Part 11: In the depths of his right eye ... I saw a bakemono !
The two left the town … and Maya was carrying a lot of bags after the residents of the town honored them for what Koja did for the sake of the town.
Maya was so happy about that … she was so happy for what Koja did … but not as the town's inhabitants of course who have suffered for a long time … they finally can back to their old life...
"Oh! look how many bags have we got? I can make many kinds of foods with this!"
With a cold tone:
"Shut up … who told you that you can get into my house again? You said you had come to treat my injuries ... I look better now so you can return from where you came"
"Mo~ Why did you suddenly become angry? you are really moody - with a smile - you just saved a whole town by your self! so try to be happy~~ be happy~~"
"This is enough! What I did would be done by anyone belongs to the special organization…"
Then … he pressed his fist … as if he felt kind of deep anger.
"The real me…. Would kill Adar …. and.... why are you acting like that? You belong to the criminals' hunters corps ... you are supposed to be a member of the extremists"
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Those words that Koja just say … he had not to say them...
Some words that are said unintentionally ... or even purposefully ... may sometimes be offensive…
And Koja's sudden emotion ... made him say some words affected negatively on Maya .... and made her want to show to Koja how wrong he was in what he tried to say…
*Steps …. Steps *
And after she stepped some steps toward Koja … and after she let the bags that she was carrying fell down in the ground…
"So why you are acting like you are happy for the inhabitants of the town? Whatever what you are planning to do I will.......!"
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*Slap*
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That was a sound of a strong slap…
After she felt anger … after Maya got so angry…
With a serious and upset face, she broke the silence and said:
"Is that all that you can say? Is that all that you can think about? Why are you always seeing things from one side? Did you ever think that ... That the organization is wrong on what it is doing? Did you ever try to see things from this perspective?"
With wide eyes….
"The organization … might be wrong?"
(this is really delightful …. To see the kind of person like you in the organization! I know that I can't say this but ... the organization was always doing bad things to the citizens)
With a very loud voice…
"I won't go back … I won't leave until I do my job as I promised myself … you did not kill me that time … because you are not bad like them! You are not bad like that person who's called Adar! for this … I won't back to the city of criminals hunters until I show you how much the organization is bad … I will show you things you have never seen before ... things that only the mysterious land citizens can see … just like what happened today"
Koja … couldn't say anything … he didn't know what to say! all he could do was … stare at Maya with wide eyes … and with confusion looks….
He made a silence … a silence after Maya was waiting for his answer … after Maya was waiting for his reply with an angry face … but even though … that made her look cute as usual! yes, there is nothing cute as her angry face for sure!
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"D-Do … whatever you want! It's not like I care … me too … I will show you how wrong you are"
"Okey … deal!"
An answer like this from Koja … made Maya kind of happy deep inside … even though she tried to hide that in a moment like this….
But this is really how she felt!
A new achievement by this Baka girl...!?
I can change this person since he gave me a chance! No, this person is just lost … so I just have to show him the right path…
So this the new goal of Maya…!!
Right?
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The two started walking again…
Until…
they sensed a sharp in their left side! From the side that overlooked a vast forest!
Without turning their necks to the side where they sensed that! Koja first said with himself:
"This sharp effect! Someone is following us? At exactly seven o'clock"
Then Maya said:
"This presence I just felt … it must be that someone is spying on us... My intuition makes no mistakes"
Without making the spy feel any doubt ... Koja turned towards Maya ... then he made a sign to her with his head … and Maya understood what Koja was trying to do!
"Hey! You… didn't we forget to buy the bandages? We have come all this way to buy medical equipment ... and we forgot about them after all!"
"A-Ah you mean medical bandages? Yes, yes you are right! Do you want me to go back to the town so I can get some of them?"
"Okey … I will back home alone then…"
"Understood"
Then the two started walking in reversed ways….
Fx: Slow Motion
And after...
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Koja screamed...…!!!
"Now!!!!!!"
Suddenly …. The two ran with a super high speed!! after they made a large distance between them … of course they did that ... so they can besiege the spy!
And after a long chase ... Maya glimpsed a shadow of someone ... so she knew that her intuition was in Its place...
"I knew it …. Hey you! just stop there! you have no place you can escape to! You are completely besieged"
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Maya was right … this person has nowhere to escape … especially that the road was blocked by an abyss its down is a river…
Until that moment came…
"K-Kuso … an … Impasse?"
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"Ha!? I told you … konayaro!! who sent you to us? Why you were following us?"
"W-What is this?" said Koja…
After … he found that the look of spy was kind of weird…!!
He was covered with medical bandages … he looked exactly like a mummy! Koja didn't understand what was going on with that person … but of course, he didn't care about that at a time like that … he just wanted to know why that person was following them..!
So he moved forward … Koja moved some steps toward the mummy guy … and with cold looks he said :
"Who sent you to me?"
