Obiel steps out of the house; he gently closes the door. As the evening continues it remains dark with lamp posts that have a fire inside of them; they give light to the gloomy surroundings.
Obiel stops walking in front of Revior who's facing away while staring at the moon.
Obiel's eyes widen a bit and he steps toward the left side of Revior, hence, Obiel inhales deeply.
"It's hard, you know?" Obiel says, "this thing that you call 'love' it's hard to handle. It can grant you happiness or the will to have great determination to handle things even the hardest ones."
"Is this about the kid?" Revior asked.
He moves his eyes beside him only to see Obiel staring downward. He nods and slowly moves his eyes toward Revior. "She was the most beautiful creature that I saw, the purest of the pure, and the brightest of the bright."
Obiel turns around as he releases his chuckles. "That kid is a threat to me. Before I know it, my heart might get attached to her presence."
He looks downward as his smile vanishes from his dark lip. "If the moment comes that one of us will betray this mission, what will you do, 3rd high-ranking?"
"Me? Let's see," Revior looks straight into Obiel's eyes, "if that will happen to us, then I want one of us to fight the one who betrayed the mission and kill him immediately."
"Geez!" Obiel yawns, "you sound like you're going to murder me all of a sudden, but I have my highest hope for you, I know that you will not deceive me."
Revior narrows his eyes a bit while looking away from him. "Yeah, because… that's what we're for."
"Flames for life." Obiel nodded.
Revior's eyes widen a bit and he quickly moves his eyes toward Obiel. "Wait, what did you do to the child?"
"Oh?" Obiel looks down and laughs, "I left a huge sum of money and you'll never know the other one, but calm down, I haven't hurt her.
"My time with her was worth it, and I wish I could play more with her… like her kind, when she knows what we've done then she'll despise us for her whole life.
"Even the purest creature might be corrupted by doing sinful acts."
Revior blinks and looks over at Obiel, and his eyes are staring at the moon. Revior begins to inhale. "Your compassion seems to sprout from the inner part of your flaming hard rock."
"Shut up. " Obiel looked at his hands.
Revior speaks calmly while facing in another direction. "The time is running fast ahead of us, let's go and pursue the lady with the Y."
Meanwhile, inside a wooden cabin, Kukira is sitting on a wooden bench near the entrance of the kitchen.
Alamia and Ranaliantra are staring at each other while standing in front of each other, and they're separated by numerous steps.
Alamia points her index finger at her."How dare you blame this on me?!"
"How dare you be so weak?" Ranalinatra embraces herself while scowling at Alamia, "I don't think you deserve a bit of my respect.
"As far as I remember, you didn't manage to earn my respect or admiration. In my eyes, you are just a wimp who's holding onto her pathetic fishing rod."
The fishing rod floats above Alamia and it twirls until it's pointing at Ranaliantra. Blue aura begins to occur from her whole body; wrapping her whole figure.
"You aren't going to throw any disrespectful words neither to me nor to my soul," Alamia's eyes become narrow as her eyebrows meet, and she points her index finger at her, "I'm threatening to put you down no matter what happens."
"You don't want this," Ranaliantra starts to close her eyes, "you won't be able to walk on this land when I break your existence to pieces."
Alamia raises her hand and catches her fishing rod thence her figure is flickering while she's stepping closer to Ranaliantra.
"Are you attempting to fool me?" Ranaliantra opens her eyes which are now violet, "fear me, Alamia."
Ranaliantra raises her hand and she blocks Alamia's fishing rod from hitting her. Ranaliantra moves her eyes to the fishing rod and looks once again at Alamia. "You brought my mother back during that day but it only resulted in chaos."
Ranaliantra releases purple energy from her other hand and it strikes Alamia yet she blocks her fishing rod on her abdomen; the purple energy strikes Alamia's fishing rod yet she was pushed toward the wall.
Ranaliantra swings her other hand, hence, Alamia opens her eyes only for multiple purple bullets to strike her whole body; pushing her until the wall behind her collapses.
"First house rule: learn to respect your superiors, Alamia, for they can be the main source of your death" Ranaliantra speaks calmly but her voice causes shivers upon Kukira, "it seems that you need to learn that before stepping up to me."
Alamia comes out from the hole in the wrecked wall. She goes toward Ranaliantra at a greater speed and she continues to strike her with her fishing rod only to hit the purple energy barrier.
