The boy and girl let go of his arms as Kimura looks at them, his facial expression reeks of guilt as he heads towards the head Administrators office. He enters the Academy building as he wears a nametag around his neck saying "K-12" as he walks through the hallways of highschoolers.
While he walks, he goes upstairs and heads into the administrator's office and heads into the head administrator's room. Kimura looks up at the head administrator as he sits in the chair, his knuckles were stained with blood as he sat there silently.
"Makoto Kimura, the teachers might seem disappointed in you, but I'm surprised you didn't finish off what you started." The head administrator turned around to look at Kimura.
The Head Administrator of Ishimura had a cybernetic eye in his right eye as he had a burn and cut scar intertwined on the right side of his face.
"I…I didn't want to hurt him that much…only just enough to show equal justice for bullying my friend…" Kimura clenches his shirt a bit looking down.
"I know how that feels Kimura, you think you did the right thing by taking it into your own hands but the adults watching over you think otherwise. Your actions are like a water droplet, it ripples benefits and consequences."
Kimura looked at the head administrator with confusion as he didn't understand what he meant, however the door suddenly opened as Kimura's mother walked in. His mother had silky red hair as her eyes were a glossy purple color with her pupils being crosshairs as she wore a EIU (Esper Investigation Unit) trench coat. "Mom?" Kimura questions confused as she pats Kimura on the head.
"Sit outside Sweet Bean, Momma needs to talk to him alone." She softly spoke to Kimura.
Kimura nods as he gets off the seat and walks out as she closes the door behind him. His mother sighs as her soft demeanor shifts as she glares over at the head administrator.
"So, you did get my call Haruka." The head administrator scoffs.
"Cut the shit, why did you call me here Isuru." She lets out a stern tone.
"Alright alright, I picked up on some information, but I'll give it to you later. Right now, we need to talk about your son's violent aggression and behavior."
"From what I heard when I got here, he was just doing what he thought was right, stop flooding my son's head with gray fillings."
"It's not like Kenji-"
"Kenij would've beat you to a fucking pulp if he was here." She grew hostile grabbing onto Isuru's dress shirt with a tight grip.
She takes a deep breath as she lets go as she begins pacing back and forth, taking a second to cool herself down before she does something she'd regret. Isuru watches her pace as he doesn't take his eyes off her out of caution.
"Well, your son punched and pummeled another student again, I can't keep covering for your son and giving him a slap on the wrist Haruka."
"I know, I know…I just-" she sighs, "Maybe he saw Kenji teaching my daughter or something and picked it up from there." She tried making up an excuse for it.
"Kenji isn't violent unless he needs to be, we both know how violent he can get." He reassures.
"You don't say." She stops pacing to think for a second.
"Haruka you have to find a way to stop your son from fighting the other students." He sighs, "This is his last warning before he's expelled and sent off to a sequence station."
Haruka's eyes dart right at Isuru hearing the mention of the sequence station. Isuru felt a cold shiver down his spine a bit but kept his professionalism up as he rubs his wrist. Haruka looks away as she continues thinking.
"Well, if you have nothing else then this will be the last time I'll give him a slap on the wrist…" Isuru sighs, "You need to teach him discipline Haruka."
"It's not like the school system isn't encouraging the use of violence to get things done. Totally not that." She taunts a bit as she sighs.
Haruka looks around the room one last time as she begins to leave, "I'm heading out." She tells him as she exits the room.
Kimura looks over and sees the door open as Haruka walked out. he gets off the chair as Kimura seems a bit hesitant. She looks at him with a soft smile and waves him over, his eyes sparkle as he runs over and hugs her.
Haruka pats Kimura on the head as she lifts him up onto her shoulders as he sits on top of her shoulders. Kimura smiles more as Haruka giggles a bit, walking out as she lowers herself for him to not bump his head on the doorframe.
***
Back at the middle grounds during the present day, Kimura was heavily breathing as he only had his left arm raised up into a angled guard. Ayameko on the other hand was also breathing hard as she had stained blood on her forehead, a bloody nose and a busted lip. Both their uniforms were ripped in some parts as Kimura's legs began to wobble.
During Kimura's subconscious memory dive, he had accumulated too much damage to his body as he took heavy hooks and body shots from Ayameko. His legs ached in pain as he was barley able to manipulate his shadow placement.
"I'll admit…you're tougher than you look Ishimura kid…" Ayameko's distorted voice came out.
"I'll admit…you're a pain in the ass to beat down strange voice…" He taunts the thing.
Ayameko grits her teeth as she snaps her fingers at Kimura as several shadow animals come out of her shadow as the symbols spread up the side of her face as the shadow animals lunge towards Kimura.
Kimura stumble steps out of the way as he catches the second one coming his way as it was in the form of a southern Dire Wolf. It clamps and sinks its shadowy teeth into Kimura's upper arm as he uses his shadow to climb up his leg to his upper shoulder to push the teeth up into a standstill.
The second dire wolf comes lunging at Kimura as he catches its lower jaw with his right arm, feeling the pain every time it squirms. Kimura grits his teeth as he reaches his breaking point as he feels his mana fully depleted.
He kicks into overuse as he feels a stinging pain throughout his body as Kimura tries to keep the clasping jaws of the second dire wolf away while trying to keep the teeth of the first one from sinking any further.
Ayameko on the other hand begins to walk up as Kimura slowly drops to his knees, the aching pain in was becoming unbearable. "It looks like you do have your limits…" Ayameko's distorted voice talks to him as she kneels and reaches into her shadow, her hand slipping through as she pulls out a shadow dagger.
"Your shadow essence will be a valuable addition…"
She thrusts the knife towards his neck as the knife suddenly disappears, her hand thrusting at his neck as her shadow manifestations suddenly disappear as well. Kimura finally catches a breath as he looks over, seeing that Asuka had grabbed onto her back, her arms wrapped around her upper arms with a tight grip.
"What the-"
Ayameko looks over her shoulder to see Asuka as she keeps her grip on, her eyes glowing as Ayameko tried to manifest her shadows. Instead of manifesting, nothing happened. Why aren't my shadows manifesting!! Ayameko slammed her elbow into her gut as Asuka buckles a bit but keeps her grip tight.
"K-Kimura! I-If you're gonna h-hit her-" her sentence was cut off by another brutal impact, as she slightly loosened from that impact, "Hit her now!".
Kimura still catching his breath as his vision was super blurry, a jumbled mess of colors as his labored breathing wasn't making it any better, his ears ringed loudly as he couldn't hear what Asuka was saying.
Meanwhile, Asuka endured a couple more elbows as her tight grip loosened more and more. Almost free until I can punch this girl into her place! Ayameko winds up another elbow as her arm was suddenly grabbed by Kimura's right hand. She looks as Kimura delivers a brutal left hook onto Ayameko's temple.
The punch rattled her brain as her eyes dimmed and Asuka lets go see Ayameko fall onto the floor as Kimura breathes exhausted as he falls to one knee putting his weight onto one leg. Asuka groaned a bit as she held her side as her adrenaline faded.
"Kimura you…"
Just as she was about to celebrate she noticed that Kimura was just kneeling there looking down a bit.
"K-Kimura…?"
She questioned as she quickly inspected him, lifting his head up to look at his eyes, his eyes were also faded a bit as he was also unconscious, his eyes staring away as there was no light in his eyes.
A portal opened as Asuka sees it, dragging Ayameko first into the portal as she goes back through to drag Kimura into the portal as well.