EPISODE 10: A FRIEND ALLY

EPISODE 10: A FRIEND ALLY

(As yūto walks through the forest following the road to the next town he thinks of the shopkeeper's words.

OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST-DAY

THE FLASHBACK BEGINS:

SHOPKEEPER

Demon hunters don't move in groups? Why are you alone?

YŪTO

I didn't happen to find any demon hunter on my way to continue. But I'm not going to stop, my loneliness won't stop me. I fight for the people, I want to save and help with or without another ally by my side.

HOPKEEPER

But aside from the bravery you have in running through the woods and jumping from roof to roof in the cities you visit, it's not a good idea to go around alone. Demons are based on the fact that the demon hunters themselves are not united with each other, as a result of which they hunt the weak and the one who does not have someone next to him to rely on.

END OF RETROSPECT:

YŪTO

Mmm, maybe he's right. Sooner or later I'll die if I don't have someone's help. I need to find a trusted ally, but ... but maybe they're all cowards to help me, damn it.

(Yūto takes a long breath and looks in front of him, then thinks about his father's words)

FATHER

If a man wants to really help but doesn't know or even if he doesn't own some technique he will. Think let alone a demon hunter. The true demon hunters are the ones who help without exchange, without gaining fame. So don't be scared and you're not going to be disappointed, just go bravely.

(Yūto smiles and says in a hushed voice)

YŪTO

Mmm see, thanks father for your advice.

(Yūto advances farther and farther into the forest, until he hears from the trees breaking branches. He looks up and sees a boy a little older than his age. Sora Yamashiro, 19 years old, with strange features such as: he does not wear shoes, he has scars all over his face, green hair and green eyes without pupils of the eyes. The pupils of his eyes have a lighter color than his iris. In this case the pupils of his eyes have a pale green. The child is blind. He wears a Japanese mask Hannya that hides his face, back on his back he has arranged in the black sheath three axes. The two small axes are placed in The Shape of X and the large ax in the center of the middle. Still, the boy wears besides a black trousers and a black blouse written on the back in green letters "hunter" in Japanese "猟師", but the blouse is torn and tattered not being able to distinguish what he writes clearly. At the same time, his muscles and abdominals are seen. Then that child descends from the branches of the trees with a terrific clatter, then stands a few yards away from yūto. Yūto looks at him and tells him a little scared)

YŪTO

Are you a friend? I won't hurt you, stranger. You have my word.

(But sora moans and slowly pulls out the two small axes behind his back, then the analogous sound of rubbing blades from the axes is heard, and yūto says ironically)

YŪTO

In fact, I'll take that as a no.

(Yūto opens his palms whence the purple fire comes out, and the same sound is heard when the fire is kindled. So yūto closes his palms by making his hand fist, in this way the fire spreads all over his hand as far as the elbow. For a while the two children sit and look at each other as sora thinks from within)

SORA

His technique is fire, huh? I see, since he is demi man. I thought the Demons killed them but I was wrong, let's see what a good warrior you are, demi. Looks hilariously interesting this kid. I can smell his fear and his heart beating unusually fast, he's probably afraid of me. How pathetic. One more thing I can smell is... it's the blood he's carrying from the other demons he killed. Good grief. So he's already engaged in a duel with them.…

(And takes a few quick breaths through the nose saying)

SORA

One, two, three. Four. Five battles.

(Yūto thinks)

YŪTO

What is he? What can he do in the woods alone? I've never seen a man like him. His eyes ... in his eyes he has no pupils. How can he see? Hehehee, this child is bewitchingly curious. Besides all this, do you think it's demon hunter? They'll find out soon enough.

(Then he says in a low voice without yūto hearing him)

SORA

Beast sound.

(Sora growls and throws away the two axes he holds. One axe is directed towards yūto's neck and the other a little lower, about the height of his feet. Yūto is startled and drags his right foot to the right and front so that he can make the little statuette and pass between. After yūto manages to pass the other side in an impressive way, while sora's axes are nailed to the trunk of a tree that is just behind. Yūto rises from the ground while sora again slowly pulls out behind his back the big axe that he has. The corresponding sound is heard from the blade of the ax. Sora runs towards yūto with growls and when he gets close to him starts making hate attacks trying to kill him. The duel is amazing as we see sora with a heavy weapon waving it in his hands and changing places as if made of feather, and yūto with the fire of his hands and feet repulses and makes swift attacks against sora. Yūto repels all sora's moves, so when he finds the opportunity he shouts)

YŪTO

Fire cycle!