Alamia steps back and breathes water toward Ranaliantra, and little cracks are forming on the purple barrier.
Ranaliantra's eyes widen a little, and she points her index finger at Alamia.
She tells Alamia. "Is this it? Is this how you utilize your power? What a shame."
She lowers her raised hand, hence, purple energy chains emerge from the ground; it goes toward Alamia at the speed of lightning and wraps around her hands, abdomen, thighs, and neck.
"Low." Ranaliantra's purple eyes twinkled.
The chains pull Alamia downward and she is now on her knees and keeps swaying her hands.
"Don't bother to break free," Ranaliantra warned her.
Alamia moves her eyes upward and her eyes meet the pair of twinkling violet eyes which are staring at her.
Ranaliantra straightens her upper body's posture while standing in front of Alamia who's being held down by the purple chains.
Ranaliantra turns around while speaking to Alamia. "You're not sufficient to bring him back. Forget about him and continue with what you're doing to earn money.
"When I was there during his fight against Kukira, I saw something in his eyes even if he was just a clone during that time. That 'something' is a deep resolution; willpower to do a thing one person desires badly.
"The way he's looking at me is telling me to just let him be."
Ranaliantra turns aside and diately raises her hand, and a fireball goes toward her at a fast pace but is blocked by a purple barrier.
"Calm down," Ranaliantra remains calm, "I just taught her an important lesson."
Hemetus is standing nearby Ranaliantra, both of them are looking into each other's eyes; she remains calm whilst Hemetus is glaring at her.
Hemetus tells her. "Alamia is our comrade and she's also a part of our team! Without her, Kukira wouldn't be here.
"She may lack fighting experience but that's why we're here! To teach her how to fight like us! To teach her how to improve herself."
The purple chains disappear and Alamia immediately stands up while moving her eyes from Ranaliantra to Hemetus.
He moves his eyes toward Alamia. "Alamia, you'll be left here with Tobias and Kukira."
"Why?!" Alamia frowned at him.
Hemetus looks at her straight into her eyes. "I need you and Kukira to be stronger than the four of us combined."
Ranaliantra looks over to Hemetus and she glares at him. "Are you fooling me? How can Alamia and Kukira be stronger than the four of us combined?
"It'll take many years for them to achieve what we did and what level of power we're possessing."
Hemetus turns his eyes toward her. "You're the one who's fooling yourself. I'm not forming them to be us, I want them to be themselves and surpass us."
Ranaliantra looks aside as she smiles annoyingly. "Great."
"Are you all ready?" Hackilion walks near both Hemetus and Ranaliantra, "Tobias will be training both Alamia and Kukira while the three of us will be going to Crefa village."
"Well," Ranaliantra turns toward the door, and then she begins to walk toward it, "let's get moving, they need to know what we saw and what we knew."
"Be safe, guys," Alamia said.
Ranaliantra ceases in her footsteps, and she turns around and looks straight into Alamia's eyes; both remain quiet while staring at each other.
Ranaliantra turns around after many seconds, hence, she walks toward the door whilst Hackilion and Hemetus follow in her footsteps.
Alamia stands in her position as she's gazing upon the three leaving individuals. She's wondering what will now happen to her and Kukira; the thought lingers in her mind until they come out of the door.
Later on, Kukira is sitting on a log outside of the cabin and the evening remains ruling over the world.
He opens his hand and a leaf with small holes lands on his palm. His eyes widen bit by bit and the wind comes and blows the leaf from his hand whilst his eyes remain following the leaf.
"I wish I can be like that leaf," he says calmly as he raises his hand, "I wish I can just fly away from this world."
Alamia halts near Kukira and she says, "Hey, are you ready?"
Tobias stops walking near them, raises his hand, and waves it from side to side. "Yo! Are you ready to sleep with an aching body?"
Kukira arises from the log, hence, he turns toward Tobias and sees him standing while staring in their direction.
"You need to teach us first," Tobias pulls a knife from the pocket of his pants, "don't belittle us."
Tobias tilts his head as he laughs softly, he points to himself. "I'm a bit offended by your empty accusation, child."
Tobias' hands slowly begin to turn silver as their thickness enhances. "To surpass us, both of you must experience the pain that we gained to be this strong."
