December 24th 2020, Kyoto. (7°C)
The temperature drops when the sun is out seven hours ago. White and small particles slowly fell from the sky, and the moonlight can't get through as thick, dark clouds covered the sky.
The asphalt was covered by snow as it hasn't stopped since this morning. White chunks piled up on everyone's roof.
Below the clouds, a young man is walking alone on an empty street with a school bag he carried on his shoulder, he wears a thick jacket and scarf of three different colors. It looked like three linear lines, and it is an order from the top. Orange, black, orange.
"The snow has not calmed down since this morning." His body sent shivers, and he hugs himself to make his body a bit warmer.
He passes a street lamp, and came across a grocery store, he went in to buy himself food to eat for tonight, and while at it, he pretends to be someone who looked around for an item even though his true intention were to warm his body up.
It's crazy cold outside!
Twenty minutes had passed and he went out, and of course, he paid for the stuff he bought, it was a ramen cup and some ingredients he wanted to use for tomorrow.
As the door opened, and like a red thread of fate connected each other, a mysterious woman passes him, shoulder by shoulder. Both of their expression is flat when passing each other.
He then counts the change and he heaves a sigh as he saw 1000¥ on his pocket, 1000¥ ain't enough for a week. He needs to save some money or make money by a part-time job, and while at it. He could buy a bento box but the taste doesn't suit his tongue.
He is in the third grade of junior high school, his grade is one of those smart kids.
If you wondering, why not eat instant food for breakfast? Like ramen cup or something similar.
There is a reason, he could only eat two instant food a day, the reason why, is unique. You will know it as you read.
He opened his phone and ordered a pizza, there is a company that sold pizza 24/7. It is a new company in Japan and their pizza is the best.
Ramen cup isn't enough to fulfill his angry stomach, but it is enough to buy some time. He also bought a coffee can from the vending machine beside the grocery store's door. The store does sell coffee but the brand is different, no. The quality and taste are also.
After the machine persists that green paper a few times, it finally accepts it, he grabs the can from the vending machine. He opened the seal, and drink it.
The door is opened and the woman walked away, he looked at her instinctively and wander for a bit, and after her figure is gone.
He checked what time is it by opened his phone and the screen showed that it's 11 p.m. Shouldn't be this late as a student but he couldn't do anything as his part-time job has more customers than before. He could bail but he is not the type of person who would do that.
The night is quiet, and the only thing he could hear is his footsteps, stepping on the snow that was covered the asphalt. Every time he breathes out, a cloud of white smoke came out and then disappeared into the thin air.
His footsteps were printed on the snow and every time he takes a step forward, a satisfying yet calm sound is entering his ears. Little did he knew that the mysterious girl also walking through this path but her footsteps aren't there.
He passed a street lamp and stops.
He felt something strange and looked around to find it, but can't seem to find any besides an empty and quiet street. He decides to give up and continued walking.
A few minutes later, there's a left turn in front of him, he passes it calmly with the coffee can touching his lips, and the black liquid entering his throat, even though there is a girl whose life is in danger.
He kept walking forward and after he passed the turn, his eyes wide open realized what just happened. He takes a step back then hid behind the wall that sharply curved to the right and took a peak.
There were about six people, surrounding the girl, they slowly approach her while the girl isn't moving. It is either she calmly judging the situation or doesn't know what to do.
Behind the wall, he thought to himself after saw her expression.
'She looked so calm...'
Her face is so calm, and he wondering if she needs any help. That is what he thought as he kept watching. If anything goes bad, he will call the ambulance first, then helped her. Let just hope he able to call the ambulance, since anything could happen in life.
Six in total and they wear a black suit and wearing a white mask. Each one wears different masks than another but has the same symbol on its forehead, a symbol of a triangle with a vertical line passed it.
Noticed this triangle symbol on their forehead, he suspects that they coming from a certain cult. Then,
All of them at once pulled out a pistol. Their moves were so fast, that he's amazed, but their movements aren't fast enough as the girl already landed a kick on the person's head, she turns kicked the person, which is on her right, he flew meters away and rolling on the ground then hit an empty house before stopping. The house trembles and the white chunks fell on top of his body.
His upper body is buried under the snow and doesn't show any kinds of movements, 'is he dead?' he asked himself.
He is not worried but curious, is receiving a hard kick on one's head could lead to death? Well, it is possible since that guy just passes through a dense fence wall, then stops when his body hit hard on the house wall.
His mind went back to reality as he heard gunshots.
They immediately shot her but she predicted the bullets, then with her agility, she avoids it. A bullet hits her right shoulder but she pretends as if nothing happened, and obviously, the person who shot it, confused.
The next thing he knew, he got a hard blow and flew to something dense. He flew to a fence wall.
It is destroyed to debris and makes a loud noise, a speck of dust follows. The girl just landed a strong blow with her punch to his stomach.
