The sun slowly peeking over the horizon barely exposed on this early morning. Alarm clock ringing as we see a young man roll over with an annoyed expression.

“Ugh, shut up already” he says as he goes to stop his alarm. In doing so he smashes his alarm to pieces and all he can mutter is “Another one?”. Before anything else can happen, we see his bedroom door flying open and we see a tall man with a freshly shaven face and long black hair in a ponytail. This man is Yoneda, and he is the older brother of the young man lying in his bed.

“Still slacking? Breakfast has been ready for 5 minutes now and you’re not even ready for school” Yoneda says disappointedly.

“Ah, no worries big brother, I tend to be pretty fast!” he says as he quickly jumps up. Here we have a slim and in-shape young man named Kataoka, the younger brother to Yoneda. His messy dark red hair all over the place as he stands there in his underwear with his arms propped at his sides.

“You have 2 minutes” Yoneda says pushing his glasses up walking away. Before Yoneda even reaches the bottom of the stairs, a gust of wind blows by him. He huffs and palms his face. “Could you do things normally for once?” he exasperated as he looks and sees Kataoka at the table eating breakfast.

“What? And not have fun making my life easier?” He replies shoveling food in his mouth.

“You know, for someone who is fast, how do you manage to be late to school almost every day?” Yoneda questioned.

“That’s the difference, I like eating, but I don’t enjoy school” he says pointing a finger to his brain.

“Well, we need you there so you can learn if you’re blessed with god or demon powers” Yoneda says reluctantly.

“What’s to worry about brother? I already have speed, but I’m surprised nothing else has manifested yet” Kataoka says speeding to put dishes away and brush his teeth before appearing at the door ready.

“I’m surprised only speed was drawn out of you much sooner. It just makes me wonder when you will gain your powers” Yoneda responds. Yoneda fixes up his tie and proceeds to open the door and walk with his brother outside. As they walk out of their home, which a nice and cozy farmhouse in a valley with neighboring houses at least a mile away. Just as they start to head off, a loud chittering can be heard as it turns to a squeaking roar. “Another one? That is the fourth one this month. They have been coming out more often I guess.” He utters questionably.

“Yes! I can finally help with one! Oh, please, can I?” Kataoka exclaims swinging his fist ready to fight.

“No, you need to get to school. Use your speed and finally show up on time.” Yoneda says sternly. Kataoka drops his arms in disappointment hearing his brother say this. “Don’t act so somber brother. You need to learn to fight, not learn on the go. That is how you get hurt or worse.”

“Fine” Kataoka says as he takes off, but not before seeing his brother put on his black gloves. Yoneda puts his hands to hold something as a flaming sword appears to form in his hands. The flame heat starts to rise as the morphing skin walker type creature starts to run bow-legged. Slowly morphing into Kataoka and gurgles out “Brother, come help me”. Yoneda gets to a low stance and shuts his eyes with blade pointed towards the morphed creature.

“Phoenix Flash” he whispers, and a light quickly flashes as Yoneda is putting his gloves away. “I need to figure out what’s going on here.” He thinks out loud to himself as we see what is left of the creature split into two convulsing as blood spurts and its body burns to ash.

“Man, I never get to do any monster slaying. I can handle myself; I just wish Yoneda could see that.” Kataoka mumbles disappointedly. He slows down to a walk just as he approaches the city and sees his school up ahead. An older modernized school that was built hundreds of years prior but fixed to fit into the scene of the city. Now in his senior year, Kataoka is ecstatic to hopefully gain his powers soon enough. “Another day, another pointless learning session.”

“It is only pointless because you refuse to pay attention to anything. You just daydream and goof off” a voice calls out as Kataoka looks to see his friend Rin walking towards him.

“No, I don’t. okay maybe I do, but they do not make it interesting. It is just old people and history and numbers we don’t even use!” Kataoka exasperated and throws up his hands.

“And also, the place we learn about the powers we get” she says annoyed. “Sometimes I wonder why they let you in here considering you do not care, except about powers.”

“Ah Rin, you know it is the law! We HAVE to be here.” Hata says while chuckling. Rin coldly stares at him. Kataoka smiles as he high fives his friend and they all walk towards their classrooms to start school. 8:05 AM in the morning as Kataoka sits and his teacher phases through the door.

“Alright students, time to learn today” Mr. Takaki, the history teacher says. As the lesson proceeds, Kataoka zones out and starts to let his mind wander and question if he would get demon powers or God powers. What worries him the most is law enforcement have been rounding up any person who exhibits demon abilities for the fear that they will abuse it. They believe it is better to be safe than have tons of crime that can happen. Before he can process the idea more, the bell rings and everyone starts to clear out. “Mr. Masahiro, would you mind staying back and having a word” Mr. Takaki asks.

“Yes sir, what can I help you with?” he asks reluctantly.

“Well, I wanted to talk to you about potential powers” Mr. Takaki says. “Soon you should be getting new powers and abilities. I only want to try to make sure you will be responsible whenever the time comes. I know how much pressure- “as he gets cut off by the sliding door opening. Standing in the doorway is a stocky well dressed and accessorized boy looking at both Kataoka and Takaki. With a look of disgust, the boy Kawakami, slowly walks towards the desk and looks at Mr. Takaki. “What can I help you with young man?”

