The sun would have already left and Ryu Tatzuki was having breakfast at the table while watching television with his mother at home
"What a boring day," Ryu said.
Yawn
"That's better not there to do also you have the day off until tomorrow I don't know what you complain should take advantage of the day and go outside," Akane said.
"Thank you, I'm going to stay in my room," Ryu said.
"No you think young, you're going outside is an order," Akane said.
Ryu sighs
It is fine, I will go to take fresh air but only a few minutes
Open the door and then closing the door
"Take a lot of son," Akane said.
Ryu walks through the boring city thinking about everything Alice, Yuki, the demon attack and Zarkhiel Noctareck has happened
"He asked who is that subject who spoke that demon said his name was Zarkhiel Noctareck, he might investigate a little and I know where I can find answers," said Ryu.
Ryu on the way for a few minutes until you reach a library
Ryu entered the library. The place was absolutely silent, barely illuminated by the dim light that was leaked through the high windows. It gave the impression that the time passed here slower.
He approached the counter "where an older woman, with gray hair collected and thick lenses, passed the pages of a book without much interest.
"Excuse me ... I'm looking for information about a demon called ... Zarkhiel Noctareck."
The woman looked up.
And he stayed still.
Too still.
"How did you say?" He asked, narrowing his eyes.
"Zarkhiel ... Noctareck," Ryu repeated. I think it was a demon, or something.
The librarian watched him for a few seconds. Then he closed his book slowly.
"That name ... does not sound to me." I have never heard it.
"Are you sure?" Ryu insisted. It is important.
"I'm sorry, young." We do not handle ... demonic fiction.
Ryu frowned. Something was not right.
"Then there is nothing about demonology, or ... hidden history?"
The woman looked at him over the lenses.
"If you want to read dark nonsense, there is a booklet at the bottom, right hall." But I don't guarantee that you find what you are looking for.
Without saying more, he returned to his book.
Ryu nodded with a grimace.
-Thank you…
Ryu begins to look for information in the books without getting answers until he finds a dusty book without hidden tap
"That is too dust I wonder what this book is and what year is it," said Ryu.
Look at the book without a lid
He has no lid that strangers me what will be inside
Start moving the pages and start reading there would be several words labeled or there would be torn leaf
I can't read anything everything is labeled and leaves are missing this book is no use
Think
Asked me why this book is like this
Put the book again in its place then the dust is cleaned in your frustrated walking clothes and greet the lady
Bye
The lady looks at him
That you do well
Ryu would be walking in the city
Think
Going to the library did not help me then there is only one alternative to try to talk to Alice but how am I going to find her? I don't see her from the demon attack
Ryu walked with his hands in his pockets, still frustrated for not having found anything in the library.
"Maybe ..." Alice ... or even Yuki.
It is worth trying.
Determined, he took for the park. It was a little busy area at that time, with high trees and wet earth trails. Perfect to be alone ... or not so much.
From the top of a nearby abandoned building, two hooded figures watched him in silence.
"It's him?" Asked one, in a serious voice.
"That's right," the other replied. That is the human who carries the power of Zarkhiel Noctareck.
"Do you mean the traitor?"
-Correct.
There was a brief silence.
"Then I don't understand ... Why did Lord Vorath send us to kill someone so weak?"
"Because that human does not deserve to carry a demon's legacy." Although their powers are asleep, their existence is blasphemy.
"Tsk ... well, if that is the case, let's kill and let's go back. " I shouldn't take more than a few seconds.
"Then, underway."
Both hooded disappeared in a shadow whisper, leaving behind a slight tremor in theair.
Ryu was crouched among the park trees, with his hands extended to the wet ground. He closed his eyes strongly, trying to concentrate. He felt the silence around him, broken just because of the creak of the dry leaves under his knees.
"Let's go ..." he murmured. It worked last time. You have to work again ...
But nothing happened.
Not a spark. Not a shadow. Nothing.
His breathing became agitated.
"Maldition ..." He gave his teeth. Why doesn't anything happen? Recently it had worked!
He hit the floor with his fist, frustrated.
Behind him, the air became denser, as if the space itself shrinks. Without noticing, two hooded figures emerged from the forest, walking in complete silence.
His steps were soft, but his presence ... heavy. Dark.
They stopped less than three meters from Ryu.
"So this is the boy ..." One of them whispered, with a mocking tone.
Ryu opened his eyes when he heard his voice. His body tightened immediately. He felt the threat without even looking.
"Don't turn around," the other said. It will not help.
Ryu stood slowly, turning his neck just. His gaze met two silhouettes covered with black layers, each with demonic symbols marked in red in his gloves.
"Who ... are you?"
"It doesn't matter," the first replied. We only came to correct an error.
