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Kenji was a boarder. While other students were in school, he was at his dorm playing video game. Isao came in. He was crying and shaking like a leaf blown by the wind. He was wearing his uniform. Kenji cast a look at him feeling irritated, then focused back on his video game.
"Did you find out who the demon slayer is?" Kenji's stern eyes are still bored in the video game. Isao didn't answer. He continued crying, "if you know you came to my dorm to cry like an abandoned baby you better get lost!" He scowled. He paused the video game then casted his gaze at Isao, his frown deepened, "where is my brother Tani?"
Tani was Kenji's step brother. They were of the same mother and different fathers. Kenji's father died when he was a baby and his mother remarried to Isao's father and then gave birth to Isao. They grew up together. Kenji was the one who taught Tani the act of bullying and other violent acts.
Their mother saw the detrimental influence of Kenji on Tani and tried separating them but it was too late because Tani was already deep into the act and was being manipulated by Kenji.
"Where is my brother you moron! Have you gone deaf!" Kenji was infuriated as he threw the gamepad at Isao. It touched Isao's forehead. He winced. It caused him a stingy pain but he didn't care because the news he brought was more excruciating. He gave a tender touch to his forehead. "He… he….." Isao sputtered, then halted abruptly.
"He what? you fucked up fellow!" Kenji cussed. His brow furrowed.
"He is dead!" Isao broke the news and started crying afresh.
Kenji laughed, "You can't be serious, Isao. Where is my brother? You want to play a prank with me. I'm not your play boy Isao."
"He is dead. The demon killed him," he cried.
"The… what?" Kenji found himself sputtering.
"The demon attacked us. He killed Tani before the demon slayer was able to arrive where we were."
Kenji's jaw clenched and he bolted at Isao and punched Isao continuously. He was bleeding from his mouth and nose. His uniform was flooded with blood. Kenji would always beat someone till the person bled to almost giving up the ghost.
"Ple…ase Kenji. I didn't kill him. The demon did," Isao pleaded, rubbing his both palms together.
"Why didn't you protect him?" He gave him a final blow and Isao fell using his face to hit the floor, "where is the video of the demon slayer?"
Isao tried to stand up but his bones were broken for him to stand up swiftly as Kenji would have wanted it. Kenji used his leg to kick him and he fell back to the floor. Kenji picked him up and held him roughly while he stood.
"We were able to video the demon slayer but he deleted it from our two phones. I think he doesn't want people to know who he is. But I know him. We all know him," he stated
"Who is he?" Kenji asked curiously
"Taku!". Isao interjected.
Kenji let go of him and Isao almost fell but he was able to keep his balance.
"Taku our classmate?" He carefully asked.
"Yes. He is only pretending. He even pretended he hadn't seen us before but he was the one who helped me. He killed the demon and accompanied me home to see nothing awful happened to me".
Kenji's brow furrowed in deep thought, then he nodded. "He is playing with us".
***
Taku, Sota, Jin and Midori were having lunch in the school cafeteria.
Sota was the only odd one in the table. He was still affected by his contact with the demon. He was pale and hardly ate his food. Although he was with them, he kept his distance. He was still frightened. He didn't want to die and especially his father dying. He couldn't take it. The thought of it alone made his stomach churned.
"Sota u aren't eating. You hardly touched your food," Midori noticed.
"Oh!" Sota exclaimed quietly, "I really don't have an appetite but I'll eat."
"Since you came back from the hospital you have been acting odd. Really odd," Jin observed
"I'm fine," Sota replied curtly.
"You have to tell us what is going on with you so we can help. We are really worried". Taku said softly.
"You haven't helped yourself from the bully of Kenji and his likes you want to help me!" He growled then stood up, "help yourself first before thinking of helping others, coward," Sota left
Sota's attitude came as an astonishment to all of them. He had never acted that way . What could be the reason? Whatever the reason it was really beyond them and it was gradually stealing their friend from them. That made them scared.
"Woah! woah! What has gotten into Sota," Jin looked startled just like the others.
"Has his father's attitude towards him exacerbated. What's really going on," Midori wondered outloud, "and why would he say that to Taku."
"He didn't tell lies. I'm a coward. I know I am. But I don't know how not to be," his voice was low, pain spoke more than words. "Tani is dead, he broke the news to them
"What!" Midori screamed in shock. All the students turned to her questionly. She stood up, "I'm sorry please you guys should go back to your lunch. I'm fine," she laughed awkwardly. Everyone went back to their lunch. She sat down. She exhaled, "I'm sorry guys," she apologized to Taku and Jin. "Taku, are you sure of what you just said?"
"How did you know?" Jin queried
"I heard it." Taku revealed
"You heard it? When? Like now? How come we didn't hear it?" Jin gushed out his questions, his eyes dancing with curiosity.
"I have a little secret, I can hear anything I want to. I can hear a thousand miles away." Taku divulged
Jin and Midori were amazed.
