Actually Hikigaya Hachiman is having hard time
BUT FIRST A LITTLE COMMERCIAL
"did you ever find youself in this bizzare situation?"
"Oh No! I'm trying to pierce through a teenager with my spear, but there is too much flesh and blood"
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"thanks mister Chullain"
"Oh don't thank me serial killer dude, thank EINZEBERN'S WAX FOR SPEARS at only 9.99"
"9.99 of what?"
"Nothing important, there are 206 bones in the human body right?"
THE LONER II
*drin, drin*
"moschi moschi"
"Finally Hikki! I tried to contact you for ever "
"Yo Yuigahama, and it's not ever... I'm barely away from a week"
"Mou! meanie! You didn't even opened my message! And why are you acting so cold now ? shouldn't you be happy to receive a call from your clumbmates"
"Yeah yeah I'm happy. It's just that I'm currently lying on the ground in a dirty alley, after deceiving a mythological monster, that could return to hunt me any time and my legs are refusing to move"
"WHAT!?"
"Just kidding. I was taking a nap and your call awoke me"
"you're not funny! "
"you sure? To me your surprised voiced sounded quite delightful... wait a second you said clubmates is Yukinoshita there too?"
"Ah! yes wait, I'm activating the speakerphone. Yukinon come closer...com'on don't move like an ant, come closer. Okay, now say hello"
"Good afternoon Hikigaya-kun"
"Yo, how's it going ?"
"regularly and you ?"
"mmmmm fine I guess"
"you guess Hikki?"
"Yeah I found myself with a bunch of free time I don't know how to use and I kinda started getting bored"
"Are you, Hikilazy-kun, complaining about having too much free time?"
"So he really said that! I thought I just heard wrong! Hikki that gets bored from doing nothing, UNEXPECTED!"
"OI who do you think I'm, of course I get bored when I'm doing nothing I-"
*BAMP BOOM *sound of a smartphone exploding
Have you ever found yourself bleeding on the ground, unable to move after facing a life threatening experience and dared to think: "this day can't have gone any worse"?
Well I don't know how it ended up for you, but for me...it could...
MY FU**ING DAY MANAGED TO GET WORSER!
"No! nononononononononononono...this can't be happening"
I grunted rolling on my side
"IPhone-KUN!"
I screamed staring at my trusted friend
holding back my tears I began to study my fallen companion trying to understand what happened to him: the glass was fine when I took the phone from my pants pocket to respond Yuigahama's call, so were the side buttons
"that means..."
I turned my smartphone to see its back
"GODDAMIT RIDER!"
I roared observing the apple on my phone:
It had been scarred, tored apart by a short crack... yeah a short crack that had even managed to hit the battery.
Geez, during the fight aginst Medusa I had completely forgotten about my phone and didn't even noticed when it got damaged...I was kinda trying to save my ass in that moment though... so I'm going to let this one slide.
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"You know that now you have to get SAFELY at Emiya's house before sending a sos signal to our band of freaks"
"FUCK THIS CITY"
I exclaimed rolling on my tummy and watching the battery of my phone sending a few random sparks.
"why did I meddle with Emiya and Matou's quarrel this morning"
I complained as the events of a few minutes ago ran through my head
FLASHBACK
"Until you don't know the six rules we can't start"
I said standing on the almost bottomless waters of my mind
My eyes were fixed upon a woman...a beautiful woman born in an ancient past, that I would have never met if I didn't moved in Fuyuki for an exchange project...AGAIN WHY DID I ACCEPT!
Ready to start a battle of minds I closed my eyes and extended one hand towards the woman; my gestures by themselves were useless, but damn if I didn't look badass as I let all the knowledge of Medusa's world flow in my head.
The first thing I saw was her most recent memories, scilicet the fight with me and...FUCK!
In Medusa's head our battle was no more than a kid playing with an ant before smashing it...and to be clear I WAS THE ANT! I only managed to survive because I hit her with one of my best techniques while her mindset still was: "Is something stuck in my hair?"
"really who the hell did I piss off to have a mythological monster unleashed against me?"
I thought recollecting all the powerful people that hated me
Needless to say there were too many. Still all of them only knew the number zero of Oroboro ANGRA MAINYU
"Just who is your master?"
I focused forcing Rider's knowledge in my mind
It took me a few second but I manged to find the memory I was searching for.
"Master"
"yes?"
"the Blood Fort Of Andromeda Just need other two seals to be completed but..."
"But What Rider!?"
"I don't have any mana left"
"And where is the problem? we will just have you eat the soul of someone"
"As you desire, I will take action during the return to your residence"
"perfect...or not...I have a better idea"
"Master?"
"Today I will give you a special target...do you see that disgusting guy crossing the entrance gate"
"yes"
"make him your next meal"
"Master...he is one of the acquaintances of your sister"
"are you daring to object my orders"
"...no"
"Then go and do not fail me"
"Matou Shinji uh? Unexpected...he is a master in the holy grail war...wait a second THE HOLY GRAIL WAR!"
I muttered as I finally remembered what that high sounding name meant.
