Once a NEET always a NEET 23

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At long last he had made it, he had finally eliminated and cleared a path for him to enter the Black House without any fear of the undead bothering him, or anything else for that matter… or so he thought.

Parked just a few feet from the historical building and standing on it's roof were the same soldiers that had been attacking him since he returned to his home state and then suddenly vanished upon Kazuma's arrival.

"I don't know if you guys can understand me or not, but I honestly missed you all since back in Hillsdale" said Art as he hopped out his vehicle.

"Art Legend" they all said, "And a King Shark is a shark to you too, an a I am Groot" said Art as they all began to hop their way off the building and circle around him.

Moving his way towards the trunk of his car, Art had began to replace his trusty repeater and boom stick for instead a modern day assault rifle, and the laser sword he had built himself.

"Let's rock" said Art as he fired the under barrel smoke grenade from his assault rifle as it clouded the whole area in smoke, as the shadow soldiers wasted no time in firing blindly within the smoke for as long as they can.

Seeing this as his opportunity, Art caused another rupture of water to explode but also freeze them all from the waist down.

From there they were easy pickings to take on as he began to shoot at them, but even in their frozen state they were still able to torque and move their bodies at rapid speed to dodge all the bullets.

"Really didn't want to resort to shooting your guys in the dick, cause you know, but you leave me no choice" said Art as he began to aim his gun towards below the belt line, but one of the shadow soldiers got smart in started shooting at Art and destroyed his rifle.

Annoyed, Art casted a large fire ball at the soldier, who against all logic manage to survive and was now free as he free run his way towards Art.

"Oh shit" said Art as he went to grab his laser sword, but the solider had already laid a straight punch to his face, sending him skidding across the ground.

Getting up back on his feet, Art saw the rest of the soldiers were making an attempt to break free from their prison, as the sole soldier that was free to move stood over Art.

Making another quick dash attack on Art, the solider had not anticipated for him cause a sinkhole the size of his foot to appear under him as he nearly fell over.

Having trapped his target once more, Art had ran booted the man square in the face as his head reeled back a little, before Art focused on the rest of the free soldiers that were present.

Damn it, these guys are predictable, but their leader knows how to think outside the box, thought Art as he was already planning how to finish them off one by one.

Trying to make another escape to his car, he was caught off guard when shortest solider had not only jump on Art's back but used the moment to slam his face against the hood of his car.

Pinned to the ground now, the soldiers now circled around him while helping their leader back to their feet, as they all began to pull out knives made out of O-Iron.

Knowing he was going to be a pin cushion any minute and was surprised how strong the solider on his back was, even when enhancing his own physical strength with his aura, Art was trapped like a rat.

"Shazam!" shouted Art as a large bolt of lightning came raining down on him, with the intended purpose of electrocuting the soldiers surrounding him to death, however they were quick to react and moved out the way just in time as he was the one left getting electrocuted to death.

Once the lightning had cleared up, Art was left lying on the ground, fried and spazzing out from the electrical jolt and covered in soot.

This is bullshit, thought Art as the leader of the shadow soldiers lifted Art by his neck and raised him to eye level.

"Art Legend" said the soldier as he began to pull out his knife and ready to stab him in the heart, but at the last minute held his blade as he and the rest of the soldiers felt a presence within the city that can't be ignored.

Dropping Art back on the ground, the group scattered once more, giving the hero from hell a chance to catch his breath.

The hell was that all about, thought Art as his wounds began to heal once more as he stood tall on his feet again.

At least that means I can enter the house in peace, thought Art with a smile as he began to walk his way into the building but stopped just as he reached the stoop.

Even though the voices in the back of his head told him he had to go inside, and that this was his only chance to do so in peace without risking anything, his heart told him that he was needed.

"Sorry my dark lord and master, but I'm needed and I know it" said Art as he raced back to his car and started to make chase after the shadow soldiers to god knows where.

Elsewhere

After their short little boat ride to cross into the city, the group was honestly contemplating to retreat back in hopes not risking losing another chance to get out of danger like the first time around.

"Is it just me, or does it feel like we're walking straight into the gates of hell by setting foot in this city" asked Hisako, "Yeah, I thought the rest of the state looked like it was hit by a sudden war, but this, this feels like we're walking into a war that never ends" said Minori.

"Guys, just stay calm and focused, we gotta find Art and get his ass out of this city, then we can focus on building ourselves a boat to travel out of here" said Iwasawa.

"How the hell are you so calm about this" asked Kazuma, "News flash, Iwasawa totally has a thing for Art" said Sekine, "I told you already, I don't feel that way about him" said Iwasawa.

"Either you're in denial or just not even aware of it yourself, but your actions does seem to make the impression that you have strong feelings about Art, amorous ones at that" said Jibril.

