Anyway, if Narukami chose the first option, he had to take care of A, in other words, protect him and guide him.
If he failed, his reputation was pretty much at stake.
"I tell him to go to the nearby branch and the rest will be taken care of by them. He'll probably be put into our squad." He then sighed as he leaned his back on the chair.
Working their ass off to protect civilians yet the government didn't recognize them.
Yup, few organizations were tasked to kill Anomalies all around the world with no support from the government.
In their city, a small branch was enough as Anomaly's appearance was a lot. Indeed, the Anomaly cases in this city were quite high yet only a small branch was built.
This was quite strange at first but as Narukami dug deeper, he realized what's the cause behind this.
"Will he be okay?"
Narukami turned his eyes to Ryu as he shrugged his shoulders, "don't know. I do what I can, the rest is up to him. To live in an entirely new life or die."
Ryu averted his gaze shortly after their eyes met.
"If he's special like you just said, why didn't yo-"
Narukami cut his words.
"It has its risks. Either for me and him, moreover, I don't want to do it for a nameless nobody. I'll judge him myself if he's good enough."
His words were true. If Ryu was in his shoes, he perhaps did the same.
His mind abruptly recalled the past. The moment when he encountered an Anomaly for the first time.
Similar to Asahi, Narukami was the one who helped him.
At that moment, he was grateful, no, he was lucky to find a person such as Narukami. If other people, he might get killed.
"Why did you save him?... Nevermind." Ryu quickly cast aside the question as he shook his head. It took him a while to realize it.
As they talked, the whole class was focused on the transferred student. She was cheerful and had quite the communication skill.
In a short time, she managed to become friends with the whole class, except Kuroda Aya.
It was only a matter of time before the transfer student became popular.
Narukami cast his line of sight to Kuroda who was eating a sandwich. Her eating posture was full of etiquette.
Cut the bread to a few pieces and put it into her mouth with a fork. Her movements were graceful as it was natural.
Narukami was confident even the trifling things she did will be pleasing to one's eyes.
Without knowing, he stared at her for five straight seconds. Kuroda was aware of his gaze.
She turned her back and their eyes met. Her eyes were peering into his body and Narukami smiled.
Not once in this world who could do that! They will divert their eyes after a few seconds looking into his eyes!
"Interesting."
Contrary to Narukami, Ryu's skin was tingling albeit lasted for a short duration. This was caused by accidentally looking at Kuroda.
Ryu was wondering who made Narukami smile. Thus, he followed his line of sight, as he did. He didn't anticipate the eagle-like eyes of Kuroda!
Had he doesn't avert his gaze, probably he'll faint due to fear. As it appeared to be pathetic, it was normal.
Without them knowing, the new student had been observing them for a while.
At first glance, her focus seemed to be on those around her, however, Narukami could sense that she was stalking the two of them.
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In a dark, damp alleyway. There was a person in strange clothes walking slowly.
It was quite hard to discern its face as the brightness of the place was quite low.
Insects flew around as garbage in black plastic bags scattered in the alleyway.
The stench of human waste was not pleasant to one's nose.
The figure stopped walking as it discovered a lifeless human body with a big hole on its left chest.
As if someone thrust their hand into his chest and pierced the heart.
Flies startled when the figure approached it yet a few seconds later, they continued to swarm the dead body.
Some flies landed on the corpse's eyes that were wide open.
". . ."
The figure approached the corpse and closed its eyes with his hand. As soon as the figure did that, it felt a presence from behind.
Fortunately, the presence didn't have the slightest hostile intention.
"You're the one who did this?" The figure asked. From the voice alone, the figure seemed to be a man around his forties.
The man turned around and saw a young man or girl, it's hard to tell if the person in front of him was male or female.
Additionally, the person was looking down to the ground. Unless the man saw his face, he wouldn't know.
The person's hair extended to his shoulder. The person slightly lifted his head, making eye contact with the man.
Crimson, cold eyes. Blood could be seen splashed onto his cheek.
He is young... the man thought to himself.
"An anomaly sorcerer?... No, you're a specialist." The young man concluded.
The man observed the person from top to toe. Albeit hard to do so in low brightness.
His or her hair was too bright to be blond. Quite bright yellow hair, if he's in public, he would stand out from the crowd.
His parents would've had an easier time finding him should he get lost when he's a child!
Anyway,
"Are you going to kill me?" The young man assumed a fighting posture, chains appeared out of the blue. Odd nonetheless the young man didn't have any killing intent.
Aware that the young man didn't have the slightest intention to kill him, the man speculated that this was an act so he didn't do anything funny.
"No need to be lively. Also, don't compare me to them. Furthermore, if I want to kill you. I would've not come here alone."
Shortly thereafter, the young man lowered his guard.
"Why are you here then?"
"I'm here to warn you, that's all."
The young man didn't believe his words. This man came into this alleyway to warn him.
Take in mind that the man was only a stranger.
Who wouldn't feel that something was strange when a stranger abruptly come to you and warn you?
It wouldn't hurt though to hear him. Whoever this person might be, regardless of his goal, the young man needed any information necessary.
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