Lanna: -what happened to you... you're all wrinkled... - looking at Haru when he arrives at the school gates.
Haru: -.... - with a sad face.
It had been 3 days since the beginning of training with Mileyde Garden in the lake, and every day they were thrown into it without having the slightest chance of getting the bells and Haru was all wrinkled from the constant hours in the water.
Haru: -I spent a lot of time at my aunt's pool. – all stiff in lying to Lanna.
Lanna: -No, I wish I had gone with you... - A little embarrassed to say that.
Haru: -... - blushing when imagining Lanna in a bikini in the pool and all wet after a swim.
Lanna: -Haru? Are you okay? Now it's all red.
Haru: -it's nothing... - trying to calm down.
Lanna: -You're very strange, come let's go to class. – putting his arm under Haru's arm.
Haru, despite having gone through tiring days, knew that at that moment of the day she could be at peace, Lanna her best friend was always around.
-Look if not my couple. – jumping in front of them as they entered the room.
Haru: -couple?
Lanna: -Don't talk nonsense Suika. – blushing arm in arm with Haru. -We are just friends.
Suika: -because they want to... - with her hands behind her head.
Suika was Lanna's friend since childhood, they always studied together and closely followed her involvement with Haru when he started to attend the same school, she is a girl with black eyes, short hair in a navy blue tone, she wore small earrings and a skirt. showing more of her thick legs due to her hobby of running 100 meters, although her somewhat rustic way, she is very sweet and very reliable, loves rabbits and is one of the best in her class, the typical popular.
Teacher: - Sit down, let's start today's class with a team formation for a science work on carp.
In Haru's class There were about 35 students, many didn't get along but not because they were quarrelsome or something, but because of their different personalities, Emma the smartest girl in the class, only got a 10, and that's how she was in a higher level than the others, Kakui with his explosion pushed his colleagues away even though he always got grades like 9, Rayaka was the feared guy, the one from the back, the one that nobody wants to be friends with even though he knows he's going to take his lunch money, Suika was athlete, even not being so good in the subjects, got extra credit in the competitions he won for school and finally Haru, one of the most normal in the class with Lanna, they always did the work together but that day...
Suika: -Is it ok to go with you?
Lanna: -For me yes, and you Haru?
Haru: -aaaa, Lanna...this time I'll have to go with other people.
Lanna: -What?
Haru: -I'm sorry. - getting up. -Call Rayaka, he is always alone.
Suika: -o Rayaka?
Haru; -it's the perfect opportunity... - going to those two. - Very well you, let's form a team...
Kakui: -eeeeem? Me with that one, not even dead!
Emma: -but not dreaming.
Haru: -look here... we have to unite, isn't it... this is the best way to get to know each other better, a week together doing this work.
Kakui: -....I don't like it.
Emma: -Okay...if we have to be friends, let's start like this.
Haru: -So? – looking at Kakui.
Kakui: -I still don't like the idea...but whatever!
Teams of three are formed in each corner of the room they are gathered, near the windows Suika, Lanna and Rayaka are staring at each other without reaction, while Haru tries to soften the mood in his team.
Kakui: -In the central park there are really cool carps!
Emma: -in the district there are much bigger ones!
Haru: -Could you guys not scream just once?
-no! – both speak at the same time.
Haru: -aah.
Haru recovers from what Mileyde said before, that he doesn't take a stand, he's afraid and never says what he thinks for fear of what the golds will think.
Haru: -Very well, since you two can't decide, let's go to the place I chose, the Jikado Zoo.
Kukui: -It seems...
Emma: -Do you think you're boss of us?
Haru: -Do you have a better idea?
-no. – both speak at the same time.
Haru: -Then you agree that I'm the only one who can solve this, right, so let's go to the zoo.
Teacher: -tá...
Emma: If there's no other way.
Later that day right after leaving class, the three of them stop by their houses and change their clothes and head to the zoo that Haru mentioned, Jikado Zoo was an abandoned zoo, it only had carp that lived in their ponds where a river passed by and was one of the few that followed a decoration more focused on old paintings, Haru always went there with his grandfather when he was younger.
Kakui: -This place gives me goosebumps.
Emma: -What to come home, big baby?
Kakui: -Look here...
Haru: -Why do you guys fight so much...
Kakui: -It's none of your business.
Emma: -It's like he said.
Haru: -But they always agree when it's about me...
A breeze of wind blows making a loud hiss.
Emma: -Where are the Carps? I want to leave soon. – looking sideways.
Kakui: -He got scared. – smiling mischievously.
Emma: -No... I just don't like places like that.
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Haru: -Come on, it's this way.
They start to walk among several vines that were taking care of the place and after a few minutes they arrive at the koi pond but what they find is not pretty.
Emma: -Oh my.
Kakui: -What a horrible smell.
Haru: -What happened here?
The scene was terrible, several carp were torn apart, pieces and heads were lying around, bones without meat as if they had been sucked.
Emma: -What a nice place, Haru.
Kakui: -We came here for nothing, some cat must have found this place...
Haru: -No.
Emma: -Now we'll have to go somewhere else.
Kakui: -It just made us waste time.
Haru: -There's something wrong here.
Kakui: -There's no carp.
Haru: -It's not just that...
Emma: -Forget it, let's get out of here.
Haru: -I'm feeling something... strange.
Kakui: -weird here is only you
Emma: -Come on Haru, you were the one who wanted to make this group.
Haru: -Shut up you two just a minute! – with tears running down her face.
Emma: -...
Kakui: -What happened to you?
Haru: -You don't understand...I used to come here with my grandfather all the time....there's something wrong...
Kakui: -Haru...that's just your thing...an? – looks back quickly. – get down!
