Old Division
Chapter 2 - 4: Destination

Residents in the vicinity of the building heard a loud explosion coming from Colonel Mervis' office, and the once-clear weather changes became cloudy with gusts of strong black wind accompanied by flying leaves.

The soldiers guarding the outside immediately secured the entrance and pushed the citizens slightly away from the building to prevent them from approaching and looking inside the place.

"Oi... What's going on?" said one of the people in front of the gate.

"The situation is now very dangerous, there is an enemy attacking inside, at the moment Major Misca is facing that person" said one of the soldiers who tried to explain the situation inside the building.

"I hope Major Misca can clean up the intruder" said one of the female soldiers who was there looking at the building.

"Yes, unmistakably, the enemy this time is one of the users of the Artifacts just like him, and the person who can face the users of the Artifacts at this time only pack Jancoct and Major Misca," the soldier said again with hope.

When the soldiers were talking suddenly one of them cut off the conversation.

"O-oi... Th-that's it!" said one of the soldiers while pointing something towards the road and looked very shocked.

Meanwhile inside the building there is a battle going on, between an unknown stranger from where he came against Major Misca and the others.

When Zaki quickly opened his eyes, his pupils turned a deep blue color and showed a silver wolf head in the middle of the pupil.

Then Zaki quickly pulled out the gun he had hidden behind his shirt and fired it at the stranger in the air.

Just as the stranger was about to finish his sentence, there was suddenly the sound of a firearm eruption, and the head covering on the stranger's ear turned out to have been torn and perforated and looked a little blood on his ears.

Then the stranger stopped his actions and turned his gaze towards Zaki who was seen standing firmly with a gun that he held in his right hand accompanied by pupils of dark blue eyes and a picture of the head the wolf was bright, and showed an expression of hatred and creepy.

"The captain." said the man slowly and nervously.

Then Zaki again lost consciousness, his eyes suddenly closed slowly and then fell down and fell towards the front, Yuichi who saw Zaki fall down immediately helped him.

"O-oi... Zaki, what's wrong with you?" yuichi asked confusedly.

At the time of the incident, no one among them was aware of what Zaki had just done, because the action was going on very quickly.

Suddenly, something unexpected happened.

Something like a whip that was quite large and lined with thick and sharp scales suddenly wrapped around the feet of the stranger who was in the air, then threw the man to the ground very hard.

Casta, Ayla, Linda and Yuichi who were confused by it then looked towards the gate filled with dust that flew and saw also the whip that was not covered by dust.

As the dust slowly began to dissipate, a shadow of a person came from behind the dust and said.

"What are you doing in my office!" he said with a very angry tone.

"Who is that?" ayla said with a nervous tone.

The stranger who had just been hit by the attack immediately got up and again floated in the air.

"Who are you!" the stranger said with anger.

Then the stranger released a wind attack towards the person who attacked him.

"Wind Cutter's...."

However, the figure just stood still, and all the attacks that were launched turned out to be not effective at all, precisely the wind attack that was launched only accelerated the dust disappeared.

And when all the dust disappeared, there was a handsome man in a white shirt with a black pattern on his arms and waist, as well as with two dials on the right chest and on the shoulder is seen in rank with the shape of three golden sunflowers.

"Co-Colonel.." said Ayla and Linda.

Meanwhile, Mr. Jancoct and Major Misca who had known through his weapon could only smile with relief, because their lives could still be saved.

"Thank you Casta." said Misca smiling.

"Hmm.." nodded Casta while wiping his tears.

It turns out that while the fight between Major Misca and the stranger was going on earlier, Casta had told the Colonel through a message, that his office was attacked by an unknown person, and there Casta explains all about the stranger and his strange powers.

"Hmph...I never thought you'd lose to this mosquito, Misca.." cried Mervis in annoyance.

"Heh?.. I didn't hear you.." said Misca pretending not to listen to Mervis's words accompanied by his foolish expression.

"Well?.who do you call a mosquito?" the stranger was upset.

Then the stranger again attacked Mervis with a ball of wind that he had previously used to attack Misca and the others, however, the size was doubled from before.

