-Vol 5: A New Life-

-Conclusion-

Kenshin appeared several kilometers away from the place where he kidnapped the man named No 3. He knew that if that so-called captain has to come back, even if he had the confidence to defeat him, he might be defeated if they gang up on him. He didn’t have the wish or need to take that kind of risk. Hauling the man into his shoulder, he made his way towards DCB’s main branch in Mito. Nonetheless, the man had eaten enough punches to keep him doused for the rest of the night, so he wasn’t worried about being stabbed in the back literally.

“Hello! Yuki! Can you send someone to receive a package I have? Yeah…no it's not him. Yeah, he is one of the lackies with him. Yeah. Okay.” After his conversation with Yuki was over, he put the phone in his Inventory and walked in a jolly mood. But although he was walking, the speed was still faster than the average speed of a car. It took him nearly twenty minutes to reach Yuki’s office, there he saw a group of people, probably hunters, standing around two women. Yuki and Lily. One looked worried while others had a cold look on her face, quite the contrast there. Kenshin couldn’t help but smile at this, these two friends, they are completely different from each other.

As soon as Kenshin came into their view, Lily immediately ordered all the hunters surrounding her to go there and bring the package for questioning. If this man tells anything, then it would be a huge leap towards cracking the case of Child pornography, a stain of humanity. It might even bolster the prestige of Mito’s upper echelons for taking down such an organization. Both Yuki and Lily had no interest in such prestige as they had more than enough under their belt, but others might need this.

Throwing the man towards the group of hunters like he was a sack of potato, Kenshin made his way towards Yuki and Lily. The hunters caught the body and checked the condition of the prisoner, soon a weird look flash on their eyes as they warily looked at Kenshin’s direction. This man, he no longer resembles a human being, his face was completely out of proportion with everything. As lower level hunters, they don’t know any confidential details hence they didn’t know what crime was this man was involved him, but they guessed that he must have pissed off this masked soldier very much to have his face changed into this. Not daring to even look at his face anymore, they quickly carried the unconscious man in a fireman carry.

“That man is a fire type magic skill user, be careful,” Kenshin warned the men. Although he was unconscious, he was still a magic skill user with magic power flowing in his veins. Who knew if something wrong occurs and the magic power rampages around, injuring them in the process. Magic skill users were no different than radioactive metals, even while sealed carefully, there was still a chance of harming everyone present.

After hearing Kenshin’s warning, the people hurriedly change their expressions and carefully held the body like it was made of fragile glass. Kenshin also had another intention, he wanted to warn the guys to prepare a suitable cage for him. He had seen firsthand how powerful were those flames, it could even burn down tiny particles, so who could say if it could burndown heavy chains and cages? That skill had piqued Kenshin’s interest very much, but he already had a powerful skill of that category which he had copied from Maria and upgraded it several times. That skill even went through a fundamental change making it several times stronger than its original.

As a result, he didn’t attempt to copy his skill.

After the group of hunters went in with the body, the front office only had Yuki, Lily, and Kenshin standing.

“Okay, come into my office!” adopting her director persona, she lead Kenshin and Lily to her office. Kenshin was a little excited as it was his first time coming to Yuki’s office. He felt like entering to his crush’s room for the first time that weird sense of anticipation made Kenshin happy for some reason.

During his school days, he had a crush of his own. That time he hadn’t met Yuki as of yet, and his parents were still alive. Except for wasting his days in school and taking care of a toddler Akari, he didn’t have anything else to worry about. Those are quite the days…Kenshin let out a sigh of loneliness. Yuki heard his sigh and threw a glance at him from the corner of her before turning around.

Before long they came inside Yuki’s office. Kenshin looked around and found that it resembled that Leena Cooper’s office a whole lot, only some minor changes like the picture of…something hung on the wall. They call it modern art, but Kenshin didn’t understand it the least bit. After Kenshin entered the room, Lily closed the door behind him. Paying it no heed, Kenshin turned around and sat on the sofa before removing the helmet.

Coming around, Yuki sat beside him before wiping his face with her handkerchief. Although he didn’t have any sweat coming out of the face, the action still warmed Kenshin’s heart. The corners of his mouth stretched as a smile blossomed on his face.

With a frown marring her face, she asked: “Are you alright?”

“Yeah! I am okay. Nothin to worry about…” Kenshin smiled and took the handkerchief from her hand before holding her hand with his right hand. Yuki’s face turned red at Kenshin actions, but she didn’t say anything and remained as she was.

“Ahem!! I am sorry for being the third wheel, but I believe there are some important things to discuss here.” Lily voice broke the pin world formed by both love birds. Yuki turned even more red before turning around and glaring at Lily. As for Kenshin, he fake coughed to regain his composure. A tingle of red could still be visible on his face.

A smirk formed on Lily’s face which went unnoticed by both Kenshin and Yuki who were busy with their acts. Adoring a cold person, she looked at Kenshin deeply and started to explain what happened after he went after that man.

“More than twenty hunters involved in this case were captured alive. Three were killed, and two were successful in running away, but it would be not for long. We have already identified them, its just a matter of time before they get captured too. We also lost one hunter who was killed because of his mistake. Two hunters were gravely injured and now recuperating in hospital. Ten have light wounds, rest were just scratches and bruises here and there.” Lily stopped allowing Kenshin to soak in all the details.

“So we lost one, and two were gravely injured…there were such a force hidden right below our nose, and we are none the wiser…sigh… yeah… what about those girls?” suddenly remembering those girls he had rescued Kenshin asked Lily about them. He didn’t mention anything about his summoned zombies who were dressed like him. He later commanded them to immediately leave the premise when the hunters arrive. Though what surprised him most was despite him apprehending more than twenty, there were still twenty people hiding in that building.

“Yeah, I am getting to them. We found ten girls between 14 to 19 heavily drugged and defiled. Two girls who were at most 10 years…drugged and defiled…one twenty years old teacher…defiled and broken. They all are going through intensive treatment in the hospital. The doctors were doing everything in their power to save them from drug addiction. They will be sent to a hospital designed for drug addicts and see a psychiatrist for a long time.”

BOOM! CRACK!!

The table on the front of the sofa where Kenshin was sitting broke into tiny particles. It didn’t break but simply dismantled into tiny pieces of wood and glass. A red aura emitted from Kenshin’s body as it enveloped the whole room.

“Calm down Kenshin!!” Yuki who was sitting beside him was on the verge of fly out like a kite due to the force of Kenshin’s aura shouted at the top of her lungs. Jerking his head, Kenshin came to his senses. The red force as well as the blast of force, all vanished without a trace. Yuki also fell upon the sofa as the force pushing her vanished. The whole office was in disarray, with nearly everything dismantled into tiny particles. They didn’t break but dismantled.

“Ah! Sorry, Yuki. It's just that…I couldn’t control my emotions there. I am really sorry.” Kenshin looked worried as he apologized Yuki again and again.

“Ah! Don’t worry. I am okay. It’s just, I was about to sent flying, you know…sigh…!!”

“I am very very sorry.”

While Kenshin was busy with placating Yuki, Lily had a wide-eyed expression as he looked through all the destruction he had caused unintentionally. She knew what happened, it's purely the effect of Kenshin’s aura, there was no skill involved here. For someone’s aura to become strong enough to affect the reality like this, she was afraid not many people can do this. In fact, while every hunter after a certain level could awaken their aura or Intent, rarely ever their auras affect reality like this.

Narrowing her eyes, she looked at Kenshin with newfound emotions that were completely different from her earlier wonderous and dismissal look. If it was really what she was thinking, then she needs to make a few calls and report to her superior about it.