Present time.

“After that, I went around crushing every D’Arc member I came across, and collected some more information. That's when I learned about your deal with this Hanazawa guy, and decided to crush him too just to be safe.”

Just like Sapphire asked, Miko explain his reason for attacking D’Arc. But…

“…So, basically. You're trying crush me before I crush you?”

Asked Blanche. Miko looked at Blanche with a confused look on his face, and said-

“What are you talking about? Crush me? Just you? That's not possible. That's not why I'm doing this.”

“Huh? Then why?”

Blanche was anxious and confused.

“Isn't it obvious? It's to prevent future nuisances. If I leave you alone, you're men will probably hunt me down every night, and that would be really annoying. But, if I kill you here, D’Arc will naturally fall apart, and I won't have to crush a few hundred men every night.”

Miko looked Blanche in the eye, and said-

“It's common sense to crush all those you find annoying.”

Miko quickly shot past Sapphire, and grabbed Blanche's throat.

“So, if you will. Please die.”

He was about to crush Blanche's wind pipe, when-

“Wait a minute, Miko!”

Someone suddenly called out his name causing him stop.

Miko turned his attention to the owner of the voice.

“!”

It was Bloom. It was the first time that he looked in Silver Crow’s direction.

“What the…”

Miko was the type of person to ignore anyone who wasn't his target. But, for some reason he couldn't take his eyes off one person. And, that was Bloom.

“That girl…. What the hell?”

He said, as if talking to himself.

It wasn't her beauty that drew his attention. It was something entirely different.

It was true that Bloom was beautiful. In fact her beauty rivaled Tiamat's.

But what drew Miko's attention was her physical face or to make it more clear, it was who she looked like.

“Katrine….?”

She looked very similar to Miko's lover from his past life.

“Ugh?!”

She looked so much like her that it was causing Miko an immense amount of stress.

The strange mark once again appeared on his neck, which symbolized that his state of mind was wavering.

(Calm down, Miko.)

Tiamat spoke in his mind.

(It's not Katrine. Katrine is dead. It's also not a reincarnation of her, so there's no need to get work up.)

She tried to calm him down.

(Oh? What's going on? Do you know the girl Miko?)

Ishma asked in his mind.

“N-No. Its nothing.”

He started to forcibly calm his heart with deep breaths.

The mark on his neck slowly faded away, which proved that his mind was stabilizing.

Miko was once again reminded that he was mentally unstable and needed to be careful to not get too stressed out.

He once again stared at Bloom.

Noticing Miko's abnormal stare, Bloom spoke.

“Um…is something wrong? Why are you staring at me like that?”

“Maybe she's charmed by your beauty?”

Said Chrome.

“Well, having persons falling in love with Bloom isn't new. Even if it's the same sex… right, Chrome?”

Said Zetsu, in a teasing tone. Chrome was about retort him, but didn't when she saw that Miko had released Blanche's throat, and started walking over to them.

“Love? No. What I feel when looking at her is far more complex than that.”

Miko said, while walking.

He stopped in front Bloom, and looked her in the eyes.

“What I feel is like a mixture of love and hate. Basically, I’m contemplating over whether I should kill you or not.”

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Bloom’s existence was troublesome for Miko. That was because he was constantly reminded of the past when he looked at her, and for the unstable him, that wasn't good. Especially now that he's practicing Deus Malum.

Hearing Miko basically threaten Bloom, the rest of Silver Crow were going to attack him, but was stopped by Bloom raising her hand.

“Are you Gamiko Dragna the Third?”

She asked, while staring back into his eyes.

Sapphire, who was attending to the coughing Blanche who almost had his throat crushed, flinched when she heard Bloom’s question.

Not only her, surprise covered the entire room.

“Cough. Dragna?!”

Blanche shouted.

“Bloom, wait. By Gamiko… Do you mean..”

“Yes. As in King of the Dragna kingdom and Demon Dragon God Nero's grandson. I heard that he enrolled at the academy, and his nickname was Miko.”

Bloom answered Chrome’s unfinished question with a serious expression.

Other than their leader, she was the only one who knew about Sapphire’s mission to recruit Miko.

However, she wanted Blanche and the others to know who they were provoking before they act and cause a huge incident.

Tension filled the room and everyone, including the girls who were thrown out the room cautiously looked at Miko.

Bloom asked again.

“Please answer me. Are you Heavenly Demon King Miko?”

“That's what I go by these days.”

Miko ignored the stares he was receiving, and asked a question of his own.

“Are you related to Jun Mizune in any way?”

“ No. If it's about the silver hair, you'll find about another hundred persons with it in the city.”

“I see.”

That's all he said.

It wasn't the answer he wanted, and she also seemed to mistakenly thought that Miko knew what this Jun Mizune looked like. But it was fine since he just threw it out there to see if he could collect any information.

Anyway, he had more important stuff to do.

“W-w-wait a minute, Gravity Queen! That girl is Nero’s grandkid?”

Blanche still hadn't recover from the shock, and said some stuff that annoyed Miko.

“Firstly, I'm my own person so don't refer to me just as Nero's grandson. Secondly, I'm male. Thirdly,…”

MIko kicked the ground, and shot beside Blanche, who was still sitting on the ground. He lift his leg to kick him in the head, and said-

“A man whose life has already been forfeited, shouldn't talk so much.”

Blanche couldn't react.

Miko swung his leg, and it connected with flesh.

“Tch.”

But, it wasn't Blanche's, it was Sapphire’s.

