On the other side, Sannet and Viola are rather in a... stand off. Sannet has her hand on her hips while looking at VIola who stares at Sannet with a clearly unhappy expression: "Why did you act before discussing with the team?" Sannet asks sternly.

"Because if i do that, none of you would've helped." Viola answers simply: "It is obvious that you don't trust me at all..."

Sannet pauses for a moment before answering: "That's right. I don't trust you...You are a contract killer who spills blood for money." She says with a cold expression on her face. Viola's expression turns even more sour than before.

"And you're not shady at all? Spying on someone's daughter." Viola points her finger at Sannet in accusation. Seeing the surprised face of Sannet, Viola let out a grin on her face: "What? you think it's not obvious? The face of yours when meeting Minka's father . Oh boy, aren't that a sight for entertainment." She then chuckles to herself.

"Look, all I am saying is that we should talk about this kind of thing with everyone on board or not. That way we can avoid more trouble later on..." Sannet said while moving closer to Viola to explain herself in more detail.

"No thanks...seeing how you fight and how you react to things. I serious doubts that if you're even human or not." Viola scoffs while moving away from Sannet's close proximity: "That cold expression of yours... I've only seen people who completely give up on their lives. or corpses."

Sannet suddenly clench fist tight while keeping her eyes narrowed: "And what do you mean by that?"

"Nothing... Nothing at all." Viola answers while looking at Sannet with a cold expression: "Nothing at all..."

The air between those two is getting heavier. As if in seconds each party will draw out their weapon and end one's life in an instant. However, they both hold their ground and decide not to draw out their weapon and instead keep staring at one another. The tension between the two women is increasing every second until Sannet finally breaks the silence: "Fine. But if your action endangers the lives of either Leanna and Minka. I will end you myself."

"And i'll be happy to end you too." Viola answers calmly. However, soon she then let out a sigh: "Look, if it isn't because it's absolutely necessary, I wouldn't have asked Minka to do this..." She then looks straight at Sannet: "I don't want to harm innocent people... I am doing this because i have no choice."

Sannet sighs as she understands Viola's intention: "Is there going to be more missions like this?"

"Maybe, but I hope not." Viola answered with a little smile: "This time was because of me paying debts for my family... But next time... I probably will still take it, not because I want to get the money. But knowing that if it's someone else that does it, it will probably lead to more danger for all of us." Viola looked away from Sannet's eyes for a moment before looking back to the woman: "But even so... I hope we can stop doing these kinds of things..."

"I guess we'll see." Sannet said while giving a cold glare back to Viola: "I will keep this conversation between us. But if you plan to use any of us for your little contract. At least tell me about it."

"Deal." Viola answered with a grin while placing her hand over her chest: "I promise." But then she suddenly sits on the bed while holding on to her gun shot wound: "Oww... Aren't that a bitch..."

"Seeing this does improve my mood slightly." Sannet says while giving a small chuckle before leaving the room.

On the other side, Leanna is sitting on the bed next to Minka while Leanna rubs Minka's forehead gently: "Hey, Minky... you will have a surprise visitor soon~"

Minka's eyes fluttered open: "Huh?"

"I called uncle and told him about everything that had happened." Leanna explained while smiling: "He even said that he will come to visit you."

"What?!" Minka gets up and shakes Leanna's shoulder.: "Tell me you're joking!"

"I am not, in fact you should start to learn to communicate with your parents." Leanna kept a straight face: "He's not really angry about your action. You were helping a friend after all. But... from the sounding of his tone, he is kinda mad that you didn't tell him yourself..."

"But it's not like that! It was too dangerous to tell him...!"

"You're just scared because you're afraid that he won't let you continue adventuring with us." Leanna gave a small chuckle: "You are actually very childish."

"You're not helping!"

Leanna suddenly throws her hands up and shakes her head: "Well whatever... Uncle will be here in about three hours or so. So you better get ready and clean yourself up first."

"Lea! That's really not cool!" Minka is a bit upset that Leanna snitched her out.

"Well, what did you expect me to do?" Leanna said frowning: "I can come along with you in the first place at the expense of taking care of you. And telling your parents about your situation counts."

"Fine then... but what are we going to do?" Minka asks: "You know my dad won't just let me do whatever I want after this!"

