Chapter 11 - KYUKETSU/JUNKETSU(2) (1/2)

Kuroha disinterestedly looked at the head that was soaring in the sky. It wasn't the first time he killed, and he knew that it wouldn't be the last. What is life? What is...

Clang!!!

Before he could fall in a philosophical contemplation of life and death, he had to worry about his own first. He deflected a slash from her before taking a step back and shouting.

”Kyuketsu!!! Stop trying to drink my blood!!!”

He said this as he looked at her in the eyes. Despite the blood that was covering her face, her smile was really beautiful.

She was a little girl. Clearly no older than him. Where momo had a calm and serious aura. This girl was wilder and freer with her expression and feelings.

She had slightly inward-tilting eyes, irises bright yellow and pupils thinly slits, making them somewhat resemble those of a cat, and her wide mouth was also rather feline, as both her upper and lower canines were more pointed and longer than the rest of her teeth. Her hair was a pale, dirty ash-blonde and is styled into two messy buns, numerous wild strands sticking out at all angles from their centers and where they're fastened, a straight fringe and two chin-length side bangs to frame her face.

She was wild, she was beautiful, she was young, she was dangerous.

The first time he meets her was a few months ago when after a nearly failed attack, he chooses to hide in a warehouse for a while. Who could have thought that he would meet such a girl? What kind of girl even play in warehouse?

Despite her weak powers, she nearly gutted him with a pair of scissors before he even understood that someone was behind him.

Thankfully, while her talent in assassination and dissimulation was out of the world, she had zero fighting experience and was easily beaten down once he avoided her first attack.

Even now, he could not forget what she told him when he asked why she attacked him.

------------- a Few months ago

A little boy pushed a little girl again a wall as he locked her hands above her head and asked

”Why did you attack me?”

The girl, titled her head to the right as if this question was incredibly incomprehensible. After that, with a large smile showing her canine, she said

”Your beaten up appearance made me fall in love with you.”

---------------Flash back end

Even now he didn't know what was the most problematic. The fact that a girl confessed to him? The fact that her love would probably mean his death if he didn't pay attention? Or the fact that his heart beat faster and out of order after seeing her smile?

Kuroha shook his head at this thought, he truly needed to go to a hospital. Sadly, he had a phobia of anyone wearing a white blouse. That was one of the reasons why he always wore black clothes.

”Junketsu!!! It was so fun. Another!!! let me kill another one.”

She said that as she jumped and tried to hug him.

Junketsu, kyuketsu. Those were the code name he used. Even though they could be considered friends, she was too unstable to be entirely trusted. As such he never showed her his real face and gave her a false name. Since this made him a little guilty, he didn't ask for her name either and chose a code name for her as well.

Kyuketsu means vampire. He used this code name because of her quirk who required her to drink blood in order to transform into the one she drinks blood from.

It wasn't a powerful quirk... Anyone who said this was a stupid battle junkie with no brain. A quirk didn't need to destroy buildings to be called powerful. Sometimes it was the subtle one who were the most dangerous.

His code name, Junketsu, means purity. He didn't know why he chose this name. It's just, fited in his mouth. He also liked to think that by killing those trash, he was cleaning society of its filth.

He put back his attention to her answered as he put his hand on her head and stopped her from coming to close to him.

”Stop it. I already told you the rules. We only kill those who deserve to die. In exchange, I will sometimes let me suck your blood.”

”Kay!!!”

She tried to leave the alley, but he stopped her

”Wait!!! Do you have a death wish? Wait for me here. I will be right back in a flash .”

She simply smiled without insisting. She didn't really care. As long as it was fun, everything was alright.

He used his quirk to teleport in her bedroom and came back a few minutes later with new clothes for her to change and a bottle of water to wash her face. He had let one of his mark on her shirt. It was done with her permission of course.

After she changed and washed her face in front of him, the two of them left the alley before going farther in the street. Kuroha also wore a hood. After all, a child walking with a blood-red mask was a sight to behold. After half a year of working here, he already has somewhat of a reputation.

Kuroha was slowly walking hand in hand with kyuketsu as she hummed a song in a good mood. She loved this feeling of freedom.

Her family was always so stuffy. She had to follow the rule and act ”normal” like everyone else. She hated this, she hated having to act ”normal”. Her quirk was drinking blood for God's sake.

Why didn't she have the right to do so without having to face the disgust in their eyes? Why did she have to smile when she didn't want to? Why did she have to hide her quirk? Why did her family look at her as if she was a monster?

She decided, she wouldn't be under them any longer.

”Ne ne Junketsu, do you have a dream?”