Directly from the "Out of sight out of mind" list of Oroboro: the holy grail war a magical ritual that through the summoning of seven heros named servants activated a mystical artifact, the Holy Grail, capable of granting a wish.
Dammit I had known of this artifact for years , Oroboro's council even thought about searching for it... but due the suspicious events that had characterized the previous Holy Grail War and the fact that apparently no one ever managed to fulfill his wish, I made sure the idea was dropped
...that grail smelled of monkey pawn.
Then to avoid any surprises, like some agent taking part in the war, all the info regarding the holy grail war had been sealed in Oroboro's archives. Right now the only way to accede those information is by using the enter password of three member of Oroboro's high council.
"Dammit that what's happen when I try to control dangerous information! I forgot about them and then boom I'm in the middle of it!
...I really hope that sealing away the recipe for the zero calories mayonnaise will never come to bite me back"
I thought as the all the actions Rider had done in Fuyuki flashed in my eyes:
Killing people to obtain the mana Shinji couldn't provide her, setting around the school twenty crimson seals to harvest mana from the student and...following Sakura Matou
"something is odd here"
I whispered
since she arrived in Fuyuki, Rider had constantly watched lil Matou from afar...even this morning she wasn't following me... Medusa was following Sakura.
"just what's the relationship between those two "
I thought as I realized all the memories regarding Sakura were protected by Rider's will power.
It was pretty common when using the mirror of souls to find memories better sheltered or censored by the mind; for example Rider, that was currently watching through my inner world, was surely having hard time to see the faces of all the people I treasured or to reach the memories of my darkest and brightest moments.
It was like an unconscious defense system to defend what you treasure the most
to protect the people and the moments that made you
you.
Right now Medusa desperately trying to hide something...something about Sakura.
Usually when I used this spell on rich people, terrorists, etc I tried to avoid prying too personal memories, but right here, right now I didn't have the lux to show mercy, so sharpening my mind like no human should be able to, I pierced through Rider's defences. Suddenly a winding spiral of imagines flashed in my brain, all the dialogues and all the interaction Medusa ever had with Sakura were now clear in my mind.
" It's not the brother the real Master"
I said as pieces of a this puzzle started to fit together
"Rider said it herself, Why my backup-Master gave me such a troublesome target...
the real master, the one Medusa is bounded to was Sakura
from the beginning"
I understood and I was sure that my heart would have skipped a beat if I wasn't just a projection of my conscience.
"forget about Tohsaka, the most dangerous teenagers in Fuyuki list has all its places occupied by Matou"
I mentally screamed starting to imagine all the possible implications.
Namely: OH SHIT MATOU IS A YANDERE WITH MAGIC POWER, OH DOUBLE SHIT SHE IS ALSO YANDERE THAT CONTROLS A MYTHOLOGICAL BEING WITH SOME TASTELESS TATTOOS, OH TRIPLE SHIT THE SAME TATTOOS EMIYA HAS, OH QUADRUPLE SHIT I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUCKING MAGICAL WAR...FUCK I DIDN'T RENEWED MY LIFE INSURANCE.
And of course there were many more, but a spiritual ring in my head warned me that the spell had reached half of its duration.
"You know what fuck implications let's start with surviving today"
I roared squeezing my eyes harder than before and focusing to my uttermost limit.
Like an unstoppable river everything that Medusa was and had been flowed in me:
her whole life,
all her choices,
regrets,
desires
and each second of pain she went through,
now was in me
I knew the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, all her strengths and all her weaknesses...
in this precise moment I was both Hikigaya Hachiman and the Gorgon Medusa.
"so are you doing?"
I said emotionless slowly opening my eyes for the first time in what seemed ages.
"mmmmm, you got quite deep in my mind eh? I'd say a quarter"
I observed as Medusa stared at me scared
To be honest her state was much more collected than I was used to; Sure Rider's legs were shaking a little, her eyes were trembling and her mouth was unable to move, but still much better than the average.
"Just who...what are you?"
she asked me finally founding the power to move those lips of hers
"you should have understand it by now, I'm Angra Mainyu also known as Hikigaya Hachiman and I'm a human"
I responded pointing my index at myself
"a simple bag of flesh and bones, nothing in comparison to a former goddess such as you"
I pinched my cheek
"I can't understand (accept) it...how can you a mere human go on with all this darkness inside...to not lose yourself? "
Medusa whispered making rose from my mind's water countless faces in agony
"ahahahahah I just put a foot in front of the other and repeat, nothing more nothing less."
I chuckled stepping on the rift that divided Medusa's world and mine
I knew that Rider's words weren't a question for me, but a question to herself...
she couldn't or wouldn't understand why I, who had within my soul much more negativity and darkness than her, didn't turn into a monster like she did.
Medusa probably had yet to see how many times I was about to cross that line.
"Still walking straight across problems is my way of dealing with the thing."
I continued playing the equilibrist on the rift.
"it all starts from realizing you aren't the only one suffering"
I said giving Rider the first hint for the answer she sought
"it all continues to how much you can understand and be understood"
"and it all ends when you whenever accept or reject what you have come to understand"
I turned towards Rider
she had stopped to stare at me like I was some kind of monster...right I probably looked like some kind of rare animal in her eyes.
