1:11 PM
Abicus hopped backwards to avoid the diagonal punch from Kamijou. He stepped forward and threw a roundhouse kick with his right leg. Touma blocked it with his left arm but not without feeling the brunt of the attack. He flew backwards a few feet.
"Is that the best you've got?" Touma shouted. "You corny ass magician!"
(Who the fuck…) Abicus thought as he grinded his teeth and his left eye twitched. He raised his arm and waved his wand is a circular motion.
"Fifty-two Drop Down!"
A giant deck of fifty two playing cards appeared in front of Abicus. Abicus threw his arm down, propelling the cards forward at high speed one at a time.
Touma swung his right hand while side stepping. The giant cards crumbled as they make contact with his palm. He hopped over one and punched another, reducing it to a purple mist.
"Tsk!"
Realizing the frivolity of the attack, Abicus dispersed the cards.
"What kind of name is Abicus anyway? Did you misspell abacus on the keyboard and just roll with it?"
"Rubiosa!"
After tapping his right arm, Abicus whips it downward. It stretched several feet and smashed the ground where Touma was before stepping out of the way. The stretched arm then reeled to the right, tripping Touma and knocking him on his back.
A moment later, Touma saw Abicus leaping several feet above him. He does a backwards somersault to avoid being pummeled. Dust and fragments of the ground flew up after Abicus' landed.
"How does that even happen? "A" and "I" are on opposite ends of the keyboard!"
"FUCK YOU, IT WAS 4 AM! XOLOTL!"
A large surge of blue lightning with some sort of red eyed dog shaped head shot out of Abicus' wand. The electronics for several blocks ceased working, causing a mass confusion among employees and wandering youth as well as halting the cleaning units and even the cars as well. A few cars that were out of the range crashed into the cars that abruptly halted.
The lightning swerved around Touma's right hand. He supported himself by holding his arm with his free hand. Touma nearly shutt his eyes completely due to the bright light emitted.
After a few more seconds, the lightning stopped pouring out. The sides of the walls and the ground around Touma were blackened.
Touma slowly lowered his right hand, looking almost unimpressed.
"Been there, done that."
Abicus indignantly gritted his teeth. His brow furrowed as his face turned into a bright red.
"Grrrrrrr. No! Impossible! I'm the world's most powerful magician!"
"Your world's most powerful magician."
In spite of his fury, Abicus took a split second to consider the possible truth behind that statement.
"Even so! I've gathered an immense amount of power during my studies! I should have clobbered you to a bloody pulp already! Or burned you to a crisp! I'm superior! My abilities far exceed yours! So why haven't I won yet?!"
"Is that what you think this is? A contest of who's got the flashiest moves? Is that all you think fighting is?"
"What did you saaaaaaaaaaaay?!"
"Do you really think that being more powerful or capable at anything makes you the superior person? You mean to tell me that someone who flaunts his strength and looks down on those weaker than him is better than someone who is humble and treats everyone equally? That a strong person who doesn't even respect the very power that he thinks elevates him above everyone else is worth more than a weak man who knows the true value of strength? People aren't so simple that you can rank them just according to their abilities. It doesn't matter if you're the strongest person in the world. If you use that power to hurt others or for your own selfish gain, can you really say that you're superior to anyone?!"
Abicus stareed at the ground and clenches both fists. All of the muscles in his face seem to have lost their functioning as his mouth hung open.
"Shut up…"
"I don't understand what it is that makes powerful people look down on everyone else who can't do what they do. And I don't understand why some choose to pervert that power. At the end of the day, you're still a human just like me. And everyone else on this planet. And isn't it all that matters? Isn't your humanity what's truly important? What, you think being stronger than others makes you more human? The very source of that feeling is a very human emotion itself: pride!"
"I SAID SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH YOU GODDAMN BRAAAAAAAT!"
In response, Abicus put a hand over the side of his wand. He moves his hand along it, revealing the decorated sheath of a rapier. He continued to moves his hand along the wand long after it passes where its length would normally end, revealing a 41 inch thin silver blade.
Abicus kicked off his left foot, gliding over the ground at high speed towards Kamijou. The frightened boy's body stiffend as he appears to be paralyzed in in a some sort of boxer's stance.
(Oh shit!) he thought.
It was as if all of the muscles in Touma's body refused to answer the signals sent from his brain that ordered them to move. He could not even feel his trembling legs anymore.
Abicus puts on a sadistic smile as he drew closer. Inches away from him, the tip of the rapier pointed at Kamijou's chest.
Then at the last possible second, Touma's body hopped to the right. It was like an out of body experience. He stared dumbstruck as his body seemingly avoids the deadly strike on its own accord.
Abicus scowled. He then skidded to a halt before swinging his sword around the the right. However, this time Touma ducked to avoid it, losing a few strands of hair in the process. While his eye twitched slightly, Abicus attempted to knee Kamijou in the face. Anticipating the follow up blow, Touma puts his arms up to guard. The attack sent him up a bit regardless.
