บท 41: Let's go on a Ghost Hunt! (Filler) Pt. 1
"Are you almost done?"
"No, just give me a couple of minutes."
"Dude, we've been here for about 15 minutes are you done picking that lock or not?"
"Like I said, give me more time. It's been a while since I tried to do a breaking and entering without kicking the door down, which would have been quicker if someone would let me do it."
"For the last time, Michael, I'm not going to let you kick the Kaichou's office door down. We are doing this inconspicuously and that's final."
"Fine then…just give me a little more time."
"How much time? We've been here for almost half an hour!"
"Then stop rushing me!"
Whispering and arguing at the same time, Michael and Saji were trying to infiltrate the Student Council President, Sona's office. Looking out for anyone, who would enter the student council's room, Saji stood in front of Michael, who was busy trying to pick the lock to Sona's office.
Earlier that day, Saji had asked Michael to help him retrieve something from the office regarding a file. He decided to make a pass to allow Michael to leave class early. Accepting the request because he was bored and didn't want to do any more schoolwork, Michael decided to help Saji.
"So would you mind telling me why you need this file?" Michael asked.
"It's something really important that I need to see and confirm, myself. It's impossible to ask the Kaichou for it, so this is my only option." Saji said.
"So you're breaking the rules that sounds like something I would do…" Michael started to sniffle and wipe some tears away from his eyes.
"Mike, are you crying?" Saji sweatdropped.
"I'm sorry, it was just so sudden that I never realized my own best pal would stoop to doing something this crazy… I'm so prooooud! You're becoming like me by the second!" Michael wailed, "I'm the best influence ever!"
"No you're not. You're actually the worst." Saji shook his head, "And don't think I'm doing this for glory like you would, I'm actually doing this because I'm worried for someone."
"You are for who?"
"Well…"
'That bad, huh?'
Michael noticed Saji's casted down gaze, Michael didn't want to pry anything else while doing his job so he focused more on opening the office. Putting more effort into picking the lock Michael managed to open the door in time.
"There...I got it."
"You did?"
"Just make sure to get whatever you need before we get cau-."
"Huh, Saji-kun? You're here early. Did you finish your duties? A-And H-Hanamura-kun? Why are you here, too?"
Both Michael and Saji froze and turned around to see it was Sona's rook and 2nd year, Tsubasa Yura. Looking sketchy both males looked to each other with dry smiles warranting suspicion from the rook.
'Okay, just come up with a good excuse and we'll be home free.' Saji's eyebrow twitched.
"Well, you see. We were asked by the Kaichou to acquire some paperwork for her." Saji lied.
"Yeah, that's right and my Buchou wanted me to see how things were going over here and provide any help if you guys needed any assistance with the school after the whole meeting incident!" Michael laughed, piling a lie over another lie.
"Really?" Tsubasa wanted to confirm things.
"Of course, I mean I am the Great Hanamura, so sending me to handle things here would clear any trouble you guys have here!" Michael pounded his chest proudly, "It's not like we're trying to break in or anything! Hahahaha!"
*GLEAM!*
Michael gave Saji a thumbs up and a white grin. Saji face palmed in response.
'You idiot, now you are making this harder to get away with. I wouldn't be surprised if you blew our cover.' Saji looked over to Tsubasa.
"Whoa...I mean since it's you, then I guess that makes a lot of sense." Tsubasa muttered with a slight flush of her cheeks.
"Eh?" Saji looked at his fellow servant in disbelief. How come she was so accepting of their lies and Michael's constant babbling?
"Hehehe! See? Someone notices my cool abilities!" Michael laughed excitedly while lightly punching Saji's shoulder.
"Y-Yeah." Saji groaned then examined Tsubasa's change in demeanor.
'Tsubasa-san looks quite different than before. What is making her act this way? ...! Could it be that-?' Saji notices Tsubasa fidgeting while she was in the middle of a conversation with Michael, her words came out in little stutters.
Remembering the events after the meeting, Saji quietly thanked himself for realizing this, 'That's right, I heard from the others that Tsubasa-san grew to like Mike after his fight with the Vanishing Dragon, I also heard she likes men who fight and get muddy afterwards.'
Seeing this as his chance to look around for the file, Saji gave a huge smile and patted Michael behind the back.
"Say Tsubasa-san, why don't you and Mike speak for a while as I go get the paperwork that Kaichou needs, okay?"
"W-What?" Tsubasa gasped as she looked between Michael and Saji at the same time.
"Dude, what are you on about?" Michael found it strange to be left alone with someone he barely talked to.
Leaning close to Michael's ear, Saji whispers, "Listen, Mike, I need you to stall her and anybody who comes in while I go look for the file, all right?"
"Mmmmm…fine, but you better hurry. I hate awkward pauses." Michael whispered back.
"I'll be right back." Saji rushes into the office.
"So…"
"So…"
Both Michael and Tsubasa said in tandem as they were left alone.
'Damn you awkward pauses!' Michael screamed in his head.
Michael decided to break the ice, "How's working for the Kaichou it seems rough to me."
"It is tiring, but being her servant is quite fulfilling." Tsubasa answered, "And you, what about your master, Rias Gremory-senpai?"
Giving a thumbs up and a grin, Michael responds, "Well, of course, I wouldn't have any other master to serve as the Great Hanamura!"
"Then we both feel the same way towards our masters. They both are really strong."
"Yup!" Michael chuckled in agreement.
Seeing that Michael was in a good mood, Tsubasa decided to stop beating around the bush and ask,
"But you're strong as well."
"You think I am?" Michael questioned.
"Of course, I've heard a lot about you from the Kaichou and saw some recordings from your past fights."
"Wow! I even have recordings of my fights? That's awesome! Finally, I'm getting the attention of everyone who watches it, right? Right!?" Michael's eyes gleamed brighter than stars.
"Actually, it was more private to those who were around. Only a few of us watched it while the others were satisfied with the result and chose not to watch the whole the recording." Tsubasa explained, "I believe some don't know or care about the struggle you had to be put through to win, so they didn't put much thought into most of your wins."
*SHATTER!*
Tsubasa saw the now depressed Michael holding his chest after having his expectations shattered,
"N-No one cared?"
"I-I mean...I wasn't one of them, I really enjoyed your fights. Especially, the ones where you got a little dirty." Tsubasa's cheeks flushed.
"You do?" Michael begins to lighten up.
"Mm! Yeah, I mean you looked, well, pretty cool when you fought dirty, it's very inspiring too. To see a man whose constantly pushed down get right back up and fight a grueling battle is something I admire." Tsubasa said under her breath,
"Even though we of the student council have our duty to protect the school, you did a better job of doing that, twice, and so I kind of think your pretty…pretty neat for getting that beaten up for this academy."
Tsubasa mentally beat herself up for failing to come up with a better compliment than that. But luckily for her, Michael didn't mind he felt that hearing that was good enough.
Hearing that Michael grins and laughs, "Wow, thanks. You know what, Tsubasa? I didn't really have an opinion of you before since we never actually talked, but I kind of like people like you!"
"W-What?" Tsubasa gasped as he cheeks flushed even red, her face turned red as well.
"Hehehehehehehe!" Michael laughed.
