Chapter 171

171 Back to the Mansion

“Okay, what in the world just happened?” Malachi muttered in thought, staring at the empty church grounds. We were safe, at least for the moment-but who knows what will happen in the future?

I shook my head slowly from side to side as I looked down at the ground, trying to clear my mind of what just happened, not really wanting to think about it anymore. “I have no idea,” I replied softly, my voice soft and husky as I began to breathe deeply again. “We need to get back to the mansion.”

“Are you sure?” Nikki asked with uncertainty. “Do you think it’s safe?”

I looked at her for a brief moment, seeing her face was a little red-from either the stress or the sun or whatever else was going on. “It’s the safest place I guess,” I said with a sigh, not sure whether I should be happy about that or not. “Maybe we can just hide in here for a while.”

“That sounds like a good plan,” Tisiah replied, nodding his head in agreement with me. “Tomorrow is our last day before they begin their attack. After that, it won’t be our problem.”

“Yeah,” I said, looking at everyone, “we need to make sure that we’re ready for tomorrow.”

“How do you think they’ll attack?” Nikki asked, looking at me with a little bit of worry in her eyes. I shrugged as I looked around, “I don’t know but at least the JSA can help us.” Malachi nodded in agreement, while Nikki looked back at me with a concerned expression on her face.

“We’ll be alright,” Tisiah said with confidence as he began to open up the door of the church.

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Quickly, we arrived to Zekeshi Kin’s house, knocking on the door. All of a sudden, Zekeshi opened up the door, and we rushed in. He looked at us in confusion as we zoomed up the stairs, following him into his room. There was a long table with chairs placed in front of it along with a few windows looking out of the wall.

But I froze once I looked, my heart dropping. Masaru and September suddenly stopped their whole-um-course, looking at us as we walked into the room, before turning their heads towards each other as they began to kiss again-in front of us this time. I felt like throwing a punch at him, but I didn’t-I just stood there and stared at him in anger as he continued to kiss her.

“I’m sorry for interrupting your-” I started to say but Masaru interrupted me with his finger against his lips. “What’s wrong?”

“The BMO found us, and Maddie Cone seemed to be looking for you September,” Malachi said, and I could see the disgust on his face, but I didn’t really care about that right now.

September stood up from the couch and walked towards us. “Maddie Cone?” she asked quietly with confusion on her face. “Her?”

“Yes, her. Something tells me tomorrow is gonna be a long ride,” Tisiah said, as September sighed, rubbing her forehead.

“Yeah...” she said, “she was looking for me?” She walked towards the window and looked out of it as if something was coming her way.

“Yeah,” Tisiah nodded, and I could hear the worry in September’s voice, “and if you don’t want her to find you-” he paused as he looked at us- “we have no choice but to keep you out of sight for a while.” September nodded as Masaru looked at us in confusion, not understanding why we were worried about what Maddie Cone would do next.

“You’re right,” she replied, “and I don’t really want her to find me.”

“None of us do,” I said, still a bit disturbed, even though I could understand that she had to be cautious about Maddie Cone finding us again.

“Yeah,” September agreed with me, “we’re all here because of her.”

“It’s soon time to go, so before we go back home, we can talk to B,” Nikki suggested, looking at all of us, “then we can tell him what happened and what we’re going to do.”

“I have a feeling that tonight is going to be very interesting,” Tisiah said with a chuckle as he looked at everyone. “Who’s gonna tell him.” Silence filled the room, and then Nikki laughed a bit before she spoke up. “I will.”

“You sure?” I asked with concern.

“Yeah,” she replied, “I’ll tell him about everything that happened.”

“And what’s gonna happen tomorrow?” I added with a nod, seeing that we were all aware of what’s happening tomorrow.

“Tomorrow...” Tisiah began to say, “tomorrow is going to be interesting. We have no choice but to fight tomorrow.”

“Well it seems there’s gonna be more than one person we really need to protect,” Malachi said, as a feeling began to immerse in the room, but no one else seemed to think anything about it.

“Yeah,” Tisiah replied, “and I don’t think anyone is going to be able to take care of it.” He glanced at Masaru and then he smiled. “Even you.”

“What do you mean by that?” he asked him in return.

“I mean that we’re going to be fighting tomorrow,” Tisiah said as if he was telling him the obvious, and he just shrugged his shoulders. “Let’s just hope you get to your flight safely.” Masaru nodded, looking very worried, but no one else seemed to be talking about this other than Tisiah, and it was making me think about what we’re going to do tomorrow.

“So,” September spoke up as she stared at me with concern in her eyes. “I’ll just...”

“Yeah,” I nodded as she exited the room, leaving only Nikki and I there.

“It’s going to be okay,” Nikki said with a smile as she took my hand in hers. I nodded, but I still wasn’t really sure if I was going to be okay tomorrow. I feel like it might not actually be, but I still had hope that everything would work out well.

“You’ll be fine,” she said with a smile, “you’ll be fine.” I could see the fear in her eyes as she looked down at her hands, but I still felt like there was a lot to worry about and we weren’t really ready for it yet.

“You’ll be fine too,” I said with a smile as she looked back at me with a look of concern on her face. She looked away from me and shook her head slowly. “I hope,” she said, looking at me, “that we all are.”

“So do I,” I replied with a nod. She smiled softly and turned to walk away, and I walked towards the window to see her leave the room as well. As I stood by the window, looking out into the afternoon sky, I could feel that this is all going to be very interesting indeed.

And it’s only going to get even more interesting as the next day came around.