Ch. 21 "INSIDE THE DOME"

"What a disappointment, the Star wasn't even able to show its true color" Stella said in a cold voice.

Mikaela overheard what the commander had just spoken, she clenched her fist and stood up ready to the punch the commander, but her body froze when she saw the commanders face.

"Commander... what will we do now?" she asked.

"Let's all go back to the laboratory" Stella answered.

Mikaela walked towards Rei and tapped his shoulder lightly.

"Why... Why did they have to die Mikaela?" he asked as tears continued to fall from his eyes.

"Rei... I also feel sad for what has happened, but in this world of ours we are all bound to die at some point, Now let's go back inside" Mikaela answered.

Rei nodded before standing up, both of them walked over towards where the commander and Erika was.

"Commander, will we retrieve the body?" Mikaela asked.

"Leave it there. We will only retrieve the Star" Stella spoke.

Mikaela walked back towards Elaina's corpse and took a white bracelet that was unscratched, she stood there for a while before bowing.

"Thank you for your services" she said before walking back towards the commander.

"Rei... may this be a lesson that not every demon can be defeated without any death" Stella spoke as she walked towards the walls.

"Commander, you knew ahead of time that they were gonna die didn't you?" Rei asked.

Stella suddenly stopped walking.

"Rei... shut up, if the commander knew about it then she would've broken the rules to save her subordinates!" Mikaela yelled at Rei while carrying Erika on her back.

"Why don't you answer me commander? Did you know that this event will happen?" Rei asked again.

Stella stood in silence as the wind blew against her face.

"The directors have given their orders... Mikaela you stay here with Rei and wait for the arrival of Commander Hugo Takehara, he is appointed as the temporary General of the southern military. I will go back to the capital to get new subordinates, I will also bring Erika with me to rehabilitate her" Stella ordered.

"Why won't you answer my question?" Rei yelled.

Rei was once again in tears while waiting for the commander's answer.

"Rei... who gave you the right to question me?"

Stella said before glancing at Rei.

Rei's body suddenly felt heavy which caused him to fall on his knees, the eyes that just glanced at him felt like an arrow that had just pierced his soul.

"Commander Stella please stop" Mikaela spoke.

The commander started to walk towards the wall leaving the others behind.

"Are you alright Rei?" Mikaela asked.

Rei did not answer, he stood back on his two feet. The black marks that was on his right arm started to appear on the right side of his face and without hesitation he suddenly charge the commander.

"WHYYY WOONNTT YOUUU ANSWERR MYYY QUESTIONN!!!" He screamed as he got closer to the Commander.

Both his blades were pointed at the commander ready to pierce her, but the moment he got close to her the commander dodged his attack with ease, the commander then hand chopped Rei's neck which caused him to faint.

As Rei's vision began to blur the commander spoke to him, "Rei... become strong so that you can become the savior of this cruel world that we live in" slowly Rei's vision finally went black.

Rei was back again in a void where the black figure kept showing up to him.

"So have you decided? Will break this world now? Or will play human again?" It asked.

"Who are you?" Rei asked.

"Wrong... the question that you should be asking is who are you? Are you human? Or are you a monster of mass destruction ready to end the world?" It said.

Rei woke in the middle of the night laying on a soft and comfortable bed in a dark room that was only lit by the moon light through the window.

"Huh? When did I get inside a room?"

His eyes wandered around the room but found no one inside except for him. His head suddenly began to ache as he tried to remember what happened earlier, all that he was able to remember was the death of certain people. He placed his hand on his side when he suddenly felt something soft and squishy.

"That hurts you know" A woman spoke.

Rei immediately withdrew his hand and slowly looked beside him who the person was, he almost jumped off the bed in surprise when he saw Mikaela lying beside him in a white-laced nightgown.

"M-M-M-M-Mikaelaaa!?" he screamed.

Mikaela immediately sat down and placed her finger on Rei's lips silencing him.

"Listen! There are other people sleeping here!" Mikaela whispered.

Rei's face turned beet red as he saw more of Mikaela's voluptuous body.

"Is this the first time you've seen a woman in these kinds of clothes? Or rather is this the first time you've slept with a woman?" Mikaela asked.

Rei was hesitant on answering as his head started to wander around the room, but after a few seconds he gives an answer.

"Yes..." He said.

"Oh... is that so? Do you know what happens when a man and a woman are left alone in a dark room?" Mikaela said before pushing down Rei.

"They... have... S...e...x!" Mikaela whispered on Rei's ear.

Rei explodes with a girlish scream that woke up others. Mikaela laughed so hard after teasing Rei.

"Oh my God! You're the best! You're the first man I enjoyed something like this!!" Mikaela said while still laughing.

Suddenly a man started to bang the door.

"OI! TWERPS SHUT IT! YOU AINT THE ONLY PEOPLE SLEEPING HEAR!" the man scolded.

"Oh shit! We're sorry! We'll keep quiet now!" Mikaela immediately apologized.

Mikaela looked at Rei and can't help herself on laughing as Rei stared at him looking traumatized.

Rei swallowed hard before sitting back up, he lowered his head before suddenly asking a question.

