Disclaimer: I do not own Kaze no stigma, it belongs to Takahiro Yamato
Chapter 1
The game was coming close to an end and Kazuma and Ayano found themselves in what seemed to be a throne room where they could see Bernhardt and Lapis.
Ayano wanted to attack, to end it all but at the thought of Kazuma's past she stood frozen, not knowing if she should attack Lapis or not due to her resemblance to Cui-Lin and opted to wait for them to make the first move. Kazuma on the other hand was seeing red; letting anger cloud his thoughts he started to attack Bernhardt. While they were fighting Lapis attacked Ayano and thus the fight began, not winning, nor loosing, Ayano manage to get past Lapis defenses and knock her out but when she turned around to see how Kazuma was fairing she saw the raging state he was in and got preoccupied while Kazuma, in this state was not aware of his surroundings, failed to notice the oncoming attack until it was unavoidable, resigned he closed his eyes but when he didn't felt the attack he opened his eyes and there, in front of him, stood Ayano, trying to stop the attack with Enraiha but it was too much. Kazuma had little time to react when Ayano couldn't hold the attack longer and manage to avoid most of it pulling Ayano whit him but she had taken a lot of damage already from the attack. Not wasting a minute, Kazuma sent a blast of whirlwinds at his enemy forcing him to retreat whit Lapis who had just woken minutes ago. Relived, Kazuma slowly turn around only to see Ayano's crumpled form on the floor in a crimson pool.
Detective Tachibana along whit Ren and Catherine who were waiting outside for the magical barrier around the building to collapse ran in as soon as it drop reaching the battleground, they quickly took notice of the limp form in Kazumas arms and rush to him, when they saw Ayano they were horrified and called for an ambulance. None of them utter a word on the way to the hospital and all of them were in utter silence when Ayano was rushed into the operating room.
Time seemed to pass as if in a slow motion, making those in the hall anxious, waiting for the doctor to come and tell them Ayano's condition when the doctor finally came out.
Ayano's father who had been called while they were going to the hospital stood from his chair and approached the doctor who then proceed to inform them about Ayano's condition telling them that she was out of danger but that due to the blood loss she was in a coma and that there was a high possibility of her having amnesia when she woke up.