Reincarnated in sekirei

( Yuuki's POV )

After defeating the silent knight, I had a lot of shocked looks on me, but for Sora, that turned into annoyance very quickly.

Sora: You, how did you do that?

Yuuki: well that's...

Akane: I got it! None of this is real, we're in a collective supernatural illusion created by the golden tree, it's a classic!

Hikari: it is?

Akane: it is!

I was hesitant to give a lengthy explanation of our situation, but luckily for me, Akane tapped her palm with her fist in realization, and she came up with her own theory, something I was going to take advantage of.

Sora: You expect me to believe that.

Akane: It's either that or we were transported to another world but that wouldn't explain what Yuuki did.

Yuuki: Let's trust what the expert says, following that logic if we find that golden tree again to be able to wake up.

Akane: Exactly! That's why you're my most promising club member candidate.

Yuuki: You don't give up, huh?

Everyone was feeling a bit lost, so they were accepting what Akane was saying more easily, and while that was happening, I walked away from them.

Yuuki: Listen, I saw something that will help us move faster, you guys don't move.

I wanted to summon Grimm so he could act as our transportation so I ran out of sight of the others until I reached a stone bridge well guarded by more enemies.

I wanted to clean the place up real quick before we had to come through here but I got distracted when I saw a woman sitting on a rock all by herself.

???: Hello? Is anyone there?

Yuuki: Are you okay, miss?

The woman had a blindfold over her eyes, but that didn't seem like a recent problem, she was probably born that way.

Irina: My name is Irina, I escaped from Morne Castle, to the south, the servants there have... rebelled, I can't be sure what happened, you see, my eyesight has been very weak since birth.

'called it.'

Irina: But I swear I could hear howls all around, my good father took me out of the castle but he decided to stay there, he said it was his duty as a commander, I fear for his life, They have come for all who accompanied me, not a soul was spared, traveler I implore you could deliver a letter to my father in the castle, my only wish is for him to be saved.

This was a dangerous place so the woman who couldn't see me took me for someone who could take care of himself and she was completely right, Irina extended the letter to me and I saw her hand shaking a little, she already knew that she wasn't going to last long here but her only concern was her father.

It only took me a second to decide to take a small detour, I reached my hand towards her but instead of taking the letter I grabbed her hand and pulled her up, she was off balance and she leaned on me finally realizing that I was a kid, but I didn't give her time to think about it.

Grimm stepped out of my shadow in his fully grown, demonic form, I carried Irina in my hands and jumped at Grimm, who immediately started running to Erica and the others.

Irina: Traveler, w-what are you doing?

Yuuki: My name is Yuuki, and I can't leave a lady like you alone, trust me, I will fix your situation.

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When I returned to the others, they were surprised to see Grimm that neither Erica nor the others had seen in its grown form, and they were also confused to see Irina, but I didn't explain much, I just told them to get up, and I continued my journey south towards Morne Castle.

Grimm got there quickly but this was not going to be a trip to the park, from the direction of the castle came flying a giant arrow that no human could have shot, Grimm jumped to dodge and I saw in front of us our attacker was an animated stone giant with a bow, the entrance to the castle was behind the golem so I jumped off Grimm's back and while he got to a safe spot I ran straight to the enemy.

The golem prepared another arrow that broke the wind as it flew straight towards me, I caught the arrow in the air but the force of it made me fly back while I dragged my feet on the ground, after a few good meters I stopped and immediately ran to recover those meters, I held the arrow like a javelin and aimed at the head, I didn't know if that was going to disable it but when the arrow flew and I blew up his head there was no response after a few minutes and with that, I entered the castle without further delay.

I walked into a narrow corridor, there was a floating light near the ground, but I ignored that for the moment I stood on a crude wooden elevator, and when I officially entered Castle Morne, I saw the rebellion that had driven Irina out of the castle.

Fire, piles of dead bodies, and strange creatures roaming around the place, humanoid creatures with tails and wings and some strange malnourished dogs, That must be the howls Irina mentioned, seeing the enemy Rhym, Mythra, and Pheliss appeared and jumped into action, the castle was very large so they split up to clean the place.

It would have been nice to have a description of the guy I was looking for or at least a name but oh well what can I do, I walked through the courtyard of the castle with my axe in my hand, and several creatures tried to jump me but I stopped them with a swing, it was time for another aerial look so I made another high jump, the first thing I saw was more devastation and in between all that I saw a man in quality armor lying against a low wall, he must be the top dog around here.

I landed in front of him and he almost jumped in surprise.