Preparing for the Fated Enemy Encounter
"He? Who's he?" Touta asked, wondering who this "He" could be.
But then Xingzi Chao appeared from the shadows just like last time and Touta is more prepared this time as he blitzes at the shadow man and punched the creepy shadow man so hard, he was sent flying and crashed onto some trash while his head is bleeding from the hit.
"I've had just about enough of dealing with all of your ridiculous attack." Touta smirked.
"Hey, you don't think I killed him with that punch, right? Because I heard this saying about "fate worse than death" and all that." Touta asked.
'I'm pretty sure you spared him, I think. It wasn't too bad, for a fool." Kirie commented.
"With that irregularity now removed, time can finally move on the way it's supposed to go." Kirie declared as she cleans her glasses a little.
"Oh yeah, you were about to tell me who is this "He" that's gonna appear soon, right?" Touta asked, Kirie nods to the answer.
"He's Fate Averruncus." Kirie revealed the man's name.
"What now? Fate?" Touta puzzled, he has now idea on who this Fate Averruncus is though consider Kirie does seem to know this guy and maybe the rest of UQ Holders.
"He's a very powerful mage, and he's going to kidnap you." Kirie revealed what's also about to happen soon in the higher floor of the tower.
"Whoa, whoa, kidnap me? That's the crazy thing I ever heard!" Touta shocked.
"Yes, it does sound crazy given how strong you are right now." Kirie admitted that much.
"I'll tell you what happened. So, listen up." Kirie said as she starts the explain to Touta about what happened in the first time before she resets time.
"Kuroumaru and I left to go talk and we were separated from you and Ikku for a short period." Kirie remembered that time clearly in her mind.
"Wait, Kuroumaru was with us that first time?" Touta confused, still remembering that Kuroumaru should still be back on the island resort.
"Oh, I had you use your demonic superspeed to get Kuromuaru here and under one minute too." Kirie answered which Touta smirks at how amazing he is.
"Anyway, that's when…" Kirie started the story.
(Kirie's First Time Playthrough)
The scene shows Kirie and Kuroumaru are sitting together at a table outside of the Starbooks Café to have a little talk with each other.
"I've been really wanting to talk to you for a while now, Kuroumaru, you seem sane." Kirie commented.
"You think I'm sane? Then why didn't you come talk to me before today, Kirie?" Kuroumaru asked.
"Well, uh, you always seem to be hanging out with that demonic monkey of a guy." Kirie answered.
"I see then, do you mean Touta?" Kuroumaru asked with his cheeks lightly blushing.
"His stupidity and cockiness will rub off on you if you're not careful." Kirie warned.
"I don't know, he does have his moments and maybe I want to be closer to him." Kuroumaru smiled, feeling her inner female side squealing for Touta.
But then Kirie got a sudden magical-telepathic call which she knows is only used for serious things like an emergency.
"Yes, I can hear you, Ikkuu. What's wrong?" Kirie asked.
"Get away from there now! And contact Yukihime." Ikkuu shouted.
Suddenly, there's a loud noise of an explosion that went off from somewhere very close by.
"Was that an explosion? It's by the gate!" Kuroumaru shocked and hurried over.
"Hey, Kuroumaru! Wait up!" Kirie called out and ran after him.
"A fire has broken out at Gate 3. Please follow staff instructions and evacuate the tower." The emergency announcer said.
The people are panicking from the sudden fire and are running to the safest area of the tower as they don't want to get caught in the fire. Kuroumaru and Kirie arrives at the very close area to if this is a real fire emergency.
"Wait, that's…" Kuroumaru spotted the others.
Both UQ agents saw something dangerous and very odd going on down there, Touta is struggling with his right arm being held by a strange young man in white clothing while Ikkuu and Karin are on each side ready to help their fellow UQ Holder and fight this strange man.
"I don't know what the fuck your deal is, but I'm gonna give you a Hell of a time to know what happens when you mess with me!" Touta growled.
"You can try if you somehow free your legs from my petrification spell." The white suit man pointed out as the scene shows Touta's legs have been turned to stone.
The white man has the appearance of a young man. He is seen wearing a suit, consisting of a light-colored jacket, light colored trousers and shoes, as well as a dark tie. He sports slightly messy hair, long enough to cover the sides of his face, with one strand of hair reaching all the way to his chest.
Ikkuu rushed in with rocket thrusts on his back and intends to stab the guy with his piston spear only for the white hair man to simply grab the spear with his bare hands and made a twist with that hand to suddenly cause Ikkuu to be thrown away and broken down into pieces from his limbs.
"Ikkuu!" Touta gasped.
Karin comes in to attack this man with her hammer though to the mysterious white hair man, it would be just another pest trying to fly in his direction and will squash her like one too.
