- God of Guardian; Revolution Road -

Altaira didn't expect that the friend whom Charlotte will be saving was his girlfriend's older brother.

According to Celeste, her brother was always protective of her. Whenever she was in danger, he will always be protecting her and during her hard times. Altaira still remembered clearly that Celeste once said Noah will never let someone who harmed his sister away without breaking one of his arms or legs.

Altaira had always thought that her older brother might be someone who was just like Bam, cared his sister a lot to the point that he became an over-protective brother.

And now that he had seen it, he was certain of it.

When Altaira decided to greet this Noah out of respect, Noah didn't waste a second to use his skills. The violet chrysanthemum petals appeared again and took form of arrows that were aimed towards him from all directions.

Khun wasn't a forgetful person. He knew those violet chrysanthemum petals. Those petals were the one that has saved Charlotte several times and now, because of those violet chrysanthemum petals, Khun started to suspect the identity of this Noah.

Noah must be the one who controlled those violet chrysanthemum petals and was the one who protected Charlotte. Those petals saved her in the Workshop Battle incident plenty of times but when that happened, Noah didn't show himself at all. Things starting to get suspicious and he needed explanation. But who should he ask for it?

"Brother! What are you doing?!" Celeste asked Noah in disbelief.

"I don't trust him" Noah answered while glaring at Altaira. "I don't trust someone like him to take care of you."

Altaira wasn't fazed or surprised. He just lowered his right hand that he extended for a hand shake with Noah and looked at him without showing any interest. There was no interest that he could show for someone as rude as him since he was never interested in him. To say that he was interested, he also began to suspect the identity of this Noah just like Khun.

"Is this how you greet people?" Altaira asked. "How very polite you are."

"I can't even be compared to you" Noah responded. How long has he been waiting to do this to the man who took advantage of his sister when he wasn't around?

Can't stand the sight before her, to the others' surprises, Charlotte raised her fan and then hit Noah's head with it.

Noah felt pain and rubbed the back of his head while looking at Charlotte, "What the hell are you doing?!"

"I should have been asking that! What the hell are you doing, Noah?! Threatening my brother just like that?! Do you want me to seal you back, huh?! Put those arrows down!"

"He deserves it!"

Altaira raised one of his eyebrows.

"I said put those down! You've promised to me, are you going to go back your words, Noah?" Charlotte asked him again.

Noah looked at the brown haired lass before he sighed.

After Noah was saved by the trio, Charlotte made him promise her that he will not lay his finger on her brothers no matter how irritating they were. Of course Noah refused. He has been waiting for the day to beat Altaira into pulp and after discussing about it, at the end, he promised that as long as they were in the train, he will not harm both of her brothers.

Only in that way did Charlotte stop pestering him on their way back.

And since he had made a promise, he should be fulfilling it.

Within a flick of his fingers the arrows made from the violet chrysanthemum lost their shape and fell on the ground.

"There, are you happy now?" He asked Charlotte with his grumpy and irritated look.

"Of course!"

Even though they were separated for some time, Celeste still remembered that Noah wasn't someone to listen to the others easily. She didn't expect that Noah would be serious with his promise and listened to what Charlotte said. According to his personality, after Charlotte hit his head, he will make her pay for her rude behavior by breaking her arm that hit his head.

But what was it now? He just simply listened to Charlotte and let Altaira free. Celeste knew that it was a good thing, but she can't help but to feel surprised and confused. Was her brother being possessed?

"Brother, are you alright?" She asked while tilting her head a bit. She waved her palm before her brother.

"I'm fine" Noah answered. "But I'm a little bit hungry. Do you have something to eat?"

When Celeste heard that question, she immediately turned her head around to Estrella. Estrella was a bit startled but she knew what Celeste wanted.

"No" she immediately denied.

Celeste walked towards to Estrella, "I haven't asked anything yet."

"You know that I love to eat right? I could share with you anything but not the snacks that I'm keeping now" Estrella said as she walked backward.

