Author's Note.
10k per 2 or 3 days is probably a good releasing schedule.
Kamisato and Kamijou
Vol 14 of NT is looking awesome.
EDIT:
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I won't probably be able to release next week or the upcoming days. I would probably just write the whole first part and post it as next chapter.
Sorry for bad grammar.
Part 65
"One dead, two dead, three dead Youkai ̚ Kumagawa screwed the three patrolling Oni's below down the tree to the tree's bark, with large screws stabs and screwed into different place of their body which connects them to the tree.
"Four dead, five dead, six dead Youkai ̚ We're moving silently on the branches of the tall trees and when we spotted a patrolling Oni. Kumagawa would proceed and kill them. Using his large screws to stab their heart and screwed their body to the ground. Screwed both of their hands over each other to the thick bark of the tree and finally screwing one of them into their eye.
"Seven dead, eight dead and nine dead Youkai ̚ The power of Kumagawa is refined and controlled. The size and length of each screw varies. He can make a bunch of long thread screws that he used like a spear and impaled one of the Oni, he can called forth lots of them from the ground and stabbing the unsuspecting Oni. He can also use the screws as drills when he spins the thread fast and drilled through the stomach of one of the guarding Oni that tried to attack him from behind.
"Ten All Dead Youkai! ̚ And lastly he can enlarge the screws to totally decimated a 6 meter tall green Oni with huge wooden club. The screw that he summoned is 5 meter tall with 2 meter thick thread and 3 meter diameter head.
Currently, we're traversing on top of the large trees and using the overarching branch to walk through it. We're trying to avoid detection but Kumagawa doesn't really care and would just kill all the Oni or Youkai's that we met.
We've already nearing the town and we already had passed the Hound Dog Soldiers that were station in the north area.
There are 50 Hound Dog Soldiers that were currently deployed around the mountain but they aren't really scattered. They are grouped into 10 groups with 5 members each platoons. We met and passed 2 platoons but I didn't see them.
Kumagawa just waved at certain direction and said in the chat box that there was a hound dog solider there though when I look at the direction his waving one. I can only see trees. I don't know if his serious or just screwing with me so I didn't bother to ask.
We're currently in Party and were taking advantage of the Party System's Chat System for party members.
Chat System works in two ways. Telepathic voice chats with shared visual options or chat room where party members can send message to all party members.
Voice chats has limits of 10 kilometers. If the person you're telepathically chatting with is outside of that range. It won't work anymore. It has the same 10 kilometer limit of Friend tracking ability.
Chat Box doesn't have limit. Even if I'm at China and Pray is at Australia. We can chat with each other as long as were still inside one party.
And since were in stealth mission to dispatch first the guards then onto the central area. We voted to use the voice chat system of party system. We don't need to shout or issue hand commands at each other. We can just say it telepathically.
Currently, in reality Kumagawa Misogi is humming while dispatching Oni but inside the voice chat system.
He is singing merrily.
"Do you really have to sing while we're having voice chat?" I asked through voice chat and it would be transmitted directly to one's brain.
"Hmm? Yeeesss! I love my voice you know. Unlike a certain someone who is staying quite all this time. It's already been an hour since we start doing this mission but you haven't said anything at all. Do you have bad breath? Or maybe not since we're not actually talking with each other, are you the silent type then? Then your boring so please don't interfere and just be quiet. I still need to work your share of work here! Misogi had little screw, big screw, long screw, Misogi had various screw and I screwed youhoo! ̚ While I'm walking carefully from one branch to the other t to avoid making any noise. Misogi is just skipping from one branch to the other which causes few leaves and branches to rattle. It causes some noises and draws few looks from the Oni in patrol below but when they look up. They would be greeted by long sharply screws that pierce their eyes, nose or mouth and effectively killing them.
Misogi is really painting the ground with black blood.
Black blood and not red.
They are really different from humans.
I remember the orcs in altered world having green blood.
The demons had red but its essence is different. It basic makeup is full of Mana and not made up of red blood cells. Every drop of blood has power in it but I can't also rule out that the red colored blood is altered by the demons. To fool the humans, they took the appearance of Humans. If they can hide their true self by form of magic then they can also change the basic color of their blood. Even if its colored red in appearance but in reality it also probably black too. Just like how their race is the race of evil and sins.
I can't remember the color of the fallen but they are ones angels who have divine in nature. I'm not sure on what color of blood they have but they are enemy that I would need to exterminate, so pondering about the color of blood seems useless.
"Kumagawa" I called while slowly moving along the branches. It's only few kilometers away from the north district of the town. It would take only half an hour to an hour before we reach it.
"Yes! Type 00 ̚ Misogi happily replies while sending a barrage of 5 screws with a length of 1 meter each to the Oni that is currently sleeping under the bed of leaves.
"It's Touma, Kumagawa. I'm fine in being called Touma but I don't like being called Kusanagi, so just called me Touma" I replied while taking a look at the dark sky. Because of our location, the stars can be easily spotted. I haven't studied constellations yet but learning astronomy could be fun and useful. One can use the stars in the sky to navigate ones travel.
"Well, if your fine on being called with your name instead of your family name then you can call me Misogi. Its sign of courtesy Type 00 ̚ He happily replies while he throws a long screw to the head of one of the Oni that were patrolling under us. He then drops from above and strikes the other Oni in the center of his skull with his screws. The screw went through and pierces his innards and went pass through his rectum until it hits the grounds and the last Oni that tried to retaliate by attacking Kumagawa with his huge club was killed by lots of screws that materialized when Kumagawa had wave his left hand, hitting every part of its body with small screws.
Hearing his voice through the voice chat, my only reaction to his blunt response was a slight twitch to my right eyebrows. He didn't even care on what I said and he just do whatever he wants.
We continue our walk through the branches in silence until I decide to ask the question that was plaguing my mind since I heard that he is Type 04.
"So… Misogi… what is Kamijou Project? And you're the same as me… right?" I asked slowly and unsured of what I might discover. I expect Misogi to just continue like he was before but he stops smiling and even stop running. He just stands in one of the strong branch and look at me. His eyes that where always either full of fake happiness or mischievousness had change into something else, in his face is full of pure an unadulterated malice.
"Me? The same as you? Who are you joking with Type 00. I'm not as lucky as - ̚ His eyes full of hatred and his voice dripping with venom said that word that I hate the most.
"Who are you calling Lucky Misogi? I was never lucky" I immediately in front of him and used both of my hands and seize the color of his and drag his face in front of me. My face is set in frown and my feelings set in cold hatred. Gamers Mind is regulating my emotions which are why I can't feel high level of emotions but I can still feel it vaguely before it becomes too high for Gamers Mind to let it be.
"You are. I'm talking to you Type 00. You're such a luck- ̚ But just like before, he didn't get to finished it because I punched him in the face with my right hand. The force isn't strong enough to send him far away but it's enough for his face to be sent back but Kumagawa had already regain his footing and clenched his left hand and dive inside my personal space and launched a left uppercut.
