...Arms? Check.
...Legs? Bruised, but okay.
Organs? ...Hmm, no internal bleeding, I suppose...
I stood up from the burnt debris as I raised my view. Blazes were consuming the entire ship quickly like a spreading plague during the Dark Ages of Europe...Also, it is quickly consuming my precious air.
"Problems problems problems..." I muttered under my breath. "Why? Why God? Why won't you let me have a decent day for once? Yeah, I said you were a douche, but come on! At least give me a break!"
"Give it up kid. He won't listen. It's like talking to a brick wall, only that the brick wall still mocks you, even if you don't notice..."
This...is the bastard. I call him "bastard" because he is. But his real name is Glid. Bear it with me, he's an asshole.
"Will you stop already? Look, we are inside a strange vehicle, survived a long fall and now, we are surrounded by flames. Can't we at least focus on that?"
I know, Kraid... But I can just let the bastard do as he pleases. I know that you're like my voice of reason in some cases, but seriously, I'm not in the mood.
BOOM!
Crap, I don't have time for this...
I looked around and found the door. Great, now let's get outta of...
HISS!
Hot! It's hot! *blow hand*
...Oh great. Just my luck. Even the handle is burning...
"Well then... Guess I have no choice."
I took out Kraid (he's a bokuto by the way, haven't I said that before?) in order to cut the door. Don't be fooled by appearances, even if Kraid is a bokuto (of which wood, I'll never know...) he's really sharp.
SLICE!
...Sharp enough to cut this metal door.
BOOM!
I rolled forward to avoid the flames that were about to consume me.
"Oof!"
But since my luck is horrible, I landed horribly as I tumbled like a ragdoll, finally stopping and landing in the metallic floor...which is...soft?
...Wait a minute... Female voice who got cut off? The fact that my hand is touching something soft and...squishy? Oh no...
I quickly retracted my hand from the danger zone and stood back, waiting for the imminent catastrophe...which didn't come...Huh?
"...She unconscious? Phew! That was a close call..."
But why is she unconscious?
I turned around...Ah! There was a metal pipe near. Thankfully, she isn't bleeding so I suppose it wasn't so serious.
"Try waking her up." Kraid suggested. "This place might go boom in any second. Quick!"
"Why should we care? Look, the girl's problems aren't our problems."
That's what I thought several years ago. At first, I didn't care about anybody...not even me. But then...I met her...
...Gah, there's no time to be lost on the past...
"Hey, hey!" I said while gently tapping her cheek with my hand. "If you don't want to die, I suggest you wake up."
"*mumble* Mmm..."
"Why don't you just punch her? That'll be quicker."
"I don't think that's the right action..."
CREAK!
Oh crap...This place is tearing itself apart!
...
...Forgive me.
PUNCH!
"Gyah!" the girl woke up almost instantly. "Wha...? W-who are you?"
"No time to explain." I said, while looking for the exit. Damn, the smoke doesn't help.
BOOM!
Goddammit!
"Aahh!" the girl whimpered as she stepped back from the flames with fear.
She wore some sort of blue uniform, complete with a blue beret. I know this is a wild guess, but I think she's a ranked officer or something like that. I better think that later. First, to get out of this inferno. Damn...the oxygen is quickly depleting. I'm practically panting now.
"Hey, is there a window here?"
"Eh? N-no... These airships were designed to pass through clouds of concentrated seithr, so there are no windows..."
Seithr? The hell's that? Nevermind...
"Then we'll make our own exit!" Glid said excited, surprising the girl, which didn't know where the voice was coming from.
"What was...?"
"Details later!" I cut her off, not literally. "Okay bastard, I'll follow your ideas for once!"
I took one of my spell cards...or should I say, one of Glid's spell cards... I wish they still work in this kind of place.
"Shred "Chains of War"!" I declared as I passed the spell card over Kraid.
The girl was surprised to see the bokuto change to a chainsword, of all things.
