Chapter 1: Rescue

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The boy, named is Akira right now with his long-lost friend, hiding from the public eyes. Akira didn't want to stay there until the Kingdom guard found him knocking 6 and killing 7 people, or It would be serious trouble there.

His friend hugged his arm like she didn't ever want to let go. She was small, like 5.2ft, while he was 6.2ft. Akira hears the guard yell at nearby civilians, looking for who is responsible for all of the mess. Asuka hugs him even tighter; Akira knows that she is definitely scared of all of this.

Then suddenly, Asuka pulls him with her as Akira asks her what is wrong. "What's wrong?"

"M-My... Sister...." Asuka said weakly as Akira nodded, understanding.

The ugly bastard did say that Asuka hides her sister, so she must want to go to find her. Asuka pulls him with her.

They're slowly out of their hiding as both cautiously back to public eyes. Akira gives his jacket to Asuka to cover her rug cloth and put the hoody on to cover her face. Before they move, Asuka almost collapses to the ground, but Akira catches her before she falls.

"Hey, are you okay?" Akira asks her as he looks at her leg. She did have an injury on her legs. 'She must hold all the pain to keep running..... Once again, I'm sorry, Asuka.....' Akira said to himself and shocked the girl when Akira lifted her to his arm and carried her bridal style.

"Just tell me where is the way," Akira said and didn't even look at her. She nods as he points the way.

That shocked her again when Akira jumped over the building and landed on the rooftop. "Where?" He asks again as Asuka points forward.

'You become stronger, Akira..... It seems you didn't need my protection like we were kids before...' She remembers when she protected him from bullies years ago, but now he is the one who saves her.

For years she is enslaved. She thinks all people she knew back home were dead when Demon came and destroyed everything, Asuka saw her parents die, and she saw Akira get stabbed by a spear in his heart years ago. She, her sister, and some female kids are captured and sold to someone rich.

She lost all hope to live, but she couldn't give up. She must find freedom for her sister for many years. She and other enslaved people are trying to escape from that ugly man with her sister's plan, but none of them are working; every time they get caught, they are being tortured to death, and only the strongest will survive the torture.

This time, their plan worked. Even with the sacrifices of another enslaved person, now her sister is saved, and Akira is also here, alive.

Her thought stops when Akira calls her.

"Asuka, we here..."

They arrive at the messy dark hallway of the city Akira lets her down gently as Asuka slowly walks toward some random big box and opens the big box and hears.

"Is someone there?"

Akira heard a female voice in the box, and he guessed that it must be Asuka's sister, Asagi. Then heard again.

"If someone there better didn't come any closer!"

Akira gets confused about why she said that. Didn't she see Asuka right in front of her? Akira also doesn't see the girl fully in the box as he gets closer. He shocks and is heartbroken when he sees the lovely girl he knows is blind; She has brown hair, the same as Asuka, but there is a scar around her eyes like pouring acid into her eyes, and Asagi also lost a right leg to her tight that make Akira hold his tears and grip his fist tighter and slightly bleed his palm.

"I-It's... Me... Asagi....." Asuka weakly said to her sister.

"S-Sister? you really here?" Asagi replies as tears down from her blind eyes. Asuka touches her sister's face, and suddenly, Asagi grabs her sister, pulling her into a hug cry with happiness.

"I-I thought they kill you! I thought I never would feel you again after you left me!" Asagi cries harder, but Akira stays silent. After a few minutes of crying, Asagi asks how her sister get away from that ugly bastard.

"How did you manage to run away?"

"A....."

Akira stops Asuka's words as he shakes his head; he doesn't want to let Asagi know that he is alive yet, not like this.

"A... What?" Asagi ask.

"I help your sister from that ugly bastard," Akira replied to her.

"Wait! You here from the beginning?" Asagi asks again.

"Yes," Akira replied; he noticed Asagi didn't have a problem with her vocal cord.

"Thank you for saving my sister." Asagi bows down to Akira, but Akira stops her.

