Jens ran on the hard surface of the wooden floor of the cafe. It was quite an old floor, yet still steady.
Jens : "Kanade! Elsa got Felt! Ang..."
Jens looked at the injured and exhausted Angel. She had part of her uniform ripped of and her whole right hand and left leg was covered in dark, really dark blood. Angel was standing still, she was breathing as if she was out of breathe.
Angel : "I'm... fine... Where did they go to?"
Jens : "I'm not sure, Elsa grabbed Felt's scarf and took her with her. She jumped out of the window and disappeared. She can't be far away, right?"
Angel : "She... is probably reuniting with her fellow sisters. She can't be far away, the Divine Protection of Ghosts puts a really heavy weight on her Aura and might damage her Gate. She's probably still around here. I'm going with—— ugh.."
Angel lost control of her own body and fell, however, Jens caught her just in time and put her on her back.
Jens : "Don't worry... I'll save Felt and return the Insignia. Emilia is upstairs with an unconscious Nathan, can you walk the stairs?"
Angel : "Yes.. just go, I don't want to slow you down."
Jens : "Alright! Don't... die."
Jens turned around and ran towards the giant wooden door. He opened the door and the first thing he noticed was the moon shining brightly. It was truly extraordinary and beautiful. However, Jens ignored that fact and ran through the poor place and looked for signs of Elsa or Felt. He noticed that he was in a really long street, maybe kilometers long. All houses were either empty or closed with wooden blanks at the windows. He kept running until...
??? : "For fuck sake Lethias, why the hell did we listen to such an idiot as you?"
The guy who said that was a tall boy. He was wearing a white and blue skiing outfit, dark blue shorts and skiing shoes that can be attached to his snowboard. He had long light sky blue hair that when tied together with his head band, that has wave styled patterns on them, sticks up in spikes.
??? : "Sapphire, don't be so mean! We're a team, remember?
The girl who said that was petite girl. She had long blonde hair, large blue eyes, and a heart-shaped face; she was wearing a white blouse. Jens noted her for being very pretty. She wore her hair in a pony tail.
Sapphire : "I don't care. You know that the boss created the group. Krista, since when are you actually giving a fuck about Lethias?"
Jens stopped and started hiding in some brushes, dead brushes yet with colorful blue leaves. It was a brush which was shining light blue. While hiding there, Jens felt his body healing. He had the same feeling like when Emilia healed him. He didn't move and listened to the conversation between the teens.
"A healing brush? Or a magical tree? This world is indeed extraordinary... fuck how can I think of this in a situation like this?! I'll wait for them to go away and then I'll go for Elsa."
Lethias : "Don't be so annoying Sapphire. I'm not the one that lost the map of Lugnica, remember?"
The name that was given by the jerk was Lethias. He is a young looking boy with long brown hair he styles with gel. He has a slight mustache and emerald eyes. He wears green clothes with white features and patterns.
Sapphire : "Screw you! I didn't do it on purpose! If you keep on being useless I'll report it to Starla and Annie!"
Lethias : "That doesn't make me scared. I don't care that they're the leaders."
Krista : "Please... stop fighting!"
Lethias : "I'm not fighting, I'm just being realistic. This team would be better without him."
Krista : "Don't say such things! Sapphire has his moments!"
Lethias : "Whatever, let's keep searching for nothing."
Krista : "Who knows Lethias, maybe it exists. The Fallen Sun Strider told us that it exists, so it has to be real."
Lethias : "That's not exactly true, he never actually proved his powers are as he tells they are."
Sapphire : "What?! How can you think like that about our master?!"
Lethias : "Because I'm realistic. You believe everything you hear, you fool."
Sapphire : "That's not true! You fucker! If I wasn't a member of this team, I would've smashed your head and fed you to the Demon Beasts."
Krista : "SAPPHIRE! That's horrible to say!"
"Wait... maybe they can help me. That Sapphire dude looks like an idiot but he might be useful!"
Jens was scared, yet he knew that he should ask them about Elsa. He bravely came out of the brush and walked towards them.
