Imminent Danger = Extreme measures

1 hour after the 'talk' between Kanaru and Kakine.

Kanaru appeared with a flash of white behind a tree in a children's park in District 7.

Everything around him was still, as if time had stopped.

He saw how a young woman wearing a yellow dress was swinging on a swing.

She had golden hair and yellow eyes.

Kanaru approached her.

"Why do we always meet in parks, Rika?" Kanaru asked.

The yellow clothed young woman smiled at Kanaru.

"I guess it's just a memory from the past..." Rika said.

Rika looked directly at him and she continued speaking.

"Michael's church is looking for you for a reason, do you know why?"

Kanaru nodded.

"I know, they are looking for me because of a book that a woman gave me or maybe they are looking for that woman who is currently my 'guest'. In any case, both are useful to me. But... I'm a bit curious how they tracked me here or maybe they still don't know it was me." Kanaru said.

Rika sighed and she stopped swinging the swing.

"I warn you as a friend, that organization has brought someone extremely strong with thousands of years of life and even though that person only has 5% of his power because he is only a clone, he is definitely stronger. than you. He is from a higher realm after all. With my power weakened I can only delay it until he and his entourage reach you. "

Although Kanaru hesitated a bit at first, he nodded.

"Stronger than me with only 5% of his power? So... he's a guy who mastered a type of magic to the limit and has ascended to a new realm? I thought that they were indifferent to what happens in this world. Shit, those magic gods... it seems that that woman or the book has a lot more secrets."He reflected.

Since he learned from Souji that very strong guys were watching him, he concluded that Souji was referring to the magic gods that the fallen angel described in his diary (grimoire) or perhaps to an existence that he himself didn't know...

Rika was surprised to hear Kanaru.

"Do you even know about magic gods? Where do you get so much information from? I know that Aihana couldn't tell you." Rika asked.

But then, she shook her head.

"Forget it, of all the realities I've visited you are the biggest anomaly. But thanks to this, this reality is the safest for people like me." Rika said in a deep tone. She kept talking.

"Karu, what happened to you? Why is the Karu of this reality so different from the one I knew in the past? You--"

Kanaru interrupted her words.

"Rika, I'm not interested in knowing about other realities. Perhaps in a reality I live a normal life, perhaps in another reality I am dead, but in this reality, I am me. It doesn't make sense for you to mention other realities." Kanaru said. After saying that he looked up at the dark sky.

"But I'll go to your reality to help you when I've the necessary strength as I promised. If you say that there is an enemy who is stronger than me then I must be stronger than I am now. Rika, I need your help for that."

Rika got up from the swing.

"Are you leaving Academy City?" She asked

Kanaru shook his head.

"I'll have to change my plans, no one I know can help me with this, only you. Rika, buy me time. On September 18, I'll eliminate that magic god clone. After all, I know that he or his entourage didn't come here to speak. "

"I must remove this threat before the festival begins. Otherwise Misaki and the others…" Kanaru muttered.

"No! You will die! This is nothing you have faced before. This no longer has to do with the world of science and your taboo magic will not be enough... Taboo magic? Wait, those red eyes of yours don't seem like they were before... "

Suddenly Rika's yellow eyes changed to a blue color and she looked directly at Kanaru.

What she saw was the biggest surprise of her life.

She saw how Kanaru was surrounded by a red death aura similar to a haze of blood and that aura had as its core his red eyes.

"The eyes of a demon… No, there is an angel aura mixed in there. This doesn't make sense, that's so much worse than taboo magic. Why are you doing all this? The first time I saw you it seemed that you had no reason to continue living." Rika asked.

Kanaru just shook his head.

'I wanted to take more time, but it seems that I must finish completing my apprenticeship of that grimoire if I want to defeat someone that strong. I've no other options. I can't get to level 6 so fast.'Kanaru thought.

Then he looked at Rika too.

"Rika, I'll not die. Thanks for your concern, it's just that I'm afraid that someone with such great power will point to the woman I love or my loved ones."

Kanaru showed a melancholy smile.

"And... I don't want to lose them again because of my weakness."

After that Kanaru disappeared in a white flash leaving Rika dumbfounded.

"Why... why is he so different?... What happened to him in the past that changed him so much?"

She disappeared in a flash of yellow.

Immediately after, everything around it flowed again and the park returned to normal.