Lyra was led into a room that served as a reception area and was asked to wait, she sat on one of the chairs available there was a dark haired lady sitting behind the desk punching away at the tablet, the woman didn't pay any mind to any of them, there was a man sitting next to her who was reading out loudly from a piece of paper. She found his actions distracting and plugged her ears and blocking out whatever he was saying.
The man who led her into the room came out from the door behind the dark haired woman with a pink haired girl in tow, the young girl kept trying to meet her eyes but lyra paid her no heed.
"you can enter now" the man said gesturing towards the door before leading the pink haired girl away
Lyra walked past the door and walked into the room, it was stark with nothing else in it but three chairs and a table separating them, the room smelled like mold but lyra didn't mind, she was here on an errand and she had to be done with it so she could get on with her own business.
There was a man on the opposite end of the table, he looked sickly thin and had very pale skin, since this was the very first time she met him she knew nothing about him except the name and location given to her by her mother. The man in front of her went by the name the smuggler, her mother didn't give her any information on what he did and she really didn't care but going by his name it was obvious he did something illegal but since he lived in her family's territory it meant that her mother was aware of all his dealings and she consented to it.
"what can I do for you" he asked in a raspy voice
"I was asked to give this to you" she said handing him a very small parcel
The man grunted and snatched the parcel from her and looked at the inscription on it before tossing it on his table and stretching out his hands, lyra understood what this meant and dropped two bottles into his hand. The man grunted in satisfaction and put both bottles on the table.
"we are done here, you can leave now" the man said gesturing towards the door.
Lyra walked out of the room past the supposed receptionist who seemed to be ignoring everyone who came in or out except for the man who led her in the first time, he sat on her table flirting with her. Lyra ignored them and walked out of the building.
"I told zephyrus to meet me here in an hour time and he's not here already, I wonder what he is doing right now" lyra tapped on the screen of her watch and a holographic screen came up and she clicked on call zephyrus.
When renjiro locked eyes with the man, he could feel the rage emanating from him and he turned around and ran, he wasn't sure he could take on the man with his current ability, he didn't even know if the man in question was an elite or not.
"one hour has elapsed already? And why did lyra choose to call at this exact moment" renjiro thought in frustration, inwardly cursing lyra
"who was that, if we get caught and word of this gets out to my husband, we are done for. Whoever that is catch and silence him" the woman said with a crazed look in her eyes, renjiro wasn't too far away so he heard this.
"that is someone else's wife? Irrespective of the world there are crazy people everywhere. I thought I added some points to the speed attribute, why am I not moving as fast as I would like to" he lampooned.
Renjiro turned back and saw that the man was closing in on him already, he wasn't just running blindly trying to escape the crazy man, he was running towards lyra hoping she could save him from this unfortunate situation, renjiro came across the children he met some minutes ago and one of them threw a ball at renjiro, unfortunately for him he was in motion and stepped on the ball, this sent him flying he looked like he was going to fall face first but at the last moment he used his hand as leverage and twisted acrobatically, landing on his feet and continuing his escape, the children cheered in excitement seeing this.
Passerby's looked at them in confusion as they ran past but no one bothered to interfere, renjiro cursed lyra over and over as he ran, constantly checking his watch at this point he saw that he was a few meters from lyra.
"you bastard you can't run forever, when I catch up with you, I will peel your flesh from your bones and feed them to you" the man threatened hearing this renjiro gulped in fear luckily he saw lyra just a few steps away from him.
"lyra! Lyra!" renjiro called out, his lungs felt like they were on fire and he was already having issues breathing.
Lyra heard the voice and recognized it, she turned around and saw him running towards her in panic with a dark haired muscular man in tow, her face contorted in confusion.
"did this idiot get into trouble again?"
"lyra help me stop him before he kills me" renjiro pleaded and ran behind lyra
Very few people knew this because she hid her true strength but lyra was already an amateur elite, which was greatly exceptional considering her age, renjiro wasn't sure there was any other amateur elite among the students in their school, so he was confident in her abilities to take on the man who had harassed him through town
"who are you" lyra asked the man barreling towards them
"that's none of your business, hand over the man behind you and you can leave here alive" the man warned.