Vol 4 Chapter 3 (2/2)
”!?”
That extended hand was flung off as far as possible Ren's eyes blinking in shock were pierced by eyes full of murder
”Son of a bitch”
Raising a face full of tears and snot Takahashi+ glared at Ren with as much hatred as he could muster
”Re! He can kill the likes of you with one attack”
”Waah, how lame,” Kanon commented scornfully
”If you can't, will you run to your Onii-chan, huh? I wonder just what sort of person that is?”
”Shut up!” screamed Takashi+ with a voice turned inside out
”Now it's the time to pull back you know! My Aniki has supernatural powers! He'll turn the likes of you into ash!+”
For a second the class was enveloped in silence And then -
”Bahahahahahahahahahaha!!”
The classroohter
”Were - were you serious just now, Taka that seriously?”
”And on top of that you are one of those who believe crop circles are ht?”
While striking desks and walls, and sta their feet, the students unanimously ridicule Takashi+
But without bothering with their reaction Takashi+ only glared at Ren
”Just go ahead and laugh Make fun of because I'll teach you that such things are helpless in front of absolute power!”
”You're the one who you cocky, stupid,” spit out Serisawa tireso the black board eraser at Takashi+ who talked on and on in ecstasy
His right hand was already loaded with the next eraser
”Se - Serisawa! You'll do it, too? My Aniki will - ”
”Shut the fuck up!”
Without hesitation Serisawa threw the other blackboard eraser with all his strength The chalk powder sticking to the blackboard eraser hit Takashi+ in the face and the angry face already flushed deep red was dyed pure white
Simultaneously, white smoke spreads like an explosion, and the boy who inhaled the dust convulsed with all his strength
”I' your brother! Because I don't have all day, you know!”
”You - you bastard”
Spontaneously, ignoring Takashi+ trying to spit out the words while having a coughing fit, Serisawa pulled Ren and started walking
”Well, this is boring Forget about this and let's hang out Where do you want to go?”
”Ehh, well”
”I - I want to go to shi+njuku I want to buy some clothes”
”Waah, do you think ant to go buy women's clothes?”
”I wasn't talking to you”
”What did you say?”
”Well, well, calm down both of you”
With a delicately stiff s pair
”We should go to where you both want to go in turns We have time”
The trio started deciding their after school activities enjoyed It seems that inside their heads not a particle of Takashi+'s words remains
”Then, shi+njuku is our first stop right?”
”Yeah”
”Right”
Gaining both their agree with a visibly relieved expression
Behind hiotten, there was the solitary figure of Takashi+, crouching His gaze, carrying the dark fla
Part 3
The gaht of the evening Feeling relief when released from the noisy environled up to Ren like it was usual
”Which reminds me, Ren-kun was really cool back then”
While clinging to Ren's arure of the boy that overwhelmed that failure of an idiot
”Wasn't it the first time you acted like that in school?”
Kanon was fath She understood that even a juvenile delinquent that took pride in fights couldn't go against him
But Ren didn't try to display his own strength Rather, he was actively trying to avoid that kind of situation
Unrelated to his ability, he hated conflict That's why before it could turn into a fight he tried to express his opinion and while taking the hit he would only counterattack to defend his body
Although protecting Kanon was a just cause, Ren honestly thought it was inconceivable of exerting violence on boys his age
”Ahh, yeah”
Ren also thought his behaviour was strange and spontaneously expressed a bitter smile
”I ize to Takamatsu-kun later”
”I don't really care about that idiot but did you change your policy?”
”Policy huh, I didn't have such an exaggerated thing fro I just hate unreasonable violence, that's all But when I thought Kanon-san was about to be hurt, I couldn’t control ht?”
”Ehh”
At those unanticipated words, Kanon’s cheeks were dyed red
”Th- th- that h for Ren-kun to spontaneously lose his temper for me?”