She shielded Blanche by turning her skin into hard crystals.

“Ugh!”

But, even her crystallized armor shattered, when it received Miko's full powered Fuckoff Kick.

She coughed up a lot of blood, and held her stomach.

“Good job, Sapphire.”

Said Jade.

She and the others had grabbed Blanche when Sapphire shielded him, and formed a protective wall around him.

“J-Jade! Did you contact the rest of the guys in the hotel?!”

Blanche was extremely flustered when he asked Jade the question. And Jade who saw that, hesitated to answer him.

“….I tried, but I wasn't able to contact anyone.”

“Well, of course you couldn't.”

Miko casually joined their conversation.

“I already took out everyone in the hotel before I came up here.”

He didn't even allow them to be surprised. He spoke with an irritated tone.

“To tell you the truth, I've had it. This night has been going on for too long. So if you don't mind, I'm going to end this.”

With his ice cold eye directed at Blanche, he took a step forward. But then suddenly stopped, and looked down at the floor. He was looking at Sapphire.

"Oi, woman.”

Realizing that Miko was speaking to her, sapphire looked at him and was greeted with cold blue eyes.

“You want me to help you keep your cover?”

He spoke as if whispering, he wanted her alone to hear him.

Sapphire couldn't respond because of the pain she was feeling, but surprise was printed all over her face.

“You're the only one who didn't attack me. That's because you didn't want to become my enemy right?”

Sapphire could only nod at Miko question.

“Then I won't treat you like an enemy. However I still need to kill that bastard.”

Sapphire felt like her heart was being crushed by Miko's merciless stare.

“Normally, I would capture you, and torture some information about the Four Pillars out of you, but...”

He grabbed her by the collar, and made her stand.

“Since, you're not my enemy then I won't do that.”

He showed Sapphire an innocent smile, and said-

“If I were you, I would activate your power right now.”

What Miko did next was simple. He threw Sapphire through the window, sending her outside the building.

“Eh?”

Everyone was surprised by what he did, but none more than Sapphire.

“Jin, this kid is too fucking crazy~!”

Sapphire was finally able to speak again, but it was when she was falling to the ground.

“Sapphire! Are you insan-?!”

Ruby was trying rebuke Miko for what he did, but he rushed forward and popped up in front of her and the rest of the girls.

“Die!”

Amber kicked at him, but Miko stepped back and easily dodged it, before grabbing her leg.

“Did you forget that you were wearing a skirt? Or were you trying to seduce me?”

Hearing Miko's comment, Amber started to blush, and tried to held down her skirt.

“Let go off my leg, you pervert!”

She shouted.

“Fine.”

Saying so, he threw her out the window too.

“There I let go.”

“You bastard!”

All three of the remaining girls charged at Miko all at once.

Jade tried to punch him. He stepped to the side, and hit her shoulder with his finger.

Ruby tried to break his neck with a kick. He stooped down, went under her leg, and hit several spots on her thigh and hip with his fingers.

Gem tried to knee him in the face. He performed a backflip and distance himself.

“Two, huh? I'm still nowhere near Grandma’s level.”

Miko mumbled.

“What are mumbling about in the middle of a fight?!”

Gem shouted.

“Fight? That's already over. Look behind you.”

Gem did as Miko said, and quickly glanced behind her.

“Hey, what's wrong, Jade, Ruby?!”

Gem saw both girls on the ground. Jade was holding her arm, and Ruby was holding her leg.

“I dislocated their joints, and made their nerves overly ensitive; using a form acupuncture technique I picked up from my grandmother.”

Gem quickly turned back her head, and saw that Miko was directly in front her.

“Damn you!”

She tried to hit him with her elbow, but Miko blocked it with a finger covered in Ruler’s Qi and her entire arm went numb. Miko then grabbed her numb arm, and judo flip her out the window.

He then turned his attention to the defenseless Ruby and Jade, and said-

“But I gotta say, this technique is pretty effective. Because of it, I got my ass beat really bad by Momo one time.”

He walked over to the girls, and poked them in the center of their forehead. They lost consciousness immediately after the Qi shot into them.

He then lifted them up with one hand each.

“Hmm…it doesn't feel right throw defenseless women out a window more than three times a day. So, I'll leave them in hall.”

He did as he said and threw them out in the hall and shut the door, as if he had put out the garbage.

“Now that those girls are out of the way...”

He looked over at Blanche, who was trembling with an Anti-magic gun in his hand.

Miko began to walk towards him.

“Make peace with whatever God you believe in. Because you're going to meet him very soon.”

His tone was carefree, but his eyes were vicious.

He stretched his hand out to grab Blanche, and then-

“...Really, again.”

As he said that, Miko was blown into a wall by a powerful force. His entire body was on fire, and the wall was burnt black.

Seeing that, Bloom looked at the person who was responsible.

“I don't recall telling you to attack him, Reiji.”

The perpetrator Reiji, smiled and responded back.

“You didn't, but the boss said that we mustn't allow Blanche to die until he says so. I'm just following the boss’s orders, that's all.”

He displayed a cruel smile, fitting off his face.

“Besides, it's not like he's dead.”

As if proving Reiji right, Miko's voice echoed in the room.

“The world sure has become a cruel place.”

Sounds of concrete breaking could be heard, as he pulled himself out off the wall.

He landed on the floor, and cracking sound came from his body when he tried to loosen his joints. He looked at Reiji, and said-

“A teenage boy can't even commit murder in peace. Oh, cruel world.”