The other four are scared after saw her strength, and immediately know that they can't win, yet they didn't low their guns, instead.
They shot her. The way they predict her movement then shot her, makes it hard for her but she excels at agility and confidence in her speed. She dodged all of them and knocked them out. She is like an acrobat while doing it.
Two people got their consciousness taken away by a hard kick and punch, and the rest. Well, they flew to the air before stopping on someone's balcony, or someone's roof.
What an overkill...
She got two bullets on her body but it is fine as those two fell from her body immediately after the fight is over.
Fell to the snow with blood covered it, his eyes wide open. How could he not? He just saw a fragile-like girl got two shots and bullets came out from her body moments later. A normal person would be freaked out and leave the scene ASAP, but he wants to know what will happen next.
As six of them were knocked out, he let out a word of amazement. "Amazing."
You thought he makes a reaction that was suited to his word? Sike!
His expression isn't suited with his words at all, he said it with a flat expression or something you call, a poker face. People would get the wrong impression if you said praise with a poker face.
He knew that this isn't some kind of prank or setup as those movements she makes is not something a normal person could do.
The girl's hair was swaying as the cold breeze passes. Under the light of a streetlamp, her hair is glowing like the blue sky, her eyes are sharp as it looking down on the unconscious enemy and he can't felt emotions whatsoever from her. Only a cold and emotionless gaze under the cold weather.
Her facial features were above average and reaching the 'model' type of face, probably higher.
The moment everything is okay, he left the scene by continued his walk, he is curious but at the same time, he doesn't want to be involved with dangerous organizations. Cults included.
Let say you walked in the middle of the night after a tiring day and you saw a girl fought six people, and these six adults fought a fragile-like girl then loses. Also, the girl's body automatically removes the bullets. Like that masculine guy from Parasyte anime, not the Korea one, who annihilates a Yakuza group by himself.
That is not normal! And If someone said it is normal, he wanted to find that person and do a little surgery to see what's inside.
Don't forget that they wore a black suit and masks, one could suspect that they are from a certain organization, cult, or probably a group that you don't want to mess with, but we shouldn't forget that there are the good ones and the bad ones.
The problem here, he doesn't know if the good one is the girl or the other way around...
But in novels, comics, or movies, the bad ones are always the ones who surround a girl.
After that thought passed his mind, he already takes three steps away and doesn't move. His body came to a halt as he realizes something.
He then grabbed a coin from his pocket out of habit and think what he just realized.
Assuming the six people were planning to captured her, but why do it on a street like this instead of directing her to places where people rarely are, like an alleyway or a park.
In comics, novels, and even movies, the villain always directing their target to a less crowded area like abandoned places.
This is a house district, people are fell asleep, so gunshots would naturally disturb them but he doesn't see anyone woke up. He can't felt the presence from each house around him. Is that what bothering him ever since he passed that street lamp?
Presence...
The disappearance of other people's presence.
Is that what he felt earlier when passing that street lamp? If it is, no wonder he felt something's missing.
He always ignored other people's presence every time a person entered his radius, he always does it.
But now, it is really strange no matter how many times you think about it.
Where he right now, is a street where no matter what direction you looked at, houses are everywhere, that is right. He's in the housing district area. He should detect about two hundred people by detecting their presence alone.
But he hasn't noticed it until now, that their presence is gone, his body must have noticed it when he passed that street lamp, and told him by instinct. So in short, his body realized that the people presences were gone when he passed that street lamp.
Instincts are needed for any kind of animal, including humans, they play a big role.
He could felt the presence of people without him being focused, it was like an auto scanner or radar and he can't control it except decrease the radius, as of now. It was five hundred meter radius, as long someone entered it, he instantly felt its presence.
And again, he always ignored other people's presence as it only wasting his energy.
There are five people within the five meters radius including him.
He ran to her as he felt the presence of someone, approaching her with killing intent and its speed is the same as that of a motorcycle on a highway. He threw the grocery bag to the ground.
The girl hasn't noticed that someone already behind her, the only thing she noticed is that, a man approaching her by running, is he charged her head on? She takes a stance but before she finished, the man was gone. No, it because his speed can't be seen with her naked eyes, she mistook it by thinking that he teleported.
"He teleported?" She looked around, searching where the man went, and can't find him. She turned herself to her back.
A figure of a woman raises its weapon, ready to split her body in half. If she reacts, it would be too late. She gives up and let herself follow the flow. She closed her eyes and ready herself to felt pain.
Instead of feeling pain and slept forever, she heard a metal clashing, and a few seconds later, a spark flew and she opened her eyes. The person that was confident that she going to kill her, was shocked...
Her eyes wide open, while his face is flat behind the mask he wore. The person leaps her back and firmed her axe tightly.
He made it in time to save her, but he can't drop his guard yet as his opponent, brown skin, and a dark yellow long hair, is now marked him as an enemy.