SCHOOL DAYS

Night

A man seems to be running away from something while carrying a metal case. The mysterious figure was chasing after him until he seems exhausted. The figure attacked the man which caused the man to fall down onto the ground and a cut on his left cheek and the blood began flowing down from it.

"Hand over the belt." the figure demanded.

"Never!" the man denied.

"Come on, you will be given one million yen in exchange for the belt. Isn't that great?" said the figure.

"I rather die than handing this over to you monster." said the man angrily.

"Just give me the belt already. This is your last chance." added the humanoid monster.

"Sorry, the answer is no." said the man.

"Then, you can just die." added it.

"Or maybe we can make you into of us, the next evolution of mankind, Orphnoch." suggested the it.

"The next evolution of mankind, don't make me laugh. You're all just a group of monster who afraid of death." chuckled the man.

Despite the wound was made on his face and he was tired, he does not gave up easily. He stood up and continued running until he reached The Smart Brain Highschool, one of the prestigious school in the country and a place where no orphnoch are allowed to enrolled. He jumped over the brick wall.

Smart Brain Highschool

Library

He brought the bag inside the library and went behind one of the large bookshelves in it. Then, he saw a large painting hanging on the wall. He touched the painting only to be revealed that there was a trapdoor behind the large painting which was enough for a human to get in. There was a flashing control panel on the centre which requires 4 digits, a fingerprint and retina scanning.

He quickly keyed in the 4 digits and did a fingerprint and retina scanning. Luckily, the security system accepted them and a door was opened which was a passage toward the hidden base. He ran quickly toward the base and put the case on the white desk.

After that, he ran out of the base and felt glad that the bag would be safe in there.

Corridor

'It should be safe there.' thought the man and as he walked out from the library.

"There you are, Hino. I've been looking all over for." said Saber as he was staring at Hino's empty hands.

"What? Where's the belt? Where did you hide it" demanded Saber.

"Somewhere safe." answered the man.

"Then, I'll kill you. Any last word before I turned you into dust?" said the orphnoch as he was ready to kill the man.

"Yes, Saber do you believe in the afterlife?" asked Hino.

"What are you talking about? There is no such thing as an afterlife." said the cobra orphnoch.

"So, you don't believe in the afterlife but I do, Saber." said Hino.

"So you rather go to your so called afterlife than living a luxury life here. Is that it?" wondered Saber, the cobra orphnoch.

"Yes, I will protect the belt till someone who is worthy come to pick it up. Even with my life." said Hino as he transformed into a tiger orphnoch.

"What? You're an orphnoch or did my eyes fooled me?" said Saber in shocked.

"I have been an orphnoch longer than you think." explained the tiger orphnoch.

"I thought you're a human." said the shocked cobra orphnoch.

"I was." said Hino.

"Then, I will kill you, traitor." said the angered Saber.

"Here I go, my friend." added Saber as he charged at Hino.

As the orphnochs were fighting and clashing over the belt, the sound was loud enough to wake up the guards. The guard left his post and went to search for the source of the sound. He was shocked to see two monsters were fighting against each other.

"Aaaarrghh! Monster!" screamed the guard as he began to run away.

Guard Post

The guard saw his co-worker running away as if he was being chased.

"Hey, what is wrong, Hamato?" asked his co-guard.

"Monsters! Monsters are fighting!" screamed Hamato.

"Monsters are fighting? Against who, hero? Could it be that it is your imagination?" wondered his co-guard.

"No, Hayato. It is true. I saw them fighting against each other." said the panicked Hamato.

"Okay. Okay. Let's go check it out." said Hayato who seems did not believe Hamato.

"But..." Hamato was frightened as he was lost of words.

"Don't worry, I will accompany you. Come on." assured Hayato.

Library

They went to the library and saw the place was messed up as the books were all over the floor. Clawprints were all over the place showing that there was a fighting there . They saw a large broken window which the fragments were also on the floor. This caused a shocked to Hayato as what Hamato said were true after all. There was no way an animal could jumped through the windows as they were higher than the shelves.

Alley

Hino was badly injured due to the brutal attacked by Saber. He turned back into his human form as he tried to stay in the shadow away from the Smart Brain Cooperation, a very successful and powerful company which it's aim was remain unknown to the public. The company was only known for creating advanced technology to give a comfortable life for the humans.

"Damn it." said the wounded Hino as he tries to walk while covering his scratch right arm. A green blood was spilling from the wound.

"Thank god, I still got this serum from the lab. This should be the last one. The serum which allowed an orphnoch to advance its regeneration ability. They said that when an orphnoch took it they will gain an instant regeneration." muttered him as he was holding a syringe contain a blue liquid in it.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" screamed Hino as he injected it into his body which allowing the wound to instantly healed.

"I've to warn the others." muttered Hino as he began to walk away.