Suddenly Maya stepped some steps too…
"Or maybe they sent you to me? Are you from the organization?"
Koja said with himself:
"I-It's right … this girl is Naitkor … could it be that this person is from…! If that's what is going on here … I would be in real trouble if I let him run away! The organization will not tolerate me ... if it knows that I was hanging out with an important member of the criminals' hunters' forces and if we talk about that … This person's presence is not strange to me … but for some reasons I couldn't recognize it!! no … I can tell that I never saw a sharp presence like this before … but why I feel like I know it's owner? "
(The worst of the bad things, is when the truth of the danger is hidden with another danger, isn't it?)
After the spy stared at all directions and knew that there was no place to escape to ... he replied Koja saying:
"Do I have to answer you?"
Koja said with confident tone:
"So I am your target here! Although I cannot be sure of that through the reaction of your face (he meant that even the spy's face was covered with medical bandages) ... but since you meant me in your words ... that means I'm your target here ... isn't it?"
After a silence … the said with himself:
"As always, as always … this guy can adapt to things around him very fast…"
The mummy guy was kind of nervous! Therefore, he stepped two steps backward … and once he did that ... in less than a second, Koja blew up the Raym in random split … and that made a very intense pressure…
" Don't dare and do any other strange move … if you want to keep your life! Now tell me … who sent you to me? And.... do I know you before?"
"Kuso … I'm in trouble … Although I made my existence look normal, but he could easily sense my place, the reason for that must be that thing inside me, what should I do now? Because of that, I am not able to free the Raym" said the mummy guy with himself in nervous.
Koja turned around toward Maya...
With those scary looks … as if he wanted to warn her…
"You there! Stay away … you will see my serious side now!"
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"This my chance!!!"
Suddenly the spy took advantage of Koja's oversight for a moment … and took out a small whistle that he was hiding ... it was a bit like a dog whistle!
Then he blew on it….
Even he did that but no sounds came out of it…
Yes, even though we as humans cannot hear anything can come out from that whistle … but the worst animals of the forest can hear it clearly … as if it had been made specifically to provoke them…
In less than two seconds….
*Heavy steps … Heavy steps *
The forest started to shake under the feet of Koja and Maya … as if something was getting closer…
"W-What is going on here?" said Maya...
Koja turned so fast toward the spy with angry expressions!
"you! what have you...Hm?"
But the spy already left the place immediately….
Suddenly …. Koja….
Felt something strange…
Something started colliding with his hair in an alternately way...
That was like…
Heavy breath?
Maya screamed as if she felt worried about Koja….
"Watch out!! behind you!"
Koja raised his head to see….
A face of a Bear … with innocents looks, was staring at Koja…
It was so huge … that was certainly not any ordinary bear…
Koja said:
"Hmm? What do you want?"
He said that after he was sure that this kind of animal is certainly not the savage type! but actually, he was wrong … this is just how they look! they just look innocents … but are they really like that?
In a jiffy…
The bear waved vigorously…
No, but he hit Koja with a great force that made him fly away….
Koja didn't expect something like this to happen…
"H-HEAVY!!!!!!!"
His body collided by many trees and all of them crashed …
The first one…
The second…
The third…
Except the fourth which absorbed the rest of the shock!
"T-The agent!!!! D-Daijobu?"
The bear was still in a state of frenzy … He rushed so fast towards Koja…
In those moments…
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That mysterious weird thing happened!
Koja....!
Sat down…
That position he took…
It was like…
A proud king stares at the lowest level…..
Yes, this is how Koja looked like at that moment….
After he was staring at the ground without any expressions … as if he lost his senses for a moment … for some reason….!
The bear started slowing down …. Slowing down … and slowing down … until it stopped in its place immediately!! then sat down in its place … started staring at Koja innocently…!!
Maya did not understand what happened suddenly ... why the bear suddenly stopped attacking toward Koja?
Maybe Koja made a certain move? Like activating some Raym's weird technique that made the bear Subject to him? Not only the bear but... everything around him got subjected by him ... the wind around was taking it's natural path, but as soon as that happened, as soon as those trees around kneeled little bit to koja, the wind changed it's path to not intrerupt what was happening to the trees. even the sunflowers changed their natural path, as if Koja is their new sun they must follow.
Well, in fact, Koja didn't do anything like that, he didn't activate any Raym technique or something.
All he did was….
Sitting down…!
That's why Maya was surprised .... she didn't feel anything weird coming out of Koja's body … so she turned towards Koja quickly to confirm that! The distance between the two was quite far ... so she just wanted to take a peek…
And she saw that...…!
(In the depths of his right eye … I saw something strange!!!!!!!!)
She just saw that...
It was like…
She saw something weird in Koja's face for a moment….
