The King's Mandate: Anomalous System

I don't care about the NGO or the people in it, but I know mom.

"I know what she will do"

She will rush inside the building without thinking. 

"Dammit"

I ran as fast as I could, without stopping.

"I will have to reach there before mom"

My current speed is slow. 

"I need more speed"

"More!"

So my speed really increases when I say it.

"But how is this happening?"

When I reached there, most of the people were already out.

My mom and dad came too.

"What happened?!'

"Is everyone all right?"

I am hiding in the tree. The fire is so intense that I feel the heat. I feel like I will melt if I get any closer to the fire.

"Is everyone here?!" My mom asked.

"We brought everyone from the lower floors" one of the staff members said.

"What about the top floors?!"

"There was no room occupied on the top floors"

"Is that so? Bring everyone here. I will confirm it myself"

"Hey everyone, get in line and show your faces to miss Angela"

All of them formed a line, and one by one showed their faces to my mom.

My mom was noting everyone's name. Soon she noted the name of the last person.

"Huh? Where is Sia?"

"Wasn't she sent to the hospital today?"

"No! She is going tomorrow!"

"Then..." She looked at the building.

"Are you saying that she is inside?!" My mom yelled.

"We thought--"

"Did you call the fire department?!"

"Yes, we did"

"I can't wait for them! I will go inside"

My mom started running towards the building.

"Hey! Wait! Angela!"

My mom kept running. My dad grabbed her.

"What do you think you are doing?"

"There is a girl inside! Let me go!"

"You can't go! Can't you feel the heat!"

"I have to go!"

"Wait for the fire department!"

It's no use, dad. She won't listen. You know how thick minded she is.

I jumped from the tree and landed with my back facing in front of them.

"Who are you?"

I am your son!

I can't show them my face.

"You wait here. I will bring the girl" I said in a thick voice.

"You can't. It's dangerous"

I can say the same to you!

"Leave it to me" 

"That girl is in room 146"

"Got it" 

I dashed inside the building.

It's hot!

Even the bricks are melting down.

When I reached the 3rd floor, half of my body was burned.

The fire hasn't reached the top floors yet. I can feel the heat. I can feel the fire, but the burns don't hurt.

"I am sure it will hurt tomorrow morning"

What was that girl's name again?

"Sia!" I yelled. 

No answer.

"Sia!"

Where is that girl? 

My eyes are burning and I can't see properly because of the smoke.

"Sia!"

Is she already dead?"

"Sia!"

I am yelling here.

Is she deaf or what?!

"Sia?"

Thump~~ Thud~~

"What was that?"

It came from that side.

There was room and the number of the room was 146.

Is she in there?!

The door was closed. I opened the door and went in.

There was a girl lying on the floor on her stomach. She looks the same age as me.

"Hey, are you okay?"

I picked her up.

"Uuuu"

What is she saying?

"Aaaa"

Tears fell down from her eyes...huh? Her eyes...there is no light in her eyes.

"Could it be that you are blind? 

"Uuuu"

I can't understand what she is saying. 

"Could it be that you can't speak?"

"Wha..."

She can speak. Looks like she inhaled some smoke.

"Let's go!"

"Aaaa"

"What is it?" 

"On...bed"

On the bed, there was a stuffed bear.

"Are you an idiot?! Your life is in danger and you want that toy?!"

"Plea...se"

Dammit!

I grabbed the bear and threw it at her.

"Why are you not picking it up now?"

"My...hands"

Her hands?

"You can't use your hands?"

She nodded.

So that's why she was...

"I will hold it. Now stand up"

"...."

"Stand up now! Who are you waiting for?!"

"I am...disabled"

She can't walk either?!

She can't see, can't use her hands, can't walk. If I wasn't here, she would have died.

"Okay. I will hold you. Close your eyes..."

She can't see dammit!

"I am blind"

"Don't worry. I will save you"

I took her in my arms and dash--

"Did you take the bear?"

Dammit!

I took the bear and dashed out of the room.

When we reached the second floor, it was almost burned.

We can't go further down.

"What happened? Are we out...already ?"

What should I do?

I glanced around to check if there is another way out or not but...

There is a broken wall at the end of the hallway on the second floor. The ceiling of that spot is about to fall. If I go there and the ceiling falls, we both will die.

I tightened my grip around her and ran towards the broken wall.

Please let me make it.

The fire burned me again. My skin melted, and the blood was flowing out. I made sure that the fire didn't touch her.

"Brace for impact. We will jump"

"Huh?"

I jumped from the second floor.

It was higher than I imagined.

I need to land on my legs, hope they don't break.

Thump~~

"We made it"

"Wait. Did you just jump from the second floor?" She asked.

"It was your imagination. We jumped out of the window"

"There are no windows on the ground floor"

There isn't?!

"Don't tell anyone about this, okay?"

"...."

"I won't give you your bear back"

"I won't tell anyone"

"Good girl. Now stay here. They will come looking for you"

My clothes are still on fire.

I should go before mom and dad see--

"Sia!" my mom yelled.

I should run.

I started running to the wall.

"Wait!" my dad yelled.

Did he figure it out?

"I have to go" I said in a thick voice.

"Are...are you him?"

Him? Who is he talking about?

"I am just a passer-by who was just passing by. Don't mind me"

I dashed off after saying that.

"Good thing they didn't see my face"

I have to reach home before them.

Almost all of my clothes are burned.

I took off the remaining clothes and kept running.

"If someone sees me, they will definitely call me a pervert"

There are cameras around, but I am running fast, so they won't capture my face.

After reaching home, I waited for my wounds to heal, took a bath, and went to bed.

"For some reason, I think the fire was on purpose"

I might be wrong, but I just can't digest that this was an accident.

When I was searching for Sia, I saw some oxygen cylinders in the hallway.

It's not strange to have oxygen cylinders, even we have many of them in our house, but those cylinders had blue and red stripes.

Those types of oxygen cylinders are not allowed to be used by normal people. Even we, who are from the royal family are not allowed to use it.

"So what were they doing there?"

It is possible that my eyes were playing tricks on me, and I was seeing things because of smoke and fire.

There is a chance that they were donated to the NGO. It's not that rare but...

"I don't think that's the case"

The amount of cylinders was too much.

The easy way to light something up in the fire is to use oxygen and the fire will do its work.

If it was done by those guys then I don't know what to do.

If they are targeting other people who are related to us, then Elena and miss Serah are also in danger.

Maybe they attacked the NGO because mom runs it?

If the people who are staying at NGO dies, even in some kind of accident, all the blame will go on my mom.

"Are they trying to publicly destroy us?

We, the royal family, don't have a good image in public. They hate our guts. Most of them want us dead.

"And if an incident like that happens, we are done for"

Just who the hell are they and what do they want from us?

It's almost 4 AM.

"That light orb isn't here?"

I glanced around in the room but didn't find the light orb anywhere.

Come to think of it, last night too.

"How did it find me?"

What is that thing? 

As I was thinking hard, the light orb entered my room from the open window.

"Did you went outside to find me again?"

As always, the light orb kept flying around me...huh?

I thought about it before too.

"I can see something inside it"

What is it?

I stood up to check closely, without touching it because if I touch it. It disappears. 

"Wha…"

How is that possible?!

"Why...is"

There is no way this is possible!

"Why is Lily here?!"