After Yuji and Erina separated, Yuji went to the facility he was assigned to, at the West side of the school. the west testing facility was a big rectangular building built right beside the school hallway leading to other parts of the school. The building seems to have been made to be able to handle explosions or anything that might be destructive, very befitting for a school that teaches youngsters with possibly destructive abilities.
After a few minutes, Yuji came to the location of the facility.
As Yuji approached the door to the inside of the facility, people started to gossip about him.
"Hey, it's"That" guy."
"the one with no benefits from being injected whatsoever?"
"I pity him, he must be getting picked on every now and then."
Yuji let out a sigh, "it's just that my ability only makes my immune system stronger or so the doctor says..." "it helps me when I get sick but that's basically it, for me, it's nothing but medicine."
Yuji enters the door.
He walked over to a corner with little to no people and waits for the testing to start. while waiting he notices the people's eyes glancing at him every now and then, which made Yuji more cautious.
"Alright everyone, let's get started, " the advisor said, as she walked over to some students one by one, and starts to perform the ability check by making a student inject a certain amount of serum into their body and make them activate their ability.
"remember 1 injection is equivalent to 3 shots, " the advisor explains, "and as you already know injecting yourself more than 3 times a day can be dangerous to your health.".
"then teacher...," said by the random person in the facility, "what will happen if someone with NO ability gets injected more than 3 times?" obviously taunting Yuji as the random person stares at him.
Yuji glanced away.
"Stop that," the teacher said, "it wouldn't be any different, too much of the serum, no matter the circumstances, can put you in danger."
"oooh, I see", obviously not caring about the answer, he closed his eyes and nodded.
"I'm going to have to watch out for that guy..." Yuji said to himself.
As time passes, a number of people who were done being tested left the facility by the door leading to the main hallways of the school.
"I could've gotten in here from there, but I didn't want to get picked on by other passing students, " Yuji thought to himself.
suddenly, a what seems to be like an earthquake occurred, shaking everyone in the facility knocking people down to their feet.
"Huh!?".
"Woah!"
"What's going on!?".
"Aaahh!".
"WHAT THE!" Yuji responded, after the seemingly earthquake occurrence, leaving only a student in the center of the facility and the adviser, as well as Yuji standing on their feet.
"I guess I used a bit too much," as the red-haired student in the center speaks with a smirk on his face.
"well seems like your still as good as you are, " the teacher said.
the student had a thick red-colored hair with an average height almost the same as Yuji.
Suddenly.
Noises from the small crowd that's left inside of the facility slowly began.
"Woah did he do that, " "he must be a high tier class."
As the students who fell down stood up admiring the person on the center, there was one girl who's attention wasn't on the red-haired student.
"that guy...," the girl said, standing up from the quake, "he didn't fell down like the rest of us did."
"Huh? who," as the other girl besides her asked.
"there that guy" pointing at Yuji
"huh, the weakling?"
Yuji was the only one at the far corner of the facility, far from the person of attention, so nobody else saw him.
because of the situation, Yuji's attention was also focused on the person at the center.
"That was... a high tier ability" Yuji was surprised to have witnessed the ability of another high tier, which was very few at their school.
"so he's also a high tier..." Yuji said to himself, "unlike Erina, his ability is completely different, yet they're both really extraordinary, no it's beyond that, that was just... unnatural, " Yuji couldn't find the word to describe the abilities of the high tiers he had seen so far.
then after a few minutes, the testing resumed.
"For some reason, the scanning for the red-haired student took longer than the others," Yuji thought,
"is it because of the class difference?".
"Ok the next is...Mr. Yuji Amanda," the teacher said.
"Huh?" Yuji said being in shock, "I know I registered later than everyone so that I would be last when everyone's done," Yuji looks at the five people left in the facility and among them is the guy who was taunting him earlier.
"you mean these five people registered even later than I did?? how long did they take?".
Yuji took a look at the five people who were left.
there were two girls one had a ponytail and one had thick and long hair, and there were two other guys besides the red-haired person, one who was a dark-skinned student with an afro hair, and the other one was a grumpy sour-faced student.
"What are you looking at!?" said by the sour-faced student who was taunting him earlier.
Yuji quickly turned his glance away and headed towards the teacher's direction.
"Please inject yourself, " the teacher asked Yuji handing him his syringe filled with the serum.
all Yuji has to do is inject the syringe anywhere in his body and press the button at the back of the syringe. The syringe then automatically injects a certain amount of serum which will be counted as one shot, one syringe is capable of 3 shots.
the teacher's tablet then chimed telling that the scan was complete.
