Bring him back

chapter 21

"Du, du, du, du..."

He hung up, Mizunari ended the call before the coach could even let out another sound and Endou was left on the other line, griping his phone until his tan skin turned white

"Coach...?"

The said adult turned around, only to see the team captain staring at him in horror alongside everyone else

'Oh, I forgot!' The brown headed adult completely overlooked the fact that he had his phone volume turned up to max, loud enough for the others to hear the other side of the line 'Now...'

Initially, he was trying to think of a plan, but at this point, there's just no time to loose.

He gave the rest a fully determined face before they all ran out of the clubroom, all the way to the field. Every second counted, as their precious brunet could very potentially be on the brim of death once again.

~'0'~

"Tenma!"

Everyone yelled for the brunet right as they stepped onto the grass. They looked around and they saw Mizunari leaning against the goalpost with someone laid down beside him

"Tenma!"

After realising who it was, they all began running up to him, until Mizunari had moved from leaning to standing beside the goalpost. A shiver ran down all of their spines and they all stopped at the same time, after getting a horrible gut feeling

"Give him back!" Screeched the coach to the senior, but the said boy simply smirked before looking right towards the adult

"I wouldn't say it like that if I were you." Said the senior as he slightly bend down to grab the brunet's hair. He held his head up by pulling him back, and out of his pocket, he took out an utility knife and held it right against the earthling's soft neck. The earthling himself looked exhausted, as if he's about to pass out at any second, evident enough that he didn't have any strength to fight back.

The Raimon members were freaking out. Clearly, if they did a single move wrong, they would loose their precious brunet again, and none of them were about to go through that twice, including Endou. So he switched from his menacing voice to one that's calmer, yet still stern enough to send a shiver down anyone's spine

"What do you want?"

"Can't say I expected for you to be smart, soccer freak."

"Why you-!" Kurama was about to go and punch Mizunari in the face, he was already fuelled with anger when he held the brunet up by his hair and now with that insult to their coach, he was on the brim of bursting into flames. But, before he could finish his sentence, Mizunari propped his knife even closer to the brunet's neck, to the point where it slightly opened his skin, making the red liquid starting to roll down and stain his yellow uniform.

It pained everyone to see this and Kurama decided to endure the anger for his junior's sake

"Seems like you're done." Said Mizunari while looking at Kurama, who in return, glared at him with his single exposed eye "A~nyway~, I didn't call you guys here for no reason. I called you guys to witness a show, a show you've all missed long ago."

"A show?" Murmured the Raimon members. They didn't get what he meant, one second it was all hatred mixed with anger and now he's talking about a show? What is he trying to say?

"Exactly. You've all missed the grand spectacle of Tenma killing himself, a show that was worth every second to watch." At that statement, everyone's eyes grew wide, even Tenma's barely opened eyes grew slightly too. How does he know? Didn't the extraterrestrials say that no one would remember any of the events? So why...? Unless- "You can all save the questions for later, right now... JUST ENJOY THE SHOW!"

Right after that, he held the knife high up in the air, seemingly going for the back of the brunet's neck, a definite death point if injured.

The Raimon members could barely even let out a sound as Mizunari began dashing down his knife, but then... The knife suddenly got thrown away, out of the senior's will, and the said senior himself had to hold his hand that had the knife to try and stop it's uncontrollable, yet painful shaking, and one look at it, his hand had three, bright red marks on it, one on the back and the other two on his thumb and his middle finger. There were also three small, random glass pebbles right beside Mizunari's feet, which seem to all match the size of his marks.

It seemed like somebody threw those pebbles at the speed of light and nobody, not even Mizunari himself saw them, until they dropped on the ground. And, before they knew it, something else happened right before their eyes.

Mizunari was suddenly held down by someone else, or, better said, by an alien

"Ozrock!?"

Everyone was surprised to see him, but Ozrock didn't give that much care about it. He primarily focused on pinning down Mizunari, or, to be exact...

"Learn when to give up, Okita."

At that point, nobody was all that surprised to hear that, they already had their suspicions from the very beginning, so all that did was just clearing things up for them

"We're gonna take him away and as for this kid, we're gonna trust you guys to take care of him."

Almost everyone looked right towards the voice owner, Lalaya, in the matter of a split second. Both her and Katra we're holding the brunet up with his arms resting on their shoulders, not to mention, they also saw that Tenma's neck slit had already healed up, most likely done by the alien princesses.

The coach quickly took Tenma in his arms and they all thanked the aliens for coming to the rescue

"I have a question." All three aliens turned their heads around, only to see Tsurugi with his piercing glance "Is he gonna be locked up again? 'Cause I don't trust that he's gonna be locked up forever."

The same thought was actually shared by all of the members. After two major fails on guarding Okita, with the second one resulting in a close second death call, the Raimon members couldn't trust the guarding abilities of the extraterrestrials anymore.

But then, Ozrock said something that completely changed the entire atmosphere

"He's gonna be executed."