"realizing, understanding and then accepting or rejecting, that's the purpose of this place"
Medusa said like she has come to see something.
"precisely, now let me show you what acceptance can do"
I said snapping my fingers.
Responding to my call Medusa's swamp world started to crumble, in an instant all the grass, trees, broken statues and the land itself started to turn in silver particles, that aggregating in rivers of light began to form a sphere on my hand.
"STOP!"
screamed Rider imposing her will to stop the flow of silvers fireflies.
Unfortunately for her within the realm of the mind I was without rivals.
After all at the beginning I was powerless: a pathetic human being broken to its core that had only one ally...a mind forged in the flames of rage, hardened by regrets and sharpened through time and pain.
"mmmmmmmmmmmmm nope"
I said brushing off Medusa's screams
Brutal and undeterred I continued to absorb Medusa's world until the only thing that remained was a circle of land surrounded by pitch black nothingness.
Literally the first five minutes Rider's mind ever experienced, that was that last thing still in Medusa's world.
my opponent's face was blank and her eyes empty, right now she couldn't say, think or do anything, her mind was possibly on the same level of a newly born kid; from Medusa I could only feel a faint energy trying to pull back her world .
I just needed one last effort and once the spell stopped the only thing remaining from Rider would have been a soulless shell.
"Guess I really can't do this uh?"
I said staring first at the silver orb on my hand and then to the statue-like Medusa
"When I really understand my opponent, deeply enough to beat him, at that precise moment I begin to love him, don't now where I heard this phrase, but its too damn true"
I grinned as I remembered for the nth time why I never killed anyone with this spell.
"well you can always turn in a valid pawn"
I moved in front of Medusa and caressed her cheek
"I just need a bit of photoshop, first I give her this thing back"
I thought shooting the silver energy on my hand back to Rider's world making it re-appear
"Then I keep all this meaning less pain of hers"
I muttered turning some silver particles in obsidian chains that went to attach on my back
" After that I seal all the memories about this place"
I continued confining inside a bubble another part of that silver energy
"and I do some editing about this scene"
I said staring at the last shiny piece of Medusa's existence in my possession:
The moment in which Shinji Matou orders her to kill me
"Master"
"yes?"
"the Blood Fort Of Andromeda Just need other two seals to be completed but..."
"But What Rider!?"
"I don't have any mana left"
"And where is the problem? we will just have you eat the soul of someone"
"As you desire, I will take action during the return to your residence"
"perfect...or not...I have a better idea"
"Master?"
"Today I will give you a special target...do you see that disgusting guy crossing the entrance gate"
"yes"
"He carries with him a magical jewel, sneak upon him and beat him until he isn't able to stand anymore, then steal the magic jewel and use it to replenish your mana"
"Master...he is one of the acquaintances of your sister"
"are you daring to object my orders"
"...no"
"Then go and do not fail me"
"Okay better, and just in time"
I said as a mysterious force pulled me back to the border of my mind
the last thing I saw before returning to the real world was a majestic door coloured of black and white.
"I swear one day I'm going to open it"
"Okay legs it's like very late and very cold out-here, so we need a bit of team-work"
I muttered trying to stand
"Com'on Com'on I can do this aaaaaaannnnnnnnnddddddd there"
I finally managed to stay on my own feet
It was incredible how a simple action such as standing up was always so difficult after using pain magic, my body didn't react to stimulus and my mind felt cloudy and numb, if I were to be attacked now...well I just hoped someone deleted my browser history, without watching it.
"damn now how do I go to school"
I complained studying the state of my school uniform
"blood, dirt and rips... with a piece of white cloth here and there, really how do I explain it: I fell from the stairs and then into a bin of ketchup?"
I thought limping around the alley to fetch my stuff
Fortunately for me the fatigue I accumulated during the day stopped me from asking, what is going to happen next?
So too tired to worry I just wore my winter coat and began to walk towards Emiya's house.
Favoring my right leg I slowly passed across Fuyuki's streets, at this point I was keeping to move only out of pure will power: each step was agony, I could feel wounds and gashes randomly appearing and disappearing
"How long can I go on before collapsing?"
I thought as the metallic taste of blood filled my mouth
my mind was foggy...confused...paranoid
"Where am I? Is someone following me?"
The air seemed to be ice in my mouth and fire in my lungs.
" so hot..no cold...hot, cold, hot...hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot"
I began to madly mutter as the temperature around me appeared to be gradually rising
Suddenly my vision began to blur like the world had started to faint. What was going on? Screames drummed in my hears and the scent of smoke permeated my sense of smell. Oh I knew. A fire, it was the same fire I had seen for almost two weeks, a thick cloak of crimson flames that enveloped Fuyuki.
"Oh no please not now, give a break"
I managed to mutter as I realized what was going to happen
My legs that had for so long endured my weight, decided it was time to give up...really what a timing!
*tung
announced by a dull sound my knees hit the ground too tired to fight back the latent effects of my power,I just let go and closed my eyes
"eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I'm supposed to be in vacation"
were the last words to leave my mouth before I was dragged into a world of memories.
*slap
or so I believed
"hey creepy looking Oni-san what are you doing on the ground?"
