Chapter 6 : Reawakened Energy
It's morning and I have the most excited and carefree look on my face right now, I cooked breakfast today, cleaned the fiasco that happened in the living room yesterday, fix most of the furniture that was broken during the fight, and also cleared the commotion between the owner of the apartment and the basilicom guard's. After preparing breakfast I was about to call Compa to eat, but she was there by the doorway with her mouth agaped and eyes wided by shock. Yesterday the apartment was a mess, but she saw no broken furniture, no dirt marks on the floor, and most importantly she saw this room a mess 3 hours ago. "Is Sega a super nice or is he a perfect husband type of person" Compa thought to herself when she was being politely sitted down by Sega in the Dinning room. She saw that the breakfast today was Quiche Lorraine, a Quiche is a savoury open flan consisting of pastry crust filled with eggs, milk or cream, and cheese, meat, seafood or vegetables. Quiche can be served hot or cold. It is part of French cuisine but is also popular in other countries, particularly as party food.
Compa was dumbfounded at Sega's skill in house work and cooking, especially cooking. She finds it hard to make some of the cuisines that she sees, since most of them are very complex to make. But Sega… he seems to be relax when making those kinds of dishes, not to mention their delicious and only takes him a couple of minutes to make the dishes. I didn't fail to notice that Compa was awed strucked to the point of not responding when called out, I came closer to Compa and waved my hand in front of her and tried to get a response.
"Compa… Compa… Compa! Are you… okay?" After a few failed attempts, I yelled which cause Compa to snap out of trance and looked at me. Okay she must be still tired from last night's fiasco, so as soon as Compa registered the question that was given to her, she simply nodded no.
"N-no it's nothing Sega, just surprise that you manage to fix everything under three hours" Compa said in an uncertained tone. "I really don't know if I should be shock or imprest or even terrified at Sega's abilities in house work" Compa thought to herself since she really wonder if Sega is a guy or a girl.
"Oh… but I always manage my family's house by my own, not to mention that I was limited with supplies to clean my house back in my reality" I said with a calm and caring look on my face, Compa was just completely broken when she realize what Sega said. After Sega said that it was normal for him to do this in his world Compa just became lightheaded and collapse, but Sega caught her just in the nick of time. Compa was carried in a bridal style, which made Compa flustered and red as a bright cherry. Compa squirmed in a cute manner as she tried to distance herself from Sega, but Sega moved to Compa's room. Compa has an idea what was going on, but it was NOT a nice or pleasant idea, after I got inside Compa's room she started to be more redder and also started to hit my chest saying "baka!" frantically, oh and "Baka" which means "Stupid" in Japanese. I just looked in confusion and just place her on the her bed and she looked at me with angry eyes.
"Wh-what are trying to do Se-Sega!" Compa ask me furiously, I was confused as hell on what Compa was on about. She place her left arm over her chest and her right arm to cover her skirt, which gave me the idea on what she was on about… but now I feel like my face was redder than a tomato after figuring it out.
"I-it's not l-like that C-Compa?! Ma-maybe you should re-rest for now, you looked exhausted Compa…" I said to Compa to clarify, she now understanded my clarification. But she still feels like she needs to be careful of Sega and his attractive looks, after she realize that she thought that Sega was "attractive" made her blush even harder. As her heart felt like a bomb ready to explode, Sega caught her attention.
"Oh look at the time! I need to get going I don't want to be late for IF's training regiment, since she did accept my request to learn from her… and plus she might kick my ass if I didn't show up now" I muttered the last part under my breath so Compa wouldn't hear it, she looked at me with a little blush on her face and happily giggled.
"Okay Sega, just remember not to get killed or more hurt than what iffy can do, okay?" Compa said it in a concerned look on her face that says " Take care of yourself and IF okay". I looked at her and smiled, after saying goodbye to Compa I looked the apartment door and proceeded to go to the meeting place that me and IF agreed on, which was at the very end of Virtua Forest Depths she said to me last night.
I ran all the way to the meeting place since I'm super hype for the training, I slayed maybe a total of 100 monsters along the way. After effortlessly demolishing an army of monsters ranging from funguses, piranha flowers, adult size spiders, and kupokats… yeah I'm not tried or hurt in the slightest. I arrived at location where the map that IF gave me last night, I checked the map again to make sure that I'm in the right place… from the looks of it I'm in the exact place that I should be at… but where's IF? After that thought I heared a woman's voice from above, near the branches.
"Took you long enough… I've been waiting here for about an hour now, you shouldn't make a gal wait you know" IF said to me in a scolding tone which I was surprise, I was not surprise that IF is scolding me. But surprise at her agility and speed, since she told me she'll get to the meeting place one and half hour ago and I know that the trip from the Guild to Virtua Forest takes an hour of travelling by foot.
