ahhh.... I'm tired.....
Hori thought to herself, her eyes now shut.
The man said out loud with Hori in his arms
"Poor kid.... her heartbeats slow."
He lands on the floor causing a loud boom upon contact.
The dust settled revealing his design.
He appeared to be a muscular 30 year old man wearing a fitted black shirt, his masculinity oozed as his huge body stretched the fabric to it's limit.
His legs wore the American army pants with black boots.
His hair coloured dark brown, styled simply, a buzz-cut.
Stylish black shades hid his eyes, yet you could see the seriousness on his face.
The camera pans to his right beefy arm, it wore a black badge with a bold writing in white 'B'
Lastly, a Colonel necklace rested on his chest, followed by a golden cross resting lower on said part.
He glanced to the side with his shades reflecting the background.
"Oi! Hataki!!"
The soldier yelled referring to the men in black.
So that's what they are.... those men...
Her eyes still closed, drifting between un-consciousness and death, Hori was miraculously still alive.
Narrator - Hataki are members of SHO, the Sin Hunting Organization who are not priests.
They are in charge of everything except from fighting Sins and Sinners.
Narrator - Crucial things like evacuating injured, cleaning debris and so on.
Narrator finally spoke after suddenly disappearing.
"I'm glad....you're still... alive narrator"
Hori spoke softly.
Narrator - I'm surprised you still are!
The female voice nagged.
The man walked forward.
"Take this girl to get medication!"
He ordered to the Hataki approaching him.
The Hataki's eyes turned watery upon seeing him.
"Sir Scott!!"
Tears of joy flew as he rushed in for a hug.
"Shut up and take her before she dies!!"
Sir Scott ordered.
The uniform the Hataki wore is a simple black overall with gold lining and buttons, there is a writing on their back "SHO"
And the kanji for "Cleaners" is written boldly on their chest.
Finally, Their inner wear is a compulsory dark red hoodie. Hataki are always found wearing a black cap, gloves and nose masks.
To hide their identity.
"Sir....Scott?"
Hori tried calling out to the man as blood gushed out of her mouth.
"Hey now, don't speak! Your lungs are damaged"
Sir Scott hands Hori over to the Hataki to get treated.
The Hataki gently carried her on his back and took a sprinting stance.
"You both shouldn't die okay?!"
Sir Scott wished them good luck and waved goodbye.
The Hataki quickly began running to safety at impressive speed.
So fast...!
Hori was shocked.
Heavy breeze quickly brushed her long hair as they kept running.
Narrator - Hataki are very fast, despite being ordinary humans with no enhancements, they can reach speeds of about 20.3 mph. This is because they are trained to quickly evacuate the injured.
cough!
"Wait! Haruki...!"
She wheezed then continued.
"Haruki-san is.... still cough!
She tried her best to speak.
"Didn't you hear Sir Scott?! Don't talk!"
The Hataki yelled cutting her off.
Hori kept quiet, but not for long.
She forcefully released herself from the Hataki's back and fell to the floor.
Crack
"Ouch....that hurts!"
She winced rubbing her ribs.
"You idiot!! What are you doing?!"
The Hataki screamed. Trying to drag Hori back, he clinged on her shirt forcing her to have common sense.
"Please....! Sir.... follow me, a friend of mine is injured somewhere....!"
She said as tears came down from her eyes, Hori pleaded to the Hataki to search for Haruki.
"Your friend's probably already been evacuated! So let's go, your gonna die if you don't get that wound treated!"
He scolded.
"No! something's not right!!"
Blurgh~!
She threw up whatever blood she had left.
"Dear God, your gonna die!! Let's just go!!"
The Hataki tried reasoning with her.
Hori ignored him and began to crawl, continuing her search for Haruki as the Hot Springs burnt to ash.
"It's just like that time with the Sinner!"
She began talking to herself, referring to her first encounter with a Sinner, that Sinner of sloth.
cough!
"I've always....had good. intuition!"
This was infact true, Hori has a convenient feeling for when situations are dangerous, it is also applicable to when things aren't just sitting right.
She stopped crawling, her mouth stammered in disbelief.
Her eyes sighted Haruki's body on the floor.
The Hataki besides her looked up and sees a large pile of debris on his body.
Both large and small intestines exposed on the ground, brain matter leaking out as his cold corpse laid to rest.
Haruki was dead.
"...is... that your friend?"
The Hataki asked Hori who was silent, all life in her eyes were gone, tears flowed as her heart ached.
Her very first friend, who she hadn't properly repaid for such kindness...was dead.
She crawled closer to his corpse and tried to somehow remove the debris.
The Hataki stood there in panic. They needed to get out of here.
"Hurry up and help me!"
She yelled at the Hataki, her one functional eye now crying buckets.
"....look...kid, he's obviously dead."
