Ch.1

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"Your highness! His soul had found the surface of the Earth again! You need to destroy him!"

What's this voice? Who is speaking?

"That evil monster has woken up! He is coming for you! Wake up, your highness!"

Your highness? Who? Me?

"You need to avenge him! Kill him!"

Huh?

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up your soul!"

"Akira! Wake up!"

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"WAKE UP!!", an ear-piercing voice screamed startling Akira. He snapped open his eyes only to see the clear blue sky. He didn't even have time to remind himself about the dream he just saw when another ear-piercing scream reached him.

Groaning softly, he sat up. He had again fallen asleep under the giant willow tree. His usual napping place, the Willow tree on the school ground. Rubbing his face with his palms, he looked around to search for the source of the scream.

On the playground, he found two boys, one was on the ground on his stomach while the other one was stepping on him with a football in his left hand. The boy under the feet was struggling to get away while bawling his eyes out.

Luca Smith, Akira's best friend, is the number one coward in the school. He had fine looks with blonde hair. He would have looked more handsome if he didn't cry like a baby all the time but that is how he is. A weak personality with a smart brain but is too scared to fight back.

Compared to him, Akira Enatsu was a narcissistic troublemaker. The complete opposite of Luca. A cocky personality, with outstanding looks and physical abilities. He had black-colored eyes yet they were bright as the sun. Black straight spiky hair was such a charm for him. Under his right eye, there was a birthmark in a shape of a sun.

"Some people are like clouds, once they are gone, it's a beautiful day", Akira mumbled to himself but made sure they could hear him.

"Cool story bro, wanna hear mine? It's a fairy tale. Once upon a time, nobody gave a shit about what you said"

Lewis Williams, Akira's number one enemy. His popularity wasn't second to Akira. With some gangster looks, he would pass as a number one mafia boss. Brown hair, smooth skin, and a nasty personality. A self-centered bastard. Both Akira and Lewis were named as mortal enemies by the students.

Akira approached him boredly with his hands inside his pant pockets. "Let him go"

"If not?", Lewis challenged with a sick smile.

Akira, "You sound better with your mouth closed, bastard. Do you feel like a hero by bullying the weak?"

Lewis's scoffed with an eye roll. He was annoyed. He never liked Akira or Luca. He saw them as eyesores. They had numerous fights, even teachers wouldn't dare to put them together with each other. At first, teachers tried to put them together through group tasks to make them work together but in the end, they would still break each other's bones.

"I think you forgot something. It's not me the hero. You are the hero while I am the villain. So, of course, I do bully weak. After all, I should live up to my reputation. Right?", Lewis proudly stated as he had won a war.

Akira chuckled darkly. "Too bad, you are not at my level. Now piss off, you are hurting my eyes"

Lewis," Oh yeah, I'm a level up above you. Wanna see my level?"

Luca sneakily crawled back knowing what's coming. He stood up with a face full of terror and horror. Not a second passed, his best friend and his bully were grabbing each other's collars.

Students gathered around like a bunch of ants to witness another round of the legendary fight between the two bad boys. No one tried to stop them, after all, it was such an entertaining event. Everyone wants drama in their lives.

And then, the hell broke down.

Luca was terrified as hell!

"Eep! They are at it again! what do I do! what do I do!", he widened his eyes seeing Akira punching Lewis's abdomen and he was sure that Lewis must have fractured bones by now. And sure enough, Akira might have even more fractured bones than Lewis with the way Lewis fights back.

Luca jumped in shock when someone placed their hand on his shoulder. He placed his hand on his heart trying to calm down and turned back to give a good scolding to whoever for scaring the shit out of him. But the moment he saw the face of the person, he forgot everything around him. It was as his eyes grew hearts on them.

"Izumi!"

Izumi Enatsu, Akira's big sister. She was a born beauty with her naturally straight hair. With a heart-shaped face, she was an ethereal beauty. Not to forget her cheerful sunny-like personality is the best part.

Seeing her, Luca forgot everything and only focused on simping over her with big eyes.

She smiled showing her pearly white teeth. "Luca, long time no see. Did you by any chance see my idiotic brother?"

That's when Luca remembered the whole thing. With a timid mind, he pointed at the two boys who were currently trying to kill each other. Luca somehow felt a pang of guilt for not telling her anything about school fights. She would always ask him if her brother is doing well in school since Akira would never talk about these things with her but he always backed up his best friend. Luca could never understand Akira when it comes to Izumi. He always ignored his sister when she tried to approach him. He never talks about her. It's not like he hates her but he seems a bit distressed about something.

