#| interaction - Hamazura Shiage - The last day King of Nothing |

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a-certain-academy-city​:

“Hey Kinuhata, I thought you were trying to save me! What are you doinggggggg?!”

If Hamazura wasn’t trapped in the suit, he would’ve been flailing around like crazy when the thing fell back on top of him. At this point, he just wanted to be as far away from this thing as possible.  Even if he got out of the suit, he doubted he could do much of anything in a straight fight with her.

Here’s hoping the girl in the sweater dress takes that monster woman out somehow.

Moving onto Kinuhata, she actually hoped that toss would knock her back further than that, but apparently her aim was off a bit. Moreover, it didn’t seem to do much damage other than to aggravate her further.

“….”

While she was confident in her Offense Armor, which virtually made her a tank, giving her both great defense and offensive capabilities, she wasn’t going to risk trying to deflect those knives should they have some kind of properties that would allow them to somehow bypass her Offense Armor.

Instead, there were two old steel doors which were laying up against the walls conveniently enough, so she went ahead and picked those up and used them as shields to block the incoming projectiles.

After that, she saw the woman charging right at her, which left her no choice but to do the same. Using those makeshift shields as her weapons, she charged at the enemy and slammed the huge piece of metal into her face!

The monster of a woman, just seemed to roar as the other came at her with those pair of doors. Whatever result was going to come of this... it can only be a gruesome one...

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Meanwhile....

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Once that EMP had gone off on Hamazura, it was strong enough to effect the whole channel his communication devices were hooked up to in that suit, so now, nobody on it had any way to contact anybody, including Violet & Accelerator.

“Hey!”

Speaking of the brunette woman, there she was, running up to where she knew the Board Chairman was hiding out.

“What that heck? Why did the channel go out? I thought you were being attacked or something.”

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rebirth-testament-project​:

「お尻に私を入れて...」

“....”

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a-certain-academy-city​:

“…If we’re going to purge the motherfucker that’s behind that snake, then yes, I’m good enough to go with you.”

Mugino spat out, rising to her feet while using the building’s wall to support herself. Even though she was stunned for the most part,  she would eventually shake it off and continue on, only to be driven by irritation towards the snake and its master.

Meanwhile, Takitsubo, who had been unconscious for the entire time, was only now starting to stur, slowly regaining consciousnesses.

“Hey, Takitsubo. You alright?”

“Mmm…. Hama…zura? What happened?”

“I still don’t know, but we’re all going with this Encer woman to the Board Chairman’s headquarters so we can all have this explained to us. Can you stand?”

Although she was still clearly out of it, the dark haired girl nodded and did her best to stand up, with Hamazura supporting her. Though she seemed weak, she seemed intent on going with Hamazura and the others. Plus, with the snake still out there, Hamazura didn’t want her to be left alone, especially since they all pissed it off.

“If you are able to walk, then I shall not be stopping you from coming.”

The Board Chairman wants everyone who was involved there, after all, & unless the Level 5 seems seriously hurt, Enncer wasn’t going to make her stay behind. Mugino seemed to be able to shrug off her daze with annoyance anyhow. At least she did not have it as bad as Takitsubo.

“Please, allow me. You are ill fitted to stand on your own in your daze.”

The blue dressed lady offered a hand out to the dark haired Level 4, an offer to be a form of support for her while the group walked to the Windowless Tower. Though Enncer was still quite the have mystery to all of them, she obviously had no ill-will with them. Especially since she helped repeal the snake to keep them safe.

“I apologize for this being confusing at the moment, but I promise to have it make sense to you all soon.”

Enncer was ready to go, & if the rest of them were too, then they’ll be off to their destination.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

And the person who threw it… was a lone girl about 12 or 13, having showed up just in time before Hamazura became a evening snack. Despite this person’s small physique, she wasn’t someone to take lightly at all.

“Hey ugly, why don’t you super pick on someone your own size?”

Having said that, her hand was already on a nearby dumpster that she picked up and threw at the monster like it was a softball.

“K-Kinuhata?! I’m saved?!”

(Rolled a 2 out of 3)

Well, I don’t know where this girl gets her bright ideas, but apparently throwing a whole dumpster at this monster of a woman actually worked, with the bottom of the dumpster clipping the top of her head, the force sending her down to the floor...

... or... actually down onto Hamazura & is exo-suit... considering he’s the current thing below her.

