As Kai is looking at the bounty board what Haydon told him entered his mind.

"Don't go for the high-level mission where you get your ass handed to you and go for the low grades and build your strength."

He grabs a dispatching mission for low-grade demons.

20 Minutes Later.

Kai sliced a demon in half, cutting another and sliding under the legs of another finishing it off with a stab, Kai looked around at the corpses and thought to himself.

'So much has happened over these past few months, my life has changed.'

Kai's phone buzzed in his pocket he took it out and accepted the call.

"Bello, Banana!" Haydon shouts.

"What? I thought you were sick?" Kai said quite frankly confused.

"Nah, just coughing out blood, BUT! I heard you're doing low-grade missions now so I wanted to check in and see if everything is okay." Haydon yapped.

"Yeah, I just need to keep going but should be all fine," Kai responded.

"Coolio, Poopaye!" Haydon ended the call.

'What did he say.' Kai thought to himself.

20 minutes later.

Kai looked down at his katana and saw that blue flame was scorching from his blade, he slashed the throat of another demon and felt more strength build up in him, Kai felt more inspired and continued on a little more.

Another 20 minutes pass and Kai is walking to the agency, he spots Ethan he runs up and speaks to him.

"Yo, when do I get examined for a new grade?" questioned Kai.

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"Uh... You have to get recommended by someone in 'Unknown Grade' so just keep doing missions and if you get offered a big mission then take it as you're most likely going to get noticed in those missions." Ethan answered.

After thinking for a few seconds, Kai asked.

"Wanna spar?."

"Kinda random, but sure," Ethan responded.

...

Kai throws a feigned punch at Ethan's face, but Ethan remains unfazed. Kai then throws another punch, but Ethan grabs his arm and throws him to the floor.

"Kai come on you can do bett-" Ethan gets cut off by Kai abruptly disappearing.

Ethan spins on his heels, and Kai's fist impacts Ethan's face, but Kai is propelled out of the sparring room. Stumbling, Ethan comes out of the room, half laughing and half crying. Ethan then runs out of the agency and heads home.

While running Clown makeup starts to appear on his face.

"NO! GO AWAY!" Ethan shouts terrified.

As he blinked he found himself in a foggy run-down room, Ethan heard something fall behind him he turned and saw a clown that looked identical to him sitting in a chair, he had brown messy hair, and his left eye was crimson red but his right was blue. He wore a red vest and was tall and skinny.

Ethan looked at his surroundings looking for an exit.

"Oh come on now don't panic." Ethan stumbles back as the Clown speaks.

"Who are you?" Ethan asked, looking for answers.

"Who I am is irrelevant." The Clown responded.

"Why am I here and where am I?" Ethan questioned.

"CAN YOU STOP WITH THE QUESTIONS! YOU ARE RUINING MY MOOD" The Clown got up into Ethan's face causing him to fall backwards.

"Now listen closely." The Clown sat back down.

"The little shit known as Lucifer stabbed me straight in the back now this in itself is pretty bad you agree." Clown asked.

"I gues-" Ethan tried to respond.

"Don't interrupt, I'm dead now yippee but you possess something that brought me here into this prison that you call your body."

"Luckily for you, you hold the authority of "Faith" and oh so luckily we are so ~ alike, that now when you are in danger... I HAVE TO COME OUT AND SAVE YOU." Clown ranted and turned around but he's not done.

"I've already had to save you from his goon, Stefan. Speaking of which, how could you lose to Stefan? How embarrassing! I can't believe that out of all the people, you're the one I have to be stuck with," the Clown continued.

A smile cracked through the Clown's angered expression as he turned and looked at Ethan.

"Oh perfect, with this, I can kill Lucifer HAHAHAH" the Clown burst into laughter.

Ethan had run out of endurance.

"SHUT UP!" a faint buzzing started getting louder in his ears.

"OOOOO~ someone feeling brave." The Clown appeared next to Ethan and whispered in his ear.

"You should be thanking me for saving you so many times!" Exclaims the Clown.

"No, you just wanted to fight a demon connected to Lucifer," Ethan argued.

After Ethan said this, the Clown shot an icy glare over his shoulder.

"You don't care about helping you just want revenge." Ethan kept going.

Suddenly all air within Ethan's lungs escaped.

"If you make another shitty statement, there will be consequences."

The Clown stated angrily.

With the remaining air Ethan had left he said.

"Come on, you're acting like a complete CLOWN." Ethan laughs as he says this.

Ethan raised his hand and squeezed a red clown nose that had appeared out of nowhere, producing a honking sound.

Air rushed back into his lungs, and he could finally breathe again. However, his brief moment of happiness was abruptly interrupted when the clown backhanded him across the face, sending him crashing through a wall into a dark, damp, misty area. As Ethan hit the floor, he heard…

"Do more of you're shitty demon-hunting missions, find more information on Lucifer, find out where he is and let me CUT HIM TO SHEDS!" The Clown laughs manically.

After the Clown finished speaking, he appeared and pushed Ethan through the floor, causing Ethan to fall through the pavement in the real world.

"What the hell," Ethan said in a daze.

"Why did you leave? it was just getting fun." Kai caught up.

"I need to go, sorry."

Ethan ran back home.