Blood Of Platinum
Chapters 20. Gems in the Night World bag. 5
Ryou runs by carrying Kino on his back. The blood from Kino's head started to hit Ryou's clothes. Continuing to run straight as far as he could, he didn't even know which path he was on.
“Kino hold on, I'll help you. Please survive. Please.I beg” Ryou ran with a pale face and trembling voice.
Due to fatigue and minor injuries from the fight against the mantis, Ryou is forced to stop on a big road and go to the curb. He hated himself for having to feel exhausted at such an important moment like this but he could not step foot again and chose to lean Kino's body there. Carefully he put the body of the elder brother on the side of the road there. His hands were trembling and cold as he wanted to touch the elder brother.
“Kino...Kino!!” Ryou patted his brother's cheek
His blood-splitting lips turned slightly blue and his pale white face could not be hidden.
‘How is this? What am I supposed to do? Why can't I ever protect you at the right time? Why do you always get hurt when I'm not around you? Why!’!
Unknowingly, tears came out from one of his eyes. He remembered something new that had happened as if it had been a long time. Moments before this, Kino had just hugged her with a great cry from seeing herself get hurt. Then, not long after that he had to see his brother injured by being attacked by insect monsters while fighting and only a few minutes later he had to see his brother almost die in front of him.
Ryou could only let the tears that came out from one of his eyes continue to flow. His mind was filled with guilt.
‘What should I do now?’
It wasn't the maximum Ryou could do and he realized it. He looked at the cloth bag on his belt and took what was inside.
“There!! Although it is only one, it is better than none at all. Kino, you'll be fine” Ryou starts to stop blaming himself
Inside there was still one small bottle of medicine left. Kino said earlier that she now only had a small bottle of medicine to treat the wound.
“That small size medicine probably won't be able to treat all the wounds and broken bones of the hand. But, at least there will still be a wound that can close. I'll bet on Kino” consciousness
Ryou held the small bottle he took. After the lid opened, he held onto the lower chin of Kino and opened his mouth with a slight coercion. The medicine was successfully administered into his mouth. At least with this he could remove a bit of anxiety from his face.
“I still haven't scolded you for your resick plan just now so you should be fine Kino. This way I won't be scolding you anymore”
Ryou tore off his lower clothes a little longer and used them to wipe the blood off his head, face and lips.
‘I'm sure when all will be fine’
While Ryou was cleaning the bloodstains from Kino's face, unconscious from his right side, a walking footstep was heard. Ryou immediately put on an anxious face and immediately looked. He saw a creature coming that walked up to him and looked at him with red eyes.
Ryou reflexively stood up and directly pulled out his sword. He couldn't believe what he saw with his eyes.
“It....The creature...Satyr!! How could he possibly appear here?! Wasn't Kaito fighting him just now!” Ryou could not hide his surprised face
‘There is no way Kaito was defeated by this creature so quickly. Besides, this one came from the opposite direction and is already in front of me now. The sensible thing for all of this is that there is more than one tail appearing. And they can appear in different places. This is really bad!!’ Ryou concluded that in his heart
The good news is, the thing Ryou was thinking about was true. At the moment, Kaito is still desperately trying to withstand the attack of Satyr who attacked Kino some time ago and now Ryou must feel the experience that Kaito is experiencing. Plus the position is really difficult because it has to protect the Kino who is still deep
fainting without any weapon protection.
‘I saw Kaito kick him hard and just get him pushed a little without a scratch. In addition, his kick can make serious injuries such as those experienced by Kino’
Ryou knows that this situation is not like the previous one, moreover the red eyeballs on the creature show a big difference between the strength of the creature and other creatures that have been faced.
Realizing that, there was no way he would not tremble and be afraid. He was facing his greatest fear called death. He even realized his chance of winning from the creature was almost nonexistent. But, he glanced towards Kino. His safety should be the most important.
If she was determined to fight the creature and lose, she would not be able to protect her brother.
“I promised to protect you and I failed to keep it twice. I won't let me deny the thing I said for the third time!!”
