Assassin's Amulet
I can see in Hiro's eyes the grief when he saw the children and other people in the orphanage laying on the ground.
They're all dead, the blood spread anywhere.
It's like they have been brutally killed by someone who's heartless.
"Hiro..."
I couldn't touch him.
*Why I'm always like this?*
Whenever I'm hopeless and need some help, Hiro is always there. But right now, again, where Hiro is hopeless and needs some help. I couldn't do anything for him.
I want to hug him again, and pat his head if possible, but, I can't.
*Why?*
Maybe because I don't know what Hiro feels right now.
I don't know what he's thinking, I don't know what he gonna do, I don't know what to do.
*Wait! Why I'm being like this! I have to do something.*
"Hi-"
Before I could finish my word, we heard something loud.
The ground suddenly shook. It's like someone is on the ground.
"Wait, what's going on.", Rick asked.
"I don't know."
"Let's get out here!"
"Hiro."
Hiro is still standing. He's not moving a single inch and not paying attention to what's happening.
"Hiro..."
"Ooooo!!!"
"My ears!"
A loud noise came from the ground.
"What was that?"
The ground shakes more intensely than before.
All of us almost lose balance.
"Ooooo!!!"
"What the!"
Something huge appear from the ground.
"What the hell is that?"
It has a huge gray human body. It looks like twenty meters long. We couldn't see his face because it covers with vines.
"Is that an Outsider?"
"Everyone! Run!", Darius shouted.
"Hiro!"
*Huh*
Instead of running or panicking. Hiro is glaring at the huge Outsider.
The Outsider face Hiro.
They look like glaring at each other.
It looks like they meant to kill each other.
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"Where is he?!"
I'm running towards the orphanage to find Cerex.
I try to go in a different direction to avoid meeting the A-1 on my way through.
"There you are!"
I saw Cerex standing and watching the orphanage from afar.
"Oh, it's you."
"You bastard!"
I grab his neck and slam him on the tree.
"What did you do?"
"What did I do? Simple, I just do what is in my plan."
"You!!!"
I push his neck harder on the tree.
"Hey, Clair. Do you want to know what's that Sage amulet could do?"
"I have no time thinking of that kind of thing!"
"Well, whether you wanted or not, we will learn it later on. But, I wonder, whether that man already knows what his amulet could do?"
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"Hiro..."
The Outsider raises his hand and slams them towards Hiro.
"Hiro!"
The ground shakes again as he slams his hand.
"No way."
The Outsider raises his hand. There's no trace of Hiro or his blood.
"Hm?"
The Outsider fell on his knee.
"Huh?"
It's Hiro. He slashes the Outsider's knee.
"All of you. We're going to help Hiro.", Barbara said while drawing her kukris.
She dashed towards the Outsider.
The Outsider pushes his hands towards Barbara.
Barbara spins around while holding her kukris.
She cuts all of the fingers of the Outsider.
But another hand is coming towards her.
"Huh."
"Hey!"
Ernesta uses her threads to pull Barbara away from the Outsider.
"That was close."
"Hey, look at me!", Rick said.
He shoots the Outsider's eyes with his guns.
The Outsider blocks his eyes with his arms.
He's trying to stand but Darius stops him.
"Expand and Quicken!"
He cast a barrier near the Outsider's knee and expand it while spinning it faster.
He wounded the Outsider causing it not to stand.
"We're going to kill this Outsider!", Barbara said.
*Wait! Where's Hiro?*
I look around the Outsider and saw Hiro run towards the Outsider.
"Let's help Hiro!"
"Yeah."
I run towards the Outsider and call Hiro.
"Hiro!"
He's not listening.
"Huh?"
There are more Outsiders except for the huge ones that appear.
"There's more?"
"There's so many of them."
"Sleep,"
"Eat this you monsters!"
"Vinna, we'll handle this, go and take down the huge one."
"Yes."
On the way to Hiro, some Outsiders block me.
"Get out on my way!"
I swing my swords in every Outsider I passed.
The huge Outsider starts moving its arm.
"Hiro!"
He pushes his hands towards Hiro.
Hiro swings his knives so fast.
I almost couldn't see his hand's movement.
*No way.*
He turns the Outsider's hand into pieces.
After that, he climbs to its arms using his knives.
After reaching the shoulder. He looks at the face of the Outsider.
*What is he doing.*
He stares with deadly eyes.
My body chill as I saw his face.
"Hiro..."
He spread his hands while holding his knives. After that, he starts to dash towards the Outsider's face and swing his knives multiple times.
The blood of the Outsider spread everywhere even in Hiro's body and face.
I can't hear anything except those knives cutting the flesh of the Outsider.
I didn't hear anything from Hiro, his voice, or shout.
Is he even mad in the first place?
I think he is.
So this is what Hiro looks like when he's angry.
People tend to shout when they're angry. It is the way they release what they feel. After that, they feel comfortable.
But how about Hiro?
Will the anger in his heart will release after this? What if it didn't happen? What if he becomes the person who will live for revenge.
"Hey, Hiro."
*I have to stop him.*
I run towards Hiro.
I climb to the Outsider's arm.
But before I even reach the shoulder, Hiro already cut the Outsider's head.
It falls on the ground and rolls for a few meters away from its body.
"So, it also cost one?"