That didn’t appear to be enough force to take the monster out, however, since she snapped her self back up, pulling a pair of dagger-like sai from her belt, tossing them at the young girl, while also getting up & charging at her to close the distance.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

“AHHHHH!!! W-WHAT THE FLIPPING FUCK IS THAAAAAAATTT?!”

Hamazura nearly had a heart attack when he saw this… thing get right on top of him and started gnawing into his suit like a lion chewing on a piece of meat with those awful teeth, and the voice right before this didn’t help at all. He tried moving around to get this person off of him but the suit was disabled. He couldn’t move it or do anything.

Thankfully, his suit was made out of some rare materials that made it incredibly strong, even without the reflection, but Hamazura didn’t want to find out just how durable his suit really was.

Just as he was beginning to panic, someone from in the Alley threw what looked like a trashbin at the demonic woman.

Whatever the suit was made of, apparently this nightmare fuel of a person’s teeth was strong enough to start tiring through it, to grip onto the armor & start ripping it apart.

(Rolled a 3 out of 3 = pass!)

*BANG*

Thankfully, this things little feast of Hamazura was rendered short... with a trashcan being through the monster’s way. It was enough to actually knock her off him, but it made her stop & turn her attention away from him.

... And that monster did not look all too happy about getting hit with a trashbin like that, with a low, animal-like growl leaving her throat.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

It was too sudden, as soon as Hamazura went over and looked at the phone it started ringing, and before he knew it,he was hit with an  EMP with no time to properly react.

It knocked him back a bit but he was otherwise unharmed. His suit however, was left inoperable.

Which means, not only were communications down, but he suit was down, meaning he was stuck on the ground.

“Ahh! Shit! Hey, does anyone read me?! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! That phone was rigged!”

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Yeah, that phone was rigged alright, with something strong enough to effect the whole channel, so anyone else using it would just be getting the same radio static interference if they tried to use it.

“Aww~ Look at you, trap on your back like a turtle, how cute~” On no, what is this nightmare fuel of a voice Hamazura is hearing now.

OH NO. WHAT IS THIS NIGHTMARE FUEL OF A PERSON THAT JUST CRAWLED OVER HIM?! Whatever the flying fuck she is, she’s starting to RIP OFF HIS EXO-SUIT WITH HER FUCKED UP TEETH.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

Once he got down there to the scene, Hamazura did see the light behind a dumpster. It wasn’t that hard to miss, especially since his suit’s visuals was enhanced so that he could see better in the dark.

He wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, but it looked suspicious.

“Okay, I see the light just sitting there. You want me to like, go up towards it?”

“Do it.  Do it quietly though.”

With a silent nod, the level 0 in the exosuit started walking up to where the light was, while keeping his eyes fixated on it. Th suit he wore had Accelerator’s reflection ability and the firepower of Railgun and Meltdowner. As far as anyone was concerned, he was pretty safe if this happened to be some sort of explosive or a trap to lure them in. But with all that said, he was a bit anxious and was prepared for anything to go down.

“Ugh… why do I feel like I’m the disposable one in this op? I’m wearing an armored suit with the combat abilities of the 7 Level 5s y’know…”

Are they kinda throwing Hamazua to the wolves here? ... A little bit, they won’t really know until they figure out what the light was about. So, lets get to checking behind that dumpster, shall we?

... Ahh... well... the result is a little underwhelming. There is indeed a phone there, lying on the ground... & that was just it. Not a person in sight, just the phone being left there. What, did someone drop this in their rush to get home before the lock-down?

.......... *RIIIIIIIIIING RIIIIIIIIIIIING RIIIIIIING*....

... Oh god, this is like some horror movie stuff. The phone has straight up started RINGING, conveniently right when Hamazua showed up....

*CRACKLE CRACKLE*

... Wait... what? Is that electricity crackling around it?

*ZZZZZZAAAAP*

OH. WELL. FUCK THIS & FUCK THAT PHONE. The thing just created a BLAST of electromagnetic energy, which, in this narrow ass alleyway isn’t gonna be avoided.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

“Copy that. Hamazura, go down there and  and investigate that area.”

The albino simply ordered, taking note of that. If they were beginning to see some strange stuff, then that wizard was beginning to make his move. Either that, or someone else was still sneaking around.

“Roger that. Ho boy, maybe it’s a good thing I’m wearing this exosuit after all…”

With a dry remark, Hamazura complied and started heading to the area they pointed out. Luckily, his suit came with a tracking system with a map and everything, and with it, it led him over to the alleyway where the strange light was seen.

