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The last two chapters to the end! Okay, I'm all pumped right now! Let's go rock it!
Len POV
"Accused Kagamine, please tell your side of story truthfully about the wanted Kamine Rin," an old guy with black coat say with a scary and heavy tone said it. Why I'm here? Long story short, I got caught and Rin fled somewhere out of my reach.
On both of my hand are handcuffs with mechanical electric key. I just know that the one who brought the key is my former captain. She really is a double faced evil manipulator, but has an angelic heart inside. Simply speaking, she is complicated.
I kept my mouth shut. But it is just arranging the fakest yet reasonable story ever, when the judge ask again with more firmness in his voice. He says, "Tell us for the sake of the world," he says, justifying his action by saying that it is for the sake of the world. But no, it's all for the sake of his wage.
"I'm her fan in circus troupe. That's all," I say half-lied.
The judge gave me a look of disbelief, and he lifts his finger. When he does so, a gun is pointed at my head. The owner of the gun is no other that Mel, because she is the only one official here. The higher-ups trust her completely, half feared about her true half power to mess with the world.
"What will you choose? Die now by the hand of your former commander, or chase the wanted criminal down and bring her back here? Of course you are positioned below the eyes of the special section for psychic hunt, Captain Adilisia and Lieutenant Miku," the judge says shortly.
I almost say to choose my death over the fact that I need to capture Rin. But, that's when a familiar voice made me remember… Rin voice which ask for my help. Rin need me, and I need to go by her side. The fastest way is to go along with this stupid punishment and convince Mel and Miku along the way to let me go. I just have the feeling that they will let me though.
"Choose wisely, civilian," Mel say while pointing the gun on my forehead. She looks sad either way by the choice. It's almost like she never wished for me to get caught nor she wished to be my executor.
I took some deep breath, before said, "I choose the later one. I can go at dawn or right now if you want to," I say while trying to hide my feelings of uneasiness on Rin well being.
I can see from the corner of my eyes that Mel let out a sigh of relief, and she put down her gun from my forehead. The judge smiled at me, a creepy smile to top it off. He then dismissed me from the court with Mel by my side.
"That's too bad… about Rin. I don't know that her body reaches it limit this soon," Mel says while playing with the key in her hands.
I look skeptically at her, then asked, "Meaning?"
She looks at me a little, before asked, "This is a hidden Elven research about you, Human. We know that human have a limit into madness. Especially psychics, their limit is easy to see. But, usually human didn't reach their limit until just before they die. Rin is special case, maybe," she answers as she tries to simplify her difficult words.
"I don't care about that Elven research whatever. Just tell me where is Rin," I say without thinking further. Who needs that stupid unrelated information?
"If you ask about Rin… Most likely she is in the Center of the World. Psychics and Magical being tends to go there when they went into rampage," Mel says simply. It looks like she didn't affected by my cold comment.
"That place of all places?" I ask with a big question mark on my head. How come someone who doesn't know the path there ends up there?
"We need to go there as fast as possible. There is a possibility that Rin has more than enough power to wreck over the world by opening that gate now. And when she do that, she will die," Mel answered with expression of horror on her face.
"What… do you mean?" I asked with a look of disbelief. What comes inside my head is the part where Rin will die I don't really care about the other.
"Every living being which made contact with the gate will die. That's the rule, so we need to go there right now!" Mel says it like she was quoting it from somewhere. She literally quoted it anyway.
Before I can speak further, Mel teleport us, yeah she can teleport for the God sake! It is the first time I see her use that ability though. Anyway, she teleport us into the Psychic department, in other name her department. I swear Miku, Mikuo, Iroha, Luki, and Rinto, literally dropped their jaw in surprise for a minute or so, when I and Mel pop out from literally nowhere.
"W-wha…"
"M-me… Ca-captain!"
"What the hell!"
Miku and Mikuo drop their already-chewed leek, Iroha drop her Cat-shaped cell phone and Luki drop his sushi. Well, Rinto is just… going upside-down from the chair and look at us with a look of disbelief. It is either because of Mel sudden appearance or my unexpected come back. I don't know which reason made them have that kind of look.
"L-len? What-the-heck, man! Is that really you? You came out alive without one single wound from that stupid court?" Rinto says still in that position, his face planted on floor.
Okay, so the reason is the later one. And then his face planted deeper into the floor by some invisible force. I know that it was one of Mel psychic power, Telekinesis.
