Dream Star

The spy doesn"t have brains and made a fatal mistake by summoning the dimension like this during the middle of the day.

It becomes easy to narrow it down to people in the surrounding area. Or, Lila recalled Linda"s meeting with Haruka. Another important factor is interaction with either party. In the hour since she left Haruka, the only person who interacted with Haruka is that woman.

As she thought, the spy is her. Since day one, Lila noticed that something was wrong. Others could explain the girl"s attachment to Haruka, because of their previous meeting in another Dream Star"s tournament. The girl held a strange resentment towards her - this is because she"s Haruka"s girlfriend. So far there is a reason for every one of her actions. But having a squeaky clean history made Linda the most suspicious.

Haruka pulled her closer to his body, "Stay still okay?" Lila nodded and allowed Haruka to lift her from the ground. She noted his eye color change, and he raised his hand towards the enemy attack as a beam of light emerged from his fingers tips.

It surprised Lila, Haruka"s never once took action like this before. She knew nothing about his strength or powers. For all she knew, Haruka could be weak. But Lila felt safe in these arms; she snuggled up to him. That moment however immediately broke when somebody stops the enemy attacks.

Brother?!! Despite the flashy blonde hair and turquoise colored eyes, Lila could tell it was her brother from a glance. Did he think this disguise would work? However she looked over at Haruka, he didn"t seem to notice.

"Your friend?"

"Ah—yes my sister"s," Lila explained. If she told him it was someone Soichiro knew, Haruka would keep his guard up. Not that she could a.s.sociate her brother with that ruthless man, anyway. So that excuse would not work.

Haruka"s reaction still surprised her; he really can"t tell? But aside from the hair color and eyes, that face is still undoubtedly her brothers.

Unless… Lila figured it out immediately. What she and Haruka see must be different. It would be too much to do a full disguise. So brother took this path.

"He"s strong; we don"t have to do anything but ---"

Lila nodded in understanding; the small demons seemed to grow restless seeing the battle. She closed her eyes and summoned her blade.

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It was a sheer coincidence he came here, or at least he would like them to believe that. If his sister knew that last time they met, he secretly put a tracking device on her bracelet. Huan knew she would get angry, with puffed cheeks she would tell him how unreasonable he was. Unreasonable? Maybe it is like that, Huan didn"t know. He just wanted to take measures to protect her.

This was the only thing he could come up with to protect his Lila and, the man she is dating. His old friend Haruka.

But he still had to be careful; he can"t reveal his powers too much. The power of sound is something of a rare ability.

Huan gaze flickered towards his sister. When Huan saw how easily she handled the demons, for a split second, he thought maybe there was no need for him to be here. Lila most likely could handle this situation herself. But he could no longer risk leaving Lila alone in the battlefield with Haruka anymore. Haruka"s reigns may have loosened. But, he"s still on the enemies side and willing to follow somebody"s orders.

His sister was unlike any other purebred hanyou female. Unlike most hanyou"s, Lila possessed powers uncommon for hanyou"s. The power of blood and mist. A combination was unheard of before. On top of it was her own charisma and beauty.

Her beauty is used as a weapon, not to seduce but to leave her enemies in a trance. However, Lila always refrained from using it. Back then her excuse would be, "I can"t let other men stare at me for a long time. My Kiryu would get jealous." As to why she isn"t using it now, it"s because of Haruka.

"Hey."

"Uh yeah?" Huan replied dumbly. He didn"t think Haruka would call out to him like this.

"How long do you think you can keep the guy in the mask distracted?" Haruka said.

Huan immediately understood, "A long time.." he trailed off and added, "Rather, I can probably beat him."

Haruka"s lips curve to a smile, "I don"t dislike people with confidence."

"You"re too confident. I don"t hate that."

Huan paused for a moment as he recalled the words Haruka said from the past. His gaze softened, he supposed this part of Haruka hasn"t changed.

....

"Arghh! What on earth is this? Haruka and I were having a moment, why did this happen now…" Lila complained.

Huan noticed how the enemies numbers did not diminish. Despite their attacks and Haruka"s plan. Haruka"s plan that involved collapsing the ceiling, it was undoubtedly flashy. But even with those drastic measures, it did not stop the enemy.

"Lilchan, do you have time for this?"

Usually, he would address her as his cute sister, but Haruka is around, and

Haruka seemed to be in deep thought about something and hadn"t heard Lila"s words.

Lila noticed and clung to him, "Haruka?"

"..Sorry, what?"

"I said they interrupted our moment. Aren"t you angry?"

Huan can"t believe this. Hey little sister, they are in the middle of a fight. Surely this is not the time to be showing of your PDA.

"Yeah." Haruka, don"t agree with her. "But it was bound to happen eventually. Don"t worry; I"ll make it up to you."

"Really? Then can we go to that cafe.."

He stared at the two speechless; he didn"t expect Haruka to be so laid back too. really wanted to question why Haruka had to make it up to his sister. Huan shook his head, don"t get caught up in their laid back pace. Somebody here has to be serious here. It seemed like for once the serious person is him.

Huan thought that until he felt Haruka"s gaze on him, it was clear the man was still suspicious of him. But the look in his eyes clearly said, "You"ll help me protect her won"t you?"

A deep sigh pa.s.sed his lips, for the first time in his life he felt defeated. Other than the boy named Austin Kiryu, n.o.body has made him feel like this before. Huan never thought another man other than himself would care this much for his cute sister. A part of him felt relieved, and the other part felt conflicted.

His cute sister dating the person she formerly called his best friend?

His fiancé Ahoji k.u.mi was undoubtedly right about him following them here. Unless he settled the disturbance in his heart regarding the past, Huan would not feel at ease, knowing that Haruka could leave Lila at any time. Worst will come to worst if he were to find out, wouldn"t Haruka try to hurt Lila? Huan knew how horrible that made Haruka sound, but he couldn"t erase the possibility. Back then, he caused them so much sorrow and pain.