My face hit the ground breaking my nose and it started bleeding. I turned around seeing the guy standing next to me looking down with a smug on his face. He is getting really annoying now. I took a moment to look at Ai to see if she was moving before realizing it was a fatal mistake because, with lightning speed, he brought a punch right onto my face, afraid, I closed my eyes ready to take the punch straight to the face.
"Huh?" I said and looked up seeing a hand stopping the boy’s hand, I looked at the shadow standing right behind him a satisfied smile formed on my face. "For once, you were pretty late Natsumi-san."
"I would be early but I also got curious about how you would hold against him," she said and inspected me bending down. "Yep, you look pretty beat up with a broken nose. I am honestly saying Kazuki, I’m impressed you sustained only that injury."
"What do you mean?" I said and looked at the guy. "Who is this dude, to begin with?"
"Well, the injuries that you sustained were not as bad because your body has adapted itself to hold up pretty nicely against physical blows against it. You only have a broken nose and some bruises on your chest and face. I honestly expected a broken neck with some fatal cracks in the skull if it were a normal person," she said and stood up. "But honestly as far as the fighting goes, you are getting better but you still have a long way to go. Moreover, you forgot one thing."
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She lightly tapped the tip of her shoe on my head. "Never take your eye off the enemy. Remember that?"
"Yes…" I said and started getting up.
"Here Senpai, the guy said extending his hand with a beaming smile on his face. God, he is so cute.
I smiled and took his hand and he pulled me up straight so I could stand then I gripped his hand tighter aiming my left hand right in his face which he quickly dodged. I lifted my leg aiming a kick right at his kidney which he didn’t have any way of dodging. Soon my shoulder went to complete lock position but I jerked it dislocating it and landing the hit right on his body launching him into the barricade.
I stood straight and looked at him with a smug on my face. "Ouch, ouch, ouch! I didn’t expect this to hurt this much," I shouted holding my shoulder. "Um…Natsumi-sa, can I have some help please?"
The woman sighed hearing me and walked over to me and with one quick movement put my shoulder back in its place.
"Ouch! Be a bit gentler now," I said holding my right shoulder and she hit me on the head.
"If you don’t know how to put it back in place. Why did you even dislocate it?" she said annoyed.
"Well because I know you were there to help with this," I said scratching at the back of my head and looking right before me. "And that was because of what you did to us."
"Ahaha, okay Senpai. I will let you slide on this one," Koto said walking away from the barricade as if nothing ever happened to me.
Speaking of Ai.
I looked behind me seeing she still on the ground getting up slowly. "Ai!" I shouted and rushed at her. I helped her get on her feet but she stumbled I held her in place and slowly placed her down on the ground. Her eyes fell on the blood on my face and her eyes quickly opened wide and she stood up straight with newfound strength. He glared at me with her eyes shining brightly.
"Kazu-kun," she said in a really cold voice. "Who did this to you?"
"I did," Koto said holding his hand up nonchalantly not even being aware of what Ai was going to do which was a bad move honestly. You should never provoke an angry Ai.
She ducked down and kicked the ground launching herself at Koto but the latter didn’t even look at her anymore and had his eyes completely set on me. What are you doing idiot? I know you knocked out Ai before but don’t get too cocky when it comes to her. She will kill you without even a warning.
"Okay that’s enough," Natsumi-san said intervening and grabbing Ai by her collar holding her in her place. She pulled her back and make her land on her butt but that was still not enough for her to calm down.
"Out of my way!" she shouted at Natsumi-san and charged again and this time, Natsumi-san used a bit more effort and grabbed Ai by her waist and pinned her down to the floor. "Natsumi-san! Let go of me! I will kill this bastard!"
Amidst all this, Koto casually walked at me and tossed me something. Instinctively I grabbed what he tossed me and I looked at it seeing it was a pill of some sort. I looked at him confused as to what he was intending me to do with the pill. He just smiled at me and indicated me to take the pill.
"This is will heal your nose Senpai," he said and I tossed the pill back at him and pointed at my moving it a little showing it was already healed. "Healed just like that? Wow Senpai, you are more amazing than advertised the board of Koto gives you a ten out of ten."
What a weird guy.
