CRACK
Another crash...I sighed heavily. After a while, I left Taki and the group. I walked wearily, stumbling over air and debris. This isn't how anyone expected our first few hours at the hotel to be...Not like this.
Houkou...Why are you letting the darkness swallow you so easily...Last time, I know, it was straining and difficult but you defeated him and lived. Even though you lost your eye in the beginning, you wouldn't let go so....so....
I began to cry. I fell to the dirty floor next to a broken wall with a huge pipe breaking out of it. Clean water...Pure clean water sprinkled my body as I felt the dark blood seep through the bandages and down to the nape of my neck.
Suddenly, my cell phone vibrated loudly in my pocket. Desperate to hear a voice, I picked up.
"Hello..?" God, my nose was stuffy from crying.
"Neka, it's Francis....I just found out that....Are you crying?" he began.
I covered my panting mouth and took a quiet breath. "What you find out?"
A pause. I could tell he was deciding if he should push the subject of me crying or answer the question. "Well...I just found out that...I'm leaving in two days....Maybe even tomorrow night."
"WHAT~???" Horror made me stopped sniffling. Francis couldn't leave so soon. No, Houkou and I needed him to watch the twins and Hikari.
"Listen....Nekomata. I can feel that you are distressed, we can talk later...But tell me what's going on." Francis directed calmly.
"It's...It's..Houkou. H-he's...." I couldn't think of a good way to describe him so, "He's not himself...."
"......Darkness again......." Francis said sternly.
"How did you...?"
"When I saw in his mind last time.....I could tell that he wouldn't be able to defeat it as easily as he did.........." A long pause. I started to babble-cry. "I'll be there soon."
"Wait! No Francis! You'll just make him more---" The phone line went dead.
Francis. Was going to be here. Soon. Houkou hates him. Francis will be here soon. Francis wants to stop Houkou.
Francis is going to fight Houkou. Soon.
