Incubus Hunt

Yeon-Soo Choi

Akihiko's Side

Five years ago, when I first joined the Incubus Hunt Division as Akihiko Kuroshiro, I met Anna Choi. At that time, she was still twenty-two years of age. At that time my human disguise’s age was twenty and it was the same as Tyrell who also joined as well. Geoffrey was already there since his real-life age was twenty-four and I was his guardian ever since his parents’ death. It is actually true that he is Russian since his human mother was from Russia and a pure Russian woman. His father and I, on the other hand, are a vampire and an incubus respectively. Irina was still nineteen at that time and she would be joining a year later. Jose was one of the veteran members at the age of twenty-five together with the newly appointed Captain Evans who was back then was just thirty-three. Lastly, there was Anna Choi’s husband… Yeon-Soo Choi who was a Korean. What was Anna’s surname back then? She was Anna Wu back then. We were hired because some of their longtime elite members were killed in the last battle including their captain.

“The one who controls Antarctica controls the world,” Anna intelligently pointed out the main headquarters of the non-human race at the map. “For years, our predecessors fought for that continent and now, these devils and angels are banding together cooped up in a citadel of ice threatening us all that if we humans do not leave them alone, they’ll melt all of the ice causing global destruction!”

“So, what’s your point then, Chinese?” Geoffrey looked at the map, then to Anna, and then to her husband. “Hey Korean, tell your wife about what those demons’ representative said as to why they’d do that if we didn’t stop trying to kill their kind.”

Yeon-Soo smiled at him and then looked at his wife, “Well… that demon representative was actually an angel, but the Roman Catholic saw them as devils…”

“Not that one, Korean,” Geoffrey sighed. “So the angel told the world that humans can hunt their kind only if they were outside of Antarctica. Antarctica is their safe haven so we can’t do anything to attack them there because we’ll just compromise our existence…”

“Don’t you find it odd though…” Anna stared at Geoffrey. “The devils and angels themselves are fighting off against each other…”

“You’re missing something,” Geoffrey educated her about the Celestial Beings. “There are four main races of the Celestial Beings namely the angels, the fallen ones, the devils and the risen ones. The risen ones were once devils who left Hell and betrayed Lucifer and those were the fairies, the merpeople, the giants, the vampires, the werewolves, and many others.”

“Incubi and Succubi… collectively known as the Lustful is a subcategory of the Devil Race.” Anna sighed. “I heard that tons of times, Russian. It was passed on to you by your uncle as you’ve always idolized.”

I suddenly sneezed… with Geoffrey taking notice grinning at me from ear to ear. He actually idolized me since I took care of him when his vampire dad and human mom died. Of course, I was the uncle that she was referring to… the incubus me of course…

“Hey Korean,” Geoffrey signaled Yeon-Soo. “Why don’t you show Japanese kid around? You’re both Asians~”

“That’s racist…” Anna pointed her gun at him. “But you have a point because you are Russian and your accent is too strong for the kid. He might think like you are a hard drunk or something…”

“Now that’s racist…” Geoffrey grinned at her. “So what about it, Korean?”

“Yeah, I’ll do it…” Yeon-Soo nodded back at him. “Akihiko Kuroshiro, right?”

“Yes sir,” I approached him and lowered my head to show respect. “What can I do for you, sir?”

“Well… let me show you around the agency,” he grinned. “You think that this building is too boring but it is actually fun.”

I smiled, “Yes sir.”

“And drop the sir…” he patted me in the back, “we are all equal here… not the communism equal… but what I mean is as colleagues. I’ll call you Japanese and you’ll call me Korean, okay?”

“Yes s… Korean-san,” I scratched my head.

“Well you still have the honorifics…” he grinned. “This New York though… United States of MUUURRRICA! So, what about you Tyrell O’Neil?”

“I got this one,” Jose made a salute. “I’ll tour this one outside and then we’ll become friends and then we’ll look for women together… and then we’ll drink tequila…”

“Not while on duty, Mexican.” Anna hit his head in the back. “Do not teach your new colleagues with your weird fetishes!”

“Santa Maria!” Jose rubbed the back of his head, “You still hit like a Kung Fu monk at the Great Wall of China! Run Tyrell!”

“f**k did you say?!” Anna chased him off as Tyrell followed behind.

Yeon-Soo was a good man. If a succubus were to try and seduce him it would be an X-Class difficulty… At that time, I was still having second thoughts in hunting my own kind… my incubus kind. But since my kind was kind of endangered already, I took a part-time job in the Werewolf Hunt Division since werewolves were more vicious and rabid that even in the alliance… celestial being alliance they were banned and hated for their pack mentality. They thought that they were higher than the rest of the celestial races. I had no problem killing as much Alpha that I can kill!

Yeon-Soo was the kind of man of respect and dignity… and if I were really Kuroshiro and not the incubus, I would’ve idolized this guy more than Captain Evans and his husky voice. However, during one of our hunts, I was caught in a crossfire where I had to choose of killing my own race.

“Please… you’re an incubus, right?” the succubus raised her hands above her head. “Please don’t kill me… I’ll keep your identity safe… I was just hunting for food…”

I was alone with her that time and I was actually separated from my team who were also chasing others of my kind…

“Go…” I shot the tree behind her. “I’ll tell them that you got away…”

“I won’t forget this act of kindness!” she flew away and then she disappeared.

I went back to regroup with the team. “The one I was chasing got away… I’m sorry.”

Geoffrey knew that I was an incubus since he was my nephew/godson. He was actually a dhampir and I used all the alchemy that I can muster to hide his true identity from the world so that he can live like a normal human.

“That’s okay,” Yeon-Soo patted my back. “At least you’re alive. Next time, do not get separated from the group!”

“Sir, yes sir!” I lowered my head. “Forgive me for straying away from the team!”

“You’re always forgiven, Japanese,” he grinned. “It’s good that you survived! But you called me sir again…”

“Sorry sir! I mean Korean!”

All of us laughed afterwards.

That was my mistake… letting the succubus go…

A few days later… we encountered the same band of Lustful devils…

No… it was an ambush.

During that ambush, the succubus that I saved… ended up being the one to kill Anna’s husband.

That was the first time that I felt the humanity in me…

Out of anger and deep regret, I ended up helping Anna in killing all of them…

In fact, I was the one who made myself the last incubus in this parallel universe.

I purposefully ran after the succubus separating myself from the team transforming into the incubus that I was and pinned her down.

“I LET YOU GO AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME?!” I pointed the gun at her head.

“WHY ARE YOU SO ANGRY! YOU’RE AN INCUBUS! YOU’RE ONE OF US!” she yelled trying to fight back and break loose.

“I DON’T KILL HUMANS…”

I pulled the trigger…