As soon as Mikhail said that to Irina, he buried his right fist that had coated with Mystic Energy to Irina's gut. The impact of the punch caused Irina to widen her eyes and cough up blood. Irina then jumped away, but Mikhail quickly caught her ankle and slammed her down several times.
"Damn you!" Irina cursed as she manifested several spikes that burst out from the ground, prompting Mikhail to jump away. "I am going to rip you apart!"
"You are welcome to try." Mikhail coldly replied to Irina before vanishing from everyone's sight.
Sensing Mikhail's behind her, Irina turned around and received a savage punch to her gut followed by three consecutive punches to her face. The assault didn't stop there as Mikhail proceeded to stun Irina with an uppercut to her chin and threw her away.
Irina recovered in mid-air and clapped her hands together. She then fired pressurized blood from her fingertips at Mikhail. She smirked as she knew the technique is impossible to dodge due to its capability of reaching the speed of sound.
However, Irina was wrong. Mikhail casually avoided the technique and then pulled Irina towards him with the force of attraction. The young man opened his right eye and sent a downward punch which Irina blocked.
"Kamigan…" Irina whispered as she stared Mikhail's blue eye.
Kamigan or Divine Eyes are an extremely rare ocular prowess that Mikhail possesses. The full capability of those eyes is unknown but one thing for sure…
Mikhail is the first of his clan to be born with those eyes in the last 900 years!
Irina was the second being that was born to witness the Kamigan with her father being the first being in the modern age. At first, she felt peace when she stared at that single blue orb, but slowly she felt nervous and gradually turned into fear.
"Don't you dare think that you can scare me with that shit! I will rip that eye of yours!" Irina screamed at Mikhail as she pushed Mikhail's fist away and fired a pressurized stream of blood.
Mikhail avoided the blood and knocked Irina away with a powerful punch. He sprinted towards Irina and buried her head on the ground before dragging her several feet and then hurling her to the food stall behind her.
"Ammar."
Mikhail quickly ran towards the unconscious Ammar and saw the flow of the Mystic Energy within him. Although the unconscious young man possesses a high-level Mystic Energy, thanks to Mikhail's Kamigan which allows him to see the flow, there is something sinister about the energy.
His thoughts shifted when he heard another pressurized stream of blood shot at him which Mikhail jumped away. Mikhail then realized that Irina wasn't aiming at him, instead she was targeting the students.
With inhuman speed, Mikhail ran towards the students and blocked the attack, saving a group of students which Mikhail recognized as his classmates.
"Qayyum! Fawwaz! Bring others to safety!"
The two students quickly brought their friends to safety as Mikhail deflected the attack. He watched Irina launch the same attack and blocked it. He skidded several feet away before deflecting the attack again.
'Dammit! This eye really drained a lot of my energy! I need to end this fight immediately!'
The panting heavily Mikhail thought to himself and then watched an angry Irina create two large tentacles to attack the students once again. Mikhail destroyed one of them with a punch and then heard Camy's scream.
"Camy!!"
"Mika!! Help me!!"
Mikhail watched as a giant hand made from thick slime-like substance grabbed Camy and began to squeeze her. He quickly cut down the hand and caught Camy, bringing her to somewhere safe.
"Are you alright?" Mikhail asked Camy who nodded her head but then she screamed at Mikhail while pointing behind him. "!!"
The moment Mikhail turned around, Irina appeared and drove her arm straight through his chest. Mikhail coughed up blood as Irina grinned madly and licked his blood on her lips.
"I KNEW IT!! YOU ARE SO EASY TO GET DISTRACT!!" Irina screamed with excitement and then pushed her arm deeper. "OH! DO YOU FEEL THAT?! WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW?!"
Using the pain as the source of his strength, Mikhail screamed angrily and landed a hook punch at Irina's face although she caught it and slowly crushed his fist. Irina then hurled the fatally wounded Mikhail.
"Time to say goodbye to everyone." Irina said as she created a large axe and dragged it as she was walking towards the dying Mikhail.
Irina raised her axe and was about to cut Mikhail down when suddenly someone kicked Irina away. She recovered from the kick and saw a young Japanese woman with dark wolf cut hair that tied into ponytail standing in front of her. A few seconds later, a group of people in suit appeared.
