Space

Inside the house, in the living room, the figure of the secretary began to become distorted, and suddenly her body became a dry body and fell to the floor.

Then another woman, this time an elderly woman, entered the living room.

The elderly woman looked at the teacher with a gentle smile and said, come, my daughter, we must become one.

The teacher then slowly approached the elderly woman, who smiled widely.

Ralph, who was watching, did not act, he felt something was wrong.

According to available data, the criminal left no trace, but if the secretary died, it could serve as a clue to the disappearance of women.

-Unless ... The secretary hasn't died? But her body ...

The elderly woman then took the teacher's hand and said:

"You really are a rare jewel, unlike that impure woman."

Ralph frowned deeply but waited.

"The ritual must be completed during the next full moon, come with me." The old woman spoke and then the teacher's appearance began to change.

-This old woman ... She is not simple, with these skills, maybe she already knows that I am here, what should I do?

Ralph was alert to see the old woman's skill level.

"Do you really want to be my enemy, boy? There's no use hiding." The old woman then looked in Ralph's direction.

-As I thought, she knows I'm here.

Ralph sighed but remained invisible.

At the same time, Ralph spoke through his skill, so that the old woman would not find his exact location by the sound:

"I am your enemy, and that will not change. In one way or another, you are destined to lose this game because, if we fight, I will make it a point to leave a good clue for others of what happened here, so that even if I die you accompany me to hell. "

"Hehehe, how funny. So you want me to surrender?" The old woman laughed.

"No. But I can give you a choice." Ralph spoke and the old woman started to smell strange.

"Is this ... methane !?" The old woman exclaimed as she stopped breathing.

"Do you want to die at my hands, or at the hands of those who come after?" Ralph smiled slightly and prepared himself.

"But what kind of Aura Master are you? Aren't you afraid the teacher will die?" The old woman exclaimed.

"Don't worry, you are the only one who will be affected." Ralph said, he can control his ability enough for something so difficult.

"Tsk." The old woman put her hand on the teacher's neck.

"There's no use threatening me with her life. You must be feeling it, right? The smell of death." Ralph continued to speak.

"Do you really think a simple gas can kill me !?" The old woman scoffed and began to emanate a Black Aura throughout her body.

"What? Isn't the gas being affected?" The old woman then screamed, she realizes that her Aura cannot interfere with the surrounding gas.

"Did you know that? Methane gas is extremely flammable." Ralph decided to start the fight, it wouldn't be easy.

Ralph held out his hand and a flame appeared beside the old woman, who was shocked.

The old woman's body started to catch fire, but the strange thing is that the fire did not spread around the place and did not affect the teacher.

~ Arrgh!

The old woman screamed in pain.

"A mere flame, such an ordinary flame, cannot cause me anything!" The old woman screamed and a Black Aura emanated from her, but the flames were unaffected, as if they were unaffected.

"I see, so I need to finish you off first." The old woman noticed how Ralph's ability worked when she saw that her Aura had no use against the flames.

The reason the flames are unaffected is Ralph's extreme concentration, but this was actually an attempt by Ralph to observe the limitations of his ability. In addition, the flames, despite bothering the old woman, could not even burn her clothes.

The old woman then extended her hand towards Ralph, and a shadow came out of her hand towards him.

Ralph was ready and made the air in front of him solidify.

The shadow stuck in the air, and Ralph saw that there were several blades.

At Ralph's feet, however, another shadow appeared.

"I found you." The old woman laughed.

Ralph jumped to the side and saw that another blade had appeared from the ground.

-Shadows ...

Ralph analyzed the old woman's skill.

Even with the flames, the old woman didn't seem too affected, and she continued to attack Ralph with blades.

-If it's just that, I can beat her, but I don't believe she's so weak.

Ralph was alert to see that the old woman was not using all of her skills.

-She must be trying to understand my limits ... My current problem is the teacher, if she was not here I could use other means to fight.

"You haven't used your Aura yet, are you just an anomaly? How funny." The old woman spoke.

Ralph suddenly felt a slight pain in his foot, and he saw that he almost stepped on a blade.

Ralph then noticed that several shadows started to appear across the room. Hundreds of blades were aimed at Ralph.

"You lost, boy." The old woman laughed.

"So you were getting ready for this, huh." Ralph murmured.

"In this case, I believe I have no choice."

Ralph took a deep breath and deactivated invisibility.

"For your age you are certainly skilled, it is a pity that you will die today." The old woman smiled when she saw that the flames around her also disappeared.

Ralph looked at the teacher and sighed.