”Yes”
As if talking about an obvious thing, Ren sreed
”You are important I wish Suzuhara-san were happy I want you to smile That's why, I'll protect you - I don't want to lose anything anymore”
”Ren-kun -”
Overcome with ee hand like a glove covered Kanon’s face And then, forcefully tore her off
”What are you doing, you -”
”No, well, Ren said it was for a friend”
Interrupting Kanon as about to swear, Serisawa praised Ren with an unnaturally bright expression
”Of course, if I were in a pinch Ren would help ht? Because we're friends”
”Ehh? Y- Yeah But I cannot ih spot”
”That may be true But, at that time I will trust in you when the time comes, friend”
Striking Ren's shoulder Serisawa shi+fted his focus to Kanon And then, raised his lips extremely enjoyed
”I'lad for you, Kanon Ren protected you as a friend You are ood friends I'm sure your friendshi+p will last all your life We'll alwaaaaays be friends, right?”
””
Kanon glared at Serisaith an extre him inside her head in hundreds of different ways
She grasped her slender white fingers strongly as if trying to choke so
”Just bring it on!”
”Ke ke ke ke ke ke”
Serisawa responded at the groaning Kanon with a loud laughter In the space between the
”He- hey, calm down both of you!!”
Becos, Ren tried tosure of so
”- Be quiet, both of you”
Sensing the alteration in Ren's tone, both his friends quickly becale man drew closer
Wearing an LL sized T-shi+rt that reached the hts and loose half pants - the person hiht he was cool but the people who didn't have the same values could only call him untidy
”Kannagi Ren?” thedown on Ren
”And you are?”
”It doesn't matter who I am There's someone who has business with you Follow me”
”I refuse”
”Aaah!?”
When Ren flatly rejected hiht overhead
”Who the fuck asked for your opinions!? Shut up and follow me or I'll kill you, damn brat!”
”I have no intention of obeying the likes of you, no o”
Replying in a resolute
”You bastard”
Treated trivially by a middle school kid with fe near the trio he seized Kanon’s neck
”Don't underestimate me, damn brats! What happens to this woman- !?”
Unable to finish his speech, the ony The fist trusted into the pit of his stomachwhat happened and who did this to him
”Are you OK?” asked Ren pulling out the fist that was buried up to the wrist
Kanon nodded without showing any disturbance
”Yes But, who is this guy?”
”Well, I don't know But I don't re enemy to this kind of people -”
Closing his eyes partly Ren searched for presence in the surroundings
They were surrounded
Their clothes were different but they were approxie and above all the boys had in co them
They thought they weren’t yet detected so they slowly reduced the encircling net
Ren informed Kanon in a small voice
”For noe had better escape Can you run?”
”Yeah I'll do my best,” Kanon nodded
Next he
Just before the rabbed Kanon and started running
”Move! Move! Move! ”
Serisawa sent thespendidly Ren and Kannon nih the hole that opened in the net
”shi+t! Don't let them escape!”
While being chased by harsh voices and h speed
”shi+t! Just how s determinedly
From that point on, the trio weren't able to run from the men's pursuit for more than ten minutes
They didn't understand why such a group of people were pursuing Ren, but it seeroup the first time
The number of the men who a thirty
”Suzuhara-san, keep at it a bit longer,” Ren irl as short of breath
Kanon was almost at her liirl When chased after by et away
”This is bad” thought Ren, when he remembered the distance so far
They were being herded He didn't know the final destination but thethem somewhere
But, even if he knew that, there was nothing he could do about it Even though the opponent is an ae He didn't have the confidence he could defeat all of the En-jutsu
Gradually they were being cornered to a desolate place with a bad at himself they reached the corner
As expected, they were ambushed
In the space ten ed into it Fro
They were completely driven to the wall
”Ren-kun”
”It's OK”
Grasping the hand of the girl who leaned close to him uneasily, Ren smiled
”If I have too, I'll use my power I won't let them even touch both of you Don't worry”
It was strictly prohibited using Jutsu when dealing with an ordinary person But he didn't feel like coulations if his body and the bodies of his friends were in danger
Ren was deter others, he couldn't tolerate if he hiet hurt
”Ku ku ku ku ku”
Unnatural chuckles drifted in the air and the crowd of people in Ren's front parted left and right From inside it, a boy with a pompous attitude stepped forward
”Ku ku ku ku ku ku ku - ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
The supressed laugh gradually raised its tension and turned into a laughing scream
It was a face they recognized
The face they parted froant and proud
”You can't run anyi!” he declared with an already triumphant air
Before he caroup was scared Maybe they had a vision of asking for forgiveness with a menial attitude But that completely backfired
A strange unknown so soible, physical threat could
For Kanon and Serisaere not used to being involved in serious fights, the strange men that chased them without pretext were very scary
But theThe enemy's true character, his purpose and the conclusion
”Aaa - aahhhh, my hair is so messy -”
Co her dishevelled hair And then, thehis mouth a second time irritated, she beat him to it
”The peeing boy, huh? Did you change your soiled pants?”