Nevertheless, Izumi always smiled despite her brother's rude behavior with her. It was a bit unusual of her to come to school to pick Akira up.

Izumi walked closer to the fight with Luca following behind. He prayed that Akira won't go berserk seeing her.

"Akira!"

Akira and Lewis paused. Both of them were on the ground with Lewis on top of him with his raised fist. Glancing up, they froze seeing her.

Luca could understand why Akira had a look like that but he was annoyed seeing Lewis's expression. He wanted to slap him out of the space for staring at Izumi with that kind of face. It was like he saw a goddess or something.

Taking advantage of the situation, Akira pushed away Lewis. He stood up with an annoyed expression. Luca was alerted seeing his expression. He immediately looked back and shooed away the audience who had gathered to witness the drama. "Shoo shoo! Go away! The drama is over! ..hey hey! What are you whispering about?! Go away before I call the principal!"

Izumi approached Akira with a worried face and tried to touch his face only to get slapped away by his hand.

"I'm fine"

Izumi sighed but smiled. "Okay, if you say so", she then turned to the frozen boy and gave him a soft smile. "Hey, are you okay?"

Lewis was dumbstruck when she spoke to him with a kind and soft tone. Luca could tell that he didn't expect it from her after witnessing him beating up her brother. Annoying pest! Just answer and get lost! , Luca thought-feeling annoyed.

"Y–Yeah, thanks"

Izumi sighed seeing the obvious painful bruises on him. She looked at her brother's disfigured face. Then again she gazed at Lewis. Both of them were like half-dead meerkats.

"It doesn't seem so. Should I bring you to a hospital?"

As Izumi was worrying over Lewis, Luca nudged Akira. "Why is your sister worrying about that annoying pest? Also, look at him. I've never seen him flustered as this"

Akira rolled his eyes. "Oi, stop worrying over that bastard. Let's go home", he said loudly taking Izumi's attention.

"You bastard! Stop butting in!", Lewis snarled back.

Izumi awkwardly tried to calm down the situation. "Okay okay, both of you uh calm down. Can't you two be friends? Please?"

Izumi was always the one to seek peace. She never liked violence which was a big contradiction to what she does every day. She is a professional swordsman and a martial artist. Whenever Luca went to Akira's house, Izumi would always spend her time in the backyard practicing without a rest.

Lewis hesitated with her request but to his luck, Akira protested the idea harshly.

"No in a hell way! We are leaving! Right now!", he grabbed his sister's hand before dragging her with him. Luca followed them with a victorious grin. He immediately took his and Akira's bags which were hanging on a tree and again followed Akira and Izumi.

After exiting the school gates, Akira let go of Izumi and walked alone on his own.

"Akira, are you upset? hey, I'm sorry!", Izumi apologized as always. She always apologized whether it was her fault or not.

Luca sighed seeing him not even looking back. "Izumi, it's not your fault. He is not upset with you"

Izumi looked at him and smiled in gratitude. Caressing his hair, she spoke. "Luca, you always cheer me up!"

Luca smiled feeling giddy.

"By the way, how is your training? have you been trying to control your power?"

With the mention of his power, Luca immediately became serious. He rarely talks about it. Luca had always hated his power. He always thought that it was a damn mistake to be the owner of such a terrifying thing.

When he was just ten, he floated up Akira accidentally on the air. Both of them were terrified to the core but soon Akira recovered from the shock and Comforted Luca. He could control the wind.

"Yeah, it isn't that much of a trouble. It's like using my body parts. You know —like automatic"

Izumi, "Mm, that's great then. Do you still hate your power?"

Luca fell into silence. Yes, he still hates it. He doesn't deserve such power. He is just a coward. A scaredy-cat. He always thought.

"Oh Luca, it is a gift. You won't understand now. But one day, you'll be grateful that you had this power"

Luca, "How so? It's useless since it's in me. I'm a damn coward. I'm not a hero like Akira. Plus, where would I use this power on?"

Izumi smiled softly. She gazed at the sky with a sigh.

"There is a reason why you got this power. You'll find the reason. So no need to worry. And when the time comes,", she looked at him. "I'm sure that you'll do a great job. We all have a purpose in our life. It's okay to be a coward but fulfill that purpose"

Izumi gazed forward. Akira was silently walking ahead with headphones on his ears.

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