Yuji's scan was the fastest among the students who were already scanned.
"hmmm.. this is quite an unusual ability," the teacher said in response, "you're not going to do anything stupid with this ability won't you?"
the teacher asks.
"Of course not" Yuji replied, "how could I?"
"I see... I guess I understand the reason why people think you don't have an ability" the teacher said.
As the teacher was about to call out another student for testing, a loud sound suddenly emerged.
"SOMEBODY! ANYONE!" an unknown female screamed from a distance as if she was searching for help.
As the sound of fast footsteps came closer, the door suddenly got slammed open.
"YES!...People!" the female student said while trying to catch her breath.
everyone was confused and shocked when they saw the female student come crashing into the facility.
She came from the main hall where most students form the facility took their exit. She was a female student with long goofy hair due to her running, besides her hair, her uniform was all wrinkled and had stains on her skirt.
"Wait is that..Blood!" Yuji whispered to himself.
"No... No way I must be misunderstanding things.
"Everyone!" finally catching her breath, as someone else approached from her back"
the light coming from the hallway made it hard to see whoever was behind her.
"Everyone we need to leave Now!"
As she said that Yuji's face suddenly went pale due to realizing that the stain on her skirt was not a misconception, it was clear red blood on her skirt. And the reason for Yuji's realization was because the unknown person they saw at her back, came close enough for Yuji to see clearly.
"It's... not a human!" Yuji whispered
When Yuji realized this he quickly intakes a large amount of air and tried to scream "WATCH OUT!". But before he could, the first scream they heard was...
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH" the loud scream of pain and agony from the girl wraps the entire facility, shocking all of the people who were inside, filling them with fear and confusion.
The body of the female student fell down on the ground as they manage to take a good look at what was the entity that killed her.
"A... Akuma..." Yuji said in a plain yet surprised manner.
The Akuma had an old dirty shirt with ripped holes at the back, messy wrinkled jeans, and an overgrown flesh and veins on the right side of its head
"WHAT THE HECK!," Said by the student with an afro hair in complete shock, "WHY IS AN AKUMA HERE!?"
As everyone in the room was filled with fear and confusion, Yuji regained his composure and assessed the situation.
"Everyone, keep it together!" Yuji said while running towards the middle of the grouped people.
"Heh... it's just an Akuma, we were gonna have to kill one someday anyways," the sour-faced student said with sudden confidence, " I'm going to the right and attack it, I just injected my self so I guess one shot at the head would be enough"
"Right I'm going to the left just in case," said the red-haired student.
"No something is wrong, think for a second!" Yuji said, trying to warn everyone " for now stick together it won't be able to have a successful attack if everyone is together on alert." Yuji explained
"Shut up weakling!" the sour-faced student said," you just want somebody to protect you, and guess what, no one is gonna do that!"
As the sour-faced student said that, the Akuma suddenly moved really fast attacking the red-haired student who also separated from the group.
"Ah!" the red hair student said as he manages to catch both hands of the Akuma which clearly tried to grab him.
"though it's shocking that it's this fast...I can definitely overpower it!" The red hair student said while pushing the akumas arms.
"wait if it's that fast why was it so slow earlier?" Yuji said while trying to figure out what's wrong, "Akumas are bloodthirsty creatures filled with nothing but blood lust especially low classes while..." Yuji suddenly got a realization and tried to warn the others about his realization.
"Don't!..." as Yuji tries to finish his sentence, the sour-faced student quickly dashed forward to punch the Akuma in the head.
"true, even without a weapon, a mid-class student can punch an Akuma's head and leave it immobile for a while," Yuji thought.
"But only if it's a low class..."
The sour-faced student quickly got near the Akuma and then...
Stab...
everyone was shocked by the image and realization of what was happening.
As blood drips down to the floor, they knew they were facing a bigger problem than they thought.
The red hair student released the akumas arm and quickly dashed a few steps back, returning to the group of people, and saw the full picture.
the sour-faced man was stabbed through the chest, by what seems to be a sharpened flesh with a reddish color coming from the back of the Akuma.
"huh... no way..." said by the red-hair student.
everyone was shocked by the events.
The first death they saw made them realize that an Akuma has entered their school, and the second death made them realize it's not just a simple Akuma. With these thoughts Yuji once again regains his composure and assessed the situation thoroughly.

"Everyone please stay together form a group and stay vigilant, " Yuji said in a convincing tone, "as I said earlier it won't be able to land any successful attacks like that if we're together."
