(Rui's Pov)
"Thanks for the advice, but I don't wanna break my legs, and jumping from the window is too much of a hassle," I replied back in a lazy tone.
I didn't want to sound rude, but I don't think it's a good idea to jump from the second floor and how the fuck did he even survive?
"Yea, Yea. Now follow me," He said while waving his hand towards me. From the looks of it, I was in some kind of school.
'I wonder why this school has dorms,' I thought while walking alongside Diego san. The room I woke up in was in a boys dorm. And just beside it was a girls dorm.
Normally schools in Japan don't have dorms. And even if they have, they are outside of the school campus. Whereas this dorm was inside the school.
After walking for a while, we came across a big building. It looked like a shrine from the outside. It had a statue of a golden dragon on top in it. I could tell that many strong people were inside the shrine.
I don't know why but ever since I have woke up, I could gauge the strength of the people around me. Even while walking to this shrine, I came across a few people. They all were strong.
But none of them were as strong as the guy in front of me. Something inside me told me to be wary of him. The pressure he excluded was no joke yet I was perfectly fine.
If it was someone else in my place, I bet they would have passed out by Diego san's pressure. Even the people we walked past by were having trouble breathing in Diego san's presence.
"Ok, we are here," he said while clapping his hands and retracting his pressure.
"Strange. Why did he stop exerting the pressure?" I thought while looking at him. Was he afraid of people inside? I doubt that.
According to me, only one person inside could match his power. He could defeat the others easily.
'I guess he doesn't want unnecessary trouble,' I thought while shrugging and walking inside the shrine.
The inside of the shrine was painted in golden colour. The walls had weird red symbols and patterns made of them.
'Are these patterns glowing,' I thought while rubbing my eyes. Had I finally gone insane after seeing so many weird things in a day?
'Leave it, I'll ask Diego san later,' I thought. First I needed to figure out where I was. After skipping a few rooms, we finally stopped in front of a room with green sliding doors.
'I felt that strong presence from inside here,' I thought while Diego san opened the door. Inside was an old man sitting on a mattress.
He was bald and had a long white beard. He was wearing golden clothes with red patterns printed on them just like what I saw before.
He looked around the age of eighty.
Beside him was a guy, most probably in his twenties. He had black hair and black eyes. His hair was tied in a ponytail and he was wearing a suit.
"Oho Diego, who do we have here?" the old man said as soon as Diego san opened the door.
"Sensei, this guy here is ... umm what was your name again?" Diego san asked me while turning his head towards me.
"Oh, sorry I forgot to introduce myself. I am Ito Rui, nice to meet you," I said while giving a slight bow.
I didn't want to be rude, but so much was going through my head that I forgot to introduce myself earlier.
"So, as you can see this guy over here is Rui-kun. He has somehow managed to bond himself with an armament," Diego san told his sensei while putting his hand around my shoulder.
I didn't understand a shit he was saying. 'What armament? What bonding? What was he talking about?' I thought while absentmindedly looking at him.
"So which clan is he from?" asked the old man while looking out of the window while the young man beside him was glaring daggers at me.
"He isn't from any clan. He is just a normal human that we found while looking for Jozu. Apparently, Jozu died and this little guy over here is the new owner of the Kusanagi," replied Diego.
"Now I understand why you brought a child alongside you. But first of all, who killed Jozu? He had vital information that we needed about the mystic armaments," questioned Diego's sensei.
"I think Rui kun over here can answer that. By the time we reached the scene, Jozu was already dead and this guy was fighting a C-grade yokai using the Kusanagi," said Diego while pointing at Rui.
Feeling Diego san sensei's gaze on me I already knew what I had to do. They wanted me to tell them how the old man I found died.
'I guess this is why they have brought me here. I should just tell them about it and get going. I have no plan to fight monsters like that again,' I thought while looking at them.
"While walking back from school today I saw a man running from something. He was bleeding a lot so tried to help him but he told me to run away. After that, a monster came and attacked us. That old man gave his life to protect me," I said while feeling sad and guilty.
"Are you saying that Jozu gave his life for you? Nice joke kid. I thought he was harassing you and you killed him," said Diego san to me while laughing.
'What kind of joke was this? Is this guy mentally ill?' I thought while sighing. Seeing this, Diego's sensei fake coughed and looked at me with complete seriousness.
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Hey guys, I am participating in a competition. I will be very grateful if you guys help me win it by donating me your powerstones and gifts.
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[Edited by OtakuSumit]