Tales Of Darkness And Light
Chapter 9's

Apples kept running down the city in search of Rue. Focusing on himself, he concentrated fully on searching for the aura of Rue's existence. But, searching without a clue within a city that has hundreds of thousands of residents is not an easy thing.—he simply did not find it. The apple itself had no recollection of how long he had been looking for the girl. The night is getting late, the city streets are not so crowded. The only thing he is grateful for now is the darkness of the night, because then the possibility of people who realize the color of his eyes will be smaller.

"I saw for myself the man defeated the three thugs and saved the beautiful girl. You need to know, that girl is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Her hair was golden and her eyes were green like emerald..." The story of a man to his friend as he walks past the Apple.

Hearing the man's words, Apple immediately turned around and grabbed the collar of the man's shirt. "Where is the girl?"

The man was very surprised by what Apple did. Anger filled him, and he wanted to protest against the insolent attitude he received. However, he was immediately stunned when he saw the eyes of Apple. In the darkness of the night, the blood-red eyes of the young man shone full of anger. The anger in my heart turned into fear. He did not dare to move, nor did his friend who was at the side. The sight of Apples made them feel like they were dealing with a wild beast filled with anger and madness.

"I asked, where is the girl?" repeat the apple again. His voice was flat emotionless full of intimidation and the grip of his hand on the collar of the man's shirt grew stronger.

"A-I heard, that guy took the girl to the mayor's mansion." The man replied stammering with a trembling body.

Hearing the man's reply, Apple released the grip of his hand. Reversing her body, she ran away leaving them towards the mayor's house. The two men stood pecking with pale faces not understanding what they had just been through.

Apples do not have difficulty when looking for the mayor's mansion, because the mansion of the mayor of Radiata who is also a Marquis is the largest house in the city and is in the city center.

Arriving in front of the mayor's mansion, Apples stood headfirst staring at the large white fence that was in front of him. Closing his eyes, he attempted to search for the aura of Rue's existence, and when he actually found the aura inside, he reopened his two blood-red eyes.

A feeling of relief was felt by Apple when she knew she had found Rue. But, even so, his emotions remained unstable. The anger and fear that raged in his heart still felt. Trying hard to control himself, the black-haired young man stepped closer to the mansion's gate.

The two soldiers guarding the gate were aware of the presence of the approaching Apples. Lifting the spear in hand, they stopped the young man, "Stop! Whoareyou? Uninterested people are forbidden to enter!" said one of the knitters was loud.

However, Apples whose emotions were not so stable did not care at all. Moving quickly, he caught the soldier's hand and slammed him to the ground. The other soldier was very surprised, and without giving any problems, Apple kicked him strongly so that it bounced into the gate until it opened.

"Ohhhh!" the soldier shouted in pain.

Hearing the cries of the gate guard soldiers, all the soldiers patrolling inside the mayor's mansion immediately ran towards the source of the commotion. Loud screams filled the once-silent mansion. "Infoiler!!"

The prajutites who arrived at the scene of the commotion immediately surrounded the Apples who were slowly walking into the garden of the mansion. They all drew spears towards him, but the one in question did not care at all, he continued to step into the grounds towards the door of the mayor's mansion without fear.

"Stop! Don't move!!" the captain shouted from the soldiers. He could feel the strangeness of the young man in front of him. However, Apple still stepped in not caring.

Looking at the Apples who did not care about his orders, the captain knew, they should not remain silent anymore. He did not know who this young man was, and he and his troops had an obligation to protect those within the mansion. Clenching his hands against his spear, he shouted loudly. "Groan!!"

The soldiers surrounding the Apples simultaneously advanced to attack with spears in hand. However, the Apples straightforwardly jumped up avoiding the attack. On landing, he stepped on the spearhead of the soldiers who attacked him until he was pressed down.

The soldiers tried to pull back their spears, but they were completely unable to do so. They felt that the one who stepped on the tip of their spear was not at all human to raise the rock.