However, just when the white hair man was about to easily dodge faster than her eyes can track and react to his movements, there is a very powerful sharp pain alerting his body which gave him a slight distraction for Karin to land a blow on the head with her hammer.
"I got you!" Karin yelled.
"(Damn it, that actually hurt a little, but what was that other pain before?)" The mysterious white suited man thought confused.
In that moment, the white man looks, and his eyes widen in shock to see his right foot has been stabbed by Touta's Devil Sword Dante and he looks up seeing a smirking Touta.
"Let see how you like having your foot not being able to move!" Touta taunted.
This annoys the white suited man that this boy is putting up so much resistance against him and Karin quickly goes in for another attack, but he quickly uses his other foot to kick her in the stomach and was about to use a spell to send this girl into oblivion.
"No, you don't!" Touta sliced the right hand clean off from the white suited man who became shocked.
Touta threw in a strong headbutt on the man's face that was so hard it made him bleed from both the mouth and the nose, he looks over to see that Karin is still okay though in a lot of pain in the stomach area.
"You little bastard… Is that anyway how you should be treating your legal owner?" The white man asked in anger.
"Legal owner? The Hell are you talking about?" Touta confused.
"That's something you don't need to know!" The white man swinged his free leg on Touta's stone legs to shatter them into pieces.
"Touta!" Kuroumaru jumped in hoping to help his best friend/crush.
"You will not take Touta away!" Karin promised with a death-glare.
"I don't have time for any of you." The white man said.
The white suited man turns his eyes onto Kuroumaru using his earth magic to make the floor erupt spikes to impale the number 11 of UQ Holder though the stomach and all four of his limbs.
Then literally one second after dealing with Kuroumaru, the man in white threw a powerful kick onto Karin's face sending her flying right out of the tower and suddenly trapped into some large debris and metal as she falls.
"Fucking bastard! Die!" Touta swinged his sword at this weird white dude for revenge on his second girlfriend and best friend who would become his third future girlfriend.
"Aionion Petrosis!" The white man casted the stone spell on Touta's arm to stop the attack and smash it to bits to render him armless.
"The petrification spell! But that would mean this man…!" Kirie realized in shock on who this man is.
"Hey bastard, don't I at least get a name before I kick your butt?" Touta demanded.
"My name is Fate Averruncus. And that's all you're getting once I take you with me." Fate revealed his name and his intention.
"(Oh no, everyone is got taken out by this guy and I'm not sure if Touta will last long against this man!)" Kirie thought worried.
"I better deal with that girl soon." Fate looked in the direction of Kirie who gasp in shock.
"Don't even think about it!" Touta struck Fate in the stomach with his regenerated leg.
"(Damn it, he's regeneration is greater than how it should be.)" Fate thought shocked in pain.
"I swear, I'm going to take you back even if I have to do it in pieces!" Fate declared.
"Over my dead body!" Touta angered as his demonic aura spiked and the two started clashing each other with sword against arms.
However, Fate appears to have the upper hand much more than Touta as he smacked the Devil Sword Dante out of the boy's hand and kicks it straight at Kirie who got a major cut on her left side and in her stomach too.
"Kirie!" Touta screamed.
"Don't look away from me!" Fate grabbed Touta by the head and slams him down onto the ground creating a large crater.
Fate quickly turns the rest of Touta's body to stone and smash it into pieces with only the head remains though the Devil-Vampire boy refuses to stay down as his demonic powers went into overdrive to regenerate his body, but Fate quickly turned his head into stone as well.
"Can't believe you're more troublesome than you're worth, and you don't even realize how special you truly are." Fate said.
"(Touta, he's going to be taken away.)" Kirie thought feared as her life is fading faster from this wound.
"(But don't worry, I'll be able to save you once I reset.)" Kirie thought before she closes her eyes for the final time.
(Back to Kirie's 9th Time Playthrough)
"And there you have it, Touta." Kirie finished explaining what happened in the first time.
"Whoa, whoa, now that just makes me want to ask a ton of questions after hearing all of that! Like first off, who the fuck is this Fate guy or whatever the heck his ridiculous name is?" Touta asked, feeling a little angry with this guy he never met nor ever heard of before until now.
"Honestly, I don't really know." Kirie admitted though she does know a few things about Fate.
"However, he's currently the strongest wielder of Earth type magic, and was once considered a hero. But now he's an enemy of humanity." Kirie explained.
"That's one dramatic shift." Touta commented, sweating a bit of this weird guy.
"Okay, so there is this weird guy with a stupid name like Fate is after me because he claims that he's my legal owner. What the fuck did he mean by that?" Touta wondered as he looks at Kirie.
