Chapter 10: A Vision

The town before them was once again plagued by death and despair from those who died beforehand. The target which is a B class Scout was the one who caused all of this bloodshed.

Knowing that all of this is actually real is kind of making me feel sick. Nori throws up for a minute before standing back up again.

"Nori are you okay?" Rika asks with a worried expression on her face.

Nori shakes his head for a second and then decides to answer her. "The first time I didn't get a chance to really focus on anything so it's a bit different now that I see them all." Nori responds while wiping his mouth.

Everything was a lot faster the first time around so this is a lot different from what I dealt with. Seeing everyone's lifeless bodies on the ground is a lot to take in.

Rika comes over and takes hold of Nori's hand. "These people may have died but that's why we're here to avenge them. They are in a better place now." Rika assures him as she grips his hand.

Avenging those who died to this thing doesn't change much does it? At the end of the day they are still dead. Rika is right though, they are in a better place now.

Everything around Nori began to disappear as the surroundings changed to a normal town. People were roaming the streets all around him and he could see someone walking down the road.

A man wearing a business suit with short black hair, a girl appeared to be by his side as well. She had some sort of maid like outfit on but took on more of a succubus look.

I don't really understand what's happening right now but I see a completely different environment from before. That person ahead is walking with...a succubus?? Why the hell am I seeing this?

His eyes were dark red and one of his pupils was that of a dragons. "You can see me?" He questions while staring ahead at Nori.

Is it bad if I decide to tell this guy anything? For all I know this could be one of the bad people of the world that I need to fight at some point in time.

Shit. Shit. Shit. Screw it, I'll have to deal with the consequences later. "Yeah I can see you. What's it matter?" Nori responds with his own question.

Within seconds the guy appears before him with the succubus by his side. "Irie I don't think this guy's supposed to be able to see us. Think we're getting closer to getting back to the real world?" The man asks with a confused expression on his face.

"Maybe. There's got to be a good reason he can see us though." Irie responds while observing Nori.

I still don't understand anything that's happening here right now so this is definitely really strange.

"Who exactly are you?" Nori asks while taking a few steps back.

The man gives a weird look towards him before speaking. "I'm Kamako, I stopped the end of the world but now I'm here. Who are you?" He responds while standing before him once again.

Kamako? That sounds familiar, did I hear that before...? Nah.

"Cool. I'm Nori, I'm not sure why I'm seeing any of this. I was in the middle of a mission to deal with some creature." Nori says without realizing how much he just said.

Damnit I didn't mean to tell him so much but now I guess he knows what I'm doing here. If he's a bad guy then I'm definitely screwed here because I don't see Rika anywhere.

"Are you with Leo?" Kamako asks with a curious tone.

Leo? I don't think I've ever met or heard of this Leo guy before so he must have mixed him up with someone else. "Nope. Uh.. the guy who gave me this mission was named Aki." Nori answers while crossing his arms.

This guy sounds like he's been stuck here so maybe I won't have to worry about him attacking me after all. He's probably just trying to figure out a way out of here, plus he said he saved the world.

"Aki...Aki...?" Kamako mutters to himself.

Nori kind of just looks at him strange as he continues to mutter the name. "Well I'll be heading back now. I don't really want to stay here forever. Rika is waiting on me." Nori says, interrupting Kamako's train of thought.

"Did you just Rika?" Irie chimes in.

She sounds like she might know who Rika is but I don't know if these people are really worth trusting. I shouldn't have said so much when I barely know anything about these guys.

Nori steps back nervously. "M-Maybe..." Nori studders to say while stepping back a bit more.

Before he could say anything further, the environment began to return to normal and he could see Rika standing before him. "Nori are you okay, you've been standing here silent awhile." Rika says while looking into his eyes.

Was I really just standing here the whole time? I swear that everything around me was different and that I was moving too.

There's no way that it was all something I imagined, those people weren't made up either.

"Yeah, just felt weird for a few minutes there." Nori answers while looking past her.

The scout we're looking for is probably here somewhere nearby so we should probably be more focused on finding it. This thing killed all these people and I feel like I can actually stop it now.

I got over the things I saw, for the most part.

"You really should start talking to me more." Rika suggests with a sad expression on her face.

She did express how much she cares about my well being back at the base? Is that what I would call it, I don't know. Either way, Rika did say she cared and didn't want anything happening to me.

When we get back to the training place I'll have to tell her more about what I saw today. She's going to be by my side so I should start giving in a bit more to her.

I can't say that it'll be worth it in the long run since she seems to be pretty close to those other guys in Aki's group. I haven't known her as long as they have so I'm at a disadvantage in that sense.

"We can talk more when we get back to the training place." Nori assures her.

A smile grows on her face as Nori notices something moving behind her. The creature has finally revealed itself.

A creature that was almost as tall as one of the buildings was looking directly at them. It only has two arms with razor sharp spears for hands, it's teeth were visible and were like fangs, and its eyes were blood red.

Those weren't the only eyes it had, it appeared to have eyes all over its back as well, quite the monstrosity. This creature was known as the scout.

"Rika I found our target." Nori says while he feels his body begining to tremble.

Damnit I feel the fear rushing throughout my body again, come on Nori. I don't want anything to happen to me this time or Rika.

She quickly dashes away and appears a couple of feet away from one of the decrepit old buildings. "You got this Nori!" Rika shouts while cloaking herself.

Did she just go invisible??? She has the ability to do that!?!! I really do need to ask her more about what I can do with my powers because I'm definitely at a lost for words right now.

I forgot she did say that she was only here to help if I absolutely needed it so it's up to me to handle this thing.

"Yeah I got it..." I say softly while cracking my knuckles.

I definitely don't got this, no wait I do got this. I'm actually kind of terrified to fight this thing in all honesty.