When the shot was fired, the customized bullet, covered in Shuren's white Kensei, ripped through the air and headed directly for Mya.
As Mya thrashed helplessly, her body trembling as if it were disintegrating from the inside out, Taura gritted her teeth and locked her arms around her shoulders. Assad was also trying his best to hold her down. Mya did not fight them at all, yet her emotions were the reason both Taura and Assad were struggling as she was slowly awakening into a True Failure.
Her voice cracked as she whispered to no one and everyone at once while tears ran down her cheeks incessantly.
"Why...?"
Her mouth quivered.
"What made you take them?"
As it approached, the bullet hit Mya squarely in the side of her neck. Immediately upon contact, the white Kensei embedded in the custom round spread out like a silent wave rather than a violent explosion. The raging blue energy surrounding Mya flared in resistance for a moment before faltering.
A faint gasp escaped Mya's throat, and her lips parted slightly, causing her body to stiffen.
"Ah."
The ferocious aura that had been erupting from her started to flicker, initially unsteady like a dying flame battling the wind. She shuddered,her knees buckled. Without hesitation, Taura sprang forward before her body could reach the ground.
"I have her!"
Her weight went completely limp as she carefully caught Mya, her arms encircling the child. When Mya finally passed out, her head cocked to the side and she breathed steadily but shallowly. Assad took a sharp breath, as though he had been holding it the entire time, and stumbled back a step. He touched his forehead and wiped away the perspiration that had accumulated there.
His chest continued to rise and fall heavily as he muttered under his breath, "What the hell was that?"
His gaze remained fixed on Mya's now-immobile form. She had appeared to be on the verge of exploding from sheer grief just moments before.But now she appears as a hopeless, harmless and sleeping child.
Taura's expression was unusually serious as she repositioned her grip to support Mya's head more gently.
"She's out cold."She muttered,
Though they no longer surged or lashed out, Mya's body still had the tiniest traces of blue energy. Rather, like embers after a storm, they flickered feebly.
Slowly, smoke drifted from the barrel as Shuren lowered her gun.
"Good," she whispered.
Even after the energy had completely subsided, Shuren remained vigilant.
She just turned.
"Taura. Take her with you. We're returning.
She spoke in a cool, firm, and definitive tone.
Without hesitation, Taura repositioned her hold on Mya, bringing the unconscious child closer to her arms. Taura held Mya with unexpected gentleness despite her diminutive size, using one hand to steady her body and the other to support her head.
"Yeah," Taura said softly.
Without saying another word, she got up and started toward the car, taking care not to bump into Mya. Shuren was on the move already. Devoting the need to turn around, she walked in front of them as though the recent events were just another task accomplished.
Assad stood there by himself. Now that the chaos was gone, the night air felt suddenly heavier. The blast of energy from a few moments ago was nearly drowned out by the silence that remained.
His gaze shifted to Shuren's retreating back after following Taura as she carried Mya.
He had questions in his mind and there was an unlimited number of them that he wanted to query. But was there a need to, Shuren just shot a young girl and is now acting like nothing happened as she walks to the car.
He had no choice, it was like something told him that if he dared to ask that dangerous woman what happened inside that mansion, he might find himself dead within a couple of seconds and have no clue on how he even died.
So it's in his best interest to keep his mouth shut.
Thus Assad began to walk back to the car as well, as he was taking his steps back he glanced back at the rotten mansion. The many mysteries about this world just came flooding to him.But back on Earth, something like that would never have been possible, unthinkable, but here it was reality and that fact weighed heavily in his chest.
This was survival of the fittest and there was nothing he could do about it. Was the method that he was about to discover to get back to his original earth easy or extremely difficult?
The drive back to Kurayamiya was quiet,during the ride inside it was silent no one dared to even say a word, in the car Shuren was still smoking her cigarette as it was some sort of tradition for her. Even an idiot had to be curious on how cigarettes are always there.
Does she always have a box or two ready? It's really a mystery.
That's when they all arrive at the agency, Taura parked the car close and they all came out of the car then they all entered inside Pixia was in the middle of reading her daily weird and questionable magazine. That's when she saw the door open and saw the others enter.
"Oh you guys are all back, that must have been a good job." Pixia said.
Then she saw something and everyone was a little bit down in emotions. She does not understand that everyone is quiet for a minute. It was really confusing for Pixia.
"What's with you guys you all look down on the weather, was the mission really that hard or am I just dumb?" Pixia asked.
Shuren walked forward to Pixia at the receptionist table of hers holding the unconscious Mya, her face still calm and still smoking.
"Don't worry that much, nothing that fun went down." Shuren said.
"But with all of you looking like this it's really hard to believe ya know." Pixia said with a faint sight of worry in her face and voice.
Pixia then saw Taura carrying Mya on her shoulders and her confusion rose up by a bit.
Shuren gently grabbed Pixia's head and brought it to her chest, this gesture finally made Pixia calm down. Shuren let go and nodded to everyone signalling that the calm down method worked yet again.
Shuren gave Taura a glare that told her what to do and he started walking with Mya on her shoulders.
Assad was still confused even with what just happened. They are all pretending like it never happened. The entire mission was all chaos instead of just a rescue mission even if it did fail without a doubt it did fail but still they act like nothing happened they just continue with their daily lives as if nothing went down.
"Assad."
Assad looked up at Shuren's direction, his face still filled with sadness but trying his best not to show it.
"Let;s go to my office. We have something to talk about and it's going to be a long one.Shuren said.
Assad looked at Shuren first then he nodded, they started walking to her office and it was silent. Both of them were quiet, it was like that until they reached her office Shuren was the first to enter. She opened the door carefully then went inside. Assad wanted to follow but it felt like something was stopping him
'What will we be talking about anyway?'