RISE OF CHIMERA: The Beginning Of This Story
~CAN'T REPEAT AGAIN~
After taking about 15 minutes of running, they finally got somewhere. Their steps were still running in the company of the sloping ground along the way. The slope of the land was in the range of 30 degrees.
“What will we do?”
Gaia asked with the captain turned to the right, looking at Kenichi.
“Wait .. wait a minute. Looks like I heard something.”
His hearing is not wrong. From the bend blocked by the natural stone wall, there came a rapid roar of steps. The steps were heading towards them, like they were eyeing.
Indeed, there is only his voice, but Kenichi considers it as a voice that came from the monster earlier. With his instincts, he began to speed up the pace.
“Kenichi sound what is it?”
Not yet had Yoki's question answered, Kenichi had already pushed Yoki to a fall to the sloping ground on their right. Gaia who saw that immediately displayed an angry expression as she said ….
“What do you do Kenichi?”
“Already, no time to explain it.”
Kenichi's answer was accompanied by a left hand that held Gaia's hand firmly. He forced Gaia's hand, to follow where she was going to run.
With a very strong pull and grip, Gaia groaned in pain with a steady pace of running.
“What's wrong with you Kenichi? Akhh ..”.
Kenichi did not answer by continuing his steps until he reached an open place.
The place was a dead end with a steep ravine already waiting for them.
“Release! What's wrong with you?”
Gaia asked with a raised tone. His hand keeps trying to take off Kenichi's grip, but still can't.
When they reach the end of the place, Kenichi plays Gaia's hand and puts it to protect Kenichi's body.
He put Gaia's body right in front of him with his left hand folding Gaia's left hand backwards. At first glance it is similar to a captivity, with Gaia as its hostage.
Meanwhile, the deer monster continued to run and speed up the pace with Gaia as its target. His footsteps were so rhythmic and tight, in harmony with the sound of the beating of the two of them.
As the distance got closer, Kenichi immediately played Gaia's hand again and pushed her to the right.
The monster realized that he had been deceived. But it was too late, because his steps could not be stopped.
“Yosh, we will die together.”
The monster wants revenge by killing Kenichi. His head lowered, ready to hit Kenichi.
As for Kenichi, he had resigned if he had fallen from the edge of a steep ravine.
As his horn was about to hit Kenichi, Kenichi dropped his body back and fell into the ravine along with the deer.
The atmosphere became quiet again. There were no steps, only Gaia's cries. He stared at the edge of the abyss with one hand closing his mouth.
“Gaia, Kenichi .. suck, my body hurts all. Be careful if I meet Kenichi, I will definitely beat him.”
Yoki walked down the street with his hands holding onto the part of the body in pain. Yoki arrived in the open where Gaia was crying.
“Gaia ... Where is Kenichi?”
Gaia did not reply, only pointing to the edge of the abyss. Yoki was astonished, but still followed Gaia's direction.
“He fell along with the monster that was chasing us.”
Yoki's annoyed expression disappeared, changing with deep sadness. He immediately ran to the edge of the abyss to confirm Gaia's words.
“What ?!”
“Yo.”
A short greeting came from the ravine wall. Kenichi was still alive, with his right hand firmly grasping a knife stuck in the ravine wall. He was still hanging with a face that looked up.
“Hahaha .. You're like a rock climbing athlete only.”
Joking Yoki to relieve the atmosphere. But when Gaia saw Yoki's expression, she immediately approached him.
“Ke-Kenichi, are you alive?”
“Hehe, sorry well because I pulled you too hard.”
“No papa, all good when you see you safe.”
While saying so, Gaia reached out for Kenichi to reach out. The action was responded by Kenichi by accepting his speech.
“Yadah ... tired once.”
Yoki dropped himself backwards to unwind him. They immediately dropped to the ground when Kenichi was already pulled up. Kenichi and Gaia sat down, while Yoki chose to lie down on the ground.