”Wha - wha - !”
He - Taka to er and opened and shut his mouth to no purpose
Serisawa sunk the boot in him even more
”Which uys are your brother's henchmen? I didn't really think you would call your Aniki You’re such a loser, it's kind of cool”
”Sh - shut up! It's too late to apologize now! For the likes of you, in one shot, Aniki will -”
”Ahh - yes, yes Just call your brother already - Where are you, Onii-chan with super powers?”
”Mo -it at the speech looking down on him from the bottom of the heart
”That's enough, Takashi+ Leave the rest to me”
”A - Aniki”
Hearing the voice that reached froained his confidence
”I trust you, Aniki! Turn theo!”
”All right”
Replying with a reassuring nod, one man appeared That silhouette stared at the trio - a pitiless stare
He was ht orange and was standing up He earing black leather pants and a deep crimson leather coat
Coupled together with the orange hair, his appearance was really standing out So much that you couldn't mistake him for another even at a distance of a hundred meters
Sneakily, Serisawa and Kanon started speaking but in such a way that the opponent could clearly hear
”Hey, what kind of cosplay do you think that is?”
”I don't know but I saw that pose, when facing the camera, appear at O-Bon and the last year International Exhibition Hall He doesn't seem embarrassed, huh?”
”Hey, da fro
After all, since he was Takashi+'s brother, his capacity wasn't all that great
Seeing through that, the duo got carried away even more
”Hey, orange head Onii-chan, who do you cosplay? A game character? Or maybe anime?”
”Is that bad taste coat your casual wear? Are you really walking around dressed like that? No way - I can't believe it!”
Serisawa laughed like a horse while Kanon covered her sneer with her hand For a h stimulation
”You sons of bitches! I won't forgive you!”
Raising an angry roar, the man released his power The flaony
But as if not hearing that, the ether
In thelike a heat haze - and then, a deep crimson flame appeared
”Se - seriously?” Serisawa murmured with a nervous face Al to dron his voice, from every direction cheers erupted
”Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”~
”Kill! Kill! Kill!”
”Roast them! Colour them black! Turn them to ash!+”
”Show us so flashy today too!”
Responding to the shouts of joy intoxicated in bloodlust, the man yelled
”Yeaah, leave it to me!”
As if acting in concert with that screa flah speed rotation fire bullets
”Eat them, Fiiiiiiire Buuuuuleeeet!”
The rand scale and threw the two softball-sized fireballs with a sidearm pitch
The moment they were separated from his hand, the bullets accelerated as if repelled The fireballs that left a flight afterie headed to Kanon and Serisaith a speed impossible to evade
”It's dangerous!”
But, Ren reacted instantly and thrust both of the the through the space between the fireballs and survived without problems
”Hooo, aren't you good! Being able to dodge the <fire bullet=””>>!”
”What the heck are you thinking!!”
Ren scoith an intense expression the man who raised his voice in compliment
”Openly using Jutsu in public - and even attacking children! If you're also a Practitioner, understand how moderation works!”
”Ahhh? What's a Practitioner?”
At the unexpected retort, Ren unintentionally became speechless
Laughing scornfully at the petrified Ren, the man introduced himself loudly
”I am <the fire=”” leader=””>>! The supreht to complain, no matter who I burn! Because there's no one in this world who can order the King!”
