We both sat on the stairs while he was talking to someone on his phone, i was hearing their conversation since we weren't sitting too far from each other and there was something that was surprising to me.
“Yeah, he said Rounin was also here.” said Arima while talking on his phone with someone that i could barely hear that the voice blonged to a woman.
So, this guy knows that blonde guy? And his name is Rounin?!
I was wondering about the thing this guy told me a few minutes ago, about how i was hiding my overwhelming powers and the round-shaped mark on my forhead.
What did he mean by that?!
He finally ended his phone call.
“What is it?!” i asked, because his expression looked unusualy troubled.
“It looks like we can't go outside the subway yet.”
“Why?!”
“The most dangerous creature of the zone is flying above our heads.”
I was quite shocked. Aren't these peach black skinned creatures the most dangerous ones around here? Just what the hell happened here when i was unconcious.
Then when i was almost drowning on my thoughts Arima countinued.
“A dragon called 'Ostovar'.”
What an unusual name, so dragons exist in this world? Everything looks so unreal but after what i saw a few minutes ago I was starting to believe everything little by little.
Arima then started to explain everything that he thought i might be u naware of.
***
It all started in the 12th of october, when that mysterious eye appeared in Tokyo, an invisible wall appeared and seperated the world from the areas of the city that eye was seen.
The center of the area was Sumida, around the beautiful river that normally was visited by foreign tourists, Following that area some parts of places like Koto, Chuo, Chiyoda, Taito, Arakawa, Katsushika and Edogawa were also involved as well.
Once you step a foot inside these parts of the city that got covered with a magical wall with no doors to exit, you lose your humanity and never go back to how you were.
No one can go outside that wall but the zone always invites new comers from the outside, the system that was set inside the zone was quite picky, it made you go under some criteria to be choosen.
If you're lucky enough and you meet the unknown criteria that the system inside the zone has set up, you become someone that was chosen by the rules and turn into a 'zoner' but once you don't meet the criteria, you'll end up as an 'outcast', in short, turn into something that wasn't chosen by the system.
There are 5 types of living beings that live inside this zone so far.
1-Zoners.
Humans that met the required criteria and gained magic and power but also there are those who are stronger than the other zoners, giving them different ranks based on the mana and strengh that they carry withing themselves.
2-non zoners.
Humans that didn't meet the required criteria but also didn't turn into outcasts as well. These are humans that stayed the same but since they got no powers to defend themselves, they need to hide from outcasts and magical creatures to survive inside the zone.
3-normal outcasts.
Outcasts are humans that were abandoned by the rules, they lose their humanity and can't think or decide on their own, the normal ones are like non-zoners, they don't have mana or special weapons to defend themselves or even attack anyone but also in return they normally don't get attacked by any of the living beings inside the zone since they're being treated like useless jerks.
4-dangerous outcasts.
These outcasts are the type that got abandoned by the rules but the system gave them special weapons and magic powers. No one knows what's their intention because outcasts don't talk, don't show emotions and don't have a will of their own but for sure they're hunting those that carry magical powers and eliminate non-zoners for fun which makes it look like they exist for a purpose, but what purpose? No one knows the answer yet.
5-magical monsters and creatures.
The last type is something that came out of nowhere. There are so many of them inside the zone that no one knows from where they exactly came from because they appear out of nowhere and disappear with no trace. There are different types of creatures among them but the most dangerous one is a dragon called 'Ostovar'.
No one has ever seen it up close because once you cross a path with it, it's the last day you're seeing the daylight.
***
After i heard Arima's story, i was certain.
What kind i am then?!
“So...Am I a Zoner or a non-Zoner?” I asked.
“You're definetely a Zoner but let's meet the guys first then we'll talk about it.” Arima answered while we were going up the stairs that was in the station.
“The guys? Which guys?!”
He might have mean the ones that he was calling on his phone just now.
“You'll meet them soon.”
“Are they Zoners like you?!”
“Like us, you mean?! But yes they are, it's a matter of time they arrive.”
I heard footsteps coming from the other part of the stairs, that place we were standing was a hallway that leaded us to the outside.
“Arata, you're not gossiping behind us are you?!”
A pink haired girl with double ponytail that was companied by two other guys was shaking her hands towards us.
“Sup!”
She called him Arata...it might be this guy's name.
“Wow, speak of the devil.” Arima Arata said with a soft smile on his lips.
So these people might be so important to this guy...he started to smile as long as he saw them.
“Taio, let me introduce them to you.”
“The red haired guy is Rokoro and the blonde one's Toma.”