"Illya-sama don't touch strangers"
"Illya...he could be..ehm...dirty, carry diseases"
"For once Leysritt is correct just look at his faces and clothing he must be a homeless"
"Oi that's Rude! can't you recognize a person who already had a difficult day"
I said as if the slap I received had awaken me from a dream...more a nightmare.
Forcing my useless body to stand I opened my eyes to see..WHO THE HECK DARED TO SLAP ME !
the magical adventures of brain-kun
"Shouldn't you thank WHO DARED TO SLAP YOU, because it saved you from a free ride to trauma land?"
"I hate when you're right brain"
I whispered while my stare fell on the three figures in front of me
There were two women, I'd say in their early twenty, late teen and a child no more than ten. All of them had milk colored skin and ruby eyes, but attention not like albino's that look red because the blood vessels beneath are visible, no the eyes of these three girls were pure crimson jewels. Their clothing was particular as well: the two women were wearing beige maid outfits, unfortunately not the Anime/french kind, the:" god look so uncomfortable" kind. Meanwhile the little girl was wearing a full set of violet clothes directly from the early 20th century Russia.
"Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk"
that was the only loquacious thing I could think as I observed the peculiar trio that interrupted my trance.
Nordic names, check
Unusual appearance, check
Clothes straight from late 19th century, check
A Mystical cup within 60 km squares, check
"probability of being in front of three Einzber's homuncul-"
*slap
A tiny hand slapped me for the second time
"Illya-sama!"
"Illya"
the two older women exclaimed
"What the hell is wrong with you brat?"
I roared to that evil pale slappy demon
"What? He was spacing out and I hate being ignored...did you just called me brat"
Responded the tiny girl, Illya I supposed, first bored and then annoyed.
"I think you heard me pretty well"
I retorted massaging my face.
"...damn kids these days always so violent, stupid television...why do I fell murderous intent? "
I thought as three ruby stares were trying to set me on fire
"you brute apologize immediately, for have refered to Iliya-sama in such a rude way"
Said one of the two women dressed like maids from 1850
"Shouldn't you apologize immediately because you let your little ojou-brat here slap me?"
I retorted completely forgetting who I had in front
"How dare you! You should feel honored to have received the touch of Illya-sama's hand on your face"
"What... Are you nuts flat-chested woman!?"
"Flat-chested!"
"Yeah Flast-chested! Did You think I didn't notice thanks to this strange robe you go wearing? Fool! I just needed to stare to your at twin here to see the truth!"
I said activating one of 108 skills
siblings comparison: A fearsome ability that through the observation of a relative allowed me to find the best spots to prick a person
(I don't know how does it work for homunculi but I think the Dna is pretty similiar from one individual to another.)
I usually used this technique on Sora and Kasumi, because they are ugly and their sisters cute.
"Hachiman used sexual harassment on annoying albino maid, It's supereffective"
I thought as the woman embraced her chest and blushed furiously
"and that's how you shut up a rude person. Wonder why I never used this technique to stop Yukinoshita's insults...oh right! I like living"
I told myself.
Still how fun was insulting annoying people! it even made me forgot about my plaintive body
"Y-y-you maniac, HENTAI!, Leysritt do something! you are the body guard"
Spat the woman losing every kind of composure and...was she about to cry?
"why? He said nothing false Sella"
"CRITICAL HIT"
I thought as I saw the Ps of that Sella girl drop in the red zone
"Just shut him up already!"
The girl retorted with small tears forming in her eyes
"...okay"
said emotionless the other maid rising her fists
Really couldn't the universe give me a break?
"No wait Leysritt, it's the first time I see Sella in this state, it's amusing, let them continue"
ordered the small girl with a cold smile
"Iliya-sama why are you taking the defence of this brute?"
"OI Stop calling me brute, flat-chest it's rude"
"Listen to who's talking now!"
"God were you made to be annoying?"
I responded on the verge of a nerve crisis
I knew I didn't have time for this bullshit, but really this woman here was just too much of a pain, didn't she have a mute button! Unfortunately in the heat of this verbal sparring I had forgotten a tiny detail...
this girl...Sella was a homunculs so she really had been made to be something.
"actually she was made to bfghfgfhfghf"
Started to say the other girl, LeysrWhatever-too-strange-of-a-name misunderstanding my question.
Fortunately before the scene:" You know too much now you have to die" happened, the ojou-brat Illya managed to put an hand on her maid's mouth, avoiding reserved information leaked. To be honest the sight was quite funny since the little girl was so tiny and standing on her tip-toes barely reached the lisp of her maid.
"Oh look how dark it is right now we must return at home"
Erupted Sella aware she had just dodged a bullet.
Then whippy like a snake the artificial woman grabbed the hands of her sister (genetically speacking) and master, and dragged them away.
"well it's been displeasure meet you mister Rude I hope to never see you again"
said the woman turning one last time to stare at me
"the feeling is mutual Flat-chest san"
I responded fixing my eyes in hers...and rising my middle finger.
"let's go Illya-sama"
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"you know that you just messed up with dangerous people right?"
"I'm too tired to care brain"
"ahaha that was fun"
"Illya-sama?"
