Arrest

The poison crawling up Cyan's veins caused him pain. He took down the wave wall and took some of its water.

"🇭 🇾 🇩 🇷 🇴 🇭 🇪 🇦 🇱, " He said, and the little water he took rolled onto his injury, and started drawing out the poison before closing the wound. He stood up, and got alerted that he had used 150w on the hydro heal. With only one option left, he raised his hand.

 "🇸 🇪 🇦 🇸 🇹 🇦 🇫 🇫, " He called, and water spun around in the air to form a slightly thin bamboo staff, which cost 15kw, leaving him with 25kw. He dashed at the imp. Using a move he called

🇧 🇷 🇴 🇴 🇰 🇧 🇱 🇦 🇩 🇪 , and the cool temperature of the store combined with his ability to slowly but surely freeze water, he went into a close fight with the imp. As he used his staff, with water gushing out of both its ends as liquid blades, he was also freezing the water to form solid blades.

Hoka, seeing this, understood what to do. He opened a portal to the alley by the store, and made sure the imp wasn't looking.

 "Everyone, out! "he said quietly but still loud enough to be heard well. The people began to flood out. Just as the last few were to pass, the imp noticed and shot a poisoned dart at them. Cyan quickly maneuvered and used the staff to block. " Focus on me! " He said, and lunged back at the Imp, who tried to stab him. Using his staff as an axis, he balanced himself, spinning to Dodge, then kick the imp in the face. The imp stumbled back as Cyan prepared to slash again, yet he managed to balance himself, block Cyan , making a piece of ice from the blade break off. The other blade got stuck in the floor so Cyan fell, and the imp raised his blade. "You really pit up a fight! " He said and stabbed.

Just in time, however, a portal intercepted the imp's blade and closed while it was still halfway in, so the blade snapped. Hoka entered from another portal with a determined look on his face. "Focus on me now,"

 "So you're a fighter too?" the imp asked. "Nope, buying time, " Cyan said, and charged at the distracted imp. He swiped the imp off his feet and used that piece of ice that broke off the Brook blade to cut open a wound on the imp's arm, then went magic mode.

 His hair and eyes turned orange just as they turned blue with water mode. Cyan had 16kw remaining, but there was only one thing left to do. "hׁׅ֮ꫀׁׅܻ݊ɑׁׅᥣׁׅ֪tׁׅhׁׅ֮ hׁׁׁׅׅׅ֮֮֮ᨵׁׅׅꭈׁׅꩇׁׅ֪݊ᨵׁׅׅ݊ꪀꫀׁׅܻ݊, " he said, and ran around the imp to cloud him in the orange must that began to flow from his palms. He had to hurry, though, he had 1kw left, and whenever he dropped to 0w, he couldn't move. His movements felt stiffened as he ran around the imp once more, by then the hormone had seeped through his nose and injury. It had a weakening effect which rendered him unconscious, to be unconscious for a few minutes.

He went out of magic mode as he fell to the floor, unable to move. He caught his breath and looked at the imp. Scanning his energy, Cyan discovered the imp was about his age, mainly because of his total of 57kw of kaiku, which he had used to 21kw left, not necessarily the lowest for a 15 year old, but it was below average. Hoka used a portal to get him away from the healing imp. With that, he held up a sparkly azure colored candy and dropped it in Cyan's mouth. It was cold and tasted like a tropical mint.

"Where'd you get that from? " Cyan asked. "As part of my dad's genes," "he said, helping Cyan up. "My portals take kaiku scans and copy them. When kaiku gets frozen, considering the portal realm's cold temperature, it gains a taste, based on its radiant and other factors.

