Sorry for the delay I just got my 1st summer job! So I'll be busy over the summer but here's a chapter things are gonna go down

I got on my hands and knees and started searching for any signs of dampness inside the dark decaying insides of a wooden trunk that lay discarded on the green grass. Manami and I were looking for blue glowing mushrooms but so far we hadn't had any luck. I sighed in disappointment before slowly getting up from kneeling with no mushrooms in hand. This was harder than I originally thought. The forest was just so vast it was hard to traverse even with the witching broom. Not only that, but it was hard to even just find a good landing spot due to the dense canopy of trees.

"Manami any luck?" I asked hoping Manami was she had more luck finding something.

Manami simply shook her head no in response and I let another sigh….I dusted off my blue skirt and fixed my slightly crooked witching hat headband…The sun was still high up and would provide us with light for a handful of more hours. I cradled my chin in thought. Okay…think where do these mushrooms usually grow…? Somewhere damp and moist…in a dark area that was cold and far away from sunlight…That its!

"Hey let's go look for a cave!" I said after a light bulb went off in my head.

"Oh! You're right a cave probably has the right conditions to grow these mushrooms!" Manami said.

"Then let's go!"

Red. The world was beginning to turn a bloody red as hot rage coursed through Koro's body. Burning through his veins like searing magma. This time he would kill him. This time he will make sure Shiro's body is brutally disfigured beyond recognition…..even though whoever helped Shiro and lead him to them had already done a great job with that.

One of Shiro's eyes was completely replaced with a large circular machine that dilated ever so often as if focusing on the things in front of it. Shiro's fair skin had turned an ashy grey and the blue of his veins could be seen as they protruded from his ribbing muscles. Alongside that there were inky black tentacles that crawled up the entirety of his body clinging to man's body like some sort of leech. In short he looked like a monster….

"K-koro look out!" Aguri cried out.

"Aguri!"

"Hey Manami since we finished early why don't we go look for Aguri?" I asked kicking my legs up and down as I sat on a small log while I gazed at the grass with a bored expression.

"I-I don't know…Aguri told us to stay put…" Manami said as she went over the ingredients list to make sure they got everything.

"Auuggg!" I exclaimed as probed up from the log. "Come on, Manami! Let's go." I urged.

"…." Manami quietly looked at the ground her eyes gazing at the broom every so often as if contemplating the idea.

"I-I'll stay here b-but you can go and tell Aguri we finished early." Manami said.

"Yea sure I can make that compromise." I said as I picked up the broom and got ready to take flight. "See you in a bit okay!"

"Take care!" She called out as my feet slowly started to ascend of the ground.

"You to!" I shouted back as I began to take off.

I made sure to keep high above the large trees and firmly held onto the flying broom as I soared through the blue sky. I was going a little too fast as evident when I almost lost my witching hat band. I don't why I was being flying with such urgency. Perhaps it's because I don't like leaving Manami alone….

I left her alone…in a large enchanted forest with who knows what…Oh god! That's why I want to find Aguri as fast as I can so I can get back to my friend. That had to be it. I had half the mind just to turn back but I didn't I just kept going…

Finally after ten minutes of searching with no results I decided to cast a finding spell to help…Now that I think about it I should have done that first…Ugh rookie mistake I guess….Taking a deep breath I began to chant the spell out loud.

"Ego quaerere et invenire object locate salva me: Aguri" I chanted and tried to recall my sister's magical aura to aid with the finding spell.

Slowly a glittering green orb of light began to form in front of my chest.

"Go." I commanded and immediately the orb zipped up and grew a shimmering comet tail before blazing out towards my right.

I quickly began to follow the green glittering comet tail that the orb left behind before I myself got left behind.

The air was seemingly getting a little colder and heavier…Was I flying to high? I tried lowering down closer to ground but that heavy cold feeling was still evident…I'm no meteorologist so I don't know why the air and climate suddenly changed. Still I pressed forward chalking it up to weird magic or something of the like. Perhaps it merely meant rain was coming. If that was the case all the more reason to hurry.

After a few more minutes of flying I finally saw the small orb floating there….As I slowly approached it my eyes looked down and…I was met with a sight so horrifying it made my heart drop at the sight before it started thumping loudly in my chest as a knot formed in the back of my throat cutting off my breathing. I gasped for air my face flushing hot and skin running cold as a shiver ran up my spine. He was just standing there covered in her blood his tentacle hair blocking most of my view of Aguri's body… What did he do…? WHAT THE FUCK DID HE DO!

Without a second thought I swooped down and got a projection spell charging. My heart was thumping loudly as red hot blood coursed through my veins. I snarled a spell under my breath.

The glowing projectile grew and grew and the light was becoming blinding hot like my rage.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" I screeched as I hurled my spell with as much force as I could muster

The spell whizzed past the air, but before I knew it Koro had moved out of the way and it annoyed me that he did so effortlessly. I let out an annoyed tch as I prepared another spell. But then…in the blink of an eye he was gone…he fled…leaving Aguri's bruised cold body behind…

Gripping tightly onto the broom I dived down the prickling of tears blurring my vision. As soon as I was a meter or two near the ground I jumped of the broom stumbling onto the ground nearly falling over from the momentum as I ran over to Aguri. My body felt so incredibly heavy. I felt as though gravity was increasing as my knees buckled once I reached her.

I was shaking as I clenched her cold body. Hot tears began to blind my vision as my mouth went dry and a screeching scream clawed its way out of my knotted throat. It hurt like hell to scream but I screamed. I screamed the loudest I had ever screamed. I was angry and sad and hurt and mad and I let it all out in a viscous scream that vibrated and rang in the cold still air. I felt like I was drowning…

…and I couldn't help but note that…Aguri earring vessel was gone too…only further confirming my suspicions.

That demon killed my sister…

"S-sir…there's a-a problem…" A subordinate stuttered out cursing their luck as they had to be the one to tell their boss the bad news.

"Well then shouldn't you go out and fix it?" The cold voice remarked not at all interested in the conversation.

"I-I why yes b-but it isn't that kind of problem well it's not a problem it's more of an issue I mean it is a problem but…well i-I guess problem and issue m-mean the same thing but…"

"Just get on with it." The man said his purple eyes glaring at the feeble worker.

"Apparently….this Koro demon guy that the test subject wanted to eradicate…well he was stronger than we thought….Mr. Shiro is now no longer with us…."

There was a brief moment of silence.

"Oh dear now that is a problem…." The boss said nonchalantly

"S-sir what are we going to do?"

"Hmm…Get me all the information about this Koro fellow he may prove to be a problem if Shiro let anything slip…" Slowly the man stood up stretching out his long elegant white wings.

"And tell the division responsible for Shiro to find a new test subject."

"R-right! So when will you want the new subject? By the end of the week?"

"I was thinking by the end of the day…If they don't find one then they are no longer of service to me are they?"

"Y-Yes sir…"

The goon left leaving the frugal to ponder in his thoughts.

"My oh my it seems Shiro was more trouble than he was worth….But, this Koro…Perhaps he can be of use to me…"

Sorry that this was short i'll try to make the next one a bit longer also i rewrote previous chapters nothing major or anything mostly fixed spelling errors but you can go back and read them if you want