(And he makes a semicircle by taking out of his feet the purple fire. Sora steps back while yūto puts power in his hands and exposes himself in front of him starting to hit him. But sora surprisingly repels all the attacks of yūto, until sora raises his axe high going to cut him in half. Yūto sees the axe and grasps the blade of the axe with both his hands. Sora exerts pressure to bend but yūto does not bend. Yūto says sweaty)

YŪTO

Why are you fighting me?

(Sora, however, does not listen and continues to carry out attacks to kill him. Yūto in turn repels sora's attacks and whenever he finds the opportunity he retaliates. In a moment yūto makes a shot at sora's axe, the axe is hurled and nailed against a tree. yūto says with irony)

YŪTO

Looks like you don't have another axe, now what are you gonna do?

(Sora smiles slyly and says in a hushed voice)

SORA

Pathetic hunter, it's not the weapon that makes a warrior... but his fighting skills that he possesses.

(With a step he steps towards yūto, this step makes a puddle in the ground. With amazing attacks and bellowing at the same time sora performs attacks against yūto. Yūto clenching his teeth thinks as he repels most of his attacks)

YŪTO

He's an amazing warrior even if he doesn't have his axes.

(Sora performs quick attacks that you can't see with the naked eye. Until yūto finds the opportunity with both palms of his hands strikes sora's chest. Sora crawls backwards, and behind his feet rises dust, after a while a sound is heard as if something is breaking, and sora can not breathe. By striking yūto he breaks a rib from sora. Sora does not get nervous, all he does is raise his hand and stretch out the two largest fingers of the hand. Then in a silent voice sora says, taking out his last breath that looks like smoke, like fog. {The breaths they take from now on look like fog, like smoke coming out of their mouths} and trying to concentrate says)

SORA

Balance breath.

(With these words he can and takes a deep breath and all the air goes into his mouth. Then again he takes a sharp step to get near yūto. Just before he gets close to him he makes a little jump and stretches his fist going to hit yūto on the head. Yūto fends off sora's attack with his hand and makes a turn from left to right raising his leg with force to hit him. Sora sees yūto's leg heading towards him, but as he is still in the air he takes another inhale and makes a shot kick with one of his two feet hitting yūto's head. Yūto falls to the ground, then bounces once and falls to the ground again. Then after he gets up again and looks at sora with his hand he wipes his cheek, he thinks clenching his teeth)

YŪTO

He's good, damn it.

(Sora thinks too)

SORA

He controls his fire incredibly well, heheee. It's getting dark I'd better send him to rest a bit, what a pathetic man he needs and rest lol.

(Yūto attacks sora. The fight is unbelievable. Sora and yūto make incredible attacks and incredible repulses on each other, until the end of the battle has come. Yūto makes a little leap and brings from left to right his foot surrounded by the purple fire. He's going to hit sora. Sora, however, sits and looks at him. Yūto falls to the ground breaking up a great part of the ground, stones being thrown away while not omitted, and the dust having got up. After a few seconds after the dust leaves, yūto sees sora looking at him from a few meters away. Sora then takes a deep breath and bellowing takes a step on the ground)

YŪTO

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

(When they collided sora grasps both hands of yūto. From the force they have put on both creates an air wave that destroys the ground and their hair winds. Yūto puts pressure on sora, but sora puts up resistance. It looks like it's two drops of water. Then at once sora draws yūto towards him and strikes him with his knee on the belly. Yūto pulls saliva out of his mouth and falls to the ground. Sora instead without losing time grabs his big axe and runs to the tree where the other two small axes have been nailed. In an amazing way he gets them off the tree and climbs the same tree to hide. Then yūto rises with difficulty from the ground, and holding his belly by the pain looks around him. Sora has disappeared)

YŪTO

Where did he go?

