Showdown

As Ken arrived at his hospital room window through the same tree that he used to climbed down earlier, he slowly went in, but a thick stick suddenly smacked him as soon as he was inside and fell on the cold floor. He weakly rose his head and saw a girl who was his age with her long blue colored hair and eyes, and wore a white dress, and was holding a baseball bat with her looking really furious.

Ken rubbed his head as he rose to sit down and complained sarcastically, "Did a zombie apocalypse arrived or something? Ooooowww!"

The blue haired girl sighed and offered her right hand to Ken. Ken then accepted it with his and stood up. She wiped her hands discreetly on her skirt after Ken held her hand and stepped aside to give him a way.

Ken walked towards the hospital bed and sat down while the girl sat down on a chair beside the bed and faced his direction. Ken asked without hesitation, "So, what happened on that day exactly?"

The girl sighed as she replied, "You were asleep for two days straight."

Ken's eyes widened in surprise and thought to himself, "So what Euphoria told me was true then." He asked her, "Two days?!"

"Yeah…", she replied awkwardly.

The blue haired girl narrated as she reminisced her memories, "Two days ago, Friday, during dismissal period…"

She was departing from her friends in front of the school gate as she walked towards the opposite direction and her attention switched to Ken as he saw him just crossed the road and got instantly ran over by a truck. He then collapsed on the floor with blood on his head and a pool of blood started to form on ground. Her face turned pale in an instant as she pulled out her phone out of her vest pocked and immediately called an ambulance after she ran to his lifeless body desperately.

Back at the present, Ken looked down as he turned his right hand into a fist and wrinkled his upper attire and said as he forced a smile, "So, it was a sh*tty hit-and-run accident, huh? I sure am glad I’m still alive."

The girl looked at her wristwatch strapped on her left hand and suddenly stood up, "Well, it’s getting late. I better be going before my manager is going to yell at me again…"

"Wait…"

"What now?"

"I want to be discharged right now", Ken demanded as he grabbed the girl’s right wrist with his left hand.

"What are you babbling about? Can’t you see you’re still recovering? Don’t worry about the bill. I already covered it for you. Seriously, I need to go!", she reprimanded as she struggled to shake off his hand and Ken loosen his grip.

"Please help me. I…" Ken hesitated as he bowed down his head in a frustrated expression.

"What?!", the girl asked in an irritated tone.

"I hate the hospital", Ken mumbled under his breath.

The girl's eyes widen as she replied, "Ok."

Ten minutes later, both Ken who wore a red t-shirt with an inner colored black skintight and turtleneck long sleeves and the blue haired girl stood outside beside the hospital entrance.

She stretched her arms in front of her as she said, "Finally, my job helped with my personal life for once" She gave Ken a card and continued, "There, you can go wherever you want but next time careful with your surroundings. Here, call me when you need me." She started to run after she looked at her wristwatch, Crap, I’m late!"

"Hey…", Ken called from a distance.

"What?!", she stopped and faced Ken.

"Thank you."

Sabrina smiled in reply and left. Ken read the contents of the calling card at his hand and saw that the girl's name was Kobayashi Sabrina.

In a house somewhere in the neighborhood where someone's bedroom was dim lighted. Inside, there was a boy who kept on playing darts and on his target board, it was Ken’s picture pasted on it and he hit his head part.

"Akatsuki…!", the boy said in fury.

The sun had set as Ken was walking on the bridge near a river and reminisced a memory of what Euphoria said to him from earlier,

"I placed that curse to you on purpose in order for you to change yourself and atone for your sins."

"I chose you to be resurrected because I saw a potential in you that would be able to defeat a certain man and save Japan, possibly the whole world."

"Change myself and atone for my sins while saving Japan, huh?", Ken thought as she sneezed and wiped the snot off his nose with his right fist and wiped it on his pants. "Excuse me", he mumbled under his breath.

A long nail flew towards Ken’s direction out of the blue and as soon as he noticed it, he barely dodged it to the side but received a small scratch on his left cheek. His eyes widen as he saw the nail landed to the ground and as soon as he turned behind him, he saw that more nails were coming towards him all at once.

Ken kept on dodging as Euphoria inaudibly said and pointed where the nails will be coming next. A few minutes later, the nails stopped coming and instead, a teenage boy who was Ken’s age jumped in front of him.

The teen smiled in a smug way as he said, "It’s cool that you dodged all of them. I’m impressed."

Ken asked in fury with a vein throb on his right cheek, "Who the hell are you?! Cocky brat!"

The teen was the same age as Ken.

On the spur of the moment, Ken ran to the teen and was about to punch him with his right fist, but the teen dodged easily to the side and Ken immediately squat down and swung his right leg towards his opponent’s leg and knocked him off balanced.

"Not bad, but…", the teen smirked as he pulled out a nail gun tucked inside his pants and hidden from under his shirt then fired at Ken’s stomach multiple times.

Ken screamed in agony as he quickly pulled out the nails at once while he stepped back and breathed heavily. His wounds already got healed after a few seconds, but it wasn’t noticed by the teen since his t-shirt was covered with blood stains. He dashed towards his opponent again to punch him, but the teen kept on dodging his attacks.

