As the slash was going towards them, a man with a fedora appeared before it and shattered the slash into pieces, like a mirror. "What was that?!" Sakonori asked concerned, the shattered pieces of the attack reformed back into shape, but it was instead pointing towards the place it came from.
"Ashina, you are way too reckless." The man said, then he sent the same slash back. "Are you all alright? Rin's favoured hunters?" The man asked, Satoya checked the man's badge, which said "Lucius Leonidas, Void hunters committee, Former elite rank 20."
"So you are the one who requested our help?" He asked, politely. "Yes, of course, we need more help pursuing Elwrin, and that man unfortunately wasn't Elwrin but a worse threat than anticipated, he was the one fighting Ashina, Ludwig, Sendo, and his group a second ago." Lucius said, before Rayna could ask a question Lucius sprinted toward a group of Iyas charging toward a group of civilians.
"I guess he's gone, we should probably get going." Isaac said, the group walked through the abandoned city, office buildings with plants growing on it, a bunch of blood, which Satoya assumed to be Iyas or civilians, most of the buildings are in ruins, some of the taller buildings been cleanly sliced horizontally, "Elwrin, an elite rank just like Rin, Lionel, and Morrisu, I wonder if Rin can beat him, but if that wasn't Elwrin, then who was it?" Satoya Thought while walking through the abandoned city.
"Satoya! Thought you guys would come!" a familiar voice yelled out, and to the group's astonishment, Haruta leapt down. "So Lucius really did request you guys here." He said, 'Oh yeah, I have a question." Sakonori asked.
"How old are you?"she asked again, "That's an uhm, odd question, I'm 15." Haruta answered. "Huh?" Sakonori said, "Are you sure? Seems like a 6th grader to me." She said, "I actually am 15 though, I'm just short." Haruta said, embarrassed.
"Haha! Shorty!" She said while giggling. While they were talking to each other, a giant fist slammed down onto them, and the group narrowly dodged it, "A level 7 Iya?! You guys go, I will handle it!" Haruta ordered the group, and the group ran the other way.
While the group was running, a couple Iyas appeared, and the group defeated them easily, and they finally got into a forest, where the sunlight finally shined. "Oh….there's the sun." Johnathan said, while panting, they decided they should find a good place to rest. "Once we find a good place, Edward, can you set up a few turrets around the perimeter? For extra security." Satoya asked Edward. The group started walking through the forest.
"That's weird, I see a bunch of dismembered Iyas, and hold on, are those dead void hunters?" Edward pointed out. "Jeremy Adam, D rank void hunter." Satoya read in his head.
"oh yeah, you've been quite quiet lately." Satoya said to the voice in his head. "I was taking care of business outside of your mind." The voice finally said. The group walked through the forest more, but the more they walked through, the more sinister it felt.
"Satoya, there's a lot more blood on the ground and trees, and I see a bunch of trees cut down, and I don't think any ordinary cutting machine is able to cleanly cut a tree like that." Rayna said to Satoya as Satoya was cautiously walking to her.
"Guys look! I see an opening!" Johnathan pointed out, as they finally adjusted to the brightness of the giant opening in the forest, they found something disturbing, they saw multiple void hunters dismembered, Satoya walked to them, while reading their badges, and they ranged from ranks D-A. "Satoya wait." The voice ordered.
"That arm looks familiar." The voice said, Satoya slowly approached a sliced off arm, and to his shock, it had the traditional samurai sleeve, and it had the void hunter insignia on it, then Satoya looked closer and he snapped.
"This is Ashina's arm." Satoya mumbled, and he looked the other way and noticed a dead void hunter with a samurai sword stabbed into her head, the samurai sword had a void hunter insignia too, "and that is Ashina's sword." The voice said.
"There's an obvious trail of blood, and in that direction, there's a bunch of trees cleanly sliced apart in a linear direction, this has to be from Ashina." the voice also said. Satoya starts walking while holding his sword cautiously towards the path, and finds a bigger opening.
"Is that, no, what?" Satoya thought in his head in shock, in the giant opening, Satoya saw Ashina's corpse pinned against a wall. Satoya was disgusted and fearful, but he forced himself to investigate. "How did he-" He thought but before he could finish saying that, an energy bullet missed him, and more energy bullets fired at him.
"the G.A.A.?!" he thought, and as he managed to deflect some of the energy bullets, he realised that his blade was horribly damaged.
"Use Ashina's." The voice said.
"I'm sure Sendo will understand, considering your circumstances." The voice ordered him, and he grabbed Ashina's other sword, and deflected more energy bullets, Satoya swung his hand in a horizontal motion, sending slashes of bright teal at the area where the energy bullets came from, and he heard an unforgivable voice.
"Well, well, seems like you killed the rest of my guards, I guess I have you fight you head on!" He heard.