105 Beheaded (1/2)

Battle of Ascension HotIce 33010K 2022-07-22

Randy surprised as he heard the woman shouted his name. He didn't recognize the woman, but the man, he felt familiar to the man. In no time both arrived at where he and Zhen Yi were.

”Randy, please help us. No, please protect Akihiro, help him and bring him to leave from here,” The woman pleaded.

Eternal Shogunate's group also stopped 10 meters from them. The group comprised 18 people, three archers, and the rest was using a melee weapon.

The man Eternal Shogunate group chased was full of injuries, there were 5 arrows pierced his body, he remembered the woman called him Akihiro.

The name even more familiar to him, as he thought the identity of these two, a voice full of arrogance sounded on the air as he heard it,

”This is Eternal Shogunate's affair. Don't blame us if we play rough here,”

Randy looked at the Eternal Shogunate's group, where the source voice originated. Looking at this group, Randy found something funny, the way how they line up.

In the first line was standing a person alone like a leader, the second line comprised two people, the third line consisted of three people and so on.

”Is this special formation or what? Or is there a meaning behind the formation?” Randy asked himself in his heart as he looked at the group in the front.

After a while, Randy stopped looking at the group and put his sight on the woman and the man. The man was in the front of the woman, protected her despite the injuries over his body. The man never looked at Randy or asked him to protect them.

Meanwhile, Zhen Yi was curious about the woman rather than the man or the problem between these two and the Eternal Shogunate's group. Randy never told her he had a friend outside beside his two best friends who already died, moreover, this woman was a beauty.

The woman realized Randy didn't recognize them, ”It's me Asuka, Asuka Ogasawara, and he is Akihi…” The woman paused as she realized why Randy didn't respond to them despite she shouted the man's name, ”He is Kojiro Sasaki, we met here three months ago. You shared with us the Rabbit meat with us here,” Asuka immediately corrected.

”Kojiro Sasaki?” Randy mumbled. Then he recalled three months ago he met two people in here, Asuka and Kojiro. He also remembered that day he met the group from Eternal Shogunate too, looking for them.

”Aha, you are Asuka and Kojiro,” Exclaimed Randy as he remembered the twos in the front.

”Yes, please help us. No, you only need to bring Kojiro out here, please bring him to a safe place,” Asuka held Randy's hand as she pleaded with him.

”NO! I will not let them take you from me,” Kojiro insisted as he raised his sword to the Eternal Shogunate's group.

”But… but you will die if this continues,” Tears began flowing from Asuka's eyes.

Randy somehow found a clue by their conversation just now. The Eternal Shogunate's group wanted to take Asuka with them, but he didn't know why the group wanted to take her.

”All right, calm down guys,” Randy took out a healing potion from his Storage System and gave it to Kojiro. He looked the injuries was serious, so he gave the healing potion to Kojiro less he died because of loss blood.

Kojiro didn't take the potion from Randy, ”Better you don't involve yourself in this affair as there will be a huge problem ahead you if you help us,”

Randy looked at the solemn expression on Kojiro's face before he looked at the Eternal Shogunate's group.

”Yeah, more likely there will be a huge trouble ahead if I help these two but…” Randy pondered if he must help them or not.

After a while, he looked at his wife, who kept staring at Asuka. He pulled her closer to him and whispered, ”Should I help them?”

”Help,” Zhen Yi only answered with one word as she didn't even turn her head to him and her answer also surprised him. In an instant, his wife decided to help the twos even though this was the first time she met them.

”Don't ask, lets we solve the problem first,” Zhen Yi said as she took out Ice Fury and wore her armor, prepared to fight.