The weapon resembled the same structure as Sora's weapon.
"Is this fate's humour?" I thought.
Reiji already hates me and now this powerful weapon that's supposed to be Sora's, is in my hand and my intuition was right.
Rei was fuming and sad, 'You are the killer! For a second I thought…'
His sword turned itself into a snake and became huge. It breathed out fire and my reflex instantly moved the sword to block that fire from touching me.
The sword absorbed the fire.
Reiji was not stopping, 'I can't believe you were so greedy that you would kill Sora!'
'I didn't kill anyone! Reiji she's…' I tried to say but Reiji stopped me, 'I have seen her memories, Aki! You stabbed her with her sword when you got out of the river. She hugged you saying that she was glad that she had a friend like you.'
I was not able to understand What the hell he was talking about! Why would I stab her with this sword? It was my first time seeing it physically!
'Why did you deceive me?!!' His attacks were random and disorientated.
For some reason, I could feel his desperation. I tried to dodge. Sometimes I thought let's just let him kill me. But then again, for some reason, I didn't want to leave the one I left behind at home. Their faces were flashing before my eyes. His hits became weaker. I never fought with a sword but I could block even his fastest hits.
'You don't deserve that sword!' Reiji screams
Reiji's sword glows while sharpening itself then he strikes the sword in a way so that it could cut mine...and it did. The sword was split in half. I felt a pain in my chest.
'Nooo!' Chev was running to me while screaming. 'Don't!' I could hear Chev cry out loud from here.
I don't understand why my body suddenly became numb. I could not feel the cuts that were on me. Blood had already covered my white shirt in red by then. I stood there silently watching Rei get near turning his sword into a dagger. Probably he will stab me to death. I could not take my eyes off him. His eyes were like jewels and had the face that I always adored. His expressive face was displaying hatred. He stabbed his dagger into me. I couldn't feel the pain. I guessed my body was too numb.
When I looked away from Reiji's face I could feel the warmth.
Tanya.
She blocked the dagger that was supposed to kill me.
'Tanya!?' I pushed away Reiji with a spell and held her shoulders.
'Lily!' Sayo's shaking voice reached my ear.
My head went silent and I began to hear the sound of my heartbeat. The dagger pierced Tanya's right chest rib. She had blocked Reiji by holding his shoulder. Her eyes were glowing. She threw Rei afar and Lin Ryuji, and Joshua grabbed him tight.
I was stupefied…Tanya was a Jinn…She wasn't just Tanya.
'Lily! Lily! Are you OK?' Sayo came running.
A blue entity began to form outside Tanya's body, 'No! No! What have you done!' Ruan Sayo went in a flash to Reiji and grabbed Reiji's throat, 'How could you! Why did you…'
'Rose!' Tanya whispered a name.
'Why! Why? I have always tried to avoid it...for my whole life I have been trying to prevent…' Sayo was going crazy to see Tanya hurt.
'Rose! I'm ok! It's not me! It's Haya!' A relief breathed out from Sayo's chest. But my heart clenched tight with every passing second.
Ruan Sayo came to Tanya, whom I was holding without realising, 'It was Haya?'
'Yes, I guess I won't be able to meet her anymore.' Tanya said.
Ruan Sayo started healing Tanya, 'I hope it's not hurt. It has pierced through the…'
'It's ok! I have healed it.' Tanya said.
I couldn't understand their conversation. Reiji fell over on the ground after hearing something that Joshua told him.
Sayo asked me, 'Aki! Are you alright?
I couldn't process what was all those. "Am I OK?"
'It's hard to explain but Reiji wasn't the one at fault. Sora…her body only had memories till her soul left.' Sayo tried to explain to me.
'I didn't kill her.' I told her what was the truth.
'Your body did, your soul didn't.' Ruan Sayo took me to Mei.
Tanya followed us. I looked at her. Her face was sad. Sayo asked me to touch the dead body of Sora, who was actually my Mei.
I placed my hand on Mei's forehead.
I saw why she was drenched in blood, the same dream I had about Haru, instead in the place of Haru, it was Mei, their Sora. I saw how we escaped and fell off the river and after I let go of her hand, she caught me while I was falling and saved me but as I was unconscious she put me down to heal me. But she was distracted by the search team that was almost there. I got up holding the sword and stabbed her. She smiled with a sad expression and hugged me. I didn't have the courage anymore to see the 'me' in her memories that really killed her. I fall back on the ground.
Tanya holds my shoulders.
It was hard for me to believe, 'I... I.. Kill…'
Tanya tried to convince me, 'That's not you…'
'I saw it…' I killed Sora.
'It's not you, you were possessed by someone…'I couldn't hear what she was saying. She holds my hand and begs.
