I can't do this anymore,

Trying not to be ignored

Put my pedal to the floor,

I spread my wings I let them soar

Let them soar-oar,

Let them soar

“Buddha’s Requiem!

Great wall defense!”

Giichi springs into action the moment his hand clasps the locket, his already muscular frame increasing as he glows an angelic sliver,

A wall of glistening quartz forms, shielding Karina from a slew of attacks

“Get behind me!” Giichi barks to us,

“Impact wave!”

BANG!!

A massive wave of energy sends everyone and everything in the room flying,

Thud!

My back slams hard upon impact with a wall,

“Errrghh!”

“Giichi! Can you not differentiate between friend and foe!?” Leader Dexter gets up, rubbing his back gingerly,

Bang!

Giichi buries a hunters head into the hardwood floor

“I told you all to get behind me!”

“You said that and then immediately blast us all to hell right after!

That was not nearly enough time to react!”

“That sounds like a you problem”

Bang!

Giichi crushes another hunter

“N...N... Now isn’t time for disputes,” Ozymandias stammers,

He seems the most shaken out of everyone here,

“G...Giichi, can you tell me how you were able to use your magic?

I can’t…

I can’t warp away!”

“Calm down, I thought you were an observant person Ozy,

The moment Karina threw me this locket, I was able to use my magic again,

I believe it’s a kind of ward, that by passes the requiems effect,

Here,” he throws one to Ozy,

Pow!

It hits him like a bullet knocking him backwards,

(Was the mayor always this pathetic?)

“Ohh, thank heavens!” Ozymandias exclaims abruptly warping away, leaving us in the increasingly hot ballroom,

….

“Is he coming back?” Pinoki inquires alarmedly,

……

“Giichi, would you mind telling me what you are doing with such a powerful requiem?” Dexter, the leader of the Order pries suspiciously,

“No,” Giichi replies blankly

“Do know the danger you possess to this city?

You couldn’t even choose who you were attacking just now!”

“Spare me the lecture Dexter,

Go bully the regular citizens into your order nonsense,

That will not work with me,”

“I am not trying to get anything to ‘work’, with you,

Clearly, I am trying to prevent problems before they occur,

And you trivialize what I do?

At least I am not a glorified errand boy that calls himself an adventure”

“Ooh, nice comeback Dexter, but let me ask you this, what exactly does the order do?

Matter of fact, why are we even in this situation to begin with,

Could you not have prevented this?”

“……

If I was informed of the potential threat of the hunters maybe I would have, but speaking of preventing future threats, who are these new members exactl—”

….

Before Giichi could reply, a familiar swirl of light flashes signaling Ozymandias’ return,

His face ashen white in despair….

“They’re really all… dead

I went to bring the mafia to help us, but….

Ginobelucci was not bluffing, they were caught by surprise

Goddamnit!”

“This is the second time one of your bad decision resulted in many deaths mayor!” Dexter verbally attacks,

“First it was your son, now Ginobelucci,”

“Why do you people keep bringing this up all the time!?

I already know that!

I was there!

I could not control what happed he was influenced by someone else,

Why I am still being blamed!?

Why are you people always placing responsibility on me!?

I do not run this city!

I do not give anyone orders!

You do, the people everyone!

Stop blaming me, my hands are already bloodied as it is!”

“Get a grip Ozy!” Giichi shoves him over,

“Whine about it later, right now, I need you to warp me out of here,

Ginobelucci will not stop himself.”

“Sorry about that,” Ozymandias says regaining his composure

“I can…

I can warp everyone in here, out at once,”

……..

……..

*****

I can't do this anymore, yeah♪

When it rains it really pours, yeah♪

Sahhahahahah!

A shower of rain greets us as we warp into the streets of Sweepstake, surprising an already a group of people, there staring at the fire,

Though the rain falls steadily,

The flames remain unaffected.

“What the hell!?” someone exclaims, looking at the ‘forest’ of fires built up behind us,

“We were surrounded by that?”

“All right everybody, get moving, we will handle things here!” Marshal, the construction company leader, bosses around trying to contain the situation,

“Not here Ozy” Giichi says annoyedly

“I meant to the guild, send me there”

“Let me catch my breath first , warping this amount of people drains a lot out of me,”

“Never mind I will get there myself,

……….

You five,” Giichi turns to us,

“I suggests you stop standing around looking silly and help the mayor organize things here,

I shall handle our ‘hunter problem’”

“It was your massive attack knocked us dizzy,” Pinoki complains,

“Well, me at least…”

The old man doesn’t hear , already sprinting a great distance a head,

“Maybe we should back him up Apollo suggests,

I haven’t heard from Claude and Amelia since the fire appeared”

“I want a piece of that Ginobelucci,” Lyra grumbles

“Kage are you ok, after that back there?” Karina asks concernedly,

(The rain feels nice, it’s cool)

“Kage?”

“Uhm,

Yeah, I’m fine, let’s go to guild,”

“Wait!” Dexter blocks,

“You five, are relatively new to Sweepstake, correct?

“Is there a problem?” Apollo speaking for us,

“Show me your magic, all of you, right now,”

“Pardon?”

“I am not letting you go anywhere until you prove to me, you’re not ‘crazy’,

I noticed how your friend over there shot his arrow into that hunters throat,

His face showed no emotion, it was insanely calm.”

……

“Kage is always like th-”

“-I don’t care, show me your magic then” Dexter says lowering claw-chains from both his sleeves,

…….

I spy Karina drawing out a dagger from behind her,

(Don’t tell me we have to fight this guy?)

“They do have evolved magic Dexter, let them be,” Ozymandias intervenes before anything can happen,

“You, you’re doing it again, Mr. mayor, first you adopted that boy, I told you back then when he showed signs of being a ‘crazy’, that we should have ‘contained’ him,

Then you let Ginobelucci start a faction after he violently betrayed his original guild, showing signs of someone we should also contain, but no, you said it was good competition,

Now this?

These people are all just potential explosions waiting to happen!

I will not have another future threat to Sweepstake, roam free!”

Boom!

As if on que an explosion sounds off in the east,

(The guild)

“We have to get over there now!” I intentionally push past the angry man

“You are not going anywhere,” Dexter adamantly blocks

“My people will handle this,

What could you and your untrained friends possibly do?”

……..

(He is right, they might be more capable in handling this,

I don’t want to go to fight either,

But…)

“I told you to quit it dexter!” Ozy snaps,

“Here, I’ll just take—

……….

……….

—them ,” he finishes as we appear in front of the institute,

A column of smoke rises from it, the main entrance doors collapsed over, a pile of rocks and rubble in its place,

(Giichi hasn’t arrived yet,)

“I’ll go back and get Dexter to take care of the other hunters,” Ozymandias begins preparing warp away again,

“Oh, and guys, one more thing,

If you value your lives, I would not advise going in there.”