"your reactions, it was the first time you blushed, right Leysritt?"
"right...Sella was weird ah...aha..ah... Still"
"Still?"
"Still?"
"Why did Illya spent so much time to stare at that boy on the ground? And then interacted with him?"
"I don't know too well myself, but...his eyes looked like dad's...it made me curious, Still if I met him another time and he calls me brat again I will have Berserker tear him apart"
"OH GOD FINALLY"
I rejoiced entering in Emiya's house after a llllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg afternoon, but given the hour, right now was already evening
DAMMIT!
Limping painfully I managed to reach the kitchen. And to be honest never I'd been happier to return in that Japanese styled room. Sure if Emiya one day told me he found a few cans of Max Coffee this moment would be outshined, but for the time being...
"Okay it's over, today it's over "
I muttered trying to reach my room
I repeat trying.
*Sound of a boy falling on the ground and missing a pillow for two centimetres ( aawwwSoftLanding-FUCK!)
Ok it was official! I had consumed all my energies: all my limbs felt numb, the stench of blood impregnated my clothes, my wounds newly healed wounds were pulsing painfully and most importantly my fake skin after the: "I'm-going-to-stab-ya" treatment gently offered by Rider now was completely ruined.
"Damn...I never needed a...spare...change...before"
I whispered as my head and the floor became one.
my eyelids were so difficult to keep open
"No...I must...contact the...brats"
I said commanding my body to move.
Yet there wasn't a single limb, a single muscle that obeyed to my command
"dammit...damn...da..."
I fell asleep while my only consolation was that Emiya's house was surrounded by a powerful magical field.
"At least I here I'm safe"
I managed to think before the events of a night, now nearly nine years old engulfed my brain.
5 October 2007
*DLIN DLON
"coming!"
"Winry! just who the hell comes here at this hour"
"someone that can help Ed and Al"
"Oh God not them!"
*screech
"Yo"
"Good evening"
"..."
"Guys you came here faster than I imagined"
"We were already in Britain for business, to be clear we had to stretch our travel of 70 kilometers, with Kasumi here giving me the wrong directions, Kyotaka unable to decide a goddamn radio channel and local policemen that wouldn't believe we were dwarfs
"Ni-san just wants to say:"I hope it's a real emergency", or something"
"And that he is an idiot for believing that just having a piece of paper saying we were affected by dwarfism, would have kept people quiet..."
"Oh shut up you two, next time try to come out with a good excuse for having a nine years old drive a car...So what's the emergency?"
"Is that them,?"
"Yes on the right Ed and on the left Al, Edward and Alfonse Elric"
"And they are Magi..."
"Apparently"
"Apparently?"
"Listen I have known them for ever and I never caught any hint...then...Yesterday Ed arrived with his arm and leg carbonized dragging Al that seemed to have just got out from a bone fire...and...you have seen that thing in their basement"
"Yeah..I have seen it...dammit, call here Kasumi and Kyotaka, I need their help to treat this guy, if he can explain us what he specifically did, we can try to do something about the other brother...his condition is definitely worse "
"...yes...can you really help them?"
"I don't know, but I'll do everything in my power"
"Thanks"
"Don't thank me yet, I don't promise you any result"
"Still...thanks"
"...just get the two idiots before your grandmother stabs them with a spoon already...Right now every second is important.
"Okay Hachiman Kyotaka at three you release your magic and I slap him back to the world of living. One. Two. Three."
-transfer dolor-
As my will command :heal
"gggggggggwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaa! ALFONSE! MOM! Where are you!"
*slap
"Shut up and listen"
"So repeat me one last time Elric... you and your brother tried to revive your mother first spending all your fortune for a homunculs shaped with her DNA and then using a combination of alchemy and clack magic to summon her soul back"
"...Yes...that's exactly what we did...but..but our calculations were wrong and and...and then Gaia intercepted our ritual...I don't know what happened next I just saw my mother's homunculus transform and felt my magic circuits flare up...then there was Al and AL ALFONSE WHERE IS MY BROTHER!?"
"Kasumi go to in the car and get me the biggest diamond we have"
"HEY!"
"Kyotaka start charging we are going to need a lot of mana"
"STOP TO IGNORE ME AND ANSWER MY QUESTION!"
"Oh? you are enough lively to stand with your arm and leg Elric... surprising"
"DON'T GIVE ME THIS SHIT WHERE IS AL!?"
"Christ stop being so loud and turn your dumb head, he is right there"
"AL!...God what happened to you...PLEASE YOU HAVE TO HELP HIM"
*grab
"Please I'll do anything"
"Do anything? In that state? Just look at yourself ! you can barely stand and the magic circuits in your arm and leg are fry, you'd better amputate them before all your body go in necrosis"
"I don't care about arms and legs JUST GIVE ME MY BROTHER BACK! IS MONEY THAT YOU WANT I WILL PAY ANY PRICE"
"Didn't you say you spent all your money for your mother's homunculus"
"Magus flesh. it can worth a lot of money...TAKE MY ARMS TAKE MY LEGS TAKE EVERYTHING JUST SAVE HIM JUST SAVE AL!"