"How the heck do I know, idiot!" Kirie yelled though Touta isn't fazed by this.
"Anyway, Fate captures you and we all end up getting annihilated. Even you despite being able to hold your own against him for a short time." Kirie pointed out the bad event that happened in the first time.
"To prevent that catastrophe is why I went back in time to try to—"
"I see, so that's what your hidden power is." Ikkuu's voice said.
This causes Kirie to jump in shock and turns around to discover both Ikkuu and Karin are standing right behind them.
"So, you just re-spawn when you die. That's what your true hidden ability is, Kirie." Karin finally learned the truth of Kirie's immortality.
"Well, you see, huh…" Kirie struggled to come up with a good explanation to why she kept this secret from them.
"Really, you two seriously didn't already know about her." Touta surprised to hear that his two seniors didn't know. Guess that must mean Yukihiime is the only one that knows.
"Her power Hell awesome, am I right? She even brought me all the way back with her to early." Touta bragged with a grin.
"You're not supposed to tell them that!" Kirie yelled at Touta.
"Why not, it's not like knowing about it will cause problems if it's your power." Touta believed.
"You can't! Well, you just shouldn't." Kirie stated as she started to look a little down which confuses Touta.
Now four of the UQ Holder agents are riding the bullet train to the tower while Ikkuu gives a rundown to Touta about another thing the organization does. Touta also made a quick trip back to the island to get Kuroumaru since he was there when Fate attacked them.
"True, we try not to reveal the secrets of our immortality unless absolutely necessary. Because basically it means you've just revealed all your weak points to any potential future enemies." Ikkuu explained this.
"But in Kirie's cause, I suspect it might be even more serious than that. A trusted friend might just all of a sudden decide they want to kill her. If that friend feels the need to go back in time." Ikkuu theorized the worse thing that could happen to Kirie.
"What? Has that ever happened to you, Kirie?" Touta asked shock.
Kirie didn't answer as she thought about the bad things that happened to her in the past and has gone through more of her resets as some were horrible deaths that she did not want to experience anymore.
Touta can definitely see that she doesn't want to talk about her past nor does she want anyone to abuse her immortality.
"Don't worry about it, Kirie." Touta smiled as he places a hand on her head.
"I would never think to do that to you and Kuroumaru is not that kind of guy or girl either. And I definitely know that Karin would never do that since she's my woman and all." Touta vouched for his best friend and lover.
"Oh sure, go ahead and tell everybody that we're dating." Karin muttered with her cheeks blushing.
"I don't know Ikkuu that well, but I'm guessing probably not." Touta said which Ikkuu just smiles.
Kirie is surprised to hear that Touta is being so nice to her right now, she thought this guy was a pervert like how he treated back earlier in 8th Time Playthrough, but she's getting to know something else about Touta that makes him seem like a trustworthy guy.
"W-What's with all the probablies here?" Kirie asked, trying to act like her tough self.
"That's true enough, but Touta's definitely got it right. None of us would ever think to use you in such a way." Ikkuu said after a little laugh.
"Yes, you have our word, Kirie." Kuroumaru promised.
"With a lifespan as grossly long as ours, I would never want to relive anything again, if possible." Karin stated, she certainly doesn't want to go through those 2,000 years again because that would be a total nightmare.
"Just relax, you're overthinking it." Touta patted her head.
"Well, you don't think nearly enough, do you? Incompetent fool." Kirie threw a kick to Touta's face, but he caught it and kissed her right on the cheek causing her to blush crazy in shock.
"Let me know if you wanna get real with me." Touta whispered which only made Kirie stutter some more.
"(Oh great, now he's going to get another girlfriend and he hasn't even done Kuroumaru yet.)" Karin thought pouted.
"You… You… You…" Kirie moved away from Touta and quickly regain her composure.
"Well, if we must. Fine, then I'll just have to trust you all. And since you all seem to know now, I'll explain Plan A." Kirie decided to trust them with this plan.
"Oh, so you thought of a way to beat that Fate guy?" Touta asked.
"Not exactly. You see, preventing your capture and our impending annihilation was actually the backup plan for this whole escapade; or in other words, Plan B. Plan A will have us focusing on a much bigger target." Kirie explained.
"What do you mean by a bigger target?" Kuroumaru asked.
"A plan made by Yukihime herself. We know where and when he plans on attacking all of us, so we just turned the tables, then we'll be the ones to capture Fate Averruncus." Kirie revealed their objective.
"Capture?" The boys puzzled of this plan.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Touta has learned all about how Kirie saw him being captured by Fate Averruncus and she reset her time to prevent that, and now more people know about her power with faith in her. Now the UQ Holders are about to unleash a plan to capture Fate Averruncus into their hands.
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