Chapter 12: Unaware
He came out of the house and looked right, left, and up to figure out what was going on. That’s when a man standing from a distance shouted, "Let none of them escape!"
Hajime looked at where the man was standing when he heard something that sounded like gunfire, and people who were nearby started falling one by one.
"What’s happening?" He asked himself as he looked at the people who fell bleeding and straggling to get away, while some of the people who fell from the ground stopped moving entirely.
Hajime took a step back and fell to the ground. His legs started to shake with fear.
Meanwhile, at the training ground, Reiko and Rica were. no one knew what was going on in the village, and there were a lot of people training than on the day Hajime was there.
While training with Rica, Reiko winced as a sharp ache pulsed in her head. She stopped and said to Rica, "Let’s take a breather for a moment." She started walking to sit down by a tree nearby.
Rica followed her as she looked at the others training with curiosity and confusion in her stare.
"Hey sis. Why are there so many people training here today?" She asked while still keeping her eyes on the others.
Reiko looked at Rica and then looked at the others training and replied to her, "I don’t know? Maybe they train here all the time, and I just don’t notice them-" As her head started to hurt even more.
She touched between her eyes and wondered, "What’s going on?" while she raised her face slowly and looked at the barrier around her.
Every time Reiko goes to the training grounds, she always puts a barrier up just in case something bad happens inside it, and the barrier prevents all fatal damage taken inside it.