When the ball of wind hit Mervis, an explosion occurred around where Mervis stood, strangely the ball of wind that big did not even scratch the slightest dress of his hero who looks dashing.

"Why didn't you get hit by that attack?" said the man was confused.

"You don't have to say much, you have to replace all the damage done here" Mervis said with a creepy tone and eye gaze.

Zaki who had fainted earlier, slowly opened his eyes, and looked towards the gate.

"Whoever is that." he said slowly.

"That's Colonel Mervis." Yuichi told him.

After hearing that, Zaki spoke in his heart.

"Thank God." Then his eyes closed again.

Strangers who were confused by this said.

"Who are you really?" said it.

"I don't think I need to tell my name to someone who's about to die." Mervis replied in a furious tone.

"Sad...."

"He is Colonel Mervis." Ayla told the stranger.

"Huh?.. So that's what you mean Mervis?" reply to the stranger.

"Aylla...." Mervis stared intently at Ayla.

"Ah..pardon me," Ayla said with a foolish expression and rubbed her hands into her head.

Every now and then the stranger turned his gaze towards Zaki who had fallen back asleep.

"I don't think I can talk to him right now" the man said in his heart.

"Ayla, Casta, get Misca out of here, let me take care of the rest" Mervis said.

"B-good Colonel.." said the two of them as they swept Misca up the stairs.

After that Linda approached Zaki to check on her condition.

"Well... mosquito, are you ready to be punished for messing up my place?" mervis.

The stranger just stared intently at Mervis, and recited his Artifacts.

"Ancient Artifacts: Black Wind," said the stranger with eyes that looked very upset staring intently at Mervis.

The soldiers who were still able to stand around the battle who heard that were then startled.

"A-ancient?" casta and Ayla were shocked.

"Yes, he's lying" Misca said.

"Well?.. What does that mean?" ask Casta.

"It looks like that person can manipulate his Artifacts" Misca replied.

Then not long ago Mervis replied to the man's words by mentioning also his Artifacts.

"Ancient Artifacts : Ancient Phataginus" said Mervis while showing his pupils that had turned into gold and a shadow image of an anteater (Ancient Pangolin).

Casta, Ayla, and Linda who saw Colonel Mervis then said.

"Colonel's eyes are the same as that man's." they said.

"Yes, the different levels of Artifacts that are above Rare, it will display a picture of the strength of the Artifacts that are being used.." Misca explained to them.

"Because of that, when he showed me that strength, I realized there was little chance of winning, but for Mervis...." clearly Misca again with a small smile while stopping her words and looking at Mervis.

Strangers who heard the name Artifacts belonging to Mervis were a little surprised to hear that.

"Pangolin kah.." he said seriously.

"It seems you know a little about my Artifacts," Mervis said in a relaxed tone.

And the stranger seems to have known the power of the Artifacts possessed by Mervis.

"Sadly, it looks like he will be a troublesome opponent," said the stranger inwardly.

"But, why wasn't the Colonel injured after the attack from that guy?" ask Casta to Misca.

Then Misca tried to explain what she knew to Casta about the power of Artifacts possessed by Mervis.

"Mervis' Artifacts are objects given directly by General Rayfox, Artifacts is named Ancient Phataginus, it is an embodiment of pangolin animals, so Mervis has a very strong defense, so Mervis has a very strong defense, so that no matter how sharp the wind is given by that person, it will not be able to hurt him, and also the weapon he uses is a kind of whip, it is his Artifacts, he said, a whip with sharp scales representing the shape of the long tail of the pangolin itself" explains Misca and heard also by Ayla, Linda and Yuichi.

"Ah... is that so.." they said.

"It turns out the Colonel was a great man huh." Linda said in awe.

"But why did Zaki faint like this?" tanya Casta looked at Zaki who was asleep.

"So, I don't know, when I saw him he suddenly fell on the floor" Yuichi replied.

"Zaki.." said Linda slowly while looking at Zaki.

On the other hand, Colonel Mervis and the stranger attacked each other, Mervis nimbly continued to whip him towards that person even though that person was in the air.

