Mya continued to scream.

  She shouted her sister's name repeatedly, as though reciting it would bring Nui back to life, but her voice was hoarse, broken, and tearing itself apart. She continued despite the burning sensation in her throat. She was unable to.

  "Nui! Nui!"

  Tears streamed down her face as her hands clenched into her hair and her nails dug into her scalp. Her body seemed to have forgotten how to breathe correctly, as her chest ached with each sharp, uneven breath.

  "Why…?" she exclaimed, her voice breaking as she spoke.

  She gave a fierce shake of her head, as though she could banish the thoughts.

  "What went wrong for me?What went wrong...?" Mya broke down in tears.

  She got no response from the room.

  The weight of everything fell on her at once, causing her small body to tremble and her knees to press into the cold floor. She was just ten. Ten years old. She hadn't lived long enough to comprehend the world, much less the reason it would gradually rob her of everything.

  Her voice broke entirely as she whispered, "I'm still a kid,I am still ten years old."

  As she struggled to understand how the world could be this harsh, this unjust, and this final, her voice broke into nothing and turned into choking sobs.

  With her tiny fists thudding feebly against the ground, she exclaimed, "Why?Why did you take them away from me?"

  Shuren stood quietly a short distance away. Grief was nothing new to her. She had witnessed it decompose people into corpses or weapons. Normally, she would have waited for it to finish.

  Mya's body had a slight blue glimmer. It responded directly to her distress, leaking out in wild, trembling waves. As though reality itself were flinching, the air around the child started to warp and bend a little.

  "Shit."Shuren muttered.

  Like mist attracted to a flame, the energy grew thicker and crawled over Mya's skin. It grew stronger every time she screamed at the world, pulsing in time with her sobs.

  Mya sobbed, "Why did you take my family?" "What did I do?"

  Shuren moved at once. She took a single step across the room, abruptly picked Mya up, and turned abruptly toward the door. She moved with urgency rather than hesitation.

  Mya was thrown out of the mansion by her.

  Mya hit the ground outside, skidding a little as the blue energy flared brighter around her, before Assad and Taura could even react.

  "What are you doing, Shuren?" Taura yelled and hurried ahead.

  Mya's voice broke entirely as she screamed once more.

  With tears running down her cheeks, she exclaimed, "There's nothing left for me!" "Please just take me away so I can be with them."

  Outward, the blue energy exploded.

  Instead of exploding violently, it grew, engulfing her in a flash of light that made Taura and Assad cover their eyes. The aura surged, unsteady and uncontrolled, and the ground shook slightly beneath them.

  Shuren's jacket fluttered in the backlash as she stood in the doorway, staring at the child.

  She clenched her jaw.

  "Damn it, her emotions are piling up.Of all things… she was awakening as a true failure."She muttered.

  Taura's eyes froze, her gaze snapping back to Shuren, disbelief piercing the fear on her face.

  "Wait, are you serious?" she demanded. "You're saying she's awakening? A true failure?"

  Her voice fell, trembling. "What the hell happened there?!"

  The blue energy pulsed once more, waves of instability radiating outward. The earth beneath Mya trembled, hair and clothes being lifted as if caught in a rising tide. Her sobs had become erratic, interspersed with shattered gasps as the energy reacted to every shred of despair she felt.

  Shuren did not look away from Mya.

  "No time for explanations," she said flatly.

  She fully emerged now, positioning herself between Mya and the mansion, her presence resolute and deliberate. Her threads quivered faintly at her back, reacting to the energy in the air.

  "If we don't stabilize her now," "she won't survive the awakening. "Shuren said, her voice cutting.

  Assad froze for half a second longer.

  He watched Shuren intently, her stance rigid, her eyes fixed on Mya as if she were gazing down the barrel of a ticking bomb instead of a grieving child. None of this made any sense to him true failure, awakening, stabilization, but the tension in the air told him one thing definitively.

  This was not the time to ask questions.

  Shuren spoke again, her tone crisp this time.

  "Both of you. Go hold her steady."

