With the barrier guarded for the moment and the rest of the demon army occupied, Katalina and I made our way to the castle. The city buzzed with activity as people made last-minute adjustments before diving straight into battle. A good number of clans made their home in Yakuman, but it still required time to
Where Eryn had been floating only a moment ago, a large mecha slammed right into her. Somehow, I thought that I had been knocked out and been swept into a delusion. But a booming voice from the flying machine broke me out of that trance. “It’s the ‘Kou Train’, baby! Here to save the day!”
Exiting the portal from Sistina to Sanshiro, we immediately stepped into a battlefield. At first, only a few of us were planning to come, but one look around had us retreating back to call for reinforcements. While Eryn couldn’t follow us into the capital of Sistina, she remained one step ahead of us, somehow guessing
An alarm rang out across Yakuman the moment a portal opened up near its borders. The city itself was equipped with a holy barrier that guarded against magic from the outside, so portals could not be directly cast into the area. The divine magic from the Oracle, as well as artifacts blessed by her, prevented
Seeing the blond-haired psuedo-ninja revived a sense of hope, especially since I knew that she couldn’t have come here without some help. The portal in the sky was proof of that. It took but a moment for her to scan the surroundings and discern friend from foe. Pulling out a portal gun of her own,
I flinched at those words. Fully expecting a dark landscape and my greatest horrors, I shivered as I forced my eyes open. ‘What would be waiting for me this time?’ I pondered as I clenched my teeth in preparation. I waited for the darkness to approach, but nothing seemed to change until the wails of
I awoke suddenly, the feeling of a strange warmth seeping into my body. As soon as I remembered that we were in enemy territory, I leapt out of bed and instinctively turned on my ‘Eyes of Providence’. But among the purple lines that showed where mana existed in everything, a white-hot glare, bright as the
Saki Himejima. The girl who thought she knew love. The thought of getting close to someone was ever present in her heart. That was because her home felt cold. Her parents were rarely around. And if they happened to be, their words were mostly disciplinary and distant at best. Like a teacher reprimanding a student
If only it were Eryn’s normal, crimson eyes, then I might have believed her. But the irises staring right at me glowed purple like she cautiously studied my every move, the same thing I did before I struck. I moved to push her away, but then, another pair of arms latched onto me. Saki had
It was a lot to take in. The fact that I was trapped in some domain created by Eryn, by the Demon that possessed her. Gazing upon the hundreds of demonic minions that stood at her beck and call, I couldn’t help but wonder how long this place had been in hiding. ‘Since we had