We'll Meet Again Imouto-san (Hiatus)

Chapter 8

Allies

2 years has passed, I still had no evidence where my sister could be at the moment. I only had few development of my physical appearance. But throughout the years, I've become duller without a perfect reason. 

Orowakuna (the crow) has given me another mission. It's located at a village. According to him, townspeople are getting insane resulting for them to get devoured easily. There's still no further information about the said demon so I gotta finish this mission persistently.

I prepared my stuff and proceeded to the next mission. I arrived at the village as I felt a sudden killing intent behind me. My instincts told me to dodge as I did what I was told. An old man swung his machete towards my neck as I avoided the strike by ducking down.

I examined the person, his not any usual citizen I've seen before. His face is full of fear and anger. Not just that, but his eyes were different. The color of his eyes are different, the left was black whilst the other was glowing ocean blue.

I looked carefully at the glowing blue eye of the old man. I couldn't easily determine what it was despite of my keen eyesight. It stopped glowing when he held his eye out of pain. The eye color magically turned back into coal black.

Suddenly, the man collapsed on the ground out of exhaustion. I didn't bother waking him up as I resumed my mission.

I leaped silently at the roof of each houses and jumped on an alleyway. I walked silently without tracing any sound and breathed heavily. I continued to check the town as someone suddenly grabbed my shoulders.

I was shocked as the person covered my mouth. A man ran past the alleyway and was being chased by another man who's holding a hatchet. Another person leaped above and saved the chased man. When the place was quiet once again, I turned to the person.

Judging by this person's sudden movement, he must be a demon hunter. He's quite smaller than me but he gives off an incredible aura. He's wearing a demon hunter uniform underneath the red haori with white dotted spots. His hair is long which was braided on the back of his head. Has a hair color of yellow and its tips were black. His eyes are pure black which shined with the moon above. Has a tan skin which suits his muscular features. By the looks of him, he's a Breath of Blaze user.

He held my shoulder tightly and covered my mouth entirely. He looks around the area with a cool serious face which I admired a lot. Giving off a glance towards the direction he's facing, there were few people walking whilst slouching.

When the place was cleared, he removed his hand from my mouth. He then proceeded to show off his voice while asking.

"Hey, what rank are you?" He asked. 

He must be looking for a high ranked demon hunter. But I don't actually know why. Maybe this demon is powerful that I sensed another person from another area. So, there are three demon hunters in this mission.

"Tsuchinoe, why?" I replied. I felt him relaxed at my response. So my hunch was right, if I were at the lower rank, he would just scold me. But Tsuchinoe is far from the highest rank. 

"Good, we're the same. But don't let your guard down. We three are going to defeat a lower moon demon." He said. So we have the same ranks, that's good but...

Lower moon demon? So that means the demon who's been controlling the townspeople is a twelve moon demon? This isn't gonna be great.

"By the way, what's your name?" He asked while he keeps peeking through the area. 

"I'm Tsuyuri Tsuyoi." I answered. Showing respect, I bowed down at him.

"I'm Enjowa Kaenji." He answered bowing down as well while the other demon hunter appeared behind me.