A beautiful smile

Somewhere in the mansion, Jin, Yowa, and Aina were sitting in a room with serious expressions on their faces.

"I have located April, he seems to be alone." Jin said while carefully looking at his newspaper.

"Such important information just OUT IN THE OPEN! Seems really fucking suspicious to me." Yowa said with distrust.

The two kept on debating whether or not Aina should go there.

"Now now! Yowa don't worry I'll be fine! It's not like I'll lose you know." Aina butts in the conversation.

Yowa looked down while squinting his eyes.

"Do whatever."

Outside the mansion, while they were talking, Ketsuki made his way to Ken who had a blade in her hand.

The first thing Ketsuki notices are the numerous graves surrounding her.

"Two minutes late! I see that you are not the punctual type..." Ken said while pointing the blade at Ketsuki.

"Sooooooo you gonna awaken my fear powers here?"

"Shush! All you need to know is that we are going to fight, Douji."

"W-W-Wait wait wait wait! Me going to fight you? Also in this graveyard?"

Suddenly a kick lands on Ketsuki's head and he falls on his face.

"Hmm? That didn't knock you out cold right?" A familiar voice said sarcastically.

"NO, BUT IT FUCKING HURT, EMI!" Ketsuki holds his head in pain.

Emi who was pissed a few minutes ago had a calm and gentle expression on her face. It looked as if she was a bit sad.

"Came here to explain?" Ken said while sitting near a grave.

"Explain what exactly? (came hehe)" Ketsuki questioned.

"The reason you will fight near these graves is nothing special. It's just all the graves of the ones who died either because of their own fear or because they didn't have any powers... so let's say we want to give them a fun show."

"I see..(still didn't understand why fight here)"

"Enough talking."

Ken kicked the blade in her hand and cut off Ketsuki's index finger.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH" Ketsuki screamed in agony as he saw blood flowing out of him.

"COME." Ken's blade spun back into her hand.

Ketsuki picked up a blade nearby which may be kept intentionally by Ken and charged at her screaming.

"THAT'S THE SPIRIT!" Ken slashed down in a vertical strike but Ketsuki blocked it with his blade.

"Keep your eyes open!" Ken kicked Ketsuki in the stomach, sending him flying.

Ketsuki slowly got up and looked at Ken dead in the eye with an expressionless face.

Emi meanwhile was just quietly watching the match, biting her bottom lip painfully.

"Miss Emi! It seems we have an interesting fight." Kajra appeared behind Emi.

She doesn't say a word.

While they were having this exchange, Ketsuki got two long slashes and was bathing in blood.

"KETSUKI! OPEN YOUR EYES!" Ken shouted and threw her sword right into the ground.

"I CAN'T, I CAN'T, I CAN'T!" Ketsuki screamed with true terror.

"Tch! What a wimp."

Emi approached Ketsuki seeing him pathetically cry.

She put her hand on his shoulder and said, "Ketsu, trust me it's fine, open your eyes."

Hearing her words, for some reason his fear left him for a moment and he opened his eyes.

"Huh?"

Ketsuki noticed that he had no blood on him anymore and his wounds disappeared too.

He looked at Emi who smiled at him gently pointing towards his hand where he saw a crimson blade made of blood.

He felt no fear, as all he could see at that moment was a crimson blade made of blood... coming in between a beautiful smile.