Hi this is Benji Himura I am starting a new fanfic. I don't own Ragnarok online I also don't own the characters of that story or the plot; taking out the changes that I will make and the characters that I will create. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
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Chapter twenty five: Intent
"It is still awkward." Atsuko said to Layla. "Benji's movements were smoother. Maybe is your breasts." "Hey my breasts aren't that big." Layla protested. "Sure I admit that they are big, but I am not bigger than you." "I know that we are on the same size there, but I mean that Benji doesn't have breasts." Atsuko replied. "And we both know how our breasts move when we move."
Now that Layla had to agree with Atsuko, without the strong but comfortable support of the adventurers' bra, fighting would leave her awfully sore afterwards, but even that had its limits. The motion of her breasts when fighting on a copy of Benji's style when fighting Dante throws her balance off, it took more effort than she first expected to adapt that style to her.
"But other than that awkwardness it is overall good." Atsuko commented. "You got the motions well, but you aren't as confident with the sword as Benji." Layla sighed, she also felt that. "I am not all that comfortable in swinging a two hands sword with one hand." Layla admitted. "It goes against everything that I learned."
"And that is why Benji is so dangerous." Atsuko commented casually. "He readily throws away the conceptions and teachings that we have in exchange of new things. Changes are good, even being scary, well sometimes changes aren't good but you get the meaning."
Layla nodded at Atsuko, she got the meaning, Layla already knew that, she was willing to try out few things, but it was just too hard to dismiss everything that she had previously learned, and that she have been used for mostly her entire adventurer life. Adapting to Benji's method of technique and not weapon being important to kill was taking lots of work.
"But that bastard sword isn't exactly balanced for the style either." Atsuko said. "Why you don't try with that sword that Haruka gave to Benji?" "I wanted to, but Haruka is still tied up on her room and she can't tell me where she got that sword." Layla replied. "And I know very well that it isn't an average sword."
Atsuko nodded agreeing, while swords aren't her expertise she knew enough about them to be able to detect a superior weapon, the blade was strong enough to endure a brutal fight with Dante after Benji used it against several Golden Year guild members. "Anyway I need to get someone else to aid with this." Layla commented, shadow fighting and kata training only takes training until a certain length, sparring with someone else takes it to a whole new level. "Try Alexis or one of the other knights of the guild." Atsuko replied. "Not that I don't trust Juliet, but here between us, that style is better to remain inside the guild."
Layla nodded agreeing, she was planning on calling either a blue dragon or a white eyes for sparring, she also trusted Juliet, the red head had proven herself to them, but Layla as well the other leading girls knew that Juliet reported to other higher ranking knights of her order, and Benji's swift sword style should remain a guild secret until he wants to share it. And Layla knew that Alexis would be very eager to practice with her, while the Seiryu's Legions had a reasonable number of knights on their ranks the brunt of the swordswomen of the guild became crusaders, and other than Alexis, Ami and of course Layla all the other swordswomen of the guild fought on peco-pecos, making the bare foot knights rather unique to the guild.
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On the mean time the blonde knight sneezes inside the dungeon. "Bless you." Maria said to the taller blonde, her usual babysitter. "Thank you." Alexis replied while rubbing her nose with her left hand. Raki was nearby busily bashing a Firelock soldier to bits. While the girls could be in a harder dungeon, no one in the guild felt like pressing the two to level, the two are young; they should enjoy their childhood and not worry about levels and monsters that was after all the job of the adults.
And Alexis likes of her role, sure she was always worn out because of the two girls' energy, and trying not only to keep up with them but find new things for them to do requires a lot of effort, but in the end it all paid off, especially since when returning to the castle in the end of the day Alexis would be carrying a pair of sleeping Maria and Raki, who worn themselves too much during the day and needed a nap before dinner.
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Mana sighed in annoyance, no one in the guild paid much mind on her being there, everyone already knew that Mana was a constant figure on the Silver Moon castle, after all as every other woman there Mana got addicted to the bath, and Benji trusted on her more than in many others, so she was an okay person to be there, as it was Shina, however Shina wasn't there at the moment, she was busy with Ami in another place.
Frustrated and annoyed for being forced into a job by the assassins' guild Mana is moody and really wanting to forget about everything, since Benji wasn't there for her to get sex and let it go of her problems she would set with a not so close second, but a still good replacement, a long soak in the hot spring.
"You don't look as bright as the usual." Atsuko commented when the now naked assassin enters on the women side of the bath. "I had a very bad day." Mana replied, she was so used to that bath that she no longer cares in being seen naked by the other guild members, not that she had much care about that in the first place. "The assassins' guild just shoved me on a job."
