The strongest member of the dojo

Kaminari thrust his sword at my face, I dodged this attack because it's clearly amplified by lighting, and a part of me says that my mask wouldn't be able to withstand the attack.

After dodging, I dash backward and smash my hand onto the floor. Using all the power I can muster, I attempt to collapse the whole building.

The whole building starts to crack and break. I watch Kaminari look at me. Then, turn to his students.

Quickly, I grab Kirihirakimasu and smash my palm on the ground yet again. This time, I create a tunnel. The tunnel digs below the dojo and should end towards the parking lot.

I jump in the tunnel and jog a little further inside, barely escaping rubble that collapses into the tunnel.

I take a moment. Sitting down on the cold earth that's beneath the ground.

While I'm resting, I start to enter a state where I can almost hear everything. This is the same type of meditation I did in training.

I begin to hear voices above me. I begin to fully enter this state, curious about what's going on above ground.

"What's happening?" Some female voice asks.

"We have been attacked!" I hear Kaminari say.

"By who?" Some random man says.

"Akuji!!" I hear Vanessa scream.

Immediately after she said that name, I couldn't hear anything. Everything went silent.

Slowly, I get up from where I was sitting. I raise my hand up to the ceiling of the tunnel I made. Then, I use my ability again. This time, I create an exit hatch, so to speak.

A hole forms above me, and I jump out onto the road.

I notice that a crowd has formed in front of the dojo.

"It's Akuji!!!!" I hear a female voice scream.

When the woman screams this, the whole entire crowd faces towards me, readying for combat.

Slowly, I start walking towards the crowd of people, trying to look as menacing as possible.

I lower Kirihirakimasu, making the tip close to the ground. Blood quickly flows down the blade. I stare at them with the eyes that look into your soul. Blood slowly drips down the mask.

Everyone in the crowd has a look of fear on their face. This works perfectly in my favor because I dont have much stamina left to use on my ability, so it's for the better that they don't want to fight me.

"My name is Akuji. I am the leader of Perfect World! I am simply here to kill Kaminari! If everyone leaves, I will let you survive if you don't leave. Well, let's just say it's better to just leave!"

I notice that the crowd of people hurry and guide Kaminari and the students to the back of the crowd.

"We will never let you kill our hero!" A man yells from the front of the crowd.

Realizing the situation, I exploded into maniacal laughter. This laugh even catches me off guard by how incredibly terrifying it is.

While I'm laughing, my arms lay outstretched, and my head is bent back.

Suddenly, I hear a scream, followed by multiple more screams.

Slowly, I bend my back head down to look at Kaminari. I'm already aware of what happened.

A sword is stabbed through Kaminari's chest. The sword then gets pulled out, and Kaminari falls to his knees. When this happens, a floating sword slashes Kaminari's head completely off.

Kaminari's head falls to the floor, and His eyes look directly at me.

The crowd of people screamed even more and started running for their lives, but I noticed that a handful stay back. I see Vanessa, Magnus, Luke, and Patrick. There are also twelve other citizens.

"Run!! This is your only chance!!" I yell at the group.

"I will kill you, Akuji!!!! It may not be today or tomorrow, but someday I will kill you!!!!" Vanessa screams at the top of her lungs.

I watch darkness spread around the crowd that remains. The darkness slowly makes each one of them disappear.

Immediately, I dropped Kirihirakimasu to the floor and fell to my hands and knees. I breathe heavily.

"That was an amazing display of power." A person, who I recognize as Zero, says.

"Yeah. Well, apparently, I can't keep up with it." I answer back.

"Wait until your ability starts developing. Then, the stamina cost for using your ability will go down."

"Seriously?"

"Yes. I would know since my ability has already completely developed."

"So I just need to start developing my ability?"

"Well, it's not that easy. Your ability starts to develop by itself, but practicing with your ability will always help with stamina depletion."

"Oh. Thanks."

"No problem."

Zero holds out his hand for me to pick it up, and I take him up on this offer.

Getting up, I take a look at the dojo behind me. The whole place is crashed into the ground. Well, everything but the sign that says "Kaminari kendo dojo." The sign lays above all the rubble, facing towards the parking lot that's across the dojo.

I slowly make my way towards the van.

"Your driving." I say, throwing the keys over to Zero.

"Where to?" He asks.

"Missouri. I'll be going to sleep when we get into the van, so just wake me up when you get into the state lines, and I'll tell you where to go from there."

"Okay."

When we get inside the van. I lisson very closely. While lissoning, I hear a small snoring sound. Good. She is still asleep.

Zero starts the van and drives away from the dojo. I was barely awake by the time we exited Cañon City.

Not long after, I passed out.

Suddenly, I jolt up, Looking around, I see houses toppled over and blood everywhere.

I slowly make my way across the toppled over buildings, stopping when I see someone. This person sits on its knees, its back is slightly bent back, and it stares into the starry night.

I watch droplets of blood flow down its fingers.

"What's going on here?" I ask.

Immediately after I say this, clouds form above my head. These clouds are the darkest clouds I have ever seen.

"Redemption." The person that's sitting on his knees says.