Chapitre 20: Chapter Nineteen

They truly were going in for the kill as they suggested because as they approach two of them grab their military swords and one takes a gun out, while the chewing prick stays behind, watching from afar.

I growl, ready to intervene so I can eat my meal fresh, but I'm taken by surprise; or rather, all of them were; when Takamori does not say anything, calm as we watch one of the soldiers go forward and leap up, bringing the sword up to try and slash him down with a wide cut.

But he is the one who ends on the floor, foaming from his mouth and twitching like a fish out of water, eyes rolled up and fingers curled like iron hooks.

After a while he stops moving and lays limp on the floor, his head falling to the side on the cold floor as his conscious fades.

We all look back at Takamori who had pocketed the pipe, with velvet darkness covering his features, the yellow eyes shining as he brings his hand up and illuminates part of his face with it for his hand is crisscrossed by thousands of lighting that zigzag like snakes along his skin and escape into the air, too quick for the eye as only the afterimage leaves an impression at the back of the mind.

"Boys, you don't need to be like this, there is enough trouble in this town without having to look for one."

"A little early to be begging for your life don't you think?"

"I'm only asking you to leave calmly."

"Bullshit!" The one with the gun says at the same time as he brings the weapon up, takes aim and presses the trigger without a moment of hesitation, but Takamori did not react in fear not lost his calm, he actually looked somehow… disappointed.

And when the bullet flies up from the blasting gun towards Takamori, cutting the air on the way to hammering on his face, he moves his arm and hand up in a scooping move upwards and the once small lighting from his hand grow and reachs the floor, going up like a whip as it burned the floor with it and once it reaches the bullet's path the electrical static ricochets it back to its owner, all so fast that the only thing the others see is the bullet hitting the gun holder's skull instead of Takamori's.

All are left in a state of shock for the only thing they could picture of the situation is that a blinding light shone for a moment only for the bullet to turn around, so their confusion at the odd outcome is understandable.

With only two guys left the odds seem favorable for Takamori as the other with the sword starts to back off, but the prick who stayed behind… applauded slowly, not impressed.

"Bravo! I knew you were a high-level Transmundane! You Shinkaki scum can keep trying to deceive us as much as you want, but us Wilraine are smarter than you all, these so-called 'costumes' of yours to try and conceal Transmundanes eyes my putting lens will not fool us! I knew we were one of the freaks from the start! But impressive tricks! Bravo, bravo!" He says sarcastically.

"Then you know just how stupid you are being right now kid. Back off."

��Kid?" He scoffs. "And don't worry… I came prepared just for that. I'm not one to hunt easy prey after all…Oh, how impolite of me, I haven't told you my name, yes Black Raven? I'm Sean Cole, at your service."

Only then Takamori seems to get worried, for even though he had already down two of the four the most troublesome of the group is this far and laughing.

Plus that name seems to have ringed some alert bells in his brain.

And for good reason since in a few moments the tables turn, all this fight ending as quickly as it began.

The prick chewing man suddenly rolls something on the floor that had been hidden at the palm of his gloved hand, and the metal ball rolls quickly toward Takamori, who has only enough time to step back before it clacks open and a blinding light shines in the once very dark streets, making me grunt in pain and put my arm in front of my light-sensitive eyes.

At this point, not wanting to lose what was going on but taking far longer than them to recover from that light attack I start tapping my nail on the rooftop and use that sound to 'see', though the details escape me I can at least have an overall understanding of the situation.

After the light attack both Takamori and the soldier at the front are left blind for a few moments, and that is far more than enough for the chewy guy, Sean, to launch an attack; but he is smart, or experienced with this kind of situation, for he doesn't try to approach, a wise decision since Takamori starts attacking blindly and hits the other guy with a lightning bolt, but instead rolls another device that bips when it gets close enough to Takamori.

The metal ball then opens up like a little spider and launches something on the other man, ropes I assume, and the next second Takamori's arms and legs are bound close to his body in a tight embrace that makes him lose his balance and fall straight down on the floor without any protection.

That's why, bounded like that, he ends up hitting the cold hard floor headfirst and, as the smell of his blood reaches my nostrils, passes out from the impact.

Sean doesn't rush to attack, instead calmly spits the leaf that he was chewing to the side as he says: "All freaks are the same, think themselves invincible just because of some little powers you have, but you all should just accept your fate and stop making me waste so many soldiers all the time."

At that the pulls his gun out and takes aim at the defenseless Takamori, not before taking another one of those leaves, something that smelled nice and minty, to chew at it again, brushing his brownish-red unmoving hair back and resting his hand there, making the moonlight briefly reflect on his glasses lens, all of that made in a flowing gesture that a normal person would do, and I could almost believe him to be one.

If it wasn't for the creepy big smile pasted on his face, and the upturned curve on his disturbing eyes.

He took pleasure on the kill, on the successful hunt, and that is something I could relate too.

Only that he celebrated far too early.

"Well, it doesn't matter, I'm happy to have one less of your kind nonetheless. Bye bye."

And that's when I interfere.