We both sat on the stairs while he was talking to someone on his phone. I heard their conversation clerly since we weren't sitting too far from each other and i heard something surprising coming out of Arima's mouth.
“Yeah, he said Rounin was also here.”
So, this guy indeed knows that blonde guy? And his name was Rounin?!
Not me yelling at him how i lost track of my friend a few minutes ago...it turned out that guy was actually his friend.
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 us.”
I got quite shocked after hearing what Arima said because weren'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 in my thoughts Arima countinued.;“A dragon called 'Ostovar'.”
What an unusual name, so dragons do exist in this world? Everything looks so unreal but after what i saw a few minutes ago somehow i started to believe everything no matter how crazy it sounds.
Then after a short silence, Arima 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 ball appeared in Tokyo, an invisible wall was built and seperated the world from the areas of the city where that eye ball 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 Koto, Chuo, Chiyoda, Taito, Arakawa, Katsushika and Edogawa were also involved inside that wall as well.
Once anyone steps a foot inside those parts of the city that got covered with that mysteriopus wall with no doors to exit, they'll lose their humanity and never go back to how they 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 picky with some specific and tricky rules that made humans go under some criteria to get choosen.
If one's lucky enough and meet the unknown criteria that the system inside the zone has set up, then they'd become someone that was chosen by the rules and turn into a 'zoner' but once they don't meet the criteria, they'll end up as an 'outcast', in short, turn into something that wasn't chosen by the cruel 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 there are also those who are stronger than the other basic zoners which was based on the system giving them different ranks by the amount of mana and strengh that they carried within themselves. In this newly made up world inside this zone people call magical power as 'mana'.
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 and mana to defend themselves, they needed to hide from outcasts and mana monsters to survive inside the zone.
3-Normal outcasts.
Outcasts are humans that were abandoned by the rules inside the zone, they lose their humanity and can't think or decide on their own as if they have no will, the normal ones are like the non-zoners, they don't have mana or special weapons to defend themselves or even attack anyone but they also don't get attacked by any of the living beings inside the zone since there is no benefit for anyone living inside the zone by doing so.
4-Dangerous outcasts.
These outcasts are the type that got abandoned by the rules but the system gave them special treatment compared to the normal ones by giving them weapons and magical 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 one thing's for sure, they're hunting those that carry mana 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 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' that is being controlled by a Zoner inside the zone.
No one has ever seen that dragon 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...
That what kind i am then?!
So i thought maybe Arima knew the answer to it.
“You're definetely a Zoner but let's meet the guys first then we'll talk about it.”
“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 had a soft smile on his lips the moment he saw them..
So these people might be so important to this guy...he started to smile as soon 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 i thought he might've been strong in physical aespect from the way he was built but in the other hand, Toma was shorter in height and had a smaller body compared to him and the clothes that he was wearing looked like it belonged to a 6 years old's and his short curly bangs hid his eyebrows completely, he also had some snacks in his hands.
“And this girl is my little sister, Asuka.”
“Nice to meet you all.” I was awkward, didn't know what to even say to them because those people were complete strangers to me.
“Wow, it's rare seeing you move and talk as if you weren't unconscious for almost a month.” Rokoro said jokingly, trying to change the atmosphere.
“But more importantly about the villa-”
Asuka was about to say something but she was cut in the middle by Toma out of nowhere.
“Ah-! These snacks don't fill me up anymore, i'm still hungry.”
“Toma, let Asuka complete her sentence at least.”
After Arima said that, he looked at Rokoro and Toma since they were acting strange, struggling to look away and 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.” Then 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 as if our villa was some BBQ or something.” he said this in a playful tone and made the issue sound so unserious.
The villa? He means that mansion that i was staying at?!
“Who would do such a thing? Outcasts?!” i broke my silence because i was too curios to stay quiet.
“No, outcasts wouldn't do that because they don't have the brains to do such a thing on their own.” Rokoro implied that while walking towards me, placing his hand around my shoulders in a friendly way then countinued; “But don't worry, before that happened 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 right?!
“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.
Then Rokoro realised they were out of the main subject that he wanted to brought up the whole time.
“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 just happened earlier.
“To be honest before we talk about Rounin's whereabouts i needed to tell you something.”
Is he finally going to talk about what happened in the station? That Rounin and the other side of the station suddenly disappeared?
When Arima opened his mouth, it wasn't what i thought he'd say and whatever he was implying was like throwing cold water on the fire that i just lighted up in my mind.
“Remember when we found Taio in that night, He was shot on his chest...what if i 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 out to them.
“It was Rounin himself.”
***
There was an abandoned prison-like building with empty rooms not so far from the subway.
No one was around, there 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 covered in blood stains, same as his clothes, he knew for a fact that he was taken hostage and had been beaten to death when he was unconscious.
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 inside it.
“Tch.”
“What the hell is this?! Is this some kind of a new way to torture people?”
“You're wrong, that's for the sake of sealing your crazy magic gun.”
That voice was so familiar and not just ordinary type of familiar.
It was from a guy that entered the empty room with fancy outfits with the same appearance and looks 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?!”
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 matched his haedband with the color of his clothes, it was like they shared one soul in two bodies.
“Don't you already know who i am?”
Even their voices sounded 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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