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Kenjiro was dreaming. At least that was what he believed as he walked down the familiar streets of Tokyo.
Ever since the day his life was altered (the day he became a secretary) he would have these repetitive dreams where he would be strolling down a street, doing nothing but observing the scenery. Although lately, the dreams have been more frequent, longer than he remembered.
And weirder.
Kenjiro halted as he turned, staring at the weird creature before him that was slithering up the light pole before him. It had one huge eye in the middle of its forehead, and four little eyes on each side of its head accompanied with two sets of little wings near where its temple should be.
Despite having wings, its legs and foot looked like those of a gecko. Rin couldn’t help but wince slightly at the sight, face scrunching up in disgust. Whatever the creature was, nobody else could see it, not one other pedestrian bothering to look up at where the creature was.
Rin stopped in his tracks completely when he got closer, an unpleasant feeling crawling up his spine. It was the feeling of anger, in which he was familiar with though why he was feeling it even he couldn’t figure out.
Having stared at it for too long the creature finally felt a human’s gaze on its back. Twisting its neck swiftly downwards its pitch black googly eyes stared into his own and once he didn’t look away, the creature smiled, mouth filled with sharp fangs that made a shiver run down his neck. Kenjiro took a cautious step back and that was all the creature needed to lunge forward onto the ground, the wings at its face beating violently.
Rin yelled out in surprise as he flinched back. This, the people seemed to have heard as a couple jolted from the sound of his alarm. The woman cursed at him, hurriedly pulling her man away while mumbling about the abuse of drug use though Kenjiro paid them no mind. The gecko was licking its lips as it started to crawl towards him.
This is a dream. He thought, comforting himself, It isn’t real.
Letting out a shriek the creature opened its mouth, shooting a ball of green smoke right at his face. Kenjiro panicked, feet stuck in place in a frozen frenzy as his arms lifted up to protect his face instinctively and to his surprise the smoke seemed to go right around him, not touching his skin as if there was a thin barrier protecting his body.
The gas smelled of toxins, making Rin cough as he glance up at the creature with a burn down his throat.
He could feel pain, the creature was very much real.
The two stared at each other for a moment before Kenjiro broke off into a run, turning and bolting away as fast as he could when the gecko took chase behind him, screeching out more balls of fire. Rin took a sharp turn, looking back towards the creature chasing him every other second in hopes that when he did, the creature would be long gone and he would have woken up from whatever nightmare this was.
Though everytime he turned, the creature was still there. Slithering on the floor with its mouth gaping towards its human meal.
“Always the fucking ugly ones.” Kenjiro mumbled, cursing from the pent up frustration he had accumulated from working overtime. Before he knew it, he was running towards what looked like stone stairs, leading up to some sort of temple hidden in the mountains. It was exactly what he needed. If this hell like creature was real, there was no saying in the myth that temples would dispel such evils.
Climbing two steps at once he grunted, pushing himself further as long strands of hair fell from its ponytail at the back of his neck, falling over his eyes and ears. Spotting a loose stone on one of the steps he bent as he ran, picking it up before turning back towards the lizard and throwing it at the creature in a futile attempt to fight back.
What he did not expect was for the creature to stretch its tail forward, wrapping the stone in its length before curling it back and hurtling it right back towards his head.
Kenjiro yelled, leg lifting as he cradled his head only for the stone to once again bounce off of the invisible force wrapping around his body. Eyes widening as he spotted the lizard almost reaching him Kenjiro turned, desperately climbing the last of the steps before a large weight clashed onto his back.
He fell with a scream, elbows scraping against the stone ground as the lizard got on top of him. Curling into himself Kenjiro felt the sensation of anger from before returned to him tenfold though he could do not but lay there curled like a ball, shaking as he hears the lizard’s screech above him. It was sickening, the feeling of its weight hovering over him yet not touching him directly. It seemed as if the lizard was growing frustrated too as it opened its mouth, ready to dissolve Rin into bits with its acid but before it could, the weight hovering above him suddenly disappreared.
Kenjiro opened his eyes with a start, finding the sudden silent eerie as he looked around frantically for what might have scared away the lizard though no matter how much he looked, no trace of the lizard was left. All he felt was the fading sensation of anger and the grey dusts falling around him from where the creature once was.
“I thought for once my senses had been wrong.” A familiar voice spoke up and Kenjiro could not help the sag of relief. For once, hearing his boss’s voice was like a breath of fresh air.
“Sir-“ He turned, the words dying in his mouth as he looked up at the white haired man before him. Satoru stood over where he sat, looking down at him with his hands in his pockets though where his blue eyes once shine, these were covered with a black cloth wrapped around his head. This, was not the boss he knew, Kenjiro realised as the hairs on his neck stood.
This man was dangerous.
“Interesting.” Satoru hummed, crouching down until they were at eye level as he stretched out a hand. Before his finger could come into contact with Kenjiro’s skin, it was halted, blocked by the same unknown force thats been saving him since the start. Satoru cocked his head to the side. “How is it that I can feel my energy on you?”