(Then continuing to press his belly, yūto begins to walk back to the city where he was coming from. As he walks he wonders)

YŪTO

What was that? What was that child?

(Sora stands on the tree and looks at yūto saying from within)

SORA

An amazing pathetic, hechee.

(And he sits on the branch of the tree while he continues to look at yūto going away)

SORA

I've never seen anyone like him. Maybe, maybe I found my way. Ha good grief.

(Sora then starts jumping from branch to branch onto the trees and runs toward a destination. When he arrives he descends from the branches of the trees and walks, it is a place in the forest with a Stone nailed to the ground and engraved on the Stone the name "shu". Sora approaches and kneels in front of the stone, then joins his hands and closes his eyes while simultaneously saying)

OUTSIDE, IN THE FOREST, IN THE GRAVE OF A WARRIOR-AFTERNOON

SORA

I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, but I have to keep going. I promised revenge, I promised you that I would be finished, I promised you that one day the sun would rise and rise! And that's exactly what I'm going to do, I'm going to keep my word. Don't blame me for running away from you, I think you'd understand if... if. Never mind, I'll see you in another life. Honey.

(Yūto arrives back in the city and enters the restaurant. Night has come and yūto inside the restaurant unable to eat thinks about what had happened in the forest. Only images of the battle with the unknown child come to him. Then the shopkeeper approaches him, saying to him as he offers him a glass of saké (酒 ))

INSIDE, IN THE SHOPKEEPER'S SHOP TO-NIGHT

SHOPKEEPER

I thought you'd never come back, son.

(He says with a smile)

SHOPKEEPER

Anyway, Whatever happened, it's good to see you back in my shop, kid.

(Yūto says also with a serious look)

YŪTO

Me too.

(The shopkeeper sits at the same table with him and drinks a sip of his saké (酒 ) )

SHOPKEEPER

So what made you go back to this dump? I thought you were going to the next town.

(The shopkeeper sees the bruises on yūto's face and immediately says)

SHOPKEEPER

I see you got a lot of bruises on your face, kid. Are you in trouble?

(The shopkeeper wonders and again drinks a sip of his saké (酒). Yūto holds the glass with his saké (酒 ) without drinking a single sip. He has no appetite and with a false smile answers the shopkeeper)

YŪTO

No, no hehe. Don't worry about me, I'm fine fine hehe.

(The shopkeeper gets up from the table and says incredulously to yūto)

SHOPKEEPER

Mmm, I see, I see. Well, I'm gonna have to get back to work, whatever you need, you scream, and I'm here. Whatever you need me for.

(As the shopkeeper leaves to serve customers yūto says at the same time)

YŪTO

Mmm I know, thanks.

(When he left the table yūto's look changes, turns into a serious look and all he thinks about is the epic battle between him and sora)

YŪTO

What was he? He was fighting like, like a monster. Like a monster he could not see before him, he could not see before him. All I wanted was to kill anyone approaching him, but why all this? Why would he have such hatred in him, I wonder what happened? There's something wrong with this whole thing.

(Yūto thinks and finds a solution, raises his head and pictures of himself come to him. Pictures when his mother died, the burial of his entire village and that he was chasing demons through the forest with hatred in his gaze. After yūto returns from the images he sees in his mind he says)

YŪTO

Mmm, now everything is explained. Now I understand, that's why I was so familiar with this behavior. The unknown closed in on himself because he lost something, something precious that no one can replace and nothing. But I can't be absolute about why he attacked me. All I want is to help him, so I'll have to meet him again.

(At that moment he hears two men near him talking.)

MAN #1

Today they found another demon evaporating.

MAN #2

What, Where did they find him?

MAN #1

In the woods as I heard. You think he did it?

(Sipping a sip of his saké (酒 ) The Man #2 says)

MAN #2

I'm sure he did it, don't doubt it. But because of this creature, we won't be able to bring wood into town. As long as this monster lives in the woods, it's dangerous for all of us.

MAN #1

I agree, word is spreading around town now that he killed another woodcutter. On the one hand he protects us by killing the demons and on the other he kills the people themselves, what a strange demon.

(Yūto thinks looking at the two people)

YŪTO

You think they're talking about the stranger in the woods? I need to know more.

