Chapter 166 - Sub Mission Begins II

Before Sunday's mouth could open to question what he had said, Shino dashed, his wings stretching out slowly as he stomped his left leg powerfully on the ground. The resulting effect was a tremendous impact that rocketed his feet up, boosting his body momentum vertically and up into the air. 

Shino huffed and in the next second, he stretched out himself, clinging onto the roof of the block of storey building that was the next shopping block.

He huffed out the next moment and then tugged at the edge of the building, using that to create a propulsion force that fired his body up just at the very moment in which he bent his elbows. He had capitalised on the potenial energy of his spring to leap onto the building.

And it had worked just perfectly.

However, it had brought about separation between Sunday and Shino. 

Sunday squinted, watching Shino adjust his body weight so as to land on his legs without impacting his bones that much. He tilted his knees forward, his feet touching the ground with the tips of the boots before his whole feet reached down for the ground.

Or rather, for the roof of the building.

The roof was made of silver rusty and dusty sheets of aluminum steel, placed diagonal. All of which was directed to the center where an arching steel covering was placed to cover up the edges of the diagonal placed sheets. In this way, the roof was arched up, in the form of an A. 

With that type of build, if rain fell, the rain would simply slip down the diagonal sheets, down to the drainpipes that was erected at the edges of it. To get there, Shino had had to cling onto the topmost of the roof, which was the arching spine that was superimposed over the edges of the diagonally placed steel sheets. 

"Come on!" 

Sunday sighed and shook his head. He did not understand what was going on and he did not pretend like he did. At the sight of Shino up there at the roof, he wondered how that was related to the going to get to the Sage just as he had promised.

He wanted to boil over the matter. There was an important mission for him to cover but here was Shino trying to make him spend unnecessary time by climbing on to roof tops. 

However, for the sake of diplomacy, he decided to put up a straight face, exhaling out the anger that was boiling inside of him. He looked down to the ground and then put his hands to his side.

After that, he looked back at the top of the roof were Shino was.

"Is that the way to the Sage? I do not really understand why you have to be on a roof!" Sunday mentioned.

For a second, the yellow in Shino's eyes flickered brightly as a smile parted his lips just to reveal the white dentition that was behind.

Sunday shifted, uneasy. The Were Hawk was making fun of this? He bit his lower lip, trying to keep his cool now as he still stared at Shino, hoping against hope that he did have a reason for the sudden action.

Because for all he knew, he had to be gone on the way to get a cleansing orb for Iyanu. He was not going to let some random things just get in he way of that.

"Come on, Sunday! Come on up!" Shino beckoned again, waving a gesture tht signified he should get up to the roof.

Sunday gritted his teeth and squeezed his fists just then. 

"Yes, Like roofs have to do with the Sage, right?" He replied sarcastically.

"Oh!" Shino looked down at the roof.

He was standing just at the edge of it. A little step forward and he was sure to fall down. Rather he did not pay attention to that or he did but just did not want to mind that. He had his hands placed at the knee caps as his upper too was bent down, allowing him to look down at Sunday with an amused look.

"I am taking the roof because, I don't want to have to bump into humans and their things." Shino smirked, his eyes widening. "And also, the way to the Sage's place... I have only gone there via the air so, I can't take us through the ground or we'll surely get lost."

"Hm!" Sunday grunted. "Do you even know this place? And even if you do, like you said, why don't we take into the air? I mean, you have wings so why are you content on climbing roofs?" The Irunmole shrugged.

"Yeah!" Shino's smirk faltered. He stammered his words next, scratching the spiky mass of feathery hair at the top of his head with the left hand. "B-but... I... I c-can't fly." Shino said, his face blanched and flushed with embarrassment. "My wings cannot support flight." 

Sunday gapsed at the words he heard. He pointed the first finger of his right hand at Shino. 

"You can't fly? And you have wings? So what are both wings there for? Fashion modelling?" He asked.

Shino looked away, his face having a pained expression. The words he just heard were like sharp knives that stabbed deep into his heart. His reason for being on the roof top as just so that he could find some way through comtinued practice in which his wings would be able to support him in the air. All the wings could do was just to help him float in the air a very short time and naturally, give him a boost of air current that was more dependent on his energy rather than just his wings.

Sunday caught the pained expression on Shino's face before he was able to avert his gaze, and then, Sunday licked his lips. "I don't know but I think having wings you can't use is really useless, you know."

"Oh really?" Shino turned to look down at Sunday, gritting his teeth. "You are an Irunmole, why don't you just poof." He splayed the fingers of his hands into the air to gesticulate his words. "Just poof and then appear at the Sage's place , eh? After all, you are an Irunmole, are you not? You can not deny that, you know, mister useless Irunmole!" 

"Eh?" Sunday blinked. "What are you saying?" 

"What am I saying?" Shino retorted. " I thought Irunmoles have a great sense of direction being that they are most affinated to Agbara. So, don't tell me you are among the useless ones who cannot find his way, eh?" Shino blasted him back.

Sunday g.r.o.a.n.e.d. "Why you? You little...."

"What?" Shino frowned down. "Or, wait, you are not only useless, you are scared of heights and you don't have the skills to get up here? Wow! If I was an Irunmole like you, then I would have ended it long ago rather than live it out being a waste of space."

They stood still, Sunday looking up to Shino with a glare, a glare that was evenly reciprocated by Shino in realtime. The reply that Shino gave somehow resonated with the struggles in his life and it pained him to the core. However, he held himself off. 

He still had a mission to complete. There was not any need for him to detail and beat sense into the only eprson who had a lead on where he was headed to.

"You are impossible!" Sunday said under his breath.

"But I will show you!"

'Bane... Give me all!' Sunday called mentally to the Prickled Bane Winged Wolf.

He crouched low, his arms folded and compressed that his biceps rippled under strain, the left arm folded to the back and the right arm folded to the front of him.

He reached inwards and then tugged at the energy that was the form of Bane. He reached and dragged it in, taking all he could find.

The next moment, yellowish energy flashed about him, creating a flare that illuminated the night. And when the flare died out, Sunday's body rocketed into the air, his whole form, bristling with energy, in the Partial Sage Mode.

Shino took a step back just as Sunday reached his max height in the air, which was just a little above the roof of the building. The next second, the irunmole strained and then boosted forward like a shooting star, onto the roof top, just beside Shino.

"Wow!" Shino blinked at the outlines of yellow energy around Sunday. 

Sunday turned his head to look at him, his whole body in a superhero landing form. At the sight of Sunday's eyes on him, Shino quickly averted his eyes, pouting slightly. 

"Hmph! That's nothing!" He spat out.

"That's okay!" Sunday straightened up and smiled at him. He flexed his shoulders and then c.o.c.ked his neck. "What next, Shino?"