The Hataki said with terror in his eyes.
Hori continued removing the rubble, ignoring her bleeding stomach.
The Hataki stood there, honestly confused on what to do.
sigh
"What the hell?"
He finally helped her, they forcefully push the piled up rocks and they clatter to the side.
At last Haruki's body was visible, Hori rushed and checked his heart beat.
There was no pulse....
Hori couldn't accept it, her nails dug into the ground as she folded her lips.
The Hataki taped her shoulder, bringing her back to reality.
"We...should get going...."
The Hataki softly said.
She paused then looked at him.
"Can we at least carry his body?"
Hori pleaded.
"Look , I'm gonna say this once!People die all the time because of Sins! So don't go mopping around because one guy died!! Now stop crying and let's go already! This place is burning down!"
The Hataki forcefully carried Hori back on his back and began running away.
Meanwhile the sent priest is approaching the threat, the cause of all this death. What Sin was this?
Time - 10:32
Leather boots dragged with silent rage.
Smoke blinded the scene as the smell of sulphur wafted from the explosion.
"Oi... You're the one responsible for this?!"
He shouted with furry, his mouth in disgust and his eyes hidden from the sunglasses.
The Sin turned, a devilish grin formed.
"Sin of Arson at your service!!"
It replied bowing. Obvious enough, given all the fire, this was the Sin of Arson.
He caused all this damage in such a short time.
He thought to himself, seeing corpse and debris laying on the floor.
This is why they should post more priests at rural areas! I had to run all the way from Tokyo,of course I couldn't make it!
He scratched his head bending down. Feeling extreme guilt for the lives lost.
The Sin became giddy. It was sure that this "Sir Scott" was strong.
Absolutely excited from a promising bout.
Narrator - The strength of a Sin is determined by how frequent their Sin is committed. Arson doesn't happen so often so he isn't that strong.... quite the foolish fellow.
Sir Scott looked to see if any civilian was still around, luckily the Hataki had evacuated all, leaving the Priest and the Sin standing at the battlefield.
"Ohohoho!! I'm feeling such blood lust from a human!"
The Sin complimented Sir Scott.
I might need to use my blessing for this guy! He's definitely strong judging from the aura emanating-
"What was that?"
The sins train of thought was interrupted by an uncomfortable feeling.
The Hataki evacuating Hori happened to pass by, with our protagonist staring directly at the Sin. Dread ensued.
It flinched and searched for the source of that irritation.
Sir Scott stood there confused.
Arson dismissed the irrigation and returned his attention to the Priest.
Whatever... what was I saying again? ahh yes about using my blessing or not...
It thought pondered.
" ...on second thought....this guy doesn't look too strong, his full of openings!"
He was referring to Scott who was surprisingly still not attacking.
"Best I save it for last!"
So the sin concluded to fight without using this "Blessing"
Dark Frame
The backgrounds saturation suddenly reduced to zero leaving only the Sin of Arson and Sir Scott with color.
Narrator - A dark frame is a term given to when a character is about to do something impressive. The backgrounds saturation reduces to zero leaving only the characters involved with color.
"Dark Frame?! Ha! I guess I'm about to do some cool shit!!"
The Sin yelled confidently.
It dashed towards Sir Scott, tossing debris from its movement alone!
Their distance, now closed, Arson attempted punching.
The backgrounds saturation returns to normal, revealing the scene at hand.
"...what the...?"
Arson wondered in disbelief.
He had been decapitated.
Sir Scott was holding Arsons bottle head by the cap. Its flames burnt closely to his face, light reflecting on his black shades.
What kind of speed is that.... It happened so fast it didn't even hurt...
Its confidence from earlier slightly wavered.
He's strong.... well whatever!
The Sin grows back its full body in an instant!
Scott still stood in silence.
Arson maneuvered his waist to face Scott, landing a devastating kick!
Scott's body easily passed through buildings surrounding the hot springs.
Arson jumps and follows suit.
They both land at the 5th building Scott reached from the kick, luckily the structure wasn't in use so there were no civilians.
A news chopper approached the scene, with a logo "Live 'Bouts" written boldly at the side.
Its blades sliced through dust as they came closer and closer to certain doom.
"This is live at the battlefield! Sir
Allen Scott is currently engaging the Sin of Arson!"
The Japanese female reporter yelled,
Her camera man still in disbelief that they were both this close to an actual Sin.
The pilot contributed to the noise, yelling.
"Ma'am! We can't go any closer!!"
Only for the reporter to reply excitedly.
"No! We haven't gotten a close up yet!!"
Arson looked at the helicopter, flying about 20 meters above them and said out loud.
".... idiots, all humans are idiots!"
His gaze returned to Sir Scott.
"But your the biggest idiot!! Don't you know an ordinary attack can't kill a Sin?! Aren't priests meant to know at least that?!"
