"Did ya feel that?" Rica asked with a surprised look while looking at the direction where Hina and Hajime were doing their training.
Reiko looked at Rika with a confused face and asked, "What do you mean?" As she suddenly started growing an intense aquamarine color.
"Huh?!"
"What's happening to your body?"
Rica asked as she started looking at Reiko with a complicated expression that looked lather concerning considering how she looked or how her face looked.
Reiko observed herself closely and thought with a shocked face. "This cant be happening! My barrier was breached?"
"But by whom?"
In a brink of an eye her wounds on the finger she cut earlier reopened and immediately blood started coming out, but the moment the blood was about to touch the ground it started to dissolve and and in mid air it stopped. But for some reason it looked like it was floating for a moment, but in no time it retained to Reiko and her reopened wounds ware sealed again.
Reiko's eyes enlarge with rage for a second and with a scary and intimidating look she grumbled and whispered to herself, "Hina."
'She remembered the name Hajime gave to her summon. Hajime gave the name Hina to the "Coltess" AKA "rabbit girl" because her face looked similar to a Hina doll.'
Reiko started heading the direction Hajime was and Hina was to check what happened for her to lose her summon, and also check if there was a third party involved in breaching her barrier.
"Where are ya going?" Rica asked, she was well aware where Reiko was going but she wanted to make sure that everything was okay on not.
Reiko stopped and looked at Rica with plane look on her face and said, "I am going to check on Hajime and see how he is doing."
"You just stay here and recover the mana you used up." While she turned around and continued moving.
'She was obviously lying just to keep her sister in the dark about her barrier being breached and her summon being out of her hands.'
Later, Reiko reached where Hajime and Hina were training only to find that they were nowhere to be seen, and she found blood everywhere and a trail of it was reading to were her barrier was breached.
"Is this Hajime's blood?"
"Oh no. If he's out of the barrier with this much blood loss, he might not make it to see tomorrow."
She said while looking at the trail of blood that was left by Hajime off the ground.
'I have to get to him quickly before it's too late.'
She said to herself while following the blood trail. When she reached the end of the blood trail, she found a huge gup on her barrier and some hair similar to Hina, but the only difference was that the hair looked burned and there something that looked like skin underneath the hair.
She stopped and scanned the area of any presence and saw that the trail was continuing in the woods those where next to the training grounds. She kept on following the trail and saw something moving so fast from a distance deep in the woods.
She did not stop there but started following the thing to see what it was and if it had Hajime but she lost track of it after it took a strange turn by a small river that was deep inside the woods.
"Where did it go?"
She wondered with curiosity while looking left and right of the trees near her. And there no blood trail left to be followed, it was like the thing she was following just disappeared together with Hajime.
'She wasn't concerned about Hina, because she thought Hina had died while trying to leave her barrier after she saw the hair on the huge gup on her barrier, and she thought maybe the blood trail had disappeared because of the water from the river.'
Somewhere in the deepest part of the woods, Hajime was lying down under some big trees which almost covered the whole area he was in. He was still on conscious and all the areas he was stubbed by Hina had completely recovered.
Birds were singing, the sun lays shined brighter making some water droplets on the leaves to shine like crystals because of the light that was reflecting on them, and a girl one of Hajime's daggers was seating on a rock without anything on.
She stood up and started heading towards Hajime with the dagger on hand. She was squeezing the dagger very hard as she got closer to him, and the moment she reached him she raised the dagger up and was ready to stub.
STUB!!
Instead of subbing Hajime, she stubbed a venomous snake that was about to bite Hajime on his wrist. It was a big snake that had scales like a frost dragon, and it was brown as most of the trees in these woods to help it to go incognito when attacking it's play, but the girl managed to get rid of it before it was able to do any harm.
The girl picked up the snake as it squirmed in pain and tossed it on the rock she was seating on. The snake continued to squirm and trying to flee in a bush that was down the rock, but the moment it tried it's luck the girl threw the dagger at the snake and sliced it's head in two.
She looked at Hajime with an expressionless look and shifted her left hand a little as she moved towards the dagger and the snake.
Hajime started to regain consciousness, but as he slowly opened his eyes he uttered, "I'm sorry, but I'll be busy tomorrow."
The girl quickly looked at him after hearing his voice, and moved closer to him to see if he was indeed waking up.
Hajime opened his eyes and everything he tried to look at was foggy. He shifted his hands to clear his vision by rubbing his hands against the eyes, but the moment he managed to do so everything started to look clear.
He looked up at the trees and took in a deep breath while while turning his head to what where he was and saw that there was a girl he have never seen before standing next to him while still in her birthday suit.
"!!!!"
This caught him by surprise that he thought maybe he was seeing things after being beat up by a girl. He stood up immediately and faced the girl with a shocked look face. He raised his hands and slapped his face with his full force to maybe snap out of it if he was inside a dream.
The girl approached him after he just slapped his face, she grabbed his hands and removed them from his face, but the instant she grabbed his hands, there were no sign of Hajime slapping himself.
'Who are you?"
He asked as the girl left his hands and started staring at him with her face still expressionless, but the girl did not respond. She just kept looking at him.
"Do you have a name?" Hajime nervously asked, but the girl just kept staring at him.
Hajime gawked at the girl and remembered that he was trying to run away from Hina and he had been stubbed by her a lot. He looked right and left trying to see if there was Hina around, but while looking the girl grabbed his right hand and started pulling him to stand up.
"What are you doing?!" He asked, his voice a mix of loss, nervousness and surprise.
The girl kept on pulling him, but Hajime could not budge from where he was seating. A second later he heard footstep coming from behind him. He turned nervously to see who's was there, and as the footstep got closer to where he was, he stood up swiftly while facing the direction he was hearing the footsteps, while the girl kept her grip on Hajime's hand.
A girl older than Hajime appeared Infront of him furiously while carrying a long sword as big as her.
"Reiko!"
Hajime said as he got a good look at the girl with the long sword.