Fantasy Keychain Vol. 1

Chapter 8: An Unchangeable Fate

✧✦✧✦✧3rd person PoV✧✦✧✦✧✦✧

'It was very dark by the time I lost her...'

Ryu Akimoto remembered his past.

(I fell in love to an ordinary person. A person who is beautiful not just physically, but also emotionally, a person who would sacrifice everything just for the sake of others, a person who understands, and a person who accepted me for who I am.

Her name, was Yuna Arakaki.

I was a member of Kuroyami no Hoda when they found out that I have an affair with an ordinary woman. By the time I knew that they will eliminate the both of us, I quickly grabbed Yuna's hand and ran with her.

I explained everything to her, that a hoarder assassin like me is not allowed to have an affair with a non-hoarder. It is very restricted, and at the same time, execution is the punishment.

They will cut our head-off not just a means of removing disgraceful people from their society, but also to keep their society secret from the modern world.

I tried to fight and repel them off, but it wasn't enough...

They killed her by one of the men stabbing her from the back. I quickly raged as if my despair turns into anger. I fought and fought and fought again and again like a tireless berserk. I killed, stabbed, and slashed each and every one of them. Some got their head chopped-off, others were cut in the neck. I continued my every move and stances against them until one remained.

He tried to ran, however, I quickly grabbed him and pushed him to the ground while threatening him with my sword, "Tell everyone when you get back... That I will kill you all, and I will not spare a single one of you!"

He ran as quickly as he can, running in fear away from me. He should consider himself lucky. However, as a hoarder who failed his mission, it is considered bailing and hanging will be the punishment for it.

Meanwhile, I fell in despair when I saw Yuna again. She was just lying there, filled with her blood all around her...

'If only I'm not born a hoarder, maybe I will still have a happy ending with her, maybe we could've enjoyed life without hesitations. However, things like that doesn't exist, because this world has always been so cruel. So cruel that no matter how much we lived our life, we are still destined to die...')

Ryu Akimoto was spacing out as he drove Mari Ogawa to the hospital. However, it seems that Mari ran out of breath, and at the same time, her pulse just stopped.

Realizing it, as soon as he makes it to the hospital, he immediately rushed her to the emergency room. A group of nurse quickly assisted him.

Meanwhile, Eiji and the team followed as quickly as they can. They waited outside the room along with Ryu. However, Eiji is shaking as if he's trembling in fear, that Mari might die and that she may not make it.

Ryu saw him. So, he tried to calm him, "Stop trembling, kid. If she dies, she dies, but if she makes it, then we wouldn't have to worry. Either way, it's not our responsibility. We weren't even there when the accident happened."

However, Eiji still couldn't help but to worry, "But she is my schoolmate... I'm just worried, because after all, we weren't able to save them. It's just unfair, because by the time I was ambushed, I was saved, but for them? Ugh! I just got the feeling of regret..."

Toki was just listening at them, while also slowly getting irritated by Eiji, until finally, she snap out, "Just sit tight and calm down, will you!? It's not like we take full responsibility. Sometimes, there are people we can save, but there are others we cannot save too. Keep that in your mind!" Toki shouts at Eiji.