Doa stares at Minaro. She sticks her gun back into her pocket.

Doa: On second thought, I'll fight you with just my hands.

...

Sumairu looks around.

Sumairu: What a loud scream.

Rinka stares at Sumairu.

Sumairu: I kinda wanna check out where the scream came from.

Sumairu looks at Rinka.

Sumairu: Let's go search for that scream?

Rinka: We can if you want to.

...

Sumairu and Rinka run through the forest, the screaming can be heard again.

Someone yelling "HELP" over and over again at the top of their lungs can be heard.

Rinka: Sounds like their asking for help.

Sumairu: Yeah, we've gotta find the source fast.

Sumairu glances at Rinka.

Sumairu: By the way, if we get there and find some bad stuff happening, I'm gonna let you deal with it by yourself.

Rinka looks at Sumairu.

Rinka: What? I'm not even that strong.

Sumairu: It'll be like some sort of training. I'll help once things look bad for you.

…

A girl with a brown ponytail and bangs is being dragged across the floor by her leg. Her eyes are dark pink with some purple spikes at the sides of her pupils. Her jeans and dark grey long sleeve shirt are getting dirty.

A guy with green spiky hair and shiny orange eyes lets go of her leg and stomps on her head multiple times.

"Jesus christ, shut the fuck up already" says the guy.

A girl with yellow hair and dark blue eyes wearing a headband takes a seat next to the spiky haired guy.

A third person walks towards the others, they have short red hair and their eyes are yellow with some white in them.

The three people stare at the girl on the floor.

"Hey, don't play dead on us. Stand up." says the green haired guy.

The green haired guy grabs the girl by the hair and lifts her up. She's bleeding from her nose.

"Why are you doing this to me? I've never done anything to you." Weakly asks the girl getting her hair pulled.

"You're weak as fuck. That's it. Since the moment you were assigned to our team we had planned to kill you and call your death an accident. So now we're finally gonna do it." Says the green haired guy.

The girl with yellow hair starts to punch the brown haired girl repeatedly in the stomach.

The yellow haired girl stops. The green haired guy lets go of the girl's hair.

The girl hits the floor and lays there, trembling, then she goes unconscious.

"Alright get back. I'm about to make this bitch explode." Says the green haired guy. The others take a few steps back. The guy extends his hands out towards the girl.

Suddenly something flies past the green haired guy. Blood flies into the air.

The green haired guy looks at his hands and notices 2 of his fingers have been cut off. He's surprised.

Rinka is kneeling a few feet away from him. He has the brown haired girl laying on his back. Rinka stands up and stares at the green haired guy.

"What do you think you're doing taking our precious team member?" Asks the green haired guy.

Rinka: What are you doing to her?

"Killing her, she's weak, so weak it's a burden, so I'm getting rid of her".

Rinka: I can't let you kill her.

"But it's none of your business what we do to her. If you don't give her back to me, i'll kill you too!"

Rinka gently puts the girl behind a bush.

Rinka points his katana at the 3 people. A black opaque gas starts to envelop his katana, the black gas resembles fire.

Rinka looks surprised.

"Oh, what the fuck? The black gas from before, it's finally out? Why?" Rinka thinks to himself while staring at his katana.

Several green glowing rocks come out of the ground and head towards Rinka.

Rinka dashes over them and towards the green haired guy.

"Right now is not the time to question it, I'll use this battle to learn more about it." Rinka thinks.

Rinka swings his sword at the green haired guy. Green rocks form out the guy's arm as he attempts to intercept Rinka's katana. The black gas gets livelier and it burns through the rock. Rinka's katana cuts through some of the guy's skin, Rinka pulls his katana away before he can cut the arm entirely.

More green rocks form out of the guy's leg and slam into Rinka, it launches him away.

The guy covers his wound in rocks.

"Why didn't you cut my arm off? You could have, so why didn't you? Asks the guy.

Rinka: I didn't want to?

"Are you looking down on me?" Asks the guy.

Rinka doesn't respond.

"Something about seeing the face of a dead person or someone who is about to die scares me, I can hurt people because most don't make a face of fear when they get hurt. They just accept the pain and keep going, but killing them is different. It's only when certain death is right in front of them that they finally feel afraid, they worry, they cry. That's something I hate to witness because I can imagine what it feels like to be them, I also fear death. that's one of the reasons why I can't kill anyone." Rinka thinks.

"You're really pissing me off, You're being all quiet and shit, SPEAK!"

The green haired guy looks at his teammates behind him.

"Hey, help me out! One of you go and kill the girl!" He tells them.

The green haired guy looks back at Rinka.

More waves of green rocks head towards Rinka, he slices through them and appears right in front of the guy. The yellow haired girl with the headband appears above Rinka and slams him into the floor with her fist then jumps back.

The green haired guy and yellow haired girl notice their other teammate who was supposed to kill the brown haired girl was lying on the floor unconscious.

"What!? What happened to him!?" Yells the yellow haired girl.

Suddenly Sumairu appears right in front of the yellow haired girl and green haired guy. He swings his katana and cuts both of their chest.