Playing around with her fingers, Tsubasa coughs, "Well the Hanamura-kun, if you're okay with it, then would you mind if I…I mean if you want to…it's not like I'm forcing you or anything to go out on a da-."
"Oh my god…"
Tsubasa stops herself once Michael's face turns pale and he starts sweating in fear.
"H-Hanamura-kun?" Tsubasa turns around to see the direction Michael was so afraid of seeing but in turn sweats as well.
"Ufufufufu! Michael-sama…just what the hell is this?"
Smiling while exuding a demonic aura from her body was Raynare, she was worried for Michael's wellbeing after he got pulled out of class and pretended to go to the nurses to look around for him. Though finding him so close to Tsubasa while she was blushing gave her the only answer she needed.
"R-R-R-Ray-chan, how are things going with you?" Michael noticed that look of anger in Raynare's eyes as she approached him.
"Oh, nothing~! I was just worried that you were getting yourself into trouble." Raynare takes a cold glance at Tsubasa before smiling with her demonic aura growing sharp, "And lookie here, I guess I was right…"
"W-What do you mean?" Michael gulped.
"Oh, you know what I mean, so don't lie. Mic-hael-sa-ma~!" Raynare sang with a creepy tone in her voice.
"Oh my god-ow! Seriously, there is nothing going on here just ask-!"
"You're LYING!"
Everything in the room went quiet as Raynare shouted that in Michael's face. Closing in on him, Raynare said with her same frightening smile,
"And do you know what happens to bad little boys who lie, Michael-sama?" Raynare whispered close to Michael's ear.
"Uh…t-they get a little warning to never do it again?"
"No, Michael-sama, they get punished like all little boys who do bad things and you're that little boy." Raynare forms a light spear in her hand and holds it behind her back, "So how will it be? Do you want it painlessly fast, or do you want it to agonizingly slow~!"
Taking a stuttering step back, Michael started to sweat buckets something Tsubasa noticed after watching the two interact.
Rushing out the office with the files in hand, Saji says, "Okay, I got it now let's head ou-! What's going on out here?"
Saji looks between the terrified Michael and the terrifying Raynare and comes to a realization on the situation. Tsubasa rushes to Saji in a panic.
"Saji-kun, you have to help Hanamura-kun right away before something terrible happens!"
"What do you mean? We could just explain to her about how I left you guys alone for a while to talk while I handled some busi-Oh! Yeah, now I see why it would be hard to just say that." Saji pinched his temples.
"Help me…" Michael whispered in distress.
Raynare, who was instinctively ignoring Tsubasa and Saji's presence, drew closer to Michael with her light spear in hand. Things were about to go over the deep end real fast!
"Ufufufufufufu! You can't get out of this one, Michael-sama!" Raynare laughed as she approached slowly.
"Please…" Michael strained his voice in another whisper. He is in need of dire help.
Separating the two, Saji turns to Raynare to try and soothe the angered woman, "Raynare-san, look Mike here was here helping me with a job of retrieving something, so you shouldn't be getting the idea that he was doing something despicable well more despicable than what he normally does."
"Hey!"
"Don't try and save face, Michael, you know its already too late for that!"
Saji groaned, "Anyways, could you please overlook this small incident and allow him to go free?"
Raynare glared at Michael then Tsubasa, weighing her options heavily, realizing an idea she said,
"Only on one condition." Raynare pulled Saji closer and whispered something to him. By the pale and terrified look on Saji's face it must have been terrifying.
"Ufufufu! Are we clear?"
"Y-Yes, we are no need to worry. I'll take care of that soon." Saji nods while swallowing a huge lump of saliva. That bad!
'I don't like the looks of this…' Michael gulped.
"Well, since everything is settled. I'll take my leave, so until you return home, Michael-sama, I wish you the best of luck with your job with Saji-kun!" Raynare waved goodbye.
'I'm not going back!' Michael shook his head and waved goodbye.
"U-Um, Raynare-san, I hope that this doesn't put any bad blood between us." Tsubasa scratched her and approached the fallen angel.
"WHAT? No, no, of course not. So come give me a hug!" Raynare opened her arms.
"T-Thanks for the offer, but I really don't need o-." Tsubasa stops as Raynare suddenly hugs her with a tight grip.
"See everything is good, can't you tell?" Raynare giggled.
"I-I guess…" Tsubasa muttered a little frightened.
Putting her lips near to Tsubasa's ear, Raynare whispers eerily, "If I find you trying to make any moves on Michael-sama again I. Will. Cut. You. Bitch…"
"Hiiiiiiii!"
Tsubasa starts to yelp in fear, but Raynare tries to calm her down with a calm stroke to her hair. Which made it scarier to allow happen.
"Ah, ah, don't make any sound now play it cool in 3…2…1…"
"Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry! Did I do too much? Well, you could have said so Tsu-chan, we'll be the bestest of friends, don't you think?"
Holding her stomach in fear, Tsubasa looked like she was going to throw up, "E-Excuse me, I really need to go to the bathroom."
"Hey, Tsubasa, are you okay? Wasn't there something you wanted to ask me?" Michael asked with concern.
Tsubasa felt herself elated to try and ask out Michael, but the piercing glare coming from Raynare silenced her ability to continue. Though it pains her to stop when the going was good, Tsubasa felt more inclined to be patient for a later time.
"N-No, don't worry about that Hanamura-kun." Tsubasa smiled sadly and left the student council room.
"Well, that was strange." Saji muttered as Raynare walks out the door waving goodbye smirking.
"Don't forget, Saji-kun, you have to live up to your bargain of the deal~."
"I know." Saji tiredly sighed.
Now being left alone, Michael looked to his friend and said,
"Dude, are you okay? What did she ask you to do?"
Looking rather serious, Saji places a hand on Michael's shoulder and says,
"Mike, remember to put any favor over my head after what I had just agreed to."
"Eh? That doesn't sound good at all!" Michael panicked, "What are you going to do?"
Looking displeased with his rash decision, Saji breathes out, "Let's just go, Mike."
"Oi! Come back! What did you promise to do!?" Michael shouted at his friend in worry.
After a few minutes of walking down the corridors of the school, Michael and Saji meet on a single bench outside of the school to discuss what was in those files. But after being scared to death by his friend, Michael had gotten an appetite and decided to bring his lunch with him.
"You know lunch won't start for another hour, right?"
"No, no, no, you don't understand as soon as we were done with Raynare, I rushed to the bathroom because she literally scared the ever living piss out of me, so I need to rehydrate myself." Michael sounded distressed, the thought of returning home frightened him the most because if one of those girls know then they'll all know eventually. Taking high measures to ensure his safety, Michael decided it would be safer not to return home for a while.
"Alright, but don't say you're hungry later, or-."
"Devil warrior needs food!" Michael starts chowing down as Saji sweatdropped.
'Is this really the guy I'm asking for help?'
"So what are so special about those things?" Michael pointed towards the file.
"These." Saji tosses down a stack of files on the table with stacks of missing people who looked to be wearing traditional Japanese wear. Like old feudal priest traditional wear. And last but not least there was a picture of a muddied crest on the ground with the appearance of a necklace. The crest looked to be rather old and traditional looking too.
"What are these?" Michael examined the photos.
"Missing people reports, the Kaichou received these from a certain clan leader whose entire clan's purpose is to dispel the evil spirits in japan or other countries." Saji explained.
