Under the Stars

Chapter 2

Koyama Shino, One of my friend. He’s skillful, quiet and merciless But this is all just a facade, a mechanism to deal with his dreadful past. He was born and grew up in a great family in Kanazawa, a city in Japan, he lived free of worries until he was about 7 years old, but at that point, his life changed drastically.

He lost his family in a suspicious accident and was neglected by everybody. While being pursued by unknown figures, he had to survive in a harsh world. He came across a set of books in their secret basement, it contains unique sword practices and formations, written by his own grandpa. And with his diligence and intrepidness, he began practicing his grandpa’s sword art.

He perfected his grandpa’s sword art before his 20th birthday, thus, he become a prodigy, a master, each cut from his blade are flawless. He got summoned with me and I get to know him, he shared his experiences and story to me. We become best friends although he’s older than me.

While on the other world, he met his worthy opponent, his tutor to be precise. Countering each of his attacks easily, he realized his own weakness. Thus, training there for 7 years makes him even more of a monster. He surpassed his own tutor and become a demon of blades. This has turned him into the man he is today.

“Guild Master…”

“Speak”

“I have the latest report on the new guild members we just acquired”

“New huh, for the past 3 years after building this guild and making it global, there’s still no one who’ve I set my eyes into”

“That’s why, as your secretary, I suggest to pick some individuals for you to train. Just a few months, or years, they may raise the rank of our guild, through recognitions and contributions.”

“There’s no point on raising our ranks, since we don’t even have a chance on beating those crazy knights.”

And that’s the truth.

I’m called the demon of blades because that’s the only thing that I’m capable of. I only rely on my sword and my mana capacity is low, just enough to buff my attacks.

“And also, the leader of the Night Phanters wishes to meet you, this afternoon.”

“Make that right now, at the same place”

That guy, after being silent for 2 years, finally want to talk to me.

“Understood.”

“Good, then I shall prepare as well”

Now the she’s gone, I will go outside using this window, this way I won’t get in trouble even if I stay too late, since my secretary is the only one knows that I will be leaving today.

That bastard will quickly go there after receiving my message, well he’s never been late, he maybe even be the first to arrive there. He’s not an assassin for nothing.

Approximately 10 kilometers from here is our meeting spot, by running through rooftops at full speed, my last record was 3 minutes. And I will be beating that record today, hehe.

“Hey hey! Reo-chan”

“What!?”

“Did you see it?”

“No I don’t, what was it?”

“I giant fat bird just passed by”

Those kids… well I can’t blame them. This buffy body will really be mistaken as a fat bird if seen soaring above.

Oh, I can already see it. Let’s go full speed, woohooooo!!

“Whew” let’s see!… What! Hayss! Still 3 minutes…

“There’s no need, you’re still fat”

“What fat huh!!? This is pure meat, puuuuuure meat!!!”

“I know I know, gosh, you even got bigger just after 3 years”

“Are you mocking me?? Wanna fight huh!??”

“Can you atleast calm down, Shino.”

“What? You scared?…

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but still, I’m glad meeting you again. Hayato”

Hayato. He’s a punctilious, impartial and a quick individual. Born and grew up also here in Japan.

He lost his parents in a fire incident when he was still young. With the help of a stranger he survived, but in exchange for that he must become an assassin.

He’s been trained for years and managed to remain out of reach of danger and overpower anybody who’s a hindrance.

After being transfered to the other world, he now works on meeting new, kind people.

By doing so, he hopes to shed the memories of the past and finally find joy and love for life he has never had.

And It’s just 3 years, but I can’t stop crying after meeting him, what’s wrong with me?

“There there. you’re still a crybaby after all these years, it is really unexpected with that body of yours.”

*sniffs*wipes down the tears*“so, why is that? Just showing yourself after 3 years”

“Well you see? Our Dark Phanters guild.”

“What about your guild?”

“You already know what we do right?”

“Of course, yes. Getting hired to kill someone, which is illegal to some extent, and collecting informations.”

“More! More detailed informations that you think. All of the events, news, all,. all informations around the world, we know them.”

“Now you’re bragging”

“No, what I mean is that, I know something that even the other knight would not know, yet.”

“Can you get straight to the point!?”

“Listen, the sword.”

“What sword?”

“That! Sword!”

“I don- wait! do you mean-”

“Yes! His sword! His sword appeared!”

“Does that mean that he’s here!?”

“We can not be so sure yet… we have three assumptions for that.”

“And what is it?”

“First is, that he’s really here.

Second is, that maybe he sent his sword here for an unknown reason.

And lastly, the third one is, someone might be playing a prank on us”

“That can’t be just a prank, they even know about the sword.”

“Well maybe it’s a knight, just like us”

“Yeah, that’s a possibility…”

“So, where’s the sword?”

“It’s still there..”

“Wha- you didn’t pick it!?”

“That’s also a problem, I’ve already sent a few of my man there, and came back with the same report. They can’t pull it out…”

This is a big problem, we need to keep quiet, if that 5 get to know this, it might become a chaos. What ever being that will be able to pull out the sword and control it, the world may turn upside down by it’s own hands.

“This is bad Hayato, we need to keep quiet about this!”

“That’s why I’m here, you are the only one trustworthy enough to know this”

“Thanks for letting me know this, and let’s stop wasting more time. I’ll go there immediately and contact my secretary to build a temporary base at that place. Goodbye!”

“WAIT! Where are you going again!?”

“To that sword! What else!?”

“Do you even know where it is?”

“…”

“See!?, come on, let’s go together! We need to hide it, as soon as we can. This is not only for us, this is also for the whole world.”

“Here, hold my hands, let’s use this to go there quickly”

“Okay. Hehe, After 3 years I’ll be finally seeing this skill of yours, Hayato”

“Well, you need to pay for this too, there’s also a skill I badly want to see from you. The demon of blades, Shino.”

“Haha, let’s hope that it’s not today”

“Then, shall we go?”

“I’ve never been prepared.”

It all turns black, I can’t see anything, anyone, except Hayato. I can feel the wind, the strong wind hitting us, I can also hear the sounds, but I can’t see any light. Only Hayato can see, only he knows where we are, only he knows where we stop, this is one of his strongest skill, this skill can be used both defense and offense, but he can only use this once per day, since this skill uses a lot of his mana.

The skill name? He called it the

“Void Walk, still amazing than ever”

“Even though you can’t see a thing?”

“Come on.. If only I have this kind of skill, I will enjoy my life to the fullest…”

“Okay you may shut up now, we’re getting near. Wait!”-fhoooohw-¹

“What? What’s wrong!?”

“Let’s hide for a moment,” “Shadow Embrace”-fwhiiiiiiwu-²

“Is that the sword!? And, Who’s that?”

“You noticed that too? You better get prepared, we have an unknown guest”

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*¹=sound of Hayato’s “Void Walk” dispersing

*²=sound of Hayato’s “Shadow Embrace” activating