Part 10: Chasm
Yusei never left the Arcadia building for long, but sometimes that was too much already. Behind its closed doors was chaos, people running everywhere, some of them obviously hurt.
He stopped one of the uniformed enforcers. "Where's Divine?", he asked quickly, but the man only shook his head frantically. "Out!", he answered curtly before wrenching free.
Yusei managed his way against the flow of people, figuring that the opposite direction would lead him to the cause of their panic. He soon realized that his way lead him to the training facilities, where he had encountered Aki's powers for the first time.
The flood of people ceased before he reached his destination. The air was alive with an eerie pulse even before he pushed the door to the gym like hall open to reveal the source of that weird energy.
Aki stood alone in a room that despite its already spartan equipment looked trashed. Aki herself was a mess, her clothes torn and her hair all over the place. Her face was hidden by her mask but Yusei felt her raw emotions lash out at him just like the invisible whips that surrounded her like a heat haze.
She was alone and afraid and betrayed and angry and how could he help her? He was not the one she was so desperately crying out for.
"Divine!"
There was a presence at his back and a second later Divine rushed past the stunned boy, fearlessly facing the girl and her out of control powers. She was too blinded by her overwhelming rage to realize it was him, but he never backed off. How was it he only had to raise his arm to deflect her hits?
It seemed to take a long time until Divine was close enough to Aki to embrace her and even longer for her to settle down against Divine. He whispered something Yusei couldn't hear and Aki clung to him as if he were the last real thing in her life.
He wasn't sure whether to get closer or to leave, but Divine took the decision from him when he half turned and his face changed from caring to strict ad merciless. "Not now. Leave us.", he ordered quietly and Yusei withdrew without a word.