(CHAPTER 3: RAY OF HOPE)
"Are-are you okay?"
Those soft words pulled me back from my thoughts, hallucinations about my past. I rolled my eyeballs up to see clearly exactly who is talking to me, too weak to lift my head up. Either another devil is here to beat me up or the angles are coming to send me back to where I come from.
It was a girl, the large cloak covered her face, I couldn't even see anything. Everything right now is like being filmed on a low quality video recorder. "You-u okay?" I would've say fuck off, if I still had the strength to move my lips. I've been starved for days, only source of edible I get is rain water and the air that I breath.
"You wanted food?"
"F-uck o-ff" Hey I spoke it, with my last ounce of breath, I spoke it before shutting my eyelids for good. Who needs your help lady, don't you know who I am? I don't need your help, I could crush your entire universe within seconds. Those brats and cunts, I will kill them once I gain my true power and identity back. If I could get back…
"Okay, I left some food." I hear she placing down something beside me, it smelt amazing. I tries to move but I couldn't, looks like I am going to die out of hunger, with food within reach.
How pathetic.
Just when desperation is about to swallow me whole, I felt a light touch on my face, a hand lifted me up from the ground and placed me upon something soft, and fluffy. It smelt like, daisies and sunflowers, as if I am currently taking a nap in the middle of a flower field. Not starving to death at some alley at the middle of nowhere.
"Say ah~" I felt something poking at my mouth, and upon reaction I opened it. A small chunk of bread was fed into my mouth, alongside some water to soften it and make it easier to swallow. The process was repeated again and again. Until I've finally replenished my energy, and I opened my eyes.
"Your finally awake huh? Good for you."
Shit was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Through that angle lying on her thighs, it felt like she was really an angel. Her hair was snow white, with hint of silver within it. There are two rabbit ears poking out under her cloak, maybe she dare to show me after she realize we are both the same. Her eye is blood red, alongside a bunny teeth and milky skin makes her adorable.
"Thank you."
Those are the words I've spoke for the first time, for the past seven days I've been here. My voice seems rough, but she didn't mind as she blossomed a smile. Shit just almost help me got an heart attack. "I mean I didn't need your help anyway." I turn around, and stood up, patting the dust of my cloak.
"So you are heading to where?" She asked, standing up too. "I don't know, how about you?" I ask back. "I am heading to the Sanctum of Life." "Sanctum of Life?" "Yeah, place where beings like us could finally settle down." She let out an awkward smile, poking out those darn bunny teeth again. "I am heading towards there anyway." I spoke, trying to act cool, hoping she didn't notice that I am just tagging alone.
"How about we travel together." Great, just what I wanted. "Sure." I shrugged my shoulders, trying to act like I don't care. "My name is Aiko Aki. What's your name again?" Aiko Aki, what's this, Japanese? "I don't, have a name." I turn my head around, I am new here, how could I know? "How about Nozomi Rey? Yeah you like that? It means ray of hope" "Sure why not." I was about to shrugged my shoulders again, but I stopped. Will it be too weird to repeat an action that many times?
"Well let's go then, the sky is getting dark, it's quite late." She stare at the setting sun, the sky appears pink and violet, surely the sunset at the other world is indeed spectacular. "H-how?" Gosh I didn't even knew I could stammer, not ever since the beginning of my existence. "I could carry you if you don't mind." She approached her hands wide open. "You knew that bunnies are faster right? And this area is not safe, we might get attacked any second now." "Why?" I blushed, my sanity tells me no, but some part of my instinct is playing a fucking symphony.
"Come on, you are small." Indeed she is a bit, no, a lot taller than me. "I can carry you like nothing, trust me. If we stay more than any second, we are in danger." She pulled up an edge of her cloak, revealing her damn looking muscular thighs in black knee socks. "All right, put that down!" I turned around and yelled, I could felt something popping, it was way too much for me to handle.
"Sorry." She stuck out her tongue a bit and apologized, before carrying me up in her hands, squeezing me against her, did I really need to mention the details? "Hold on tight!" I heard she screamed, before stomping her legs onto the ground beneath her. The ground surely cracks from all those force as she rocketed out. Shooting like an arrow off the bow, hopping from one roof to another at an amazing speed. It seems cool, but not if you're the one on the ride. Fells like I am being stuck in a barrel, filled with flower scenting cotton, but was tossed and flipped in a tsunami.
"Yaaaaargh, slooooow dooooowwwwnnn!!!"
"Yipe!"