"You're the one who is Lucky Type 00. If you're not lucky then you will be with us in that hell hole! ̚ I evaded the hit by siding my face to the left and I raised my right hand and meet his face for a counter punched.
"I was never lucky!" The counter punched connect and his face hit down the branch but before he starts to fall down. I grab his hair with my outstretched right hand and raised him up. His face is bloody and he has few broken teeth, his nose is bleeding and his right eye where my fist collided is starting to swell but even with his bloody face, it didn't change his expression of extreme loathing to me.
"How can you say that, in front of me who suffers and were left behind on hell hole!? You're lucky Type 00! You were sent out in isolation! You were never gone under inhumane experimentation! You can do whatever you want and no one would try to kill you for doing whatever you wanted! You were never monitored all the time to be stopped and punished when you do something they don't approve. You can relax and train on your own leisure. You even made friends that you could talk with! Me and the others? We're nothing but failures and everything we had are what permitted by them. We can't do anything that they don't permit us to do. All throughout the day we are either pinned down into the operation table and being injected by drugs to strengthen our bodies! Or strapped into chairs and have our brains fried inside out to increase our processing power! We are forced to fight and kill to survive! We were never allowed to have some fun or time of our own. We were never allowed to sleep and not fear for our own lives. We were never allowed to be relaxed because we don't know when we will be killed or thrown away. We never knew the meaning of happiness Type 00! We were never allowed outside of the dark laboratory where we born and kept under surveillance so don't spout nonsense at me that you're not lucky! ̚ My eyes ear are getting narrower with each shout and accusation of Misogi.
My emotions are starting to boil with extreme hatred for this person who doesn't understand anything about my own suffering. He doesn't know me and yet his accusing me of such thing.
I'm getting more emotional and my hatred is raising fast that even with Gamers Mind, it wasn't able to regulate it all.
My anger is taking over me that I didn't noticed when he had reared his right fist and it connected with my face.
I had let go of his hair and he continued to hit my face. I tried to reel in my balance but he would hit my jaw, my mid-section with his knee and he uses his elbow against my temple.
I'm not the only one who is enraged because of the situation. Misogi is also extremely hateful that he didn't noticed when I countered back my right hand to his stomach.
"You don't know anything about me so stop accusing me!" I reared my right hand and hit his face next.
"I was never lucky. I was blamed as the source of all bad luck around me and the adult around me are blaming with all the deaths that are occurring. I might be indirectly involved with them but I didn't wish for their deaths. I was also forced to fight to survive. My training to become stronger isn't also easy. I would need to fight for hours, to days, to months, to years! I've been fighting for my life every time I set foot in the battlefield. True, I had friends but those friends are also making it more painful to be happy because I know that if I let my guard down, they would be hurt because of me! I can't get out and not fear that someone will get hurt because of me! I can't let my guard down and lose control of my abilities because I'm not the one who will get hurt but the people around me. True I was isolated but I keep meeting people I want to protect and don't get hurt! I don't want to meet them but they keep on increasing and are making me more uneasy than ever! I always lie to them, to myself and to the world! I want to be normal but I can't be normal! I want to have simpler life but I would be running away from my responsibilities! Responsibilities that was forced upon me and not something that I want to burden! All the lives are at stake and I can't die and let the hopes and dreams of people be burned into ashes! I must be selfless for others selfish wish! I also want to have my own selfish wish you bastard!" After the hit to his face, I reared it back and hit it again and again and again and again and again and again. I can feel my fist being wounded from my repeated attack but I can also feel the damage that I'm putting onto Kumagawa Misogi's face. I can feel his jaw dislocated and cracking together with the left side of his skull and his eyes are blood shot and bleeding but he still maintains his glare at me.
"So what if the adults are blaming you for their misfortune! At least it's partially your fault! Think about the people who got hurt because they are just there to take all the anger of someone! Think about us who aren't doing anything bad are being hit, kicked, stabbed because they don't have anyone to blame for their own FAULTS! ̚ Misogi counter attack by using his left fist to my face and followed up by the right. I feel my face goes into two directions simultaneously and I feel my jaws shattered and part of my skulls start cracking together with my aching muscles in the face.
"And don't start spouting irritating words to me like friends and guilt you idiot. Kamijou Project marmots don't have any freedom to have any friends! In it, there is only enemy. Everyone is an enemy that needs to be killed and destroyed. We are created in pairs but the one who is closest to us is the one we most hated and would like to be dead. Feeling guilty for others misfortune? What are you a Saint! You idiot who can even think about other people's wellbeing, If you can think about others, it means you have time to even think and not cry in pain! If you have time to worry for others then it also means that you don't any worry for yourself. You won't worry that it would be your last breath. If you have the leisure time to even make friends then you have lots of free time to not work to live! If you're worrying more about the people's suffering then you, yourself isn't suffering enough to make you lose the ability to think, you're not hurting enough to just be numb of pain. You're not in despair enough to just end your life. Responsibility? You should call yourself lucky they had their eyes on you! Molding you, strengthening you, training you and not just discard you like a useless trash because they have already serve their purpose. You're not just a spare or an experiment to see if the theory is working. You're not a sacrificial lamb for the better of others and most of all. You have a role to fulfill unlike others who doesn't even know why they are suffering or why they are alive. Cursing their cruel fate from the first time they are able to think and until their last dying breath, cursing everyone for just using them and not giving them any purposed or guidance. You're lucky Type 00. You're the luckiest person I've ever meet! You're much luckier than the grunts in the research facility, your luckier than the Kihara's that can only follow the orders and can't have their own free will, your luckier than most prisoners that you have freedom on your own small prison! You bastard! You don't know and acknowledge how lucky you are! ̚
Kumagawa Misog's attack didn't stop. He punched my face; hit my stomach with his fist, knees and elbows. He kicked me in the faced and spin and reeled my back with his other leg. He kicked my head back to the branch but he didn't stop when my face hit the branch. He starts stomping on the back of my head. Again and again and again… I can feel his hate towards me and its blocking my vision with lots of Killing Intent Notifications.
All through his attacks, I only listen and grit my teeth. I can understand where his coming from but I can't accept it.
I was never Lucky is what I always say but if I compare my experience to him.
My situation might be indeed in heaven than in hell.
But I can't accept it!
This world is against me!
What did I do to deserve such fate against me!
My life is just meant to be used against my will!
How can I accept such fate!
They order me around against my will and if I disobey I would be punished and it's just because I refuse to end someone's life.
I grabbed his offending foot that keeps on grinding the back of my skull and drag him down.
"Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" When he lost his balance and fall back I tackled him down and ride on his waist and begun punching on his face.
"How can I call myself lucky if the world is against me!? How can I call myself lucky if the world is actively trying to screw my life away!? How can I call myself lucky if everything I hold dear might die because of me!? My very existence is a sin that was only created to save other people! I also don't have a freedom you bastard! You keep accusing me of being lucky! Have you seen my status you bastard! You're the one with 10 000 Intelligence! Use your brain and think! I have lower Luck than you!"