"So you people do have to respond to the guild time from time." Atsuko commented, Aiko also complained of that every now and them when Atsuko was still part of the Kingstone guild, she saw that a lot in her years there, even in the Seiryu's Legions Leona commented about that, oddly enough she never hear anything about Benji, and given his reputation there is no way that the guild would leave him alone, his services would give to the guild a lot of profit.
In the other hand Mana could almost see the line of thought of the blonde monk. "Let's just say that because certain issues the guild won't ever ask Benji to do a job again." Mana said while sitting on the warm water until it reaches her shoulders with a pleased sigh. "Believe or not Benji won't follow rules or orders that he believes to be wrong."
Atsuko chuckled at Mana's words. "I do believe on that." Atsuko commented, she knew Benji enough to know that already, just looking at his reputation is enough to tell her that. "So what did he do?"
"Well let's just say that the guild needed replacement elders after he rebelled." Mana answered with a smile, sure officially she didn't approve Benji's actions but unofficially she was not only proud but wanted to do the same, but at the same time she has a debt of gratitude to one of the higher ranking crosses of the guild, so she gives to the guild a spoonful of respect and obedience.
"You wouldn't happen to know why he did that?" Atsuko asked, she was curious; the assassin elders were rumored to be the best assassins alive of older generations. "Sadly I don't." Mana answered with a sigh, she was curious on that matter herself, whatever the guild asked was so secretive that it wasn't even on the records, and the guild was always strict with the mission records, it was always used to teach the future generations. "It is some kind of secret."
Now that confused Atsuko, she knew that Benji wouldn't kill for nothing, she also knew that was hard to guilds to suppress the stories of missions, the members always bragged about doing something that the others couldn't, it was common. "My best guess." Mana started saying while resting her head on the edge of the bath. "The involved elders wanted to silence Benji after the mission, believe or not that kind of thing happens, some missions are so sensitive to the guild that a leak could destroy it, Benji fought back."
Now that Atsuko could understand, but she knew that Benji wouldn't be the kind to be silenced after something like that, if he had such a piece of sensitive information at his disposal he would make use of it, especially out of revenge, sure he would become enemy of every single assassin loyal to the guild afterwards, but that would happen even if he kept secret, the guild would want to get rid of him.
"Any kind of rumors about it?" Atsuko asked, rumors always had some validity, at least some of them. "Well some, one of them says that Benji was supposed to be a sacrifice for some kind of secret assassin goddess." Mana answered. "But he found something during the mission and returned to the guild and killed the elders that would kill him. Others say that he was supposed to kill someone by contract; he refused and lashed out on the elders. There are even few that say that he was supposed to be killed in the meeting, some party paid the guild for his death."
Atsuko could see that third rumor as being truthful, she already knew that there was people out there out for Benji's blood, and the assassin guild could very well sell Benji for a sizable sum, he was for them just a minor and unimportant piece, that could be discarded without a second thought.
Mana was also aware of the whole politics of the guild, she might be laid back and rather carefree, but she learned very young that she had to keep an eye for the plots of those on power. After the siege Mana learned quite quickly that Benji had stepped in a large amount of toes, and to make things worse he did it hard with his entire weight and grinded hard when doing so.
It was sheer luck, fear and Benji's own healthy dose of paranoia that kept those people away, his fame scared everyone, those who tried to go against him would have to face an almost unnatural luck of the assassin paired with his killing techniques, not many fought Benji seriously and lived to tell the tale, Benji fights to kill every time.
"So I heard in the dinning hall that Layla is trying out to replicate Benji's sword technique isn't it?" Mana asked to the monk. "Is she having success?" "Well she is doing okay." Atsuko answered, she expected that the rumors about that to be flying around by now. "It has been only one week but Layla managed to grasp the base of it, but the style isn't all that fit for our anatomy."
Mana chuckled at the comment, she knew that already, different gravity centers and breasts make Benji's style unsuitable for a woman, it had to be adapted, especially for someone as gifted as Layla. "I will be checking out that progress later." Mana commented casually. "I tasted that style after the siege; I know how it feels to face it."
Atsuko didn't knew that, sure she wasn't aware of everything that Benji did, but something as major as Mana and Benji sparring would get lots of attention from everyone. "So it was decent?" Atsuko asked curious, she knew well that Mana was a very experienced assassin.
"Decent?" Mana asked chuckling. "Girl if I wasn't careful and Benji wasn't just fooling around, my head would be hanging by a thread of muscle. I might be in a much higher level than he is, but he is stronger than I am." That didn't made any sense to Atsuko, if Mana was in a much higher level then she should be stronger than Benji, even being strong Benji was still limited by his level.
