Chapter 50 - Pristine

Tanya was getting out from the doctor's chamber. Aki moved away from Jarvi seeing that and went to Tanya. 

Jarvi was surprised to see Tanya, "Is that his spouse?" Even though he was curious,he didn't ask Aki. While getting out Jarvi saw a dark entity leaving the hospital."Shit! Somebody has made a deal. Where the hell is everyone!"

He saw everyone was busy looking at Aki. From every floor the reapers were looking downstairs. Jarvi shouted, 'You rascals! Where is you *** mind!?? Can't you see a Demon has taken a soul!'

The whole hospital became a mess. 

Tanya looked back while getting out. Aki didn't. 

'Do you have to get back to work? Let's go home together.' Tanya said.

She also wanted to test if Aki would go with her or not,''Let's see if you can ignore it when you can help."

Aki looked at her with a cold expression. Tanya didn't know what's exactly happening. 

The demon was chased by a group of reapers and by Dios and Suen guild who were the family Knight from clan Martinez and Ozuru. Helen Martinez is the current heir from her family. She is leading their guild Dios. The demon keeps running from here and there. Dios and Suen Knights had him cornered in Aki's office. They stopped their advancement temporarily when they saw it had entered the human zone. 

Nora was arranging her desk and scheduling the work. Her vision turned dark and she could not move for a while. 

'It went into this building.' one of the knights informed Helen.

'Will, take a team and enter there and adapt any role necessary. But don't let them harm any human.' Helen instructed.

The demon body drops from the upper floor to the ground. Everyone looked down as it fell down on the top of a car. The car lost its balance and was about to crash when Helen retrieved the demon's body. The soul that was taken by the demon was floating on the top of the demon's body. The reapers got down to cut the connection between them. 

'This is the most irritating part. They don't listen.' The reaper became frustrated.

He continues complaining,' We are trying to help it. If they don't want to cut, I will let it stay like that. If they don't use this opportunity they will regret it.'

The reapers could cut the thread easily. 

'What the…' They were so surprised to see the connection was already cut. 

'The connection has been severed! The demon is unconscious. So is the soul. It's not dead yet.' The reaper examines everything. 

'It has a visible face.' Another reaper said

'Who cut it?' They looked around searching for the person. 

'Ozuru Jin,didn't your aunt live here?' Helen asked Ozuru

'She would never help us.' he frowned uponHelen's expectation.

Helen smiled, 'I never said she was helping us. I was just saying, she must have helped the soul who is helpless.'

A reaper was confused and interrupted, 'The Odd-eye is back. Maybe it's his doing.'

Helen's smile disappears, 'Odd-eye?! Are you…'

Some knights surrounded the building. The reapers and the clans looked up seeing the knights being protective of the building. There were more of them standing on the roof. A vague white phoenix figure was flying behind them that represents the Knight of a clan, and that other team with their leader. 

'It's 'Phalion', that means it must be Ruan…' The reaper corrects his doubt.

Ruan Re was standing with his soul weapon that now is in cane shape. Their eyes met and he greeted them by slightly bowing his head. 

'Did Ruan Re cut this connection?' One of the reapers asks the other.

'That might not be the case.' The other one answered.

The Martinez clan and Ozuru clan were there. Reiji was looking at them. 

'Ah! The other clans had entered his territory!' The reaper suddenly reacts surprised. 

'Oh! I thought they entered Hokkaido with his permission.' The reapers waited to see for the drama that soon was going to take place.

They received his greetings. Reiji waited for an answer. 

'Pardon our intrusion. It was an emergency…' Helen apologised.

Reiji didn't say or ask anything. Helen understood that Reiji wanted more explanation. 

"Damn! I need to show proper reason otherwise this man won't hesitate to kill them and us. Even though I can see his soul name, I'm the one at a disadvantage. Others may need to see the soul name to kill but this man is able to slay anyone who approaches him, without even knowing their soul name. How the hell am I going to explain the situation! I need to keep it a secret." Helen was contradicted by the situation.

