Everyone waited on the deck. Akiara lend her teleportation magic to Arrow. She explained him how to use the spell. Then he looked at everyone.

"Everyone stand behind me." Everyone followed him behind.

"Teleport." He casted.

They appeared in front of the temple's entrance. But the guards got notified and gathered around them. Akiara looked at Arrow with arched eyebrow.

"Sorry." Arrow looked down. Akiara sighed.

They got arrested and imprisoned them away at the underground prison. All of their weapons and other things were taken away by the guards.

"What are we gonna do now?" Estelle starting to worry.

"I never knew there was an underground prison on this temple." Cordelia staring at the ceiling. Akiara sighed.

"We need to find a way to get out from here." Mizuki stated leaning against the wall.

"This place is quite strange. I feel negative energy is gushing out from this place." Akiara walked towards the bars.

"You are right. This place is also known as devil's temple. This is where legend follows that prince Keegan's sister was used as a sacrifice for blood magic." A husky voice replied.

This startled everyone. They looked at each other.

Arrow raised his hands in the air, "Not me."

Then Suki-san asked, "W-who are you?"

"I'm also trapped here for a while with nowhere to escape." The husky voice replied.

"With nowhere to escape?" Suki-san looked at Akiara.

"There has to be a way." Akiara replied. Akiara asked, "Anyways what were you doing here?"

"I was searching my sister and then I got trapped here." The voice replied. Soon someone showed up from the opposite side of the prison bar. It was a male elf. His hair was long platinum blonde and tied in low ponytail, eyes were dark green like forest and pointed ears. He looked exactly like Estelle. He was in white and gold robes but it was dirty.

Estelle's eyes grew wide seeing the elf. She called out, "Big brother?"

"Estelle?" The elf spoke with hope filled his eyes. He grabbed the bar to see Estelle more closely.

"Big brother, what are you doing here?" Estelle asked.

"I was searching for you. But I didn't expect I would meet you here." The elf replied.

"But I told you not to search for me."

"But father and mother are worried about you."

"For what? To get me married? I don't want to marry."

"It's not about getting married. They are just worried about you."

"I am not going back to elven kingdom. I want to explore world. That is my dream. Anyways enough talk about me. What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be doing your princely works?"

"Don't worry about that. Big sister arrived when she found that you escaped to human world. And my fiancé is helping me with council works."

Her eyes grew wide when heard his last words. She grabbed the prison bars, "What?! You got a fiancé? Don't tell me it's her?" She smirked.

His cheeks tinted pink, "Y-yes."

"Yes!!" She pumped her fist in air, "I can't believe she is finally going to be my sister-in-law!! Way to go big bro!"

The male elf tilted his head, "Big bro?"

Akiara finally spoke, "Estelle, who are you?"

Estelle realized. She sighed, "I'm the youngest daughter of King and Queen of the elven kingdom, Estelle. That elf is my elder brother, Eli. He is future ruler in line."

"So what is going on in elven kingdom that you are worrying about?" Suki-san asked.

Estelle tapped Suki-san's shoulder, "There's nothing to worry about. I'm just happy that idiot brother of mine is finally marrying the girl he likes." Then she walked towards Akiara and clasped both her hands, "You all are invited to my brother's wedding."

"Wait! You did not even ask my permission!" Eli shouted.

Everyone ignored Eli's shouting and hugged Estelle, "Once this mission is over, we will immediately head to elven kingdom. What do you guys say?" Akiara asked.

"No problem." Mizuki replied.

"We can go." Cordelia replied.

"Thanks guys." Estelle looked happy.

"They are not even listening to me." Eli looked like his soul left his body.

"Now how are we supposed to get out?" Arrow asked.

"Don't worry about it. I already got an idea." Akiara replied with a smug expression.

_________

The young man with dark brown hair and wearing spectacles arrived the temple. He was holding a grimoire in his left hand. All the guards bowed in respect.

"How is the sacrifice going on?" He asked.

