Chapter 5 Battle End: Conflict Confusion
With my first opponent down for the count and thankfully no enemies in sight, I was left alone long enough to catch a quick breather and collect my thoughts as I assessed the damage my body had taken by performing a quick diagnostic via Electromaster and Life Wish.
As dangerous as it is to use Life Wish, an ability that may share a compatibility high enough to use without too much backlash, I have not fully grasped the intricacies of the nuances of this particular ability. Like my inability to understand 11th dimension calculations, it will take a lot more time to figure this ability out than others. My forte is physics and not biology.
Couple of bruises here and there and minor clotting issues on a few cuts that I sustained from the last fight. The bruises are not threatening at all aside from small pain when I touch the affected areas and the cuts are clotting not only outside the wound but encroaching on the blood vessel as well. I can correct that afterwards as long as the clot doesn't split off and form an emboli.
The rapid sound of footsteps as a girl ran past me probably to reinforce another area elsewhere interrupting my thoughts, I did not have enough time to hide myself as she ran past, merely glancing my way as she ran past.
Phew, I thought she might have... Seen me there...
The girl running back to get a second look, I had no possible hiding locations and raised my arms in surrender.
Lowering her guard and her rapier I quickly let loose a telekinetic wall pushing her back and temporarily stunning her giving me time to use Dimension Gate and pull out... an unloaded pistol.
Now armed and dangerous in the eyes of my opponent, I silently hoped she didn't know the magazine was empty as I pointed it at her with as much guts as I could muster.
"Are you going to shoot me?" she asked calmly, taking a step forward.
"I don't want to but I will if I have to." I replied, a little shakiness in my voice as I raised the gun to point at her head.
"You don't have it in you to kill. I can see it in your eyes. You have never taken a life." she stated calmly, taking another step forward.
As I gritted my teeth I quickly reached behind me and pulled out a magazine from Dimension Gate and pushed it into the pistol and pulling the catch back in one swift motion.
"Wait you're gun wasn't loaded?" the girl said with a sardonic grin as she rested one hip and lowered her rapier to giggle.
"I-It's not funny, and it's loaded now!" I yelled as I pointed the gun at her again.
Her laughing stopping as she gave me a look full of mirth I fired a warning shot above her right shoulder startling her and making her raise the rapier once again.
"That was a warning shot, just back off and we can both walk out of here alive." I said, my arm shaking slightly from holding the gun in the air for so long.
"Nothing has changed, you can't bring it in you to kill me. And your arm is starting to shake either from fear or fatigue either way you can't keep up this charade for long." she said taking another step forwards now only about five steps away from me.
"Rin! We heard a loud noise are you alright?!" a voice came from around the corner, two guys coming to back up Rin.
Well so much for stealth.
Throwing the gun over my shoulder back into a small portal created by Dimension Gate I closed that Personal Reality while opening Pyrokinesis, Electromaster and Telekinesis.
"Three on one is hardly fair." I said as I looked on at Rin and her two friends.
Ignoring my statement, both Rin's friends charged in swords raised high ready to swing downwards.
Twisting my body to slide in between both swords I ignited my left hand and thrust it into the chest of the assailant on the left.
Although he raised his arm to block it I ducked underneath the large horizontal swing of his friend and touched his arm and let off a small telekinetic explosion that shot him away from me and into the wall behind him where he crumpled into a heap.
"Tetsuo! You bastard!" the other boy yelled, him and Rin closing in to attack me simultaneously.
With Rin's rapier stabbing at the center of my chest and the boy's sword slicing upwards diagonally as he aimed for my right floating ribs I quickly shot a precise jolt of electricity at the boy's hands causing the nerves in his hand to spasm and release the sword he was carrying.
Following up with a telekinetically aided jump I leaped over the sword as it flew through where my body was a split second ago I vaulted over the boy placing my hands over his shoulders in mid jump.
Now looking down at him as I performed a hand stand on his shoulders I collapsed the ground below his feet and pressed down using my body weight to sink him into the floor before flipping over and landing slightly clumsily as I quickly regained my balance and turned to face Rin.
With a sharp metallic clatter, Rin dropped her rapier to the floor and raised her arms, "The Pontiff is down. I don't have any reason to fight you anymore."
Shortly after Rin's surrender, nuns from the Roman Catholic church showed up and tied up the Amakusa before leading them off. Now left to wander the theme park in the battle's aftermath, it seemed there was no casualties as far as I could see, but I can only be certain when I've seen the entire park which would definitely be too much effort seeing as they were from a faction completely unrelated to me.
Maybe I should look for Kamijou... But with no definite AIM field finding him wouldn't be easy unless I call out to him.
Using a series of taps and swipes, I brought up a map of the theme park on the lower right corner of my vision using the nearby buildings to pinpoint my exact location in the park. There seems to be a large stage in the center of the park I could probably start from there and spiral outwards.
After several minutes of walking I heard a scream come from the northwestern area of the park. Although it didn't sound like anyone I knew, I quickly ran around several more corners and found the stage area where a man was forced to sit cross legged on the ground tied up by all sorts of what I could only assume were magical traps.
