Life didn't get easier, even in another world-Chapter 400 Not again

400 Not again

Kairen stepped onto the railing barefoot and looked down. A part of the city was visible under his feet. Cars has stopped, people had frozen in their spots, children were crying, and street cats were running around creating a scene. Everyone was shocked by the phenomenon and even Kairen was no exception. ZZZZZz

ZZZZZZZZAaaAAp

Golden and silver particles of light came to life and like small worms, crawled around Kairen and floated in the air. They intensified in an instant and filled the whole balcony with brilliant electric-like cracks. 'I've seen this before.'

This scene was similar to what Kairen saw in his previous world, but also different from it. He raised his head to glare at the gates which were threatening to burst out monsters at any moment. Kairen didn't even need to think to understand what'd happen if those monsters attacked this city, no, this world. Even if he hadn't experienced it himself, he'd seen the state of the world and the records of the time when these gates first attacked his previous world. Kairen didn't want such a tragedy to repeat itself. Zaaaapppp As golden and silver currents danced around him, Kairen closed his eyes and reached out his hands. If he wanted to, he could devour the gates around him and clear the monsters off completely, however, what'd happen to the other gates if he did that? If the other parts of the world were raided with monsters, then this city and these people wouldn't be safe either.

Kairen had just returned to his home. He'd finally found his family. He didn't want to lose them again. He didn't want any dangers to befall them either. In his closed vision, Kairen had a clear image of what the overall power flow of the world looked like. He'd done this before many times when he wanted to detect and destroy gates, so he was familiar with it. 'I just need to extract enough power from each to stop the monsters from appearing. I can also scatter the universal energies in the gates to lower their power...'

He couldn't do anything more than that on such short notice. "Haaaaahhh!"

With a deep breath, he focused all his attention on the picture inside his head and the powers in his grasp. With a sizzling sound, his bright cracks danced all around him before shooting up into the sky like wandering sparks of fire. They scattered around in all directions and faded from sight in an instant. "...."

Standing at the door of the balcony, Aaron watched the scene blankly. As the figure of his brother surrounded by silver light reflected in his eyes, a distant memory seemed to surface in his mind, overlapping with the reality he was seeing. Burning buildings, a destroyed city, people that were running around, monsters gnawing on the human meet, children crying in fright, and purple gates dangling from the gloomy sky. All of them were real as if living them right now for a second time, he could feel and sense everything to his bones. He could see them clearly, two figures, a woman and a young girl, hugging each other, half-buried under the debris and half covered in scars, with blood oozing out of their bodies, nearly unrecognizable but yet familiar. The scene was as clear as day in his mind. ZAAAAP ZAAAAP

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The figure of his brother cloaked in silver light, reflecting in his eyes, shook and staggered momentarily before gaining balance again. Aaron was late to react and rush to the boy's side. He was still stuck in the distant memory in his head. "Ah..."

He took a step forward and reached out a hand. He had to grab this boy and drag him down, throw him on his back, and run away, run far far away. He had to pick up the two children as well. If he could, he'd also take that old woman and run with them to somewhere safe, somewhere that no monster could reach. He wouldn't repeat the same mistake again. He wouldn't abandon those precious to him to save other people again. Aaron reached out his hand but stopped midair. The power surrounding his brother was dense. It was like a wall, a barrier made out of light, that didn't allow anyone close. The frail boy was barely standing on top of the railing, swaying around with each gust of wind, yet the aura surrounding him was stronger than anything Aaron had seen throughout his life. 'What are you doing? We have to run away,' he wanted to say, but couldn't bring himself to speak them loud. Was his brother trying to do something to those gates? Did he know anything about them? What if his talking disturbed his brother's attention and ruined his efforts?

Aaron had known, since coming to this world, that his brother was more special than he'd imagined, so, it wouldn't be a surprise if he actually knew anything about those gates as well. However, Aaron still didn't want to allow it, to let this boy do anything he'd like, to let him hurt his body more and more each day. Aaron wanted to stop it. ZAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPP

The barrier around Kairen burst at that moment with a loud zapping. The light swelled and bulged like bubblegum and burst into small particles. The boy's figure in the middle of the light floated up a little bit as if he was flying. Zaaap

Zaaap

With burning light, electric currents jumped around the boy like small fries. The balcony's floor peeled and the walls dented inside. The shattered glass scattered everywhere. Aaron's body was pushed back into the hospital room. Ooonnggg

Ooonngg

Aaron raised his head towards the source of the noise. The gates up in the sky were swirling, but not just swirling, they were shaking. The gates were clearly quivering. The monsters that threatened to fall down from the gates were nowhere to be seen. "Uh..."

A muffled gasp left Aaron's lips. He switched his gaze to look at the figure still on the balcony. The lights surrounding him were gone and now the body was weakly descending. It was falling down!

"Ah!"

With a large leap, Aaron crossed over to the edge of the balcony and caught the falling body. "Mmmm..." His brother groaned before opening his eyes. His expression was as drained as a dried leaf. Aaron looked up at the gates again. They were quiet, looked dull, colorless, and vulnerable. What has he done, this brother of his, thought the man as he caressed the boy's head. The fear inside of him was gone as if it never existed. It felt embarrassing in fact, that he couldn't do anything at all and just watched the scene play, that he was feeling reassured due to something this little boy has done, that these days, he felt so helpless and weak that he could do nothing for his brother, yet he had no way to stop this boy, did he?

"Mmm... I guess they won't cause danger for a short while..." spoke Kairen as he raised his body a little bit.