"We will announce emergency mission right now. We have no need of many soldier, I only wish to bring you guys along with me. So, are you ready? It might make someone life happier," Mel says without giving further explanation about this matter.
All of them look at each other. It's not like they never do a job without much notice nor many soldiers along… but, they just stared at me. They are sharp and so… maybe they guessed what the hell happened here.
"It's about Rin-chan… right?" Miku opened her mouth first. She then throw her welsh onion to trash bin. She pulls out her beloved gun from her hidden safety place.
Well I just nod at her statement. Miku then looks at the other, and they nod like they came into an agreement. Mikuo then say, "We like Rin, so we help you get her back and run away. Captain already told us the main story and stuff," Mikuo say with a smile on his face.
"Let's become Out of Job and helps our psychic friend!" Iroha says with an excited face. Luki just nod as agreement. Rinto… well, he is still speechless at this whole conspiracy, but eventually join it.
"Thank you… guys…" I say to them all. They just pull their thumbs up and smile at me warmly. They really are kind friends…
"Well. So, since we come into an agreement the mission goal isn't to catch Rin, but break her from the trance and reunites two love birds! Meet me in 10 minutes and I will transfer all of us to the place where Rin is!" Mel says with excited tone of voice.
"Roger!" all of us says to her as we start packing up. Let's just forget the two love bird part.
Normal POV
Len take his set of weapon after so long. Captain Mel took him in custody for around two days before the court start. He considered himself lucky that his Captain isn't a crazy-about-capturing-psychic military captain because she is one herself. If it was not the case… he can think about what a long interrogation he would through.
Suddenly Len heard a knock on the door and a voice follow, "Len… are you done yet?" the voice asks. Len quickly realized it as Rinto voice and let him in, but can't help but wonder why Rinto ask his permission to come in into the room.
Len look back to the door as he heard the sound of door being closed. He saw standing Rinto in his stealthiest suit. The Center of the World is or as Captain Mel speaks, is full of hard-to-deal and big monster. It's better for them to slip through them and any extra weight is forbidden.
"What is it Rinto? It's kind of rare for you to ask permission like that," Len ask with a visible surprised tone.
Rinto shrugged it, but then said, "Len… you vow that you won't stop loving Rin… to her, right?" Rinto asked with a deep tone, something that Len never heard of. He looks worried all of a sudden.
"Yeah, I do. So, what about it?" Len asked with alarmed voice. He feels suspicious all of sudden.
Rinto shook his head a little and come closer to Len. Len almost glaring at him, but caught surprised when Rinto tapping his shoulder lightly. Rinto bring his mouth closer to Len's ear then he speaks again, "Promise me you will make her happy. I love Rin. That's why I and all of us will protect you guys no matter what," Rinto whispered softly as he take his own gun and get out from the room.
Len stood there frozen and felt a pang of guilt. But, he quickly gets over it, as he mumbles softly, "I won't disappoint you Rinto…"
"So, everyone ready?" Captain Mel asked them with the same dignity as ever. It is running in her blood… maybe.
"You bet!" Miku answered with a cheerful tone, her hair bounced around as she speaks. It almost like she will go to an amusement park of some kind, rather than going to a sacred place with a lot of monster from the current information they had about that place.
Mikuo rolled his eyes by Miku natural antique, Len and Luki could only shrug it off, Iroha and Rinto remained calm through the whole mess. Mel recognized the silent situation as a 'Yes' and waved her hand on the air. She quietly chanted the magic words to open the portal.
The other gasped at the sight of a very big gate that suddenly appeared by itself. Mel motioned to come inside and they did of course.
Len looked back at the scenery he left behind. He had some bad feeling about the trip. He shakes his head and goes on. He decided to come for Rin no matter what happened and take her home. Slowly, as they all enter the gate, the door closing itself and disappear from the sight.
"I wonder when this eternal hallway would reach the end," Miku said as they walk through the endless walk in a corridor.
No one answered nor would Mel like to explain. Len shut his mouth and concentrated more on walking rather than thinking the same thing Miku wondered about. The hallway was very dark, with no light shun on their way, but somehow they can see themselves in the darkness. He could see his friends which walk ahead from him, although the surrounding is so dark.
Miku looked at each face there, and grumbled under her breath. Something wasn't right here, because all of them were nervous. She decided to let it rest and went on to imagine the place they would visit.
