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Chapter 8 - Bounty Hunter: Requiem

"Then I guess you underestimated me" Mia reels his fist back as it smokes. In a swift movement Requiem draws his long sword and swings it. Mia barely dodges and slides back as Requiem jumps at him. Swinging the blade again. A massive wound opening on Mia's chest as blood splatters. Mia falls to the ground as Requiem lifts the sword into the air. Swinging it straight for Mia's heart. Mia closed his eyes, but nothing happened. He slowly opens them as Requiem's hair is half black. One of his red eyes slowly reverts to black as he forces his body to stop his sword.

"I'm sorry… Kat… I can't… Control… My body… Hurry!... Escape while I can still hold him back!" Mia scoots backwards and stands up.

"B-but... I can't just leave you! You're my friend!" Requiem smiles as tears fall.

"That's why you have to escape… You've always been better than me!... You were even gifted a better ability… So… You must live on… For the sake of the world!" Mia is slightly stunned as Requiem reluctantly lifts his blade as his hair starts turning red again. Requiem jumps at Mia and swings his blade. Mia barley dodged as his long hair was cut off and now on the ground. Mia stumbles back as Requiem jumps again. Mia combusts into flames as Requiem stumbles back. Mia ran as fast as his body could move.

"Go!" Mia reluctantly runs off as Requiem's hair turns completely red along with his eyes.

Mia runs up the long dirt driveway as his eyes get blurry. His chest burning as if it were engulfed in flames. Blood drips on the ground as he walks. Making it to the front door of the house. 

Ringing the doorbell as everything goes black. Waking up in Labryce's arms as he rushes Mia to his bed. Laying Mia down as Mina rushes in.

"I'm sorry… For waking you up…" Labryce takes off Mia's shirt to get a better look at the injury. Slightly shocked to see a developing eight pack. Mina starts preparing the medical tools as she looks at Mia.

"Don't worry about it… Just tell me what happened out there…" Mia coughs a bit as he looks up.

"I went on a walk… Someone attacked me… I barely escaped…" Mina sighs and inserts a needle into his arm before looking at the chest injury. Mia clenches his teeth as she starts stitching up the injury. Quickly using some medical spread and wrapping it up.

"Are the assassins already out?... The school semester hasn't even started yet…" Labryce sighs as Mina walks out.

"I'm going to go fix you some breakfast…" Labryce nods and sits beside Mia's bed.

"So… I'm not asking you to give me any details… But anything will help…" Mia looks up at his uncle. Taking a deep breath as he didn't want Requiem to go to prison. But it was important they knew.

"He called himself Requiem… He had messy red hair and red eyes… That's about all I could tell…" Labryce slowly nods.

"Did he use a weapon?" Mia slowly nods.

"A sword… more specifically a longsword…" Labryce nods and stands up.

"Thank you for telling me… Now you get some rest… Kay?" Mia nods as Labryce walks out and closes the door. Mia's ripped shirt resting on the door handle covered in blood.

"I really liked that shirt too"

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Uncle Labryce dropped Mia off at the front entrance of the campus. The building was on a large campus surrounded by multiple buildings. The building he was in was a large building with 3 skyscrapers all connected by a large multiple floor base with large windows. At the front was a sign labeled University of Japan AWA Campus. 

A statue in front with a tall muscular man posing. A sign at the bottom labeled. 'AWA Agent 1 - The greatest - We will miss him.' 

He looked up with sparkling eyes as he walked down the path leading to the building.

In the classroom several students were talking, some sitting down on desks, and others not talking at all. One group in specific was talking about the other students in the class

"I heard... There is a student with 2 abilities!" The other students looked at her surprised as footsteps could be heard in the hallway. Mia opened the door without his hood on. The uniforms were black suits and ties. Mia's was custom made with a hoodie. He walked over to his desk as everyone stared him down. He took his seat behind another student with sharp spiky red hair, and behind him was another kid with wings and pointed ears. Mia turned around to face his classmate behind him gulping as he musters the courage to introduce himself.

"Hi, I'm Mia, what's your name?" His classmate looked at his desk then at Mia.

"Call me Tenshi…" He looked back down at his desk avoiding eye contact with Mia. He turned away and grabbed out a pencil ready for class. In his opinion it was really loud, too loud he wished that they would just stay quiet for at least a minute. A hand tapped on his desk causing him to look up at the student. He was tall, really tall. He had spiky gray hair with a gray hat on.

"Hey, I'm Nokuna Monuta, what's your name?" Mia shook his hand.

"My name is Mia Ikati... nice to meet you… Nokuna" Mia turns away hoping to be left alone just as the door slams open.

"Class is starting, sit your butts down" Agent: King took the first few steps in as everyone including Nokuna scrambled to their desks. He made it to the teacher's stand. He turned to face the class slamming his fist on the desk releasing a small explosion.

"Y'all are way too loud… even my own class wasn't this loud, and THAT's saying something" the classroom was finally silent as Mia leaned on his arm as the Agent continued.

"Other than that, I'm your homeroom teacher… King… But you can call me Mr. Akido… let's finish this here… everyone gives your names…" the Agent let out a sigh as he seemed bored standing at the front of the room. Slowly students started introducing themselves. The Agent was taking a nap by the time everyone had finished. As the last student finished introducing themselves, he jolted up from his desk. He slammed his fist against the teacher's desk causing a small explosion. He stared down the class then spoke up.

"Okay, you bunch-of idiots are going to be taking my entrance exam… and put everything into it… if you flunk the exam, I'll personally blow you up" the classroom started murmuring as Mia looked around the room in silence. He leaned his head against his desk just as someone a few seats beside Mia spoke up.

"But sir, that would not be very noble!" the rest of the students burst out into laughter. The Agent gave the class a death stare pounding his fist into the palm of his other hand releasing a small explosion. The class stopped laughing as Mia watched from the side.

"Who's your parents' kid?" He looked at the brute of a kid near the middle of the room. 

"My dad is Agent: RIOT, sir!" The student stood up and pretended to salute the teacher. King motioned him back to sit down as he put his fingers over his nose between his eyes, rubbing them. He put his hand in the air waving it around before walking out of the classroom rubbing his head. The room was quiet as the teacher walked out. Silence filled the room as large explosions and screams could be heard outside. A few of the windows were breaking, behind the windows was their teacher. Black stains dotted the walls as he looked into the classroom, and they looked out.

"We don't talk about this…"