Once that was reported in, Violet of course, returned back to walking, she obviously can’t be seen in the same place as a guy in an exosuit. That’s an obvious cover blow right there, & there was a chance that this was just some idiot kid. She was kinda hoping it was.

And in the alleyway itself, it did sort of appear like someone was hiding behind a dumpster & staring into their phone screen, with a sort of dim white light shining on the floor & wall around it. So it’s not a super far off thought that maybe some kid sunk out of their house & was texting their friends all about it or something.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

There was a slightly audible click of the tongue on the other end of the line, a clear sign that he was irritated.

To Hamazura and the others, they might have thought he was only annoyed because of them haven woken him up or disturbed him from whatever he was doing at near 10 PM, but to those he knew better, it was likely because every time Encer showed up, some kind of trouble was on the horizon, and most of the time it involved a certain magician and his cohorts being up to no good.

There was a very brief silence on the other end, but Accelerator spoke once again.

{…”Fine. Come over to the Windowless Building. And bring that Hamazura guy and whoever else is with you.”}

Requesting for Hamazura to be there was likely Accelerator thinking that Zolten’s subordinates were coming back or something and given how ITEM effectively chased off one of them during the incident a few months back, probably wanted to have them present in the event of such a confrontation. They were the same people who completely bypassed all of Academy City’s security despite the whole place being thrown into lockdown.

And Mugino, who had been falling in and out of consciousness, had finally came too and looked around, only to see Hamazura holding his phone, the Judgement girl who she vaguely recognized as being the friend of the #3, and the woman in blue who she never saw before.

“…Hey Hamazura. What the hell is going on?”

One could imagine the albino on the other end was likely irritated at being woken up regardless, thought the mention of Enncer being there overshadowed that annoyance easily. Not because Enncer was annoying, but because she only ever shows her face when some certain schemers are plotting more schemes again.

“As you wish. We will be seeing you there, then.”

With her blue dressed lady’s words, soon after came Mugino seeming to regain enough of her conscious to be aware of what was happening around her. Which brought Enncer’s eyebrow up, as she looked to the others around her.

“Would this one well enough to come? ... Not to mention the one who is still unconscious....”

Oh right. Takitsubo Rikou is still out of it.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

Was it really that serious? Shirai, Hamazura and the others knew that the snake was something that couldn’t be left alone, but it was hard to believe that things were bad enough that it would require the attention of Academy City’s leadership. Something else was surely going on, beyond the idea of some snake killing people. Perhaps it was related to the Academy City Underworld or was not unlike the other mysterious incidents that had been going on in recent times.

“The Board Chairman? Do you know how difficult it would be to get in touch with such a person? It would mean going through the channels to get Anti-Skill to get in touch with one of the Board of Directors, and that alone would be quite a task, convincing them to give us an audience with—“

“Or, I could just call him up right now.”

Hamazura remarked, pulling out his cell phone to look up Accelerator’s number, much to Shirai’s comical surprise. Little did they know that he had actually exchanged numbers with Accelerator and Kamijou Touma at some point after world war III, so they could contact each other in case they needed to deal with a threat that somehow involved all three of them. He only hoped that Accelerator didn’t change numbers some point after.

And sure enough, when he pressed the contact, Accelerator’s voice came through. sounding as grumpy as always.

{“…What do you want?”}

“Hey man, there’s some lady here who wants to speak to you. It’s kind of important.”

He put the audio on speaker phone so that everyone could hear each other on their respective ends.

To anyone who didn’t know any better, of course a mere snake running around didn’t seem worthy of being brought to the highest of high’s attention. But, given the connection that person would have to that flaming snake, the truth is all but otherwise.

And while, Enncer did not say anything right away, she did find it somewhat comical that Shirai’s words were so easily dismissed by Hamazura, not only having the Board Chairman’s number, but is so easily willing to call the man as well.

“My thanks.”

Behind the mask was a smile, as the blue woman said her thanks to Hamazura, for doing her this favor. Before soon, the voice of that grumpy Board Chairman came through the phone.

“Good evening, Accelerator. It is Enncer. I hope you & your dear enforcer are over well.”

But of course, Enncer wasn’t here to check up on them. Everytime she’s meets with those two, it means something bad is happening.

“I realize you are likely sleeping during this time, but it appears another problem, in regards to an old magician, has arised that one such as you would want to be aware of. Would you spare me the moment?”

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a-certain-academy-city​:

“Huh..?”

Everyone had turned their heads to look in the direction of the voice that addressed them, only to find that a woman dressed in a blue outfit, sitting on a wind gust, descending to the ground.

