Kira eyes widened.
He was unable to understand anything which was happening at front of him. The bitter face appears mix with bit of emotions and trauma.
His memories flickered. 'Blood' 'His friend' and 'blade piercing through a lady stomach'. Everything which he wants to forget was going through his eyes, his mind like a movie. He was becoming more and more uncomfortable.
Riya was standing beside him but didn't panic like Kira. She was rather quiet, composing her calmness.
She noticed Kira and his bitter expression over his face as he was losing his mind.
"Hey, don't lose your mind now. We need to figure out something."
"...Ok..." Kira responded as he came to his sense back.
After this, they both started walking through the burning village in a hope of finding survivors but seeing the situation it was hard to tell that anyone survived.
The Bodies were all over. Some were burning and some's body parts were missing as if they were sliced. The ugly smell of dead bodies were all over which one wouldn't wish to smell.
It was enough for anyone to get a trauma seeing the situation. Even though village population is low, but it can be said that it is a massacre.
"Stay alert", Riya said as she was going.
".....", Kira was silent. His gaze was distant, as if he was reliving moments he wished he could forget.
Riya was going forward and forward seeing her surroundings which was engulf in flames, her grip tightened around her sword. Her breathe steady.
They moved deeper.
A house collapsed in the distance with a loud crash. The ground was scattered with debris, broken carts, and remnants of what people had tried to save. Then—
A faint sound.
"Somebody help!..."
He heard it too. Not the fire. Not the wind.
A whisper.
Riya immediately followed it, pushing aside a half-burnt wooden plank near what looked like the remains of a storage shed. Beneath it, hidden in a cramped hollow space between fallen walls—
Five children.
Two of them were very small, no older than six or seven, clinging tightly to each other. The older ones—around thirteen, fourteen, and twelve—stood protectively in front, their bodies shaking but their eyes trying to stay strong.
For a moment, no one moved.
The children flinched as light from the flames reflected off Kira's sword. One of the older boys stepped forward slightly, despite his fear.
"D-don't come closer…"
His voice cracked.
Kira froze as if he was seeing himself in them.
Riya slowly knelt down, lowering herself to their level, her voice losing its usual cold edge.
"We're not here to hurt you."
One of the little ones began to cry softly, burying their face into the other's shoulder. The girl beside them tried to quiet them, but tears were already falling down her own face.
"They… they're all gone…" she whispered.
Silence fell again—but this time, it was heavier.
Kira looked around the burning village, then back at the children. His eyes hardened—not with anger, but with something deeper. Something that refused to let this scene repeat again.
He turned slightly toward Riya.
"We're getting them out."
Riya nodded without hesitation.
Carefully, she extended her hand toward the children.
"It's okay," she said softly. "You're safe now."
This time, the boy didn't step back.
Slowly, hesitantly… he reached out.
And as he reach he started crying, sobbing and sobbing. "She killed them", He mutters.
"Who", Riya said becoming cautious alongside Kira whose mind was still blank.
"That lady", The moment he said, Riya immediately looked towards Kira with her eyes.
"They doesn't have gone in a long distance"
"Yeah...", Kira said becoming serious alongside the bitter face appeared.
"You go follow them. I would come as soon as I help this children's find safety.
"Ok", and as he said Kira marched towards the direction which the boy told him. Going faster and faster, his memories was flickering again and again but he decides to ignore them as it was not a time to think about it.
"Where are th..."
And as he moved through the burning village, he smelled something.
Something disgusting.
And as he moved following that smell, He reached the destination where he wanted to reach.
At his front, there were wild beast looking like a wolf and about size of a human, carrying bodies of those who were seems to alive. Kira eyes roamed through the surroundings analysing it but he was stunned as he and a mysterious figure eye met.
He was shocked to see the one who died long, long ago at front of him. The one whose blood spilled on Kira eye. It was ~
The women who was ready to kill him before appeared standing on one of the wild beast.
"Long time no see..."