Hoshi's POV
The next day at school, I was walking down the hallway with Bokuto and Saki when we saw a shadowy, human-like entity walking by. That entity then stopped and looked at us.
"Who are you?" Bokuto asked.
The entity said nothing and just continued walking.
Seeing this, we had no idea what he was and what he was doing in our school.
So, we just went to class.
"Good morning."
We then settled in our seats.
As I grabbed my textbook, notebooks, and some pens, I looked at one corner near the teacher's desk, only to see another similar entity watching us.
My friends and I got creeped out by it.
Kuro then told me that Sha might have something to do with it.
I was skeptical at his claim, but I planned to talk to Sha after PE class.
So, by the afternoon, my friends and I are at PE class in the fields. While we and the students were doing exercises as a lesson, Sha looks at us, giving us tips on how to do those exercises carefully. As I exercise, Kuro was getting impatient on wanting to manifest himself through me. But I refused to give in and kept him concealed until the class ended. At that time, Kuro manifested through me and demanded an explanation regarding the shadow entities roaming the school.
"Oh, those?" answered Sha back. "Those entities are my shadow minions. They are patrolling the school for any activity by the Amanojaku."
"What?" Bokuto responded back. "That yokai again?"
"Well." Sha folded his arms. "Last night, I received a threat from it saying that he will kill me and my students."
We were shocked.
"Oh no…" Saki gasped.
"Yes, and as a countermeasure." Sha nodded, "I decided to send my minions to patrol just in case that yokai controls someone and make him do bad deeds."
At this point, we understood that.
"Okay," Bokuto replied.
"No problem, Sha-sensei," Saki positively added.
"Fine then," I responded a bit coldly.
I then stared at Sha. "Make sure you're trustworthy, too."
"Okay then, Kuro," Sha answered back.
After that, I reverted back to being Hoshi.
Sha sees that but doesn't mind at all.
Later, my friends and I are at the school library reading some books for biology. We have a research paper on that subject that is due 2 weeks from now, so we are serious about starting it right away.
"I picked the heart and its mechanism as a topic!" I suggested.
"Good idea," Bokuto replied.
"That sounds interesting," Saki added.
And so, the three of us began to pick facts from biology textbooks for the topic of our research paper.
As we wrote and handpicked one fact after another, suddenly, someone burst into the library and slammed it immediately.
Upon hearing that, we looked at him.
"What is going on?"
"Can you be quiet? This is a library."
But that student was panting heavily from running with fear.
"Sorry about that," he spoke, "but I was running away from my senpai."
"Why?" Bokuto raised a question.
His question was answered when a knife broke into the wooden door, startling them and the student.
"Ah! He's here!" the student responded while being terrified.
Then, a voice from behind the door said. "Come back here, my friend."
That voice sounded like a psychopath, followed by a burst of maniacal laughter.
This caused me and my friends to stand up as the student's senpai broke in with his knife.
The student then hid behind Saki. "Help me!"
While Saki shielded the student, I became Kuro and said with a serious voice, "What is going on here?"
The senpai then approached us while holding his knife and smirked like a psychopath. "Nothing," he said, "I just wanted to kill that student."
"Are you insane?" Bokuto blocked him off with his kunai knife. "Cut it out!"
What is this? It can't be! Is this the Amanojaku's doing?