As the creature began to gallop towards them, Ryou kept his sword and quickly carried Kino on his back again. He decided not to fight and ran away
attack of the creature.
‘I don't care about the principle of a knight, fuck it all now! If I lose, Kino will die too. I will not fight by risking his safety!!. If you can't win, run away and find a place to hide is the best thing”
The satyr ran after Ryou.
Ryou barely had any power left to run again a while ago, but now he felt like he was in a human condition would unleash incredible potential when pressed, he said, similar to Kino when fighting goblins before.
At the stake of his life he tried to escape the pursuit of the satyr. Neither the satyr Kaito was fighting right now nor the one who was chasing him had any weapons on his body at all. But, uh,
it's impossible if the creature would be happy to play romp with Ryou continuously and that's evidenced directly to Ryou.
Ryou was already quite a distance away with the creature but from behind, a large chunk of rock flew towards him. Ryou quickly dodges to the side but due to tripping over the root below he loses his balance and nearly falls along with Kino's body.
-BAAA
The huge stone fell to destroy the ground and could be seen the road hit by the chunk of stone was instantly destroyed.
“Oi, Goat!! You want to make my body destroyed huh!! I could die if you do that, you fucking goat!!” Ryou could still make a mockery of the creature
Had the creature been able to speak human language, he would have answered yes. Because he wouldn't have attacked Ryou if he didn't mean to kill him. Of course the creature did not understand what he said and did not want to know about all that. His target was the two people before him and he did not intend to get them off the hook.
“Cih! The goat brain is troublesome. I knew he wouldn't let me get away. I had to go somewhere else before he threw another big rock to kill me” Ryou looked at the satyr with a sharp look.
The creature ran towards him again quickly. Their distance is getting closer. Ryou tried to get up and lift Kino's body to his back again while whispering softly.
“Kino, hang on a little more huh. I'll protect you no matter what. Be patient a little more and sleep”
Ryou immediately ran again using all the power available.
At the end of the big road where he was being chased by satyrs, there was a left turn towards the small alley. He decided to run towards that turn. As if looking at his prey trying to escape, the satyr picked up another large rock and threw it again from behind at Ryou. Not until there, he also directly took out a large piece of wood root and directly threw it again just to pause five to ten seconds.
Ryou did not look back but he was sure that the same thing would be done by the creature. As soon as he almost got to the turn of the alley, he went straight into the alley and ran up by adding a bit of his speed. Sure enough, he heard a loud sound like a large object falling into the street from behind. He also heard the sound of buildings being destroyed by being hit by the throwing of another large object.
‘Although without weapons, he has physical strength capable of lifting hard objects. If I had decided to fight against him, I'm sure even with my bare hands he would have been able to kill me. I have to think of a way to hide from him. Think Ryou!. Think before you can no longer move your legs to run!!’
Ryou thought very hard while running. The narrow alley was only pointing straight ahead. The satyr entered and ran in the narrow alley. Outraged by his hunt that kept trying to get away, when he saw the end of the road from the alley, the satyr jumped to block him.
“What?! He can jump this far!!” Ryou was surprised to see that the creature was already standing in front of him.
Now he's really in trouble.
On the other hand, at the time when Ryou is trying to escape from the satyrs who are chasing him, Kaito is busy fending off the attacks from the satyrs he is fighting.
JAPANG
The loud noise of the smashed path created a slight echo in the area.the satyr that Kaito was fighting against attacked him with fists from bare hands. The fist could easily make a hole in the stone path. Before hitting his body, Kaito jumped back and kept his distance.
“The attack is so heavy and strong”
Kaito glanced towards the shield beside his right he saw the shield was dented.
“Material is strong like graphene which is said to be the loudest by the store owner was not able to hold his kick. No wonder Kino can be knocked down with just one strike”
The satyr started running and prepared to punch him. Shortly before his fist hit his body, Kaito rolled to the right side and took the shield quickly. But, that satyr was quite clever and agile. Tau that his opponent immediately switched directions, he immediately quickly twisted his body and kicked it hard.