"A clan, huh, so what is their name?" Michael looked at each file and realized a few of them did look the same a little like most clans citizens do.
"The Shinra Clan."
"Wait, the Shinra Clan? That sounds familiar I wonder why though."
"Because it's the same clan that Tsubaki-senpai was in."
"Oh, you mean the fuku-kaichou?"
"Yes, and their clan is in dire trouble. To contact devils for a job like this isn't ordinary. They say that they're clan members are being taken away by some ghosts. A few have even spotted those members stalking around this area lifelessly with no light in their eyes."
"So you mean we're dealing with ghosts, huh?"
"Yeah, I know it's hard to believe, but it's actually true." Saji found the concept of ghosts a little strange since most are rarely seen nowadays in this era. Especially, those who terrorize humans except for familiars who take the form of one.
"I know, I believe you because stranger stuff has happened like that time where I met a dragon king who tried to kill me, fighting off a flaming chicken, getting trained by a monkey youkai, and can talk to a voice in my head who tells me to do things. Personally, this is child's play." Michael laughed.
"When you put it like that, I have no words to describe how right you are." Saji places down the files looking rather sad.
'There it is again…' Michael noticed this.
"So why are you so concerned about this? Shouldn't this be a matter you as the whole student council should do?" Michael asked.
"Well, you see the thing is only Tsubaki-senpai was chosen to handle this job alone." Saji clenched his hands on his legs.
"Only her?"
"Yes, you know how there are some humans who detest sacred gear users?"
"Yeah, of course that same thing happened with Asia, for someone to be treated just by the power they have instead of their own being as a person just makes me mad." Michael growled.
Saji nods in agreement holding the same resentment against people like that, "Tsubaki-senpai, who used to be a part of that clan, was shunned by it and ignored by everyone even her own parents."
"What?" Michael couldn't believe this, even the parents neglected their own child? Wait a minute, Tsubaki can use a sacred gear?
"Fuka-kaichou can use a sacred gear what is it?" Michael was interested to know.
"I haven't really seen it yet, but I heard that it's a sacred gear which reflects the attack of a user back at them with double the damage."
"Whoa, that sounds troublesome for a guy like me. I'd probably get taken out in a fight if I use all my strength in a single attack!" Michael could feel that a sacred gear like that could hinder a lot of his team during a rating game should the Gremory family go up against the Sitri family.
But most of all he worried for Xenovia, he could describe her as a real power freak, one day after the meeting incident she was so astonished with him using his explosive power that she started to ask him to spar every now and then. He found sparing with the Durandal wielder beneficial for his usage in Balance Breaker and common knowledge to defend himself against a weapon using opponent. But once Xenovia had started asking questions about how to overcome technical moves with absolute power, Michael tried to explain that overpowering an attack won't always win a fight and that she could think of another way to overpower the enemy. She still wouldn't heed that advice and kept hounding him until she decided to just train harder with him to attain the same level of destructive power he holds.
'Man, sometimes, I just don't get her, but I guess I would think that way too if I weren't trained by Shishou.' Michael gave a big sigh, 'I just can't believe she didn't bother to listen.'
"Huh, is something wrong?" Saji noticed the disappointed look on Michael's face.
"No, it's nothing, but anyways why would a clan ignore the Fuka-kaichou for something as trivial as mirrors it seems rather stupid."
"I don't know the details either, but you have to remember ordinary people aren't so comfortable with those involved with the supernatural."
"Yeah, I guess that's a reason."
"First, they ousted her for having a strange power? Next, they come crawling back to begging for her help after all that they did to her. Those guys sure know how to act proud of themselves the bastards!" It sounded like Saji went through a rough experience when they arrived to ask for help, "But senpai wasn't mad or anything she looked neutral about the whole thing so she took the request." Saji was mad at the gall of the Shinra clan acknowledging a member they shunned only when a situation required it. Sounds like they were using her as a momentary tool before shunning her once more.
His anger being tempered Saji looked sad as he continued,
"Though she may look it. I can tell when she's off on her work, too. The Kaichou had to give her some time to think before accepting the job, and within those few days she wasn't that strict Onee-sama, who would scold us for slacking on the job because her mind was probably cloudy of the thought of helping her old clansmen who made her an outcast to her own family. Senpai has been acting rather strange with a few us too I could tell in her eyes that she's really bothered." Saji looked to Michael and pleaded,
"Which is why I'll need your help to take care of this issue."
Laughing to himself Michael exclaimed, "Of course, I mean anything to get out of school!"
"I knew it would be that easy to get you on board." Saji deadpanned his head against the table.
"But just call this fair because of the Kiba thing from earlier, I still need to pay you back after all!" Michael gave a thumbs up.
"You sure as hell better. I got my ass spanked thanks to you!" Saji glared.
"Hey! Hey, we could talk about the past or assemble our "M" team!" Michael struck a heroic pose.
"The "M" team?"
"Yeah, the Michael team good name, right?" Michael thought if they were doing this then they needed more help like last time.
"No, why would we need a team name its ugh… we'll discuss the name later." Saji already got someone on board so he shouldn't worry over that stuff.
"So who are we taking with us?" Saji propped his head up against the table with his arm.
"Of course I do, and they are…!" Michael began.
6 hours later, standing near the woods of town were Michael and Saji wearing their normal clothing aside from their school uniforms. But that's not all because there were 2 others with them as well.
"Pretty Boy, and Gasper!" Michael threw up both of his arms as he introduced both the smiling knight and frightened bishop who too were wearing their normal day off clothes.
"Really? You had to stay quiet and drag those two here to finish that sentence?" Saji wondered why Michael didn't say a thing throughout their endeavor to find Kiba and Gasper.
"Yes, its way more fun than you think." Michael turned towards his fellow servants, "Alright, guys! You get the gist of our plan after Saji filled you in?"
"We'll do our best to provide support for fuka-kaichou." Kiba nods in agreement.
"H-Hai! I'll do m-m-m-m-my best!" Gasper was shaking in his boots after Michael explained the job to capture some ghosts Gasper felt frightened to go, but then he decided to swallow up his massive fear to try and provide some help if he could. He didn't want to disappoint Michael who he looked up to.
"Yeah, and keep an eye out for ghosts too. We could be famous if we snagged one and showed it to the public!" Michael raised his net high.
"Is that why you brought that?" Kiba asked.
"Of course. I bought this online from an honest to good salesman he said no ghost could escape this net!"
"M-Michael-nii, I think you got scammed." Gasper who was hiding behind Michael commented.
"No, Gasper, its real. He even proved it to me in a video he sent it looked so real that the camera caught the green ectoplasmic aura around the ghost, it was so huge the entire screen was green."
Michael was starting to look gullible that even Gasper commented,
"Huh? A green screen that projects images of computer models onto the surface of the wall."
Michael was confused he knew Gasper was knowledgeable about computers, but he had a feeling that if he accepted that it was a trick he would look like a big idiot.
"And how much did he charge?" Saji couldn't believe his friend bought that malarkey.
"Oh nothing, I gave him 60,000 yen using a debit card." Michael laughed.
"You spent that much using your debit card!?" Saji exclaimed.
"Saji! Saji, listen I didn't say my debit card. I said a debit card." Michael winked at Saji.
Saji was confused, "Why are you winking at me?"
