Chapter 91

Crash*

Crashing on the ground, Yukina and Yuji drifted their feet, looking above the treehouse.

"what are you doing!?" Yukina yelled, looking at Yuji.

Yuji silently stared above them, seeing thick string-like luminous lights moving wildly out the window from inside the treehouse.

Sweat drips from his forehead as he begins to feel the pressure from Gabriela's power, looking at the luminous lights as it surrounds the treehouse, with a tensed expression.

Noticing this, Yukina glanced at Yuji with a confused expression. Looking back at the treehouse, "for some reason, Yuji seems to be bothered with the treehouse, just what is he seeing?" she shivered, "what's this? For some reason I… My instincts are telling me as if that place is currently very dangerous, it's making me shiver just by looking at it… even though I don't see anything but the treehouse,"

Gabriela slowly walked towards the door, peeking from the window.

Locking eyes with Gabriela from below, Yukina suddenly felt a burst of pressure coming from her eyes. Her chest tightened, her whole body shivered, she began to sweat, as if Gabriela's cold and dreadful stare pierced her soul.

"She's about to come down…" she said.

Though shivering, Yuji tried to keep his composure as much as possible.

"Yuji, your hands are shaking,"

"You should see your legs…"

"being a pervert again I see,"

"If you're able to joke around like that, then I'm guessing you should be fine,"

They both looked serious, filled with caution as Gabriela descends from the treehouse.

In Yukina's eyes, Gabriela slowly descended with faint luminous lights surrounding her body. Meanwhile, in Yuji's eyes, Gabriela descended with a massive amount of luminous lights, taking the form of two hands holding her in protection.

"I… Hate liars…" Gabriela said, bringing shivers down their spine, "all liars… must be punished thoroughly!"

Yuji and Yukina took a step back.

"But… I don't want to hurt anybody again…" Gabriela wailed.

They both reacted in surprise and confusion, seeing Gabriela look as if she's fighting with herself.

"But big sister said… Punishment is absolute!" letting out a burst of pressure, once again affecting both of them.

"But I…. BUT I! "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Gabriela let out a horrifying scream, sounding like it was coming from rage, yet it felt like she was screaming in sorrow, tears came out of her eyes as she screamed with a raged expression.

"Gaby…" Yukina thought, not knowing whether to feel sorry or afraid.

"WATCH OUT!" Yuji shouted, pulling Yukina over to his side as slashes of luminous lights suddenly burst out from Gabriela.

CRASH*

Yukina glances at the tree behind her as one of the luminous slashes hits it. The tree had a massive hit mark as if something long had hit the tree with immense force.

"T… The syringes! I have some!" Yukina said, quickly taking two out of her mechanical bag, "here!" Giving one to Yuji as she injects herself.

Feeling the amplifiers go through their veins, they began to think more composedly.

Sensing an incoming attack, Yuji and Yukina continued to step back as they dodge the random slashes occurring in the area.

As they reached a certain distance, the slashes stopped reaching them. They both took a deep breath, catching their breath as they got a good look at the area.

"T… This is…" Yuji said, reacting nervously towards the view in front of him. Seeing Gabriela in the middle, surrounded by a perilous area filled with massive whip-like luminous lights, randomly attacking and wreaking havoc within the area.

"This is really bad, huh?" Yukina said.

"You can see those?"

"I don't know what those you are talking about, but I can see some faint light with little form moving around the area, earlier it was just my instincts telling me I shouldn't make contact with it but now I'm sure," observing the area carefully, "if I look closely enough, I can see it's those that are doing damage in the area… how about you? What do you see?"

"They're like whips… like massive tentacles from an octopus doing a tantrum,"

"that's a way to describe it… it should help me to see things a little better," Looking at Gabriela, she felt concerned, "how about Gaby? Is she ok? She's filled with those light things,"

"it's like she's… being held by two hands…"

"huh?"

Looking from a distance, he saw Gabriela sit in the hand's palm, hugging her knees, not being able to see her expression as the hands lift her up above the ground and cover her.