-Mistake?
—You. You exist when you should not. And Mr. Vorath Kraal does not tolerate anomalies.
Ryu stepped back, his heart beating hard.
"Vorath ...?" They sent me to kill?
-Don't worry. It will not hurt. A lot.
Both took a step forward ... and the air trembled.
One of the hooded disappeared from Ryu's sight with a black flash. Before I could react, a fist wrapped in dark energy impacted him directly on the stomach, sending him back.
"Gay!" Ryu let out a drowned cry while his back crashed into the trunk of a thick tree, breaking part of the cortex. He coughed ... and a thread of blood escaped from his mouth.
He slid down the trunk, falling on his knees.
Thought. Fast.
"Curse ... are too strong. Who are they ...? Why do they attack me ...?"
The first hooded man walked towards him with a firm step, his hands still wrapped in shadow.
"You could resist one of my blows." You surprise me. I thought you were going to break you like a simple human ...
Ryu tried to get up, staggering.
"But it doesn't matter," the hooded added, raising a fist wrapped in dense darkness. This will be your end.
—Punching to the chest, to the abdomen, to the sides. Ryu could barely lift his arms to cover himself. Each blow made him spit blood and go back a step ... until he fell back on his back, panting. He said and then, he launched a burst of blows. Each impact was like a silent explosion.
His body was trembling. His eyes were cloudy. But his mind ... he still didn't give up.
"No ... I can't die ... yet. Not so ..."
Ryu, wobbly, stood up again. His body was shaking, a broken rib burned him every time he breathed ... but his eyes were still firm.
"I'm not going to give up ... so easy," he growled among gasps.
The hooded one who had his face partially covered by bandages smiled with contempt.
"Then you'll die as an idiot."
He threw himself against him once more. This time, the coup went straight to the side. The creak of a rib breaking resonated in the air. Ryu shouted in pain before being lifted by the neck like a rag doll.
"Gay ...!" He intended to get rid of, kick, hit, but he had no strength. No ... you're not going out with yours ... damn ...!
The demon squeezed more.
"He dies.
But then ...
The other hooded, who had remained out of the margin, turned his head sharply, stirring the body.
- ... We are not alone.
"What did you say?" "The one who had Ryu's neck, without releasing him.
A fraction of a second after, a flash of silver light crossed the air, and an explosion of sacred energy wrapped the scene.
A silhouette fell from the sky like lightning, and in a blink, a leg impacted brutal force against the demon's chest, which released Ryu and shot several meters back, crashing into a tree.
Ryu fell to the ground, coughing blood, but still aware. He looked up with effort, and his eyes met her.
Alice Minazuki.
Standing. Resplendent. With the ice look stuck inThe hooded.
His sword still shone because of the impact.
"T-you ... You took a long time ... A lot," Ryu murmured, with a weak smile.
Alice looked at him sideways without losing her battle posture.
"I'm not for jokes, idiot." Are you alive?
-Narrowly.
She looked at the demons.
"That's more than enough."
The hooded man who had been sent to fly by Alice was reinstated with difficulty. His layer was torn and his body smoked slightly due to the sacred impact. With fury contained, he slowly approached the other demon.
Alice, firm, raised her sword and took a step forward.
"What do demons like you in the human world?"
The hooded on the left growled, raising his heads just.
"We will kill that human."
Alice narrowed her eyes.
So they are already sending murderers ...
The hunt for Ryu's head has already begun.
"Who sent them?" He asked in a freezing voice.
There was a brief silence, and then a dry laugh.
"Do you really think we will tell you ... Damn Angel?"
Ryu, even on the ground, blinked. His body hurt, but the word echoed in his head like a thunder.
-Angel…? He whispered, turning his face to Alice. They ... said "Ángel"?
Alice did not respond.
His gaze remained fixed on demons. His sacred sword vibrated in his hand.
Ryu, even on the floor, looked at her with a broken breathing.
Doubt burned him in his throat.
"Alice ... then ... are you an angel?"
Alice did not look away from demons. His voice was firm, Serena ... almost comforting.
-Yeah. I am an angel.
So don't worry ... everything will be fine.
Rest, Ryu. I take care of these subjects.
The hooded men looked at each other for a second ... and then exploded in guttural laughter.
"Give yourself from us?" One of them growled, raising his demonic energy. Do you really think you can defeat us? Don't make me laugh, heavenly garbage!
"You could hardly throw me away with a surprise blow," said the other, starting to form a spear of shadows in his hand. You will not be so lucky this time.
Alice lowered her sword slightly and closed her eyes for a moment.
"I don't need luck." I just need a moment to purify the scum.
His eyes opened, lit with a silver brightness.
"And you ... had too many."