"It's just that you keep dodging, because my whip can catch up wherever you go" Mervis said in a relaxed tone.

"I don't have time to play around here anymore, or he'll scold me," said the stranger in his heart while looking at his watch on the left side of his wrist.

The stranger attacked Mervis with the wind he made, though all the effort was in vain.

"Wind Ball's... Wind Cutter.." shouted the stranger while making a gesture like he was cutting something in the air with his left hand.

The wind still could not scratch the body or clothes Mervis.

"Then." said the stranger coming down towards Mervis.

"Hmmm...."

The stranger approached Mervis while making a sword from the wind and holding it in his left hand, then fought Mervis with a physical blow and close range.

*Whats...

The foreign man tried to slash Mervis using the wind sword he had made, but the more experienced Mervis martial artist then avoided the attack easily.

"Stop calling me a fucking mosquito!" the man replied as he continued to try to land the sword slash and punch him towards Mervis.

Suddenly though...

*wh....

Those who saw the fight were suddenly shocked. Yes, Mervis disappeared from before the man and was already behind the man.

*Kron....

"W-what!!" said the man as he turned his head back and looked at Mervis.

A powerful kick was fired by Mervis towards the man's right leg, and then made him kneel towards the front.

Mervis with eyes that light up and look also in both eyes Mervis and the person there is an image that each represents the strength of their Artifacts.

"My-my legs..break!!" said the man in his heart and with a stammering tone.

With the whip that Mervis had held in his left hand, he used it to wrap around the man's neck, and Mervis's right hand tried to open the man's hoodie.

Realizing that Mervis was about to open his headgear, the man put up a fight.

"Be aware of your place, motherfucker!!!" said the man in a very terrible tone and held the whip wrapped around his neck very firmly and tried to let go of the winding.

The man's pupils then again turned very bright with a picture of a shining eagle.

And suddenly Mervis was startled, the man's entire body turned into a black wind that finally took off the whip twists from him.

"You!!" mervis said as he jumped back from the man.

Then the man came back a little away from where he had changed, and went back to being human, but there was something different about him.

So Misca and the others were surprised to see that.

"That's enough!... Jeanne, Ryuda, Captain!. I'll kill these weak humans and bring you back, right away," said the man slowly and lowered his head as he lost consciousness and stood unbalanced because his right leg was broken.

"Who are you, and where are you from?" mervis asked him.

Mervis took a serious look at the man's eyes as well as the face covering with the skull.

"I've never seen a face mask like that!" mervis said again in his heart.

The curious Mervis tried to attack the man back to open the cover of his face and see how the man's face was.

As Mervis approached the man quickly and when his hands slightly touched the man's mask, but suddenly something came from above at a very high speed and hit the ground in the middle of Mervis and the man.

Then knowing that Mervis jumped back a little backwards.

"Hmm.." he said while looking at the flying dust.

"That's enough!" someone said from behind the dust.

Behind the dust was Mervis and the others saw two shadows of man, the other of which was definitely the stranger, however, the other one looks smaller than the stranger's first and looks like a woman.

"There comes another one yes." said Mervis casually.

"No. I'm just picking up this idiot" said the stranger.

"And I want to see how they are!" said again.

"They?" reply Mervis.

"We don't have time anymore, but we'll be back, for a while please take care of them!" the foreign woman said again.

"They?" reply Mervis again in a confused tone.

"I'll be back... Ka-kak.." said the woman slowly.

Then the shadows of the two men disappeared from behind the dust.

"Currently.they ran away!" mervis said in an annoyed tone.

The soldiers, who had been on standby before, then headed towards the dust to check it.

"They've really disappeared!" said one of the soldiers who was near the dust.

"Help the others, call the hospital and immediately bring the ambulance here," cried Mervis ordered the remaining soldiers.

"B-good Colonel!!" say them while paying respect.

Then Mervis walked towards Misca and the others.

"How are you doing?" ask Mervis to Misca.

"Hmph... as you can see!. I'm very healthy," Misca replied in a mocking tone to Mervis.

"Sad...."

"W-w... Colonel, thank you, since you came we can all be saved" Linda said nervously.

