3. Anger

On a rural road, Sumber village. There is a terrible sight in the corners of the village. The corpses were lying on the streets. Several army vehicles were also seen burnt.

"Shiroo..! Wait for me!!" shouted Akmal who was left far behind.

Akmal, who was no longer able to run, stopped for a moment to breathe. And not long after, Dara's voice was heard calling him.

"Akmal!!" shouted Dara, running closer.

Hearing Dara's scream, Akmal looked back. He looked surprised when he saw Dara who already looked very tired running over to him.

"Dara, what are you doing here?!" Akmal said, stammering with exhaustion.

"I heard what you were talking about at school earlier. Out of curiosity, so I decided to follow you two. Then where is Shiro-kun?" asked Dara, panting from exhaustion.

"He's already running far ahead. I can't even walk anymore." Akmal said, looking down exhaustedly.

Dara looked around and saw a bicycle lying in front of the house right beside them. Without any thinking, Dara then ran to get the bicycle.

"I'll borrow it for a while, sir, ma'am!!" shouted Dara, pedaling the bicycle to pick up Akmal.

"Akmal, come on, hurry up!" said Dara, stopping beside Akmal.

"Huh? Whose bicycle is that?!" Akmal asked curiously.

"Just let's go! Shiro-kun will be even further away!" said Dara, staring at the wisp of smoke in the direction they were going.

"A-Alright." Akmal said, hurrying into the back seat.

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Meanwhile, Shiro has arrived at the housing where he lives. He looked very panicked to see that almost the entire house had been burned. Moreover, unlike the village borders which were full of corpses that lying on the streets, along the paths he had passed, he no longer see a single corpse around him.

"God, I beg of you... May my mother be all right." Shiro said to himself as he kept running towards his house.

Arriving at his house, Shiro immediately broke down the front door without noticing the roof of his house which had started to catch fire.

"Mom!!" shouted Shiro, tracing the room of the house.

"Mom, where are you?!" Shiro looked for his mother in all corners of the house. Until finally he arrived in the kitchen and was surprised to see his mother and 2 soldiers lying on the ground inundated with blood.

"Mom, wake up!" shouted Shiro, holding his mother's cheek.

"Mom!!" Shiro tried everything he could to bring her mother back to her senses, but he still couldn't feel his mother's pulse beating. Until he lifted his mother's head and made him realize that there was a very bad wound on the back of his mother's head.

Shiro suddenly fell silent, staring sadly at his mother's face. Until a sound of plates falling from the burning table distracted him. Shiro glanced at the voice and saw a cake that had fallen on the ground covered in blood.

Seeing that cake, without realizing it, Shiro shed tears because he remembered the conversation with his mother a few days ago.

"Mom, I have my birthday soon. Are you not planning to make me something delicious?" Shiro joked to his mother.

"Well.. Then i will make you a giant fried cassava so you can eat it together with Akmal and your girlfriend, the blonde girl." said his mother, chuckling.

"I'm pretty sure if Cindy would think it's just a big, spiced root hunk." Said Shiro burst out laughing.

Unable to hold back his sadness, Shiro closed his eyes and shouted in a very loud voice.

"Aaarrrrgghhhh!!!!!"

"Why!!!"

"Why did you leave me mom." Shiro said softly, hugging his mother's body tightly.

While Shiro was in a state of devastation, suddenly 6 royal soldiers who heard his screams came from back door.

"Raise your hand!!" jerked one of the soldiers, drawing his sword at Shiro. "Are you a member of the Crowz?!"

"What, just a kid?" said another soldier.

"Just kill him. He may just be a villager. I'll prepare the vessel." said one of the other soldiers who was seen taking out a crystal stone from the bag his carrying.

"Crowz?" Shiro said softly, slowly lowering his mother's head.

Meanwhile, Dara and Akmal finally arrive at the housing where Shiro lives and rush to Shiro's house.

"It's so hot! Are you sure this is the house?!" Dara asked Akmal, getting ready to enter Shiro's house which was almost completely burned by fire.

"Of course!" Without a moment's hesitation, Akmal ran through the house which then followed by Dara who walk behind him.

"Hey, get rid of the bodies that are still intact and get them all in the truck!" There were voices of other soldiers in the backyard.

"Answer my question!! Are you Crowz troops?!!" shouted the soldier who was preparing to chop off Shiro's head from behind.