"Leave this fucking place or the next kick will pop off your head from the neck."
Irina scoffed and then stared at the unconscious Ammar. She raised her index and middle fingers and whispered something that caused Ammar to scream in agony before losing consciousness once again.
"We will meet again soon." Irina said before vanishing into a burst of purple smoke.
The Japanese woman looked at the barely conscious Mikhail and knelt. Mikhail looked at her with his left eye and smirked.
"Katagiri… Shizuka…" Mikhail greeted the woman with onyx eyes who chuckled.
"Genji… You look shit." Shizuka smirked at Mikhail.
"Yeah… Can… you… help… Ammar…?" Mikhail pointed at Ammar and then looked at Shizuka. "I…"
"Rest, Genji. I'm sorry that I came late," Shizuka apologized for the very first time in her life, surprising Mikhail who smirked and then passed out. "Everyone, tend to those who are injured. You, bring that unconscious brat! We are going back to Tokyo now!"
Shizuka carried the unconscious Mikhail, surprising at how light he was and then left the scene with one of her people who brought Ammar as well.
Somewhere else
"Hey, Mika."
Mikhail stopped eating his sandwich and looked at the girl sitting next to her while patting a sleeping cat.
"What's wrong Amaris?"
The girl, who was identified as Amaris, smiled and then spoke, "If I die… Will you promise me to take care of yourself?"
The thirteen-year-old teenager with short spiky dark hair looked at the Malay girl with a confused expression. He finished the remainder of his sandwich and cleared his throat with a cup of orange juice.
"Idiot! Why did you say that?" Mikhail scolded Amaris who chuckled and then watched the sleeping orange cat wake up and stretch its body. "Do you want to die so badly?"
Amaris looked at Mikhail and smiled which caused Mikhail to laugh and then leaned his body on the bench.
"We will never know when, where, and how we will die. So, stop asking me that kind of question. If you die, who is going to make me breakfast? Who is going to remind me to do the homework and study?" Mikhail crossed his arms and pouted.
"Well… I'm just asking-"
Mikhail interrupted Amaris with a stern glare and said, "I hate that kind of question. I don't get it why do you always say that over the last three weeks. I am the one who is supposed to say that. Look at me, I don't have family. I don't even know my parents. Hell, I don't even have any memories about them."
"You will find out one day… Anyways, time to wake up."
"Wake up?"
Mikhail suddenly snapped his eye open and then looked around him. He found himself laying on a pristine white bed and immediately got off the bed.
"Where am I?"
Mikhail looked around and noticed that he was in an unfamiliar room after noticing the surroundings. He ripped out the IV's that were attached to his right forearm and changed his clothes. After that, Mikhail opened the window and saw that it was nighttime.
"What happened?"
Mikhail tried to remember. The battle against Irina, saving Ammar's and Camy's lives, meeting Shizuka. Shizuka… Shizuka!!
The newly awakened young man realized that he's in a place that he hated so much, his clan's house. This caused him to curse and punch the wall. Mikhail immediately left the room through the window and stood on the rooftop.
"This place… Dammit!" Mikhail cursed again and then tried to sense Ammar. After sensing Ammar's energy, Mikhail immediately went towards his location. Sneaking through the guard and knocking them out cold when he arrived at the location.
Entering the room, he saw Ammar who was busy playing with his phone. Upon seeing Mikhail, Ammar smiled and got off the bed.
"Mika! You finally woke up!"
Mikhail didn't say anything other than staring at the eye patch that hid his lost eye. He looked down, gritting his teeth. Ammar smiled and placed his hand on Mikhail's shoulder.
"Hey, it's just an eye. At least you're alive."
Mikhail took a deep breath and then said, "Ammar, we need to leave this place. It's too dangerous to stay here. Whatever they tell you, don't believe them. I know you have a lot of questions, but for now, we must leave this place at once!"
Ammar nodded his head and followed Mikhail. The moment Mikhail stepped out of the building, he was greeted with the sight of dozens of people in yukata with a katana strapped to their waist.
Among those people, there was someone that made Mikhail grit his teeth.
"Brother..."
"Mizuki..."