"It is going smoothly. The sky also started changing its color. Very soon the third gate will open." The guard in charge of dragging prisoners replied.

"Anything else?"

"We caught some adventurers today."

"I see. Use them as well for the sacrifice."

"Yes my lord." He stood up and walked away.

Suddenly an explosion was heard. A smoke was shown in distance, "What's going on?"

"My lord, it is coming from the dungeon. We will go and check." the guards ran towards the dungeon.

Akiara said, "Grace." her holy sword appeared in mid air. She grabbed it and got ready to swung it, "Step back." she swung it breaking the bars.

"Why didn't you do it earlier?" Estelle asked.

"I didn't think it would actually work." Akiara replied. She walked towards Eli's prison. She broke the bars as well.

"Let's go." they ran towards the room where their weapons are kept.

As they were running, guards noticed them and notified others. Arrow dashed towards them kicked the guard's leg causing it to fall. This startled other guards. They got alarmed and took out their weapons. Arrow kicked its jaw. Akiara made another guard to stumble. She hit its head causing the guard to lose its consciousness. Mizuki took a short jump and kicked another guard's temples making it to hit other fallen guard. Arrow punched the guard that was rising up from the hit. Other guards ran towards them.

"Nature's flare." Eli and Estelle shot arrow towards them.

This caused to blow up the top part of the dungeon. They started running towards the site. They killed other guards on their way. The young man with dark brown hair got alerted. He walked out of the temple to see who it was. His eyes grew wide when he saw Akiara's group fighting.

He summoned monsters using grimoire. He ordered, "Go."

All half humanspiders, orcs and trolls charged towards them. Estelle's face turned pale seeing the spiders. She jumped on Eli's back shouting, "Aaaaahh!!! I hate spiders! Brother, I'm scared!"

"Gross. Even I can't stand them. Let's finish this quickly." Suki-san charged towards the monsters.

They started fighting against it. Arrow jumped towards the young man. He clicked his tongue in annoyance. He enchanted a spell taking out a talisman from grimoire. He dodged his sword's attack and placed the talisman on his forehead. The talisman glowed and vanished like a burnt paper.

"Aaaahh!!! AAAArrrgh!!" He writhed in pain rolling on ground.

"Show your true form you beast." the young man said.

"Arrow!" Akiara ran towards him trying to calm him down. She glared at the man, "What did you do to him?!"

"Nothing just revealing his true form." the young man replied.

Arrow's hands slowly started to change to claws, his pupils changed to vertical and his hair grew long. Mizuki realized and immediately swung her sword creating a shield to protect Akiara. Arrow transformed into dragon and flew off. The young man's eyes grew wide seeing Mizuki's sword.

"Hero Arnon's sword? Looks like the hero revealed herself." the young man smirked. He suddenly appeared behind Mizuki, "We finally meet Hero."

Mizuki flinched hearing his voice. She swung her sword but he dodged it and appeared in front of her. "May I know your name?" he asked.

"Mizuki." Muzuki replied.

"No. I can tell that this is not your real name. What is your real name?"

"Te-Teviel." Mizuki replied.

"It is quite a disgraceful name for a beautiful lady. I am Neythan, dark emperor. Let's see what you can do with your holy powers." he started enchanting spell and placed a talisman on the ground. Suddenly a magic circle appeared.

"Mizu watch out!" Akiara also jumped in the magic circle before disappearing along with them.

Mizuki flutter open her eyes. She jerked up seeing familiar place. Empty room with a single mattress. She looked at her hands. Her hands were small. She walked inside the bathroom and saw her reflection. She shrank into a four-year old self with no spark in her eyes. She walked out of her room walking around the hallways. Servants whispering could be heard.

"As usual the servants are giving me nasty looks. But why does it feel like I'm forgetting something important of mine?" She thought.

She walked around the garden admiring flowers. Her elder sister stood behind her. She asked, "What are you doing here?"

Mizuki turned around to see. She made eye contact, "I was just looking at the flowers."

