Chapter 56 - Duo

The two chakram's eventually returned the teal jacket man as he slowly walked over to Hikarus' dead corpse.

"That Gojo girl left you behind huh? Poor kid. You know I don't like killing civilians, especially Jujutsu sorcerers. You guys really do a great service to this country, but in the end its just a part of my job ya see?", the man said as he crouched over his body.

He then raised, his left arm that carried, his chakram and the with great force prepelled it down towards his neck, "I always decapitate the body just to make sure they're dead."

Then suddenly from the pool of blood the poured out of his black a giant red Oni blocked the weapon before kicking him away brutally. 

As he did so, the man threw two of his chakrams' at Hikaru, but then an invisible force in the air knocked them away. But even then the chakrams' persisted towards their target. The chakrams' raced towards Hikaru but the red Oni blocked both of them regardless.

As the Oni smacks them with his blunt club, the chakrams continue to bounce back still targetting Hikaru. Then suddenly one of the chakrams, rebounds and circles around Hikaru, escaping the red Oni and now charging towards its target.

Hikaru then summons his yellow Oni from the pool of blood, which guards with its two steel bracelts, before striking it with a bolt of lightning. But even then, the chakrams' still persisted.

The man in the teal jacket then shouted at him, "Your still bleeding from your back you know? If those weapons of mine don't kill you, then your injuries surely will."

Hikaru then looks at him while smiling, "Why did you assume that my teammate left me to die?"

Suddenly the man felt a strong kick, push his knees of the floor while the back of a foot kicked him brutally in the head. It was then followed by a barrage of punched all aimed, in his gut and below his chin, causing him to cough up some blood.

As the man passed out from the main, he sees the figure of Gojo Yumeno standing above him.

Hikaru then shouted at her, "I really thought that you left me behind you know??"

"I didn't want to fight him directly until I solved his Cursed Technique, thankfully it was just some basic Tool Manipulation.", she responded.

She then said playfully, "I wasn't expecting you to survive though."

"OIII", he shouts back.

As he did so the red and yellow Shikigami fade away seeing that they had served their purpose. And then a new green Oni spawns from the pool of blood wearing a green kimono filled with flower patterns, that held onto a thick open book containing and indecipherable language.

As it chanted a green light began to emanate from Hikarus' back. 

Yumeno then asked, "You have never showed anyone this Shikigami before?"

"Hikaru then responded, "I only made it just now."

As Yumeno stares at the unconscious assassins body she then noticed something awfully wrong with what Hikaru just said.

She quickly turns around while shouting, "You make your own Shikigami???"

Hikaru then confusingly asks, "I thought that's what every Shikigami user did? My dad taught me this method too. You just get your Cursed energy and then make it all squish then make it spiny spiny, make splash and then BOOM, new Shikigami."

As Yumenos' mind went blank from that explanation, the teal jacket assassin slowly awakened. Yumeno noticing this, presses her foot against his neck while shouting, "Why did you target us?"

The man struggling to breath simply said, "When we work together we always make sure, that anyone that the target was last seen with disappears as well."

"What do you mean by we?" she asked.

The jacket man simply responded, "That kid that you were with yesterday must surely be dead by now. My partner should have killed him already!"

Suddenly both of the chakrams' that laid on the ground began to speed towards Yumeno, which Hikaru shouts at her. 

She quickly dodges both chakrams' causing the man to break free from her hold. He catches both of his weapons, before retreating to a nearby alleyway.

As she tries to chase after him, the veil that surrounded them suddleny began to lift, causing a multitude of people to fill the area. Yumenos' phone then began to vibrate intensly. When she picked up the phone she was met with the angry shouts of Omo-sensei,

"Where did you go that you guys had no reception?? Akumu has gone missing from his hospital bed so we need to look for him too."

Yumeno then shouts, "Akumu has been kidnapped??"

Meanwhile in Urushis' store

Urushi and Akumu, hid behind a wall where the sniper could not possible see. Urushi grabs Akumu by the collar before throwing him away. Suddenly an explosion pierces the wall where he once stood, leaving behind a massive used shell. 

Urushi then muttered under his breath, "An anti tank rifle huh?"

Urushi dragged Akumu across the store, as multiple more shots filled the room. 

The confused Akumu asks Urushi, "How do you know where the shots are coming from?" 

He responded with, "I could see the scope of the enemy just before he fired his shot. It took him around 5 seconds for him to fire a round in between shots so I used that to guess when he was about to fire."

He then forces Akumu to duck, as another shot flew over his head creating another hole in the store.

Urushi continued as he led Akumu towards the back entrance, "He was able to follow our movements in the building despite, the coverage that we had so his Cursed Technique likely allows him to monitor the movements of people somehow. He hasn't fired any-shots at me so its probably a single target type Cursed Technique."

As the two exited the store, Urushi asks Akumu, "how fast can you run?"

Akumu responds, "I can fly if that helps?"

He then points at a building faraway in the distance before stating, "If the enemy is an inexperienced sniper, then he probably hasn't changed his position yet. He should still be firing shots from over there."

Akumu seeing the old man unwavering with his words, manifests his black wings once more. He then flies towards the building, a great speeds noticing the sniper that poorly camouflouged on the industrial buildings roof. The man seeing that his target was getting clsoer to him, quickl attempts to retreat, but then he felt a great weight stack on top of him.

As it pressed him towards the ground, he went crashing through the roof of the building all the way to the ground floor. As he turned around to see, what landed on top of him, he saw his target standing above him.

As Akumu cracked broth of his knuckles he asked the man, "You have lots of explaining to do buddy."