“We need to talk. Alone” Kawakami says menacingly. Kataoka slowly backing away due to the dark aura of the boy. Kawakami looks to Kataoka as if directing with his eyes telling him to leave.

“Of course, Kataoka would you mind exiting please? To give us some privacy” Takaki says in a low but polite tone. Hesitating, Kataoka walks towards the door and gives a nervous glance towards Takaki. “It’s alright young man, just a chat with your fellow student here” he says giving a light smile. Kataoka walks out and slides the door slowly as he looks at his teacher till the door fully shuts.

“What is with that guy?” He thinks to himself while walking slowly towards the water fountain to get a drink. As he is drinking water, he hears a crash from his teachers’ room he just left. He quickly flashes to the door and hastily throwing the door open to see the desk flipped over and Kawakami holding Mr. Takaki by his collar. “Let him go!” Kataoka exclaims loudly. Kawakami looks not at all phased by his words as he puts his hand to Takaki’s face and slowly drains his life force from his body. As Takaki cries of agony, Kataoka is frozen for a second and quickly jumps to action not caring about the consequences. In his speedy haze he sees Kawakami react to him in a perfect fashion. How was he able to keep up with Kataoka when he is going faster than a normal reaction? Before he can finish that thought Kawakami tosses Takaki towards the chalkboard and flips Kataoka and throws him into the wall.

“You thought that was going to work?” Kawakami laughs. “You are easy to predict when you are just fast” he grabs Takaki and proceeds to transform one of his fingers into a long claw sharper than a Damascus Cleaver. He holds his transformed finger to Takaki’s throat. “Question now is, what can you do about this?” he says as he smiles from ear to ear. Breathing heavy, Kataoka is panicking and as a last-ditch effort screams and throws out his hand and out shoots hellfire directly in Kawakami’s direction. Kawakami instantly teleports to the other side of the room with Takaki still close to his claw. “I see. Maybe you do have potential. Now I will show you what happens when you can’t save anyone.” He says staring with a stare so cold at Kataoka to make sure he really sees what happens.

“No!” Kataoka shouts as he reaches his hand out, and nothing happens while all he can do is watch. Kawakami slices his claw quickly across Takaki’s throat nearly slicing his head off as his head pops back. Blood gushing out of his open neck as he gurgles and falls flat on the ground. Kataoka frozen with his eyes wide as he is just watching his teacher die in front of him.

“Too bad we won’t get to see that potential and I am going to just kill you” he says with joy over his fresh victim and potential second. Slowly walking towards Kataoka as he sits there stuck in a shock.

“Tidal Blast” says Rin as she rushes in and blasts Kawakami who blocks easily but is covered in water.

“Lightning Shock” shouts Hata rushing from behind Rin and throws a bolt of lightning at Kawakami. Covered in water as the lightning hits Kawakami, he winces and cries out in pain.

“Ice Maiden” Rin conforms her hands to a ball and an iron maiden coffin made of ice tries to seal Kawakami. At the last second, he teleports and flees the scene. Rin and Hata go to pick up Kataoka who is still in shock and stuck stiff.

“Teac-teacher” Kataoka barely mutters out, as he looks at his teachers open neck with blood soaked all around his body.

Minutes pass as the building is secured off by police and trying to keep the news away from the scene. Just then, Yoneda screeches to a stop and rushes out of his car to go hug his brother. Yoneda stands to fix his tie and proceeds towards the officers blocking off the scene of the crime. “What happened here?” Yoneda asks the officer.

“Sorry son, we can’t give out information to civilians.” The cop says in a monotonous tone from consistently repeating the same phrase time and time again.

“Well, it’s a good thing I am a proper detective then.” Yoneda says before revealing a detective badge in pristine condition. “Detective Masahiro, here to surveil the crime scene officer.” The officer nods and lets Yoneda pass. He proceeds to the history room where the brutal actions have taken place. Yoneda steps into the room un phased by the gore all over the floor as he proceeds to take off his glasses off. “Eye of the phoenix” as his eyes light like fire as he can see traces of where Kawakami teleported from. “Huh, it wasn’t much of a fight. Miniscule signs of teleportation usage. It must have been a surprise attack.” He presumes as he uncovers the bloodied body of Takaki’s corpse. Inspecting the gash across his neck he sees a dark purple aura indicating power usage. With Yoneda’s experience he can usually tell what general power has been used. With this dark aura, he has not seen this level of power within his 8 years of detective work. “This person must be a well-trained student or a professional who does this for a living. If it is a professional, I need to figure out a motive and why. If this was a kid, then what kid has this level of experience to do something like this?” Yoneda completes his investigation and starts to exit the building to talk with his brother.

Yoneda exits the building, thanks the officers, and proceeds over to his brother. “Kataoka, I know this must be hard on you, but I need to know what happened.” Yoneda asks his brother as he kneels besides him. Kataoka cannot even find his words, so he just mutters something intelligible. “Come on buddy, I need you find your words. I know this is tough, but it will help me- “He’s not able to get the full sentence out before being interrupted by Hata.

“He’s not going to be able to help you, at least not right now.” He says leaning against the car. “He was in the middle of the whole thing.” he divulged.