Realizer of Death : The Reaper

After the students who participated in the mission arrived, they immediately got into the bus and prepared to leave for Shima lake, Gunma prefecture. They were randomly placed on the bus because the students participating in the mission were not only from the first year but also from the second and third years. Some teachers will also come with them as companions.

The second and third-year students who were allowed to participate were severely restricted because the mission's true purpose was to train the first-year students to fight monsters. After all the students got on the bus, they headed to the Gunma prefecture, estimated they would arrive in two hours.

On one of the buses, Shinji sat alone with a gloomy face. None of the students dared to approach him after seeing his expression. But in such a situation, someone purposely came to him.

"Can I sit next to you?" a male student asked.

"You should find another seat. I'm not in the mood to share my seat with anyone else…" Shinji said briefly. But before Shinji could finish his sentence, the male student sat beside him and ignored his words.

"You!" Shinji frowned when he saw the male student sitting next to him. He was sure he didn't know the boy, which meant he wasn't from the same class as Shinji. But the male student bravely sat beside him and ignored his words.

(Does this student think that I am an easy person because of the previous incident? If yes, then you are very wrong!?)

Shinji had been irritated earlier by a weak student with a low-ranked Phantasmal Object. Now another student appeared who was deliberately looking for trouble with him. But before Shinji could say anything, the boy opened his mouth first.

"Before you ask me to move from here, I want to say that we have the same enemy. How about we work together?" the boy said in a low voice because he didn't want the students around him to hear his words.

"What do you mean?" Shinji narrowed his eyes because he didn't expect the male student to say that.

"I don't want to beat around the bush with you. My name is Masaru Igarashi, and I am a first-year student in class D. I also have a problem with Tenku, that loser, and the reason is more or less the same as you. I can help eliminate that eyesore, but you must cooperate with me." Masaru said his goal by sitting next to Shinji and offering cooperation.

When Akina approaches Tenku, Masaru also sees her and is annoyed that beautiful girls always surround the boy he hates. He felt jealous because of that. When Masaru wanted to insult Tenku for it, Shinji went ahead but came back humiliated by Akina.

After seeing that, Masaru smiled and thought of a plan to teach Tenku a lesson with help from Shinji. Masaru can carry out his plan without Shinji's help. But he wanted to take advantage of Shinji's anger and use him to eliminate Tenku because he didn't want to take the risk alone.

"Don't you know that hurting fellow students at Suisei High School is strictly prohibited? If you get caught, you will not only be expelled from the school but also imprisoned for violating one of the organization's rules." Shinji said seriously.

"It happens with the premise that others know our actions. But I have the plan to be able to do it secretly without anyone knowing, and he will disappear forever from Suisei High School. The location of this mission also fits perfectly with this plan of mine." Masaru smiled evilly.

Shinji frowned as he listened to Masaru's words. He felt that the male student in front of him was dangerous and intensely hated Tenku. But he didn't care about that because the offer was quite tempting, and no one else would interfere with his relationship with Akina. Shinji felt Tenku would be his biggest obstacle if he weren't eliminated soon.

"What is your plan?" Shinji wants to hear Masaru's plans first before he decides to cooperate with him.

"My plan is..." Masaru put his mouth close to Shinji's ear and whispered his plan.

***

On the other bus, Setsuka sat looking at her smartphone after receiving Akina's data that she requested from Kaede. The information is taken from the school and the organization system. When she read the initial data about Akina, she didn't react.

Akina is the daughter of a senior Realizer in the Holy Union, and Setsuka knows them because they are in the same organization. She didn't care when she saw it because what she wanted to know was something else about that family. As Setsuka read the rest of the information, she finally found what she was looking for.

"Nine years ago, Misora and Kouta brought a child named Tenku Okuihara from the location of the space collapse in the Ibaraki prefecture. After that, they decided to take care of him. So Tenku has been living in the Karitoshi residence for the past few years. No wonder the relationship between him and the girl looks close. But why did he move out of that house?" Setsuka frowned.

Setsuka remembered when she met Tenku back then. The boy was carrying a big suitcase and said he was just kicked out of the house. In other words, someone from the Karitoshi family didn't like him and asked him to leave. Setsuka was sure that person wasn't Akina because their relationship didn't look bad.

"So there is nothing between Tenku and that girl. Their relationship is similar to that of siblings as they have lived under the same roof for several years." Setsuka let out a sigh of relief after knowing that.

"He was kicked out of the Karitoshi household because he had awakened a low-ranking Phanatsmal Object. But it's better than staying in someone else's house who doesn't like your presence. After all, he is a man and must learn to live independently." Setsuka muttered and nodded in satisfaction. Then she quietly looked behind her and saw the male student in her words. Tenku and Setsuka were on the same bus.

***

Two hours later, the bus carrying the students from Suisei High School arrived at Lake Shima. After the students got off the bus, they still had to walk quite a bit to reach their destination.

When the students arrived at the location, the senior Realizers from the organization were already waiting for them there. Tenku saw a familiar person among them, and that person was Daisuke Okamoto, the Realizer Tenku had met in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture.

Apart from those Realizers, he saw no one else. At first, Tenku thought other high schools would also participate in this mission. But his guess was wrong because only students from Suisei High School would be fighting monsters in that place.

Teachers and seniors from the organization led the students to a large meadow not far from the lake. The students had to set up tents around the area because their mission would not be completed in one day, and they had to stay overnight at Lake Shima. The organization had provided all the camping equipment, and they just had to set it up. Of course, men and women will be separate.

The organization still doesn't know the number and hiding places of the monsters. They couldn't assign students to investigate at this time because it was soon evening. It was getting dark at Lake Shima, and it would be dangerous for students to wander around at that hour.

It took the students an hour to set up all the tents with help from the senior Realizers and the teachers. They could think of it as one of the wilderness survival exercises.

While setting up the tent, Tenku felt many pairs of eyes looking at him and some of them with malicious intent. He knew where the gaze was coming from and ignored it. As long as they don't touch him first, Tenku is too lazy to deal with them.

It was six o'clock in the evening after all the tents were set up. The teachers and the senior Realizer gathered the students for re-attendance.

"You can walk around this area, but you are strictly forbidden to roam too far because it is dangerous! Besides, you can't roam around at night! Do you understand!?" a teacher stood in front of the students and said seriously.

"We got it!" The students answered in unison.

"Good! In that case, you can disperse." The teacher nodded with satisfaction and allowed them to enjoy the beauty of the place before they did the actual battle.

"Tenku! How about we take a little walk? The scenery in this place is great for taking pictures!" Takaya suddenly appeared to Tenku's right and spoke.

"He's right! We can also see the beautiful girls by the lake. Aren't those two a perfect combination?" Noboru added excitedly from Tenku's left.

"Alright... Alright... You don't have to scream in my ear. I will come with you." Tenku sighed, and the three people left the place.

Time passed quickly, and night fell. The atmosphere around Lake Shima is quite dark. Because of that, the students were forbidden to roam around. The teachers and senior Realizers were afraid that monsters were lurking around them. But a student quietly left his tent and disappeared into the forest area not far from that place. That student is Tenku.

After walking for a few minutes, Tenku suddenly stopped because he realized that someone was following him.

"How long are you going to hide? Aren't you guys tired of acting like rats?" Tenku said indifferently. After that, applause rang out from behind the tree, and two shadows came out.

"Amazing! I didn't expect a loser like you to notice our presence! As a reward, we will allow you to stay in this forest and never come back!" Masaru and Shinji emerged from the forest's darkness with horrible smiles.