I do not own Demon King Daimao
Chapter Two
Class 1-A was outside, practicing their mana control once again. Mana's nature had completely changed since Akuto destroyed God, but of course nobody remembered that other than Akuto and company. So everyone, even some teachers had trouble controlling their now unregulated mana. Akuto was now especially careful, knowing that if he ever exerted his full power he would share the same fate as Peterhausen. Akuto and Hattori paired up again, Hattori trying to use this time to get closer to Akuto. But no one was really paying much attention to them, instead watching Shinku and Akemi. Instead of a normal light blue magical orb, their's was a deep crimson. "Akuto pay attention!" Hattori yelled as she threw the orb at him. He barely managed to grab it before it would have hit the ground and who knows what kind of reaction that could have caused.
"Sorry it's just that, well don't you find it weird that their's is crimson while everyone else has a light blue one like ours? And come to think of it did anyone even see them even make that mana orb?" Akuto was watching them intently as they tossed the crimson orb around. Akemi tossed it to Shinku with just a little too much oomph behind it and everyone gasped as they expantantly awaited for some sort of reaction. But when it hit Shinku it merely splattered all over his clothes as a liquid, staining them.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I thought we could try and step it up, but I guess I should have warned you first." Akemi looked deeply embarrassed, but Shinku just laughed. "Here, I'll make another one, be right back." She went to go find Ms. Tori when Akuto walked over.
"Why not take ours? Here, catch." He tossed it to Akemi before either of the twins could stop him. Akemi braced herself for a massive explosion, Hattori had told her numerous stories involving her getting blown up by Akuto on 'accident' or because of a 'misunderstanding.'
"No! Akuto don't!" Shinku tried to get to his sister, but the orb was faster and it was followed by a massive, thundering explosion. It knocked a lot of people off of their feet or pinned them to the ground. Hattori found it a little crazy that she had survived two of those in one day, seeing it from the outside really put it into perspective. After the blast cleared, Akemi was revealed to be in a murky crimson shell of mana. She quickly dispelled it and the shell fell back to the ground as more red liquid.
"Did you really need to blow up another girl, Akuto? I mean honestly." Hattori was shaking her head, thinking about how impulsive and reckless Akuto was at times. He waved his hands and desperately tried to apologize.
"No! I didn't mean for that explosion to happen! I thought she would have caught it, but I'm so very sorry." Akemi looked fine, except for the terrified look on her face.
"Okay class, that's enough practice for today. Seeing as how now we don't have a place to practice." Ms. Tori said that last part to herself as Shinku led Akemi away, making a nuisance of himself by being a big brother.
"Why did you blow up Akemi? You really need more practice when dealing with women and delicate situations." Korone told Akuto as he moped in his room. "I can help you with that." Korone pushed her chest against his back. Akuto shot away from here.
"Korone stop acting like this! I'm not having women troubles!" Akuto never ever did understand the motives of his mysterious ex-surveliiance agent.
"You know that lying isn't your strongpoint Akuto and this is my proof that you don't handle these types of situations very well. I bet even those bloodwalker twins have more etiquette and subtlety than you." Korone said, spreading her hands in exasperation with a completely straight face.
"How wou...Wait! What did you call them?" He was immediately curious.
"Oh, I see you are more interested than Akemi than me. i see how it is." She crossed her arms.
"Are you playing with me, right now?" Korone shook her head. "Well than tell me what you just called them."
"Bloodwalkers. I thought you knew, they are the only two students here who have the crimson mana." Korone explained.
"Hmm, I was wondering about that. But I suppose I should apologize for my ignorance." Akuto sat up and left with Korone following close behind.
"Well you fared a lot better than me on my first day." Hattori said with a laugh to Akemi. They were chatting in Hattori's room. Akemi was awestruck when she saw all the weapons in her room.
"Oh my gosh, they're all so beautiful!" She asked Hattori if she could take a closer look at one in particular.
"Just don't cut your, or me, or anything for that matter." Hattori warned her.
"Don't worry, this isn't my first time around a blade you know." Akemi said, taking the katana out of it's saya very carefully. "Oh Hattori I'm so jealous, but I would just want to keep these as displays. I would never use a blade though, neither would Shinku."
"Speaking of your brother, why is he so..." Hattori trailed off, not sure whether she had any place in this topic.
"Overprotective. I think it's because he always sees me as the younger, less machure sister and he had to be the protective big brother. But it's sometimes suffocating, ya know. That's why it's so nice to have other friends." She said with a huge smile that practically went ear to ear as she replaced the sword in it's sheath.
"So what's this about you guys not using blades?" Hattori asked, trying to change the subject. It felt kind of wrong to be in their family business already.
"We don't need one, and in most cases it's better for one of us to get hurt." She explained as though it were perfectly normal.
"WHAT! You're saying you would rather get stabbed than use a sword?!" Hattori questioned this girl's sanity. Akemi merely nodded.
"Well yeah. Oh wait, let me back up. You weren't at our introduction ceremony, so I should have known you don't know what we are. So my brother and I are bloodwalkers and well the name says a lot about us. We need some kind of blood to perform anything with our powers because we can only manipulate the mana that's in blood, like earlier today that little crimson orb was actually a ball of blood." She had a completely straight face on, which slightly frightened Hattori.
"But where'd you get the blood?" Hattori asked hesitantly.
"Well first we try to see if there is any just laying around for one reason or another, otherwise we have to use our own. So our powers come at a price, but it's for the best. Keeps us in check and makes sure we're not reckless or stupid." Akemi finally put the sword back on it's stand. "Well I think I'll be heading off to bed, goodnight!" Akemi excused herself and went back to her own room.
