Esocornelious (Cornelius)'s Story

Cornelius was on break from his job the grey haired and pink-red eye demon looked around from the back of the restaurant. A clear and warm day greeted him lightly against his pale skin. Not one to be wasting his time off he jump in a single bound to the roof. He then climbed his way higher and higher up the roof tops. Until he was at least a few stories above the ground finding some what clean place to sit on the roof. Glancing around the area with a small glimmer of fascination he watched the humans go about there lives. "So simple minded." Cornelius says with some amusement.

Crossing his legs on the ledge he pulled from his dark grey vest a small horn flask. It was made from his own horn which also had some magical properties when he allowed. Opening the horn flask he took a small sip from it. Inside the flask was an ancient wine that he had with him when he was a general. In his home he had a single barrel left, so this drink he had should be savored a bit more. Cornelius put the corked horn back on he held it lightly in his hand. Steadily watching the crowds go by.

"Kuhahahaha! That guy has no luck with women at all! I kind of want to mess with him." Hiroto commented, as he gazed upon those beneath him. He had been observing a young man from the roof of his mailing office, who has just gotten smacked by not one, but 2 different girls. As he was about to descend from the roof, he noticed that the male he was observing had begun talking to yet another female. "My, my. He just doesn't learn, does he?" Hiroto smirked before swooshing down and landing on a thick tree branch above them. "Come on baby. I promise that if you come with me, that you'll have a good time." The male said, as the woman cringed and began reaching for something in her purse. "Oh? It would appear as if something interesting would happen even if I were not to intervene. But I have to do something to relieve my boredom." Hiroto said to himself, before jumping down from the treebranch, directly in between the pair. They were both surprised, and the guy even fell down.

"Its a pleasure. My name is Kishinuma Hiroto. What would your name be, miss?" Hiroto started out in a bowing stance, before looking up at the woman, and taking her hand. Hiroto had his Tengu mask fitted over half of his face, only revealing part of it. "S-Sachi. Th-Thank you for helping me out." The girl said, blushing a little looking directly into Hiroto's uncovered eye.
"You fucking bastard. Who do you think you are cockblocking me like that!" The male from earlier stated, while grabbing Hiroto and turning him around to face him. The male's expression immediatly changed as soon as he saw the mask Hiroto was wearing, while sweating a little. He then curved his mouth into a smirk. "Hey look, everybody! We got us a Tengu here! These bastards are kind of rare to find around here." The people around the area soon began turning their attention towards Hiroto's direction. Hiroto looked about the people who had started crowding around them, expressionless. The majority of their faces were full of grimace.
"What do you think you're doing living around here? I happen to hold a particular hatred for Tengu. And pretty much anything with wings. You smug bastards think you're all that just cause you can fly, and I can't." The male then sent a kick into Hiroto's side, which made him kneel to the ground in pain. "Puhahahaha! You're so weak too! You're like a bird, right? So you must have hollow bones or somethin, right? As compensation for messing with me earlier, how about I break a few of them?" He stated before sending another kick toward Hiroto, only to have it caught in his left hand.

"Oh? So you think me inferior to you? You stupid monkey." Hiroto asked in a cold, emotionless tone. The male began to sweat a little, while trying to pull his foot away. Hiroto was practically crushing it in his grasp. "Unlike you towards my kind, I don't bare any hatred towards humans. However, I don't quite take kindly to those who make a mockery out of me." Hiroto looked up towards the male, showing a sadistic grin through the half of his face that was uncovered. He then moved his free hand onto the mask, and moved it to cover the rest of his face. "Shall we go for a ride? I'm not exactly in the transportation service, but I do expect some type of compensation. 1200 yen should do just nicely."
"H-hold on! Wait a minute!" The male begged, before Hiroto spread his wings, causing the crowd around them to gasp. "Sorry, Sachi-chan. Maybe we can meet again after this." Hiroto turned his head to see that the girl was completely horror-stricken. "Hm... Or maybe not."

Hiroto then took off, dragging the screaming boy along with him. After a while of kidding around on whether he was going to drop the boy or not, Hiroto got bored, and pulled the boy up, and took out his wallet. He took out 1000 yen, which was pretty much all the guy had with him.
"Well aren't you cheap." Hiroto sighed, dropping the boy into a garbage dumpster, and continuing on until he found a good spot to land. "Well it looks like that guy is buying me dinner. I forgot to thank him." Hiroto chuckled smuggly, while walking around. "Lets see. What do I feel like eating today?" Hiroto looked around, but didn't find a single restaurant in site. As he walked around, he soon came upon a small restaurant. "Oh. This looks promising." Hiroto smiled, before walking inside, not even noticing the man sitting on a roof not too far away.

"Cornelius! We got some trouble in the shop!" Called out the owner of the restaurant. The demon let out a sigh as he put the horn flask away. "Probably your employees causing trouble." He thought to himself as he bounded down the buildings and into the back door of the restaurant. Cornelius made his way to the small bar area where a Tengu getting into a fight with a co-worker. He knew the co-worker as prejudice bastard who made a comments about certain species. At the moment, Cornelius felt no remorse if this guy got the living crap beat out of him.