"Hey, what are you talking about?"
Hiro jumps down from the Outsider's body and starts running.
"Wait!"
I follow him.
I saw Hiro killing every Outsider he saw.
"Woah, he's amazing.", Rick said.
"Don't just stand there. We have to stop him."
Hiro is fast and he almost one-shotted every Outsider he passes.
"This is not enough."
"Hey, Hiro."
Hiro runs off somewhere after he kills all the remaining Outsiders.
Following him. I saw him attacking some Outsiders lurking around the forest.
"Hey, that's enough."
"Just a little more. A little more."
"Hiro..."
"This is not enough."
I can't see his face because of his hair.
He's sweating so much but he still didn't stop.
His face is so wet, I couldn't tell whether he's crying or not.
"I said stop!"
I run towards him, I place my hands on his shoulders.
I run too fast making me lose balance.
Hiro and I fell to the ground.
"Hey, stop it already."
"Oh, I think I overdo it. Sorry."
"No, it's okay."
I look at his face.
He's not crying at all.
I couldn't tell what he feels now.
Hiro and I went to the others.
I don't want Hiro to see again the children.
Hiro looks again at the children, especially at Rein.
He walks towards her dead body.
He pats her head and slowly rubs it.
"Hiro."
Hiro grabs his amulet and suddenly...
"Huh."
Hiro stab Rein in her heart.
"Hiro!"
"What are you doing?"
"It's my fault why they ended up like this. That's why I solve this."
"What are you talking about?"
Hiro twists the knife on Rein's heart.
"Now, Rein... arise."
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"What are you talking about?"
Cerex didn't answer my question but instead, he smile at me.
"Everything is according to plan.", that was his smile telling me.
"No, it can be, did you just kill them to know what that guy amulet power is?"
"No, I already know what his amulet is capable of. I just want his team to know, and you too. That's all."
"You bastard!"
I push harder my hands on his neck.
"Woah, he already starting it."
"What are yo- huh?"
The girl who's dead and laying on the ground is now sitting and alive.
"What's going on?"
"To be able to a body to move, it needs a soul. That's what a living thing is, it might the same in Outsiders. But once the body died, the soul can no longer stay there. The soul will no longer be able to go back to the body that has been locked by death. That's why the Assassin's amulet is here. Serving as a key. It will fix the body and unlock it for them to unite again."
"No way... how can such power exist."
"Hehehe! The amulet, the Outsiders, and even this world. They don't know anything. They just going to die without knowing those."
"What are you planning?"
"Why not try to figure it out?"
"Bastard."
I let go of him.
He cracks his neck and walks away.
It looks like what I did is nothing to him.
"Tsk."
"Let's go back for now."
"So, you're going to plan what are you going to do next?"
"Plan? I already did that seventeen years ago."
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"So, that's how your amulet works huh.", the commander said.
After Hiro revived all of the children and the nuns that died, we bring them to HQ.
"Yeah."
"I see, giving the only clue to you is a wise choice after all."
*I wonder if it is possible.*
"Hey, Hiro. Can you revive Cedric and the others?", I asked.
Things would probably back to normal if they were back.
"No."
"Huh."
"There's no trace of them when the bomb explodes. So it's impossible."
"I see..."
"Let's forget about the past. Now we already know what Hiro's amulet is capable of. We're going to get ready for our next moves in the future. The enemy might already be aware of what Hiro's amulet power is."
"How about the orphanage?", Ernesta asked.
"Don't worry, I build one."
"Huh?"
*Yeah, the commander can do that with her amulet's power.*
"So, Hiro, what's your amulet needs to activate it."
"It also requires lives."
"I see. That's only fair."
"I don't think so, because it requires two lives to revive one."
"Huh."
*That's cruel.*
"Why is that?"
"I don't know, maybe for the amulets or to the who created this, we will only revive people who are important to us. Of course, that means their lives are more important than the others, that's why it requires two lives. Or maybe it is to avoid overusing it."
*Just why does this kind of thing exist in the first place?*
I start walking towards the door.
"Vinna.", the commander called me.
"I'm just going to check the children and the others."
"I see. Go back again."
"Thank you."
I walk away from the meeting room and went to the living room where the children are.
"Woah, that's miss beauty."
"Hello. How are you? Do you feel uncomfortable?", I asked Sister Evangeline.
"No, it's good here. Even though I have already stayed here for so long in the past, I still can't believe how big is this place."
"Me too."
"Um..."
Rein pull's my uniform.
"What is it?"
"How's mister Hiro? Did he get scolded?", she asked.
"No, of course. I mean he did a great job."
"I see."
Rein's face looks like relief.
"Hey, sister. Did anyone notice?"
"No."
"I see. That's good."
We told to the children that they just get sleep by the Outsiders and their death is just an illusion.
Only Rein among the children knows what really happens to them.
I'm still worried about Hiro and his amulet. The Outsiders will make a move in order to take that. That means, their target is Hiro.
*No! I won't let them do that.*
I have to get stronger in order to protect everyone else especially Hiro.
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Standing in the front of A-1 Headquarters.
It's been a long time since the last time we see each other, I wonder, how's she's doing.
She's definitely okay, after all, she's here and she's strong.
No one would ever beat her. Only I can equal her power. Only I.
"Just more little time, we will reunite again."