Reincarnated as an affinity-less hero, the quest to become the strongest!

Chapter 47: A girlish boy?

'I wanna go back...'

That's all I could think of the words: ""Now, Reika... will you please tell us who Reiki is supposed to be?"" laid heavily on my ears, as my entire sights filled with light...

I had no words to respond to both of my friends as they intently look into my eyes...

""So? Will you tell us who is this Reiki, we keep hearing so much about?""

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I knew exactly what they wanted to know, but I, wasn't going to tell them the truth... For the sake of my secret... and more importantly, for the sake of my relationship with my friends.

So!

What better thing to do than to play dumb, am I right...?!

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Well, it's the best thing I came up with, ok?

"Hehe〜 What might you be talking about?"

I said as I looked away innocently, averting their sights...

However, as I did so, their smiles only grew wider and far more... 'perverse' as the sights of the guild and the army of soldiers faded away into the blinding rays of light...

The scenery around us, consisting of armored knights, scared plebians and a gasping mustached pig, all became blurry...

However, just as their images became blurry, so did their complaining voices:

"Don't let... the... esca...e!!!"

"TRA...ORS!!!"

"BR...G T... TO JU...ICE!!!"

Their wails and pleads became lost as we began fading away...

But just as we did, I turned around to see a confident Callum looking straight into my eyes. He was smiling as usual, despite the chaos around him. But as we faded away, he muttered something, that regardless of the metaphorical plugs in my ears, and the commotion around me, I was able to catch perfectly...

"Best of luck girls"

And without much more happenings, we faded away into nothingness...

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I did not know how much time had passed since I last closed my eyes, but as I try to open them, a familiar sky was projected into my vision...

"Grey..."

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Those stormy clouds... This raspy ground... the dreadful silence... 

I had seen them somewhere before...

I was quite unsure where, or when... But I knew I had seen this place before...

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But, as I was left in wonder and doubts regarding my rather unexpected familiarity to this place, the clouds, the atmosphere, and a rather peculiar feature of this place... sent chills down my spine...

'Please don't tell me it's... No No No..., please... Don't let it be..."

I immediately jerked from where I lay and began gazing rapidly around me... discovering some perturbing images in the process...

As I turned around in desperation, what I saw only further confirmed the suspicions that had been quickly generated by my survey of the sky...

As I looked around me shaking my head in confusion... What I saw was ash, dust, and a huge familiar crater I had just 2 days ago...