Here is a quick update. Since i felt bad about letting you guys wait for so long, I decided to post this earlier than my plan. So in exchange, I'm not able to answer all of your comments cuz I need to hurry back to my study (The exam starts tomorrow! WOAAAHHHH!)
But I'll answer m00nchild's questions to make it clear for the others tooNice Updated,
A rabbit boom~ Kawaii~~
Mayu have a cute past there,
I tot it will lick wound or suck blood from cut,
but lick nose bleed?? a bit weird...
no wonder yuki was jealous.
So the sound that answering Rena is Yui huh,
If Yui was so close to them why Takamina still need find her?
mind reader sure have a range right?
Rena careful I think Jurina known about your feeling,
because Yui is tell her...
Look forward for the next update.
Takamina has to find her because Yui is hiding from the other clan because Kami-sama is looking for her. She can't be so obvious or she would get caught. And yeah, mind reader have a limited range.
To the rest, thank you all readers for reading my fic and support me until this time! I really appreciate that!!! Thanks a lot!
Before continuing, just a little note:
[{Radioed talk}]
Ok, now enjoy~Chapter 7 [Part 3]
When the sky turned dark, the big campaign started. The sun was hidden behind the rocky mountains, helping us in hiding ourselves from the enemy in front of their base. We were preparing for the big strike in the wood, near our target. Everyone was checking their weapons again to make sure they were ready.
I just received my katana from Yuki when in my last mission, it was broken so Yuki made some improvement and upgraded it for me. Its look didn’t change much but now it was made 100% of titanium so it was super hard and somehow, it fit me well. I had to thank Yuki after this. Speaking of Yuki, I could see that she was still mad at the cyborg. She completely ignored the poor little wearing a black hoodie that covered her hair since the morning and now she refused to talk to Mayu. Wow... Poor Mayu...
“OK, are the weapons ready yet?” Minami called out for us and asked while holding her twin-blade sword.
Atsuko looked around. She saw the weapons were all in our hands then nodded at Minami.
“Good. Now I’ll give this to you.” Minami gave each of us a small black earphone. “Wear this and always turn them on. This will be our bridge of communication. Yuki is in charge of this. But, the plan will be changed a little.”
Minami paused for awhile to have our attention then she continued.
“From Yuihan, I’ve learned that outside of the control room will be more dangerous than the inside. So Rena, you’ll come with me, Yuihan and Acchan. Mayuyu and Jurina will take care of the outside.”
“Eh? If it’s the reason then shouldn’t I stay with them?” I asked Minami.
“You shouldn’t be worried. Mayuyu and Jurina are our best fighters currently so it won’t be a problem for them.” Minami smiled.
I took a small glance at the youngest vampire. She noticed me and smiled, which caused me to blush again. I quickly looked away to avoid her gaze.
“O-OK...” I managed to say with all the calmness I had.
“Good. Now turn on your earphone and move out! It’s about time to go.”
We all turned on our earphones. After checking everything was ready, we followed Minami, leaving behind Yuki, Kuumi and Kanon. I was the last on in the row so I could notice the quick sad glance of Mayu giving to Yuki and then turned away. I slowly looked back at Yuki; her face didn’t show any emotion but her eyes reflected concern. I was sure that she had noticed Mayu’s glance and still cared about her a lot even though they were in a fight. Poor Mayu.
I wore my katana onto my back then followed the others. We all move out of the wood quietly.
“We’re getting near to the base. Stay low and closed, minna.” Minami said to us quietly.
We carefully sneaked out of the wood. Following Yuki’s guide, we managed to go through the first ring of security. It was a bunch of wandering low-classed vampires, easy to deal with but we had to finish them in silence so the others wouldn’t notice us. The second ring was a 10-feet-high electronic metal fence containing 10 thousands kW of electricity. There was no way that we could pass through. I thought we would have to find another way but I forgot that my teammates were vampires.
“OK. Let’s jump!” Minami whispered and immediately picked Atsuko up.
Before I reacted Minami’s order, my body was lifted up by a pair or strong arms. I found myself carried by Jurina when Mayu did the same with Yui. The vampires jumped over the fence in ease and landed on the soft ground safely, without making any sound. They put us down and quickly hid behind one of the warehouse in the base to escape the security light.
“Yukirin, what’s next?” Atsuko whispered to her earphone.
[{The main house is 500 meters from your left. There are few guards on the way so finish them off in silence OK? I’ll take care of the alarm but not the door.}]
“I’ll deal with the door.” Mayu spoke up. “Just take care of the guards and cover me.”