Jens : "Hey."
Krista : "Hm?"
Krista, Sapphire and Lethias turned around and looked at Jens. All with no reaction at all.
Jens : "I... kinda need help."
Sapphire : "What is it you shrimp? We aren't your Kingdom Knights!"
Jens : "Watch your tongue, fucker! There is this psycho running around known as the Blood Hunter. She got a friend of mine. I want to kill her."
Lethias : "How ironic, we have the same taste of people we call fuckers. I'm Lethias Greenway, that's Krista Lenz and that's Sapphire Northshire. We aren't supposed to help Lugnicians like––"
Jens : "I'm not a Lugnician. I'm not sure what I am... but I need help! Please."
Krista : "He isn't lying"
Sapphire : "Well... if you aren't a Lugnician, then what the fuck are you doing here in Nastra?"
Jens : "I woke up here, with no memories of anything except my name. I still know how to fight, so don't do anything reckless."
Lethias : "That sounds... weird. Fine, we'll help you."
Sapphire : "Are you serious!? We have no time for that you fool!"
Lethias : "Hey, I don't care about you. But I prefer helping this guy rather than just patrolling around trying to find something that might not exist."
Jens : "I'm Jens."
Lethias : "Jens! Right.."
Krista : "Fine, I'll help too then..."
Sapphire : "Stop sucking his–––!"
Krista : "Stop being so mean! I'm just fifteen, remember!?"
Lethias : "Let's go Jens, what does she looks like, or what race is she?"
Jens : "She's a Vampire... that's what she said."
In the middle of the street, the four of them were standing under the moon talking about how to find Elsa.
Lethias : "I... I know how to find her, I think. I can use my Divine Protection of Clairvoyance to find a Vampire here around. Vampires are extremely rare anyway, so I guess it should work."
Jens : "Well... that would help me a lot!"
Lethias closed his eyes and in a split second––
Lethias : "She's... a couple hundred meters away from here. She's there!"
Lethias pointed to a broken house at the end of the street. It had gray walls and no roof, as it seemingly burned away.
Krista : "Let's go!"
Krista, Sapphire, Lethias and Jens ran towards the house and smashed the door. Jens immediately grabbed his sword pointed it forward.
It was a dark room where Elsa was playing with her blades. There was no furniture except for some chairs and a piano. There was a painting behind Elsa covered in blood.
"No... she didn't actually kill Felt, did she?"
Elsa : "Ah... how did you find me?"
Jens : "I've found some friends while looking for your Vampire ass."
Elsa : "How rude, but I never mentioned my race?"
Jens : "That's bec––"
Sapphire : "Who fucking cares! Jens, is this the psycho you want to kill?!"
Jens : "Yes but.. she had taken away a friend of mine..."
Elsa : "You're talking about Felt, right?"
Jens : "Where the fuck is she, Elsa?!"
Elsa : "My fellow sister is with her, upstairs."
Jens : "Slaughter her!"
Lethias somehow teleported a sword out of nowhere into his hand. Krista grabbed a staff which had a diamond at the end and was decorated with purple gems. Sapphire didn't grab any weapon, however he did charge his hands with Blue Mana, which Jens assumed was Water mana.
Elsa : "Not so fast... hmmhaahahah! AHAHHAHA! WHAHAWHAWHAWHA!"
Out of nothing, a girl appeared in front of them next to Elsa. The girl was wearing revealing white clothes. She had dark indigo hair with yellow eyes. She also had multiple blades in her hands and her face was partly covered with a mouth mask.
Elsa : "YESIS! Let's––"
Yesis : "Slaughter them like animals!"
Yesis started throwing knives and so did Elsa. Before Jens could react to the flying knives and use his sword to block it, Krista had already created a shining barrier and blocked all of them.
Yesis : "My my... She's a Yang Mage, we can use a skull of her for Mama, can't we?"
Elsa : "Great idea sister!"
Elsa again, cloned herself twice, having three Elsa's in total in the room now. All three ran towards Sapphire and pushed him into a corner. Sapphire was separated from the group and right then––
Yesis : "Kaza... Alisharo Demonica!"
