Chapter 109: 109. Can I trust you?
109. Can I trust you?
(Am I dreaming?) Justin thought. That was what Justin really wanted. At this moment, He hoped that he was dreaming about this place. He scanned his surroundings…
Blood, blood, and blood… lots of blood had been spilled. There are some pieces of corpses here and there too. It was like a scene straight out of a horror movie.
"Hik!?" Mina let out a voice. She was shocked that she didn't even have a leeway to scream. She was instantly stunned there.
Justin was no different than her. However, he slightly recovered from his daze, thanks to Mina's voice. It was a human's strange ability. Like how humans become calmer whenever they see someone who panicked more than him. Or how they become relieved when they know someone scored lower than them on the last test.
Justin's first action was to hide Mina behind him. Then with a broader view, Justin looked around once again. He saw Priscilla wasn't alone. There were others who wore the same uniform as her. There are also those who wore regular civilian clothes similar to the victims on the ground.
Unfortunately, Justin wasn't the only one who heard Mina's voice. Priscilla and the others also heard it.
"Reinforcement!?" One of the battered guys who wore the same uniform as Priscilla cried out.
On the other hand, Priscilla is also shocked to see both Mina and Justin at this place. She didn't know what to do about this situation. Then when her teammate suddenly grouped them with those puppets…
"No!" She shouted, "They are civilians!" she reminded her teammate. But, That one moment she used to tell her teammate made her one beat late to realize what happened next. While her teammate, who didn't know Mina and Justin's identities, was also too late to react.
The puppets or the normal civilians who turned into puppets they fought with. One of them, who was closest to Mina and Justin, changed his target toward Justin.
Priscilla immediately tried to chase after, but with those puppets' stronger physical abilities than normal humans, she could not make it in time. Her teammate was also the same. Once they knew those two were civilians, they instantly moved to help because that was the primary purpose of their organization… the Guild. Still, it has the same result.
When Justin saw the approaching man in an office suit. His Instinct kicked in. He knew this guy was dangerous and also expected that he couldn't escape from him. the only thing he could do was…. To protect Mina, who was behind him.
"Grraa!" the man in the office suit roared like a feral beast as he threw a punch at Justin.
Justin immediately pulled up both of his hands to defend against it. When the man's punch landed on his hand, Justin felt an unimaginable force on it. He felt the world was moving in slow motion. He could feel his hands start to bend at a strange angle. If this continues then His arms would have more than one joint in the future.
His brain hasn't registered those pain yet. So he felt nothing from it. People say that when someone is about to die, they will see their whole flashes in front of their eyes. But Justin didn't see it. Instead, his mind was occupied with Mina's well-being.
The next moment Justin feels his body start to float from the ground. He was blown away by the man's punch and immediately collided with Mina, who was right behind him.
Both were blown away by that one punch. Yet, in that helpless situation, Justin's Will hasn't given up. "I'll ensure you are safe even if it was the last thing I do!!" In those slow-motion-like times. Justin forced his body to turn. Some strange noise came out from his body, but none of them entered his ears.
He hugged Mina and covered her with his larger body. Before the slow-motion moment ended and they both flew meters away from their original place.
"Kuhaa!" Justin let out a pained voice when his body crashed into the wall. The wall cracked by their body forces. The first thing that entered his eyes was a fainted Mina inside his hand. Mina fainted from the impact of Justin's body crashing with her before. However, she was safe and sound. That was the last of Justin's consciousness.
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When Justin opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was unfamiliar ceilings. He was confused when he tried to remember why and how he could be in this place. He instantly remembered, similar to someone who was having a nightmare, he woke up in a flash.
"Mina!" Justin shouted as he looked around, searching for her. "oh," he let out a relieved sigh the next moment because he immediately saw Mina sitting beside his bed.
Then he remembered another thing. "Aa-?" he reflexively tried to cry out in pain. Because his hands bent strangely, only to stop himself halfway when he didn't feel anything on his hands. He looked at his hands and found there was nothing unusual, everything looked fine.
In the meantime, "Justin!" Mina jumped onto him without hesitation.
"You're looking fine for someone who is just one step away from death."
Justin turned toward the voice and finally registered the presence of the third person. It was Priscilla Bella.
"Priscilla!?" Justin was shocked to see her here, especially after seeing that scene. In his heart, he didn't want to believe it. However, he knew his eyes were seeing reality at that time.
"I know you're confused and have many questions for me. I will explain it now. Is there anything you wanted to know first?" Priscilla said. Staring straight at Justin's eyes.
After a while, Justin finally opened his mouth, "are you trying to hurt us? To hurt Mina?" with a glint, he stared at Priscilla's eyes back.
Priscilla's pupil by his question. She thought he might ask something similar like that but never expected him to really ask it. On the other hand, Mina also let Justin go and took a hand distance staring at Justin.
"No," Priscilla replied.
"Can I trust you?" Justin asked again.
"Yes," Priscilla didn't think much and immediately replied.
"Okay," Justin said, then his expression softened. "Then can you tell me what happened after I lost consciousness and what happened to my body?" he asked leisurely, just like how he usually contacts Priscilla in school.
"…Alright, at that time when you're struck by those puppets, we thought you two already dead" Priscilla was dumbfounded for a moment before she recovered herself.
"It was impossible for a normal person to survive that. But when we finished our job, we discovered that you are still alive even when you're one step away from leaving this world while Mina only had a light injury."
"Ah!" Justin shouted, "Now that you mentioned it, what happened to me!?"
Both Mina and Priscilla are exasperated by Justin. "Haa~" Priscilla sighed. "Anyway, I think Mina already waited long enough," Mina nodded beside Justin. "I'll tell you about the other side that you two didn't know."
"Have you ever heard of an Esper or ESP?"
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