Esmarin's POV
As usual, you wake up in your room and you spread both of your arms on the bed. It has been a while since you have woken up this peacefully. The gentle sunlight touching my bare skin felt warm, I closed my eyes. But the warmth made you remember something yesterday, he kissed my forehead. I held my forehead with both of my hands covering it. I felt my cheeks heating up this is embarrassing. Yes, he is handsome but he is a jerk. Yet I am stupidly thinking that it was his form of self-defense to hide his real emotions. Then again, he made me run like some robot around that field. This is infuriating yet the memory is still embedded in my head. This new and foreign to me, no one has ever done something intimate to me even my brother Rin. Am I overthinking this? Is it because of these clothes or the changes of face brightened up by Tiana? I had not realized that I was already stroking my hair. This place is changing me. No, I promised myself to escape from here.
*BANG* *BANG* *BOOM*
"Sorry! I'll go find someone to fix that" he yelled and immediately ran into the hallway. Meanwhile, my door vanished as if it was never there. I saw Liz standing in front of the door with someone peering in her back. Now that I think of it, the girl behind her is familiar. "I know you get to see the bad side of this place but it is actually a good place and the people here are nice." Liz continues to talking but the girl behind her slipped through and I saw her face. It is the girl that I first saw here and then the chaos continued.
"This place is good to let me think about it. Oh right, what about people trying to kill me here." Liz was trying her best to be nice, but I cannot let my guard down. "Those guys were new and the proceeding incidents are a bit intense. Instead of explaining it to you, we will show you it you." Liz drags me and the other girl follows. I won't let go but her grip is so tight. "Saine, use your sensius now and tell me what will happen." I stare at the girl and her eyes are glowing green, so she is a Panna. "Approximately ten seconds from now, she will make a run for it she hides in the court in the bushes until we will tire ourselves out." In a matter of seconds, she carries me on her shoulder.
"You're not going anywhere Esma, and how did she escape from me anyway Saine?" Saine puts on a frown on her face. "You know that today is Wednesday right? And you're favorite-" Liz puts me down and runs to the cafeteria with delight on her face. "Saine! I love you! Watch her for me! Thanks!" I stood there with the girl who can actually see the future. "My sensius Next is only limited to seven future visions for a day. It depends on the duration of the vision. And I lied to Liz about my vision, I wanted for us to be alone." I felt this different aura from her this time; she is in a calm and collected state now. "I sincerely apologize for indecency on your first day. I was supposed to make you comfortable in staying here; instead, I gave you a bad impression about this place. I don't really have that many acquaintances; I guess you have a lot before you came here." Saine was fidgeting with her hands.
I can say that she may be younger than I am, but I feel somewhat bad for her. Damn it.
"Alright. I will give this place a chance, and I think I should apologize for being inconsiderate of your feelings. Liz is quite nice to help me all this time. SOAs are still human after all." I look at her and her eyes began to sparkle in joy. "Thank you. And I should tell you in advance, if any guys try to hurt you, then they are newly obtained members here." As soon as she stood up straight, she began to face me. "I think my break is over, the Intel group is about to meet up. Do you wanna go with me?" She tilts her head as she waits for an answer.
I cannot believe that I am being soft-hearted right now. Wait a minute, she said Intel group. "You can ask Mira about your family if you want to." She starts walking and I hurriedly followed her. Her sensius has been activated for a while now. "How could this Mira find out? Can she use telepathy?" She chuckled and she covers her mouth.
"Since you've been through a lot here, I suppose that you are open about this. She is a medium but she can fully have authority and control over spirits." She opens up an authorized door in front of us. A medium so she is not an SOA then? "Based on your reaction, you think she's just gifted. Normal mediums can only hear and see spirits but they do not fully control them. Mira has solved countless deaths and crimes ever since she came here. Anyway, she can talk to the spirits and ask them." A person bumped into Saine and the guy became relieved after seeing her. "I got tired from using my sensius too much. What's the emergency Windel?" Saine keeps rubbing her forehead with her thumb and index finger.
"Gatekeeper is there." They start running and leaves me completely. Uhm, Saine why? I started to felt scared in this silent corridor. I started walking and heard some chanting. "Please come to me!" A guy was in the room near the corner of the corridor. Should I try to go there? He sounds like a lunatic. "It hurts." He started crying. I burst open the door and he looked at me.