  Taura didn't wait. She acted the moment the words were out of Shuren's mouth, charging towards Mya despite the furious blue energy surrounding her.

  The energy pushed against her, pulling at her clothes and her hair, but she gritted her teeth and pushed through, dropping to her knees beside the girl.

  "Mya...hey...listen to me. You're not alone, okay?"Taura said, throwing her arms around the girl's shoulders to hold her back from falling forward.

  Assad swallowed hard.

  Every fiber in his body screamed at him to demand answers to ask what Shuren meant, what had happened in the mansion, what exactly Mya was becoming. But another wave of power radiated out, and Mya let out another cry, her body shaking violently in Taura's grasp.

  Assad gritted his teeth.

  Later, he told himself. If there is a later.

  Sliding down to Mya's other side, he supported her carefully, laying a firm hand on her back, anchoring her so she wouldn't be tossed about by her own power. The energy slammed into him like a hurricane, biting cold and sharp, but he didn't flinch.

  Mya's crying hitched into ragged gasps.

  "I can't...stop it!" she wailed.

  Assad spoke softly, trying to calm into his voice even as his heart was racing.

  "Hey. Just breathe. We've got you. You're safe."

  Shuren didnt waver. She reached into her jacket and pulled out one single bullet that was different from the other ones. The casing had engravings with thin, clean lines and the metal was light rather than dark.

  From her palm flowed the White Kensei.

  It was like a liquid light that entered and filled the bullets grooves until the engravings started to glow softly while the force was humming in a gated manner.

  Almost instantly, the pressure around them changed, the kinetically blue cord of energy around Mya reacted by recoiling, becoming more chaotic, like it was aware of being naturally countered.

  Shuren lifted the firearm.

  She didn't change her aim, it was still directly at Mya.

  The blue energy responded like an angry wild animal. It spread itself in a huge passionate wave trying to protect itself. Mya only cried again, tears were her only expression as her hands covered her face and her whole body trembled.

  Despite all that Shuren's voice was heard like a needle in a haystack calm, clear, certain.

  "Go to rest."

  When the shot was fired, the customized bullet, covered in Shuren's white Kensei, ripped through the air and headed directly for Mya.

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  As Mya thrashed helplessly, her body trembling as if it were disintegrating from the inside out, Taura gritted her teeth and locked her arms around her shoulders. Assad was also trying his best to hold her down. Mya did not fight them at all, yet her emotions were the reason both Taura and Assad were struggling as she was slowly awakening into a True Failure.

  Her voice cracked as she whispered to no one and everyone at once while tears ran down her cheeks incessantly.

  "Why...?"

  Her mouth quivered.

  "What made you take them?"

  As it approached, the bullet hit Mya squarely in the side of her neck. Immediately upon contact, the white Kensei embedded in the custom round spread out like a silent wave rather than a violent explosion. The raging blue energy surrounding Mya flared in resistance for a moment before faltering.

  A faint gasp escaped Mya's throat, and her lips parted slightly, causing her body to stiffen.

  "Ah."

  The ferocious aura that had been erupting from her started to flicker, initially unsteady like a dying flame battling the wind. She shuddered,her knees buckled. Without hesitation, Taura sprang forward before her body could reach the ground.

  "I have her!"

  Her weight went completely limp as she carefully caught Mya, her arms encircling the child. When Mya finally passed out, her head cocked to the side and she breathed steadily but shallowly. Assad took a sharp breath, as though he had been holding it the entire time, and stumbled back a step. He touched his forehead and wiped away the perspiration that had accumulated there.

  His chest continued to rise and fall heavily as he muttered under his breath, "What the hell was that?"

  His gaze remained fixed on Mya's now-immobile form. She had appeared to be on the verge of exploding from sheer grief just moments before.But now she appears as a hopeless, harmless and sleeping child.

  Taura's expression was unusually serious as she repositioned her grip to support Mya's head more gently.