Sayo as well apologises, 'I'm sorry..because of us you had this trouble…'
'But…She is...she is Mei...my friend…' I have known her since my childhood.
'Yes! She is...she is forever bound to you...my Sora…' Sayo couldn't stop her tears.
'So...You were that voice, the one who told me to save her body?' I finally got the piece of that puzzle.
Ruan Sayo didn't answer. I'm so done with all this hide-and-seek. My anger didn't flow right.
'Why did you hide all this? from Reiji!? from me!?' I burst out in frustration.
'Sora was murdered by someone who we don't know. That person has erased all her memories except this one…' Sayo was talking about the one where I had killed Sora.
'Is that person like you?' It seems only fair because humans won't harm Jinns.
Sayo seemed to be frustrated as well, 'Probably....we have yet to find…'
I acted harshly with Sayo, 'Why…why tell me now?! I know you needed my help but it was wrong to keep me in the dark… and Reiji…'
Tanya interrupted us, 'Reiji and Sora are emotionally attached. When she was banished, he erased a whole clan...innocents and neutral followers had to die because of that. Tell me now... How can we ever tell him that she is dead…'
'He is bonded to her, I'm sure he has felt…' There was no point in hiding.
'He did…for a while but he got ok after Sora's reincarnation…' Sayo didn't complete it.
I was surprised to hear that. Mei has come back.
I felt calm for a mere moment, 'Who is that?'
Sayo tried to convince me, 'We can't tell you that. This is the last secret we are keeping from you because it is our only way to catch that person…your birth was the most unpredictable coincidence that person could have ever imagined. That person is also responsible for another murder…'
'You are telling him too much…' Lisa appeared and with her, Mona was walking behind.
There was another Lady who looked much like Siya-san, accompanying them. Her eyes were like she had just stopped crying. She was looking at me. My heart felt heavy so did my head after seeing her.
'Brother Er…' She mumbled something.
'Don't make him remember Erliyen if he doesn't remember it by himself.' Lisa stopped her.
I'm seriously fed up with all this. I couldn't hold it in, 'Yes! Please keep all your secrets, I don't want to hear anything…and don't follow me anymore. I don't think I can be part of your world anymore. Whatever happens to me doesn't matter. Don't bother, please...I can't take it.' I got up and Chev came towards me.
I stumbled as my legs were numb because of sitting like that for so long. He held my arm to support me. I looked at Mei for the last time then at Rei who was expressionless. Maybe Rei was under hypnosis. I was still not over the fact that he tried to kill me.
Mona suddenly spoke up, 'That baby is your womb... Siya?!'
That word caught my attention and I stopped. Tanya was pregnant with a child. I couldn't move an inch.
'You don't need to know.' Tanya's voice was different.
Mona was angry, 'I do! Because the one in your womb is one of his killers...you knew?'
'It doesn't matter…and I don't care…this time it's my baby…' Tanya was trying to speak normally.
Mona frowns, 'You know he is back for his…'
'I never believed in foretold fate...don't expect me that I ever will...isn't he the living proof of that!' For some reason, Tanya points towards me.
'But once he remembers…' Mona couldn't dare to finish.
'I won't let him…' Tanya firmly said.
'Siya! Ruan' Erliyen tried to get closer.
Tanya cries, 'Sorry Ma! But this time…with this body I could have a child and I won't kill my child nor will anyone…'
I was so lost in my thoughts that I ignored the depth of all their conversations, "Siya-san was Tanya, she never let go of me because she was afraid...she distanced herself from me for different reasons. But I now love Reiji and I can't replace him. I will never go back to Tanya but she is pregnant…and…" I began to hear the siren.
It was really like a siren that warned me of my upcoming misfortune or so I can say or I could feel...
Erliyen looks at me, 'Brother…'
'He remembers Lily!' Sayo suddenly warns Tanya.
Tanya ran as soon as she heard Sayo.
'No! Siya… Wait!!' Erliyen tried to stop her.
'I'm so sorry! 'Remoras'' Tanya said the words that I learned from Siya-san.
My eyesight became blurry but I could see Tanya was coming towards me. I couldn't see properly because of the sound. I was still holding my ears. I tasted blood on my lips.
'Master…' Chev was petrified.
When she was almost near, I felt everything had become slow. She has slowed down her physical movement. I could hear her footsteps. I could finally remember everything. Every single moment of Ruan Erza…
Tanya stood in front of me. Her eyes were yellow instead of blue.
'I'm sorry Father Rigil!...but you have to forget yourself… for me.' Tanya touched the middle of my forehead between my eyebrows and pressed it.
I know what's going to happen. I took a last glimpse of Rei. He cut Tanya's spell with his sword and ran toward us, 'No, nooo!! Aki!'
The dark cloak surrounds me slowly blocking my sight, covering my mind. It felt cold as it began to touch my skin.