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Chapter 1: The Hunt Begins
In the neon-lit night skies of Tokyo, a lone shadow rushed along the rooftops of the city.
The shadow belonged to Mizuki Shiranui who was on a mission that could possibly be her last. For a moment, she observed the ignorant and happy citizens of the city below. She smiled to herself before catching sight of the abandoned building nearby.
She gathers the strength from her legs to jump over the street. She lands gracefully on the rooftop as she stands up, scanning her surroundings before she heard voices. Something tells her that this will not end well somehow. She opened the door for the roof, sticking to the shadows to avoid being seen.
Just then, she sees a man adorned with a long, flowing cloak the color of the blood that painted the floor he was standing on. His head was adorned with a crown mimicking the horns of a ram or goat. In his left hand, he held a a red dagger with a silver grey handle that dripped blood. In his right hand, he held a brown staff with a ram's skull. He summoned several orcs and lizard-men as a wicked smile adorned his pale face. "My fellow followers, tonight we will make contact with a Demon Lord. and we will turn this entire city into ash." The cloaked man bellowed out as the various orcs and reptilian humanoids roared out in response.
"Demon Lord? This isn't gonna be good." Shiranui uttered to herself as she then sprung forward, chopping off the heads off two orcs and a single lizard-man with her Naginata. "Taimanin here? Seize her and make sure she doesn't interrupt the ceremony." The cloaked man uttered out as he rushed towards a nearby door, his cape flowing behind him before he disappeared.
"So you're one of them Taimanin women, ain't 'cha." One of the orcs bellowed out with a sinister chuckle as he observed Shiranui. "It would appear so. You heard our master, no one shall interfere in our ceremony, not even a Taimanin like her." A red lizard-man hissed out when Shiranui replied "I have no idea what's going on but i refuse to let your master summon a Demon Lord."
"So you heard the master's plan. Not that it matters in the end because you're gonna die here tonight." The orc growled out as he rushed forward with his hand raised above his head. The orc then tried to strike a blow towards Shiranui who dodged the blow by jumping to the left. Shiranui then impaled the orc's stomach with her naginata. "g...GUH!" The orc sputtered out as blood spilled out from his mouth. The polearm then shredded the orc's torso as it tumbled down. Shiranui rushed forward and started slicing and impaling the other monsters in the room. After 5 minutes, Shiranui was standing in a pool of blood and surrounded by corpses. "Whew, talk about a workout. Now i should search for their master." Shiranui uttered out while she observed her surroundings. She sees the door that the robed man walked through and began to walk towards it. Just then, a single orc and lizard-man jumped out of the corpses of their fall comrades and pinned Shiranui to the ground.
"Heh, thought we would let you just walk away?" The lizard-man hissed out as his clawed hand pushed Shiranui's head down. The orc, seeing the pole-arm weapon nearby, picks it up and then raises it above his chest. "Any last words before you die, Taimanin?" The orc chuckled out.
Shiranui, accepting her fate, muttered out as a single tear slid down her right cheek "Yukikaze, Rinko, Asagi. I'm sorry for failing you all." Just as the orc was gonna impale his fallen foe, he stopped in his tracks. "The hell's matter with you? Strike her...." The lizard-man was gonna say before the orc's neck began to sprout out blood before his head fell off. The moment the orc's head fell onto the floor, the lizard-man sees a man wearing a white and black spandex suit with white boots, black gloves with white arm-guards and the mysterious figure was wielding a pair of swords, one longer than the other. "S....So fast! How did you..." The lizard-man was gonna say before the stranger plunged one of his swords through the monster's mouth. The stranger gathered his strength and managed to slice the reptilian beast's head in half with the blade embedded in it's mouth. The stranger then sheathed the blades on his back and notices Shiranui on the floor. "Hey, are you okay?" The figure said as he lent his hand towards Shiranui. The Taimanin grabs the figure's hand and pulled herself up. "I'm fine thank you. I see that you managed to defeat these two monsters by yourself."
"Indeed, but these are not the target. We need to find and eliminate the leader before he accomplishes his goal." The man uttered out while Shiranui grabs her pole-arm from the dead orc's hand. "Agreed, if we don't act soon then all of Japan will be burned to dust." The two then rushed towards the door and broke it open, revealing a pile of dead bodies drained of their blood with the cloaked man in the middle. "You're too late Taimanin, soon my patron Mephisto will soon heed my call and answer my wishes."
The man retorted out "Your days are over, conjurer. You will face judgement by my blades." The man then grabbed his two swords from his back as the man in red summoned a fireball from his staff. The robed figure throws the ball of flame towards the man, who sliced the ball into two with one of his swords. The man rushed forward and stabbed the cloaked figure. Shiranui, impressed by the man's speed, uttered out "Can this man teleport?"
"No, i'm just fast." The man replied as he plunged his blade further into the conjurer's chest, spilling blood onto the ground below. "F...FOOL! Your actions have only delayed the inevitable. Soon, Mephisto will rise up from the depths of his dark domain to claim what is his."
"Tell your master that i'll be there to stop him." The man said as he then pulled his blade from the conjurer's chest, causing the robed figure to fall onto his back. "G...GUH!" were the last words breathed by the robed fiend before his eyes suddenly became lifeless.
"Mephisto huh, whoever he is, then is is only a matter of time before the Taimanin hear of this." Shiranui uttered out to herself when the man approached her, uttering out with a hint of kindness in his voice "I take that you didn't suffer any injuries?"
"Oh i'm okay thank you. I normally should be the one saying that." Shiranui said to the stranger as the latter replied "Who exactly are the Taimanin?"
"We're an organization dedicated to the safety of Japan and it's residents from the supernatural." Shiranui explained.
"So you're basically demon-slaying ninjas judging from your attire?" The man joked.
"That's....pretty accurate." Shiranui chuckled as she then sees a scroll on a nearby pedestal. She unfolded it and the pair immediately identified it as a document for a summoning ritual. "This doesn't look good." The man uttered out as Shiranui nodded in agreement. "I need to warn the Taimanin about this. Stranger, this might spell doom for all of Japan if not the entire world. Will you help me and the Taimanin against this threat?"
"Why of course, this is what i was raised to do." The man exclaimed with confidance.
After leaving the abandoned building, Shiranui used her earpiece to call Taimanin Headquarters. "Asagi-san, this is Shiranui. Something big is gonna happen soon and i don't know if we can fight this alone? Of course, i was actually saved by a man who can help us. I see, alright then." Shiranui cuts off communications and turned around to see the mysterious figure. "So i hope that you're ready to fight with us, stranger because this might be nothing the Taimanin have never seen before." Shiranui said to the man who responded "Maybe to you but for me, this is just Tuesday."
"Heh i see. So since we're gonna be working together, wanna tell me your name?"
"Dimitri."
End Of Chapter 1.