"Whoa… I'm really surprise at the speed you got here and the agility to get up there IF" I said to her while a sweat is dropping from my forehead, she just smiled it off and jump down from the highest branch I've seen. Trust me it's as high as three floors of a building, now I'm more surprise of IF's abilities yet again since her endurance to still be able to walk after a long fall. My mouth is now agaped and eyes that says "Bruh… how though" in them, after noticing my expression IF giggle a little and spoke again.
"Hehehe… are you actually ready for the training Sega? You seem pale all of a sudden" IF said with a smirk on her face, which looks like a challege to me.
"Yeah! I've been waiting all morning to start getting stronger… It has been a will since I fought to get stronger though" I quitely mutter the last part but still have a confident tone in my voice. IF seems to like that since she's smiling with a whole lot of respect behind it.
"Okay let's start Sega! Get ready I'm gonna strike first, your job defeat me and don't get knock out" IF said while readied herself in a fighting stance with her katars out. I pulled out my katana out of its scubbard and readied also in a fighting stance.
"In the count of three the match will start! Sega are you ready?" IF ask for me to start the battle, I simply nodded and started the count.
"ONE!" I said with an excited and loud tone. "TWO!" IF continued the count to three with the same tone as me, a brief silence fell over both of us as the wind started to blow harder. Then finally stopped all I said before charging in was. "THREE!" Both of us said at once and charging at one another, all I heard was metal clashing over and over, sparks flying as we tried to avoid each other to strategize. IF charge to the left of me and quickly turned to my direction in under a millisecond, but I manage to block her incoming attack since I anticipated her doing that since she proved her agility to my earlier.
I relentlessly slash at her, but she dodge each and every slash I made. She looked at me with a smirk and assaulted me directly, I attemted to block the incoming attack as I thought, but it was a distraction to get behind me and attacked me from behind since I couldn't register where she was.
"AAAGH!" As the seemingly endless assault takes place at my back I grunted from the pain. I quickly turned back with a horizontal slash on the way, IF quickly saw this attack and dodge it. Making her jump in the air and land fifteen meters away from me and proceeded to run around me. I was still blinded by the pain of the last assault that took place on my back, right now I'm anticipating where will IF strike now. Since I'm a little paralyze from the pain, which was the perfect time to strike.
"Heh it's over now! Haaaaaaaah!" I saw IF in midair, she is trying to dive bomb me. My insticts made me blocked the attack and with that, I got myself lured in the bait IF set. She then let go her katars and proceeded to attack me with her fists. I got a flurry of punches and kicks, it got on the my knees and breathing heavily while using my katana as a walking stick.
"Hehehe… your still weak to get beat up that badly" IF with a smirk on her face as she looks at me. I'm sort of irritated at the tone of her voice, I'm forcing myself to get up and continue the fight.
"Hah… hah… I can still hah… fight hah… IF get hah… ready!" I said while blood dripped down from my head, I readied myself in a fighting stance. But I feel like my whole body is about to give in, yet I want to continue to push my limits. That's the only way I know how to become stronger, push yourself to the brink of deathm IF on the other hand sighed and looked at me.
" How are going to fight in your current condition? Maybe you should take a breather, because you look like you're about to pass out" IF said while crossing her arms, she seems to be concered at the fact that I'm bleeding everywhere. But that won't stop me from continuing the battle, so I got up with a confident look in my face.
" Hah… then hah… make me" I said to her with a smirk on my face. IF looked at me with a little irritation in her eyes, she heaved a sigh and smirked back at me.
"Hehehe… I just remembered, you're stubborn as hell, you should know when to quit Sega" IF said in a cold tone and a blank stare directed to me. I felt me spine shivering a little, but that's not enough to make back down in any battles I'm gonna partake. I looked at her with my eyes, eyes that have killing intent in them. As a Hunter I need to give it my all, but it's not just the tittle. But the people who I needed to protect, whether they were family, friends, or strangers. I'll put everything I have in the line to protect.
All the we can hear was dead silence, all we can see was each other. IF and I have the intent to end one another life, she is still in full strength while I was at my limit. She stared me down with her katars in hands, I did the same with my katana. Strange I've been using this katana like sword and never named it, I now that a good swordsman names their weapon. But am I really a good swordsman? Or am I just an amateur who just claimed the katana in my hands.
"I see you are in a predicament Sega" A voice out of nowhere spoke to me, I looked around me to know where was that voice coming from. I notice time has stopped moving, everything even IF is still ,no sound, no light, no darkness not even I could move. But one thing that I'm certain about, it's correlated with me and my new life.
"Who or what are you?! Come out of hiding and show yourself" I said with great confusion and concern, why concern? Well if I can't move from here then I'm a sitting duck, waiting to be shot down by an unknown enemy. While I was asking the mysterious creature to show it self, I was struggling to move my whole body. Since I'm also stuck in time, but then it spoke again.
