeking through the gap of the room, it was just too dark to see anything. Jurina took a deep breath and told Rena to stay a few inches away from her for safety so she could kick the door open. It was a state of emergency, she thought, and prayed Sayaka wouldn’t mind if she kicked the door down.
“Here it goes……” Jurina said under her breath and with both eyes tightly closed, she put in all her strength and kicked the door down with a loud thud that followed after.
She dived in, emitting as much fire as she could from her gloves that would enable her to have a wider vision of the interior of the room but that wasn’t needed when her surprised orbs fell onto a dark figure a few inches in front of her. The figure wore a long, black robe that swayed with the wind coming in from the hole of the roof, the hood pulled towards his or her front obviously to cover the face of whoever it was.
“W-Who are you?!” Jurina shouted, causing Rena to enter the room post haste, pointing her gun shakily at the foreign figure that was currently deemed a possible threat.
The figure did not say a word but turned around slowly, revealing a person in a golden, domino mask. The shadow that casted over the eyes of the person definitely did not help in identifying who it was but it was then, the person took a familiar looking dagger that emitted a warm, brown light from within the robe and pointed it intimidatingly at Jurina, still remaining quiet.
Both Jurina and Rena’s eyes widened in shock. The only person who was the bearer of such a weapon could only have been……
“A… Airi…?”