"Ayaka, stop," I called out to her before she got any closer to us.
"Kakashi, who is he?"
"I'm impressed; you are still able to act fast," he said. "I guessed I thought you well, after all."
I looked at him again; he was a perfect match for the description that Hinata gave us. But for some reason, his body build was different from what you'd expect from an eight-year-old.
"What do you want?, Tomura"
"Honestly, I don't..." Yaze came from nowhere and punched him away from me. He turned and stood on his feet.
His hair was black, and his skin was dry, with cracks all over his body revealing red scale underneath. He was wearing black shorts and a cloak. He took off the cloak and threw it away.
"Yaze, you came," he said happily, and he took a careful look at him and frowned.
"How did Yaze get here?" I asked Ayaka as she helped me up.
"That's not Yaze Sensei; it's a clone, and I guessed he already figured it out."
"I think that is Tomura; he matches the description that Hinata gave us, but I think something's different."
"Like what?"
"I don't know, but he seems familiar." I stood up, ready to fight. "I promise Hinata that I'll stop him, and that's exactly what I'll do."
Tomura hit Yaze, and he just disappeared. I ran to him, swinging my fist, but Tomura dodged and punched me on the stomach, sending him flying and hitting a tree. The impact made me spit blood.
Tomura came with another punch as I jumped out of the way. Tomura's fist broke through the tree.
If I hadn't dodged that, I would have lost my head. I can't fight someone like Tomura; he might be a first-class, no, special-class demon.
Right now, Ayaka is contacting the academy for assistance; all I can do now is buy time.
Tomura appeared behind me, and I attempted to punch him, but he caught my left hand and twisted it backwards.
"Ahhhhhh!!!!" I cried in pain. Holding my hand, I looked around and ran into the city. I ran and crossed the road, making all the cars stop in order to avoid an accident.
"What's wrong with you?" A driver yelled. "Do you want to die?"
No, I don't want to die. That's why I'm running, but I can't stand here to answer him. I ran into a building, holding my arm. Turns out it was broken.
Tomura landed on the car, squishing the driver in his car, with blood spilling out of the crushed car.
I entered the building and ran to the upper floor, using the stairs and leaving traces of my blood.
I entered a conference hall, and there were some men having a meeting. They were surprised to see me.
"Get out of here! There is a demon in the building." I ran and hid myself under a table. I groaned and held my hand tightly. Shit!, It hurts—it hurts like hell. I covered my mouth as I heard someone open the door slowly.
The men inside ran out in fear, but Tomura was able to hold one of them.
"If you don't come out, I'll kill this man." I didn't reply. "It seems like you don't care about him."
Tomura opened his mouth, attempting to swallow the man.
"Lightning blast!!" I yelled as I almost hit Tomura with the lightning-charged karma I was holding on my right hand, but he dodged, and I smashed through the wall of the building and fell down.
I screamed in pain as Tomura caught my broken arm.
"You actually came to save him," Tomura said, holding up the man with his left hand. The man was shivering and weeping.
"Please, I don't want to die," he pleaded. "I have a family, please."
"Too bad your family would see you tonight," Tomura stated. The man's body started shrinking and changing shape until he looked like a voodoo doll, and Tomura ate him.
"What did you just do?, You demon Bastard!!!" I yelled.
"What did you call me?" Tomura yelled. "What right do you think you have to judge demons and humans, huh?"
My eyes widened with shock.
"And you think you're human, right?. You think you're better than use. Why do you think we're call demon?, Do you think it's because we eat humans?" Tomura continued. "You humans are so quick to point out anyone who is not like you. Greed, wickedness, hatred, that what all of you are made of, and you call us demons. You kill each other for the pettiest of reason and you call that human, we kill to satisfy our hunger and you call us demons?. I don't care what you call me, but to me humans are the real demons"
I was shock, he had never thought of it like that. Maybe humans are the demons.
"But.... I'm going to be a hero, a hero who is going to make the world a perfect place. A world where humans and demons, no.... A world where everyone will be human, a world where everyone is going to be good"
"Hero" Tomura laughed. "That's nothing but a delusion, as long as the world exist, there's always going to be good and as long as there's good there's always going to be evil, and as long as humans exist, there are always going to be demons. That's why I'm going to wipe out humans out of the face of the earth"
"Then I guess both of us have our separate ways of thinking" Kakashi said and was about to attack with another lightning blast, then someone held my hand.
I looked, and it was Yaze. He held my hand, using it to balance himself mid-air, and kicked Tomura out of the building.
I yelled as I was falling down the building, but Yaze caught me; he was standing on the wall.
"Thank you, sensei," I said, crying. "You saved my life."
"First you disobeyed me, and now you're calling me sensei," Yaze said, but he didn't look angry. "As punishment"
Yaze let go of me as I fell down the building; luckily, I saw Ayaka standing on the building, and I caught her tail, and we both fell. But she put her finger into the wall, slowing us down before stopping completely.
"You're holding my tail too tight; let go of it!!!" Ayaka yelled, trying to shake me off.
"I can't!" I yelled.
"Just concentrate your karma on your feet and let go of me, pervert!!" Ayaka shouted, stepping on my face. "We are not that high up!"
"Please, don't do this!"
She kicked me, and I closed my eyes tight, trying not to look down as I fell to my death.
"Open your eyes!" Ayaka said.
"No,I can't." I decided to open my eyes slowly and realized. "Ohh"
I was not falling; I was already standing. It turns out that we were just half a meter high. Ayaka jumped on me.
"Ouch! What was that for?" I asked as she sat on my head.
"That's for pulling my tail, hmm!" She stood up. "Let's go back to the academy; you have already caused much trouble."
"Like it was my fault!" I defended,
***
We went back to the academy after that to report to Natski, who wasn't too happy about what happened. Apparently, three people died and six were injured. What! When did I injure someone?
She was in her office with her clingy daughter, as always.
"Do you know the consequences of what you did?" Natski asked angrily.
"I'm sorry, I got all caught up in it." I replied. I adjusted the bandages on my broken arm.
"What you did killed three people, and you destroyed public property work ten million yen."
"Ten million yen!"
"And we are; no, you are going to pay for it."
"Me?? But you know I can't afford that much."
"Don't worry about it, here's your ID card" she handed me, my student ID. "You can also use your ID card as your credit card, and from now on, I'll take eighty percent of your monthly salary."
"WHAT????!!!!!!" I screamed with my eyes wide from shock. "If you take eighty percent, how'm I supposed to live?"
"You can stay at the academy and eat from the canteen as usual; it's fifty percent off for students who came to the academy on special permission. I don't know why we even have to pay you, and lastly, you are suspended from all other missions; from now on, you'll only go on F-rank missions."
"F rank, what does that mean?"
"It means you will only go on missions to help people with stupid stuff like finding lost socks and walking dogs," Mira said, trying to hold back her laughter.
"Then, how i'm I supposed to find my sister?" I asked.
"Don't worry, we will still help, but till then. You need to start from the basics," Natski yelled.