In the Dark of the Night

The cold wind was blown with a loud sound above the sky of Kyoto. The sky was crystal clear from the strong wind, the stars were shine beautifully above pitch black sky.

The time was passed 10:00 so most of the people were already inside their houses. Into a residential area road was an open cigarette stand. The owner was inside looking some news from the latest horse races. Two men were smoking beside the stand into the smoking area and casually talking to each other about the weather.

"Winter is coming, do you think we will see some good rain snow this year Goichi?"

"Hm, i don't really care about that, my kids of course love when it's snowing but i hate how hard is to get to work when everything is covered by snow and ice" 

"Geez, stop acting like some kind of old timer in his 80s, it's lovely to walk through the snow"

"Yeah right, you never had slipped and took a tumble like me when it was snowing, if you did you wouldn't loved snow like you do now Akitoshi" groaned to him

"That was one time and it was your fault all along, it's not snow fault for you getting late to work"  Goichi answered to him playfully

"Whatever, i still prefer Summer more safe and we get more days off than Winter"

"Can't argue with that, anyway better leave now it's late" Goichi put out his remaining cigarette and Akitoshi also mimic him and grabbed his briefcase

"Goodnight Chikao, see you tomorrow" Goichi waved to the owner of the cigarette stand

"Goodnight fellows, walk safe on your way home" he answered to him casually

The two men walked away from the smoking area to the street keep arguing about which season was the best.

Chikao yawned with boredom as he was sitting behind the register still fooling around in his smartphone screen. He pulled out of his pocket a packet of his personal cigarettes, he opened and took one, then he start searching for his lighter. Annoyed that he couldn't find him he put the packet of his cigarettes on the counter to search with his both hands freely.

Suddenly a strong wind blow his cigarette packet in the street. 

"Damn it" he yelled it angrily as he got up and walk away from the the register to get his packet back. He walk to the street murmuring and he kneel to reach the packet with his right hand. 

"GRAWL" he looked behind him scared hearing a scary growling all of a sudden. Looking that nothing was behind him he turned back to collect his cigarette packet. Between the packet were standing two huge hairy legs with black sharp nails on it bare feet. 

Chikao screamed with fear and lost his balance and fall on the ground, looking up in front of him was standing a huge creature with also hairy arms and two minotaur horns on his head. His skin was red and his eyes were pitch black like night. He smiled sarcastically to the Chikao showing him his monstrous teeth.

"MMMMM HUMAN FFFLESH" growled to him

Chikao screamed again with pure fear on his eyes. The creature ignored completely the man's screams and reach with his gigantic hand to grab his throat.

Then a light swing sounded from a sword, and the gigantic hand went flying before landing on the street separated from the rest of the body. The creature screamed in pain holding his cut arm as blood sprayed from the wound. Chikao looked the other way and see a tall slim man into a black long coat standing beside them and holding a katana on his right hand, the katana was dirty from the blood of the creature.

The creature look fiercely at him and growl with rage.

"YOU CURSED EXCORCIST, DO YOU DARE COME BETWEEN A DEMON AND HIS PREY?!!" 

He raised his remaining hand ready to strike him with force

"DIE YOU WORM" the fist of the demon fall into the empty asphalt, while the man with an incredible speed avoid the hit and move effortlessly Chikao away from the demon.

"Stay here" the man told to him in a sharp tone as he got back to the demon who was roaring in rage.

"YOU DARE TO MOCK ME ?! YOU INSIGNIFICANT ANT?" screamed at him

The man stand few meters away from him raising his katana ready to strike again

"Sayaka" the man whispered 

"Got it" out of nowhere a young woman behind the demon raised her hands against it

"Burned in the fire" whispered and suddenly the asphalt beneath the demon feet went liquid and hot. The demon's feet sink into the hot asphalt making it screamed in pain.

"AAAAARGGH YOU DAMN WITCH" 

At the same time the man run and jumped against the demon and cut his head off with a single swing of his katana. The head fall on the street along with the rest of the body. After that the body started to disappearing into pure dust wasted in the wind. The man started cleaning the blood off his katana like nothing happened.

Chikao was still in shock by the whole situation.

"Hhh hhey, wwwho arrre you people...? wwwhat was tttthat thing just now?" he managed to asked them stuttering 

The man look at him with a bore expression on his face, then turned to the girl

"Deal with him Sayaka" 

"Right away" the girl said and walk towards to the man

Chikao crawled back scared as the girl reach his shoulder with her hand

"Ah, wait what are you...?" 

After touching his shoulder Chikao woke up back sitting to his register in the cigarette stand. He stand up and look outside. There was nothing and no one outside, neither monsters or people with swords. He sit back to his seat confused, in front of him was his lighter along with the packet of cigarettes.

Far away from the stand, on the roof of one house were standing the man and the girl looking around the dark streets.

"That was the sixth incident in the last 2 weeks, they are getting out of hand" the man said

"Demons were always bad" the girl said a gloomy face

"We really need to find where are they came from, if we don't find their lair soon enough they will be victims for sure" 

"Don't worry Ryosuke miss Fukunaga will find someone to help us"

The man groaned with dissatisfaction

"The last thing i need is to pull around a damn rookie with no fighting experience, we don't need those kind of losers" 

"You're so anitsocial Ryo-nii" the girl said to him emotionless

"You're the one too talk, you only hang out with cats"  

"Cats are nice...and fluffly..." the girl said without changing her expression

The man sighed tiredly 

"Good grief"