That blow had not weakened the black aura gradually taking shape before him in the slightest. On the contrary, it had made it stronger. Apparently, it had frightened quite a few students just then and gathered a great deal of fear?
"And you think that's enough to stand against me?" Without another word, Jiu Ming grabbed the thing that did not even have a definite form, like a clump of black mist with two little red lightbulbs inside. The black lump immediately began struggling violently in his grasp, thick black vapor surging toward Jiu Ming. Yet the moment it touched him, the vapor was blown aside, failing to affect him in the slightest.
No matter how it struggled or twisted its shape, the black lump could not escape Jiu Ming's palm. Even when it suddenly grew a beast's head and lunged at Jiu Ming's own head to bite him—
Jiu Ming simply smacked it aside. It shrank back into the black lump struggling in his hand, and with just a slight squeeze from Jiu Ming, the thing obediently quieted down.
Because of this incident, the school suspended classes for a day. No matter what, all those glass lightbulbs needed replacing!
"All right, this is the thing. There won't be any more trouble after this." Jiu Ming placed a transparent glass bottle on the table. Several little paper strips were stuck to it, marked with runes that kept the black lump inside—still endlessly ramming the glass—from escaping.
"Who exactly are you?" Akie Takasugi stared blankly at the little glass bottle before them. The lively black lump inside, radiating black vapor, was definitely no children's prank toy.
"...I'm a god!"
Akie Takasugi looked worriedly at her best friend, wondering whether her best friend had made friends with a lunatic. Though he did