Two Catholic nuns approached Kamijou and started talking to him and although I couldn't her what they were talking about, Kamijou suddenly got frustrated and said with a small amount of irritation in his voice, "Come on! Do you have to be so fussy about regulations? Where's Agnese? I'll talk to her directly.
As I walked over to join him, Kamijou tapped the taller nun on the shoulder and pushed passed her probably to find the Agnese the leader of the nuns.
As the tall nun reached for the whell on her back, I couldn't help but feel something was amiss. What was the wheel for? If it was for a vehicle why did she only have one? Where was the others? Could it be a weapon?
Ducking behind the nearest set of benches, I barely had time to lower myself below the bench backing before Index yelled, "No Touma-!"
Tugging Index down behind cover as well, I could not reach Touma in time as the carriage wheel in front of the tall nun exploded sending wooden shrapnel in all directions.
The shrapnel embedding themselves into Kamijou's stomach, legs and his arms as he barely brought them up in time to protect his chest and face sent him flying backwards from the impact.
As Index screams, the cross legged man tries to stand up, several of the cards activating and causing his hair to get singed forcing him back into his sitting position.
As the shorter nun starts to panic she looks at the taller nun and says timidly, "S-sister Lucia! I-is this really alright? Didn't Sister Agnese tell us not to have any conflicts with our guests?"
"Shut up Sister Angelene! Damn, this is why I proposed to not allow the outsiders to act on their own, and we should chase them away quickly! All the blame will have to go to that Agnese, giving such a naïve order to leave them alone. Now she's really given me quite a fix…"
As Sister Lucia glares at Kamijou with a look that can kill from a distance I quickly did a check on Index to make sure she sustained no injuries before vaulting the bench to face the nun.
"If this guy wasn't suspicious about that scream, this'd be so much simpler… Damn it, what have I done wrong? I've been touched on the shoulder by a non-believer! Sister Angelene! Quick! Get me some soap- no, some sanitizer! This is too much! Damn it! Tell me the next time you want to talk to me! I have to wear the mud-blocking apron!"
While motioning for Index to stay still, I peeked over the bench and was about to fire a lightning bolt to counter before she could attack again until I heard Kamijou screaming.
Turning towards the source of the screaming, I watched as the pieces of shrapnel vibrated and started pulling themselves out and back towards Sister Lucia, reforming her broken carriage wheel until it was almost like new.
New and dripping with blood.
"Sister Angelene!" Sister Lucia called out, the shorter nun jumping at being called all of a sudden and pulled her money bags off her belt.
As she started using an incantation that I could not clearly hear, its effects became apparent rather quickly as the bags glowed and started to fly. The green bag hurtling towards us at breakneck speed, it barely missed Index before hitting the ground causing it to crack.
Index crawling away from the crater formed by the attack, she suddenly tripped as her legs were tied together. Upon closer examination, the coin bag's purse string had wound itself around her feet and tied itself tight into a dead knot.
"Dammit... Index!" Kamijou yelled, trying to run over to Index likely to dispel the coin bag but was forced to turn his attention to Sister Lucia as she leaped over him to attack him again.
With Kamijou under attack from Lucia and Index from Angeline I grit my teeth as I started to charge up a lightning bolt to fire at Angeline. Throwing out two bolts wouldn't be much of an issue but with Kamijou standing in between me and Lucia and as I don't fully understand his negating powers I don't have a clear shot at Lucia and even if I did Kamijou might negate it.
Firing a shot at Angeline as she whispered commands to her coin bags, the bolt narrowly missed her head causing the red coin bag to fly off course into Lucia knocking the wheel out of her hands.
"Sister Angeline...! You...!" Lucia growled.
"N-no! It wasn't me...!" Angeline replied cowering under Lucia's glare.
"The other three, gather at one spot and stick together."
At the sound of Index's voice, the green bag around Index's feet unwinds and flies with the blue and yellow bag towards Angline's face and stops just before hitting her with a loud clang and fall to the floor.
I guess the miss wasn't my doing then.
"The bags of gold represent Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles. He once beat two fire dragons using just the cross and prayer. Infusing angelic power into the coin bags can change them into aerial weapons that will automatically lock on to enemies."
Index says, explaining the mystery behind the coin bags.
"But your method is crude, the chant is long and is not encoded making it easy to stop it."
Before any of us could react any further, a sharp whistling noise sounded from across the park, Angeline and Lucia jerking at the sound.
"It's the retreat order! Let's go Sister Angeline!" Lucia yelled as she started to run off, picking up her wheel on the way.
"B-but we haven't defeated the enemy yet Sister Lucia!"
"Never mind leave them, that British Puritan is releasing the other Amakusa. We have to prioritise Orsola!"
As Sister Lucia and Angeline fled, I quickly deactivated combat mode letting out a short sigh of relief as the pressure of multiple Personal Realities slipped away like water through cracks.
"Now you understand?"
Addressed by the man sitting cross legged behind us, everyone turned to face Tatemiya Saiji as he looked up to the sky, "This is what the Roman Catholics do, the largest Christian sect beneath the surface."
-End of Chapter 5-
Author's Note: Woo finally got this done after so many months, sorry readers who waited so long for this update, school got busy, my holidays got clogged and I got distracted every time I sat down to write. But, no excuses! Here is the chapter!