I looked at the two nobles who were just standing at their place and not moving. I am pretty sure that the female was asked to come and get me but she doesn’t look like she is interested. Heck, I don’t see a speck of emotion on her face and her stoic face was more than enough to tell that she was nothing more than a mere puppet.
I kind of feel bad for her.
What if?
I leaned back dodging the strike from a novice and I backflipped and kicked her in the face making her fall back. I looked back at Natsumi-san and Iwaguchi-san and they were killing the vampires without much difficulty. No, they looked like they were enjoying this and mostly Iwaguchi-san because he had a really big smile on his face.
I twisted my scabbard holding it upside down and plunged it behind me as I felt it piercing through the chest of a vampire. The vampire I kicked attacked me yet again but I saw a green glow behind her and the next thing I knew, there was a big hole in her heart.
"You got a lot stronger than before, didn’t you?" I said to Ai who landed beside me. "My blood does do wonders, I believe it now."
"I will have some of your blood after this so get ready~"
"Wow, your greed is really intensified," I said and my instincts kicked in and I jumped sideways and so did Ai.
A big crater was formed right in the middle of us and from that place emerged a woman with shoulder hair curly, dirty blonde hair, and golden eyes. Her stoic face did not change at all and her eyes soon turned bright red.
"Need to kill," she said and charged at me at amazing speed but I was able to react in time and block her nails with my scabbard but she had a lot more strength and I was sent flying to the wall.
"Kazu-kun!" Ai shouted my name.
"I’m fine," I said standing up and looked at Ai who was about to charge at the noble. "Ai, take care of the other vampires, I will deal with her."
"Bu-"
"Trust me."
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Though reluctant, Ai nodded her head and started dealing with all the novices.
"Now it’s just you and me," I said as I wiped off the dust from my face. "Come one now."
She appeared right before me and I duck down dodging her strike and the wall behind me had a deep dent in it. I glanced up seeing her hand not even in contact with the wall which made me wonder…
Is this her ability?
Since I was in that thought, I forgot about her and felt a kick right in my sides which made me fall down on my back. She leaped and landed on my and I moved my head dodging her blow and the ground beside me had a crater there. I don’t quite understand what her ability is but I cannot think of something right now.
She held my neck in her hand and started strangling me. She stood up and I, in her hands also got on my feet. I was struggling to get air and she kept squeezing my neck even harder. I need to get out of her grasp or I am done f-
Wait.
Why am I panicking?
It won’t do me any good.
I quickly recomposed myself and tighten my grip on my Kanata and sliced off her arm which was strangling me just before I could die. I fell down and the hand got off my neck and I coughed and breathe heavily to get back the oxygen in my lungs. I cracked my neck and looked around myself and the number of vampires have cut down to only twenty and the male noble had a vein popping out on his forehead. They are really good at this. So, I need to catch up quickly.
I stood up and stared at the woman before me. She had already regrown her hand but for some reason, she was staring at it with her eyes widened a little.
"Interesting," she muttered and looked back at me as her eyes started glowing brighter. "This seems like a nice challenge."
Right before my eyes, she disappeared and my instincts kicked in as I jumped back and there was a crater where I was standing. I looked back at her and she extended her hand at me and even if it did not reach me, I turned my head and my cheek had a cut on it.
So this is what is going on.
"Cool, you have the power to make weapons from air," I said with a smirk on my face. "Now let’s see where we can get with this."
Ai appeared beside me with a bloodied stake in her hand and her eyes were glowing brightly in their respective color.
"Shall we then?" I said to Ai and she nodded and I looked back at Tatara. "Looks like we can get serious for real now."
Both I and Ai rushed at her and she extended her hand and I stepped aside dodging her attack and still advancing at her. She held both her hands out and I could as if feel when and from where the attacks could come. So I jumped up high in the air. Tatara sent an attack at me but I blocked it with my katana.
Ai appeared before her and aimed for her heart but she held the stake with her hands and pushed Ai away and sidestepped dodging me. I extended my scabbard at her and as expected, she fell for it since I was never planning on using the katana there. It pierced her stomach and I quickly kicked her legs making her fall down.
I raised my scabbard and katana and brought it down on her.
"Ugh," she winced in pain and even if her voice was not that loud, I could see the look of pain and agony on her face.
"And I win," I said and took out my scabbard and katana from her shoulders.
"Why?" she asked me and I raised my eyebrow. "Why did you not kill me right now? You could have easily done that."
"As you said, I could have easily killed you right now and that is my decision. I decided not to kill you but still, you did lose to me," I said to her and smiled softly. "Ai, it’s enough, don’t kill her."