"You shouldn't be allowed to do whatever you want anyways!" Leanna said while rolling her eyes: "You need to follow certain rules and do certain things properly!"

"Leanna... I know what's right and what's wrong. I am not a little girl anymore."Minka pouts: "But can you please discuss this with me before you do this?"

"Fine..." Leanna answered: "But just don't say anything else that could be taken wrong the wrong way. I only told him that you were kidnapped but didn't mention by whom."

Minka gives a sigh of relief after hearing this: "Thank you."

Three hours later…

Sitting on the edge of her bed, with her head hanging down while holding her knees together, Minka was waiting for her father to arrive. Suddenly, someone knocked on the door of her room, causing Minka to jump up. She hurriedly rushed over and opened the door only to find Leanna standing outside: "What...I thought he's here."

"Your dad wasn't able to make it, so uncle sent me instead. He wanted me to make sure that similar things won't happen again." Leanna said while smiling kindly at Minka: "He even told me to tell you that if you ever need anything, don't hesitate to ask him."

"Well... thank you anyway..." Minka honestly felt a bit disappointed because she kinda wants to meet her dad.

"Sure, just let me know if you need anything."Leanna smiles and closes the door.

Minka then sits on her bed again and hugs her knees together. Minka's expression is rather... complicated. Her eyes are looking at nothing while her hands are rubbing her knees while making a soft sound. After a few seconds, she hears another series of knocking. But this time it's rather familiar. She opened up the door and greeted by her father: "Dad?" Minka was surprised at first but then she jumps up and hugs her father tightly. While hugging her father, she can see Leanna is smirking in the background.

"Minky! You look great!" His voice was loud as he gave his daughter a big embrace: "How are you doing my girl?"

Minka was blushing with red cheeks as she answered while rubbing his chest with her head: "I'm doing fine, I guess. I missed you..."

"Yeah... me too." He replied as he gave his daughter a kiss on the forehead: "I can't believe how fast you grew. Look at you, surviving a kidnapping just by yourself? Mom would be really proud when she hears this."

"Please don't tell mom about this!" Minka said while blushing even more brightly: "She would worry sick and make me feel bad afterwards..."

"Don't worry." Her father said with a soft smile: "But I am gonna make sure to tell your mother about this. Just with some minor adjustments... of course.." He then pats Minka's head: "You're just soooo cute when you're embarrassed."

"Thanks..." She said while blushing even more brightly: "Umm.. Dad... I actually have something important to tell you!"

Her father's expression turned to one of worry: "What happened now? You don't need to be so serious about it."

Minka extended her hand out towards the pillow on the bed and lifted it up with ease. She then turned over with a beaming grin on her face.

"My... Minka... you did it! I am so proud of you!" Her father lifts Minka into the air and celebrates with his daughter, swinging her around in the air before landing back on the bed with a thump.

"Umm... thanks dad..." She said while blushing.

"Now your mom would be really thrilled to hear all of this." Trazyn pats Minka's shoulder.

"Where's mom anyways?" Minka asks with a bit of concern.

"Oh, she's busy somewhere on the planet. You know, just like the time that she disappeared for three months before your birthday, then she showed up with a big surprise."

"Yeah... that bike was certainly a surprise... she got it before i even had a license..." Minka said with a giggle as she remembered the bike her mother bought for her.

Trazyn then places his hand on Minka's shoulder and said with a warm smile: "Don't worry about mom. She will take care of herself... just like you did."

"Thanks dad... but I really hope mom will come home soon..." She said while looking at Trazyn with worry.

Trazyn pats her head again: "I promise, I will try my best to convince your mom to come home as soon as possible." He then hugs his daughter again: "I really want to stay with you forever but... you also have your life going and don't need your old awkward dad anymore..."

Minka pouts at that comment: "Stop saying that! I love you more than anything in this entire universe!"

Trazyn laughed out loud at his daughter's words: "You're just too perfect! Well, dad will leave and do some work now. Say hello for me to your friends." With that, he walked out the door after giving her one last hug.

"Already...?" Minka mumbled out loud while sitting on her bed after he left: "That was not even ten minutes..."

With Trazyn gone, Leanna enters into the room and says: "You seem to be having a good time. Are you really that happy that you were able to survive all on your own?"

