The girl straightened up and glanced at the door that was far from her grasp. It was knocked off its hinges and from the darkness Rena appeared. The girl's eyes lit up.
"You really did find me," she said as Rena strode over with Saeyoung's necklace.
She held her cuffs out and Rena pressed the cross into the indents, clicking them open one by one. The girl sighed as she slipped off the chair and rubbed the marks around her wrists. Rena towered over her silently as she petted herself up and down to adjust her clothes.
"Right, let's get out of here."
Rena turned to lead the way but stopped after taking a step. The girl's eyes widened when four figures manifested in front of them. Each of them looked up with sadistic smirks and eerie eyes and the girl felt sick.
"One Saeran is usually more than enough," she whimpered as the four Saerans clicked their necks in unison "Ah, wait, how did they even get here?!"
The Saerans blocked the door, not really moving much and the girl glanced at Rena.
"By any chance did you find me in the mountains?"
Rena nodded and the girl swallowed.
"Blow me down, he can legitimately summon other characters," she muttered as the Saerans leered "But only from other routes!"
She reached out to touch Rena's back.
"Don't hold back. We can regroup in the city."
Rena shot off and delivered an uppercut to one of the Saerans at the front. Two lunged for her to pin her arms and she clicked her heels to reveal the blades and proceeded to attack to kill with them. The Saeran who was on the receiving end of the uppercut was down on the floor, nursing his chin whilst the spare raced for the imprisoned girl. The girl darted to the side and sprinted for the door. She leapt over the wounded Saeran who tried to grab her ankle and disappeared into the dark corridor.
Rena wrestled with the Sareans that tried to hold her down, flicking her heel to stab at their legs. When all she could do was graze them, she grabbed one by his choker and threw him off, sending him crashing into the monitor. She twisted to punch the other and wrestled him off. By the time, she was free, the other two Saerans were already chasing her creator and the Saeran who had crashed into the monitor tackled her to the ground. Rena glanced at the two of them, her eye cold and calculating. She was going to be here for a while.
The girl rushed through the dark corridors of her prison, noticing the two Saerans behind her and quickly tapping something into her phone. She turned and held it up to her pursuers. Two ladies materialised before the Saerans, each delivering a kick to their jaws. The girl turned to continue her escape as they landed, the one with dark green hair smirking whilst the silver haired girl kept a stoic face.
"Oh. My. God!"
The one with dark green hair suddenly squealed.
"Two Saerans are better than one!" she jumped up and down as the clones recovered and glared at them.
"Counterpoint. No, it isn't!" her partner barked sharply.
"You would be happy if it were two Jaehees, Amber," the overeager girl pouted.
"Why do I forget it was you who ran off with the creep?" Amber facepalmed before bringing her fists up.
"Hey, let's forget all this and just have a foursome," the girl grinned as she still brought her fists up and beckoned the Saerans closer.
"What is wrong with you?"
"Shouldn't the question be, what's wrong with you?"
"…No, the question is what is wrong with you!"
The Saerans charged forward as the girls braced themselves for their fight.
The girl finally stumbled out into the mountain park, sighing in relief and glancing around to notice the sunrise. She sighed again, taking in the fresh air before making her way down. She needed to find a place to hide out, somewhere where Rena would be able to find her. She can't get to close to Rika's apartment since Saeyoung was there and probably with an army and his phone and that was a recipe for trouble.
Maybe hide at Yoosung's school, posing as a student? Nah, she'll have to fabricate an ID card and that might alert Saeyoung to her whereabouts.
Hide at Jaehee's coffee shop? Oh, no, wait, she doesn't have a coffee shop in this route.
What about Zen's dressing room? …No, she'll have to break and enter into the theatre and that wasn't fun the first time around.
Saeyoung's place was an absolute no-no, especially since she didn't have an Arabic phrasebook to help her and what if he had a special security system in case this sort of thing happened?
The girl gasped as she reached the outskirts of the city and had to crouch to catch her breath. Her head was spinning. There must be somewhere in this place that might help her hide until she can get Rena.
"You are…?"
The girl lifted her head, panting and noticing Zen in his jogging gear, an earbud out as he stared at her in surprise.
"Zen! Do you remember me…?"
"Of course, I do, babe."
But one look into his eyes had the girl alerted to the fact that he wasn't the Zen from this route.
"You look exhausted. My place is near, we can have breakfast together."
The girl backed off with wide eyes.
"…Zen, say my name."
"Hm?"
"My name say it."
The Zen clone looked annoyed but it only showed briefly.
"Babe…"
"Nope!"
She shot off again and the Zen clone chased after her. She ran as fast as she could, remembering that he was a fast jogger and he would catch up to her eventually. She brought her phone out but before being able to tap into it, she crashed into someone. She fell over backwards onto the pavement, wincing as her phone clattered beside her.
"Anne…!"
Anne's heart leapt as she looked up to see who she had run into.
"Jumin…"
Jumin stared down at her with a rather gobsmacked expression before wincing and nursing his temples. Driver Kim was by the car he was about to get into and Anne felt time freeze. She covered her mouth. Jumin could remember her just by seeing her.