Akuto and Korone spotted someone taking a little night stroll. "Korone, can you identify who it is?" Akuto whispered.
"I can only tell that they use mana, but it's a peculiar reading." The person walking was already out of sight. "Their mana is gone, or I can't track them anymore."
"How strange, but we're not out here because of that. Now Korone you should probably lead the way, it will arouse suspicion if I head in there first." Korone nodded.
"It must be because you're such a pervert, or maybe because you can't really talk to women." Korone led the way to Akemi's room.
"Anyone home?" Akuto asked, knocking on the door.
"Just a minute." Akemi opened the door in nothing but a towel. Akuto recoiled back in surprise.
"Case and point." Korone said with a straight face.
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Akuto couldn't help but steal a glance at her glistening form.
"Oh ijustwantedtosayIwassorryforearlier!" He blurted out when he got an eyeful before turning his back to her.
"Uh, what? Next time slow down." Akemi was really confused.
"I wanted to apologize for nearly blowing you up earlier, so I'm deeply sorry." He quickly bowed to her and left the women's dorm.
"What's wrong with him Korone?" Akemi asked, drying her hair.
"I don't think he could stand being around a seminaked woman for that long." Korone muttered before following Akuto, leaving Akemi to simply shrug and close her door. On his way back to his room, Akuto spotted a determined looking Shinku in the distance. Shinku was running and looking at the ground in front of him, but Akuto couldn't spot anything abnormal under the moonlight.
"I'll ask him about it tomorrow. Right now I need some sleep."
The whole school was in an uproar the next day. "Five students were assualted last night, by presumably the same person or group of people. They weren't critically injured, but I don't think they wanted to kill anybody. It was three boys and two girls all had their achilles tendons cut on both feet and a BL was written on the back of their hands." Korone explained to everybody at lunch.
"That's terrible. Won't the student council step in?" Akemi asked, losing her appetite.
"Well they better, because from what I've heard these injuries were just like some 'isolated incidents' that have been going on since this semester began." Hattori said.
"Akuto Sai, please report to the student council room immediately." The loudspeaker announced, as if on que.
"Strange coincidence, but looks like they will have the discipline committee on this one. I'll see you guys in a little bit." Akuto said before promptly excusing himself.
"Akuto as the only member of the discipline committee, we need you to find the culprit or culprits behind these attacks and capture them. Every attack reported has occurred during afterschool hours, so plan accordingly. We all expect the best out of you, Demon King." Lily Shiraishi winked before spinning her chair around.
"Hmm if I'm going to catch whoever is doing this, I might need some help. But who to turn to...?" Akuto trailed off before his eyes lit up. "Of course, Ms. Eto!"
"Nope, I'm afraid I don't have anything to help you catch this mystery assailant. All my research has backfired or led to nothing." Fujiko Eto looked like her whole world crashed down when she admitted she wasn't able to help Akuto. After Akuto left, she scolded herself furiously. "This was important and Akuto needed you! And what were you able to do, nothing!"
"So Hattori will you help me? We'll be looking for them as soon as the sun sets." Akuto asked Hattori, knowing that he sense of justice would probably overpower every other emotion.
"Yeah I can help." Hattori seemed pretty calm on the outside. "This is your chance Junko, it will be just you and Akuto. All alone in the night." She shook her head, what was she thinking.
"Great, that makes three of us. I wonder if the twins will help." Hattori had forgotten that Korone still stalked Akuto to this day and her hope were dashed, but she wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or bad thing.
"So will you help us catch whoever is doing this?" Akuto asked, wondering what kind of response he would get.
"I'm busy tonight." Shinku told them, shutting the door before they could say more.
"Well there's just one other person left to ask, seeing as Hiroshi still isn't here." Akuto knocked on Akemi's door. "Sorry to bother you, but I have a favor to ask of you Akemi."
"What kind of favor?" She looked at Hattori and Korone, searching their faces for clues. But her search yielded nothing.
"We're going to be trying to capture the person or persons responsible for these recent attacks that are going on, and we wanted you to come help."
"Sure, it'll be so much fun! Just let me get dressed first."
They were watching all major paths into and out of the school. They all knew the plan, if you saw anyone out after hours get them. If they ran call for backup. But it was into the long hours of the night before any action occurred. They heard a cry of agony and the four of them converged on the position. They found an unconscious student with a slashed achilles and BL written in blood on his hand. "Whoever they are, they are very fast or very stealthy." Akuto pointed out. They heard another wail of pain and found the same thing. "We'll never catch whoever like this, they are just toying with us." That's when their luck changed, instead of the shout of pain they heard signs of a struggle. When they ran to the scene, they saw Shinku locked in a vicious duel with a masked person. Their mask was pure white with nothing identifiable on it and their hooded coat was a light gray color. The masked attacker got distracted when the four of them arrived on the scene, just long enough for Shinku to draw blood. But the person quickly disappeared into the moonless night.
"Akemi, you know what to do." Shinku said, holding his side. There was a puncture wound there, but Shinku told them it wasn't deep and he would be fine. Akemi dipped her fingers in the small pool of blood before tasting it, she then gave a thumbs up to the group.
"Okay we're all set for tomorrow night, I have his bloodscent now so we can track him." Akemi informed everyone. Hattori was kinda of creeped out that Akemi had technically just drank another person's blood while Shinku nodded his praise to her.
"Why don't we track him down now?" Korone suggested, getting a glare from Akemi.
"Because I'm tired and need to sleep." Akemi said, sticking her tongue out at Korone before heading back to her room. The others followed suit, except for Shinku. He stared at the moonless sky, lost in his deep thoughts.
"So, they already found us. I'll have to tell the others sooner or later..."
Please R&R