Worthless

The hand fell towards Sophia, but for some reason, she couldn't move or feet or dodge the hand.

She didn't understand why she couldn't move but more than that she couldn't understand why Ravi attacked her.

Without any choice, she decided to face it, her eyes glowed and she created a dome of ice above her head. But the ice was broken apart easily and the hand pressed down towards her and this all happened in an instant.

Sophia eyes were wide apart when her ice dome was shattered into pieces and she couldn't think what else to do now as she was just a few meters away from the hand.

Before she could do anything the hand was just inches away from her, so she decided to let fate decide her way and closed her eyes. If she was meant to die here then she was fine with that, but her only regret would be not being with her loved ones and dying without knowing why Ravi attacked her.

And just when the hand was about to bite her, she felt a hand grabbing her and pulling her away.

Sophia opened her eyes and found Brain beside her, he knew Ravi was about to attack her, so he decided ahead of time and was barely able to save her.

Sophia wasn't someone who wouldn't appreciate kindness, so she thanked him.

"Thank you and I am sorry for earlier."

She also didn't forget to apologize for her behavior earlier. For which, Brain just nodded.

Then they both focused on the man ahead and Brain asked Sophia.

"Don't you know him? You were protecting him earlier."

To which Sophia replied meekly,"I know him."

"Then why did he attack you?" Brain asked.

Even Sophia wanted to know why, but she didn't know the answer so kept silent, staring at Ravi who was motionless since he attacked her.

And suddenly he collapsed to the ground with a 'thud'.

When he collapsed an old pendant which had some stains of blood on it, fell in front of him. The pendant fell to the ground and opened automatically revealing a picture of a girl on one side of it and the other side a picture of a little boy.

Ravi's eyes fell on the picture of the girl, and his lifeless eyes turned to rage and the next moment of regret, he gritted his so hard that both Sophia and his brain could listen to it And the next moment, a horrible shriek escaped Ravi's mouth.

"Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!!!"

It was so loud that Brian and Sophia shuddered in their steps.

Brain fell to the ground, and his knees gave up. Even without anything he felt fear, as if he was in front of an injured beast, who would tear him apart the next moment.

Sophia on the other hand could feel the pain in his voice, the regret he felt after losing someone precious to him. She loathed herself for not being with him in his dire moment.

Even now when he was screaming his guts out she can't share his burden. She felt utterly helpless and useless.

Ravi was still screaming, some tears welled up in his eyes and he started to hit the ground below with his hand.

He was blaming himself for his loss and his worthlessness. He wanted to harm himself as his atonement.

He left hitting the ground, but nothing happened and nothing can't happen. What's been lost can't be taken back.

He stopped hitting the ground and looked up to the sky but this time his eyes were pleading with something.

"Please... just please, answer me. Why me? WHY ME?!" he begged the sky, screaming at it but he didn't get any answers.

He again fell to the ground, as if he didn't have any energy left to stand up anymore, and his eyes closed.

Brain was knee bent and Sophia had tears wailing in her eyes and both didn't know what was happening in front of them.

It was even more shocking for Brain. First, a random man attacked their base, destroyed the entire landscape, and his colleagues collapsed then he attacked the girl who Brain thought was his friend and started screaming to the sky and begging for it. He never had a more shocking or to say troublesome day in his entire life.

On the other hand Sophia was lost in her own thoughts and regretted not searching for him before and now it was too late. She didn't know what happened to him and didn't know how to help him in any way possible.

They both had different perspectives on this matter, one wanted to end it all and the other wanted to know more in depth.

They were lost in their thoughts when five people two girls and three boys, one of them in his mid-30s approached them. They were the reinforcements sent by the warrior's headquarters.

"How is the situation?" The middle age man asked.

He scanned his surroundings, one man lying on the ground, a little girl weeping and a man in his late 20s lying knee bent to the ground, looking at his surroundings, he had little hope for anyone's survival.

No one replied for a few seconds and then Brain got up to reply to him," Everyone's fine and the barrier protecting the city is still there. We just need to heal the collapsed one and reconstruct the barrier of the city guards' base." He reported the situation.

"Where's the monster who was attacking the city?" A middle-aged man asked.

Sophia was listening to them, and clenched her hands, she was ready to attack them if they tried anything toward Ravi.

Brain stayed quiet for a moment and replied," He was gone before we arrived here." He reported. Well, clearly he lied. Even though he didn't know why he lied, he thought he shouldn't speak about Ravi to them and call him the monster that attacked them.

The first reason for that is, when he screamed even he could feel that he wasn't rational and had just lost something very precious to him.

The second is, Sophia. Yes, even if he were to report them about Ravi, she would protect him and he felt Sophia was more powerful too, than the five in front of him.

"Alright. Go and treat the victims." The middle-aged man ordered the four people behind him and they immediately nodded and left.

Then the man stared at Ravi who was lying on the ground, and asked Brain, "Who's he?"

Brain didn't reply this time, instead, Sophia replied instantly, "He's my friend and he also collapsed after feeling the pressure from that monster."

The middle-aged man looked at Sophia suspiciously and stared at her and Ravi, the blood stains on Ravi were from an attack so he collapsed after feeling the pressure. It was kind of fishy for him.

Brain looked at the man and noticed his suspicious look and spoke supporting Ravi.

"She is right. He collapsed after the aura earlier, before that, he went to a nearby place to hunt and some blood was stained in his clothes. He is trying to enter Pis aller, so he was just training and I was with him during that." Brain spoke.

The middle-aged man simply nodded, it was going to be the time for the entrance exam of Pis Aller Academy and myouthsouth trained very hard for that, so it was a plausible explanation that Brain could think of and the middle-aged man also thought it was the truth.

Brain saw the middle-aged man nodding and sighed internally and couldn't help but think,

'Why am I covering for him? But they are just children and I can't see them being killed, at least not in front of me, not this time.'

Brain remembered a horrible past of his when he was stationed at a hospital and couldn't save the people there and was lucky enough to survive that incident.

'But I should still be vigilant, he is dangerous and I should also warn that little girl.'

"Take him and come to medication hall." Saying that the middle-aged man disappeared in an instant as if he wasn't there to begin with.

After he left, Brain looked at Sophia and Sophia did as well, she didn't know why he helped her but she was still grateful.

"I don't know what kind of relationship you have with him, but remember he is dangerous, I saved him this time but he that happens again I won't stop the forces if they even kill him. And if he harms anyone use that pendant and kill him, remember killing one person is better to save a hundred, it isn't right but still better." Brain told to Sophia.

Sophia nodded, she knew he said it in a good way and she wasn't a fool to not understand why he thought Ravi was dangerous, if he hadn't stopped many would have died, even Bibek who was a dear friend to her.

"Thank you for your help, and don't worry I will remember it." Sophia nodded and walked towards Ravi who was still lying in the mud.

'I will find what happened to you and make you the Ravi I remembered once again, I won't leave your side, not this time.'

She hardened her resolve to find the truth behind her lover's this state and she will do anything to find that out.

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