(Yūto rises abruptly from the table and grasps by the shoulder one of the two men and asks them with great wonder in his gaze)

YŪTO

What, what are you talking about?

(Man # 1 is startled)

MAN #1

Huh? Where did you come from, Kid?

YŪTO

Please answer me, it's for a good cause. Who's that in the woods?!

(Man # 2 says looking at yuto with ironic gaze)

MAN #2

Why do you yearn to learn so much, kid, huh?

YŪTO

If you give me the information I ask, then I will relieve you of the presence of the Monster. How does that sound?

MAN #2

Congratulations, little hehe. you've won me. We'll tell you everything we know, then someone else can help you. All I know is that he's been living in the woods for three years. Others say it's demon killing demons and others say it's demon hunter. But no one is sure yet what kind of creature this is. Someone who saw him up close said he was a child with green hair and with axes behind his back if I'm not mistaken?

(And looks at Man # 1)

MAN #1

Yeah, yeah, he also has a lot of scars on his face, probably from the demons he's fighting. While every night we hear voices and howls from demons who are being slaughtered.

YŪTO

Where can I find the one who saw him?

(Man # 1 points with his finger at a man sitting alone at a secluded table)

MAN #1

That's him. He can help you or he can't, he doesn't want to talk about this incident. But he might try to tell you something you might need.

(Yūto turns and looks in that direction. Then again he turns his gaze towards the two men and says:)

YŪTO

Thank you very much.

(Man # 2 says turning his back)

MAN #2

Be careful hunter, this creature in the Woods is dangerous.

(Yūto without saying anything starts and approaches the man's isolated table, while behind him Man #1 and Man #2 mock yūto)

MAN #1

What an idiot. How stupid does he have to be?

MAN #2

Shh, let him die for us. Besides, we're not demon hunters hahaha.

(Yūto has reached the isolated man's table and sits down without saying a word. For a while silence prevails, after a while yūto takes a breath and courageously goes to speak but is stopped by the man who has his head bowed so that his face does not appear)

MAN

I know what you're here for, kid. I heard you talking to those idiots before.

(And he takes a sip of the drink before him. Then he raises his head and faces yūto saying:)

MAN

You want to know about that person in the woods huh?

YŪTO

Yes, sir.

MAN

Didn't I hear you say your reason for wanting to know about this monster, or am I wrong, boy? So tell me, and if he is satisfactory enough, I will tell you what happened that night.

(Yūto thinks from within)

YŪTO

Why ... Why do I want to know about this stranger? What's the real reason, who, who?

(Into yūto's mind comes a remembrance. The hatred and anger of what happened and immediately after the faces of his two teachers and hibanas. Yūto raises his head and says to the man)

YŪTO

I want to know to help him. I know what it's like to lose a loved one. Your soul is filled with hate and all you think about is revenge. That's why, that's why I want to know more about him! To help him out of this maze of hate and woe! I want him to find his way, his true self! Who he is and who he wants to be! To stand on his feet once again, because we all deserve one more chance in life, all of us!

(The man smiles saying)

MAN

This is the first time a true demon hunter has been in front of me who sees beyond himself. Tell me, kid, what's your way?

(Yūto says with a smile)

YŪTO

My path is to help, to protect every last man from demons. It doesn't matter if I die, I don't care. All I want is for there to be no more victims and for the world to finally feel truly free, freed from their shackles.

(The man looks at him and after a while asks)

MAN

You were saying different things to the two people there, how do you explain that?

(Yūto says with a smile on his lips)

YŪTO

I just wanted the information, normally no one should know what I do or who I am. Unfortunately, it's hard to hide from the world.

MAN

And why hide? Hide from what, kid?

YŪTO

Have you heard the story of the Good Samaritan I believe? That's exactly what we demon hunters are. We are people who give our souls for the many without exchange. Our only reward is the smile of people when they go out at night without fear, without feeling that something bad will happen.

(The man looks surprised at yūto saying)

MAN

This is the first time I've heard these words come out of the mouth of a demon hunter. Usually, kid, demon hunters are people who are paid to fight demons. Unfortunately all cities depend on them, because only they can protect us.

