Chapter 23 - Finding Kagura

Later at night they stopped to rest but they still didn't find Kagura. Jin hunted food for the children and let them rest. Before they leave the village Jin, Erza, and Simon picked up some extra clothes in the houses for the children to use. Of course let them carry it. All the things they need were carried by children. Jin doesn't to carry a bunch of objects.

Jin stood up after the children fell asleep.

He looked back and thought, 'I'm pretty sure Kagura is in this area. She wouldn't be able to leave this place in just a day or two.'

He started running around the forest searching for Kagura. In the entire night all he did was to find clues about her whereabouts. Of course he did find some clues but the sun will soon rise.

He hunted some food and went back to the children. He cook the meat and woke them up. After they finished eating their breakfast he lead them to where he found the clues.

'We're getting near' Jin thought.

After a few more hours Jin heard a young girl's scream. He looked over and immediately dashed towards that direction.

He saw a lion was chasing after a purple haired girl.

'That's her' Jin thought as he increased his speed and took out the Organon.

"Help me!!" Kagura shouted as she run as fast as she could.

She suddenly heard the wail of the lion that was chasing her. She felt that the lion stopped chasing and she also stopped on her tracks. She slowly turned around and the lion was cut in half beside the body of the lion was a black haired young boy looking at her with a smile on his face.

Jin looked at the pitiful appearance of Kagura. There's many bruise around her body and she's thin. It's obviously that she didn't eat in these two days.

Jin smile at her and asked, "Are you Kagura-chan?" He slowly walked towards her.

"W-who are you?" Kagura asked as she became nervous. She didn't know this boy but he know her.

"Your Brother Simon and Sister-in-l... Ahem.. Sister Erza is looking for you" Jin said while maintaining the smile on his face.

"Really?" Kagura lowered her guard when she heard this.

"Yeah." Jin nodded at her. "Let's go them now"

...

Kagura met his brother and Erza. She cried nonstop like there's no tomorrow. It took an hour before she stopped crying.

Kagura came towards Jin and said, "Thank you Brother for saving us."

She thanked him while bowing her head.

"It's okay" Jin smile and patted her head. It's his responsibility to help his future wife, after all.

...

They journey a month before they managed to find a city. If it's only him then he was sure that he would be able find this city in less than a week. But since there's children and he also need to take care of them it took him a month.

In this month the children slowly opened themself and started to talk to him. It became to the point that they would laughed at his joke while they were eating. He became the idol figure of these children. He told them that he was a wizard. Some children expressed their thoughs that they want to become like him when they grow up, especially Simon.

Jin laughed when he heard this. He said that he's young and need a few more years to be called grown up man. What do you think he is? A thirty years old man? No he's still young, still fresh at the age of 15. Well he was only 6 to 4 years older than them.

Jin went around the city and asked where he could leave a children. He then found the orphanage. He led the children here and talked to the sister here in the orphanage. He said that their village were massacred and all of the ȧduŀt there died. He told everything to the sister.

After he finished talking he went outside the orphanage and sat there. He turned his head and saw three figures standing beside him. They were Simon, Erza, and Kagura.

"Are you sure about this?" He asked them.

The three nodded their heads in response.

"Then let's go" Jin said as he stood up and left. The three expressed their thought to go with him. Of course Jin wouldn't refuse as they were... Ahem.. Let's not say that... Jin was happy in his heart but he didn't let them see it on his face.

The three also were closer to Jin than the other children especially Kagura. She always talk to him when she had a chance. She wasn't afraid of him to begin with as she didn't see how Jin killed those guys like killing an animal. His expression didn't even change when he killed those people. It's like he's killing an ant.