Next day…
The fight will be held a bit late in the morning, so I had plenty of time to play around. So, I allowed myself to oversleep a bit.
"Ed!" I woke up, due to the loud call of a familiar voice. "R-reina?" I mumbled. "She's gone! Anna's gone!!" She said. "Huh?" I mumbled.
"What do you mean by she's gone?" I asked, as we run the hallway to find Anna.
"I went to the infirmary so Akari can check my burn marks, and I took a nap there. When I came back to our room, Anna wasn't anywhere to be found, even Lux" Reina stated.
According to Reina, after finding out that Anna wasn't at their room she thought that Anna woke up and went somewhere with Lux, so she looked for her everywhere.
But Anna wasn't anywhere to be found. She tried finding Kirt and Gino at their room. But the two was surely at the food stalls outside.
So she tried checking Forth but he wasn't there as well. And, when she came to my and Russell's room, I was the only one there. Resulting to her waking me up, like that.
"What should I do, Ed?!" She panicked. "Calm down for now, if you're panicking like that, then Anna is surely panicking more than you" I stated.
"I'll go check some places again, you go find the others. Let's meet up at the rooftop, okay?" I stated. "Okay!" She finally calmed down.
I checked the cafeteria, the dorms and the library as well as some classrooms.
"Ed?" Someone called me from behind. I turned and said, "Fiore!" "What's wrong?" He asked.
I explained to him everything. "I see. I should help you out then" He stated as he stood from the bench we were sitting down at. "You'll help us?" I asked.
"Of course or do you not want me to?" He asked. "Like hell. I'll ask for your help, master!" I smirked.
I went to the rooftop with Fiore. "You can see the whole academy here. How indulgent it is for them to allow us this kind of privilege" Fiore mumbled.
"Hmm, what are you doing?" Fiore asked. "I'm scanning the whole academy using this thing" I stated. "Scan?" Fiore mumbled.
"Well, you can say that I am detecting the life signs of the whole academy" I said.
This thing is an instrument from the universe I came from, so it's no surprise that they don't know this.
My Element allows me to create things and even magic it as long as I have the image of it, so I can make these things.
"Still, even if that thing can detect the life signs in the whole academy it doesn't mean that you can easily distinguish the life sign of Anna-chan and Lux, right?" Fiore stated.
"That's easy, at a time of festival where do people gather around?" I smirked.
"Ah, so you're going to try and see the places where a small amount of life signs is detected" Fiore said. "Exactly!" I nodded.
Not long after that, Reina and the others came and I told them to check the places where I detected a small amount of life signs.
Well, it's more or less that the item I created detected it though.
After the three hours that we used to search all over the academy, Ana and Lux was still unable to find.
"What if they are not in the academy?" Gino said. "You're right" Reina nodded.
"Then we should try looking at the city outside the academy" I stated. "Yeah, we should" Reina agreed.
"What are you looking for, Ed?" Gino asked as he found me looking there and here. "I'm looking for the highest place where I can see the whole city" I stated.
"Then, there's that place" Kirt said.
"The clock tower, huh? Nice choice" Forth smirked.
I forgot about this place, well Kirt's right this is the highest place where I can see the whole city. "But why were you looking for a place like this?" Fiore asked.
"This thing won't be able to detect the life signs, if not in a high place like this clock tower" I explained. "Hmm, still that's convenient" Fiore mumbled.
I wish you don't get your curiosity to this thing.
"Ah!" I shouted. "W-What's wrong Ed?" Gino asked. "I finally found them! Probably?" I said, as I smiled. "Why aren't you sure?" Gino complained.
"Well, I can't see it from here, but inside this large festival there is a place where there are only 2 and the other life sign is somewhat different, I assume that is an animal's life sign.
I think this is truly Ana and Lux this time!" I stated. "We should check it!" Everyone nodded.
The bell rang. "It's time for the battle of the day…"Reina mumbled. "You should go, Ed. We will try to find Anna-chan by ourselves" Fiore stated.
"I'm sorry, but I'll be back after the battle" I said, as I hurriedly went down the clock tower. "Go win Ed!" Gino shouted. "Yeah!" I nodded.
"Now let us start the third battle, Our fighters for the decision battle of semifinals, is our very own imperial prince Edward von Collins" Shiro said, as the audience cheered for me, as I entered the stage.
"And next is your cute fighter, Joseph Claes!" Kiiro said, as the audience whistled, as he came in the stage. "Now, fight start!" They said.
After few minutes, "I-I surrender!" Joseph said. "Alright, winner Prince Edward!!" Shiro said, as I sighed. I looked at the audience seat.
Reina and the others weren't anywhere to be found. I assumed that once they've seen Anna, they will be here.
I guess I kinda beat this guy a bit fast. But, what's with this strange feeling I'm getting since earlier.
When I was about to leave the stage, I felt someone's glance.
But, there wasn't anyone who seemed to own that glance when I look around.
Was it my imagination?
I hope they already found Anna and Lux. I really hope so…