As Kensai plummeted through the sky, the wind whipped around him in fierce currents, tugging at his clothes and tousling his hair. His body cut through the clouds, a blur against the endless expanse of blue, falling faster and faster with each passing second.
The ground seemed impossibly far, yet rushing toward him with a terrifying speed. 'I can't die like this..' He looked around looking for anything he could use to slow his fall but nothing again he was in the sky and the only approaching was a forest, and further down was a large tree in the distance.
"Breath." He says feeling his body go numb as he glances down noticing the same side wound he had received from the boar, before arriving in this place since he was alive now even with this wound, that means. "I didn't die." He says out loud.
He gets reminded of his family and his people, now he had none of them, his story has begun and now he's on a foreign planet, and the only thing he has is the memories of them, and his. "Mana." He remembers.
Closing his eyes he tries to keep calm even though his body is moving towards the floor that will end his life. He replays Hanz's words inside his head, and opens back his eyes, feeling the mana all around him this time it was golden unlike the blue they had in their world, it was more powerful and dense.
'I can't just edge the power anymore. I need to go further, beyond the boundary I placed on myself.' He thought closing back his eyes, and fouces more.
All the sounds around him seemed to slow down becoming nothing, it was all silenced until he found it. He hears the pulsating of the mana, the riddim it was going and then he listens to it, until he opens back his eyes.
A surge of power seems to burst forth, and his eyes instead of blue slowly turn gold. "I will save my world and find this boy!" He puts it out into the universe just as mana accumulates on his back and forms into transparent wings just before he passes through the trees.
Kensai floated gently toward the ground, the soft flaps of his mana wings creating ripples of wind that sent waves across the field, bending the blades of grass beneath him. The graceful descent brought a brief sense of peace as he hovered just above the earth. With one final, exhausted push, his wings dispersed into shimmering mana, fading into the air like mist in the sunlight.
His knees buckled as soon as his feet touched the ground, the weight of his fall and the drain of his energy too much to bear. Blurriness clouded his vision, and before he could steady himself, he collapsed onto his back. The world around him spun, colors blending into one another as his body grew heavy.
Through the haze, Kensai spotted something—movement in the bushes just at the edge of his sight. Someone was there, peeking through the leaves, watching him. But before he could process it fully, his gaze shifted forward, catching a faint glimmer in front of him. Something shining, something powerful.
"System... conjoining?" he muttered weakly, the words slipping from his lips as his consciousness faded
"Papa!" A high-pitched, child-like voice rang out as a small figure dashed from her hiding spot, sprinting toward Kensai with wide, worried eyes. Her tiny feet barely made a sound as she crossed the field, her face a mix of concern and excitement. She skidded to a stop beside his motionless body, dropping to her knees, hands fluttering in the air as if unsure where to touch him.
"I finally caught a fallen angel!" she cheered, her tone bright despite the anxiety in her expression. She reached out carefully, her small fingers brushing against his shimmering golden hair nothing like short brown curls.
"Tilo! Don't run off like that!" came a deeper voice, cutting through the rustling of the bushes as a man burst through the foliage, panting from the chase. He stopped dead in his tracks when his eyes fell on the scene before him—Kensai lying on the ground, unconscious, with the little girl hovering beside him.
"Paper look! An angel!" She turns to him with a wide smile on her face say points at Kensai.