"It's all or nothing. I was thinking about this attack, but I don't know if I have the necessary control." Ralph murmured as he clenched his right hand into a fist.

"Do you still have a trick? Come on up, brat!" The old woman laughed wildly and the blades started towards Ralph, extremely fast.

-Trancedent sens... concentrate.

Ralph closed his eyes. But he could sense death approaching.

-Touka said I had a talent for space, maybe she is right.

Ralph thought.

Ralph's right hand began to glow green.

-My Aura is not enough for this ability, so I will have to combine my illusion ability with this blow.

Ralph's time seemed to stop, and blood slowly began to flow out of his nose.

-My ability to influence reality ... This indirectly includes space, I just need to apply more energy, and concentrate.

Ralph's hand then aimed at the old woman, and Ralph threw a punch.

-My skill alone is not enough to kill her, even without the teacher getting in the way. I need to unite it with Aura.

The Aura around Ralph's hand started to retract back into his body.

At the same time, Ralph's right arm was fully extended towards the old woman.

[Your 'Infinity' talent resonated with your understanding of space and beast skill, and a skill called 'Space illusion' was created.]

[Space illusion, lv0

You can temporarily interfere with the real space with the help of the Beast Skill 'Illusion'. If your Beast Skill 'Illusion' evolves into a true skill of yours, this skill will also undergo an evolution]

Ralph didn't have time to read the message, and just looked in the old woman's direction.

The old woman, without knowing what happened, felt a pain in her left chest and was thrown backwards, destroying several walls.

At the same time, with his other hand, Ralph used his skill together with Aura, to solidify not only the air, but also the space around him ... But he was a little late.

A blade had already pierced his right leg, and a blade pierced his left shoulder.

The impact also threw Ralph backwards, at the same time that the rest of the blades fell to the ground because of gravity.

Between the old woman's attack and Ralph's attack, it had only been a second.

Suddenly, the teacher's appearance began to return to normal, and she looked around with a confused expression before falling to the floor with her hand on her head.

After about a minute, Ralph, who was on the floor with his conscience almost fading, heard the sound of footsteps.

"You bastard, you almost did me irreversible damage!"

Ralph recognized the old woman's voice, it looks like he lost the fight.

"But you are lost now, even if it cost me a certain price." The old woman spoke and appeared in Ralph's field of vision.

She had lost the upper parts of her clothing, along with her left arm and shoulder. Her blood was green and her hateful look was scary.

Ralph reached for the old woman, who kicked Ralph's hand and stepped on his chest.

"Out of respect for your strength, I will make your death quick. But don't worry, your body has many uses for me." The old woman licked her lips and held her right hand out towards Ralph's face.

A shadow appeared from her hand, in the shape of a blade.

Ralph's brain was about to explode, he was trying to find a way out.

Suddenly, a shout interrupted the old woman.

"What are you doing, stop!" The teacher, who had stood up, shouted and threw a book that was on the table towards the old woman.

The old woman looked at the teacher with a frightening expression and instinctively blocked the book with one hand. But then, she realized her mistake.

A metal noise could be heard from Ralph, and, looking at him, the old woman saw a revolver in Ralph's right hand, pointing at her face.

Seeing the old woman's shock, Ralph said:

"What is it? Have you never seen an Aura Master using a gun?"

~ Bang.

Ralph pulled a trigger.

Soon after, the old woman's lifeless body fell on Ralph.

~ Arhhg!

Ralph groaned and clenched his teeth in pain.

The old woman ended up pressing the blade on his left shoulder.

"What the hell, why didn't the blade disappear after her death? Don't tell me that she is also an Anomaly?" Ralph murmured.

Ralph then heard a noise from the teacher, she looked in shock at Ralph.

"Did you kill her !?"

"Yes, you don't have to thank me." Ralph murmured discontentedly.

After a short silence, Ralph asked:

"Can you help me? This old woman's body stinks."

"No! What if you kill me too !?" The teacher shook her head.

-it sucks.

"Listen, do you remember coming here? Do you remember the secretary?"

Ralph's words woke the teacher.

"I ... I shouldn't be here, where is the secretary?"

"She's dead, this old woman here killed her, and she would had killed you, too." Ralph spoke.

"What !?"

"I've been investigating kidnapping cases, and I saw that you would be the next target, so I followed you both here, and then I had to fight this old woman." Ralph started to explain.

After a long time explaining things, the teacher got up from the floor and went to Ralph, and took the old woman off Ralph.

"Thank you ..." Ralph blew out a breath.

"Are you alright?" The teacher asked when she saw the blood coming out of Ralph.

