The Devil Takes the Night Shift

Chapter 9: The ___ Saves the day

Juuto felt himself sliding across the ground with Rame from that explosion. What was going on? This wasn't what normal earthquakes caused, at least not so sudden like this. The explosion that just rang across this room, it had to be from a bomb, right? Was this some sort of terrorist attack?

Disorientated, his ears ringing, he looked around the restaurant. The crowd of people were panicking as they escaped from the tables he told them to hide under.

"Are you okay?" He asked, which sounded like yelling for her. Juuto's ears were still ringing, but there was no time for him to rest. Not in a situation like this.

"I'm fine." She told him, as he got back onto his feet. With one pull, he also brought her back up as well. As soon as he got his senses back, he scanned the room for two people. One being Asaga, the other being Sunae.

The first target was an easy find. Unlike him and Rame, he stood strong against the explosion, being much more prepared and further away. It seemed that another flame came out, but not as an explosion. It almost looked as though it was being controlled by someone else. He couldn't believe his eyes, and he felt powerless as it came towards some people within the crowd.

That was when he was further awestruck from the action that Asaga took. With a swift motion of his arms, he pulled out the broth of the soup everyone was eating out of their bowls. Using it as water, he put out the flame careening towards people.

"Did he just..." Juuto was near speechless from what he just witnessed from that man. However, it wasn't the time to be standing still. A woman's scream caught his attention. It was Sunae. She was laying near the table they were all sitting at. She had gotten some rubble over her foot, keeping the woman from moving.

He moved quick on his feet, running to her as fast as possible to get her dislodged. It wasn't easy, but thanks to the adrenaline, he was able to get her free from what was crushing her leg. Just in time as well, as the section of roof had started to collapse over them. Her foot was to hurt to get up in time, so in a desperate bid. Juuto picked her up and jumped them out of the way from being crushed.

"Are ya okay?" Asaga dashed on over, with Rame not to far either. "You were nearly made into pancakes right there."

"I'm fine." He answered.

"My foot's seen better days, but I'm okay too." Sunae did her best to get back onto her feet, but she had a clear limp.

"You'll need getting out of here." He said, as both him and Asaga put each of her arms over their shoulders. As they were about to make the trek out of here, Juuto came to a dreadful realization. He looked around the room as people were quickly running out of the building. Someone was missing...

Mikuto.

"My friend, he must still be in the kitchen." He said, handing his half of the lady to Rame. "I gotta go help."

"Are you crazy?" She wasn't a big fan of him throwing himself into danger. It was one thing if Asaga did it, at least he had some level of magic. But Juuto was just a plain old human, and she had little power to help him. "There's no way anyone could've survived that explosion."

"It didn't come from the kitchen." He might not have been a believer until now. But when he saw Asaga pull out that trick, he was certain that it was the cause of some type of magic. At least he was hoping that he wasn't going to be wrong on this gamble. "Just help her out, I promise I'll be out before you know it."

"Juuto..." Those were the only words out of her mouth before he put a finger to it.
"Don't worry. Your boss isn't going to die that easily." He put on a fake smile, as he turned to run into the kitchen.