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On the roof. Dark skies overhead, the air smelt of ing rain. That mugginess like the s before the storm, clouds almost dark as a reaper's shadow.
The reaper stood watg a swirling red gate below; entrao another world. The va abandoned by the red vortex.
Baelor had called him, told him everything. The head of the crimson bandits had a heart; Eren couldn't believe that.
However, the task before him took pret. An evil man had once again proven what y in the hearts of the rot; those sinister iions still corrupted this world.
Now standing before the gate the red swirl; distorted. It pulled at the earth around; clumps of earth floated off, but didn't just float in one dire. Rocks circled the red vortex, orbiting like ps. Powerful and ominous, Eren was yet to gh a red gate, this one proved why.
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Gate info:
Location: School of fallen souls.
Opening time: Twice a year for 10 days
Danger level: B++++++
Owners: Crimson bandits
Last clear: N/A
Rewards: N/A
Special ditions: Ohe bell rings, stay out of the sight of the students and teachers, they will hunt you.
Gate closing time: 00: 06: 03: 26
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Eren noticed a pattern from all the gates the crimson bandits used to duct their business, barley used, little resources. Shinya was intelligent in that regard; a perfect hiding space.
However, intelligence doesn't ward off fate. There was only one reason this gate is used, and Eren was certain there would be 5 young girls within.
*Step* *Step* *Step*
The Reaper turo the echoed footsteps. Panic appeared. Eyes heavy in his usual posture, fixed to the red.
"Жнец." (Reaper)
Eren was half expeg a fight; yet his instincts held n of any ill i from Panic.
"Is this gate?" Asking without a doubt to where they stood.
"Why are you here?" The Reaper asked with his guard still raised just a touch.
"I don't harm civilians. Little girl’s i. You protect civilians, I respect." Panic did not offer a hand, only bowing his head in aowledgment. The Russian uood he stood before his tract target. But priority y first, a target and resg civilians. An unlikely allianed in the shadow.
The pair were swallowed by the gate.
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Inside:
Looking around the pair were no longer surrounded by the fog of red. Instead, standing within a pristine lobby of wooden floors and high walls. White light glowed in the windowless hall. A school you would find anywhere in Japan; except, there were posters on the walls. Made to look like informatiohere were no words, scribbled of lines and colours. Nonsensical like an imitation of the human form.
Corridors that reached on in every dire, beyond the scope of sight. Most damming of all; above them was an endless sky of railings, going beyond what the eye see.
"бесконечная школа." (Endless school) Panic muttered. Eyes locked onto the infinite number of stories to be had. Eren oher hand walked along the empty corridor, deep blue shadows under foot, following a quiet resonance down the halls. Panic followed behind with short; steps, their boots barely making a sound.
s upon s; students sat writing in unison without pause. Faceless teachers marched in figures 8's around the css, reading from books. This is what some people imagined school to be like. Orderly and studious. Except there was no noise, a ghostly aura of students and teachers, endlessly reading and writing.
All s in unison to a silent pedagogy.
"Do you knoere going?"
"Нет." (No)
6 hours to find their goal and clear out or be stu repetition hell for 6 months. Thankfully, Eren could expedite the process. His knights at his and, crawled through shadows awaiting his and.
"Ждать." (Wait) Panic stopped and k. Examining a thin gold thread that flowed in all dires, "Bandits use this, follow." Panic took the lead. The knights sank bato the darkness, some disappoihey couldn't serve their master.
Echoes in the distahey pair ran through halls to follow. Quiing pace through endless loops of corridors.
*Ding* *Dong* *Ding*
School bells rang throughout. It shook the hallways and rippled through the very fabric of the building.
'4th period has now ended for students. Teachers, remain in or report to the staff room.'
When the chimes stopped, doors swung open. Students filled out, orderly, without pause, marg in perfeation. So fast were their steps that they met Eren and Panic down the corridor, surrounding them.
