Demons Battle

I don’t wanna lose!

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It was true I came to the Stratton Dojo to get stronger. I came because I was tired of being treated like trash by my District people. Unfortunately, the whole world was filled with bullies. When I came to Stratton Dojo I immediately met another set of bullies here and just like that my life of suffering like trash continued.

The bad thing was, here bullying was accepted. The bullies here were the seniors and if you wanted it to stop, you had to fight your opponent and take their position. That was the golden rule. Only the strong can do whatever he wants. But I wasn’t strong. I was just a boy who could read people’s mind and nothing else. That was till I met her. ‘Akari Ito.’

She saved me from these bullies. She was a red Gi student who beat up her fellow red Gi students just to protect me. Was this kindness? I asked. Because no other person apart from my parents had ever shown me such kindness.

{We are sorry we won’t do it again! Sorry Akari!}

I remembered the first time she saved me. The memory was still as clear as yesterday.

{Alright get out of here!}

{Are you okay?}

Her smile was one thing I could never bring myself to forget even though I wanted to. She really was strong but to me at that time. She was not just strong but she was also beautiful. Yes I liked her. We immediately became friends even though she was my senior at that time.

She was a red Gi student and at that time I was still a white Gi student. And the funny thing was that, for the first time I chose not to read her mind. I chose not read someone’s mind. I felt like I would be invading her privacy. More importantly I was too afraid to find out if she actually does like me or if she doesn’t but I soon came to realize that it was a grave and very stupid mistake on my end.

I didn’t notice this mistake until one night. I saw her walking alone along the hallways. I wanted to greet her as usual but I immediately saw her walking into a portal. The portal was still open after she had walked in so I quickly walked right into the portal without thinking. After all she was somebody I trust. Trust? I was so stupid at that time to notice that my trust was supposed to be earned not freely given away.

My mistake came with a great penalty and I had to walk through a portal to find out this penalty. The moment I worked through the portal I saw a scene of cruelty. At that time there had been rumors of Powered human’s students missing. Before Powered humans students were required to live in the school while learning their martial arts. There was a school law which was ‘no one were allowed outside of the Dojo after 8:00pm.’ Of course there were always some stubborn students who didn’t obey this rule.

They still sneaked out during the night to go have fun. It wasn’t really a problem for the Dojo until some of these powered humans students started missing and most of the missing students in powered human’s program where all reported to have sneaked out during the night.

Although the Dojo tried to hide this fact but it started becoming a huge problem which they couldn’t hide anymore. They had to find the missing students but I was the one who found them first.

The moment I walked through the portal I saw a barbaric scene. I saw the missing students. They were all in big room. The number of powered humans students missing had been reported to be twelve but the number of students I saw remaining were seven and that was not just it.

I arrived at the room the portal took me and found Akari performing a ruthless act. She was a monster.  She was eating the body of a dead powered human student raw. Her whole mouth were covered in blood. No she was more like a ghoul. She immediately discovered my presence. I couldn’t hide from her. It turns the room where me and all the students were in was inescapable. I tried to escape by going through the doors in room but I just couldn’t escape.

They were actually four doors in the room. Anytime I went into the other doors as a result of panic instead of appearing in another room I  just came right back into the previous room from another door among the four doors.

It seemed like the room was more like her dimension and there was no longer any contact with the outside world. It was at that moment I knew I would die. I suddenly accepted my death. I was going to be killed by the person I liked. Just before she could kill me I asked her ‘why are you doing this?’ She answered me with her normal smile like it was nothing.

{what?...of course I eat them because they are really delicious. And also I get their abilities after I devour them so it’s two wins for me. And besides your ability to read minds is something I really desire. I’ll just have to eat you tonight. I want you that bad! kukuhu!}

Yes I accepted death that night. But my body just couldn’t let me give up. I avoided her in her dimension. No she actually toyed with me like it was hide and seek until she finally caught me. It would be right to call her a sadist. Just when she was about to devour me something happened.

I started hearing her next movement and attack intent before she could even make them. I was able to predict her attacks from her thoughts. I don’t know why I hadn’t realized my skill could be used like this till that day. Was it because of my adrenaline at that moment that made my mind reading abilities activated like that? Well I’m still unable to tell.

