Haseo rested on the bridge, leaning on the railing, watching the pond below. The bridge was surprisingly abandoned, normally it was flooded with players. Then again, the players could just be avoiding him. Seeing how a huddle of them were currently standing at the base of the bridge, not daring to move towards him. Haseo looked at the players out of the corner of his eye, but said nothing.
"Alright...I want to help." Came a voice from behind, turning around, Haseo stared at Mika, the harvest cleric had a strange determination in his eyes as he stared at Haseo, a small smirk playing on his lips.
"I'm sorry?"
Mika just smiled and leaned forward, his arms crossed, the determination in his eyes growing.
"I. Want. To. Help." He slowly spoke, speaking each word clearly slowly, making sure that the rogue heard what he was saying. That made Haseo frown just a bit, looking the player up and down, Haseo rubbed the back of his head. He didn't really know this guy, he's somebody that the rogue has never had any contact with in the other world. In short this guy was a complete stranger. Mika seemed nice enough, but, the last thing Haseo really needed was to be screwed over by someone, would the risk be worth it?
"I'm not too sure about anything right now, I know that it's way to complicated to get someone like you involved in." Haseo explained with a hand wave, Mika didn't look so impressed, the player put his hands on his hips and seemed to be chewing on his lip in thought, then, he shook his head.
"Nope, not buying it." Mika said finally, earing a slight glare from Haseo.
"Look-" Haseo started but was cut off by Mika.
"No, you look, you have two options, Let me help you and maybe, just maybe, we can figure out what the hell is going on. Or, do this by yourself with no real leads or help and just go through this whole thing confused. What will it be?"
Going quiet Haseo could only turn back around and look out at virtual pond. Should he trust this guy? Frowning again, Haseo put his hand to his head and sighed, this guy really did have a point, besides, as Atoli would put it 'Two heads are better than one.'
"I...I do need help, I won't lie about that, but, I don't know if you're the right person to help me..." Haseo admitted as he turned back around to face the cleric.
"I'm the only person willing to help you."
"...Good point...Alright, if you really want to...Ok," Haseo breathed as he looked Mika dead in the eyes. Mika straightened up and nodded, his eyes hard with determination once again.
"So, boss, where should we start?" Mika asked, a smirk on his face as he waited for order from Haseo. Pausing for a good second, Haseo thought,
'Yata might be able to help...but, he might also be twisted around like everyone else. What choice do I have though? It's something.'
"I want to find this guy, his name is Yata...Does that name mean anything?" The rogue asked looking back to Mika.
Mika tapped his chin in though, then he shook his head,
"Nope, never heard of him...Who is he?" Mika asked, leaning against the bridge next to Haseo, there was a soft silence before Haseo spoke,
"He can help, I hope..." Haseo told him as he leaned against the railing. Mika gave off a soft hum as he seemed to be thinking. Putting a finger to his chin and pursing his lips to the side, Mika hummed out again he then mumbled softly,
"Welp, I guess I can look around the boards, if I don't find anything, then I'll post something." Mika offered.
"Yeah, you're gonna have to do that, I can't get on the boards anyway."
"You can't?"
"No, I can't." Haso said with a headshake, Mika pursed his lips once more then nodded in defeat.
"Alright, I can do that. Give me-" Mika started and looked like he was ready to log out, but, before he could do so, he was suddenly pushed into Haseo, catching the harvest cleric before he fell down. Breathing out, Haseo narrowed his eyes and looked past Mika to see who had pushed the player.
For a brief moment, Haseo almost felt a flutter of joy in his chest when he saw Silabus standing there, but, his joy was cut short when he saw the unnatural satisfied smirk playing on Silabus's face.
"Silabus..." Haseo breathed out almost reaching out to grab his friend's wrist, but stopped when he remembered that this was not his Silabus, not the happy to help player that Haseo knew. Silabus's golden eyes went from Mika to Haseo, and the smirk fell off his face and Silabus went tense.
"Terror of death. Its so rare to see you...Calm. What? Get your quota of Pkers early?" Silabus asked in a sarcastic matter his voice was almost scornful, it was almost like Haseo was talking to Sakaki. Not wanting to answer Silabus's question, Haseo grabbed on to Mika's arm and started to walk away with the other player, deciding that not talking to Silabus would be the best thing to do right now.
Unfortunately, Silabus didn't seem to think so.
"Hey! Terror of death! I'm talking to you! What you think you're so high off the ground that you can't even talk to us Pker's?" Silabus scoffed, Haseo paused in mid-step and ground at his teeth, it talk all of his patience to not turn around and scream at Silabus to just stop it, but he knew it wouldn't do anything.
"Just leave us alone, besides, why would he want to talk to a lowlife like yourself!?" Mika cut in storming up to Silabus's face and giving him a harsh poke in the chest.
"Mika!" Haseo snapped, he then sharply grabbed Mika's arm and yanked the harvest cleric back towards him. That seemed confuse both Silabus and Mika as the two boys just looked back at Haseo and gave him a muddled look. "Lets just go..." Haseo growled out in response. With his hand still tightly grasping Mika's upper arm, the rouge continued to drag Mika away, but, like before, he didn't get too far.
"So, that's your plan now? Running away? Wow, you suck even more than before, Terror of death-"
"That-" Haseo paused his sentence when he turned around and stormed up to Silabus, looking into this Silabus's eyes just made Haseo even angrier, this wasn't his friend Silabus and that was only a harsh reminder. His sudden anger seemed surprise the blade brandier, but, Silabus quickly regained himself, just as Haseo did. Calming down, the rouge finished his sentence in the most monotone voice he could muster up, "-Is not my name. Stop calling me that."
"You made it your name." Silabus sneered.
"Not anymore, tell the rest of your Pk buddies I said that...Oh, and tell Kuhnie, I said hi." Haseo finished turning around and finally strutting off.
Mika looked between Haseo, who was still walking away from the bridge and him, and Silabus who stood in his spot obviously brooding. Mika then proceeded to stick his tongue out at Silabus, making a childish 'nyah' sound as he did so. Silabus let out a low snarl and threatened to storm over to the weak harvest cleric. Yelping out, Mika jumped and ran after Haseo, not once looking back at the PKer.
Haseo stopped walking once he reached the familiar alleyway in Mac Anu, slowly he breathed out and rested his forehead against the pixelated brick wall.
"Kuhnie?" Mika questioned with a laugh as he nudged Haseo a bit, at first, Haseo didn't respond, there was a good five seconds of awkward silence, before Haseo lifted his head off the wall and talked.
"If Silabus is a Pker, along with Kuhn, and if Gaspard is foul mouthed and unfriendly. Then what about everyone else? What's become of Atoli? Endrance?...What am I going to do?" Haseo asked as he looked up at false sky.
"Hey...You can't give up-" Mika spoke up, only to get cut off by a bitter scoff.
"Who said anything about giving up? I'm just...at a loss right now."
"Well, I can still look on the boards for Yata, you still have one thing to look forward too."
"Yeah...I guess you're right..." Haseo admitted finishing with a sigh.
"Of course I'm right! Just give me ten minutes to search and type on the boards. Just wait here." Without another word, Mika logged out and vanished from Mac Anu. Haseo slowly sat down on the ground and looked up at the sky once again, then, he spoke up to the sky, hoping that who he was speaking too heard him.
"Aura, if you can hear me...Help me...I need it so bad."