Kaito quickly reflexively used the shield to hold back his kick. It turned out that the kick was not so successfully held back by his shield because the kick point made by the creature hit the dent in the middle which was the result of the first kick before this.
“Kagh!!” Kaito was thrown and blood came out of his mouth
Luckily the shield protected him so he did not immediately receive such a hard kick. However, due to the kick his shield became hollow in the middle and would not be able to withstand attacks on a large scale back. While cleaning the blood from his mouth, Kaito thought about what should be done to deal with the current situation.
‘There are only two options, run or I have to fight it with a careful plan full of risk. But, such a way can only be done by Kino. Looks like the first choice is the best’
Kaito quickly ran away from the place while thinking about how to fight back.
‘The power of punches and fists and kicks is so strong and feels heavy every time I try to hold them. If my sword was made of ordinary materials, it would probably break immediately while enduring the blow earlier. Lukaku is still painful. Fighting him continuously while waiting for the sunrise will only make me even more cornered, moreover I have no other plans other than to run away from him’
Kaito looked back to ascertain the distance between himself and the satyr. But when he looked back he was surprised because the creature did not exist.
“What does this mean? Why doesn't he exist? Is he hiding or is this a trap?”
Kaito was surprised by the widened eyes. Like an empty thought, he had no idea why the satyr was not chasing after him at all.
‘All creatures in this ‘world tonight’ have almost no thinking intelligence except the dark wolf yesterday, who can think of siege strategies. But ever since Ryou and I saw this creature, he did not respond to attack us and instead wanted to attack Kino who was already helpless. The red eyes were strange as well. Have I missed anything?’
He thought hard and saw what was in front of him. It was an open road and when it kept straight taking a turn towards the left, it was in the direction of Ryou while running. If he were to look at the previous incident, he obviously asked Ryou to take Kino with him away from this place because he was the one who was going to fight that satyr. And now he was just standing alone without seeing the monster figure he was fighting.
“I'm sure I missed something here. There's no way that thing will let me escape. Just like the mantis scythers who attacked me when I tried to approach the tree to pick up.
that's what he's after!!”
Kaito ran as fast as he could. His face this time was really serious as if things had really gotten worse than that.
He began to realize what he had missed. The Scyther mantis attacks Kaito and ignores Ryou while in the tree because he is close to the big tree and tries to retrieve the jewel. The moment they came and saw the satyr, he completely ignored the two of them and only looked at the already helpless Kino. What Kino brought was his jewel and that was the reason the creature attacked him.
“They are both in danger!!” Kaito shouted realizing his hypothesis
And all of that is true.
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Ryou is confronted by a jumping satyr and is now right in front of him. Ryou retreated slowly with a panicked face.
“Can't get through here. Forced to turn around” Ryou turned around and returned to the road he had passed again to get out of that narrow alley
The satyr ran back and tried to jump in front of Ryou in the same way once again. But this time, Ryou did not let that happen a second time. He began to increase his speed and jumped out a narrow alley as the satyr jumped up and almost landed before him. His body fell toppled over while Kino rolled to Ryou's left side, regardless of his grasp. Ryou who was then looking at Kino's body next to him, immediately tried to stand up. The satyr walked over but he did not head towards him but to the left side where Kino was lying.
‘Kino!!’ Ryou shouted in heart
Just a few steps away until she was near Kino's body and prepared to step on her, Ryou instantly caught her brother's body and rolled forward. Kino's body is now in her arms and Ryou immediately wakes up holding Kino in front with his bridal style hand.
“The goat is really eyeing Kino! But, why just Kino?”
Ryou felt astonished but the astonishment only lasted for a moment.
At that time, Ryou still did not know the reason why Kino was targeted. He could only run as hard as he could to distance himself from the satyrs behind him. After expanding his distance a few steps away from the creature that was chasing him, not far from the front, Ryou saw another satyr running.
“What?! There's more?” Ryou's getting cornered
From behind, he had run desperately to escape the satyrs who were chasing him, but when running towards the front he also saw that there was already another one ready to welcome him. Now, in that place the situation is getting cornered. He was completely surrounded while he was unable to use any weapons. Ryou was forced to stop running with a panicked expression on his face.
