"You mean... Hikaru!"
"Yes. As you would expect that is."
"How the hell exactly!", he shouted upon hearing Hina's response. The fact that that monster who killed him once would be his buddy and the now dead Hikaru is entirely stupid.
"What you're saying is nonsense! There's no way exactly a man could turn into something like that upon his death, right." There mark in his face disbelief and confusion.
"Feel it with yourself," she said abstractly to put Toby in quite of an internal debate.
"By the time Hikaru was found dead in the middle of an alley, there I am, a selfish bastard. I said to myself I'll avenge him yet all I've done is just to fill my own ego with a maked up detective wannabe thing," he humbles himself.
The entity regained its footing after missing Hina. It stood up and immediately approach in their direction as if it is an unleashed bull.
"Crap! Here it goes!", Toby muttered after noticing the forward of the monster that he even cutted off his self reflections. "Hmm, you got good senses there, Toby-kun," Hina said. "We should be better get going or else we'll be squashed in here."
"Arghhhhhhh!"
The creature released another loud scream that slightly hinders their sense of hearing. "It appears to be more aggressive than before," Toby said.
"Quick! Dodge!"
He used the broken stick on his defense to try to parry the incoming attack yet he realized that it's not a good choice. 2 meters away and he cannot handle the pressure and trembling fear all occuring in his body. Taking a side step to the right is good choice.
"But, I'll be trapped if I get there," he uttered to himself after noticing that that move would leave him in no place at all to move in the corner and leading to the side poles.
"Hooo!"
A quick side step to the left then he rolls in front to avoid the charging attack. "Uh... It hurts."
*boom *thud.
"It's a good thing I made the right choice, huh." Getting back to his footing, Toby put a kneeling position with one knee and starts to decide his next move.
"Wait! Where's that girl?!", he started to look for Hina after noticing that she's on the opposite direction of the creature. "What the hell is with this girl?"
"Hahahaha! I'm not done yet!", uttered by someone who's nothing but saying he's lucky enough. "I didn't expect it to be this good. But, this will be my greatest comeback!"
"What's that guy doing?", Toby uttered after seeing the teacher in such delusion. Mr. Kou starts to regain his footing yet he took on a great hit that have him cough some small blood.
"Where's that thing? I'll settle this for real," the teacher said. There went the monster retaliating from its previous attack and starts to make its move.
After the smoke and rubbles start to settle, there apperered on them a devastated doorway, block the way down Hall.
"Crap! This starts to turn out like the last time," Toby said. "Is there really nothing we can do to stop that creature?"
"Ahhhh!" The teacher leans his way forward and continues to attack even with those injuries. "Now, I'll handle you with this," he took up a broken piece of pole rod, the same thing Toby used the last time.
"Arghhh!!!"
"They were coming for another round again," Toby said. "Is he really serious to take on that monster by himself?"
"Hmm, even with the three of us, we will still be dead meat if we fight that thing head on", someone said something in a smooth voice.
"Amamiya!" Hina appeared out of thin air beside him. "Do you know something how we can get out of here?"
"Ara-ara, are you starting to trust me that much already? Killi-ya-ma-kun?"
"Give up the nonsense and spurt out already!", he's now pissed after her teasing. "If there's really a way to get out of here, I'll bite in with that."
Hina starts to make an interesting gaze on him, "Hmm, well, have you forgot your abilities?" "My... Abilities?" "Yes. Your abilities." "The fact that I cannot die? Hmm... That would probably my last choice." "Hmm? Why though?" "I'm scared to die again."
The entity and the teacher were going head to head while those two were still talking.
"I'm scared to die because all the things that happened, I don't want to lose anyone anymore. Of course, I'm not a masochist to enjoy dying all the time. But seeing those people who were important to me passed away right along my arms were worse than thousand deaths.
" But, because of my cowardness, I letted him to suffer for my stead. I've become selfish and scared to face my own fears and insecurities." After saying those things, he repents in his ways and let himself to cool down.
"That's touching, Toby-kun," Hina said with fake teary eyes to cheer him up. "You know what."
"Huh?"
"I have a plan for us to escape here."
Bruises and beated up face, severed limbs that can regenerate in few seconds, dull and tattered stick pen hold by wounded arms, a cracks on the floor that could signal collapse of the rooftop in few minutes.
That's what happened after a quite small head on between the dark creature and the lunatic teacher.
"Haaa..! Haaa...! I didn't expect I could go this far," Mr. Kou said. Catching his breath and would faze out in any given moment. Yet, the monster appeared to be unharmed with the fight due to its regeneration ability.
"Uw-uwah!"
Finally, the battle came to an end with Mr. Kou being hit by another strike of the entity making him blown away to a distance.
"That's the plan, Toby-kun."
They've just finished their game plan exactly before the monster gets its hand free.
"What the hell!", Toby muttered showing his disagreement with the said plan.
"But, if that's the only way to save everyone, then I'll risk my chance." He retracts his disapproval and immediately carried out the work.
He stood up there, in front of the creature with only his own self. "I'll be rooting for you, Toby-kun," Hina said at his back.
"Oi, remember that you have a role to play with this, so you should carry out your work then also."
"Yes, gladly."
...
"If that thing really is Hikaru Sato, then there's so much things I want to tell him after this," Toby reminisce his conversation with Hina a few moments ago.
He stood there firmly, waiting for the entity to come straight to him and fight it head on, what a bold move he got there!
*inhales 'Hoooo!'
Filling his lungs with great quantities of air and ready to burst out a loud shout.
"Hikaru Sato! Fight me you dumbass!!!"