"She's floating! While being covered by more of those things…." Yukina reacted in concern, "Yuji what's happening?"

"It's like… it's protecting her,"

"Huh?"

"The hands, it's like the form you take when you're protecting something small,"

"then I can assume she's ok?"

"…. She's not being physically damaged, is what I can say,"

"That's good enough for me… though what do we do now?"

"That's true… she's not going after us from here, but there's no way we can just leave her like this,"

"GABY!!" Yukina shouted.

"No response, she probably can't hear us right here due to all the havoc. And even if she did hear, there's no guarantee our voice can reach her,"

"Since we already injected ourselves anyway, let's force our way through!"

"Huh!?" Yuji grabs Yukina by the arm as she attempts to run through, "what do you think you're doing!? You can't even see those things clearly, how are you going to get through!? And even if you did, how are you going to reach her?"

"THEN WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO!?" she shouted.

"Yukina…?"

"Gaby is amazing… she's super strong, has a great sense of responsibility and is very talented in a lot of things… she holds a great title and people look in great admiration of her… But she's just a child!"

Yuji shivered.

"all those responsibilities, all the pressure from people's expectations, they're sure to take a huge toll on her someday! I know it was coming… I knew that this time would have come… yet I couldn't do anything…" her voice began to shiver as if she was about to cry, "I couldn't prevent what is happening right now, and the worst part is… I don't even know the reason why this happened… and now that this is happening, I can't do anything… I'm…"

"I'm at fault…" Yuji said, shocking Yukina.

"What are you saying?" tears began to come out as she looks at him.

"Just stay there in case anything happens,"

"What are you going to do?"

"Unlike you, I can see those things clearly, I can force my way through,"

"But that's…"

"Contact her sister if anything happens to me," as he finishes his sentence, he dashed forward.

"Yuji!"

As Yuji enters the zone, multiple whips-like luminous lights reacted, making all the whips nearby attack him with intense speed.

Crash*

Yukina's face turned pale as she couldn't see through the smoke and dust blocking the area due to the whips attack.

"Fast… that was too fast. Yuji ran so quickly, yet those things manage to react perfectly..." Gripping her hands, she took a step forward with shivering knees, "Yuji hasn't gone far, I could…"

Dash*

Dashing through the smoke with intense speed, Yuji ran as fast as he could with intense focus, "that was really close, If I don't focus even for a second, it could cost me…." As he ran he took a quick look around, observing his surroundings at glance, "everything is still attacking randomly around here, yet the ones earlier headed straight for me when I entered… that means…."

SLASH* CRASH*

In a second, a whip attacked its way towards him, blocking his path, followed by numerous whips behind it.

Looking past the multiple whips, Yuji locked eyes with Gabriela's dreadful stare, looking down on him from above.

"She's looking straight at me… that means!"

Stepping his left leg on the ground, he felt a weird sensation, as if time had slowed down, he felt like something was about to go wrong, "what's this? I…. can't feel my legs. No way… did I get in contact with one of those things!?"

A flash of memory of Yuji's first encounter with Gabriela played through his mind.

"If that's so then what's next is…"

"Yuji!!" Alicia shouted.

ZAP*

Suddenly, Yuji began to feel a great amount of pain in his left leg as all his pain receptors activate and send various pain signals to his brain, "AAAAAAHHHHH," he shouted in agony as he tries his best to stand still.

"JUMP!" Alicia shouted, making Yuji cling to the littlest focus he has left, "Jump to your right then prepare for impact!!" sounding intense, Yuji followed her exact orders.

Using all the force he could muster while dealing with the intense pain, he jumped to the right, dodging a whip heading straight in front of him as he encounters another one, swinging horizontally towards him.

"SHEILD IT!!"

Yuji raised his right arm to protect his chest, blocking the whip, making only his arm have contact with the massive whip as he fly across the area.

Dashing through the forest in a distance, Yukina positioned herself to catch Yuji, seeing him get thrown away by the whip.

Using her jet pack, she caught him with her body, grabbing his waist tightly as they fly out of range at an intense speed.