"No need to bow to me." Akira pet her head. "Now tell me, where is the place where you get tortured." He said in a cold tone as he shocked both girls.

"Are you trying to get us back into that PLACE!?" Asagi claims in anger, that this stranger wants them back to that hell. Asuka calms her down as she touches her shoulder.

"No, but I notice that you are not the only one slave that ugly bastard has taken; look, I try to free the others, is okay, don't worry, I'm not gonna leave you two again by another bastard," Akira said in a calm tone.

"Huh? do we know each other?" Asagi asks, but she doesn't get answered.

"Asuka, can you show me where that place is?" Akira whispers to Asuka as she nods.

"Then you both come with me, do you mind?" Akira asks Asagi. "Mind what... Wah!" Akira suddenly carries Asagi bridal style as Asuka on his back. "Ready?" He asks again, and Asuka nods. "Ready for... Wah!" Asagi screamed when suddenly she felt her high in the sky, their land. Akira runs high speed on top of the roof to where Asuka was pointing.

Akira carries both girls with him as he passes so many buildings. Asuka points to the forest; Akira guesses that place must be far from the city; Akira strengthens his leg as he jumps one more time and destroys the whole rooftop.

He jumps high, lands, land in the forest, and continues his way forward.

"Hey, hold on a second; why do you want to help us so much?" Asagi asks Akira and continues. "What if you can't defeat that bastard bodyguard?!"

"Don't worry... let's say I'm pretty strong."

"Then why do you want to help us?!" She asks again, slightly yelling at Akira.

Akira sighed and said. "Let's say I am the person you know." Asagi raises her eyebrows, but before she says something, Akira stops his step.

Akira saw a girl who wore rug cloth have a multi arrow on her back. Asuka cries as tears down her face.

"What happens?" Asagi ask.

"Seem like one of your comrades didn't make it."

"I... See...." Asagi replies sadly.

That dead girl's eyes wide open as Akira gets closer and closes her eyes.

"We must continue."

Asuka wipes her tears as she and Asagi nod. Akira continues his running with the girls he carries.

After a few mins of running, they finally here, right in front of the place. It's an actual big mansion, but there is no sign of people.

"It seems like there is no sign of people here," Akira said.

"That bastard always keeps his maids down to the basement when he goes out," Asagi said to him.

"Aright then, you two stay here."

"NO! let us come with you!" Asagi demand Asuka nod with agreement.

"It might be dangerous inside there."

"They're more dangerous outside here... Please let us go with you."

Akira sigh as he jumps over an 8-meter tall fence with the girls he carries. he slowly and carefully enters through a window into a mansion. At first, Akira thought this in did a fancy mansion, but then he remembers this fancy mansion is a hell place.

"There is no one here; where is the basement?"

Asuka points to the right way as Akira slowly walks forward, sees a door, and slowly opens it. He saw stairs down to the basement the second he entered. He smells something disgusting there of blood in there.

Akira finally down to the basement. There was another door; Akira's hand tremble slightly pushed the door and saw so many dead bodies, all of them are female, Maids, and enslaved people most of them were killed.

One of the maid's lifeless looks at the newcomer. She was shocked when she saw Asuka and Asagi being carried by a man but mostly their both back in this hell pit.

Asuka cries again as she hides her face on Akira's back.

"S-So.. another plan to escape has to fail....." The maid said as Akira walked closer to her.

"What happens here?" Akira asks.

"Why do you care..... all the maids are dead now... we can't protect the girls, but I'm so lucky that I manage to save one girl, maybe." That maid point to a survival enslaved person. "P-Please don't kill her and the girls with you too..."

"No, I won't... I'm here to help, but it seems I was too late. I'm very sorry," Akira said, and he started to heal the maid. Asagi and Asuka are so sad that they both can't even think a word.

"Please take care of them; they deserve a better life." The maid said before letting go of her final breath as a tear down her face.

"NO!" Asagi and Asuka scream. "Please help her... please," Asagi cries. Akira bites his lip, pulls his other hand forward, and pours more magic to heal the maid, but the maid never heals because she is already gone.

