Chapitre 22: The Cause to Decide 2
Weak, beaten and in tatters. His breathing was unstable as he was running non stop throughout the sewers whilst holding a child.
His body reeks as he didn't have the time to bathe thanks to being chased all the time.
"Pa… pa.. "
"Don't worry, Miella… we're getting there"
His ragged clothes makes him look like a beggar thanks to that his body is not exposed, his green veins that originate to his heart, are now climbing up to his neck.
"Please… please make it… "
Running to the right, he was left with nothing but a dead end, the sewer road ending for him but above is a manhole cover, he wasn't left with no choices
"Over here!"
A distant noise rang and multiple footsteps were heard, Yohai started climbing the metal ladder that leads up to the manhole while carrying his daughter, Miella.
Pushing the manhole away he lifted Miella out and soon followed after.
"Here!"
Quickly closing the manhole cover he looked around and threw a trash bin on top of it.
Right now they're in an alley and it's night.
"papa… "
"Be patient miella… "
He started carrying Miella once again and started running. Yohai was lucky that the moon was above the sky as there weren't a lot of people on the road and there weren't a lot of cars.
But his luck ran out when he crossed a certain alley and saw a child with a gun in front of him.
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Since it was the weekend I could do whatever I want, starting from going back to the warehouses I immediately started experimenting with the potions.
Making some with the equipment bought by Anna it was easier to use than the ones I use from the military.
Potions are applied into many things, from Healing, stamina recovery, mana recovery and even growth potions.
You need a good sense of alchemy for potion making, after all it's not just ingredient making that needs measurement, it's also the amount of mana needed in it.
We can use mana stones but there's a specific tool for that, and the tool is the expensive one.
Mana stones could be found on gates, as Towers and Dungeons are different things. Gates have monsters that have mana stones inside them, sometimes a spherical mana stone could be found which is called a core.
Mana stones are the main source of humanity's Eco friendly energy. Mana stones are not that expensive as they're tiny and size, but Cores are larger and release more mana.
Anyways, if I had a core and an energy funnel I could use that to mass produce these potions, because even though there are herbs and other natural resources in it, it still requires mana to fully make it a whole.
After all, water is the body while mana is the base.
My potion experimenting spree went on till I eventually had 20% of my mana left. It was so time consuming when I looked at the clock it's already midnight.
"Oh wow… well I guess it's time for me to go home"
I looked at the couch nearby and saw Anna sleeping. It had been about a month since I met her.
Right now she's murmuring, in this distance I can practically hear her with my heightened senses but I just stopped listening. After all she kept talking about her father figure which is I presume dead by the Mafia's hands.
I sighed, walking out the warehouse and silently closing the door on my way out.
"She deserves better… "
Referencing my novel once again, it was in the latter half of the novel it was revealed what happened to Anna and Ainsley.
They were both caught by the mafia, Anna was separately captured from Ainsley. I guess this world made the story clearer.
The mafia gang that almost killed me is supposed to own the warehouse, and Anna was supposedly captured there whilst Ainsley was captured by another group.
Whilst reminiscing with my thoughts and walking down the street my blood suddenly boiled.
I started looking around and eventually my gaze went to the alley just on the right of the warehouse gate.
The footsteps got closer and my blood boiled more.
I pulled out a gun from my Arsenal and aimed forward.
"W-whos there?"
I let out a nervous cry, I need to put their guard down even just by a little bit, chances of me winning must be absolute.
The figure eventually stopped as I aimed. With a bit of light filling the alley, I noticed that he's carrying a child.
"What the… "
Both of them are in tatters, but the man looks thinner.
"k-kid please move out the way"
I then heard yelling on the other side of the alley.
"Over here!"
"shit!"
With my eyes I looked directly at the end of the alley and my brows furrowed, men wearing suits, the mafia.
"here quick!"
I urged the man to follow, there may be a reason for him and the child he's carrying. I ignored my boiling blood as I lead them to safety
Opening the door gate and waving them in, the man immediately rushed in and so did I.
Keeping my gun close and we hid behind the walls keeping the two close to me I made sure we weren't discovered.
Soon after several footsteps were heard on the road, it stopped momentarily then resumed.
When the footsteps were far away I started to speak.
"Hey.. "
"ugh!"
The man fell and he let go of the child with him.
"Papa! Papa!"
"I told you to call me master Yohai—argh!"
He twitched and rolled, twisting in pain. His face was begging for himself to get killed.
"S-should… should I do it?"
With my heart racing I asked, my hands were trembling as this isn't the first time I'm going to see someone innocent die.