Of course everyone was a bit cautious right off the bat. They were attacked by an unknown creature, then an unknown woman revealed herself to them. It wouldn’t be illogical to  come to the conclusion that she was the viper’s creator, or at least was involved in it. But such would only be speculation. For the time being, they had to first ascertain if she was involved in its creation and activities or if she may be there to help put a stop to its attacks. They had to at least hear her out before making any sudden judgements.

“Yes, we are fine. And who might you be?”

She wasn’t about to blame them. After being attacked by an overgrown fiery serpent, who wouldn’t be on edge, her attire likely wasn’t a help in making her appear not suspicious either.

“Forgive me, but for reasons of my own safety, I can not share my name. Though, I can say I was the one who prevented the flaming serpent from pursing the both of you.”

The stranger spoke, while looking towards Hamazura & Kinuhata, before her gaze shifted to Shirai. There was something about the Judgment girl that the lady had noticed, something she remembered seeing the previous time she was here.

“I would recognize your arm band, the local law enforcement wears these, do they not? Is there a passing chance you have the authority to get me into contact with someone higher within the government? Such as the Board Chairman? The serpent is more then a simple passing issue that can be handled by usual law enforcement.”

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a-certain-academy-city​:

It was certainly a close call.

With the teleporting girl getting the other ITEM members out of there, Hamazura and Kinuhata were able to escape, though despite having a fire extinguisher thrown at it and exploded it, it didn’t seem to do much but only make it more angry.

The two ran and the thing was catching up. It almost managed to get them, however, a strange series of wind gusts were repelling back, swinging it around and slamming it into the building walls before the entity decided it had enough and gave up its hunt for the night.

Hamazura and Kinuhata managed to make it back out into the streets where they eventually saw Takitsubo and Mugino resting up against a wall  with the twintails girl standing with them.

“Holy shit, I thought we were goners… hey, how’s Mugino and Takitsubo doing?”

“Aside from some minor injury to the head, both of them are fine. If it’s alright with the two of you, I’d like to ask you a few questions about the creature back there.”

Now that they it looked like they were out of the woods, the judgement girl – Shirai Kuroko began the brief questioning about what had just transpired, and Hamazura explained what they knew, what they found out, and why they were out there in the alleys, though they may have omitted some minor details.

Overall, it seemed like she understood the gist of it and sighed.

“So that’s how it is… really, you shouldn’t be chasing after things like this in the dark. Leave that sort of thing to Judgement and Anti-Skill. To tell you the truth though, we’ve been investigating these sightings about a snake made of fire for several days and believed that a Pyrokenetisis was involved… I wasn’t expecting it to be linked to the suspicious string of deaths lately.”

“Whatever the fuck that thing is, it’s definitely not the work of no PK Esper… just what the hell is that thing supposed to be, and why is it here doing what it’s doing? I wish someone could just explain all of this craziness for once…”

That flaming serpent had quite the trouble on it’s non-existent hands now. One or two people being curious & maybe lurking too close to it’s hunting grounds was one thing, this was something else now. There were witnesses.

It had to make a decision now. If it was safe or not to take more, even from level 1s & 0s, there was still a highly dangerous chance it could be caught now. It might be time to push the boundaries & begin earlier then planned.

“... Damn that sorcerer....”

There was a certain lady standing atop one of Academy City’s buildings, apparently, she had been watching & intervened at the right time. Though, that time for simply watching has clearly passed.

Where Shirai & the ITEM members were talking, soon a visible little gust of wind would descend from the top of the buildings, down to the ground next to them, with a particularly dressed woman ‘sitting’ on said gust, being brought down to the ground harmlessly. She seemed to be approaching the group.

“Excuse me, is everyone here alright?”

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a-certain-academy-city​:

“S…Shit, so that’s the snake?!”

He imagined that the thing would be smaller, if not almost the size of a human, but from what he could tell, this thing could increase its size, becoming very much bigger to the point where it looked like it could swallow them whole.

What was he going to do?

The snake was made out of flames and could alter its size, so he doubted his gun would be effective against it. He had his baton and shield, but that also wouldn’t work as an effective weapon against that thing.

Besides, something was telling him not to let that snake get anywhere near them. Whatever its capabilities were, letting that thing make contact with them was something that couldn’t be allowed.

“…Hamazura, grab Takitsubo-san and Mugino and get out of here. I’ll try and super hold this thing off for as long as I can.”

“Don’t be stupid! You can’t think you can take that thing on by yourself can you?!”

