Read DE-ZONE :: chapter 5: the eye of judgement

Those outcasts were running towards me while pointing their weapons at me.

One had thorned mace attached to it's hands, the other had horn all over it's body and the third one had swords attached to it's arms.

I dropped my bag, couldn't defend myself if my hands were full but i was sure even if i had weapons, i still would be too weak to defend myself because i knew nothing of swordsmanship or material arts...

All i could do was, playing those video games!

Huh? for some reason i remember that i was so good at playing games, but why i'm remembering it now of all time? is it because i'm nearing my death?!

I knew it...I was waiting for death and miracle at the same time.

“s...stop!” my voice was shaky, was this sentence the only thing that i could say at that moment? They wouldn't listen to me anyway so what was the point...

I closed my eyes but i was still alive, why didn't they attack me yet?

I opened my eyes and saw something shocking.

Those outcasts were standing right in front of me and weren't doing anything, or no, could i say that maybe they were frozen for some reason...!?

Why they suddenly stopped?
What are these things anyway?

When i was lost in my thoughts a weird looking plant that wasn't too far away from me had it's branches attacking me.

what was that plant doing in the middle of the station anyway?

That plant was targetting my face and neck, it wanted to suffocate me until i'm dead.

Crash.

The plant was suddenly off of my face.

It was cut off from my face as if another miracle saved me but this time it wasn't really a miracle, someone was there so i thought it might have been that person's doing.

“I can't believe you were almost killed by a mere plant.”

A black haired guy with a unique haircut saved my life.
He had this beautiful purple sword on his hand and an angry look on his face.

He then turned around and pointed his other hand towards the half-alive plant.

“Fire” is what he said and not much after that plant suddenly started to burn on it's own.

“it's burning?”

He was moving fast i couldn't see his movements.

wait....just now when he said 'i can't believe you were getting killed by a mere plant', was he talking to me? How rude!

I couldn't handle someone else like the blonde guy or even worse? but i have nothing to complain about since he saved my life.

“get a hold of yourself, why are you here alone? You were almost killed.”

Wow such an attitude.

“then who are you? Why did you save me then?”

“It's not a good time to introduce myself, let's get outta here first.”

before ending his sentance one of those outcasts gotten free from the freeze, it was the sword armed one and from the shape of that outcast's body, it looked like it belonged to a woman, i could see that outcast had light blue swords sticked to it's arms while attacking that guy in the span of seconds but he saved me just now so i shouted at him.

“Hey, watch out!”

He responded fast and dodged the attack.

“Oops! I couldn't feel anything.”

He wasn't fighting back even when the other two outcasts joined the sword armed outcast, all he was doing was dodging their attack movements.

“i can sense no mana or magic source coming out of your bodies which means...”

Wow, i was impressed, he was fast and light, i could watch him until forever.

“You're not the real body, where is the real outcast's body hiding?”

I didn't know what was going on but he must've realized something was off and that might've been why he's not fighting them seriously and kept on only dodging their attacks.

He was pretty good at material arts and finally started to take some attacks on them with bare hands.

“You guys are too weak i'm bored fighting y'all”

He gotta be kidding me. He really called those creatures weak?

Arima dodged a feet attack from one of the outcasts that had horns all over it's body and straightened his hand towards the train while his fist was half open, his right eye had seven colors as if he was using some magic tricks at that moment.

“Eye of judgement.” after Arima said that, his right eye turned into light blue color, the other six colors in his eyes disappeared and he had summoned something into his right hand, it was like a golf ball but with something moving inside it that looked like thunder and lightening.

Arima was looking at the train as if he knew something was there and it looked like he found something insteresting in the train.

“So it's him. The real body of these outcasts.”

What does he mean? So these three outcasts attacking him are fake or something?

Armia started to run towards the train but those outcasts were chasing after him while he was keeping an eye on them chasing after him, he didn't want to lose the sight of the outcast that was standing inside the train.

That outcast had long nails and one big eye in the middle of it's forhead.

By the shape of that outcast's body, it looked like it belonged to a man.

“I see, they're chasing after me but they've gotten slower.”

Before he could get to in the train he made an eye contact with the eye that was in that outcast's forhead.

He suddenly stopped running, i realized something was off and his face looked terrified, i couldn't see what he was potentialy seeing that i couldn't at that moment.

Why did he stop? Is it that outcast's doing?!

I noticed the eye on that outcast's forhead, it looked familiar and the colors of it changed from what it was a few seconds ago to a lighter reddish color so i just guessed maybe whatever that outcast was doing to that guy, had somethibg to do with the ugly eye on his forhead.

Maybe it's because he was making an eye contact with it and made him hypnotized.

