Lanna: -Haru, where have you been? – tapping his foot impatiently outside the school.
On the terrace things were tense, the crickets could be heard from a silence.
Haru: -...
-...
Haru: -You are...
-Am I...
Haru: -You are...
-Am I...?
Haru: -You're a kendoka! – pointing to the boy.
-ah! That's right, did you like my magic show? - jumping. –I'm training for days to present my dojo. – with his face trembling not knowing how to react.
Haru: -Wait, what? Magic? – without understanding it.
-yeah…it's the only way to make fire…humans can't make fire out of nothing… – with an uncomfortable face. -Thanks for watching, I'll go for it. – turning around.
Haru: -Wait there! – taking a few steps forward.
-No, the show is over, compadre, I have to go! - Start going down the stairs.
Haru: -I know about the horn ogres. – Coming to stairs.
-... - Stopping when he heard that. – ogres? Like those children's stories? That man you like these things is. – laughing in a deprecating way.
Haru: -You know very well what I'm talking about. – pointing his index finger at him.
-Don't put me in that environment, you weirdo. – looking at Haru.
Haru: -He called me a weirdo...? – not believing it.
- It's my time, mate. - going back down.
Haru: -Kendo no Kenjutsu, Zanzin pits, horn ogres. - going down the stairs.
-an? – turns to Haru after hearing those words. – How do you know all this? – looking suspiciously at Haru. -Are you some kind of demon? – getting ready to attack Haru.
Haru: -No! -I'm a kendoka. – showing the shinai that was in the backpack. -Look!
-That is...a shinai...how do you have one of these? - Facing Haru face to face.
Haru: -I'm like you, I'm a kendoka from the Ooto dojo.
-hum I do not know. - shrugging. - and even then it doesn't even come that you're like me, not in a thousand years, not 10,000 years, or 100,000 thousand years!
Haru: -I get it... - upset with the whole situation.
-you can only be kidding, just like me, hahahahhaha!
Haru: -Well, you... how can someone who practices kendo be so pretentious?
-This is my style, this is the style of the Kyo dojo, so Kakui Kyo is the ultimate kendoka. – with a heroic pose.
Haru: -he referred to him in the third person...
Kakui: -Then don't compare me to you. – begins to descend the steps faster.
Haru: -Who does he think he is... stuck-up guy. – putting your dojo headband on. -not this one. – realizing something. I left Lanna waiting for me. - She starts down the stairs quickly. -she will kill me!
Lanna: -Haru, you pay me... - Back home alone.
Outside the school Haru arrives looking for her best friend.
Haru: -Lanna's already gone... - With her hands on her knees trying to breathe better after running a lot.
Close by, someone was watching Haru panting as he cleaned the base of his glasses.
-Interesting. - female voice.
Haru: -I'll talk to her later...now I have to find out why that Kakui guy has kenjutsu skills, and why that man didn't tell me anything about him. – Regaining breath. -that's it! – starts running towards the corner on the left. –he said he was from the kyo dojo...but there isn't a dojo with that name...there is an iron factory, so it must be in the metallurgical district.
Haru travels about 2 km on foot until he reaches a square full of food carts and finds who he was looking for there.
Kakui: -I want two taiyakis. – with his eyes shining when he saw the fish-shaped meal.
Kendo Talk: Taiyakis are sweet dumplings made from dough, despite their fish-like shape there is nothing of it in the ingredients.
Haru: -I found you... - Hiding near a mailbox with anime illustrations stamped on it.
Kakui after eating starts walking towards his house, Haru then decides to follow him taking care not to be seen.
Kakui: -that Taiyaki was very good, I should have bought more... - spitting on the street.
Haru: -What a disgusting guy... behind a pole.
Kakui: -...! – stopping in the middle of the street.
Haru: -He stopped suddenly.
Kakui: -Another one appeared? - looking up. – where this time? – closing his eyes. -disappeared...again.
