Saki cheerfully jumped into Tsukimi's arms to hug him. Before, Tsukimi had a crush on Saki but those feelings are long gone." So Tsukimi, where are you headed this early in the morning?" asked Saki obviously trying to seduce him with her chest.
" I'm heading to the island mall to meet up with a family member," answered Tsukimi.
" Oh really. I'm also heading there. Do think you can give me a ride there?" asked Saki.
" Sure, I don't see why not," said Tsukimi handing her a spare helmet.
She cheerfully took it smiling as she hopped onto the bike behind Tsukimi and held him by his waist tightly. Tsukimi squirmed a bit but revved up the bike. Then off they went. Obviously Tsukimi did not know the layout of the estate but thanks to the bike's GPS, he managed to not get lost. Once they were out of the estate, they were now going down the road next to the campus field. There were people flying above the pitch with others doing squats on the pitch. Tsukimi only thought that they must have been training for Quinterball. He wanted to try it but he was occupied with his current task. Saki noticed that Tsukimi was not paying attention to her constant approaches so engrossed with anger, she used her ice magic to slowly freeze his cells in an attempt to kill them. Tsukimi noticed what she was trying to do but chose to ignore her. Tsukimi knew all to well that his cells could not be killed seeing as he is partially a corpse. Also, with all the time that has passed, no way that she did not know how to control her power.
Tsukimi just grew even more suspicious of her. He increased the speed of the bike to 200km/h and that forced her to stop using her magic and hold on. Tsukimi smirked under his helmet. The road went past the Quinterball pitches, hand-to-hand combat zones and market place. Finally came the famous mall. Tsukimi came to a grumbling halt at the bus stop. Saki came off it with a queasy face. Tsukimi used the helmet to scan her using the helmet's danger sensor and scanner. It identified a demon tattoo on her shoulder blade. He was about to think it through when Saki asked him why he was still wearing his helmet. He was busted. He removed the helmet with a face holding back laughter to hide anything that would make her suspicious of him. She puffed up her cheeks like a chipmunk.
Tsukimi proceeded to poke those puffed cheeks as he laughed. Saki eventually could not take anymore and was about to explode when someone called out to Tsukimi from the direction of the mall. The two turned to see Celine dressed as gyaru [ girl who follows all trends on clothing and accessories and dressed in vibrant colors ]. She was waving a hand with a scrunchy at Tsukimi. Both Tsukimi and Saki could not believe what they were looking at. Once she stood before them, they were all agape. She hugged Tsukimi and shook Saki's hand. Saki was about to ask a question when Celine dragged her to the side and whispered in her window," Look her kid, keep quiet about this from anyone and I won't bust you. I know you work for D.E.A.T.H, but Tsukimi doesn't yet. Plus I know you were trying to kill my brother. Your choice tramp."
Saki had a face screaming 'how did you find about that' but one look into Celine's half crimson half azure colored eyes and the answer was there. This woman was not to be messed with. Saki turned around and looked at Saki with a fake smile. She said," It looks like it's time for me to go run my errand. See you later Tsukimi," as she ran off.
" So you know what's up, don't you?" Tsukimi asked.
" Maybe I do, maybe I don't. Who's to say?" Celine said completely dodging the question before grabbing Tsukimi's hand," But forget about her. Today is all about me, me and who was it again? Oh, that's right, ME!"
She the proceeded to drag Tsukimi to a floating cafe at the entrance of the mall. She used her power to make them hover into the cafe. The one at the counter was a cyclops girl who greeted her with a smile. She even asked whether Celine wanted her usual. Celine agreed and the girl brought out two plates of red velvet shortcake. Tsukimi was oddly transfixed by her single obsidian-like eye. She even blushed at this. It took an elbow jab from Celine to snap him back. The two sat at a table and ate their cakes. They were eating when Tsukimi said that the cake tasted off. Celine calmly said that it contained traces of holy water. Tsukimi was about to retort but Celine said that that small amount would not affect her power. Tsukimi seemed worried but Celine was brushing it off. They proceeded to go to countless restaurants where she could not go to because of paperwork and Eliana. By around noon, they had gone to all restaurants in the mall and were now stuffed. Celine was maintaining her figure through it all unlike Tsukimi was looking a little fat. This was when Celine told him to turn only his stomach to its zombie state and all food should be decayed to nothing. He did so but something went wrong and he flew to the bathroom in peril. When he came back out, Celine was in danger.
She was knocked out with a rosary around her neck and a bunch of hunters surrounding her. He turned to his zombie and dashed through the group, picked up Celine and, knowing he could not fight all of them in that enclosed space, ran towards the staircase. He was fast even though he had Celine in a full princess-carry. Tsukimi ran up 50 floors. He ran into the roof and straight for the edge. He placed Celine on the ground and started to scan his situation. The hunters barged into the roof and glared at Tsukimi. They raised their weapons before charging. Tsukimi summoned his bone daggers and charged them too. They clashed at the center and the clash was insane. He was cutting down most of them like he was mowing the lawn. Things were going relatively well when a menacing aura approached from the stairs. His body instinctively changed from knight-rank zombie to baron-rank mummy. Then the figure appeared and it was Ravi. He was emitting a menacing purple aura that made Tsukimi step back.
Tsukimi's dead cells all screamed for him to run but he did not move. He raised his daggers to attack and charged for his head but he could not break through the aura. He decided to let the mummy take over and went on a mild rampage killing all the hunters foolish enough to charge at him until Ravi used the dark emotions from the fallen hunters to increase his power. He blasted Tsukimi with a wave of dark energy that pushed Tsukimi back knocking him back to his consciousness. He was at his wits end but what Ravi said pushed him to do the unthinkable. He said," I knew you were weak but is this really all you can do. I didn't even have to pull out my special ability. Let's just kill Celine and be done with this weakling."
Tsukimi tried to summon hi soldiers but nothing happened." Oh by the way, no summoning is possible in my presence so don't expect to summon you soldiers weakling," said Ravi as he cackled.
Tsukimi had no choice, he pulled out the skeleton core and ate it in one bite. Nothing happened at first which was a let down until his body violently shook. All the bandages fell to the ground and the rotting flesh followed leaving nothing but bones. Some banners remained on attached to his shoulder blades. He slowly stood up emitting an aura greater than Ravi's previous aura. All the hunters passed out from the pressure. Then Tsukimi opened his eyes which were now two floating eyeballs in his eye sockets. He gave a roar unleashing his malevolent aura. This was his viscount rank Skeleton warrior.