“There’s no time to debate this! Mugino’s too stunned to fight and Takitsubo-san is unconscious. I’m the only one that has any chance at super slowing this thing down! Do you really want them to end up like that body you found?”

“….”

Hamazura shuddered. Of course not. Of course he didn’t want Takitsubo and Mugino to become cold lifeless husks. But at the same time, he also didn’t want Kinuhata to be the one who had to take the fall for them.

It was at times like these where he really cursed his powerlessness.

he could have a powered suit with capabilities that mimics the Level 5s abilities, yet a simple cell phone rendered him powerless and helpless, at the mercy of whatever foe had decided to present itself to him.

And now he was powerless again, unable to help those closest to him. He had witnessed just how dangerous and chaotic the Cosmic Side was when Gaelion emerged. He had seen it when Zayane of the Right took Mugino and the other Level 5s and fused them into some walking monstrosity, and now recently with the mysterious invaders, he was seeing it here.

How was it that a certain boy with a powerful right hand was able to deal with stuff like this? What did the current Board chairman of Academy City think about all of these threats?

He wasn’t them. He was not Kamijou Touma or Accelerator. He was only himself, and therefore, he had to think of something that only he could come up with.

But what can he do?

What can someone like him do against a powerful, yet unknown enemy?

He was just about to bite the bullet and grab Takitsubo and Mugino and bring them to safety, as the snake neared them.

However.

Behind the towering snake came a fire extinguisher, seemingly thrown from where the snake had came in from, before multiple dart like objects impaled the extinguisher, causing it to explode right next to the snake.

And while that happened, a girl wearing a Tokiwadai Middle School uniform, and a Judgement armband had appeared seemingly out of nowhere, grabbed the incapacitated Mugino and Takitsubo, and disappeared with them.

“H-Huh?! Who was that?!”

“We can worry about that later! Let’s get out of here for now!”

Taking the hint, Hamazura decided to high tail it out of there with Kinuhata, going further into the alleyway until it led them to another opening to the open streets. They didnt know who that girl was, but since she looked like she was with Judgement, they figured the two girls were safe for now.

In the wake of the fire extinguisher being thrown it’s way, a terrible hissing noise left it, like in quite the deal of pain. Maybe that was no surprise, consider what the creature appeared to be made of.

Once the haze of extinguisher was gone, the creature angrily reignited itself, with flames briefly sparking from it’s body from it’s anger hiss. Soon, it was chasing Hamazura & Kinuhata as it fled the alleyway, seemingly fully intending on dragging them back into the darkness to do god knows what to them.

WOOOSH

Yet thankfully, the creature was pushed back before it could catch the two, allowing them to escape from the alleyway & into the open street. Well, it wasn’t just simply pushed back, it was also being swung around by repeated gusts of air, from side-to-side, & slamming into the alleyway walls. It was hard enough for a bit of damage to be done to said walls.

Eventually, the creature let out another nasty hiss, shrinking down back to it’s normal size, before slivering into a newly made gap in the walls, allowing it to flee from the scene & get the out of there.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

For a moment, Hamazura thought that there really was going to be no activity from the Silent Killer, and that they had just given up for the night. For all they knew, there could have been a huge number of victims this very night and had decided they filled their quota for the night. He had half a mind to report back to Mugino and the others that they weren’t going to find anything.

That was until he had the surprise of his evening where the three girls were thrown into the alleyway, landing right in front of him.

Takitsubo seemed to be unconscious, Mugino appeared to be dissoriented and Kinuhata was the only one who was fully conscious, albeit somewhat dazed.

“T-The hell?! Hey, what happened?!”

“The killer… it’s super here.”

ITEM seemed to have been taken down so easily, like something had caught them by surprise, not even giving them a chance to fight. he could only surmise that the killer really did have the power to take on Level 4s and 5s and defeat them like this.

This was bad, and the situation had only just become even more dangerous than it already was before. He could feel the bad feeling from earlier rearing its head again. It was nearby, and surely it would be getting closer…

More traits this thing seemed to have adopted from it’s master, the sneaky tact. Catching one off their guard & make the situation one were they had the upperhand. And with two of ITEM well & out of commission, that gave the creature an easy advantage

Soon, the killer slivered into the alleyway itself, appearing small at first, but growing in size as it neared the girls & Hamazura.

... Yeah... this was no average serpent at all. This thing was huge, big enough to swallow any one of them whole if choice to. A dark hiss leaving it, with it’s tongue briefly sliding out from it’s mouth that open, showing it’s four large fangs.