“I can see there are about ten of them. We can’t waste much time so make it fast. Jurina!” Minami ordered.
“My pleasure.” I saw a smirk bloomed on her lips. She rubbed her hands and twisted her neck to warm up and then summoned her black-blade sword.
In a blink of eye, she disappeared from my side. And then I heard the sound of flesh meat torn up by metal and blood poured like waterfall on the ground.
“OK, move out.” Minami signaled us to move.
We moved away from our hiding place and walked pass through all the blood and ashes on the ground. Ignoring the awful smell, we reached the white metal door of the central house, where Jurina was waiting for us. Mayu immediately went closer to the door while we secured the surrounding.
[{Ok, the alarm is off now. Do it.}]
Yuki’s voice was the signal for Mayu to do her task. In just a few seconds, the cyborg-like vampire successfully opened the door.
[{You guys have 3 minutes before they notice and the alarm goes off. Go to the main hall and turn left. The central control room is at the end of the hall.}]
“Got it. Thanks Yuki. Now move out, minna.” Minami said and rushed inside.
We followed and ran along the hall to the direction that Yuki told us with Jurina in the lead to clean the way. We met few guards but none of them survived from Jurina’s cold sword. Thanks to her amazing sword fighting skill, we reached our destination in time.
But when Mayu was trying to open the door, the alarm went off.
[{No good, guys. They’ve found out. Hurry up and get inside. There are only 20 guards in the control room. The rest are just engineers so hurry before they report to the Headquarter.}]
“Mayuyu!” Minami shouted.
“OK done!” Mayu pressed a button and the door opened. Right after that, lots of vampire guards were seen behind our back. “Go now. I and Jurina will take care of everything here.” She said while summoning her sword.
I looked at your front and also noticed a bunch of guards raising their weapons to us. I drew out my katana and along with Minami, I cleaned the way to the control room with Atsuko and Yui. Even though I had seen Jurina in action for many times already but I couldn’t help worry about her. Maybe she was strong but she still had her limit and I couldn’t stand it if she got hurt. I promised to myself that I would come to help her after I had finished my job.
We killed all the vampires blocking our way and managed to enter the empty control room. Empty... The engineers must have run away already.
“Yuihan, find a place to set the bomb.” Minami said and tossed the bunny to Yui, who caught it carefully.
“Roger that.” The Kyoto girl then went away, searching around the control room.
I and Atsuko were standing in the doorway while Minami watched over Yui. There was no guard coming for us. It seemed that Jurina and Mayu were doing their job very well.
*Beep*
“OK, done.”
Suddenly, a beep sound appeared along with Yui’s voice from behind me. And then Mayu’s voice shouted in my hear from the earphone.
[{If you guys have done setting the bomb then get your butt out of there now! We only have 10 minutes before this base becomes a desert!}]
“I know. Move out now!” Minami quickly signaled us to go out.
Nothing would ever go smoothly.
A goal couldn’t be achieved so easily.
“Not so fast, aye?”
Blocking our way, a familiar short figure holding the twin katars with a smirk on the face appeared in front of Minami.
“Yuko...” Minami exclaimed.
“You think you can get away that easy? I don’t think so~”
“Move aside, squirrel. I don’t have time to play with you.”
“Oh~ Angry already, midget?”
[{7 minutes guys! What are you doing in there?}]
Yuki’s panic voice echoed in the earphone.
“We don’t have time for you, squirrel. Yuihan!”
Minami shouted and in just a few second, Yuko was floating in the air like someone tied her and pulled her up by invisible rope. I looked over Minami’s back and saw Yui closing her eyes while her hand raised up to Yuko’s level. And with a swing, she threw the Yuko aside and slammed hard on the metallic wall.
“Good job Yuihan. Now go before she woke up.” Minami pushed Yuihan to the front.
When the three of us stepped through the black line on the floor, the door immediately closed, locking Minami inside with Yuko.
“Takamina!” Atsuko shouted, knocking on the door hopelessly while Yui was trying to open it. I used my katana to break the door but it was too hard to even leave a scratch on it.
From the other side, Minami watched us in silence. She gave out a sad smile before shaking her head slowly.
“Takamina!” Atsuko slammed her fist onto the hard door.
“Go Acchan. You can’t stay here.”
“No! I won’t leave you, Takamina!”
[{4 minutes left! Hurry up guys!}]
“You heard Yuki. We’re running out of time, Acchan. Go now. I’ll be fine.” Minami softly said.
“No! Takamina!” Atsuko only slammed harder.