Rokoro had pushed his hair back and had a strong appearance, he was kind of muscley so he might've been strong from the way he was built but in the other hand, Toma was shorter in height and had a smaller body compared to them, his cloths looked like it belonged to a 6 years old's and his short curly bangs hide his eyebrows completely, he also had some snacks in his hands and was eating them slowly.
“And this girl is my little sister, Asuka.”
“Nice to meet you all.” I was awkward, didn't know what to say because these people were completely strangers to me.
“Wow, it's rare seeing you move and talk as if you weren't unconscious for almost a month.” said Rokoro jokingly trying to change the atmosphere.
“But more importantly about the villa-”
Said Asuka but she was cut short by Toma's words out of nowhere.
“Ah-! These snacks don't fill me up anymore, i'm still hungry.”
“Toma, let Asuka complete her sentence at least.” Said Arima Arata while getting a little mad at Toma for disrespecting his little sister.
Then Arima looked at Rokoro and Toma, they were acting strange and tried to look away to avoid Arima's gaze.
“What the hell is wrong with these two?!” Arima asked.
“Well, they're acting dumb now because what happened to the villa is mostly their fault.” Asuka answered him immaditually.
“something happened to the villa? In the short amount of time that i was away?!”
Then Rokoro countinued.
“I'm sorry to say this but they found our hideout and burnt it under fire as if our villa was some BBQ or something.” he said this in a playful tone as if he really didn't care much or tried to make it sound unserious in front of Arima.
The villa? He means that mansion that i was staying?
“Who would do such a thing? Outcasts?!” i asked because at that moment, curiousity was killing me inside.
“No, outcasts wouldn't do that because they don't have the brains to do such a thing on their own.” replied Rokoro while walking towards me, placing his hand around my shoulders friendly and countinued.
“But don't worry, before that happens we brought your outcast girlfriend to somewhere safer.”
“What do you mean? What outcast girlfriend you're talking about?!”
This Rokoro guy is definetrly messing up with me huh?!
“Ah! Are you shy? If i'm not mistaken her name was Sakura or something? Because Rounin said you called her a lot in your sleep.” Toma finally made a sound and talked with his full mouth.
Rokoro then realized they were out of the main subject.
“Oh. I forgot about this but you said Taio told you Rounin was also here right? ”
Asuka also got curious and glanced at Arima but Arima was silent with a lost-in-thoughts expression.
“Arata? What's the problem.”
I knew it, that silence says it all. Arima knew something wasn't right about this subway because of what happened.
“To be honest before we talk about Rounin's whereabouts i needed to tell you guys something.”
Is he finally going to talk about what happened in the station? That Rounin and the other side of the station suddenly disappeared?
Then Arima opened his mouth, it wasn't what i thought he'd say and whatever he was saying it was like a cold water on the fire that i lighted up in my mind.
“Remember when we found Taio in that night, He was shoot on his chest...what if tell you the one that shoot him was...”
Everyone was in deep, awkward silence, it was as if they knew something was about to be broken to them.
“It was Rounin himself.”
***
There was an abandoned prison-like building with empty rooms.
No one was around, It was a lonely Rounin inside a room with nothing but a chair that he was sitting on, walls that were made of stone material, weak lights and no windows around.
His face was all woundy and blood stains were all over his cloths, he knew for a fact that he was taken hostage and had been beaten to death.
He then felt uneasy around his hands, his hands were chained behind his back but what felt strange was the big bucket full of water that his hands were in.
“Tch.”
“What the hell is this?! Is this some kind of new way to torture me or something?”
“You're wrong, that's for the sake of sealing your crazy magic gun.”
That sound was so familiar, No, Not just familiar, It was crazingly familiar to Rounin's ears as if he was hearing it almost forever but from his own throats.
A guy entered the empty room with fancy cloths and same appearance as Rounin's.
Rounin was shocked, to see someone that looks exactly like him, he thought he might've been daydreaming at that moment.
“Who...who the hell are you?!” asked Rounin.
That guy walked slowly towards Rounin, the more he got close the more Rounin saw similiarities between him and that guy, even the flower tattoo or even the way he styled his haedband with the color of his cloths, it was like they shared one soul in two bodies.
“Don't you already know who i am?”
Even their voices were similar.
“Don't mess around with me bastard!!”
The other guy smirked as if he was enjoying Rounin's frustration.
“First of all don't you want to tell me where did you hide him?!”
Rounin couldn't even focus on what was going on or what the guy was talking about.
“The boy that holds DELORD's heart.”
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