He waved his hands meaning not no or not yet, he sat right back up and fixed his posture, green veins started to crawl up to his neck.
"M… Miella listen to me."
The child he was bringing was already crying, snot coming out of her nose. Trembling more as she's looking at her father fighting something inevitable.
I remember putting on such a setting. Not fulfilling a contract with the zenites will actually expire your full life force as punishment.
And now that's what's happening.
"Miella listen to me, Live your life as it is okay? Don't come for revenge and anything like that, you hear me?"
Miella nodded, she started silently sobbing. The man, who hasn't presented his name yet to me, has already said everything he wanted as he took out a book.
"child… can I have the honor of hearing your name"
He looked at me
"My name is Damian Vogue"
"I see.. My name is Yohai, Kagamine Yohai."
"Please take care of the child in exchange of this"
He gave me a scrolled out book, it's entirely made of paper. When I looked at it a screen popped up before me.
[Star Killing Fist][Star-Realm]
I was perplexed as I didn't expect that the book was actually a guide. It started showing me the moves and techniques of said guide in a form of screens.
It literally shows me what I have to do, like a guide. But one thing that surprised me.
[Star-Realm]
Every guide is ranked by difficulty to master. From Minor-realm, Mid-realm, Major-realm, Advanced-realm to Star-realm.
It's just the user's tenacity to master the guide after all, it's not the blade that kills but the user itself.
"Well… "
"Please…"
"I… I guess"
Yohai then stood up and started walking out the gate but before he did Miella grabbed his hand.
Yohai has a sad expression on his face.
"Why are you…"
Yohai looked at me and spoke, replying to what I said.
"Because if they found a dead body here it would be over for you, those are the red monkeys, nothing stops on their way."
I clenched my jaws hearing the group name, of course, even though I couldn't stand in their way. Red Monkey is a mafia gang located in the commercial district of the city. Right now we're in the shopping district, named Gourdgard street.
"Well then… Please take care of her."
"I.. I will"
He ran out and I closed the door gate. Miella on the other hand, tried to go with him but I pulled her away.
"Papa! Papa!!"
I covered her mouth and the sound of sobbing was heard across the warehouse space. I dragged her inside the warehouse so as not to make more noise but that woke Anna up instead.
"Boss..?????"
"I have an explanation so please help me in here"
Hugging Miella who was crying hugged me back, she was totally lost right now, and she hugged me back just for comfort.
Anna, who just woke up, is very confused by the situation, I'm hugging a child who looked like a beggar and that's the first thing she saw.
…
When Miella finally calmed down she slept like a log, it was still midnight and Anna was looking at me with an irritated face.
"Alright listen here"
I waved my hand with the guide in it and an envelope flung out as I did so.
"Uh.. Okay wait"
I grabbed the folder and held it with the guide.
"Her father is hunted by the mafia and he chose to go out there to save me from suspicions"
"wow…" she sighed "So what do we do with the kid?"
"well I can't just obviously leave her on the streets"
I sighed while opening the envelope that fell off inside the guide, what was inside was very convenient.
"True but we don't really have any facilities here to accommodate her. I mean, look. I bathe at the nearest bath house so I don't think… "
"This… envelope contains her birth certificate and a crumpled id card… "
"so… "
"Unlike you she's still officially registered to the census, making this easier."
"Great…?"
"Yeah, but shit. We need you to act as the Guardian. I'm not old enough"
"ugh… let's just talk about this by tomorrow"
"Sure.. Sorry for bothering your sleep"
"yeah… let's just… treat the kid by tomorrow"
Miella is sleeping burritoed by a blanket. She'll be warm by the time she wakes up, probably sweaty but at least she's comfortable in it.
For now I went back to the dorms of the Academy. I'm actually going to the guidance as I went back past curfew but it doesn't matter, I have the martial guide in my hands.
I'm at least content with that exchange, though not going back to the dorm is actually my fault. I got too immersed with potion making.
I sighed as I went back to the dorms. And of course, a guard in front of the dorms looked at me, clicking his tongue.
I don't have the energy to do this. So I just went along and had my shit get recorded and went to my room.
Sighing as I lay in my bed I couldn't help but feel guilt. Today I didn't have any power to save another man, not that I could…
After all, not fulfilling the contract with a Zenite also kills him; there is no way to sever a mana contract… well not as of yet.
I sighed, I can't let this guilt swallow me, no- I can't let it pass within a threshold. I have the perk of OS in which it suppresses any negative emotions within me at the cost of physical stress, but I don't want to lose my emotion of guilt.
Fear is fine, but not guilt.
I still need that within me.
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