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They couldn't breath as the dust and smoke covered them. Their vision was obstructed but when the smoke settled. What they saw was the building that was used to hide the girl Nao had been destroyed by these earthly spikes.

The terrorist that were outside were stumped as they saw the destruction. There were 3 of them outside and they ran towards the building. "I leave for a minute and this is what happens!"

"Goddamit, what did that that idiot do now?!"

"He messed with the target. Hopefully neither of them are injured."

Opening the door, what they saw was the complete destruction of the abandoned warehouse. It was a wreck and lying on the ground was their partner and the girl. Yagi had spikes on his body and was bleeding.

His breathing was ragged as he was laid down, unconscious. One of the man ran towards his fallen comrade and checked his injuries while the others looked at their surroundings.

"Let's bring him to the hospital. He's going to die at this rate!" Takeshi screamed out desperately.

Sora clicked his tongue. "We can't! If we do then other sorcerers will surely come knowing the situation. We have to group up with him to fix this mess. Bring his body with us and the girl as well."

"But-" Before Takeshi could even finish, he was cut off.

"Don't start it. It's his fault that we're in this situation." Sora said firmly not changing his decision. "We need to think of the bigger picture. Like our organization does, or did you forget our real purpose of coming here."

"Hey you two. Stop talking and let's get out of here. Takeshi, call the boss and come bring him Sora."

"Come on, let's get out of here. We'll see Yagi off and burry him afterwards."

"Then please give him my thanks in the underworld." Hearing a voice behind him, the goon turned around only to have his throat slit. The assailant was Arai who was nearby the destruction.

Without looking back, Arai didn't hesitate as he charged towards his next target. It was so out of nowhere that both terrorist couldn't even react to it. Takeshi and his friend just realized what happened and pulled out their weapons.

"You bastard!" Takeshi screamed out as he pulled out a sword and swung it at him. But he used both daggers to slide the weapon away making it miss him. With both daggers now in reversed position, he plunged the dagger in his opponents eye.

"AAAHHH!!" Blood began spilling from his eyes as he screamed from the pain. Takeshi grabbed the dagger and pulled them out from his eyes making the pain even worse.

"Bad move. You know that pulling a sharp weapon from a wound will only make it worse right." Arai commented as he grabbed his daggers. 'Who am I kidding, this guy's already dead the moment I stabbed him.'

While the man was screaming, Arai kneeled and pushed his daggers into the mans ears, killing him. Wiping the blood that splashed on his face, he turned towards the last remaining terrorist.

"Don't even move a muscle or she dies." Arai looked back to see the man holding the girl named Nao by the neck. A sword which was taken from his dead comrade was at the girl's neck.

The blade scratched her neck making it bleed. All while Nao had tears in her eyes without uttering a single sound.

Arai gazed coldly at the man. "Really? You expect me to believe that you'll kill your hostage."

"You believe I won't kill a hostage. Hmph, you're a kid alright. You're too naïve if you honestly believe that." He tightened the grip making Nao flinch from the pain. The blade coming closer than it originally was.

Arai who saw this shook his head. "I never said you wouldn't kill a hostage. I said you won't kill yours at the moment. She's important for your plans, right? So how about we stop this little play and get to the fun your organization is so found of."

The two didn't speak another word as they both stared at each other. Their thoughts unknown to each yet they both knew that they shouldn't underestimate one another.

Just then the man let go of Nao and Arai jumped towards him. He slashed at the man only to be met with a spear. He narrowly avoided it in mid-air and slid on the ground.

'Incredible. He managed to dodge that. I thought I would be able to surprise attack this kid since he's young. But now I know, this kid is way better than I thought. Better be careful with every move I make.'

Arai gritted his teeth when he saw the spear. 'A spear. I dodged it with some luck but that won't happen again. This guy is stronger than the two other lackeys. Grade 2 sorcerer is probably his level. Though I say this, he's definitely more skilled than both me and Nanami. This is going to be difficult.'

"Hey kid, you can understand me, right?" He spoke to Nao without looking back. She nodded as to say yes. "Good. Get to a safe distance. Just bear with it a little and I'll be there with you in a second."

She did as told as she ran as fast as she could. But with a weak body and experiencing a building falling on you wasn't good for her.

"Not going to use any techniques on me kid. I'm offended."

"Mine doesn't work that well on the strong."

"My, thanks for the compliment." The man laughed as he launched attacks at him. Arai using his daggers was able to block the blows but he soon found himself overwhelmed.

He had sweat falling from his face as he dodge the blows. 'This guy's curse energy is way more than mine. Plus he has more experience than me. Got to finish this fast.'

Arai was still barraged with attacks as his opponent didn't give him a chance. That was until-

*Clang!*

He had caught the spears blade with his daggers. They both struggled to gain the upper hand but it seemed that the man had more strength than him. Arai broke the clash between them and dashed towards him.

As they were about to clash once more, Arai could be seen smiling as he opened his mouth.

"Would you please paralyze yourself?"

Confused, the man who was about to strike at him felt something wrong. He somehow... accepted the action and couldn't move. He realized that this was a technique and broke out of it but it was too late.

That one second was what it took for Arai to appear in front of him and sliced his head off. He turned around and grabbed the head that was about to hit the ground. Looking at it, he could see that the man was shocked as his eyes were wide open.

"I don't remember ever stating that you were strong." With no care, he threw the head away as he walked towards the little girl with a smile.

"Good job holding up. I'll bring you somewhere you can get yourself patched up. Leave the rest to me." She nodded and wiped the tears from her eyes.

Looking at her, his eyes narrowed down to the girl but soon shook it off as he continued walking not looking back to the destruction behind him.

Arai quickly brought her out of there and to Jujutsu Tech where he got Ieiri heal her with reverse curse energy. "She's fine now. The little girl had shards of metal in her legs that would of crippled her if you had brought her to a hospital. It was a good decision to take her here."

"Not asking for a fee? I'm genuinely surprised." Arai feigned a shocked expression.

Seeing this act, Ieiri could only sigh at his antics. "I don't have time to joke around when its a civilian at risk. Rules are rules."

"Now how about you take a break, Don't try acting tough in front of me, there's no one else but me here." Looking back at Isao, he was covered in sweat and had blood coming out of his stomach. His expression was pale and he seemed exhausted.

"Then... I'll take you up... on that offer." With much force, he mustered every bit of strength to speak before falling to the ground.

"Huh?" She looked back to see him on the ground with no movement. "I think I was supposed to catch him..." She scratched her hair awkwardly. "Well, life goes on."

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Meanwhile at the abandoned building, a man in the same uniform as the terrorist appeared at the site. It was currently filled with police and firefighters trying to figure out what was going on.

The building had holes coming out of it and the area was completely destroyed. It seemed as if there were tons of TNT that were exploded here.

While watching this, the man clicked his tongue. "What the hell happened here. I told them to sit still for 4 hours and this is what happens. They haven't called me which means that they were most likely captured or terminated."

He was Bayer. One of commanding officers of the Terrorist Organization 'Q'.

"No matter. Next year we'll get our prize on something even better." He walked away disappearing from the light.

"Tengen will bring chaos to this world when we kill his vessel. And then, we'll be the ones to rule the world." A maniacal laughter was all that was left from him.