As they entered the carriage once more Kutote singled out Itekan and Itoyea, his facial expression told them the news even before he said it.
"They're here! The guys from the Lab!"
"What do you mean they're here!?" Itekan whispered back.
"I mean—Okay so back when I just broke out of my capsule I ran into a man with red fiery hair—"
***
A year ago...
One of the Brandish labs near the Wanderlands of the Waste.
Kutote, naked came out of the capsule, the green liquid inside poured out like an open dam.
As he came to he begun wondering where he was and what he was, turning he saw on the door, 'Kutote Tuo, XY from Uzami Tuo, test subject A107p'.
"K...u...ote?" He mummered the words written on the capsule door with a newly found awe. He had no idea what a Kutote Tuo was or where it could be found but it must have been important if they wrote it down.
He made his first steps with little hesitation, it was a new experience. The world at this point seemed full of colors and it appealed to him.
He made his way to the entrance and just as he was about to exit the door opened and a lady coated in a white garb entered.
"Oh! My—What are you doing out of your capsule!!" The lady shouted surprised to see a naked ten or eleven year old boy.
"Wh... who am I? Who are you?"
Three others ran into the lab, guards dressed also in white. They each held swords and as they ran in and saw Kutote was out of his cubicle they immediately raised arms.
"Don't hurt him!! We have an inspector coming today we can't let him see a damaged goods"
The lab technician, Luna Raven cried out.
The guard nearest to Kutote waved ever so slightly meanwhile the other two guards seemed undistrubed with the fact that they were rasing arms at a child no more than 11.
"Let's get you back into your cubicle now!" One of the guards said gently dropping his spear and leading him towards the cubicle.
As he touched him he felt a sudden discharge of his SE into Kutote. Kutote felt his red spirit connect again and link into the guards SST. A burst of blue energy was released by Kutote, frying the guard where he stood.
'That's his unique ability!' One of the guards thought to himself. He was surprised how the 11 year old had used his patners ability.
"Arghhh!!" Luna screamed as the guard fell down, unconscious. The other two guards immediately charged, enraged by the fall of their partner.
Kutote found himself running down a hallway lined in silver. He reached a staircases leading upwards. The guards chasing him behind screamed out profanities as they tried catching him without hurting him.
"Stop!" Kutote cried as he felt a surge of heat scald his arm. Falling down he cried aloud in pain. The guard who had shot him with a flame Resendo stopped and tried picking him up.
Even as he cried the moment the guard touched him he literally up in flames. Just then Luna and the last guard reached them. Luna remembered which capsule the boy had come out of and with it she realized why everything they did came back at them.
"Red Spirit?!" She muttered.
"You Monster!!" The last guard cried out as he watched his fellow guard burn to ashes. He had noticed by now that he boy seemed to have some ability to mirror others attacks and he imagined it was only attacks based on SE.
He knew not to use his spiritual techniques, he rose his spear and was about to fling it into Kutote who lay still crying.
"No!! Don't kill that he's perfect!" Luna screamed and held the spear back from being lunched.
"That's bloody bastard kill Jerry and Rongo like they were children and you don't want me to kill him!?"
"Yes! He's the future of science and warfare and he's perfect! He the prototype that we need to make our army of mindless soilders!!" Luna cried out to the guard who grew even more enraged at the way she disregarded their lives.
"He'll still be useful as a prototype even with one hand!!" The guard cried and flung his spear at Kutote.
Kutote still writhing in pain didn't notice when a man with fiery red hair appeared at his front and caught the spear. Flinging it aside he turned to the naked boy cowering in fear.
"All this for a little boy, shame on you, Mannias" Corinth Ransthrol said kneeling beside Kutote, a green SE seeped out of him and started healing him. Corinth noticed that another energy was healing the boy.
"Luna are you healing him as well?"
"No Lord Corinth! I believe we did it! We have recreated a clone of one of the Five Legends, he has a Red Spirit!" Luna told him.
Corinth Ransthrol stared at Kutote for a few seconds then smiled.
"Excellent. Really Excellent Luna!" Corinth said and picked Kutote up carrying him on his shoulders.
***
Present...
"Tha—that man is here!" Kutote whispered with an urgency.
"Calm down, he wouldn't start anything here. We're in the middle of town."
"Yeah, besides we got Korimer, Avery, Binturu here as well. He can't possibly go through us all!" Itekan said confidently.
"Guys! What are you three whispering about over there!?" Avery called out to them. Everyone was already seated and waiting for them.
"Coming!" Itekan said and turned back to Kutote, "Cheer up buddy! We're not alone this time"
Kutote nodded, he understood what Itekan and Itoyea were saying, but they had never met him before, they wouldn't understand him, that man is evil personified.
***
"Master Corinth, should we give chase?" A man cloaked in a white asked.
"No. There's no need. I noticed my foolish younger brother's bastard is with them."
"Yes Lord Corinth, so is Master Korimer."
Corinth frowned at that, Korimer Ransthrol, his youngest brother, and their father's favorite. He wondered when he became close with that bastard boy. Well it didn't matter much, no matter where he ran he would never be able to escape from the palms of his hand.
"Let's head back. I believe Lord Muller should be ready for me now."
***
The carriage pulled to a stop before the massive fortress. Nigh impenetrable wall closed up the city from the outside world. From the outside it seemed like just any other city in Taltaba Federation.
However, Mallronia is nothing as such. Itekan and his group were awestruck from the moment they entered the city.
The buildings were high and the roads were paved and lined with silver and marble. The carriages they used there didn't need horses or other creatures to be pulled.
"The carriages move without horses!" Itekan exclaimed.
"Yeah! They're called Teklers. Mallronia is the world's leading city on SE research and Innovation." The merchant, a small man called Lawrence said. They parked their carriage and boarded a Tekler that stopped for them.
"They're using SE to power a motor of some sorts. Huh, an SE stone in the hood of the carriage supplies the SE. Not that complex" Kutote said, his red spirit activated everything in the city was a shade of green to his eyes. Everything in the city was powered by some sort of SE stone or the other.
"How did you figure that out?" Rose asked Kutote. Who shrugged and turned to look from another window.
"I didn't even know that and this is my third time here"
"It's not really as easy as Kutote over there makes it sound a lot of thought went into perfecting the systems" Korimer told her.
To be honest he couldn't even begin to grasp the level of innovation went into the creations. They had found a way to combine SE with Science.
The citizens were all dressed in clean and prim clothings. Their conversation were cherry and full of happiness. Anyone could see that these guys had no fears for demonic beasts invasions.
"They seem like a bunch who have never been seen a demonic beast alive" Avery commented.
"They probably haven't, weak bunch!" Binturu swore.
"They don't need to, look up there" Lawrence looked at Binturu with disdain and pointed at a massive cannon structure atop the walls of the fortress.
"Those are Proton propellers, they fire compressed SE, they're just one of the many defensive systems they have in place to protect the city." Korimer told them.
"That's incredible! Sorta like my starbreaker" Itekan gasped as he eyes the cannons.
A massive statue was situated right in the center of the city. The statue was of a man and a lady, chained down, their hand raised defiantly to the heavens as if rejecting the norms of the world.
"Those are Saints Maria and Happy. They were religious scientists. They were the ones who founded Mallronia" Lawrence told them as their Tekler passed by.
The road veered off onto a path of interwoven bridges, cutting across each other in ways that seemed to defy logic.
Korimer stood up arms open wide and turned around to the six trainees behind him and the Merchant Lawrence.
"Welcome to Mallronia City!"
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