𝙁𝙐𝙎𝙃𝙄 | 𝗍𝗈 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖾𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗇𝗂𝗍𝗒

10

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THE immortal with a body of a kid approached the carriage, the old lady greeted the immortal with a scold.

"Where'd you run off to? I was looking for you since you randomly disappeared!" the old lady scolded, but the immortal ignored and walked pass her and entered the carriage. 

"It was really annoying! I was looking for three days and nights, and I had to beg for food. And then when I was going to give water to the donkey, it ran away. Then I was stranded here starving off the wind and rain-"  she stopped and whipped her head left and right. Looking for someone.

"Wasn't that girl Parona with you? And that Demon too." she said. The kid stares at the crab stuffed toy.

"Hey, you going to say anything?"

Then in a second the kid turned into a boy, the unnamed boy.

"Oh what, It was you! That guy who doesn't say anything."

The boy stands and started walking away from the carriage and the old lady.

"W-wher are you going?!"the boy ignored her.

"Hey, you can't leave an elderly woman alone!" the old lady quickly packed amd picked her bag and run to the boy.

Days came by, thousands of words and steps were spoke and took. The old lady, Pyoran, teached him language, script, and how to live as a human. 

They ride the boat and it was getting dark as they reached the land. They walked through the forest, had a little conversation.

"Go where...?" the boy asked. his accent not full yet.

"My lovers house is up ahead, so for now, let's go there. He's very knowledgeable, so he should be able to understand you. We'll probably arrive tomorrow." Pyoran said. 

They found a place where to sleep tonight, litting a bonfire to kill the night's coldness. Not an hour, they fell asleep. But awakened something.

The boy who sleeps peacefully was attacked by a sharp moving wood, stabbing his stomach and another weird moving wood stabs his nape and branches grows out his mouth. The immortal formed a wolf, Johann. 

The commotion wakes Pyoran, "What's wrong, Fushi...? What happened?" 

She followed the wolf's gaze, landed on the wood that formed the boy's body. The wolf growled as Pyoran hid behind. 

"The hell are you, taking Fushi's appearance?!" Pyoran points her imdex finger to the wood, "Hey, Fushi! Do something about this..." 

Out of the sudden, a black hooded man appeared beside the wolf, placing his hand on the wolf head, "Even if you fail to act, it shall surely hear your voices." 

The wolf snarled, "How does it feel to have lost a part of yourself? You were stolen by that. That boy, his form, his sound, his smell." the hooded man said.

"And so long as that boy remains stolen from you, you will likely be unable to ever remember what you've lost. Yet you should be aware of it, of an uncomfortable feeling arising from that void.—

— Then, is what stands there something of worth? I'll advice you in a way you can understand."

"That," the black hooded man pointed at the wood form of the boy, "is your enemy. Fight it, and defeat it." as he said it, the wolf attacked the creature.

The wolf bite, rip, shred and tear the wood. 

"Inside it is a core. Rip it out from its body. Then its movements will stop." 

Doing it, the wood again stabbed the wolf and took the wolf's form. Pyoran shouted. Another was form, the Oniguma. The wood changed its form into a wolf. 

"It has been designed to weaken you by stealing the vessels you have gathered.—

— it is a piece of trash that cannot be called a living being. But it is capable of theft." 

The wood wolf jumps to the Oniguma's hand and wrapped the woods around its arms and the Oniguma caught it but was too late. Oniguma ripped the wood and saw its core before it crashed down.

Oniguma was stolen.

The kid's what is left now.

She run as Oniguma roared at her, climbing upto trees to trees as moving wood tried to grip her feet. She watched the Oniguma, saw the core before she jumps inside. Falling down until she reached the ball, its core. Gripping on it as she was being pulled by the wood. Its act caused its own death.

The wood withered as she landed with the core in her tiny hands, squeezing it then memories were restored on the immortal's mind. The boy was back.

"What..." he turned to the black hooded man, "You?" 

"I created you." he answered, and continue, "We have a great goal, to preserve this world. And this is something created to impede our progress." he turned his back at the boy, "You don't seem to understand."

"No matter. We shall speak again. Now then, Fushi, Let's have fun. Hope you find that girl again. Until the end times come." then he disappeared.

Pyoran walked to him, "Hey, you alright, Fushi?" 

"What was that thing just now?" 

"Don't know. Was weird." he said in a broke accent and noticed a form that moved beside the tree where the black hooded disappeared to.

It has (hair length) hair, it groans. The boy was instantly alarmed. 

"Johann... I-Izumi..." it whispered.

His eyes widened, familiar at the forms voice and scent.

They meet again...

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this chapter was supposed to be the explaination to the previous chapter but Im already tired so maybe next time.