Chapter 14

It had been a few hours since they had started the fighting, Setsuna was fighting with Satoru, and neither of them seemed to want to give in.

"You're pretty good at this."

"I say the same thing to you."

"Is that girl so important to you?"

"For me, Ojou-sama is someone I must protect!" Setsuna shouted as she continued to attack him, in one of the blows, Satoru dodged and jumped back.

"Protect someone, humans always get stronger when they have something to protect, but when they lose what is important for them... he only thing they have left is impotence, hatred, fear or desolation, because what they loved will never come back, tell me, what would you do if you lost that girl?"

"You... Have you been through something similar?" Setsuna looked at him seriously.

"No, but in the missions that we usually do, we have found some cases similar to it."

"Why... How can you do something like that?" Setsuna said with a serious tone.

"We just follow orders, no matter what the situation is." Satoru shrugged.

"And that's why you want to take Leona?" she continued. "What are you going to do with her?"

"I don't know, they didn't tell us, it isn't something that we care about either." Satoru replied, with a shrug again. "But maybe they want to finish the experiment that started with her."

"Experiment?"

"We aren't allowed to talk about the plans that are carried out, but what I can tell you is that she is important to whom ordered us to capture her, otherwise, if she hadn't escaped, she would surely have been someone like us."

"What do you mean?" Setsuna asked curiously, raising an eyebrow.

"All of us are experiments that the organization did, although we are experiments complete, unlike her."

"Is it true what you say?"

"Humph, how do you think we got our powers? We didn't get it for training or because we have a talent." Satoru said as he put the sword over his shoulder.

"Then Leona-"

"She's totally different than what they did to us... But that's enough, I will not continue talking, get ready, I'm going to get serious." Satoru said, getting back into attack position.

"Wait, why do you do what they ordered? Do you really want to live like this?"

"We have no choice, besides, we were all captured since we were children, this is how we have learned to live."

"I see..." Setsuna said as she grabbed the handle of her sword with her hand tightly. "Then you leave me no alternative." Setsuna said, preparing to attack. "Shinmeiryuu Ougi... Zanganken!" Setsuna shouted, from the sword came a cutting wave of Ki that went straight to Satoru, however, he didn't get upset and deflected the attack with his sword in another direction causing an explosion.

"Do you really think you can beat me with just that?" Satoru staring at her. "Take it seriously." Satoru said, preparing to attack. "Wind Gust." with a movement, a cutting wind wave came out his sword and went towards Setsuna, she deflect it with the sword and did the same as Satoru. "You see? It is not that difficult to make such attacks." Satoru said, going quickly towards her, they collided swords and began to exchange blows quickly, attacking and blocking, in one of the attacks, Setsuna jumped back and began to concentrate Ki in the palm of her hand. "Shinmeiryuu Ougi ... Zankusho-San!" Setsuna shouted, several shots of Ki went towards Satoru, then he started to deflect the shots with his sword as he did before, causing smoke to rise from the ground. "Is that all?" Satoru asked, when the smoke dispersed, he saw that Setsuna wasn't there.

"Shinmeiryuu Ougi..." Setsuna murmured, as the sword was charging up with electricity, Satoru looked up and saw Setsuna.

"When did she-" Satoru said surprised, putting himself on a defensive position.

"Raimeiken!" Setsuna shouted, threw the attack and caused an explosion where Satoru was, Setsuna landed on the ground and waited until the smoke dispersed, when it did, she saw Satoru hurt.

"That impressed me." Satoru smiled, as he stretched his neck from one side to the other slightly. "That's why, I'm going to be serious."

"Tsk." Setsuna stared at him.

"Release." as he said it, his sword began to shine, then he threw an attack on Setsuna's face, receiving a small cut on the cheek and quickly hit her with his fist in the stomach sending her against a tree, Setsuna stood up as she could by the blow. "He is strong." Setsuna thought, Satoru went to her again and they started exchanging blows with the sword again and again, Satoru increasing his speed more and more, causing several cuts to Setsuna in the arms, legs and a few in her chest, then he concentrated more on his speed and threw a cut that wasn't very deep because Setsuna took a leap just in time.

"What's wrong, didn't you say you were going to save that girl?"

"That's what I'm going to do." Setsuna looked at him with a serious look, then pulled her pactio card out from her pocket. "Adeat!" as she said it, her wings reached out of her back.

"It must be some kind of power increase, I guess, although I don't notice much difference." Satoru said in a quiet voice. "Destructive waves persecutors." when brandishing his sword, he created several shock waves that went towards Setsuna, she tried to dodge it, but the shock waves were chasing her. "Shika Shishikuro!" Setsuna created sixteen swords at a time around her and collided with the shock waves of Satoru destroying itself by colliding with each other.

"Do not think this is over." Satoru said seriously. "Destruction-"

"Inatsurubi No Katama!" Setsuna cut him off, creating an offensive electric field around Satoru that stunned him so that he couldn't attack, then Setsuna quickly went to Satoru. "Kyokudai Raimeiken Maximum!" Setsuna shouted, creating a great explosion of lightning, after the smoke cleared, Satoru was lying on the ground.

"It's over." Setsuna said, pointing to Satoru with her sword in his neck.

"Really... Losing this way, I guess I underestimated you or I'm not as strong as I thought... In any case, you won..." Satoru said in a weak voice, Setsuna looked at him seriously.

"What? You can go find that girl, she is in those ruins." Satoru looked away from her.

"I didn't think you were-"

"Understanding?" Satoru chuckled. "I guess I'm something different from the others," Satoru said looking at the sky, after a few seconds he spoke again. "I envy you, we lost what you have a long time ago."

"What do you mean?"

"I would not have fought for someone like that, I suppose, if that girl had not escaped, she would have been just like us, now go away." Satoru closed his eyes, Setsuna turned around and began to leave.

"By the way... Keeping an eye on Akuro, he has something that can cause you more problems than you think..."

"What?" Setsuna turned around, but saw that he was unconscious. "I have to go find Ojou-sama." Setsuna said, entering the ruins. "Ojou-sama!" Setsuna shouted when she saw her unconscious, on top of the stone platform. "Ojou-sama!" she went towards her quickly.

"Set-chan...?" Konoka whispered as she woke up.

"Are you okay?" Setsuna asked, looking at her worriedly.

"Where am I?..." Konoka said, looking around as she sat up.

"You are in the ruins of an island, they kidnapped you and we came looking for you."

"What?" Konoka blinked. "Ah! I remember, I was in the dormitory and I saw that guy... Did he kidnap me? Why?"

"Ah... It's a long story to explain, the important thing is that you're fine, I'll explain you along the way, we have to go look for the others." Setsuna said helping her down the stone platform.

"Set-chan! You are injured! "Konoka said worriedly as she realized.

"It's nothing, Ojou-sama..."

"Even so, let me cure it." Konoka said, pulling her pactio card out.

"It is not necessary..." Setsuna raised her hands in defense and shaking her head from side to side, Konoka looked at her with a narrow look.

"It's okay..." Setsuna sighed.

"By the way, Set-chan, thank you for coming to save me." Konoka looked at her with a sincere smile on her face, Setsuna blushed slightly.

"It's nothing..." Setsuna smiled slightly, happy to have saved her.


End of chapter 14.

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