45 Earthquake

I glance at Kuro and saw that he was busy guarding the front opening of the gate where the kids currently hiding.

You know? I felt like all the burden that I had been carrying for almost a decade gradually lessen the longer I am with this man. It is good to feel that you don't have to carry your burden alone, and get to experience the joy of sharing and helping each other. It made the whole thing more enjoyable, easier and less suffocating. Don't get me wrong. My kids is not a burden, never was and never will ever be one. It is the responsibility and works that comes with it that can weight you down, especially when you have to do it all alone for a long, long time.

I acknowledge that I am born with a fickle heart. I tend to give up easily and right at the last minute, I'll changed my mind and try again. This attitude of me made me pissed at myself. I couldn't break free from it and it had felt like a cycle of curse.

That is one of the reason why most of my exes gets tired of me. I complain a lot, giving up easily and then trying again. I was seen as one of those who have no principle. In a world where everything moves fast and firm, I have no place anywhere. I was cast out as my oddity is beyond what the norm could accept.

Well, I learned the hard way to ignore it.

Second life, second chances. I'm not gonna be a pushover nor fickle one. Happiness is a choice not fate, nor what was given by gods.

Same with the other emotion, You choose to be happy if you want to be happy.

I look at Kuro and my heart felt full… of something. Its ticklish and definitely make me feel as if i'm on the air, floating along with the cloud.. could it be…

No. How many times I had speculate every relationship that comes my way as love? And none of them had worked out in the end. This time, no more. I'll take my time to explore this feeling. I cannot afford to make mistakes anymore.

That was when I felt it… the whole land shook and the ground cracked here and there. Kuro look at me with somber look before he's gone inside the cave. He went out, carrying both of our kids. It seems that they had been crying, their eyes had swollen and red. I wanted to run to their side, but Kuro eye's widen before he blasted me with some air, pushing me away from them.. I was flabbergasted only for a second before a huge ass mace came smashing down right where I was running to. That mace was as big as the wrecking ball. My heart tremble as it made a split of second decision to analyse the sizes of the weapon and the possible size of the wielder.

Should be bigger than so-called Goliath in the bible. He's already twelve feet tall… I shuddered.

"Run!!!" Yelled Kuro. But my eyes widen as I saw something big and dark appeared behind them. And it seem they had seen something behind me as Ailee keep on pointing at my back. I ativate my flying skil and quickly turned around.

There were more than one Lakh.. there's about five of them, all about eighteen feet tall, thick with muscles and fat. It's not huge, its gigantic!

How do you beat something like that? I don't even know what type of animal skulls big enough to fit their giant heads. They had the animal skulls with four pointy horns on top of their head, sitting like a hat. They don't have any shirt except a loincloth. I hope the wind doesn't blow too much today. I really don't want to be scarred for the rest of my life.

"Come here, Iiana" yelled Kuro. I do not know what he had in mind, but I hope he could come up with a solution.

'Why? You don't have your own brain to think??' My stupid conscience that might get me killed someday suddenly reared its ugly head. Seeing that a big sword swung to their direction in slow motion, I was horrified as my brain showed me what would soon to happened if I don't do something about it: blood and broken meat.

I lunged forward and hope with all my heart that my bow could change to sword and withstand that gigantic sword impact.

Activating strengthening effect, and durability against heavy impact, I charged forward and met the gigantic sword. If anyone had told me before that I could parries with a giant sword before this, I would smack their shoulder off their socket. But the sight was too illogical and unbelievable to see, that even me who were experiencing it in first hand felt how ridiculous it is.

Everything become standstill, as the impact of our weapon clashed strong gust of wind blowing away sands everywhere.

The mad lakh started to laugh out loud.

"Me found infinity mana!!!" Then his big, muscular hand, which I dubbed as grubby hand reach out to swoop me off from my feet. I'm running out an idea on what to do next since I not some martial art expert.

"Jump! And put a strength and fireball at the tip of your kick!" Yelled Kuro. I had a moment to feel unsure of myself but I gritted my teeth and put my heart into it the jump.

From the jump, the gravity brought me back down vertically, and I spun before dropping a high kick on top of the giant lakh head.