"ah is that so? you think that because you're ready to pay any price, you can obtain what you want? Don't give me this crap the world isn't so easy, besides look at your brother magic circuits fried on 98% of his body, it's a miracle he hasn't died already...no let me rephrase his body has already died, the only things that still function are heart, lungs and brain, it's just a matter of time before he dies from denutrition...there is nothing you can do"
"No...no... but there must be... at least single way"
"Oh there is...but believe me if you didn't have the right friend your brother would be done for. Now move aside and let the big kids do their job"
"Okay we need to be precise and quick! I'm going to extract lil'Elric's soul, Kasumi keep his eyes open, Kyotaka you direct the mana flow in the diamond and Elric"
"me?"
"No that chair, of course you dumbass take this"
"A silver pocket watch?"
"After exactly 247 seconds you touch Kasumi and Kasumi cut the eye-contact between me and your brother, one second less one second more and it's game over"
"yes"
"Good"
-the eyes are the mirrors of the soul-
-Tamashī no kagami-
AS MY WILL ORDERS: ABSORB
"246,245,244[...]4,3,2,1 NOW"
"Oh God that was hard...please Kyotaka, Kasumi can you get me some painkillers It's the first time I did something like this "
"Sure"
"Sure"
"..."
"..."
"...is this red diamond...A-Alfonse?
"yes it's him..at least for the time being, if as an Alchemist you worth your salt, you can bound his soul to a phisical object and re-give him touch, sight and hearing, in this way he will last..I'd say ten years"
"What? can't I just use an homunculus"
"Good luck with that, Unless you manage to find an original Einzbern Homunculus suitable for your brother, I highly doubt he would survive for more than eight years with the homunculs bodies you find on the black market nowadays"
"...Then I will make it on my own, I will create him a new body"
"And how I ask you?"
" I don't know YET, but I WILL FIND A WAY"
"mm interesting...I like your drive kid"
"don't call me kid, you are not older than me"
"really?"
"really I'm eight"
"ah sucks to be you! I'm nine...still let me be honest you won't find a way to give your brother a new body as you are now"
"What do you mean"
"you are weak, without resources and if you really believe you can learn how to make human bodies in less than ten years you're just a fool"
"..."
"That's why I'm going to offer you a deal, but first are you ready to sacrifice all your life up until now?"
"Thanks again Hachiman, I don't know what would have happened if it wasn't for you"
"Rockbell don't worry about it, just give me a 60% discount on my next order"
"Impossible"
"you cheapstake...still you and Elric owe me and the others a big one"
"believe me, we will repay you"
"Oh I've made sure of it..."
"What do you mean by that?"
" Nothing I just taught someone that there is no such a thing as a painless lesson, they just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary, you can't gain anything without losing something first. Although if you can endure that pain and turn it in your strength, you will find that you have now an heart"
"an heart?"
"yeah..."
"Ed when did you got dow-Where is your arm!"
"an heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle, an heart FullMetal...Hikigaya I accept your offer"
"OH Dammit I hate flashback dreams"
I said escaping from my sleep.
Really couldn't I just relax my dreams?
What a stupid question of course NOT, after all it wasn't like I was on vacation for goodness sake! I could indulge myself reminding of the good old days when a eight years old kid ripped his own arm to show resolve
"...I have always knew I should have opened a cafe instead of Oroboro, I'm not the leader type"
I muttered while countless faces that relied on me ran through my brain.
"Just what should I do once I turn eighteen...do my job"
"or indulge myself a little more time?"
I said reminding about a particular competition I had yet to win and a date I wasn't giving up on.
"ahahaha I should have known better than affectionate myself to a stupid clubroom ahaha so unprofessional."
I laughed off my concerns rolling on my back.
"Okay I guess I have already spent to much time lying on the ground for today"
I stared at the ceiling feeling my body still tired of course, but completely healed.
I was just about to stand up, when the sliding door of the kitchen suddenly opened. From my carpet-like-pose I could only see the socks of the new individual entering in the house (Stupid dining table!) still from the "delicate" fragrance of dead rat I could only assume it was Emiya.
"aawwwSoftLanding-FUCK!"
"yup definitely Emiya crushing on the floor like I did before"
I thought listening to the epic sound of a suffering riajuu...oddly satisfactory.
"Yo Emiya"
I grunted bored
"Hikigaya...why you on the floor?"
he responded emotionless
"I could ask you the same question"
"I just say rough day"
"Yeah me too..."
"..."
"..."
"Hikigaya, I don't feel like cooking tonight"
"...Should I call 911?"
"no...ye-no...no..nono...I was thinking about pizza"
"mmm that's sound nice, is Fujimura-sensei eating here?"
"nope, just you and me..."
"It's seriously creepy when you say it, you know"
"...I think it's more creepy you thought about my words in the creepy way...you creep"
"don't call me creep you filthy riajuu"
"..."
"..."
"ahhahaaha"
"ahahahaha"
"okay my bad..."
"soooo what about the pizza...I'm seriously starving right now"
"there is a calling card near the landline phone"
"...is this supposed to be a kind way to order me a to go order the pizzas?"
