"Are you ready to move?" Mia asked with all her senses completely up. "Yea I'm" Kio had put a pistole in the gun scabbard he had taken out from the box. He clicked on a button from the box and the box returned to its original size. He putted the box in his pants pocket "Alright we can go "Kio said ready to go as he has his two weapons ready. Mio nod and the two then wandered the road they could go only.
"Are you ready to move?" Mia asked with all her senses completely up. "Yea I'm" Kio had put a pistole in the gun scabbard he had taken out from the box. He clicked on a button from the box and the box returned to its original size. He putted the box in his pants pocket "Alright we can go "Kio said ready to go as he has his two weapons ready. Mio nod and the two then wandered the road they could go only. As they had wandered in the cave, they met multiple giant bats they all were at least 15m big they had fur which was dark blue.
It had small eyes which were red and only that color was telling their location in the dark cave. "It is annoying how I want to change the ammunition but there is no need for it" he said it frustrated while Mia chuckled. "You will get used to it don't worry about it. Be happy that I gave them these that way you could be a one-man army" her eyes were sparkling of that idea.
"If I had a useful power then I could become one but sadly I don't possess any power only with your help I can go inside gates even the high-ranking ones" Kio was always grateful of what Mia was doing for him, but he wondered why she was doing that for him. "Don't be like that maybe one day something will come that can grant someone a power you could also become a meta human" meta human Kio was aware of how meta humans were popular and got a lot of money from the corpses of the monsters while clearing the gate alone is enough to get a lot of cash. "Hm what is the thing that I'm sensing?" Kio said out loud as his nose was getting bothered from something. "..." Mia was silent she did not answer his question and that made Kio worried.
"Mia" Kio said her name again, but she still did not respond. "Kio, I want you to be ready I did not want to say it but the being we will fight seems to use Aether" KIO UNDERSTOOD NOW WHY MIA REACTED THAT WAY "MIA WHY DID YOU NOT SAY THAT BEFOREHAND WE SHOULD HAVE JUST GONE OUT!" Kio was angry he shouted those words out of anger. "I know that I should have said it but I 'm sure that we will be fine I got stronger, and your enchantments are also more powerful the curses are also working. And the alpha monster here is also most likely just a giant bat" she tried to calm down the situation which did not work entirely as Kio was still angry but also panic. "Mia, I know how much you believe in yourself, but this is suicide you are not on a big city level yet your still someone who can at least destroy a mid-size city and the weakest Aether uses are big city level" he was concerned and just worried that both Mia and he would die because of a dumb mistake they did and not returning.
Mia did not dare to look at Kio face as she is sure that he won't ever trust her "We can return if you want so much" she said it quietly not daring to increase her voice when Kio suddenly hugged Mia from behind "HEY!" she shouted, and her face was red. "Can I just hug you for a moment" when Mia heard his voice she thought "Do you calm down like that?" she thought maybe she calms him down in some way but that was not the reason he hugged her "No I just wanted to hug you like this as if we die, I won't get the chance again and I would regret it" Kio was blushing when he said that, but Mia couldn't see it instead, she felt it. "You're blushing?" she chuckled but Kio countered her words "Says the one who's ears are red" both chuckled then but went silent. "Wanna go eat something when we get out of here" Kio said but Mia laughed "I pay for it I know how you have it hard as you get paid a different amount of money then I do" Kio let go of Mia and pout he was angry on how true her words were, but Mia found his pout cute and tried not to laugh at it. "Now come let's go" Mia said just so they can finally go out from that gate with a great profit.
The two of them were wary around their surrounding Kio was aiming around but he saw no bats. "Do you see it?" Kio asked silently in the dark with only the footsteps of the two to be heard and the only light source coming from their weapons. "I don't see it nearby it may be deeper in the cave when I say shoot then shoot in front of us and all around" Mia was able to see in the dark which was nothing special for nearly all meta humans.
"Understood" Kio responded "Then let's go deeper" Kio was trying to calm down his nerves were going up he tried not to fall in panic he tried to look at Mia face but the light that their weapons let out were too little, so he tried reading her body language `She seems to be calm 'he thought to himself but that was not true the slightest. `I just want to go out already come on boss get out and let me go eat with Kio´ The idea to go out and eat with Kio was making Mia excited.
Then they saw it two red dots in the far of the cave "Shoot it" Mia said the moment she saw them, and Kio did not hesitate and pressed the trigger. The bullets flew to the monster they expected to be a bat. The alpha here was not a bat no it was a vampire instead who had shapeshifted to a bat and when he saw the bullets he changed back to his real form. When Mia saw the vampire, she shouted "KIO YOU GO BEHIND THIS IS NOT A BAT BUT A VAMPIRE" when Kio heard it, he walked back as Mia told him
. The vampire rushed aggressively it seemed that he was angry, and he was after Kio, but Mia didn't let the vampire go as he wanted and attacked him. When the vampire saw the light from the sword, he backed away scared from the light and from Mia "You~ How are you using this power" the fangs from the vampire were visible he was ready to attack in any second and claws came out from the vampire too. Mia was looking at the vampire as she felt the Aether coming out from him "Why don't you make me talk. You seem to be able to use Aether too" when Mia had said that the vampire eyes became smaller two pair of wings came out from his back "You are powerful it seems so I shall fight you with all my power" Mia swallowed her spit `Let's see how it will go´ she thought to herself.