Corrupted Civilization

Chapter 17

As buildings and the streets were on the fire, she searched for shelter, for safety and a new place to stay. Mumei ran down downstairs, tying to avoid the flames near her. Just as she reached the grounds, the girl had no idea where she should go next, left ? Right ? Straight ahead ? She had absolutely no clue. The brown-haired girl randomly picked a way to get out of there and ran wherever was no fire in sight. Almost outside the city, she found shelter, a hidden place abandoned from everyone.

It took days and weeks until the fire faded and left a ruined city behind, Mumei stared in shock at the destruction.

"Just what have I done ?", said the girl to herself in the most quiet tone she could do. The feeling of regret overwhelmed her and tears ran down her cheek, she wasn't aware the mess she made.

Kronii closed the book as she found out the stack of books belonged to no one else than Mumei herself. Tears of sadness ran down her cheeks, dropping on the cover of the book she had been reading. The small slime looked at her, it seemed to pay a lot of attention to Kronii and Kronii alone.

"I can't believe I left her alone that day...I didn't know it would come that far...", explained Kronii, facing the dark slime with still tears in her eyes.

"...I miss Mumei...I miss her so much...", the warden added, the slime simply jumped around, probably trying to comfort the woman in the wooden chair. The slime's action seemed to cheer up Kronii, since she showed a small sad smile on her face.

"I don't know what you are, but thank you for listening to me and being there for me today", the blue-haired woman thanked the slime, which was now on top of her hands.

Meanwhile on Baelz's side, nothing out of the ordinary. They followed the railways to the spot chaos got attacked by that thing, Bae was still mad about it. Almost reaching the identical place, Chloe grabbed Baelz's shoulder and pushed her behind the orca.

"Hey, what's that ab-", Bae couldn't finish her sentence, because Chloe was closing Baelz mouth with her hand. Chloe asked for silence, now was the time to fight and not to chit-chat. The wind protruded around them, making it blow right towards them. The silence kept going on for several minutes, the rustling of the leaves on the forest was heard. The forest was next to the railway at a certain distance of meters away.

"Bae ?", whispered Chloe carefully, staying cautious about her surroundings.

"Wh-what is it ?", whispered Bae back, they started kneeling down as quiet as possible. Chloe only wanted to assure the safety of her group, in which Lui agreed to.

"What is the strongest power you can do ?"

"My power ?"

"Yes, what is the strongest power you can do ?", Chloe waited for an answer, she needed to know for the plan on how they would dead with such a dangerous creature. Baelz thought seconds long about Chloe's questions, even though chaos already knew the answer.

"That might be dice of luck...that's my strongest powers", answered Bae, feeling the two might not follow. However, they nodded, understanding kinda what chaos meant with her power. Lui noticed the rustling of the leaves getting stronger, it was almost time for their fight.

"Chloe...activate yourself your orca powers this time and save us time until Bae is ready to attack", ordered Lui, the rustling got stronger and stronger. Chloe stood up quickly and activated her power called orca instinct. It made her red eyes glow, she turned into a predator.