Web of Despair

This is just a short little addition to the story.

(-- I'm going to try something different with the point of view in this chapter.)

It was a raining day in a little town. Near the shrine at the top of the town, there stood two people. One was a short women who had a long light blue hair and was dressed a white dress. While other was tall, short haired girl dressed in a pink yukata.

"Kanata san! How is that side of the distortion going?" Taller girl said to the shorter one. By the tone of her voice, it was apparent that shorter girl was much older than the girl who just spoke.

"Its fine Saya chan, at this rate the dimensional distortion will be all is cleared in few more minutes." Kanata replied with a kind smile, Kanata always was never serious; she almost always was a happy person.

Saya let out a sigh of relief, "For a moment there I thought the dimensional quake would spread even more, I could not begin to imagine what kind of tragedies would befall on this world if that distortion got out of hand."

"That is why we sliders exist to stop tragedies from happening, just help me set up few more cleansing spells and we'll be fine." Kanata said as she extended her arm towards the shrine.

Saya did the same. A blue spell insignia appeared and surrounded the shrine and spun around the shrine.

Saya could feel the distortion in the dimensional plane dying down. Dimensional quakes used to occur only so little, now it was a pain to contain every one of them. All Saya wanted to do was go rest in the World of the Dead and live the rest of the eternity lying back and enjoying a glass of milk. Didn't she do enough when she was alive?

Saya was a sweeper when she was alive; she captured dangerous criminals for money. The part of a being a sweeper that she loved the most was being able to help people. But now... after being killed by a maniac swinging invisible sword, Saya has lost all motivation.

"How is my daughter doing?" Kanata san smiled kindly. Kanata san was speaking to her daughter who was in a mission with that void boy. Sure, Saya thought, voids can become really powerful sliders… but Saya haven't seen any motivation in him. All he did was lie down and sleep…

"Not very well mom, Alan kun crash landed again." Saya could see Konata's mischievous face through the communication window. 'So he can't even land properly.'

"Konata, you know it's not Alan's fault, he is trying his best." Kanata still smiled kindly.

"I know… so mom, what kind of dimension is this? I don't recognize this." Konata looked around the city. It was probably midnight, and there were only few people walking around far away.

Suddenly, the spell insignia that was set on the shrine flickered and grew weak. what's going on?

Kanata has noticed this too, she quickly said "Got to go, emergency." Then closed off the communication window.

"Saya! What's going on?"

(Saya) (I give up… you end up writing so much more when writing 3rd person)

There was a presence behind the shrine. Who could that be? No one who lives in this world should be able to recognise what we were doing.

A presence revealed itself, she was a tall girl who was about my age, and she was blonde and was dressed in all blacks. Her eyes… she had an eyes of a killer. I saw many of those sharp eyes when I was working as a sweeper.

"It was you…" Kanata san just replied quietly.

"Oh, weren't you that ghost from before? One that stopped me from ripping Alan to shreds?"

"Ghost?! No one calls slider a ghost! That's a great insult!" I burst out.

"Silence, one who has died before are ghosts." The mysterious girl spoke in a deadly tone.

Just when I was about to say something, Kanata san spoke.

"Why did you do this…Serenity, don't you see how much pain would that bring to this world? How much blood that this will shed?"

"Hahahaha, like I care! All can do is cause much pain in this world like I used to do back in my world! This world is all fiction anyways."

"For those who live in this world, it's not a fiction!" This was the first time I've seen Kanata san this angry.

"Haha, you still have time to reset the insignia, all you need to do is defeat me." Serenity said in her quiet, deadly voice.

Kanata san was about to step up to face her… but I could not let her do that. I stood in front of Kanata san.

"Don't worry Kanata san, I'll fight her."

Serenity looked disinterested, "Saya Minasuki from world 121, age: 19, occupation before death: sweeper, cause of death: invisible blade manifested by tao, might have had romantic interest in assassin named Train Heartnet. Isn't that right?"

How… how did she know all this? However, Kanata san didn't look surprised. She simply said,

"I see, you were to one who broke into the records… as expected of you."

Serenity laughed, "I'll need all these information if I were to hunt every one of you down. Like right now, none of you will leave this world."

Geeze… she is so annoying… I pulled out my pistol. "You know so much about me? You should know that I don't let bad guys have their way! Let's go!"

Notes:

-Saya is from Anime Black Cat

-The world that Saya and Kanata are in right now is the anime world Higurashi no naku koro ni, for those who have watched it, timeline should be way before Rika was born.