"What is that? Some sort of Nox Nyctores?"
I jumped towards the target wall. I stabbed it with the chainsword and started cutting.
WRRR!
Even though the noise was loud, I was still cutting through the wall. I am almost done...
Hold on...we're on a high altitude vehicle... Should there be air pressure?
FWOOMMMM!
"OH CRAP!" I yelled while grabbing from the edges of the hole I just made just in time as the air fiercely came out of the airship.
The girl was frantic. She was completely paralyzed in fear now. To her horror (and mine), I saw that her small body was being pulled out by the change of air.
*grunt*
CLENCH!
I managed to grab her arm before it was too late. Seriously, I don't like this situation at all.
"Hey, look down below!"
Begrudginly, I did. Oh God...
We were just meters away from a port, but the problem is that we were in a blazing giant airship of doom. I going to hate myself for this but...
"BANZAI!" I jumped off the airship.
"Eh? ! Wh-what are you doing? !"
I ignored the scared screams of the girl and tried to balance us towards the port.
"Aahh! We're going to die!"
"Will you shut up already? ! God, you're too annoying!"
"*sob* *sob*"
"Ouch. Be more gentle, bastard."
The wind is chilly. Also, I can barely open my eyes due to the change of pressure. Damn you physics!
I looked forward again. Oh crap, I don't think we can make it!
"Throw her to that stand over there!" Kraid said.
"What? !"
Before she could say anything, I launched her towards the roof of the tent, somehow saving her life I suppose...
"But what about you?" - Kraid asked.
I didn't answer back and started taking out two spell cards...
"Beast X Burn My Dread..." I muttered as I passed the two spellcards over my left arm.
My arm turned purplish black.
"Carnage...CLAW!"
I looked to a near pipe, lodged below the platform of this...port, I suppose.
*grunt*
CLENCH!
I managed to grab myself of the pipe using the Carnage Claw.
"Yes!"
But then, as if God sent me a "Screw you!", the pipe loosened completely because of my weight.
"Well...this is going to suck."
CREACK!
"OH CRAAAAAAA-!" I shouted as I fell deep below.
Episode 2: Screwing things up
Third's PoV
THUD!
"Uu... eh?" Noel shook her head as she recovered from the throw to the stand. "W-What just happened? I remember someone there...but...who exactly was he?"
She started reminiscing.
"...That sword. Could it have been a Nox Nyctores? I never seen a weapon change like that."
"Hello? Are you Miss Vermillion?"
"Eh?" she turned around to see a man in a suit, complete with a fedora. "Who are you?"
"...AAAAAAPPP!"
THUD!
*cough* *cough* Oh god...that felt awful...
*sniff* *sniff* ...And I think I arrived to a sewer. Goddammit.
"Well, at least you can still kill stuff in that state."
"Shut up."
I stood up, trying to figure out where the hell I was. Odd, this doesn't seem like a sewer... It looks more like a lab or something along those lines. I mean, there are pipes with numbers everywhere, there was a valve connected to a pipe leading to the upper floors and...
"Hate to interrupt your stupid monologue, but I sense something here."
Huh? Really?
"He's right. Something...foul is here."
Then I heard something move behind me. I turned back, but there was nothing there.
"Hey guys, stop with the jokes." I sighed while walking forward. "There's nothing he-..."
"Ho_ in_er_sti_g. A s_an_e po_er co_ _om th_ one."
"What the?"
In an instant, a large...thing jumped out of the darkness, trying to devour me for some reasons.
"Well...this is new."
"Mul_ple vo_es? Yo_ mo_ we_ th_ I thou_..."
"What the hell are you?"
"He just said "Multiple voices? You're more weird than I thought"."
"I see... Wait, you understand him? !"
"Why yes!" Kraid said surprised. "...Even though I don't have the slightest idea why."
"Then prove yourself useful and tell this goo reject that we are going to obliterate his...ass wherever it should be located!"