"The blades didn't hit any important place, or else I would be dead already ..." Ralph murmured and said:

"I need you to make a call for me, can you do that?"

"Do you want to call an ambulance?" The teacher spoke while taking a cell phone out of her bag.

"No, I want you to call this number ..." Ralph spoke his squad number.

"You should be wanting to call the ambulance, what is more important?" The teacher asked.

"Sigh ... But what kind of question is that? Just make the call." Ralph sighed.

The teacher looked displeased but dialed the number.

"Here, someone answered." The teacher handed the phone to Ralph.

Ralph then requested medical help and told him his current location.

The squadron has a unit dedicated to supporting the Aura Masters in case of an emergency like this, and Ralph obtained the unit's number from the squad's information network.

"What are you going to do now?" The teacher asked.

Ralph looked at her and said:

"This is my job, you don't have to worry about me. You ... You should spend some time outside Tokyo."

"Hmm? Why? Isn't she already dead !?"

"She is, but I don't know if she is just a lonely bitch or if she belongs to a group, if they come after you ..." Ralph explained.

The teacher swallowed her own saliva.

Suddenly, the two heard a noise coming from the wreckage caused by the impact of the old woman.

A hand came out of the wreckage, startling the teacher.

Ralph, however, partially understood what had happened.

"Don't worry, it's the secretary." Ralph spoke.

"But you said ...."

"Go help her, quick." Ralph sighed, he was in no mood to answer the professor's questions.

The teacher, unhappy with Ralph's attitude, got up and went to the wreckage.

After removing the debris from the top of the secretary, who was tied up, the teacher untied the ribbon that prevented the secretary from speaking.

"But what happened here?" The secretary asked.

"This ..." The teacher looked at Ralph, but was surprised to see that there was no one.

"I ... I remember passing out, why am I tied up, what happened?" The secretary asked with her hand on her head.

"..." The teacher remained silent, and remembered the young man who saved her. It all seemed so scary, and at the same time ... unreal.

...

"How are you feeling?" A man in first aid uniform asked Ralph as he took him to an ambulance parked near the house.

Ralph was floating in the air, probably due to the rescuer skill.

"I'm fine, apart from the unbearable pain." Ralph smiled weakly.

"Don't worry, we have good painkillers, and the blades didn't reach any important points, you were lucky." The rescuer smiled slightly and asked:

"So, how was your first assignment?"

"... A shit. But a success." Ralph spoke.

"So my congratulations." The rescuer laughed.

After that, Ralph was taken to HQ and received treatment for his injuries. Incredibly, the rescuer could speed up the healing process with his Aura. And Ralph felt like it wouldn't take long to get back to normal.

"In three or four days the wounds will be gone." The rescuer spoke.

Ralph then went to Sergeant Mina, who was as busy as before. He reported everything that happened during the mission, and also showed one of the old woman's blades and head, which he had pulled out before leaving the house just in case.

Mina has black hair and turquoise blue eyes, but her dark and tired expression kind of tries to mask her beauty.

"Congratulations on completing the mission, you can redeem the reward with that bastard Iruka, he must be loitering somewhere." Mina spoke in a cold tone. For some reason Ralph felt a chill in his spine.

"Also, don't bring any more heads here, we tend to trust each other and that's not necessary ... Besides being very strange." Mina spoke with a tired expression.

Ralph simply nodded and started looking for Iruka, but he was not in the room.

"Sergeant Iruka said he had business with the members of the 'Golden Wings'. They are another squad of golden inspectors." A soldier said to Ralph.

Ralph then went to the Golden Wings control room, which is next to the Golden Star room.

"Who are you?" A man in uniform asked, but when he saw the mark on Ralph's hand he said:

"What do you want here?"

"I'm after Sergeant Iruka, I have business with him."

"... It looks like you're a rookie, just then you wouldn't know why he was hanging around here." The soldier approached Ralph and spoke.

"Listen, Sergeant Iruka is interested in one of the squadron's members, as is his squadron captain. He wouldn't want to be interrupted."

A vein appeared on Ralph's forehead, and he said:

"I do not care. My business with him is a matter of life!" Ralph spoke with a serious expression, startling the soldier.

"Since it's really important, wait here and I'll call him." The soldier spoke and entered the room.

After a few minutes, Iruka appeared, he had a slap mark on his face.

"What happened? What is so important?" Iruka took Ralph's shoulders and asked.

"My reward." Ralph replied.

The soldier, who was coming after Iruka, opened his eyes wide when he heard this.

"..."

After a brief silence, Iruka asked through gritted teeth:

"Wasn't it a matter of life !?"