"No. Thank Casta, if he doesn't tell me, I won't come here" Mervis replied.

"Ca-Casta, thank you very much" said Linda plainly as she lowered her head and body.

"A-ah.. h-hmm.." reply Casta by smiling at him.

Then Mervis turned his gaze towards Zaki.

"Why is he so good to sleep when others are risking their lives" said Mervis, who was upset while kicking Zaki's ass.

"Aaaaarrrrgggghhh." said Zaki.

"Ah Zaki, you're awake." Linda said as she approached Zaki and hugged him.

"Eh?... What happened?... How was the fight?" zaki was confused.

"The stranger has escaped" Yuichi replied.

"Hufftt.thank you then," Zaki replied with a relieved expression.

Mervis looked around his office that the front was damaged by the fight that just happened.

"Ah... I will do a lot of work after this," he complained.

"Your office has become like this, we're sorry Colonel" Casta and Ayla said, bowing their eyes.

"Hmm..why are you apologizing, after all this is not your fault!" reply Mervis smiled.

"Sorry Colonel, I failed to protect this place so many buildings were destroyed" said Mr. Jancoct feeling guilty.

"Yes, since he previously mentioned his Artifacts with Rarity Rare, I don't know if the man is capable of manipulating his Artifacts" Misca said seriously.

"Ah Colonel, why can his physical body become wind like the power he unleashed from his Artifacts?" ask Ayla.

"If not wrong, I've heard this from the higher-ups, the situation that the man went through was called 'Queregment'... where the user of the Artifacts has achieved a high level of proficiency in using the power of the Artifacts themselves, there will be an exchange of power possessed by the Artifacts, in other words, we can fully control the original power of those Artifacts" Mervis replied with a serious-looking tone and expression.

"Exchange?" misca asked confusedly.

"Hmm. I also don't know exactly what the word exchange means there, because I only heard it during the meeting of the higher-ups at that time," said Mervis.

"Does that mean I can do that too?" ask Misca again.

"Hmm.. it seems like it only applies to Rarity Ancient upwards," Mervis who looked a little hesitant held her chin.

"I'll ask General Rayfox that question later" Mervis said.

"Alright.." replied Misca again.

Then not long after that there was the sound of ambulance cars entering the office grounds and heading to the neighbor where Colonel Mervis was.

"Nah Misca, go to the hospital to treat your injuries, Mr. Jancoct too, let me take care of the rest" said Mervis.

"A-ah, I feel bad for the Colonel" replied Mr. Jancoct.

"It's okay, your main recovery, to be able to return to work to look after this place while I'm not around" Mervis chuckled back.

"B-good Colonel," said Mr. Jancoct.

Then the medics drove the two of them into the car, and about five ambulances were reserved for the wounded and the dead.

"Then we how about Colonel?" casta.

"You're here for a while, since I'm here, we can go back to the center later" Mervis replied.

"B-good Colonel!" answer them.

In another place, and in a room....

*Whats...

There was a strong wind sound, and also shaped like a small whirlwind, when the vortex disappeared, seen two people wearing all black clothes with hoodies and also masks pictured skulls.

And in the room, a woman sitting on a long sofa with a gray tanktop and blue shorts greeted them.

"You're back!"

"Yes, we're back" replied a woman with a hoodie who had just arrived.

Then suddenly...

*Brack....

The man with the broken leg fell to the floor, and fainted....

"Hee... What's wrong with her?" asked the woman who was sitting in a relaxed tone.

"He's been playing around for too long" the woman replied with the hoodie.

"Ah.. like that!" reply the woman relaxed and sipped a cup of tea.

"Dresses like this make me stifling!" said the woman with the hoodie while taking off her clothes.

And look a beautiful woman with short hair of a shoulder purple and black eyes, with a body size that is not too high and wear army clothes with black with white color, white color, also visible on the collar there is a small embroidery with a picture of the skull head.

"You better take a break first... Manami!" replied the woman who was sipping tea.

"Yes, I will also take Aley to her room" Manami replied.

"Well, after that we'll discuss the next plan!" the woman smiled back with a bit of horror.