𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚛𝚜 (dropped.)

Chapter 18: Rias.

The atmosphere was severely tense, as no one dared to speak anything. How would they, especially if they could even feel that intimidating aura from miles away? The girls who kept saying disturbing things to Shu were now completely silent. They could sense the fear, but no matter how many times they tried to run away from this deathly aura, they just couldn't. The 'Mysta' held her wrist tightly, and even gave those bullet eyes to them, like it was a warning to them: if you move, you die. The girl screamed in pain, as she desperately tried to get out of 'Mysta' strong grip. She could feel her hand bone would be broken at any time, and her hand would fall out if she stayed for too long.

Seeing this, Shu knew that things wouldn't end well from now on, he needed to step in before it was too late. He didn't want Mysta to get into trouble just because of him. Hence, Shu cautiously stepped towards where 'Mysta' was, who was busy looking at that girl with annoying eyes. He anxiously paced his hands, trying to find the right words to say right now. "Mysta, it's fine, okay? You don't need to worry about me, I'm all good, see?" As Shu said, 'Mysta' retreated his eyes to where the sorcerer was, eyeing up and down to see if anything was wrong.

Though he didn't get hurt anywhere, 'Mysta' wouldn't stop this anyway. That girl needs to know what to say and what should not, especially to his brother. "𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔶 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨, 𝔜𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔬. 𝔏𝔢𝔱 𝔪𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔩 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔟*𝔱𝔠𝔥."That was all 'Mysta' needed to say to show what his intention was, which Shu didn't like at all. Shu couldn't dare stand here for too long without doing anything, but he knew that when 'Mysta' wanted to do something, he would do it with no hesitation. Shu sighed, trying to come up with ideas that could prevent 'Mysta' from doing dangerous things.

Meanwhile, the two childhood friends were stunned by Mysta's sudden changes in behavior. Luca wanted to help Shu with whatever this was, but Ike stood there mindlessly not knowing what to do. He understood what the teacher had taught them the other day, but seeing this in real life wasn't something that the novelist would expect to experience one day. Fortunately, he saw that Vox's group was about to come here soon, maybe they could help him with this.

As Vox approached, along with others, they at first didn't comprehend what was going on since there were just so many things that needed to be acknowledged right now. Luca's worried face was something they didn't like to see at all. They are used to Luca's golden retriever-esque energy like a sun that shines wherever he goes. They also saw Ike's terrified expression along with the so-called collected student, Shu Yamino, who was now in such a panic state. He kept rubbing his wrist like he always did whenever he was worried or frightened.

Uki and Shoto walked towards where Shu stood right away, as they were concerned for him. Vox finally looked at the detective, who was now almost breaking an unknown girl's wrist. He started to understand everyone's weird behavior because this did seem like it was a really bad situation. He quickly dismissed everyone, not wanting to catch any further attention. After the crowd finally went away, he spoke.

"Let's talk about this, whatever the f*ck it is, in private. This isn't the right place to do so." All of them agreed, except for the girl, who was still trying to play as a victim. Shu scoffed at her, making her glare back at him. Shu sighed, he really didn't think everything would be much more complicated by now. He quickly held out his hand with a shikigami, creating a big circle on the ground. "I'll teleport us to that place again since no one really knows about it except us." And as he said, the surface below created a big black portal, making them all fall into it. It was too fast so everyone got scared and surprised about what had just happened, they didn't even have time to question Shu's power and fell straight down to the mysterious portal.

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By the time they all got their butts hit on the ground, they were already at the destination. It was that small garden with a big cherry blossom tree in the middle, where they all met up together when Alban was missing. Still feeling the pain, everyone slowly got up, only to realize some people didn't experience that kind of pain. Shu and Uki just levitated, as they slowly landed their feet on the surface. 'Mysta' was fine too since he landed on his feet as if it was nothing at all, just like he had already gotten used to it.