"And yeah, I didn't lie. The Life Stones are important to me." Ralph spoke calmly.

Iruka's expression became somber. And the soldier looked at Ralph, impressed by his balls.

"You have big balls, to interrupt me ... Go away before I decide to teach you to respect superiors." Iruka took a deep breath and turned.

"Also, Sergeant, Sergeant Mina seemed to be irritated by your behavior." Ralph spoke with a slight smile.

Iruka's body shook and he stopped.

"What she said?" Iruka asked.

"That you must be hanging around. But you know ... Her look when she said that was scary, I almost..." Ralph spoke with a startled expression.

After a short silence, Iruka ground her teeth and said:

"Okay! I'm going with you over there, I want to know if she's really pissed."

Ralph contorted the corners of his mouth.

-With this mark on his face, is he asking to get another slap on the face? He want one on each side?

"Boy, your courage impressed me, but I fear your future is bleak. To be the enemy of the person responsible for the mission rewards is suicide." The soldier spoke in Ralph's ear.

Ralph just clicked his tongue and followed Iruka into the next room.

As Ralph predicted, Iruka was slapped across the face when Mina saw the mark on his face.

"If you like her so much that you humiliate yourself, you'd better change squads." Mina spoke coolly and went back to work, ignoring Iruka's existence.

"Tsundere! If you like me, why pretend to hate me? You don't even give me the opportunity to get close to you!" Iruka spoke with red eyes.

Mina remained silent.

"Hmph! Okay, well, I think I'm going to change squadrons. Oh yeah, you're also responsible for that, right? Can you apply my request to change squadrons to superiors?" Iruka hit Mina's table.

"You ... Do you really want to change squadrons !?" Mina asked in a shaky voice and red eyes.

"Yes, I'm tired of your behavior, you don't know how to be honest with yourself and with others."

Mina opened her mouth but said nothing.

Ralph, who was watching everything along with the rest of those in the room, felt sorry for Sergeant Mina.

"You-" Mina started to speak but stopped.

"What is it? You have nothing to say, right? Just do it." Iruka spoke.

"But what the hell is going on here?" The captain, Ikki, came into the room suddenly and asked.

Seeing Iruka and Mina's expressions, he sighed and said:

"You guys are fighting again, what is it now?"

After hearing from the others what had happened, Ikki frowned and said to Iruka:

"Don't lie to yourself, if you wanted to change squadrons, you would have done that a long time ago. You are only saying this because you want to see Mina-san's reaction."

"And you, Mina, you should be more honest with yourself and others. Why do you think Iruka is still here? It's because of you. You just can't accept that fact, right?"

Iruka and Mina were silent.

"Since you don't have anything else to say, go back to work, or you'll have half your wages cut." Ikki shouted in annoyance, startling everyone.

Quickly, everyone went back to work, including Mina and Iruka.

"You want your reward, right? Come with me." Iruka spoke to Ralph.

"Wait, have you completed your first mission? You are truly amazing. What mission did you complete?" Ikki stopped them both and asked Ralph.

After hearing Ralph's report, Ikki laughed and said:

"As I thought, you really have a great future, to win an Aura Master stronger than you, you have the courage. Go get your reward, thanks for the hard work."

Ralph said goodbye to Ikki and followed Iruka to the HQ warehouse.

After twenty minutes, Iruka handed Ralph a box.

"The reward is in there..." Iruka spoke nonchalantly and left.

Ralph didn't care about Iruka's coldness and opened the box. There was an apple-like fruit, but it glowed oddly, along with twenty life stones.

Ralph smiled slightly and decided to go home, the day was productive enough for him, he even gained a new skill ...

"My status."

[Ralph Karman

Age: 20 (Soul) 15 (Body)

Level: 1

Talents: Infinite; Aura; ...

Situation: Healthy; Psychologically influenced by Imamoto Ralph;

Skills: Indomitable spirit (Passive); Aura sensitivity, lv6; Inner Vision, lv5; Aura Fusion, lv6; Space illusion, lv0;

Beast Skills: Illusion, lv5 (Mastered);

Stats:

Strenght: (Standard)

Agility: (Standard)

Intelligence: 8

Dexterity: (Standard)

Vitality: (Standard)

Resistance: (Standard)

Will Power: 8

Latent Energy: 8

Available stats points: 3]

-It seems that the stronger the opponent, the greater the reward in the form of points.

Ralph pondered and smiled.

After spliting the points for the three stats he has focused on, leaving the three with nine stat points, Ralph felt stronger again, and left for his apartment.

It was already dark.