'The Center of the World… I wonder what it looks like…' Miku thought to herself as she walked impatiently. Many imaginations came through her head as they continued to walk to no particular direction they knew except their leader.
After a while, they finally found a ray of light on the end of the path. All of them rushed to the light and found themselves teleported again into some place they didn't know of. And because of blinding light, they couldn't see what happened right now.
When the light finally died down, they opened their eyes as the scenery filled their eyes. They blinked and found themselves dumbfounded by the view.
Everywhere there were tree with colorful leaves, there were red leaf, blue, silver, yellow, purple, and rainbow colored leaf! The land where they stood is normal reddish brown color, the road seems normal enough… not. Further away, they could saw a tall tower with weird design.
"This is the East part of Center of the World. It is as far as my ability can take all of you. From now on, we will walk to that tower," Mel said with a collected voice.
All of them put a 'WTF' face. They almost sounded a protest, but disturbed by a sudden earthquake. Len and co. get down to the earth to reduce the effect. After a while they could see some very big walking stone far away from their place.
"Someone explain to me what is this place, now!" Iroha was the first to explode at the sight.
All of them just sigh, as Mel answered, "This is Center of the World. Places where everything likes that thing belong. Don't worry it will get worse. The leaf here is poisoned, everything except the real green leaf. The water except the chocolate-colored one are poison, the land is safe as long as we didn't step into anything colorful. There are many varieties of monsters, from deformed psychic, golem, chimera, etc. That tower is the heart of this place, where the Gate was sealed. Also, it belongs to Elf races long time ago, before they get extinct," Mel explained briefly.
"Place where danger reside, as you explained huh…" Mikuo remarked as he pulled his weapon.
'I wonder how Rin get past this…' Len thought as he heard the description. That was a wonder as well, but to left this place alive might become a wonder too.
"So, what should we do now? Fighting everything like that thing just now is impossible," Luki said with a cold voice. But, everyone knew that he was worried like them.
"Don't waste your ammo at one monster. Run at the sight of them. Never get involved in fight for more than 5 minutes. And never ever hoped for rescue to come," Mel answered matter of fact.
"Cold," Rinto commented at the suggestion. Which sounded really cold inside the ear of peoples present there.
"I can't help it. This is the place where my clan perished after all," Mel answered with a calm voice. It's almost impossible to get a hint of sadness there.
"Could we make it?" Len asked seriously to Mel. There was no time to lose, even for a small idle chat of past. All of them get the hint from Len and decided to keep silent for now. They could do interrogation later.
"Yes. No matter what happened, I will personally make sure you get to the top of tower alive to save Rin. Everyone let's go!" Mel answered with more light tone.
Everyone nodded and they ran to enter the living hell.
They got past some of the bigger monster by hiding behind some big colorful tree. Good thing, the only thing that poisoned from the tree were the leaf, the other part were safe. They sneakily were closing down their distance to the tower, although they also fighting some chimera here and there.
After a while of fighting-and-running they finally got to the entrance of the tower. Well, when they did the walk, actually the tower wasn't that far away. It was revealed to be a magical barrier made decades ago to protect the Gate.
Len and co. now stood in front of the Tower gate. The gate was covered by colorful vine. The color almost resembled a rainbow, but looked deadly enough. The vine was so thick that it almost looked like the gate wasn't opened for decades.
"So, someone knew how to open this dreadful gate?" Len asked as he looked to the former residence of the place, as the said person stated itself.
The said person aka Mel just answer, "Shot it Iroha, use Bazooka," Mel commanded with calm demeanor. Iroha mouth got wide open, as well as the other.
Their face almost said something like, 'That was a solution?' but agreed nonetheless. But not without a voiced question from Miku.
"Mel-chi, won't it will attract the Stone-thingy?" Miku asked with a raised hand.
Mel looked at Miku skeptically. Then she answered, "That's the point. I will be the bait for that stone fist to punch. That thing power would be enough to destroy the door. We need to safe energy to go back," Mel explained with a raised eyebrow, gained a sweatdrop from Miku.
'That was so practical… in a way…' Miku thought as she then hides like the instruction from Mel. Well, the way was right in a way.
Iroha then positioned her bazooka to shoot the bazooka after the other hide themselves in the trees shade. They couldn't rest assured that easily, chimera still roaming around and they didn't meet any deformed psychic yet.
