"Don't tell me that I didn't warn you!" Saying this Yukino rushed towards the bandits. He lands one swift punch on his face. The other bandits look at him and face each other and attack the two girls.

Ellie uses her magic to knock off two of them on the ground while Akiko swiftly doges the attack of the other one and kick him on the stmoach.

The biggest bandit then comes out of his hiding spot and punches Akiko. Seeing this Yukino loses his cool and blindly rushes towards the bandit but the bandit manages to doge his attacks and punches Yukino on his stomach. He flys towards a tree and crashes on it.

Ellie panickes and trys to heal Akiko with her magic but the bandit grabs her from the back and throws her towars one of the tree. There's blood gushing out for her head. "Hahaha, you weaklings are no match for me!" The bandit says.

Yukino was still lying on the ground. He sees that both Akiko and Ellie were injured. "No! This can't happen. Not again!" And Some memories of Yukino flash back to him.

"No! Leave Her alone," Yukino shouts at someone who's holding a girl by her throat. "Please! I beg of you! Let Julie go!" and then he again returns to the present.

"Please! I beg of you! Please let them go!" And then suddenly Yukino starts shaking violently. There's blood coming out of his eyes and his hands are glowing with a faint golden light.

"Turn to ashes!" A voice says that not Yukino's. The bandit in front of him turns to ashes. "Hahaha! I've waited of 50 years and now I'm finally free!" Someone or something inside of Yukino was speaking. Ellie starts to regain consciousness and sees what was happening. She trys to get up but she cannot.

"Ellie! Take Akiko and run as fast as you can from here!" I can't hold on much longer!" Yukino spoke with the last speck of energy that was left in him. "Shut up, mortal! How dare you speak using my body!" The voice said. "I, the god of calamity have arrived and will not stop till everything in front of me is destroyed.

The person inside Yukino raises his hand and a magic circle froms at the palm of his hand. He whispers something and then a spark of light rushes out of his hand and light the whole area on fire. Yukiko starts to hover on the air.

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Everything is black. Yukino opens his eyes but he cannot see anything. He trys calling out Ellie's and Akiko's name but there is no answer. "I guess I did it again..." He sits down and starts crying. "Why does this always happen! I just made new friends and now I'm about to lose them immediately! Please help me someone!"

There's a faint light that catches his eyes. He moves towards the light. "Yukiko! Yukiko! Yukiko! Open your eyes!" There are some muffeled voice but he cannot understand anything that the voice is saying. Then he suddenly remembers about Ellie and Akiko.

"Ellie! Akiko!" He calls of their name but there is no reply. There's a sherik of pain on his head and then everything goes white. When he opens his eyes there's a white celling above him. He looks around and then sees someone lying on the bed beside him. "Ellie?" Ellie opens her eyes and startes crying while huging him.

He lets her cry for a while and then when she calms down he asked her what happened. She explained everything that she saw and Yukino listens carefully. "You were floating in the air and then suddenly you fell down. We tried to wake you up a lot of time but you never opend your eyes. I was so scared. I thought you died!" She hugs him and again starts crying. Yukino Pat's her head and then whispers in her ears," I'm right here and alive and I'll never leave you alone. Ok?" She looks up to him and kisses him on the cheek. "Promise me that youl never do something reckless again!" Ellie shows him her littel finger. " Promise!" Yukino promised her and locked his little finger with hers.

She leans on his shoulder and they stay like that for a while. Both of them fell asleep like that and after a few hours Yukino wakes up. He looks at her and kisses her forehead. "I promise I'll protect you two." He said to himself.

He starts walking and finds himself in the kitchen. He sees Akiko preaparing food. "Hey!" Yukino said. Akiko jumps up startled. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." Yukino tried to hide his laugh but ends up roling on floor. "You meanie!" Akiko pounces towards him and hugs him tightly. "Hey, hey. It's fine now. No more bandits, it's only you and me." Yukino said while huging her back. He Pats her head and she starts playing with his hand. Yukino trys his best to get his hand away but she's so fast that she caught it and starts licking it.

Yukino stays there shocked. He doesn't know what to do. She stops licking his hand and faces towards Yukino. He was tring his best to hide his embarrassment and looks away from her face avoiding eye contact. She places her hand on his cheeks and turns him towards her. Yukino was blushing and his heart was beating so fast that he felt like he was about to collapse. She brings her face so close to his face that he could feel her breath on his face. Akiko bends forward to take a kiss and Yukino closes his eyes not knowing what to do. Her lips were so close to his lips. They were about to touch when suddenly the door bell rang.

She clicks her tounge and rushes towards the door. Yukino was still recovering from the shock. Akiko then returned to the kitchen and called him. "Hey Yukino. Can you come here for a sec?" " Yeah yeah. I'm coming!" Yukino stands up and moves towards Akiko. She was holding a letter.

"What's this?" Yukino asked. "A letter for you dummy!" "Hey! Even I know that it is a letter! I meant what's in it!" "I don't know. They courier said to give this to you." Yukino carefully opnes the letter and reads it.