Chapter 13: Explanation and The Truth
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"How the underworld is this happening?" Chihane said as she rubbed her temple. The red beast- woman, right in the Academy hospital room with Akira's friends.
"President Lance is the one who attacked first; Akira is only defending himself," Kyo said to Chihane as the beast-woman sighed.
"If it wasn't because a politician, Lance Halestorm is long gone from our academy," Chihane mumbled this but was heard by Elinara as she asked Chihane.
"Pardon me, what do you say?"
Chihane looks at Elinara as her arms crossed under her breast. Elinara's words grab a lot of attention around her.
"Lance Halestorm... is nephew of King Alex Frost," Chihane explains as Elinara and Emilias are slightly shocked at the news. "Lance is genuinely talented, but he is arrogant and full of pride..... And not long ago, Lance committed a crime that should make him exiled from the Academy."
Blizzard, Riche, Bob, Nina, Himawari, and other old students head down. But the saddest looking are Kyo.
"What he do?" Elinara asking.
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•Flashback•
•Age 5001•
Chihane is walking in Academy, but something caught her ears. She hears a scream down the hallways; Chihane rushes toward the voice as she hears the voice coming from the light blue-rank classroom.
She opened the classroom doors and saw Lance on top of the girl; it seemed he was trying to rape her; when Chihane saw the girl's cloth rip off her revealing her underwear, the girl was crying as Lance pinned her down. The poor girl has a similar face as Asuka; the only difference is that her hair is blond.
"WHAT IN UNDERWORLD ARE YOU DOING!!!" Chihane yells, stopping Lance from giving the poor girl a licking on her face.
Lance turned and smirked as he said to the grandmaster. "Ah, Chihane. Wanna join?"
"G-Grandmaster, please help m-" The poor girl trying to say a word as Lance put a finger to her mouth.
"Shhh... we not done yet." Lance smiles widely, ignoring Chihane as the girl cries again when Lance tries to kiss her. The poor girl tries to escape, but unfortunately, she can't.
Before Lance tries to KISS the poor girl, Chihane suddenly appears behind Lance in the blink of an eye and grabs Lance by the head hard. Lance's eyes are wide open in fear when he feels the grab and tense aura behind him.
"You Arrogant, PERVERT FOOL!! HOW DARE YOU DO SUCH AN ACT IN MY ACADEMY!!!" Chihane is about to crush Lance's head, but she stops when Lance itself says something to make her stop.
"Y-You can't kill me. If Man-Beast kills Human, it will cause wars between both races, and you know it! This girl is human, and of low rank, so I can do whatever I want!" Lance yelled as Chihane stopped a second as looked at the poor girl.
A couple of seconds of silence came as Chihane softened her grab. Lance let an evil grin on his face. But before Lance is free to go, Chihane hardens her grab back as she says.
"I may be can't kill you, but nobody said I can't hurt you!" Chihane slams Lance into the hard floor as the impact makes the ground explode.
Lance is unconscious same in the same pose in the future, by Akira. Chihane walks toward the poor girl as she steps on Lance's body to get to the poor girl.
"Is okay young one," Chihane said with a smile as she held her arms toward the poor girl. Chihane is shocked when the girl suddenly hugs her. As the poor girl shivers while saying thank you so many times and cries.
Chihane sighed as she hugged the poor girl back. The tiger woman-beast thought after what happened here was over, but she was wrong.
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A week later.
Chihane's eyes are lifeless as rain wets her body. Chihane down to her knees as she holds a lifeless body with no head; the head is on that body's lap.
Chihane stands up with the body of the same girl she helped a week ago, and it is dead in her arms, headless. In Chihane's mind, she is thinking, how is this happening? Why is this happening? As she remembers.
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The poor girl takes all the blame when Chihane puts Lance Halestorm into a coma for three days without her knowing, and this poor girl doesn't want war; she wants peace, but that is the opposite of what the Human King wanted.
Human King Alex Forst wants this poor girl to be executed, or she chooses to be a breading machine for Human reproduction.
"T-There's no way! I will be your breading machine! I rather die!" The poor girl said as the King chuckled.
"So be it; you will be executed for harming my nephew Lance Halestorm. Tomorrow morning, you will be executed in the main town in Human castle; farewell, miss Mira Imran." The King left the halls as a guard took Mira toward her cells.
Chihane and Milah rushed toward Human Town soon after she heard Mira was captured and about to die, but she was too late when she saw when the execution cut Mira's head off from her body.
Chihane remembers the teary smiles when Mira saw her. Chihane grabbed Mira's body as tight as possible, and Milah let tears down. She was crying to see her race treat low-rank Humans like this.
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Himawari and Riche are crying as Blizzard and Bob are looking down at the grave of a fallen comrade, and the newest one is from Mira.
But no one more infected than Kyo Rangi itself; he didn't cry, he didn't fall to his knees, he just starring at the grave with lifeless eyes and held a single letter in his hand.
Kyo lost the willingness to fight at the time, and he felt empty. Kyo saw Lance walk toward Mira's grave as he trow flowers to the grave.
"Shame, she can be an excellent breading machine with the other slave. So sad she rejected it." Lance said as he gets glared at the other.
Everyone is so mad at Lance; Kyo, with lifeless eyes and his hands, starts to tremble in anger; a bolt of lightning is dancing around his arm; no one sees this, but Himawari does; she goes toward Kyo and hugs him tightly to calm him down.
"Please, Brother, not now, and we can't fight him. Not physically. Please, I can't lose you. What will Mira say when she saw you wanted revenge on her dead?" Himawari said calmly to her brother as Kyo came back into reality, as he hugged Himawari back and single tear down from his face.
Kyo looks at Lance as The blonde walks away from the event; Kyo goes down to his knees as Himawari supports him. Kyo tightened his fist, making his palm bleeding.
"I swear! I will find a way to become stronger! Whatever It Takes! I will put King Alex down from his throne with his subordinate! and make Humans live in peace!" Kyo said in deep as he set his goal to achieve.
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•Flashback End•
"Why... The Human with a high rank can do such a thing?" They all turned toward the voice and saw Akira with a bandage wrapped around his body from head to toes.
"Akira!" Asuka, Asagi, and Emilias help him when they see Akira struggle to stand.
"Hundreds of years ago, The Human Kingdom has shared in Spiritual City same as The elves Kingdom and Supernatural Creature United that includes the Man-Beast race, Orc, Fairy and many more. Because of Humans' lack of number population, The Elf and other races agreed on a term humans cant be harmed, or the peace agreement would withdraw, and Spiritual City will become a war city." Chihane explains.
"But what about Zodiac Warriors!? Where is the rest of you!? Why you all didn't prevent this from happening!?" Akira asks in a high voice.
Everyone looks at Akira and Chihane as she is slightly taken back.
"We... can't..." Chihane reply.
"Why!?" Akira asks again in anger.
"We can't..." Chihane mumbled as Spiritual Academy students walked closer to Akira and Chihane when they saw Chihane face change to sadness. They are trying to protect Chihane if Akira does anything.
"I SAID WHY!!" Akira yelled as he fired his magic aura from his body and knocked everyone back. Chihane felt the same power she felt hundreds of years ago, a power to keep her strong.
"WE CAN'T BECAUSE ZODIAC WARRIORS ARE ALREADY GONE!!" Chihane said as tears were welling in her eyes. Everyone is shocked at Chihane's words.
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•To be Continue•
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