Chapter 23: Dawn
The sunrise is creeping up in the eastern corner by the time they got out of the mirror. His strike manages to break both the space and the mirror itself, removing the negative karma attached to it. Even now, he's still not quite sure how much of what happened was real.
"He seemed to have disappeared." Said Alva,
sounding somewhat shaken.
"For now. But he's not completely gone yet."
Zaruba replied by voicing out exactly what he thought. No, not yet.
He silently looks towards Mikage who's still trying hard to
comprehend whatever that was. His gaze is returned not a few seconds later.
"Don't you have something to say to me?" He just knows
it from how the other man look towards him.
"You know him." The barest of whisper, barely
reaching him. It was more of a statement rather than a question. "And
that's how you know me, isn't it?"
It was the painful truth. He badly wanted to shout no but
it was undeniable. “..Yes.”
"What is he?"
"-..A Horror. The worst of his kind. And
the toughest enemy from where I came from."
The silence that falls was suffocating, so much that he
would've preferred it more to be literally strangled by the other man.
"Am I...going to disappear?"
"No! I won't let you." His exclaim seemed to
startle the other a bit, shaking him out of his thoughts. "I don't know
what he said to you, but your life belongs to you. He has no right to steal
it."
"Then what are we supposed to do?"
Ryuga looks towards him, gaze set with the force of his
entire being.
"Cut him down. To protect you."
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