✶ 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄 .ᐟ ( yuta okkotsu )

ix. FIEND OR FRIEND?

"I'm pairing you up with a buddy starting today. In Public Safety, for small-scale missions — patrolling and so on — we act in pairs for safety. You can still work with that Jujutsu high student you brought to kill the fiend, but I'd feel more confident having someone from Public Safety with you too." The red-haired woman explained.

"Perfect timing — looks like your buddy's here. Be careful," Makima warned, "she's a fiend."

A girl walked into the room, banging loudly on the door. "Hey, hey, hey!" She shouted.

"Grovel, human!! My name is Power!" Long, pink hair cascaded down her chest, with two red horns peeking through the top. She wore the typical white button-up shirt with a messily tied tie, with rolled-up slacks and tennis shoes. Half of her shirt was untucked from her pants, making her look unprofessional.

"Are you my buddy or whatever?" Y/n asked, visibly bored. "Wait, hold on a sec... your name is Power? And you're a fiend?! Can fiends even be sorcerers?"

The girl continued to look at the fiend, noticing that she was actually... pretty. Yellow eyes with what looked like crosshairs in the middle, that held an overtly high sense of pride within them. Y/n thought it was pretty hot.

"Well, whatever!! Lookin' forward to workin' with ya!"

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Y/n and Power walked atop the roof of a random building, looking for curses. Y/n's classmate, Okkotsu, was supposed to meet her here, but he had yet to show. The girl instead took off by herself, with no one but her new partner, the fiend.

Power was restless. She moved erratically across the roof, clearly bored. Out of nowhere, she smacked the back of Y/n's head as hard as she could.

"OW!" The girl clutched the back of her head and turned to look at the fiend. Before she could say anything, the fiend spoke first.

"Human! Hurry up and let me kill something! I thirst for blood!" She demanded.

Without answering, Y/n slumped forward and kept walking, "I can excuse some craziness if she's pretty," she mumbled to herself, "the issue is how I'm gonna touch those boobs..."

After a while of patrolling, the two got even more bored and took refuge on a different roof; Power leaning against a railing, and Y/n sitting on top of it.

"There aren't any curses here at all!!" Y/n complained.

Likely because of me!" Power shouted, "before I became a fiend, I was a greatly feared curse! The nobody curses all flee from my scent, I'm sure!!"

Y/n scowled, "Wait, what?! Then how are we gonna deliver results?"

Y/n thought back to what Makima had said earlier, something about Hayakawa being the one to pair her up with Power.

That jerk, he set me up, didn't he?! Y/n chewed on her bottom lip angrily, he teamed me up with Power to keep me from showing what I got. He's trying to force me out!!

Power suddenly jumped up, "I smell blood!"

The sudden startle almost knocked Y/n from off the railing, "Woah, what? Wait, wait, wait, where d'ya think you're going?!"

Power began to run off, "Shit, she's fast!" Y/n shouted.

But nothing stopped Power, "Fight time! Fight time! Battle time!"

She quickly jumped off the building, Y/n running to the edge and leaning over the railing to watch her. She used the blood from a cut on her wrist to materialize a giant hammer made of blood.