Or rather, She felt that something wasn't proper....
as if she had a strange feeling toward his right eye, as if it was absorbing her attentions although she was far to see it clearly, that was odd enough to make Maya feel suspicious about this person.
"wa..it!!? What was….. that? was it just my….. imagination?"
But she quickly returned to her senses ... to do what she had to do!!
Koja was under the danger!!!
After she made that serious face … she carried half of one of the broken trees that was near to her…!
And with a fast move … she hit the bear strongly on the head...
A hit was enough to make the bear faint and fall to the ground…
Maya rushed toward Koja to know if he was alright after what happened! especially with that weird thing that happened to him before moments!
"Are you okey? What happened to you?"
"Hmm? W-What…. Happened? T-The…. Bear! where is it???"
"It's okey … I just finished it up! are you… okey?"
"A-Ah! I guess I'm fine!"
"Before a while … did something happen to you?"
Koja said with wondering:
"Hmm? I don't remember anything … I think the collision has affected me … A-Ahhh my head is hurt!"
Maya said with herself:
"So….. It was just my imagination? This was…. Weird!"
"That person … he escaped easily! I can't believe that he managed everything like this! That damned bear ... It looked so innocent just like a pet animal! Talking about the one who caused all that...… I will be in real trouble if that person is from the organization! Especially if he knew that you are Naitkor! Things are going weird here!"
Then Koja explained his concern with many words trying to make sense of what he sensed toward the spy saying:
"Depending on what I've learned from my late master, it is not possible to assert that a person has a strong hidden Raym in direct ways, but this can be realized by knowing the nature of the killing instincts he has, Most Raym users have an inferior level of killing instincts that makes them able to free the Raym, so the more intense the instincts are, the stronger the raym user is. But the strange and contradictory thing here is, that this person's instincts were not that sharp, although I sensed a mysterious Raym coming out of him as if he had been liberating it, even though that never happened"
Then he finished his words with a cocky tone:
"I was sure that I know the weak instincts' owner but at the same time, that Raym was so sharp that I can tell that it's as sharp as mine! Well, I never met before someone who has a similar Raym to mine! even in the special organization, I'm always the number one in the deadly characters' squad … I was always considered as the most strong Raym user … so that person ... he is certainly not from the organization ... The deadly characters are the only ones who have mastered the technique of Raym"
Maya said with herself with a bored accent:
"Hmm? This person … is he trying to impress me or something?"
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After a silence … Maya made a look of fear … as if she started realizing things around her! or maybe she started to know how Baka she is!
"W-W-Wait a minute!! C-Can you tell me...…. Which deadly character you are?"
A fast answer from Koja:
"Epsilon…. Why?"
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"N-NAAAAAANIIIIIIIIIIIII YOU ARE THE MOST STRONG DEADLY CHARACTER, THE DEADLY CHARACTER EPSILON!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIT I THOUGHT YOU ARE JUST A NORMAL CHARACTER FROM THE ORGANIZATION!!!"
Suddenly Maya moved quickly to hide behind one of the trees near to her … and with a totally Baka accent she continued her words:
"PLEASE!!! DON'T KILL ME!"
Koja gazed at Maya with bored looks … then said:
"What are you talking about Aho? is there even a normal deadly character. also, If I wanted to kill you … I would certainly have done that the first moment we met!"
"R-Really? You are not going to kill me?"
"Huuu! as I told you~......!"
Koja didn't finish his words … until that shiny thing beside Maya's right leg caught his eyes!
"What is that? beside your left leg?"
Maya looked at the ground … to check out what Koja was talking about, That thing was like…..!
"Nani? This is... a necklace? Did someone drop it?"
While Koja was staring at the necklace … Maya was making an annoying voice as if she started thinking so hard … as if she was trying to know where did she see that necklace before !
She was making that voice "HMMMMMM!!" non stop
Then Koja said:
"necklace? Could it be that….. Is it conceivable that it belongs to that person who was spying on us? But…. Yes, I'm sure that I saw it before! - with wide eyes - The..... oragan...…!!"
Before Koja ended up his phrase! Maya interrupted him with a really loud voice saying:
"Haaa! I remember … I can remember where I saw this necklace before! I'm sure that it belongs to the little Sophie! - with a smile - She is the granddaughter of the criminals' hunters city owner … I'm sure of that!"
"what?…. This necklace! same to me, I'm sure that I saw it before somewhere! I can't remember where….. but I'm sure that it belongs to one of the organization's agents ... this is really a trouble! I can't remember anything about it … the organization will not tolerate me after this … if that person is really a spy from the organization and the boss sent him to me … I will be in a big trouble! I can't even go back to the center now to check what is going on there! especially if the spy knows who really you are"
Maya said with worries:
"What do you plan to do? Agent!"
"We will go back to my house! my gun, Moon's Soul is there … whatever what happens I must get it first"