  "She's out cold."She muttered,

  Though they no longer surged or lashed out, Mya's body still had the tiniest traces of blue energy. Rather, like embers after a storm, they flickered feebly.

  Slowly, smoke drifted from the barrel as Shuren lowered her gun.

  "Good," she whispered.

  Even after the energy had completely subsided, Shuren remained vigilant.

  She just turned.

  "Taura. Take her with you. We're returning.

  She spoke in a cool, firm, and definitive tone.

  Without hesitation, Taura repositioned her hold on Mya, bringing the unconscious child closer to her arms. Taura held Mya with unexpected gentleness despite her diminutive size, using one hand to steady her body and the other to support her head.

  "Yeah," Taura said softly.

  Without saying another word, she got up and started toward the car, taking care not to bump into Mya. Shuren was on the move already. Devoting the need to turn around, she walked in front of them as though the recent events were just another task accomplished.

  Assad stood there by himself. Now that the chaos was gone, the night air felt suddenly heavier. The blast of energy from a few moments ago was nearly drowned out by the silence that remained.

  His gaze shifted to Shuren's retreating back after following Taura as she carried Mya.

  He had questions in his mind and there was an unlimited number of them that he wanted to query. But was there a need to, Shuren just shot a young girl and is now acting like nothing happened as she walks to the car.

  He had no choice, it was like something told him that if he dared to ask that dangerous woman what happened inside that mansion, he might find himself dead within a couple of seconds and have no clue on how he even died.

  So it's in his best interest to keep his mouth shut.

  Thus Assad began to walk back to the car as well, as he was taking his steps back he glanced back at the rotten mansion. The many mysteries about this world just came flooding to him.But back on Earth, something like that would never have been possible, unthinkable, but here it was reality and that fact weighed heavily in his chest.

  This was survival of the fittest and there was nothing he could do about it. Was the method that he was about to discover to get back to his original earth easy or extremely difficult?

  The drive back to Kurayamiya was quiet,during the ride inside it was silent no one dared to even say a word, in the car Shuren was still smoking her cigarette as it was some sort of tradition for her. Even an idiot had to be curious on how cigarettes are always there.

  Does she always have a box or two ready? It's really a mystery.

  That's when they all arrive at the agency, Taura parked the car close and they all came out of the car then they all entered inside Pixia was in the middle of reading her daily weird and questionable magazine. That's when she saw the door open and saw the others enter.

  "Oh you guys are all back, that must have been a good job." Pixia said.

  Then she saw something and everyone was a little bit down in emotions. She does not understand that everyone is quiet for a minute. It was really confusing for Pixia.

  "What's with you guys you all look down on the weather, was the mission really that hard or am I just dumb?" Pixia asked.

  Shuren walked forward to Pixia at the receptionist table of hers holding the unconscious Mya, her face still calm and still smoking.

  "Don't worry that much, nothing that fun went down." Shuren said.

  "But with all of you looking like this it's really hard to believe ya know." Pixia said with a faint sight of worry in her face and voice.

  Pixia then saw Taura carrying Mya on her shoulders and her confusion rose up by a bit.

  Shuren gently grabbed Pixia's head and brought it to her chest, this gesture finally made Pixia calm down. Shuren let go and nodded to everyone signalling that the calm down method worked yet again.

  Shuren gave Taura a glare that told her what to do and he started walking with Mya on her shoulders.

  Assad was still confused even with what just happened. They are all pretending like it never happened. The entire mission was all chaos instead of just a rescue mission even if it did fail without a doubt it did fail but still they act like nothing happened they just continue with their daily lives as if nothing went down.

  "Assad."

  Assad looked up at Shuren's direction, his face still filled with sadness but trying his best not to show it.

  "Let;s go to my office. We have something to talk about and it's going to be a long one.Shuren said.

  Assad looked at Shuren first then he nodded, they started walking to her office and it was silent. Both of them were quiet, it was like that until they reached her office Shuren was the first to enter. She opened the door carefully then went inside. Assad wanted to follow but it felt like something was stopping him

  'What will we be talking about anyway?'