Haru: -What was he doing? - Hides after Kakui turns to his side. – Where is he?
Kakui: -Why are you following me, have you lost your love for life? – with a look of fury.
Haru: -...!
Kakui stood before him with the shinai pointed at his neck.
Haru: -How fast...
Kakui: Get down! – noticing something coming their way.
Haru: -What?
Kakui: -down soon! – grabbing Haru's head and throwing him to the ground.
Kakui throws himself to the ground shortly afterwards before he is hit by what looks like very stiff feathers with a black aura coming out of them.
Haru: -What was that? – looking at the feathers stuck in the pole.
Kakui: -an ogre... - his arm was injured because one of the feathers had slipped on it.
Haru: -an ogre? But where is he? – looking sideways.
Kakui: -Here comes another one! – using the backpack to defend against the feathers.
Haru: -What? – having his face grazed by the feathers. – aaa!
Kakui: -I told you! Can't you feel the aura? – running behind some garbage cans on the street.
Haru: -aura? Like an evil energy?
Kakui: -Honestly, what kind of kendoka are you? – looking for the ogre. -All ogres release a sinister aura, similar to kenjutsu energy, but it's something evil, something you feel the urge to kill coming from them. – trying to stop the bleeding in his arm.
Haru: -that feeling I had before going to the roof... - with my hand on my face. -Can you feel where it's coming from?
Kakui: -Usually yes, but this time I can't see it until it's too close, it looks like a blood technique – annoyed. - damn ogre...
-aahhahah, as long as I'm at this distance, and using my blood technique: discreet target, they'll never find me. – A bird-shaped ogre with white feathers, a pointed beak and black eyes. -They killed my brother like it was nothing, I will avenge him! – in the middle of a Japanese beech tree. -Let's see if they escape this one! steel feathers!
Kakui: -Here comes another attack! – rolling on the floor to dodge. -kendo no kenjutsu! – releasing his shinai to blade form.
Haru: -That was close. – watching garbage cans being sliced up.
Kakui: -He's close, but where? – looking in the direction the feathers came. -over! Kamae no hi: burning salamander!
Standing in his fire stance, Kakui uses his fire salamander technique to destroy the feathers coming towards them from various angles.
Haru: -damn, he can be a pretentious guy, but he has an amazing skill with shinai...
Kakui: -aaaa! - burning the feathers that were heading towards Haru. -what are you waiting for, use your kenjutsu skill!
Haru: -aaaa... I'm kind of new to this. - scratching his head.
Kakui: -Perfect, we're being attacked and you don't know how to use your kendo... what a beautiful dojo of yours. – burning more feathers that came faster and faster. -I feel an insane death wish... it's not devouring our presence.
-ahahahahaha.
Haru: -an?
Kakui: Get down!
Haru: -...!
Kakui manages to protect Haru but ends up getting hit.
Kakui: -What do you think you're doing? Move, damn it! - injured and fatigued.
Haru: -He got hurt by me? – watching the blood drip on the floor.
-ahahahaha.
Kakui: -I'm going to set everything on fire! Kamae no hi: hellish salamander! - swinging the shinai.
Haru: -That sound...
-aahhahaha
Haru: -always comes before an attack...
-aahhaha
Haru: -Concentrates Haru... - Closing his eyes.
Kakui: -This is no time to sleep!
-ahahahaha
Haru: -That's it... I thought! - opening his eyes. –Kakui use your salamander in the direction of that big Japanese Ugly!
Kakui: -....that's right! – firing his infernal salamander.
Kakui, even in doubt if he should do that, decided to bet everything he could when he saw the bandana on Haru's forehead.
-which? – watching the fire go towards you.
The Japanese Feia is the one hit and starts to burn and with her screams of pain are heard and echo through the region.
-aaaaaaaa! Damn kendokas, how did they find me? – fallen with part of his body on fire.
Kakui: -a beast ogre like the one from earlier... - almost fainting.
Haru: -Kakui! – holding Kakui who almost fell to the ground.
