BXBX NOVEL Chapter 70 - Is That A ...
* My First Story - Kimi No Inai Yoru Wo Koete *
AN: I have no idea what that means...
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"Well, the satellite might need a replacement," Ted said looking up at the now dim second sun before covering his eyes and looking back at the girl again.
\'RIP...\' Raven thought to herself quietly. \'Well, it only means I have to run now before they come, right?\'
"Anyhow, I see that you\'re a little bit nervous, and I don\'t blame you. You\'ve been through a lot already, especially considering your young age," Ted stroked his chin subconsciously and looked Raven up and down, making her feel a little uncomfortable. "How old are you by the way?"
Raven looked back and pondered about the question, her actual age was 16, but her body only looked about ten or eleven maybe.
"Hey, it\'s impolite to ask a lady about her age," Jaime said with an almost serious tone, which surprised Raven.
"Err..." Ted didn\'t know what to say so he just changed the subject, "alright, how about you help us clean up? There are tons of monsters still roaming the city."
"I\'m sorry, but no," Raven replied blankly, surprising the duo, "I wasn\'t lying when I said I\'m only a B ranker, and I\'ve done way more than I should have. I can barely stand straight."
"It\'s understandable, I guess," Ted said back, "sorry, but then just wait for us alright? It\'s pretty dangerous if you can\'t fight."
"You can go back to Camilla, and your sister? That little salty girl," Jaime said, still remembering what Maya had said to him. \'the little brat, I wish she was as competent as her sister here, \' he thought quietly.
"She\'s not my sister!" Raven said almost too fast, "Err, we just met in the, err, gate, dungeon? The other planet." she continued. If she wanted no trouble with rhe EDA, she had to find a way to erase her traces as much as she could.
"But she said-"
"Doesn\'t matter, she\'s not my real sister I\'m telling you!" Raven countered, cutting Jaimie off. To be fair, she wasn\'t lying as Maya wasn\'t her real sister.
"Ok..."
"Alright then, umm, we\'ll be going, you go back to the group or find any other ranker to protect you," Ted said awkwardly, "We\'ll meet again, I\'m pretty sure." he said with a wave as he started walking towards the explosions in the distance.
"Yea... take care," Jaime said and followed suit. \'What\'s wrong with little girls these days!\' he thought to himself.
"Fuu~" Raven took a good deep breath the moment they were out of sight.
\'I should probably tell the girls to keep my identity a secret.\' she thought as she started walking towards the direction where she left them at. \'I hope to God I don\'t find them there, I\'d be so angry!\'
[Raven?]
\'Kay? What\'s up?\'
[Don\'t you want to take a look at the sword the monster dropped? It might prove useful in the future.]
\'Oh-\' she suddenly remembered that she\'s kicked that huge sword away from the monster, rather than blasting it away.
\'Um, do you know where that ended up landing?\' Raven asked inwardly with a silly expression on her face, \'I don\'t remember exactly where I threw it at.\'
[For sure, keep going straight in the southwest direction.]
Kayla was happy to be of help again, and it appeared in her cheerful tone and Imaginary figure inside Raven\'s mind, which made the latter warm inside.
\'Copy, ma\'am!\' she thought back.
[Haha!]
It was a small faint chuckle yet it was the first that Raven has heard from the girl in her head.
\'You\'re so adorable, you know that?\' Raven said with a soft smile as that laugh has touched her heart.
She knew for a fact that the girl wasn\'t a robot, she was a living being, a young little girl trapped in someone\'s head.
That internal thought made her heart ache, but she didn\'t let it show as not to ruin Kayla\'s mood.
[Thank you! I love you Raven!]
Kayla replied cheerfully and with a big smile this time.
\'Love you too Kay, love you too.\'
Walking slowly, Raven kept stumbling across the ruined battlefield untill she reached a small crater behind one of the buildings that were lucky enough to still be standing.
However, it wasn\'t left unscathed as a huge hole was running through it, forming a straight tunnel-like structure.
At the center of that crater, which was just in line with the tunnel-like structure, Raven found herself staring at a... "Is that a cat?" she thought out loud in surprise.
In front of her, cuddling in the small crater was a tiny jet black cat-like creature. "Oh My God it\'s so cute!" Raven found her female instincts tingling to hold the creature between her arms.
[Be aware that this is not a cat, it\'s a dangerous creature!]
\'Eh? This?\' Raven asked with a silly face as she was already holding the creature within her arms.
[I can feel a weak dangerous aura being emitted by it, it\'s the same aura the sword was emitting against Jaime.]
Raven could sense it too, and even as a confirmation or a proof, she could feel small burning marks on the jet black silk like fur.
\'This?\' Raven said with the same silly expression she made the first time, unwilling to let go of the unconscious creature.
[...]
\'...\'
[Raven?]
\'Eh?\' Raven was about to pat its head, but stopped abruptly when Kayla called for her.
[Alright,]
Raven could swear she heard Kayla\'s robotic voice make a faint sighing sound.
[Since you\'re willing to... what\'s your plan again?]
\'Ah... I haven\'t thought that far ahead to be honest, hehe.\' Raven hugged the creature with one hand under her wing as she scratched her cheek in embarrassment and started walking away. \'I guess I\'ll keep it.\'
Suddenly her expression became serious and sincere, surprising even Kayla and Raven herself, \'if my hunch is right, then that b*stard had captured this poor creature and forced it to act as his sword, not caring about the consequences or what that might imply on its life.
\'I wish I could revive that b*tch only to crush it again, but this time using my own hands.\'