YŪTO

Not anymore.

MAN

Mmm I see. I'll help you, I'll tell you what I know and saw. because, because you deserve it, kid.

(He begins to tell his story and at the same time we see pictures)

MAN

My family died of demons in the woods and after my job as a woodsman I go to visit them to leave them some flowers. On the way back it was dark and howls were heard from the forest. I started running to get back to town as soon as I could. Until Demons appeared and surrounded me. I thought I was dead, I closed my eyes and all I could hear was ... was nothing. Absolutely nothing. When I opened my eyes, in front of me stood a man with scars on his face and green hair. His eyes were the same color, but he looked like he was blind. He had no daughters in his eyes, blood dripped from his axe while all the Demons lay decapitated on the ground. Then in a commanding voice he said "pathetic," and struck me on the head with the back of his axe. He hit me so hard I fainted. An hour later, when he recovered from the blow I was in town, he had left me outside a door of a house.I looked next to me and he had a letter that read " Sorry about the loud knock, be careful next time"

(The man finishes his story and yūto in a serious tone replies)

YŪTO

So he's not a demon?

MAN

Of course not.on the contrary, he's a demon hunter like you, kid. Don't believe the lies spread in this town. A lot of people say he killed other people, but it's all lies. He certainly wants to protect us or he wouldn't be in the woods, or he might have lost something in that forest that he wouldn't want to leave. Who knows, why he still lives in that forest remains a mystery to all of us.

(Yūto gets up from the table)

YŪTO

Thanks for the information you gave me.

(But before he has time to leave the man says)

MAN

Boy!

(Yūto stops with his back turned to the man, does not turn to face him)

MAN

And now that I've given you all the information you need, what are you gonna do?

(Yūto only turns his face to face the man)

YŪTO

I'm going to meet him, I'm sure he has something to say to me, too.

(The man again lowers his head saying)

MAN

See, good luck then, Kid.

(Yūto smiles and advances towards the shop exit. So the man yells at yuto telling him)

MAN

Kid! What's your name?

(Yūto stops at the shop door and says without turning to look at him)

YŪTO

You can call me yuto, yūto yamada.

(Yūto comes out of the shop and stands at the beginning of the forest, smiling yūto makes a loud tap on the ground and enters the forest looking for the person he encountered. Simultaneously while running and thinking)

OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST-NIGHT

YŪTO

That explains it. The riddle is solved, the unknown does not want anyone's harm. All he wants is to save ... to save and protect people so that what happened to them doesn't happen to... the reason he stays in the woods so long is because something draws him to stay there. He does not want to leave the place that, that…

(Yūto is startled)

YŪTO

Someone died. Brutality and hatred made him hostile to people. But what he really wants is to scare people into approaching the forest to fight the Demons. In this way he will get the revenge he desires. The forest is dangerous for woodcutters, and for this he became hated, for this he presented himself like a monster, but not for long.

(Yūto runs through the forest looking for the unknown. All the evening he searched for the stranger, but in vain. That night not a single howl from a demon was heard. We see a picture: from evening the sun rises and becomes morning. To yūto's surprise he finds sora in a clearing. His axes filled with blood and demons lie on the ground around him dead as they evaporate in the form of dust. With sweat on his face and no breathing, yūto asks him)

OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST-DAY

YŪTO

Stranger, why are you in the woods?

(Sora turns to face yūto, then turns his head diagonally wondering)

YŪTO

What are you trying to accomplish?! Where will this lead?!

(Sora moans and thinks inside)

SORA

What the rest of the fake demon hunters didn't do. To protect people.

YŪTO

Lies!

(Sora is startled)

YŪTO

In the city everyone hates you, likens you to a demon, a monster. Why do you stay here, what keeps you?

(Sora is startled again by saying to himself)

SORA

Don't tell me, don't tell me he knows…

(Yūto cries)

YŪTO

I see you're trying to get people out of the woods because you made a promise! You made a promise to someone who won't come back, Am I wrong?!

(For a few minutes there is silence and only birds are heard singing)

YŪTO

Tell me, is all that I say true?

(Sora bends his head a little without saying anything, then yūto says again)

YŪTO

To him or to her that you made that promise he believed you and loved you, right?!

