Blonde hair, yellow eyes.
"Who is this guy? Has the police found out?"
"What's your name?" the blonde stranger asked.
"Who wants to know?"
"Me."
They had eye contact for a few seconds, until he gave in.
"I'm Ivan."
I think it was while I was studying medicine.
I've always been interested in poison.
"You need to be careful Ivan, there's a murderer in this town. He kills his victims with strong poison." the stranger warned, with a playful look, "Heard of him?"
But what I like even more…
A short pause, then the stranger added, "They call him…"
"Idoku."
…was seeing people in pain.
"Why do you tell me this, everyone knows him. Who are you even?"
"My name is—"
Shinji.
"Shinji? Like the one from the history books. But he looks too young, sohe must be someone different right?"
Shinji was looking deep into his eyes, "Ivan, I'm looking for people who gave up their humanity," he said, "Join me, as I make my way to the throne."
"His eyes are menacing."
Ivan raised an eyebrow, "Why should I."
"You like to kill, torture? I want to create a world, where the strong rule and the weak bow, isn't that what you want aswell?"
I ended up joining him.
He allowed me to experiment on other people, so I was satisfied with my decision.
It was helpful, to refine my poison. I got used to it and I became more and more uninhibited, until I left Ivan behind.
After a lot of human experiments, my first big experiment ended up in a rampage at a nearby psychology university, unfortunately a hunter was quick to kill my artificially created subject, but he has gone mad under the demon anyways.
Now that I think about it, one of the victims shinji told me to kill, was a professor who researched devils.
I think he murmured about a son named Kouji as well, when he died.
Everything I touched, I was immediately good at, I'm smart, strong, fast, that's why I never had a real competition.
But when I met Shinji and he looked into my eyes, I felt it, "He's strong. I went as far as to mix poison, into the food Kamina gave him, but he didn't even flinch."
After I graduated Shinji declared me as his Highcard, the "King" so I was one of the 3 strongest under his command.
At first I met Jack, he was weak, so I thought it was easy to get in here, but then I met his Ace, "Kamina" and the Queen "Alectrona". Just by looking at them, you could feel their strength.
And I was...
"The King" just like him.
"Join me on my way to the throne..."
Idoku was lying in a pool of blood, he could still feel it, the aura of the other hunters, who had defeated him.
Defeat?
Kouji's rusty sword, that almost fell apart, in his right hand dropped to the floor.
"…It's over."
Everyone paused for a moment.
Kouji turned his back towards Idoku's corpse and walked in Yumi's direction.
As if.
Behind him the flesh and blood suddenly moved.
Kouji was shocked, "This is ridiculous."
Everybody froze.
Idoku's body, which had been cut in half, forms back together, as he slowly stands up.
"You think this is enough to kill me?" Idoku said, his face only half regenerated.
Is this guy even human?, Kouji thought
Idoku pulls out another tube with the Gift..
Suddenly—
A red beam was flying past everyone and hit Idoku directly in the head and he dropped the tube.
"What?" Idoku said, shocked, "You!" as the wound on his head regenerated.
The newly arrived hunter was talking casually, though he was heard clearly.
"My Blessing seems to work again," he said, "You know Idoku, I would've preferred if I could've just fought you myself, but when I got here with Kouji and Yumi, my Blessing didn't work anymore."
"But now I'm here to play with you."
"Meichi." Kouji said silently.
Enraged, Idoku spoke up, "You dare to mock me—"
Meichi interrupted, "You've fought well, now it's my turn, so…"
"Take a break."