#14: Silence and Justice

                                    

                                          
The heavens darkened.
The clouds crackled.
The winds blew furiously.
Two moving blades, one white as snow, one dark as night, met the length of a golden staff in battle.
The humanoid insect holding the staff twisted his weapon, and blew both himself and his attacker away.
He landed on the roof tiles of the walls around the courtyard of a temple.
His attacker, face masked by a straw hat, landed on the courtyard itself.
Staff raised, he chanted a prayer.
"Yosanze! Hand of the Just!"
Swords raised and crossed over his straw hat, the dragon prepared for the attack about to descend from the golden light behind the pitch black clouds.
The thick mass of nimbostratus in the skies began burnung away as a giant, golden hand began to descend. Its fingers straightened to form a palm, it shoot down towards the courtyard, meeting the black and white swords the dragon wielded, and pushing him into the ground.
But though he resisted enough to crack the stone tile unders his feet, the palm still pushed him into the ground and destroyed the rest of the temple with the energy released when it touched the ground.
The insect priest tapped the ground with the bottom tip of his staff as he lifted his hand to his chest, performing the abhya mudra.
"Thus ends your justice, Ibuki Harui."
But alas.
That was far ahead into the week.
In fact, that week would mark Heiwa's history, becoming a tale told by those who saw it to the new students that enrolled into the school, and then of those who heard it to the even newer students.
The Yosanze Week, marked by the total and extremely sudden change in all of the members of the Royalty, culminated in the Musou Ragnaraku, the fight that shook the school and revealed what the super rookies of the new generation was capable of.
And to think it all began with Kikka smoking without a care in the world during her lunch break on the rooftop.
"Yohohoho! This is the best! No new cards usable in Unica for me to buy, I have my Seven Star payed for me, and I'm even gonna see Lucia-san today! Life's coming a-Okikka! Yohohohohoho!"
Then there was Harui, who was giving her the stink eye from across the rooftoop instead of eating the spaghetti in tomato sauce Izuru cooked for her that morning.
"Fisher Tuner was not worth me paying for that tank engine's addiction!"
"I dunno, I thought it was tasty. Never thought eel could be so crunchy when grilled. I guess that's what you get when you fish an eel abnormally fatty." Satoru commented. He was feasting on some homemade yakisoba his sister's girlfriend had prepared.
"You two are yet to comment on Fisher Tuner not being an actual tuna..." Yukie sweatdropped. Her lunch was rice with grilled pork Jiei made that morning.
"Oi, probie! My wallet closes today, I'm cutting you off! You'll thank me later when you quit smoking!"
"Coping mechanisms created off this world's ruthlessness are immortal, daikonhead! I'm never quitting! Besides, with no new cards on the horizon, I can pay for my own Seven Stars!" Kikka cackled, huge smile on her face as she rested her head on both her hands. "Ah... Life's good. Life's finally good."
Don't tell her Unica is getting three new cards, one being a new Bico.
"That mouthy probie..." Harui scowled. Talking was no good, so she changed her focus to eating her lunch.