Tamashii no chaser (Debiddo Arc)

Ch-2 A Strange Man Appears, His Name is Oshiro!

(Note: Anything that is a flashback will be in italics.)

"Who the hell are you?" said Debiddo still in shock after the whole ordeal. "I hate repeating myself so make sure you listen up." The older man said as he smokes his pipe. "The name is Oshiro Dairo. I am a chaser, one of many who are here to neutralize the threat in this area." "Chaser? I don't...Mom!" Debiddo says after realizing the situation. He ran towards his mother and picked her up ever so carefully and with much sorrow in his heart. "Wake up mom stop playing." Blood started leaking from her body. The blood flowed on the ground like water and caked Debiddo's hands like paint. "Aren't you going to scold me for leaving school early?" More tears roll from his face as he shakes in despair.  "Aren't you going to fix hamburger and rice for me like you always do when we fight? Mom.... mom PLEASE...just answer me...I didn't even get to say goodbye... I didn't answer back.", Debiddo thinks back at the last conversation he had with Riza. "Ok, get going Debiddo, Love you, son." Those last words from Riza resonate in Debiddo's head as images of his mother's smiling face warp into images of her corpse. "Mom...please don't leave me...I love you..." Debiddo says as he embraces his mother tightly. As he strokes her face, Debiddo noticed that it was like touching ice. Her soul was gone. Devoured by the same demon that took the life of his best friends and everyone in his school. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Debiddo screamed as if his soul was crying out in frustration because of his weakness.

Oshiro turns away from the body to hide his dejected face. "I'll give you some time to mourn about after that, we need to get going," says Oshiro wiping the demon blood from his hand. "Go? Go where? I ain't goin' anywhere old man." Debiddo says in an irritated tone. "My mom is dead... The best Goddamn Principle in my entire life, Dead...My two best friends... are dead...hell, everyone in that damned school is dead!  All I want to do is stay here with my mom and..." "And what die?" Oshiro says interruptedly "Look, I know all this is hard to fathom and is difficult for you to stomach right now, but you telling me right now that you seriously want to just sit here and not do something about it?" "What do you mean?" Says Debiddo as he lays his mother down with care. "Didn't you kill this monster already?" "This monster, as you called it, is called a demon, and there are many more demons like it." "A demon?" Debiddo asked. "Like the demons in video games?" "um...yes?." Says Oshiro with a confused look on his face. "Demons were humans who had lost their way during their lifetime, and when they passed, the evil within their hearts broke free and manifested as this thing." Oshiro points his wrist, strapped with a watch-like device, at the monster causing the demon to start glowing a white hue before it ultimately dissipates. "What the hell?" says Debiddo, in disbelief at what he just saw. 

"What did you do?" "I purified his soul and sent him to Rakuen." Says Oshiro brushing himself off. "Rakue...What, in the actual hell, are you talking about." Says Debiddo, still bewildered. "In terms that you can understand,  it is basically like Heaven," Oshiro responds. "Why is this happening?" Debiddo sits down distraught. "Why was that demon targeting my school?" Debiddo starts tearing up with his head down. "Is it because of me...is it because of how I acted until now?  Am I getting divine justice or some crap, and that thing is what was sent to kill everything, and everyone I love?" Oshiro looks at Debiddo's dejected face as he looks at his mother and takes a deep breath. "I'll give you 20 minutes to make your decision...I understand this is very much overwhelming to you. I will be outside when you are ready." Oshiro then walks out of the house and leaves Debiddo to think to himself. As Debiddo sits in silence next to his mother's corpse, he thinks back on some moments he shared with his mother. Debiddo then picks up a photo of him and his mother from when he was a little kid with the sounds of crying echoing through his memories as tears drop on the picture. "Why are you crying now Debiddo?" Riza exclaims as she runs to comfort young Debiddo. "Why does everyone hate me!"  Debiddo says as he cries out in his mother's arms. "What do you mean, Debbido? No one hates you." Riza says concerned.