Luminous Sunset

Chapter Three

As soon as Harold turned around, the guy in the purple was lunging towards him with a Sword in his right hand. Keeping his eyes on the Sword, Harold jumps back but not far enough because the purple shirt guy was able to use Earth Slash and it cuts Harold on his upper chest. The color of the Earth Midrash energy is a shade of purple.

The cut is not deep but still enough that blood flows out of the chest and covers Harold's green T-shirt. The color of his T-shirt is now a mixture of verdant green and blood red.

Harold glares at the purple shirt guy and throws a Leaf Spellbomb at him, but he dodges and continues attacking with Earth Midrash. Keeping his distance, Harold uses his quick reflexes to avoid the slashes.

Seeing that his opponent would just keep dodging, the purple shirt guy throws his Sword at Harold and quickly runs towards it to retrieve it.

Harold does not see this coming and the Sword pierces his right shoulder. He pulls on the Sword out before the purple shirt guy was able to retrieve it. With the Sword in his right hand, Harold throws it away as far as he could.

The look on the purple shirt guy's face is a look of panic. He couldn't believe that someone would throw his Sword away.

With an angry look on his face, Harold lunges forward and transforms his head in his Wolf form and bites down on the purple shirt guy's right arm with Leaf Fang. The purple screams out in pain, but it is no use because there were no witnesses around.

The purple shirt guy frantically waves his right arm around hoping that the Wolf's bite would let go.

Harold, with his head still in Wolf form, bites down harder and flings the purple shirt guy onto the ground. With his opponent on the floor now, Harold stands over him and throws several Leaf Spellbombs at him to end the fight. The purple shirt guy is knocked out.

The wounds on Harold's upper chest and left shoulder are starting to regenerate due to the ability of his Therian Construct.

After leaving and turning right from the pastry shop, Edgar goes to the northern part of the eastern half of the valley.

It has been about half a year since Edgar had joined the police force and was partnered up with Harold. During the partnership, Edgar learned how to detect surveillance and how to casually lead a target to any area. The police force did not teach these skills to Edgar. It was Harold who taught them to him. Now is the time for him to put his training to the test.

Continuing his walk to the northern area, Edgar stops at a nearby rock and looks around for the green shirt guy. The target is nowhere to be found. Where is the orange shirt guy? Edgar quickly glances around. There are multiple people walking around about their lives. None of the people nearby is the green shirt guy. Not knowing what to do next, Edgar decides to go back to the pastry shop.

While walking back to the pastry shop, it would be about five minutes before someone tackles Edgar into an alley between two buildings. He falls to the ground and rolls over several times.

As he tries to make out what just happened, a kick was delivered onto his stomach. Edgar blows out a pluff of air. Another kick and saliva comes spilling onto the ground.

The kicker stops for a second to catch their breath, Edgar rolls several feet away from them. He looks up and sees that the kicker is none other than the guy in the green shirt.

"You?!" Edgar exclaimed, breathing hard. "Where did you come from?"

The orange shirt guy scoffs. "Tsk! You expect an answer during a fight?"

At this point, Edgar has fully stood up and wipes the blood from his mouth with his left hand. He puts his left hand behind his back and creates a Metal Spellbomb with said hand.

The green shirt guy walks closer with a grin on his face. He activates his Sura to bring forth an Axe. With the Axe in his right hand, the green shirt guy coats with green Earth Midrash energy. He tries to attack Edgar with Earth Strike, but is surprised by an incoming Metal Spellbomb that just came out of Edgar's left hand. The Spellbomb explodes at the green shirt guy's face. Silvery-gray iron particles disperse from the Spellbomb.

Edgar throws a punch at the green shirt guy while he is still standing and screaming from the explosion. Another punch was thrown by Edgar and the green shirt guy falls onto the ground.

While standing over his opponent, Edgar sees that the green shirt guy is covering his face with both hands and rolling around in pain. Blood can be seen pouring onto the ground from the green shirt guy's face.

Stella and Cecilia watched as Harold led the purple shirt guy away from across the street. The mother-daughter duo finish their breakfast.

"I see that the two guys from across the street are gone." Cecilia said. "Let's go look for the paints now."

"I want to see the flowers Harold bought me." Stella said.

"Just wait until he presents them to you."

Stella shakes her head and smiles. "No, I want to know what varieties they are. And I don't want to wait that long."

Cecilia frowns. "You want to go to the flower shop or back to the inn? We don't have the key to their room."

"The flower shop! Maybe I'll get you something, Mom? You know, for being a mom!"

Cecilia sighs and frowns again. "Let's go! I think the boys said the flower shop was near the inn."

The girls leave the pastry shop, go across the bridge connecting the eastern and western halves of the valley, go past the inn, and see the flower shop that Harold and Edgar were talking about earlier.

Inside the flower shop, Suzette can be seen tending to the many flower pots. She takes a look at Stella and smirks. She walks up past Stella and immediately turns around to face her.

"Wow!" Suzette said. "I like the color of the eyes. Saffron is such a unique color for the eyes!"