"So, who even are you?" I said taking out a handkerchief from my pocket and wiping the blood off my face looking at the guy.
"Oh me? I told you, didn’t I? Well for Senpai I will make a little exception. Consider yourself lucky," he said winking at me and I looked at him confused. Not at him but me, should I be creeped out or happy because he was really charming right now? "My name is Ichikawa Koto. I work for the VEO and am an S-rank hunter. Since Senpai asked so kindly, I slipped in some extra information too. Are you happy about it Senpai? Does it make your heart beat faster?"
Yep, I don’t like him.
I looked over at Natsumi-san who had just knocked out Ai since she was struggling too much and not holding herself back. She picked her up by her shoulder and walked over to me. As soon as she got near us, she handed Ai to me as if it was only natural to do that. After she did that, she looked over at Koto who was grinning at her but she smacked him hard on the head.
"Owie, that hurts Kawazuki-san," Koto said holding his head but then got smacked again. "Okay, okay I get it Sensei."
"Better," she said and crossed her hands before her chest staring at Koto angrily. "Now remind me what I told you about attacking the two from the get-go?"
"To make sure I don’t kill them?" he said meekly but Natsumi-san glared at him and he was petrified and hid with his hands. "To not attack them at all until you introduce me."
SMACK
"What did I tell you?" she said in a strict voice after smacking him another time on the head.
"To help the two with their fighting skills. But Sensei having a hands-on battle is the best way to train I believe," he said and this time, Natsumi-san looked like she was done with him and punched him in the guts knocking the air out of him. Ouch, I felt that one. But you deserved it honestly.
"Sorry about him Kazuki, he gets carried away really quick," she said and got closer taking a look at my face. "Did the bleeding stop? Looks like there were only a few bones of the neck that was broken even though there are only a few but it looks like your ability to heal is greatly increasing. That’s a relief."
She looked really worried for some reason looking at me as I was turned back to a seven-year-old kid but I didn’t question it. Koto got back up and Natsumi-san pulled him by his ear and took him out off the rooftop.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, I said I’m sorry Sensei," he said while she took him to the door to go down the staircase.
"Oh I remember, Kazuki," Natsumi-san said looking at me. "Bring Ai today at the VEO without fail. We have a little surprise here and a training session today with this idiot being your training partner."
"What about you and Iwaguchi-san?" I asked a bit confused.
"Well, we have to go on a mission this night so I want you to get accustomed to dealing with him since he will be overlooking your training. Also, the others who are assigned to be with you will be introduced to you tomorrow since they are all returning back from their missions. Koto here finished his mission sooner than expected as always so we decided to let him come to school."
"Wait, so he hadn’t been in school this entire time before?" I asked and she nodded her head.
"I said I’m sorry Sensei. Oh Senpai, see you later. Hope we have an amazing time together," he said cheeringly waving his hand at me got and getting pulled down the stairs by Natsumi-san. "Ouch, ouch, ouch."
I looked at them leaving and decided to go and sit down near the wall taking shelter from the gruesome sun and lay down Ai on my lap so she can rest easily. I started patting her head and she was purring feeling the touch of my hand and I chuckled. I looked at our lunch boxes placed on the side luckily not damaged so I picked them up and put them on the side.
No way I’m eating with Ai being like this.
After some minutes when the lunch period was about to end. I felt Ai move on my lap and I looked down seeing her eyes twitching before she opened them. Seeing me, a smile appeared on her face and she looked at my hand and cutely snuggled her head against it.
"Rise and shine sleepy head. You really created some trouble to have Natsumi-san knock you out," I said to her and she widened her eyes and she sat up but I wasn’t really going to let her. I placed my hand on her head and put her back on my lap. "And no more looking for that guy. He is a vampire hunter from VEO. He is an S-class hunter and is also our new training partner. His name is Ichikawa Koto and he is a year younger than us."
"That guy?" she whined.
"Yes, I had the same reaction honestly but we cannot do anything now," I said and remembered the last piece of information I had to tell her. "And Natsumi-san is saying instead of staying back in class, we have to arrive at VEO for some training and she also has a surprise for you."
"For me?"
"Yes, I don’t know what it is but I am honestly excited to see what she has for you," I said then the sound of the school rang and we both got up. "Well, looks like time for some classes again."
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