Out of nowhere, multiple creatures came crawling out of the floor. It were strange creatures, rather demonic than strange. It were dogs. They have black fur, a salivating mouth with razor sharp teeth, red eyes, and looks like a wolf. They are around one meter in length
Yesis : "Demons! Fight!"
The dogs ran towards Lethias and started attacking him, Lethias ran towards another corner and started fighting them with his sword.
Yesis : "It looks like it's me against you two..."
Yesis had a disgusting look on her face. Krista was scared and was shaking out of fear.
Jens : "Calm down Krista, I won't let them hurt you!"
Krista : "R––Right! El Akra!"
Krista just created a thin light blade and pointed it towards Jens, seemingly giving him extra Mana and bonus Aura.
Jens : "I feel... stronger!"
Jens ran towards Yesis and aimed for her right leg. However, she blocked the attack with ease kicked him right in the face. But to his surprise, the kick didn't hurt at all.
Krista : "Keep it up! I have enough mana!"
Jens closed his eyes, and that's exactly when it happened. He tried to think on how to defeat all of them, and somehow Jens exploded into a dark gas cloud. He somehow created dark fog, but he could still see Yesis.
Jens : "What the..?"
Yesis : "A YIN MAGE?!"
Jens heard those words and assumed that he had unlocked his own magic. According to Yesis' words, Jens was a Yin Mage, which was according to Angel the aspect of darkness.
Jens ran towards Yesis and sliced her right arm and right leg off, succeeding in defeating her and she collapsed on the ground.
Yesis : "ELSA... UGH... RETREAT!"
Elsa : "Wha..?
One of the Elsa's turned around and noticed a fatally injured Yesis on the ground. Right then, the demonic creatures disappeared and that's when Elsa's ghosts also disappeared, however Elsa wasn't able to walk for some reason. She looked at her feet and noticed a cold substance around her legs, known as Ice.
Sapphire : "Don't turn your back towards me, you bitch!"
Sapphire wasn't really injured, only the fact that he looked exhausted made Krista worry.
Krista : "Seliumin Akra!"
Krista pointed towards Sapphire and created a sphere around him. He was being healed and Elsa lost her consciousness while standing in the sphere.
Yesis on the other hand, didn't just stay where she was. She created a portal behind her and tried to crawl towards it.
Jens : "She's getting away!"
Jens threw his sword, but it was too late and she escaped.
Jens : "What... was that?"
Krista : "She's a Demon User. It's quite rare, yet they exist.
Sapphire : "Your crazy bitch is here!"
Sapphire loud voice didn't reach Jens' brain until he actually realized that he successfully defeated the Blood Hunter and that girl called Yesis. Jens turned around and walked slowly towards Elsa. He roughly grabs her throat and...
Jens : "What the fuck are you? Who are you? Who hired you?"
Elsa : "Aa..gh.. Noo–"
Jens : "Talk or I'll cut your throat!"
Elsa : "You... fool!"
Elsa's body started to become transparent and disappeared. Then Jens realized that she used her Divine Protection to leave a Ghost behind and run away her self.
Jens : "FUCK! She's gone."
Lethias : "Ugh... That Yesis girl was a tough one."
Sapphire : "Let's not start about that crazy Elsa lady. Her movements were completely out of my league."
Krista : "Well! At least everyone is a––"
Jens : "FELT!"
Jens turned around as fast as he could and rushed the stairs upstairs. He saw an uninjured Felt laying on the ground with her consciousness lost.
Jens : "Felt! Oh my god you're alive!"
Jens looked through her pockets noticed something really important missing.
"Oh fuck! Elsa has the Insignia!"
Jens lifted her up and went back to the Motion Cafe, however––
Sapphire : "Hey!"
Jens : "What is it?"
Sapphire : "Don't forget to thank those who've helped you."
Jens : "We aren't done. That Elsa lady stole something from us, really really important to the Lugnicians."
Sapphire : "Scre––"
Lethias : "Oh, then we must help you."
