The Messenger chapter 38: What is true strength!

(Zanosuke)

It was a hot day… school was annoying as usual… screaming fan girls, A-hole teachers, guys who try to look like their badass when their not and the stupid idiots with no morality… oh good god did I just talk about morality? Wait did I just talk about god? What the hell is wrong with me today?

On my way back home; I saw it! A small boy about ten using my families fighting style! The sword he held was my sisters… I got to go talk to… as I ran someone interrupted… he had many similar features to me… except his hair and clothes were tints of cyan. Well I could guess his name fits his colour. "Don't get involved ok Zanosuke? Or do you want to risk getting hacked to pieces!" What utter bull**** I can do what I want! I took out my katana and charged at him. He yawned and took out a katana and held it in one hand.

When our blades matched… I could feel the difference! It was… impossible! His one hand was equal to… no surpassed my two hands! He was making it painfully obvious… that I couldn't win! Well like all those other people in my life… "**** you I can do what I like!" Cyan sighed and kicked me in the stomach! "Zanosuke… please give up… it's much better to forget the past no?" He can't say what I can and can't do. If I can beat him… then I would have become much stronger then I' am now!

I summoned Amatsu and covered my blade with all different powers… battojutsu would be able to break him! A quick sheath and unsheathe and he'll take the full wrath of my blade! He just took the attack without protecting himself! Huh what this… it's like his body is covered in armour made of energy? It feels like… when I put my soul into my blade! He smiled "Whatever you do… you can never defeat me! You may have chosen a chaotic and free life but you can't throw away the past… and those people you're always with… are reminding you of those old times… you haven't thrown away your humanity… that's why you can not defeat me… you don't know what true strength is!"

"Come forth… Mastermind" (Hope your reading this Zero…) A persona emerged from him… it was a humanoid shape and sitting in a chair with that evil villain president like pose… it lifted up a finger and Cyan attacked me with all his strength! His body was covered in that fiery energy now and it seemed… mastermind compensated for the tactical fighting… like mastermind made calculations while Cyan can fight at full strength!

Well I guess that I have to go all out too! I send my soul to my blade… and make my body perfectly find the way to win! "Currently a 0.00001% chance of winning if the battle continues at this rate; if allies come the chances increase to roughly 3% if the beings none as Dante, Wes , Kazuya and Aleph fight without restrictions chances of winning become 97%" My brain calculated all that… this doesn't look good I left school alone today… stupid teachers and their detentions!

Oh no! Stupid body get back their and fight don't run! Cyan smiled and laughed… he was mocking me! I tried to force my body to fight but it wouldn't why! I came back to the mansion… maybe it's as he says… if I cut my ties with these people… I could fight with true strength? Fine; whatever it takes to win and become stronger and stronger! So I did what I usually did… act like an A-hole… I told them that as long as I was with them I didn't have true strength… then stupid Cu says this line…

(Cu)

What Zanosuke… no what he is describing isn't strength… at least not really. By cutting these ties he gains and shows he has the strength to do so. However what he is talking about is power. They is a clear difference between power and strength… power can be measured and strength is boundless I guess. Like a strong will can always grow… that is strength. It's like… "Zanosuke… think one minute… might is… not right that's what people say. But saying that… might often do determine what is heard and what isn't… I don't really believe in right and wrong but… if you force things then that I can say is wrong. Strength is… what people can believe is right because it's justified… and just using force is going for the easy way out… you should know that right?"

He looked at me… "Oh geez… that sounds like… someone I once knew… who told me that an old friends… fine then will you guys help me?" We all said fine of course… and a voice rang in my head; Thou art I and I art Thou. Thou has increased the bond of the fool Arcana… ah I remember… my little brother's birthday and more of what type of guy he was. October 31st 1997… he would be thirteen if it wasn't for this stupid block of the last few years…

(Zanosuke)

I saw the boy again… he was still training… the little guy was probably up since this morning… Cyan was still there watching him… he then looked at us… "A bunch of weaklings clinging to other weaklings is a poor sight… fine come…" he beckoned as he summoned mastermind and exploded with energy… I ran at him and tried to skewer him with my blade but well that didn't work to well… I then kept trying that… everyone was using range attacks… Cu said this was my fight yet since there my friends they have to help… but not interfere more then they were needed… well I was thinking if I hammered at one point I could wound him…

I kept putting all of my strength and Amatsu's powers into each and every lunge… come on! I can kill this guy! I rapidly slashed and kicked to try to gain an opening to finish him but he kept countering but he only did measly cuts… but I will win this fight no matter what! I won't give him a moment to rest! Noir then came in and broke up our fight! "Zanosuke-sensei… this isn't how you usually act… you haven't noticed but you can't continue… look at you wounds".

I checked… oh crap! Each tiny cut on my body… was all aimed perfectly! If he had hit me with a lot of force I would end up like… grated meat! Cyan yawned "Well… see you guys later… the kid left a little while ago you won't find him again any time soon" he leapt into a portal and disappeared! I actually fight someone with incredible strength and I couldn't finish the fight… why! And that kid… might have been able to help me!

Afterwards I was healed and no longer in any serious threat. Noir told me to fight her afterwards… I agreed… it was only practiced but… the battle was going on a similar way to my battle with Cyan! "We both know all your moves Zanosuke… in the future you taught me… and Cyan… well you'll find the truth later… you have to become stronger and make a bit of a better fighting style!" What bugs me is she doesn't seem serious… oh well I guess I would have to train harder from now on…

(Web comic should be done tomorrow I guess… Next chapter "Always in the dark: You shall be hanged! Look forward to it and review!)