"Well... it wasn't all that bad..."

"I mean... I guess I understand what you are feeling right now..." Leanna said while sitting next to Minka: "Look... if it helps to make you feel better, my mom didn't even call me once after i'm gone."

Minka looked at Leanna and smiled: "No... I'm not trying to compare our situation with yours at all. I'm just not used to this... loneliness without my parents. You know? It felt like there's a void in your heart...it felt like something is... absent."

Leanna then smiles: "I think you are right! It felt like I lost a part of myself... But... I had to say, I was having a lot of alone time and was able to improve myself." Leanna then stretches her arm : "Well now, why don't we go and meet up with the others? We are like a second family for you now!"

"You're being weird again, Leanna."

"Hey, no need to be rude about it..."

Minka stands up and walks out of her bedroom, dragging Leanna with her: "Oh well... let's go." On the edge of her mouth, there's a noticeable heart content grin on her face.

In a small meeting room, the girls meet up again and plan to discuss their next step: "Well... due to the hiccup we had a few days ago, we are a bit behind our schedule before people notice what we are up to." Viola said with worry.

"How long do we have?" Minka asks.

"About a week or two before the guild will start demanding for our evaluation. Until then, we are still under the radar." Sannet answers: "At least for now."

"So... do we have enough time to finish this?" Leanna asked while looking at Sannet with concern.

"Maybe... that Legend person's last recorded location is just a bit far out of this camp. We can get there in around half of a day." Sannet answered while checking her watch.

"A week or two to just look for clues? That sounds easy!" Minka exclaimed.

"Yeah... if it were just about finding something that we know about, we would probably get done sooner than a week." Sannet replied: "However, it's not that simple because we don't know where that person might have gone. It might even come searching the place, inch by inch if it's necessary."

"I don't really get your point." Leanna said while shaking her head: "Are you telling us that we're not even sure where to look?"

"Not at all, Leanna..."Viola let out a long sigh: "We have literally nothing besides the name of a location."

"So what's our plan? Where do we start?" Minka asks with concern in her voice.

Sannet then stands up: "If I have to give you an answer... I will say that we should look for clues in that area that she had mentioned. But, I'd manage our expectations for finding absolutely nothing."

"Well, I guess sitting here isn't going to find anything. So, I say we hit the road? The area near the abyss is under strict lockdown anyways. So I guess minimum interference?" Viola said in an attempt to take the initiative.

The girls soon packed their stuff and drove off. On the way, they saw strange trees that were covered in something like silver. It seems as though something had been carved or burned on those trees as some strange patterns. The closer they got, the more vividly strange patterns they saw.

Soon enough, they found themselves in a strange forested area. The deeper they go in, as if every single tree is moving closer to them in the forest. There's strange glowing blue orbs that float around, casting light on the surrounding trees and the girls.

Soon enough, the group encountered some strange creatures that they had never seen before in their life. Their skin was pale green, almost reptilian looking and they had large black eyes with slitted pupils. The creatures are very big compared to humans, their arms are so long that it seems they could wrap around a person's neck. Their body has a thick layer of fat all over it, making their arms look small in comparison to their body. They don't seem to be hostile towards humans, but Viola still decides to drive slowly around them. As soon as the car passed by, the creatures suddenly charged after them with loud screeching noises. Viola pressed on immediately the accelerator in panic as she tried to get away from them. Leanna sent out a few wind blades to disrupt the movement of the strange creatures and soon they seemed to be rid of them.

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"That was close." Sannet said as she checked her surroundings.

"Well... they looked so harmless..." Leanna said while shaking her head: "Maybe they were just scared of the car passing by."

"Whatever the reason was, they are still dangerous." Sannet replied: "We should be getting near to the zone, but... this place doesn't look natural."

"They are quite natural alright, it's just mixed with something not of this world." Viola said while pressing on the road.

The area became more and more like an otherworldly place as they went deeper. They saw creatures that looked like a pile of mud but somehow devoured a boar that was glowing in blue. There was even some creature that looked like a lizardman but with only a head. Then there were creatures that looked like a mix of animals, humans and insects. It seemed like it was impossible for these creatures to have evolved naturally, but yet they somehow managed to co-exist in this environment.