Tobias begins to smile widely while running toward Alamia and Kukira. Alamia raises her hand and her fishing rod appears on her hand, thence, her hair begins to turn blue while every strand of her hair is glowing.
Tobias disappears and appears right in front of Kukira. Tobias swings his big metallic hand yet it was blocked by a fishing rod.
Tobias turns aside and sees Alamia holding her fishing rod. Tobias quickly moves toward Alamia, and she blows a huge force of water toward him.
Tobias hops aside and avoids the stream of water while he continues to move forward to Alamia. She stops breathing water and jumps backward, but a large metallic hand grabs her face.
Everything in her eyes begins to move in slow motion, furthermore, her heartbeat is all that she can hear.
"What am I doing?" she whispers, "is this all I can do? Remain standing as I watch everything unfold in my eyes?"
A voice echoes in her head, saying, "You're not sufficient to bring him back. Forget about him and continue with what you're doing to earn money."
Hence, she sees a mermaid sitting on a rock with her back facing Alamia as the long blue hair of the mermaid is being moved by the wind.
Alamia begins to raise her hand. "You, you taught me how to stand alone in this world."
The mermaid slowly turns around while Alamia is reaching her, hence, the mermaid disseminates to blue particles and her hand touches a fishing rod.
"Right? You gave me this life," Alamia tightly holds the fishing rod, "so I'll treasure it deep within my heart."
Presently, Kukira raises Alamia and swings her downwards. In a blink of an eye, Alamia holds his large metallic hand which is gripping her neck.
Henceforth, Alamia swings her fishing rod and it cuts Tobias' large metallic hand in half.
Alamia swirls while she's falling until her feet are touching the ground.
Tobias swings his exposed hand while smirking at Alamia. "You almost got me there."
Alamia is standing in her position while being surrounded by a blue aura swaying gently.
Her blue eyes are glowing along with her long blue hair; glimmering blue triangle marks can be seen underneath her eyes.
She's gripping her fishing rod; every word on her fishing rod is glowing along with the fishing line.
Alamia runs toward Tobias whilst he does the same, his other hand regains the silver coating.
Therefore, Tobias is thrusting his large metallic hands at a fast pace toward her and Alamia is swinging her fishing rod striking each of his fast punches.
"They're incredible," Kukira touches his heart and his eyes begin to grow wide, "what is this f-feeling?!"
Alamia swings her foot and hits his chest but Tobias only laughs. Hence, Tobias jumps toward Alamia.
She moves her eyes aside and throws her fishing rod away from her. Ergo, she turns her eyes in front of her and sees Tobias' large metallic fist reaching her.
A blue glowing fishing line wraps around his large metallic wrist, and the levitating blue fishing rod slams him into multiple trees.
Tobias' feet turn to silver as it becomes gigantic in a matter of seconds and the fishing rod can't lift him.
Tobias grabs the fishing line and yanks it away from his large metallic wrist. His feet turn to their normal state as he's ambling onward to Alamia.
"Yes, this feeling," Tobias says, "but I can't tell that this feeling is the same one that I felt when I fought Semfes, Hackilion, and that boy with flames."
Alamia inhales deeply and breathes a big force of water toward Tobias yet he blocks it with his large metallic hand.
He continues to walk toward Alamia whilst the water from which she's breathing becomes bigger and faster.
"Oh, this is easy!" Tobias stepped aside but he was struck by the water.
He instantly stands up and scrambles toward Alamia. She starts to sprint onward to him and both swing their tools toward each other.
They continue to swing their tools toward each other as one of them steps forward and backward.
Alamia jumps and breathes water spheres toward Tobias but he slaps them away.
She lands on the ground and runs toward Tobias but gets hit on her chest by a large metallic hammer equipped by Tobias' other large metallic hand.
Before she gets hit, Kukira is standing in front of Alamia while a magma wall is blocking Kukira's fist, unfortunately, the magma wall breaks to pieces.
Kukira smiles widely. "You're now interfering? That's a great move!"
After a couple of seconds, Kukira falls to his knees while Alamia's eyes are widening as Tobias begins to kneel in front of Tobias.
Tobias looks at Kukira. "Looks like I overdid it. How are you doing, kid? Do you feel any internal pain?"
Alamia steps toward his left side and kneels, hence, she caresses his back. "Speak, Kukira."
