Meanwhile the present Arashi just observe them from afar while keeping his distance, he just smiled over the memory that he had experienced in the past
But for some reason he felt uneasy over it, as in this part of his memories, a very terrible thing would happen upon his past self and Maya
But for some reason it looks peaceful and quiet that he felt that there is nothing wrong would happen
Just after a few second, his doubt started to became a reality as out of nowhere a dark looking mist suddenly fills up the room closing any lights source from coming in
Seeing that something weird is happening, both past Arashi and Maya starts to looks panic that they took a step back from the tree as it suddenly turned wither out of sudden
"What is happening?" Said past Arashi as he started to tremble
Past Arashi then turn his view toward Maya who are looking pale in the face showing that she is scared
"Maya?!" Past Arashi shout calling out Maya who seems to be out from reality
Hearing past Arashi calling out to her, Maya then snaps back to reality while turning her head over to him
"Are you okay?!" Past Arashi ask as he started to look worried
"Y-yeah, I'm fine…" said Maya while nodding her head
She then turned over toward the way they came in and grabs past Arashi hands
"Let's get out of here…" said Maya as she started to sound scared
Past Arashi could only nodded his head while he being dragged by Maya, but before they could run away from that place, out of sudden the way they were coming from got blocked by something
Both Maya and past Arashi is surprised to see that happened, then out of sudden, sharp thorn came out from the underground forcing them to go back toward the tree
Both past Arashi and Maya had to went back toward the tree as every other possible way out are either being blocked or it's trying to attack them
Seeing how this weird phenomenon things is happening, past Arashi tried to be calm even though their life might be in danger as he could felt that Maya is scared due to her hands not stopping shaking
This is the first time past Arashi had seen Maya to be this scared as she had always been the braver between the two of them but seeing how frightened she is indicated that the things happening around them is real
Past Arashi then tried to holds Maya hand tighter to calms herself down and Maya noticed that, she then turned over toward past Arashi who are not frightened at all
Seeing him like that gave Maya a little bit of courage, she then calms herself down by taking a hard breath
After calming down, she grips on Arashi hands even tighter making Arashi to blush a little
Just as the both of them are trying to comfort each other in this scary situation out of sudden a loud scary noised can be heard echo inside the cave
"My…My…"
"What do we have here?"
Suddenly a piece of the mist break through and slither down the tree, the mist then went over the back of the tree and disappear
After a few second, a fine-looking young man appeared from behind the tree with a smile on his face
(Demon!) thought present Arashi as soon as he saw the face of the man
Arashi then tried to take out his sword from his back but then he suddenly realizes that he doesn't have it with him right now
What can he do right now is just observe them and not do anything
Arashi view went back toward his past self and Maya as the demon slowly came closer toward them, but both Maya and past Arashi tried to take a step away from him as they could feel that the demon is not a normal person
Seeing how the both Maya and past Arashi is avoiding the demon, He then tilted his head in disappointment
"Tell me…"
"Where do you come from?"
"Child…of human…" Ask the demon with a smile on his face
Both Maya and past Arashi couldn't open their mouth due to them being terrified over the demon, all both of them did is just hangs onto each other while holding hands
The demon could see that the both of them are terrified over himself, so he tried another way to make them talk
"I'm sorry…"
"You must be afraid of me, aren't you?" Said the demon as he back up a little
As the demon backs up from both of them, they became a bit less scared over him
Seeing that they are a putting their guard a little the demon smiles and continued to talk
"Let me introduce myself…"
"My name is Ray…"
"You can call me Mr. Ray." Said the demon
He then offered his hand to be shake by past Arashi and Maya but none of them could move a single muscle
"Not a shaker?"
The demon question leaves both past Arashi and Maya to be confused for a moment making them thinking is the person in front of them is a good person or is actually a bad person
"I understand…"
The demon called Ray then took away his hand from their face and starts to sits near the tree
"Could you at least tell me your name?" said Ray while looking over straight at Maya
Maya then awkwardly looks over at past Arashi and then she turned her looks back toward Ray while pointing her finger toward herself
Ray just smiles as he saw Maya looking cocky and all
"M-my name is Maya…S-Sir." Said Maya stuttering
The demon just let out a chuckle over not because Maya stuttering but because she is referring to him as Sir
"You don't have to call me Sir, you know that…"
"You can just simply call me Ray." Said Ray while smiling over toward both of them
Maya just looked down embarrassed after she been corrected by Ray
"I see…so your name is Maya…" said Ray as he observes Maya from up to down
He then gave a satisfying look over what he just observed and turned his view toward past Arashi
"How about you, little guy?"
Arashi started to panic when its finally his turn to introduce himself that he stuttered on every sentence he talks out
"Um…I-I…M-my Na-name is…"
Hearing how scared past Arashi is from the way he's talking, Ray burst out a laugh due to that
"You don't have to be that scare, you know."
"I won't eat you…" said the demon reassuring past Arashi
Hearing that did relief past Arashi a bit as he let out his breath in one blow
"M-my name is Arashi…"
"Arashi?"
"That is one weird name you have…" said Ray with a smile on his face
Past Arashi then turn his view toward the ground as soon as he heard Ray said that his name is weird
Seeing that Arashi is looking a bit sad, Ray realizes that he might had messed up their conversation and he tried to think of a way to fix it
"I-I mean it's a weird name but at least it's unique, doesn't it?" said Ray trying to comfort past Arashi
Hearing that past Arashi slightly looks up toward Ray and tried to talk to him
"Really?" ask past Arashi trying to find a confirmation
"Y-yeah, of course!"
"Can you tell me what it means?" Said Ray as he can see that it gives joy toward past Arashi
Hearing that Ray wanted to learn more about his name, past Arashi had a happy look on his face and just when he was about to talk about his name, Maya suddenly interrupted
"It's mean storm or tempest in English…" said Maya cutting of past Arashi
Past Arashi just nodded his head agreeing with what Maya just said, meanwhile Ray as he heard that just smiles toward how they have become a little open up to him
"I see…"
"As swift as a wind but as strong as a storm…"
"Your name is indeed unique, doesn't it? Arashi?" Said Ray as he stands up from his places and walk closer toward the two of them
But this time both Maya and past Arashi didn't steps back from their places as they did not seem to be afraid of Ray anymore
Instead, they are happy that Ray seems to be interested in both of them
Hearing Ray complimenting his name, past Arashi could just smiles softly as Ray is the second person to compliment his name other than his parent
The first person being Maya is undoubtful at all
"Right?!"
"I've told him that quite a long time ago but he just doesn't listen."
Said Maya with pride all over his face, hearing that makes past Arashi a bit shy over it
Ray just smiled over both of these two behavior but suddenly he felt a weird senses of feeling that someone been looking at them
He then turned over toward the dark corner that fills with thorn silently like there is something over there staring directly at them