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

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

At least that's what Rounin called these creatures...

One had thorned mace attached to it's hands, the other had horn all over it's body and the third one, 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 my death is getting close?!

Now that i think about it...I was waiting for death and miracle at the same time.

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

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

I opened my eyes slowly to see what was going on.

Those outcasts were standing right in front of me without doing anything, or 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.

And all i could think of was the question that what was that plant even doing in the middle of the station anyway?

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

Crash.

The plant suddenly got off of my face.

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

“I can't believe you almost got 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 a scary look on his face as if he came just to scold someone.

Then he 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.

“Is that fire?!?”

Because for some reason the fire didn't look ordinary with it's purple flames.

That guy was moving fast that one couldn't follow his movements with bare eyes.

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 can't handle someone else like the blonde guy but i have nothing to complain about since he was the one who saved my life just now!!!

“Can't you be more careful?!, why are you even here alone? You got almost killed.”

Wow such an attitude and why does it feel like he's mentioning the 'kill' part multiplr times?

“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 it looked like one of those outcasts had 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. That outcast had light blue swords sticked to it's arms started to go for that guy in the span of seconds.

I was the only one seeing that happening since i was facing towards that outcast's direction while that black haired guy was facing me, showing his back to the outcast with an open gaurd.

“Hey, watch out your back!”

He responded fast and dodged that 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 attacks and staying in the defense mode.

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

I got impressed because this was simply the first time watching someone fight like that.

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

I didn't know what was going on but he must've realised something was off and that might've been why he was not fighting with them seriously and kept on dodging their attacks instead of going on an offense mode.

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

“You guys are too weak i'm bored!!!”

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 fist towards the train, his right eye had seven colors as if he was juggling in a circus show.

“Eye of judgement.” after Arima said that, his right eye turned into light blue color which made the other six colors in his eyes disappear right after.

Then he summoned something into his right hand, it was like a golf ball carrying something like thunder and lightening moving inside it.

Arima turned around and looked at 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 but he didn't want to lose the sight of the main outcast that was standing inside the train.

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

By the shape of the main 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 in the train he made an eye contact with the eye that was placed in that outcast's forhead.

Then he stopped running midway.

I realised that something was off and his face looked terrified, i couldn't see or guess what he was seeing but i knew he wasn't acting normal.

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

I noticed the eye on that outcast's forhead, it looked familiar and the colors of it changed slightly to a lighter reddish color so i had a hunch 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 hat it was hypnotizing me?!”

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

I've never hated long nails like i did the moment i saw that thing!!!!

“watch your foot.” i shouted and hoped i warned him on time.

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

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

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

“Also i realised 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 how those outcasts were gone, but why did they disappear?

***

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

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

Then some uninvited footsteps were heard from Rounin's behind which made him quite startled.

“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?”

“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 besides, 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 my point of view.

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

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

Then i replied immaditually; “Yeah, he's still standing there and it looks like he doesn't want to move anymore.”

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

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

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

Then Arima made another ball shaped weapon with his mana and grabbed 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.

BOOM!

The small fiery ball that Arima threw hit the target and the target was nothing other than the eye on that outcast's forhead since it seemed like that feature 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. Me 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 the things that the mana user wanted.

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

Arima said those words after sighting, with a straight facial expression, standing in front of the burning train and watching it carefuly until there's nothing left from the train.

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 video 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 realised the train wasn't even real to begin with,

Then was it just hallucination?

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

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

“Huh? Where is the other side?!”

The other side of the station was gone and there existed nothing but an empty wall.

“The other side? What do you mean?”

I got worried, the side that Rounin 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 it for him more clearly.

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

Arima heard my words i thought maybe i convinced him but i was completely wrong.

“But i actually think there's something wrong with you.” right after Arima said that he closed the gap between us and walked towards me slowly then 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.”