* Brrrruuaaaakk! * The sound of the roof collapsing.

"Dara, hurry up and help me!!" shouted Akmal, pushing the fallen log in front of them.

"Did you hear my question!!" jerked the soldier.

"Oh come on, just kill him!" said another soldier who is getting annoyed.

Shiro drew the sword that stabbed the burning corpse of a soldier beside him and then swung his sword back in a circular motion, slashing the two soldiers standing behind him at once.

One of the soldiers died instantly because his face was split open. Meanwhile, another soldier is dying and lying at Shiro's feet.

Shiro gripped his sword tightly, making his eyes turn bright red like a blazing flame.

"Help..Help me." said the soldier lying at Shiro's feet.

Shiro stuck the tip of his sword right in the head of the soldier and immediately ended his suffering. He then drew his sword to the right and left to widen the hole in the dead soldier's face and said, "Where are the Crowz?"

The other soldiers who had been stunned by Shiro's sudden attack finally decided to immediately kill him.

"Shoot! Kill him!!" shouted one of the soldiers, shooting Shiro right in the left shoulder.

"Shiro!!" shouted Akmal, who had just arrived at the kitchen door with Dara.

Even though he was shot, Shiro still stood upright with a look in his eyes that looked even more blazing. "I'll ask you one more time. Where are the damn Crowz!!"

"What are you waiting for!! Shoot him to death!!" shouted one of the soldiers who then prepared to fire.

"Fire!!"

"Shiroo!!!" Dara and Akmal ran towards Shiro and tried to save him from being shot by the soldiers.

Shiro ignored Akmal and Dara and darted towards the soldiers without avoiding their shots. And at a distance of 1 meter from the front of the soldiers, Shiro swung his sword sideways, giving rise to a fiery red flame, brighter and denser than ordinary flames. 3 of the soldiers were burnt instantly. Even the wooden wall that was behind the soldiers was burned and disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile, another soldier who had been leaning behind the wall was saved from death. However, he was badly injured as a result of colliding with the skulls of his friends who were burning and thrown out into the backyard.

Dara and Akmal could only be stunned watching the unusual incident they had just seen. Meanwhile, Shiro slowly walked over to the last soldier by dragging his sword across the ground, leaving flames in it's tracks.

"Stop it! Please!" shouted the soldier, crawling backwards away from Shiro.

Shiro completely ignored the soldier's plea and kept walking toward him.

"Guys, where are you!! Help me!!" The soldier shouted for help. However, no one else was there, because the other soldiers were moving the corpses of the citizens into their vehicles.

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The soldier fired several shots at Shirō, but Shiro did not flinch as if he didn't feel anything. His body also releasing hot smoke coming out of his wounds, as if the organs in his body were burning and evaporating.

"You, monster!!!" shouted the soldier in terror.

Right in front of the soldier, Shiro raised his sword high and prepared to cut down the soldier. The soldier looked at Shiro who is standing straight in front of him. His whole body is trembling. Knowing that his end was near, the soldier shed tears.

"Die." Shiro said softly and then split the soldier's body in half.

The impact of the flames that arose from the slash of his sword this time was far more intense than the previous one, causing the forest behind the poor soldier to burn instantly.

A moment later Shiro started to lose his balance and fell. Meanwhile, Dara and Akmal, who had been stunned all this time, rushed over to Shiro.

"Shiro-kun, hang on!!" shouted Dara, patting Shiro's cheek softly. "He's body so hot. What should we do??" asked Dara, feeling panicked.

Shiro, who still slightly opened his eyes, began to lose consciousness and fainted.

"If we stay here, the soldiers will definitely come and arrest us. Dara, please carry aunty. I'll carry Shiro. We'll hide in my house." Akmal said, trying to carry Shiro by himself.

"Okey! But isn't your house on fire yet?" asked Dara.

"The fire comes from the north. I don't think the fire will reach my house. Hurry up!"

Akmal and Dara rushed to bring Shiro and his mother to Akmal's house. The two of them took a detour across the river to outwit the soldiers.

Meanwhile, seeing the new flames in the forest, the Soldiers who had been moving the corpses rushed to Shiro's house.

"What the hell!! Who are these damn bones?!!" exclaimed the captain, surprised to see the burning skulls scattered around.

"Captain, I think they are our squad." another soldier said.

"Crowz, huh?" said the captain quietly. "Let's get out of this place!!" exclaimed the captain, giving Command.