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" Hmm~ " April was thinking while humming. Copy was trying to comfort the ghost girl from her sudden cries. " Oi! Why are you crying? And did you just say that that guy is your Dad? Why does your mother smells like Maro?! " the cat ended up stressing itself out from asking all the questions.
The girl inside the cell is woken up by the cry of the little kid, she wipes away her drowsiness as her vision were getting clearer. She was surprised by the purple haired who was on the other side of the cell, along with the unknown cries that echoes through the prison. " Who are you? And why are you out of your cell? "
April was snapped out of her thought, looking at the girl who has the similar face as Maro. " Hello there~ " she responded without answering any of her question.
" Oi. I'm right here you know. " Copy said, the girl was shocked again.
" The cat can talk?! " the ghost girl was still crying, she raised her head and stared at the woman. " Mokaa-san! " her cry send chills down her spine.
(Mokaa-san is the combination of the ghost girl's mother name and " okaa-san " which means " mommy " in japanese.)
" W-Who's there? " she looked around in fear, a question mark appeared on top of April's head. Why can't she see her? April thought deeply inside her mind. Copy was also confused in this situation, the cat was trying to calm the ghost girl down by sitting on top of her head.
" Hey... is she really your mother? " Copy asks. The ghost girl nodded, wiping her tears off her face. " Mokaa-san, I'm right here! Can't you see me? " the girl was shivering again, as she tries to find the source of the voice.
" There's only one girl that would call me that... " she said to herself, looking at April and Copy, who was flying in her perspective. She screamed in fear with a horrified expression on her face. " T- That cat can fly?! " while for April, it was just Copy sitting on top of the ghost girl's head.
" You got it wrong there. " Copy blankly said, waving his paw from left to right. April giggles silently and faced the girl in the cell. " Hey~ she wanted to see you so much. "
" W- Who are you talking about? And why can that cat talk AND fly? " she asked in a completely surprised tone. Copy sighed, " Like I said, you got that part wrong. "
" Mokaa-san! Please look at me! " the girl was once again shivering, she then realized that her mother couldn't see her like April and Copy could. An immense feeling of despair quickly filled her heart. The ghost girl fell to her knees, she started crying again as her voice echoes through the cell. The girl had found where the voice was coming from, it was in front of her. The voice came from under the cat, it doesn't make sense for her.
" I can hear her voice... but why can't I see her? " she said to herself, holding her head with both hands. " What happened to her when we were trapped in here? " she asked herself again, April and Copy put their attention to the girl, who was talking to herself.
" Why... what did that bastard Xitalu do?! Why is her voice so close? Yet, I can't see her! " tears were running down her face. " Is she really there? " she raised her head, looking at April with her face filled with tears. " Hey... tell me, is my daughter right here? " she reached out her hand on April's jacket, pulling her as she ran her face with the bars. She wasn't smiling as she used too, instead her eyes were gloom by the darkness.
" Hey! Tell me! Is she okay?! Was she hungry? Did she has any bruises on her body? " rapid question were escaping her mouth, April silently hear her out as more question rains down on her. " Was she happy? She didn't get into any trouble right? She wasn't harassed by Xitalu right?! " April pushed her hand away from her clothes, her face was expressionless, just like her eyes which is hiding in the darkness.
Copy was silent as the cat watches what April does next... April walked up behind the ghost girl, put her arm around the ghost as her cries stops momentarily. Copy was confused by her actions, he couldn't understand what her intentions were. Even the girl inside the cell was clueless of her actions.
Well, it was surely not a good thing for the cat. What the dimension-travelling girl does was unexpected, she held the ghost girl tightly and carry her up in the air, she then spin halfway and bend her body backwards, she then threw the ghost girl along with Copy toward the cell. The girl inside the cell felt a feeling of something approaching from her senses. Copy hit his head onto the bars while the ghost girl passed through it with ease. She closed both of her eyes in fear, the girl who was in cell could sense something flying toward her, she instinctively held out her arm, as if she wanted to catch a human body.
" Star Toss! "
With her arm spread wide open, the ghost girl was caught in her arms, both of them fell on their butt. Copy's head slowly slides down the bar as April turned around to face the two. A wide smile on her face, " You can see her now, right? " she said with her heartwarming tone. The ghost girl was weeping for a moment.
" Waah! You're so mean, April-chan... " the girl was rubbing her head in pain until she heard the tiny voice coming from in front of her, she looked to the point where the ghost girl's head was. The little girl did the same thing as well, both of their eyes were locked onto each other, it was quiet for a moment, the sunlight light starts to covers both of them. The ghost girl was in a frozen state because her mother was looking at where she are right now, but she knew, that her mother couldn't actually see her.
But that wasn't actually true, she figure it out when she saw tears escaping the corner of her mother's eye. " You are here... " the girl mumbled, she hugged her daughter's body and cried in happiness, taking in a small breath as her cries continues for a long period of time. April was smiling in satisfaction as Copy slowly gets up on his own.
" Oi! April! What was that for?! I could've gotten killed by the shock before I even hit the bars! " the cat scowled at the careless girl, she blinks for a moment, and hits herself cutely.