(Sora starts and sweats while saying at the same time in a hushed voice)

SORA

Shut up, shut up, shut up…

YŪTO

And when he ran away from you, you lost control of yourself.…

SORA

Shut up, shut up, worm, shut up, I don't want to hear bullshit.…

YŪTO

So you turned into a monster…

SORA

Shut up! You don't know anything, shut up, shut the fuck up!

YŪTO

But not for long, because I believe in you!

(Sora is surprised)

YŪTO

And I'm really proud to see a real demon hunter for the first time in front of me! The faith you have and the hate I had once, until I came out of this maze! I found the balance inside me and Now... Now I'm here to help you! To help you find your own balance!

(Yūto stretches out his hand and has his palm open towards sora, as if yūto stretches out his hand towards the viewers and with a sweet smile says)

YŪTO

Together we can, trust me and come with me. Come on, let's live real, let's live starting from now. For, Stranger, for nothing is lost yet, now it all begins!

(Sora tears, his tears are not seen by yūto and says from within)

SORA

What's that? What's that in my eye? Don't tell me I was torn by a fake hunter? I can't listen to this shit anymore, he's talking about balance and techniques and friendships, tsk. All I want is death! Revenge for something he has no idea how valuable it was to me and is trying to win me over with words to come with him. Well I won't come, you couldn't beat me, because no one can beat sora! I'm leaving. I've heard enough nonsense.

(And he turns his back towards yūto to flee. He makes a sharp movement of his hands from top to bottom to remove the blood from the Blades of his axes and then puts them back in the sheath he has back on his back. As he takes the first step to leave he is stopped by one last question of yūto)

YŪTO

I think he's not a monster, but a mighty demon hunter! But the question must be: what do you want to be, stranger? Who do you want to be and be?!

(Absolute silence prevails in sora's mind, then comes a memory. A girl who can't see her face stretches out her hand toward sora as she smiles sweetly and pink leaves from the cherry trees fall down to the ground.

THE FLASHBACK BEGINS:

OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST-DAY

GIRL NAMED: SHU TAO

You choose what you want to be, not the others, and I know my sweet sora would never give up. For that, fight sora! Fight! FIGHT HARD! FIGHT FAST! FIGHT NOT FOR ME, BUT FOR YOUR FUTURE! FIGHT!

RETURN FROM THE FLASHBACK OF THE PAST:

(After a while yūto again says)

YŪTO

We'll make a deal, I challenge you to a duel!

(Sora turns the body along with his head and looks at him surprised while yūto continues to talk)

YŪTO

In this duel, if I win, you will speak, it will reveal your true self. But if you win, you'll have the pleasure of killing me. I don't care if I die, because even if you kill me it will give you food for thought and after many years you may remember who changed you, who sacrificed himself to get you out of this black maze. SO YOU AGREE?!

(Sora is stunned. Then he smiles slyly and thinks)

SORA

He must have the guts to challenge me to a duel with only one ending. Idiot, lol, you don't know who he's messing with. You just made the worst mistake of your life, prepare to die.

(Sora pulls the two little axes out of the sheath behind his back again slowly. In this way the sound of the Blades of axes is heard. At the same time yūto closes his eyes and thinks)

YŪTO

I know you're not a monster, but ... but something takes over you like a black spirit. That's why, that's why I'm here! To help you! Do your best in this duel, stranger!

(Yūto opens his eyes and faces sora. Sora roars and shouting attacks)

