Chapter 185 - Help Declined

"Well," Sunday looked down. "I need to get this human girl healed. But I ran out of cleansing orbs. So, Shino suggested that you being a Sage might be able to help with an orb."

Aderonke shook her head in refusal.

"Or maybe, if you can't, can you come to heal her?" He asked, imploringly.

Aderonke's eyes widened even more. She gasped and shook her head vehemently now.

"You don't get it. I- I can't!"

A sharp silence descended on the three of them.

On a normal day, this would have been considered rather normal as usually, the night was meant to be silent and all that. But here, right between the three people, two spirit beings and one a human being, the silence was unnatural.

There was a chill with it, having an influx of different emotions from the three personsthey all proceeded from. 

From the Sage, Aderonke, she found it starnge that people who she did not know would just come up to her and demand something as serious as that. 

Heal her? Since when had she been able to do that? Her powers had only being to the boost of her physical properties. Things like gaining an increased speed boost, enhanced reflexes and strength and stuff, that was what her power was all about.

There was literally nothing of sorts that depicted that healing was amongst it. In fact, if it was, she was sure that the Story Teller who had come to help her then would have mentioned it to her. And so, it did not make any sense that these two would pop out from nowhere and then ask this from her.

It was startling in fact. First, there was the one with the wings. She did not know what he was but she had come to relax her nerves that he was not one of the demons. She did not get that chilly feel she often got whenever demons were in the block.

Still, she did not know who or what he really was. And to think that he did say he knew her even when she did not know him.

It was creepy.

Had he been stalking her?

Even if she was capable of this thing, she had come to have her powers recently. So, if she tried to believe that along the path of her growth, she would have something like healing, would that not equate to having a futuristic thought?

And as about their demeanour, she was sure that it was not about the future that they were here. The words that the Irunmole spoke suggested that he had been at work but ran out of juice.

That meant that he was referring to the now. And there was literally no how she could help him with that 

The two of them were literally demanding so much from her. So much that her head spun with bouts of dizziness.

Amidst the silence that reigned, Shino swallowed and looked to the Sage, Aderonke. He did not know what she could be thinking about but he had his rough guess that this whole thing would be somewhat unnerving to her.

He could not really blame her. But then again, he hoped that none of this would break her. Humans did not have such endurance when it came to things that were outside their understanding and often, most of them snapped. 

If Aderonke, the Sage who they had come to hope in was to snap, then it would mean bad for them.

And he could not bring his head around how that would affect Sunday. The still seething Sunday who was just in front of them.

From his interaction with him, it seemed that this mission was rather important to him. Or it had to be, anyways. After all, he was but an Irunmole. And from what he had been educated about their kind, Irunmoles were the messengers of light, bringing messages and goodwill to humans agianst the interactions of humans.

Not in the very least.

Now, again, the same girl here was the one who was telling him she could not help him. If she maintained that, did that not mean that all of his efforts would now result in naught.

To come all the way down here and then find a Nay sayer here. And to think that Shino did not know how to fix him up to the camp of Irunmoles that he had mentioned to him then was all wrong.

It hurt him so much that this was what he was facing. Now, he wished that he did not have to tell that lie to Bolu.

That had been what had fixed him up now. Now, he was here, at the mercy of this human girl. He swallowed bitterly at the thoughts rumbling through his mind.

He then bit his lower lips, biting his pride and then heaving out as he proceeded to ask her one more time.

"Please, I need you to help me out!" Sunday said. "I would not have come here to you if I had any other option in the first place." Sunday said, his eyes narrowed.

"I only have from now to daybreak to fix this up. If daybreak comes, then I have failed the mission. I really require your assistance, just this once!" He said, putting his hands together.

As he did that, his pride received a strike right in the center of it. To think that he, an Irunmole, would have to plead to a human being was somewhat to him.

Aderonke blinked now, rubbing her hands before her. She licked her lips, feeling very uneasy at the whole scene.

"I don't understand. Your deadline is by daybreak. That is too short!" Aderonke said, looking bewildered.

"That's not a problem! I could always get you to the location in no time." Sunday said quickly.

Shino grunted in response now, folding his arm as he wached the proceeding in silence.

"No..." Aderonke shook her head. "How do you want to do tht? The energy here is too thin to support you. You cannot think of wanting to do that glowing thing again." She said.

"It does not matter. The more time we spend here, the less of time left. Please, I am pleading with you. Help me.!" Sunday said, grabbing his clasped hands even tighter.

Seeing that, Aderonke's eyes watered. She could not believe how much trust and believe this Irunmole spirit being was willing to give to her. To someone who he did not know at all.

But she was not he one to get this amount of trust. She knew nothing, basically. 

The one who could have being able to do something about the whole situation was the Story Teller and she had nowhere to get to contact him. Even if she could, she did not think the time left would be enough to make that worth the while.

Her lips quivered as she made to speak now. "W-well.. t-the truth is... I really can't help you.!" 

Sunday's face darkened at this.

"I don't know how to heal anyone. The power that I have is destructive and reinforcement energy. I don't think it's capable of healing anyone. Even if it could, I don't know about that. You see..." Aderonke lowered her head.

"I actually am a newbie in all of this." She swallowed a lump in her throat.

Sunday's eyes widened.

"So, we've been trusting someone who knew nothing." He mumbled out.

He could not believe his eyes. But then again, he had been too stupid himself to have thought that this incapable girl would have anything that could save them right about now.

He had been stupid enough to not have insisted in finding a way to get to the Irunmole Camp where he was sure he could have gotten a help. 

He should have just forced Shino to navigate a way there. But rather, he stupidly came in here, to save a Sage who was supposedly powerful but could not save herself from the Imp border despite that.

So much for believing Shino. So much for that effort. 

He bit his lower lip just then, anger coursing in his heart. How could he ever forgive Shino for wasting his time? 

It was inconceivable but it had happened. The sage was a waste of time.

And Shino had succeded in wasting his time. He turned to the WereHawk, his eyes mad.