They soon arrive at a rune, which surprisingly doesn't have any strange creatures roaming around: "According to the intel, this was the place where the last mission of the Legend takes place." Minka read the file but it didn't give any indication of specific directions. "Alright... so we are going to have to try our best."

"Yeah..." Leanna said while keeping her eyes on the surroundings. Leanna found a piece of wall that got sunk in, as if something extremely powerful broke it. "Do you think... this was caused by that person?"

"No... it doesn't seem that way." Viola said while looking around the rune: "Maybe the runes were destroyed by some creature... I seriously doubt that this place was where the mission took place."

"Well I can see the traces of explosions that were done in this place." Sannet said while looking at a tree: "It seems as though something powerful exploded in here. It looks like... missiles."

"Huh..." Leanna also came over and saw the crater: "It might have been a long shot, but it might have been done by deep strike missiles."

"What's that?" Minka asks.

"A type of missile that has very focused blast range but has very strong armor piercing and of course, heat." Sannet answered: "It's very effective against enemy armors and vehicles, but it's not really recommended if you want to hit an area wide."

"If that type of missile was used... but I couldn't see the wreckage of vehicles... and using it on creatures or humans seemed... far fetched." Leanna said as she also examined the crater.

Minka approached an area that was rather empty, she walked around and suddenly felt she stepped on something hard. When she lifted her foot, she saw a human skull that was in a pile of rocks: "Ah!" She yelled in fear.

"Hey! What's wrong?" Viola asked as she approached the area.

Minka pointed at the human skull: "There's a human skull here!" She screamed in fear.

Viola laughs: "Calm down. I bet that there's more of those things." She then looks at the ground as she finds another human skull as well.

Sannet looks at her with a serious face: "You don't really believe that it was just an accident that those people ended up in this place?"

"No... i don't think so... but my question is... where is the rest of it? Why are there only heads?" Viola replies as she looks at her surroundings again: "We should keep looking for the rest of the corpses or bodies."

"Found it!" Leanna said while about twenty meters away: "I think they were decapitated." She found a human skeleton with their skull separated from their body, as if their head was chopped off and left somewhere else: "Think i found where your missing bodies were."

"It's a clean cut." Sannet examines: "Something with immense force cut through the heads and threw them all the way here."

Minka looked around with her eyes wide open: "What could do something like that?"

Leanna holds up one of the skulls: "It could be done with a beam cutter like this. or a power sword."

Sannet shakes her head: "There's no such weapon that could do that, unless the wielder has immense strength."

"Huh..." Minka gulps: "Guys... I think I found something." She points on the floor where there's a huge trail as if a blade sliced through the ground.

Leanna looked at it while examining it closely: "I don't know how strong it was, but I can imagine it was powerful enough to slice through this place. I think what we are dealing with here is... outside of our imagination. Or... something or someone that has superhuman strength and ability that fought here. This was a battlefield."

"Agreed. It seems like this place has seen some rough fights." Sannet nods.

Minka suddenly saw something shiny among the stones, when she approached. Her eyes widened. It is a crest of the Terra family. Some people from the past are related to the Terras.

Leanna looks at it while her eyes widened in surprise: "That's... not possible." She stands behind Minka.

Minka puts away the crest: "Lea... do you think..." She looks at Leanna: "Our relatives were here?"

"I don't know... but let's not tell them about this..." Leanna pretends to not see anything interesting, but her eyes are fixed on the crest in her hand: "This matter is probably bigger than both of us."

Minka nods and puts the crest into a hidden pocket of her backpack. Around a few more hours, they couldn't really find anything interesting besides more human skeletons and occasional beasts roamed near them. They gone back to the car and began driving to the nearest village near the abyss. The place according to the camp officer is not affected by the zoning order but that place seems to be a place of testing for human and hybrid coexistence.

This time Leanna is driving and Sannet is sitting in the shotgun. Viola and Minka are seemingly dozing off and eventually sleep in the back while Viola is leaning on Minka's shoulder. Sannet looks at her surroundings and felt she is feeling uneasy about this mission but couldn't tell why she felt like that. As they near the town, they could see the outskirts of the town which is surrounded by a huge fence with warning sign written with big letters that say "DANGER".

"How welcoming." Leanna comments while looking at the sign then stops the car.

