and didn't know what to do now.The young gentleman and the other onlookers eyed the boy attentively. Then the black-haired man raised his hand and beckoned to him: "Come closer, my boy."
He looked uncertainly at the sarutei. 'Help me! 'The girl smiled. She understood his pleading. “Master,” she put in quickly, “that's the boy you asked for.” She stepped quickly to Keichi's side and gave him a jerky blow with her elbow in the side, causing the brunette to winced painfully. "Hey, what was that supposed to mean?" He hissed angrily, but quietly so that nobody noticed. Shiori was already kneeling on the floor and had bowed his head. "Get down!" She hissed back, grabbed his hand and pulled him roughly to the ground. His knees hit the bottom roughly and he cursed softly.
"What are you doing, Shio?"
Shiori put a warning finger to his lips and motioned for him to be quiet. "Just leave it all to me, okay? You just have to be respectful and bow down and whatever you do.You can do it!"
The man tripped his fingers impatiently on the armrest. Shiori noticed his nervousness and quickly got up.
"I am glad to see you again, Master Ryoku," she said in an honorable voice and curtsied slightly in front of the throne. "As you can see, I have done my job. Here is the boy you have chosen to be among the five chosen ones." She held out her delicate hand to Keichi and quickly led him to the front. Somehow he felt silly, but he preferred to keep quiet and just play along. “Thank you, Shiori.” The man smiled. "You did very well. You can go now." The girl obediently nodded, bowed again and then went back outside. In passing she whispered in Keichi's ear: "I'm waiting for you outside. Good luck!" She winked at him encouragingly then she disappeared behind the door. Keichi looked after her helplessly. Now only the four other people and he were in this hut.The chief elder spoke up first: "We are very pleased to make your acquaintance, Keichi. We have waited a long time for this moment, believe me. But first I would like to introduce myself. My name is Ryoku and I am the tribal chairman of the Sarutei I am very grateful to you that you could come. This, "he nodded in the direction of a small, lean man with mouse-gray hair and a striking gold earring on his left ear," is Master Doron, tribal leader the Kurotei. "This one grumbled something incomprehensible, probably something like 'day.' should be called. “Then here,” the black-haired man continued and pointed to the other man, “Master Jakoru, tribe representative of Heritei.” The young man with red-blonde curly hair and a small goatee nodded friendly towards him and raised his hand. Keichi shyly returned the greeting. Finally Ryoku pointed to the last person in the room: "And here the last, but probably charming tribal leader among us, Miss Elyana, chairwoman of the Maritei."The very pretty blond woman stepped up to the boy with a lovable smile and gave him her hand. Keichi looked embarrassed into her face. Elyana had delicate white skin and ice-blue eyes. Keichi found that she looked amazingly similar to an elf, even if without it Wing. "I am very pleased to meet you, Master Keichi," she said in the warmest voice he had ever heard and fluttered her long eyelashes seductively. The brunette felt the blush in his face at the same time, and so he quickly turned back to Ryoku, who was just starting to speak again.
"Now that we have all introduced ourselves, except you Keichi, but we already know everything we need to know about you, I would like to explain to you why and why I ordered you here. Please take a seat." He pointed to another of the five chairs and Keichi sat down gratefully, since his feet were aching from standing and running. He dangled his feet uncertainly and looked shyly from face to face.Everyone had serious expressions and there was a kind of quiet tension in the air, but it was still clearly felt. "Listen, my boy," croaked the man with a smoky voice and mouse-gray hair while playing with trembling fingers on his earring, "The thing is: the little girl must have already told you everything…."
'Little girl? 'Keichi raised her eyebrows. Shiori didn't look the least bit like a 'little girl'. Nonetheless, he obediently followed the question and replied: "Yes, but I still don't quite understand what I'm supposed to do." Ryoku gave him an insightful smile. “That's okay,” he replied, “we'll explain everything you need to know, so listen carefully.” Jakoru, the sturdy Heritei took a deep breath and cleared his throat, then started to speak:
"It all started about three years ago when it first happened. I can still remember clearly, it was a hot summer day and the heat of the sun burned mercilessly on the earth.We'd sent a few men to check the area ... but it wasn't long before the first of our warriors stormed back into the village. They screamed and held each other's foreheads in disbelief ... they were a terrible sight. They must have been through something cruel because their behavior was utterly unsettling. And finally they reported what had happened. "The boy saw how the red-haired Heritei turned pale and shook his head. Apparently he did not have the strength to speak further. Elyana therefore bravely continued to tell, even if her expression darkened considerably.