Alice narrowed her eyes when she saw the dark spear form in the hands of the hooded.
"That launches ... it sounds familiar to me," he murmured, analyzing the energy. But where ...?
"Don't distract yourself!" The demon shouted, throwing himself with a direct punched to the face.
The blow connected.
But Alice ... did not even blink.
The demon retreated with expression of confusion.
"Was that everything?" Alice whispered.
His fist moved like lightning.
Boom!
The hooded flying back as if a train had hit it, crashing into a tree and starting the trunk in half.
Alice did not stop. He turned on herself, caught the second demon from the neck with one hand ... and threw it with a devastating force against her fallen partner. Both hit the ground with a drowned roar.
At that time, Alice began to walk towards them without hurry, without emotion on the face.
And then, the real beating began.
Kicks, fists and clean cuts with your sword wrapped in light.
Each movement was precise, without anger, only pure efficiency.
A heavenly punishment dance.
From the ground, Ryu watched her with very open eyes, half incorporated, bleeding but aware.
"Wow ..." he whispered with a mixture of amazement and admiration.
She is impressive ...
He swallowed.
"I wonder if one day I can ... do something like that too."
Alice held one of the hooded men with a huge force, crashed into the ground. The impact raised dust and left a visible crack on the earth.
"I remember it ..." Alice said while descending softly to the ground, her sword shining with a silver light. " That dark spear belongs to Zerkan.
Then the other ... must be Vareth.
Both demons were slowly rejoined, with the rage drawn in their gestures.
"I know who they are ..." Alice added, coldly, "I have no reason to let them live."
Zerkan watched her with a crooked smile.
"You do not think you already won."
We are barely starting.
With a synchronized movement, both demons removed the hoods.
Zerkan had red skin like fresh blood, but withBlack veins that toured their face as poisonous roots.
His eyes were completely white, without pupils, and two thin but sharp horns went back from their forehead, like thorns of a crooked crown.
His mouth, too elongated to be human, was curved in a constant and unnatural smile.
From his back, fragments of broken bones emerged that vibrated with dark energy, as if they were remains of shattered wings.
Vareth, on the other hand, had a more robust complexion. His skin was also red, but more opaque, rough as a molten rock.
He had thick horns that were curved like a ram.
His jaw was marked by scars, and his teeth were irregular, sharp as broken glass.
His right arm was completely covered by a black organic armor, alive, who beat as if he had his own heart.
Both began to release their demonic energy.
The ground vibrated.
The shadows around trembled.
Even the air ... became heavier.
Zerkan raised his spear with a poisonous smile. The dark energy that surrounded her vibrated as if she were alive, hungry.
Beside him, Vareth turned his arm covered by organic armor. Two long black chains emerged from his doll, dentas as if they had fangs, which clinned in the air with craving to tear.
"Come on, Zerkan!" Let's tear it out!
The spear descended like lightning, while the chains whistled spirally looking to tie it. Said both threw against Alice in unison. One from the air, the other by land. The synchrony was perfect.
But Alice didn't move.
He waited for the right moment.
And then ... it exploded in action.
With a doll's turn, he diverted Zerkan's spear with his sacred sword. The metallic sound was deafening. Vareth's chains wrapped around her arm, but she threw them with brutal force, lifting the demon from the ground as if it were a toy.
With a single rotating kick, he ordered both demons to fly at the same time, crashing them against several trees in the distance.
The impact shook the park. The branches fell, the earth broke, and both bodies rolled several meters ... until they reached the central path.
There, several people who walked quietly stopped when they saw the monstrous bodies rise between dust and blood.
The horns. Red skin. Demonic weapons. The empty looks.
"What are those things ...?"
"They are monsters!"
"They call!"
The screams exploded immediately.
The crowd began to disperse in all directions, terrified. Some stumbled, others dropped their belongings into the hurry.
Alice frowned when she saw chaos.
This already got out of control ... I have to get them out of here before someone dies.
From the ground, Ryu watched the battle with his eyes ahead.
Alice moved as a controlled storm, blocking attacks, counterattacing precisely, pushing demons towards trees as if he had already faced them a thousand times.
Why did I try to fight those subjects ...?
It was a stupid idea ... They are monsters. I had no chance.
He coughed blood. He relied with difficulty on a knee.
But ... that doesn't matter. Alice will take care of them.
Then, he heard it.
The screams.
Fast, desperate. Of people running, stumbling, crying.
He turned his head.
Beyond the battlefield, dozens of civilians fled as they could. Some wore children. Others were paralyzed by fear. And among them ... demons raised again.
People ...!
Ryu's eyes enlarged.
Alice can't protect them and fight at the same time ...!
If she gets distracted, one of those guys is going to kill her.
If you don't ... those people will die.
