9:37 pm July 6th, 2018
The group retreated to Asclepius' hideout. Within the last hour, they had not only been successful in their mission but also killed a total of 242 people of the 1009 that attended the funeral.
The group all took refuge in an abandoned apartment complex which somehow had electricity, a bar, HD TV and finally food.
Adam could be seen munching on Junk food as he watched TV while Kyobi was busy being served a drink by Asclepius. He was served two glasses of champagne, one for him, and another for his Aoi-chan, whose face was sat on a stool next to his.
"A toast to our victory.", Kyobi said as he raised his glass to the air, before quickly chugging on it. "Struggling to drink are you?"
He picked up the face and then shoved the glass down its mouth forcing the wine to go through its hole and spill onto the floor. Seeing this Asclepius sighed heavily as he said, "Try not to make a mess will you? I spent quite a bit of time cleaning this place up."
"Yeah, yeah whatever", kyobi said laxly.
Adam hearing the two then asked, "Hey Kyobi? When did you start collecting faces?"
Hearing this, "Kyobi started to reminisce about his past as he said, "Well it was about 2 years ago, just before Asclepius got me this power."
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I was only 28 and was still quite inexperienced as a doctor, but around that time I met and fell in love with another senpai of mine. Her name was Hana.
She was a great senior, she helped me with a lot of stuff back then, and thinking back now she really was an incredible girl. She wasn't just beautiful, but she was intelligent and very charming. My love for her only increased every time I talked to her, however, I had one problem. She was already married.
One time though some of the hospital staff were given a paid vacation to Hiewa beach so I took that opportunity and proposed to her anyway.
The two were alone on the beach in the dead of night, so Kyobi took this opportunity to act. He got on one knee as the moonlight befell upon them, and he pulled out a red box.
As he opened it revealing a silver ring with a diamond he said, "Hana-chan, will you marry me?"
She responded in the most disgusted voice possible, "Im sorry but I'm already married. I can't possibly cheat on my husband."
Kyobi then looked down to the ground in disappointment as he muttered, "I see..."
He then dropped the box into the sand and jumped onto Hana while strangling her by the neck. She tried to scream for help, but Kyobis' tight hold on her stopped her from uttering a single sound. As she felt her consciousness fading, only a single tear fell from her eye until she finally died.
"Your face... Your beautiful face. How I really love it Hana-chan!"
Kyobi began to continuously stroke it, hoping to get some sort of pleasure from it. That was when he heard someone shout in the distance,
"I think Kyobi and Hana-senpai, are over here?"
Hearing this Kyobi began to panic as he thought, "SHIT SHIT SHIT. WHAT DO I TELL THEM?? IF I RUN AWAY THEN, THEY WILL CONNECT IT BACK TO ME! SHIT!"
While he thought this a man wearing a white mask, and a butler's outfit suddenly appeared next to him first. Kyobi jumped up in surprise, but for some odd reason, he calmed down awfully fast.
The butler then put his index finger on his lip signifying him to shush his mouth. He pulled out a glass vial containing a multitude of red pills and then dropped them in front of him.
The butler whispered, "If you want to defy fate and save yourself from these circumstances. Then take one of those pills."
Kyobi quickly ate one of the pills and used his newly gained psychic power to erase Hanas' corpse, making it seem like she just disappeared. However, as a souvenir, he collected her face which he would name as his first girlfriend.
Due to the mind-altering effects of the drug, Kyobi felt himself going insane, but he was able to retain his sanity through his acts of love. Killing women that he took a liking to and skinning their faces. It was because of this that Kyobi was able to live a quiet, humble life of a civil servant.
Back to the present day
Kyobi then pulled out a packet of cigarettes and a lighter, but Asclepius quicky stopped him.
He shouted, "I have to clean this mess that you made, and now you want to smoke and stink this place up?? Do that outside."
Kyobi shrugged to himself, before quickly putting away his stuff. As he left the apartment room, he took the skin face of Aoi with him.
The street that the apartment was on was completely dead. This area was the poorest part of Heiwa City and thus was very inactive at night. Most of the homeless people were sleeping en mass under a bridge or the back of some ally, hence the streets were void of witnesses.
Kyobi looked up at the starry night sky as he smoked his cigarette. He thought, "This night is beautiful indeed. Perfect to celebrate the night of my ascension, but why do I have this uneasy feeling?"
That's when he heard the footsteps. They were heavy yet silent, obvious yet were not. They were the footsteps of a killer cornering its prey.
As he turned around to see who it was, his cigarette fell from his mouth. Only emotions of fear and slight shock could be felt from him. The familiar presence was coming at Kyobi only with the intent to kill.
Shiro still wearing the suit slowly approached Kyobi. The iris in his eyes which were once black, now had a small streak of red emanating from it, as he carried Eikos' broken phone in his left hand.
He said excitedly as a smile spread across his face, "Hey, it's been a while."
Kyobi still shell-shocked started to break out in a cold sweat. He then said, "Are you for real??"
"Im the one and only!" Shiro responded.