After aimed to the door perfectly, Iroha let out a shoot as it explodes near the door, and right behind Mel. Well, she was the decoy here it was obvious.
For a while, smoke covered the gate, but as the smoke unveiled itself the door still stood high and mighty. That was one of the points though.
Allured by the sound, big stone creature turn their head to the tower, and saw an intruder there. At instance sight of the intruder, a lot of them came to destroy the intruder as that was their duty.
One of the stone creatures landed a fist, aimed at the intruder. The intruder dodge it with ease, as the stone fist hit the door hard, at least hard enough to create an earthquake. Len and co. who was in hiding gets down to the earth again, waiting for the effect to end.
After some good minutes of Mel aka the intruder dodging the stone attack, the earthquake ceased as it revealed an opened gate.
Len and co. hurriedly rushed to the gate. But, Len who knew that Mel was still out there, warding off the stone creature, waited in front of the gate.
Mel found Len and some of the other still waited for her, shouted, "Go ahead! The tower only had 4 floors. If I done with these things, I will pick everyone up!" she shouted as she dodged another hit from the said creature.
Len nodded, understood what it mean. He knew their captain wouldn't die that easily against some moving stone. So they went on ahead.
On the first floor, they were forced to drop Mikuo and Miku to handle the deformed plant. There were a ton of them on the first floor, and even a kid knew how to handle walking plant, after all they were plant! You just needed to burn it into ashes. And because of the only pair who had flame weapon with them are Mikuo and Miku, the pair decided that the other must go on as they fight off the deformed there.
"Everyone, get back down here healthy and alive okay!" Miku said as they entered the stairway to the next floor. The deformed plants were on their tail.
"What, why? If you said that, then I too will remain," Len said in a serious tone. Serious enough to make Iroha, Luki, and Rinto nodded as voice of approval.
"You guys can't. Mel said that the floor had 4 floors, right? Then every floor had this, and if we go on together, we would lose our live. And Len, you need to get Rin some senses right? More reason to have you all goes on without us," Mikuo explained, tried to do reasoning against their friend.
"B-"
"Don't worry guys. When you get down here with success, you would found these things in ashes. We are strongest vegetable duo here!" Miku exclaimed happily as she pushed the other to go on.
Mikuo nodded and said, "Do us a favor and go on ahead, we would come soon," Mikuo said with a firm tone. His eyes were full of seriousness.
Luki looked at that and then said, "Fine, but made sure you guys stayed alive. We will wait on top," Luki said while giving a manly greeting to Mikuo. Rinto and Len couldn't help but to do the same. It was a promise… a promise that they would go back once more.
Iroha hugged Miku and whispered, "Stay healthy and don't eat the plant although they looked like a negi," Iroha commented lightly while holding her sadness behind.
"I get it. I won't," Miku answered lightly at the joke.
And then they moved on to the next floor.
On the 2nd floor they must drop Iroha with Luki to fight of the deformed psychic with the forms of chimera and animal. Learned from the lesson before, Len and Rinto let go the newfound pair easily. The monster looked stronger than from the previous floor, and that's why, the 2nd and the 3rd strongest in the department must stay, or so they said.
But, they won't let them go without a promise that they won't eat nor pat the monster and made it back alive. Luki and Iroha gave Len and Rinto a reassuring smile, and a promise of that. And also promise to give them all shocking news, later after they get out.
"Made sure you get Rin back healthy and live. Of course you two must make it out!" Iroha gave an order to Len in particular. Iroha and Rin was a best friend in a way.
"Sure," Len answered with a nodded as Rinto done gave a proper greeting to Luki. They would make it out alive. Surely.
At the 3rd floor, Rinto decided to be left out. Len quickly protested, but shoved off by Rinto.
"Len, what Rin need the most right now is your existence near her. Do you want me to kill you?" Rinto said with a glare to Len.
"Rinto, this place is hell. Do you can manage it by yourself?" Len reasoned with Rinto, but get shoved by Rinto yet again.
"Just how many times should I tell you, you stupid Len. If you really love Rin, then get past me and save her, or else you want to waste Mel's, Miku's, Mikuo's, Iroha's, Luki's, and Mine's effort to get you here? I would made it out alive heard me? Len, the time is running out while we idly chatting here!" Rinto shouted angrily at Len face.