I keep hitting his face and he tries to block my punched with his arms. I tried to pry his left hand and score a punched to his face but he just grabbed my left arm and my incoming right arm was also blocked by his right and then he proceed to grab my wrist which effectively disabled my two hands but he also can't shield his head now. I reeled by head back and aim for a head butt but when I reeled my head back, I was kicked by his left foot that he raised.
I was disoriented a bit and he to locked my necked by hooking both his foot on my face. He drags me away by throwing me to the side of the branch. He manages to escape and I started to fall from the branches. I thought that would end our little scuffles but when I manage to sneak a look at his face.
He is still angry and then he jumps at me.
"YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU! How can you still call yourself unlucky if you can still think and act on your own! And status!? Who cares! They are just numbers and they don't reflect the reality! ̚ Kumagawa Misogi proceeds to choke me. I tried to pry his arms but he is overpowering me with his higher strength.
Thud Thud.
We both hit the ground with my back acting as the cushion and I received the full damaged from the fall. It hurts but the physical pain subsides fast.
While the physical pain is easy to ignore because it would eventually go away.
Mental scars are hard to heal.
My mental abilities are now in disarray and our surrounding is starting to shake. I have lost control over the ground and the earth below is starting to rumble, the trees shaking and the space around us distorting. The rocks are also starting to float with the lost and disarray of gravity. The light around us are starting to flicker and the bushes are starting to heat up and burn.
My hate is clouding my mind that I didn't notice such phenomena but it looks like Kumagawa Misogi notice it.
Even his intense anger towards me hadn't clouded enough his judgment of our surroundings.
"You call this the world hating you? ̚ The current voice of Kumagawa Misogi is different. It's not the one that he has been using earlier; it's not the one with full of intense emotions but one with cold indifference.
"You call this the world hating yooooou!? This is nothing! You can still stop this right? If you regain your mental capacity to think clearly, if you can stop this then it means that the world isn't really against you. If the world is serious on ending you, they won't do these cheap things to just kill a single person. No, this is not the work of the world alone… it's the result… of you rejecting the world. ̚ Kumagawa Misogi said in cold indifference while observing his surroundings.
Those words made me stopped in struggling and look at him wide eyes.
"Your natural stance towards the world is being neutral. You're different from other types of Kamijou project because you don't have partner or an opposite. You stand alone as a balancer. This current scene around us isn't the work of the world but you rejecting the current change of the world. The world felt unnatural to you, which is why you're starting to reject it and the world won't stay quite which is why it's just protecting itself. The power of the world is being concentrated in trying to repair itself while you slowly negate it. Those two forces that go against each other are the reason of this current post-apocalyptic scene around us. ̚
The flames around us are dancing unnaturally with the wind howling and a miniature cyclone is forming around us. The cracks in the ground is widening and is attempting to swallow us but the disturb gravity is keeping us afloat. The space around us can't be distingue and the light is only just black and white.
The color faded and everything felt alien to me but at the same time familiar.
Personal reality.
It should be the world that reflects the person's view of the world.
But my personal reality is only just blank black world.
I tried to access it when I'm training but when I get there.
I can't see anything.
I can't feel anything.
I felt cold dread inside me.
Swelling from deep inside when I stay at that black world.
It should reflect on how I view the world but why is it black?
There is nothing there….
The black world… that I often dreamed about, walking endlessly, for all eternity in search of something or someone.
The dream that continues to hunt me when I sleep which is why I don't want to sleep.
The reason of sleep is only a waste of time is only an excuse so I won't need to dream again.
I've been sleeping lately after meeting Pray but that is because the nightmare had stopped visiting me but I'm still afraid that I might see again the dream about the foolish boy.
The sleep that I feel after getting beat down by Pray is relaxing. I haven't felt that since forever and I want to cherish it again and again which is why I tried sleeping again but what if I start dreaming again?
This person. Kumagawa Misogi is making me remember those dreams again.
The dream of the boy who foolishly get himself killed.
"Hey, Type 04… no Kusanagi Touma or should I call you Kamijou Touma as that should be your designated name as the supposedly leader of the Kamijou Project? Why do you feel unlucky? How can you even call yourself unlucky if you even have family and friends? You've been even adapted by the Kusanagi Clan, right? I saw the reports about you which is why I know something about you. For us who doesn't know anyone aside from the project and only knew what is provided and allowed, the idea of having family seems alien. Since before birth, were already preprogrammed to what we are allowed to be and not to be. The parents are just gene donor and they are also the one doing the experimentation. They are the one who volunteered for it because they want something to achieve. That is what one of the Kihara said but to be honest, no one in the project knew who their parents are. Well maybe aside from you, you're really lucky to know that fact. They are monitoring you too but they aren't intervening and just letting you go and do as you pleased. The kamijou project is strict and won't allow us to do what we want and if we disobey, punishment would follow. Freedom is alien concept to us. We don't have freedom. We will die with a press of a button from the scientist. Our thoughts are being monitored and even now, they are probably being amused that I' still angry at my current situation. They are laughing that I still can't accept that that I'm a tool even though I said a hundred, thousand, to millions to countless times already, that I'm just a tool. To survive is to follow. And even if I'm just a tool, I want also to live but the concept of free will had already been robbed from me. My ability is limited to what they allow. They treated me and my kind as a computer that runs with programs. The scientists aren't dumb enough to program an A.I. That can go against them. They made ensure to encode a security program that can protect them and even with my ability to erase. I can't erase those codes. I and the others life is limited and without purpose. We are only spare for you if you fail; we are only experiments to be tested if it would work on you. They devoted their lives in creating someone as special as you. So tell me, Kamijou Touma. How can you call yourself unlucky in front of me? ̚
I was just stunt there and shock.
Kumagawa Misogi is crying right now.
On top of me his crying of blood.
He also had stopped choking me.
The anger in his eyes had already subside too and replaced by cold indifference.
After a minute or two of just staring at each other eyes, he then wipe away the blood in his face and then he stands up.
I'm still not moving. Shocked form what he have said.
Kumagawa Misogi had survey his surrounding and he waves his right hand and the world around us had return to normal.
He had erased the damage in our surrounding which results in everything returning to normal.
He also erased the damage to himself.
His black suit looks pristine again, without any speck of dirt or blood.
His face had also been healed and all the damage had been erased.
All Fiction's ability is scary.
"Come on, Touma-san, I don't want to fail my mission. I don't want to be punished. It would be fine because it's you but for others, if they fail they will suffer. ̚ Kumagawa Misogi had returned to his jovial safe. It's like his earlier outburst was just a lie and he begun merrily humming again and singing morbid song in the voice chat while climbing through the trees to reach the branches.
But before he had climbed back to the 15 to 20 meter tall trees something trembles from the ground and its not because of me.
