Ibara was dragging her legs down the stairs when she heard arguments downstairs, "oh, I slept once again in teachers house " She murmured, when she came down, she came face to face with a bizarre scene, "what's going on here?" Asked Ibara staring at Greenwood trying to strangle X and Brian grabbing her, the three turn and looked at her.
"So, if I hear well, he is a human, brought her surely due to activities undertaken by Beruk Dante the Merchant" Resumed Greenwood, she glared at X who hid himself under the table, "and has been staying here for a week and apparently hunted down by Beruk, is that it?" Ibara and Brian nodded politely, "so, you got information on the human weapon and a map leading to where he hid his knowledge?" Said Greenwood, X clapped his hand, "you perfectly resume it, so would you help us?" Asked X.
"You better keep quiet " X went silent at Greenwood's glare, she looked at Brian for a moment, "now that I took a leave, just show me the map, but I am not promising anything " Said Greenwood, Ibara handed her the map, Greenwood took a look at it for a brief moment, before sending them a sight glance, "are you guys trying to annoy me ?" She asked, Brian stood up and nodded, "definitely, we too Don't understand much about the scriptures, and Mr. X said you were the most qualified, reliable and the person he has the most confidence on regarding it" Said Brian, Greenwood blush slightly, "oh?" She looked at X who looked elsewhere, "really, ehmm, okay, let's study this map, on one consideration " Asked Greenwood.
"So, she actually?" Asked Brian as he and Ibara were locked out of the house, "yes, it has been this since I know X and Greenwood " Sighed Ibara, "okay, I need to head for school, do you have anything to do?" She asked Brian, which he shook his head, "do they teach magic and other cool stuffs?" Asked excitedly, Ibara looked at him, "some courses are interesting to follow and others are boring " Said Ibara, like normal schools in his world thought Brian, but he wanted to know more about the magic and skills this people had.
He waved at Ibara, as she left for school, soon he was all alone, Brian took out the gauntlet he took without the concern of X or Greenwood, and put them on, they immediately glowed, the bluish light was nice to watch. Brian made a feast punch and walked towards the forest.
"So how do you guys work?" Wondered Brian as he walk deeper into the forest, he clapped, nothing happened, did signs, nothing happened, he tried different ways, but still, nothing, when he was at the point of giving up, he heard noises far ahead, he immediately put on his hood and his cloak went from yellow to dark.
"I need to become stronger " The voice self motivated herself, "I can do it, let's go, ghost walk" She placed her leg Infront and vanished from sight, only to hit a tree not far.
It was actually funny seeing her bumping herself on the trees, but Brian was also happy to see an actual skill being displayed, when he tried coming closer.
Crack!
The girl immediately looked at his direction and saw him, she immediately ran away leaving Brian, "heh wait a minute!" Brian did not want to give up and chase after her.
She was fast, even though she did not master the skill she used well, she knew how to hide her weakness, she vanished and appeared at different moments and intervals making it hard for Brian to follow behind, but Brian did not give up and it was quite exciting, he did not even realize that his gloves were glowing higher as he chased after her.
The girl realize that her pursuer was stubborn and did not want to give up, she step and jumped on a tall tree and skip to the next easily, Brian gasped in shock, he immediately ran faster seeing her increasing the distance, soon the reach a crevasse which was slight deep, she did not stop, she whistle and jumped, the wind blew and she levitated enabling her to cross over the obstacle, Brian sped without knowing he was heading towards a fall, it was only went he exited the bush that he realized that the floor had disappeared, and he was going to fall, it at that moment his gauntlet activated.
Brian saw the space Infront of him bending and twisting, he immediately saw Blue sparks before appearing on the otherside leaving a line of burn grass, he look behind and saw Blue light and could only mutter, "wow" He wasn't the only one astonished, the girl saw the person falling but suddenly, the person burst in blue sparks and shot like a blue meteor before reappearing on the otherside, Brian looked at her and she did same.
