Chapter 27: Answer and Promise

"Thank you so much, Miss Aria!" Rin giggled soon as they arrived at the manor, carrying some grocery bags, "Thank you for accompanying me to the supermarket."

"It's nothing. I'm going to buy there as well." Aria replied with a poker face.

Then, she glanced at the sky above which is getting thick, dark, and cloudy.

"Oh dear, seems like it's going to rain hard," Rin said when she gazed above as well.

'Why do I have a feeling that it'll be more than a heavy rain?' The huntress thought.

It was just any other normal day at that time. Not until they felt the ground shaking lightly as the flash of lightning came, followed by a clap of loud rolling thunder.

All of a sudden, a portal appeared not so far away from the manor which made everyone alert. And from there, Gray came out, carrying two bodies with him. He looked exhausted and fear is written all over his face.

"It's Rae!" he exclaimed.