The room was covered with anime merchandise and he was hugging a body pillow of an anime character. What have I gotten into? A woman in front of him was dressed as one of the characters on his wall. "Damn. I have been blown. You." The woman disappeared and the lights went out. Something held my shoulders and made me sit down. "You saw nothing got it." A lamp lit up on the coffee table where he was sobbing. "Why are you even here? I carefully locked the door. You are trying to steal my limited edition merchandise of Elaine, didn't you? I mean she is beautiful and amazing but don't you dare steal her." I was so worried about him and he is lecturing me as I am at fault. I punched his head and he shouted in pain. "You crazy wench." His face became pale as I glared at him.
I continued punching his head and he keeps whimpering like an abandoned puppy. "You are an ungrateful piece of lowlife; you started crying like you were being hurt. I was trying to help and I noticed your door was open already. You are trying to reverse the situation and blame it on me. Do you want to die?" My rage was at its peak and the guy pleaded to stop. He turned on the lights and the place where I was standing had a full view of his room. He is a dedicated otaku; I mean this is practically normal.
"You think that I'm weird, don't you?" After the lights were on, he was actually cute. My dear heart could not take his flustered face facing down to his toes. "No, I don't. I think that you are really a dedicated person. Aside from you accusing something without details." I closed my right eye and look at him. "Sorry." He looks like a puppy that is being tamed by his owner. I want to squeeze those cheeks so bad. Wait Esmarin calm yourself down. "I won't tell anyone about this. See ya." You patted his head and his hair was so soft.
You went out of his room and I wandered in the place. "More... Please. Ugh." I was going closer to where the moans were coming. "Aiko please..." He said in a pleading voice.
The heck! Why are they doing it in here?!
"Boring. You're done already?" The woman came out of the janitor's room and fixing her clothes. "No one's fun today. They're lucky enough that they had pleasure with me." She saw me and I backed up for a bit.
Why are there full of lunatics here? Saine? Liz? Claire? Help me!
"Are you new here? Come closer. I don't bite." She comes closer with a teasing face. Oh please let me live. "I am new; I was just wandering around here." I chuckled in an awkward manner. "I'm not homosexual, I like men only." I sighed for relief and she chuckled. "I think that I should be going now." She puts her arm on my shoulder and we started walking. "This is weird. My sensius is not working on you girly. Do you not feel lust?" This is out of my comfort zone. I cannot believe this is happening. "Isn't that somehow a weird question to ask a stranger? What about the guy you were with?" She lets off a sigh. "He's with other guys in there." She starts scanning the path.
My brain can't contain this seriously bold and daring woman, and just how many men has she did it with?!
You both heard a voice and you saw a door in front of you. "I guess you're here for Mira then. You come to me if you want to learn how to be lusty." The door opens and she pushes you in. "Bye." You only saw her smiling face and it all became black.
The room was filled with whispers and a light lit up a portion of the room. "Esmarin Dixtrie. They told me that you were coming. I'm sorry if you came and bumped into some incomprehensible incidents on the way here." She scratches her head. She's probably in her late 20's. How did she know that? Wait... "Hehehe. The spirits were just playing tricks on you. I apologize for that." I felt a chill on my back and push me onto a chair.
"Your family is fine and your brother Rin is also fine. I mean Kazuo..." She's covering her ears while concentrating. "How did you know that?" I am the only one who calls him Rin. You kept staring at her while she closes her eyes. "Your mother is doing fine as nothing has happened. It seems like her memories are gone now. It is the rule and safety measure to ensure the SOA's family safety." You frowned and lowered your head.
The fact that her memories and probably Rin too, their memories with me are gone. It would endanger them if they knew. What about my father. Wait, my dad! I can ask her.
"Mira, can you ask about my father's whereabouts?" She looked like she's having trouble and she screamed. Her left ear started bleeding. "It's like your father is hard to find. Tss. I'm sorry that I can't tell anything about your father." She took a box of tissue from below the table.
The table had no drawers, how did she get that? "I'll send you back Esmarin to the human world. Being here at the border of the spirit realm can suffocate humans." I was transported back to where I saw that lusty woman.
"I should get out of here before that lusty woman comes back." You started heading to a narrow corridor. You started to notice that you were getting lost. You looked for a door and there was only one ahead. You ran to the door and heard typing inside.
"No one is here my queen Aiko." You heard the woman's name again and without any second thoughts, you went inside the room.
"Anywhere is better than seeing that scene again." The room was filled with screens that project virtually with some kind of information. "Who's there? You are unauthorized in here." You noticed that guns were already pointed at you. "I was running away from an awful situation." You briefly explained what happened.
He lets out a sigh and deactivates the guns. Are the spirits still playing with me? This isn't funny really, I feel so tired and my brain is about to break down from the incidents that happened to me. "Esmarin, I see you came across with Aiko. I would hide too if I were you." He checks the surveillance cameras. "Practically you are harmless if you're sensius isn't activated." A notification pops up on one of the screens.