7 7: Coldness Of the World

Inside his room, itsuki sat down slowly on his bed before slowly opening the wooden box.

Inside it layed a wooden beaded necklace, it was very exquisite, inside the loop of the necklace were some white ear rings, they looked almost like diamonds, but had a design on them, almost like a flower.

Itsuki didn't think much about it, he wore the necklace, and with a poke poke from the ear rings he pierced his ears calmly and cleaned off the blood.

It was like these two accessories made him stand out even more, the wooden beaded necklace sparkled slightly, although it looked wooden, it was as hard as marbles, and incredibly light.

People in this world truly had some strange fashion, itsuki had noticed from some of the rich people who usually entered the town once in a while with a team of fighters behind them.

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A week went by smoothly as itsuki continued to train, sitting attop the branch of a huge tree, he sat in the lotus position and meditated on his breathing technique, he felt his breakthrough approaching day by day.

"F*ck" itsuki stopped meditating and widened his eyes, his heart seemed pained, yet he didn't know what was wrong, it was as if his soul was in pain.

"What the f*ck is happening" itsuki shouted in his mind, his eyes unconsciously landing towards the town, the sound of screams filled his ears, there was even fire burning as smoke rose to the air, adding to the foggy atmosphere.

"Sh*t" itsuki shouted before jumping off the tree, and landing softly onto the snow, he rushed at his fastest speed towards the town.

Entering he noticed many people rushing about, even some of the hunters in the town were rushing about anxiously.

"What's going on?" Itsuki stooped a random person along the road and shouted.

The man couldn't even budge, he was about to scold itsuki until he saw itsuki's cold eyes, he immediately spilled everything.

"A- a demon was found roaming the city, it had killed many people and seems to be rushing towards the orphanage" the man answered shakily.

"The orphanage?" Itsuki widened his eyes in disbelief and rushed towards the orphanage,

He screamed in his mind, he didn't want to believe something had happened.

The closer he got to the orphanage the more distasteful was found, houses broken into and blood spilled, itsuki was raging with fear and coldness at this very moment.

"F*ck" he rushed even faster towards the orphanage, it was in chaos and a bright fire burned inside.

"NO NO NO, THE KIDS" itsuki kicked open the door, but what his eyes saw caused his soul to collapse.

The many dead bodies on the ground, even auntie Li had died, her stomach gouged out, the whole orphanage was in a disaster as blood flowed like a river, the fire burning around making the scene even worse.

"N-no" itsuki collapsed right there, streams of tears flowing down his face, although he held back his emotions, his soul couldn't accept this fact.

He rushed towards auntie Li, even in death she had a smile on her face...

"I...itsu...ki...Li....ve...on...for....me" auntie Li said slowly, her breath slowly disappearing, it took everything just to say that, she was gone forever...

"NO" itsuki roared in pain as he clutched his chest, why did this have to happen? This was the first time someone he cared about died, even back on earth.

Yet in this new world many people had died in front of him, laying in a pool of their own blood as a bright fire destroyed everything.

"Hehe, so you are the demon slayer I have sensed in this town lately" a dark eerily voice was heard behind itsuki.

With tears down his face itsuki looked down, he already knew it was a demon, but as he heard it's words, he was pained even more.

"It's my fault.... this all happened because of me, I've sinned, why? Why? Why am I so stupid" itsuki shouted in pain as his tears fell down, the wooden tiles below his knees cracking with each work he spoke.

"Yes, cry all you want, I'll devour you and get stro-" before the dark voice could finish it was attacked by a bone-chilling aura, causing the tiles around to become covered in ice..

"YOU" itsuki roared as a katana appeared in his hands, his eyes itchin with coldness as it landed on the hideous demon with 3 arms and a small horn.

"What?" The demon was shocked, although it sensed itsuki In the town and had been waiting to attack, it never found him, it just decided to attack the orphanage since it held the most of itsuki's aura.

It didn't think this little kid was this strong, his aura was causing its should to shake with fear it had never felt before.

"So this is how cold the world is? Even if this is just an anime, even I CAN DIE" itsuki broke into a laughter as he raised his head, completely unbothered by the demon, a coldness was being birthed into his soul, to his very bones.

"Auntie Li.... it's my fault, even after everything you did for me, I caused your death, I deserve to die..... all these kids they had bright futures, yet... they are all gone now" itsuki roared in pain, his voice shaking the whole town as streaks Of tears flew down his face, the orphanage slowly collapsing in a sea of flames.

The bright and cheerful faces of the kids flashed in his eyes, the warmness he felt in this orphanage, auntie Li's care for him, all of it was gone, wasn't this what he trained for??

To protect those he loved?

What was the point now?

He wouldn't feel better even if he slaughtered every demon in this world..