"a vegetarian please"
"...go to hell"
I concluded our conversation finally healthy enough to stand in less than ten minutes
Fortunately I still had on my winter coat so it was impossible Emiya noticed the traces left by fight with Rider, I just had to move away before he could smell the scent of blood, yet before I managed to come out from the kitchen...I realized something
*sniff
*sniff
all the kitchen was engulfed in the crimson fragrance of blood and...it wasn't only of mine
"the Fuck did happen to him"
I thought, as what remained of my blood froze in my veins
the situation was pretty obvious if you could see it from outside: I was injured, Emiya was injured, we both didn't want to let the other know and too afraid the smell of blood could gave off our, so called, secret, we ignored it and avoided to point it out. I only noticed something was off because I could distinguish the smell of my blood from someone else's one.
"I guess today was nobody's lucky day"
I whispered walking towards the exit door of the kitchen.
"Emiya..."
I called him giving the boy my back
"Yeah..."
he responded tired, really tired, yet trying to sound happy.
That was one of the many thing I hated about him, always using a voice that only sounded like,"I'm fine don't worry ", it was like he was pathetically trying mock me. "Dude it's obvious that you aren't fine" I wanted to scream, why? because...I cared about him, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH no, not enough at least, it just really pissed me off how he was trying to hide something so poorly...amateur the silent treatment is always the best option!
"How's your bruises?"
I asked feinting disinterest
"Uh?...Oh normal I think, they didn't change, nor started to hurt"
he answered
"Ok"
I said leaving the kitchen.
"God I hope Emiya isn't some kind of mind master able to deceive me! Before he didn't seem to be lying, maybe he doesn't even know, that those bruises are a full set of command seals...naaa he can't be this clueless...right?"
I thought putting aside the dinner matter for a moment
"Well, if that's the case I have no idea about what will happen next...still this is a problem I will face after having called a fucking army ready to Nuke the first servant who ruin my afternoon of laziness "
I whispered poisonous entering in my room.
After re-entering in my nest exactly 123 seconds of pure silent conflict... before a new hell broke into this GODDAMN FRIDAY.
But let's go in order.
-123-
Arriving in my room I quickly discarded my winter coat on the floor and run towards my suitcase
-120-
"8man Rocks"
I said mechanical
"voice recognized"
answered the silver suitcase opening in a*ftssss.
-118-
then a bit slower than I usually did my hands reached my laptop and activated it
-111-
"Okay now I just need to write...to write something"
I muttered while my hands seemed to have turned into stone.
they felt so heavy and difficult to move, it was like my hands were specifically refusing to move. And I didn't know why.
-99-
or maybe
-98-
I knew
-97-
after all they were always the same reasons
-96-
"if I drag Ororboro in this war, how many will die if a servant finds them...how many operations will blow up because I requested support and this to how many deaths will lead to?"
I whispered stopping to breathe
-90-
"yet how many can die if the grail ends up in the wrong hands?"
I asked myself tored apart
-85-
Dammit
I had too little information on any potential foe and too much to lose. A wrong decision and lives could be lost for ever... I had to be precise, I had to request a precise number of operative agents and equipments. Keep the risks and the benefits balanced.
-80-
"hypothetically speaking I need at least: my battle suit, 58 jewels filled with mana, a rocket launcher...better two rocket launchers, enchanted chains, plus a lot ammunitions then two high ranked operative agents, one from the medical squad, three spell casters and Kasumi...that right now doesn't want to talk to me, unless I change or something... Fuck"
I bit my tongue.
-68-
"if I can employ Rider maybe I can reduce the number of people I need"
-62-
"if I request androids support by Blank? No they will eventually ignore my orders and amass the whole Oroboro"
*tling *tling (bell sounds)
-46-
"I request the support of Diamond armor...no...Ed re-grafted Alfonse's soul in a human body two months ago, last week lil'Elric was about to awake in his new body, but of course it will take ages before he can return to be an agent...I need more options"
-19-
"Nuke the Holy Grail? yeah...If I knew its location and taking the helicarrier here didn't meant moving one third of Oroboro staff and half of the budged of the whole organization"
- 16-
"guess I will just request the information about the holy grail and some equipment from Winry's grandmother"
-10-
"then I will come out with something"
-9-
-8-
-7-
-6-
-5-
-4-
-3-
-2-
-1-
*crash
the paper wall of my room broken
" Hikigaya RUN!"
"Hikigaya RUN!"
a red haired boy crashed in my room with his left ankle bent in a horrible way and a glowing poster in his hand
"Emiya ! "
I scream seeing him with his school uniform stained of blood
So that's what he was hiding all this time that was one hell of a stab wound, he must have nearly died from it
"You have to run!"
my land lord said unable to stand up while his consciousness seemed to fade away
"Oh there is another"
A voice I didn't know announced the arrive of a tall blue dude
I didn't have to even think about it, this Seriously-dangerous-looking-man was obviously a servant
Dammit
my heart was beating to an insane speed, and the gun in my pocket was out of ammo
"Yo servant-San what I can do for you"
I said burying all my emotions, I had to keep my cool and search for a way out
"Ah? You know about servants, are you a Magus? "
"Mmmm Kinda...can you please tell me why you are trying to turn my landlord into a kebab?"