"We should leave our car for the moment. I'm not sure if there's sentries near by-" As soon as Sannet finished her sentence, a group of soldiers surrounded the car. Sannet slowly rolled down her window, and the first soldier looks at them with his eyes narrowed and suspicious as if they were doing something wrong: "Where you heading?"

"The village." Sannet answered.

"We're checking all vehicles entering and leaving this village, and checking for any suspicious activity." The soldier told Sannet as he approached their window: "Please leave the vehicle."

Leanna looks at the soldier with a suspicious look: "Can you present us your ID?"

"I don't have to." The soldier replied with a stern face.

"Yes you do. Its protocol." Leanna told him.

"No, I don't." The soldier said with an unfriendly voice, then suddenly two other 'soldiers' came out from one of the buildings nearby. They were dressed in armor, while one had a big rifle on his back.

Leanna and Sannet look at each other and then nod. They left the car but within a few seconds, Sannet and Leanna managed to take down the men that had stopped them. When Sannet takes off the helmet of the soldier, she notices that the helmet is made of scraps not the standard issue militarum helmet, as their uniforms were old and torn apart as well: "Who are you?" Sannet asks while bending a man's arm to another direction.

The man screamed in pain and answered: "We are just trying to get some passing fees!"

Sannet put down his arm and then looked at Leanna: "They are just thugs."

Leanna approached the men and suddenly her eyes glowed in blue. After a few seconds, she blinks a few times and lets out a long sigh: "You're right, and they have a settlement not far away from here... And... they have captured some of those hybrid villagers."

Sannet quickly tied up all the men and put them near a tree. After she's done, she goes back to Leanna and asks: "You have telepathy?"

"Just on very limited occasions, I can only read the minds of a weakened individual. It's still a work in progress..." Leanna answers with a frown on her face.

"Huh..." Sannet paused to think a bit: "Do you think we should go and save those hybrids?"

Leanna looks at those two who are still in deep sleep mode and lets out a sigh: "You know what mother Minka will say when she wakes up?"

"Like what?" Sannet asked.

Leanna suddenly softens her voice to imitate Minka: "Oh no! We need to save them! They all have their families and...and..." Just when Leanna was about to continue, Minka woke up and interrupted them.

"That's not funny, Lea!" Minka sticks her head out of the window and stares at Leanna with a pouting expression: "I don't talk like that!"

"Yes... you do..." Leanna smiled back at her cousin: "So, we should save those poor hybrids?"

Minka turned her eyes to look at Sannet and Viola: "What about you two?"

Viola also just woke up: "What? What about me?" She stretches and hugs Minka from the back: "You're so warm..."

"Creep! Get away from me!" Minka playfully pushed away Viola then she asks again: "Leanna found out that there's a settlement with captured villagers."

"Yea, we need to help them out!" Viola replied with a smile on her face, while Sannet nodded in agreement with both of them: "Also, when it comes to raiding settlements... we can get everything we want."

"But saving people comes first!" Minka told them: "Let's go!"

Leanna and Sannet then went back to the car and then began heading towards the settlement.

The settlement is not that big, from the size of it, there might be a dozen people there. But they are not sure how armed these people are, so Viola and Sannet decide to do a bit of recon before acting. Viola takes out her binoculars and begins to scan the surroundings with it. She then pointed her finger towards a nearby building.

"From the looks of it, it looks like a stockpile or something..." Viola said: "If there's something there, it's probably useful to us."

Sannet nods in agreement as she takes out a pistol: "Ok, let's check it out."

"Us?" Viola has a smirk on her face: "Why don't we let the kids do it? You know, for training."

"But..." Sannet hesitated in response.

"Come on Sannet, let them do this once, it won't take too much time." Viola told her while smiling at Sannet: "Besides, if something bad happens, we will do something until that point."

Sannet didn't seem happy with that but finally she nodded: "Fine."

Viola then briefed Minka and Leanna about the situation in the camp, at first both of them looked a bit surprised but when their gaze met with each other, they simply nodded and began their infiltration.

They quickly climb up the wall of the building and begin to peek inside from the roof. They saw some people working at a machine which looked like an advanced version of the teleportation pads. They are also seen wearing strange clothes which look like it was made from metal instead of soft fabric. All of them are human, and look less malicious than the people they met earlier. There are also some hybrid villagers working on the machine. They are all captured by those villager thugs and forced to work at that place.

