( kanzashi's POV )
On our school trip, Yuuki disappeared on the second day and when I asked the teachers if they knew anything about it but they just said that he had to return to the academy due to an emergency, my sister had also disappeared, and the thought that they could be together made my chest tighten.
I also asked the girls who were closest to him about Yuuki, Cecilia, Laura, and Charlotte, but they put on an apologetic expression and told me to ask Yuuki the next time I saw him.
Also, on the second day, Ichika and her childhood friends were in an incident with a runaway IS, but I was not involved in that.
When we all returned to the academy, Yuuki was there acting normal, as if nothing important had happened, but I don't know if that was the case.
I wanted to follow the girls' advice, but the first time, I was very nervous and couldn't ask anything, another day, I was going to give it another try, but Yuuki, for some reason, skipped his classes and his usual training.
My first thought was that my sister had something to do with it but she didn't know why Yuuki did that either, I decided to go straight to his bedroom, with me I had a bag with some of my favorite mangas, this was a gift for Yuuki for all the help he had given me and also an excuse to be able to talk to him this time.
I was walking through the hallways of the dorm when I saw my sister, also heading to Yuuki's room.
Kanzashi: What are you doing here?
Tatenashi: You're saying I can't go see him. I'm worried about Yuuki too, you know.
She wasn't doing anything wrong, but I frowned a little at her, I continued walking without saying anything else, and my sister followed behind me, I knocked on Yuuki's door, but there was no answer, so I put my hand on the handle and saw that it was unlocked.
Kanzashi: ... Please behave yourself.
Before opening the door, I turned my head and gave my sister a warning, and she just smiled at me, I sighed and then turned the knob.
There was no one inside the room, but there was something strange in front of me, I saw a kind of red crack in space emitting a slight hum, the strange event in front of me had me speechless, but my sister jumped to investigate the strange crack.
Tatenashi: Oh, what do we have here~
Kanzashi: Wait, be careful.
I grabbed my sister's hand in concern, but I couldn't stop her, and when she touched the crack, we were enveloped by a red light, and the next thing we knew, we were in a dark forest.
Tatenashi: Interesting, was that some kind of teleportation?
Kanzashi: How can you be so calm?
Tatenashi: Worrying won't get us anywhere, plus I think Yuuki went through the same thing as us, we should find him first.
We had our IS, so there wasn't much that was a threat to us, I followed my sister's lead, and as we started walking, I felt a slight tingling in one of my eyes.
I rubbed my eye to get rid of the feeling, and when I wasn't paying attention, I bumped into my sister, I was going to ask why she stopped, but she put a finger to her lips and pointed at the trees behind us.
The sound of bushes rustling could be heard, and those sounds quickly grew louder, and soon the trees were pushed aside by something large that leaped at us.
The thing was a strange, red-skinned, six-limbed creature, and when I laid eyes on that thing, the tingling I felt turned into a stabbing pain, and before I could cover my eye from the pain, I saw some letters appear in front of my vision.
While I was immobilized by pain, my sister activated her IS, and without hesitation, she used her main weapon, her spear, to pierce the creature's head, killing it instantly.
My sister was not faced by the creature but that was not the end, a creature three times bigger than the previous one appeared and grabbed my sister with a huge claw, I removed my hand from my eye and the letters appeared again, but now I could read something, above the creature's head appeared the word BETA.
My sister was in danger, but now it wasn't the pain that was holding me back, I was just too scared to move, the IS barrier was protecting her, but that wasn't going to last long, and I could hear more creatures approaching.
It seemed like things were going to end horribly for us, and in what I thought were my last moments, I couldn't help but think of Yuuki, I knew how I felt about him, but I never said it out loud.
Now, I just wanted to see him one more time and have him smile at me, that seemed impossible, but at that moment, I heard his familiar voice that washed my worry and fear away.
Yuuki, he was here, even in this strange situation his voice calmed me and made me feel safe, to the point of tears of joy.
Yuuki: [ Gran Rey Cero!!! ]
A huge black-purple laser disintegrated the strange creature and everything behind it, my sister was released, and before she fell, she was caught by a figure wrapped in crystal armor with metal parts, I couldn't see his face, but I knew that inside that armor was Yuuki and I couldn't contain my excitement.
Kanzashi: YUUKI!!!
When I shouted his name, Yuuki came down in front of me, with his free hand, he wiped my tears and caressed my head, even through his armor, I could feel the warmth of his touch.
Yuuki: I'll take things from here.
I didn't fully understand the situation, but I trusted his words completely.