[center][color=gold][b][h1]Aerith Hastings[/h1][/b][/color][/center]

[center][i][h3]Here We Go Again, Suttling's Basin, Priestella[/h3][/i][/center]

[@Ryofu][@Rune_Alchemist][@Althiel][@BrokenPromise]

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[color=gold]"....Chieko? Hiro?"[/color] Aerith said, her voice perhaps the first among the three to creak out again as the situation hit her like a freight train. Her face was deadly pale, a tremble in her voice initially. 

Blood filling her lungs, unable to scream, the feeling of being stabbed over and over with sharp instruments, trying to grip onto life, trying to fight back.....but for nothing. She could remember the feeling of the life leaving her limps the weight of death hanging over her like a hangman's noose, and the slumber of death having some over her in its gruesome, terrible manner.....but then this happened. She opened her eyes again. She was breathing again. She, Chieko, and Hiro were standing in the same positions as they had been when they first appeared here. They were in the same spot and place, the same ruffling of her own clothes even. It was like deja vu, but all of it was real. It felt real, seemed real, she could remember it all in all the gore and other details prior to that. She had died, they all had maybe died, and they were back here again. 

She had no idea how....was this like a video game? Going back in time at death? The feeling she was getting about this was all too real for this to be anything but....the equivalent of living this same bit over again. Oh no....oh nononononono-

-wait. Irene and Vasilis. The two who had sensed them, who had tried to help them, they had been outnumbered. Were they? If this was anything like those damned Isekai anime then they might not-......and so if they kept on that current course.....oh dear heavens. Nonononono. They were going to die again if something didn't change. If they didn't try to change things. But who would listen to them? A girl who just woke up from death, and two others who she had no idea how they would react to this situation. No idea whatesoever. It had all started off so well, and now.....THIS. Even Areith herself felt thrown off her game, off her rocker a good bit at the moment, and the first instinct to hit her mind was-

[color=gold]"Ah...ah! Irene and Vasilis, we are all going to die if we don't do something! Hiro, take care of Chieko! I've got to go help them!"[/color] Aerith shouted at Chieko and Hiro, before her feet took to the ground at top speed. 

Aerith ran, adrenaline pumping in her veins. She went down the same route she remembered seeing Hiro leave this alley out of. She ran down the same street they had met Irene and Vasilis on. By the gods, if this place had such things, she had to try something. Even if it was stupid, something to save them and keep them all alive this time. She put on a mask as well, one of her best, enough to perhaps garner attention as she would try to find and approach them. Use the emotion to her advantage to put on a face. 

[color=gold][i]'Now think, Aerith, think. What can you do to get them out of there, what can you say? There's gotta be something.'[/i][/color]

She had to improvise. She had to improvise on the spot for this kind of thing. Usually a game had dialogue options, usually the hero or heroine in a crappy isekai had to redo things a few times over with mechanics like this....before they got it right. Shit shit shit! This was not good. Think fast. New to the world? Yes. Look like and can come off as a foreigner? YES. Ok, that was one excuse down. Next maybe she could say something....the two had been seemingly looking for activities in the area, suspicious figures. Yes, that aura she and the other apparently had, maybe overhearing some chatter....shit. This was banking on something stupid, and if she died again it would only....ah. The feeling sent a terrible shiver down her spine. 

Eventually Aerith picked out the two figures she was looking for. Yes. They looked distinct enough from the crowd, this might make sense. 

[color=gold]"Hey!"[/color] Aerith called out to Irene and Vasilis, slowing down her pace and waving them down as if she was a slightly spooked visitor to the city, taking care to approach as carefully as she could in the subtle sense to avoid potentially getting...er....killed on the spot maybe by these two, [color=gold]"May i talk to you both a minute?"[/color]

[color=gold][i]'Please let the aura get their attention, but not get me killed. Please let them want to talk to me since i am approaching them peacefully, and not kill me. Please let this work. It has to work. Or i have to keep trying.'[/i][/color] Aerith thought to herself in the back of her head. 

Though it could always be worse than dying as she had, even though the feeling still sent shivers down her spine. Ugh.