123 5.12 A Stroll in The Park and A Meet With Hiten and Manten! (2/2)
”Be careful kid! This guy slaughters squads of samurai for sports!” advised Hiko-sama as he moved away further to observe from a safe distance. ”This battle is not mine, let me just watch what he could do. What the hell is he going to do with that pathetic stick?!”
Hiko-sama thought to himself as he watched me readying the stick in my hand. I held on to the stick and injected Kamehameha energy into it and hurled it towards Hiten as he travelled downwards towards me.
”Sensei sure moved a lot quicker when faced in this dangerous situation!” I thought aloud as I was left alone with this demon who was hurtling faster towards the earth and towards me with his raised pike which was ready to strike down.
As the stick travelled in the air, Hiten noticed it and decided to kick it away with his foot. When his foot struck the hurtling stick, he let out a yelp and somersaulted back and he quickly rubbed his foot. The stick had rebounded and fell a few feet from me and I gingerly picked it up and place it under my left arm like a baton.
I choose a sizeable rock and injected a bit of Kamehameha energy and I quickly aimed and throw it against the big-headed reptilian shark headed younger brother of Hiten. The rock struck Manten squarely on the head and he too yelled out a yelp and groans he fell to the ground, falling to the ground unconscious!
”Chotto Matte...! Eh... I was joking with you guys a while ago. But now I am getting serious! How dare you hit my younger brother who was not involved in this indirectly, huh? Are you courting your own death, dog?!” Hiten slightly limped as he walked and inched closer to where I was standing.
”Let me introduce to you my full demon power! Since you are asking for this, be prepared to die, you pathetic little dog!”
He raised his pike and through my Third Eye, he was also gathering up his powers from somewhere within. Soon his pike glowed with a hue of white that started emanating from the blade itself. He twirled the pike in the air above his head and his features started to change.
”Taste the wrath from my Raigekijin, you dirty little dog!” as he raised himself from the ground and two spinning wheels appear on his feet as he levitated some feet of the ground. He pointed his Thunder Pike and suddenly a white bright light began to form on the blade and I felt an imminent danger if I do not do anything to prevent it.
I withdrew my Kodachi and summoned my Kamehameha immediately and as I noticed the intensity of the white glow on the Thunder Pike intensify, Hiten aimed at me and unleashed its power!
The Kamehameha had collected sufficient energy and I unleashed it by swinging an upward strike and commanded ”Go!” simultaneously.
”Crack...! BOOM...!!!” Two forms of energies were unleashed and it collided from the demon and mine midway above the ground of the cemetery. The moment the two energies collided, there was a loud crackling sound as if positive and negative energies were attracted to it each other and then a resounding loud BOOM sounded afterwards.
Hiten had just unleashed a kind of lightning bolt of shape like an oversized Kamehameha himself, while mine appeared in a shape of an arc of some sort like an afterimage of a sword strike.
My Kamehameha collided with his and with a thunderous and deafening BOOM, it sliced through it and dispersed the form of energy from Hiten's strike. It narrowly misses Hiten as he levitated himself higher a few feet in the air allowing my stroke to pass harmlessly underneath him.
Hiten's strike dissipated in the air but not before leaving the surrounding unscathed. As it collided with a deafening BOOM, birds soon took to the air from their roosting place in surprise. The air surrounding it seems to be such a dangerous area as birds passing through the void suddenly plunged to earth.
I had never expected the Kamehameha to have such a devastating effect as I gambled with myself when I gathered its energy and used it to swing and unleashed it towards Hiten's strike.
”Ho...! Ho...! Ho...! I have finally met with an abominable opponent after all instead of those hordes of Samurai! Who are you kid? Are you a demon just like me having a human body? What is your name, kid? Come and join us and be part of the Thunder Brothers! ”
”You can call me Battousai, for I am known with no other names. I am not and never is a demon and I am a living human being. In fact, Iam just an 11-year-old kid. For me to be a part of Thunder Brothers? No thank you, it is better for me to have enemies rather than friends or brothers for one day, even a brother would turn his back on you and become your enemy!From this day forth, remember me as one of your enemies!”
Hiko-sama who was hiding in the shadows heard me loud and clear. It was as if it would be easier to live in this world full of enemies and not having any backstabbing friends. Backstabbers was the worst kind of people who look all friendly and humble in front but yet full of deceit behind you.
Hiko-sama seemed to agree with me since he also lived a life in isolation. It's hard to trust and gain trust and the only person he trusted was in me. Even if my actions were more like a demon than a normal person with the powers bestowed in me, Hiko-sama would rather have me close.
”Hah...! In that case, until we meet again, Battousai! I will never forget this day!” Hiten moved to where his younger brother named Manten was and woke him up and they both left the place with the spinning wheels on the sides of Hiten's ankle.
When Hiten and Manten left the grounds flying away, Hiko-sama came to me. I had totally forgotten that Hiko-sama had travelled with me and I turned around holding the Kodachi in my hands as if I was preparing for another sneak attack.
”Whoooaaa, Himura! It is me!” as soon as Hiko-sama saw the Kodachi in readied position, he exclaimed and upon hearing his voice, I lowered and sheathed the Kodachi back.
”I am sorry, Sensei. I thought you are someone else. I almost forgot we travelled here together. That Hiten and Manten were demons right? I had never seen demons before but they both had this weird aura around them. I could feel it with my other senses.”
Hiko-sama sighed as soon as he saw me sheathed back the Kodachi and acknowledged his presence.” Yes, Hiten and Manten were demons. They used to hunt Samurai and killing the hordes of them for sport as if squashing our men like ants. This may be the first time Hiten and Manten had met with a worthy opponent and would be finding you to seek for a re-duel.”
”I do not think so, Sensei. He would meet another demon, a hanyou or half demon half human in time to come. He would then be too busy to look for me. Japan is so huge and I am just an ant to him, so if he happens to meet me the next time, he should come prepared.”
”How do you know that he would be meeting someone that would make him busy to look for you? He looks the kind of revengeful type.”
”Don't you worry, Sensei. He would have other important matters to attend to. Furthermore, in the future when he met this hanyou, he would be greatly remembered of me. The Battousai, a name I want to forge for myself and make every demon fear of me.”
”You really can look into the future, kid. From what I saw just now, you should be very well replaced me. Your single strike can kill 100 men singlehandedly.”
”No, Sensei. That title would still remain yours forever. I have no intent to take that kind of title. Furthermore, there is though, the same hanyou I was talking about that could perform somewhat similar strike like mine and kill 100 or even 1000 youkai. As for me, I better stick to not killing men for personal benefits.”
”True...true...true...what you said is very sincere. You are not a Hitokiri (manslayer) but simply a Battousai who draws his own sword. I was surprised, filled with awe and full of wonders about you, kid! It's as though you are a demon but not a demon at all. I simply cannot put my finger on it.”
”Arch...Don't think too much, Sensei. We just have known each other for less than a week and yet you are simply feeling so attached to me. Please, Sensei. I am not used to this too much attention, especially from the same gender. You know what I mean right? If it comes from a girl then I shouldn't have any problems, but for the same gender, it makes me feel weird.”
”I get what you mean, Himura. So you want to look for something here that you could use in the future? You are a blacksmith too, remember when you told me before? Why not search for something you could use here.”
Hiko-sama suggested to me as I looked at the grounds. It seemed that it was strewn with some weapons which are intact or otherwise broken; katana, Kodachi, spears, pikes, bows and arrows, pieces of armour and even human carcasses.
Hiko-sama and I immediately set out to work and gather up a pile of those strewn weapons.