I have already cleared my mind and I'm in control of my ability again.
I'm just refusing to move from my spot.
Thud Thud Thud shshshhshshshs
"What do we have here brother. It's a human?" An eye had peaked in between the branches of the trees.
It's a 15 meter tall black oni with singly eye and single horn and beside him is a 12 meter tall green oni with two eyes and twin horns in both sides of his head. They are both wearing tiger skin loincloth and in both their arms are two huge wooden maces.
"Human brother, it means FOOD!" The black Oni cheered but before he can do anything. Kumagawa had already made his move.
"Your ugly and annoying" A giant screw of the light of 7 meters and 1 meter width has conjured and was stabbed to the lone eye of the Oni.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The cry of the Oni was loud and it shakes the land when he starts stomping in panic but the his cry was stopped when number screws are begun flying and stabbing his body. He dropped dead to the ground and it produced a shockwave that rattled the nearby grasses and me but I still ignored it.
The other Green Oni had seen what happen to its brother and had begun taking actions.
"Broooooooooother! Why you puny human!" The green orc had raised his right club and hit the tree where Kumagawa was trying to climb but he jumped away to evade the attack. He managed to avoid the first attack but the club from the left had hit him and he was thrown into the ground.
"Graaaaaaa!" The angry green oni had jumped and raised both arms up and poised to strike down with the two huge wooden club on both arms are to swing in full force but before when he is hits down a huge screw had emerge from the ground below him.
"Guuuh!" The screw this time around is 5 meter in width and its continue to grow taller even after it pierced the green oni.
"Puny…. Huma- Graaaaaa!" he didn't get to finish what he was saying because the huge screw had begun spinning fast which worsen the wound in the stomach of the green oni. The huge screw then begun falling forward but the body of the oni didn't follow it but instead, it cuts the oni in half.
It showers the place with black blood and I got dirty too because of it and Kumagawa too.
"What was that sound?"
"I don't know but its origin is in the north"
"Send patrols on the area"
We heard several booming voices from the nearby patrolling Oni and it looks like we were spotted.
"Well so much for stealth mission. Go stand up Touma-san. I won't be responsible if you die while not retaliating there. I won't protect you so go and at least protect yourself. ̚ Kumagawa Misogi said while proceeding merrily skipping in his feet while killing the Oni's that showed up in front of him.
I grumbled and begun to stand up. I start cleaning my dirty clothes and the only thing I can think right now is…
What the hell am I doing?
My mind isn't cleared yet because of the early fight but to Kumagawa Misogi that fight is over, but to me. It just a wakeup call but I still refused to accept such notion of me being lucky… but I also can't defend from his accusation of me being lucky because to him, I'm lucky to be not the same as them.
Them. The remaining members of kamijou project.
I wonder how many are created first before the Type 01, Type 02 and Type 03 where created.
He said that the early ones are created in pairs but I wonder what or who they are.
Seeing Misogi easily dispatching the huge Oni's that are attacking him made me wonder how strong they are. Misogi's All Fiction ability isn't also something to be underestimated. It's a broken ability.
I resume my stealth work while Misogi drew the attention.
I'm still wary in killing the Oni's but the early word of the Oni is making me feel that they aren't as innocent as I thought of them… food… that is what they call when they saw me and Misogi.
"Misogi…-san… can you tell me more about Kamijou Project?" I asked while moving from one branch to another. Making sure that I didn't made any noise and making sure that no one is sneaking on me.
"Hmm? Kamijou Project? Well there isn't much to tell Touma-san. I don't have much knowledge beside on what was allowed to be learned ̚ Misogi said while pinning the Small 7 meter tall Red oni to the thick tree. He then proceeds to rain screws on him and effectively killing him.
"Anything is fine. I also don't know much about the outside world. The only knowledge I know is what was allowed to me. In a sense… I'm the sa-" But I wasn't able to finish the sentence because I was stopped by the cold glare of Kumagawa Misogi.
"Didn't I already told you that were different Kamijou-san? Don't think for a second that were the same. We will never be the same because a spare can never be genuine and even if the genuine was lost and was replaced by the spare. It didn't change the facts that it was a spare. ̚ He said it with a cold tone and glaring eyes. He won't be able to see me clearly with all the leaves that separate us from seeing each other clearly but I know, his eyes are lock on my frame, right now.
The staring contest last for a few seconds and he is still not moving from his current position even when a 9 meter tall Oni had manage to start falling on top of him with a think and spiked club in his hands, poised to hit his head.
He is ignoring it.
If he was a normal person, I would be already shouting for him to evade or to shout about the incoming Oni but I know him.
Kumagawa Misogi isn't such a weak boy that can't protect himself.
When the spike iron mace is only few centimeters from his head, screws starts appearing in various parts of his body but it looks like the Oni doesn't mind it or care but when it lengthens and sabs through the attacking Oni. The only could cough up his block blood and his eyes widen a bit and then it closed permanently.
After few seconds, Kumagawa Misogi averts his glaring gaze and starts walking again.
We stayed in silent for few seconds before I asked again.
I needed information and he is the only one I can get it from.
"What can you tell me about academy city" I asked while silently following him. It would only take half an hour before we reach the border of the town.
When we reach the border, the 3 remaining members inside the town will detonate the bombs that were set in the ten anchors and if that isn't enough to fully bring them into real world, then I would use Fantasy Killer and correct the spatial distortion that distorts and connect this world, to that separate world.
"I don't know much about the city above ̚ Kumagawa answers nonchalantly while surveying his surroundings. There had been no further response from the town, even though were already this close to the town.
They should be able to hear the howl from the earlier huge Oni, is the barrier preventing from sounds to connect? But shouldn't that prove fatal if they didn't notice the incoming attackers? Or is that the reason why there are night patrols outside the barrier?
"Any information is fine. I don't know much about the city. I only hear few glancing information but they aren't elaborating for me to understand it. I also even heard lately that I would attend it when I'm 6, while I'm not surprised I just want to know what I should expect" I replied using the voice chat system. I still can't feel the town and we shouldn't be that far now.
Hmm…. Academy city isn't originally an educational institution. ̚ Kumogawa Misogi started while he start being cautious of his surroundings. There haven't any attackers lately and it became far too quiet. I'm also enhancing my senses but I haven't picked any yet.
"Isn't originally an educational institution? Is it a research facility before it becomes an educational institution? Then why does it change into an educational one?" I asked, curious but I already got the idea.
"To have more guinea pigs. Well, this one in a more legal and open one than their previews works. ̚ He answered nonchalantly.
"Actually, it all started during the World War 2. Japan had become active in developing Esper or Ability Users during that time. They want a winning edge against opposing parties which is why they are in haste of development. They even approved Magic reformation during the war. Japan isn't alone in power development with the war at high, every country that were involved are seeking new ways to win the war. Japan just likes to use more meat shield than using more steel weapon. Using humans cost less than developing new destructive bombs. ̚ Kumagawa said while crouching down.
