Chapter 1 – The Man with the Black Robe

"Leonne Harvers." Said Eve as she shows Train the 'wanted people' bulletin on her tiny hand.

"Who's that?" Asked Train after he looked at the bolded reward text on the bottom of the paper. The man in the paper is worth for $500000.

"Another wanted guy. Apparently, a hard one to be found." Eve gazes at the guy's appearance note section. "He's a robber who have been slipping from the cops for more than 10 years. Nobody has ever caught him."

"Well," sneered Train, "then we'll be the ones who'll catch it." They both streams through the market streets with people's shoes flooding their feet.

They both walked along the cramped road like abandoned boats in the sea of human beings. Taking busy steps on the flat polished walk and avoiding bumps from the people who'll be fussed if they got ran into or thumped by another person, and sulk away in a mutter. It seems that the street is preparing for the fall festival, which is held on every year.

"Haaah…" yawned Train as he folds his arms on his head. "Sven hasn't been back yet?" he then pats his tummy. "I'm hungry."

At that moment, a crowd in a distance is having a commotion. People are arguing and some are being pushed away. A man pops out from the crowd after nudging and shoving the citizens and travellers aside. He has a hood covering his face but Train could see a part of him

Train suddenly notices something familiar and snatches the wanted yellow paper from Eve's hand to take another good look on the image of the wanted person.

"That's Leonne!" Train shouted just as he points his finger towards the man in front of him. "Hey you! Stop! We are sweepers!" he yelled.

The man glances quickly at Train as if he has something valuable, and without a warning, he sprints to Train.

"Wha?" Train tries to shuffle his feet to the man, but somehow his legs couldn't move when Train's eyes are fixed to him. In a split second, the man hooks Train's neck with his arm and dragging him away from Eve.

"Hey, let me go!" Train struggles to push away the man's iron arm. Alarmed, he turns his head to his back to see where the man is going to take him. The man throws something spherical like a small bomb from his open hand, blasting the brick wall ahead of them. Instead of seeing destroyed chunks of bricks, Train catches a glimpse of a floating figure in bright yellowish light. The man flushes into the glowing light with Train before Eve's hand could reach Train's, then vanishes in a white flash, leaving Eve alone.

Eve stops running and catches her breath. She stares at the moldy old wall, which have just being used for opening the portal.

"Train..." she pants, wondering where in the world could Train be.

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Meanwhile, in another place, the blue sky is ripped open by the expanded portal, tossing Train out of the spinning vortex in the air.

"Aaaaggghh!" Train screamed. He flaps his arms wide on his sides in panic as he falls directly to a fluffy green bush, sending leaves flying around it.

Train's head pokes out off the bush frantically after recovering himself after the high fall. Small leaves drop off from his hair as he shakes his head vigorously.

"Ugh…. Where am I?" he asked himself with his hand scratching his bumped head.

A girl suddenly appears in front of Train's eyes, looking confused to see a person falling out from the plain sky in the middle of a sudden.

"You okay?" the girl asks.

Train widens his eyes, recognizing the girl in the long, flower-patterned gown. It's the same girl who he had known for years.

"Saya?" he whispered in a small gasp.