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Chapter 12 - check mate

Danzai tried to hide the fact that he was excited given that all he had to do was wait. On the other hand Rin didn't make any effort to suppress his own but roamed around the place with a carefree expression written on his face. His partially burnt shirt and loosed shoes didn't stop him and from his looks not even an embodiment can stop him from entering the building.

Aira stared at danza with a smile on her face while the little children look up to her in a confused State. They exchange glances between danzai and aira and a rather bold boy spoke up from amongst them

"Is he your boyfri—"

Aira wastes no time stopping him from completing his statement

"No..."

"How could you ask sensei such things?"

"Dunno.... I was just curious that's all"

As aira sorted out her thoughts, the building appeared right in front of them. Rin glanced over and saw Arthur sticking his head out of the window. Excited,he calls out to him

"Hey there...."

Arthur turned towards where he heard the voice from and answered back with a peculiar grin on his face

"Hurry In, I've found the billions coupon"

Aira directs the children into the building and followed behind them, while danzai stands outside without making an effort to advance inside

"Danzai?"

Cloud calls out to him with a smile on her face while trying to stretch beyond her brother's height. Rin notices danzai absent mindedness and tried to make him snap out of it

"Hey danzai—"

Danzai interrupts his words and led him into the building before going to meet Arthur and cloud.The siblings were somewhat surprised at the new character he seems to be displaying but decided to keep quiet about it for now

"Sorry guys, there's something I need to do outside real quick but I'll come back when I'm done"

"Did you really need to make a fuss about that?"

"I'm Sorry"

It seemed like he had come back to his normal self now as he made his way to exit the building

"Where are you going"

"..."

Without giving an answer or a gesture, danzai runs out of the building

***

Sky leads the remaining crew into the building with only one minute left until it gets transported to who knows where. With aira in the building, there's almost no way of finding out where next it will be transported and the others left outside would have to struggle to locate the building where ever it's going to appear next

So far,789 had entered the building and over 30 thousand had died. The ones left outside were either fatally injured or still fine a way to survive. Out of the 789, 31 had already been sent to the billions arc where the main school is located while the rest are searching for the coupons. Arthur, cloud and Rin had found their coupons already but decided to wait until danzai joins them,hoping he would come back safely

Danzai followed traces of blood on the ground until he ended up at a convenience store where the trail stopped. He looked around like a detective solving his last case before retirement and couldn't find any other place the blood might connect to. Just then, he hears a voice from the top of the building and recognized it immediately. With his detective instincts moving in,he takes some steps back and looks at the person this time, with no ounce of fear written on his face

"Danzai.... So you came"

"I had to... I realized you were to weak to approach the billions arc building so I had to compromise"

Danzai's words hit the man hard but he decided to stay put, fearing to lose his cool at such a time. Danzai on the other hand seemed to be enjoying it as a smirk pops up on his face

"You're acting tough right..."

"Yes... Right from seeing you the first time, I realized you weren't human but I've to stand my ground for my friend"

The man glanced over at shizu who had been listening in on their conversation but was slowly losing consciousness

"Him?...."the man scoffs at him

"Why did you come here"

"To help you"

"Foolish... I'm very sure you would have been in the billions arc building now but you had to play hero"

the words that came out of his mouth were accompanied with blood

"I'm not playing hero dummy, there's a high chance that I'm not an embodiment so what better thing is there to do than to save the real ones.... For all we know I'll die here,or the next test"

Shizu made an effort to raise his head and look at danzai surprised at the reply he gave just now

"Coming here won't change anything danzai... I planned on taking you too so that's double rewards for me"

"Speaking of rewards shizu... what will I get for saving your ass"

"If I can't save you,I'll make sure he dies"

"There..."

Danzai readies himself for battle when he knows little to nothing on fighting. He decided to throw what ever stuff he learnt from the fight the other day against the beast that Baki killed. As the man drops down his hat,he closes the distance between himself and danzai with speed that danzai couldn't even process. As he closed in,h went for the head but rin kicks his hand away at the last minute to save danzai from certain death. The man leaps back and drops shizu to gain more freedom

"Why did you tag along"

"What a question.... Arthur and cloud won't let me have it . They wanted to come here their selves but I couldn't risk it"

"Can you teleport?"

"Yeah?"

"Take shizu and leave"

Danzai stated his feelings without batting an eye. Rin tries to argue but notices something

"What— fine"

Rin moves to danzai and pats him on the shoulder which confuses the man at first. Suddenly, danzai teleports behind the man and deals a punch to his face while Rin grabs on to shizu

"Wha—"

Those words couldn't completely leave his mouth because they met a sudden stop with the punch

***MEANWHILE IN THE BILLIONS ARC***

Two girls and a guy sit in front of a courtyard that oversee pillars that line up to the horizons. The courtyard itself was about half of the school were the billions arc is taken place. The girls chat with their selves while the boy sits alone quiet with his hands in his hoodie pockets

"What's taking them so much time"

"Yeah like I know most of them are humans but what are the embodiments doing"

"Like..."

One of them turns to the guy and tries to speak with him

"D-dont you think so?"

All he did was glance over to her side

"Why are you quiet "

"..."

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