"That's cool. You have a supernatural ability." Jin's eyes glittered with amazement.
"That's really cool! Midori applauded, "what else are you keeping from us?"
"Nothing. It's my little secret. It's just my older twin who knows and then you guys". He fixed his gaze at Midori, suddenly looking sad, "your pulse and heart beat doesn't sound like everyone else. It's different. Very different. It's different from humans. I didn't say you aren't a human but different from the regular humans."
She looked confused, "why?"
Taku gave a half shrug, "I don't know. Maybe you should start knowing who you are. You…," he paused, "I can hear the footsteps of Kenji and Isao approaching. They are coming after me."
Just then Kenji and Isao came to the cafeteria. Kenji scanned through the cafeteria and his eyes finally caught Taku. He marched furiously at him. The sight of Kenji at the cafeteria terrified other students, they avoided his eyes.
He pulled Taku's ear and dragged him.
"Don't come with me Jin and Midori," Taku shouted enough for them to hear, when they were getting up to go with him.
Kenji took Taku to the rooftop of the school building.
"Where is my brother you bastard!" kenji asked aggressively.
"I didn't kill Tani. I don't even know his whereabouts, believe me please," Taku pleaded.
"I should believe you?" Kenji scoffed,"then how did you know he is dead? Nobody knows in this school. His death has not even be announced. His parents doesn't even know he is dead yet so how the fuck did you know!"
"Um… um…." Taku sputtered, not knowing what to say.
"Cut that crap demon slayer. You have been the demon slayer all these while, you think I don't know."
Taku burst out laughing. He shrieked in laughter till tears rolled down his eyes His laugh puzzled Kenji and Isao
"I saw you Taku! You helped me! You saved me! Why are you pretending!" Jin interjected.
"You must be dreaming Isao." Taku laughed once more
Kenji punched him, "I'll break your ribs and every part of your body till you can save yourself."
He kicked him violently. He picked Taku, raised him up and left him. Taku fell on the floor like a lifeless object. He then sat on Taku and began punching his face furiously and as fast as lightning.
He melted the anger of his brother's death on Taku. He trembled visibly with rage. His bulbous bloodshot eyes narrowed wickedly. Taku was bleeding all over his face. He felt a glacial pang of pain like the stab of a dagger of ice frozen from a poisoned well.
"Kenji you would kill him". Isao was scared. He didn't want to witness anyone dying again.
"Yes! So shut the fuck up!" Kenji screamed angrily at Isao
"Ple… ase…. I don't ….. want to die," Taku's sharp whisper uttered in excruciating pain
"Die!" Kenji punched his mouth, "you are the demon slayer so save yourself!" He stood up and took a broken chair that was lying on the ground. He used it and started hitting Taku. One could hear the sound of Taku's body dislocating.
Blood splashed everywhere like paint on the floor and even on Kenji's face. His face was bathed with Taku's blood. Isao was not excluded, he stood shivering with fear. Taku's blood has flooded on his body. His uniform was soaked with blood. The sight of them was disgusting and irritating.
Jon and Midori came to the rooftop. They were astonished. They were fully aware of Kenji's brutal beating of Taku but this very one was different. It was like slaughtering an animal brutally that one was managed to get hold of after many trials. An animal that had killed one's family in cold blood and in one's very presence.
They stood in shock. Their legs couldn't carry them. It was pinned to the ground. They were too terrified to scream, their eyes were frozen in shock.
Something was strange about Midori. She found herself attracted to the blood, the blood blood was the most aromatic thing she sha perceived. She salivated, her throat contrasting. She was very hungry like she had never had food before in her entire life, but that was not for human food. She craved for human flesh. Her eyes glowed like a spark of furnace.
Her teeth suddenly had the shape of a triangle, bigger than usual such that it couldn't fit in her small mouth, with shape edges. Her heart beat increased in an irregular and fast pattern. Her nails grew very long and sharp like the claws of a wild beast.
Midori rushed at Taku and devoured him hungrily. She ate Kenji and Isao at once. Eating every part of them and even their intestines. She turned to Jin who was shivering and stunned at what he saw. She ate him on his neck and turned him into a demon.
Alas! It was all her imagination. Midori quickly came back to the real world! Her devouring and eating them, was only her wild imagination. She wanted to eat their flesh and drink their blood badly, but she controlled herself. She bit the urge not to do something of that such. She turned back and ran out of there. Her speed was nothing compared to that of the fastest car.
Kenji carried Taku who was almost losing his breath and looked lifeless. He held him close to the edge of the roof top. His hands hand icily cold and clammy as death
"Last chance you got. Are you the demon slayer?" A breath of malevolence made itself felt like a chill and sudden gust from some unknown sea
A sudden sense of fear ran through Taku's nerves like the chill of an icy wind. He shook his head weakly, he was whimpering in searing pain. He shut his eyes.
Kenji left him falling from the rooftop.
Jin and Isao screamed in freight.
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