On the road where he stopped there were no other branching streets. The road was only one-way with a level of severe damage due to the sudden change of the city into a forest. In addition, there are also buildings damaged due to roots. Obviously if he went in there it would just be a dead end for him. That is, he had nowhere else to hide this time.
He grasped the body of the brother while calling the name “Kino” with trembling.
Highlight Ryou's sharp eyes still haven't dimmed. He still had not given up on protecting Kino who was still unconscious. However, he is not in a fantasy world. If the two satyrs carried out the same attack as Kino received, it could already be known the result, Ryou would die and Kino would follow after.
‘There is no hope for me to be safe?’ Ryou prayed in his heart
And it looks like Ryou's luck wasn't bad enough at the last minute.
Satyr in front of him tried to look back and…
SLAAAASH
Ryou saw the satyr's head hovering, separated from his body. Suddenly another satyr behind Ryou stopped chasing.
“...What...” Ryou fell silent from being too shocked to open his mouth
After the decapitated body of the satyr falls, Ryou sees Kaito running and quickly, Kaito is in a position to face each other with another satyr.
“Kaito!! You're alive!” Ryou looks happy to see Kaito nearby
Kaito glanced at Ryou who was holding Kino in front with clothes that were getting more and more small tears and scratches everywhere.
“You managed to survive this far while protecting Kino. When he wakes up, I'll tell all your heroic struggles to your brother. She will definitely hug you while crying out of Proud”
“Heh, It's clear! I will not repeat my mistake for the third time”
“It takes a lot of effort to chase after him so listen to me carefully, the dead one is the satyr who attacked Kino” Kaito pointing to the satyr corpse behind
“What? That's the first creature we saw? Why did you let that damn goat escape?!” Ryou shouted while having an emotional face
“I didn't let him escape but he escaped when he had the chance. Listen to me Ryou, the only one they're after is Kino. Therefore they will ignore anyone other than Kino. Shouldn't you be
experienced it too?”
Ryou remembered the incident that just happened. The satyr ignored him as he leapt out of the alley and headed towards Kino's body lying to his left. Ryou remembered that.
Kaito continued his sentence.
“The reason they're after Kino is because he brought the gem. This is the same as when on that big tree, the mantis only attacked me because I was in the closest place to the gem. And after the gem was taken by Kino, they only targeted him as the main target to be killed”
“Don't joke! They tried to kill Kino once an attack just to take the jewel?! Just be right!!” Ryou became very angry
He looked so annoyed that he shouted towards the satyr in front of him.
“Don't just try to kill someone else's family members, you fucking goat?! I will never forgive you?! Goat brain!. You heard it didn't?!”
The words of scorn from Ryou and Kaito's mouth that heard him were eager to laugh but the situation was not right so he paused that intention. Ryou laid Kino on the ground and drew his sword.
“So, you who have managed to kill one, can't possibly not know how to defeat it right, Kaito?”
“Beating them from the front and side is indeed not possible since our movements are still visible to him. I've experienced it myself. But attacking from a point not seen by him would work. As I did earlier”
“Suddenly from the back you mean?”
“Accurate once. As powerful as they are, if they cannot see the attack it will be useless. They're gonna stay dead. Moreover, satyrs are basically not strong fighting monsters, so I thought that they became more aggressive for the sake of getting that jewel”
“Good then. After knowing the creature was only targeting my brother, I will not stay silent”
Kaito looks at his pocket watch and the time shows at 05:10. The remaining time until sunrise is only 50 minutes.
“Whatever happens, we have to buy time in order to survive until sunrise”
“Do not worry. I refused to kill him even though I wanted to. If the goat dies, we do not know what ugly creature appears and honestly I feel like I will die if I have to fight again” Ryou said it with a sharp look towards the satyr in front of him
Ryou clasped his sword firmly and prepared to attack. The attack began when Kaito who ran first drew his sword.
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