“It's the eye. Try to look away”

Arima listened to me right away but instead of looking away he choose to close his eyes.

“How did you know?!” Arima asked.

That outcast didn't stay still and took advantage of Arima's closed eyes, now that he couldn't see and dodge their attacks, it was their best chance for them to get disposed of him so that outcast grew it's nails and tried to go for Arima's feet.

“watch your foot.” i shouted and hoped i was on time because that outcast already sent it's long black nails to Arima's direction.

And surprisingly Arima dodged that attack on time by jumping, or should i say i wasn't even surprised anymore because this guy impressed me a few times already.

“It looks like you're not as dumb as i thought, huh?”

Can't he compliment me in a normal way? He's insulting me left and right since the moment i met him.

“Also i realized something...those three outcasts that were controlled by the real one have disappeared because i don't feel their presence anymore.”

I took a look and Arima was right, even though his eyes were closed he noticed those outcasts were gone, but why they disappeared?

***

The other side of the train was quiet though, with a worried Rounin trying to find a way to go through the magical wall that was casted.

“Why can't i hear anything from that side? Is Taio okay?!”

Then some uninvited footsteps were heard from Rounin's back that made him startled a bit.

“You can't hear anything from there because the other side of the station isn't even the same place anymore.”

Rounin saw an unfamiliar face, a guy with long dark purple hair, it was Rounin's first time meeting this guy but it looked like it wasn't the case for that stranger.

“What do you mean that isn't the same place anymore?” Rounin asked.

“I'll tell you later, for now i want you to come with me.”

Rounin couldn't decline even if he wanted, he knew that person's atittude wasn't a favor but a threat and more importantly he could sense his mana aura, it was stronger than his so he knew fighting him wouldn't benefit him.

***

The side where Taio and Arima were, was a fighting battle however it looked so one sided in Taio's point of view.

Arima kept his eyes closed and dodged attacks after attacks, he already got used to that outcast's attack style.

“Hey, is that outcast still in the same direction?” asked Arima.

Taio then replied immaditually to make sure his information goes through Arima as fast as possible.

“Yeah, he's still standing there and it looks like he doesn't want to move anyway.”

Then Arima opened his eyes, he was sure now, that outcast couldn't stand a chance against him.

“I know why he's not moving, because this weakling being is scared to death.”

Arima was right, when i looked at that outcast, his eyes had this sense of fear to it.

Arima then made another ball shaped weapon with his mana, he was grabbing it with his right hand, this time that magic ball was of fire materal instead of thunder and lightening and in a fraction of a second he threw it to that outcast's direction, in short to where the train also was.

BOOM!

The small fiery ball that Arima threw hit the target and it was the eye on that outcast's forhead since it seemed like that eye was the main part of it's body that was it's mana source.

Everything started to burn inside the train, the outcast included. the fire was controlled and Taio and Arima didn't feel the heat of it.

It made sense though because that fire wasn't real, it was made out of magical energy so it could burn anything that the magic user wanted.

“Wow, he was so weak that it makes me want to cry.”

Arima said, with a straight facial expression, standing in front of the burning train and watching it carefuly until there's nothing left from the train and the already dead outcast's body.

Wow, i'm even more scared of this guy right now...!

[The end of the death station. This level's number of deaths: zero.]

What? There's really something wrong with this place, it's called the death station and it said 'this level' as if it's a game... for some reason it reminds me of when i was playing those exciting games.

If it said zero deaths that means the outcast that he killed right now wasn't considered a living being, but why?

Then the train started to fade away and that was when i realized the train wasn't even real to begin with, was it just hallucination?

After few seconds, there was nothing left from the train but thick smoke.

All i was waiting for was to see the other side of the station that Rounin was staying but...

“Huh? Where is the other side?!”

Yes, the other side of the station was gone and i could see nothing but an empty wall.

“The other side? What do you mean?” asked Arima.

I was starting to worry, the side that he was standibg and yelling at me to run away was gone with no trace.

Arima in the other hand didn't look like a person that would believe me that easily so i tried to explain more.

“My friend was standing there before the train comes, but he's not there anymore, i swear there is something wrong with this station.”

Arima heard my words i thought the moment i sweared it convinced him but i was completely wrong.

“But i actually think there's something wrong with you.” right after Arima said this he closed the gap between us and walked towards me slowly then he reached his hand and touched the top of my hair to make a light pat.

“Can i ask you that...why are you hiding your overwhelming powers?!”

“My what?!”

“The round-shaped mark on your forhead...it keeps sending abnormal amount of mana pulses.”

What's he saying?!

“You're in a greater danger than you think.” said Arima but i was trying my harderst to understand what he really meant by that.