Zen, Sakura and Xi were standing together as they faced Scarlet, Raven, Anna and the other four. Scariet was being held by Raven. A dark skinned bald man dressed in black singlet which showed off his muscles, and cargo pants and boots, he wore a pair of armguards. He was standing in front of the group as he stared at Zen provocatively.
"Do we have to really do this?" Zen said as he scratched the back of his head.
How it got to this, we did have to look back.
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Scarlet looked at the adolescent before her, she could not help but be stunned. How he had appeared behind her surprised her as she knew he never knew she was watching him, but his next words proved her wrong.
"Spying on someone ain't a good habit, you know?" Zen said as he looked at the red haired dressed like an amazon.
"How did you know I was watching you?"
"Is that shocking, if your perception is high enough, you'll be able to tell gazes on you from distances" Zen rose an eyebrow. Isn't this common sense?
Scarlet blushed and nodded.
"So, I'm curious, red haired, what did you see that made you keep paying attention to me?" Zen asked stunning Scarlet.
"How do you know that?"
Zen just shrugged as he walked to the edge of the building and sat down. Scarlet rushed before him and asked him again. "Tell, how do you know about my gift?"
"Answer mine first, based on your answer, I'll choose whether to tell you or not" Zen said as he looked straight at her.
"Sakura, how about you and Xi stay on the side, you could help Xi learn some skills from the skill books we've gathered so far" Zen turned to Sakura and said. He tapped his space ring as about 10 pamphlets appeared.
Sakura didn't say anything as she just took the skill books, took Xi's hand and walked a little farther and sat with Xi sitting beside her.
Scarlet who had watched this was stunned, she was surprised by the number of skillbooks. Her team had only gotten about sx altogether but this guy before her could pull out ten in a go, she even believed he had more.
"So..." Zen's voice pulled her out of her thoughts.
"Ahem... I had seen your fate once, but after you defeated that revenant, I couldn't see it anymore, and I couldn't remember what I had seen previously" Scarlet said after some thoughts.
"Oh, that's cliche" Zen was calm when he heard this.
"It is not only you, I can't see the fate of the two girls"
Zen frowned when he heard Scarlet's words. Did my fate intertwine with theirs and cover it. Seeing that it's kind of complicated, he shrugged it off as he believed there would be an opportunity to understand why.
"As to how I know your gift, let's just say I just thought so, if you don't believe me, that's your problem" He said with a shrug.
"I don't dare to not believe you, mi...milord" Scarlet said and her eyes immediately widened as she clasped her hands around her mouth and stepped back.
Zen rose an eyebrow, "milord? "
Scarlet shook her head and looked away from Zen, since looking at him increased the subservient feeling she had been getting. Being in proximity with him, just made it worse. Spying on him was really a bad idea.
"Uh... Scarlet?" Zen called and Scarlet immediately answered him but she still did not raise her head.
"what did-" "hey!... I don't remember telling you my name!" Zen was interrupted by Scarlet's scream as she looked at him with her eyes wide.
"well?" Zen scratched the back of his head and smiled wryly.
Sakura who was watching the interaction was amused, she found it a little funny when Zen is in a pinch.
The door to the rooftop opened as six individuals rushed out. Some were dressed in medieval armour like Scarlet while the rest still had their normal clothes aside from having armguards, gauntlets or chest plates.
Zen watched as the dark skinned black hair girl strode forward and pulled Scarlet as she began to step back. Zen just raised his hand in mid air, to show that he meant no harm.
The silver haired guy in armour, Arata, stared at Zen and he could feel the strength emanating from the latter despite looking harmless. As if feeling his gaze, Zen looked at him and lightly smiled.
"Guess you're all here" Zen muttered and felt someone grip his clothes. He turned to look at Sakura who was hiding behind him as she stared at the seven in front o f them. Xi was just beside her.
Zen noticed her gaze was not exactly on the seven, but on a particular bald head man with dark skin, his gaze flashed with something and Zen knew what sort of gaze it was, he immediately frowned.
Zen looked back at the rest and saw how they just stared blankly at the lady beside him. Damn, I forgot about her charm.
"You're a walking feast for the eyes, you know?" Zen looked at Sakura who looked up at him.
"I only want your eyes to feast on me" Sakura said which caught Zenn off guard as his heartbeat sped up. He looked away from her bad scratched his cheek while his cheeks were blushing.
"Er... Tha.. thank you" Zen stuttered.
The bald man stepped forward which surprised the others.
"Kisame, what are you doing?" The loli with big glasses asked.
"I'm not doing anything, I just want to claim a gift that was sent to me" the bald man said without looking back, his gaze focused on Sakura.
Scarlet was confused at first but when she saw Sakura, she immediately panicked,"Kisame, don't court death"
She knew the kind of person Kisame was, the building they were on was a residential complex and all seven of them lived here, that is, they were neighbors, and they are the only surviving amongst the people who lived here, the rest had become aberrants.
She still remembered how they met Kisame who had tried to have his way with Raven, luckily, Raven was strong and had threatened to break his balls. It did not stop him, as he kept trying, even going as far as attempting to do it with the loli.
"Leave him be, it's better if he dies" Raven said as she stared daggers at Kisame's back.
"Seems you are not well liked" Zen said as he blocked Kisame's vision of Sakura which made the latter frown.
"what has it got to do with you?... "Kisame asked as he did not like how his vision of Sakura was blocked. "...get out of the way, you're blocking my view"
Zen was speechless at the guy's audacity.
"Zen, kill him... I hate how his eyes are creeping" Sakura said with a muffled voice behind him.
"Eh?" Zen was stunned at how Sakura just casually mentioned killing somebody. "Would have to kill anyone that looks at you with lust?"
Sakura didn't say anything but Zen could feel her nodding her head and he sighed.
Trouble that comes with having a beauty, especially a beauty like Sakura.
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