What is he doing? It looks like he is placing something there?
Hmm… ah I see.
I can understand.
I would probably do the same but I'm still hesitating in killing all the Youkai here. I'm fine if they are attacking me, I would defend but actively seeking their destruction while they aren't doing anything against me, just didn't seem fine to me.
"The esper development had continued even after the war had ended. As a matter of fact, it increase and become more actively and I think you know the reason. ̚ He asked and even without looking at him, I can feel his gaze at me.
"But doing it secretly has its limits. They have limited test subject and they would also need to be discreet from other countries spies. So in the late 80's and early 90's they developed a plan. A plan to go public. ̚ He said the last sentence in cold whisper. I can feel it in the voice, his hidden resentment. But to whom? I don't know.
"Going public is impossible without public support so they first go and meet with various Japanese Politicians that aren't connected to the magic side. They are the minority but with the help of the Kihara and Kusanagi Clan, they replaced the ruling party of Japan. The one who are connected to the magic side are slowly but surely thinning out. Either they are changing in who they allied with or they vanished or some family members vanished. Eventually, they got the majority and after that the proposition of Evolution ̚ Kumagawa Misogi stops. I also stopped because I've become wary of the quietness in the area.
Within 100 meters, I'm sure that there is no one beside Misogi and me but what if was being observed from afar? There is that tension in the air and were both preparing for the upcoming attack of the Oni's or Youkais in the area.
Misogi crouched down beside a tall tree and takes calming breath. I did the same and we observed our surrounding.
Without saying verbally, Misogi continues his tale. He is an esper, it's possible for us to multi-task if we had high level of brain processing power and Misogi has it. He is far smarter than me,
"Human Evolution. Enhanced and Modified Humans. Coordinators. Espers. Ability Users. Bunch of names was called but they are basically engineered people. People that can live and survive in space. Longer life span and higher resistance to diseases. They had enhanced strength, faster brain processor and have ability unique to them. The Kihara had proposed it to the politicians that agreed to ally with them. At first there were oppositions but Kihara's are good with their business talks. They got the approval and some volunteers. To have their babies modified into something that is far from normal. The parents wants the best for their children had to pay the best. Depending in their patronage, a child can go from level 0 to Level 5. There had been lots of dirt that the academy had manage to dig and accumulate during that time. I heard that some wives refused to be touched by their husbands because they want to keep their figure which are why they volunteered. Infertility which is why they don't manage to conceive and having an heir is important. Adultery and Cheating. Well various stuffs that can be useful in the future. The academy promised secrecy which they abide but they store the data for future use. ̚ Kumagawa said while he starts throwing something in the air.
I'm too far to see what it is but by using my senses, it felt like its some kind of powder but not an ordinary powder. He is trying to spread his range. Kumagawa Misogi is indeed a smart person.
He created micro size screws and spread it into the air.
"The modified Humans are all scheduled to attend Academy City. It means that it would be a breeding ground of genetically engineered people. Academy City officially opens in year 2000. Where the first batched of engineered babies turn first grade. The program for Academy City starts from grade school to college, to masteral and doctoral degrees. It has everything in it. Though calling it academy city is wrong because it's more of a miniature independent country inside Japan. It might have allied to the government but the government isn't wholeheartedly supporting it. The Government is just too big for it to be fully purged which is why there are still some factions from the magic associations. And they are the ones who are wrestling the control form the politicians that allied with the Academy City. The Royal Family is in our side, with one of them being the directors of Academy City. But the Royal Family of Japan doesn't have much political pull now; the one who rule is the Prime Minister. The Royal Family is still the symbol of Japan and people can rally for his orders but they aren't the ruling party. It just so happen that the current Prime Minister is connected to the Magic Family in Japan and he is opposing to the Academy City. There had been lots of bloodshed because of that animosity and the only reason why the family of Prime Minister is still alive is because the academy city directors would surely be blame if they suddenly disappear. It became a problem for some of the Kihara's and I usually hate it when they start ranting about it. They are also causing problems with their co-workers, and those co-workers just likes to use us as targets for their stress. ̚ Kumagawa Misogi said the last one sentence with lots of hate in it.
He is currently concentrating in controlling and feeling the micro-screws that he had spread apart. He is trying to find out, who are the ones observing us.
"That's the basic history of Academy City that I know. I will start attending next year as first grader, so I will be able to learn more. ̚ Misogi said through the voice chat system.
"Eh, you're older than me by one year?" I asked but my attention is in the direction near the town. I feel that something is blocking my senses.
"Yap yap Yap! You will be calling me Misogi-Senpai in two years' time! ̚ Kumagawa Misogi said cheerfully. In reality he is still deeply concentrating while I'm just observing my surroundings.
Normally, my limit is 100 meters but that is the default one. If I sacrifice accuracy in my senses, I can spread it but I can't feel anything further than the 100 meter limit.
Has the Youkai noticed the limits in my senses?
"Though while it looks like that we will be attending the school, I'm sure it will just be in papers. The Kihara's aren't dumb enough for them to enroll us and left us there. In papers, we are students in academy city but in reality, they would probably be sending us in missions. That is the most logical answer in dealing stupid school settings. Attending school is a waste of time and time isn't something that we have in lots. There are lots of supernatural beings that need to be slain and we are created specially to kill them. ̚ Kumagawa Misogi said and I wholeheartedly agree.
Going to school while you already understood and know what will be taught is just a waste of time.
And time isn't something that we can waste. We're running out of precious time and we would need everything if we were to save the world, though I would really wish if they could just inform me of how it would end and how would I be needed.
"Misogi, what do you mean by city above?" I asked. If my senses are failing me then I would use my control over wind. Spreading my senses and using the wind as part of my limbs. I expand my senses.
"Hmm? City Above? Ah, well, they laboratory of where we were kept is underground. The Academy City is an artificial group of islands. I have heard that there were 23 districts above but nothing much. I'm more familiar in the underground city. There are 9 layers of underground research facility. The first layers is huge and it's like a huge underground City. The Kamijou Project exists in the deepest ninth layer. Each layer has different experiment and uses but I'm mostly familiar in the place where I lived. I'm not allowed to move around so I only knew what was available in the tablet. ̚ Misogi had stopped on concentrating and had already opened his eyes. He is readying for assaulting his enemy but it looks like he would be targeting the ground enemies.
The enemies that I detect are from above and they are lots of them.
The enemies on ground can be dispatched with careful planning but the enemies above would be hard.
Killing them won't be a problem but we would be spotted but then again, we are already spotted which is why they are concentrating here.
"Misogi, there were enemies from above" I reported through voice chat.
"I noticed. I will take care of them after I dispatched the ground units. Well unless you want to deal with them. How many are above? I just noticed them but I would prioritize the 200 ground units first. ̚ Misogi reported back while crawling in the ground. He is moving silently and he is evading the tall grasses that block his path. He is going to the eastern part of the forest. I also finally noticed the Youkai that he noticed. They are moving swiftly in the forest. They've come from the eastern side which means that they are the eastern patrols. They are probably going to check this area because of the cry that they have heard.
