"I keep them all in my basement as slaves. But unlike you, they're really grateful that someone like me wanted to help them! I will make you pay for this."
Krueger fell to the ground and Hana then stopped casting her magic. But when she walked away, Krueger then looked at her from where he was and smiled. He then talked by himself.
"Dumb woman. It's not like it, just you who can use magic. Just run away and get as farthest as you can. But I will definitely make you mine."
Hana could hear that. But she just ignored it and walked away.
Hana continued her walk alone and then she was thinking of having some good dessert. So that was when he remembered Aikari and Hirumi. She then was thinking that if both of them are at the castle as usual, then maybe she could sneak in and have some delicious food. So she then headed to the castle by herself.
Hana walks by herself to the castle using the usual road that she always uses. But for some reason, she just feels like she's being watched by someone on her way there. She tries to use her vision to see if there's anyone suspicious. But everything just seems normal. So she then just walked cautiously. Because she knows once she reaches the castle, she will be safe.
But then she saw a black burning ball was following her up in the sky, but she couldn't see it clearly as it somehow went invisible. So she then just proceeded forward and reached the street on where she could just reach the castle easily.
"Tub Tub."
As Hana becomes cautious of things around her, she somehow feels like something is following her. That was when she began to run and finally arrive at the castle entrance.
As the guards saw Hana running towards them. They all then took out their weapons and looked at Hana. They then quickly asked Hana if there's something wrong. So Hana then told them that she got a feeling that she was followed by someone. But she just can't prove it.
She then just asked the guards if they could give her a permission to let her in. Luckily, one of the guards recognized Hana as a friend of Aikari and Hirumi. So since Aikari and Hirumi are inside the castle, they then just let her in.
Hana quickly rushed inside and sought protection while the guards continued to guard the castle entrance. But they did feel an unknown heat from a thing that just passed by them. But they didn't see anything. But it is just a feeling. They didn't think that the magic could pass through the castle since their King (Hikari) Ability would definitely block it as usual. But they didn't know Hikari was not there currently.
Hana rushed in and then she saw Himari. Himari saw Hana was afraid of something, and she then went to Hana and asked what happened. But Hana didn't say anything and asked Himari if Aikari and Hikari were around.
Since Hikari and Aikari weren't there, Himari then told Hana that they both are not currently there as they head somewhere else. Hearing that, it just made Hana shocked by it. So she then quickly turned around and got ready for whatever was about to happen.
Hana then saw a multiple flying fireball that was following her begin to appear and show itself. Hana then looked at it seriously and got ready to fight. Himari also joins in. Himari looked at Hana and asked.
"This must be a sacred magic. I don't know if people are still using this. But it's okay, I can help you."
Hana then just nods and tries to make a distance and support Himari from afar as she knows those balls are after her. So if she gets near, then those balls maybe could just explode or do something that might hurt her.
Himari uses her magic and calls her weapon. She then began to strike at the balls. But then the balls blind her with a bright light and then formed a monster. Himari and Hana then looked at the monster in front of them and looking at the creature, it just made Himari curse out and she then said.
"This muddy skin, why are creatures like you reborn? What is your motive? What is your goal?"
But the creature didn't speak and it then continued to attack Himari. Himari parried the attack and then dashed towards the monster and as her weapon got through the monster's body, Himari saw that the monster didn't feel the damage and then tried to hurt her. But Hana backed Himari up by casting a spell that caused the monster and Himari to get blown.
Hana catches Himari and then Himari dashed towards the monster again. The monster received another hit from Himari but those attacks feel nothing to it. It then just proceeds towards and dash towards Hana.
But to its surprise. As it got near, Hana then cast a spell.
"For the throne that it once fell, I ask you to rise and be reborn again. So that you shall erase the darkness and fill the light into this world. Come, Touha."
Suddenly a big monkey beast armed came out of the floor and blocked the monster. The monster then was about to dash from another direction to get Hana. But another arm came out of the ground and caught it.
The ground is shaking as it happens. But there is no damage to the castle as Hana called that monster out.
Himari saw an ape-like monster come out from the ground and its size is half of the castle wall. That ape then crushed the monster with one hit and that monster then turned into a dark ball again. It all then just directly charged to Hana.
Himari just couldn't react in a time to cast anything as she didn't know it would go that way. So she then just can see what is happening in front of her.