" I'm sorry~ "
" That's not going to work on me! "
Firodile landed on the ground coolly, until Mizuki fell on top of him following with Shade who steps on his face in the process.
" What the hell was that for?! " the red haired traveller scowled at both of them.
Both demon replied the same thing at the same time. " We wanted a soft landing. "
" Curse both of you! " he lets out a heavy sigh. " This place looks like a separate dimension from where we were. Who made that portal there? " he mumbled to himself, while he was wondering silently Shade was staring at the gargoyle around them. His eyes were still serious as ever, he felt the uneasy feeling of something watching them from the suspicious statue.
Mizuki accidentally step on a tile, a ticking sound could be heard as it disappeared after a while. " Hmm? " Firodile felt something coming his way, he couldn't see anything coming from his sides, so he decided to look up. What he found was a giant boulder falling toward him, his face immediately went pale. Before it could impale him into a pancake, something or someone has cut the boulder into small stones. It was Mizuki, she was the one who quickly reacted to the boulder's momentum before Firodile was crushed to death. She flew across him as she landed gracefully. Turning around with the expressionless face.
" Are you okay? " she asked, her voice doesn't have any sincerity in it. Firodile could only suck his lips as a blush appeared on his face. The girl stared at him with clueless expression. Firodile stood there silently, he doesn't want to say anything since the boulder almost fell on him. Shade seemed to have a vague idea of the reason why he stayed silent.
" Mizuki, " he called out his fellow demon. " I think he saw your panties. " Firodile lets out a burst of cough, proving that Shade's theory was correct. Mizuki swings her scythe around, aiming for Firodile as he started running.
" Unforgivable. " Mizuki mumbled behind her rampaging swings, she was chasing after the red haired pervert with her scythe swinging around dangerously, it made scratches around the wall. Also it destroyed the gargoyle's and the statue in the process. Shade sighed, he heard the sound of the ground rumbling from behind, he decided to look to see what it is. It was three giant boulder coming his way, black streak of lines were across her face, as he started running to the direction where Mizuki is. Apparently, every tile on the floor that Firodile was stepping on was a trap. Which is unlucky for Shade since all the traps were activated wherever he steps at.
A trap floor, poison arrows, giant axe swinging from the side and also fires that was sprout out from the wall. He had to face all of the traps while following Mizuki's track.
" OI GIANT SWORD BASTARD! DON'T PULL ME INTO YOUR TROUBLE! " Shade shouted toward Firodile, who was still running away from Mizuki. " SHUT UP! Mizuki please let me go! I didn't saw your pure white undergarments! " her eyes flashed dangerous red as her speed increases, Firodile was screaming in fear as he fell into a trap floor. Mizuki jumped over it as Shade lost his footing, after he realized that he fell down along with the boulder, inside the trap floor was not what Firodile expected, he was sliding down to the underground as if the trap door was made for this reason. He then felt the ground rumbling, he turned his body while sliding downwards.
He saw the white and black haired demon running down the slide, with a troubled look on his face. Firodile decide to take this chance to mock him.
He stood up and ran beside him, " Hey! Why is a demon running? Is it afraid of something that will kill him? Hahaha! " he laughed while enjoying himself, the demon couldn't hold in his anger as he scowled at the traveler. " SHUT UP! I'M NOT RUNNING FOR MY LIFE! I'M JUST TRYING TO FIND A WAY OUT OF THIS STUPID TUNNEL! "
" Being dishonest aren't we? " at this time, Firodile felt the rumbling getting closer, he turned around while running backwards and saw the three boulders. They were lined up in a straight line because of the lack of space in the tunnel. Firodile turned around and ran, faster than Shade. Leaving a trail of wind behind.
" OI! " the demon shouted, chasing after the red haired traveler. After a few boost from his demon legs he has finally catch up to him. " Haha! Why are suddenly running away from some boulders hard-headed bastard? Is it too easy to beat a demon like me but not some small boulders? " Shade laughed mockingly, as Firodile gritted his teeth.
" OH SHUT UP! I CAN'T USE MY WEAPON FOR A PERIOD OF TIME BECAUSE WE JUST TRAVELED THROUGH A DIMENSION! I COULD DESTROY THEM EVEN BARE-HANDED! "
Shade felt like Firo was insulting him. " OH REALLY?! I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY THAT! "
Firo lets his anger took control. " CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! "
Both of them stopped running, as they both turn around and faced the boulders, Firodile punched the first one, cracking it into pieces as Shade went on forth onto the other one, both of them managed to destroy it in one punch. As for the third one, they both worked together and destroy it with an uppercut.
" Hahaha! How was that! I destroyed a boulder that was bigger than yours! "
" Pfft. Stop covering up your loss. Mine was bigger than yours. "
Firodile's veins start to throbbing in anger. " What did you say, White and black demon?! "
Shade was also letting his anger ran lose. " It's better than having a perverted personality and red hair! "
" What is so wrong about red hair? At least mine's cooler AND original than having a dyed hair! "
" It's not dyed at all! I was born with this hair! " Shade scowled.