"About 100 flying type are encircling above us. And no, I'm still not attacking but if they start attacking, I will kill them" I reply through the voice chat while observing the Youkai or Ayakashi in the skies.
They are weak… they won't give me experience and they are the soldiers that are meant to protect this town.
Their levels are only around 30 to 40's and their status average around 50's which few going to 100's.
Those who have 100+ in status are already counted for and locked on.
If they did something, I would know.
It looks like that they haven't noticed it yet that I'm controlling the wind that they are flying on.
I also noticed that there was a square formation above us. They have put an isolation barrier within the area.
I haven't t notice it because they aren't isolating this area but isolating the one outside. They are trying to prevent reinforcements but that would be useless. We don't need reinforcements.
Some of the Youkai's above looked like eastern dragons but they aren't dragons. Just look alike. One eyed floating eyeball, huge birds with huge wings, big bats and is that a kite? Huge kites in the sky that has hands and feet.
Youkai's are indeed weird.
If the Youkai's are preventing us from receiving reinforcements then I would return the favor of isolating them too. We don't want noise to spread around. I used my control over wind and muted the cries of dying Oni's.
The Oni's didn't even notice when Misogi had spring from their blind spot and stab them with huge screws.
He had silently creeping in the grounds and when he spotted someone. He would silently creep on its back. He would observe it for a bit and if he sees that there is no one looking at his spot. He would silently leaped and stab the throat of the Youkai.
The Youkai would try to retaliate but Misogi would just stab screws onto the feet of the Youka which prevents them from moving and running away.
When Misogi noticed that the Youkai had stopped resisting, he would slowly lower it to the ground and then he would proceed to the nearest target.
He used this method to dispatch his 10 targets but its taking far too much time.
"Touma-san. Stop muting the area. I would need some noise to lure them in. ̚ Misogi said through the voice chat while he is approaching his eleventh target.
Misogi noticed what I'm doing but what does he plan?
I let the wind disperse and the sound would travel normally.
Misogi crept slowly to his target but instead of stabbing his throat or heart. Misogi goes for his hips.
Misogi stabs the hips of the Oni and it cried loud.
"ARRRAAAAAAA!" The cry of the oni was heard and the other was alerted of their wounded ally.
Some are start running on his direction but when they got closer. Screws start sprouting from the ground and stabbing them from below.
"It's a trap!" One of the green Oni that stands 4 meter tall yells.
The other Oni had start moving closer and begun to edge away from the Oni that are still crying for help.
"Heeeeel-" But the Oni didn't get to finished it because Misogi stabs his heart.
This is taking far too long for my liking. So come you ugliest! I will play with you. ̚ Misogi had come out from his hiding and is currently now standing and smiling at the enrage Oni's. He has two large Screws in his hands and is ready in using them.
"Human! Charge! Kill him!" The black oni that stans at 7 meters cry out loud and the other onis follows.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The Onis start running to get close to Kumagawa Misogi but Misogi is just swaying his hips and humming while singing in the voice chat.
He is enjoying this.
The enemies are still around 180 remaining and they are all around level 40's.
But they aren't really a threat to Misogi and me.
Misogi might be level 1 but his statuses aren't befitting of level 1. Even with higher level enemies, he won't be able to get any experience from them. Just like how Pray doesn't get experience from killing enemies that are hundred levels than her own.
Levels had become obsolete in later battles. Only Status matters.
And for one to level up, you would need threat level to be high, high enough to threaten one life. If one can threatens one life then they could give you experience.
And the current enemies here are that weak that they aren't threat to us.
The first wave of Green Oni is standing around 10 meters tall with huge wooden clubs. They are only 5 meters away from the still dancing Misogi but one second he is doing the hip forward thrust and another second is he is already behind the now group of dead Oni, having his hip reared back and is readying for another trust.
I can't look at this. I mentally said to myself. It's embarrassing and annoying to see him do a hip thrust while screwing the groups of Oni literally, with huge screws.
Misogi skip a bit and twirl. Sending a barrage of long screws to the incoming Oni and then he jumps and did a spin while in the air and screws starts emerging and raining in the group of incoming Oni.
They hit by various size of screw, there was small screw that hits the head, the long screw the stabs the body and then pierces through it and hitting the next one in line, a giant screw that takes a shoulder or stomach, a drilling screw that drills through them mercilessly and a fast screw that hits their genitals.
The bodies of the dead Oni scatter in the area while Misogi is dancing a funny dance in the middle of the upcoming enemies.
He does a moon dances and screws start sprouting on the place where he moves from.
He did a jump and spin and screws starts raining.
The sizes of the enemy didn't matter because Misogi is sending them various sizes of screws.
And while the whole carnage is happening, Misogi can only smile while dancing and having his clothes and face get dirty of either Oni's blood or parts.
He is extremely enjoying this fight.
"You're enjoying this" I said through voice chat while observing the enemies from above.
"Me? enjoying this? Probably yes, probably not. Who knows...But one thing is for sure. I can only feel alive when I'm ending some else life. ̚ I heard him whisper in the voice chat while he summons forth two long screws and start using them to stab any Oni that got closed to him.
He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs He stabs
The enemy that started in near 200 hundred is only barely 30's. The others are even starting to run away and some are crying and begging for mercy to Misogi but he just smiles at them and then proceeds to stab them.
Merciless.
Monster…
That is what the academy city had created.
And I'm probably the same as him.
I don't know on who am I to feel sorry for but I can't say that I can't relate to Kumagawa Misogi.
I also felt alive when I'm fighting.
I feel that in the middle of the battlefield is where I truly belong.
I wonder if it's because of my modification or my true feelings...
"Misogi… you have said that the Kamijou Project are created in pairs. Is yours Type 03? What kind of person is he" I asked while observing the massacre that is happening. My face is set in cold stone and I let the Gamers Mind to fix my clouded mind.
I don't need to be emotional right now. Getting emotional while in the middle of a battlefield would prove fatal and one can die because of one's carelessness.
"Huh? He? No, his a she. Type 03 is a She and let me say this while she is not around but she is such a bitch! ̚ Kumagawa Misogi shouts while he starts stabbing the already dead Oni. Again and again and the blood starts splattering more and the body is becoming riddled with holes.
Another Oni tried to make use of this opening and proceed to attack with his huge club and do a double handed downward hit but before he can capitalize the opportunity. A screw sprouted from below and hit what's hidden behind the tiger loincloth and it just bleeds heavily. The screw didn't stop in lengthening and it bores through the body of the red oni, until it pierces through the oni's back. And then the screw proceeds to spin fast and grinds the innards of the Oni.
While this is happening, Kumagawa Misogi is laughing hysterically.