"Impossible! How could you move with all those injuries I inflicted on you?!", the teen yelled as he dodged and kicked Ken’s stomach where the bloodstains were.

Ken flew pretty far due to the impact from the kick and roughly landed on the ground. He slowly got up as he thought to himself, "What the heck’s going on with this brat? He got some destructive power. How could I take him down?"

Again, he's the same age as Ken.

Ken stood up again and faced the teen who was standing still a few distance away from him. The teen said confidently,

"Akatsuki Ken. You’re the first human who could ever withstand my blows. I should congratulate you, but… It’s useless if this would kill you!!!" He stood in a running stance but disappeared out of the blue and appeared again as he punched Ken with an uppercut using his right fist.

Ken fell and lied to the ground as he took a direct hit. The teen then stepped on his chest with his right foot and aimed the nail gun at his face.

"Sayonara (Japanese for Goodbye)…", the teen said in a straight face as he fired at Ken’s forehead. He then said as he laughed so hard, "FINALLY! I FINALLY KILLED HIM AT LAST! That lighted the weight off my chest there. So, what to do next? Now that I’m free from that living ghost, I can do whatever I want without worrying about my stupid trauma."

He kept on happily yapping to himself as he turned his back on Ken’s lifeless body and walked away. Ken stood up again, crouching, and a red aura formed all around his body from nothing. He disappeared out of the blue and appeared again as he punched the back part of the teen's head with his right hand emitting a little bit of red lightning and his opponent fell down to the ground with cracks formed all around his body.

"I’m not in the mood right now!" Ken said in rage with vein throbs formed on his forehead and left cheek as he stepped hardly on the teen’s face. "Trash should know their own places and stay in the garbage dump where you always belong."

Ken then lifted his foot and walked away. The teen’s sclera suddenly turned black as well as black aura emit all around his body.

"Like you’re one to talk!", he stood up in fury as he stumped his right foot to the ground and huge cracks were formed around it then a strong wind came along.

Ken clicked his tongue since got pissed off and the wind blew towards him. He turned his back as he complained, "WHAT NOW?!" He then saw a monstrous appearance of the teen who looked like a personified demon. His eyes widen in shock, "Where did he get… this much power, anyway?"

The teen was shown to have black sclera and an intense black aura emitting out of him. As he screamed, a strong wind that looked like a blast wave emitted all over the place. Due to the wind formed like a blast wave, the water from the river was blown away into smithereens and sprinkled the ground like rain. Ken was barely able to stand his ground and covered his face with his right arm.

“Hey, what did I ever do to you, anyway?! I don’t remember meeting you at all!”, Ken yelled as the teen appeared in front of him all of a sudden and punched Ken’s stomach.

Ken spat a lot of saliva as he crouched, and the teen reappeared from behind him out of the blue then kicked his back. He was thrown away due to the kick, but his opponent arrived in front of him and elbow kicked directly to his face with his left elbow to cause him to have a nosebleed.

The teen immediately jumped and clasped his hands together then smacked Ken’s head very hard like from a hammer to a nail on a wood that it knocked him out and fell on the ground. He chocked Ken’s neck with his right hand and raised him to the air above his head as Ken’s head started to bleed.
“Don’t act like you don’t know! I remember that day like it was yesterday”, the teen angrily replied.

He narrated as he reminisced his past memories, “During my freshmen year in Zero Nana School (Japanese for Seven), all I ever wanted to do was study without a care in my surroundings. I don’t even know my classmates’ names at that time. But… There was a girl I taken a like to besides studying for the first time. She even saved me from those bullies who kept on bothering me. She may be mouthful and rude for most people or the whole society, but to me she is the kindest girl in the—"

In the present, Ken interrupted out of the blue, “Skip that long and boring monologue of yours and get to the point already!” His injuries slowly healed as he talked.

“SHUT UP! I was just going to do that, but a certain someone interrupted me”, the teen angrily yelled as he tightened his grip on Ken’s neck that he started to choke.

The teen continued to narrate, “Anyway, one day…”

Back to his flashback, the teen was sitting on his seat in the classroom as a girl approached in front of him. The girl asked with a smile on her face,

“Hey, do you wanna hang out after class? There’s this new donut shop I wanted to try.”

“Oh, s-sure”, the teen blushed as he stammered.

In the hallway, the two friends were chatting happily as they went out of the classroom and walked towards the hallway.

The teen began to shake nervously as he asked, “So, w-what k-kind of donut w-would you like?”

The girl giggled as she replied, “Don’t be scared of me. I won’t bite and I love the chocolate flavor.”

“I’m not scared of you. This is my first time to hang out with someone after class. I always went home right away and study”, he stopped shaking as he begun to explain.

“You won’t regret this first hangout we’re gonna do right now. This one’s on me and the next time even we hangout again, You’re the one who’s gonna pay for it. Deal?”, she smiled brightly as she held his right hand with her left hand.

The teen blushed even more but stopped as soon as he noticed that a spiky haired male student, who looked the same age as them, was approaching towards them and unexpectedly kicked him by his stomach and flew out the window then fell to the ground with the glass. He then noticed that the shards from above fell all at once and his perspective turned to black as he screamed in agony.