"I see that you still haven't figured it out." Mana commented with a playful smile. "After I spar with Layla I will tell what you two haven't learned about him yet. Girl that will be very fun, I can hardly wait to see."
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Layla was nervous, Atsuko had long told her about Mana's words, she even got a whole week not counting the WoE day to get more used to her new fighting style, even being Benji's style, Layla wasn't confident in crossing arms with shinigami Mana, even Mana still being an assassin and Layla already being a lord knight.
Mana in the other hand was quite calm, adjusting her gloves without rush, she would be using a sword and a dagger on that match, after all she wants to get a point across and would be better to do it with a sword. Other than Atsuko no one else would watch the match.
"I am ready." Mana said while picking up her weapons. "You can start whenever you want." Layla takes a deep breath to calm herself; she saw Benji standing toe to toe with someone several levels stronger than he was with that style, she could as well do the same, the gap wasn't as wide for her as it was for him.
Atsuko gives the starting sign, Layla bolts to action, Mana approved that, it was good, her speed was almost par to Benji's. Layla swings the sword in a precise arch, the swing was swift and vicious, it would cause a serious wound, that if Mana haven't parried the whole thing with her knife, that just then Layla realized that Mana was holding with her left hand.
And it was then that Layla feels something cold lightly tapping on the left side of her neck, she didn't had to look to know what it was, it was Mana's sword, the flat side of the sword, but still enough to Layla know that she lost the match. "Overall it is good." Mana said to Layla. "But you lack the most important."
"And what is that?" Layla asked still looking at the assassin and not moving from that position. "Killing intent." Mana explained pushing the blade and the knight to the side, lightly tumbling her. "You took a shot at my left side, sure it is a good area to strike, but not a good first strike, you used too much strength in the first move, it makes hard to block but when blocked it makes harder for you to ready the next strike. Your stance is also preventing the follow up, Benji's stance allows a quick response, being that whatever he needs."
Mana looks down at the sited knight. "Benji goes after vital points." Mana continued. "He selects one and strikes there with a precise strike, and that is why Benji can effectively face opponents several times stronger than he is, even when training you can feel the killing intent that he lets out, while in training you know that he will stop before hitting you can feel the pressure. He creates a way to hit there."
"But I saw Benji killing people with one single strike." Atsuko said seriously. "That is all that it needs." Mana replied. "I don't know the entire mechanics of the strike once it connects, but all that he needs is to connect, and if you aren't lucky not even your safety will keep you alive. Benji aim for gaps in armor, veins, arteries, nerves, tendons and whatever other important part he can get, you saw him chopping limbs as nothing more than twigs. You have any idea of the shock that is has in the body?"
Atsuko had an idea of it, not that she was going to tell them that. "Anyway Layla until you can read the points and aim there every time your style won't be a good copy of his." Mana concluded. "Your speed and technique are good, but you lack the insight and few other things that only a certain level of desperation can bring out."
Layla remained in silence, she knew that Benji faced some serious threats and got pretty desperate, she also faced that, but she never noticed anything. "Remember Maria." Atsuko says to Layla. Layla nodded understanding, she recalled how they found Benji and the others when Maria first arrived, she understood that Benji learned something in that situation, or in another one similar to it.
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Benji had to admit that Rachel wasn't everything that the thought that would be, sure it was a rather beautiful town, it had plenty of water there, he could smell it, but he was expecting it to be a harbor town, he learned that he would need two more days south to reach Veins that is the harbor town, from there he would have to get a boat to take him to Rune-Midgard, and that trip will take months.
And to make matters worse Benji was two weeks late to the departure of the boat, meaning that it would take two months for the next one to depart. On the upside Benji, the futanari and the guides managed to teach some English for the sacrifice girl, meaning that she isn't as unruly as she was, Benji even learned her name and the girl wasn't as scared of him as she used to.
Other than that Benji was left alone with his new charges in the capital, the people of Pentas fulfilled their promise of taking him to the capital, their responsibility ended there. With a sigh Benji fishes a letter from his inventory; Seri was kind enough to write a letter of recommendation for him, foreseeing him being stuck in the city for a while.
With no other choice Benji moves to the Freya's church to ask for asylum for a while, at least until he can find some job and can pay for a short term housing for himself and the two with him.
"I was expecting it to be fancy but this is way too much." The futanari commented when they enter on the church, Benji wasn't surprised, from what he learned that building was almost what the Vatican was on his world, fanciness was to be expected. "We are underdressed aren't we?"
