Fire

After saying that, Rira was silent and confused why did she know Lyra? and Meliosa. Neko immediately walked up to the two of them and spoke frankly. "Bro-, eh I mean my bodyguard Lyra died 14 years ago," Neko explained.

Nero already knew about it, "But why does this woman look so much like Lyra?" he thought. Nero stretched out his hand for a handshake as a sign of getting to know each other.

"No need to shake hands and sorry I forgot to tell you both about my name.. my name is Rira..oh yeah, where do you know Meliosa from?"

Nero touched both of Rira's hands and continued to ask Rira and ignored the questions that Rira asked. "Rira where are you from? where were you born? what is your family name? then why is your name Rira?" Nero kept urging Rira.

"I'm from this village, I was born in a house maybe, I don't know my family name, my name is Rira, I don't know where it came from either?" replied Rira.

"And also how old are you and why are you a girl in pants?" Nero insisted. Neko who saw Nero urged Rira to answer his question. Eventually, she got dizzy and decided to kick Nero in the head even though she was shorter than him.

"Ouch, how dare you kick your brother in the head!!" Nero was annoyed while holding his head after Neko kicked him. After seeing the behavior of the two of them Rira smiled with a little laugh.

However, Neko suddenly became restless and pointed towards the west. "Brother, there's a fire in the village over there!!" While pointing to where the fire occurred. Nero felt that Neko was lying as proof that he had wrongly pointed out where the fire occurred, the real one was in the northwest.

Neko then slightly shifted the direction the fire was pointing slightly to the northwest and said, "There's a fire over there!!"

"Late." Nero mocked Neko a little. After hearing that there was a fire from the northwest, Rira saw the black smoke coming from the northwest and it was none other than her village which made her immediately run back to the village with a worried face.

Of course, Neko and Nero came along because they had a duty to bring Rira to the third kingdom even though they refused to do so. When they arrived at the village, the three of them saw fire everywhere, and not only that, all the residents in the village had died, including Rira's orphanage children because there were many corpses of orphaned children who were brutally killed.

"Cruel, whose brother would do something like this?" asked Neko while looking around.

"Do not ask me!" Nero's voice seemed very angry. Nero did not remain silent and began to tour the village to find the culprit. And Neko went to look for the surviving residents.

And Rira went to her orphanage, after arriving Rira saw the flames that scorched the orphanage building. Rira continues to stare at her orphanage, Rira looks happy and even smiles. The feelings Rira felt were different, not that she was sad but happy or very happy. Rira's hopes seemed to disappear just like that.

Rira laughed and smiled broadly as if it wasn't Rira but someone else, after being satisfied with laughing and smiling Rira was gloomy and sad over what had happened to her home and village.

When she wanted to leave in front of the orphanage, Rira was silent for a moment to see her home one last time. While gazing at her orphanage, A mother's voice was heard at the orphanage which made Rira without thinking immediately enter the blaze.

Meanwhile, Nero continued to run around the village without stopping. Then Neko entered several houses that were still standing even though they had been devoured by the fire.

Neko saw a lot of blood in the living room and some of the furniture in the house was stained with blood. Neko without thinking immediately left the house because the house that Neko was currently entering would soon collapse.

Neko immediately returned to where Rira was before anything happened to her. If something happened to Rira, Neko felt something really bad but she didn't know what it was.

Back to Rira...

Rira kept going around to find the source of the sound even though she was having trouble breathing and felt her body burning. The fire scorched all the items in the orphanage and then Rira accidentally passed the other caretaker's rooms except Mama Zera's room because Mama Zera's room was separated from the other caretakers.

Rira opened the door to the room and entered slowly. Some items such as pillows, tables, chairs, and others were seen being burned by the fire that entered the room.

However, a piece of very beautiful music could be heard among the burning objects. Out of curiosity, Rira looked for the thing that was ringing, The voice is slowly starting to go,

which made Rira panic because she was afraid that she would lose that sounding object. The way out or the door out of the room starts to burn if it's already on fire then Rira can't get out of there. Rira was forced out of the room by running,

However, the roof of her room collapsed which made Rira have to dodge and jump when she was going to the exit. Rira jumped the tiger to pass through the wood in front of her and finally, she managed to get out.

Rira again heard the sound of 'asking for help' and Rira found the voice in her room and that person was the mother of the orphanage, Mama Zera. She asked for help to be saved by Rira. Rira was hesitant to save her but she hit her in the face to wake her up.

Rira immediately helped Mama Zera. "You are a good girl." Praise Mama Zera.

"It's nothing." Rira is happy because Mama Zera is still safe. When leaving Rira's room, Mama Zera stabbed Rira with a kitchen knife which made Rira hurt and vomited blood because the knife was very sharp.

"I don't want to be saved by you!! and you are very easy to trick." Mama Zera immediately left, leaving Rira injured.

"That human doesn't deserve Rira's help." Lyra's voice in Rira's mind. Rira also fell because the knife stabbed by Mama Zera had a very deadly poison, making Rira's consciousness disappear, excruciating pain, and Rira's heartbeat would stop instantly.

"Rira... I can't let you die, that human didn't need to worry, because I will kill her as a token of my gratitude for wanting to befriend me for the second time." Lyra smiled happily.

Outside the orphanage, Nero was seen running to find the mastermind behind this village massacre, if Nero found the mastermind he would ask what his name was. Neko kept running while looking behind her for fear that someone would chase her while she was running. "It's about time I stepped in!" Lyra looked happy.