" you fight, Жнец?"
"..."
With teeth barred the students charged in an orderly sprint. A quick whip ssh cleaved through a batch of faceless boys. Paniveiled his powers, cutting the tip of his index finger; a fist formed from the spilt blood. Pung through the bodies of the faceless. Heads snapping off like dandelions.
However, the march tinued, s of endless faceless. Charging at the pair without end, more whip cracks and blood fists cshed. Back-to-back the reaper and giant battled endless waves.
Seeping blood from the dead drew to panic; a ball of blood, abs more and more. Each spt became a rger globe of red. Eventually, with the march of faceless remaining, panic was ready. Smashing his hand in the middle,
"Кровавый град!" ("Blood rain!”) Pinpricks of red pierced through the students. Arrows of blood pierced their bodies, then to their skin and to the surrounding s.
'Good thing he hasn't decided to fight me yet.' More blood flew past him, creating another ball of red. More bodies littered on the floor, bloodless form creating hypovolemic corpses.
"Кровавая стена." ("Blood wall")
The horde was cut off, a wall of blood crashed through the walls, engulfing everything in a red flood. A barrier stood between them.
"We have time now. e." Panic led. Eren mao cut through many of them with a simple ssh; or five. The remaining were no match for Panic's superihting skill and strength.
The gate although meant fher levelled rankers, was a breeze. Two rankers with specialities in horde clearing made it easier than it would have been for any other.
Through many more scores of halls. Some quiet, other flooded with students. Panic had three orbs of blood floating around him, ready to strike.
Eventually, the area grew quiet. No more students, no more teachers, the area itself looked abandoned. Mold and dust f, almost a quarantine.
Echoes of hushed versation bounced around the walls. Finally, it seemed they found their target. Panic stopped.
"I leave you now. Rescue girls. You punish them. Leave." Panic returowards the lobby.
"Why?"
"...I am monster. Reaper is honourable. Girls deserve better then monster." With those words said, Panic disappeared into the endless halls.
"До следующего раза, Жнец. Мы сражаемся на равных." (Until ime, Reaper. We will fight equally)
'Honourable...' No one had every called him such before, hat knew who he was at least. Panic respected him, enough to ehat Eren would see them free.
Without any more dey he moved with hast. The bandits were ered and they wouldn't escape him. Down a corridor of mould ied s, there was one door closed, brighter lights pared to the rest. From outside looking in; 6 men spread throughout the room. At the very end of the room; a taller man, high above the rest, dressed well.
'Shinya...'
What drew the eyes of the Reaper however, was a film set. More well established than the one in the warehouse; More lights on stands, several cameras, refleg pstic thten up the mood. Two sets, one a dorm room with a rge bed and then another an open white vas with two chairs. Shinya remained quiet, whilst his lesser men worked to get things set up and ready.
"Are you sure sir? It will definitely make you feel better." Eren reized the voice. The weasel he let live from the mall. Anger burned within him.
'I should've killed him.'
Despite the masks best efforts to keep seething anger and hatred tained within, some leaked out. P from his very soul like water and running down the crack like roots.
"No. Stop asking. The first rule of running a guild like this is to not get hooked on your own product." Shinya reprimanded.
"Sorry boss, just w. 't let a bunch of fresh young pussies go to waste." A ugh from the crew. All ughing at the situation and discussing on who gets to 'work' first. Whilst Shinya waited impatiently, eyeing on the shadows, w what danger lurked within.
*Click*
The door opened slowly. Reaper stood. Silence overtook the bandits. A wave of terror rippled through the crew. Each mouth shut like an iron wall, in their hurry to start ahey had not anticipated his quitervention. They had 6 hours and they would be safe.
"H-h-he-"
*Shick*
The weasels mouth filled with bone. Coughing and hag; blood flooded out from the mouth. Dropping dead.
The suddeh kept them frozen. Shod horror quickly took them, the Reaper struck with cold silence.
