After leaving his dorm room, Quinn decided to do the usual. Only this time, he decided to head up to the school roof instead so he could get a better view of everything that was going on. With the Night demon’s name being known well, there were hardly any cases of public bullying going on during the school time.
Usually, Quinn would pay attention while in school, to choose his next few targets. So instead the only thing he could do right now was rely on those that wished to actually face the Night demon, or hide their actions in secret. His improved eyesight with his level three inspect skill was extremely helpful when looking out for things. But there was one thing that was even better than that: His hearing
Before his hearing was excellent but all the conversation around him would be heard all at once and it was hard for him to concentrate. Then he realised something. When practising his Qi control in the morning he entered a special state. If he entered the current state now, and moved the Qi to focus on his ears, he found it easy to hone in and focus on all the conversations that were going on at once.
Ever since the incident at the hospital, not only had his Qi control gotten better, but also he hadn’t suffered from the so-called blood addiction like he had suspected. He still didn’t understand what happened that day, but he continued his daily practice. Still, his aura never looked the same, being a mix of white and red making a soft pink colour. Some of the two substances hadn’t completely combined together, just yet. Some of the red could be seen swirling around the pink sized basketball.
But because his understanding of Qi was so small, he had no clue what it meant.
Just when Quinn thought that perhaps there would be no one out tonight, he heard a voice off in the distance.
"No, no! What are you doing!" A girl screamed.
After locating where the sound was coming from, off in the distance Quinn could see a boy and two girls. One of the girls was dragging the other along by the hair, while the other boy just continued to watch and laugh while throwing out insults.
Now having chosen his target, Quinn disappeared. For one second a figure could be seen on the roof, and in the next, he was gone.
The girl continued to drag along the other by the hair. It looked like this time, they were heading out further than usual. Most of the bullying that happened so far, hadn’t been too far from the school grounds.
’Is it because they’re afraid of me?’ Quinn thought as he continued to follow.
They had ventured out of the park, past the convenience store. At first, it looked like they were about to head to the main plaza of the city, but they started to take a detour. Finally, they had reached what looked like a construction site. It was an under developed construction building that was yet to be completely built and only had several piles of dirt moved off to the side. So the area was very open. There was a metal fence that had been temporarily built surrounding all of it, but it was easy to move it to get inside. The fence was there just to show that it was a construction zone.
’Something’s not right.’ Quinn thought. As the three people were walking they were constantly looking around them, trying to find someone. At first, Quinn thought it was just because they were scared that the Night demon could come out at any second, but they were looking far too much, as if they were expecting him to come.
Not only that, but as soon as they had reached the construction site, Quinn could smell another person there waiting behind one of the piles of mud.
’It’s a trap.’ Although Quinn knew it was a trap this was what he was waiting for.
"Come on you slut!" The girl student said. "Who said a low level like you could talk to my boyfriend." She continued to pull the student’s head, and in dramatic fashion, the other one continued to scream.
"You can stop with the bad acting." A deep voice off from the side said.
As all three of them turned around they could see the Night Demon. The girl immediately let go and they all stepped back, slightly shaken.
"He’s real." The boy said.
"Get out of here, I don’t want to mess with you. I’m waiting for the person behind that pile of dirt." Quinn said.
"Oh, you knew I was here, and you’re very confident as well." Out from behind the pile of dirt an adult came out and leant up against the side of it. He had a large black afro on the top of his head and was wearing square shaped glasses on his face. But the main thing that stood out about him was his uniform. He wasn’t wearing the standard uniform like the students, instead, he was wearing the uniform the teachers wore.
On a closer inspection, Quinn could also see on his shoulder, his rank. He wasn’t just a normal teacher like Del, but at the sergeant level like Leo.
"You should know who I am." The man said. "But just to remind you, a student should know his place and it’s a grave offence to hurt a sergeant. I’m Dillan Wyte. Sergeant under the command of general Duke."
There wasn’t a need for him to declare who he was, Quinn already knew he was a sergeant from the second year. The reason for saying his name and position was to intimidate him. They knew a student was behind all the attacks, but Quinn wasn’t faced one bit.
The three students had quickly run off the construction site, fearing that they might get caught up, however, they stayed to watch the fight, hiding behind a few of the metal sheets, peeking through the holes.
"You’re In serious trouble young man," Dillan said as he placed his hand on the pile of dirt.
"I was about to say the same thing," Quinn replied.
Activating his ability, Dillan was able to make multiple small blocks that looked like bricks shoot out from the pile, like a machine gun. If Quinn was able to use his shadow this would be easy for him to deal with however he could not.
Instead, he relied on his speed and power. A mixture of flash steps to avoid certain bricks and his fists to block the bricks from hitting his vital parts. Occasionally, a few would hit him but the damage was minimal.
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