Another Place
Chapter 16: After the Tragedy

About a week after the tragedy of the invasion that Kirin and Kurai did at school. Mikael, Wisang, Michael, and Rafael suffered several minor injuries that required them to be hospitalized for about a night. As for Russell, because the injury he suffered was quite severe, so it took about ten days until he could really get out of the hospital and go home.

In the days of being hospitalized, Russell was visited by several people, until now, it had entered its tenth day. Which means that Russell will be able to return home tomorrow. About three in the afternoon from outside the ward, Russell heard a knock on the door, which turned out to be Mikael, Rafael, and Michael came to Russell's room to visit him.

"Hi Cell, how's it going?" Mikael

"Halloo." Michael said

"Sleeping is waking up." Rafael

"Well, I'll be fine tomorrow, I'll be able to go home." Russell

"Good, if this is a little parcel." Mikael

He then handed the parcel to Russell.

"Well, what's that?" Russell

"Yes, a little bit of a parcel. So that the spit is restored." Michael said

"Thank you, yeah." Russell

"Not a problem." Rafael

"That's how we go home first." Mikael

"Much spades?" Russell

"Patience first, Mik. We can have a chat first." Michael said

"That bar, what the hell, Mik." Rafael

"Well, what do you want to talk about?" Mikael

"Where is Ayaka?" Russell

"Ohh, if Wisang said he again had business now, maybe later he would come here." Mikael

"Kalo Ayaka?" Russell

"That's it, I don't know either." Mikael

"Wasn't he invited?" Russell

"Son, I'm not too close to Ayaka. So yeah, that's it." Mikael

"I don't have her number, so I can't take her." Rafael

"Hmmm.." Michael said

"Jeez." Russell

"Well, not in class." Rafael

"Not wrong." Mikael

"Eat it." Rafael

"Oh, I just remembered." Michael said

"What?" Mikael

"I want to talk about our fight yesterday." Michael said

"Is there any info you got?" Russell

"Well, not really. It's probably just a little hint." Mikael

"What clues? Make us fight Kirin with Kurai?" Mikael

"Yes. You know Kurai is a user of the earth element/gravity." Michael said

"Tau, wait-you're a land element user as well?" Rafael

"I'm not a user of the earth element, just because the jolt of my weapon fitting Blazing Strike technique ground around the crack directly, so it's as if I'm a user of the earth element, even though it's just the effect of my technique." Michael said

"So what exactly is the info you get from Kurai?" Russell

"Compose has a large-scale technique on the condition that long intervals are used." Michael said

"What?!" Mikael

"What technique?" Russell

"On the day of the school invasion, I was sitting on the window deck. So I can clearly see Kirin and Kurai in the field." Michael said

"Ah yes, Michael's chair on the window deck." Rafael

"So what technique did Kurai use?" Russell

"He used a technique with a release system." Michael said

"Delivery technique?" Mikael

"This technique allows users to adjust the release rate of the technique, which is described by units of numbers." Michael said

"The greater the number, the stronger the effect of the technique?" Russell

"Rubber. Curtains can use ground element based techniques with a release system. If it wasn't wrong yesterday during the invasion, Kurai used a release of 5." Michael said

"What is the release of 5 the strongest level?" Russell

"I don't know about that." Michael said

"Hmm, so how do we fight them?" Mikael

"Both of them are users of the element. Lightning and earth." Rafael

"Just be calm, I'll figure out the strategy." Russell

"OK it that way." Michael said

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After chatting about other things for quite a while, Mikael, Michael, and Rafael finally decided to go home, then about an hour after they came home, the time showed at 7pm and from the door came another knock.

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*TOK TOK

"Eh? Who?" Russell

"Hello, Cell." Wisang

"Ohh, Wisang. Are you done with the business?" Russell

"Udah, that's why I can come here." Wisang

"Ohh that's it." Russell

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"What?" Russell

"You know the relationship between elements?" Wisang

"relationship? Like weakness?" Russell

"Yes, you could say that." Wisang

"It is not wrong that the fire element is weak against the water element. Water element is weak against soil element. The earth element is weak against the lightning element. The lightning element is weak against the wind element. And, the wind element is weak against the lightning element." Russell

"Yes, it's more or less like that." Wisang

"Just like one more, Kirin told us the time of our last fight that the lightning element could be stopped with the lightning element as well." Russell

"Well, do you have a strategy?" Wisang

"strategy? Not yet." Russell

"We have nothing to do with any of the five elements." Wisang

"Hmmm..." Russell

"Hmm, what makes a trap." Wisang

"Traps?" Russell

"We trap Kirin with water." Wisang

"It seems ineffective Wis, Kurai users of the element of gravity, and has a relationship with the ground as well. It'll be easy to deal with them." Russell

"So how's dong?" Wisang

"So far the strategy I've come to think of is that we have to force one of them, either Kirin or Kurai, to get them to use the technique." Russell

"Ehh?" Wisang

"They are both highly dependent opponents with element-based techniques." Russell

"So we have to fish for them to use the technique first?" Wisang

"Yes, if one of them had used a powerful technique, there would have been a time interval that allowed us to defeat one of them." Russell

"What if they can cover each other well? Like Kirin's the one that directly covers Kurai." Wisang

"Strategy this time must be arranged carefully. Yesterday we lost because Kirin's attack was directly on you as soon as you went straight for Kurai." Russell

"So we're going to use a diversion strategy?" Wisang

"Yes, since Kirin and Kurai are not the type of fighters that can be separated easily like Jack and Akane." Russell

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"Hmmm, interesting. Well, call at this hour I go home first." Wisang

"Oh okay, be careful, Wis." Russell

After discussing and exchanging opinions about the next strategy, around 8 pm, Wisang went home. And Russell was again alone in his room.

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"Well at 8pm? Hmm. I think I'm gonna go to bed." Russell

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*TOK TOK TOK TOK TOK TOK

"Who else?! Just went to sleep." Russell

"Ha-helo Russell." Ayaka

"Eh? Ayaka?" Russell

"Sorry I'm late.." Ayaka

"Eh, it's okay. I was just about to go to sleep." Russell

"Have you had dinner?" Ayaka

"Eh. not yet." Russell

"I just made this (picked out a bento)." Ayaka

"Wahh bento?. when you don't bother." Russell

"What the hell, this.. (Take his bento)." Ayaka

"Thank you, yeah." Russell

"The same." Ayaka

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Russell opened the bento and ate it.

"Gi-how does it feel?" Ayaka

"Well good too." Russell

"Emm.." Ayaka

"Why?" Russell

"Ah-, there is no. I-I'll go home first." Ayaka

The nervous Ayaka immediately stood up and turned towards the door, but she instead opened the toilet door in the room.

"Who? The exit is there Ayaka." Russell

"Ah- uh-i-iya sorry." Ayaka

*BRUKK.. (The door is closed)

"Hmm. Maybe he has other business. This combat is good too. Eat first, abis is sleeping." Russell

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Today, Russell was visited by his friends in the hospital, they chatted a lot and talked about the strategy they would use in the upcoming fight against Kirin and Kurai, then night had arrived and Russell immediately spent the bento that Ayaka gave him and after that he slept, the next day Russell was able to get out of the hospital. But a new threat will soon approach them..

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