But before those balls could hit Hana, Touha the ape monster then swing his tail and blew the balls away from Hana. It then just made an opening to Himari to cast a magic that could wipe it out. So Himari then just quickly cast it and the balls then disappeared into a dust.
Touha then disappeared and pulled to the ground once again, and Hana sighed. She then thanked Himari for helping her. But rather than be grateful for that, Himari then looked at Hana and asked "Who are you really? Even from the very start, to meet someone in ashen red hair like you is not normal. Even after you change your hair color. I still feel it." Hana then just smiled and she went to Himari. Hana smiled and told Himari that there are things that not everyone should know. But it's not like she didn't want to share it. But it actually was more like it was complicated things to talk about. So Hana didn't want to tell anyone so that she could avoid a misunderstanding.
Hearing that from Hana, Himari then nods as if there was a truth behind it. Maybe she didn't know about that, but as long as Hana's goals are the same as theirs, then there won't be any problem with it.
Himari then looked at Hana and she began to wonder if Hana was someone from another world. It may seem impossible, but Hikari and Arithia were also from another world. That same goes as the other heroes of Atrium City. They created the New Atrium City by bringing peace and everyone together. Under a system that there were a lot of penalties for whoever commits a crime. But Hikari has a brilliant idea to avoid that from happening, and that is to make everyone who lives in their city just equal to each other. No ranking, No name, No money or anything that can make them put someone above anyone. Everything is just treated equally for everyone. Except for Hikari and Arithia.
Himari smiled and she then told Hana to follow her to the balcony. Hana agreed and she then followed Hana. So when they arrived at the balcony, Himari told Hana that she actually realized that there were a lot of things that were different about the people that she had met there and Hana. That makes a lot of questions begin to appear in her mind. Because of that, Himari then told Hana to be careful and stay with everyone for as long as she could. Himari could feel that something like a disaster would happen if Hana did get apart from them.
It may be just her mind, but she could feel that it might even give a threat to their kingdom. But then Hana just smiled and she then told Himari that something like that wouldn't happen. Because all she wants is to create a world where people could understand each other and they will live in harmony. That's why she rarely uses her spell or anything. For her, she was something like a god tier spellcaster there. So there was no need for Himari to be worried about.
Plus she's been traveling around the kingdom alone all this time and nothing has happened to her. So there was no need for Hana to worry about her that much. Plus she can just protect herself if anything happens. Because that was what she's been doing all this time.
But when Hana said that with her confidence, Himari already saw that there was a thing recently that caused her to be afraid of. So she then says to Hana "But that was not for the things that are recently happening here, right?" Hana was then just shocked as she heard that.
She stayed silent for a while and then smiled back at Himari and said, "That might be true. But maybe I just overreact, right?" Hana then just laughed it off. But as someone like Hana was too afraid of it, Himari didn't think it was normal. There might be something that far from what they have faced before to happen here.
So Himari then told Hana to just tell her whatever she thinks might happen or what is happening to her. That way, she can assist Hana in whatever way she can, and Hana can also help everyone there. Because Himari believes what is happening to Hana might have a connection with their kingdom.
Because no one was sent there for any reason. Everyone who comes there. Even Mizure, who created that kingdom, has his own reason for why he was there. Then Hikari and Ai who come to that kingdom so that they can protect that kingdom. Aikari and Hirumi who came there to do the same thing and now it was Hana. Himari believes that there must be something that Hana knows, but she didn't want to share it with her.
As Hana heard that from Himari, everything that Himari predicted was all right. So Hana just didn't think that she could run from it anymore. Hana then looked at Himari and asked her one thing.
"If I tell you about it, then will you be able to accept it? You will not assume what I said was a lie, right?"
Himari nods and she tells Hana that she won't have that kind of thoughts for whatever that Hana is going to tell her. Because she understands that Hana might have a different story than all of them did. Because that is what life is. Hana agreed so, and then she says to Himari.
"Then make a promise to me that you will accept everything that I'm about to say. Because what I'm about to say might be something that not everyone can accept. But I got a feeling that it might be Aikari who can understand what I'm saying."
When Himari heard that, it just made her wonder if Aikari did have any connection with Hana. So she then told Hana that she would accept whatever she said, and she won't judge her on anything.