Her sister grabbed her hair dragging all the way to a prison. Mizuki cried, "I am sorry big sister! Please don't take me to atonement room! I'm sorry!! I won't do it again!"

She threw her to the cell and closed the door behind. Then she took a whip. She started hitting her. Her cries echoed the room making her sister laugh like a maniac.

"All I wanted was freedom." her eyes grew wide remembering her moments with Akiara. She realized where she was right now. She shouted her sword's name, "Celeste." Golden flames engulfed her child form changing to adult. Her surroundings changed into a maze. She decapitated the demon that took her sister's face. She ran through the maze killing the demons that took the face of servants.

She shouted, "Akiara!" she ran trying to find a way, "Akiara! Aki where are you?!" She stopped in her tracks seeing unfamiliar surroundings. Tall buildings and skyscrapers, cars and buses moving. Cafè and other shops in modernized way. She hid behind a tree. Her eyes grew wide seeing Akiara was much younger with cheerful personality. She was walking with friends and talking with them.

"So this is Akiara's world?" She followed Akiara to school.

She peeped through the window of the door. Then during lunch she was sitting on the other table watching her. Akiara noticed her. She furrowed her eyebrows seeing how Mizuki was glancing at her.

"Why does she look so familiar? Like she is someone precious of mine. What is it that I'm forgetting?" Akiara clutched her chest as she felt sharp pang in her heart.

Later that night, she followed Akiara to her house. She hid inside the closet watching Akiara doing her homework. Just then a young black haired girl entered her room. She looked somewhat similar to Akiara except for her eyes color were brown.

Akiara was smiling seeing her sister, Mitsuko. Just then Mitsuko's apparition appeared in front her. She grabbed her shoulder shaking her to bring her back to reality, "Wake up Onee-chan! This world is not at all real! It's illusion! Mom, Dad and me are dead! Wake up!"

Akiara tilted her head, "You all are dead?" suddenly her head stings as she remembers everything.

She opens her eyes. This time she was sitting on the road with lacerations on her arms and knees and she was bleeding on her left side of the forehead. She turned her face towards the direction of the fire. Her eyes grew wide that it was her parents car that was flipped upside down and it was burning. Her parents and Mitsuko was standing in front of her all injured and their eyes were dull and lifeless. Blood were spilling down from their injuries. Mizuki was also amazed to see the surroundings change so quickly. Her eyes grew wide finally seeing her traumatic past.

"You did not even bother to save us. How could you be so happy?" Ms. Nakamura spoke.

"I...I...." tears started to stream down as she didn't know what to say.

"Forget us, you couldn't even take care if your sister. What kind of big sister are you?" Mr. Nakamura spoke.

"......" she looked down as tears kept falling down.

Mitsuko's apparition stood behind her, "Onee-san, I'm disappointed in you. I thought you moved on with your past..... but it seems like you did not let it go." tears streamed down her eyes, "Onee-chan.....!?" her eyes grew wide when Mizuki hugged Akiara.

"I understand how you feel. I'm sorry for not being by your side when you needed shoulder to cry. Just let go off your past. We will start our new life with new beginning." Mizuki spoke.

Akiara cried loudly letting out all her pain, sadness and guilt. Mizuki just patted her back waiting patiently. After a while she went silent.

"How do you feel?" Mizuki asked.

"Better. Thanks." Akiara replied.

"Anything for my love." She smiled. She lifted her chin up and gently locked her lips with hers. Golden flames engulfed her changing her back to current appearance.

Mitsuko lets out a relieved sigh. She smiles, "Mizuki-san, take care of my sister." her soul disappears.

She let's go, "Let's end this mind games. Shall we?"

"Yes." Both take out their holy swords. They gave off holy aura as the maze started to break. They stab the ground. It breaks and they appear in front of Neythan with their eyes glowing staring at his soul.

"Enough games." Both said in sync.

"Let's get serious. Shall we?" Mizuki said pointing her sword towards Neythan.