"hahahaha die bitch die hahahah die! Die! Bitch die! hahahahaha ̚
Kumagawa Misogi, the perpetual person who has perfect mask of fake happiness shouts in anger. I only knew him for a couple of few hours but I knew that it's hard to make him angry but the mentioning of me being the same as them and his partner is enough to make him insane.
"Hehehe let me tell you something interesting about that bitch Kamijou Touma-san yoh! Hahaha that bitch is annoying as hell! She is always bitching around! And when she is bored, she would bring back extinct dinosaurs to wreck the research lab. The scientist found it amusing but I found it ANNOYING! Her ability is completely opposite of mine. The name of her ability is Reality is Fiction and she is such troublesome bitch. She is the type that would bring back instinct birds back to life just to see the reaction of the people around it. She would make the Cherry Blossom blooms while in the middle of fall because she wants to see them bloom! She is the one who will do something crazy just to get attention and if I didn't fix it, I would be the one who gets in trouble. The pairing system in Kamijou Project is annoying and I hate her more and more. Each time I saw her, I want to end her! But I can't because we're basically equal. Anything she creates, I erased and whenever I erased something, she brings back to life. She is the most annoying bitch in the planet! And what's with her dream of wanting to see a real life magic, time travel or alien! I only find solace when I see her cry out loud whenever we've undergone drug testing and various experiments. ̚
Kumagawa Misogi's malice is leaking tremendously and it's also starting to attract the Youkai's that is currently flying form above. They are starting to make a move but I won't let them join in the battle.
Misogi is being far too emotional here and even if I can feel the malice in his voice. I also can feel something else.
"Do you like her?" I asked while observing him from above. I'm also starting to ready my counter attack to the approaching Youkai's from above.
"Huh? ̚ That made Misogi stopped for a moment and that moment was capitalized by the huge bleeding Oni. It brings down his huge club and hits Misogi's little body. Hard.
Due to the strength of the attack, it cause Kumagawa Misogi's body to break apart and his legs and arms where thrown around the place. His stomach and head was turn into mush and his HP turn into zero.
I saw what happen but I didn't bother to do anything, I just continue to observe the enemies from above and ready my own plan for the upcoming enemies.
"he, hehe serves you right you monster. You're just a puny human and you're trying to attack us. Hehe hehahahaha" The 14 meter tall black oni laughs. He, together with the other 2, is the only remaining Oni.
From 200 to 3.
The other red and green Oni had also join the laughing of the black oni and they didn't even mind the various screws the pierces through their body. They didn't mind the extreme bleeding and exhaustion that they are currently feeling.
They are just overjoyed that the monster is dead.
They laugh and cry while raising their huge wooden clubs in triumph.
They had WON!
They had shouted together but their happy occasion was cut short when the green Oni gasps.
"Hoooraa-" but was cut short when his was cut off cleanly from his body.
That was one funny joke Touma-san. It's so funny I can't help but laugh. He he hehehe ̚
The boy that was supposedly dead is now back alive and standing.
His HP is full again and the body that had been scattered around had all been vanished.
Erased and turn into nothingness. Like they weren't real at all, like fiction that we all love to read.
The boy that most of the time likes to smiles and joke around is back but his smile is not his usual one.
He usually used the fake smiles of happiness but his current smile stretches his face so wide that its straining it.
"He he he hehe hehe hehehe ̚
His laugh that either shows he is happy or is trying to annoy the listeners had also change.
His current laugh also lacks the usual warmth and annoying feel to it.
It only brings chills to the listeners.
Gone was the usual screw in his hands.
It was replaced by an eerie looking sword but is that even a sword?
Can it be classify as a sword? It vaguely shows a sword but it's full of malice and negative thoughts that anyone who sees it would probably feel the need to die over a thousand times.
"He hehe he You know Touma-san. Your joke is so funny that I even brought out my toy sword ̚ Kumagawa Misogi said while smiling creepily. He raised his sword and waves it at my direction but I'm not looking. The enemy form above are planning something and I'm readying for a counter attack.
"You know Touma-san, I don't like swords. They are so lame and so shounen shit. They are only used by lame-o hero ̚ Kumagawa Misogi said while swinging his sword around.
The Black oni that had crushed him earlier had finally managed to recover from his shocked of his sudden revival and starts to attack.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAA DIE HUMAN!" The black Oni cries. That was heard by the red oni and the red oni also manage to recover and initiate his attacks.
One from behind and one from Misogi's side but he didn't care and just swing his sword from left and right.
When the Black Oni is within striking zone, the oni initiates an attack from above while the red oni did a sweeping attack.
If Misogi evades to the side to evade the attack from above, he would be hit by the sweeping attack of the red oni but if he jumps to evade the attack of the red one, he would be hit from above by the black oni.
This combination attack was done by the two oni's without any sign to each other. It's just a coincidence born from desperation of wanting to live.
They want the monster in front of them die that they react instinctively but the monster didn't even bother.
The monster just continues to swing his sword and when the attack is only few centimeters from hitting him.
He sways to the right and builds a momentum and swing the questionable sword in an upward slash.
It didn't hit the black Oni but a line was drawn in the middle of the black Oni.
The upwards slash of Misgo didn't stop and he spins and brought a diagonal downward slash to the red oni.
The attack also didn't hit but it also draws a line to the read Oni.
Both oni's didn't move from the attack. They just stand there until bit by bit, they are starting to disappear.
Like a speck of dust that is crumbling.
From the drawn line, they starting to crumble and blown away.
The dust that was blown away are also slowly turning into nothingness.
In just a span of few seconds, nothing was left of the two Oni.
Nothing.
Everything was erased.
Kumagawa Misogi then used the questionable sword as a crutch and he leans on it.
"Sigh… I really prefer screws. They are funny and unique. They also leave something behind ̚ Kumagawa Misogi didn't move and glance but surrounding him are corpses of fallen Oni. They are all riddled with countless screws of various sizes.
Kumagawa Misogi then stands up and let the questionable sword in his hand to disappear.
"Touma-san, why did you ask such stupid question? Didn't I already tell you that I hate that bitch? ̚ Kumagawa Misogi asked through voice chat but he also raised his head and looks at me direction.
"Nothing…" I didn't reply back and I didn't care much because we would probably argue more but currently Kumagawa Misogi.
You might have notice it but you're currently crying.
You're crying blood again.
Earlier when we had the little quarrel, you have cried of blood because of your hate to me but earlier, when you mention that you see solace when you see your partner cried because of the experiments that were done to her. You started crying up tears of blood. You might not have still notice it but your tears aren't stopping.
If I'm in denial in seeing the Youkai's as being that needed to be killed then you're in denial about your partner.
I don't know what you truly feel for your partner but you probably still feel care for her.
The partner or pair system of kamijou project.
It's a cruel thing to do. To set the two who are closest to each other as enemies. The one who you can treat as siblings or twin is your most hated enemy. What a bad sense of irony. The scientists in academy city plan such a cruel and unfair system. They might have done this for the sake of rivalry and encouraging each other to get better than the other but it didn't change on how cruel the system is.