"A fo_. No, ev_ wor_, a bru_."
"...Translation, please?"
" "A fool. No, even worse, a brute." Yep, I think that's what he...she...it said."
I can accept fool. But brute...
"Hey dirtbag!" Glid shouted from my mind. "Want me to rip you a new one...if you have even one?"
"A foo_ ac_on fo_ a fo_. It's us_les_. US_LES_! HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!"
"Hey! I'm starting to like this guy...thing...whatever!"
Oh goodie.
Meanwhile...
"Okay...nobody noticed me. That's a good thing."
Ragna the Bloodedge managed to arrive at Kagutsuchi, to his surprise, without unnecessary encounters.
"Seriously, I'm really getting tired of seeing stupid people risking their stupid heads trying to go after me. Doesn't the fact that I managed to kill thousands of NOL soldiers by myself drill inside their heads? Not that I care, but I really don't want to be bothered by either them or some stupid vigilantes.
He sighed as he walked unnoticed through the crowd.
"Also, what the hell was that explosion about?" Ragna said while looking at the remains of an airship that were located in the port. "That thing is completely burned out. Tch. If their equipment is like that, then the Library would probably destroy itself someday."
He muttered something else and decided to move on, missing completely two certains figures talking at the port.
"Now...where's the Library branch in this place?"
"So you see, anything information regarding the actions of Jin Kisaragi is very valuable, Lieutenant. Don't forget any kind of details."
"I'm sorry!" Noel, for the second time in that conversation, apologized. "But that's all I remember."
"I see..." the man, Hazama, nodded while muttering something that Noel couldn't hear. "Well, if you manage to remember something else, you just have to give me a call."
"Yes sir!"
"Hmph. I have no time to waste with a kid anyways." Jin sheathed Yukianesa as he left the area he was in.
Big chunks of that airship interrupted his fight with Carl, but he didn't care. The only thing in his mind was finding Ragna. After all, he was "destined" to kill him.
"Besides...what are those engineers doing? An airship that can't even land properly doesn't deserve to even be produced... Someone should just fire all of them."
"Sis? Where do you think this came from?" Carl talked to his "sister".
"..."
"What's that, sis?" Carl turned around. "You say that we should focus on finding the Azure Grimoire? Why yes! I think we should do that immediately."
However Carl didn't know where to go. Every person he asked up to now treated him as a lost child and didn't listen to his words. Worst of all, those same people still treated her sister as a doll, sometimes infuriating him. However, he keeps his cool enough to get out of there.
"But sis... where do you think we should go?"
"..."
Carl got near Nirvana a little, as if hearing something from her.
"Below? Do you think the Azure Grimoire is there?" Carl asked. "Well, if you think that, then I'll be happy to oblige. Let's go sis!"
Raim's PoV
It's official. Now I hate bugs.
"KYAAHHAAHAHAHA!"
Would you just SHUT UP? ! Good god that it's not YHVH, your laugh is really jarring!
"Wow. This guy is crazier than I thought. I kinda like him."
"Glid, this is not the time nor the place."
I was running from that...black blob, and failing at it. Everytime I run to some place, it ends up appearing out of nowhere, trying to rip my face with that yellow claw inside his...its body. Also, why did it have to be a sewer? This place reeks and going up and down through these stairs is really tiring.
I'm starting to hate this place.
"MY INSECTS!"
"Huh?"
FWOOMM!
Whoa! ...Is that a purple beam? More importantly, did he...she...it just turn into a flower? !
"Okay, this place is officially crazy. More importantly..." Glid added. "Why don't you just fight back? The only thing you've done up now is run away like a little girl."
"Just...look at HIM...IT! I have my standards, you bastard!"
"Oh, then you prefer dying? I never knew..."
"...I hate you so much."
The blob jumped and tried to slash me, but this time, I blocked with Kraid instantly.
"Wha_ is thi_?"
