Clock tower
In a room of the tower, sounds of the piano playing was heard. Everyone who heard it can recognize the skills emitting from the sound. It showed how talented the pianist was.
Rinko : "Hmm... Maybe i need to tune up the melody at the end. I need to practice more for this new song."
??? : "New song that you are working on?"
Rinko : "Hmm... yes sensei, I had a dream about about a tower and the new song I made is called "Top". May I ask what you are doing here?"
??? : "George is calling you, I think he has a mission for you."
Rinko : "Ok."
The man in front of her is one of the 12 leader of the clock tower. He is called lord Vav the VI. Surprisingly he is not so strong, but his ability to find and teach talent students is one of the best. Even George approved him.
15 mins later
George Faust Office
George Faust : "What took you so long little one?"
Rinko : "You know I have practice today gramps."
George Faust : "You and your little obsession with music. Anyway, here catch."
George threw a letter at Rinko. The letter contained the mission for her. When she open the letter and scanned it. She frowned a little bit.
Rinko : "Performing in the Europe festival? Why is this considered a mission? Why me? And are we infiltrated a cult or something?"
George Faust : "You sell yourself low you know. A music protege who enchants their audience with her performance. It seem the higher up of the European gouvernement wants you to perform more. To put it simply, your mission is to distract the church with your performance, while your team will infiltrated it very simple."
Rinko : "So I just perform over there?"
George Faust : "Well it's your fault you know. You are so good but you only played in public occasionally."
Rinko : "Yeah and maybe if you decrease the amount of my missions, I can perform more."
George Faust : "Ok fine, just perform normally then. A lot of important people will be there so the safety of the place will be guaranteed. And remember, this is your last mission so mess up... and well you'll know the consequence."
Rinko : "Sure, gramps."
George Faust : "Good, it will happen next week, you can use this one week to prepare everything."
Rinko : "Sure, see ya."
Then she went out of George office. Performing at the Europe Festival was easy for her. But she felt that her performance is at the roadblock now. Because her music is mostly popular to the older generation, most teenager doesn't seem like her music so she decided to create a song she got in her dream.
1 week later-Europe festival
The sound of piano was heard in the hall. All of the audience seemed to enjoy the tune of the pianist. A few moment passed like that, those few moments seemed to take the soul of the audience. After the sound stoped, the audience seemed to enjoy the lingering moment of the performance in silence. Then like the previous silent was lie, a thunderous applause was heard.
Rinko : "Thank you."
She bowed and left the stage.
??? : "Beautiful performance Rinko, beautiful."
Rinko : "Are you sure you should be here? Don't you have like a mission to sneak and gain information about the church Samuel."
Samuel Anderson, one of Rinko classmates and sometimes did missions with her. He has unkempt blonde hair and dark black eyes.
Samuel : "Haha. Well we already finish it. Now my mission is to protect you."
Rinko : "I wonder what those higher up will spout. I hope it was something useless."
Samuel : "Don't say that. We are in Europe festival right now. You should have fun for your last day until you become the George's protege."
Rinko : "Yeah yeah yeah, let go grab some food at least. I am really hungry right now."
Samuel : "Haha, don't eat too much or your clothes may soon not fit you."
Rinko : "Shut up or I'm going fry your brain."
Samuel then followed Rinko to the main venue. They entered the venue and chat a bit while eating food. Rinko asked him about his relationship with Alice, one of their classmates. He seemed to panic about these little things. Then after some times, Rinko got stomach ache.
Rinko : "Oh shit that hurts, I'm going to the toilet Samuel."
Samuel :" Ok, meet me at the entrance when you are finished."
After finishing doing her thing and going to a alleyway. She was suddenly striked by a knife and. Before the knife could strike her she deployed a magic shield to protect her. She was unscathed but that did make her frown from the sudden attack.
??? : "Impressive, as expected of the George protege I guess."
Rinko : "Oh, not you again."
??? : "Indeed, it is I Elijah. Now then isn't rude to just escape, after your team stole the plan."
In front of her is Elijah one of the leader of the church, he came here with a smile on his face. But she could sense something sinister behind his smile.
Rinko : "What are you talking about I was just performing."
Elijah : "Pretending to be stupid huh, I know what your teammates did while you performed."
Rinko :'What?'
Elijah : "Since you know our plan, you are coming with us."
Rinko : "Can't you just let me go? I have a plane to catch up."
Elijah : "Of course not, do you really think you're going to get away with it. You're coming with us since maybe there would be a way to use you."
As he said that, he appeared in front of her.
Rinko : 'Fast.'
As Rinko thought, he slashed at her with intention of killing her.But before the slash could hit connect, she evaded and took a distance from him.
Rinko : "What happened to capture me? I'm pretty sure that slash was intended to kill me."
Elijah : "Don't worry. You can still be of use even if you die."
He then took out a syringe from his pocket and inject it into his body.
Elijah : "Adam blood. One of the first arch demon that terrorized the world in the past. His blood can grant me unlimited power, I almost feel bad doing this to you... well almost."
He smiled sadistically. His own body become more buffed after the injection the injection of Adam blood. Rinko could even feel his power rising, so she took out a flute and started playing a spell melody.
Rinko : "Shadow illusion."
When she said that 4 clone started to manifest and began to attack Elijah.
Elijah : " HaHaHa is that all you got?"
As he was about to destroys one of her clone, Rinko mutter a spell.
Rinko : "Redirect damage."
As he punched one of the clones, all of the 4 clones began to transfer their power to himself. Rinko used that moment to escape by using two of her spells.
Rinko : "Holy flash and Mind disarray."
A bright light enveloped the alley way and her shadow disappeared. The second spell made his mind in disorder.
After a few seconds, he recovered but Rinko was nowhere to be found.
Elijah : " Well played, but I will catch you one day."
Entrance of the festival
At the entrance of the festival, a blond haired teen was waiting for someone. Of course the boy was Samuel.
Samuel : 'Jeez what's taking her so long, I hope she isn't into trouble.'
As he finished his thought, he saw Rinko running toward him.
Samuel : "Hey Rinko what took you so-"
Rinko : "Shut up and run."
As they ran out of the festival towards a random deserted street.
Samuel : "Umm... what happened Rinko?"
Rinko : "The church know what happened. They are coming after me since I'm the only lead they have."
Samuel : "What? How did they fou-"
Rinko : "Stop talking and give me your phone."
As he give her his phone, Rinko dialed a phone number.
George Faust : "Hello Samuel what do you want?"
Rinko : "Hey gramps it's me, Rinko. I need your help."
George Faust : "Rinko?? Why do you have Samuel's phone?"
Rinko : "Well long story, but I need you to help me. The church is after me and I'm the only lead they have of the operation."
George Faust : "Umm I see, I never expected something like that to happen in the carnival. I can provide you a place to stay. I will send you coordinates to meet one of my disciples. There he will take you to safe place."
Rinko : "Thanks gramp."
George Faust : "Don't die on me little one."
As she hanged up she ran to the coordinates. After reaching her destination, she took a private plane and went to Japan.