Sigh… the enemies from above are only 20 meters above the tall trees.
The system in academy city needs some change.
"Roooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar" The huge 10 meter long eastern dragon lookalike had finally made contact with the trees above us and emerge below the foliage. It's right now in front of Misogi but Misogi is not looking at the dragon.
He is only looking at my direction with his usual smile back in his face but he is still crying tears of blood. And I don't know if he is ignoring it, or feeling it, but he is not doing anything to wipe the tears away or showing any sign that he acknowledge that he is crying.
I tried to ignore the crying Misogi and just focus on the enemy in front of me. I'm not sure if that is a real dragon or a low class dragon but they are all youkai and they are trying to harm us. They would need to be killed. The dragon reared its mouth and is preparing for a breath attack but it didn't get the chances to attack.
The dragon is around level 60 which is rare but it still weak compares to us.
I already used reveal against the current flyers that are emerging one by one. Their levels are around 50 – 60.
They are stronger than the ground troops but they are smaller in number but even if they are stronger than the one who Misogi attacks, they are still weak if you compared them to us.
"Raaaaaaa-" The dragon that is trying to launch a breath attack didn't get to finished his attack because a steel spike emerge from the ground. It hits his jaws and it pierces through his mouth. The dragon tried to retaliate but I send a surge of electricity that made the dragon paralyze a bit and then more steel spikes emerges. Further impaling and killing it.
Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh Swoosh
From the trees, vines start moving around and binding every flying youkais that are currently in the area.
They really shouldn't move the battlefield to this place.
With the use of telekinesis, I tied them up and proceed to shoot them with highly compress gas.
Pew pew pew pew
Pew pew sounds starts raining in the flying youkais.
The same sound effects that the mecha anime uses when the mecha's are firing their laser or beam rifles.
Highly compress heated gas. A.K.A. Plasma.
Plasma beam rains down on the poor Youkai.
I can't help but feel pity them but at the same time, they are attacking and we're just defending.
I already took control of air in the area around me so it's easy to super charged it and compress it until it heats up into the state of plasma.
Those who tried to fly up were stopped by the swaying trees that I controlled. The trees use the branches and swat the flying youkais down and when they reach the earth down below. They would be stabbed by either steel or earth spikes.
This is a boring fight. I won't get experience and I won't get a drop. I just want to finish it up already.
The only ones here are only around 50 and the ones above are the remaining 50 flyers Youkai.
The remaining 50 didn't charge below and stayed as reinforcement and it looks like that they notice that the first wave is being decimated but they didn't charge below recklessly. They stay up above and charge a magic attack.
The night sky above starts to illuminates with their charge attack and it would have cause a commotion if I didn't isolate this space with my partial control over it.
I don't know if the city hidden in a different dimension could see it, but the patrols in the other areas can. They already did when the reinforcement in the other area came.
So I isolate this space with a distortion of space and manipulating the sound. To the outsiders, they would only see the night sky. I didn't actually do anything that hard. I just placed a mirror effect in the surrounding area. It would reflect the area around it won't let the lights pass through.
So why the Youkai's above charge their attacks.
I levitated a 50 steel spike. I could probably use my skills but I prefer the increase my controls right now so I decided to do this.
The steel spikes are like spears. 5 cm thick and 2 meters long, black steel spears.
I levitated them around me and I created a 50 compressed air pockets and 50 air tunnels for the 50 steel spears.
I locate and locked onto my targets and I increase the compression rate of the air pockets to its maximum then released them.
Like a canon it exploded but the forced was controlled. I set the place where the force would travel and in its path are the steel spears.
It's like a balloon where you poked a hole in its side and all the air would release there.
The steel spears are levitated and located at the center of the air tunnels and it was pushed by the compress air explosion.
It travels fast and accurate!
It breaks the sound barrier and causes a sonic boom in its area which rattles the leaves in the trees and the grass down below. The shockwave also hits me and Misogi but we just ignore the strong blast of wind.
The spears soar through the dark sky and due to its color and speed. The Youkai above didn't get to react fast and they got stabbed through by it.
Some had survived and tried to evade. Some got hit but not fatal and some got their wings tears apart which cause them to fall. Some tried to flee but I won't let them.
The second wave of steel spears is ready and I let them fly.
Another sonic boom and another batch of annoying dust that tries to get on my eyes. I tried to cover it with my hands but some still manage to slips through and get into my eyes.
Even Misogi had already averted his gaze at me and just covered his face with his hands.
"Annoying dust" I grumbled and it echoed through the voiced chat. I heard Misogi laughing through it but I just ignore him.
Some of the youkai still survive form the onslaught but I reload another wave and let it fly.
Then I prepared another one and another and another. A rain of steel flew and slew the Youkai's that tried to bombard us with magical attack.
It tears them apart and kills them mercilessly.
I tried to act innocent and hesitant but when I attack, I attacked mercilessly and brutally.
I was trained by Pray this way, to never underestimate your enemy and kill them with swiftly and efficiently.
The battle only last for few seconds and all the flying types are dead.
The silence was welcomed again by the forest drenched in black blood of Youkai.
I stand straight and stretch a bit. The same can be said for Misogi who is trying to clean his dirtied black suit.
He stands up straight and stretched and then he looks at me and said through voice chat
"Come on, let's continue our mission and you're awesome! You've wrecked them apart! I would like to call them, the flying spears of doom! ̚ At first he nods at me then he starts jumping in joy and showing thumbs up to me but it didn't last and he return to his cool posture and starts walking.
Bipolar much? I just shake my head and start walking but I stopped when I notice something in his face.
"Misogi" I called to him and he stops and looks at me with a raised right eyebrow.
"You're not going to clean your face?" I asked but he just looks at me bewildered and confused.
He then ignores me and continues his walk.
So… he doesn't acknowledge the trails of tears that he earlier cried.
He doesn't acknowledge that he cried tears of blood for the pain for the pain of his partner.
What a troublesome kid.
I sigh and start walking in the branches.
It would only take 10 more minutes of walk before we reached the border for the barrier.
I just hope that my suspicions about the Youkai are wrong... I also hoped that they aren't all bad or I won't go in frenzy and kill them all.
The children are still innocent right?
They can still be change right?
Even if their parents can't be redeemed, the Children should be still pure and not accounted for the sins of the parents.
There is still hope for them... right?
Is what I try to tell myself while Misogi and I, walked through the dark bloody forest.
Author's Note
Next chapter is the assault in town. I didn't want to speed up things and try to gloss over Kumagawa Misogi's Character. I want to put a real complicated character on him and I hope I deliver. If not, please say so.
After this mission is where we will be back in Fuyuki. I don't know how many chapter it would eat but please bear with it FSN fans. Just think of Touma and Misogi are out in a trip to deal with Phantasmal Creatures. I just named them here as Youkai and not spirits or elements.