" Oh, I see. " Firodile gave the look of pity on Shade's face. He found it insulting as he was about to start another argument until the ground start shaking, they look upward, where they came from, more and more boulder were coming their way again. Black streaks of lines were across their faces, they again started running from it as their screams echoes through the whole tunnel.
While on the ground above...
Mizuki steps on more trap that activated boulders and lead them to the trap floor the two male fell into. " Suffer, Firodile. " she said with a very menacing aura leaking out.
X and the other three has finally arrived at their destination, which is an abandoned castle in the middle of the woods. " Hmm... " the robot hums, scanning the old castle with his eyes. " This castle has been here for centuries. I wonder what happen to this great town. " he spoke to himself, Thicker was laying down on the ground, his stomach cries for food. He frowns at the empty stomach and sat up. " I guess I can find something to eat if I search underground. "
As her friend was relaxing, Lou had a strange feeling since she stepped into the castle's premises. She wondered to herself, " Why aren't there any explorer searching this old castle? It must be full of treasure if its been here for a century. " she then found a tiny pond nearby, letting out a relieved sigh. " Well, at least I can rest here for a while. "
Flamer was sunbathing in the clearing, until he felt the ground grumbling under him. Something is deep inside the soil, and its heading toward X. X was still preoccupied by the old castle as he finished analyzing it. " That's weird... there aren't any clues of how it was destroyed. The records shows that... this is... reality? " X said, thinking deeply of the mystery of the castle. The ground underneath him crumbles, he opened his eyes instinctively and saw a wall of circle around him.
No... it wasn't a wall, it was actually the insides of a huge worm. X slowly realizes this as the mouth closes before he could say anything. Flamer was shocked, he just saw the robot being swallowed into the myth monster from Cthulhu Mythos, Nssu-Ghahnb. Thicker was slow to notice as the worm burrowed underground, leaving a huge hole in the ground.
" X! " Flamer screamed, Lou and Thicker glance at Flamer as he jumped into the hole. " Where is that fire idiot going? " Lou said to herself, she was playing with the fishes in the pond that she'd met. Thicker sense a new change of humidity in the ground, he reported this to his friend. " Hey Lou, Flamer is rampaging under the ground. Should I stop him? " Lou heard Thicker's report and gasp a bit. Sighing in disappointment, she waves at Thicker.
" Just leave that guy be. He must've wanted to make the global warming of this world worse or something. "
" Hai! " Thicker responded like a child who listen to his teacher's order. " When you think of it, where is Mr. Robot? "
Aylife ( in disguise) was following the mysterious lab woman, wondering where he is heading. He looked around, the place was crowded with strange creatures that can't be describe alone with words. As he was looking around, he was lead into an ' authority personnel only ' room. " Say... who are you? And where am I? " the girl who was pulling him along the way stopped, she then make him stand still, pushing him into a wall. She was silent for a moment, then she looked up with a cheeky smile.
" Oh stop with games Mr Xitalu~ you're making me blush. " she was really blushing in front of his face. Being as honest as he is, he said these word with a straightforward face. " No, I don't really know who you are. " a needle struck through the girl's heart, suddenly it turned into a cupid's arrow as she was twirling around in happiness.
Ah~ Mr Xitalu is being cold and dense again! But he's being nice to me today... who cares! W- Well, she said. " I am your cute assistant, Delta! But you always call me as Fake~ even though I don't like it... I don't care as long as it is you who said it to me! " flowers were scattering around her, as Aylife stared at her blankly with his stoic face.
" I see. Ta-chan. " she was shot with another cupid arrow. He made a nickname for me!
" Where are we going again? I forget most of the research stuff that you were talking about. " She stopped her tiny happiness to answer her question. Smiling happily as she pulled him again, and also, Aylife was not resisting at all.
" Let me explain again Mr Xitalu~ and this time, in a shorter form. Our master Kulltula has ordered us to destroy the illusion of this world, in order to do that, he has send us here to conduct on the research on how to ' cure ' this world. " she kept talking, without realizing that Aylife had fallen asleep. " After a few dozen of years, we've found a way and told our master about the Key we need to ' cure ' the world. " she took a deep breath, " We need a suitable sacrifice from the people of this world. After thousands and thousands of guinea pig was lost, our master once again gave an aid in our research. " at this point, Aylife was half-asleep.
" He had sent one of his underlings here, along with a package of a human embedded with magical power. " Aylife rubs his eyes as he lets out a yawn. " The Key to ' cure ' this world was that girl. I heard her name was Ma or something... " she began to think harder. Aylife looked up on her as she remembered the name.
" Her name was Shimaro Senji, and she is from a school called Aurora Academy or something. " Aylife's eyes were wide open, as he stands up on his own, ending the painful dragging, he held her shoulder and pushed her into a wall, taking her by surprise. " Maro is here?! "
NEXT TIME ON DIMENSION TRAVELLER
" Maro! " - Aylife.
" WHEN IS THIS GOING TO END?! " - Firodile.
" ... " - X?