"...Why..."
"I've heard that there was a blue cute doll in the streets with a mummy man."
"?!"
'Rosae and Cody…'
Nick immediately knew what he was talking about as deep chills went down on his spine, as Charibel was mentally preparing herself to fight back since the two had nowhere else to run or hide. "Why do you want to meet her?" Nick said as he smiled creepily, "I just want to meet her, that's all…" Nick's eyes glanced at the girl but noticed something from her, causing him to notice something from her.
'That girl….is a victim to him… So not just Charibel but her?'
"...Bold claim…"
Nick summoned his cards as a fortune card appeared right in front of him, taking a tiny glance at it. "Oh? You think?" He questioned while Nick gets ready to attack, "Even if money is gonna pay for that meeting, I'm not letting your abusive nature meet her." There was a symbol that represented danger from the boy as Nick's card tapped Belle to signal her to get ready. 'Belle, sorry, but I noticed something dangerous about that man than the girl, get ready.' Charibel suddenly took the hint before her fears turned to anger. 'Good idea Nick…' As she summoned the dark magic from her umbrella with intense force of anger, while the imitation girl activates her fan and knife, "...Do you mind?" She said, "A kiss would suffice?" He smiled at her as Nick and Charibel felt the abusive aura rising up, before he gave her a kiss she immediately slapped him in the face and faced the two, "Shut the fuck up u filthy devil…" She said, causing the boy to look at her with puppy eyes before she gets ready to attack the two.
"Alright Emelyn, do your worse."
"Whatever."
The girl who was named Emelyn summoned pink flower petals and used her fan to attack the two, while the boy summoned his giant sword and got ready to attack. Charibel summoned a dark shield to block the attack before heading straight to attack Emelyn, Nick changed the cards to a rapier immediately before he blocked the incoming attack from the boy with cards to attack him but it was no use. Emelyn attacked from both sides as Charibel was getting ready to cast illusions on her, causing the girl to immediately dodged it but Belle noticed that something was off and continued her attack. The boys, on the other hand, clash their swords and jump separately as Charibel and Emelyn attack each other with knives and an umbrella's rapier endlessly. Nick looked at the boy before he decided to have a conversation during the fight as their weapons clashed into a struggle while cards were at a disadvantage to damage him.
"Who the hell are you.."
Clashing swords to each other endless times, as glares of wrath filled within their eyes, the boy smiled happily before he placed the weapon in his pocket with a glee look on his face. As Nick still mentally prepares for the next attack, while trying to analyze him.
"The Name's Kaizer Sou. I'm just a rich boy with benefits."
'Rich boy with benefits huh, yeah right…'
Nick immediately knew that Kaizer isn't rich since Sou means lie, "But when I heard that there was a girl who is blue, I can't help it you know! She looks pretty interesting for her looks, but I think she is one of the magical rare girls?" He said with a happy beam on his face, but Nick can't seem to trust him, 'That shit talks too much, his words are really creepy…' Nick thought as Kaizer was fangirling talking about her. "Her name is Rosae right? Can I meet her, can I meet her?!" Intense chills came upon him as Kaizer readied his weapon, "I wanna meet her! She looks so pretty I just wanna hang out with her, isn't that so bad? Plus she could be a good girlfriend!" Kaizer dashed forward towards Nick as the swords clashed with each other, "Your reasoning is strange Kaizer, but I am not making you meet her since your vision of meeting her is more messed up than your abusive state towards Emelyn." Nick growled before he punched Kaizer away as he used his cards to attack him, Kaizer smiles creepily as he swings his giant sword before placing it back to him.
"This does not happen…"
"Oh?"
"?"
Kaizer's personality changes from innocent to something that mentally tells Nick that the warning went from 40 to 100% real quick, Nick immediately gets ready to attack before Kaizer smirked, all of a sudden, there was a ton of blood that was slightly flowing beneath their feet. Causing Nick to look at Kaizer in shock before his eyes immediately went on the two girls who were on the floor, heavily injured which makes him feel like vomiting slightly. Charibel who took the hit from the attack, Emelyn was in the same situation but slightly worse, Belle was trying not to faint while Emelyn looked like she took the blow for her as he can see her grunting in pain.