Abicus swung the sword quickly in many directions. Touma clumsily avoids many fatal blows but not without sustaining various cuts across his body.
(He's too fast! I can't reach the sword!)
As Abicus effortlessly swiped the long sword, Kamijou hastily shifted his body to avoid them. A diagonal strike almost took his head off but he swung it to the left with a frightened expression. He didn't notice but some more of hairs his were sliced off and slowly descended to the ground.
At this point, Touma became desperate. He was only barely avoiding the attacks and getting worse with every passing second.
(I can't keep dodging forever…)
With yet another twisted smile, Abicus twirled the sheath of the sword between his fingers. Then he kicked off his left foot and thrust the rapier forward.
However, the results he anticipated went against his expectations.
He had more than enough time to dodge, which would have left him open for a counter attack.
Instead, Touma lunged forward.
The sword plunged deep into his lower abdomen.
"Ah?"
Atop of some tall building, Saitama observed a large bolt of lightning from several miles away out of the corner of his eye.
"...Hmmm."
(That miiiiiiiight be Abracadabris.)
Saitama leapt off of the building and onto another, closing the distance between where the lightning bolt originated by about ⅕.
(Of course, if Whitey is any indication, it could be just another spoiled brat with crazy powers too. But what are the odds of that?)
In about three minutes, Saitama landed on the center of the top of another building. He kept running until he reached the edge, noticing that he was on top of the building in front of where the lightning struck.
He instinctively looked down.
(What the hell?!)
Several feet below him in an alley across the street, he saw Abicus slicing the air with a rapier as a spiky haired teen aged boy clumsily avoided being cut. Saitama's eyes widened and his expression grew dim.
(Dammit, Abicus! You've gone too far! The children are our future!)
Saitama squatted in preparation to jump but hesitated for a split second. This was due to him witnessing Abicus plunging his blade through the boy's lower abdomen.
His pupil dilated. His heart skipped a bit.
Roughly a third of the building was obliterated in a dust explosion. As he soared through the air at blurry speed, Saitama cocked his right arm back and squeezed every muscle within it. In spite of his rage, he kept in mind that one serious punch could cause more damage than he intended.
Being a hero meant saving people. Even though all life is equal, the lives of the young are especially precious since they are the foundation that the future will be built upon. Therefore, they must be especially protected. Even someone as emotionally numb as Saitama held such a belief.
And his failure to live up to that belief threw him into a state of shock and despair.
"OWOAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
It didn't matter if he could defeat foes in one punch. It didn't matter if he was so strong that his life took because he could no longer gain a thrill from his fights. He wasn't fast enough to stop Abicus. And he wasn't smart enough to find him sooner to prevent such a tragedy from occurring.
For the first time since gaining his immeasurable strength, Saitama felt true fear and distraught. And he felt sadness from the very pits of his heart.
But all of these emotions were gathered simply because he was staring at an illusion.
Abicus stared dumbfounded at the boy. Touma returned the gaze with an expression that made Abicus feel like the very essence of his soul was being judged. The seemingly immobilized boy coughed up blood and a bit splashed on Abicus' face.
"Let me make this easy to understand," Touma calmly said.
Abicus stepped back and shifted his body weight and arms up with the intent to cut through Touma's torso. However, Touma merely raised his right hand and touched the blade, reverting it back to a wand.
Abicus, imbalanced,awkwardly fell backwards .
"Having an overwhelming power…"
It was such a simple concept that even The Gorilla Man could understand.
Imagine Breaker. The strange phenomenon that could cancel any form of magic or esper abilities with a single touch. The power to negate even miracles of God rested within Touma's right hand.
*CRUNCH!*
And that right hand rested within Abicus' jaw.
"...doesn't make you better than anyone."
The baffled magician flew back a meter. His body twirled once in midair before he landed on his back with a loud thud.
"Having an overwhelming power…"
*CRUNCH!*
Saitama, feet away from the gruesome scene, stared in shock and confusion as he looked ahead. To his left was Abicus, the magician Saitama was unable to harm, being launched through the air after a hit from this spiky haired teenager.
(No… Not another one.)
He cautiously rotated his head and saw the intense look in the boy's eyes.
"...doesn't make you better than anyone."
(O-one punch… He beat him in one punch.)
Abicus landed on his back with a loud slapping noise. He gagged as he stared at the sky with unfocused eyes.
Saitama took a few steps forward after making an unbalanced landing. He looked at the semiconscious magician for a moment and then back at the the focused teenager with a clenched fist and a stern expression.
After staring at Abicus for a few seconds, Touma noticed he was being watched and turned his attention to Saitama.
"Huh?"
There was silence between the two for some seconds.
(Why is there a bald man in a cape staring at me?) Touma thought as Saitama's cape blew in the wind.
