Appearance of justice

His mind has gotten fuzzy just from hearing the man's voice.

'the bloods owner?'

Walker thought trying to back away from the two, feeling their intent to kill Walker put his guard up.

"A misunderstanding, it's not my blood" Walker spoke moving his hand to his pocket and grabbing the flask containing herb blood.

"really, then you mind if I see it then "

The man with glasses spoke charging at Walker slicing his stomach open with a blade hidden on

his sleeve

It was so sharp that it cut right through his clothing and bite into his flesh tearing his stomach open.

Blood splurt out it was so painful that tears formed in the corner of his eyes, Walker shifted his attention to mech's clinic thinking it was the only place that would save him from these two.

"urrk!"

Walker tried to run towards the clinic's door but the man grabbed him by the neck pushing him down towards the sand.

"You can't kill me, I'm innocent!" Walker yelled aloud feeling blood gushing out of his belly and the sand entering his mouth.

"Innocent?, Miss lilly doesn't seem to feel that way" The man said looking at the bulldog barking at Walker.

"do you, Miss lilly"

The buff man holding the chains loosens his grip and the bulldog rush towards walker showcasing her sharp teeth.

"Wait stop him!"

Walker tried to push the dog away but its huge body overpowered him, and the bulldog bite through walker's neck.

With its sharp tooth embedded deep in walker's throat, the man wailed in pain, he forgot the existence of the herb blood, let go of the flask in his pocket, and put his blood stained hands on the dog's mouth trying to pry it open.

"Aaaaaaah!"

His scream attracted some of the civilians, and one of the said civilians approach them.

His body was like a plum tomato, round and chubby his face was like an inflated balloon with a brown mustache.

He step forward until his eye reached the crouch of the buff guy holding the chain of Miss lilly the bulldog.

"Can you stop?" The fat man spoke going towards walker that was still wailing in pain struggling to get out of Miss lilly's grasp.

"I don't like the sound this animal is creating"

He said his eyes pointing at either Walker or the bulldog.

The two men that were torturing Walker didn't move as the fat guy's command

The one with the glasses was carefully observing Walker while his partner the one with muscle was visibly angry by the fat guy's words.

Seeing the two not following his order the fat guy's head turns red, either cause of anger or cholesterol

"Do I need to repeat myself!, your disturbing everyone!!"

A huge crowd begins to form making the two men decide to move.

"Then, we will leave" the one with glasses bow his head to the fatty showing respect

"I'm Lonnet, just say my name to the Guild and I'll do my best to help"

The fat guy didn't respond to lonnet's words and started to walk away blending with the crowd.

"Let's go" He whispered to his partner making the guy look at walker's lifeless body.

"I observe enough He's not the killer, Miss lilly doesn't even care about the enormous amount of blood on his stomach, she only sees his neck"

He looked at Walker that was using his bloody hands to reach for his pocket.

"He's either close to the real killer or the killer is smart enough to slow our progress with this guy as bait"

Lonnet looked at his partner

"Let's go, this is giving me a headache"

"Lonnet, about compensation?" The buff guy asks as they walk away from Walker

He was holding Miss Lilly that was sniffing the ground guiding them to the direction of the forest

"Sigh~, well if he is innocent just give him a hundred or so silver that should be enough"

Lonnet stretch his arm yawning

"It's his fault anyway, not being careful in this corrupt place"

.....

In the middle of the day, the central part of the desert city was filled with crowds that came to this place for only one reason and it was to buy anything they set theirs onto

The central part of the desert city known as 'Bohera' for locals and the market place for merchants.

And in that place, johna was in combat.

A verbal one.

"Three coppers"

Johna set his price, holding four pillowcases.

"Two silvers, no matter what you do I won't sell it for a copper"

The vendor set his demand

"Fine"

He grabbed another four of the same pillowcase and said to the vendor

"Add this as well"

"Good"

The vendor said with a smile giving the eight pillowcases to johna while he handed the vendor four silver half of the pillowcase's original price.

"Pillowcase, bottles , shirt for johny and Hans, and-

Johna look around before muttering

"Still no clue about that item Walker, something that will bring you back to earth.....like that even exist"

Johna joked pulling out a rose from his baggy pocket it look like it was about to wither.

Johna was on his way to mech's place when something attracted his attention.

Crowded with people was a crook-looking stand it doesn't look outstanding like the shops it competes with but it still has more customers than its competitors.

Curious Johna squeeze himself into the crowd and arriving at the stand himself he saw something that made his throat tingle from disgust.

It seems that what he thought was a stand was something entirely different.

It was a girl, her organs were out in the open covered with thick blood

Her arms and feet were strapped on a metal stand making her unable to move.

She looked like she was dead, which surprised johna when he saw the girl move, her eyes were like a dagger stabbing the crowd with a glare

"So they're all innocent when I'm not!!" She yelled on a verge of crying

"I don't want to die but I still told you everything"

She spoke in a tone as if she was regretting something

A woman beside her was wearing a thin fabric covering her body except for her hands and eyes.