"Oh, no reason…" Michael then pulls out a card from his shorts, "Here's you debit card by the way. You dropped it in your mom's kitchen, she gave it to me to give it back to you, so there."
Saji takes the card and laughs, "Why thank you…wait a minute you fucking BASTARD, you used my money!?"
"Technically, it was my money because I had to show I.D. when I used it so…" Michael pulled out Saji's student I.D. as well, "You have got to take better care of your things, Saj."
"Why you…" Saji lunged at Michael.
"Okay, let's settle down now." Kiba separated the two 2nd year years and looked to Saji.
"Saji-kun, you said that the disappearances were sighted here?" Kiba asked.
Discussing this incident with money later, Saji confirms Kiba's question,
"Most members of the Shinra clan have been sighted here at this very location. Some have been shown to be silent and wouldn't respond to their clansmen's calls."
"Could they have been taken over by the ghosts?"
"That's a slight possibility."
"Hiiiiiiiii! Getting taken over that sounds very scary!" Gasper whimpered in fear.
"Come on, Gasper. As the Gremory boys, we have to show them how great we are by pushing through." Michael encouraged his kouhai. Gasper starts to grow determined but there was still a hint of fear in his eyes.
"H-Hai, Michael-nii!"
"Okay, so our goals here are to find the ghosts and capture them are we clear?" Saji wanted to confirm things one more time. Everyone nodded.
"Good."
Everyone started mobilizing down the forest. No matter what happens they must do they're best to support Tsubaki through this.
"Yosh! Let's move out, everyone! Team M.K.G.S is on the move!" Michael cheered.
"M.K.G.S. what does that mean?" Saji asked.
"You know!" Michael rubbed his chin, "It an anagram of our first names Michael, Kiba, Gasper and Saji."
"How come your name gets to be the first one?"
Michael would have expected that comment from Saji, but surprisingly it was Kiba who said that.
"Well, because I'm the Great Hanamura."
"That's not a reason at all, Michael." Saji smiled proudly, "As the one who took this job and formed all of you here, I think I should be the one with the first name in front."
"Well, do you have a Longinus classed sacred gear and 8 pawn pieces?" Michael smirked as he hit a stinging wound towards Saji's pride.
"W-Well no, but-!"
"Of course not, so shut the hell up, and I'm the first letter so get used to it." Michael growled.
"In actuality, I believe I should be the first letter since K goes before M and S." Kiba suggested.
"Quiet, Pretty Boy!"
"U-Um… since I've been a devil longer than all of you, maybe I should be the first letter."
"What? Gasper even you!"
"S-Sorry!" Gasper hid behind Kiba.
Now an argument ensued for 23 minutes as they trudged down the path coming to a solution.
"Okay, so here is what we'll do for each of us. We'll use our first lettered name in the anagram when we address ourselves."
Everyone nods at Saji's suggestion.
"Good for example, I will say mine as S.K.G.M. is that good do we have everyone jotted down as okay?"
"I'm fine with it."
"M-Me too."
"How come my name is the last letter in your anagram?" Michael had to be that guy.
"Grrrrrrrrr!" Saji growled.
Rustling unexpectedly a few bushes were being moved. Was somebody there?
"What was that?" Kiba carefully readies a Holy-Demonic sword for any attacks.
"Hiiiiiii! It's a ghost!" Gasper cried.
"I didn't expect, we'd run into one of them here." Saji wondered if it was really what they were looking for.
"Alright! Time to do this!" Michael readied his net and charged at the supposed ghost.
A white light starts to appear from the bushes as it walks onto the trail. The white light revealed a man wearing a white traditional yukata worn by the Shinra clan.
"Wait, Mike, stop!" Saji reached out.
"Gotcha!" Michael waved his net at the man and completely missed. No, it went through the man and so did Michael.
*THUMP!*
"Ouch! My net didn't even touch him!" Michael picks himself up after his fall.
"So it is a ghost, but why is he in the form of one of the Shinra clan's members?" Saji asked himself.
"Either way it's still one of those ghosts reported, so we should at least detain it any way we can." Kiba readied his holy-demonic sword.
"No, maybe we could ask it anything it knows before that." Saji recommended.
"Yeah, that could work…" Michael snapped his fingers in front of the glowing man's face and said, "Hey, big guy, you know why you and your pals are kidnapping the Fuka-kaichou's clan members?"
"…"
The man held the same neutral expression like before.
"Oi! Speak up already, or else I will!" Michael growled as he entered a long rant about the ghost with empty threats.
"That's odd." Saji said.
"What is?"
"That ghost, it resembles a clansman from the Fuka-kaichou's clan right, but I'm not feeling any similarities in his presence that matches Tsubaki-senpai."
"Y-You're right, I don't sense anything like that at all." Gasper looked at the man for a second and once again saw that this presence seemed different.
"Ghosts are still souls with individual auras and presences and since its base quality is not like the Fuka-kaichou, who had this aura as a past clansmen, what could that thing possibly be then?" Kiba said.
Michael was losing his patience, he couldn't punch the guy cause his fist would go through and his provocative insults didn't work too. About to turn to the others, Michael looks down to see a 4 leaf clover underneath him.
"Cool."
While he was bending down the glowing man's eyes flashed red as he formed a katana in one with using the glowing aura around his body.
"Mike!"
"M-Michael-nii!"
"Michael-kun!"
"Intruders!"
The man swung his katana for Michael's head, who bends over to pick up the leaf clover entirely missing him completely. Standing back up, Michael holds his leaf clover and said,
"My lucky day."
"Mike, you have to get out of there!"
"Huh, why?" Michael asks but hears the sound of his net chopped in half and falling towards the ground, "How did…?"
Michael looks behind himself to see the glowing man hold his katana over his head.
"Oh, crud…" Michael gasped.
"Gasper-kun!"
"H-Hai!" Gasper's eyes shined as he used Balor View to stop the man's arm momentarily as Kiba rushes in and pushes Michael out of the way into a thorn bush.
"Aaaack! The hell, Kiba!?"
"My apologies, Michael-kun!" Kiba catches the man's katana with his holy demonic sword once Gasper stopped his hold on it. Kiba attempts to test his theory if his blade could reach this man by thrusting it forward. It still went through him completely.
"Intruders must die!" The man pulls back and effectively performs a deadly head-on attack with strikes that a professional can pull off. Of course, Kiba was more skilled, but he couldn't parry and attack because his opponent was intangible already.
'How am I supposed to fight an opponent I can't touch?' Kiba grunts as the man's effort of pushing him back were starting to work.
'If we can hurt this thing physically, the least we can do is completely freeze it.' Saji looked towards Gasper.
Hearing a loud roar, Saji stops to look over at Michael, who was rushing at the man with his fist cocked back.
"Alright, enough of this time to kick some ass!"
"Mike, wait, you can physically hit it!"
"Saji, just believe in me!"
"Mike, we've been through this before you don't want to go through this again!"
"Saji…Believe…" Michael whispered that last part as he engaged the glowing man in place for Kiba.
Walking back to the others, Kiba asked, "Should we be doing something?"
"Yeah, just follow my lead and keep chanting believe." Saji groaned.
"A-Alright, let's put faith in Michael-nii."
"Doing something a little strange can be fun sometimes."
