"What is that?"
"It just protected us!"
The hostages were in awe of the water barrier that acted as a shield. As a result, the bullets did not faze them.
Yuna, who had her eyes closed due to the fright that the terrorists produced, was astounded. She looked at Harue who was also surprised but relieved.
He turned to Yuna asking if she was alright, to which she replied positively.
Just after their little exchange of words of worries, several dark blue uniformed people rushed to them.
The hostages who were more closer to the direction they were approaching, screamed, "It's the SMF!!!" which brought extreme relief to their hearts.
"Everyone stand up and follow me!!!!"
A brute looking person of the SMF took the initiative of guiding the hostages. To the order of the SMF soldier, all of the captives stood up abruptly.
From an outsider's point of view, the SMF soldier's rough command could be seen as the start of a drill sergeant's atrocious training. But for them, it was like a guide to heaven that extremely tempts them into blindly following it.
It is true and better.
At least they would escape from this hellish place.
Cries of joy exited some of the scared civilians as they stood up from their times of despair.
Harue and Yuna followed suit as the many relieved hostages ran to where the SMF soldiers were pointing at. The water barrier was still shielding the fleeing hostages, keeping them safe from being shot at.
Harue could see a blue figure on the other side of the water barrier. It was the same person that he saw when he was used as a bargaining item for the negotiation.
"Senpai! Let's go!!"
"Yes!!"
Harue and Yuna was getting carried by the wave of people desperately running. It was all going well for those two but still, it was getting really bumpy for them.
Yuna almost got thrown off by the group of people but managed to stand her ground. Harue noticed this trivial problem and tried to voice out his worry to her.
"Yuna-san be care-!"
He tripped as he was about to express his concern towards his crush. His worries have now become Yuna's worries.
Harue fell and his head struck a concrete rubble that was just laying there.
"Gah!"
"Senpai!!"
Yuna stopped in her track to get near where Harue collapsed but the wave of people running in the opposite direction did not make it easier for her.
"Kah!"
The pain of getting trampled on could be felt as the hostages kept fleeing to the exit. People did not care about others as long as it was themselves and their loved ones who were getting outside.
After much difficulty, Yuna reached Harue's location. But the sight she wanted to behold did not happen.
Blood gushing from the side of his head made part of his black hair reflect strands of red hair to Yuna's worried eyes.
"Senpai!"
She knelt near him, creating an obstacle for people to avoid while running.
Yuna lifted Harue's head as slowly and cautiously as possible. She saw how the bleeding was severe and she needed to do something quick.
Yuna soon tore the long sleeve of her white t-shirt up to her shoulder. She thought of tearing the t-shirt instead of her red skirt because the fabric of the skirt was stronger than the t-shirt.
She tied it around the wound meticulously. Yuna made herself aware to not bind it tight enough that it could cause Harue pain.
The oozing decreasingly flowed out as the torn white sleeves t-shirt got red quickly.
"Get up senpai! We have to go!!"
Yuna helped Harue as he clung onto her desperately. What he saw was only blurry visions so he could only count on Yuna to guide him.
They started to walk quickly with difficulty as Yuna noticed another peculiarity of Harue.
He was limping.
Yuna looked at both his legs and soon understood the reason for such behaviour. He had injured his left knee as seen from the jeans that got dyed red near the section of his knee.
Yuna kept on aiding Harue as she looked for help, specifically the SMF. But her position was making it really difficult for her.
Yuna and Harue were in the middle of the pack. They could not move to the side so that the soldiers would notice their critical figure. Moreover, Harue was increasing the difficulty level for Yuna to complete her objective.
"Someone help!!"
Her cries for help got shrouded by the screams of the hostages running to the guided path.
Yuna got irritated and helpless at the same time as she continued to drag Harue with her by giving him her shoulder. His arm was around Yuna's neck.
His breathing was becoming unstable and intense.
"Hang in there Senpai!!"
A few seconds after, all of the hostages safely exited this section, except for two of them who were struggling to move even a step.
Harue was light, even so, Yuna too was of the same weight and she did not have the strength to drag him any longer.
"You two, hurry and go!!
One of the SMF soldier who noticed them, approached them with quick feet. He looked at them and instantly understood their situation. He tried to take charge of the injured Harue. Yuna readily gave Harue to the soldier.
"Thank you Sir!"
"Hurry and let's get out!!"
"Yes!!"
As Yuna tried to get close with the dark blue-uniformed soldier, something in the corner of her eye caught her attention greatly.
'The water barrier is.....gone?'
A large puddle of water spread everywhere on the floor where the water barrier was last seen.
Not only that, but she also squinted her eyes to focus on the scene that was playing out afar from her.
'The Boss' that the terrorists always refer to as, was behind the blue figure, grabbing both his hands. Few moments, the grin in his face was more blatant as loud gruesome noise entered Yuna's ears.
Ths hands of the blue hero came off, leaving Yuna shocked.
"What are you staring at!? Let's go!!"
The soldier compelled Yuna to stop watching their fight scenes. Yuna wanted to see the hero counter the crazy terrorist's attack somehow, but she forced herself to leave with the SMF and Harue.
Harue was trying to focus his eyesight to be able to reduce the fuzziness of his vision. It was not an easy accomplishment for him, especially when coping with his knee injury.
Feeling alleviated of the gravity of the dire situation she was in, Yuna could not help but thank the hero and the SMF.
But it was mainly the blue hero that she felt more grateful.
