Danzai and light continued to advance until they got to the middle part of the sand storms where even light had difficulty navigating. But although danzai couldn't see, light was well and okay and spotted a clear spot among the storms and rushed there with curiosity. But as they say curiosity kills the cat and she fell for the trap
The moment they got there,the storms stopped and they were left speechless. Danzai's dialogue box sent a notification that they had passed the hidden quest and they were to survive the emergency quest that followed.
"Emergency quest... survive the wave of sand panthers for 5 minutes till you get teleported back to base"
Danzai's look was full of disbelief
"Sand panthers..."
Light transformed back to her dagger formand alerted danzai
Danzai wastes no time running off while nothing appeared behind them for a while
***
Back in the snow regions
"Hoshino danzai... We don't know him"
The older one uttered with a mix of fear in his words. The older one tried to buy time for his brother to escape but the man saw through it almost immediately
"Yo... Don't try to run,i won't hurt yer"
"But we don't know hoshino danzai"
"Ehhh... I don't know any other place again where I can search... Can i stay at yer place for the meantime"
The boys were shocked to here such words but they were ready to accept him since they were living alone
"Okay but ... What's your name and what are you"
"Oh shit... My name is El, and I'm the embodiment killer of death"
"Embodiment... Death... What's that"
The younger brother seems to know about these things and corrects his brother for his lack of knowledge
"Come on bro, that's why I've told you to go to school but you wouldn't listen; the embodiments are Inner gods while the embodiment killers are thier enemies "
"Oh ... But I thought they were myths and legends"
"Stupid"
"I couldn't quite wrap my head around that. Come again"
El watched their sibling rivalry and laughed to his heart's content which assured them of his character but the older one had questions
"Um...if you're an embodiment killer, doesn't that mean you're the villian?"
"Yep...but I ain't gonna hurt y'all even though we ain't friends"
"Okay then, let's go"
The older brother leads him to their home not to far from the forest. From the outside,it looked like a resort but the house was left for them by their parents who eloped to another country for some reasons. When they got inside, the younger brother showed him around the house while the older one prepared a room for El. When they got to the kitchen,el insisted on trying out cooking but the younger brother tried to stop him
"Hey don't go there... The tools are old so we don't know whether they would work"
"Don't you guys use the kitchen?"
"No"
"Then what do you eat?"
"Instant ramen"
El looked at him with disappointment. He walked to the fridge and opened it scanning for ingredients
"Yes...get me a pot and cooking utensils"
"You know how to cook?"
"Yep..."
El wears an apron and sets the pot on the fire and starts whipping up a meal while the younger ones watches him.
"I never got your name"
"Oh sorry. My name's Dan and my brother's David"
"Dan huh..."
By the time David was done arranging the room, El was rounding up with his cooking and Dan was drooling over just from the scent. David walked to the kitchen and saw El cooking with his eye patches on and inquired about it
"Why do you wear your eye patches everytime... Even though it's cool that you see with your eyes closed"
"Can I tell yer something?, don't pry into my life... I won't do anything to yer but I don't know about my master"
"Okay"
El finished up the meal and served it and they ate to their satisfaction.
"Thank you for the food"
"By the way,why are you looking for this embodiment called hoshino danzai"
"It's orders from the Master. To bring him back dead or alive"
***
Danzai ran at top speed as he realized that panthers formed from sand were hot on his tales. According to the information he got from the dialogue box,any damages taken at this point would affect him real time. As he ran for his life, light warned him of danger up ahead
"Wha—"
Before he realized, he was on the end of the cliff with 10 seconds on the clock for him to pass the test. With the panthers closing in on him, he made up his mind and jumped from the cliff
"Fingers crossed"