Kyobis's heart began to tremble. Never before had anything survived a direct hit from his silent bomb. All reasoning said that Shiro should have died at that moment. Even if Shiro somehow wasn't eradicated, he shouldn't have had enough psychic power to regenerate a limb, nevertheless his whole body.
Kyobi then asked the zombie, "How did you do it then? No amount of reasoning can explain how you survived."
Shiro started to ramble on as a smile stretched across his face. He looked up to the starry night sky as he said while stretching out his arms.
"This whole time I thought that psychic power was just fuel that was used to produce an output, that being our traits and manipulation arts, BUT HOW WRONG WE ALL WERE. I only truly understood it once you brought me to the brink of death but now I understand the true essence of psychic power! IT IS THE ABILITY TO REWRITE THE WORLD ITSELF TO SUIT OUR DESIRES, OUR TRAITS ARE JUST THE WAY IN WHICH THE WORLD NATURALLY RESHAPES ITSELF AND PSYCHIC POWER IS THE MENTAL ENERGY THAT IS USED TO DO SO. AT THAT MOMENT, AS I FELT MYSELF DISAPPEARING FROM THIS WORLD I EXPERIENCED A SUDDEN BURST OF MENTAL ENERGY! WITH THAT POWER I WAS ABLE TO RE-WRITE MY OWN DEATH, BY USING REGENERATION ON THE UNIVERSE ITSELF!"
As he shouted, Shiro shoved his index finger into the side of his head, piercing his skull and causing it to bleed. He began to turn it, over and over again causing blood to gush out, yet seemingly unaffecting him.
While Shiro laughed towards the moon, Kyobi was overcome by a sense of confusion being unable to understand any of the nonsense that Shiro was spewing. All that he understood now, was that Shiro had become the god that he sought to be.
Understanding this fact, the emotions of rage and pride quickly replaced the fear that he felt before as he shouted, "I DEDICATED SO MANY HOURS AND LIVES TO REACH THIS POINT! JUST FOR YOU TO SHATTER THEM ALL IN A MERE MONTH?? I REFUSE TO ACCEPT IT. OUR FIGHT IS JUST GETTING STARTED!"
"THEN SHOW ME WHAT YOU'VE GOT!", Shiro replied expressing only extreme joy from the new high that he was experiencing.
Kyobi quickly dashed towards him while stretching his arm out to turn him into a bomb. He shouted, "IF I CAN'T TURN YOUR BODY INTO A BOMB! THEN I'LL JUST TRANSFORM YOUR PSYCHIC POWER!"
Shiro quickly weaved to the side while grabbing the stretching arm. He then delivered a powerful right hook to his gut, sending him flying back.
He quickly regained his composure but then blurted out, "I turned the air around you into bombs as well!"
Suddenly explosions formed around Shiro that quickly devoured, and consumed him. Obliterating his entire torso.
Thinking that he won, Kyobi pulled out Aoi-chains's face and began to cheer. But then, Shiro's legs started to walk towards him, terrifying the insane scientist.
A skeleton spurted out from where the body should have been, and then its organs grew back, then muscles, its skin, and finally its hair all in under 5 seconds.
Shiro thought, "Im sorry Eiko, but I'm just so just happy right now. It feels as if the world revolves around me. For some reason, I can't get upset over your death."
In horror, Kyobi shouts at him, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?? YOU'RE JUST SOME NOBODY THAT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE FROM THAT SHITTY LITTLE BEACH! I'LL KILL YOU, SHIROO!"
With speed that Kyboi couldn't even follow, Shiro seemingly teleported behind Kyobis' make, and then quickly grabbed him by the neck. He then picked him up and slammed him into the ground creating a 7-metre-wide crater, housing the two.
Shiro then made eye contact, with Kyobi, paralysing him in fear. Shiro then raised his free hands' index finger and poked it onto Kyobis' forehead.
He then said, "I may have no memories, I may have no Identity, but that just means that I can find a new one. The memories that I have now will serve as the foundations for my new Identity. Today's law cannot judge you psychics who use your power for your own pleasure, which is why I will act as that judge in the law's stead. You asked me who do I think I am? I understand my purpose in this world now. I am the Psychic Hunter."
"Dead bullet!"
The middle of Shiro's finger suddenly bursted causing its tip to fly off. It instantly pierced Kyobis forehead killing him as a single tear fell from his eye. Just before he died, he remembered the face of his first girl, Hana.
Shiro stood up while standing over Kyobis's dead body. Then suddenly it began to rain.
As it did, a single tear fell from his eye as he said, "Eiko, I'm so sorry that I couldn't protect you sooner. But now that I've experienced losing someone, there is this unbearable pain in my heart. So this is what you have been experiencing?"
Just before he fell unconscious, he felt a warm force catch him as he fell. Before his eyes closed, he saw the face of a woman with long red hair with peach coloured eyes with her left eye being hidden behind an eyepatch. She had a scar on her left check, which made her look scary but Shiro knew he was in safe hands.