Kurosaki Ren and Ryuda Isshin, the top rankers of Hero Academy, guided the Shield Students through the Campus.
The shield students were split into two groups, Group A and Group B.
Hero Academy was large, which was surprising because Japan had little land left.
Most of Japan’s lands were in ruins, the chaotic energy making it hard for humans to live in it.
It was devastated after the war with the demons, which left most of its heroes dead.
It was only because of the aid from the Ally nations that Japan survived the aftermath and could rebuild itself, albeit slowly.
Most of Japan’s land was filled with Chaos Energy, and only a few dozen Habitable cities along with certain districts which were untouched during the war contained civilians.
Tokyo, The capital of Former Japan was one such city-state that was rebuilt and contained Hero Academy.
You around the campus were great, and unlike Shield, which allowed no one except students or staff to enter, Hero Academy was different.
It held classes in High, Secondary, Primary, And elementary education.
The students of Shield could see little children looking at them curiously from the side.
Some even waved, and the Shield Students waved back.
Some adults, which didn’t belong to the staff were also present with their children, likely here on some other occasion.
They visited the Lab, the fields, the classrooms, the training center, and numerous places around the campus as Kurosaki Ren explained everything.
*Yawn.*
Alan yawned as he continued walking alongside Sabrina, who was taking photos of everything.
‘so much walking.’
He thought as he waved back at a few children…who hid from him.
‘…is there something on my face or something?’
He wondered, but thankfully someone else was there to give him an answer.
“It’s your expression, relax and don’t be tensed up, maybe then you’ll have a chance with the children waving back.”
“…oh.”
Sabrina said as she shook their hands, the children seemed to like her, and avoid Alan, who had a tensed-up expression on his face.
Well, it couldn’t be helped now, Alan was the only one who knew they were headed to a place that would offer them no peace at all.
And along with the bullshit Kazikato pulled, it was only natural for him to be tense.
The children however didn’t like it.
“Let’s just continue moving.”
Alan said, and continued on with the group.
His mind was blank, only thinking of going back to train, and he paid no attention whatsoever to the explanations and sights.
But it was exactly then… that he felt a familiar energy.
An energy that he had felt when he first entered Japan.
When he first entered Japan to go to a dungeon to get materials for an item that was being forged by Twilights Artificers currently. He had felt two distinct types of energies.
One belonging to Kazikato, and then this one.
He had completely forgotten about this one after the exhausting fight with Kazikato.
He couldn’t be blamed, he was near death at that point and it took him a month to recover.
He paid more attention to the energy of Kazikato, the one of death and that of a dragon, which was more similar to him.
He honestly couldn’t be blamed at all.
He was far too busy after that he completely forgot about it.
Alan closed his eyes, and activated man sense to pinpoint it accurately.
It was here, in this city, but where?
He was trying to find it, and he quickly found it.
The center, the very center…of the city.
‘It looks like the tour will be there so ill just focus on going there together.’
Who knows?
It could be another hostile like Kazikato was at the time.
At the very least he wanted some meat shields.
The tour continued, and Alan had kept his eyes closed the entire time, afraid that he would lose the location of the Energy
[..h…e…r….e]
‘Hmm?’
Suddenly he heard a voice, he opened his eyes and said.
“Did you say something?”
He asked Sabrina, who denied it.
“No?”
And it was then when his eyes were opened, he saw the source.
Somewhere off in the distance, he caught sight of it…it would be impossible not to.
Around it was a crowd of people, all holding their hands together and praying.
A somewhat holy light occupied it…and they all looked at it with reverence.
Embedded deep in the skull of an elder balrog, it stood. 𝘪𝑎.𝘤𝑜𝑚
The skull, large enough to be a small building on its own, had cracks because of it.
Horns, menacing teeth, and a horrifying look it had, and it was embedded within it.
Its presence, seemingly dispelled the threatening aura it had.
A holy appearance, it had, and the people of Japan worshipped it similar to a deity.
It was the symbol of their greatest hero.
It was a hoko, the weapon of their hero, the weapon that had been with him, from the start till his death.
It was the spear that had ended an Elder Balrog, an SSS rank demon, and had remained embedded in the stone, choosing no other master after Hiroto Mitsuki, the original owner of the weapon.
It was…
Ame-No-Sakahoko (Upturned SkySpear)
With its holy-like appearance, upon an unholy being, it drew the attention of everyone.
And it began to vibrate, the skull cracked even further because of it vibrating.
The people around it of course noticed this phenomenon.
And they chanted in sync.
“Ame-No-Sakahoko, The Spear of the land of the rising sun, The Weapon of Hiroto Mitsuki!”
“Ame-No-Sakahoko, The Spear of the land of the rising sun, The Weapon of Hiroto Mitsuki!”
Ame-No-Sakahoko, The Spear of the land of the rising sun, The Weapon of Hiroto Mitsuki!”
They chanted in unison, happy, overjoyed because their holy weapon reacted for the first time in years.
It began to glow a bright light and emitted intense energy even non-awakened could feel.
It was their symbol, their greatest Hero’s symbol.
It was the Upturned Sky Spear, the Greatest Spear of the Land Of the Rising Sun.
The Spear of Hope.
Ame-No-Sakahoko.
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