—28th September 2026—
Nothing happened the previous days as we followed Misato but we never found out anything about the guy we are searching for. Hell, there wasn’t even a Zonniki to have fun with because of some weird law issued in secret by the Prime Minister. It was that day, that something happened. I and Arismis were stationed in front of the school where Misato, the girl I gave my ice powers, goes and we hid our presence by concentrating the auras around us, not only we were undetectable to the human eye but to other Zonnikies as well. The girl’s mind can’t contain anymore those untrained powers, her moment to develop a black aura is close and this would have been our last opportunity to discover who between her teachers was our target.
‘The moment to meet this greater evil is almost here. Killing that will help the world…’ I thought with a little smile forming on my face.
Suddenly, Arimis woke me from my thoughts with a nudge and told me “She’s here” while looking to my left. I looked in the same direction and saw my Misato slowly walking towards the gate, she looked pale and had big dark circles under her eyes and her fingertips were peach black, these were the first physical symptoms of an incumbent black aura, there are also other symptoms but it mostly varies from person to person(same for when it can happen). When she passed in front of us, Arismis slightly touched her arm with his fingers and she didn’t react whatsoever like she didn’t even feel that and simply continued walking.
Shortly after Misato surpassed the front gate, someone started screaming.
“It’s time…” Arismis said and looked at me. I nodded in response and we both started following Misato, who started her rampage.
Some of the students were already frozen to the bone and Misato was right at the entrance of the school, where the lockers were situated, her fingers were fully black, her breath was visible because of how cold the place was getting already and her gaze seemed lost while she was attacking every student that was in her sight. She was agile, almost on the same level as mine, whatever she touched instantly froze, she even removed her shoes to be able to use her feet to freeze the floor and made it spread like it was some kind of virus.
I thought that was incredible and it wasn’t my first time seeing someone with a black aura, but every time I had to kill it without having the time to look at how good they were, this time was different. I could look at her and understand a lot, the way that power was controlling her body made it possible for it to use its full potential, this is the reason why for a normal Zonniki would be difficult to fully use any power and only skilled ones can do it.
When she finished on the ground floor went up to the first floor where other students were hiding and she continued to use the same attacks, just slightly touching them, breathing out right in front of their faces or simply using the ice coming out from under her feet, but she never tried to actually hurt someone and made them spill some blood.
“That’s the peculiarity of a black aura.” Arismis suddenly said and I looked at him, he looked even more fascinated than I was, he continued speaking “The powers control you, they want you to eat more and kill more, but some people will have a slightly stronger mind than average and they will be able to change just something but not everything…she’s one of them. Man, she would have been a great Zonniki…what a great loss it will be.” he sounded sad at the end and for me, it was the first time seeing him having compassion towards someone.
We continued following her to the second floor, I got closer to the windows and saw outside that soldiers were grouping in front of the school gate, I immediately warned Arismis but he reassured me
“That’s fine, I asked some acquaintance to send some soldiers. They are thinking they will get some plans in the next few minutes, instead, they will stand there in case some nuisance comes to ruin our plans.”
After that explanation we continued following Misato to the third floor, she was less agile and looked already tired, meanwhile, I was getting preoccupied since that was the last floor of this school and there was no trace of our target. But all hopes were quickly restored when I looked outside the window again, a guy was able to surpass the guards and was running towards the school. I thought this was also planned and said it with calm at Arismis, but his face changed from calm to confused and admitted “That…wasn’t planned.” I looked at him preoccupied, this was the first time that something that wasn’t in his plans happened.
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“Let’s just wait and see how things go.” he decided and I nodded in response, then looked back at Misato, she was already finishing her job on that floor and my preoccupation was replaced by surprise when she stopped moving and was just looking at the 3 remaining students.
“You…ruined…everything….” she said slowly while her gaze was changing “It’s…all your…fault” Her eyes became bloody “I’m…hungry…” After saying that, she took one of the students for the neck and a few seconds later, the guy I saw reached us and went towards Misato, trying to reason with her.
He had brown hair, unnatural golden eyes and he had a creased turquoise shirt and brown pants, while looking at him I started thinking ‘Is he crazy or what? He’s going to get himself…killed…’ As I thought this I noticed something about him and I said to Arismis
“His aura is red with some weird black spots in it, should we do something?” but he simply shook his head
“Let’s see what happens..”
I looked back at the guy and in just a few minutes he was able to reason with Misato and let her leave the student and get close to him, there was some hope in her eyes
‘Is he one of her teachers? He’s so young, maybe around my age…’ I thought
When Misato was close enough, the guy’s smile slowly disappeared and said he was sorry, then the girl suddenly close her eyes and when she was about to fall, the guy took her body and gently posed her on the ground.
“How did she die…?” I asked, waiting for an answer from Arismis and took him a few seconds to actually say something
“It doesn’t matter now…he’s our target” then he put a hand on my shoulder knowing I was ready to attack “but we won’t attack today…it’s not the right time.”
“Why it’s not the right time?” I asked and he promptly answered
“Just watch…” shortly after, soldiers arrived and surrounded the guy and what happened next, both disgusted and fascinated me. A massacre happened and not even the three students survived, used as they were just tools but from the guy’s gaze it was clear he wasn’t doing it off the thirst for blood, he looked in a state of trance and those moves seemed programmed, what was going on in his head? But was seriously amazed was his strength. After that, a girl in a white dress, grey eyes, long black and slightly pale skin, appeared and my eyes opened wide at her aura, it was black, pure evil but also familiar
‘It was her…she talked to me from the mother’s body…why is she here?’ I thought and both the girl and the guy seemed to know each other, they were arguing about something but there was some kind of interference, like some kind of glitch, and I couldn’t understand most of the things, apart from one thing, the guy’s name was Dai. While they were still speaking, a red portal appeared close to them and footsteps could be heard coming from the lower floors, other soldiers were coming.
At some point, they both stopped speaking and the guy, who looked a bit pissed off, went through the red portal, meanwhile, the girl stood there for some seconds before looking at us. A shiver was sent down my spine and I didn’t know what to do. I wasn’t completely sure if she was actually evil despite her aura and it didn’t look like she was going to attack; she just stared at us for some seconds before going through the portal, which quickly closed afterwards.
We decided to leave the place through the window and while walking towards the gate I said
“I understand now why you wanted to stop me.” I looked at Arismis “That guy was as strong as me and…he was too similar to me in some way, I wouldn’t have given my 100%”
He smiled “I’m happy you understood. Anyway, we found who our target is, that’s the important thing.”
‘Yeah, the mission is just delayed’ I thought while putting a hand on my chest
‘But why…the more we go forward, the more everything feels off…What am I missing…?’ Suddenly, in my mind popped off that girl ‘I have to find her again…maybe she has an answer-”
Suddenly, I noticed something shining between the corpses and I quickly reached it with a hand, it was a metal wristwatch but the clasp was broken, plus it was still saturated in the Dai’s aura.
I was going to show it to Arismis but I decided to keep it for myself, fortunately, he didn’t notice me and it must stay like this. What I’m going to do next, will put me in danger.