"So, tell me, why are you pretending?" Asked Greenwood as her hand was on the wall, X gulped and look at her, "what are you talking about?" He asked back, Green came closer to the point were the almost kiss, "are you telling me, your actually not seeing my call?" She asked back, X blushed hard, unfortunately the wall could not bend as he close his eyes, but what he feared never came, when he open them, Green was already sipping a cup of a strange liquid and studying the map, X readjusted his glasses and sighed, "I deserve the treatment " He thought.
"So, what's with all this map?" Asked X, Green looked closely, "it's not that it's hard to read, but it's made at such to be hard to read, the position for the first journal is here, in Junx Town, with an instructions" Said Green, X came closer and the unconsciously read it together, "where the people stop being people" They both muttered, "what those he mean?" They started reflecting, and the git the answer instantly, "They Quarantine district " Definitely, it was the only place that people would suddenly become violent and murderous, everybody civilized enough would dodge that zone and that was precisely, Beruk's territory.
"That's one one, what about the two others?" They Wondered, and started immediately studying the map from bits to bits without ignoring anything.
Meanwhile, studying theory in school, Ibara was bored and wonder what the others were doing back home, "Mrs Ibara?" Ibara shook at the call of her teacher and started fidgeting.
Swoosh!
swoosh!
Two figures drew lines in the forest, one green black and the other bluish yellow, Brian did not have full control on how to use the gloves, but he at least got a hand on how to run faster, it was at first just out curiosity, but it soon became a cat and mouse game, where Brian was not going to stop until he gets her. Everywhere she went Brian followed and it kept on until-
Boom
Roar!
A beast three meters tall showed up, resembling a bear, his body was full of spikes and he had two horns on the head, the girl immediately slide under the beast legs and dash forward without looking behind, the beast learn his lesson and was ready not to leave the other escape, Brian freaked out seeing the beast launching towards him, his hand immediately shielded himself.
Boom!
This action resulted to a discharge of energy repulsing the beast a distance away, "I see, it partially walks with the users stat of mine" Thought Brian, he immediately ran towards the beast as he jumped towards it, he was planning to redo the discharge, but this time, he was going to discharge the energy into the beast.
Boom!
What resulted was beyond what Brian had anticipated, a split erupted within the beast body and inwardly absorbed the beast which scream in agony, Brian himself was slightly astonished and terrified, soon Brian looked around, the girl had taken this opportunity to disappear, he sighed and look back, "that was fun " He thought, as he ran back from where he came from.
The girl sat behind a wood and breathed out in panic, "a monster, is the Human weapon, I need to report immediately to Orphinian " Lilith stood up, trying her best to calm down her trembling legs and vanished in black smoke.
At the end of the day, Ibara came back exhausted, theory classes, plus training, practice, theory, practice again, she was exhausted, she dragged her body back home, went she open the door, the silence of the house weight on her chest, she was tired of all this, so she packed some stuffs and carried her back out and closed behind her.
On her way, she coincidentally met Brian as he exited the bushes all covered in dirts and leaves, "what were you doing?" She asked, Brian lifted the gauntlet, "Practicing " He smiled, they walked back to X's house as the spoke, Brian told Ibara about his strange encounter, and Ibara was a little worried, "I hope you didn't frightened her?" She asked, Brian waved his hand, "Nahh, I am sure she had fun" He said, but Ibara was skeptical, if she was training and someone suspicious appeared and started chasing her, she would freak out for sure.
They finally reach the house, Ibara knocked, but no response, she look at Brian who did same, "what are they doing in there?" The wondered, Brian pushed open the door, and walked in, soon the door closed and the hose vanished, immediately a group of men appeared in dark cloak, the leader click his tongue, "we are late, they house has still escaped damn!" Said one of the men, Lilith was among them, "why waiting for sister to come back, let's keep on monitoring them" She said, the others disappeared and vanished in smoke.
Niennman smiled as he look down at them from the sky, he was holding a well decorated umbrella, "my little Beruk, I would send you soon for a hunt"The clouds covered him as he disappeared.
Ibara and Brian came face to face with a funny and cute scene, X and Greenwood actually sleeping together with papers all over them as the snored cutely, they took a blanket and covered them, "sleep well" They wished.