"Did they really die?"

Their room was suddenly filled with silence.

"Yeah... Rei can I ask a question?" Mikaela spoke.

"Huh? What is it?" He replied.

"Why'd you try to attack the Commander?" Mikaela asked.

Rei looked at Mikaela confused trying to figure out an answer to her question.

"Did I?"

Was the only answer that Rei could come up with.

"Oh... Let me rephrase it... what did you fill after seeing them die?" Mikaela asked.

"I felt... like anger was devouring me, it felt painful, it felt as if a power was forcing me to feel anger. That's the only thing I can remember" Rei Explained.

Mikaela immediately embraced Rei, and calmly rubbed his back.

"Rei, please don't let anger consume you. Being devoured by anger is much more dangerous than dying on the hands of demons" Mikaela spoke.

Mikaela then released Rei before lying down in bed. Rei did the same. The two of them shared the same bed and both stared at the ceiling.

"Mikaela... I know this is a very awkward thing to say... but... I have a problem and this somehow concerns you..." Rei spoke.

"Huh? What is it?" She asked.

Rei looked turned towards Mikaela and nervously smiled at her.

"You see... you got me all lively down there... can you do something with it..." He said while pointing towards his lower half.

"Oh... aren't you quite bold to tell me something like that" Mikaela spoke with a serious face.

"Ah... well this is kind of your fault for teasing me earlier" Rei spoke before letting out a nervous laugh.

"Is that so... then we have no choice don't we..." Mikaela said while licking her lips.

Suddenly she sat on top of Rei and began stripping herself.

"Uhm... wait a minute! Uhhhh... w-w-wel-l y-yo-u s-s-see... Uhhhmmm... c-c-can't y-y-you I-I-in s-s-some oth-th-ther w-w-ay" Rei stuttered.

"Oh no... but I'm naked now so there's only one option" Mikaela said while toying with Rei's private parts.

Rei took a hard swallow before Mikaela took the blanket and cover both of them, and as the night passed slowly their room was filled with pleasure.

*In a room in the capital's military facility*

Commander was eavesdropping on Rei and Mikaela using a pin she had placed on the back side collar of Rei's uniform. She bit her thumb on the sounds that the two created, for the commander it was a night filled with jealousy.

"Dammit Mikaela! How dare you bare your lust-filled fangs on my chosen one. Is this what that woman taught you? I knew it that woman is much more dangerous than those damns demons!"

Stella wasted her night cursing and clenching her fists as she listened to the sounds of pleasure.

The next morning Rei woke up next to a naked woman covered by a blanket, he stood up and walked towards the window with a blurry vision. What he saw outside the window surprised him.

"W-Where the hell am I!!" Rei screamed.

He was astounded by the sight of a middle aged town. His scream has awoken the woman he slept with who threw a pillow on his head.

"Shut up!" She scolded.

Rei immediately turned around and realized that their room was nothing modern, it was surrounded by large stone bricks, the floor was made with fine wood, the door was also made by the same wood, there ceiling was high and had a rusty looking metal chandelier which had almost burned out candles placed on it. Astonished Rei walked back to the bed almost stumbling down.

"Mikaela where are we?" He asked.

"Ha?... oh I guess I haven't told you, Commander Hugo arrived yesterday earlier than expected and with no place to have you rest in he gave us permission to enter the dome" Mikaela explained still half-asleep.

"I-if Th-this is I-I-I-inside the dome then... then why does it look different from ours?" Rei spoke in a loud voice.

"You're too noisy!" Mikaela said before gagging Rei's mouth with her underwear.

*cough*" Why the hell did you do that for??" Rei yelled.

"Because you're too noisy! Sigh... Rei listen not every dome is the same, the dome of the east is supposedly a modern one where people live in a world better than this right? But there are five domes in total which means each dome lives in different era while us military people are in an era where we need to kill demons so that these people can live in the domes safely" Mikaela explained.

"I see... I'm sorry for disturbing your sleep, I guess my knowledge about the world were living in is too little" Rei spoke in a soft voice.

"Anyone, Commander Hugo also gave us coins which can be used here so that we can live here for a while until new orders from Commander Stella comes in" Mikaela said.

"How were we able to enter this place wearing military uniforms anyway?" Rei asked.

"Ah that? We are currently located above a tavern, apparently this place is own by Commander Hugo's sibling who didn't want to fight the war. So basically he was from the military who was snuck in here by the commander to live a normal life, and according to his brother this place has other employee's living in so it won't be weird if we lived here, he also gave us a few clothes to wear that would help us fit in this place" Mikaela explained.

Rei sat there in silently trying to insert all the information that is being stated to him in his brain.

"So what will we do now?" Rei asked.

"Hmmm... we can walk around this town, but according to a dear friend of mine five days from now all the generals will be having a meeting. And she said that she'll give me a special ring so I can sneak in to the meeting" Mikaela spoke with devilish eyes.

"Isn't doing that bad?" Rei said.

"It's bad if you get caught, but if you don't then all is fine" Mikaela said before pouncing on Rei knocking him down.