“I’ll be fine. Just go.” With the last words, Minami turned her back to us and faced Yuko who just woke up from her short coma. Even though it was too small, I still could hear a small conversation behind the door.
"Ha, you have courage to destroy our armory. Now you have to pay for what you have done!"
"Yuko... I don't want to hurt you..."
"Shut up and fight already!"
[{Yuihan! Rena! Get Atsuko out of there immediately! Takamina can take care of herself!}]
Mayu shouted in our ear again. Giving no choice, Yui had to hypnotize Atsuko so she wouldn’t struggle and let us carry her out in peace. Carrying Atsuko in my arms and having Yui beside me, I ran as fast as I could and met the two vampires, Mayu and Jurina, fighting in the hallway.
“What took you so long?!?” Jurina yelled when she slashed through a guard’s throat.
“No time for stories! We have to get out of here now!” Mayu finished her words and cut off a guard’s head with her sword.
“Yuihan, clean the way for us please!” Jurina said to Yui.
The girl nodded and clapped her hands together. Right at that time, both Jurina and Mayu released their current targets and sat down. A ball of white energy formed inside Yui’s palm and right at that time, she pushed her hand forward, releasing the energy which blew everything on its way away, except for Jurina and Mayu.
“All clear.” The girl said.
The two vampires quickly got up and gestured us to follow. Jurina and Mayu killed several guards more until we reached the fence. Mayu took Atsuko from my hands and jumped over the fence first while Jurina piggybacked Yui and then picked me up on her arms.
“Hold on tight.” She said before jumped high over the fence. This time, it wasn’t a soft landing since she had to carried two more people but she didn’t get hurt or just a small bruise.
Mayu with Atsuko in her arms ran to the wood first when we followed right behind.
[{10 seconds left}]
Yuki said when we had been in the safe area away from the base. We all stared at the direction of the coming explosion while catching our breath.
“What about Takamina?” Finally, Jurina said.
“She’ll be fine. If she is not, I’ll kill her.” Mayu coldly reply.
Right at that time, a small flash of light heading from the roof of the base flying up to the dark sky caught my attention. But before I realized what it was, a loud boom and a mushroom image of flame appeared, causing a huge and strong wind blowing through the wood.
After the wind had gone, we all sat up and looked at the deserted base with concern.
“Yukirin, search for Takamina quickly.” Mayu said to her earphone.
[{Already done. She’s fine. I can catch her signal from the earphone so I think she managed to escape the explosion}]
“Yokatta...” Mayu sighed in relief.
[{Wait... What the... Who are you?!? ... Kyaahhhhh!}]
“Yukirin? What’s going on there? Yukirin! YUKIRIN!”
Before we could actually relax, there was something bad happening to Yuki’s side when we lost her contact. We couldn’t even communicate with Kumi and Kanon either. The atmosphere tensed up.
“Oh god! Yukirin!” Mayu’s face turned pale and she became panic. She immediately threw Atsuko to Jurina and ran away.
“Wait Mayu-nee!” Jurina caught Atsuko and tried to call for her but it was useless.
“Jurina, stay here with Yuihan. I’ll go with her.”
I said then followed Mayu, not waiting for Jurina’s reply. Normally, Mayu wasn’t an energetic type but because her beloved was in danger, she was like a wind. In just a blink of eye, she disappeared from my sight. I had no choice but to go Yuki’s place on my own, hopefully I wasn’t too late.
When I was almost there, I saw a figure lying on the ground next to a tree. I hastily came closer and turn the body around. To my horror, it was Kanon, badly in hurt when blood covered half of her face. Lying next to her, Kumi was no better with a broken leg and arm, and a big open wound on her chest. No matter how much I called them, they still didn’t response when both of them were in coma.
*THUD*
“Ahhhhh!”
Suddenly, I heard a loud thud along with a painful scream coming from the front. I gently set Kanon down and ran toward the source of the sound. Trees on both of my sides were all broken down like there was another explosion just happened here. But no, it was only a fight between two full-blood vampires.
When I reached the battlefield, it was just like a big mess. Branches were found everywhere. Crushed pieces of rocks were trembling on the ground because of the shock from the continuing battle. I saw Yuki was tied next to a tree nearby with a concern and panic expression of her face. Her eyes focused on the battle happening in front of her.
Mayu was fighting against a vampire that I hadn’t met before. The tall person was properly a girl with a boyish hairstyle, shorter than Jurina’s though, and a pretty handsome face. Her weapon was a double claw in both hands. By looking at the situation, I could see Mayu was in disadvantage when her opponent was much faster and stronger than her. She tried to dodge the attack but the other girl’s motions were so fast that she ended up receiving a painful kick on her stomach and flying backward.
