The man who helped Hinata up saw her actions and instinctively swept her off her feet, carrying her like a princess.
”Whether you like it or not, I’m taking you to the doctor. As for now, restrain from moving, that’ll hurt you on the long run” he said as two small blue dragons came up from the ground and helped carry the foxes. The man then started towards the backdoor exit.
As Jade would walk through the hallway, a loud and sinister laugh came from somewhere above her as some strings attacked her, attempting to slice off parts of her skin and to tie her up like the corpses on the floor.
Jade tried not to scream or show fear as she was attacked and attempted to use a defensive spell against her assailant "custodire et defendere agaisnt ignotum malum hoc" to protect and defend agaisnt this unknown evil and tried to remove the strings
Chris noticed Kye clearly, he turned towards the visitor after all. But it did not seem like he cared much about the visitor being there. He ran towards the figure on the bed.
The scientist leaned closer to the figure.
”Do you remember who you are?” the scientist asked as the man on the bed nodded softly and answered with the words.
”Sebastian Autumn, protector of the Dimensional Travelers… host of former Knight, Vincent Dylan’s soul shard…” the man on the bed answered as the scientist nodded satisfyingly at the results.
Kye cursed himself silently for letting himself be found, but stepped out of the shadows to stand a little behind Chris. "Who is this?" his voice was calm sounding, but very quiet.
Hinata let out a sound of disapproval, looking up at the man with one eyebrow raised.
"This is highly unnecessary," she said, crossing her arms. "I can handle myself. Besides, I'm not the one who needs medical attention, and I don't trust anyone else to help with the one who does."
The spell worked but that did not stop the Knight’s trial. Some other strings rushed Jade, now from different directions and now extremely hard to avoid.
”This is Sebastian, he used to be a dead man but as you can see… we managed to save him by installing a mechanism inside him” the scientist said as the man on the bed turned to Kye.
”Sebastian Autumn, pleasure to meet you” he said with a small bow.
The man carrying Hinata looked down at her with a warm smile and closed eyes.
”C’mon, don’t act so unnecessarily strong— Balance Keeper” the man said as they left through the backdoor and headed towards the hospital.
”Now that I said it, why are you here actually?”
Hinata didn't care that this man knew she was the Balance Keeper, rolling her eyes a bit.
"I got shoved through a portal by a time manipulator named Cronos. I've just been kinda rolling with it."
”Ah, that man. He’s a great man once you get to know him actually though I highly doubt you want to meet him any time soon, right?” the man asked as he paced gradually towards the hospital. The foxes’ bodies were still following the man. The dragons that held them up were quite strong for their size.
"I honestly don't care either way. So long as he doesn't shove me through any more random portals." Hinata chuckled, shifting a bit.
"But seriously, could you please put me down?"
”If you are completely sure that you can walk on your own, then sure. But you’ve got to promise me that first” the man said with a small, friendly chuckle as he continued. All this time has passed, and the man still hasn’t introduced himself.
"I am completely and utterly sure I can walk on my own," Hinata said. Most of the pain had receded by now, and all she really needed right now was a snack.
"And you still haven't introduced yourself. You know you I am, but I don't know who you are."
The man nodded, knelt down a bit and let Hinata stand on her own.
”My name is Ichika Kyoshun, former Knight of the Labyrinth and currently working as a Multiversal bounty hunter—” the man introduced with a small bow ”—in other words, I’m working across dimensions so you might have seen pictures of me in taverns where hunters would gather” he shrugged, hoping what he had said was true to some degree.
Hinata slipped out of Ichika's arms, having no trouble standing now. She nodded in response, thinking for a moment as to what Ichika had said.
"I have seen pictures," she noted. Of course, she was usually drunk by the time she got around to actually looking around taverns, so the memories were fuzzy at best.
Ichika nodded with a small grin and started walking again. He looked like a friendly person from his every action so far but there was no way Hinata could know what he’s thinking exactly. He looked down at his right wrist as a blue aura cloud surrounded it, giving it an ominous look.
Hinata followed, mostly because Ichika's dragons still had Kori and Kasai. She didn't like that she was just blindly following this man, but she figured that there weren't any bounties on her. Then again… it wouldn't surprise her.
”This is Sebastian, he used to be a dead man but as you can see… we managed to save him by installing a mechanism inside him” the scientist said as the man on the bed turned to Kye.
”Sebastian Autumn, pleasure to meet you” he said with a small bow.
Kye nodded, breathing out a silent sigh of relief that Chris was cool with him being here. He looked to the person and gave a polite bow in return. "My name is Kye Gathrodir. The pleasure is all mine," he said.
The man soon took her into the hospital and before she would know it, Hinata would find herself in a clean patient's room. The foxes were on beds, separate ones. Soon, a familiar doctor would step into the room.
"Hello again–" Cassius said as he flipped through the documents he'd been given "–can you explain to me roughly of what happened?"
Chris was fine with the interaction but he had to turn to Kye.
"I'm sure this is gonna be obvious, but you followed me because of the bloody knife I had on me, right?" the scientist asked with a tilted head.
Due to the scientist's quick and mumbled accent, the mechanized man on the bed seemed a bit confused like he did not fully understand what Chris had just said.
Kye thought quick and shook his head. "No, the door is locked, so I came to find you again…. And then I saw the knife and got curious," Kye explained. "Ordinarily the sight of the knife would have told me that it was time to go, but seeing as how you have been nothing but kind to me, I figured you had a reason."
"O-Oh… I forgot to unlock the door for you then. My apologies" the scientist said in a soft tone before turning to the man on the bed.
"Would it be fine I went to unlock the door for you then disappear for an hour or two… I need to run some tests" the scientist asked, putting his hands in his lab coat's pockets.
Kye nodded. "Yeah, I would be okay with that. I need to find my mother and get back home at some point," he decided. Crossing his arms in front of him and following Chris out.
"Well, we were on our way to the Gardens when we bumped into someone. Kori said that they might be a wanted criminal, so we decided to see what was going on. We saw the dude destroy the body of one of the minor scientists, and started to leave when a black smoke surrounded the foxes and knocked them unconscious. He was about to attack Kasai when I tried to intervene, but… yeah, that didn't go so well." Hinata shrugged.
Upon arriving at the lab door, Chris used his fingerprint to open the passcode system. He then typed something into the system which was too fast to see and too complex to remember. The door then opened up.
”Alright, good luck with what you wanna do. I’mma head back inside now” Chris said, stepping to the side to allow Kye out.
The doctor noted down how Hinata described the attacker.
”Alright… I think I’ve got an idea on who it could be…” the doctor stood up and went to get some documents from his personal desk. He looked through them then picked out specific sheets of paperwork from the folder.
”You wanna see it actually?”
"Sure, why not." The information could be useful, after all. If she ever ran into the man again, that is. She'd much prefer not having one of her Companion Souls hurt again. Katsuo and Kagami were currently taking care of poor Tatsuo- the nearly being broken had been really hard on him.
The spell worked but that did not stop the Knight’s trial. Some other strings rushed Jade, now from different directions and now extremely hard to avoid.
Jade felt her eyes become completely black as she called upon a black magic spell "quod est circa ea ego nocere mea. ignosce me. Arma tua ruina, et cor tuum plenum" why must i hurt those around me. forgive me. Let thy weapon fall and let thy heart be full She had used this spell many times before but hated everytime.