Early in the morning. Teivel woke up and saw Akiara was braiding her hair. She flinched and sat on the bed.

"What time is it?" She asked.

"7:30."

"Oh no we are going to be late!!" She got down and headed to bathroom to change her clothes. She came back wearing shirt and pants.

She tied her the tie and she sat down to brush her hair, Akiara started brushing her hair calmly. She tied her hair in high ponytail.

"Why didn't you wake me up?"

"Because you were sleeping like a baby."

"Is that supposed to be an excuse?!"

"...."

"Then there is a punishment for not waking me up."

"Punishment?"

She stood up and and sat on the bed. She tapped to sit beside her. She sat beside her. Suddenly she pushed her and pinned her on the bed. She straddled on her, staring at her like she will eat her.

"What are you doing early in the morning?" She asked coldly.

"What do you mean? I am just punishing you."

"What kind of punishment is this?"

She grabbed her chin, "You'll see." She smirked slowly unbuttoning her shirt's button. She grabbed her neck and switched the position. This time she straddled on her.

"You promised me last night that you won't do anything indecent to me."

"So... are you going to kill me?"

"...."

She smirked. She raised her hand to push her neck to kiss her but someone knocked on the door interfering.

"Are you guys up? We are ready to go." Cordelia said loud enough for them to hear.

She got off her and walked to open the door.

She sat and fixed her composure, "Ugh! Always bad timing. Does she enjoy interfering people's business?"

"Yes we are. We will meet you at food court." They nodded and walked away.

"Hurry up. We must leave or else we will be in trouble during crossing the border." She said while wearing cloak.

"Before we go, can you give me a kiss?" She asked with puppy eyes.

"....." She stood on her toes and kissed her cheek, "Are you happy now?"

She nodded with a smile. "Let's go." She walked away. She stood there touching her cheek where she kissed her. She smiled following her.

"I did as she said. This is not me." She slapped her cheeks. Her face heated up thinking about it.

They reached food court area where Cordelia and Arrow were waiting. They had breakfast and left the inn. After walking for one and half hour, they reached the gate to leave the empire. As the soldiers were inquiring the reason to leave the empire, Akiara glanced at the shops. She noticed imperial soldiers asking people something. She noticed they were holding papers and distributing it to people.

"They arrived as I expected. We need to leave before they arrive here." she grabbed Teivel's hand, "We need to leave now." then she glanced at the soldier, "We are getting late. It is urgent business." They ran off.

"Wait!!" The soldier shouted. He shrugged. Just then an imperial soldier approached to him and asked whereabouts of Teivel. He pointed the direction they were running. He called other imperial soldiers and ran towards them.

"We must split into two groups or else we will get caught." Akiara spoke.

"But how will we gather together then?" Cordelia asked.

"Is there any nearest village?" Akiara asked.

"There is one, Drilion village. I spotted it during my travel. It is situated in east-western part of the outskirts of the empire." Arrow replied.

"Good then we will meet there." Akiara and Teivel ran towards another direction.

They headed to forest. But they soon got surrounded by fourth division squad of imperial soldiers.

"Reveal your faces." Squad's leader shouted pointing his sword at them.

Two soldiers approached and removed their hood. He flinched seeing they have same hair color and eyes.

"Is there any problem Sir?" Teivel asked.

"N-n-no." Squad leader stuttered. "They are not even giving off magic aura to change their appearance."

"I apologize for removing the hoods for mistaking you for someone else. But why were you both running like you were being chased?" He asked.

"Well we sisters are wanderers. So we were testing each other's stamina." Teivel replied.

"I see." He bowed and said apologetically, "I apologize for misunderstanding you both."

"But this young woman looks like the rebel." one of the soldier pointed out seeing the potrait from the paper.

"Well you see, when we were traveling, we found out that there are at least three identical people look like us. Either they are newly born, one at old age or died. Lastly, other is us. So it's three right?" Akiara replied.

"I see. I apologize again for the inconvenience we have caused."

"It's alright." Teivel waved it off.

They walked away. After they left, they let out deep sigh.

"Phew that was a close call." Teivel looked at the forest.

"Yeah. Let's go. We have to reach the village before evening." She started walking away.

She was panting trying to catch her breathe, "Wait. Can I rest for a while. I don't have stamina as you do."

"Sure." She sat under a tree. She sat beside her and leaned on her shoulder. Soon she felt drowsy and closed her eyes. After a while she opened her eyes and she was writing something on the diary in a strange language.

"What are you writing?" Her voice was low.

"Diary."

"What's with the strange language you are writing?"

"It's my world's language called Japanese." She blurted out.

She flinched realizing what she said. She glanced at Teivel who is staring at her in disbelief.

She crawled back, "Is not like that. I-I can explain."