SORA

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

(Yūto opens his palms and closes them again so that the fire spreads up to his elbow. Sora with a loud step on the ground creates that creates dent hurls forward. When he gets too close to yūto, he makes a leap and lifts his two arms up and back in a pose behind his two shoulders. With this attitude he goes to cut yūto in half. Yūto has his eyes closed and thinks about everything that the old man taught him. The moment sora puts down his two hands yuto opens his eyes and looks up sora falling on him. Smoke is gathering at that point, not being able to face the winner. Sora thinks he has killed him, but when the smoke dissipates he sees yūto holding the Blades of his two small axes with his hands surrounded by the purple fire. Sora puts strength to make him bend, but yūto on the contrary does not bend. One foot steps on the ground with his paw and the other steps on the ground with his knee. Sora again puts force and pushes him as he clenches his teeth as well. But yūto also puts strength to repel sora. After a while sora lets go of one of the two axes and pulls out a small knife from the sides in the zone area. Yūto perceives it in time and grasps the knife with his bare hand, a cut is made in yūto's hand that starts to run blood, but yūto Kindles his fire more by melting the blade than the small knife. Sora is surprised and makes a leap backwards. Immediately yūto rises quickly from the ground and makes a puddle of the force he puts on his foot to be thrown in front of sora and after reaching sora begins to perform impressive blows with punches and kicks. Sora avoids and repels them, and at the same time tells himself surprised)

SORA

Fantastic hechee. He's stronger than this morning, I wonder what's changed?! After all, he may not be one of the declared hunters. His stupid face won't let me decipher his thought but... but his eyes betray him hahaha. His eyes are the mirror of his soul, and before me I see the soul of a brave man ready to face every danger on his long journey. I see that he is afraid but this feeling is devoured by the feeling of joy, optimism, fulfillment of his dreams, protection and inspiration. What a disgusting man hehe. Good grief.

(Sora flings his two little axes at yūto. Yūto avoids them and runs towards sora with his arms backward and his body forward, like a running ninja. Sora pulls out of his sheath the big ax and while performing attacks and repulses thinks at the same time)

SORA

This kid seems to have all the skills of a true hunter. He is strong, he does not give up easily and above all he has found the meaning of his life. Although he is demon hunter he has learned why he performs duties as hunter. Without him I would not have found myself, I would not have thought of all that I say now. That's why ... that'S why I'M going after him! Whatever the end of the battle which will be to come out victorious I ahahahahahahaha!

(And makes attack with the axe to kill him. Yūto steps on the blade of sora's axe and makes a kolotuba throwing a round kick in his face. Sora by the force put on by yūto is driven backward and by the friction he has from the ground he raises dust. Then he wipes with his hand his mouth where blood runs. Yūto approaches sora with incredible speed and starts performing kicks and attacks. At the same time sora fends off in a fantastic way the kicks and fists of yūto while I think again)

SORA

But I still don't understand how... how did he know why I lived in the woods for years? Chk, this kid is full of surprises hechee. And I, too, am ready to discover her! All right, let's get this over with.

(So at once yūto goes to strike sora's head with his fist. Sora perceives this and at the same time makes a movement to hit the face of yūto with his fist. The two fists collide with each other. The collision of the two fists between them creates a strong wind that winds the hair of both children, at the same time creates a huge puddle on the ground. From yūto's hand comes out the purple fire while sora with one of his two hands has collided with yūto's fist, and with the opposite hand that gave the fist holds his great axe downward. Sora smiles and jumps backwards. Yūto wonders)

YŪTO

Why did he stop?

(Sora stands and looks at yūto, takes a deep breath and remembers pictures of the past. Images such as: the mask given to him by his mother, all people from the village say goodbye to him with smiles on their faces for his long journey while at the same time sound wishes from everyone)

THE FLASHBACK BEGINS:

PERSON #1

Take care, sora!

PERSON # 2

Have a nice trip.

PERSON # 3

Whatever you wish you may find!

PERSON # 4

We believe in you, sora!

PERSON # 5

Visit us again whenever you wish, we will be here!

PERSON # 6

Show everyone your worth, kid!

PERSON # 7

Save any man who needs your help, yes!

MOTHER OF SORA

Father will always follow you, all of us will follow you sora!

(Then he sees a girl who does not see her face, only smiles sweetly. and finally the last picture he remembers is him over a stone crying and blood filling the ground. Sora turns from the flashback and again takes a deep breath, takes out with his hand the mask Hannya (般若). Then sora's face appears. Sora's face is filled with scratches from demons that can not be cured. Yūto looks him better in the eyes and better notices that both his eyes have no daughter of the eye)

RETURN FROM FLASHBACK:

SORA

My name is sora. Sora Yamashiro!

(Yūto extinguishes the fire by making a sharp movement of his hands. Yūto with Wonder asks sora)

YŪTO

Why didn't you say so in the first place and we had to get to this point?