"You know... You're ugly. You're crazy. You can't even speak coherently. And worst of all, you are trying to kill me! Well...sorry to disappoint you, but now I really want to kill you."
"It's fut_. Cons_ yo_. Devou_. DEVOU_. HAHAHAHAHA!"
"He said "It's futile. Consume you. Devour. DEVOUR. Insert laugh here"."
I couldn't stand this thing anymore so I tried slashing him. That took it by surprise and forced it to back away. Then...he disappeared?
"Behi_ yo_, im_cile. ("Behind you, imbecile.")"
BAM!
When the hell did it got behind me? !
"It can teleport? ! That's cheap!"
"Dammit... how do I fight this thing? ! I'm used to fight cute girls firing lasers and bullets at me, but this is just completely different!"
Thinking fast, I jumped to a big pipe near the metal platform I was. The thing, this time had to jump. Perfect.
"Beast "Punishment Claws"!" I declared, taking out a spell card.
Six lasers appeared around me, three on each side. I swinged Kraid towards its direction, making the lasers head towards it. To my surprise, it raised some sort of white barrier that protected it from the front. To counter that, I flicked Kraid in an arc, making the lasers go behind it for massive damage.
"GAAH!" it roared as the lasers hit it. However, it didn't stopped it to reach the pipe. Now what?"
"Kick it in the nads!"
"I don't think it has those things!"
"...Then I'm out of ideas."
"Great. Thanks for the help, you bastard. I really appreciate it."
SLASH!
"Goddammit, would you just stay still for a second? !"
This thing can even teleport in the middle of the freaking air! What, why did it really a cloud of insects? These are completely...
"SKEEAAAHH!" it yelled as it transformed into a...thing that crawled. The impact sent me flying towards the cloud.
I'll be honest. It felt horrible.
"Shit!" I cursed. "And what the hell are these circles for?"
Some white circles just appeared around me after that strange cloud hit me (with disgusting results). I wonder what this...
"Kid, duck!"
By instinct, I obeyed his warning. A small...piranha flying plant thingy zoomed over me. The blob jumped once again, but this time it stop middair and did a dive while "teeth" forming in the front.
Sadly, I didn't notice another plant-or-insect thing just by my legs. It made me trip and the attack him me square in the chest. Oww...
"Tch! Bastard!" I managed to kick it off me, before something else happened.
The insects stopped appearing when I hit the thing. Apparently, the insects only attack when he's on the offensive...or so I think.
Guess I shouldn't let it attack them.
"HYAHAH...!"
PUNCH!
I punch it in its...face I suppose. That white mask isn't that convincing. It stumbled back over the pipe, but then got back up. The white circles are still around me, so I'm still in danger here.
"BEES!" it roared, sending more clouds at me. But that also made the insects active.
That does it. I'm tired of this guy!
"Enough!"
In a fit of rage, I grabbed the nearest insect I could grab, surprising the blob and making the insects back off. Then, in a moment of brilliance, I took out another spell card.
"Burn My Dread "Great Fire of Meireiki"!"
My arms lit on black fire, charring the insect also in said fire.
...It smelled horrible.
"Wha_ th_? !"
"Hmm... it lacks something... Oh! I know!"
GRAB!
I grabbed another insect, setting it aflare too. Now there's double the smell. I envy the blob now, not having a nose and all of that...
"Try eating THIS for a change!"
I started throwing the insects at the blob. He dodged one and blocked the other.
But I'm not done here.
I grabbed all the insects I could and turned them into my personal flammable ammo. ALL of them.
"Thi_ loo_ ba_... ("This looks bad...")"
"RRAAGH!"
I threw insect after insect in succession. It blocked again, but somehow, the shield broke down. It seems it has its limits too...
"Go for the kill kid!"
"Right!" I dashed forward, right after throwing the last flaring insect towards the blob with Kraid in hand. "Take th-!"
Before I could do anything, the blob spat something at me, stopping me in middair.
