Kimura makes his way out as he begins heading towards the middle of the garden, walking through the open double doors and walking onto the walkway. While walking Kimura looks up from his feet to see a lady standing on the other side, her hair was pitch black as her eyes gleamed a gold color.
She was sitting on the edge of the stone fence (or wall) as they both made eye contact. She was quite silent as the tension in the air between them was quite heavy, before Kimura knew it, he instinctively stepped back two steps, looking down to see a shadow just inches away from his feet.
"You have good instincts…" the girl complimented him, wearing the Haven Academy uniform.
"Who are you. I can tell you're a Haven Student…"
"Who am I?" She giggles with a slight nonchalant tone as she stands up on her feet, "My name is Ayameko Ishida…"
"Ayameko huh…Kimura…Kimura Makoto…" Kimura responds, more cautious than before.
This is a weird feeling…it feels…it feels like…I'm staring right at a demon itself…
Kimura looked at Ayameko as the type of aura she's emitting is giving off a threatening feeling almost like she's threatening Kimura even from a distance. Ayameko just smugly smiled as she blinks, her eyes contrasting her demeanor as the shadow begins to retract.
"Can't take a joke, can you?" She smugly giggles again.
"uh huh…" Still on guard he responds as he starts to lower his guard.
"I have no intention of fighting you, in a fight it'd be a draw…" Ayameko boldly claims.
"How would you even be able to tell? We've never fought before, nor met. This is our literal first-time meeting…"
Ayameko sighs at the sound of his words, "Staying on some kind of high horse huh?" She looks at him, her eyes sharpening at him.
"Ayameko, you'd lose in a fight if we ever fought." Kimura also boldly claims.
She shakes her head with small chuckle, crossing her arms, "What? Do you want a play test? Not even half strength would easily take you out…"
"How about we test that then…" Kimura grew irritated.
"Oh? Did I strike your ego with that?" She faked her gasp covering her mouth softly.
Unable to contain his irritated anger at Ayameko, he lashes out by dashing towards her, his first mistake.
Ayameko smirks slightly as the shadow beneath her flings out from below, forming spikes that shoot out from the ground. Kimura barley sees this at the last second dodging out of the way as it grazed his arm, making a clean cut.
Kimura continues as Ayameko flicks her wrist to the left towards his direction, the shadow circling back as a shadow individual lunges out and tackles Kimura with immense force, pushing them to the garden below.
CRASH!!
A small crater was made within a part of the garden as Kimura got up, dodging several attacks from the shadow individual, taking a step back as he slipped around a punch, throwing a quick punch across where their cheek would be, however it seemed like it had no effect on it, somewhat shaking Kimura's resolve a bit.
The Shadow Individual then spun trying to backhand Kimura as he ducks under it, Kimura throwing a liver blow as they catch his arm, punching his arm joint as Kimura cries out in pain slightly, they take advantage of this as the shadow individual then backhands his cheek as Kimura breaks out of the hold.
Wiping the blood off his lip, he looks up to see Ayameko sitting on the ledge, smiling down at them as her shadow seemingly goes underneath the bridge and down a pillar to ground floor.
Son of a bitch is playing tricks…
Kimura decides to take it seriously as Kimura rushes in towards the fight as her smile fades, the shadow individual matching his speed. This is where the experience is shown as both the shadow individual and Kimura aim at different spots. The Shadow Individual aims for the throat, preparing a Lariat as the Lariat misses, Kimura ducking under as he rams his fist up towards the shadow individual's jaw, obliterating the head off the shadow person.
The body crumbles as it fades into the shadow underneath it. Kimura sighs slightly as he didn't expect himself to take a fight seriously after such a long time. He looks up at Ayameko as she's just clapping her hands slowly.
"So, that's the true student of Ishimura huh? Bravo, you've impressed me."
"Huh? What were you planning?"
"Planning? Nah I just wanted to see if the rumors of the Ishimura student being powerful was true, taking on a shadow individual from my shadow at close range is already impressive, but obliterating its head right off with me being it's third eye on the field? That's even more impressive."
"So, this…was just some sort of test?"
"Yeah, pretty much." She stands up as the shadow retracts all the way back up to Ayameko, "I'll see you later Kimura." She leaves as she heads somewhere. Kimura sits down to take a breather as he thinks to himself, man…what's fucking up with today…Kimura took some time to let everything sink in as today was one hell of a day.
Nearing the end of the day, Kimura was in his room as he was sitting on his bed crisscrossed, looking at an old notebook as his roommate comes out of the shower and just lays down on his bed. His roommate sporting a space-like nebula hair pattern as his hair color and his eyes were comparable to stars being within as they were inconsistent.
"Man, how long are you gonna work on that thing...?" He asks him.
"Not that long, just get your sleep in Naoki." Kimura responds.
"Alright, suit yourself..." Naoki yawns as he reaches for the light, pulling on the lamp's lever as the light turns off.