Running for life

"Killed?"

Suddenly hearing this word, Orion's face turned white as a sheet.

Ai pushed him inside and closed the door,

"Everyone is thinking it is you! We have to get to some safe place before the angry Conjurers try to take your matter in their hands. "

Orion was still standing without moving, it was surprising for him that he got killed! He didn't register all that what she was saying but asked her instead,

"Who? I mean how did he die?"

"No idea. But something from a hidden world. Camera catcher nothing.

Just two hours ago, the routine nurse came to find a wound on his chest and his heart missing. Probably the work of some demon. "

"Demon?"

Suddenly, Orion had a funny look on his face hearing the name 'Demon'. Ai misunderstood it as he didn't know about them.

"You probably don't know but they are handymen for doing dirty works of magic users. But the thing is you must know how to control them which I think only one percent of people know in the whole hidden world.

They are hungry, evil creatures of another side, who yearns for freedom in the earth to hunt and kill freely. But you should always remember, no matter how much in a pinch you never ever summon them."

Orion gave a susceptible nod to her more than serious gaze. Before he could again lose in his thoughts, she grabbed his arm and led him to his room.

"We have to leave now! You have ten minutes, get ready and take….something you could use as a weapon. And no, pepper spray is not a weapon."

Orion quickly steeled his mind out of the death of Fred. He quickly grabbed his shirt and wore it over his trunk. And changed to loose trousers from his pajamas. He on the way out pulled his jacket over and in exactly seven minutes reported to Ai.

She was busy texting on her phone and turned to him,

"Ready?"

"Yeah. "

"Weapon?"

Orion lifted his shirt to reveal the small case in which his Cleaver knife was tucked. She nodded and then both of them hurriedly exited the building.

It was around five in the morning with Sun about to rise in a few minutes. There was enough daylight in the surroundings to see properly. There was a grey Toyota Car parked in the street, and Ai quickly entered the driver's seat.

Orion followed her into the car and was surprised when she immediately took off to the road with speed. He looked at his right to see Ai firmly pushing the accelerator pedal to race past the morning traffic.

"Woah! Slow down."

"I'm an expert in driving, don't worry," she replied without even taking her eyes away from the road.

The car skidded along with the turn of busy and narrow streets of the neighborhood. She quickly overtook several cars to dash ahead towards the main Tokyo.

"Where are we going?"

"Mr. Tachibana said to gather at university. He would be there in a few minutes. "

"Great! It's nearby….."

Suddenly, a car appeared from a side road which was apparently going to join main street road but it accelerated abruptly and jumped straight into their car.

It t-boned the grey Toyota in the center, sending it skidding to one side due to large speed. It just happened on the road, when Orion was completing his statement. Ai tried to hold the wheel to not let the car flip over, and after some skid and spin, it finally stopped.

Their car got wrecked but before they could get injured, Ai quickly lifted her hands to create a simple shield to provide both of them protection.

Fortunately, the Other car was just accelerating not at its top speed otherwise it would have been one hell of a nasty accident.

Orion felt his world spin by due to the accident but mostly he remained unharmed despite the car colliding at his side. Ai quickly fished herself out from the wrecked car and pulled him also out.

He observed one nasty cut on his arm due to a collision which was the only serious injury other than minor scratches.

"F*ck, what was that?" Yelled Orion.

They suddenly heard the sound of doors opening.

He and Ai turned towards the other car and watched as three people emerged from the damaged car.

Two of them were wearing simple shirts and trousers and another one was wearing traditional Yukata. Three males, probably of thirty-something age, Japanese.

"Don't say now, you are here to cleanse the filth of the mortal world. " quipped Ai as she rubbed her hands on her shorts.

The middle man, probably the leader with yukata yelled in anger,

"Shut up bit*h, we are to kill this terrorist. And if you are with him this means you are also a terrible criminal like him. "

He gestured with a nod to his companions and each of them lifted their hands to pull out two rifles, and he lifted his hand to aim at them.

"Don't fret old man! I will teach you to not stick your nose in other people's business. "

Ai spitted and lifted her hand to form a hand sign of lifting two fingers. As they were going to clash, suddenly Ai felt several other magic users, openly approaching them from several directions.

She quickly whispered to the Zeph,

"Run, there are more. "

She instead of firing at the trio blasted random lightning flash in between them which instantly closed the eyes of attackers for half a second.

But realizing this trick, fired his fireball at the approximate positions of two of them. The explosion occurred with the Toyota burning in fumes. When the smoke cleared they were disappointed to find both of them already escaped from there.

Three more cars skidded across and stopped there. Random men and women emerged from cars and began to question men in yukata where is he?

"He is not far? Some girl is helping that terrorist. We have to slay him and anyone who helps that monster. "

In the streets of the outskirts of Tokyo, Orion and Ai were currently dashing along the empty street to lose their pursuers.

"Why did they try to attack? I mean we are not in that facet world, but the real world. "

"Dammit, Orion sometimes I think you would probably be better in a mundane world," she said as both of them stopped at the intersection to see if the road ahead of them was clear.

She turned to glimpse at the sad face of Orion.

"I know you didn't want all this. Sorry, I shouldn't have said that.

But think, They are here to kill you not for having one vs one match. They will kill you at any chance they find. "

"But the collateral damage and exposure to normals….."

"These suckers don't give a sh*t about them. They can easily manipulate what is exposed to the public. "

Suddenly as they were waiting and peeking at another end, just behind them the whole house was blasted to smithereens. Due to close range, both of them were tossed out in the road.

Orion felt his body hurting as looked around to see Ai lifting herself up, swearing under her breath. She turned to Orion and said,

"Now is a difficult decision, but you go ahead and somehow find a way to university. I will block these suckers. "

The lightning began to dance around her white fingertips. The one-man walked from the burning debris towards them. He lifted his hand, probably chanting a spell.

But before he could complete his show, Ai flicked her finger at him. The lightning snake went from her hand coiled around his body giving him a continuous shock.

It was so violent that within a minute he was knocked out with foam in his mouth. She turned towards him,

"You will only distract me here. Go. "

Orion lifted himself and began to run towards the university. After a few minutes when he was out of sight from that location, he felt something and turned back to see a large Dragon apparition, made from lightning descending from the sky and crashing at the place where Ai was.

He was earlier a little bit worried about him. But now, He suddenly feels that maybe she alone can handle all those mages and conjurers.