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The next day, I woke up like any other day except for the extra pains from yesterday. Ouch. I swear I will catch the Shark.

As I looked in the mirror, I noticed how long my hair had gotten and decided to go for a hair cut after school.

-Time skip because you know why -

I told Makoto I'm gonna skip swim practice today and headed for the barber.

I arrived and the barber and saw it was pretty much empty. I went to the counter and requested a haircut.

"Oi, Toru! Cut this young lady's hair would you?" The person attending the counter called. A girl stumbled out from the back room and I turned around to see her.

"Riku?!?!?!" The girl exclaimed

"Akuma-san?" I calmly acknowledge.

"Ah, seems like you two know each other, then. Toru, take care of the girl for me. Gotta got get more cigars" the attendant said and left

"Okay" Akuma-san said through gritted teeth

"Don't ruin my hair, Toru.  If you do well, I'll give you ¥500 as a tip." I warned.

"Fine" she gave in and started combing my hair.

There was silence as she prepped my hair for cutting.

I sighed and said "what happened two years ago wasn't intended. Sorry"

I didn't need to look at Toru to know she felt pained. " Apologies accepted. You sound sincere enough. Though I still hate ghouls"

" I know. But I'm killing them all. The reason why I'm hunting is for you. I want to rid this world of bad ones"

" But you are one"

This struck me down to my very last heartstring.

"Done. You promised me a tip right?"

"Oh? Oh yeah. Here" I gave her her tip, paid the actual price at the counter and left

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