"Tell me son, what's the most important thing about a human that you should know?", the shabby looking man asked the kid. "Their Trust?"
The man lightly chuckled. "Close but no, its their fears. Know their fears and you can do anything my son, anything."
The kid his hands on his chin thinking hard. " What's your fear?"
The man went into a cold stare as he looked at the kid, peering down into his very soul," Its you."
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"So you and Riko live in the same body? What are you an alternate personality or a Spirit?", I asked.
Although most people, due to advances of Science didn't believe in Spirits, they do exists. Most of the time they just existed as energy forms that move around and influence objects, the stronger a spirit the more it can influence the mortal realm. For this reason, the Order has distributed them in 5 classes. Class 5 spirits being the least powerful and hence is usually found in clusters, capable of only minor interactions like moving objects or effecting people in trances etc, hence Class 5 while Class 1 spirits are the most powerful capable of taking over bodies of multiple humans at a single time, while a category of Class 0 being there for anomalous spirits that cannot being defined in the normal scale. So far only three Class 0 spirits have been found.
Two of them enchained by the Order, i.e. Caesar Umbra and Mother of the Forest called Mater silva.
Not the most imaginative of name.
The Third being the Spirit of vengeance, the renegade spirit Vindicta.
As for alternative personality, we all know what that is.
"I dont know, all I remember is that when I first woke up, Riko was about to kill herself. She detested living, being in a fantasy all the time. Daydreaming, and fantasying all the time. I saved her, gave her an outlet...", Riko said.
"By killing people?", my voice a bit deep and cold, my hands playing with the balisong, flicking its knife edge out," Why was she trying to kill herself again?"
I could see her trying to avert her eyes from me,
"Answer the question."
...
"Fine, don't." I said as I got up from my seat. This was weird, a consummate killer in this school and no one knew? I find that hard to believe. Also, why was I here, didn't I die by her hands?
In hindsight that should have been my priority instead of recruiting her. Making sense of this situations, I decided what to do.
"Meet me after school at Winny's food House. Pen please.", She passed me a pen as I flicked out a note book from my bag and took a page out and drew the route to the place. After being done I handed her the page. I took my specs from her adn wore them again. Instantly everything went back to the usual Yellow and gold instead of the red and crimson.
"What's your full name?"
"Me, I have no name. Riko has a name though, her name is Riko."
Face plant moment.
"What's Riko's full name?"
"Riko's.........I guess Riko Hibana."
"Also, you can see the hands, can't you?", I asked.
She nodded enthusiastically.
Cute, I realized that she bright smile looked kinda cute, shit. She had pale skin with her height being about 5'6 or 5'5. Her chest was gently poking at her shirt, as she probably wore a shirt smaller than her size. Her green hair complementing her skin.
I quickly turned my face away from her as she looked at me, quizzingly.
Calm down.
Remember, what you are.
No time for High School romances here, Mr Hardcore warrior.
Sigh.
I breathed out and looked back at her, my eyes empty, void.
"Do you want to be able to not see them again?"
"Yes YEs YESS YES, Please Riko would love that.",
"Good then meet me at there then."
I picked up my bag, and turned around to the window and opened it. And jumped out towards the front garden, I had more work to do rather then stay in class and listen to teachers talk about stuff I already knew.
"Halt," shouted the guard at me. If this was any other part of this world, I would have pulled out my gun and shot this guy here. But I can't. Sad Times.
I gave him my card, he swiped it about a dozen times before getting it right.
Again, respect for the crewmen of Polus.
"Medical?", I nodded and he ushered me through.
Outside of the gate, I walked towards the food house, and pulled out my phone. Pushed 2 and the phone automatically connected me to my desired person.
"Yes," a staticky voice answered.
"I jumped time and recruited a person, X", I answered.
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"First, what? Second, I don't have time for games Zero", the man replied.
"I jumped time when I died, X. Second, I am not kidding. Third, look up Riko Hibana, Also I need the inhibitor goggles a new set."
"You broke your previous set? Again? What do you think these things made on, trees?"
This X was Sarcastic as hell.
"I didn't break mine, I need it for someone else, Riko Hibana to be specific. She might be a potential recruit. Deliver them to the Food House under my name."
"Okay, they'll be delivered to the food house. You better know what you are doing."
"I do." I disconnected the call, and continued walking towards the food house.
First, the mutants and now a spirit body. Someone was pulling the strings there is no way that these incidents are unrelated, They could be coincidental but lets imagine them not to be. There is no way that Riko was under the radar, with her kill count( which was above ten by counting the hands trying to drag her down.)
I guess I should explain the hands.
Some other time.
Right now I need to eat.