— What are monsters? Some may argue that they are nothing but little evil creatures. For the other half, they represent the Devil. For me, I would say that I am the monster.
Lushifa Goushin, a young boy dressed in feminine attire, can be seen wandering the streets in search of a particular school. He is short height wise, and has long black hair cascading down his back. He's currently transporting a bag, wearing a white mask that conceals his face from the naked eye, marked only by two singular black dots intended to represent his eyes.
– I am lost. I think.
Nonetheless, he persists, looking through his cellular phone in hopes that the GPS will be able to locate the school he's been trying to find. As he types in 'Exorcism School for Daimon Exorcists', Lushifa is unfortunately met with absolutely nothing to guide him. Furious, he accidentally drops his phone. It breaks.
Typical.
Meanwhile, in some dingy alleyway, 3 thugs try to harass a girl. She seems to be the same size and age as Lushifa, wearing a witch hat that goes nicely with her blonde hair. Her eyes are green, and she doesn't look too bothered about the predicament she's stumbled into.
"Monster Technique.."
A few words was all it took for the thugs to end up with their heads completely chopped off, multiple knives making themselves at home in their bodies. They had gotten hit in every single vital organ, not a single mistake in sight, red and blue knives dancing around the scene. Perhaps a little gruesome, but necessary.
Lushifa hasn't given up, deciding to question a couple of civilians regarding the school — if they happen to know anything about it at all. It pretty much happened out of nowhere. Unexpectedly, even — a mysterious man tapped his shoulder 2 times before delivering a letter signed by the 'Exorcism School for Daimon Exorcists.' Lushifa didn't bother reading it.
Whilst asking more civilians, he sees people running away from something in the distance. The nearby civilians also take notice and ask each other what is happening.
"A giant centipede is attacking us!"
– Giant centipede? It must be a Daimon.
But before Lushifa can form another thought, the giant 9100 cm centipede starts going right in his direction, leaving him with no other option but to leave. He makes a run for it, hoping to get rid of the Daimon somehow.
– Maybe if my sister was here, we would be able to get rid of it.
He covers his mouth whilst running, all sorts of thoughts rushing through his head. Suddenly, without Lushifa even realising, a girl jumps over him. More specifically, the same one that probably killed the thugs from earlier. He looks behind him and sees her walking towards the centipede. He follows her without hesitation — almost as if he was meant to see her.
"Hey, hold up. Where are you going?"
"Nowhere. Now, why are you following me?"
The mysterious girl quickens her pace as Lushifa attempts to catch up to her. They're as fast as one another, and whoever this is — she can't deny her own shock. Lushifa is really quick.
– How is he running at that speed? Is he perhaps an Exorcist as well?
"Tell me, what's your name?"
"Oh, it's Lushifa. And yours?"
"Very well.. Aetas."
Aetas and Lushifa keep running faster and faster towards the centipede. They get close enough to see its full body but remain far enough not to get touched by it. That's when Aetas jumps to a building. Lushifa looks at her.
"What are you doing there?"
Aetas doesn't reply. Instead, she jumps to another building. Lushifa tries to follow but he's unable to jump that high.
"Monster Technique: Praeteritum."
Multiple knives start to appear out of nowhere, thrown all around the centipede's area. Lushifa looks shocked, caught off guard by the scene unfolding before him.
"Oh, so that is where it went. Monster Technique: Praeteritum Repeto."
She advances towards the centipede and hurls a group of red knives right at it, each striking from the same point as before. Within the next second, every last one of them disappear, vanishing into thin air, like the knives she had just thrown were no different from the previous bunch.
– I get it now. She can throw knives from the future to the past.
"If my calculations are correct, then the centipede's head is going there."
Aetas looks at the space the centipede could potentially end up in, choosing to summon over 300 blue knives. They form a ring around her, targeting the predicted area.
"Monster Technique: Futurum Repeto."
Just like that, the knives are launched, disintegrating into nothing right after. Luckily enough, Aetas' calculations proved to be correct. The centipede's head did in fact go to that specific place, now roaring in pain.
"Now.. Monster Technique: Futurum."
All the knives reappear at once, converging on a single point — the centre of the centipede's head. They go straight through, piercing its brain in the process without even bothering to slow down or show any mercy. Some of the knives can be seen flying out of its struggling body, exploding without second thought. Meanwhile, the rest continue their attack, tearing deeper and deeper before bursting within the centipede's lower half, cleaving it in two.
"Wow.."
Lushifa gazes upon what is happening with an undeniable amount of shock, the centipede's blood travelling towards him.
"Ewww. That's too much blood for me."
The warm, red substance disgusts Lushifa as he tries to get it off him. Aetas looks at him, unable to stop herself from emitting a soft giggle before jumping down in front of him.
"Well, I must say, that was fast. Although big, it was probably a rank 3 Daimon."
— No, wait. A rank 3 Daimon this size? Impossible. Daimons are beings made from fragments of Spirt X — a type of energy that every single being, living or not, has. Typically, one can argue that the bigger a Daimon is, the greater reserves of Spirit X it carries within. Spirit X determines how strong a being may be. Perhaps it is —
And that's the precise moment it happens. The centipede's body, once cut in half and presumably dealt with for good, begins to regenerate so fast that both Aetas and Lushifa fail to even notice it. However, there was a distinct change in the air. One that neither of them could ignore.
"This regeneration… it happened so quickly that I couldn't even notice it."
"No doubt, it must be a rank 1. No, a special rank Daimon."
"In that case, it is now or never. Inf-"
Before Aetas could finish, a giant black arrow struck the centipede's heart. A single explosion was all it took to make the centipede vanish into thin air — almost as if it never existed to begin with.
"Wait. This arrow — it must be her."
A figure then appeared from the distance — one that nobody could make out very well. At least not without squinting. Purple eyes accompanied by short, silver hair. A black and sleeveless jacket carrying an armband that seemed to have the all too famous Yin and Yang symbol on it — if instead of a curve, there was a straight line in the centre to replace it. The dots, usually seen up and down, were left and right.
"Hey, lil bro. I missed you."
The unknown person seems to be Lushifa's older sister. Her name is —
"Ujo!"