"A little." Benji replied, sure he was still wearing his original clothes and cloak, now properly made cloak by Seri and the others of Freya's church in Pentas, needless to say that the clothes looked very worn out, Mai, the futanari was wearing Arabian like clothes for women and with the same heavy hooded cloak that she used when attacking Pentas, the torn parts were sewed but still looked old.
And lastly Aysu the former sacrifice, since her original clothes were taken by the people of Pentas Benji had to scare a lot of people and flex a lot of muscle to get it all back, but they were take apart and the mending together of the church didn't make up, in the end she was forced to wear a spare outfit from Seri with the addition of a cloak and a long headscarf to act as hood and mask to protect her from the scorching sunlight, and because of that she was the one better dressed of the trio, even though her clothes show how worn out it was from the long journey.
Taking out his not so new headgear Benji walks inside the church followed by Aysu and Mai. Benji greets the priestess that is in the entry, with a short explanation Benji and the two are taken to another area of the church. "Shousa?!" a feminine voice exclaimed. Benji's reaction was a shock to everyone.
His unnamed sword's tip is resting inside a dark blue haired girl slightly open mouth, ready to kill the girl at the smallest gesture. Benji's face was a mask of stone, not displaying any kind of emotion.
End of the chapter twenty five:
Author's explanation corner:
Gravity centers: Yes, that is true, men and women have different gravity centers, and women also have the wonderfully moving mass called breasts, they move even after the body's movement is over.
Adventurers' bra: A heavy duty version of the sports' bra, made to give full support to female adventurer (which we all know that are very well gifted), I know that the sprites as well the available official images of the females show that they don't use any kind of bra, but as any woman knows exercising without bras cause pain; I was raised with two aunts, one grandmother, one mother, one brother and one grandfather, that tends to teach you a thing or two about women's pain, and I also had a girlfriend, that adds even more things.
Anyway as we know RO women have large breasts, so they needs a good support for them, for any male who claims that it isn't needed make this experiment, fill two balloons with water, put each one inside one bag, tie the bags together with a strong string giving enough slack to you hang the thing around your neck and keep it on chest's height, then put on a shirt and run for a while, you will see them bounce.
Adventurers' bras are fitted to each female, they are a cheap item available in every town, female tailors adjust them to best support the breasts of the owner. I won't explain more do a wiki search for more info on sports bras.
Assassins' guild tasks: Considering everything it is only natural to a real world working guild to assign certain tasks or jobs to the affiliated members as a way to support the guild. While in the game it is hardly seen that the guild has any importance in the character's life other than giving them a 'class'.
The requests are made to the guild and they will see which member is the best for the task and tell to the member about the offer, more dangerous missions or requests for particular and/or more prestigious members are more expensive than more common requests with 'nameless' members. It is given a choice for the assassin to accept or not the job.
However as many might know going against a guild (union, syndicate) even being member of it isn't advised and can give more trouble than just accepting the damn thing. Certain member with high profiles, large influence, well known reputation or high ranking inside the guild have more of a pull when denying than an average one.
Not even a large guild is stupid in picking a fight with someone who can call an army to his aid, or has a reputation of being a mass killer, or who is very famous around the known world.
The assigned assassin might not like of the task or job but in most of cases will do it anyway. Certain jobs might be of such vital importance or contain something so scandalous that the guild might just kill the assassin to get rid of loose ends and avoid damage to their reputation and influences. This happen even in our world, how it wouldn't happen there?
Mana's lesson about Benji's fighting: It doesn't matter if you are a master swordsman, a headshot will still kill you. (Does anyone remember that Indiana Jones movie? Where that guy swings his sword in flashy movements and Indy just shoots the guy?) It doesn't matter if you have a three inches thick chest plate, a slashed throat will still kill you.
A decisive strike to a vital point is deadly to anyone. A severed limb will send anyone into shock, the same thing with an open gut. Knowing where to hit and hitting there hard, that is the key to winning. It doesn't matter if you are a level 200 LK, in real life a headshot will still send you to the other side.
I know that I am using real world's physics in a game world, that don't always make sense, take a fighting game where people use swords, one slash there won't kill even if is in the neck, but in real life a slash in the neck is lethal 99 percent of the times. But, let me stress more this BUT, Benji is from the real world, so he can apply his world's physics on others when he wants, the same is truth to every other outcast in Rune, of course, that only works if the person knows what he or she is doing, there is where martial arts training comes handy (I know karate, a little judo, a little aikido and ninjitsu, no black belts or really high ones, but knowledge is still knowledge).
Rachel and Veins: They still aren't known in Rune, so access to it is hard and takes time.
Aysu and Mai: I won't detail them any more than this, at least for now.
Shousa: It means Major (the military rank) in Japanese.