Akashic Library Ch. 1

On the way home from her club activities, Armia notices a mysterious boy she’d never seen before. He had black hair and red eyes and wore a black trench coat with his sleeves rolled up to his elbow. The definition of a troublemaker. Normally, she would stay away from people like him, but she felt a strange attraction to him. Unable to fight this attraction, she followed him until he walked into a nightclub called BlackJack.

“Why did I come here? This club belongs to Vega, Avery the most dangerous gang in the world. Not to mention, It looks like I lost him. Wait! Is he a part of Vega?” she thought to herself.

Suddenly, a loud crash came from inside the club. While people tried to get out, Armia took advantage of the chaos to sneak inside. As she enters the main section, she sees a man coming through the back wall. She rushed to his side to check if he was alright, but as she reached him, she heard a voice coming from the hole.

“You’re a dead man. You made a huge mistake messing with Vega. Now, you have to pay for it with your life.”

Curious about the situation, Armia peeks into the hole and sees him. The boy she was following was surrounded by armed thugs.

“Why do you guys have to make this difficult? All I wanted was information about a thief and a drink.” The boy said.

“I don’t care what you wanted. What you need is to leave before you get something you don’t want.” The Vega leader said confidently.

“No! He and his little bitch here aren’t leaving this place.” The guy, who was thrown through the wall, said as he walked through the hole while dragging Armia by her neck.

“Huh?” The boy said as he looked at the guy bluntly. The guy looked completely different. His skin peeled off, revealing his black, deformed body. Everybody looked at him with disgust. The boy sighed with disappointment.

“What’s wrong with you? Scared your little bitch going to die?” He said arrogantly.

“First of all, that’s not my girlfriend. Secondly, you’re not fast enough to kill her before I kill you. And, Lastly, I’m disappointed. You gave up your humanity so easily. Hell, you’re not even a threat.”

“What are you even tal-

Suddenly, the deformed man felt a sharp pain in his arm. He looked down and saw it was missing along with the girl.

“Seriously, K, I told you to not cause panic among the people.” A girl said as she floated in the air with Armia.

The boy slapped his forehead with discontent as he looked down. “Why? Why did she have to show up?” He mumbled to himself.

“Because you know you can’t do this job without me looking after your butt.” The girl said.

Armia, whose eyes were closed, opened her eyes and saw she was being held. She looked back and saw a girl her age, with black hair with a silver streak. Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat as she blushed beet red.

“Yukio, you didn’t have to come h-

K suddenly was launched into a wall by the deformed guy. Then, the deformed guy looked at the Vega leader, who urinated himself because of the fear he felt from the look of the deformed guy.

“Hi, Boss; I think we both know what I want from you.” He said.

“Yeah, right. You think I’m going to give the Vega. You got another thing coming.” The Vega leader said.

“That wasn’t a request.” The deformed man said with a malicious smile. Then, he opened his mouth unexpectedly wide and swallowed the Vega leader.

“Gross. It seems he completely lost his humanity. As for the ones who read from the book of Demons.” Yukio said.

“Wait, you mean to tell me he got this way because he read a book,” Armia said excitedly.

“No, not a book. From the looks of it, he read a single page.” Yukio said.

Suddenly, the deformed man attacked Yukio by slashing the air, causing blades of air. Yukio threw Armia up and destroyed the air blades with her hands. Then, as she caught Armia, they were attacked again. Unfortunately, He was repealed by a barrier and was propelled into the ground. As he got up, he looked up at Yukio and Armia. Yukio looked back at him and pointed behind him. He turned around and saw K standing there, but he looked different. His skin was light brown with black lightning-like marks. His hands turned into claws. His hair turned white. And, his eyes were a blood crimson red.

“You throw me through another wall, and I’ll make sure you won’t survive to tell about it.”

With thoughts of fear and insanity rushing through his mind, the deformed guy backs away from K. However, every step he made was useless.

What? What are you?” He asked.

“My name is K Nogami. I’m the collector/ guardian of Transcendent library.” K said.

“So, you’re like me. You read from that book, too.”

“No, you’re nothing but a pathetic human who was merely transformed into lesser demon. But, in my case, I’m a human/Kishin who awoke to my Kishin side.” K replied.

“Huh?”

“In simple terms, I’m stronger than you,” K said. Then, he disappeared and reappeared behind the deformed guy. Suddenly, the Vega Gang members around them fell to the ground. Then, K stabs the deformed guy by using his hand like a knife.

“Jeez, you sure took your time. You know we have school tomorrow, and I don’t want to be late on our first day.” Yukio said as she landed.

“Well, I was thrown through a freakin reinforced wall while you were flirting. Not to mention, he didn’t have the book.” K said.

“Who was flirting?” Yukio said excitedly while blushing.

“You!” K said.

“Ummm... Who are you guys?” Armia said with a fearful tone.

“Don’t worry about that. You're not going to remember this anyway. So, there’s no point in telling you something you won’t remember.” Yukio said as she looked into Armia’s eyes, causing Armia to slowly falls unconscious.