"My… you don't know who I am? You've been using me the whole and yet you don't know who I am. I'm terribly disappointed of you Sega" The voice talked in a cryptic manner, it bothered me who or what was talking to me. But yet it felt like I've heard this voice before, plus how did it know my name?
"Huh… what are you talking about?! I've never used anyone and vice versa. Let me ask you again show yourself?!" I said it now with an agitated tone and a stern look, I'm now angry and even more confused to whom the voice was. It's making me dig in the deepest parts of my memories, it's like your searching inside an ocean of memories to find a specific memory. It's almost impossible to find a single nam-… no a single person in the endless faces and voices you've met in the past.
"Do you really not know who I am? Then you have no rights in using the sword in your hand" The said back to me, but the voice was closer. Way closer… I looked at the source of the voice, then my eyes wided and my mouth agaped. The source of the voice… was the sword that was with me from the day I got here, the same sword that felt familiar to me… the sword must have an importance.
"You're… the sword then, I presume… the same sword that I have used in many of my battles here in GameIndustri, the same sword that felt familiar in mant ways than one… I messed up huh?" I finally realize what the voice meant, what it really was. The voice is the sword that he used through thick and thins of battles. When he realize this he felt the pain and suffering of the sword in hand, the sadness and anger it had on me, and the importants and memories that the sword wants to show me.
"So… you finally realize what I was saying then Sega, are you entertained by the actions and thoughts that you executed in your battles? Well now answer the question I asked you Sega" The sword floated out of my loosened gripped and floated directly in front of me. I was ask this question 'Am I satisfied of my actions and ideas?' the sword was asking a very painful question. It honestly makes me wonder what did I do wrong, what cause this to happen. But it dawn on me that I was mistaken, mistaken that things were easy at the beginning and hard at the end, no… there was NOT a carefree beginning. But a wake up call that this world was crueler than the world where I came from, I understand the consequences that my actions portray, but I never really bothered to think that there was any problem in my actions or really bothered caring at all. But now everything I do DOES matter, whether it'll be small or big, whether people are harmed or not. So I need to answer what I really know.
"I was never satisfied to begin with, and I will never be satisfied by my mistakes and failure. But that's the point failure and mistakes are what drives people to do better, so from learning from my mistakes. I can't change the mistake of not remember who you are in the past. But maybe let's start over again, and if you agree to that who ever you are then, can you tell me your name pal?" I said my answer to the voice, I know deep down that you have important role in my past, but now let's start all over again. Let's learn the hardships together and acknowledge each other.
"… … … I would like that offer, then allow me to introduce my self partner. Then maybe you should introduce yourself to me as well " The voice said to me with a tone of acceptance, I know also that the voice doesn't like the offer one hundred percent. But he is willing accept a reboot, I never wanted a normal life because I never fit in as normal.
"Remember my name mortal, my name is …" He said a basic introduction, but I'll try my damn hardest to remember who you are. I'm now ready to call my sword and use it to it's full potential. The bond with me and him growing, one day he might accept me as friend and partner. "Bōkyaku the Blade of Oblivion" Bōkyaku told me his full name and tittle, hmm… his tittle… fits him well. Oblivion… the name that distorts my memories and connections. "But you can call me Oblivion the Sword of Destruction" He said to me, no matter I call you Oblivion or Bōkyaku, you'll always be my partner and friend.
"Well… nice to meet you Oblivion. My name is Sega a Phantom of Both Worlds" with that I know my sword's name Bōkyaku I while never forget you.
As my union/(reunion?) with Bōkyaku or Oblivion. Oblivion started to glow a black fiery aura, as I looked at it I felt power surged throught the air and into me, the feeling of a slumbering energy awakening or releasing power in and out my body. The black fiery aura surrounding Oblivion is now surrounding me, as if Oblivion and I were merging into one entity.
"Wh-what's going on Bōkyaku?! What is this energy surging in us" I ask my partner as he float near me.
"The energy that sleeps within you, is now starting to surface. The energy you feel is both our energies combined, I'm helping you stabilize your energy at a quick pace" Oblivion clarified what is going on with my sudded outburst of energy, wait… sleeping energy? So my exaple was right but…this much? I felt my power skyrocket to about 10x the normal energy output I release.
"So… this is what we're capable of… amazing, but I know this ain't are full potential. We have yet to awakened that state of ours, but oblivion I feel like this is needed. So thank you and sorry for everthing that you and I did" With a smile in my face and offering my left hand to him. All I hear was a chuckle and he spoke again.
"Don't worry about the past just focus on the future. Like what you said earlier, we have yet to achieve our full potential. We can still grow and aquire now skill along way, are okay with that?" Oblivion ask me, I just gave a full hearted nod with a smile wider than half of my face.
