Jiro stared at him "I do know the location but it's outside of the borders of safe areas, won't it be dangerous for us?" But this was a little lie, Jiro and Ril came from the borders outside of the safe areas on Sirius, they just made up an excuse to not do the mission because, he's scared that his family might able to know his location, especially that lotus organization and his whole family are enemies "So we will not-" Ril cut off Jiro's words and easily agreed to them.
"Sure then, it's just a shard" he said while having a handshake with zeal and they're both smiling "hehehe just a shard" Zeal silently laughed, Jiro looks disappointed with Ril and sighed, he whispered to Ril "You idiot, we could've made another move instead of agreeing to the mission" Ril whispered back to him "Well, I mean it's just a shard, and it's outside of the borders, we've been traveling outside the borders so it will be easy" he said while winking, Jiro sighed
"Okay, your mission starts tomorrow" Zeal excitingly said "Tomorrow? Already?" Jiro sighed "Yes, The earlier the better, don't you think so?" Jiro keep sighing with all the happenings he got in, what a stressed day for him, while his partner, Ril looked so very excited, they're friends but they're totally opposite to each other
The next day, The day of their mission, Zeal prepared a map for them and told them which part should they start first, the man who came with 4 people yesterday when entering the room will join them for their journey, it is not Lisa, Zeal, and Chijin but it was the other guy who they do not know. He looks a bit older than both of them, he has a short brown hair while having side curtain bangs and has an eye color similar to an amethyst and he introduced himself to them while getting ready for the mission "Hello to both of you, well we already met yesterday, my name is Gabriel Vermilion, I am Zeal Vermillion's Nephew and I will be guiding you for this mission"
"I'm looking forward to working with you" Ril said happily while jiro bowed to him while saying the same thing
The place where the third shard is was on a tree with a white leaves that illuminates once it's night time, it is not far enough from the borders so the mission for them was less dangerous. The moment they step out of the borders, they can feel strong aura's that feels as if it was haunting them, but these three did not mind it, especially that they're very experienced on these kind of situations. They killed every enemies that blocked their path on their journey and surprisingly, they have arrived on the tree very fast and the missing shard was literally in front of them..... because of this...Ril felt odd, like the situations that happened are too unusual, they arrived quickly and the shard was already in front of them? Why did it felt so suspiciously easy?
But then, The moment they're in front of the shard, Ril made a move to take it but he sensed an arrow was coming for him, his eyes widened and dodged the arrow, then a girl who's about the same age as them showed up, the girl wore a white uniform with violet strokes on the edges, she had a long black hair and her hair was styled in pigtails, she has a brown eyes like every normal people and had a wisteria flowers crest at the center of her uniform "Sorry boys, but I'll be taking this shard" she shotted another arrow towards them and that one arrow that flew, split into a bunch of arrows targeting for them, Ril and Jiro avoided arrows that were going for them, but then... Ril noticed that, Gabriel was not with them anymore, Ril asked to himself 'where could he be?'
But that did not matter to him at the moment because someone literally attacked them so their survival will be his first priority, Ril used his manipulation of water and made water swords to slash at the woman but as he was summoning the water swords suddenly a pit was forming around his feet "Huh?" He was dumbfounded by the pit that formed around him, Slowly he fell into it, 'What is happening?' he ask himself, the pit he fell was very deep and it felt endless.