"Gah!"
THUD!
While I was struggling to remove the thing, I noticed the blob was backing away, maybe noticing the danger it was in.
"I und_stim_ed hi_. ("I underestimated him.")"
Finally, I removed...or burned the thing to finally notice the blob was gone.
"...*sigh* Finally! That was harder than I thought! But seriously, what was that thing?"
"I think you should just look for the exit, kid."
"Okay... Hm?"
There was a metal ladder leading upstairs, a slight glimmer of light coming from the top.
"Guys...I see our exit."
"Toh!"
Bang "not the hero of this story" Shishigami landed on the middle of the Kagutsuchi airport. Being the "hero" he is, he was worried if any civilians were harmed by the fall of said aircraft.
"Huh. It seems nobody got hurt by this airship. Thank goodness. Huh?"
Bang looked at a small charred plate that fell from the airship. In it, the NOL's insignia was still recognisable. Bang didn't like it.
"But of course! The foul library could only commit such an act as this. When are they going to learn that evil will never reign as long as I, Bang Shishigami, remains alive!"
Huh...the airship has only the insignia. That isn't proof that the NOL actually had anything to do with the accident.
"Which reminds me... My fellow ninja have told me that that villain Jin Kisaragi was seen in Kagutsuchi! Problem is, I don't know where he is."
Bang sat down on the floor, almost as if meditating. But I know better, he's only thinking.
*grumble*
"Eh?" Bang noticed that his stomach just grumbled. "Oh ho ho... I forgot I didn't eat anything this morning. Well, that settles it! Jin Kisaragi can wait. For now, I must regain my strength by eating!"
Bang stood up immediately, as if a man just discovered the meaning of life.
"To Orient Town!"
You know you don't need to yell where are you going, do you?
"Uh... now where am I?" Noel lamented as she walked through the crowd.
Some people recognised her NOL uniform. Bad news was, the NOL wasn't so "popular" with the citizens of Kagutsuchi. She didn't seem to understand why people looked at her like that, as if they hated her only because of being part of the NOL.
It didn't seem fair.
"*sigh* I wonder if someone in this restaurant knows where the Mayor is..."
Uh...with that attitude? I think they are going to mock you instead...
"Toh!"
Noel shrieked as a tall and scruffy man landed in a very loud and exaggerated fashion.
"I, Bang Shishigami, have finally arrived!"
Dude, you don't need to announce that!
"Eh? W-Who are you?"
"Hah! It is only polite to tell your name before asking others! I am BANG SHISHIGAMI! The defender of love and justice!"
Noel cringed. Her ears weren't used to that kind of loudness.
"Uhh..."
"What's wrong, young man? You seem distracted. Wait...that uniform! Ah, you're with the treacherous library!" Bang said, apparently just noticing the clothes Noel was wearing after landing next to her and introducing himself. Man, what an idiot.
"Wait, that's...wait, did you just called me "young man"?"
"Hm? Yes, what of it?"
Big mistake.
"Shit...I forgot. I haven't eaten anything during the trip...well, that's if I don't count that roasted bird, but it felt just like a snack." Ragna grumbled to himself as he walked silently through the crowd."
*grumble*
"*sigh* Guess I'll have to ask. I just hope nobody is stupid enough to face me. Still, everything is going smooth for now."
Ragna looked up to the sky. Up in the hills, he could manage to see the NOL branch of Kagutsuchi, sitting on top of the city like a king using his peasants as chairs.
"Why do they build them in the highest place possible? Either they have a superiority complex or are just assholes."
"Nothing here too..." Jin said, walking through the other side of the slums, far away from the actual position of Ragna. "What a waste of time."
He had looked through the upper layers for him, but now, he decided to search the lower levels, in hopes of finding him. He had some unearthly drive to find him.
"This "Ragna the Bloodedge"... it must be HIM! I know it."
His reminisced about his life in the orphanage, his life with his brother...and the small pest.
