Chapter One Hundred Sixty:
Merwa Mountain
"She's safe." Rishna finally announced after seeing Shu Tokino finally regained her complexion.
"Let's wake them up." Navina answered.
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Breaths escape from my mouth as soon I finally regain my consciousness. Then, slowly I open my eyes only to meet an unfamiliar place.
"You're finally awake, Lady Shu." Someone spoke up to me.
I look at that person and met a young woman. "Who are you?" I asked in my weak voice.
"Shu!" then I heard Haimon's voice.
I immediately turned to him and it seemed to me that he had just also regained consciousness. "Haimon, what's going on?" I asked clueless of what's going on around me.
"Can I talk to her alone?" Haimon asked to those persons that I'm unfamiliar.
"You go ahead. We will wait outside the cave." The other young woman answered before leaving us alone.
Haimon finally sits up before going out of the stone bed then walks towards me. "Shu," he hold my hand as he stand up beside me. "I'm glad you are safe."
"What…" I suddenly felt something then something comes to my mind. "Siara." Unknowingly I spoke out that name.
"You remember." Haimon answered and slowly I remember everything.
"It isn't a dream. Then," I look down to my wrist. "Kanik really visits me and— no!"
"You are safe now, my Love. And you have nothing to worry about. I promise you, I will not let Kanik get close to you in reality or even in your dreams. Never!"
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Afterwards…
"Maybe you already know everything about what's happening now, Lady Shu?" the first woman that I saw after I regain my consciousness spoke up to me and they came back after Haimon explained everything to me.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Rishna Ryuu and this is my niece Navina Ryuu and my friend Truman Kier." She answered then she introduced the other two.
"Okay. So, are you the ones who help Haimon to save me?"
"We just guide Haimon so that he can enter your sub-conscious mind without putting the two of you in danger." Rishna explained. "Anyway, now that you know about Lady Siara's past you already know who you are and what you have to do."
Yes, Siara and I have already talked about her brother who came back and found a way to stay alive without anyone knowing.
"Yes, Siara already explained to me what happened from the past and right now Kanik was about to wake up."
"You're right," Rishna replied and walks near at the cave window. "As you all see, the sky already turning dark which only means, Kanik will soon awake the destruction and we still don't know where and how we can save his soul." She said turning her gaze back at me. "However, it was only you knows the way."
"How will she do that?" Haimon curiously asked.
"She need to die." Truman answered that surprised me and Haimon.
"No!" we both answered in unison.
"Yes, Truman was right." Rishna answered. "Because Manu's soul is in the underworld where the God of Hell protects it, and you know the rule Haimon. To meet the God of Hell you must be a spirit because a person's earthly body cannot simply enter that place. So that was the only way to save Manu's soul."
"Then, I'll go with her."
"You cannot." Truman answered. "You know you are a Vampire and once you step in into that place, you knew what will happen to you."
"Yes, I know but––"
"Haimon, what are they talking about?" I immediately interfered.
"Haimon will eventually die if he joins you to your journey through the underworld." Navina answered.
"No!" I answered. "I will not let you get into trouble, Haimon."
"But neither will I allow you to go there alone." He replied.
"No worries, she will not go there alone." Rishna answered. "Because Navin and I will go with her so you don't have to worry. We will be her guardians."
"But––"
"Haimon." Truman cuts him off. "Let them." He said. "Besides, you don't have a choice you have let them go with her or she won't be able to save Manu's soul."
"Love," I hold his hand. "Please, trust them. And I also don't want anything bad happen to you."
Reinhardt's Mansion
"What happened to Sir Kanik?" I asked as soon as I came back.
"He fainted after he screamed in pain."
I immediately went to his side and check on his pulse. "I don't think it isn't just a simple pain but rather someone initiated it and now his consciousness was far from his body."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't know exactly but I think I shall do something about it."
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Through the Darkness
I couldn't believe what I just learned. The past was too cruel and I don't like that to happen again.
"So, you're telling me that I need to destroy the whole world, right?"
"Yes, my Lord."
"And what for?" I curiously asked. "Because if I'm the one to ask, I want the world I live in now. And destroying it won't be good at all."
"Then, what do you want to do my Lord?"
"Can I even have a choice?"
"Yes, indeed. You can choose whatever you want."
"Then, I decided! I want to rule all over the Earth! And destroy those who will oppose me," I decided.
"Then, I will gladly be your help."
"Good! Then, what are we still doing here? Why haven't we left this place yet?"
"We cannot, my Lord."
"And why is that?"
"It is because something is preventing you from leaving this place."
"What! And what is that?"
"I still don't know what that is but you don't have to worry, a Witch from your world will help you though we still have to wait."
"Oh, okay! No worries, Medea will probably find a way to get me out of this place as soon as possible." I answered as I sit down and wait for Medea to do her work.
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