18: Wet Paper

"Adults? Adults without abilities won't understand us! We can't trust them."

A female's voice echoed in the abandoned house which was home to the Protection Ability Project, a group formed by children with superpowers in Japan. The leader of this club was a child at the body but an adult at mind, Otosaka Shunsuke was a time-traveler with the ability to send his mind back in time to his body of the past, he used this for a while now and he tried several times and wasn't able to change the terrible fate that was reserved for people with powers in the future: Become Lab rats.

This is his 10th try and he found an anomaly. He thought adults weren't supposed to have powers until...

"I know who's the Wicked Angel!" It was Mikaboshi Moriama, his power was a little complicated... If he puts a blank paper on water, the paper will have a riddle that predicts the future and/or gives tips to solve possible problems and when he successfully interprets them, he can fully know and understand what the paper was about including knowing the person the paper talks about or the problem, and about a week ago he tried to use his ability and received a confusing text: "Search for the wicked angel and his grace shall help your cause." This message was confusing for him for a good while until he learned about Klein Knight, so he came rushing to tell everyone he found the solution to their problem.

"My power! I finally was able to interpret the paper! I know who we can reach out to!"

"Then who...!?"

"The Wicked Angel... Klein Knight."

This brought an awkward silence until it was broken by Sichino, saying: "Who...?" It was then that Mikaboshi-kun coughed a little bit of blood (comically) and sighed, realizing his first mistake. "I've done the research and asked for help from a friend of mine, he went deeply into the deep web and found something... someone that maybe can help us, according to my ability. His name is Klein Knight, age older than 20 to 25, ability unknown, all that is known is that he has golden wings and the bloodbath left behind, sometimes severed members and bodies of scientists, guards, and even politicians. He is an urban legend called Wicked Angel and all is known is that he has abilities and is older than 20 years old"

Shunsuke looked at Mikaboshi and asked: "Are you sure this is all true?" Mikaboshi sighed and took his laptop, putting it on the table and saying: "This is gruesome and very bloody, if you can't handle it then don't watch." After the warning, he played the video. The video started with a bang, literally! An explosion echoed from the laptop and the video began.

Smoke and destruction all around, gunshots and more explosions, even grunts and shouts of pain followed by a splash. Suddenly a head appeared from the smoke, a decapitated head without any eyes or tongue, not even teeth. The head suddenly was destroyed by a boulder, the camera moved up and suddenly there was a silhouette of a man, a huge man, behind him was a pair of wings as the smoke was blown and all they saw were the wings... Golden and feathery, like a bird's wing, but full of blood, and everyone who saw this had chills running down their spine as they could see that the blood on his wings was not his. Soon, a voice spoke: "P-please! M-mercy! NOOO!" Then a chilling, cold voice answered back: "Today is so beautiful... The birds are chirping, the dogs are barking... On a day like this, people like you... Should be burning in hell."

Suddenly all everyone could see was fire and the screams of pain, suddenly the head that was covered by smoke moved and looked at the camera, his eyes were shining in red light as he looked at the camera, the eyes moved a bit and everyone heard: "Hm... A camera? I'm being recorded... Wrong choice." Suddenly the figure moved and the camera only recorded the person's eyes as it grew closer and closer, until the video ended. It was creepy and everyone felt like they were being hunted by a predator, but there were more videos like this. The second video had a higher POV as if looking from above, below there were corpses and destruction, clouds of dust and smoke rose high into the sky, but there was enough vision to see what was happening down there. Wings, golden feathers suddenly penetrated the skull of a man and he fell, dead, his brain splashed on the ground.

Everyone gulped when they saw a figure approach the body and remove the dagger-feather from the corpse's head and throw it at the camera without even looking at it. The next video was similar, but this one audio was clearer and everyone could hear the gunshots, screams, and pleas of mercy answered by the greatest mercy: Death. The image was not as clear as the audio but everyone could see again the red eyes and golden wings right before the video was cut. The last but not least video was of a bridge, the video was from a surveillance camera that registered the man flying above a bridge in the dead of the night as his wings reflected the moonlight, his eyes suddenly moved to the camera and the camera stopped working.

"That was..." Someone started to say, another person completed the sentence: "Creepy. Are you fucking serious!? Ask for help from this guy!? Fucking no! What if he fucking kills us!? Not trusting any of this shit." The person shouted as he moved away from the laptop in fear. "Mikaboshi-kun... Are you sure!?" Shunsuke asked, the shock was evident j. his voice. "Yes. Yes, I am. I've seen and known it... He will help us, but we need to contact him first, and that will difficult. I know about him, his name, age, but I cannot know his power or his future. His name is Klein Knight, he is 20 years old, and everyone here knows that puberty ends at 15 to 17 years... That's all I know about him, I don't know anything else..."

"Then, why are you so sure that he will help us and not kill us?" A voice asked, this time it was a female voice. "I know that because I've seen why he killed those people. They were part of the same group slash organization that is after people with powers and he is their number one enemy. We need his help because he is the only one able to go toe to toe, alone, with this organization." Shunsuke sighed and made a pensive expression and sighed. "We can try, if anything happens I will rewind time and change it. We at least have to try it. Mikaboshi-kun, can you get his number or anyone can get his number... At all?" Mikaboshi took a paper from his sketchbook and took a glass of water, putting the paper of the water it floated there for a second before letters began to appear in the paper.

It read: "Seek the thief of time, for they are the key to open the gate to meet the wicked angel."

Mikaboshi sighed... Of course, it was another person they had to search and meet. There's a limit to his ability, he can only use it again after he discovered the meaning of the past paper. Now he needs to know who the fuck is the Thief of Time.