Darkest Matter

As Forsaken

    Ambient rhythm, the cool wind slowed through the window, as Lisa opened her eyes, light shone down on her. As she stands, leaving her bed, she sees through the window with curtains hanging, Hanna Queen, a beautiful girl, dancing with her swords elegantly and stunningly. The sword keeps turning around her body, from her head to her legs, and brings up to her arms while whirling her body like a ballerina. With her beautiful ponytail and hair braided, she's a goddess of war and beauty. As she finishes her drill, she kneels, touches the blade on her forehead, and raises it above.

    "Mama," Amelia and Hinata went closer to her, checking if she was fine. Lisa caresses their heads and tells them that she was fine.

    "Where's Papa?" Lisa said.

    "He went for the answers for his motives," Amelie said as she entered the treatment room.

    "Amelie, it's been a while," said Lisa. "With who?"

    "Max, Melania, Tomioka, and himself."

    "How about..."

    "Don't worry, his cousin is with him,"

    As she said it, Lisa remembered that she saw his cousin outside her room. She was thinking about her name. "May I ask..."

    "Her name is Anastasia."

    After that, her memories bring back as she was in that Virtual Event. "Daughter of Megumin,"

    "That's true. You might've known her in the Virtual world," Amelie said.

    "So it's all connected," Lisa said. She scratched her head and had blurry vision. "Where's my sister?"

    "Wait here," and she left.

    "Why don't you follow your papa?"

    "Not without Mika," Amelia replied. As Lisa looked into her eyes it changed, she got concerned.

    "You're not Amelia," she said, then she laughed. It turns out to be Mika who disguises herself as Amelia.

    "Haha, you got me."

    "Where's she?"

    Mika points at the window again, and as she sees it, Amelia performs her sword dance. Her technique was so identical to her husband's.

    "You sure you didn't want to leave?" Hinata said.

    "It's better if Amelia is here. We're safe."

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    In the dark forest, gloomy and damp, Draugr roamed, searching for its prey. Their blades are filled with rotten blood from century humans. "Mein Cousin, they're too many." said a white hair and stunning girl, Anastasia Suzuki. Her eyes are yellow and her right cheek is scarred and connected to her lips.

    They hid behind the bushes and examined the place to understand the reasons for unreasonable intruders.

    (*)Melania- "I thought they would come out by winter."

    (**)Max- "Why would you think like that, Melania?

    (@)Tomioka- "What are they doing here?"

    Meanwhile, Akira and Anastasia stare at the fire emblem on the flag that the Draugr holds. Then, Anastasia wipes her eyes as tears, but she's not crying. "It hurts, can you feel it?" she said.

    "I feel nothing," he said. She realized his eyes changed to yellow on purpose.

    "Who taught you that? We have never learned that before,"

    "..."

    Suddenly a harsh laugh came from the flowing cinders' light. "Max, witness," Akira said. Max then pulls out his sniper rifle, aims, and searches for the individuals that are coming from the distant light. As he finds it, his eyes open wide. His mouth muttered, and his hands slowly shook.

    "What's wrong?"*

    "Hakushi..." he mumbled.

    As Melania searched, there was a white jacket with a hood, carrying a long white golden stripe sniper. She felt odd as she analyzed the rifle. "Huh, where's its scope?"

    Max agreed as he looked at the sniper. "That's a dummy," Tomioka said.

    "But he moves," Max said.

    "You know Hakushi so well. So he couldn't be that stupid," Melania said. "But why no scope?"

    "Sometimes, we have to look at our back," said Anastasia.

    As Max changes his position, Akira halts him. "Stand still. Once moved, a bullet on our head," he said as he held Max back. Akira listens carefully to the surroundings. Then, he clicks his tongue once, like a sonar, covering the forest.

    As far as 200 meters, he found two individuals hiding behind the bushes. "Max, he is around 656 feet away from our back, 6 o'clock."

    "What kind of rifle does he use?"

    "Springfield, the old men's gun."

    "Damn, he got a taste."

    "HEY, F*CK IT MAX!! WE'RE GONNA DIE HERE!!" said Melania. Her body drowns in sweat and she shakes in agitated.

    As the shot sounded from the distance, Max immediately turned, changing his rifle position, and instantly fires. As the bullet flies, it hits the other enemy's bullet perfectly. The sounds of the blasting storm, the Draugr heard and follows the sound. Akira, Melania, and Tomioka start the surprise attack on them. Melania flurries her slashes, almost clearing the space in the forest. Akira and Tomioka however destroy them with ease, especially Akira. His movement seems slow but in reality, it's super high speed while he walks. Tomioka on the other hand, sprints, almost breaking the branches of the trees. 

     As Max shoots the tiny flying bullets, he notices something. "He couldn't do this alone. Or..." Then, the sparks of his nerves tell him the reality. "AKIRA!!! NEE-CHAN!! TOMIOKA!! IT'S A TRAP!!!" he shouted. Melania and Tomioka halted and their eyes wides open as Max said.

     "This couldn't be a joke," said Tomioka. Melania's thoughts went blank, yet she still kills a Draugr that comes to her.

     "Where's Akira and Anastasia?" Tomioka said.

     Afterward, Anastasia appears out of nowhere, and took Max's rifle until he say "Hey", and she smiled back at Max. Then, she aims, but what Max notice is she is not aiming at one point, but a whole area, yet still seems that she is still in place without moving. 

ICH
Du
Wir
ihnen
Herr
Leben
Liebe
Tod

(*)

Watashi
Anata
Watashitachi
Karera
Misuta
Jinsei
Ai...Shi

    Millions of bullets flow, hitting the enemies' bullets and heads, listening to the rhythm of death, watching the blood spread. As she stops, she smiles happily and looks at Max, expecting that he would be amazed. But, Max was terrified of her skills. "That would've killed my dog," he said. She laughed cutely without hesitation.

    While they searching for Akira, he is already at the bonfire, where the Hakushi (Dummies) has gone. It turns out that he knew that it could happen. "They were planning on something..."

    "What plan?" said Anastasia as she found him first.

    "Look at the notes they left on the wood. (Look at the words above*)"

    "Is it? Could it be?"

    "No, it's not. We are been pleased to be at the Council," Akira said.