'Emelyn protected Charibel?!'
His eyes widened when there was a huge slice on Charibel and Emelyn earlier before the boys saw blood on the floor, he looked at Kaizer trying to get the situation, but before he knew what exactly happened. "Checkmate." Kaizer says and pushes Nick to the wall with one single punch before he walks towards Emelyn as she is struggling from the sudden blow. "Gosh darn it Emelyn, you never learn to stay away from my attacks aren't yo-" His sentence was cut off when Emelyn immediately dragged the knife to his neck but the knife didn't do any damage, "Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Kaizer, you and your stupid ass abuse of an attack is a nightmare to fuking handle you sick fuck." Emelyn said with a deadly tone on her voice as Charibel was trying to get up, before Kaizer attacked Charibel, Emelyn was shocked by the sudden stab Kaizer did before he threw her to Nick in a sudden blow.
"Gezz, Emelyn you were never my type in the first place. Sometimes you and your knives need to be friends with mine."
Charibel looked at them in shock before she looked at Kaizer with intense fear, "You." Kaizer said as he looked at the struggling Charibel before his lips turned into a sadistic look on his face, "You could be my new girlfriend." Sou smiled as she heard a zipper going down, bringing her fears into max. "I wonder if you want to-" "STAY AWAY FROM ME!!!!" Kaizer smirked before he felt a card and poison petal on his pants, "Darling, what's wr-?!" His words were cut off as the pain was increasing drastically, causing him to look at where the pain was as Nick and Emelyn were glaring at him with a deadly look on their faces. "Not on MY watch." Nick said as Emelyn decided to use the poison to the max, as Kaizer cold glare was fully seen but looked like he felt no pain. "Oh well, see you soon." Causing Kaizer to leave immediately, Charibel was lifted by Nick before he held her bridal style weakly while Emelyn gave Nick bandages, as his psychic was used to bandaging everyone up and cleaning the mess immediately...
"That should wrap things up…"
"Thanks, Emelyn."
Charibel looked at Nick with a weak expression on her face.
"Nick… you…."
"Thank goodness you're still alive…"
Nick hugged Charbel closer to him, feeling the warmth on her body. He looked like even if he just met her, he can't let her go. 'Lucky them.' Emelyn thought silently and stood behind them just to look around to find Kaizer's crazy aura before realizing one thing before she summoned her fan to cast a spell. "Not time to be a romantic lover boy now, take care of her wounds before it is too late." Emelyn said before they both looked at her to reply but…
She was nowhere around.
"N….Nick…."
Charibel said weakly before Nick immediately nodded before casting a spell to teleport home, causing her to look at him before she fainted into his arms. As they both arrived at Cody's room, Rosae and Cody saw that and began to help them out with the help of Phil, while Nick told the two what to do immediately about what happened while their injuries were treated.
It was a defeat but saved by a miraculous miracle.
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Rosae entered the room in silence, 'It's been one month since the incident… And the mission is incoming for me and the others… It will be the last time we will all be in this place, I should be thankful tho…' She walked towards the desk and picked up the final note about the last report Phil wrote.
This is Phil and here is my report of the matter, after taking care of Rosae and the others so far.
Things slowly yet painfully begin to change, Charibel has joined us after the incident with the boy named Kaizer and was saved by Nick with the help of Emelyn. I've noticed that there were enemies approaching the city for an unknown purposes, murder reports were shown in the city, and many incidents around the world.
As the guardian, I have to take care of the others but the government was assigning me to go on a mission to do a file report even if it meant disappearing from the others. Rosae, Nick, and Cody know that I will be having my last day in this place, Nick will be in charge but…
I certainly had a bad feeling about that boy Kaizer.
Nick told me that he has an abusive nature, including abusing and bullying Emelyn, and wants to meet Rosae and be her boyfriend….. Which gives me a very bad feeling once I'm gone from this place.
So I decided to do one last request.
His shadow is highly useful.
Plus if something disastrous happened to Rosae, Cody will back her up.