After that time started to move, bird were singing, flowers were blooming, on days like these you are to spend time with family. IF now unfrozen in time looked at me with a cold glare as she raise her left hand with her katar. I then started to bleed again but this time my regeneration is 10x faster, which made me heal to full health in a minute. I raised Oblivion in my left hand and spoke to IF.
"IF… do you have a name for your katars? Or do you not know either?" My question snapped out IF of her trance and tried to register the question.
"Wh-what is that question? Of course I don't name my katars, but it does have a name it's Triple Edges." IF said in a confused tone, a smirk is what you can see on my face and a fully healed body. "Ho-how did yo-, you know what never mind how you're fully healed. But you won't complain that you weren't at full strength, and also I'll ask you same question. What is your katana's name?" IF said the last part with a smirk, I smiled back as my sword is engulfed in a black fire. IF's eyes were widened and her mouth was fully agaped, the energy from my sword is spreading all over the area, it feels like a black sun merged with my sword.
"My sword's name is… Bōkyaku the Sword of Oblivion or Oblivion the Sword of Destruction. Prepare IF I ain't gonna hold back now!" I said with full confidence, my eyes were sparking black and white. Readied myself in a fighting stance and waited for IF to take the a fighting stance as well.
"Heh… I see you still want to fight, well then bring everything you have at me!" IF took a fighting stance as well, the wind blow hard through us, as we stared down each other again, but this time I feel more confident in my and Oblivion's power. After the wind stopped we charge at full speed, IF swinged first. But every slash IF does I dodge with no effort at all, after dodging the strike I jumped high in the air and landed behind her. She was surprise that I appeared behind her, then after landing I hack n' slash IF back to front and front back. IF groaned in pain as she found herself in the same situation that she did on me, she then attempted to retaliate with a flurry of stabs and slashes, I dodge again with no effort at all.
After a couple of minutes of dodging and attacking, I learned to strategize in a quick manner. IF on the other hand was to the brink of collapsing, but I know her now. She's the same as me… a very stubborn individual, I charge and attacked her with a vertical strike and it landed. She was now on midair groaning from the pain, I jumped high than her body and perfomed a somersault and dive bomb solor plexus. Which made her scream in pain as she fell to the ground, she was covered with small cuts and stabs trust me they're not severe at all. But I can't say at won't hurt like hell, she fell uncounsious in my arms.
*10 minutes later*
"Aggh… what… happened" IF said weakly as she sit herself up, she saw her arms, legs and abdomen. Then she saw me at the tree next to hers, she remembered what happed clear as day. She got absolutely beaten and yet he help her after the battle, now she's confused on how he got strong ridiculiously fast, then remembered something.
"My sword's name is… Bōkyaku the Sword of Oblivion or Oblivion the Sword of Destruction" She remembered the name of his sword. "Strange… I've never heard a name like that before, but yet the name it fits well on the sword though. Oblivion a nice ring to a blade shrouded in color black, …wait did it produce a black aura when he said the sword's name? huh a strange blade perfect to a strange man" IF thought to herself, she then looked at the young man. She saw what the young man looks now, he has an oily raven black hair that reach his shoulders, he had what she can describe a light grey platinum eyes that shined like the moon. He was noticeable taller than nepgear and not to mention he had a medium body build, he also has a looked of a nice yet powerful man.
IF saw him as a person that has made it through rougher times in life than she could have ever imagine, she felt her face warm and her cheeks a rosy pink blush. She felt her heart beating fast and her head getting heavy, she doesn't know what's happening. But then… Sega woke up, in front of him was IF sitting on his abdomen, he only felt his blush and IF's blush grow. But of us just looked at the other direction and never talked about ever again.
"Soo… thank you for patching me up while I was unconscious, and sorry about that I was… trying to wake you up! That's right… trying to wake you up" IF said to me while looking away, I also looked away since what I just witness was completely embrassing to both me and IF.
"No i-it's… okay, let's just go back to Compa's apartment in Planeptune, also why not for dinner IF? I'm sure Compa would like that" I said to break the akward conversation that we had made.
"Su-sure why not let's go" IF said rushing her way to Planeptune, I quickly pursue her and caught her by surprise, I grabbed her by the wrist and she turned to see me.
"Sorry for making you feel bad IF, and thank you for the training. Let's do more tomorrow and some more the next day" I said with a smile, she looked at me with widened eyes and a small blush on her cheeks.
"Ye-yeah sure… let's do some training again sometimes, and next time I'll win" If said the last part with a smrik, I also had a smirk on my face. Now that's a challege being declared.
"Sure… but I won't go easy on you IF, mark my words I'll be powerful enough to protect anyone in the future" A ray of confidents can be seen on my face, IF smiled and offered her hand to a shake, I complied and shake her hand in respect. I felt our friendship grew the past 8 hours, then they headed their way to Planeptune.
Chapter 6 : END