A shadow passes over their heads, touching their backs with claws, scratching them.
-Well, well...who would have thought that after a meal like that... children would arrive for dessert. – Hidden somewhere in the middle of the green that covers the premises.
Emma: -an ogre...
-Do you know what I am?
Kakui: -But of course...
-So you are the brats who walk around waving shinais as if they were someone important.
Haru: -Did you kill those carp?
-the carps?... um, let's see... – appearing in my midst the vines. -I think so. – Showing that her body was full of karpa skin. -don't get me wrong, I need to keep up appearances.
The ogre was two meters tall, eyes as big as owls, its body was smooth and dripping liquids on the ground, the karpa skins prevented it from drying out in the sun, that's why it was consuming them, sucking their skins to keep the protected body.
Haru: -damn... - pulling the wooden shinai. -Real Shinai!
Emma: -Wait Haru!
Haru doesn't listen to Emma and goes for the ogre without realizing that right next to him there was another ogre identical to him ready to kill him with a lethal blow at close range.
Kakui: -Fiery salamander! – prevented the blow from reaching Haru. -What do you have on your mind?
Haru: -... - Astonished by that blow, he hadn't noticed under any circumstances they were moving it behind the vines. –'I did it again. I acted without thinking"
Emma: -This is not the time to be brooding... we have two almost onis ogres here...
-Oh, did you notice? I'm almost evolving into Oni...almost losing that beautiful horn and getting rid of kendokas like you...
Kakui: -He doesn't seem to care about being kenshins.
Emma: -It must be because his level is high. – looking at the two of them walking in a circle. -Maybe we should let Wawa know.
-Oh no way...that man can't see me...not now...
Haru: -What are you talking about?
-um...you felt the pain...look into my eyes!
The eyes of the ogre in front of them begin to emit waves as if hypnotizing the three of them, and soon they feel their bodies sway and their legs lose strength.
Haru: -Don't look directly at them!
Emma: -Damn...
Kakui: -What a fucking skill this is!
-this is our blood call...unstable. – the second ogre finally speaks.
- Soon they will be so confused that they felt like their bodies were going to fall into a deep abyss.
Kakui: -Fight right you shits. – opening one of the eyes to try to hit one of the others but ends up almost falling into the abyss that opens in front of them.
-Do you really think we're stupid like those other ogres they faced?
-no wonder we're almost in the final form...Oni.
Ogres evolve class by consuming Hokoshin...the more people they eat the more power they accumulate and so they can evolve...for a beast type ogre like that is almost at the final stage of evolution, he must have eaten more than 1000 people.
Emma: -I can't take it anymore... - trying not to fall into the abyss in front of you.
Kakui: -Damn... we're going to die here... - defending a blow that was coming towards him.
Haru: -...what do I do...what do I do...
-Haru...focus...remember your training.
Haru: -Grandpa... - Covering his eyes with the bandana. -Listen...follow my voice. I'm going to get us out of here, but I need you to cooperate with me, I can't feel Hokoshin like you and you can't see without opening your eyes, trust me, and work together
-OK! – both speak at the same time.
- as if that were easy.
-let's speed things up - picking up one of the fish bones and throwing it at the three of them in a violent and lethal way.
Kakui: -Kamae! Fire Salamander! – incinerating the pimples that were thrown. - without worrying about the floor.
Emma: -We are free to strike defend. Venomous blast!
Emma and Kakui begin attacking the ogres as Haru guides them out of the abyss creating in their minds by the ogres who soon realize that it is having no effect on them with its eye waves.
-this is not working.
-We have to stop them from finding the exit.
Haru: -too late...I already know where the exit is, kamae no ooto: resound of echoes!
Haru breaks the ogres' eye technique using his shinai which touches the ogres' blind spot making them free again.
Kakui: -I can finally open my eyes.
Emma: -It's about time.
-this is impossible...
-how...how...
Kakui: -Fiery salamander! – quoting the head of one of the ogres.
Emma: -poisonous cut! – cutting off the head of the gold ogre.
Haru: -finish... - He stops when he sees Emma and Kakui's bodies falling.
- Did you really think it was over?
Haru: -Guys? - looking back.
A third ogre identical to the other two had come out of the top of one of the facilities and attacked Kakui and Emma who were now immobile as if their minds were trapped in the abyss again.
Haru: -There was still one more?
-huhuhuhuhu
Haru: -No...you're different...you're the real one.
-Oh, just now realized, child...
Haru was panting, using his hokoshin to get out of the abyss had worn him out a lot.
-My name is Chesses, the Ogre of the Abyss...
Haru: -Since we got here... we had already fallen into the abyss.
Chesses: -Exactly, I made you attack each other without realizing it, as if you were attacking my clones...but you noticed a blind spot but it was too late.
Haru: -Emma...Kakui...
Chesses: -this place will be your grave...kenshin, you three are the last souls I need to evolve...the ultimate hokoshin energy. – with eyes shining.
Haru: -That's how you acted, make them kill each other and then consume their energy.
Chesses: -exactly, but how about making you fight your friends.
Haru: -ah?
Emma and Kakui were standing in front of the ogre but I couldn't see him...
Emma: -What did you do with Haru?
Kakui: -That damn ogre killed him!
Haru: -Guys?
In Emma and Kakui's mind, Haru was dead on the ground, his viscera were showing, and a black-skinned ogre was standing next to him, this ogre was the real Haru.
Kakui: -Fire salamander!
Emma: -venomous cut!
Chesses: -Now it's just a matter of time. - smiling.
Kakui: -You won't run away.
Emma: -We're going to finish you off!
Haru: -Guys...