A bit of his old demonic self perked up wanting to see this guys head smashed in like a pumpkin. He walked up to the guy and tengu stood there for a brief second before kicking the human in the face. A sicking crack could be heard from the man's jaw as it went lop sided. The man let out a shriek of pain. "CORNELIUS!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" The owner yelled at him, Cornelius turned and faced him with evil grin. "I warned him about upsetting greater species and I am giving him a reminder of what will happen if he does it again." The owner gulped hard in fear as he never seen the usually calm demon turn to cruel. Cornelius looked at the Tengu. "I say this mortal hasn't learned his lessons yet do you Mr.Tengu?" His voice full of an evil yet playful gesture. "I think you should give a bit of a flying lesson." Cornelius licked his lips as he looked at the pitful human as he pressed his heel into the man's hand. Causing the slack jaw guy to shriek in pain.

To Mallory's surprise once she had been restrained and before the man could hit her someone seemed to tap the one who restained hers' shoulder. "Excuse me. But I do believe you are in the way of the door. I was just about to leave you see. But if you are going to continue to distrupt my path, I'm afraid that I will have to use force to get through."
Everything seemed to happen so fast, but in that time she ripped her wrists from his hands and stepped back and away from what was going on, just as she did another person stepped in. There was a crack, and Mallory winced at the noise.
"Was that his jaw?" She mumbled aloud incredulously.
In her awe at the situation Mallory hadn't noticed until a few seconds later, the confusion and anger which this event had stirred. People were getting up from where they sat, and both the drunk and the sober began to brawl until the bar began to look like something off of a movie.
A stool flew after being thrown, nearly hitting Mallory who was beginning to get angry herself- unsure of how this one started she stood off to the side, not wanting to get caught in the cross-fire.

Saki shook her head. "You didnt have to break his jaw goat-demon. Beating him black and blue would have been enough. And stop hurting him, don't you think he had enough?" Cornelius grinned at the woman. "Maybe, but sometimes these mortals need to be taught there place." He lifted the heel of his shoes off the man's arm. Noticing that there was a brawl starting up he grinned as a few humans who were fighting cause the smell of blood to lightly drift in the air. "I think its time to leave." Cornelius says as he walks to the back.

As the man turned to Hiroto to respond, he was suddenly sent back, almost flying with a kick directly to the jaw. It sounded as if it had been broken or at least dislocated. Even if neither had occured, Hiroto sure wouldn't have liked to have been the one to recieve said kick. Hiroto plugged up his ears in annoyance as the man screamed in agony.
"This guy sure has some lungs on him." He commented nonchalantly. "CORNELIUS!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Hiroto heard immediatly after he unplugged his ears. He was aparently speaking to the man who had just disabled the man on the floor. 'Oh? This guy is a demon.' Hiroto thought to himself, as the man before him began threatening the owner indirectly. Hiroto looked at them with a bored expression. 'I seriously don't see whats so intimidating about demons. The old fart didn't seem very frightened of me at first.' He thought in irritation. "I say this mortal hasn't learned his lesson yet, do you Mr. Tengu? I think you should give a bit of a flying lesson." It was then that he noticed that the demon had asked him something. His ears had heard it, but it took a few seconds for Hiroto to comprehend what he had said to him, as he was lost in his thoughts. "Hey. You're a mischiveous bastard, huh?" Hiroto asked in a lazy tone. "You a delinquent or something? I'm guessing you work here, right? Considering you practically just sent one of your co-workers to the hospital, I'm guessing this is your resignation letter. Heh. Cocky bastards like you are the worst. But then again..." Hiroto began before walking up to the bartender and crouching to stare him right in the face, and grasping his shirt collar in his hands.
"I'm sort of a cocky bastard myself." He finished before unfolding his wings. "Hey Mr. I need to borrow 150 yen, because some shitty bartender ripped me off. You got that much?" The bartender began to jumble his words, too frightened to speak clearly. Hiroto sighed, seeing as he was wasting his time. "You're so stressed out, Mr. How about I give you a nice ride around town at a discount. That'll just be whatever is in that register over there. Sound fair?" Hiroto smirked, as the bartender was now too scared to even utter a word. "Not hearing any complaints. So I'm guessing you're ok with that idea. Lets go!" Hiroto exclaimed before dragging the bartender outside.

Hiroto angled his wings into the correct motion and arced his back. "Ready, Mr.? Here we go!" Hiroto exclaimed before throwing the man a few feet into the air, and flapped his wings at a rapid speed until the wind around the man began taking a circular motion. Right before he hit the ground, the spiraling wind caught him and carried him higher into the air. "Have a wonderful trip! Try not to overwork yourself, ok old man?!" Hiroto pretended to be friendly as he waved, whiled still having barely any emotion in his voice what-so-ever.

Hiroto then returned into the resteraunt to see how the demon guy and the strange girl from earlier were doing. He was surprised to see that there were now many more people in the resteraunt than before. He was so busy concentrating on the girl and bartender's conversation, that he hadn't noticed customers wandering into the resteraunt. Except, the majority of the customers were now fighting, rather than eating. Even the demon guy, Cornelius was now stepping on the head of the man who's jaw he had broken earlier. 'That guy's pretty brutal. Maybe he is a delinquent after all.' Hiroto thought, as he walked up to him. He then noticed that a woman in a kimono had begun conversing with him. She seemed to be sympathizing with the man, Cornelius was practically torturing. Afterwards she started talking about some sort of theater premiere, which disinterested Hiroto. He also noticed that she didn't seem exactly human, and had an old man and some weird-looking guy following her. Hiroto decided they were too much trouble to be dealing with, and turned his attention to the girl from earlier who was now observing from the sidelines at the bar brawl. Hiroto smiled and walked up to her, replacing his sluggish posture with a sense of elegance. "Enjoying the scenery?" Hiroto asked her, while pretending to pick the nose of his Tengu mask, and see how she was going to react.