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Chapter: Are you Scared?
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".҉̛́S.̸̸̡̕?̶̀͞͞͠K.̵͘.̸̸̡̕?̶̀͞͞͠K t̛͘͠͝RR.̶͟I.̸̸̡̕" The screeching sound reached from behind; even if I don't know insect language, I can guess it as 'You are dead!'. Then I felt a looming presence approaching me fast, even if I don't have an observation Haki. "AAAaaa help! Murder!" I yelled in panic while running away from him.
Only my Parkour skill and extraordinary reflexes are keeping me from getting sliced like my surroundings. 'It's good we moved out of the city,' I thought.
I turned to see Scyther flying towards me menacingly with his sword in his mouth.
"Shit! I apologized. Right? Then Why are you chasing me? Asshole!" I roared and began running on my fours, like an animal- I can run faster if I use my claws.
I suddenly heard some sound in a distance, and I quickly headed in that direction.
I reached a clearing to find a battle taking place between Shandians and Skypieans. So I ran in yelling, "AAAAAHHH! help, A monster!"
There were roughly 50 people in this clearing. They looked over vigilantly after hearing a kid's voice on the battlefield. Both parties think it may be the enemy's plan to distract them.
Shandians looked confused looking at the kid. Meanwhile, Skypieans gasped in recognition and whispered things like 'the devil's alive, 'what to do?', 'I told so', etc. I ignored it, running towards them.
I suddenly dodged right, avoiding an attack I felt towards me *swish* "Fuck! Is that flying slash?" I gaped at the slash mark on the ground where I stood.
"Are you trying to kill me?" I roared angrily but quickly got my wits and ran towards the forest on the other side of the clearing, maneuvering through the men, who were vigilantly looking at the place where the attack originated from.
After reaching the forest, I was panting. I turned to see that the Scyther stopped chasing me. I looked confused 'What is he doing? There are only some humans. He is obviously stronger than most of them,' I deduced.
"What! Are you scared?" I yelled taunting Scyther, after feeling he was not approaching.
"If you are scared of these Mooks, then you can't prove anything," I shouted to the other side. 'Oi! Who you are calling Mooks?' yelled most of the men, waiting for any movement from the forest.
"As I thought, you are a coward," I yelled angrily at his behavior.
"You are afraid of breaking hierarchy, afraid of the villain-looking face, afraid of humans." I listed the things he is afraid of.
"And you only approached me because I looked like an easy target, right?" I demanded, Scyther still remaining hidden.
"You could have gone away from me anytime, but why did you stay and get tortured?" I yelled, panting.
"No one stopped you, so what is your reason?" I asked. "You didn't run, because you are afraid, right?" I questioned mockingly.
"What are you planning, struck in this endless loop? Afraid of breaking it" I questioned sharply. The men also gasped, thinking of the endless war between them.
"You can't make anything different if you don't believe in yourself." I waited silently for him to show up. Everyone is looking curious at whom I am talking to. Then Scyther came out of the shadow of the trees, everyone looked surprised seeing a mantis, and relaxed their vigilance subconsciously.
[No, I went with you because there is no place for me and also to overcome my fears] Scyther signed telling what he truly thought [but I enjoyed our days together] Scyther signed then stopped,
He looked hesitant for a while before his eyes became firm, [I'm going to become the strongest insect] he signed firmly.
[I vow that the world will know my name through the mouth of the enemies I defeat"] he signed.
Some Skypieans who know sign language laughed at this, thinking about what an insect can do. Shandians looked thoughtful, thinking of their ancestor's promise looking solemn but still don't believe an insect can become strong.
"Hmph! what are you laughing at?" I glared at the men, laughing.
"You will only know to fight meaninglessly every day," I roared at them, but will they take me seriously with my childish voice? is not known
"Psh...! You want to become the strongest insect?" I sneered.
"You can't even cut steel, you barely used a flying slash, and you can't use that weapon properly," I mocked Scyther, as his anger increased again.
"Fuck! What are you waiting for? Attack him," I ordered, pointing at Scyther, who was readied to fight with no fear. I smirked at his display with pride.
"What? Why do you need us to fight?" a Skypiean asked in confusion as others nodded.
"I know, I can't rely on you useless things," I sneered at them. "Who doesn't know anything about pride," I despised them.