Unlike earlier everyone followed what Yuji said and made a semi-circle with all of them facing the single Akuma.
The Akuma just stood in front of them with the dripping blood from the body of the sour-faced student, and a glowing red pupil coming from it's one dark open eye.
"How did you know it wasn't going to attack earlier?" the ponytailed girl asked Yuji
"I didn't" Yuji replied
"HUH!!??" she reacted "then one of us could have got killed either way?"
"No.." Yuji replied " if it was a low-class Akuma it could have attacked us and one of us could have easily pinned it down and make the high class student hit the head, " "and if it were a high class, it would just stay there and wait for an opportunity."
"But.. I thought that.. akumas don't value their life..except for... arch demons, " the girl with the long thick hair asked in a shy manner.
"No they don't" Yuji replied "Rather than protecting its life by retreating, they just look for ways to kill more people, like this one now, it's only waiting for a chance since it knows it will go down quickly if it attacked from these group.
"so as long as we're like this it won't attack?" the afro hair student asked.
"No..." The teacher replied, " if it suddenly got the idea that it won't be able to get anyone, it would rather go down taking another with it, am I right?".
Yuji nodded.
"so if we wait too long one of us might die.." the red hair student said.
"that's not our only problem.." Yuji added, "with that thing coming from the main hall there might be a lot more akumas around the school, and worst-case scenario, if many other Akuma heard the noise that happens here their going to be on the way."
"so what should we do?" the ponytailed girl asked in a worried tone.
"I know!" the afro hair student said as he had a sudden grasp of an idea, " why don't we all just walk backward till we reach that door over there by the courtyard"
"The Akuma will just attack us once we reach the door," Yuji said in a manner of disappointment.
"Then how about we make a run for it, " the girl with the ponytail suggested.
"That won't work either," said the red hair student, " that Akuma might be fast enough to kill more than one of us if we all turn our backs on it, am I right?" the red hair student stared at Yuji waiting for an answer.
With a surprised face, Yuji nodded.
"So... what should we do," the long-haired girl asked as everyone looks at Yuji.
Yuji was struck silent for a moment
"that's...." as Yuji hesitated.
"That's if we ALL turned around right?" The teacher suddenly spoke.
everyone took a look at the teacher and immediately realized the full situation.
"One of us has to stay behind," the teacher said, implanting sudden pressure and fear on everyone.
As everyone was trying to recover their senses, the red hair student was staring at Yuji with a straight face.
Suddenly realizing this, Yuji was struck with fear. He expected the worst situation to happen, where he will be picked to stay behind because unlike everyone else, he would be the most useless one and will only be a burden to everyone. even so, Yuji could not just accept that.
"I.. " Yuji said with a shaky voice at the start, but quickly went back to normal as he continued his sentence, " I.. know a lot about them..the akumas...more than any student here... I believe, " As he said in reply to the red-haired student's stare.
When everyone was having trouble deciding what to do Yuji said to himself, " I...can't die here.."
"Stop making that face, all of you, " the teacher suddenly spoke up, " all of you go, I'll stay behind and deal with this"
"But teacher... " the red-haired student said in deny.
"I'm going to stay behind because I'm the only one who can take that thing down, " the teacher said as she injected her self,
"and plus, you'll all just hold me back anyways" as she pulled out 6 mini knives with 3 on each hand in different forms.
"casting people aside, or even using them as a sacrifice, is no different from murder you know..." as she moved in front of the group with a straight face, she said "Go... if we're lucky we might see each other again, " as the teacher said that, she did not show any signs resembling fear, but instead she was smirking as if she was confident on facing the Akuma.
After noticing that Yuji turned around, followed by the others, and made a run for the door leading to the courtyard of the facility, an alternative exit aside from the main hall.
The student came closer to the door, before the Akuma could do anything, 3 knives went through the body of the Akuma at a very high speed, but one knife which was supposed to hit the head got deflected by the sharpened flesh coming from the back of the Akuma.
"so that thing from your back is like a sharpened blade huh?" the teacher said as she moved her arm forward preparing to catch something.
as the Akuma took a step forward another knife coming from the back of the Akuma went through its body coming at the teacher's hand,
then the teacher catches the knife, making a hole under the akumas neck.
"tsk, I was so close to getting the neck, " the teacher said in disappointment, "oh well seems like the students are gone now..."
"with the number of holes you got there right now, I wonder how long will you last," said d by the teacher, "or will I be able to take you out before things get complicated just like what that kid said..." she whispered to herself.
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