Seeing the bad situation, I was about to take off my katana but Mayu shouted at me when she was recovering from the attack.
“Rena, no! Don’t get involved into this!”
Because of her shout, the person turned her attention to me and smirked.
“Well, well, well. What do we have here? Another hunter.”
“Rena!” Yuki exclaimed. I looked at the person and raised my katana up.
“Leave her alone, Sae. And give Yukirin back!”
“Hahaha, as if.” The person called Sae teleported next to Yuki and dragged her up, locking the freaking out girl inside the pair of arms. "I'll take her from here. If you ever want to see her alive again, do not make any stupid move before Kami-sama sends you a request to save this princess's life."
“Mayuyu!” Yuki teared up.
"I'll kill you if you dare lay a finger on her! Give her back!"
"As if you can ever beat me, little brat."
"Yukirin!!!" Mayu dashed to Sae with her sword rose up.
But before her sword could ever touch its target, Mayu once again was sent flying backward by a forceful power of the newcomer.
“Hey, Sae-chan. What are you doing with that human?” The newcomer was no one else but Yuko, completely healthy. Taking a closer look, I noticed a motionless Minami carried on her shoulder with several wounds and scratches.
“Kidnapping this girl?” Sae answered innocently.
“Baka!” Yuko hit the girl on the head, making the girl look like she just nodded even though Yuko was a head shorter than her. “Why do we need that girl anyway?”
“Because she’s special to Mayu?” Sae rubbed her head gently.
“We can’t use her, you baka! Let me handle this!”
I watched Yuko tossed Minami toward me merciless. Right after I caught her, Yuko vanished from my sight then she reappeared behind Mayu. In a quick move, she dived half of her arm into Mayu’s back, which was disappeared inside the girl. It was happening too fast that neither I nor Mayu could react. Suddenly, the other half of Yuko’s arm appeared from Mayu’s chest and floating in the mid-air, like it went through her body via a black hole. In the middle of Yuko’s palm, a blue light ball as big as a golf ball glowing. I and Yuki stared at the scene in horror while Mayu screamed out loud when Yuko closed her hand around the light ball. With a pull, Yuko withdrew her arm, holding the light ball in her hand and letting Mayu fall down on the ground, passed out.
“Mayuyu!” Yuki shouted, struggling from Sae’s grip.
“Release her, Sae.” Yuko said and Sae followed. She untied Yuki; and immediately Yuki ran to the cyborg girl.
“And you, pale girl.” I startled by the sudden call of Yuko. I blinked and just like a shadow, she appeared in front of me. She grabbed my collar and pulled my face closer to her. Not even waiting for my reaction, she whispered to my ear, giving me another shock before released me.
“OK, Sae. Let’s go back before Kami-sama gets mad.”
With the last few words, Yuko and Sae disappeared from the vision. I tried to analyzed what just happened but the noise coming from the wood interrupted everything. Running toward us was Atsuko, Jurina and Yui. Jurina was having Kumi in her arms while Kanon was in Yui’s. And when Atsuko saw the passing out Minami on my lap, she dashed to my place and hugged Minami tight while crying.
She wasn’t the only one who was crying though.
“Rena-chan...” Jurina softly called me. She looked at me then turned to another two people. I followed her direction and watched Yuki crying out loud with a motionless Mayu in her arms. No matter how hard she tried to wake Mayu up, the girl wouldn’t response a thing.
“What’s happened here?” I turned back to Jurina and let out a sigh.
“Yuko and a person called Sae were here few seconds ago. They was about to kidnap Yukirin but then they changed their mind. And Yuko did something to Mayu and what you see is the result.”
I watched Yui observed the situation and suddenly, she spoke.
“Did Yuko take something like a glowing golf ball from Mayu’s body?”
“Yes! It’s like a blue light ball!”
“Hmm... In that case... I know what happened to her. Did Yuko tell you something? An exchange?”
“.... Yes... She said if we wanted to have Mayu back,... we have to give you to them...”
I trailed off and waited for Yui’s reaction. But her face was unchanged. She just stared at the cyborg girl like she was deep in her thought.
“Yuihan... What are we going to do?” Yuki looked up with her teary eyes, asking Yui by her shaky voice.
“In the mean time, just bring all the injured people back to my place. Let Takamina decide everything. We shouldn’t rush at this time.”
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