I know it is forcing Cody, but since he said yes ever since they both meet on that fateful day. He is the important person to take care of Rosae, but knowing him, his legacy yields a passive skill that was called Shadow's Path.
What it can do was to use an extra shadow that was 100% hidden from a person's shadow, for example: if Cody has to hide within the darkness and Rosae's shadow has Cody's passive skill, he can keep an eye on her 24/7. Of course it is not a perverted way since he is not too very separated from Rosae but when she is out of his sight, his shadow will back him up.
But the most concern aside from Rosae was Cody's inner demon since he is a Shadow Master, cause there are consequences as well. The more he uses his shadows, the more horrid voices will fill in his head, it will give him headaches, many lack of sleep aka insomnia, and his eyes will force him to lose focus. But if Rosae were to find this, I hope it reaches out to her about Cody and does something about him.
Well anyway, I'll report the main things so far, after one year of the incident everyone I had taken care of had graduated from high school but I forced them to have job except Noah since his condition is worsened, thanks to the medicine Nick created Noah's condition was improving little by little and I reserved a place in the hospital for Noah to stop by for check-ups, that includes Nick to become a doctor in the hospital to provide medicine.
The next is Charibel, Rosae, and Cody, since the city needs to be protected they all offered to help out on missions. The interesting part is that they know how to fight, especially Rosae. The most concerning part is Rosae meeting Kaizer one day since Emelyn visits my cafe often and tells me the details in secret about what is Kaizer's plan. It does help Cody to do more investigating but Emelyn forces Cody to take care of Rosae ONLY, which is a good yet scary thing.
My time is up, I had to go.
No one is permitted to find me in the Magnolia Cursed Mansion.
Rosae if you find and read this, do your best.
Do not let Kaizer have his way.
"I know…"
Rosae said as she finished reading the last page before she glanced at the photo of Phil, as her fists tightened she knew one thing.
The time of that day is coming.
"This time, it will be the end of this cursed cycle…"
Rosae knew something like this were to happen, but taking advantage she has trained Noah to speak, fight, read, and advise him to handle hospital check ups. But Noah isn't the only one, she also helps Nick with the medicine, checks Cody��s conditions, and helps Charibel to train.
But something was bothering her, 'Being watched for my safety is fine tho but… What does that mean? But knowing myself and this endless cycle….'
She knew the fact that she was watched but, for what reason.
"All of my actions will be in…."
Rosae wipsered before she shook her head before she noticed Noah on the door, "Rosae, I'm heading to the hospital. Anything else to say?" Noah asked before Rosae nodded, "I want you to go check if Emelyn is alright… Something tells me that something isn't going well for her…" Noah nodded before he exited the area as Rosae looked at the picture of Phil before she placed the notes on his desk, "Thank you, Phil... '' She said while fixing his room and read the books he wrote, but Rosae didn't know that a shadow was watching her from a distance.
'Rosae… Your actions are never in vain…'
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That night at the abandoned house of the murder Emelyn, who had disappeared into the silence of the room escaping from Kaizer's abusive state, fell down and immediately grabbed the first aid kit to treat her wounds immediately after fighting with Kaizer went worse. Using stitches to gush out the wound, tears fell from her eyes, and she grunts in anger.
"Dammit….DAMMIT ALL!!!!!!"
Not caring about her mental state, she destroyed the room with a large amount of hard petals in one scoop before she sat down before continuing to treat her injuries.
"Stupid fucking Kaizer, always attacked me with his fucking skill all the time. What the fuck is his fucking problem…"
After stitching the wounds and patched the infected parts, she bandaged her waist before she went to the mirror. Her eyes were full of stress and anger including red eyes and black eyes from the punch, it slowly drove her insane. Emelyn's fist tightened before she immediately punched the mirror as the shards scattered around as her fist was crawled up in anger.
"FUCK THAT MAN!"
She yelled as the door was opened, immediately out of hand she threw the knife Kaizer got injured from the sudden knife throw. Emelyn looked at him before she summoned more poison petals, knowing that aura she knew that it was the man she used to love turned to hate. As Kaizer chuckles evilly, chills went down through Emelyn's spine as she mentally prepares his next move.