YŪTO

Why did he want to fight me, sora?

(Sora tells him in a serious tone)

SORA

I only talk to people who deserve my attention.

YŪTO

What do you mean by that?

SORA

Good grief. If you are a good warrior you have a lot of knowledge but also a very good teacher to become a strong and remarkable hunter. In this way I learned in my village to distinguish the real from the false fighters. And you, at least, seem to have beaten me, hehe.

(Sora sits on the ground, yūto takes a few steps towards sora, and he too sits down saying)

YŪTO

Why did you leave-

(Before yūto finishes his sentence sora replies)

SORA

I didn't leave, I didn't want to leave. Circumstances forced me to do this. That's why I stay in this forest chasing these horrible creatures. All I want is blood and demon heads flying in the sky. I fight for revenge and not to save the useless pathetic souls of men.

(Does yūto wonder at his saying)

YŪTO

So with what you said, You're a demon hunter, sora?

(Sora looks at him and laughs)

SORA

Hahahahahahaha!

(Yūto wonders why sora laughs and asks)

YŪTO

What are you laughing at? I didn't say anything funny!

YŪTO

Stop laughing, that's enough!

(Sora says while simultaneously wiping tears from his eyes)

SORA

I don't care what the pathetic people call us. I don't give a damn about the supposed title I hold. Those who hunt demons call them demon hunters. Other people call them slayers, and others call them idiots. All I want is to keep the promise I made. Nothing less, nothing more.

(Sora wonders and asks him)

SORA

You're a demi man, right?

YŪTO

Yeah, why do you ask?

(Sora laughs slyly and approaches yūto holding the big axe in his hand)

SORA

Hehe good grief, everyone hates you, do you know that?

(Yūto remembers in the city that everyone avoided him and answers)

YŪTO

Yeah, yeah, I figured something out, heehee.

(Sora approaches yūto and sits down with him)

SORA

Your fire would protect a lot of people. You demi people are strong fighters, you can protect yourself from demons unlike normal people.

(Yūto starts talking but sora continues)

SORA

People think it's unfair that you have the power to protect yourself and we don't.

(Sora gets up from the ground and with his hands behind his head advances and goes to get the other two axes nailed to the trunk of a tree, at the same time he says)

SORA

Perhaps people are so pathetic that they did not think or have no mind to think about improving their fighting skills against demons. Instead they expect us, The Expendables, to sacrifice our souls for this garbage and save them, hehe.

(Yūto clenches his hands and answers by shouting)

YŪTO

No! No I don't care that I sacrifice myself to save people or even what they call me, do you know why sora?! Because I want to do this, I seek it sora! I want to run and jump from roof to roof chasing demons…

YŪTO

A long time ago I made a promise as well as you, sora! But I never did. So I gave one more, vowed to help all the people who really need my help! That's why I trained to be a demon hunter and I became one in the end! I will not stop now, as long as blood flows in my veins and I can breathe I will not stop!

(Sora putting in his sheath the two little axes looks at him admiringly and thinks. In the meantime, various orange, yellow and brown leaves begin to fall from the trees to the ground)

SORA

This kid is, indeed, a genuine, a true demon hunter. Who knows what he's hiding, what his story is? Now I want even more to follow him and learn from him.

(Sora approaches him and gives one of his two hands to help him get up from the ground. Then he asks:)

OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST-THE SUN SETS

SORA

What's your way?

SORA

Actually, for starters, what's your name?

(Yūto smilingly rises and answers)

YŪTO

My name is yūto yamada, and my way is the city beyond the forest.

(Sora is filled with joy and passes his right hand behind his shoulder. Hugging amicably says)

SORA

Then we'll go together? YOU WANT, YOU WANT?!

(Yūto understands where sora is going and smiles in response)

YŪTO

It would be a great honor to have by my side and work with a warrior like you, sora yamashiro.

(Sora smiles, clenches his fist and raises it aloft while grasping with his other hand yūto's shoulder. Meanwhile yūto laughs and looks at him, so they walk farther and farther into the forest as it grows dark. Picture: the two children walking in the sunset)

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