~Akihitos POV~
I woke up to the rain pouring down on my face, the gloomy sky and the soil drenching my clothes.
"Aimi!" I quickly sat up and reached up, but suddenly everything replayed back into my mind and I remembered what took place.
'Aimi is gone, so is Tukomi..no..no not yet!' I thought to myself as I immediately stood up and ran, following the path of the horse hooves in the soil.
I looked around, panicking a bit as the foot steps began to fade "no..no I could've swore it was right here..Aimi"
I began to cry, Clinching my fists and hitting a tree bare handed "damn it, damn it, damn it!"
I wondered why I couldn't save them and why I was so helpless in that moment. I continued to sob as every tear had harsh pain to it.
I looked up some and saw a trail of blood leading behind a tree. I slowly followed the blood as I was fearful of what it could be.
When I came towards the tree I saw what seemed to be hair. I walked behind the tree and was frozen from head to toe.
Tears started to fall down relentlessly from my eyes as I saw ———— head behind a tree, covered in blood.
"Nooooo!" I fell to my knees, it felt as if I didn't have anymore strength in my legs or body anymore. It felt like my whole world came crashing down right in front of me and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
"I-I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you!" I yelled, crying so much and keeping my eyes closed so I wouldn't have to look at the head.
A few minutes later I stopped crying and stood up, looking up at the sky. I didn't want to say anything but, I hope the king knew I wanted to kill him with everything I had.
I rubbed the tears from my eyes then began walking, emotionless to the next level.
When I walked over to the next level the bio changed to a more rocky area with ponds of purple stuff, which seemed to be some type of acid.
I looked around and noticed some other people on the level but I tried not to let that distract me.
A guy from afar stepped on one of the rocks and fell right into the purple stuff, his skin melted right away.
I looked at him surprised "I need to be careful. Wind drive" I said as I blasted myself over some rocks and over to a grasslike area.
There were plants that were spitting out the acid, one of the plants spit acid at me but I quickly dodged.
"Hellfire!" I used hellfire and slashed some of the plants, killing them.
There were other people who were destroying the plants as well.
"Alright!" A lady from afar said, she was jumping up and down and she had what seemed to be some type of iron gloves on.
"Good job you did it" said another red haired guy next to her. There were three of them and I was surprised since I haven't been seeing many other people lately.
They began walking up to me. I quickly turned away to avoid contact with them "hey!" The red haired guy said.
"Hi.." I responded in a nonchalant tone.
"So I saw you kill some of those plants there. You must be really strong!" The girl with the iron gloves said.
"Oh..thank you? Anyways I gotta get going. I don't have time for small talk when I need to become the king"
"Yeah let him go guys I'm sorry for bothering you" a kid with yellow hair said to me in a nervous tone
"Hi my names Blake! This is Misuri and the short kid next to me here is Ichiro, nice to meet you!" The red head guy said.
"Like I said I don't care..back off I don't have time for small talk" I responded then walked off.
"But we really need more people in our party and you seem stro-" Blake began to say.
"I said back off!" I swung my sword towards them angrily. They all looked at me nervous and backed away.
"S-sorry. We'll go, come on guys" they walked off.
I watched them leave then continued to kill the plants. Once I was finished I walked off into the next level.
I looked around and noticed a person in a cloak.
My eyes widened and I ran over to them "hellfire!" I slashed my sword at it but it disappeared. It kept reappearing in places and I couldn't help but chase after it more and more.
I began to breath heavy and sweat but the person with the cloak was just standing there "come here asshole! Come here!"
Tears began to form in my eyes as I couldn't stop thinking about the events that took place.
'These people, they took Aimi they took Tukomi, they took everything I've ever loved!' I screamed in my head as I swung the sword at the figure then fell to the ground.
The cloaked figure disappeared and I slowly stood up from the ground.
'I'm done..I'm through, I'm killing the king and everyone of his henchmen if it's the last thing I do. I swear it to you mom and Aimi' I thought to myself.
It stopped raining and when I walked to the next level it was one of the break levels with the markets and civilization.
I didn't think I needed a break so I walked to a nearby store and bought some better armor with the coins I've collected.
When I was about to walk over to the next stage a guy came up beside me and looked straight ahead.
He looked strong and confident which caught my eye compared to anyone else I've seen.
"You're done sulking? If so we should really start beating these levels don't ya think?" The guy looked at me then I looked back at him.
"Who are you?" I asked curiously