The Akuma

Seeing that all three people fainted, Furuichi took back his extended hands and feet, then he took out a mobile phone from Hanasuke's pockets and dialed the police.

After the call, Furuichi had explained the location, and then he put the phone down and walked toward the room where Aoi was.

When Aoi saw Furuichi's face and body safe from beatings, she breathed a sigh of relief, but still asked.

"How are you?"

"I'm fine now, let's go." Furuichi untied the knot of hers, and thought that he must leave here immediately, otherwise the three people will wake up and by then his power would run out, and then it'll be troublesome.

After releasing the rope for Aoi, Furuichi took Aoi's little hand and walked a few steps until he heard Aoi making noises as if she was in pain, listening to this. Furuichi realized that Aoi's foot injury was a bigger problem than she had let on.

So Furuichi took Aoi and put an arm of Aoi's on his shoulder and left hurriedly.

Seeing the three thugs knocked out by Furuichi, Aoi looked at Furuichi with some unbelievable gleams in her eyes.

"You took all three of them down?"

"No." Furuichi did not want to be known or his Demon fruits to be known so he said no. If more people knew, it would certainly bring a lot of trouble to his life.

"Who could do this, it's insane the area around here's completely destroyed?" Aoi continued to ask.

When they were out of the factory, Furuichi thought for a moment and said.

"A man who claimed to be Superman arrived here and took care of them, but he left the three men for the police and left."

Aoi's beautiful face scrunched up, and she began laughing as she found the whole situation something seen only in manga.

"Superman? I think you've been watching a bit too much movies? Hey, slow down, my foot still hurts, but you've made me laugh."

Damn it! Will I not be discovered by her? Furuichi was shocked and felt that he could not control the ability of the Almighty Fruit. As he felt his shoulders extending as he had Aoi's weight upon his body, causing him to overthink.

After Aoi stood up and she didn't say anything, as she didn't seem to realize that Furuichi's shoulder was unusual as it began deforming.

"Is your foot okay?" asked Furuichi carefully.

Aoi shook her head, and headed towards the road.

"No problem, let's go."

After a while, the two left the factory and came to the road. At dusk, there weren't many cars on the road.

Because Furuichi had run towards the van at full speed without knowing what he was doing, other than trying to save Aoi, he realised he didn't even know where he was.

He looked at both ends of the road, "Which side do we go?" Said Furuichi as he looked around in confusion.

Aoi looked around, after a long time, she said.

"This should be the Tsukuba Economy Zone. We are going opposite to that also there's a bus stop there." Aoi said, pulling back her hand on Furuichi's shoulder.

"No, we'll first go through a few stops, take the bus, or the three thugs behind us will woke up and take us back to detainment." Furuichi said.

After a certain distance, Furuichi turned back and saw that Aoi had already opened up a distance of 20 meters between them and Furuichi was busy simply standing there as he was drained from the Demon fruit.

"Hurry up."

Aoi limped over towards the pale Furuichi.

"How can I go further than this?"

Furuichi looked at her foot, then the road "Should I just carry you?"

Aoi hearing this, then stared at Furuichi

"You think I don't know, you want to take advantage of me, well, no way." Hearing this Furuichi sighed before extending a hand and said again.

"Grab on, will you." Furuichi grabbed Aoi's arms and said, "Hmph, who wants to take advantage of you, in the factory, who was the one leaning on me for no reason."

Aoi squinted towards the sky and kept saying in her cherry lipped mouth. "I don't remember, I don't remember..."

Furuichi had no choice but to shake his head saying, "Stop s.e.x.u.a.lly harassing me, just because I'm Male doesn't mean I can't charge you for assault."

"Oh shut up, this princess merely allowed you to feel a sense of warmth." The two began to bicker, and after getting along while bickering somehow, the distance between the two became closer.

"Right, have you brought any money with you?" When he went to rescue Aoi, he didn't bring money, and after being kidnapped by the three men, the mobile phone was also lost to them.

Furuichi searched for some money in his pocket and said "Oh, that's all."

Furuichi's palms had four, 100 Zenish's.

"I'm relieved, I thought that I wouldn't even have the money to take the taxi."

Furuichi suddenly realized that there was no problem with the taxi money. The 400Ƶ was stuffed in his hand. It can be said that there is no way to go. Aoi, as a child of a wealthy family, certainly wouldn't care, but Furuichi who was an orphan, felt reluctant to let go of this 400Ƶ.

Thinking for a moment, Furuichi said.

"Aoi, you can see the beauty of this sunset right, why don't we just walk back to the city together- right Aoi-san?"

Just after Furuichi's words were finished, an empty taxi passed by and beeped it's horn and passed by the two. Aoi Who saw this, started to shout towards it.

"Taxi, Stop!"

The taxi stopped at the side of the road. Aoi got on the taxi first, then looked at Furuichi, who was still standing outside.

"What are you doing, come in."

Furuichi's face seemed to have been greatly wronged at this moment. His face crumpled into a frown before sitting in the taxi.

"Where are the two going?" asked the taxi driver.

Aoi smiled and looked at Furuichi.

"Let's go to your house, I want to see where my little hero lives."

"My house? No, no, my house is very chaotic." Furuichi declined not because of his house but rather because of the Demon Seeds in his desk, what if she ate one and discovered the truth, what if she told the world about this.

"Little boy your, too ignorant, a girl is taking the initiative to go to your house, you don't know to seize the opportunity. Are you afraid that your parents will find out? I know a very good couple hotel, where the room is cheap, do you want me to take you there?" The taxi driver said while driving.

"How much? No, I mean how much money to go to the city." For the taxi drivers offer, Furuichi didn't pay attention to it. He was just concerned about the problem of this last bit of money he had with him.

In the eyes of Aoi, Furuichi's first sentence came up with 'how much money' which made her mistakenly think that Furuichi originally asked the price of sleeping with a p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.e, so she gave him a white-eyed look.

"If you play for an hour, it's forty to fifty Ƶ."

"Is it forty or fifty?"

"Exactly, I am familiar with the owner of the hotel. It is better to do this. I will open the room for the second place. How about 1 hour for 150 Ƶ all together? If you go to open the room yourself, the standard single room will have at least one hundred and thirty-eight for just 30 minutes."

Why did the driver answer this question? Furuichi couldn't help but deeply lock his eyebrows.

"Forget it, forget it... so expensive, can you be cheaper?"