"But Shandian warriors are prideful, so they will fight, right?" I incited eyeing Shandians as they looked nervous; probably thinking it was a ploy.
"Oh! Come on, there needs to be something cool happening after he declared his dream right," I revealed the reason for urging them.
"What is cooler than defeating a bunch of Mooks?" I provoked in annoyance.
They snapped angrily, yelling 'a mere insect can't defeat me.', 'I can kill it in seconds.', 'I'm not a Mook.', etc.
"Stop! I can smack that insect just with my palm," finally a Skypiean bragged flexing his palm and rushing towards Scyther.
Scyther disappeared suddenly from his position and *swoosh* reappeared in between Skypieans and Shandians. *Thud* the man who rushed earlier, fell to his knees, clutching his bleeding chest.
Everyone became serious after the event. All of them surrounded Scyther waiting for his next move, "He didn't even faint from your showing off," I voiced, pointing out. Most of them yelled 'Shut Up!'; the injured person had the urge to vomit blood.
They suddenly attacked Scyther together, *clack* he blocked the two swords in the front with his legs. He turned his head *squelch* slashing the owners of the swords with the weapon's left blade, *clang* simultaneously blocking the spear, reaching his back with the right blade of the weapon.
Scyther moved back cutting the owner of the spear *Tzing* as a bullet hit the place where he stood, *slash* he send a flying slash toward the direction where the shot came from.
It became an all-out fight with him dodging, cutting, slashing, etc. I successfully recorded the video from the start.
'Up till now, they were at each other's throat, now they joined to attack an insect,' I watched speechlessly. 'Their pride got hurt seeing a mere insect attack a human,' I scoffed at their behavior.
Suddenly *buzz* Scyther flew to the sky getting some distance away from the crowd then dived towards them, spinning rapidly, entering the crowd and exiting from behind. It all happened in a few seconds due to his speed; *swish* *splurt* *glurg* *thud* then most people fell with blood spraying from their bodies.
*t'chi* *t'chi* *t'chi* they released several arrows as Scyther dodged them; by the time the arrows stopped, Scyther was in the middle of the network of Milky roads formed by the dials in the arrows.
*click* *schlik* *sizzle* Gun's Cocking, metal rubbing, burn blade turning on; sounds were heard, as the humans started riding the milky roads using Jet Ski neutralizing Scyther's height advantage.
"Now began the real fight," I beamed, looking eager. I didn't get nervous seeing the situation Scyther is in, as my intuition shows he will be alright.
I also want to see whether he can learn observation Haki, in this life-and-death situation. I held Eisen Dial in my hand, ready to use it to save Scyther if the situation became dangerous.
The fight started as Scyther took the initiative to attack first. The two groups of humans retaliated back as Scyther dodged, parried, etc, and became proficient in using the weapon.
He dodged or identified one or two attacks from his blind spot. My eyes widened. "Did he learn Haki?" I exclaimed, examining. He dodged some, but most of them nearly hit him. "He is on the verge of learning it," I concluded.
The stress and pressure he had for the past few months must be the reason to learn Haki. I relaxed after seeing that Scyther will not be in any danger and watched the fight happily.
A «BEEP» sound spread on the battlefield. Only Scyther noticed it and moved away from the fight, just in time for me to shout "Where Am I?"
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«Year:- 1510 » «Age:- 03 » «Location:- SkyPiea: Upper Yard » «Time:- February-End »
«Main Task: Get stronger and avenge Scyther»
»Instructions:
«Previously: » The first phase of Scyther's training journey is over after a month.
» Just raided the treasury of God's shrine and looted many Dials and weapons.
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«Train Scyther to be proficient in using a weapon»
«Check the Dials looted »
«Experiment Haki on Scyther»
«Next: » Prepare a plan to overthrow Royals after learning about the Kingdom's situation »
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"Woah! People are fighting here," I exclaimed, looking at injured men, and then looked at the watch on instinct, read the reminder, and calmed down.
"Hey Scyther, why are you fighting them?" I asked confusedly as most Skypieans looked bitter already knowing about my memory loss and Shandians looked confused at my question.
The group suddenly reacted 'Why are we fighting that insect?' they thought. 'Is it because of what that kid said?' they look perplexed.