-will pay, will pay! – getting up after the flame goes out.
Kakui: -tsk, my attack wasn't enough... - seeing the ogre get up. -You'll have to finish him.
Haru: -But I don't know how to use my techniques right, in fact I don't even know how to do kenjutsu release. - cok tears welling up in her eyes.
Kakui: -You're a kendoka aren't you... act like one. – having difficulty speaking. -Use what he taught you.
Haru: -... - looks ahead.
-Haru, you know, use what I taught you.
Haru: -Very well! – taking the shinai, Haru raises his arm forward and in the Ooto posture he prepares himself. -kendo no kenjutsu!
A large mass of air gathers around it, but it soon dissolves.
Haru: -opa...
Kakui: -We're going to die...
-They will pay for what they did to my brother and for burning my beautiful body! – with its monstrous form more neatly. -cut feathers... - having his head cut off before he finished speaking.
Haru: -...!
Teacher: -...!
-ken....do...ka. - He says before starting to disappear.
-Not at all. – a girl with purple hair, amber lilac eyes, wore a purple kimono and a hakama, in her hand a shinai with a corrosive liquid dripping on the floor.
Kakui: -So it was you? – losing consciousness.
Haru: -Kakui! - trying to hold him.
Some time passes and when Kakui wakes up with his arm bandaged with bandages, firefighters were at the scene putting out the fire of the Ugly Japanese tree.
Haru: - Finally woke up...
Kakui: -You're the guy who doesn't know how to use... - Looking at Haru. -Did you do that? – looking at the bandaged arm.
Haru: -No, it was her. - pointing to the side.
-Hi, I'm Emma Sasaki, the one who saved your life twice. – With a smile on her face, the girl wore glasses, schoolgirl clothes and her hair was now tied in a ponytail. -You can thank me later.
Kakui: -No shit. – getting up. -don't expect a thank you... widow
Haru: -viuvinha?
Emma: -You're still a hardhead, isn't it Kakui. - smiling.
Kakui: -Fuck you, girl... - Picking up his things and starting to walk home.
Haru: -I got it wrong or you already knew each other...
Emma: -It's none of your business, okay. – looking down at him.
Haru: -another one with that look... - uncomfortable.
Emma: -Besides...you're not on our level. - Start walking. – stay out of it, for your own good.
Haru is dismayed after Emma's words, he hadn't been able to help at all in the fight, at least that's what he thought after being left aside.
Haru: -grandpa – kneeling in front of his grandfather's photo while burning incense. -I need to talk to Lanna... I hope she answers... - Afraid.
Lanna: hello?... - eating chips in bed.
Pastry uncle: -aaaa, I found you. - in the window. - your house is really nice. – entering the room.
Haru: -aaa! - dropping the cell phone on the floor. -How do you get into other people's rooms like that?
Pastel's uncle: -I'm sorry...did I get in the way? – seeing the connection terminated. -Was it his girlfriend?
Lanna: -Haru? – looking at the phone. -He hung up on my face.
Haru: -Not that one... - With his hands on his head. She won't talk to me ever again...
Pastel uncle: -don't worry about it, she'll come back. - Grabbing Haru.
Haru: -what are you talking about... - being held by the waist.
Pastel's uncle: -Come with me, we have to start your betrayal. - giving a wink.
Haru: -Wait...what are you doing? – having his body taken off the ground.
Pastry Uncle takes Haru under his arm to his house in the shopping district.
Haru: -You're going crazy, are you? – being placed on the ground again.
Pastel's uncle: -I had to take advantage of this day to gather you here today. - with a smile.
Harus: -"you"
Kakui: -No, what is he doing here? – coming from the kitchen with a pastel in his mouth.
Haru: -What am I doing here? What are you doing here?
Emma: -wow, if I had known about that, I wouldn't have come.
-What is she doing here?! – both speak at the same time.
Pastel Uncle: -Welcome to your new dojo.