[Nanya01]

Told you this mini-arc would be the longest one.

Peek's Mini-Arcs:

Yagami Mid Four Dwell Takamachi Scrya Fatherhood Harlaown Dreams Dance Healing Twins Advice History Onwards Cycle Playdate Forging Meetings Search Valkyrie News

BTF Omakes:

Old Iron Omakes 1, 2, 3 Mr Snuggles Omake Oh Bandit Tree Old Iron Omakes 4, 5

Coda Start

Coda 2

Coda 3

Coda 4

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - Peek - Coda 5:

Meanwhile, on Earth...

"Are you sure that you wish to do this, Miss Bannings?"

Arisa looked at her butler and nodded at him. "We didn't come back to England for no reason."

Her butler nodded as he let her out of the rental that they had picked up from the airport. As the teenaged girl stepped out into the windy air, she closed her eyes as her shoulder-length blonde hair whipped up and nearly poked her in the eye. "I won't be long." She dusted off her pants and made sure that her light jacket was in place properly before walking towards the building.

She had thought about wearing a skirt today, but with the wind, all that would happen was her flashing her underwear at people. That wasn't something that she wanted to do on normal days, much less on a very windy day.

The older man nodded as he watched Arisa approach a non-descript building. From the outside, it looked like a warehouse. Why there was one out in the country, he wasn't sure, but he didn't care about that.

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Arisa groaned and grabbed at her head. "...So, I was here at one point, wasn't I?" She looked at the building before walking up the stone steps that were in front of her, leading to a door. "What happened?" She asked herself softly as she walked up the steps and to the door. Arisa wasn't surprised when she found the door to be locked. A quick application of her magic burned through the lock and allowed her inside.

The musty air inside had her wincing slightly. "Yuck." Still, part of her needed to continue to move forward.

After three steps inside, Arisa's eyes widened as something flashed in her mind.

"Man, I can't believe how much of a pain in the ass it was to get her!" A man, she couldn't see his face clearly, in a short-sleeved shirt, yelled at another man, who merely smirked at him.

"True, it was a pain in the ass, but think of the money her parents will pay to get her back. And all we have to do is make sure that they throw in a small plane and we'll be out of the country in a heartbeat."

"You think that they'll let us just walk?!"

"Leave that to me." The second one said and looked at her. "After all... Something might just... Happen to this girl if they're not careful."

Arisa groaned and grabbed her head. "...What was that?" Shaking her head, the blonde looked around and frowned as she continued to walk into the room. "Something's missing here." As she got to the center of the building, she blinked in confusion at the darkened portion of the floor. There was no dust covering it up, like there had been everywhere else. "...What is going..." Her eyes widened and she gripped her head, groaning.

"Just chain her to the ceiling." That calm, smirking man said again as he looked at her. "By the way, did you get it?"

The first man nodded as he tied her body to a chain that was hanging from the ceiling. "By the time that they figure everything out, we'll be long gone."

The calm man nodded as he stretched. "Good." Looking at her, he smirked and looked at the first one. "You know, maybe we should keep her. It wouldn't be too hard to train her properly, would it?"

"You insane?" The first one hissed at him. "It's bad enough that we got a kidnapping charge on us, you really want to add that too?"

"Let me go." She whimpered softly and looked at them, tears falling from her eyes as her tiny body tried to escape. "Just let me go."

Arisa shook her head and rubbed her temples. "Nnngh... What the hell... That was me, wasn't it?" She heard a noise behind her and spun around, gasping as she saw her butler standing there. "What are you doing here? I thought you were going to wait by the car!"

"Miss Bannings, while I did promise that, I think you need to know what happened... At least, what your parents told me." Arisa nodded, looking at him in worry. "It was only three hours after you were kidnapped that something unusual happened." He gestured to the insides of the building. "You see how scorched this building is?"

"Now that you mention it..." Arisa looked around, frowning softly. "It's like a big fire happened here."

"It did." Her butler turned to look at her. "Your parents told me that when they got here, a fire was spreading out inside of the building... One that was blue in color."

Arisa's eyes widened before grabbing her head. "Naaah!"

"Miss Bannings!" He grabbed her shoulders to keep her from falling to the floor. "Miss Bannings!"

"What the hell is going on?" The first man took a step back as he saw the air slowly warp and turn blue around their victim.

"How the hell should I know?!"

"Just let me go!" The girl's voice was a roar as the chain around her body suddenly exploded outwards and she landed on her feet. "You two..." She looked at them, tears leaking out of her eyes and evaporating in the heat an instant later. "WHY?! Why wouldn't you let me GO?!"

The two men didn't even have time to scream as fire washed over them, killing them instantly and leaving two horribly burned and smoking bodies...

Or would have, had the fire not continued to grow and consume nearly everything in the room.

"Why?!" The girl curled into a ball and sobbed. "Why wouldn't they let me go?"

"...I killed them." Arisa said softly, trembling as her memories continued to resurface. "I... They were..."

"Horrible people, Miss Bannings." Her butler broke through her musings. "No one will misses them. You had extreme nightmares from that incident, which is why..."

"Those seals were placed on me." Arisa nodded and hugged herself. "Can we please leave? I'd rather not be here anymore."

"Of course." He nodded and helped her leave the building.

As they left, the butler looked over his shoulder to see the one spot that was still immaculate, no dust or scorch marks around that one small spot. He wasn't sure why it was that way, but with his knowledge of Arisa's nature, he just thought that maybe it was something that time just did not want to touch.

For that, he wasn't sure if he was thankful or not.

Spoiler for Comments:

Bet you all thought that I forgot about checking into Arisa's past, didn't you?