CH 4
Bookman, Lavi, Allen, and Kanda met the Sage of Life, Tsamo Esagel, after being invited to his home by him and his apprentice. Kanda discovered that Tsamo knew General Tiedoll for many years, but still never found why the General sent him to meet the sage. Allen found out that it wasn't the Sage who was interested in meeting him, but his apprentice. Lavi remained curious of the figure he'd seen in the window, rather than recording history. While Bookman was busy getting answers from the Sage, the three young men searched Tsamo's house for his apprentice, who was supposedly behind a locked door in the upstairs area. Then, Allen looked out a window to get a look at the town when he saw something that alerted Kanda and Lavi…
"Akuma!"
Kanda flung the window open and jumped out of it into the garden below.
"Where's it at, Allen?" Lavi said.
Allen pointed to a small schoolyard where children were happily playing, unaware of the danger that was so close by.
Without hesitating, Kanda jumped over the fence and darted off towards the schoolyard. Lavi grabbed Allen and chanted, "Size-shifting hammer, EXTEND!" and they both flew off right behind Kanda.
Allen kept his left eye activated, refusing to let the akuma out of his sight. "It's that teacher! He's the aku-!"
Suddenly, the teacher, who was surrounded by his students, split apart into thousands of pieces. The children squealed and ran away as they watched his chunks of skin and bone fall to the ground, cut cleanly into squares, drenched in blood and gore. The remains then exploded, and Allen watched as the soul was released from its chains.
Kanda, Lavi, and Allen all looked at each other in silence. None of them had even activated their innocence yet other than Lavi, who had been using it to extend. They looked to see if there had been another exorcist in the area, but anyone who had been nearby had already screamed and ran away, like the kids in the schoolyard had. Allen then made them aware that there were no more akuma in the area.
Confused and concerned, the three of them returned to the Sage's residence. Kanda had burst through the door first, only to see the Bookman and the Sage still chattering, not noticing they had ever even left.
"What the devil..?" Bookman spoke. "I thought you three went upstairs to find the Sage's apprentice."
"I'm sorry, sir," Allen walked in behind Kanda. "There was an akuma in the town…"
Tsamo took a sip of his coffee from a mug. "Akuma, eh? How did that go?" He spoke so calmly, it made Kanda suspicious.
Allen hesitated for a moment. "Actually…"
"We weren't the one's who destroyed the akuma." Lavi stated.
"The akuma was destroyed, but none of us had anything to do with it. However, it didn't destroy itself, if that had happened, the soul bound to it would've been destroyed as well. I saw with my own eyes that salvation was brought to its soul."
Bookman pondered. "If it wasn't one of you, then who exactly was it?"
Tsamo sipped his coffee again. "Perhaps the town folk saw something you overlooked."
-5 minutes later-
"Are you sure you didn't see anything?" Lavi spoke to an old woman in a house nearby.
"Nothing at all…Nothing but silver…" The woman spoke. Then she slammed the door in Lavi's face.
Lavi blinked. "Silver..?"
"Hey, Lavi!" Allen's voice called out as he ran towards the bookman jr. "Did you find anything?"
"I may have." Kanda joined up with them. " I asked several people who were in the area and all of them said they didn't see anything but 'silver'. What the hell is that supposed to mean…"
"I know! I know!" a little boy pranced up to them. "It was Silverton!"
Allen kneeled down beside the boy, who didn't seem frightened at all. "Who is Silverton? If you know anything, it would help us."
"Silverton is this thing who shows up when the monsters come to our town! You never really see it, but if you're lucky, you'll see a streak of silver light right before it slays the monster!" the eager boy explained. "Most people are scared of it, but it's not a bad guy! It saved me from a monster! It picked me up and flew me away before the monster could eat me!"
Lavi and Kanda looked at each other. "What did it look like?" Lavi asked.
"I TOLD you! You can't see it! It's just a streak of silver light! Nothing but silver." The boy then ran off after his mother called his name. "You gotta find Silverton! It's like, the coolest thing ever!"
Allen stood up. "Well, now what do we do?"
"Isn't it obvious? We need to find this thing called 'Silverton'." Kanda said. "if it's destroying akuma…"
"Then innocence has to be involved, right Allen?"
"Right, Lavi."
Kanda thought back to how Tsamo had acted earlier. *"He didn't seem very concerned…He spoke so calmly about the akuma being destroyed…That old man knows something…"*