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 wasrge, which was surprising because Japan had littlend left.
Most of Japan''snds 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''snd 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 sses 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 asion.
They visited the Lab, the fields, the ssrooms, the training center, and numerous ces around the campus as Kurosaki Ren exined everything.
*Yawn.*
n 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, rx 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 n, who had a tensed-up expression on his face.
Well, it couldn''t be helped now, n was the only one who knew they were headed to a ce 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."
n said, and continued on with the group.
His mind was nk, only thinking of going back to train, and he paid no attention whatsoever to the exnations 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 hadpletely forgotten about this one after the exhausting fight with Kazikato.
He couldn''t be med, 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 simr to him.
He honestly couldn''t be med at all.
He was far too busy after that hepletely forgot about it.
n closed his eyes, and activated man sense to pinpoint it urately.
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 n 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 upied it...and they all looked at it with reverence.
Embedded deep in the skull of an elder balrog, it stood.
The skull,rge 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 simr 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 thend of the rising sun, The Weapon of Hiroto Mitsuki!"
"Ame-No-Sakahoko, The Spear of thend of the rising sun, The Weapon of Hiroto Mitsuki!"
Ame-No-Sakahoko, The Spear of thend 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.