I had been training hard since I got into the Stratton Dojo. I had improved in my physical abilities and it helped me a lot against Akari. My agility and my mind predictions made me stood my ground against Akari but that was only for a short moment. I still struggled. I was this close to been killed. She already had me in her arms. I don’t know what got into me that night. I had accepted my death that night but something in me didn’t. That was till I instinctively moved and bit her throat very hard. I bit her throat so hard that I even swallowed her blood.

I think I only resulted to this ruthless attack in first place because there was no strength in my arms and legs anymore but something strange occur. The moment I accidentally consumed Akari’s blood I noticed my strength started coming back. I didn’t want to stop anymore there was this strong drive to continue eating through her throat. I wondered was I a vampire or a ghoul?

Of course she resisted by trying to push me back. But the strength in my body started increasing that I overcame all her repelling push. I continued eating until she was dead. Till today I still can’t understand what happened that moment. I stopped to see the whole captured students terrified of me.

Even I was terrified of me but from no where I had this courage. I immediately told them I wouldn’t hurt them. Of course all of them didn’t believe. They were still terrified. That was until a few minutes the dimension we were trapped wore off. We all immediately found ourselves back in the Dojo corridor.

After that instead of been called a monster. I was surprisingly proclaimed as a hero who save the remaining seven students from Akari the monsters. I took down Akari. She was one of the strongest students at that time. It didn’t take quite long for the four other students in the white Gi to overtake other red Gi seniors. In my case I actually killed Akari but it was seen as self defense by everybody.

After that incident with Akari, my abilities and body agility increased. I was given Akari’s red Gi spot so getting stronger was not an option. It was a requirement. I hated bullies. I told myself that I would never be like the other seniors but that was till I was ranked the fifth strongest after the other four students. There’s a saying that goes like this, if you move with four other rich people you’ll become the fifth rich person. If you move with four other poor people you’re become the fifth poor person. This saying didn’t exclude my situation. I moved with four other bullies till I didn’t know when I became the fifth bully.

Still Why am I remembering all of this? There’s a saying your whole life flashes before your eye when you’re about to die but I’m not dying yet. Still I can’t tell if I was knocked out not. Maybe I have lost?

I really wanted to know what was happening. I instantly put in all my concentration on waking up. I have to wake from this nightmare.

“Get the king!”

Huh?

In that moment of my loneliness and despair i started hearing voices. I slowly opened my eyes. So I really was dreaming before. My vision became clear. Instantly I saw Sora and the regular human kid moving away trying to approach the red Gi girl. She was currently holding my king up in the air. My king was being held by the neck like a monkey with both his feet off the ground. He struggled but his opponent was quite stronger. She was actually choking him with her grip.

He was still currently doing the same thing to her by sucking out the air around both him and her. They were both surrounded by a wind field with no air inside. Right now it was a battle for who will go unconscious first. Just from looking at the scene I could tell that my king was the one who will lose the battle.

It was then I knew.

So I really lost Huh? It looks like Sora was way more stronger. I lost but I’m still uncomfortable with this.

‘Why is she here?’

‘Why I’m i seeing her in this scene all of a sudden or I’m I still dreaming.’

{Dreaming?}

‘Huh?’

{This is very much a reality.}

“You’re not real. You’re dead. I’m just dreaming”I said while in the midst of all the noise coming from my king trying to resist the red Gi girl.

Akari was currently close to me while I was lying down flat on the ground. She bent her waist while making both her hands rest on her knees until her head was below her waist and said.

{Oh Arata-Kun I’m very much real. And yes you’re going to die here.}

“...And what do you mean by that?”

{You got beaten by white Gi students. That’s your pride dying. And what are you without your pride Number five?}

“...Without my pride?” I belatedly answered.

{Yes. I guess you already know quite well you’re nothing without it.}

“...No you’re wrong”

{Hmm}

“I didn’t win against you in the first place because of pride.”

{...}

“I won because I really didn’t want to die.”

For a reason I can’t tell and understand, Akari smiled at the moment. I could care less about her smiling expression but I still had one more thing I had to say.

Immediately opened my mouth and said “...And right now I really don’t wanna lose. I’m gonna win”

“So get out of my way!!!”

Just like that there was an energy outbreak from my body again. My sense became so heighten I could hear my opponents shock.

“What the hell is this?”