"Can't you take the skies and search for Art ahead without us" said Iwasawa as she was starting to get annoyed by her friends comments whether she likes Art or not, which she doesn't.

"So question, how does us needing this Art guy stands to be important to all of us in the grand scheme of things" asked Kazuma.

"Remember how we told you how he builds all of his and our own weapons, he also built our vehicles practically from nothing but scraps, and if we plan to ensure a safe travel back to Japan without boat issues, than we need him" said Irie.

"So essentially this guy is the walking embodiment of the McGuffin" said Kazuma, "Kinda undermining him, but yeah, essentially" said Minori.

"That's great" said Kazuma as he can't believe they're being forced to rescue this guy who so far comes out as irresponsible and selfish, what's more he's an immortal with no human preservation if he had to guess.

"So exactly how did you say we're gonna find him again" asked Kazuma, "He said he had to come to the city searching for the Black House, so if we find that, we'll find him, if not keep your ears open towards gunshots, explosions, or the roaring sound of a Mustang engine" said Hisako.

"Ok, so exactly where is this Black House" asked Kazuma, "No idea" said Minori as Kazuma finally stood in his tracks.

"Hold on, you mean to tell me we're risking our lives here to save a guy who is probably already dead, who may or may not be hiding in a house we don't know the address to, much less know what it looks like!" exclaimed Kazuma as he looked like he was about to pop a blood vessel.

"Calm down Kazuma, we don't want to attract any unnecessary attention towards us" said Irie, "No, like seriously what we're doing is stupid, cause frankly at this point I'd rather shoot myself in the head than risk getting shot whatever it is out there, and for what, for a guy who clearly ditched us" said Kazuma.

"Kazuma, you're out of line and are starting to piss me off" said Iwasawa, "Look, I didn't asked to get suddenly abducted and dragged across the Pacific to enter a different war, I just want to go back home to our friends and my girlfriend and let them know I'm alive" said Kazuma.

"Then go, seriously, go wait back at the boat and I swear if you even think about ditching us here, we will find a way to escape this place and leave you here to yourself" said Iwasawa.

"There might be a chance none of us are going to escape" said Hisako as her eyes widen, "What do you mean" asked Iwasawa as Hisako pointed towards the roof of one of the buildings as the group went wide eye seeing the shadow soldiers alive waiting for them.

"You gotta be kidding me" said Sekine in disbelief, "No way, I thought they all died back in Hillsdale" said Irie, "Exactly who are these guys" asked Kazuma as he had a bad feeling he wasn't going to like the answer.

"Trouble, and I mean big trouble" said Minori as she pointed her gun towards the shadow soldiers as their leader pointed down at one of them.

"Satou Kazuma" they said as the whole group turned to look at Kazuma, "Ok this is bullshit" cried Kazuma as he has no idea why he was suddenly the number one victim to these killers he's personally never met.

"Everyone stay tight and get ready to fight" said Hisako as she lifted her shotgun and started shooting at the shadow soldiers with everyone following her actions.

Scattering about the shadow soldiers got to ground level and dodged every bullet that came their way before they got face to face with someone and started tossing them aside and prepared to take them on one on one.

"Kazuma stay close to Jibril" said Minori as she ran up and deliver a straight punch to a shadow soldiers face, before leg sweeping them to the ground.

Pulling out her gun, Minori began to shoot at the immobile target, but they manage to dodge every bullet before they kicked Minori in the stomach.

As that was happening, Hisako had been locked in holding her shotgun with a shadow soldier as they were playing tug a war with it, before she decided to play dirty and used her weight to pull herself back, and shadow solider before lifting her leg up and kicked them in the crotch.

This worked to her favor as she got her shotgun back in her hands, but before she could pull the trigger, she was knocked to the ground, by Sekine and Irie as they were tossed over by their solider.

"Plug your ears and kiss your ass goodbye if you guys want to" coughed Sekine as she had dropped a frag back towards her and Irie's attackers before it finally went off sending the group to scatter as asphalt rain from the sky.

"Come on you 2 it's time to get up and step up" said Hisako as the trio got on their feet and continued on their attack.

Iwasawa had long since ditched her gun in favor of using the riot baton Art had made her since it had cryo functions as she was forcing her solider to back away.

Once they were pinned to a wall, Iwasawa charged forward with her baton up in the air, but the shadow soldier manage to slip pass her, before spinning around and kicking her in the back.

Now with her face planted to the wall, she was at the mercy of her shadow soldier as they pinned her to said wall and twisted her arm till she released her hold on her weapon.

Not one to give up that easy, Iwasawa slammed the back of her head into the face of the shadow soldier, before attempting to steal their assault rifle and prematurely pulled the trigger on everyone, much to Minori's relief as she needed to back away from her fight.

