AKT. 34



FIGHT IN THE LAKE CITY (1):
BROKEN MODEL

Nanashi used immediately Andata, and took everybody to Vestory.

As the group expected, the view was full of desolation. Nanashi had been there when it was a beautiful town, and he had come back finding only a heap of ruins. Ginta was furious, he would have not forgiven the Chess for what they had done to these poor people, that had also lost the will to start again, besides the will to keep going on. But the boy didn't lose his heart and screw up the courage of the villagers, inducing them to start again with all their strenght, even if, apparently, they hadn't anything, because he himself would have created the first hard terrace on which they would been able to rely on, that is the destruction of the Chess no Koma that caused this slaughter.

A villager told Ginta that the two Chess that went there, after destroying the town, went in an underground cave, that communicated with a little lake. In that cave, according to them, an important ÄRM was guarded, and they had gone there to take it. Nanashi was longing to kill those two bastards, and therefore, together with Ginta and an enthusiastic Dorothy, set off towards the phantom cave. In the meanwhile, Snow and Jack remained in the village together with Ed, trying to help the people in despair.

Dorothy, Nanashi and Ginta went to the cave, that, as far as they knew, was populated by ghosts and creatures that weren't much hospitable. Somewhere, the two Chess no Koma, Orco and Gillom, both Bishops, were waiting for them.Ginta recalled about his childhood, when a teddy-boy destroyed a miniature that he had assembled with a lot of effort. The frustration had been so much not only because he cared about it and he had put effort, but above all because he hadn't been able to make head against the bully, ending up being ill-treated. Koyuki, by then, intervened to help him and summoned him to assemble it again and do his own best, because if he would have given up, everything would have become vain.

A town and a miniature surely weren't the same thing, but the principle was. He would have found the way to make the inhabitants of Vestory start again a new life, and went into the cave, swarmed with ghosts (of which Dorothy was afraid XD) without any hexitation.

Nanashi was smiling happily and followed the boy, quietly, until the three of them found themselves in front of a road-fork. They chose the direction to take using the system stone-paper-scissor, and the couples that resulted were Ginta & Babbo and Dorothy & Nanashi. They split up, and each couple chose a way. While Ginta was going forward together with a silent and thoughtful Babbo, suddenly the moustached ÄRM opened his mouth and told Ginta, with a suspicious tone, that Nanashi was hiding something, because he smelt from him the same smell that, from the beginning, have been smelling from Ginta. Ginta didn't understand the meaning of the sentence and smelt himself, but Babbo kept thinking to himself over the fact that maybe another person besides Ginta, arrived on MÄR Heaven from the earthly world, existed.