( Ena's POV )
With the Azumi demon begging for his life I stuck my naginata into the ground and accepted his offering to save his life, I absorbed the demon's essence into my phone and I began by interrogating him.
Ena: Tell me what are you cooking here?
Azumi: That's food for our leader, the boss of this area.
Hearing that this was someone's territory, a message came to my phone but I didn't check it immediately.
Ena: Can you only create that using humans?
Azumi: N-no he forced us to use humans, humans are much richer in energy than demons, and once he tasted the flavor of a human he wanted to eat nothing else, he is not the leader we once followed, if we do not satisfy his appetite he will eat us.
Ena: We've only found one kind of demon here, is your leader the same as you?
Azumi: He was before, I don't know what that is now, but he's not our leader, I'm sure of that.
Ena: Where is he now?
Azumi: He is sleeping in the waters beneath this place but he will wake up for his food, you should leave this place before that, that is what I am going to do.
Ena: Okay, you can go now.
The azumi didn't hesitate to get up and leave the place, happy to have escaped with his life, I ignored that and opened the teachers' cage.
Ena: Come on, we need to go before more demons appear.
There were five teachers in the cage and they were in such shock that they moved almost automatically as if my words were commands they couldn't ignore.
We walked through the tunnel we had come from and as we were walking I remembered the bus parked outside the mall.
Ena: By the way, someone has the keys to the school bus.
My question brought the teachers out of their stupor, and one of them answered in a hurry; that was teacher Kawakami Sadayo.
Sadayo: y-yeah I have them, I'm the one who drove here.
Ena: good.
Aigis and I helped the teachers climb up the hole where we had entered and when we returned to the more normal part the teachers breathed a sigh of relief although others had a different reaction.
Teacher: You give me that! You kids shouldn't have such dangerous weapons.
One of the teachers tried to take Aigis's rifle but with the strength she had now he couldn't get it out of her hands no matter how hard he tried, what he said could have been the words of a teacher concerned about his students, but his motives were clearly selfish.
Ena: Hey, we're risking a lot trying to rescue you, so just shut up and walk.
I pointed my naginata at the teacher and hit him lightly with the blunt side, although I didn't measure my strength well and his nose bled a little, the teacher looked at me with contempt, but I didn't care.
I know that in this kind of situation and with what he witnessed the last thing anyone would want is to be defenseless but I wasn't about to give a gun to someone who was clearly losing it mentally.
Teacher: Damn brats, you're going to disobey your teachers!
Ena: If you haven't noticed, the student-teacher dynamic is worthless in this place.
Frustrated that his words had no effect on me and with no other options he ran towards the mall door and pushed Kawakami to the ground as he ran.
I went to help her up, and she seemed fine, but when she got up, her face filled with worry.
Kawakami: The keys, he took the keys!
The teacher had already walked out the door and a couple of teachers who couldn't keep their heads ran after him, leaving only the two female teachers behind us.
We left the mall and the teacher who took the keys was very nervous to start the bus correctly and he hit the steering wheel a couple of times in frustration causing the horn to blare around the place.
Ena: idiot, you're making too much noise.
I wanted to run to stop that teacher but as soon as I took a step the area started to shake, The professor was finally able to start the bus, but when he tried to drive away from the place, strange slimy tentacles emerged from the multiple large ponds and one of those tentacles crushed the bus effortlessly.
Ena: You guys go back inside!
I yelled at the teachers to get to a safe place and then I ran towards one of the many tentacles, I froze the pond where a tentacle was coming out of and I swung while sliding across the ice.
My naginata was able to cut the tentacle and when I saw that my attacks were effective I went for the other tentacles, Aigis also attacked but her bullets were not very effective.
Ena: Aigis, you go in too and protect the others, I'll take care of this.
Without looking back I continued cutting tentacles and suddenly a powerful and disturbing inhuman scream sounded all over the place and more tentacles appeared moving more violently.
I got into position to dodge but before those tentacles could attack me some bullets covered with an aura of energy flew past me and completely cut several tentacles.
I looked behind me and saw that Aigis was using her demonic energy to cover the gun she was using to give more power to her shots.
Aigis: I told you that I will fight alongside you.
I put on a smile thinking that things had turned out in our favor but at that moment the earth shook again and something round and large began to rise from the surface of the water and we heard another inhuman scream, I retreated to where Aigis was and we prepared for whatever was coming.