"This is getting out of control, we should definitely retreat" said Kazuma as he began to back away a little, "Need I remind you that we're currently surrounded by a powerful force of enemies, ones that are very persistent and are hard to shake off" said Jibril.

"Need I remind you that this is my first confrontation with these guys so I have no idea what to expect here" said Kazuma as a shadow soldier stood in front of the pair as Kazuma took out his bow and shot an arrow at them, only to witness his luck was no match to their agility.

Speed running towards Kazuma, the only reason he didn't get hurt or whatever they plan to do to him personally was because he used lurk last minute and had another arrow ready.

Unfortunately his arrows had no means to inflicting any real damage especially since they could easily grab them mid air as the arrow head was mere inches away from their faces.

"Ok we're definitely doomed" said Kazuma as the shadow soldiers threw everyone around and said his name creepily again.

"And I'm definitely fucked" exclaimed Kazuma as the shadow soldiers finally circled around and apprehended him at long last as he struggled to get free.

"Kazuma" cried Irie as she and everyone was struggling to get back on their feet, "Damn it, we need some serious back up" said Hisako as the lifted their weapons and pointed at the shadow soldiers, but in turn they used Kazuma as their hostage in a shoot or we'll kill him.

"Any ideas how you guys want to approach this" asked Iwasawa, "Definitely not letting them kidnap Kazuma, but I don't think these guys even know how to talk properly" said Minori as the shadow soldiers were slowly backing away.

"Please don't let them take me away, at least the last person was kinda hot" cried Kazuma, "Don't panic we'll think of something" said Hisako as honestly they were all out of ideas as to how they were gonna save Kazuma.

Lucky for them something was coming their way as it roared louder than any animal on the planet, it was black on black, and made of metal as it played LINKIN PARK music from the speakers.

"You guys hear that" said Iwasawa as everyone, including the shadow soldiers turned their heads to see that Art had finally came to the rescue as he rolled out of his car once it came to a skidding halt.

"Hi everybody" Art said as he took out his shotgun and fired a gust of wind at the shadow soldiers and Kazuma as they were all sent sky high.

"Art, you realized that the man you saved a month back was there right" asked Jibril, "Yeah, now stand back so I can save him" said Art as he began to make himself an ice slide for Kazuma to ascend more safely as he came to stop in front of the group.

"While we're glad to see you, we're still very upset at you for ditching us out of the blue" said Minori, "You can kick my butt later, for now our friends are back" said Art as the shadow soldiers have returned.

"Art Legend" said the shadow soldiers, "Yeah, I'm a fucking legend already, can't you bastards say anything else" said Art angrily, "Satou Kazuma".

"Ah touché" said Art as his legs began to glow in his aura before running towards his cars trunk, where he tossed a smoke grenade at the shadow warriors again.

"Gather around, I got some new toys for us to play with" shouted Art as he waved at everyone, as they had gotten adapted towards listening towards his hand gestures in terms of communication.

"I call dibs on the grenade launcher" said Sekine as she nabbed the 6 ring pill lobber, "Deagles, nice" said Minori as she grabbed the most iconic badass pistol made to this date.

"If you don't mind, I'm calling dibs on this" said Iwasawa as she grabbed the chainsaw sword, "Just don't go nuts with that all right" said Hisako as she grabbed a newer shotgun.

"Here you go Kazuma, hope you're not to uncomfortable with guns" said Irie as she handed him an M1 Garand rifle, "Never fired one in spite of having friends who owned a lot of guns and playing shooters back on my Play Station" said Kazuma as he took the rifle.

"Then you're lucky to get your hands on the perfect rifle, in spite of it being dated" said Minori as she stood next to Kazuma's side to instruct him how to use the weapon properly.

"Jibril, when this is over and after I'm done visiting the Black House, I've got something to give you in order to make you combat ready again" said Art as he tossed his double barrel back in his car and pulled out his trusty repeater.

"You truly know how to make woman feel special señor" said Jibril, "I try mademoiselle" said Art as he also slid on gauntlet on his forearm.

"By the way, who's our friend here, now that he's awake" asked Art, "His name is Satou Kazuma, but we should really save introductions for a later time" said Minori.

"Sounds good" said Art as he began to fire ice rounds at the shadow soldiers as they began to scatter and surround them once again.

However because the group remained in a tight circle, Art was willing to risk causing another rupture of water to knock them back as it gave everyone a chance to hit them, be it Sekine firing a pill in the chest of one soldier, or Hisako bashing the butt of her gun into another soldiers face, or Iwasawa literally cutting and shredding one of them across the chest.

As for Art, the gauntlet he put on had transformed into a metal glove as he then charged with his aura to enhance his face as he delivered a straight punch to the soldiers face, knocking them back and finally tearing the mask he was wearing.