"Sadly, I just need the snack that you are keeping right now" Celeste said as she began to unsheathe her sword.

"WAHH!! CELESTE! ARE YOU SERIOUSLY GOING TO GO AGAINST ME JUST FOR A SNACK?!"

Hwaryun let out a sigh.

"We should be going right now" she said to the others. "We don't have the time to fool around."

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Charlotte and Khun knew that there was definitely something wrong with Bam. And they guessed that it must have something to do with Hwaryun's words.

"I think it's better for you to accompany Bam and try to talk with it with him" Khun suggested to Charlotte. "After all, he trusts you the most."

Charlotte nodded her head with a hum and then headed towards the brown haired male.

While she was trying to make Bam feel more comfortable, Khun himself was still wondering. What on earth was she hiding from them?

'What are you hiding from us?'

According to Sachi, Daniel wasn't a bad person.

Around six hundreds years ago, when he, Aka, Boro, Daniel, Poro Poe and someone named Roen made it and reached the train, they met with the Slayer Nominee Hoaqin.

The slayer nominee was building his own kingdom in the train and he slowly and quietly killed every single of the person there. They were the survivors and also the one who sealed him back.

Hoaqin wanted to hide his clones in the Hell Train and wanted to stay "awake" until the end and get out from the train. But his plan was ruined by Roen who sacrificed her soul and vanished.

And in order to bring Roen back, Daniel who used to fight against Hoaqin was willing to work together with him even when he had to use a forbidden spell for it.

Aka gathered the regulars and came to the train every single year in order to look for her. Although Boro appeared to have no care, he still can't leave the train and kept looking for excuses to ride the train. Sachi himself laid his hands on the forbidden spells related with souls and lost one of his eyes as the consequence.

But no matter what they did or how strong they desired, Roen never came back. She had completely disappeared and vanished.

"Since you are involved with this fight now....I want you to know why Daniel had no choice but to side with Hoaqin ....."

Charlotte still remembered that when she read about this for the first time, she cried. After quite awhile and reading it again and again, she started to not feel anything. But now that she heard it right from the victim of the misery, she felt something suffocating.

But she pushed that feeling aside and ignored it as she heard Hanwool's voice.

Hanwool found the path or a warp device. Sachi mentioned that the warp device will take them to the guardian who usually guard hidden items, treasures and precious stuffs. But he didn't recommend them taking it since it will spend time and it wasn't easy to defeat a guardian.

But all decisions were on Bam who will decide whether he will fight with the guardian or not.

"" he said.

Since he decided to go, the others also decided to take the warp device as well.

And after some time, they found someone gigantic who lowered his head, seemed to be sleeping as he sat on his seat.

"T- that is......the God of Guardians?"

Charlotte smiled even wider when she heard that name.

".....Someone incredible has appeared....it's only the second time for us to see him as well" Sachi said.

"I don't know if we should say that we are lucky or unlucky" Boro responded.

"The God of Guardians? Is he some kind of boss?" Khun asked the experts or Sachi and Boro.

"....well....it's like a nickname that the ticketers had given to him. It's a guy whom guardians treat like God."

Sachi said that the guardians didn't dare to approach or disturb this God of Guardian. According to the records, he even existed before the heads of the Ten Great Families exist. Both Sachi and Boro decided to not fight with this guardian as he was extremely too powerful and strong, but Bam still insisted to fight with it.

"Bam...! Don't you think you are being a little reckless?!" Khun scolded him. "It's not like you have to fight that guy right now!"

"It's alright, I'm sure I will regret it later if I don't do this now" Bam answered calmly.

"This is not a joke. There is no D- class regulars who defeated that guardian until now. It is not possible to defeat that guardian even if all of us work together" Sachi said.

"I know that" Bam said again. "I could feel the vibrations of shinsu now......but for some reasons....I want to go there. I have a feeling that I will regret it if I don't."

Charlotte who was hugging Bam's hand looked at Bam and said, "I also want to go."

Bam smiled when he heard that.

"What do you mean by 'you want to go' as well?!" Khun scolded her as well. "You should have been standing on our side!"

