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Hours earlier

The class was a bit too noisy as always, the groups were filled with joy having new topics to talk about and all he did was watch them.

Yuka being sixteen and having red hair, cute but silent and awkward, favorite colour red but hates blood, sneakers but hates washing them, crush most popular girl but stands no chance of getting close to her.....

This guy was basically a loser.

"Yuka, what's up?"

Without shedding a sight back to the person talking to him, Yuka replied, "the sky."

"Really funny," the boy that spoke took a sit before Yuka, supposedly that was his own.

This was Armin, a fat fifteen year old boy, with a kind expression who usually got his ass handed to him, a great investor to the bullies industry, and a helpful punching bag as well to bullies.

That explained the multiple bandages on his fat bulky face.

"There was a Shintou caught by the military yesterday," Armin thought back to remember the truth to the news for a while, "oh sorry it's the other way around they all got killed."

That didn't move a bone in Yuka's Expression.

This was the world they were living in.

The history was pretty simple. Years ago Shintous began to appear. A Shintou was a spirit or monster type being that killed anything that moved, besides it. In different possible disgusting ways.

If there was an apex predator it would be the Shintou spirit.

There were two simple originations to this type. Shintous could either be created or born.

Shintous that were created were much weaker than the born ones, but that didn't matter as they got stronger by the number of souls sucked out from corpses into their beings.

Basically, we are their ramen.

But they weren't the only dangers in the world. Most of this informations were kept hidden by the military. Thankfully Yuka still had an idea about this.

They came in ranks too.

"I know the Ryoka are doing their best but this world is getting too dangerous for everyone to live in," Armin spoke with a dreadful tone.

While Armin thought about this, Yuka had other things in mind.

Ryoka? if only Yuka could become a Ryoka. Life would become far much simpler for him.

Ryoka were people who survived the Shadow stain.

The Shadow stain was a sickness that affects humans who are born special, very rare but when it happens it takes various stages to develop.

Stage one was the cold hot syndrome, whereby the body on the outside would be hot and the inside would be cold, a very uncomfortable feeling to go through.

The second stage was the last life stage, where the victim's entire body and reaction becomes very slow and dead like.

And the final before the worsened state was the transformation.

According to the boring history textbooks.

"Yuka, I know it's because of your parents died but are you feeling okay? You have been looking sick for a....."

"Shut it Armin, just help me get a bottle of Yogurt from the cafeteria, I can't stand up," Yuka's plead was more of a rude command Armin would disagree to.

This made a slight hesitation in Armin's heart but regardless of his urges he went to do Yuka's bidding.

After this Yuka bent his head unto his table and coughed hard a few times.

Whenever the Shadow Stain got to the worsened state it would force the conciousness of the victim into a world of nightmares and evil, if the victim survived would come back with powers (a Ryoka) if not....

"Shit! I don't think I am sick....." Yuka remembered something from his past and came with the conclusion.

"I am a stage two candidate for the Shadow stain."

And did I mention those that do not survive the Shadow stain become a Shintou Spirit.