Sapphire : "What the f––"
Lethias : "Please Sapphire, shut up for one minute. We'll help you find her!"
Krista : "Wait... we will?"
Jens : "Thank you Lethias. Let me bring her back to the others and then we'll look for her. Come with me please, we can use some mages."
Sapphire : "Fine... let's go."
The group walked back to the Motion Cafe and arrived after three minutes of walking. Jens opened the door and noticed a worried Nathan, a fully recovered Angel and Emilia, who had the most unique expression. She was looking as if she was so worried that her heart could possibly beat to fast and kill her.
Jens : "We... are back! I've brought some... friends I guess."
All three turned around and Nathan ran towards Jens and took Felt over and placed her on a white mattress.
Nathan : "Thank god! Oh my... you've actually done it!"
Emilia : "And my..."
Jens : "Not yet, she took it from Felt. But again, Elsa can't be far from here. This time, we'll take back what's ours and we'll crush her. How are you, Angel?"
Angel : "Hey, I'm fine. It's good you're back... but who are these three?"
Lethias : "Nice to meet you Angel. My name is Lethias Greenway. That is Sapphire Northshire and that's Krista Lenz."
Angel : "Nice to meet you all. What are you though, you look like a group."
Krista : "We're a Team of the Wa––"
Sapphire looked shockingly scared at Krista and put his hand on her mouth to prevent her of saying it.
Sapphire : "WATER GATE CITY! Yeah–– We're a part of the defensive side of the Water Gate City."
Right after Sapphire said that, Krista looked scared at Sapphire.
Angel : "Right... well, that's Emilia and I'm Kanade Tachibana. You can call me Angel."
Everyone sat down at the bar and Angel grabbed the Lugnician Map of this district. She placed it on the bar table and pointed where they are.
Angel : "We're here. Can one of you find Elsa?"
Lethias : "I can. I can use my Clairvoyance again, but that would put a huge weight on my body."
Emilia : "I can heal you, my Mana restores extraordinarily quick."
Lethias : "Ah... Thanks Ro––Emilia."
Lethias closed his eyes. But this time, his nose started to bleed and he started to shake a little.
Lethias : "Ugh!! She's... really close. I can't say where she exactly is."
Emilia : "Don't push your body too much!"
Angel : "Right! Clairvoyance is dangerous."
Jens : "Let's have a break for five minutes and prepare ourselves for tonight."
Sapphire : "Wasting time. There couldn't be a better plan, could there?"
Jens : "Just go and prepare yourselves."
Everyone went upstairs except Lethias and Jens. Lethias kept looking if there was nobody in the room and then sighed.
Lethias : "Finally... everyone is gone."
Lethias looked at Jens with his eyes half closed. Not in a romantic way, but in a relieved way.
Jens : "What?"
Lethias : "I haven't seen you in ages Jens! I wanna talk about so much like the missions I was on and––"
Jens : "What the... what the hell are you talking about?"
Lethias : "What do you mean? I haven't seen you since the Rose Extermination because you disappeared after that operation."
Jens : "What the fuck are you talking about!? I just met you!"
Jens looked angry at Lethias as he couldn't understand what he was talking about. It looked as if Lethias actually knew Jens.
Lethias : "No you didn't. Come on man, nobody is here––"
Then, the loud sound of foot steps was heard by both Lethias and Jens. A girl was walking downstairs and it was––
Elsa : "Hello pretty boys, sadly enough my sister couldn't be here at the moment due the both of you. However, we can still have a good time... right?"
Elsa had blood all over body. She was injured, but it was impossible to have that much blood on her clothes by the scratches she had.
Jens looked wrathfully at Elsa and couldn't think of a single thing except––
Jens : "I'll fucking slaughter you! This time, you won't escape!"
In the meantime somewhere else also in the poor district.
??? : "Well, my work is done for today! I can't wait to return to my mansion and just sit down and talk with my family about the past events!"
He was a tall, handsome young man with flaming red hair and blue eyes. He wore an outfit with mostly white and some red and gold patterns. He had a massive sword on his back.