"They are slave owners..." Minka whispered while looking at one of the slave owners while holding a whip in his hands.

Leanna then whispered to her cousin: "What do we do?"

"I don't know..."

"Do you want to rescue them?" Leanna asks while pointing her finger at the hybrid villagers who are being used as slaves.

Minka didn't even think for a moment as she nodded: "Yea."

Leanna then nodded with her cousin: "Then it's settled! But... we have to do it without killing those people."

Minka then whispers softly: "Ok."

Minka began scouting the area with Leanna; they wanted to find the place where they held most of the hybrid workers. They then suddenly heard a woman crying in the corner of the room: "No! Please! Nooo!"

"Hey... who's that?" Leanna whispers to her cousin as they move closer to the crying woman.

They soon discovered that this woman was not a hybrid but a normal human. She was chained down and had bruises on her face. Her hands were also tied up in chains, while her eyes were covered with some black cloth.

"They kidnapped someone!" Minka wants to go in but Leanna pats her down.

"Look, whatever we have to do, we have to draw as little attention as possible... Right now, this woman is making too much noise. We will go back for her later." Leanna whispered while holding up her finger to stop Minka from going inside.

Leanna then peek through the window of another building, that is the building where the slaves sleep. Minka uses her power to open up the lock of the building with telekinesis. With a simple sign, the hybrid villagers saw what they were doing and began leaving this place silently. When the building was clear, Minka locked the door again pretending nothing had happened. Then they quickly moved to another building to see what's happening inside.

Inside the building, they saw more hybrid villagers working at a machine which was similar to the machine used by the slave master except this one is not used to teleport but to produce a kind of drug, it has blue shimmering light and has the texture of crystal. Minka slowly opens up the lock and within seconds, Leanna pulls out a stun gun and brings down the human guard inside the place. They then evacuated the hybrid villagers out as soon as possible.

"Not bad." Viola looks through the binoculars. She could tell that Leanna was quite talented with a weapon even though she is still a young girl.

"You do know that you're only a few years older than them." Sannet looks at Viola with a judgemental way: "You're not some kind of master."

"And how old are you supposed to be? Forty?" Viola then gives a sarcastic look at Sannet: "You know, you remind me of a certain person that I know."

"What's your point?"

"My point is that I hated that person." VIola continues: "You always pretend that you are strong and always think that you are the hero that will save the day."

"I don't think so."

"Yes, you do. I can see it on your face when you see someone who is weaker than you."

"What?"

"Don't deny it. You always think that you are right no matter what. And you always pretend like you don't have a heart."

Sannet then scoffs at VIola's comment and looks at another side with the binocular. Apparently those two already released most of the prisoners beside that crying girl. Inside the room there's a few people surrounding that poor girl. Minka slowly opens up the door and begins using her power to throw those people over the wall, while Leanna quickly knocks them unconscious. The girl inside this place was badly injured with bruises, burn marks and broken bones, and she's currently sobbing while holding a broken knife which is tied to her hands.

"Who... who are you two?" The girl asks.

Leanna quickly explains to her: "We are here to rescue you!"

The girl seemed shocked for a moment before she started sobbing again: "Nooo! Nooo! Please, noo!"

"What? Why not?" Minka asks in shock while trying to calm the crying girl down.

The girl then begins talking while holding onto a dagger: "I cannot go back home! If I go back to my village, I will surely be sold off again!"

"Sold off...?" Minka asks.

The girl then explains: "A month ago, there was a rebellion in our village because of some issue. I was captured by those rebel groups and I was taken to an auction." The girl continued explaining: "I was sold off along with my mother to this slave trader who also kidnapped me! The other villagers that were sold off were all killed!" The girl began crying again while looking at Leanna and Minka: "Please... I beg you...Take me with you..."

Minka and Leanna looks at each other and began to make a decision on what they should do next: "We need to talk to VIola and Sannet about this..." Leanna whispers softly to her cousin.

"Is there a lot to discuss? We are taking her with us." Minka then looks at the girl who was crying: "It's okay. We are not going to let anyone kill you."

