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Chapter 32: Now You See It, Now You Don't "Lets go to Kerning City for some shopping!" I called to Ivan as I ran down the stairs. "Okay!" he replied and followed me. "Take care, you two!" Fielda shouted, waving at us as we ran to the local bus stop. We checked the timetable and waited for a while. A few other people came also. After a while, the bus arrived and we got in, paying the fare on the way. We picked seats at the very back. An Assasin with black hair got in and sat beside us. He was acting pretty strangely too, sneezing every now and then and wiping his nose with his hand. I moved away from him. The bus finally started and we left for Kerning City. As I looked out the window at the scenery, I seemed to feel someone watching me. I glanced around and the Siren whispered, "Someone is watching us. I can feel it.". Ivan whispered back, "I don't sense any magic or anyone looking at us." I said, "Probably just my imagination." and looked out the window again. We were now entering the streets of Kerning City. I noticed the wreckage of the warehouse that I had been held prisoner in last time I was maplenapped. I shivered and Ivan put his hand on my shoulder, reassuring me. Finally, the bus stopped and we got off. The both of us went towards a grocery shop. Ivan looked back and told me, "That weirdo assasin seems like he's following us.". I hurried up with my shopping at the shop and went to a fish shop. Again, the assasin followed us. I started to get scared as we hurried to a meat shop. The assasin followed us yet again. Ivan noticed a dark alley nearby and nudged me. We went through the alley into another section of the market and blended in with the crowd. Ivan muttered, "He's following us all right." as the assasin strolled casually through the alley and disappeared into the crowd. We resumed shopping normally. Suddenly, I felt someone touch my buttocks and I turned around, looking around wildly. No one suspicious was in sight. Then again, the city was full of thieves and more than a hundred of them would be perverts. I decided to let it slip and walked towards the supermarket, thinking about buying some milk powder. As I walked towards the supermarket, I noticed a nice little bakery nearby and looked in the window. Suddenly, I heard a strange noise and the bakery exploded, raining the area with glass pieces from its windows. I took the brunt of the explosion, having been looking in the window and was thrown back. Glass pieces from the windows buried themselves in my whole body and I howled in pain, fainting almost immediatly. "Alexis......" a strangely familiar voice said. I tried to move my arms but I couldn't, they were hurting too much. "Hold on...... Alexis......" the voice said again and I opened my eyes. I was inside an ambulance on a stretcher. Ivan was beside me, holding my hand. "Wha.... what happened?" I managed to ask painfully, my entire body hurting all over. "You were caught in a bakery explosion and the glass windows buried their pieces in you." a nearby doctor said, moping her forehead. She was checking my body and pulling out whatever glass pieces she could see delicately. When my stomach was clear, Ivan put his ear to it and listened. He gasped in shock. I knew what had happened before he told me, the baby was dead. I cried softly as the ambulance stopped and my stretcher was carried into a hospital. I was immediatly rushed into the operation room and a surgeon injected me with something and I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was bandaged all over and Ivan was sleeping on a chair, his head on my bed. I looked outside and there was smoke being emitted from a burning building. I started to cry. My arms still hurt too much to be moved. Ivan woke up to the sound of my crying and said, "Alexis...... The baby is......" I replied, crying, "I... know...*sniff*... Dead..." Tears started flowing out of his eyes as a shocked Fielda walked in the door, followed by the rest of the party and the doctor. He said, "You're lucky you're a Fighter. Any other person would die from injuries like that, but you lived. However, your baby is a completely different matter......I'm sorry, but we couldn't save her. It was a girl." I cried even harder and buried my head in my pillow. Ivan tried to comfort me but I just cried even harder. The doctor added, "You can still give birth though. Your reproduction organs are still functional." Those words comforted me slightly and Ivan held my hand. Fielda was also crying while the other members of the party looked very serious. As I turned to look at Ivan, he held out something and explained, "I found this on your pants. It's a device that will trigger a bomb when it moves within a certain radius. In this case, it was the bakery." I suddenly remembered that someone had touched my buttocks earlier. I told him and he replied grimly, "An assasination attempt." Somewhere else in Kerning City...... (Saevio's FPV) I walked into a dark alleyway and snapped my fingers thrice. A secret door opened and I entered, the door closing up behind me. DeathLord was sitting at a chair in the room, arms folded. "I trust that everything went well?" I asked with a cold tone in my voice. He replied, "Yes. Everything went exactly as planned. The bomb exploded at the right time and the girl was blown up.". "Excellent." I said. "You will be rewarded for this." I added. "Thank you, Master." he said and drew his sword. "I still don't understand why you won't let me drive a sword through her heart!" he added furiously, slashing a box clean in half. "I do not wish to kill her, I merely wish to drop their morale." I replied. Alexis...... A week later, I was released from the hospital and I went back to the house. Even so, I spent most of the time crying over my daughter's death. Ivan would come and comfort me at those times and say, "It's no use crying over split milk." Eventually, his words convinced me and I returned to my normal lifestyle. However, I still spent some nights crying in a corner. |
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