Chapter 13 - One

"No one exactly knows why they exist in the first place. There are some theories about it but I won't bother you to read them."

Narukami put his hands to the back of his neck as his gaze was in the distance, out of the window.

"Why are you telling me this?"

It was obvious that an ordinary girl like her didn't need information like that. As such, she found it odd.

"You may find yourself one as your situation is possibly related to Anomaly. I don't know how someone can pull out your heart without you dying."

As far as Narukami was concerned, one's heart was quite complex. It not only circulated blood but also your life energy so it remained pure.

This process was extremely slow. Life energy was something that an ordinary person's heart can't get used to.

You see, the human body was great at adapting things, almost to everything in fact.

If you start a certain diet, your body will get accustomed to it in a few weeks or days.

If you live in a two-season country and move to a four-season country, your body will gradually show its changes as it adapted.

Therefore, when life energy was circulating. It should be getting faster as the heart recognized more of its immaterial property.

Despite all of the above.

The circulation remained the same, slow.

Anyway, a human foul shouldn't be in one's body. As to find balance, the body decided to emit this through skin spores. Unfortunately, the process was painfully slow too.

And, in some cases, some human foul in your body didn't leave as it should've and slowly accumulated.

Thus, when an Anomaly noticed a human with a lot of foul. It would inject its foul into it.

Then, the Anomaly foul will devour human foul as its nutrition to grow until it reached a certain extent.

Anomaly foul can make you want to kill yourself.

Anyhow, his words made Aya frown, "how long will I meet one?"

"Depends. As of now, your human foul is still at a safe range. It'll take five years for you to reach the limit."

The human body produced fouls based on their negative behaviour and emotions. As such, everyone was different.

If you know how to control yourself from doing mischievous things and your emotions. Then it'll take longer.

"Five years..."

That's longer than Aya expected. Narukami changed his sitting position as he grabbed his phone from his pocket.

"You can be at ease. As long as I know your smell, nothing can scratch you, let alone kill you."

Out of the blue, something slid through her mind as she recalled the time when Narukami approached her as he crawled.

"So that's your purpose too," she said and one of Narukami's eyebrows raised.

It took a short time for him to realize what her words truly meant.

Then, Narukami opened his phone. As soon as he did that, Ryu called him. Narukami pressed the green icon as he swiped it to the right.

"Hey, Ryu. Sorry for asking you to take care of the mission alone."

As they were working under All Beyond, taking a mission was a must. If they miss a single mission, it'll be... No, yea no.

Their circumstances were a bit special so it should be okay for them to not do any mission yet here Ryu were, taking a mission by himself.

Once you complete a mission, you'll be rewarded accordingly.

"It's okay. That aside, we have a problem."

"A problem?" Narukami's attention was now focused on what Ryu was going to say next.

Recently, things were getting boring. Daily missions, the cycle of life:

Waking up, eating, school, killing Anomalies, sleep.

Aya's case was indeed interesting but he still needed some information about who he was going against.

"It's the new guy, he got arrested by the organization."

"The new guy? You mean Asahi? What did he do?"

Narukami simply ordered him to go to the branch, register himself as an Anomaly sorcerer under Narukami's name, and done!

How did he end up being arrested was completely beyond Narukami's imagination!

"Long story short, he accidentally came across a killing scene and is now under the assumption of being the suspect."

"Who he killed?"

"The son of the first squad commander, a first-class Anomaly sorcerer."

"How's Asahi? Is there any injury?"

"He's fine. When I went back to the branch to get our reward, I saw him unscathed."

Logically, it would be impossible for Asahi to kill such a guy as he only entered a whole brand new world and a complete newbie!

Not only did the guy Asahi kill appear to be a big shot's son, but Asahi also left with no injury!

He didn't have any grudge towards anyone in the organization too.

However, the fact he was arrested by All Beyond showed that they have the reason.

Asahi Ringo, in case some had forgotten. He was the person who Narukami saved.

He was once an ordinary human and as soon as he entered the world filled with people with abilities, he killed one of them easily?

Narukami doubted it was that simple.

"How's his situation?"

"Because of lack of proof, he's still in the interrogation room and his punishment is yet to come. Speaking of which, Z is on his side so you don't have to worry."

"Z is?"

Narukami stroked his forehead with his free hand as he closed his eyes. Another troublesome figure appeared in the scene! 

"Yeah, he's the one who found Asahi with the corpse."

"Why is he there? Well, no matter. I doubt Z would report such a thing to the organization. Is it someone else who arrives at the killing scene right after him?"

"Yes, Z is also taken as a witness."

"I see. Where are you right now? I'll be on my way."

The punishment of killing an Anomaly sorcerer varied, from torture to death sentence.

Narukami must hurry. Although the penalty for Asahi was yet to be known, he had no time to stay idly. 

Moreover, with this event. Everyone probably assumed that he's an easy target to pick on.

"Sure, I'll send you my location."

"Thanks," he nodded.

Click.

With that, he put his phone back into his pocket.

"Aya, are you free?"

When Narukami was talking to Ryu, she made the bed, the wrinkles on the latter were no more but smooth, white surface.

As she tidied herself up by buttoning her school uniform, straightened her hair with her hands. 

Earlier, some of her hair was on her shoulders, and some covering her ears, almost blocking her vision.

Shortly after Narukami asked the question, Aya was on the other side of the bed as she put on her blue flower hairpin. Narukami saw her small back.

Small yet carried lots of responsibility as she was the daughter of a rich man. If her responsibility was converted to something physically, it would probably reach 300kg!

As soon as she was done, a light breeze of the wind hit her hair and it fluttered in the air for a short moment.

She then got up and approached Narukami, looking down on Narukami as the latter's ass was on the chair.

"If this is the only way I'm going to prove my worthiness. Then I'll do anything!" She exclaimed as she brought her clenched fist to her chest.

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