Karte 16 : Crying for Hope

The group of criminals, unable to take in the difficult request Ryouta had asked of them, glared at him intensively. "I know what I asked of you guys was selfish, but allow me this one thing". Ryouta prostrates himself, as he pleads for their trust.

"I don't care if you have to fake it, I don't care if you can't stand me but, please let me save you! I…. I'm weak willed, cowardly, egocentric, hopeless, gullible. Those are parts of me I'm aware of, but there's one other thing I know about myself. I simply can't stand allowing fate to do as it pleases, to do nothing, to let things occur, never going the way you want and to let it go on like that. An endless cycle, even if we're powerless to fate, even if our destinies is set in stone. Still, I want to stand against, some unknown force controlling my life is something I can't accept, it's why no matter how hopeless it got for me on that hospital bed, I still worked hard regardless, praying, wishing, in pain, watching people do things I can't. I…I…I don't want anyone to have to go through such pain. Please help me save you! Shiva, who stood beside him, had a look of pure surprise and was indeed impressed by his tenacity. What Ryouta had shared with them were his very own feelings and his determination to help the people before him. Shiva, seeing his determination first hand, had washed off any little doubts she had previously, she prostrated herself as well in an attempt to help convince the other criminals. "Please, we need your cooperation". Dare also decide to join in trying to plead on behalf of his partners. "Fine, fine, I hear ya" one of the formerly quiet and amazed criminals, said with a pleasant grin. The others followed and accepted to listen to what they had to say, but before that. "He kid!, the name's Zastan Druman". The same man who broke the silence said." Martha scarlet ", "Joshua Morius", "Wilfred lynx", "Emer Raven", "Boer Carmikel", "Reurig Fordson", "Diane woods", "Eanthal sprite", "Felix Rugroad". The criminals, one after the other, introduced their selves responding to Ryouta's heartfelt plea. The leader of this group also stepped forward in response to Ryouta, "Clement Engrossia, that is my name". Ryouta after seeing this barrage of greetings, his eyes widen for the second time and finally stands up from the ground. " I'm Ryouta Matoi". The group break into a wild laughter," we already know that!!". After their hearty laugh, the members of dark crow finally settled down and sat in a circle like manner in other to listen to what Ryouta and Shiva had planned for them to do. " Okay, we are a group of 15, excluding Luna the number becomes 14, so we'll spit up but unevenly, one group the one that stays will be ten. Each group will guard a part of our territory as planned before but in groups of three this time, one group in front, one at the far end, the other, and the rear. The groups will be composed of a skill user, a mage, and a supporting mage. The last person unpaired will be Shiva, whose job would be to look out for the man named Nacht, whom we warned about, thus leaving me and three others who will support me in taking down the guards at the ports and Subduing Geraint. The reason it's being done like this is to reduce casualties all round and preserve strength for more foes to come, this is a battle Royal so who's to say while fighting Nacht another troublesome foe won't appear right?, Shiva told me about all your tiers of magic and what forces and affinities you guys have, to make things easier for everyone. The main for at the base is Nacht so countering him first would be effective even though he most likely won't be defeated by you guys. Firstly, the man is a vampire". Ryouta had explained to them the plan. But once he mentioned that last piece of info, the crowd's expressions grew slightly hopeless as most of them wore frowns. "Boss, a vampire is no joke. Their strength is already frightening, but their regenerative skills are almost as good as resurrection". Ryouta had known how fearsome a vampire was and understood their concern, however, Ryouta only knew Nacht was a vampire, not because he was familiar with them but because it simply had an ability called identify which had used to scan Nachts abilities and weaknesses I the first trial. Using that valuable piece of information, Ryouta had decided to formulate a way a stalling Nacht before he returned. The myth that vampires are weak to holy water was indeed true in this world," We are going to use holy water, I've already told a support mage to have several bottles prepared and to use magic to sheet weapons with it, to make it much more effective. Dare seeing how Ryouta was able to think things through and plan head so level-headed, he nodded with pride, confirming that was indeed his boss. Shiva was to slow him down with her magic to give the skill users an opening to use the weapons sheeted in holy water. This plan would take on a toll on Shiva as she would have to constantly alter memory, confuse his visions and create illusions to stall him, having to use multiple spells at once. It would seem their time was running low as 10 mins had passed since the events from Ryouta's speech to the present, one of the criminals out on watch, specifically Boer, rushed in and warned them of the enemies that were coming. Ryouta knew it was the time to act, so they all headed out.