But suddenly a few men came in with weapons, when they saw the unconscious people on the ground, they began attacking Minka and Leanna. Both girls quickly defended themselves using their powers and using the environment to fight back. They both managed to knock all the enemies down and threw them out of the building. Then they quickly rush back to help the girl inside before anything else bad happens. This is the time when one of the people on the ground was awake and charged Leanna on the wall and began beating her with a chair until he broke the chair and attacked her face with his fist, causing Leanna to fall down on the ground and start bleeding from her face.

"Lea!" Minka grabbed the man's neck and began choking him while her cousin stood up again with blood on her face. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah…"She grunts in pain: "That guy got me good…" Leanna was bleeding from her nose but she was able to stand back up, while looking at her cousin she said: "Let's move out of here before more comes back."

Minka nods and throws that man over to a table rendering him knocked out. They then took the captured girl back with them. Suddenly a person holding a gun ambushed them with a lasgun. Leanna and Minka managed to duck down fast enough, but that poor girl they just rescued was burned through her head. The gunman quickly shot Minka, but the las burn did not stop Minka from charging in and bashed him on a wall: "How dare you! You murdered that girl!"

"Go fuck your self!" The guy, knowing that there's no way he would escape, then takes out a pistol and shoots himself in the head. Minka stood there unable to move after witnessing someone kill themself in front of her. The blood spilled on her face and clothes. "Why... why...? Why...?!" She cries out loud.

Leanna tries her hardest to move Minka before more are coming, they manage to head back to where VIola and Sannet are rather quickly. Minka is in shock from what she saw before. Her entire body is trembling as she tries her hardest to regain composure from what happened just now. Leanna is having Sannet bandaging the wound for her.

Viola looks at the girls and let out a sigh, what had just happened might be normal for her. But for Minka and Leanna, after withnessing something fucked up like that they might not be the same again. On the way towards the village Minka and Leanna all look outside of the window from each side, their eyes empty and without any emotion in their eyes.

Viola looks at them in the front mirror. She can tell them to chin up and ready themselves for more. But after spending time with these two, she decides to take it slow and drive them to a hot spring center nearby. They will get some much needed rest from all the things that just happened today.

Leanna and Minka look at each other while changing their clothes, their expressions themselves are communicating with each other. None of them wants to recall the horrible incident that had happened. It took several minutes before they got into the hot spring. Inside, Leanna sunk half of her face into the hot spring. While Minka sunk her whole face in.

Viola wants to laugh, but she knows that this is not a place for that. Instead, everyone is just silently mourning the tragic death of that girl and the man. Even Sannet, who was sitting on the side not joining with anyone. Everyone just looks like they are in a state of shock from what happened before.

At night, while sleeping,Minka suddenly felt something lie next to her. When she opens her eyes, Leanna is lying next to her also looking at her. "What?"

"It's nothing," Leanna answers.

"Lea..." Minka gulps: "I am terrified about what happened today..."

"Me too." Leanna then sits up. "I am afraid any of us would end up like that..." Leanna suddenly crawls over and stops right on top of Minka, their eyes gazing into each other's eyes: "You know what I fear most?"

"What?"

"It's losing you." Leanna places her hand on Minka's cheek: "I love you so much."

"Lea...I love you too..." Minka blushes deeply from this statement, but it felt so good for her heart to hear it from Leanna herself: "You have no idea how much it meant to me..."

Leanna suddenly bowed down and kissed Minka on her lips. Minka's heart beats so hard that even Leanna can hear it: "Lea... we are cousins..."

Leanna smiles and pushes herself away from Minka: "I am sorry."

Minka was left stunned by that kiss and didn't know how to react: "Lea... You don't need to apologize... we all had a long day... If you want... we can hug each other to sleep tonight."

"Yes..." Leanna nodded with a shy smile: "I want that..."

Minka then lifts up her blanket and spoons Leanna from behind: "Don't worry... we will take care of each other... Just like our moms did when they were young."

"Yeah..." Leanna nuzzled herself onto her cousin's shoulder.

"Do you feel better now?"

"Yes... yes, I do... Thank you."

Minka then kisses her cousin's forehead, causing her cousin to blush from embarrassment: "No problem..."

They then fell asleep with Leanna's head on top of Minka's chest.