This is a multimedia webnovel with giant city-crushing monsters, a valiant man who dares to fight them, a hero who loses himself on a righteous path, and a darkness which conceives a profound love. But I suck at descriptions, so I strongly encourage...
"Keep running to the water!" Hatasuko yelled as he set her down on the ground.
The terrified, wide-eyed girl nodded and started running, but Hatasuko could sense her despair from a distance. Nevertheless, he ran forward and quickly caught up to her and the adolescent boy. He yelled to them, "I'm sorry I had to be a little rough! Can you two spread out? If the Interfectus tries to stab me, I don't want it to hit you two."
As they all ran southward through the street with a speed enhanced by adrenaline, the girl glanced over at Hatasuko with a horrified look in her big green eyes. She asked, "How can we save ourselves from that?"
Though smoke and fog poisoned the air, Hatasuko swerved and saw shadow spheres barreling toward them. The children ran on in the background because they were defenseless. They had no idea that there was a countermeasure for this. Hatasuko suddenly lunged toward the high-speed scattershot, ripped a rock from the sack at his side, jumped onto a tall wagon, and then jumped a second time onto the rooftop of a low building. As soon as he landed on the stone roof, he jumped up yet again and threw his rock with all his strength. The rock crashed into the closest shadow sphere, so it exploded instantly in a huge burst of blue fire. The shockwave was so fast that it struck Hatasuko in midair; the fiery impact threw him onto the street with a huge crash. He had saved the children from the scattershot, but the other shadow spheres had not stopped; he heard them blow the city apart while he was still paralyzed by his own searing pain.
"Are you alright?" yelled the voice of the girl from far down the street.
"Yes! Just keep running! Don't let it see you," Hatasuko answered.
As he struggled to roll his body, Hatasuko noticed a sharp pain in his right arm and upper back. The pain was lightly dulled by adrenaline; his injury could not stop him from moving. He quickly scrambled to his feet and retrieved the whip that had been blown off his body. He started running toward the children, though he could not see anything through the thick smoke. He could not see the Interfectus, but he trusted that it could also not see him. But as Hatasuko ran toward shore, he heard the Interfectus devastate the city in the background. He could hear several homes crumble from a single slash of its shadow sword. Screams pierced the smoky air and echoed through the empty streets of the helpless city.
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By the time Hatasuko caught up to the young girl and the adolescent boy, they were close enough to see the sand on the island's southern shore. It shone brightly from the light of the stars in the sky. Though his eyes were overwhelmed by the glow of the flames that had previously engulfed him, he still saw countless frightened people standing near the water. Hatasuko knew that there were many more families than there were boats, so he rushed onto the sand as the Interfectus attacked the city in the background. As he ran across the beach, he saw that many people had jumped into the ocean and started swimming.
"There isn't anything to discuss! You've gotta take more people with you!" Lazaro shouted from the edge of the water with his booming voice.
"This boat is only for my family!" yelled back another voice.