"Emelyn~ I got you some surgical poison scalps that you would love!"
"Omfg, shut the fuck up Kaizer. I don't want to live with your fuking expectations with your poison rat shit."
"Oh come on Emelyn, it is the good shit. I heard that the poison state is very high~"
"FUCK OFF RATSHIT!"
Hearing that statement causes Kaizer to chuckle in delight as Emelyn prepares to gather a crap ton of knives ready to throw at him, causing him to smirk at her before grabbing the poison scalps and throwing it at her before she throws the knives first. Causing her to feel immense pain as she felt the poison seeping in, as she knew it was a slow but painful poison. Making her weak and vulnerable right in front of Kaizer, he smiled darkly as Emelyn stared at him with a death glare look on her face.
"It was the good old times where you used to take care of me. And NOW you're treating me like a criminal? Oh come on Emelyn, I know you better, you know that we both had a future, our promise. And yet YOU just attack me on purpose just to get attention from me, geez girls are sooo hard to understand you know."
"Shut up, you never had any friends anyway."
"Says the girl who got cyber bullied, bullied in reality, victims in EVERYTHING, and NEVER had any friends."
Causing Emelyn to feel weak in the knees as she felt a gigantic impact on her legs as she felt her bones break from his sword, screaming in pain she fell to the ground trying not to cry but failed as Kaizer coldly looked at her. As her tears fastly fell from her eyes, feeling the intense pain in her weakened body, "SHIT!!!!" Her eyes widened that memory she hates to remember, feeling her right cheek slapped red as she looked away from him before feeling her own neck sore from a sudden punch as her voice weakened like a baby.
"Wha…..Why are you….like that…"
"..."
No response of pity or remorse, all Emelyn can see is darkness.
Why…
Why did he change…
We used to be one but…. Of all things.
In one frame of another, there were flames of Kaizer and Emelyn being happy together, they had been dating for almost 5 years. As the frames turned pages Emelyn noticed that something went wrong with Kaizer, the frames turned and turned the color from white to black.
Emelyn held her head as her tears worsened, as negative thoughts were spread around her mind. She felt that their lights were never on. As one completely black frame shows the reflection of Emelyn being called worse than no heals can help.
Why…
Kaizer...What took you to turn faces like that….
As Kaizer prepared the knife to finish the job, all of a sudden black flames were around him forcing Kaizer to let her go. He looked in shock to see a silhouette holding her protectively in an interesting speed, his eyes were glowing orange to activate the flames, Kaizer was about to attack but his body immediately went up in flames as he felt immense pain, "..." Feeling defeated, he ran to get the fire off but Noah knows that he is faking it and wants to finish the job but it was enough to make him go away. Where stood the autism who happened to sense and do something to the aura danger, he looked at the vulnerable Emelyn and carried her carefully, walked outside the place, and ran to the reserved hospital since he was told to go to the hospital to get a check-up Nick and Phil reserved, but Noah can request them to do a lot of help.
"W..ho…"
Emelyn looked at Noah weakly but wasn't able to finish her sentence, as Noah was using his flames to cure the poison in her body even if it meant worsening his lung cancer. He immediately patched up her wounds immediately to avoid death before picking her up.
'Sorry, Nick… But it had to be done…'
Noah looked at Emelyn before looking at the shadow, but he ignored it and did something about Emelyn's wounds by seeking help in the hospital immediately. He saved her by coincidence by the sudden yelling, before he immediately barged into the room carefully without getting caught. The shadow only did was to watch and stare at Noah's actions, before it disappeared into the darkness.
'So Noah chose to save Emelyn… Good choice…'
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"I see…"
"Yeah, do you know the two?"
"No, but I know the history of the girl Emelyn… I feel bad for her but she forced me to take care of Rosae instead..."
"Bold claim."
"No really."