"I must find him...I'm the only one who can kill him!"
Dude, find a psychologist.
Raim's PoV
"*sniff* *sniff* This reeks! Why would someone make a ladder that goes all the way up to the surface without having enough ventilation around here? !"
"Well, you chose this way. Blame yourself, kid."
*sigh*
"How much longer, though? It had been, like, five minutes?"
And counting. Seriously, the people who are in charge of this place must be assholes.
"Revolver Blast!"
Huh? The hell was that?
"This is an ukemi!"
...Why would someone say that?
"Climb faster. I smell a fight..."
Okay, you're creeping me out now.
"Air tech!"
...Okay, now I know there's an idiot fighting up there.
"Come on. Climb faster dammit!"
"Fine! I'll do it. Just shut up will ya? !"
"Blue Trigger!" Noel shouted as she propelled Bang towards a wall.
"Oof! " Bang grunted as he crashed into a wall. "Ha! Is that the best a member of the Library can do? ! You disappoint me, young man!"
"I'm not a boy! Can you see I have these? !"
"...What?" Bang said while noticing his mistake. "I'm sorry, I, Bang Shishigami, didn't notice. You see, your bosom was rather...modest, so I didn't knew you were a young lady."
"M-Modest? ! Are you telling me I'm flat? !"
"What?"
There's stupidity...but this is just too much.
"Optic Barrel!" Noel pulled the trigger of her Nox Nyctores, Bolverk and released some sort of projectile which made some sort of emblem appear in front of Bang, which exploded in contact.
"Argh!"
"I told you already...I'm. Not. A boy!" Noel said angrily, but her tone of voice showed she was more...ashamed.
"This is odd...I don't sense any killing intent for this young girl... It's like she isn't even there..."
"Um...did I shoot him too hard perhaps?" Noel wasn't this violent, but that ninja just pressed the berserk button. "Excuse me, are you okay?"
"A member of the Library...apologizing? Well, there is a first for everything."
CREAK!
"Eh?"
Raim's PoV
"Finally! Air! Oh, sweet fresh air!"
"Get a grip on, kid. Besides, what exactly are we going to do now?"
"Frankly, I don't know. That stupid wormhole opened up here and I really don't know shit where am I supposed to go now in order to go back. Seriously, it's really frustrating."
"Well, apparently everyone here speaks japanese luckily..." Kraid commented. "Also, people here wear really strange clothes."
"Hm?" I looked around. Kraid's right. By the looks of it, that girl is wearing some sort of police uniform, but it looks more like a fetish fuel kind of uniform... The other guy...well, it looked like a fusion of a Kamen Rider with the clothes of a Naruto ninja. Not a real ninja! A Naruto ninja! That's even worse... "Am I interrupting something?"
"D-Did you just come out of the sewer?" the girl commented. "*sniff* Ew, it reeks!"
Hey, don't blame me. Blame this place's ventilation system.
"Ha! Even the sewers show how dirty the NOL really is! No matter, cause I, BANG SHISHIGAMI will..."
"Hey, ninja freak, shut the hell up, will ya? I can't really stand you freaking voice."
I facepalmed while the other two looked at me with shock. You know, these are the moments I wish I was transparent.
"W-What was that?" the girl cringed.
"Wait a minute...I sense two beings...no, three beings in your body. What exactly are you?"
"*sigh* Just a human. Let's leave it at that. "I answered back."
"Man, that guy looks like an idiot. No wait, he IS an idiot. Just look at him!"
"There's no doubt. That's the voice of a fiend! Ah, I really feel sorry for this poor soul..."
"Uh, no, I'm ok-"
"Well, no matter, cause I, BANG SHISHIGAMI..."
"Would you mind listening to me...?" I tried to make him listen to me. I am failing miserably.
"...will purge that evil presence from your body with my fists of love and justice."
...
...This guy is high.
"Hey, girl, is he always like this?" I asked.
