I watched them as they walked onto Mary. My troop had grown bigger again; all of a sudden, there was so many people.

“Nathan, Vanish! Take care of the captives!” Gehenna suddenly commanded on the other side.

“Yes!” Nathan and Vanish immediately left, which made Moto and the other young men who were returning to Mary extremely nervous.

They leaned in close to one another as they watched Vanish, because they were actually captives too.

I walked to them and comforted them. “Don’t worry. It’s not any of you.”

“Then who are…” Moto asked on behalf of everyone else, without moving his line of sight from Gehenna’s men.

The situation with the captives was complicated, there wasn’t enough time to explain to Moto...