After some time, Yuji who was resting beside a wall with his eyes closed, suddenly, he woke up.
"AH!" Yuji woke up in shock of falling asleep.
"Crap, aren't I supposed to stay on guard?" Yuji mumbled to himself.
"Huh?" Yuji said, in confusion of finding himself covered by a mat, "This is... isn't Yukina supposed to be sleeping in this?" Yuji thought as he looked around.
"That was quick," Yukina said, sitting in a corner with a floating spear above her head.
"S...sorry! I know I was supposed to keep watch..." Yuji said, feeling guilty.
"It's ok," Yukina said as she stood up and slowly approached Yuji, "You're tired, and not used to this kind of situations, so it's totally understandable,".
Yukina sat down next to Yuji and dropped the floating spear on the ground, "I'm actually surprised that you woke up early...".
"How long was I asleep?" Yuji asked.
"About five hours..." Yukina replied.
"FIVE HOURS!?" Yuji said in shock, "wait how do you know?".
Yukina reached out to her bag behind her and pulled out a small circular watch, "this, I keep some stuffs that might be essential to these kinds of situation," she said as she puts back the watch on her bag.
"So I've been sleeping for that long... I'm really sorry..." Yuji said.
"Like I said, it's understandable," Yukina replied, "Besides you didn't sleep from the get go... I actually woke up a little and saw you struggling to stay awake, eventually, I was just waiting for you to fall asleep,"
"I see... by the way, what time is it?" Yuji asked.
"It's 10 pm... I think it was around five when we got here," Yukina replied, "It's still early so you can still sleep if u want, I didn't get my three hours but I think I got enough,".
Yuji shook his head, "Nah, I'm completely awake now... and there are some things I'd like to ask you..."
"I see... it's the perfect time, isn't it?" Yukina said, "ask away,".
"Ok umm.... where should I..." Yuji said as he was thinking of what to ask.
"I need to ask a question that can give multiple answers, why is she here... how is she experienced with these kind of things, she's obviously too young to be in the military..." Yuji thought as he processed all his thoughts in to one question.
"Who... are you?" Yuji asked, "Your purpose, status, and...".
"I get it," Yukina said, interrupting Yuji.
"My name is Yukina Reiz, and I'm a special force from city A,"
"Special force!?" Yuji said in shock, " does that mean..."
"Yes, I'm one of the S classes here in the world, and I get sent off to multiple missions outside of the city while learning from our school in City A,".
Yuji was silent as he processed what Yukina said.
"That's... already a lot to take in..." Yuji said, "I knew a lot of S classes are young, but I never expected a student to be part of the special forces..."
"There are a lot of us," Yukina said, " we get teached on how to survive multiple situations such as this while we also get trained to get better at using our abilities and make us stronger,"
"That's..."
"There are a lot of things you can learn in city A, that can't be learned at other places..." Yukina stated.
"I see... so it's completely different from here," Yuji said.
"I won't say it's too different," Yukina said, "I think the only big difference is that if your a strong student, you can have the privilege of choosing to stay in school or be one of the elite forces to get trained by a higher school,".
"So you get to choose..."
"Yes, but who would pass up a good opportunity to get stronger?"
"Still... to send a young person to face against an arch demon...and your the only one!"
"I was the one who proposed it..."
"Huh?" Yuji said in shock
"I told them to send me, since I faced Glutton one on one before..."
"But why alone?"
"There was a situation..."
"A situation?"
"One of city A's walls were estimated to be targeted by a strong arch demon, far stronger than the one we've faced..."
Yuji fell silent as shivers went down his spine.
"That's why most of the strong Elites were set out to stay on guard on that place and occupied most of the slots of the special forces,"
"Why weren't you there?" Yuji asked.
"I was one of the Elites that didn't get signed up for that... I might have been an Elite, but I'm one of the lowest ranking ones,"
"I see..." Yuji said, " And your reason for being here?"
"There was a call that said a possibility of an arch demon going at your city, it seemed like no one was interested in taking it, but I took it anyways," Yukina replied, "then I stayed somewhere here close to the walls,"
"No one... was interested?" Yuji said, seeming disappointed.
"Don't blame them..." Yukina said, "This is one of the strange things that I noticed and was bugging me since earlier..."
"Strange?"
"Tell me... what is your city known for?" Yukina asked with a serious face, locking eyes with Yuji.
"That's... what was it again..." Yuji said as he tried to remember.
"Our... walls?" Yuji said, "If I remember correctly there were rumors that our city was able to push back an arch demon... and I think it was without help from special forces..."
"What if I told you that those weren't rumors..." Yukina said.
Yuji's eyes enlarged in shock, "Is that true?"
Yukina nodded, "It was recorded officially on city A, that City D has the strongest defense on walls and was able to drive away three arch demons separately before, without any help from special forces in city A, also, your city is small compared to city A, that's why it's much more easier to defend,".
"Then... our wall just couldn't handle glutton..." Yuji said.
Yukina shook her head, "Like I said, this is extremely weird... after all, Glutton had already attempted to attack this place long ago, and failed..."
"That's! I never heard of that... and earlier you said three arch demons while we only heard one..."
"Not all attacks get reported to the people inside the walls, and the only attack of an arch demon you probably heard was the first one,"
"Why..."
"Your city had handled an arch demon for the first time before, and was surprised on how lightly it was handled due to the advanced weapons used to drive the arch demon away,
and because of that, your city had been confident to handle arch demons, and didn't feel the need to tell the people,".
"That's... a lot to take in..." Yuji said, holding his head, "But for now... I guess I'll keep that in mind...".
"That this breach... is definitely weird..."
Yuji processed all the things he had learned together, "I learned the difference between the capital city, city A, and the Elites, then found a mistery regarding this chaos... there's just one more thing I'd want to know... regarding the arch demons she said earlier..."
"YAAWN"
A soft yawn came from Yukina, as she covered her mouth then wiped her eyes.
Yuji observed her and thought that she was tired.
"You should sleep..." Yuji said.
"Huh?" Yukina replied, "was that all the questions you needed to ask?"
"I pretty much got the answers to most of it, I don't need to rush don't I?" Yuji said.
"I see... but are you sure? I told you, you could sleep some more..."
"You look really tired already, plus I already slept for five hours, you can sleep till morning of you like..."
"Ok... but wake me up if something happens,"
"Of course," Yuji said as he handed over the mat to Yukina.
"Thanks..." she said as she rolled the mat all over herself and laid down on the floor.