"Damnit," He tries again, but the maid couldn't heal anymore.

"I'm sorry... Asuka, Asagi..."

Asuka slowly walks to the maid and cries while Akira puts Asagi beside the maid. Akira walks to the survival as he sees the enslaved person is a girl, mostly she is an elf race with black hair, same as the maid that saves her.

He felt the girl's pulse become weak and weaker, and he saw this girl bleeding in her stomach, he was trying to heal the girl, but that girl was in worse condition.

He can't let one more person die, not after that maid has sacrificed her life for her. He didn't have any other choice, and he must use his forbidden power. He picks the girl Asuka and Asagi, and he gonna the power that can destroy his own body.

"Hey, let's get out of here." Asuka and Asagi didn't want to leave, but they knew they couldn't stay here. Asuka and Asagi nod as Akira picks them both up and runs outside the mansion.

When they're outside, Akira places the two girls on the grass floor as the dying elf girl is still with him.

"W-What we doing here?" Asagi still has tears on her face.

"Can you two hold the girl?" He gives the elf girl to Asagi and Asuka.

"W-What are you doing?" Asagi ask.

"I'm gonna cure you three," Akira said with a smile.

Akira has had this power since he was born, but every time he uses this power, his body will be corrupted by the dark power of the red mark on his body.

Asuka remembers well about his power, and she wants to stop him from using it, but it stops when Akira pets her head.

"When I finish, you can use your voice freely again, so don't worry, okay." He said with a smile.

'You're Idiot, and I'm worried about you!' Asuka wants to say that, but her throat won't let her.

'Why do you want to help us so much?' In deep thought, Asagi really wants to know who this person is.

Akira pulls his left-hand glove and reveals light blue dragon symbols on top of his hand. Asuka saw his left hand turn to a white dragon hand and push his dragon arm to the girls.

"Forbidden Magic: Angelic Cure..." Akira said quietly, and as a white globe started surrounding the girls and covering three girls, Inside the globe, Asuka's body began to glow as she felt better and better. Asuka also saw her sister glow in bright light, the same with the elf girl.

Back outside of the globe, Akira starts to sweat. The red mark on his face started to glow bright red, and he also saw their red glow under his left arm cloth begin to grow.

After 3 mins, the cure is done, and Akira is down to his knees, panting and sweating a lot. The globe starts to disappear, revealing three girls back to their top condition.

Asagi slowly opens her eyes as she can see, she can see! The first thing she saw was her sister. Asuka has no more scars on her body, same with her face. Asagi also has no more scars, but most importantly, her right leg grows back to normal before they can say a word.

Akira collapsed to the ground and was faint of exhausted. Asagi looks at the man as she sees the white hair look so familiar to her, then she hears her sister yell his name.

"AKIRA!" Asuka yells as she gets up and runs to him.

Asagi is in shock; that name she knows, and she used to have a crush on that person long ago and still might be, now he is here, alive, and he safe her and cures her. She heard her sister call his name again and again and shake his body over and over again.

Asagi slowly stands with her new leg as she is slightly wobbling, but with effort, she slowly walks to Akira and Asuka; as she arrives, she falls to the ground right beside Akira. Asuka holds Akira's body as her tears down to her face; Asagi gets a pretty good look at Akira's face as she sees the red mark across his left eye.

"Is this truly him? Is he Akira?" Asagi Trembley asks, and Asuka nods. That makes Asagi's new eyes wide open.

She suddenly hugs Akira and cries to him.

Unnoticed to them all, a hand is on Akira's neck to check his pulse.

"Don't worry... He's just fallen asleep because of low Mana.." Said The mysterious person.

Asuka and Asagi look at this person, and she is a woman with a long ponytail, red hair, and yellow eyes. She also has Cat ears, 2 red whiskers on her cheek, and a cattail on her bottom back.

"Who are you?" Asuka asks.

"You can say I know him, and oh, my name is Chihane," Chihane replied with a slightly warm smile.

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•To Be Continue•

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