'Ruan Re...I…' Helen stops seeing Reiji hears something and looks away from them. Everyone was surprised. 

Helen tried to continue but Reiji stopped her, 'You can take his soul when his soul wakes up in that human's body.'

He looks at Helen, 'We will guard them.' 

His words were directed to the reapers and the last line was for the intruder indicating that there was no need for them to stay. Taking the human soul, the custodian reapers left. Reiji and his Knights went with them. Helen was relieved but she followed to see until the end. 

Aki looked to his other side. After a while he called Nora, 'Nora, I'm going home with Tanya. Send my car here.'

A moment after he ended the call. Tanya was surprised, 'Are you really going home with me?'

'Why? Didn't you want me to go home?' Aki was doing what she wanted..

'Ah…I did but it's ok if you don't.' Tanya became hesitant about her action.

'It's alright,Nora can handle it.' Aki smiles.

Nora got frustrated and threw her flies away, 'I'm gonna resign this time for sure!! I don't have patience like him!'

'You say that every time.' Tora mocks her. 

'I had to postpone the meeting with SA today and today he won't even check out the list of models…So how am I…' Nora continues her complaints.

Reiji didn't enter the hospital. His knights did. He was watching Aki who was with Tanya. They were getting inside the car. Helen watched it from afar. 

Helen was observing Reiji's action,"Isn't that… Ruan Siya? Why is she in a human body?! And pregnant...is that his boyfriend…"

Aki looks directly at Helen while dialling a number through the phone.

Nora's phone rings, 'Yes!'

'Send me the model's list and fix the next schedule on the day after tomorrow.' 

Nora was flabbergasted, 'sure!'

'See! He is not that irresponsible!' Tora smiles after Nora gets off the phone.

Aki's eyes made Helen paralysed as he was watching Helen while talking to Nora. She looked again at Aki who was waiting for his car.

'Is that…Ruan…' Helen mumbled.

'That's Sora's offspring. But they say he doesn't know or remember anything.' Ozuru said.

'Sora?? Ozuru Jin! Are you blind? He is Ruan Erza! His gifted eyes…' Helen couldn't finish.

'If he was really Ruan Erza, do you think he would ignore this and hang around with his girlfriend! I have seen his family house record. He is listed as Ruan-Xen Ki son of Xen-Ruan Sora,Young Master of Clan Ruan, Lord of Clan Xen.' Helen looked at Aki with disbelief after Ozuru said that.

Reiji was observing them in silence. Tanya holds Aki's hand to agitate him when she sees Rei. Aki regarded her action in perplexity.

Tanya explains, 'My hand feels cold.'

'I…see.' Aki stayed neutral.

Tanya fell asleep on the way back home. When they reached home, Aki waited for a while to see if she would wake up or not. He put his arms on the steering wheel and placed his head in them. 

"Your heartbeats have the same rhythm as me." He listens to the baby's heartbeat for a while.

Tanya didn't wake up so he got out. He opened the door and carried her out carefully. When they were in the elevator Tanya woke up and saw him carrying her.

Aki noticed Tanya was sleepy, 'Sorry for waking you up.'

'It's OK! Let me down.' Tanya tried to get off.

'It's alright, we are almost there.' The elevator door opens and Aki gets down. 

After getting fresh Tanya lies down on the bed. Aki tucked her in. Within a minute she really falls asleep. 

'I will be in my study.' Aki lets her know.

Tanya nodded with sleepy eyes, 'I will call..you.. If I need anything.'

'Sure!' Aki puts a spell on the blanket that was covering her.

A rune circle sinks in it and disappears.

Aki calls on Chev.

'Master!' Chev appears.

'Could they capture that demon?' Aki was concerned about the incident.

'Yes. Ruan Re did.' Chev answers.

'I see.' Aki seemed to have guessed the possibility.

Chev didn't question why Aki didn't help.

Aki smiles and says, 'Stay as you were till now. Just one more month.'

'We will.' Chev stayed on the balcony.

Aki starts working for the next day.