The apples that managed to suppress the soldiers jumped back up. Turning his body, he kicked the heads of all the soldiers surrounding him. All the soldiers who received the kick bounced back, some of them fainted and some were completely unable to move.

The remaining soldiers were very surprised to see what happened. No one dared to attack Apple anymore. The young man before them was too strong. Then, as they stared at the pair of blood-red eyes filled with anger, and madness, fear enveloped them all. The young man in front of them was abnormal and dangerous.

Apple again walked forward, however, just a few steps he took, from the front, two shadows darted rapidly towards him from below. As it was about to reach the Apple, the two shadows emerged from the ground and turned solid like cloth to catch it.

"Who are you? Whatdoyouwant?" ask Calix. There was no smile on his face as usual. Both of his blue eyes stared intently at the Apple.

Apple didn't answer Calix's question. Running forward, he darted quickly at Calix. Calix immediately raised a hand holding back the attack that was on him, he had absolutely no chance to use magic again—Apel too soon.

Avoiding all Apple attacks, Calix knew realizing Apple was not the one he could easily defeat. He was trying to counter the attack. However, his attacks were in vain, because Apples could avoid them well.

The apple that was fighting Calix was getting more and more angry. The man in front of him is strong enough, to defeat him, he will need time, and the problem is—he has no time. Rue was in this mansion, fine or injured, he had no idea. So, how could he still be here?

Jumping backwards, Apple took a considerable distance from Calix Staring at the man, he raised his right hand, a huge black magic circle appeared before him.

Calix was quite surprised by the Apples that suddenly used magic. The size of the magic circle was quite large, and although he did not know what magic the young man was doing, his instincts continued to say that magic was extremely dangerous magic.

"Apples?" the quiet voice of a woman suddenly broke the silence.

Apple and Calix reflexively looked towards the sound. Not far from them, Rue, Fedrick, Lara and Esthel stood staring at them.

"Apples?" call Rue again. He blinked his eyes several times as if trying to convince himself that what he saw was not an illusion.

The apple immediately lowered its hand. The magic circle she created disappeared. Running as fast as he could towards Rue, he immediately hugged the girl tightly. Breathing in and feeling the warmth of the body, the anger and fear in him began to disappear—he had already found Rue.

Rue hugged the apple back. Tears flowed down from his eyes. However, his face was smiling. The apple that hugged him was real not an illusion. He felt very relieved to finally be able to meet again with the black-haired youth.

When she calmed down, Apple let go of her embrace. His two blood red eyes looked at Rue who was smiling full of anger. With a loud voice, he snapped at the girl. "I told you to wait at the inn, why don't you listen to my words!"

Hearing the Apple clash, the smile on Rue's face disappeared, "M-sorry, forgive me, Apple..." His words are full of fear. His face turned deathly pale, this was the first time he had seen the young man this beautiful.

"Hey," interrupted Calix who walked over and saw the interaction between Apple and Rue. "You don't have to be that hard on him, do you?"

Apple turned its face to look at Calix.. His blood-red eyes stared intently at the man giving a warning not to interfere in their affairs.

Calix gulped and said nothing more. He looked at Apple, and what first came to his mind was how the name did not match the young man. An apple? The Apple fruit to name that dangerous young man? The second is his strange eye color. Never had he seen such a red eyeball during this—like blood.

"Sorry, sorry, I'm sorry, Apple. I'll never ignore your words again." kept apologizing with a face full of tears, Rue tightly gripped her Apple shirt. He was afraid that the young man would get angry and not want to be with him anymore.

Seeing the tears on Rue's face that did not stop as well as her fear, Apple again sighed. Rue's crying face and fear were the least of her likes. Raising his right hand, he wiped away the tears. "Good then. Don't cry anymore."

Hearing the words of Apple, Rue's tears instead of stopping, instead flowed down more and more. Raising his hands, he hugged the young man tightly again. "I'm sorry, sorry, I'm sorry..."

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