Akira waited for the stoplight to turn green, his finger tapping on Yuka's thigh gently, his chin resting on her neck, the scent of her vanilla shampoo drifting under his nose.
In the back, Panda and Inumaki were playing a game on Inumaki's phone, laughing and chuckling every few seconds, with Panda doing most of the noises.
Maki, on the other hand, was talking with Yuka about whatever teenage girls talk about, while scrolling on her phone at the same time, her eyes sometimes flickering to Akira with hidden longing.
Akira smiled as he watched the light turn green. The calm atmosphere and being with his friends were very calming. His eyes subtly turned to the ground, leaning on his shoes.
'Mother... What do you think about Yuka and the others?' Akira felt his thoughts get transferred to his shoes, an invisible link created between him and his mother.
The link gave Akira a protective and warm sensation only a mother could give. Akira waited for a few seconds before receiving a reply from Chino, her voice raspy and hollow, but with a sense of satisfaction underneath.
'VeRy PrOuD~,'
A voice filled with warmth and satisfaction sounded in Akira's mind, along wiht a hollow chuckle following it. Akira's fingers around the steering wheel clenched, his teeth clanking together.
He felt his nose scrunch up as he heard his mother's voice, his eyes suddenly stinging a bit as he looked at the road. Sensing Akira's distress, Yuka stopped speaking with Maki, her eyes blinking before looking up at Akira.
Yuka's lips curled into a smile as she placed her palm on Akira's arm, rubbing it gently. She is more sensitive to Vengeful Spirits than the others, so she could feel Akira talking with Chino.
Akira looked down at Yuka, their eyes connecting gently under the watchful eyes of Maki. Akira leaned down, planting a kiss on Yuka's forehead, causing Yuka to chuckle under her breath in joy.
"Yuka, you look beautifu-"
"Huh?"
Tick!
"What is it?" Yuka's smile vanished as Akira suddenly looked up with raised eyebrows. She clenched her hand on his arm with worry, looking at him with confusion.
Tock!
Akira's superhuman hearing suddenly caught something clicking under his car. No, it wasn't a single thing that was clicking; it was at least a dozen things clicking at the same time.
As Akira listened to the ticking, a sudden horn was blasted towards him from the side. A massive truck, with a hollow-eyed driver, drove towards the SUV from the side at full speed!
The driver looked completely sober, so it wasn't a drunk driver or a sleepy driver either. In fact, the driver looked like a soldier who was ready to die, and ready to die he was.
Click!
"Mother!"
BOOOOM!
A massive fireball appeared in the middle of the road faster than lightning. The intensity of the explosion flash instantly blinded everyone in the vicinity.
The SUV, attached with 20 kilograms of C4, and the truck carrying another 30 Kilograms of C4 slammed into each other, exploding at the same time.
The bright fireball instantly shattered the ground for a dozen meters as if made from soft clay. The high temperature melted the concrete road into red-hot sludge.
Then came the intense shockwaves rushing out from the explosion, shattering windows for hundreds of meters around, while blowing the nearest building apart, killing a dozen or so people.
Swoosh!
A badly burned Akira was thrown out of the explosion, his upper garments turned to ash, and his eyes white from unconsciousness. The blast knocked him out before he could do anything or even defend.
Boom!
His body shattered walls, breaking through multiple buildings in a row, before coming to a massive halt as he hit a truck on another city block, denting the front of the truck completely, blood leaking from his mouth and dripping onto the ground.
Akira stayed still, his body limp in the truck.
Smoke drifted off from his body, his burned skin throbbing and hot, wriggling as his naturally fast healing took immediate effect.
Meanwhile...
Swoosh!
A dozen sorcerers dressed in ninja clothing and black ninja masks covering their faces jumped out and surrounded the burning crater. Their intense gazes locked onto the crater, where a fireball burned.
The surroundings were enclosed inside a barrier, blocking human vision and causing humans to subconsciously avoid the area. Four Curse users cast and maintained the barrier, extending its range to 3 kilometres.
Boom!
An intense pressure suddenly appeared inside the crater, causing everyone watching to freeze, their bodies tensing and ready to move.
An explosion shook the cratered landscape, further devastating the area. A red shockwave erupted, extinguishing the fire and dispersing the smoke to reveal a dome made of blood.
"Targets are still alive. A cursed spirit capable of controlling blood appeared, its grade uncertain." The leader of the assassin unit pressed his ear device as he spoke, relaying his words to whoever was listening.
The leader watched as the dome of blood slowly vanished, absorbed into the pale red palm of a floating, cursed spirit. His body shivered from fear and dread as he locked eyes with it.
'A Special-Grade?!' The leader thought with dread.
A cursed spirit without a lower body floated above Yuka, Maki, Panda and Inumaki. It protects them while healing them with a soft, pale light of reversed cursed energy.
It had pale red skin and a petite, slender body, from which you couldn't tell its gender. It had long, thin arms that looked weak, and long fingers that had sharp, long claws.
But the most disturbing feature of the cursed spirit was definitely its head and face. Its head resembled a human head, but disfigured and bruised, with a massive mouth full of sharp teeth.
There were two red eyes in their usual place, with an additional third eye on the forehead; the sclera was black, and the pupil a deep blood-red colour.
Chino looked at the surrounding sorcerers, her eyes erratic and looking around maniacally, an intense anger that could devour the whole world burning in her eyes.
"YoU HurT mY sOn... RAHHHHH!!!"
Boom!
Chino rushed out like a red streak of light, her sharp claws slicing through the bodies of sorcerers instantly, as if a hot knife slicing through butter, instantly killing five sorcerers, leaving behind seven.
The assassin leader felt cold sweat seep into his clothes as he jumped back, dodging Chino's attack. His fingers curled into claws, activating his cursed technique.
"My cursed technique is Salamander Claws! It allows me to turn my hands into a pair of sharp claws infused with an extremely toxic venom that paralyses with a scratch, and slowly hardens your bloodstream, killing you!"
The assassin leader revealed his cursed technique to Chino, instantly causing his cursed energy output to increase, as well as causing his cursed techniques' effects to become stronger.
"Ugh!"
Feeling the pain inside her body, Maki opened her eyes, soreness wrecking her. She looked to her side and saw Yuka wriggling, coming back to her senses.
"Y-Yuka? What the hell happened?..."
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Let me tell you something hilarious that just happened to me in my classroom. Because I promise you it was crazy!
A new girl in my class just bought the new iPhone and brought it to class. I assume because it was new, she couldn't stop playing with it, so when the teacher caught her during class, he asked for her phone.
The girl refused confidently, telling the teacher she didn't have the phone on her. The teacher asked her to let him pat her down. The girl agreed, but even after that, the teacher found nothing. So the teacher then asked one of the girl's friends to call the girl, but even after all that, nothing happened.
The girl's friend continued to call her, and finally, when it reached the tenth call, something changed. The girl who hid her iPhone slumped onto the table, her face red and her breathing heavy, with liquid falling onto the ground from her chair.
Turns out, the girl had stuffed the phone up her hole!
That day, a whole generation was baffled by the absurdity of what happened.
... Joking, just wanted to play a little prank; I was feeling quite funny today.
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