Really... Item was planning on picking a fight with this thing? Even without the knowledge it had already killed a couple people, this flaming snake was still terrifying to behold.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

To better monitor what Hamazura was seeing, they also had him put on some kind of go-pro camera so that they could see what he could see from the view of Mugino’s phone. They were outside of the alleyway, near the car that Hamazura may or may not have stolen for them, but were close enough that they could rush in to the scene in the event they captured the assailant in the act.

Unbeknownst to the trio, the assailant was actually watching them instead, from some place, not knowing that they were the ones being hunted by that which they were hunting.

“How’s it looking in there? You see our little snake or anything else?”

“Fraid’ not. Whatever sort of bad feeling I got before, I’m not feeling it in here.”

The level 0 had a knack for picking up on dangerous situations whenever they presented itself to him. Even if it was hidden and out of sight, he could feel it like a brutal chill, but so far he wasn’t feeling that this time around.

“Try staying in there for five minutes. If nothing happens then, we’ll move onto another alley way.”

The #4 added, prompting Hamazura to reply with “yeah I got it.” on the other end of the line.

It was a matter of waiting, to see if this person or whatever was at play would take the bait. A powerless level 0 like Hamazura Shiage was perfect for some unknown killer to take as their next victim. No sane person would actually make any moves with two level 4s and a level 5. That was assuming this was a local or someone who wasn’t capable of taking down a level 5 like Mugino.

And Takitsubo, despite her usual listless and sleepy demeanor, was the perceptive one, picking up on all sorts of weird energies, and she found such energy nearby, the same one she felt in the previous alley with the corpse.

“What is it, Takitsubo-san?”

“That feeling from before… it’s back. I feel like we are being watched…”

Whatever it was, eyes were now on them this time around. It seemed like they weren’t content with just picking off Level 0s and was now going after bigger game.

Though, the assailant may have preyed upon level 1s & 0s, that didn’t mean it was able to take on stronger espers. Level 1s & 0s put up little-to-no fight, which made it easy for itself, it didn’t matter who or what kind of souls it took, any sort will do. Meaning, if it needed to take from higher levels for the sake of shutting them up & keep them out of it’s business, was that a problem? 

No. Not at all.

There was a very brief second were the particular street the girls were waiting on became empty, with no one else besides themselves. With the one watching them acting quickly, it slivered out from it’s hiding place in the wall, crossing the street that was behind them. It extended out it’s tail, which it seemed to be able to do infinitely, wrapping it around all three of the girl’s ankles.

In a second, they were all lifted off the ground, by said ankles, their heads smacking against the concrete under them, as they were quickly tossed like a lot of baseballs into that alleyway they were standing guard of.

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a-certain-academy-city​:

And that was what happened anyway.

It was unanimously agreed on that Hamazura Shiage should be the one to serve as bait for the Silent Killer, and he reluctantly agreed.

Since this one was already used, they decided to have him go over to another alleyway that was nearby since it seemed like this thing enjoyed skulking around the darkest, unseen areas of the city.

The girls chose to remain closeby, actively monitoring where Hamazura was standing in so they could catch the Silent Killer in the act. Seemed like a straight forward plan, even if the bait in question didn’t like it.

“Maaan, why do I always draw up the short end of the stick? The last time I played bait, I was attacked by some cryptid woman…eeeh, I don’t even wanna think about that.”

Just thinking about that… thing was enough to give him nightmares

He was in this exact same situation about two or so months ago, only he had a powerful suit of armor to protect him. Then again, if there was going to be any EMPs, he was glad he wasn’t in such a suit this time. He could just turn tails and run if it got too dangerous, or if Mugino and the others didn’t act in time.

Regardless, all they had to do now was wait, for something, or someone to show up, like that flaming snake.

Oh yeah, let’s not forget what happened the last time Hamazura was left in a dark alleyway by himself. Left on his back in a armored suit, trapped like a turtle turned over on it’s shell, just for some... walking nightmare fuel of crawl up to try & make a meal of him. At least in this case, there’s no chance of something like that showing up again, a flaming snake is way less as scary as that woman was.

Though, something the ITEM lot seemed to be unaware of, was while they were trying to hunt down this strange killer, as well as a fiery cobra, someone was actually hunting them down in turn.

Rather then eyeing Hamazura down, they were currently eyeing the girls down from it’s place in a hole in the wall of a building close by, the ones who were supposedly hidden near by, were not very hidden at all. It must have been mentally debating if taking from them was worth the time, though, it likely be better to get rid of these people trying to put it down. It can’t have people following it around.