Chapter 2 - Renbo

Chapter 2 - Renbo

She looked around her and her suspicions were confirmed. There were no gray or white souls she could see around except for those inside the park.

She had already felt that there was something weird while she was running in the city, she just didn’t have the time to think about it as she was busy escaping. She didn’t realize it before but when she thought about it, there were really no white or gray souls floating around while she was in the city which was a weird thing.

They were maybe rare for other places but the Summit City was different, souls were a common thing here.

She did not know what was happening but decided to turn around and continue on her way. Those souls couldn’t hurt those people in the park, especially as they were the city’s residents, unlike normal people, ghosts were a common reality for them.

But the whole situation still puzzled her.

What were they planning?

Finding no answer, and thinking it was irrelevant to her current situation, she casted away these thoughts and picked a road leading northeast.

There was no one around passing the roads as it was still early in the morning and the weather was also not nice.

She then arrived at the residential area.

The roads from here on out were lined with ornate wide gates from both sides, opening to different block’s entrances.

She passed many residential blocks' entrances and from the little gaps the gates had, she saw some people bustling at their homes and tending to their chores despite the weary weather. Living their life normally with their families.

She stopped on one of the ornate gates near the edge of the residential area and entered it. Two rows of buildings line up before her facing each other with a narrow road between them devoid of people.

She chose this residential block for a reason.

There was once a bomb explosion or something that happened to this area a year ago and the residents of this section and the nearby ones had to be relocated. They renovated this place and it took months for it to finish.

By that time, the residents had already settled into their new residential area. She and her father were once one of them. She picked this one because there was a high chance that it was still unoccupied and from the looks of things, she was right.

She really needed to rest and to take a break from using her ability. She might not feel ‘tired’ currently, as she physically couldn’t—well most of the time—but her body was probably on its last leg. Her body might not tell her she was tired but she was mentally tired.

She deactivated her invisibility and she continued running through the road. As she had expected, the newly renovated homes looked bare and uninhabited.

She picked a random three stories high building located on the edge of the residential block, with the back entrance of the whole block on sight to the left.

She climbed the stairs of the building and went directly towards the second floor.

The buildings in these residential areas were designed to house huge rooms where people with multiple family members could live together.

Multiple rooms could fit in one building that could span into a few floors. There were huge open hallways in front of the building with stairs spanning from bottom to top, huge balconies were located in front of the rooms jutting out in a semi circle, where huge beautiful gardens, cared for by the gardeners of the city, were usually placed.

She stopped towards one balcony spanning with a radius of ten meters, enough for a huge expanse of garden to be placed in it.

There were rows of plants and bushes around. Three tall shelves of hanging plants were arranged in the middle of the balcony, while huge bushes of durantas were arranged in the periphery. She ducked behind one of the duranta bushes, completely hiding her from the view from the hallway.

This was the best hiding place for her current situation, open enough not to be enclosing but was still capable enough of hiding her from the view.

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Now that she finally got a break, she felt the pounding ache in her head.

Her body couldn’t feel pain and exhaustion normally. Instead, her body would weirdly store this pain and then dump it on her when she was on her limit. It was just that when it happens she would feel intense pain and crippling exhaustion. It was like she was just storing her tiredness away till it piled up enough for her to feel. She knew she was on her limit. Any time now, she would shut down. But she hoped her short rest now could delay it somehow.

After a minute, she opened her eyes and concentrated. A white spherical object suddenly appeared in her right hand. It looked like a glass bottle that could be mistaken for a flask but with no neck. It was not perfectly shaped as a sphere as there were bumps in it from different areas.

Anyone would mistake it as a perfume bottle without a cap, with only a hole on top of it. But if someone tried to put their finger on the hole, they would feel an invisible barrier keeping their finger and the white liquid inside from spilling over.

For all its appearance and use, it was indeed a bottle and a container. Hence, that was why it was named as renisas bottle.

Summit kids loved to call it ‘rainbow’ despite how the bottle was transparent and the liquid inside was white, it came from its other name renbo, short for renisas bottle.

Pretty clasped her hands together in a praying gesture and put the renbo in between her hands.

She focused on the renisas around her, and like an extension of her body they complied with her order.

A bunch of the pink renisas that revolved around her suddenly moved and went towards the bottle in her hand.

Pink clouds of renisas shone brightly under her eyes as it shrouded and wrapped the renisas bottle.

The glass sphere turned more transparent as seconds passed by until it looked like she was only holding a floating white liquid.

She commanded the pink renisas to be condensed into a single line and let it pierce the opening part of the bottle.

As if there was no protective cover in it, the condensed pink renisas entered and joined the free white renisas inside.

Slowly, the white renisas inside was starting to turn into pink renisas. It was like a drop of pink ink merged with a white solution, gradually transforming the white solution into a pink one starting from the top.

She maintained her focus and continued integrating the free white renisas inside fully maintaining the connection between her renisas and the free renisas during this time in order to transform and incorporate the white renisas into her own.

A minute passed by and a quarter of the white renisas inside had now become pink.

She suddenly stopped incorporating the white renisas into hers as she heard flurries of footsteps from the first floor of the building she was in. She could feel heavy steps scaling the stairway leading to her floor now.

She ignored it and focused again on the pink renisas inside the bottle and control it to join the renisas in her body. Rivulets of pink renisas flown and joined the renisas that revolved around her.

She looked towards the renimeter in her right wrist, a white and blue bracelet that could record her overall renisas capacity, and saw “25%” in it.

After that was done, she stood up and jumped from the balcony she was at. Halfway through the fall, she quickly activated one of her abilities and suddenly she was horizontally zipping like a bullet heading straight not below towards the ground as gravity dictates, but towards the building approximately thirty meters away.

It was instant and she found herself a good twenty meters from where the building she was before.

The problem was, she was still three meters above the ground and unfortunately, she did not have the ability to fly.

She fell ungraciously with her bum first towards the ground

“Shit!” she cursed to herself. “That hurts!”

Enduring the pain, she stood up and limped her way towards the lawn of the opposite residential building in front of her.

The pursuers of her did not notice that she just slipped to the opposite house. She made herself invisible again and hobbled toward the house while the rain continued pouring on her invisible body, also turning into invisible as it touched her.

The pain made her promise herself—again—not to use that ability while falling.

She had practiced it before so she was quite confident doing it but somehow she messed it up. Partly because she could never coordinate well with her frail body when it was already on its last leg.

She had been running for more than a day already, that was more than 24 hours. Any normal body would have given up by that time. Especially her body which was weaker than normal people. She did not have the chance to get some sleep and even have a decent meal.

She knew her body was at its limits. What was probably keeping her was her petty determination to not give up that easily.

She knew that she had shown quite many abilities that the organization didn't know she had and that was the only reason she could run away without being caught yet in their own turf. But her renisas was running low and she did not have time to recharge fully.

The renisas she had taken just a while ago only added five percent of her renisas capacity, with her jump right now, it took almost three percent of it. That was a complete waste of renisas when she could zip for more than ten times of that area with that amount of renisas. But she had to be content with it or she would zipped directly towards the building ahead of her.

The pouring rain on her also consumed renisas whenever it touched her body, she couldn't help it. Her invisibility could be shared to the things she touched and right now she was running it automatically to focus more on her escape. She had to focus on each of the rain drops if she wanted her ability not to affect it, so she had no choice but to spend more renisas. Good thing it only took a little.

She passed by the last house and hobbled towards the back entrance of the residential block hoping it was not locked.

It was opened, but just that a lot of Summit Soldiers were standing beside it.