"The men reported a cruel fire, a fire that had destroyed an entire village with its glowing red, deadly flames. They said the sight was horrific. Everywhere ... there were corpses. Heritei, girls and boys, women and men ... all dead and burned to the bone. It ... was cruel. I saw it myself!We thought a hut had caught fire from the great heat and that it had spread ... but even then there should have been survivors. But there weren't any…. "Elyana bowed her head and after a short silence she continued.
"The bad thing was, this incident wasn't the only one. After a while, more and more villages were ravaged by the deadly fires. It… was terrible. We didn't know what to do! And the time came when things got much worse . We had to do something, had to put an end to the hustle and bustle. It couldn't go on like this. "
Doron, the old Kurotei, who had been silent so far, interrupted the young lady and replaced her with telling.
"We knew that the fire did not come about by chance, but that someone or something had to be responsible for it. There had to be someone who controlled or conjured the fire.
One day, everyone was making plans against the creature, the last disastrous news arrived.The fire had also burned a city from the other world, Kirjaka, and as in the attacked villages here, not a single survivor was left. Except…. "The old man broke off unexpectedly and looked seriously at Keichi. His eyes glittered.
Ryoku finally continued the conversation:
"Keichi, we know that you yourself were the victim of such an attack and we are sincerely sorry for that, but that is precisely why we had you called. You were the only one who survived the fire. You and your mother are the only survivors. Now Since the fire threatened your world too, it was time to put an end to the horror. "
The two men nodded in agreement and Elyana took up the floor again: "We decided to select a special warrior from each of the five tribes, and thus to set up a strong team that could take on the fight against the creature. The Heritei and Kurotei each chose a strong boy who had some fighting experience.Sarutei, Maritei and Peritei, however, opted for two clever, talented girls and an extremely strong warrior. So the five were selected. But then there was another attack ... the strongest attack ever ... an attack that wiped out an entire tribe, the Tribe of Peritei. Not a single one of them was spared. "
"So there were only four or four chosen ones who could take up the fight," reported Jakoru, who had recovered, "But that didn't work. The team had been put together perfectly, the skills balanced each other and everything was perfect until then. One thing was certain: we still needed someone ... "
Now everyone looked expectantly at the brunette and began to get restless. Keichi, who had previously only listened in silence and in disbelief, now spoke up in an incomprehensible manner: "Does that mean that I ... that you have chosen me ...?"He swallowed. Ryoku nodded and replied:" You were the only one who survived, so it made sense to take you. After all, you already had experience when it happened in Kirjaka. "
Keichi was shocked, although he had already suspected that he had to be the fifth chosen. Why else would they have called him? And yet he was frightened and dreaded at the thought of having to fight.
On the one hand, he wanted to refuse the assignment, as he had absolutely no combat experience and would only be a burden to the others. But when he looked into the faces of the tribal leaders, he realized that maybe he could do something after all. He didn't know what and how much he could do to defend the country, but it was probably wrong not to do anything. Keichi also saw that.
He heard Ryoku tell him that it would be his own choice to join the group. The boy already knew this, but was still a little uncomfortable with it.He watched as Elyana fluttered her eyelashes nervously and tremblingly brushed one of her blond strands from her face, Doron, who began to play with his earring more and more tense, and Jakoru and Ryoku, who looked serious, but neither did their nervousness could hide. And when he saw this, he knew what to do. Even if something tried to hold him back inside, it was too weak to change Keichi's mind, and he agreed with conviction. At least he tried to make it sound like that, because inside he regretted his decision again.
Immediately relief spread across the faces of the audience, and Ryoku breathed a sigh of relief.
"But I would like to know ... what exactly is this being?" He asked, turning to Ryoku. Shortly after he had asked the question, the