The air weighed in the lungs. The heart hit him strongly inside his chest.
He forced himself to stand up, staggering, panting.
"No ... I can stay like this ..." he whispered. Not again.
Ryu took a step.
Only one.
And he stopped.
His legs were trembling. His hands too.
He looked at the civilians who ran, Alice who fought, the demons that roared ...
But I couldn't move.
What's happening ...?
The breath became broken.
My body does not react ... but why ...?
He closed his eyes tightly.
And then the memories came.
Yuki's sword slicing through his stomach.
His bones shattered. The cold seeped into his body.
The demon that attacked the city…
People screaming. Buildings crumbling. Pain and suffering everywhere.
Vareth hitting him mercilessly. Zerkan lifting his neck. The blood in his mouth.
Everything overlap in his mind as a dark avalanche.
What if it happens again?
What if they break me again?
What if ... I don't serve anything?
He pressed his teeth.
Impotence burned more than wounds.
I want to move ...
I want to protect them!
But I can't!
A tear fell down his cheek.
Fear was real.
And paralyzing.
Ryu was still still.
Every muscle of his body was trembling.
The heart was beating with violence.
The voices, the screams, the chaos ... everything hit him at the same time.
He looked at people running. To children falling. To the elderly stumbling. To a mother screaming for her son.
And he ... couldn't do anything.
"I can't ..." he murmured in a broken voice.
I can't do anything ...
He closed his eyes tightly. Tears sprouted without permission.
"I'm not a hero ..."
I'm just a normal boy ...
I'm sorry…
Very sorry…
But the pain did not leave.
And the image of all those people suffering was stuck in their chest as invisible blades.
"Is that all you are going to do ...? Ask for forgiveness and look how they kill them ...?"
"Are you going to let your fear decide for you?"
Ryu squeezed his fists.
"Ah, shit with everything!"
His legs yielded for a second ... but forced himself to stand.
"I don't care if I'm weak ..."
I don't care if I'm afraid ...
I prefer to die rather than see other people die without doing anything!
And then he ran.
Wounded, trembling, without a plan, without powers.
But with my heart on.
Ryu ran between the crowd with his heart about to explode.
I didn't have a sword.
I had no wings.
I had no power.
He only had his injured body and his intact will.
"Gone here!" They run along the western road! Fast! He shouted as he pushed branches and helped lift those who fell.
A woman stumbled. Ryu held her by the arm.
-Are you OK? Come on, I help you!
Two boys cried next to a tree, hugged.
-Guys! For here! Come on! He said, bending down. I take them.
He took them from his hands and ran with them, panting, with the body to the limit.
The explosions of light and dark still behind them, where Alice fought alone against demons. But he didn't look back.
He just ran, guided, lifted, carried.
He helped an old man walk.
He took a girl in his arms.
He covered a couple with his body when a shaka of shadow passed nearby.
I had no shields.
I had no magic.
But his determination was stronger than all that.
Alice, in full battle, throws a fleeting look towards the park.
Go to Ryu.
Bleeding. Exhausted. Limbing
But guiding the last survivors outside the danger field.
For a moment, his heart stops.
That idiot ... does not really know when to give up ...
And for the first time ... Alice smiles. Barely. But smile.
With the park finally empty, and civilians out of danger, Ryu stayed alone, looking at the battle in the distance.
Alice kept fighting against Zerkan and Vareth, blocking attacks without rest. The air vibrated with each impact, every burst of light and dark.
But something went on inside him.
Ryu closed his fists.
I have to do something else ... I can't look again!
He breathed deep.
He remembered that day at school ... When by instinct, his body responded. When he jumped higher than he thought possible.
And then, the day he trained alone in the park, feeling that energy flow inside.
"I just have to concentrate ..." he murmured.
He bent down.
He closed his eyes.
And for a moment ... he felt the dark energy run through his veins.
It was more intense than before.
Heavier. More alive.
His heart gave a strong beat.
And he jumped.
The first jump was firm. The second, powerful.
In the third ... the ground creaked under his feet and Ryu shot out to heaven.
"Ahhhh!" He shouted as he was driven like a dark arrow, straight towards his goal.
Zerkan didn't see him come.
Ryu rammed him with brutal force, driven by pure will and raw energy, throwing him against a tree with a dry and surprising blow.
Boom!
The crust broke. The demon fell to the stunned ground.
Ryu also fell badly, rolling down the earth until he stops sideways, panting ... but smiling.
Alice looked at him, completely surprised.
For a moment, he almost lowered his guard.
-That…? Was it ...?
Zerkan spit blood and joined slowly.
"Tch ... cursed human!"
Ryu, trembling for the effort, got up.
"I don't plan to stay still while you destroy the whole city.