"He saw something he shouldn't have, like you..."
The man said kindly informing me that diplomacy was useless
"Oh what a pity"
I said doing the only thing I could think of
Throw the first thing I had under my hand a.k.a my laptop. It was a desperate and naive action, but it was the only decoy I could use in my current situation
"useless"
Said the man impaling midair my computer with a spear
"Where did that come from !"
I thought dashing towards the man calling every drop of mana I still had in my body
"I JUST NEED A SECOND OF EYE CONTACT "
I mentally screamed closing the distance with the man as much as I could
THE EYES ARE THE MIRRORS OF THE SOUL
I chanted focused to win with only a move
The blue dude's red eyes were just behind what remained of my laptop, I felt like I could do it
"Tamashi no kaga-ugh"
unfortunately my feelings were a bit of today
I didn't managed to finish my spell
My opponent's fist hit me before I was able to complete my chant or to do anything else
"Fast"
Was the only thing I could think as my body flew across the room
That dude's fist was like a cannon ball and had at least cracked four of my ribs
"Agh"
I groaned crashing in a wall
"Ahaha that was a nice move kiddo you surprised me"
Said the spearman surpassing the semi-conscious Emiya on the floor
" that's how you react...when someone surprises you?...guess nobody throws a surprise party for you uh?"
I muttered while a my mouth felt metallic and in pain
"Pffff nice reaction bozu, but it won't save your life "
said the man lazily pointing his spear at my chest
"Really? Well at last I will go out as a badass"
I said grabbing his spear with my right hand and sinking it a bit in my flesh
-Dolor meus et fortitudinem-
I chanted channeling half of the pain magic I had left in my left hand
Using my reinforcement spell on my hand I forcefully turned all my flash in a crystalline looking obsidian claw .
Making resort to all my power of will I sank more this dude's spear in my belly and pierced his fore arm with my black Claws
I knew it was just for a moment, but by blocking this Spear dude weapon and arm I could buy my semi-conscious landlord a bit of time to escape
"Emiya run !"
I ordered him with a voice that accepted no buts.
Unfortunately for some reason I have yet to understand Shiro Emiya decided it was wiser to run with his poster against me and the spear man , instead of running away.
I knew I could have been more specific but when someone say run, the away is implicit dammit!
"Woooo"
Screamed the boy swinging his glowing poster like a bath towards this Lancer's head
Doing...absolutely nothing! the poster just bent around the blue dude's forehead
"Oh for goodness sake!"
I groaned as Emiya was astonished and lancer was rising an eyebrow
"I meant run away, fucking moron"
"Gosh this sight is too pathetic bozu listen to your friend advice here, Start running I will finish him off and then chase you again"
"H-hikiga"
"Go dammit!"
I screamed tightening my grip around Lancer's forearm, but judging from his expression I wasn't hurting him or anything
Really this dude wasn't reacting at all couldn't he at least pretend to be in pain
"Shir shit shit "
said the boy finally running away
"geez was it so difficult!"
"Hey he tried to help you"
Said the man effortlessly freeing his forearm from my hand
"no he was wasting the time I tried to buy"
I grunted
" don't sweat over it he will eventually die, your efforts are meaningless at the end"
He said trusting his spear in my guts and then retreating it
needless to say it hurt like a bitch
"Fuck you"
Was the last thing I said as he left the room
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2
3
"Caecis iter dolor"
(the way of the healing is pain)
I chanted making my wound started to heal,
"Thank god he didn't understood I was directing his spear away from vitals points, damn the spear was cursed, it's fucking difficult to heal "
I whispered crawling towards my suitcase and drawing four objects:
a jar of plastic,Two syringes, two finales of a blue liquid and a small box with a post it on
"Prototypes of Oroboro MCA, don't use them at full potential or they will tear apart your muscles
Winry
Without waiting for even a second I filled the two syringes with the blue liquid and shot it in my veins, forcefully replenishing my mana, then ai opened the box wore six bracelets.
" Emiya resist a minute I'm coming "
I said opening the plastic jar and swallowing eight pills of stimulating
4 times the mortal dose
"Really if I die at fifty after this stunt, I deserve it "
REINFORCEMENT FULL COWL LAST SECOND
AND HERE IT IS THE CHAPTER 2 OF MY FF WHERE OUR UN-LOVELY 8MAN MESSED UP WITH RIDER'S MIND, ENCOUTERED ILLYA + MAIDS (THAT ARE MORE SIMILAR TO THEIR KALEID COUNTER PARTS), HAD SOME FLASHBACKS ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS EVER EDWARD ELRIC AND FINNALY MET LANCER...YEAH HIKIGAYA HACHIMAN IS REALLY HAVING HARD TIMES.
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE CHAPTER...I KINDA WROTE IT BETWEEN A TEST AND ANOTHER SO IT MIGHT BE A BIT SLOPPIER THAN USUAL...DAMMIT HIGHSCHOOL!
AS USUAL LET ME KNOW YOUR OPINIONS, THANKS TO EVERY BODY WHO READ THIS MADNESS OF MINE AND TO THE NEXT CHAPTER
THE SWORD II