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Boom!
I covered my face, but felt no impact. I opened my tightly shut eyes and found myself ten metres from the truck that slowly halted to a stop. What happened? What just happened?
I was still holding the holographic disk in my hand. I only looked at it for a moment and Rayne suddenly appeared from it, a hologram of her. She looked desperate and yelled, "Run! Before they start searching!"
"Right!" I said with panic and started running. I leapt over small river stream, ran through branches and over fallen trees.
I briefly stopped running to catch my breath and checked my surroundings to see if anyone was pursuing me. I sighed in relief to find no body in sight. I began to walk again until I saw small, black veins appear on my eyes.
"Arrrgh," I groaned and I fell to the ground. Dizziness overwhelmed my balance and my eyesight was covered in veins and blurs. Huh? I could hear something from a somewhere I couldn't put my finger on.
"...wan...o...fre..."
Who was that and what were they trying to say?
"I...nt...to...re..."
Who--?
"I...t...o...fr..."
"I...ant...t...f...e."
The voice abruptly stopped out of the blue and the dizzy spell was dispelled. Whoever it was, their voice was extremely distorted. As if it wasn't a person at all, but a recording from a different time.
I slowly helped myself up and propped myself against a tree. I coughed, suddenly feeling slightly sick.
I covered my mouth as I continued to cough. It took half a minute for my coughing fit to end. I looked at my hand and gasped in surprise.
"What the hell?" There was black blood on my hand. I was sure as hell that I had red blood! I shook my head and noticed that a leaf fell onto the blood. I frowned as the leaf shrivelled up, slowly soaking and turning into black. Within seconds, it turned to ashes and the air blew it away.
"It's Kagayuki!" yelled someone.
I immediately got up and saw several people running after me. I found myself darting unbelievably fast across the forest floor and already, the pursuers seemed fairly far. I took a quick glance at the trees around me and swiftly climbed up the tree.
I was well hidden so there was now I'd be found. The pursuers eventually ran past, thinking I went down the way they thought. I noticed that their uniform was the same as Rayne's. Did they have high positions? I never found out.
I sighed a sigh of relief, lying comfortably in the tree I was on. I closed my eyes, feeling tired from the crazy events of today. However, my solace was short-lived.
"I finally found you, Kagayuki!"
I opened my eyes and briskly jumped away from the threatening presence behind me. I nearly slipped on a branch, but just merely gained my balance.
I saw a man steadily poised on a thin branch with eyes filled with as much anger as excitement. He wore a short, black coat and was wearing blades in sheathes.
His purple eyes stared at me with pure hatred as if he wanted to burn me through.
"Who are you?" I said with caution lacing my voice.
"Has your brain rotted after so much little time?" spat the man. He unsheathed two dual swords and positioned himself.
"I am Hiroki Klein, your executor."