"Huh?" she said and I looked around myself and there was no longer any other novice alive there. There was only Leo left there who was staring at the scene with his eyes widened and the vein popping on his head.
"Now isn’t someone angry," Natsumi-san said mockingly and wiped off the vampire blood from her scythe and then pointed it at Leo. "Next is you."
His eyes started glowing bright red and his teeth were showing and he jumped at me. Go for the weakest first, huh. Interesting. I just stood at my place and as I thought, Leo was stopped in his tracks as two pairs of hands blocked his attack and threw him across the room.
"What do you think you are doing?" he said with an angry look on his face. "Akira!"
Tatara and Ai were the ones who stopped Leo and were standing before me. I kind of used my anime knowledge in this situation and turns out I had the right idea about Tatara’s personality. What other reason could be that a noble like her is listening to a person like Leo? Well, there can be many but anime knowledge is one of the most supreme knowledge a human could have.
"I have deemed him stronger and better than you so I am no longer going to listen to you," she said in an emotionless tone.
"Now do you get it Ai?" I said to Ai and she was staring at Tatara with a confused look on her face. I walked up to her and placed my hand on her shoulder. "She is on our side now."
"Wrong," Tatara said looking at us. "I am on Shiba Kazuki’s side."
"It’s the same as what I said," I said shrugging my shoulder as we all stood before Leo looking down at him.
"You made a noble vampire your servant, that’s is something even I couldn’t ever do," Natsumi-san said clapping her hand.
"Servant is a harsh word," I said and looked at Tatara. "Let’s just say I have made an ally and now you know what that means."
"She is not to be killed?" Iwaguchi-san asked and I nodded my head. "Well, I don’t mind."
Ai, on the other hand, kept staring at Tatara and latched onto my arm and stuck out her tongue to Tatara. I chuckled and pat her head which was when I remembered that we still had a noble to take care of. Leo was still there glaring at us with his teeth showing and his eyes glowing bright red.
"You dare ignore me and start chatting with each other?!" she growled at us.
Natsumi-san raised her scythe and placed it at his neck in one quick movement and he shouted in agony as his skin burnt at the place where Natsumi-san placed the blade. I knew he was about to do something and I jumped back and everyone did the same as a wave of black energy erupted from him. I looked down and I saw something distorted in my shadows.
Shit.
"Everyone dodge it!" I shouted as many hands emerged out of the shadows and were trying to grab us.
I ran across the room along with the other dodging the hands and looks like I need to use that.
"Natsumi-san, make the coast clear for me!" I said to her and she quickly picked up on what I was trying to do and nod her head and stopped in her tracks rushing at the hands. On other hand, Ai tilted her head in confusion. It was a pretty big room but still, the wall was soon in front of us. "Watch this," I said to her.
I flipped my katana with its curved side facing downwards and held the handle of the blade upside down. I jumped up and then looked back at Leo who was controlling the shadows and kicked the wall with all my power which made me fly across the distance with great speed and luckily, he was slow to pick up on it and Natsumi-san used her scythe to divert all the hands out of my way.
I was in front of him and I unsheathe my blade cutting his head off and crash into the wall. The dust flew everywhere and as they cleared, everything became clear. I was standing behind a beheaded Leo and my scabbard had pierced his heart from behind as I stabbed him from there.
I took out the scabbard from his body and wiped off the blood from it as his body fell down and started turning into dust. I sheathe my katana and turned it into the key chain and as I turned around, I fell down on my back.
Ai ran the entire distance and jumped to hug me catching me off guard and so, I was on the ground being cuddled by this girl. She had her arms wrapped around my neck and was rubbing her cheek against mine and flapping my hands.
"Kazu-kun, you were so cool right now!" she said and I smiled softly and pat her head.
"Honestly, I wasn’t sure it would work out but oh well," I muttered and stared at the ceiling which was then I noticed something. Because I noticed it, my eye widened. "Everyone, get out of here! This place is going to collapse!"
As I said that, the entire place started shaking and the cracks on the ceiling became even bigger. I did not have much time so I picked up Ai in my arms and started heading out of the place. Natsumi-san, Iwaguchi-san, and Tatara were right behind me as I jumped up and got out of the place but the building was also in the same condition. It was made of concrete and if I were to be under this debris, I was done for.
I looked at the window and jumped out from there breaking the window in the process and getting some cuts on my face. It was honestly not the best idea but the quickest way to get out right now.
I looked back and the rest three jumped out from the same building and we stepped away from there as it collapsed right before our eyes.
"Looks like they weren’t lying when they said that it will collapse in an hour," Tatara said in her emotionless voice and we all stared at her.
"You should have told us that," I said to her letting out a sigh.
"But no one asked me."
"Makes sense."
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