*Click*
Vwof♪
Tssszzhhh♪
“….”
“….”
Tsssszzzzhh♪
“I wonder how long this food will last you…”
“…
Us?”
“I can survive with magic stones alone, and even if I do get hungry I can go into hibernation to conserve energy.”
Tszzzz♪
An uninteresting meal cooks on…
“I question your claim to be human with each passing day Shiryu.”
“…..”
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….
As usual for the two, talk is awkward, their initial visit to the ground below was, filled with surprises, to say the least that it’s now become somewhat depressing for Aki and Shiryu,
Not just that but also a tinge of hopelessness and uncertainty on the survival of themselves and their other allies who were pulled into the city with them…
“It’s almost time for the next draining.” Shiryu mumbles referring to when their strength would be sapped again
“I can tell I’m almost at full strength so of course it’s almost time.” She rolls her eyes in annoyance
“Sorry, I was trying to figure out what to say…”
“If it isn’t about new strategies then I don’t want to hear it.”
“…..
Maybe we can go down more prepared next time, I can do all fighting and–”
“–And then what?
You have mana or whatever running through your body so I get that the draining doesn’t affect you that much, but what are you going to do when they start using magic on you?
Just before we escaped, I spotted a few charging up, by numbers alone you would be wiped away.”
“Thanks for the vote of confidence chief.”
“I am not trying to hurt your confidence Shiryu, it is what it is,
You need to one day accept the fact that you can’t be loved the way you want and use your dragonic power to get us out of here.”
“….
I was thinking about using it but if I did the dragon would immediately find me, I fell like it’s trying to find me.
But you didn’t have to an asshole about it Aki,”
“I wasn’t bein–”
“–Yes you were, you didn’t have to add that part about not being loved.”
“The truth hurts.” Shrugs Aki
(Bitch)
“Maybe we should just wait until Kage returns.” Shiryu tries his best to ignore the harsh words of Aki, changing the topic…
“Kage again…?” She face palms
“Where is he going to come back from?
Beyond the grave?
I know death is difficult concept to grasp for weak people, but Kage is dead.
D.E.A.D”
“Do you even know what’s past those mountains?”
“Yes, I’ve been there, it’s nothing but death.”
“There is so much out there that you have no idea Aki.”
“Enlighten me then?”
“Gaia is the name of this ring we are on, past here is the second ring, Tellus and my home the first ring, Terra, the strongest most intelligent people are born there by the way.”
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“Now I know you are making up at least some of that, if the strongest came from this ‘Terra’ you wouldn’t be so weak,
I’m not weak, only to stronger people like you I might seem weak,”
“Ok, well if there are these others places like you said, why haven’t we had more visitors?”
“Not much people know how to travel across rings, I don’t know how to myself.”
“Yet you’re over here?” Aki raises her eyebrows doubtfully.
“I told you the story before about the angel I freed, who brought ne here,
I call that man my father.”
“Mmm, I do remember saying I would take your word for it,
I do believe the existence of angles given that they have helped my people of Bakufu in the past, even my requiem is the result of a half-breed…”
“Can you still use it?”
“Yes, all I need is smoke around, maybe fog, but the problem is that when I’m weak it won’t matter because I won’t be able to move around to take advantage of it.”
“I wish there was a way to counter the draining when it happens.” Shiryu frets
“Maybe even for a short while, we just need an opening.”
“…..” Aki nods sharing his sentiment
….
….
And if by his wish, for a brief wave of seconds, Aki and Shiryu’s strength are restored
…..
“Auhuhuhhuhu!” Aki recoils back in gasp, even Shiryu stumbles
“Drained again,” she groans,
“But did you feel that before chief?
For a brief moment I was fully restored.”
“I…
I thought I was just hallucinating that,” she agrees
“I felt your, I felt an aura of despair coming from you, then my power flashed before me, getting drained away again.”
“You felt a despair from me?”
(This is the third time this happened with me,
First with Raguel, and the other two with the chief,)
“That only happens when I feel the absolute exact same, as someone else, Aki.”
“Well do it again, see if it gets me my strength!” she says so excitedly that you wouldn’t have known she was just drained of all her strength
“I can’t, it’s not something I can control, it’s an ability I’ve had since a baby, we have to feel the same.”
“Then tell me how you’re feeling and I’ll feel it too.”
“I don’t think it works like that,
We may just have to wait until the next time we click.”
“And when will that be?”
“Hopefully soon….” Shiryu says with earnest,
Though neither of them new how long it would be until they felt completely the same again,
It wouldn’t be until a few days,
A few weeks
A few months even….
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