Both Gasper and Kiba were on board.
"Believe…believe…believe…believe…believe…"
Saji started chanting.
"Believe…believe…believe…believe…believe…believe…"
Kiba followed along with him.
"Believe…believe…b-believe…believe…"
Soon everyone was chanting.
"Yes, the power of your faith has strengthened me!" Michael roared as his movements have improved with the chants of his friends. The support was building up his power.
'Just a little more…just a little more!' Michael lunged at the man and cocked back his fist ready for an attack. With his spirit being raised Michael believed he could do it…
Too bad it wasn't enough because his attack went straight through the glowing man who slashed his katana against Michael's back, barely grazing him. Good thing he could use touki or that would have been dangerous.
"Gaah!" Michael fell on his knees and hands.
"Well, didn't we all see that coming?" Saji face palmed.
"M-Michael-nii, are you all right?" Gasper looked out for his senior in worry.
Picking himself up, Michael groans and looks back to his group with narrowed eyes,
"All right, which one of y'all mother truckers didn't believe hard enough?"
"Pretty sure I did."
"So did I."
"M-M-Me too."
Everyone answered the truth.
"Then who didn't believe?" Michael exclaimed loud enough for everyone around the forest to hear.
[Hmmm? I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention for the entire day. What did I miss?]
"Ddraig, you didn't believe in me!?"
[What are you talking about I've been resting since our fight with Albion, so excuse me for not being aware of your social life these past days. Besides, there wouldn't be any change to it anyways.]
"Hey!"
[So you're fighting a spirit, huh?]
"Yeah, I am, so tell me what I should do I can't hit it using physical attacks." Michael picks himself up to face the glowing man.
[…Partner, do you know what Touki is?]
"Yeah, it's a fighting spirit which allows the user to enhance their speed, power and any other skills they have."
[Goooood! Now what are ghosts?] Ddraig started treating the boy like a toddler.
"A spirit…?"
[Very good. Now what if you used a spirit to fight a spirit would that be effective?]
Getting the gist of it, Michael slumped down, "Ddraig…"
[It's so basic like 1 plus 1, oh... Do you need a lesson on that too, well, first addition is…]
"Okay, you don't have to be an asshole about it!" Michael coats his fists with Touki.
[It's the only way you'll learn.]
"Intruders!" The man raised his katana over his head.
"Suck on this ghost freak!"
*WHAM!*
Michael's fist sent the ghost flying into a tree. Ddraig's method of fighting back actually worked!
"Woohoo, I got him!" Michael cheered.
"So our plan to fight these guys rely on using spirit based attacks?" Saji scratched his head.
"Seems that way." Kiba replied happily.
"Now Mr. Ghost you're our prisoner, so don't try any funny stuff, okay?" Michael points at the glowing man with pride.
"Intruders…" The ghost simply stood up and tried to fight once more.
"Hiiiiiiiii! It can still fight!" Gasper screamed in fear after seeing a ghost shrug off one of Michael's blows like it was nothing.
"It can still fight? But I made sure to put half of my strength behind that attack."
"No use to question that, we still have to capture it! Line on!" Saji summons his Absorption Line and extends it to latch onto the ghost but to no avail, "Well that failed."
"Intruders…must…die…" The ghost muttered.
"Michael-kun, I'll back you up whenever he attacks, I'll block and you use your touki to counter attack." Kiba was about to rush in.
"Gotcha, and if things get too hairy we can have Gasper use his sacred gear to stop the bastard completely. We may not get answers, but it would be a start." Michael decided to accept Kiba's support.
"Hah! Good luck with killing us dude, I'll just flatten you again in no time!" Michael raised his fists.
"Intruders…will…be terminate-!"
"Return to me at once we have more company!" A voice rang out from the entire surrounding.
"A voice?" Saji looked around for the source.
"Yes, master." The ghost slowly phases into the ground and retreats.
"He's escaping don't let him get away!" Michael roared.
"OI!"
All the guys leapt after the ghost all at once and failed as it had already escaped following the boys piling up over each other.
A few seconds of awkward silence later.
"You know after thinking about it. All of us jumping after a ghost, we can't touch at the same time. Not our best idea." Kiba groaned.
"I concur." Saji groaned.
"Yeah…" Michael groaned.
"I-I-I can't breathe…" Gasper gasped for air as all the older boys were crushing him.
Gathering their bearings after that nonsense happened the boys followed the trail further downwards to a clearing up ahead. There was an ominous light just up ahead. Getting down into the bushes the boys looked out to see a strange sight of a row of glowing silhouettes in the form of the Shinra clansmen ranging from men to women.
An eerie arrangement of candles covered the clearing as a wooden alter stood in the middle.
"W-What is this place?" Gasper gulped.
"Those people, they look like the ones from the files." Saji said.
"So does that mean they were killed?" Michael gasped.
"Not exactly, look behind them." Kiba pointed out.
Behind those ghostly silhouettes were the real bodies of the clansmen unconscious and oblivious to their surroundings.
"The bodies! Hey, guy,s I found the bodies right over th-Mmmrph!"
"Shhhhhh, somebody is coming!"
Saji covered Michael's mouth and shushed him to stay quiet. They heard the sound of footsteps approaching the clearing.
"Could a human be behind this?" Kiba narrowed his eyes.
"It could be, but what would allow them to use ghosts as a weapon?"
Coming into a clearer view all of the guys widen their eyes to see it was none other than the vice president of the student council herself, Tsubaki Shinra.
"It's the Fuka-kaichou!"
"Quiet! She may hear you!" Saji hushed Michael again.
"Out of all the people, they could have sent they asked for you, a devil, to take care of me. But I'd rather have you do that than any of those other weaklings."
A shadow from behind the wooden altar walks into the light. It was a middle aged man who had black hair and a goatee. His clothes were also resembling the Shinra clan.
"Under the order of my master, Sona Sitri, I have been tasked with your removal, Terumi Shinra surrender yourself now to save yourself from any further trouble." Tsubaki uses a magic circle to summon her naginata in hand.
"Trouble? Now why would you suggest that? All I wanted to do is live a normal life, nothing more, nothing less." The man sounded nonchalant.
"If you had wanted to do that then why kidnap members of your own clan? Are you not the next head to succeed the current leader?" Tsubaki said neutrally, belying her agitated expression. She seemed rather familiar with this man.
The man narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Simple really because I finally realized how faulty our clan's rules really are my beloved niece."
"!"
The boys hiding in the bushes hid their questions and continued to listen in on the conversation. So not only did they find the culprit for kidnapping the members of the Shinra clan but they also learnt that it was someone related to the vice president!
"Don't call me that, we may be related by blood but I've discarded my past links with you and even my parents to become a devil." Putting a stop to any further talk about familial matters Tsubaki shook her head.
"But that's what I mean Tsu-chan ,our way of doing things have pushed away more valuable people from the clan making ourselves more weaker than before."
"What are you getting at? And tell me why and how you gathered so many of the others and what part they play in this?"
Terumi chuckled with a jovial smile at the questions.
"You know the very same rule that excludes any outsider within the possession of supernatural items and powers. To isolate those who would soon befell the clan's name and bring it to ruin if they got too involved."
"Of course I do." Tsubaki said bitterly once having been subjected to it.
