Affinity:Chaos

Crack!

The shield-like array started cracking under Grey's touch, before finally.

Bang!

It exploded within a few seconds.

"He destroyed it, just like that?" Johanne couldn't believe that the array Carlos had been making during the course of Grey's last attack would be destroyed with a mere touch.

"Car…"

She turned around to speak, only to see a blade piercing through Carlos' head, his eyes were still wide open. He was dead.

Grey withdrew the sword from Carlos' head, and his body fell to the ground.

"Car… Carlos!" Johanne screamed with dilated pupils.

Within a second, Grey moved from where he was standing three meters away and appeared behind them.

"I must say, although he was smart when coming up with your defensive plan, trying to secretly create an array in front of me was the most stupid thing he did in his life," Grey said emotionlessly.

When he was fighting against them previously, at first, he found it weird how Carlos always attacked twelve specific spots. He would always wait for when he was in a particular spot before striking. After observing it a few more times, he realized he was actually trying to make an array, a killing array.

If the array traps him, then he wouldn't be able to move in the small space, neither will he be able to attack, but attacks from the outside could come in while also being bolstered by the array after they pass through it.

After figuring out the array, he quickly started thinking of the quickest way to break it, he had personally never created this array before, but being good at arrays, he was able to quickly find the weak point in it while Carlos was still in the process of making it. All he did when he tapped on it was using his darkness element to corrode the weak link, easily shattering it.

The reason he let Carlos complete the array was so that he could get a chance to go close to them since Carlos would be confident in his array trapping him.

Johanne looked at the body of Carlos, before switching her gaze to Erwin. Her eyes were currently filled with tears and hatred.

"All we were doing was following orders," She muttered under her breath.

Grey heard what she said before shaking his head, "And all I'm doing is trying to survive. Do you think the people who want me will keep me alive given how desperately they're trying to find me?"

"Now tell me, why are they searching for me?" He asked while approaching Johanne who had stopped moving altogether.

"I… I don't know. Make it quick, I don't want to suffer." Johanne said before closing her eyes with tears running down the side of her face.

She knew Grey would kill her no matter what, so all she could do was at least beg him to make it quick. She tried committing suicide, but she couldn't bring herself to do it, she didn't want to die.

Grey nodded before raising his hand, after dropping it, Johanne fell as well. A small hole could be seen on the middle of her forehead with blood flowing out of it.

Grey also made sure to kill Erwin as well, he couldn't afford to allow himself to let them go. If they won the battle, then he would've been the one to die, but since he won, he will continue living.

"This is a cruel world." He muttered while approaching Reynolds and Void who were waiting for him.

"Hey bud, I can see you've grown stronger," Reynolds said before hugging Grey.

Grey, who was lost in thoughts came back to himself when he felt Reynolds hugging him.

The duo went into the cave where Reynolds was previously sitting before the group came to rest. Reynolds recounted how they came to his city, and how he was chased by them for the past day.

"What do you plan on doing now?" Grey asked Reynolds after also telling him of how the new Mayor tried hunting him down.

"I still have some things to attend to here. How about you, where are you going?" Reynolds replied before asking.

"I'll be going to meet up with Alice, and then Klaus." Grey said before bringing out one of the disks, "Oh! Here."

He tossed it at Reynolds while also telling him how it works.

"I was unable to make the communication tool yet, but hopefully I'll be able to figure it out soon."

"It's okay. With this, we wouldn't have any problems with locating each other. What would be really convenient now is a spatial ring, if we could get one then traveling would be great."

"Yeah, but unfortunately I haven't comprehended the space element yet. So you guys are stuck with the conventional method."

The duo stayed the night in the cave before leaving and heading back to where they came from. Grey followed Reynolds to the town just before the canyon, after bidding farewell and telling him to take care, he left.

Reynolds knew the city Alice came from, so he showed him where it was located on the map, after cursing him for not knowing where his friends came from. He almost punched him in the face when he told him he followed the light here, that he also didn't know his city.

Grey followed the route Reynolds showed him on the map, heading to where Alice was. He also made sure to always look at the disk to make sure he was actually going in the right direction.

Twelve days later.

After going through multiple cities, towns, and villages, he finally got to the city Alice was from. Standing in front of the huge gate, the word Frost City was written boldly on it. Merchants could be seen escorting carriages into the city, while soldiers who were guarding the city gates were sitting by the side, watching every individual that goes into the city.

"Time to see Alice,"

Grey took a step into the city, walking through the bustling city gate, into the crowded street.