Cody said as Nick was tending to Charibel's wounds, Nick gently held her hand as Cody looked at the sky. "Emelyn… She was one of the doll-like girls but the loner, she never had any friends or family to be supported with, all she had left was her abusive ex, Kaizer." He said as he drew the walls of the explanation with his shadows, "You see, her parents died in a war to protect this country from terrorists. Norway was the place she lived and much harm was done disastrously, and the only thing Emelyn had to do was work hard to survive… She barely uses the internet but, she is one of the victims there just to be mentally hurt about other people. Others feel bad for her, and others don't. Kaizer supports her but… he changed since there was an incident..." Cody said running through his notes before placing the brewed coffee on the desk.
"..What…"
Nick was shocked after hearing his testimony, while Cody pointed at the other pair of notes he found. "Kaizer was this town's hero, but something happened and it drove him insane, and many feared him." He said as he pointed at the sleeping Charibel.
"One of the fearful citizens, more likely a criminal who does the hero's dirty work. For someone… but I had no idea when and why..."
Causing Nick to realize one thing, "Cody…." He said as his own body was shaking in fear, "Can you do me one favor…" He looked at the ex-detective with confusion, before he looked at him.
"Do not let Rosae be in danger…"
That gave Cody the silence response, as Nick sighed. "Kaizer was going after Rosae, I don't know about Rosae but he was eager to see her. And it gives me the chills just thinking about it… Can you protect her from all costs of his malice?" Cody only nodded as Nick smiled at him, "Thanks Cody… That means a lot." He said and got up from his seat, "Nick, I'll go to Rosae now." He said and exited the room while Nick looked at Charibel who was almost better before the mission, gently planting a small kiss on her forehead, "Get well soon Belle." He said before he walked to his desk and read through books, 'I need to create the medicine, I hope Noah is doing well at the hospital but for now. But I had to work on curing Charibel, sorry bro…' Night thought before he grabbed the items to create the cure, 'I am going to heal you, even if it costs me my energy…'
Nick thought before he looked through all the books with his psychokinesis to read fast while preparing the next medicine. As he picked up the complete medicine and placed it in a bag and prepared the orders, all of a sudden he felt arms wrapped around his waist, causing him to look behind and noticed that Charibel was still sleeping but still hugging. As he felt his face flushed she hugged him closer before grabbing his coffee, taking a few sips, and placing it back before continuing the hugging.
"Belle…"
"Hm?"
"How long are you gonna do that…"
"Dunno."
Belle continued the hug as Nick was trying to concentrate but he realized one thing, "Charibel can you let me check your condition before the mission?" He asked before gently breaking the hug without hearing Charibel's response, she was shocked at what Nick was doing as her face felt flushed. Nick was checking her body to see if there are some wounds to be healed with the rub medicine, but he felt her body shaking as he felt his face flushed as well. What Nick was doing was gently removing her clothes to find her wounds that look fatal, he didn't even notice that their bodies were closer to each other. He was about to get out but he felt her arms wrapped around him, as he looked at her. "D-don't worry… J-just check my wounds…" She said as Nick nodded before he checked her body before he used the rub medicine on her wounds before patching it up with the long bandages, causing her to flinch by his touches before feeling delight feelings by his touches before she secretly whined when Nick pulled away and fixed her clothes. Their eyes were fixated upon each other before Nick leaned closer to her.
"You need to rest Belle."
He said as he gently carried her to his bed, "Your mission will begin and it will be a problem if you are late." He said as Charibel whined a bit, "But…" "?" But her face is flushed deep red before she shakes her head, but Nick soon gets the hint before he blushes red, 'Well….shit… I've done it again…' He thought before he placed her on his bed, "I've gotta finish the medicine, please take some rest for me okay?" He asked as she nodded before she felt her body shiver by his gentle touch before he walked back to the desk, but both's faces were extremely red.
Not noticing that the shadows were watching them before disappearing in a trance.
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Sunrises after the night, where the sakura girl wakes up from her slumber.
Getting up she looked around the area, she found herself inside the hospital room as she looked at herself, she was in her hospital gown as her wounds were being treated and a blood bag was hanging around just to keep her body in check. She looked at her side as there was a small sakura tree beside her, it gave her confusion before she noticed someone enter the room.
"! Your…"
"Good morning, Emelyn was it?"