Back to You - Dan Heng IL, Blade

2. Old Friend

Dan Heng looked around and noticed he was literally sitting on something that looked like an altar.

"Why the hell did it look like I was sleeping on an altar?" Dan Heng laid his own hands on his face, trying to recall what the hell happened. He was nervous, confused and surely the people shouting and running all over the place inside the building weren't making it any easier

"Dan Heng!"

The old man still trying to shake him and move away from there was literally shouting "Stand up! We have to run!"

Dan Heng was even more scared "How the hell do you know my name? This is... Am I in a convention? I don't recall... Did the taxi driver drug me?" he asked himself and the old man tilted his head

"Taxi... driver?" he repeated like he was speaking another language "Oh my... The poison didn't work as we got told..." he thought, cursing himself "Fast! We have to go!"

Dan Heng felt pulled off the altar and he gnashed his teeth "Okay, sir, LEAVE ME NOW!" he shouted as he shook his hands off him to resist "I am not going anywhere, who the hell are you?!"

The man's eyes opened up "... I am your servant, holy healer... What happened to you?" he gnashed his teeth "We have no time to lose, they're here to kill you!"

Dan Heng laughed "With what? Toy swords? Oh wait..." he let his hands on the hips, looking at the people in panic, shouting "What a good acting... Ah" he sighed in disbelief "I am surely in a convention... there's no other explanation... or a set... But what was I doing..." frames of the incident got in his head and he opened up his eyes "If I... died... why am I..."

The old man pulled him "COME WITH ME ALREADY!"

"Sir with all the respect, SHUT UP, I am trying to remember if I drank too much" he sighed annoyed "Maybe the café girl put something in my tea or mochi?" he laughed "What kind of drugs makes me dream about dying and wake up in the middle of a convention"

The main door of the sanctuary opened and many shinobi, covered from head to toe with all their armor black, showing their katanas on the back entered.

"Oh god... Who are these people now?" Dan Heng laughed in disbelief "Other men in cosplay? What are they cosplaying even... assassins? From what anime or manga... or videogame maybe?" he asked confused to then gnash his teeth as the old man was pulling him

"There he is, the Holy Healer" one of the shinobi said to then draw his sword "Take him... Kill the rest at sight"

The Shinobi positioned themselves to charge towards Dan Heng, but everyone stopped as they noticed Dan Heng literally fighting with the man known as the most loyal servant of the Sanctuary.

"GODDAMIT, LEAVE ME ALREADY?! YOU FUCKING KIDNAPPER" Dan Heng shouted trying to keep distance from the man "I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE."

He then noticed other shinobi entering in the sanctuary and killing the people in front of his eyes. Dan Heng felt his head heavy as he was trying to elaborate whether that was reality or a dream.

"Ok!" Dan Heng looked at the man "I am going anywhere you want, where?!" he changed his mind in no time. He still had no idea what was happening but surely he had to go away.

The man tried to speak, but Dan Heng opened up his eyes as he noticed the arm of the man getting pierced by an arrow, and soon the old man fell to the ground.

"Run.... run away, Imbibitor" he gasped.

"Bro, my name is Dan Heng, for fuck sake" he cursed and the old man rolled his eyes

"JUST RUN, WILL YOU?"

Dan Heng had his hands trembling, and just in that moment he noticed how he was dressed up. He had a long blue and white kimono and... His hair were longer? There was no time.