“More tired than punished sir Master kan.”
Kenichi insinuates Yoki. Sometimes his breath gasps to get rid of fatigue.
“Heee .. if the stakes are life, which might be compared with the penalty.”
Here they both laughed, but did not forget to pay attention to his friend as well. Gaia was sad, it could be seen from her gloomy face. Very visible, especially with tears that become additional.
“Gaia, you must be ..”
Yoki took the initiative first.
“Hik ... hik .. suck. Because of me, Mariko's mom is dead. Because of me ...”
“Haaah, don't carry it up like that.”
“Kenichi!”
Yoki pats Kenichi on the shoulder, he is a little annoyed at his behavior. If just interrupting is okay, but if the taste can make other people feel sad, that makes Yoki a little upset.
Replying to Yoki's gaze earlier patting his shoulder, Kenichi slightly sighed. He did not mean it that way, because the real intent had already been cut off first by Yoki.
“Haaah, whatever you do is all too late. Want to cry is no use.”
“Ke ...”
This time Yoki could not finish his words. He was stopped with someone's shoulder patted. When he looked to the side, he knew who had stopped him. She was none other than Gaia herself.
Yoki was about to question Gaia's actions, but it didn't. Just as Yoki was about to let go of the voice, Gaia with a sad expression immediately shook her head slowly.
Yoki understood that and chose to listen to the continuation of Kenichi's story.
“Bu Mariko didn't die just to make us sad, she died because ... because ...”
He explained, but he was crying in it. Mariko's last face contained a lot of meaning.
He is not strong, however he is a human being who still has feelings. With his head lowered, Kenichi tried to stem the cry. But still can't.
“I think I understand what you mean. Besides, if we keep crying, Mariko won't calm down there. He must have thought that his sacrifice was in vain.”
In fact, Yoki cried when he looked up at the sky.
For a while, they rested. They want to let out all the grief that is plaguing.
“What we back now?”
Yoki asked the two of them. Even the trail of tears on her cheeks had indicated that she could not bear the tears of her homeroom teacher's death.
They both nodded, then got back up. Along the way, they were silent at every step. Until they reach school, they don't talk to each other.
The school was filled with medics carrying four bodies. There are two bodies of students who have been put in the hearse, while the body bag of Mariko and the other one is Shiba, has not been put in it.
Actually, not only are there many hearse cars, there are also police cars. But, a single member of the police force was not seen around them. Maybe they are in the CTF, about to do an examination.
“Do you guys want to see Mariko's body for the last time?”
The question Kenichi asked when he saw a body bag, was being put in the hearse. Although the two bodies were placed in two different hearse cars, Kenichi could still know because of the name listed in his pocket.
When this question was raised, Gaia suddenly had a very terrible imagination. He was in a dark place, with a terrifying sight before his eyes. The figure was so terrifying with one hand outstretched towards him. Her eyes were blood red, yet that figure was actually very familiar Gaia.
Glasses with a distinctive face shape, she is Mariko's mom. But, looking at her condition, maybe that was what Gaia was so afraid of. Ms. Mariko no longer showed a beautiful smile full of affection, but a smile full of cruelty.
Those blood-red eyes further added to the atmosphere, let alone the place that had been dark suddenly turned into a place with blood sticking everywhere. You could say, almost the whole.
“Gaia, Gaia, why don't you just eat my body?” the tongue bu Mariko came out and shifted from right to left, “still delicious loh.”
“Sorry .. forgive me. I beg you not to disturb me, forgive me.”
Gaia sat down while begging for mercy on the figure. The reaction given was a movement, approaching until Mariko's mouth was already beside Gaia's ear.
“There is no need to apologize, is not something like this is natural for you.”
“Gaia!”
Yoki managed to restore Gaia's consciousness through the shouting and clapping of hands on her shoulders.
“Haaa .. ti-no, I don't want.”
