Chapter Two

Having a nightmare while being chased off by a group of unfamiliar faces. Cynthia had her bad day right after she woke up on a journey to another realm. Her body showed a sign of anxiety, sweating all over her forehead. Miraculously saved right after having two gunshots drawn to her vital spot. Giving a hard time maintaining her sentience, as she falls into a coma, most likely she'll be permanently unable to awake again if she didn't receive immediate attention from someone nearby earlier.

Apart from her physical drain, mentally, she had to endure another nightmare that strike into her slumber. Reminiscent of the scene from the past, a scene where she is still in her deep slumber, awoke by the force that tells her to wake up. She can't hear it clearly, but as she can feel the pain from another person who wished for nothing but her return to this side of the world. But soon, it becomes an unpredictable nightmare when the scene goes on, as it plays a stage where Nanami got her hand onto the man whom she loved, snapped his head, ended his fragile life right in front of her weakened state.

A scream, along with her nightmare ending, passed to the person who sat right beside her at that very moment. Her mouth widens, gasping for air to align the fast pace of the heartbeat. She didn't know how or when did she arrive again in a foreign scene. Where everything surrounding was made mostly of grass.

While still in the state of trance, the person who sat beside her begin to comfort her. Patting her back, her voice barely can be heard by Cynthia who still struggles in her parish nightmare.

"Where am I?" Cynthia asked out of her curiosity. She didn't even know the person nor see her face.

"You're safe in here. I think you just have some bad dream back there."

Casually replied to Cynthia's question, she later walk near to the wooden table sat right beside the bed where Cynthia resting now. Pour a cup of water, completely made out of wooden material. Return her pace to Cynthia's side, as she offers the drink to calm her emotion.

Hesitate at first, Cynthia couldn't react to a person who tried to take her life earlier shows the opposite behavior. But as time passed, while the person still holding the cup in her hand, another individual came rushing in, noticing Cynthia already passed her danger period.

"You don't get to ask anything yet, pricky princess. You may fool my friend but not me…"

"…Please, Jashua. Calm down. Be rational, don't act like what your brother did back there, I believe she wasn't the same person that came to raid our village one month ago."

"My brother was right, she was that damn evil thing. Act innocent right in front of you all right after caught in our ambush…"

Right before the men who called Jashua finished his sentences, a slight momentum slapped right through his face. Cynthia couldn't believe whatever she's witnessing at that moment. But she wished no harm against these distant individuals. Yet she didn't want to spark any internal conflict because of her misinterpreted identity.

"She was my sister, named Nanami."

Cynthia spoke calmly as she want to clear off the misunderstood between them. She dares to clarify herself as Nanami's sister who arrived one month ago, which is just a few minutes ago back in her realm. Both shocks knowing Cynthia's identity, since she admits herself was her elder sister, signifies that she may be the same threat against them.

Rationality may not be vanquished by the woman who still took her belief against Cynthia. Roughly questioned her, enduring her emotion while reminiscing the incident that happened a month ago. Grabbed Cynthia's uniform, shocked her a few times, as she asked why Nanami has to go that far to slaughter the people of this world.

"I'm sorry if she did something immoral back then. She's my sister, but we don't share a single thing in common. For starters, she was evil, a dark minion. On contrary, I'm the virtuous, a light peer. I've been chased out by some entity, told me to follow a hollow path, lead me to this realm, to find her."

"She did the same thing to your world as well?" the woman asked, her head bow down, enduring the slice of painful memory that still lingers in her mind.

Cynthia didn't answer the question. She just looked away, as her eyes started to pull out a drop of tears, showing how remorseful by thinking back on what she'd done in the past few months. Up until the last moment, where she decided to protect both herself and Cynthia, she ended up dying at Rin's berserk moment.

The room was filled with silence while no one dare to speak another word to each other. Jashua, take his leave knowing the misunderstanding, reporting to someone who leads this group of a survivor. Cynthia bites her lips, suffering from her dilemma, questioning her action by casting Nanami back to this realm. She wouldn't take the same path if knowing how much life has been wrongfully felled into her wrath.

"You are safe in here, no one would ever lay a finger on you except our leader say so. Now, if I may, allow me to make a proper introduction to you."

The woman took the cup which fell to the floor earlier due to her anger and shock after learning about Cynthia's identity, she pick up and walk toward the table, facing back, while attempting to leave the room, giving Cynthia some private space.

"My name is Adelith. I'm the second in command of the army in Namor."

"Namor? Is that the name of this city?" Cynthia asked as she finally learn that she has arrived in the land of foreign, a different realm right after she jump into the portal opened by Creator.

"Namor. It wasn't a city. It was a contingent. Vast land which united the people of this world. Unfortunately, I can't tell you much for now. But I'm gonna ask you to stay put, rest while you can. Seeing you not knowing the name of the kingdom, I begin to believe that both of you came from another dimension, another world that may be far much worst than ours in here."

Cynthia didn't answer the indirect question thrown by Adelith. Maybe Lumine City wasn't the same as Namor. Sharing the same fate whenever the evil begins to lurk around the living, Lumine City did suffer several setbacks which took a large number of lives. Namor? How many lives have been fallen into Nanami's hands? Compared to what Ebonie has done to the people of Lumine City, does Nanami also has done the same thing as well? Infected those people with unknown viruses? Turn them becomes an undead army? Conquered this unknown scale of vast land called Namor?