Chapter 23: Ashara Blazeheart
’Is this the thing No. 4 used to say she always wanted?’ Azrael recalled the eccentric little girl who had been a part of his team, as he looked at the teardrop-shaped, nearly two hundred meters big dark blue spaceship flying toward them.
The spaceship glided silently through the sky, and within seconds, it arrived above the backyard of the mansion.
Without making a sound, the rear section of the ship opened, and Azrael saw two figures standing at the exit.
The spaceship was nearly two hundred meters high, so he couldn’t see their faces clearly. But even without seeing them up close, the silhouettes of those two people were etched so deeply in his memory that he could never forget them, even if he wanted to.
Woosh!
Suddenly, a trail of flame streaked across the sky as one of the figures rapidly descended from the spaceship—using the trail of fire like a slide.
Although Azrael had seen similar things on the internet, watching it unfold before his own eyes was another matter entirely. It was breathtaking to see someone casually create and ride down a trail of flame from the sky.
The trail of fire crashed down just a few meters away from Azrael and Kael, who were standing at the front.
Azrael braced himself for intense heat due to the proximity, but to his surprise, he didn’t feel even the slightest warmth. Not only that, even the grass where the fire had struck appeared untouched, completely unaffected.
Woosh!
With a gust of wind, the lingering flames vanished entirely, and a female figure emerged from their center.
A fair-skinned woman, about 180 cm tall, with long, flame-like orange hair that flowed down to her hips, and bright purple eyes that mirrored Azrael’s own. She wore a futuristic battlesuit that hugged her form perfectly, making her look as though she had just stepped off a battlefield.