"I don't even know him!" she protested.
"Well, we have a ninja I hate even worse than Naruto and a useless girl. Great, this place is already feeling suckish."
The word "useless" seemed to make the girl recall something...or someone? I don't know.
"...Please don't call me that."
"...Fine fine." I ignored her, now focusing attention on...Bang, was it? "Look, pal, even if this guy on my head is really obnoxious, I don't think I need you to help me deal with-"
"CHESTO!"
PUNCH!
Bang's fist was surrounded in fire as it hit me right in the head. The recoil sent me flying to a nearby wall of a restaurant.
"Argh!"
"Son of a bitch! Kid, let me out this instant. I'll rip his freaking intestines off!"
"Not a chance." I stood up, now dodging a kick to the wall. He's not as fast as I thought, but he's not slow either. I countered with a diagonal slash with Kraid, but he blocked it with his arms. I jumped back and climbed up to the roof of the restaurant.
"Hey! You can't do that! That's against the rules of the NOL!"
Screw the rules, I have a ninja to pound and/or maim.
"Shishigami Ninpo! Magnificent Bang Jump!"
Bang jumped to the roof in a single bound...but because I expected him to jump, I was ready with an axe kick to the head. It hit, but Bang recovered in mid-air along with saying "Air tech!". Seriously, if you call all your attacks, your opponent will predict each and every one of your moves.
"*pant* *pant* Not bad, for a fiend." Bang complimented me...even though he got the wrong idea.
"I'm still me... can't you get a simple difference? !"
"Of course! A fiend like you attacks sneakily, without shouting the name of their special attacks!"
"Okay, why the hell would someone do that? !" I protested. "It looks cool in some cases, I accept that, but repeatedly, it just looks silly. It makes your throat ache, it consumes energy and worse of all, it gives up the element of surprise."
"A fiend such as you can't understand the true meaning of fighting!"
Screw this. I'm really getting pissed just by looking at him. I took out one of my spell cards out of the Sekai Rei. "Unleash "Red Speed"!"
After crushing the spell card, my feet were surrounded in a red aura. Bang raised an eyebrow, just before I tried to slash his body.
"Argh!" Bang cried as I managed to hit, but I didn't draw blood. I'm not a killer. Besides, you can hardly kill with a bokuto.
CRASH!
...Also, I crashed through a store's window because I can't control my momentum in mid-air. Reimu has it easy...
"...Ow." I clutched my head as I rose up from the debris... It seems this is some sort of antiques shop.
"Shuriken Special!"
To my surprise, a flurry of nails flew through the window. I jumped out immediately...only to receive a burning fist to the face.
Okay...he may not be a complete idiot as I thought...unlike an ice fairy I know...
"Please stop!" the girl tried to stop both of us, but we ignored her. "Why don't people listen to me?"
Tough luck, girl.
"Tch. Heh, is that all?" I taunted.
"Not at all! Now, you will witness my super special technique."
...Please stop with the hamming. And why are you moving your arms like...
BANG BANG BANG BAAAANG!
BANGUU DAMASHI!
TATAKAU KOKORO KOGETSU HODO NI!
For illogical reasons, my headphones started blaring with this weird song out of nowhere. And since the ear is related with balance, having my ear bombarded by this...song isn't really helping.
In other words, the song is harming me!
BANG BANG BANG BAAAANG!
BANGUU DAMASHI!
KIENAI HONOU YAMA KUDAKU HODO NI!
"Super Gigantic Attack!" Bang shouted...or so I think. The song isn't making me hear well. Instantly, I felt several burn marks in my chest as I was thrown backwards, crashing against the wall of a grocery story, shattering its foundations.
SHINJIRU KOKORO, KAYAGAKU TAIYOU,
ATSUKU MOEAGARE!
HIKARI WO KOETA RYU TO NARE!
BURNING BAANG!
Jesus, my ears!