"Indeed, and you saw fit to leave the clan to join with devils. That's how terrible the effects of our rules have on others such as yourself so I decided to make a change. I too unlocked a sacred gear just like you have."
Tsubaki couldn't believe what she just heard.
"You have?"
"Indeed, and just when I confessed to having it while pleading that I would do no wrong, the clan still shunned me, I had already lost my position as the next head, who would want a leader who would be ignored because of his strange power?" Terumi looked a bit conflicted by the treatment he endured.
"You…" Feeling sympathetic Tsubaki became hesitant, she felt what the isolation of one's own family could have, but she still raised her naginata not letting her emotions get the best of her.
Catching the hesitation she felt Terumi smirked, "That's why I intended to create a new path, a path with this power I was given. But don't worry it will not only benefit the clan and those already in it, but also the ones who were isolated from it." Terumi focuses his sights on Tsubaki.
"…" Tsubaki remained quiet as she continued to listen.
"That bastard, he's trying to lure senpai into his plan." Saji clenched his fist about to snap. He was losing his cool already.
Looking to Michael Kiba asked, "Michael-kun, shouldn't we handle this before it gets out of hand?"
Michael looked at Tsubaki with a neutral face and said, "Nah, lets continue to watch. I don't feel like making an awesome entrance right now."
Kiba didn't understand why Michael was so laid back but decided to heed his advice. If Michael felt that the situation wasn't urgent enough to interfere with then he should let things play out for a little longer.
"Tsu-chan." Terumi raised his hands towards Tsubaki and smirked, "Come with me and together we can reform our broken clan into something better, newer. You can see your parents again without fear of them ignoring you again. If you stayed longer then you may even overthrow that devil master of yours. So what do you say?"
Tsubaki looked at Terumi's hand then his face as she lowered her naginata. Shaking with anger at his senpai being manipulated Saji's shook with anger.
"No, no! She can't do this come on we have to stop her!" Saji starts to get up but was stopped by Michael.
"What now, Mike? Now isn't the time to play games."
"Not yet. Our entrance has to be more epic and on time."
"Are you freaking kidding me? This is serious we have to stop, Tsubaki-senpai!"
"Why? She seems to be doing a good job on that herself." Michael laughed.
"What are you getting at?" Saji growled.
"Have faith in her, Saji." Michael crossed his arms.
Saji would have ignored Michael and jumped right out to help Tsubaki, but something else caught his attention.
*SHING!*
With a wave of her naginata, Tsubaki pushes Terumi back closer to the altar. The man looked unamused with this.
"So will that be your answer?"
"There was no need for one. I am here to accomplish my duty as the Queen for Sona Sitri and Vice president for the Student Council. Any devil jobs, I receive are top priority. I would never abandon my own master for my own goals. And Reform the clan you say? You're so ignorant. The clan itself isn't the issue it's only those who seek selfish desires away from the clan that actually ruin it. Terumi Shinra, you not only underestimate my loyalty towards my master, but you fail to realize the honor that the Shinra clan holds."
Tsubaki spins her naginata overhead and directs at her uncle,
"For that you will meet your downfall!"
"Heh! Figures this would be your answer, but sadly for you I can't let you leave here now."
*SNAP!*
"Get her."
"Intruder!"
"Kill!"
With a snap of his fingers Terumi sent after his ghostly silhouettes, in the form of the kidnapped Shinra clansmen after Tsubaki. They were using katanas and even naginatas which resembled Tsubaki's.
"So you're resorting to use these things to fight for you?"
Tsubaki rushes the ghosts and entered combat with them. Since her weapon was mid-range to handle close and distanced combat, she had the edge in the fight. The movements of these silhouettes were rather advanced in technique, but that wasn't something she could worry about since as a queen she was more advanced and better in combat than most of her fellow servants.
"Hyah!" Tsubaki managed to knock back a few of the katanas but when she attempted to strike it down, she gasps to see that her weapon went through it.
"What?"
"Intruder!"
"Gugh!" Tsubaki evades a close call as another silhouette attacks with their katana only to miss by a hairsbreadth. But that wasn't all another came up from behind her and brought down their blade for her head.
"Having trouble?" Terumi mocked.
"Erh!" Tsubaki uses the shaft of her weapon to catch it on time as more opponents start to surround her. They all roared and charged at her with their blades ready to run through her. Seeing the odds against her she manages to push back the silhouettes blade and use her devil wings to glide high into the air and imbue the blade of her naginata with enough demonic power.
"If regular attacks won't work then how about this?" With a single swing a large wave of demonic power came out her naginata and attacked the ghosts below.
"Did that work?" Tsubaki lands to see the smoke clear only to reveal the silhouettes were still standing unscathed.
"What, but how?" Tsubaki gasped then felt the creepy presence of two silhouettes phasing up the ground and pointing both their naginatas towards her throat. Even with how far skilled she was Tsubaki knew that these beings were still professionals with these weapons and any slight move will get her killed.
Terumi walks up in front of Tsubaki and says,
"Strange, isn't it? This is all my sacred gear's doing its named the [Polter-guise] with it I'm able to make ghostly duplicates of any victim I use this on and copy all their techniques with it. Oh, another perk, is that you can't hit them with ordinary attacks or demonic and holy attacks, so you might as well face it and see how invincible this power is."
Terumi surrounds himself with an eerie white aura which forms at least a single orb of white aura in his hand. Tsubaki knew what he would do next with that power right now.
"With your sacred gear being at my disposal, I could only imagine the things I would do with so much power on my side." Terumi prepared to push the orb through Tsubaki's chest.
But…
"Hanamura Roundhouse!"
"What the deuce!"
Jumping outside of the bushes with his body cloaked in Touki, Michael kick the man's hand away from Tsubaki. Thus saving her.
"The Great Hanamura has arrived!" Michael grinned.
"Hanamura, Michael?" Tsubaki gasped at the unexpected surprise.
"Damn, so you did bring along extra help! Get him!" Terumi ordered the two silhouettes to take care of the intruder.
"Intruder!"
"Boosted Gear go!"
[Dragon Booster!]
[Boost!]
"Dragon Shot!"
Mixing Demonic power and his touki together, Michael created a softball sized mass of power in his hand and fired it at the two ghostly creations of Terumi.
It was a direct hit which sent the two beings flying in opposite directions.
"Two in one!" Michael cheered.
"He was actually able to hit them, but how?" Terumi couldn't believe his eyes.
"Yeah, that's right asshole, so bring them all at once I can take 'em!" Michael smirked as he prepared himself in his battle stance.
"Hanamura, Michael-kun what are you doing here?" Tsubaki was thankful for the help but wanted some answers.
"Oh, hi, Fuka-kaichou!" Michael greeted.
"I need an answer, no time for trivial greetings." Tsubaki sweatdropped once she saw Michael's dull expression, "What?"
"…"
"What are you doing?"
[Forgive me, but he won't reply unless you say hi back.]
"Well, now isn't the time for this. Just tell me what's going on?"
"…" Michael crossed his arms and turned away.
[Yeeeeah, he won't budge because of his stubbornness until you say hi back.]
"Fine…hello Hanamura Michael." Tsubaki huffed.
"See was that so hard?" Michael chuckled lightly.
"Now would you please tell me why you are he-?"