Len mouth got tightly shut and he turned from Rinto. Then he took a step forward to the stairway. As he whispered to Rinto, "Don't die," he said before ran off to the last floor.
Rinto sighed at himself, he whispered, "Don't cry, stupid," he mumbled under his breath.
He then turned his back to the pilling deformed psychic in front of him. He then realized that it was reckless to do the cleaning off himself. Well, but he needed to survive nonetheless. That was the fact, and that was his promise. There is no way he wouldn't fulfill it.
"Well, Rinto, don't worry too much, I came to help," some voice echoed inside Rinto's head as he took a step forward to the horde.
"W-Who?"
Len POV
I ran straight the long stairway, holding off my pilling tears. As Rinto and everyone, said beforehand. They would make it back alive. I needed to believe them right now, and focused to save Rin who waited for someone to safe her right now.
After a long time of running through the staircase, I found myself on the 4th floor. Unlike the other floor, this floor had none short of monster-like. There was only a long hallway, with a visible door at the end.
I quickly ran there, hoped to find Rin there.
I ran and ran, until my breath got hard.
It's hard to breath for some reason. But I didn't care.
After I reached the end of the hallway, I opened the door with all of my might, but found no result. The door was made from stone. Normal stone, not the colorful one like the other.
Somehow, the door said that it recognized me, so it opened itself.
Then I stepped into the room, ready to shot anything that might come to attack me. I found nothing in the room but a dazed-off Rin in front of a black door, as the door blinked sometimes.
"Rin!" I shouted her name as I ran to get to her side.
Rin turned her head to me, and she then shouted happily, answering my call, she said, "Len!" she said while ran to me. I laughed and ran straight to her, tried to catch her.
But, behind her, the black door opened widely, and hands started coming out from it. Rin's fallen from her running position, by some sort of black light, as the hands catch every bit of her body.
Rin's tears welled up on her eyes, as she shouted loudly, "SAVE ME, LEN!"
Normal POV
"Yo!" a familiar voice to Rinto's ears responded as Rinto asked whoever he/she was.
Rinto's shoulder loosened at the sight of Mel, living and happy without any injury. Somehow she got away from the stone thing without any injury. And more importantly, she came inside by the window.
"Mel! You gave me a heart attack!" Rinto shouted at the sight when Mel rushed to his side to help him fend off the monster.
"Blame your weak heart," Mel commented coldly as the answer.
Rinto only could sigh, and then he asked, "What did you do to it? And do you know the situation about the other in another floor?" Rinto asked continuously as they started killing the deformed group by group. Rinto was a good shooter, so he killed one deformed with one shot.
"I changed the program to recognize the remnant of the Elven bloodline. After all, we made it to protect our home. Some accident happened though. Oh, about the other, they did well. Miku and Mikuo already moved to the second floor and helped Luki and Iroha there, we can expect them to come soon," Mel answered with a cool tone. She fended off the monster using her ability to control the wind, paralyzing it before choking it to death.
Rinto only 'Ooh' the answer. He shot more of the monster, with the help of Mel. They cleaned the place on time with the other made it to the 3rd floor. They rejoiced with the sight of their healthy companion. When Miku remarked…
"Where is Len? He took too long," Miku remarked at the no sight of Len anywhere in the room.
Rinto and Mel got silent, Rinto then answered, "He is still there," Rinto answered sadly. Somehow he got a bad feeling.
"Let's go to pick him up," Mel said while rushed ahead the other. Her face was as pale as ghost.
The other (Rinto, Miku, Mikuo, Iroha, and Luki) looked at her with a question mark, but found themselves doing what she said. So, they went to 4th floor and went through the already opened door to the place where the Gates reside.
The groups found Len hugging Rin tightly with no sound. The situation was too silent it was eerie. Mel looked up to the gate, and the gate had opened widely.
"Everyone back off for a bit. I needed to check of Len's mental right now. Something wasn't right here. Act as if we needed to capture Rin. Please, no question," Mel said calmly as she walked to Len direction thus closing their distance.
The other only could stand there dumbfounded but agreed in heart to do it.
Len then looked back to Mel with an empty eye, as Mel stated, "Good job Len, you captured the wanted psychic. Now, hand them to us,"
Okay, that's it. So, the next is the last and it is the last. For real! So, hope you enjoy this crappy dragged on fanfic~