Looking du loudly, Ren was voluntarily greatly perplexed
”Waaaah, he's the worstthis man is dokkaku”
Dokkaku is a term derived from Buddhism and represents the people that uidance of a teacher
Of course, the truth that they barely o beyond the impression of selfishness
The saic, the people who reached the manifestation of their poithout any kind of instruction are also called this
These kind of people, because they don't have anyone around them to coreatest thing ever
And then, they start a new religion by calling themselves The son of God and intend to exterminate mankind while under the iress' and tend heavily to behave like a tyrant
The man that stood before him was a stereotypical example of that
”Well, are you ready?”
Punctuating the h, the man lifts his power a second time
”Thanks for tor my little brother! I'll burn all three of you! Eat this, Phoenix Wing!!”
<the fire=”” leader=””>> raised his hands to the sky The fire spirits that were gathered beyond that point, embodied a bird in flames
It was big Its wing length exceeds three meters
The phoenix- and the heat loaded inside - Ren ih the fact that it was capable of perfectly burning three people to nothing
”Get down!”
Covering up for Kanon and Serisawa, Ren confronted the fire bird A huge quantity of heat that approached flapping its large wings If a normal human were to take a direct hit from it would be turned to cinders But -
”Disappear!”
At Ren's one command the fire bird scattered and vanished
”Whaaaat!?”
”Please don't get carried away That sort of bluff jutsu doesn't even pass as the real Enjutsu”
”E - Enjutsu, you say”
With a backward glance at <the fire=”” leader=””>> who ments of the fire bird
A slight pain travelled in his pal mixed with the flame burned his skin
Ren knew that feeling first-hand A counterfeit pain that burned a regular human, the white hot sensation that polluted even the soul
”Youki !? What is happening?”
Youki, the essence given by des - that is, the <ki>> of nonhu fundae and such
It alternated the body of those with piles of experience, but different fro his humanity, an amateur Jutsushi+ that only barely woken his poas not supposed to be clad in it
”- Let's go”
Finding it difficult to wait and see, Ren started a light attack More than ten fireballs e
The Jutsu coue from <the fire=”” leader=””>>
Unable to even recognise the fireballs, the man stood rock still simply dumbfounded
”Waah!?”
But in spite of the fact that he clearly had not noticed it, froreat nuenerated and intercepted Ren's Jutsu with unmatched accuracy
Faced with the point blank explosion, theattacked For a little while his line of sight loitered around, not understanding what happened but abruptly he declared triu out his chest
”How naïve! Did you think that degree of offensive could knock down Me?”
The convenient explanation that his poas invocated by an unconscious defensive instinct seemed self-sufficient
””
Ren ignored the man's words and reflected on the phenomenon that just happened
That poas obviously invoked without the intent of the person itself A Youki coiling around There was only one deduction he could make
”He's possessed by a Youma?”
The man who called himself <the fire=”” leader=””>> seemed only to borrow the power of the Youma that lived off hi of his oer he clearly didn't realise that
”That's nasty”
It was not so that was possible to occur by chance Without a doubt, someone deceived this man and turned him into the object the Youma occupies, ready to be eaten in the near future
He couldn't let that be
He was bothered by the fact he let his power rae but this man was unmistakeably a victim
But, in front of Ren who decided to save him no matter what -
”Still, you're pretty good It's been a long tiainst my power”
Thea s, he spoke dramatic words
”Your power has the same attribute as mine - <fire>> - but you're also a senior class? Enjutsu-shi+, you said?”
”- Senior class?”
”Isn't that right? That Vesalius mother fucker hid the fact there were other classes What about you? Were you selected? Is njutsushi+>> a higher class than <the fire=”” leader=””>>?”
”Vesalius”
Ren bore in mind that name It seems he was the one who made this man be possessed by a You down
”Just what kind of person he isthat man?”
”Are you playing duet cocky just because you're a senior class liketo do with class and level - because I, I am the most powerful!”
”No, I don't care about that, about that person named Vesaliusit's impossible?”
Observing the less Reluctantly, he took a posture preparing for offensive
<the fire=”” leader=””>> shouted
”Gooo! The ultimate secret, Flame Vortex!!”
A cri its h - , compared to the ones until now
”- Really”
While letting out a sigh, Ren stopped the Flame Vortex with one hand
”Wh - Whaaaaaaaaat!?”