"Stop ignoring me, you brats! I don't know who you are, but I will make certain you will pay for touching my wri-!" Terumi growled.
"Hey, sir! Sir! I'm in the middle of a conversation would you mind!?"
"But you attacked me so I-!"
"Sir! SIR! Have I ever interrupted you when you talked to a friend before?"
"No, but-!"
"I know I don't, so SHUT UP." Michael turned back to Tsubaki before looking over his shoulder at Terumi and chuckled nervously, "Oh, that's right we're supposed to be fighting you…Hehehehe! My bad…"
"Get them!" Terumi ordered more of his ghostly men to attack the pair.
"Haha, bring it, I'll take you all out by myself!" Michael charged at the ghosts and initiated a brawl with them headfirst.
"He still didn't answer my question." Tsubaki sighed slowly being aware of a ghost trying to use its katana on her she was quick to turn and retaliate but see another unlikely face appear.
"Good evening, Fuka-kaichou." Kiba smiled as he used his holy-demonic sword to defend Tsubaki.
"Yuuto-kun?" Tsubaki wondered why there were more devils here.
"Another one!?" Terumi growled in annoyance, "How many of you are there?"
"If you'll excuse me, Huraah!" Kiba gave his handsome smile before pushing back the ghost and initiate in combat mostly of parrying the ghost's blows. He couldn't attack but he could keep it at bay while Michael handled the rest.
"Hanamura Punch!"
Michael knocks a single row ghostly silhouettes away in one punch.
[Do you really have to name your attacks after yourself?]
"Hey, you don't tell me how to name your thing I don't tell you how to name yours!" Michael managed to kick another silhouette in the face while uppercutting another next to his side.
"Soryuuken!" Michael laughed.
[Okay, so are you referencing moves from other people now?]
"Ddraig, I have no idea what you're talking about I completely made that up just now."
[Michael, that was from that Street Fighters game you literally played yesterday, night. I'm pretty sure you took that from someone in that game!]
"Ddraig, I have absolutely no idea what you're saying to me right now. I mean if you could be more specific I could…"
Michael entered into an argument with his partner. A few of the ghosts took this as their chance to attack with katanas.
[Michael, you played as Ryu and Ken, they basically use that move!]
"Honestly, Ddraig, you don't have to be right all the time. I'm just saying I was able to come up with a technique which conveniently matches to what you're explaining."
"Hanamura-kun, watch out!"
Michael hears Tsubaki's warning and sweatdrops to see the ghost about to stab him.
"Whoops!"
The katanas were about to reach him but they suddenly stop all of a sudden thanks to the help of Gasper who's eyes gleamed from behind the bushes. He didn't want to get out and face those terrifying ghosts one on one so he stayed behind to watch.
"Line go!" Saji who appeared from behind the bushes pulled Michael back in time for Gasper to release his time freezing ability on the ghosts.
"Phew! That was a close one I had almost lost my head there if you hadn't had done that. Thanks guys!" Michael laughed at the notion of that attack almost hurting him.
"Idiot, don't laugh you're the only one who can hold these guys off!" Saji reminded.
"Yeah, you got a point thanks Saji, and you too, Gasper!"
"A-Anytime M-M-Michael-nii!" Gasper happily responded as he returned to supporting his allies.
"Saji, you're here too?"
Saji flinches as he got caught and smiles bitterly,
"H-Hello, Fuka-kaichou, what a surprise seeing you here."
Tsubaki walks up to Saji with a stern face, "Saji, I need answers right now."
"W-Well, you see um…we were kind of…urh…" Saji tried to stall for time as the others were disposing of the ghosts in ease.
Kiba was rounding the few, who attacked him into Michael's powerful attacks as Michael was just going in with heavy hitting blows with his touki enhanced fists and demonic powered blasts. While Gasper simply watched in the bushes as support. Whenever a ghost tried something sneaky, he froze it and allowed either Michael or Kiba deal with it.
"N-No way, this can't be happening how are these kids able to decimate my ghosts that are untouchable so fast!" Terumi who stood at the top of his altar gasped in surprise then took a quick look at Michael and Kiba while focusing his sight on a pair of gleaming eyes in the bushes,
"If these guys are that strong, then I'll just use their ghosts to fight for me!" Terumi forms 3 eerie orbs of white aura and fired them at the 3 devils below.
"Alright, we're almost done!" Taking notice of the orbs approaching them Michael tilts his head, "What the heck?"
"Michael-kun, what's the matt-urck!" Kiba was struck by one of the orbs which phased through him after identifying the contents of his being.
"Pretty Boy!" Michael shouted in worry and started to evade the orb coming after him.
'I can't let these things get to me!' Michael grunts as he runs towards both Saji and Tsubaki.
"Kyaaaaaa!"
Getting struck by the orb also Gasper screamed from behind the bushes as the orb phases out of him and returns near Terumi.
"Tch! That bastard, what is he doing with tho- Oh crap!" Michael quick drops as he realized he was getting far too close to the pair in front of him.
"Well…urh…you…know…I…err…" Saji continued stalling.
"Saji, are you stalling?" Tsubaki narrowed her eyes at the Pawn.
"Weeeeeeeell-Urgh!" Saji continued his stalling but until the orb that was meant for Michael hit him instead right on the chest and phased through his back.
"Saji!" Tsubaki helped the young man up who coughs for a while.
"D-Don't worry, I'm fine, it just felt like it violated my soul." Saji frowned and patted his chest.
"That was rather odd." Kiba gathered his bearings while getting up.
"Auuuu! Something strange crawled through my body!" Gasper had chills go down his spine.
"Woohoo! Glad, I didn't get hit by that! Hah, suck it Mr. Goatee, you can't get the Great Hanamura with amateur techniques like that." Michael gloated as he stood straight back up and gave the peace sign.
Terumi shook his head and groaned, "Damn, I missed that boy with the boosting ability, but nevertheless I still have the other two and that boy conversing with my niece seems to have a strange ability so it could compensate for that loss."
"That attack did barely anything to the others so you might as well give yourself up, or let me whoop your butt either is fine with me!" Michael pointed at the man.
"Watch your mouth, boy, you'll soon see why it didn't do much to your friends." Terumi's twisted smirk shook Tsubaki back to her senses to remember what he was about to do to her with those orbs.
"No… he was able to copy all of you with those things."
"What copy?" Saji blinked.
The three orbs he used flew down towards the ground and formed about 3 silhouettes in the form of a handsome young man, a small androgynous boy and a blonde, normal young man. They each resembled the appearance of Kiba, Gasper and Saji.
"That's right, now all of your abilities are mine to control! Now get them!"
The Kiba silhouette created its own ghostly form of a demonic sword and rushed the real one. The two fought in a high speed battle that took those who couldn't follow their movements and made them confused. It was like a mirror the copy was doing everything Kiba could do with each strike he made.
"It will be risky for me to go in, and hit an opponent who can phase through my attacks!"
Kiba was having his share of trouble.
"You bastard!"
"How delightful they seem to be holding back their original's quite nicely." Terumi laughed with glee.
"That's it, I'm taking you out!" Michael rushed Terumi with his Boosted Gear ready.
ChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChi!
"Mike look out!" Saji sees the ghostly silhouette of Gasper turning into a flock of bats chasing after him.