Kukira raises his hands and magma walls emerge from the soil where Alamia and Tobias are kneeling.
Tobias immediately jumps backward while Alamia is struck by the magma wall and is delivered into the air.
She lands on the ground in a standing position but stumbles, she falls on the ground while Tobias lands perfectly on the ground.
"This phenomenon!" Tobias speaks to himself while staring at Kukira, "it's the same phenomenon that occurred on Hemetus upon losing his self-control over his power."
"All of you will die," Kukira begins to stand up and the magma walls break to pieces, "you and your kind shall perish along with your plane. I shall go to Arak–!"
"I've heard enough," Ranalinatra's voice echoes all over the whole place, "I knew that you're a traitor."
A purple energy barrier appears around Kukira, and then multiple purple energy emerges from the soil near him; the purple energy forms onto towers and so they discharge purple chains toward the purple barrier.
Kukira clenches his teeth as his eyes are narrowing. "You won't prevent me from serving my purpose!"
From his hands come out the thick force of flames and it strikes the purple barrier only for him to fall to the ground.
An enormous purple barrier wraps the whole cabin and its surroundings while Alamia is witnessing the formation of the purple barrier.
"She's truly powerful," Alamia whispered.
Tobias stops walking near Alamia, and he says, "Yeah, this is only 30% of her power."
"If she was this powerful, then can I truly surpass her?" Alamia moves her eyes to Tobias, "can you train me to be more powerful?"
"Before I proceed to grant you what you desire," Tobias moves his eyes toward Alamia, "are you ready to risk it all even if this training can put you to harm?"
Alamia stares into his eyes as her lip opens a little. She remains silent until she replies calmly with a nod. "Right from the moment that I witnessed Semfes on the brink of his death, that's when I decided to get stronger so that I'll be able to protect him.
"Yes, I am ready, and I made myself ready to risk anything, even my life expectancy or my powers.
"I'll sacrifice everything if that will lead me to the point where I can no longer just watch him protect me."
The moon goes down as the sun rises and shines its light all over the world. Inside a castle, Lyn is kneeling in front of the king and queen sitting on their throne.
"I know the exact location of those who murdered the innocent adventurers," Lyn remains looking straight into the eyes of the royalties, "if you'll grant me the blessing to bring multiple knights with me then I can assure you, my majesty, that I'll be able to give them their rightful punishment."
"I am not sure about this," the queen looks toward the king, "but I do approve of her request to haunt those murderers."
The king lifts his hand and points it at Lyn. "I approve your request, and I'll give you my blessing to bring hundreds of knights with you, Lyn!"
Lyn looks down. "Thank you, your majesty!"
Later on, Lyn opens the castle's gate and multiple knights riding horses emerge from the opened entrance.
All of the knights are behind Lyn. Like the knights, she is wearing thick silver armor while carrying a sword and shield tied by a rope around her armor.
Lyn grimaces while looking forward. "When I arrive at your location, I will slaughter you."
Thereupon, somewhere else, inside a wide land surrounded by mostly trees, furthermore, a tall large wooden mansion, and silhouettes of mountains can be seen afar.
Inside the mansion, in one of its rooms, a middle-aged woman, Escarfra is standing in front of a picture frame.
"It has been so long since I saw you," she brushes the tears from her eyes, "if only I see and understand your perspective then you should be here living with us, Semfes.
"It's sad that after you left us, Kukira decided to flee from us."
Meanwhile, outside of the mansion, wide crops be seen, Lianna and Marie are gently picking the vegetables from the soil.
Lianna's eyes widen and she turns aside as the basket from her wrist is slipping from its place.
The doors of the wooden mansion open, and Escrafra steps out of it while her eyes are moving everywhere.
An explosion occurs near Lianna and Marie and all of them fly toward the mansion but are caught by multiple glowing fireflies.
"I don't like visitors," Escarfra narrows her eyes, "especially, if they're a creature who would cause havoc upon this world."
The large smoke from the explosion is fading and two nagbabagane can be seen standing calmly in a crater.
Obiel aims his hand at Escarfra. "Lady with the Y, you must come with us!"
Multiple fireflies begin to manifest around the wooden mansion and the individuals.
Escarfra replies calmly. "I do not let people harm my domain and those who matter to me. Go away, before I slaughter both of you."