Mikaela began to lick Rei's neck as if she was a savage beast in heat.

"U-uhm... Mikaela can we not do it" Rei said.

"Alright, I'll let you go for today" She said.

Rei stood up and walked over to the clothes that were given to them, he began looking at the clothes one by one choosing which one he should wear.

"Everything there will look good on you, I've already checked" Mikaela spoke.

Rei felt shivers on his spine after hearing those words.

"What did this woman do to me while I was sleeping?"

As Rei continued to look for clothes he could wear Mikaela suddenly spoke.

"Rei can you bring me that white dress, I think I'll wear that for today"

He nodded and followed, bringing the dress towards Mikaela, on his way back a black colored cloth got his attention, after checking it he realized the mistake he had just made. The clothe he pulled out was a black dress, in the end he wore light grey trousers, plain white shirt, a dark blue coat, and simple black shoes. While Mikaela wore a simple knee-length white dress and dark brown boots.

"Are you ready to go?" Mikaela asked.

Rei nodded and was immediately pulled by Mikaela down to the tavern where both men and woman were joyously drinking. Mikaela led Rei to a sit in front of the counter where the owner was waiting for him.

"How was your sleep?" A man asked Rei.

"The bed was really great it was so soft and the place was really silent" He replied.

Rei sat there for a while staring at the man not speaking a word.

"Ah... I guess I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Collin Takehara I'm the older brother of Hugo Takehara" The man spoke.

"Ah, My name is Rei, thank you for taking care of us last night and sorry for being too noisy" Rei apologized.

"Don't worry about it, some nights my employee's would do the same thing you did" Collin said with a wink.

Rei suddenly blushed remembering what happened that night, suddenly his stomach growled loudly.

"You must be hungry, I only have beer here so I can't really give you breakfast, even my employee's would go out in the morning just for breakfast. By the way why is Mikaela not with you?" Collin asked.

Rei looked around and wasn't able to find Mikaela, suddenly someone tapped his shoulder which surprised him.

"Mikaela is over there... I think some guys are hitting on her" A woman spoke.

"Rei, you see I can't really leave the counter... so can you please help her out" Collin spoke.

"Ah I will" He replied.

Rei walked towards Mikaela who was slowly being surrounded by men.

"Sigh... I hate doing things like this..."

He was closing up on the gathered people when suddenly a man dropped on the floor, his nose was bleeding, Rei looked at who punched him and there he saw a furious Mikaela who had just punched the man so hard that he was knocked out.

"Ah! Sorry boys but my man is here" Mikaela spoke before walking all lovey-dovey towards Rei.

She immediately grabbed on Rei's arm and pulled him outside of the tavern, the two of them then walked on the street.

"Thanks for helping out back there" Mikaela said.

"But I didn't really do anything to help you" Rei spoke before letting out a short laugh.

"Still you came for me" Mikaela said before giving Rei a kiss on the cheek.

The two then arrived at a well-known local bakery where there was quite a long line, Rei was about to fall in line when Mikaela suddenly pulled him away and began walking towards the front entrance.

"Huh? Did you get a reservation?" Rei asked.

"Yep, and we get to sit down on their rooftop where we can see the whole town!" Mikaela answered.

As they walked towards the front a man was about to stop them when Mikaela suddenly showed a golden card, the townsfolk who was in line began whispering behind them.

"Hey did you see that card? Is she a noble?"

Rei looked confused as they entered the building, inside Rei was astonished by the delicious smell of bread, his mouth began to water simply by the smell. Mikaela laughed softly as she saw his face, the two then arrive at the rooftop where a couch was waiting for them and on the table was freshly baked bread that still had smoke coming out of it, and as they sat on the couch they were greeted by two beautiful waitresses.

"Good morning, what else would you like to order?" a woman asked Rei.

"We'll call you if we need anything" Mikaela immediately answered.

Rei almost had his jaw drop on the floor as he saw the majestic view that was in front of them, from a distance was a large double waterfall which had the direct sunlight, there were over five visible rainbows from their view.

"Is this heaven?" Rei asked.

"beautiful is it not, the waterfall that you are seeing right now is "The Rainbow Falls" despite its size it is extremely far from here and according to those who had travelled there a forest lies beneath it and from the bottom of the falls there you can view over 10 Rainbows not including the ones you can see right now" A woman explained as Rei began to chow down on the bread in front of them.

Mikaela looked like she was thinking of something when the waitress suddenly spoke to her.

"Is something uncomfortable for you?" The waitress asked.

"Do you have any news about yesterday?" Mikaela spoke.

"Ah, there was a strong storm yesterday but it seems like the storm has already passed" the waitress answered.

Mikaela then showed her golden card and asked the same question.

"Good day Ms. Mikaela, Yesterday there was a battle between General Stella and General Wilford which ended with General Wilford's death. There was no townsfolk who had witnessed the event, and during the fight was a storm which was likely created by General Stella." The waitress explained.

"Is that so..."

The waitress then brought out a different bread and took the ones Rei had just eaten, Mikaela then began to eat while Rei was unconscious beside her.

[Chapter End]