Cyan suddenly felt a rush of energy course through his body. " Nice, it refilled half of my kaiku!" Cyan said, then a cough cut through his speech. It was the imp, only not an imp anymore. it was a boy with black, slightly spiky hair and green eyes. "Are you okay?" Cyan asked. The boy nod his head. "What's your name?" Hoka asked. "Kaito," he said. "You were an imp. Any memories of how you became one?" Kaito thought in silence for a moment, then buried his face in his hands. "My grandpa. He wants me to be a hero, but my parents are on set on me becoming a zoologist like them. I walked away from him one day, and with him following me at that age, he tripped, fell....''" he began to hyperventilate as unshed tears blurred his vision. "Cut a long story short, he's in the hospital right now ... I couldn't keep my emotions in check and then..." his voice trailed off. After a few seconds of silence, Cyan asked, "He's not dead, is he? "

"No''

" Then use that as a little relief, and grant him his wish," Cyan said. "You do want to be a hero, right? " Hoka asked. Kaito hesitated. "To be honest, yes," he managed. "Then go tell your grandpa," Cyan said. "Then I'll be letting my parents down," Kaito said. "You can't impress everyone. Besides, it's your life, made up with your choices," Cyan said. Kaito thought of it. "I guess you're right, I'll let them know. Thanks for de-imping me, see you around!" he said, leaving the store.

Hoka and Cyan also left, to see most of the hostages had gone. It turned out that one of them had called the police. Cyan and Hola explained in full detail what happened.

"You two do know it's not allowed for non-lisenced people to take such action, right? " The officer asked. Hoka and Cyan exchanged glances. "Yup, it's risky. You could've gotten hurt,"

"But we saved some people, didn't we? " Hoka asked. "Of course, but I'm going to have call your mentors," the officer replied. "Mentors?" Cyan echoed. "Well, yeah. Aren't you in one of those hero schools?" He asked. "Uh... No, " Cyan answered. "Well in that case, you'll have to come with me," the officer said calmly, and with a calm smile, he opened the door of his car. Cyan and Hoka got in. "Are we getting arrested?" Hoka asked. "Not at all," the officer said. Hoka was a bit worried about what might happen to them. He then looked at Cyan in surprise. "All you're thinking about is food while we're being taken somewhere?!" He asked. "Where did you even get that?!" Cyan was having cookies and a bottle of milk.

"The only reason I left home was to get food to eat," he said, munching happily on a cookie. "You paid for that?" Hoka asked. "Yea, I left a note for the store owner. He'll know what to do," Cyan said. "Oh, this is excellent. Want some? " Hoka palmed his forehead. "What could be worse at this point?" he muttered. Then he saw it: 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘-𝗕𝗠𝗔, the prison for the worst of imps that were so impure they were considered to be Elite Imps, meaning they couldn't be de-imped, so their radiants had to be taken away or death to the imp.

"W-why are we here?" Hoka asked. The officer's expression became grim. "To learn, " He said, escorting them out of the car. As they walked to the gigantic prison block, Cyan and Hoka sensed something; the kaiku flow of someone else. "That kaiku's up to 2 terawatts. Isn't it only the Storeys and like three other heroes whose kaiku flows reach that level?" Hoka asked. Cyan nodded

"We can't see who it is. This cop probably doesn't even have a kaiku flow let alone a radiant, I don't sense anything from him. Let's add things up. An unseen person, 2 whole terawatts of kaiku-" he got cut off by the sensation of 1.4tw of kaiku. "There are two storeys here, and CamRaia is one of them. She's only invisible," Cyan whispered.

They halted instantly. "What's going on here?" Hoka asked. The officer suspiciously looked familiar. While Hoka glared at the officer out of suspicion, Cyan noticed that the prison looked a lot grimmer than usual. Even the sky looked a lighter shade of blue until it started covering the prison.

"Cyan, why are you there?" Hoka asked.

"This is bogus, Hoka, bogus! Kaiku flow of Storeys?! What, are they paying a visit to the imps they beat up? Even if they actually were, guards would be outside warding off reporters. And what the heck is up with the two different shades of the damn sky??!" Cyan sparked. Hoka looked at the stuff I pointed out. "What even is this madness?!" he growled. The cop struggled to watch them react like cavemen in the future with a straight face. "I'm trying so hard not to laugh..." he thought to himself. Then it struck Cyan. CamRaia couldn't have been the only Storey there. He looked at the sky again as it looked like a part of it was added there.

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