In front of the flame pushed back at him, <the fire=”” leader=””>> opened his eyes wide in surprise As Ren's oas added to it, that seeolden helix
”Wa - waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
At the fire torrent that filled his vision, <the flame=”” leader=””>> prepared himself to death
Piercing even through his tightly closed eyes, the golden fla heat pierced through so in his body
But the pain he expected to come didn't hurt hiolden flaone without trace
”Wh -wha - ahh”
Confused for a short while, he realised the unsightly shape of his body, curled down like a turtle, and stood up
”You - you son of a bitch! Don't make fun ofmore but a bluff”
”This wasn't a bluff”
Intended to cool down the indignant man or maybe to provoke him even more, Ren replied with a serene expression
”It played out just as it supposed to Because from the start, I didn't intend to be your opponent”
”Whaat?”
”More important, answer my questions What kind of person is Vesalius? Froive you power, to the features of his appearance, tell me in detail -”
”Mother fucker” squeezed the ap between his teeth
Finally he reached the conclusion that until noas the only one excited and recognised that Ren didn't even consider him a worthy opponent
”Did you think I was out and over!? Don't fuck with ether with some small fish!+”
His body treer as his inflated pride took a critical hit, the man released his power
”shi+ning Toooooooooorrent - ahh?”
But, the white light tornado that was supposed to colimpsed
”Wh - what? I don't have enough MP? Then, Fire Bullet!”
It had the saht forth No matter how much he tried, he couldn't feel the response of collected power
”It's useless,” Ren informed the confused man
”You have already lost your ability to ot rid of it”
The essence of the Kannagi's power is the secret capacity of purifying and destroying all evil
The flame Ren released before didn't affect <the fire=”” leader=””>> at all and only burned to nothing the demonic presence Of course, the ability to manipulate the flame didn't remain
”Im - Impossible! How on eartha seal? Or you neutralised it?”
”It y It's time you face reality”
Those cold words were the sentence that ended the dream
The letters <game over=””>> flickered in his brain and the virtual character called <the flame=”” leader=””>> vanished
After that, only the human, Takamatsu Kyoshi+, was left behind
Ordinary and powerlessness, he was nothing but one of those many faces in the crowd
”Noit's impossible”
As Kyoshi+ trembled with the shock of loss, Ren slowly approached Around hiolden flame flickered playfully
”Hihiii!”
Before the vibrant clarity, there was the sudden change of coraded to powerlessness spoils Kyoshi+ let out a wretched voice and looked up at Ren
Ren hat he yesterday was If he felt inclined to kill, he could easily kill hi on an ant, just like he did before, very easily -
He looked around hi without a trace Nearby there was the silhouette of his brother, fallen on his back but it was clear he was useless
”Do - Don't kill me”
Without shaing for forgiveness For him, the man who lost all his power, there was no other way to survive
”AnythingI'll do anythingso please”
”Ah - Well”
Confused by Kyoshi+'s sudden change of attitude, Ren unintentionally stepped back Turning his way a gaze as if looking at an unstable man, he said
”You have no power anymore, so I don't intend to hurt you further”
”Re - Really?” Kyoshi+ suddenly raised his face and shouted in a voice overflowing delight
”Ye - Yeah But I have solad if you could answer them honestly”
”Askhimself
Although the bizarre atmosphere increased a notch, Ren fired his question
”Then, first of all about that Vesalius person He's the one who gave you this power, right? Tellabout that”
”Why, ask such a thing?”
When he heard Ren's question, Kyoshi+ asked back in wonder
”Aren't you the saave you your power at Pande your level?”
”Aah - I' questions ～ ”
Ren expressed an unsuitable cynical s
It was clear froation but to Kyoshi+ who regarded him like his previous self, the effect was tremendous
”Hiii - I'm sorry, I'm sorry”
Inside Ren he (involuntary) labelled Kyoshi+'s y as foul play
”So, what is Pandemonium?”
”Pa - Pandemonium isan internet sitesir”
”No need for honorifics - Internet?”
”Y - YesI found it by chance And then I was asked: Do you want power? I answered with YES I thought it was a joke I thought it was a peculiar formality And then an odd pattern appeared on the screen and when I looked at it I fell
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