"I also have a feeling that we will really, really regret if we don't do this" Charlotte said with a playful smile. "Let's challenge the God of Guardian then, brother."

"Do you really take this as a game? Do you know what consequence you will be facing by challenging someone like him?" Khun asked her again.

".....Maybe I do take it as a game" Charlotte responded to Khun. "Or maybe I take this more seriously than anyone else."

After giving an ambiguous answer, Charlotte followed Bam who decided to approach the God of Guardian.

Khun turned his head at Altaira.

"What are you looking at me for?" Altaira asked with the similar playful smile with Charlotte. "Don't look at me, I couldn't do anything against her. A puny regular like me won't be able to win against a slayer candidate."

Khun, "............"

Lie was what written on Altaira's expression.

Sachi sighed and pondered about it. After all, they have reached this far with the twins. If the twins did have the feelings like what they said, then perhaps they should be letting them doing what they want, even it could be very dangerous.

And after he said those words, the others seemed to agree with him and thus, decided to let the twins and respect their decisions.

The twins headed towards the God of Guardian and then the ground began to rumble. To all their surprise and shock, the God of Guardian suddenly stood up and opened his eyes. He was awake!

Bam felt that this God of Guardian made him remember about Urek, although Urek was stronger that he was. But even so, Bam could feel that the God of Guardian had a tremendous power.

Charlotte herself started to feel cold. Presumably because of the overbearing aura of the God of the Guardian.

"H....He's awake" a regular behind her said. Judging from his voice, she assumed that he might be Hanwool. "What do we do now? Don't we need to run away?"

".....Be quiet, you are embarrassing me."

"......."

"What do you want, kids?" The God of Guardian asked.

Bam seemed to be lost in words, ".......I'm........"

The God of Guardian jumped from his seat. In order to defend the two of them, Khun used his lighthouse to form a barrier and shield them. As he landed, there was the strong gust of wind.

The God of Guardian was gigantic without a doubt. Even his index finger was bigger than them.

"You" he pointed his index finger towards them. "Are the two of you the one who 'opened the gate yourself to come in'?"

He meant the irregulars; the uninvited people who entered this tower by opening the gate on their own.

The God of Guardian easily broke the barrier. Bam and Charlotte jumped backward and Bam himself prepared the thorn for the fight that might happen.

"You have some weird thing hanging around your back, kid" the God of Guardian said. "Is it because of that thing? No, it's not. You're different, you aren't like any other regulars from the start.

It's been a long time since I have seen anyone who came through the same gate as Zahard. I think you are the first one since Urek."

The God of Guardian leaned towards them, looking them from close with his yellow eyes.

"But it's strange, the two of you are similar yet different in the same time. You're weak. Urek is definitely stronger than me" the God of Guardian said again. "Let's see..........right, that's what you need...what you need must be........'Revolution'. Follow me."

Bam, "Whoa?!"

The God of Guardian easily picked the two of them up as if they were nothing. Well, considering his height, they were just like ants. He just need his two fingers to lift the two of them up and to kidnap them away.

"Hey you!!" Khun shouted at the God of Guardian who ignored him. "What the hell are you doing?!"

"It's fine Khun!!" Charlotte responded to him. "It's alright! There is no problem! Wait for us to come back!"

The two of them were brought inside the "seat" that the God of Guardian sat on before. The seat or rather the "Rice Pot", it was the place that was used by the Ten Great Families and Zahard to practice and develop their abilities.

The reason why the road that they were taking right now was called as the Revolution Road was because this was the road was made for them to get stronger and to get better. Every single of the guardian here was made to train them.

"To find one's true self that has nothing to do with societies, others, or ideologies....that is what revolution is" the God of Guardian said to them. "This is the rice pot and I exist for that.

This is a place where you discover yourself that you were not be able to find out while being surrounded by false notions and boundaries. The fate and the power that you have on your back. It's the process for the one who opened the gate to realize 'their '.

You must discover your true self instead your false self."