"Or are you just fucking with me...what the....where'd he go?"
Indeed, Sir Scott suddenly vanished.
"Wait was I even talking to him-
Arson got decapitated again.
They both stayed there in silence as its blood dripped from the head.
"Again?!!!!!!!!!!!?!!???!!!!"
It yelled at the top of its lungs! Sir Scott was truly doing this on purpose.
The Sin quickly regenerated its body for the second time and kicked the priest! With even more force than last time!
Scott uses his hands to slow down. He stands up and dusts himself like a gentleman.
Sir Scott finally spoke, his voice calm but menacing.
"That's the second time now...after the third I'm killing you"
He said nothing but the truth. Scott was clearly looking down on Arson.
The Sin stood, its back crouched.
"Huh?"
Veins appear on its body, slightly shattering it's glass skin.
"You arrogant little bitch!!! The fuck do you think you are??!!!!!!I'm gonna roast your balls and gobble them up!!!"
It was insulted, just who did this Priest think he was?
"Work of the flesh!!"
Arson makes a hand sign as if turning on a lighter, the imitation was quite detailed despite it's now burning rage.
"Cinder!!!!"
It was furious as fire enveloped its body.
Meanwhile sir Scott was still just staring, his black sunshades making his expression unreadable.
"He finally activated his blessing huh?"
Scott spoke to him self arms crossed, seeing as arson was getting charged up.
The Sin adhered to its name, ordering a swarm of fire to dance at its finger tips.
Of course it's fire, I mean it's the Sin of Arson.
He reasoned, then a faint smile appeared on his face before saying.
"Boooooring~!"
Scott yelled teasingly.
"Aaaaaarrgggghhhh!!!!!die!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
It only provoked the Sin even more!
Boom!!
Arson propelled him self with a mini explosion! Moving atan impressive 200 miles per hour!
Good, he's lost his temper.
Scott thought cheerfully heading towards the Sin.
Narrator - Sins have very high ego, so they can be easily angered when looked down on.
"Buuurn!!!"
Arson brings down a pillar of fire on Scott, one high enough to incinerate an entire building.
Scott easily dodges, leaving the flames to melt the structure in his place.
Arson switches attacks and fires balls of flame!
Their speed certainly high but nothing extraordinary. Scott dodges effortlessly again.
"At the end of the day, it's just to shoot out fire."
Scott lectured while evading the fire balls like a seasoned warrior.
tch!
Arson cursed, Sir Scott was right, his Blessing was a one trick pony.
"Told you it was boring."
Scott whispered, standing confidently at the Sins back.
"When did he?!"
Snatch
Scott held Arsons head quickly and tightly.
"Please wait-
The victorious Priest passes his hand through arsons chest removing his heart in one go.
Black blood dripped from the sins corpse as it's lit head finally went off.
"Black blood, knew he really wasn't strong"
Scott said out loud seeing the damage Arson caused.
Narrator - A more convenient way of determining a Sins strength is through blood quality. The more red the blood is, the stronger the Sin is. So a sin with completely black blood is EXTREMELY weak. Probably the lowest of ranks.
Badump. Badump.
The heart beat from the Sins heart reverberated through Scotts body, almost as if it were still alive.
The design for these creatures core is similar to that of humans heart.
Except this organ is literally heart shaped rather than the natural pinecone-like structure.
Sir Scott secured his victory by burning the Sins heart with a golden flame, it was enveloped with a beautiful bright glow, incinerating the heart to nothing.
yaaaawn~
He stretched his hands to the sky waving the News chopper hovering over.
"It seems that Sir Scott has successfully eliminated the Sin!!"
"As expected of a Bishop!!"
The News reporter announced happily, another victory for humans. By a BISHOP no less.
The celebration is interrupted by the sound of marching.
11 hataki run to the scenery to clear rubble and evacuate civilians.
"Sir Scott! Are you injured?!"
It was a female Hataki.
It's usually hard tell the gender between Hataki since they were caps and nose masks.
But their voice and eyes help distinguish.
"Oh, I'm fine. Please evacuate everybody quickly"
He said with a smile.
SIR YES SIR!!!
The Hataki yelled in unison and bid him farewell, bowing their heads in appreciation for saving the day.
"Man, I love how Sir Scott finishes fights so quickly!"
A male Hataki said while carrying some rocks.
"Yeah, it leaves little damage and it's easier to clean!"
Another, while helping an injured up.
"Kyaaa~!! Sir Scott spoke to me today!!"
The female that just conversed with him squealed while bandaging an injured leg.
"Ehhh? Don't you have a boyfriend, Mitsu?"
Another teased.
"Shut up!"
She snared.
Narrator - Only Hataki's know each other's real names, Priests and civilians just call them "Hataki!" Their very unappreciated. Now.... What is our Protagonist doing....