As the emotions emerged to her facial expression, she averted her attention from the hero while staying close to the soldier.
But somehow, she quickly peaked again at the hero, only to be overwhelmed with jolts.
"Watch out!!"
Yuna hurriedly pushed the soldier away from her and in doing so, Harue got pulled away by the soldier since he tangled his arm around him.
The soldier was shocked by the girl's action. As he was caught by surprise, his grip on Harue lessened greatly, separating Harue from the soldier.
Angry, the soldier was about to cuss at her.
"What the-!!"
However, that was the last thing in his mind right now as something flew right past before him, taking Yuna with it.
In an instant, Yuna and that something came to a stop with the help of a concrete pillar. The girl was crushed in between that flying thing and the pillar.
"Gah!!"
Her black spectacles fell off from the impact. She was in pain as she tried to get up.
".....Yu...na!"
Harue adapted to the blurriness and was able to raise his voice at Yuna. He was on the floor trying to get up. His knee injury made him reconsider such action because the pain acted as an unsurpassable boundary.
Nevertheless, he wanted to get closer to her. Suddenly, a person suddenly grabbed her from behind by the neck.
That person was....drowning?
But a smile distorted by the water that submerged his entire face was transparently seen.
The way the terrorist was grabbing Yuna by the neck weigh Harue with anxiety exponentially.
Then, the terrorist grabbed his gun and pointed not in Harue's direction, but at the hero who he was fighting with.
*Bang*
"Neww heewds uww mwethwafwuke!!"
The terrorist, still drowning, let out these inaudible noises. The hero stopped concentrating on Bigoko, who was leaning on a pillar, who also was drowning
"Gwet wisw ofwe!!!"
From the crazy terrorist's outburst, the hero undid all of the floating water that was drowning the terrorists. Bigoko coughed due to the suffocation he has been through.
The other masked men who were also drowned got released, but it was already too late for them.
"Let go of her."
The hero's voice contained an unconcealed anger, directed to his enemy.
"Not so fast you moron. I mean, you did kick me in the face so..."
The sneering of the terrorist was too evil which brought cold sweats to Harue that was kneeling, watching their interaction. But he could not repress the insurmountable stress that he felt when watching Yuna.
"Stop please!!!"
"Hah?"
The crazy Boss veered his head slightly to his left as he looked at Harue on his knees. He was trying to get up but couldn't.
"Please do not hurt her!! I beg!"
"Haaah?? Just fucking shut up and sit down in a corner. Stop making me more pissed off already!"
"....."
Harue did what he said. Discontinuing the pleading was the best choice according to him.
The hero lost his patience and again ordered the terrorist furiously.
"Let go of her! Right now!"
"...Okay suuureee~"
The Boss strengthened his grip on the girl's neck. Grim expression instantly surfaced Yuna's face as the veins in her neck became more apparent.
"Since you are so impatient."
"Kuk!"
An anguished groan escaped from her mouth. The fingertips started to dig in and breathing became even harder for her.
"Stop pleeeaaasee!!!!!"
Harue's plea did not get heeded as the grip got even harder.
And the neck of the Yuna....
*Pak*
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
.....got dyed in red.
But strangely enough, what entered Harue's desperate ears, were...
"AAAAAAHHHH!!!!!! MY FUCKING HAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!!!"
The terrorist was agonizing greatly over his handless arm, that was cleanly cut.
The lump of meat just dropped onto the floor as the blood splattered on Yuna's leg and skirt.
The blue hero took this chance to dash forward towards those two. The terrorist's clutch of the hostage lessened to a great extent, therefore, raising a golden opportunity to rescue the girl.
Seeing the blue figure drawing rapidly close to him, the crazy terrorist tried to do the same thing that could dismember the girl's head. Fortunately, the hero was able to stop him as he kicked him in the face and protected Yuna in the process.
The hero transported the girl in a princess carry style as quickly as possible. Yuna was flustered by the action of the hero as she concentrated on the hero's mask.
He dropped her off near where Harue and the soldier, who helped them, was.
"Yuna!"
Harue, still kneeling, had a happy tone that greeted Yuna. She looked at him back with a happy and relieved expression.
Harue was about to open his mouth towards the blue hero. But a quick glance at them and the hero quickly rushed to the collapsed terrorist that was still anguishing over his lost right hand.
The blue hero kicked him again and made him fall on his stomach. He pounced on the fallen enemy as he got on top of his prey and trapped him.
"----FU-!!!!GET OFF MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
A flat palm that struck his neck, making him unconscious as the white colour of his eyes majorly covered his eyes.
".....It's over..."
A mutter that the hero let out as he looked at the blood that was oozing from the terrorist's hand.
He did not do that.
The hero, Haze did not cut off his hand.
Someone else did.
And as if to reveal the answers to the question in his mind, a presence made Haze look up at the ceiling.
A white figure that made Haze entranced in that existence which emitted a beautiful vibe.
White slim pants, white combat boots and a white top with long sleeves. A silver mask that depicted a stoic woman expression and a white coat that covered her shoulder and back.
A bulge on the figure's chest area made Haze think of the gender, inclining more towards to that of a woman.
The figure was floating, or more like standing still in the air as that existence looked down upon Haze.
"A hero..."
Haze stood up and away from the unconscious terrorist and glued his eyes on the presumable hero that Haze muttered.
What was going through Haze's mind, was absolutely in awe with the white presence that appeared before him.
There was only one that fit that Hero's description.
The Untouchable Dame.
A Platinum - Level Hero.
Trista!