Chapter 11 – Revelations

The man wasted no time and immediately shot out towards Kazuki, the youth remained calm and started to observe the man to gain some information on his abilities. Kazuki saw that the man’s leg was hardened in a similar material to what the men had, except it was covered in a crimson material instead of silver.

Kazuki was familiar with this ability and had heard of it as a manipulation skill that can be used for defensive and attacking capabilities. The material was hard enough to defend against swords and other weapons, and it could be used to attack with the user’s limbs, he had heard of someone possessing this ability so he decided to see if his guess was correct.

“You, by any chance are you ‘Crimson Shield’ the manipulation ability user from [Sanctum]?” Kazuki was curious towards the mans identity so he decided to ask.

“Oh, you have heard of me kid, I was a part of [Sanctum], however I didn’t like the rules they imposed on me so I left and started doing what I wanted” The Crimson Shield was surprised that this youth knew of his alias and about [Sanctum].

“Ah I don’t know exactly who you are I just have a few acquaintances in [Sanctum] and I know about a few of the members, it’s just your ability is like one I had heard of before” Kazuki responded casually and got into position.

[Sanctum] was the name of one of the organizations that gather those with special abilities. They would hand out invitations to any ability user they could find in the world, this naturally included Kazuki who had encountered a lot of these groups in the past, but had no interest in joining in their conflicts.

Most countries in the world had their own groups of ability users as their disposal, in some countries this may not be controlled by the government, there were many examples of this happening such as: Russia’s [Ice Knights], China’s [Flood Dragons], and Japan’s [Sanctum]. There were still some countries that had ability users under their wing, including Britain’s [Knights of Camelot].

Kazuki had connections with a lot of groups around the world from the travels he had been taking in the past few years, he thought that by becoming acquainted with the groups it would be beneficial so they wouldn’t invite him constantly.

He had planned to go pay these groups a visit in the future, however he wanted to enjoy a peaceful life for a while, but seeing how so many ability users had gone rouge and even started providing normal people with abilities this would cause problems in the future, so he planned on contacting these groups and getting information.

“Well, today a lot has been confirmed, Shiroyuki lets finish this up quickly we are going to have to contact some old friends soon” Kazuki shined a mischievous grin towards Shiroyuki who responded in a fearless smile understanding what he meant.

“Sure, it has gotten late today and I’m tired so let’s finish this quickly” Shiroyuki lunged out towards the man with her knifes and then slashed onto a piece of his leg that was unprotected causing him to slightly stumble before regaining composure.

Kazuki nodded towards Shiroyuki and then aimed his hand towards the man, she understood what he was planning so she moved away from the man to let Kazuki perform his attack.

“Lava Serpent” Kazuki let out a huge torrent of fire from his palm that started to take the form of a huge red serpent, the beast looked towards Kazuki waiting for his instructions and the youth then pointed towards the man.

This wasn’t a spell or any magic being used, but instead a tamed beast that obeyed Kazuki called a Lava Serpent.

The beast would listen to all Kazuki’s orders without faltering as it saw Kazuki as its master. To obtain this beast Kazuki had to summon it from another dimension, and this beast came from [Hell].

The flames it possessed would spit from the flesh and start melting the concrete floor, showing the power of the flames, it wielded.

Kazuki had started to get tired of fighting with his magic and called a tamed beast too finish the job, he knew that it may have been overkilling to summon a beast of this calibre, but he couldn’t be bothered withering down the opponent’s armour and then attacking, he could just use the Flame Serpent to extinguish him.

The man sensed the danger of this beast, however it was too late for him to escape in this situation so he started to charge towards Shiroyuki believing that taking one person down before death would be better than none.

Before he could reach her, Kazuki pointed his finger towards the man and said one word “Kill”, the beast then shot out and blocked the path between the man and Shiroyuki before trapping the man inside of a circle of flames and slowly started consuming him

The screams of the man could be heard from within the flames as he was struggling against the wall of flames, repeatedly smashing his scolded fists against it hoping to escape, however the fists left no dent and the man’s screams died down until they could be heard no more.

Once the screams had stopped Kazuki ordered his beast to return and the flames started to make their way back into his palm, and into the form of a small tattoo on his chest, in the form of a snake in a spiral.

The tattoo was hidden will and no one would be able to see it unless he had his shirt off and revealed his chest, and Kazuki didn’t have any hobbies of that kind. The area the serpent had been was covered in black and there was a small pile of black ashes, that was probably belonged to the infamous Crimson Shield.

“It’s finally over, but it was quite fun fighting together, again right? It reminds me of old times” Shiroyuki ran up and nudged Kazuki’s shoulder, and he responded with a smile.

“I guess so, but we are going to have to contact our old friends to see why someone would go rouge just to start up some street gang, school will be on a 4-week break after next week so looks like we will have to make a travel, you in?” Kazuki responded to Shiroyuki with a serious tone.

“Of course, you are my fiancé after all, where you go I go.” Shiroyuki let out a coquettish grin and started to hug Kazuki from behind and place her shoulder on his head.

“I don’t remember ever becoming your fiancé, and the promise to your father was for him to use not you” Kazuki just stated the facts and didn’t try to struggle from her embrace.

“Sure, we can talk more about it later, it is quite late now so do you want to come over to my place, I have a spare room if you want to use it, or if you are feeling up to it we ca- “Shiroyuki began to start teasing Kazuki before he cut her off.

“I will take the spare room thank you very much” Kazuki smiled and then pulled her arms away and the pair started to walk away from the docks.

Kazuki didn’t forget to contact his little friend in the police department who was planning on beating him when they next meet. After the destruction spree of the pair, his little friend was left to do piles on piles of paperwork.

The pair then made their way to Shiroyuki’s apartment and went to sleep as if it were a normal school night, no one would suspect a pair of teens could destroy an entire gang within a night.

End of Chapter 11