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Yuri helped Misaki into the cavern. She looked back at her Master and bowed her head, thanking him for holding the door. She looked around the cavern and saw a mat on the floor. She walked towards the mat with Misaki.

Misaki nearly blacked out from the pain. She swallowed back a yelp as she limped.

"Please lay down. You need your rest." Yuri said politely while leading Misaki over to the mat. She waited until she knew Misaki wanted to lie on the mat.

"I'd rather just sit. I'm not the least bit tired." Misaki didn't seem as pained as before. She was starting to get used to the pain pulsing through her body. Her head was starting to clear as well as she looked around.

Yuri nodded in agreement and helped her sit down. "If you need anything, please come and get me." She said and bowed towards the girl then turned around and headed to the front door of the cavern to go guard.

Ken was sitting on a worn out couch. He lit up a cigarette and took a puff of it, blowing the smoke out. He watched as Yuri exited the cavern then out his feet up to rest on the coffee table, looking over at Misaki.

Misaki sighed. She unstrapped several knives off her belt and placed them beside her. She then rolled her shoulders, wincing as her bones popped from the movement. Several bones were broken, especially her ribs. The pain had turned into a dull throb.

Yuri sat outside, quite a ways from the cavern but still in front of it. She sat on the soft grass with her legs crossed and her invisible sword planted in the ground beside her but she only knew it was there. She rubbed her eyes tiredly but kept her guard up. She hoped no one could see her, since it was so dark out.

Ken heard the popping of Misaki's bones. He winced quietly at the sound of them. He still held his cigarette in between his two fingers while looking at her.

"Eh, you gonna be ok there?" He asked

"Yeah. The pain's mostly gone." She pulled out a knife and looked at it before waving her other hand over it, making another knife appear in her hand." Nothing seems to damaged so that's good."

Ken nodded and threw his cigarette on the floor, ambushing it quickly with his foot.

He still didn't understand how Misaki could survive this long without a Master. Usually, most Servents would immediately disapear after their Master passed on but she was different. Ken didn't really know the classes for Servents that well. He'll ask later.

"You going to be able to stay here over night?" He asked as he looked away at the coffee table.

"I have no where else to go but I will not if you wish me to leave." Misaki put her knives away and checked if she had all of them.

He sighed and waved his hand at her. "No, it's fine. Stay for as long as you need to." He said and looked at her. "What class are you in?" He asked curiously. He decided that he was going to ask now. He had heard of Yuri talk about classes but never really paid attention to what she was saying.

Misaki looked at him." I am an archer. Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering, you seem like you could still go on without your Master even though he's dead. Is the Archer class the class where you can still go on because your independent and not the same as your Master?" He asked again even more curious.

A few kilometers away from the position where Ken, Misaki and Yuri were holed up, A master and his servant stopped their walk on a clearing in the forest. A figure, cloaked and hooded in black, looked down on the carnage before them. Several bodies were laid out across the clearing, all of them dead. He approached one of them and kneeled next to him. The man's head was seperated from his body and a few meters away. He lifted his arms to see an Archer command seal slowly fading on one of them. He rose from the ground.
"that's one less master to worry about."
His servants' thoughts echoed in his own. "It is. But there is no sign of his servant, and I can't feel any sign that he or she has disappeared here, or has been killed."
The hooded man smiled. "Then let's go looking."

He kept walking for a while until he suddenly stopped. The man may not be a sorcerer (he was an exception, as he somehow accidentally triggered his servant's appearance) but he had learned to feel magical barriers. And he was standing right in front of one. He breathed in slowly. "Get ready." he said to his servant.
"Are you going to fight them?" His servant asked.
"No. Not immediately, at least. Let's find out who we're dealing with, first." With those words, he stepped forward and through the barrier, with that warning both Ken and Yuri of his presence. He continued his walk to the cavern and stopped at the forest's edge, just staring at the cavern and the dark figure sitting next to it. He wanted to wait for them to see him before he made his approach.

Yuri suddenly felt a strange feeling, like someone entered the barrier that she was guarding. The person seemed close. She knew what this feeling was. The feeling of another Servent, a Servent with its Master. She was careful not to make any noise as she turned her head around, looking for the strange thing that entered her barrier. She then widened her eyes as she saw a strange man standing there, in front of the cavern.

She didn't know if the man could see her or not but she stood up slowly and pulled her invisible sword out of the ground. She made it look like she wasn't holding anything, so if she were to fight this person she would look weak without a weapon and they would come straight at her. She stood frozen for a moment, thinking if she should make a move to go at the person or find out what the person wants. She knew that her Master could probably feel them here too, so she wasn't going to go inside and warn them.

Ken felt a unusual feeling. It was defiantly not Yuri's aura. It was someone else's. He suspected that Yuri has already felt it too. He stood up and shoved his hands back in his pockets casually. He wasn't sure if Misaki could feel it but he sure could. He glanced out the window, already seeing Yuri standing at her guard.

Ronan smiled. "Looks like they have taken notice." he noticed movement behind the window, probably the master. "Are you picking up anything else?"
"Yes. There's one more inside." his servant replied.
"Another? Master or Servant?"
"Can't tell, but she's injured. Badly."
"Probably the missing Archer. Let's focus on these two first. Don't appear until I ask you to."
"Understood."

The man stepped forward into the light of the moon above them, but still made sure to keep his face covered in the shadows provided by his hood. The mantle he wore was a dark black color and stretched down to just above the ground. A katana was firmly strapped to his back as he stopped a few meters away from the cavern.
"You can stop hiding." he said with a friendly voice to the girl, and loud enough for Ken to hear it as well.

Yuri heard the man and stepped out into the moonlight. She bowed her head down and rubbed her eyes, making her blonde hair create a veil around her face. She then looked up at the man and stared at him with green eyes, still having her sword at her side but not making it very visible that she was holding something.

"..And who might you be?" She asked rather formally.