Chapter 18

Hikaru was still laughing like an idot when Mahel, as if he had had a turnaround, took a cigarette. he lit it and began to smoke Gilh snapped his hand to take the cigarette, when Mahel looked at her, straight in the eyes, her eyes were illuminated by a strange light, then she planted her puganele on the counter, and as if nothing had happened she said to Hikaru, who noticing those moves had stopped, like the whole club, including the boys, everything was silent even Elisabhet had stopped, Mahel continued to look at Hikaru, smoking pointed to a small private room, there the door closed behind them, Hikaru dsse:

-I see you've resumed your usual behavior, you must have irritated you a lot with the latest statements-and he sat down on a chair that overlooked a small, perfectly circular wooden table. Mahel instead remained standing smoking the cigarette, which strangely, neither burned nor was consumed, then as if a curtain had been moved, the cigarette disappeared leaving only ash on the floor, but Mahel was also gone, Hikaru knew he was behind him, but he didn't hear not even his breath, Mahel had to be serious, blinked and found Mahel sitting in front of him with another cigarette in his mouth

-Let's get straight to the point, Hikaru, what do you want me to do? Who do you want me to kill? But, above all, will I get home in return? -

-I see you got irritated by the latest information, so you want to get straight to the point, okay I'll say-

Elisabhet was at the counter, before Mahel's strange shot she was totally drunk, but now she was completely lucid again, she was scared she didn't know what they said, but first they seemed like friends, then suddenly Mahel had threatened the bartender, she couldn't to understand, was he fickle? No ... usually nothing bothered him, it was like a mask, but now that mask was broken, leaving him uncovered for a second, a single second, enough to make him angry, he couldn't understand, and while he was trying to understand something Ricliam did approached her, and grabbing her shoulder whispered in his ear,

-Take out your sword, Hikaru's friends have arrived-

Before he could say anything, the entrance exploded, and like ants the Templars entered with unsheathed swords, the whole local rushed towards the door with the steel in their fist, only two people were not present, the two were talking, Mahel she knew what was going on, so she didn't dash for the door, plus they had just reached an agreement:

-You will do what I asked you, in exchange I will give you that object that will grant your wish-

Mahel then only said:

-When?-

-You will know, when you see the feathers fall, warn your men-

Mahel made only a sign of assent and went out of the room, lit a cigarette, and after having made only one puff, throw the cigarette on the ground, watching the fight that had now begun, Elisabhet triggered the sword by cutting Templars, his men instead they were in formation, Mayra towards the door, Ricliam on the right side, Elsionh on the left side, Isabhel behind, while Jeng in the center and everyone was on the defensive as if waiting for him, Mahel cracked his neck and infusing his hand with Mana, crushed the cigarette still burning, which exploded in an immense cloud of thick black smoke, then crusted

-Jeng! Barrier!-

Jeng then caught the message, took a small paper bag with ideograms then attacked it in front of the Templars, a cicorcolar barrier, wrapped a large area protecting the few customers the bartender and Elisabhet

-Gilh how much did the bar cost you? -

-Very, what do you think you're doing, bastard! -

-Nothing, I'll pay you back- Then he took a match, and lit it, a great explosion shook the room, the smoke and dust contained within an enclosed space ignited in an instant causing an explosion equal to a second level spell, the people protected by the barrier were blinded, but the Templars were hit by fire, and burned to death in their own armor, the alcohol bottles burst and burned, the fire broke out, and the place caught fire, people shot towards the exit while the wood was burning, Hikaru came out of the room in flames, he was not surprised, he was very satisfied, he waved Mahel and disappeared in a breath of wind, Mahel was not in the least affected by the fire, in fact as if nothing had happened, yes took a cigarette, lit it on a fire above the counter and walked towards Elisabhet, who with wide eyes was observing the outside of the alley, now deformed by the explosion, slumped to catch fiat with the spad still stained with blood.

Mahel was smoking his cigarette everyone was watching him, the customers, Gilh and Elisabhet with pure amazement and perhaps pure, respect or fear, instead Mayra, Jeng, Isabhel, Ricliam and Elsionh looked at him as if at that moment they were looking at a past but new Mahel at the same time, Mahel, on the other hand, blissfully smoking his cigarette, watched the place catch fire,

-Mahel ... what did you do ... what did you do? -

-There were too many, I had to be quick and effective, a Dust Blast seemed adequate to me, I haven't used this spell for a while, I hardly ever used it like this- Gilh shot towards Mahel and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, Mahel did not flinch in fact he seems almost bored

- What the fuck did you do! That club cost me a fortune, asshole, now I'll kill you, -

-I doubt you can only scratch me, Tsk ... what a nuisance, now leave me- Gilh did nothing, but after a few seconds there was a dry snap and Gilh's fingers twitched unnaturally, but she didn't scream , looked at Mahel who was a few meters from her holding a bag of coins, which he promptly threw at Gilh and then walked away, slowly, but Mahel thought about what Hikaru had asked for, he sighed and the cigarette smoke went out and fell, guards heard the commotion caused by the explosion rushed in that direction but no one noticed Mahel, but not even the men, Mahel was thinking of one thing, one thing, one thing that had been stinging his head for a while: His chapter alone, trudging through the world was about to end.