"You know...." she paused, "... only chosen ones can be summoned to this world to help Heroes to save the world from asmodians. I can't believe my beloved is actually from the another world!" She squealed in joy.

"Y-you believe me that I have come from the another world?"

"Hell yeah. Because of your hair color. In this world there is no black haired people except for you so basically.... yeah."

"I-I see. I don't know what to say." she replied scratching her neck.

"So how about you tell me more about your world and yourself?" She asked with a bright smile.

She raised her eyebrows. Memories of her past life came back haunting her. She felt heavy chains still did not free her. Her expression darkened and stood up. She covered her face with hood.

"We must go." She spoke walking away.

"W-wait!" she grabbed her hand stopping her, "You still did not tell me anything of your world or your life."

She took back her hand, "I don't want to talk about it."

She was possessive. She jumped on her which made them crash on the ground.

"Why are you hesitating to tell me about yourself. It's like someone is chasing you."

".....I don't want to talk about my life."

"Why? Did something happened that you don't want me to know hm?"

"Look I don't want to talk about it. Now step aside, you are invading my personal space."

"I won't leave until you tell me."

"....."

She was almost at her limit bearing her stubbornness. She pushed her away, "Look I'm still uncomfortable to talk about it. I promise I will tell you everything when the time's right."

"But now the time's perfe-"

"NO! I don't want to talk about it. So please don't-" tears started to trickle down her eyes.

Her eyes widened seeing her crying. She could feel that she is chained and caged inside the cage. She stood there seeing her suffering inside the cage. She felt guilty and pulled her to hug. "I'm sorry I didn't know you were quite sensitive to this topic."

She hugged her back. "Stupid stubborn me. I made my love cry. I promise I will free you from the cage. I promise." she kissed top of her head.

She rubbed her back, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry for being stubborn."

Later that night, they reached the village they were planning to meet. Arrow hugged Akiara crying. She pat his back. Teivel and Cordelia exchanged words. Then Cordelia talked with a merchant to take them on his journey. At dawn they left the village and were travelling with the merchant.

"Akiara, what are you planning to do next?" Cordelia asked.

"I'm thinking of moving on to Kemburg empire. We will start a new life there." Akiara replied.

"Not a bad idea."

"Will I be able to stay by big sister's side?"

She ruffled his hair, "Yes."

At evening, they set up a camp to rest for the night. As everyone were asleep, except Akiara. She came out of the sleeping bed and started walking. She sat down and stared at the starry sky. Stars were filled in the sky making it look beautiful.

"Seems like someone else can't sleep either." She turned her face back to see who it was. To her surprise, it was Teivel.

She sat beside her, "Today's sky is quite beautiful isn't it?"

"Yes." She leaned her head on her shoulder. She looked surprised seeing her doing like this. She smiled and also leaned on her head.

"Back in my world, me and my small sister always used to stare at the sky from the window, admiring the stars. She said that once she grows up she will go to space to have good look at those stars closely."

She looked amazed, "Is it possible to go to space?"

"Yes. It is possible in my world." Then they both made eye contact. They both were staring each other's eyes.

"Teiv, thanks."

"Thanks for what?"

She caressed her cheek, "For everything. You freed me from my haunting past even though I still have nightmares on it. So...... do you want me to be your girlfriend?"

"What does girlfriend mean?"

"It means a person's regular female companion with whom they have a romantic relationship." she replied as her face turned to other side.

"Is that a way to ask. Of course I would love to. But.... you are already my girlfriend."

She looked into her eyes with a bright smile, "Thank you for becoming a part of my life."

Her eyebrows raised when she felt she broke her cage with sword, freeing her. She felt her lips locked with hers. She closed her eyes kissing her back passionately.

As they broke, she teased, "You know this is the first time you kissed me."

Her cheeks flushed and turned her face away pouting, "Shut up."

She grabbed chin and turned towards her. She kissed her again then she bit her neck. She flinched in pain.

"My heart's telling me that this is the best time to talk about myself."

"Teiv, I think I am ready to talk about myself."

She noticed that her hands were trembling, "You sure?"

"Yes I am."

They spent their night talking about herself. Teivel felt happy knowing more about her.

They again started their journey to Kemburg empire. They reached near the border after four days of travelling. They thanked the merchant and paid the fare. They walked towards empire gates. They explained their circumstances to the guard. They headed to information guild to make a new identities to start a new life.

"Name please." clerk asked looking at Teivel.

"...." Teivel didn't know what new name to give.

"Mizuki Nishimura." Akiara replied.

Teivel's heart fluttered as Akiara gave her a new name and identity. She held her hand intertwining their fingers. They glanced at each other with a smile, excited to start a new life.

"What does it mean?"

"It means beautiful moon."

"Am I that beautiful that you named me Mizuki?" She teased.

"Shut up." She turned her face away blushing hard.

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