She grabbed an axe on the ground and walked toward the tortured lady.

"I Anna, as a guardian will purge all evil to make sure everyone in the desert city will be able to live peacefully"

She spoke raising her axe making the girl strapped on the metal platform tremble in fear.

Her lips trembling and her vision turning dark the girl yelled blood splurting out of her open stomach.

"Don't believe in this blind justice, I'm innocent!!"

The crowd was silent when they heard her

trembling yet confident voice

The silence was broken when a loud voice pierce through Johna's ear.

"Don't believe her!, she's part of it all"

Having a glance at where the voice came from he saw a man, one of his arms were cut off clean, his face was rough and one of his eyes were plucked off.

His look best describes someone who just escaped hell.

"I saw her that day!" The man yelled and the crowd followed after him.

"No mercy!"

"She killed my father!"

"I saw her!"

The words of the people were like knives and the more of those words were said to the girl did her will to live diminished.

"Lies.....I didn't do anything" She whispered under her breath feeling no sense of freedom to express her words in front of this twisted crowd.

Seeing the suspect broken and with no will to live, the woman holding the axe struck the suspect in the neck.

As she do so the air swept the thin fabric covering her body revealing the brown rock abs and well developed body she was hiding.

The suspect's head fall to the floor with a flop and the crowd cheered after

"Were safe!"

"She's too dangerous to be left alive"

"I hate that girl anyway"

Witnessing it all, Johna walked away in silence, and arriving at an empty alley he knelt down, and liquid naturally flow out of his mouth.

Calming down, johna picked himself up to the ground and continue his way to mech's clinic.

Arriving at the place, the first johna noticed was the reddish color of the sand near the clinic.

"A bloody customer" He mumbled entering just to see mech on the door.

"Hello welcome to the clinic what can I hel-

"Where's Walker?" Johna asked and the robot answered

"Two guardians took him away"

Hearing the word guardian memories regarding the execution that happened earlier flowed back to johna's head.

He wanted to puke but the tense situation doesn't allow it

Johna put the items he bought onto the sofa before saying to mech

"You're being a toxic girlfriend to Walker"

He was at the door when he added

"Treat him better when I bring him back"

The door automatically closed leaving the robot alone.

"A toxic friend" Mech muttered.

"I'm no toxic friend...I'm a medicine friend" She spoke

"The guardians wouldn't do anything to Tan Walker, he is good"

She said looking at the door, the words Johna said insulted her.

Tan Walker was her first friend so of course, she wouldn't treat him badly....she wouldn't be toxic that would slowly eat away his vitality but a medicine that would help him clear away his illnesses.

'I'm no toxic friend...I a medicine friend' Mech remembered her own words as she goes towards the door wanting to prove to johna that the guardians wouldn't hurt Tan Walker.

"Mech-2081 your job is to protect this place until the end of your life, don't let your creator down"

Words rang in mech's head making her stop on her track, her body become paralyzed as a clear wave of electricity scanned her whole body.

Mech stood still for a few seconds before

stepping back from the door and going towards the kitchen.

"Excuse me, Have you seen a blonde guy this tall, pass by here?"

Johna asked a stall owner which pointed to the path heading towards the guild building.

"Thank you" He said to the old shopkeeper giving her three silver coins.

Huffing for air and his face oiled with sweat, Johna looked up at the top of the building where five huge letters were carved spelling the word

Guild.

He arrived at a two story building surrounded by wrecked structures and dark alleys.

Johna catches his breath and catch glimpse of a man exiting the place.

He was wearing a wrap on his head only revealing his yellow sand like eyes, his caramel skin and abs were shown as he isn't wearing anything to cover his upper body.

Johna wanted to ask the guard about walker's whereabouts but he couldn't grasp the man's attitude, would he be a guardian blind by justice or one that did it all for fame?

Johna couldn't think about it much as he remembered the horrifying death of the lady that claimed she was innocent.

Waiting for the opportunity, johna saw the man go towards the alley and with no hesitation, he followed him from behind.

Whether he would succeed was something based on luck

The man lighted a cigarette and sat against the wall.

"What a good life" Johna heard the man whisper as smoke exited the gap in his mouth

"Sir, may I ask a question?"

Johna asked stepping out of the darkness a bag of silver coins at hand

The man looked at the coins before averting his eyes away from johna.

"If it's something illegal you should pay more," The man asked puffing the smoke out.

"Two gold, I can pay you two gold"

Johna said showing the man the content of the pouch he was carrying.

"So that amount to two gold?, so you're asking for something that much of value" The man asked blowing the smoke to Johna's eye.

He then charged his fist hitting Johna in the face shoving him down to the sand.

"It seems you didn't think this through young lad"

He spoke to johna that was down on the ground motionless.

His coins scattered on the sand, Johna tried to reply but only a groan left his lips.

"You can't bribe a guardian"

The man spoke going out of the alleyway

"Damn, my free time was wasted by this trash kid"

Johna heard the man say angrily as he left.