"...Why don't you just take them off?" the bastard pointed out my own stupidity.
"...Right." I vanished the headphones into Sekai Rei.
BANG, BANG, BANG BANG BANG-BANG!
BANG, BANG, BANG BANG BANG-BANG!
BANG, BANG, BANG BANG BANG-BANG!
BANG, BANG, BANG BANG BANG-BANG!
Sweet good god, even inside Sekai Rei? ! This is crazy!
"Kid, duck!"
I moved out of the way as Bang kicked the wall behind me. He's insanely faster now and a strange golden glow surrounded his body. Has he gone super saiyan? ! What the hell is going on? !
"To rid this world from evil...!" Bang dashed towards me. Maybe...
I sidestepped and stretched my leg, tripping Bang towards another building. I see, he's fast, but he has the same problem as me. He can't control fully his speed...
...Huh? Hey, that stopped the song! Thank god that it's not YHVH! It was really getting irritating!
"S-Stop in this instant! You're wrecking this district with your irresponsible fighting!" the girl protested, running while waving her arms as a warning. I wonder how a frail body like her can carry those big revolvers... Maybe I shouldn't think too much about this. This place is filled with freaks...
And yes, this place is getting wrecked. Some people were shouting at us to stop and some other guards with a similiar uniform like the girl appeared to calm the mob and to try to stop us.
"Tch. Lawful bastards..."
"Don't move!" some of the other officers ordered me, pointing their weapons towards me." We, members of the Novus Orbis Librarium won't stand for your actions of chaos. You're accused of arson, attempt of murder and possibly jaywalking!
"Well that's peachy. What's next? You're gonna tell us your personal life? !" I said, mocking their authority.
"Impudent brat!"
Somehow, insulting the authority makes me feel...good. Maybe because I don't like being ordered.
"H-How can you say that? ! That's too horrible!" the girl said, shocked of the words I used.
"Lieutenant Noel Vermillion? What are you doing here?" one of the guards said.
"Wait, lieutenant? That vulnerable looking girl is a lieutenant? ! Okay, you're not stupid, you're freaking retarded! How can you let someone so...fragile be a lieutenant? !"
"W-Wha-?"
I suddenly regretted that.
"I'm not retarded!" the girl, Noel, cried out as she took...okay, where did that machine gun come from? !
What now? Behind me there was bunch of mooks...I mean, officers? I don't know... And to the other side, this Noel girl pulled out a really big gun out of nowhere, and I could swear I heard the inner mechanism whir. Okay, think. Think!
There's a gas task (or I think it's a gas tank...) to the right, lodged to the wall of a store. I could create a distraction with it, but if I move, I'll be filled with lead... I need a decoy.
"Ugh...that was a low blow, you demon..."
...I found my ticket out of here.
"Your thinking is getting better, kid."
I picked up Bang and threw it in the way of Noel's BFG, saving my ass and buying me sometime. I felt a little sorry as Bang was blasted by the barrage of bullets, but meh, everyone lives for themselves. Besides, he's no friend of mine.
"Fire!"
"Burn My Dread "Great Fire of Meireiki"!" I crushed the black spell card, while dodging the bullet fire of the other soldiers. Then, when I got an opening due to them having to reload, I shot a black fireball towards the tank.
BOOM!
Third's PoV
*rumble*
"What the hell was that? !" Ragna stopped abruptly. He turned around to see a seithr cloud expanding not so far from where he was. "Seithr? Here? ! Okay, this is officially getting weird. First, an airship falls for no reason, then this!"
He then noticed a small troop of NOL soldiers heading towards the center of the problem.
"...Although now that I think of it, this is the perfect chance to sneak inside the Library branch here in Kagutsuchi..."
*grumble*
"...But then again, if I don't eat something quick, then I'll be unable to fight well when I find it... Ah, screw it! I'm going to take a nap somewhere first."
He then continued walking, towards the monorail, all while thinking what exactly happened out there.