"I think we can actually beat them this time around" said Irie optimistically, "Seeing as our hero here finally stepped up in terms of power, I gotta agree" said Iwasawa as she turned to see Art had a look of shock plastered on his face.

The reason, upon seeing the true face of the soldier he had knocked out, Art now knew he was fighting and possibly whom else he was fighting.

"Ben" said Art as the shadow soldier in front of him held his face and looked at Art with anger as blood spilled from his nose and lips.

"Ben it's me Art, don't you recognize me, I gathered your siblings and friends together and formed the…" began Art as he soon realized the soldiers he was fighting was indeed the same group of kids he turned to raise into badasses.

"Sombra Squad" said Art as he frantically looked back and forth towards each member of the shadow soldiers.

"Art what's going on, you're kinda freaking me out here" asked Iwasawa, "Jibril can you ask Art what's wrong" asked Hisako.

"Art is everything all right, what's wrong" asked Jibril as Art lowered his weapon and began to look at all the shadow soldiers.

"Ben, Rod, Heather, Asha, Beans, Kit, please lower your weapons! Remember I'm your guys commanding officer and founder of the Sombra Squad, I helped and gave you guys a chance to prove yourselves, and I was very proud of all of you. Please I don't want to hurt you guys anymore than I already have. That's an order from your commanding officer, your friend" said Art.

His words did get to them as all the shadow soldiers dropped their weapons and gripped their heads as they all screamed in pain.

"What is going on here" asked Sekine, "Apparently Art knew these people, and made them all to be the best soldiers" explained Minori.

"Commander" said Ben as he was choking on those words before he and everyone had a convulsing fit, before choosing to flee from their fight.

"No! Don't go!" cried Art as he tried to reach for them, but it was too late as they had all fled from sight.

"Art, they're gone now, I'm sorry" said Jibril as Art stood there and lowered his head in shame for not figuring out who they were fast enough and why they seemed to be fixated on him.

"We gotta go to the Black House. I gotta go there, talk to Sam and figure out a way to save them and finally send all of us back home" said Art as he began to head towards his car ready to finally reach his destination.

But before he could start loading up, Hisako came from behind him and literally kicked him in the ass much to Art's surprise as he turned to face her.

"Hisako, what gives!" exclaimed Art as Iwasawa stepped up and head butted him in the chest.

"You said we can all kick your ass once the fighting was over, and trust us when we intend to do so after all the worry you put us through" said Minori as she punched Art across the jaw.

"Fuck" exclaimed Art as Sekine decided he deserved a good kick to the huevos as Jibril flew over and punted the back of his head.

Feeling like he'd been physically bullied by everyone, he looked to see Irie raise her hand intending to slap him as Art shut his eyes and just waited for her to get it over with.

As tempting as it was, Irie chose not to and instead hug him, and hug him tight, much to Art's surprise.

"I think you learned your lesson, now please don't be an idiot and do this to us ever again" said Irie as Art turned to Jibril for a translation.

"She said that are an idiot for leaving us all worried sick, and we hope you learned your lesson" said Jibril, "Si" answered Art as Jibril lowered herself to hug Art before the rest of the girls came hug their village idiot and hero.

While this was nothing more than a couple of friends making up, to Kazuma he felt like he was the 3rd wheel in this guys world crossing harem, something he felt wasn't right.

Seriously, this guy goes missing on a suicide mission by himself, leaving these attractive ladies to worry, and they chose to forgive him after that near death experience, like seriously what the hell am I doing wrong, thought Kazuma as he was the king of scumbags and yet he's not swimming in ass like Art.

"Hey Art, think you can fix us up a ride to catch up to you" asked Minori as Art smiled and showed off his skills when he built them all a new battle van out of destroyed cars and other crap from the buildings surrounding them.

"Huh so the guy can build anything out of nothing, that's pretty badass" said Kazuma, "Told you so" said Sekine as everyone but Iwasawa got in the van as she hopped in with Art as they followed him towards the Black House.

Once there everyone stood outside and waited for Art to conduct whatever business he needs to do to ensure that they can gather their friends and finally return back home to their own worlds.

Yes, another chapter down and uploaded as we continue on forward towards the home stretch to this series, so really hope you guys are liking these chapters as of late.

I think after this fic is done, I'm taking a short break and focus on writing book 3 to my novel series, which is more than halfway done at this point, so to all those who are interested in seeing Art more in action and some of the named characters he has mentioned so far in this chapter, now would be good time to catch up and read the first 2 books of 'How I Saved Satan's Daughter in Another World', all of which can be available to purchase on Google, Amazon, eBooks, Writers Republic, but to those who do want to buy and support me financially and directly, please go to my official website tobiyazadotcom, cause I would really appreciate it from you guys and anyone else who wishes to continue to follow and support me as I achieve my dreams as writer, you know before going to my fall back plan on becoming a teacher.

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