*GLEAM!*
The silhouette copied Gasper's Balor View and stopped the movement of Michael's legs from moving any further.
"Crap!" Michael struggled to break free.
ChiChiChiChiChiChi!
The bats was starting to swarm around Michael. They were about to suck him of his blood and drain him of his power.
"M-Michael-nii! Get away from hiiim!"
ChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChiChi!
Fending off the copy's swarm of bats Gasper entered his vampire form to fight back as a whole legion of bats started filling the night sky. The young boy could hold his own but to keep up with his copy which could kept fighting back at the same pace made it difficult for Gasper to maintain his form for very long.
"Gasper!"
"Haihii! D-Don't w-worry, Michael-nii, I-I can do this!"
Michael could only feel proud at his kouhai's confidence but feared he would get tired real soon.
*WRAP!*
"Crap!"
Michael whips his head back to see Saji was captured by how own ghostly copy's absorption line as it wrapped around his body.
"Saji!"
"Saj!"
Both Tsubaki and Michael cried out.
"For me to get careless!" Saji dug his feet into the ground to stop the retracting line his copy made. Releasing the line and letting Saji fall forward then retracting it again, the copy pulled him up into the air and slammed him back into the ground with a surprising amount of strength.
*THUD!*
"Arck!" Saji coughs up a small amount of blood as made contact with the earth below.
"Crap! Things are just getting terrible!" Michael scratched his head furiously, he watched his comrades slowly get overtaken by their own doubles and the fact that Terumi was starting to produce more Shinra ghost silhouettes made things even more difficult.
"Hahahaha! This is the power I need with all of your ghosts on my side I'll be able to even defeat the cursed devils in this territory!" Terumi cackled.
"You jerk, like you'll ever defeat Buchou and everyone else!" Michael growled, "We'll stop you with everything we got!"
"Maybe you, but them?" Terumi pointed out to Michael's friends.
"…!" Michael's eyes widened as he saw many shocking things.
Getting exhausted with his speed slowing down Kiba was starting to get overtaken by his copy who didn't seem to be stopping any time soon in fact it was going way faster than before.
"Erck!" Kiba held his bleeding shoulder as he still tried to defend himself.
"Hiiiiiiiiii!" Crying within a swarm of bats was Gasper who was too tired to even fight back in his vampire form. His copy was scratching him and began covering him within a veil of its own shadows.
"Guuuuargh!" One more time, Saji sustained damage to the head as he was smashed into the ground once more by his double. The damage only got bigger with each slam it made.
"Grrr!" Frustrated with the way things were going Michael clenched his fist.
"Now do you see, child? Your efforts have been for not! Now hold still while I get to work on your double." Terumi focused his sights on Michael.
Raising his boosted gear while standing in front of Tsubaki, Michael said, "Fuka-kaichou, stay behind me."
"Hanamura-kun, what are you doing?" Tsubaki questioned the gesture.
"I'm about to go all out on these guys with my Balance Breaker." Michael looked to his boosted gear, "Ddraig, start the countdown."
[Alright, partner, but don't overdo it.]
The count soon began.
"Now we just have to wait patiently and get through these guys until the count is over." Michael growled as the approaching silhouettes enclosed on both him and Tsubaki.
"Geez, things seem to have escalated fast here." A familiar voice popped up next to Michael.
Looking to his right, Michael saw Azazel who came straight out of freaking nowhere holding what looked to be a pink bazooka!
"EH!? Ero-Sensei!?" Michael screamed out loud.
"Azazel-sensei?"
"Hello, kiddies. Seems like you were in the middle of something very important." Azazel looked at the legion of ghosts approaching them.
"Just what are you doing here?" Michael's eyes bugged out, "And how did you know we were even here in the first place?"
"For the first question, I came here to give you this." Azazel handed Michael a piece of paper.
"My test from last week?" Michael questioned.
"Yeah, you failed with a 35%. I recommended you for tutoring, and FYI the Big Bang theory isn't about a television show." Azazel laughed, "Also for the last one it's magic."
"But how with magic?" Michael asked with a dumbfounded expression, 'Please don't say what I think you're going to say.'
"Magic." Azazel could only answer with that.
'Dammit!' Michael cursed.
"Again, why is that the only answer for everything!" Michael growled in frustration.
"Because it is brat." Azazel then turned towards the encroaching ghosts, "But besides humiliating you with that god-awful test of yours."
"Bite my Devil ass!"
"I came to test out this new weapon of mine that I got permission to make." Azazel smirked as focused his attention to Kiba, Gasper and Saji, "Now seems to be the perfect time!"
"Oooooooooh! Are you gonna launch a rocket out of that bazooka!?" Michael was so excited that he had stars for eyes.
"No, I made a bazooka which can swap the places of who it's used on for 5 minutes with their future selves 10 years in the future!" Azazel declared out loud.
… …
"What?" Was all Michael could utter.
"I call it the "10 year bazooka" a I got the idea to make it after reading a manga called Katekyo Hitman Reborn and-!"
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You decided to use your research to create something from a manga?" Michael looked disturbed at the prospect of that.
"Yes."
"…Okay, if you're going to do that would you mind helping me create a training space at my house to be like the hyperbolic chamber or that gravity room Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z uses because…" Michael tried to get his own profit from the idea of using Azazel's research for that.
"Hanamura-kun, we still are in danger." Tsubaki kept her focus on the approaching ghosts. They are taking forever to reach them!
"Oh shoot! That's right, but Ero-sensei how will this thing help us!?" Michael smacked the cannon multiple times.
Looking at the copies of his students overtake the originals, Azazel said, "Their clones are able to use their powers at their best in a constant state, so they won't tire out like you guys will. So for you to actually win this I'll use my bazooka on them and allow they're future selves to duke it out with their present copies."
Now stepping up with some concern Tsubaki says, "But isn't that messing with the laws of time and space, you can get in some serious trouble for even having that device used."
Shrugging Azazel says, "Don't worry, I got permission from the God of Time himself with a limited time limit of 5 minutes."
"Y-You made a deal with the God of time? How? The price to do that must have been rather unreasonable." Tsubaki gasped.
"Not really. I just have to do something real quick and it involves your autograph, brat." Azazel pats Michael's shoulder.
"What me, why?" Michael didn't mind the offer to give an autograph but it was strange why the God of Time needed it.
"All I can say is your strangely becoming a catch with the girls as of lately and the results are starting to surprise me you know." Azazel was too vague for Michael to understand.
"Huh?" Michael tilts his head.
"Either way time to make the magic happen!" Azazel prepared the bazooka.
"So are you going to shoot them with missiles?" Michael gasped.
"Of course not, it wasn't made to do that." Azazel shook his head then threw it up in the air over the exhausted Kiba. He threw something that important without a care in the world!
"You do it like that simple, right?" Azazel smirked.
"The hell is wrong with you? How is that even better it could mi-!"
"Huh!"
*PWOOOM!*
The bazooka engulfs Kiba and releases smoke.
"You were saying." Azazel smirked.
"Well, it won't get the others in a row so…" Michael trailed off.
"Hiiiii?"
*PWOOOM!*
"What is tha-!?"
*PWOOOM!*
The bazooka also engulfed Gasper and Saji while releasing smoke as well.
"Oh, come on!" Michael threw his arms up in the air.
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