Chapter 186 - A Glimmer of Hope

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. 

And he could not be blamed anyways. He had put his efforts into this, believing that he could make it in time to get the friend of Bolu, Iyanu, healed in no time.

He had believed this much. But then again, it was not like he did have a choice against this. Shino was all he could believe in, s the idea of all this happening had not even been conceived at all.

But now, all of that had just being for naught. And he was mad. Really mad.

With ground teeth and squeezed fists, he looked at Shino, his pupils dilating. He was just barely holding himself from jumping on Shino and beating him up mercilessly. He wanted to reach down into the soul of his and pull upon the navient energy tht was radiating from the Prickled Bane Winged Wolf that was in his soul. Once he could do that, he would be activating his Partial Sage Form but hen again, he hesitated about the idea.

He had just had to endure some excruciating pain in his c.h.e.s.t. To put himself up to another bout of that pain was not reasonable to him. Especially when he was not so sure about what was going to happen next.

"Can you see... All of what you said. I was willing to trust that..." Sunday exploded, taking a step to Shino.

Without hesitation, his hands blurred through the air, grabbing the collars of Shino and gripping tight just as he brought his face even the more closer.

"I was willing to trust that you had a way about this. But this is how much I get. This is what I get for believing in you." Sunday spat out to the face of Shino in anger.

Shino wanted to retort but he held hismelf off, shutting one weye while a frown was pasted on his face.

To think that Sunday would want to rough handle him because of what had happened was inconceivable. Did he think he knew that this was going to happen?

"I only did what I knew was the best to do!" Shino said, his voice as low as he cudk make it.

"How dare you tell me that? We could have gone to the Camp. But you insisted that this was the faster way to get done with it but look at what I have found myself in?" Sunday yelled out, grabbing Shino and shaking him vigorously in the air. "The deadline ought to have being by day break. Look around you, tell me how this feels now" Sunday growled out, his furious face just a few inches from Shino.

At this point, Shino decided that he had had enough of this. He gritted his teeth, furious now at the charges that Sunday levied at him.

How was it his fault that this was the situation? 

"Hey!" Shino growled out. 

Quickly, he ached his right elbow, using the pad at his elbow to nudge out against the c.h.e.s.t of Sunday.

Doing that destabilized the hold on his collars, giving him some room space as Sunday grimaced, taking a step back.

However, that was just enough to totally infuriate him.

"How is it my fault? If I knew this was how you would be, then, I would have not even bothered with having to saw you. Ever since I have saved you then, it's been you trying to hurt me or threaten me one way or the other. Are you all Irunmoles ingrates or what?" Shino bared his teeth, his yellow eyes gleaming brighter in the atmosphere of the night.

"Hey!" Sunday retorted, looking up back at Shino. When he had been hit, he had taken a step back, broken his hold on the WereHawk's collar and then grimaced in the pain that followed. But then, the words that Shino said after was enough to let him forgo the pain and rise back up again.

"I would never have being in this mess if you never interfered in the first place. I had the intention of finding the info from..."

"From demon imps?" Shino sneered. "You make a great comedian."

"That's enough!" Sunday growled, his right arm coming in one arc in a hook.

Aderonke heaved out in dismay. She did not expect that things would degenerate this fast already. And in a way, she panicked, it was all her fault.

"Hey, both of you... Please stop!" She pleaded, immediately thrusting herself between Shino and Sunday.

Standing in between them, she put her hands to her side, using her hands to slightly nudge and push the two spirit beings from the other, all the while, looking at Sunday.

"You don't have to find each other. It's does not make sense for the both o you to do that, okay?" Aderonke said, imploringly looking at the seething Sunday. 

"I know this is important to you. But I can't really help you. I can use my power to boost my physical capacity and to gain some sort..

Basically, it's just combat oriented. Nothing sort of healing. So this is not my fault or his fault either. " Aderonke said, her voice shaking towards the end just a little bit.

She lowered her head now, putting her hands down as she closed her eyes, briefly.

"I really want to help you. But I can't. I only know little about all of this. And the little I have told you already about it. Nothing more. I am sure Shino did not know this so don't fight because of this." She said now.

However Sunday was going past hearing that. He scowled and growled out. "That does not do anything here. You are useless in this and I blame Shino for bringing me here." 

"Yea!" Aderonke lowered her head.

She then moved out from between the two of them. "I guess you have a point there. I am not really of much help in this time but then again, you should take it easy."

She looked to the side, looking way from Shino and Sunday, that is, to her left. 

"No, I don't have any reason to be speaking to either of you. I should be back in my house right now." The Sage said and then heaved away.

Hearing the words of Sunday, she did feel a bit hurt that she could not really do much. It hurt her bad because depiste the type of ability she had in her, she was only limited to the skills that could only affect her.

None of which was needed by the Irunmole. And if she did remember correctly, the fact that the Irunmole would have to come to her was an indication of how serious it was. If an Irunmole who was some sort of angelic messenger would have to come find her, it was because that mission was something so very dire.

And yet, she could do nothing to help out. She squeezed nger fits till her nails dug into the insides of her palm.

If only...

If only she was more like the Story Teller. If only she was more capable of handling things out on her own rather than than what she was at the moment. If only...

Just then, a light bulb goes on in her head as her eyebrows raise up in excitement. If she couldn't be of help, the Story Teller could be of help then. After all, he had been the one who had helped to stabilize her body when the powers had started to manifest in her.

"Wait... If I can't help you, then I know someone who might." Aderonke said, looking up with a smile to her face.

She was excited. This would work. If there was any one who could help, it was the Story Teller.

Sunday frowned. "Another goose chase or what?" 

"No!" Aderonke replied. "It's not another goose chase. And I am sorry I could not help you out that much. But I am most certain that he would be of great help to you." She said.

Sunday's eyes widened.

If there was even a glimmer of hope in what she was going to say, then, he was going to take it, regardless.