"Why are you doing this?" I asked
"They've told me that they have a way of going through the border and I needed to kill any living survivors..."
"But now I'm here, I have my own way of going to the other side, can't you stop this?"
"I don't know anymore!"
"THEN HOW THE HELL WILL YOU FIND YOUR SISTER IF YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO MOVE FORWARD?! JUST KEEP ON MOVING FORWARD AND FORGET ANY LINGERING REGRETS, THEY WILL JUST STOP YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL!"
"..."
"Will your sister be proud of you if she sees you like this?"
"No..."
"Then stop this! I trusted you and you should also trust me! Forget about them and let's escape togeth-"
The roof of the house suddenly exploded and dust covered my field of vision. I couldn't feel the weight of Nanako, it's as if she was taken by someone. I wiped the dust off of my face and I stood up from the bed, I jumped to the now broken roof so I can survey the outside. I turned around and looked at the roof, they couldn't have gotten away that easily so they must be nearby.
"TARUS! RUN!" Nanako shouted from a distance
I turned to where I heard the voice and I saw someone cloaked running away whilst Nanako hung over his shoulders. I quickly ran after them and used corrosion on the air to teleport myself. The cloaked person was very agile as he dashed through the roofs at an astonishing speed and ease. I also boosted myself with the white flames since I couldn't keep up.
"ASSHOLE! GIVE HER BACK!"
The cloaked person looked back at me as we soared through the air, he wore a mask large enough to cover his whole head and the mask had some white glowing dots peering through the eye holes, the mouth area was in a grill pattern and it formed a smile, overall the mask was white in color unlike the cloak he wore which is dark in color. As we dashed through the air, I started to catch up to them, sometimes for support, I step on the roofs and jump to boost myself.
"TARUS RUN AWAY! STOP FOLLOWING US! WHY ARE YOU EVEN DOING THIS TO A TRAITOR?!"
"YOU MIGHT BE A TRAITOR, BUT I CAN'T LET YOU GO BECAUSE I KNOW YOUR SISTER WILL BE IN DESPAIR! I NEED YOU TWO TO MEET BECAUSE YOUR HER LAST REMAINING RELATIVE ALIVE!"
"Shut up." the cloaked guy suddenly spoke
"YOU DAMNED SNOB!"
With one final boost, I finally caught up to them, I summoned the Nemax and I threw it to the cloaked guy. The Nemax miraculously staggered the cloaked person in the leg so they both fell down mid-air.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" Nanako screamed as she fell
"NANAKO GRAB ON TO ME!" I shouted
She grabbed my arm as I also started to fall but I had a plan in mind. I summoned the Nemax back to me and I swiftly stuck to one of the nearest walls to stop us from accelerating and hitting the ground altogether.
"YOUR SO HEAVY!"
"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT TO A GROWING GIRL?"
"I'M JUST STATING THE TRUTH! SO HURRY UP AND GET DOWN!"
"BULLY!"
We got down and I summoned back the Nemax. I walked through the stone-paved path and made my way to the cloaked person whos now face-first on the ground. Nanako awkwardly followed me and she was kind of warry of the person on the ground.
"Do you know him?"
"I d-don't..."
"Well, I better tie him up and torture him for information."
"Are you really a kid?"
"I might look younger but I'm older than you."
"Ahh, this time difference sure is annoying and confusing!"
"I'm pretty sure you look older and taller than your big sister."
"THAT MEANS I CAN HUG HER! KYAAAA! I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET HER!"
"A while ago you were crying and yelling stuff about being a traitor...jeez girls really are tough to deal with..."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"STOP YELLING AND JUST HELP ME TIE THIS PERSON UP!"
"Fine."
"Oh, I'm also taking his mask and cloak."
"Isn't that plain robbery?"
"Robbery from a mass murderer?"
"No comment."
I took the cloak off from the person and his body seemed to be trained very well and he had scars indicating he was experienced. The cloak was light and it seemed to have some good protection, I'll investigate it more later. I tied the person up and I removed his mask, behind the mask was an ash grey-haired person who was probably around his mid thirty's and he's unconscious so it seems that I probably couldn't get information out of him.
"What are we going to do now?"
"We'll go back to base and prepare to leave, we can't stay here anymore, they know where we are staying now."
"I'm sorry about the traitor thing."
"I forgive you, just don't trust people who claim about something too good to be true without even having evidence."
"Noted."
I wore the cloak and mask and we made our way back to base quickly. When we got back the house was badly damaged which was caused by the explosion. I went through one of the holes in the walls and swiftly dashed for the basement.
"Celene!"
I shouted as I summoned the Nemax unconsciously, I quickly stabbed the intruder on his arms and legs while he was holding Celene down on the ground. He collapsed and Celene leaped for me.
"Where the hell were you dummy!"
"Sorry about that...Nanako was suddenly taken by someone who wore a cloak and I had to chase after him."
"Do you mean what you're wearing right now?"
"Yeah and more importantly we have to get out of here, it's highly dangerous, not only is the house damaged they probably know that we are here. Grab that persons' cloak and gather any food supplies you can grab and we'll make a run for the nearest gate which is the eastern gate!"
"Roger!" the two of them shouted
We grabbed what we could and stuffed it in a bag Nanako found. After that, we dashed for the eastern gate but it wasn't as easy as I thought. Standing and blocking the eastern gate was another person who wore a cloak but this time he didn't have any mask covering his face. Three black rigid horns grew out of his forehead, he was also quite tall, and compared to me I don't stand a chance...