Suddenly Gaia took a crouching position, folding and placing both hands on her head.
“Then, how about our bag?”
“Uhmmm, maybe we go to the teacher's office first. You must be a kema place .. ahh, I mean our class must not be skipped.”
Kenichi's answer also approved Gaia with a nod. Yoki approves his friend's decision and follows them into the school.
They may be banned from entering the school, but they have good reason to do so. Picking up the bag, that could be the reason the school will accept .. isn't it?
“Huekkk, gosh.”
When he entered, the smell was so thick. The three of them covered their noses in their uniforms, but it was actually free. Because, the scent made it into their noses.
Moreover, the scenery that can make anyone's feathers stand up. The damage caused by the monster was extremely severe. You could say, the front of the school is now no longer shaped.
“Gosh, terrible.”
It's not just the damage. Yoki's eyes bulged, his body jolted when he saw that there was a blood patch that stuck perfectly on the wall.
“Already Yoki, quickly forwarded.”
Kenichi reminded, Yoki agreed and continued his journey. With a uniformly covered mouth, to a place that no longer smelled a thick aroma.
“Gaia, do you want to tell me the real events?”
Hearing Kenichi's question, Gaia was terrified. Imagination just now was still ringing in his mind, let alone added with a question that even he did not know the answer. As a result, the situation became tense, but just turned to the right a little more and they had arrived in the teacher's room.
As for the atmosphere, it was completely deserted. Maybe it was because of the emergency policy that the school had set up. They immediately repatriated all of their students, so that their conditions would be safe and under control. Moreover, there was a case of a terrible death. Which the school cannot show.
“A-I ...”
Gaia took a deep breath, reluctant to say it. However, there was no way he would refuse the question of the person who had sacrificed their lives for him.
But, what answer would he give? It was not by his own will, perhaps that answer would not easily make sense to the two of them. Especially Kenichi, who is used to critical thinking.
“Actually, I ...”
“Excuse me, you three students who were chased by the creature, right?”
“Iya.”
Yoki answered spontaneously a blackish-white moustached father who suddenly appeared behind them.
“Then, may our side ask you for some information? One person only.”
Upon hearing that, Yoki and Kenichi looked at Gaia. Gaia who noticed their gaze, resigned and agreed to the father's request.
Out of the tiger's mouth, into the crocodile's mouth. Perhaps it was a proverb that Gaia was trying to portray in her face and heart. Speaking to his two friends, he was already scared to death. Especially with the authorities.
“Thank you for the cooperation. Then please follow mr.”
The father turned around with Gaia following him from behind. When the two of them had disappeared from Yoki's sight, he turned his gaze to the side.
“Kenichi, do we have to bring the bag?”
“How is it, you just let Gaia know if her bag is on you.”
“Hee so I. Eee .. alright.”
Yoki answered him in a half-doubtful and half-laughing tone, looking forced and could cast doubt on others.
“Ya already.”
After a turn, they finally arrived in front of the teacher room. They checked the open room. There was one teacher, they immediately approached the sitting teacher.
“Excuse me sir, I'm with Yoki and Kenichi. Can we pick up bags left in our class?”
The teacher turned around and looked at the two of them, more towards the questioner Yoki.
“Oh, if not mistaken the rest of three more bags.”
Sir stood up and walked towards the locker that was in the teacher's room. Kenichi and Yoki followed him, of course to hear the meaning of the remark.
“Well, oh well you guys are Yoki and Kenichi right?”
Yoki and Kenichi nodded, but they introduced themselves, but repeated.
“So you're wanted by the police.”
“Oh well sir, one of our friends already represents it.”
Yoki instantly cut his words, he really wanted to go home quickly. The atmosphere in this school is really gripping, thought Yoki. Moreover, the smell of blood had also added to the bad memories in his mind.
“Oh, okay. Please take her bag.”
They both took their bags. As he said, Yoki also took Gaia's bag to bring her home with his bag.