18

I was walking back and forth continuously as the two were just staring at me, looking at me in a perpetual motion, they were blank at all. I was thinking where would he be in Kyoto, this is a big city after all. Despite it being night time, there were still people crowded in the busy streets, if me and Tachibana fought, I have to be sure no civilians got hurt.

While walking perpetually, Heather then raises her head all of a sudden.

"what is it?" I asked her as she froze, looking at the ground with a worried look.

" I felt something was wrong. " She murmured, I was getting worried about her. A While ago she was asleep while me and Ayame fought Bel then she slowly spaced out.

"It's okay." She stated as she stood up and walked toward the bathroom.

I looked at Ayame with confusion as she raised her shoulders, both of us didn't have any clues on what was going on with Heather, I was getting worried about her.

I continued my perpetual walk, back and forth still figuring out where Tachibana could be. Ayame then lied on the floor with her stomach slowly peeking from her shirt, I ignored it and continued on.

"Hold on a minute… I felt his presence…" Ayem then springed back up and started glancing around the room, I stopped from walking and took a stare at her. She continued glancing until she stood up and began walking.

"Follow me." She stated, she slowly began sniffing, she was like a dog, finding something with her nose. I followed her as she walked to our room's exit, she opened it and continued walking to the hallways.

I kept on following her as we reached the elevator. I didn't bother asking her and just continued, she pressed one of the buttons and it was up, probably Tachibana was on the roof. The silver doors opened, we walked in and Ayame pressed the highest floor, the button then glowed as the doors finally opened and I slowly felt we were ascending.

"Say, how can you know where Tachibana is?" I asked her.

"Same goes with you and Heather, us Guardians know where do you guys went by our sense of smelling, why do you think Heather found us before having sex." She squinted after her answer, I sighed and continued on.

We reached the top floor, the doors opened and took our leave. We took a sharp right turn and found a door, it was an employees only door, we continued on and opened it with ease. The door was opened and we were greeted by stairs, both going downstairs and upstairs. Ayame then walked to the stairs, I followed her and went upward.

The stairs were tough as each passing level I got, the pressure was getting increased, I was getting tired, sweating and thirsty. We finally reached the door to the roof, I opened it and saw nothing. Just Pure emptiness.

"You sure he's here?" I asked her as I stepped to the roof but she quickly grabbed me on the shoulder, stopping me to continue forward, then a large explosion appeared in front of me. I gulped in from what I didn't expect, things began to burst upward like fireworks and exploded in the night skies.

After the firework show, a deep maniacal laugh appeared out of nowhere, I looked around trying to find where the laugh came from, and then it finally appeared, he appeared. It was Tachibana, slowly descended to be seen in my eyes. His evil stare gaze upon me, I clenched my fist to prepare myself.

"You defeated Bel with ease...huh." He said in disbelief, he didn't touch the ground, he was still levitating in the sky but enough to be seen clearly.

"I'm surprised you're still alive…" I said to him, He then glanced at me while he played with his fingers.

" Troy, you never know what the feeling is to be immortal. " He then laughed as he scratched his skin, blood began to sprout from the areas he kept on scratching, he was uncontrollable, his sinister laughter continued on as Blood spewed out.

"WHY YOU. DOUBLE EDGE!!" I shouted as Double Edge then appeared beside me, he charged with quick speed toward Tachibana.

"USELESS!!" He shouted as his Fiery emblem appeared. Both weapons then attacked each other, blocking one another, a Spear against a Sword.

"USELESS USELESS USELESS!!!" He shouted as Fiery emblem then pushed toward Double Edge, after that, the unexpected happened. I heard a loud creak, it was like a twig tore apart, I saw a crack on Double Edge's handle.

"FEEL THE POWER!!!" He shouted as a fiery emblem then finally tore apart Double Edge, I shouted with frustration.

"NOOO" I mourned as a powerful explosion appeared from the place where Double Edge and Fiery Emblem fought in, it was Double Edge's end. A Burst of flame appeared as the leftovers of Double Edge were thrown to the ground beside me, I stepped on the roof and picked up the leftovers.

"YOU TOOK IT TOO FAR TACHI!! " Ayame shouted behind me as Tachibana continued laughing maniacally.

"FOOL! YOU ARE LOWER THAN ME AND NOBODY CAN DEFEAT ME." He laughed , as I stood up and stared at him, I wanted to punch him that badly.

"YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!!!" I shouted as the shield was formed from my cloak and charged toward Tachibana, without Double Edge, I couldn't hit him, he continued laughing with mockery as emotions slowly got to me.

"SPARKLING METEORS!!!" Said by a female voice, golden sparkles appeared from the sky and hit Tachibana, he was flung from the far end of the city.

I began searching for who and where the voice came from, Ayame then pointed it to me in my far right, I looked at it and saw two familiar faces, standing in a balcony while the other one was flapping its angel wings.

Kagura, who was holding the forbidden fruit and Heather, who was constantly flying at the same level with Kagura.

"Am I late?" As she bit the fruit