They both stumble back.

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!?" Yells the green haired guy.

Sumairu: That's info I don't need to give you.

Rinka quickly stands up and punches the guy.

The guy falls to the floor, the girl with the yellow hair looks worried.

Rinka: Thanks, Sumairu.

Black blood drips out of Rinka's nose.

Sumairu: No problem! Now keep on training.

…

Doa and Minaro have finished their training, it consisted of a lot of punching.

Doa looks at Minaro.

Doa: I think that was some good training. Should we go find Rinka and Sumairu?

Minaro nods his head.

Doa and Minaro walk away from the area and into the forest.

…

A man walks down a red hallway, he has white wavy hair that covers some of his forehead and his eyes are all red with golden crosses in them.

He's wearing a bright red button up shirt and beige shorts and his hands are in his pockets.

"Hey, Yoshanai". Says the white haired man.

A shirtless guy turns around and stares at the white haired man. This shirtless guy has dark blue eyes with 2 smaller black dots in them, within the black dots where different shades of the color blue surrounding each other.

He has black pants on as well.

"Yeah?" Asks the shirtless guy while looking at the white haired man.

"I want you to do something for me."

The shirtless guy is silent.

"I found a location where people with black blood are at."

"Go to that place and kill them."

Yoshanai, the shirtless guy looks happy.

Yoshanai: Sure, I'll go. Where are they at?

"Maligan Mountain, you know where that is right?"

Yoshanai: Yes... I'm going now.

Yoshanai turns around, he runs down the hallway.

…

Rinka looks at the yellow haired girl.

Rinka: Sumairu, can you knock this girl out, I'd rather fight only one person.

Sumairu grabs the yellow haired girl by the arm.

Sumairu: sure.

The yellow haired girl starts to cry and tries to shake herself off from Sumairu's grip.

Sumairu smacks her neck and makes her unconscious then he drops her and she hits the floor.

Rinka stares at the green haired guy, who stands up.

More green rocks come at Rinka. Rinka stands still and slices through them.

"Can I do anything else with this black gas?" Rinka thinks to himself.

Rinka looks at his katana and shakes it up and down.

"The gas doesn't change at all. It's like I have no control over it".

Rinka looks at the green haired guy.

...

An hour goes by. The green haired guy is laying on the floor unconscious.

Sumairu comes out of a bush and stands beside Rinka who is breathing heavily.

Sumairu: Well, it's been an hour, have you had enough?

Rinka: Even after fighting that guy for an hour, the gas didn't change, nothing happened!

The black gas on Rinka's katana slowly disappears.

"Now it's gone, how do I use this goddamn

gas?" Rinka thinks.

Sumairu: We'll have more training another day, for now let's go back to Doa and Minaro.

Rinka looks at Sumairu.

Rinka: You know where they're at?

Sumairu: I called Doa while I was in the bush and told her to wait with Minaro at the entrance of the mountain

Rinka: Oh.

Sumairu: C'mon let's go, you can walk right? You're not that tired?

Rinka: Yeah. I can walk.

Sumairu walks to a bush and picks up the brown haired girl who was behind it.

Sumairu puts her on his back.

Rinka: Hey, are we gonna do anything about those 3?

Rinka points to the 3 unconscious people who were in the battle before.

Sumairu: Yeah, I'll do something about them.

Sumairu takes out his katana, it is light green with a grey handle.

Sumairu puts the katana up to his arm and cuts it open a little.

Blood leaks out of his arm and onto the floor.

Rinka looks confused as he witnesses Sumairu stick his blood covered katana back into his pocket.

Rinka looks at the blood on the floor. It's moving, the blood starts to move towards the 3 unconscious people.

Suddenly all the blood forms into a giant red gooey hand that crushes the 3 people, blood flies into the air and flesh falls onto the floor.

Rinka looks away before he can witnesses anything. The sounds make him tremble.

Rinka: You just killed them?

Sumairu: Well, yeah they're bad people so I'm gonna do whatever I want to them.

The blood hand melts back into a pool of blood on the floor.

The blood moves towards Sumairu and climbs up his leg and onto his arm. All the blood seeps back into his cut, then a scab appears over his wound.

"he can kill so easily, I should be able too as well. " Rinka thinks to himself as he stares at the ground.

Sumairu places his hand on Rinka's shoulder.

Sumairu: Alright, let's go back.

Rinka glances at Sumairu.

Rinka: What if the girl we just saved is a bad person too?

Sumairu: I'll just kill her too.

…

Doa and Minaro are at the entrance of the mountain. Doa is on her phone, Minaro is just standing looking at the birds on trees.

Doa puts her phone down and groans.

Doa: When are they going to get here? They've told us to wait here and it's been 25 minutes!

Minaro doesn't respond.

Doa: Hey, let's go wait in the skill center, my legs are getting tired.

Doa walks towards the direction of the skill center, Minaro right behind her.

Someone watches them get closer and closer to the skill center. It's Yoshanai, he is lurking above the trees, he watches Minaro.

"There he is"

Yoshanai grins.

"I've found you".

TO BE CONTINUED...