Scyther signed with his bloody legs, [You beat me up with my eyes blindfolded] angrily. I nodded recalling the mention of Haki in the Reminder [but I can't learn it if you attack me indirectly, right?] he signed furiously.
'Why is he stating the obvious?' I looked perplexed before reacting. 'Did 'I' beat him indirectly?' I wondered before spotting the Eisen Dial in my hand. 'It seems so,' I smiled bitterly.
'I will choose my next course of action how you explain,' Scyther signed angrily, making me sweat.
"Hahaha, that thing! um… how do I say it?" I faltered, laughing nervously.
"Oh! I believed in you to succeed since you are a super insect that can overcome anything with your awesomeness," I shamelessly spun a reason.
I looked at him in disappointment/pity. "But it looks like you failed my expectation," I sighed, shaking my head in disappointment.
Everyone looked dumbfounded, the wounded even stopped screaming, and the place become utterly silent; the Scyther sighed [You know what? You win] sighing in defeat.
"What are you talking about?" I looked blinked innocently, "Ah! Looks like you came out of your shell," I gushed, changing the topic, and looking at the defeated humans.
[Shut up! It's your fault] he signed embarrassed, looking vigilantly at the humans standing between us.
"Now you have accepted yourselves, so..." I asked while checking the things I have brought with me- Two Eisen Dial, one Ball Dial, some food, and a transponder snail.
As Scyther waited for me to continue, "I challenge you to a duel," I declared, pointing at him and posing coolly. *thump* I suddenly belly-flopped on the ground, dodging an attack aimed at me.
I rolled away to see a stupid Centipede *crack* biting the tree I stood below.
"Fuck! There is always something to ruin my awesomeness," I cursed. "You Stupede! You are familiar and I have the urge to kill you," I yelled, pointing at the somewhat familiar centipede, having two stumps as its antenna.
I stood up. "It is all God's fault," I blamed recalling the note to kick God's ass, finally understanding why it is there.
"I somehow feel it happens frequently," I shouted, starting to run away from Stupede.
"Scyther! Don't worry, I will find you," I shouted reassuring him *skitter* *skitter* then ran into the forest with Stupede skittering back.
I ran thinking of a plan to escape from the Stupede while dodging, vaulting, jumping, etc., and then I realized, 'why should I run?' So I took the Eisen Dail controlling it to produce a wall behind me, *smack* Stupede smacked into it.
I made a staircase using another Eisen Dial to reach higher ground to get a clear view of Stupede. After removing the wall I saw Stupede skitter out, shaking its head groggily, searching for me angrily.
"I'm here Stupede asshole," I shouted, standing on the huge branch of a tree manipulating the dials. The Stupede got angry and started climbing the tree; I smirked at it 'Plan success'. Stupede suddenly stopped climbing midway through the tree's height. No! from its twitching legs, it looks like it got struck.
"Hmph! do you think I'm an idiot? Who reveals himself without a plan?" I snorted, controlling the Eisen Dial to manipulate the cloud to stretch into rod shape then to wire shape finally into strings, and using it to trap Stupede.
It is difficult to make strings since it's smaller. The smaller the things I manifest, difficult it is to control. It also takes heavy concentration to control; I'm burning my brain cells rapidly with how drenched I'm in sweat.
"I heard that Centipedes only have an odd number of legs," I wondered.
"So, I'm gonna help you prove it's wrong," I grinned maliciously. *slice* as many of Stupede's legs got cut off from its body as it writhed in pain.
I removed the strings as Stupede dropped to the ground. "SKREE!" Stupede screeched, trashing in pain and glaring at me with resentment. "Oh! I thought of leaving you alive," I muttered and surprised at even having that thought.
"Am I becoming compassionate with your species?" I wondered, probably living with an insect has its effect.
"If it was the same me from the previous life, I wouldn't have thought these useless things," I lamented at the personality change.
"I need to re-evaluate some things," I decided, but first to take care of the problem in front. I covered the centipede with a cloud in a dome shape.
"Just die peacefully asshole and thanks for the wake-up call," I uttered emotionlessly. I manipulated the clouds to form many spikes and pierced the Stupede simultaneously, "SKREEEE!" *stab* *thud* *squelch*.
After feeling the struggle stop, I removed the cloud to see the hole-ridden body of the centipede. "Oh! Man, it was tiring to control this dial," I sighed tiredly, then ate some snacks and drank some water.
I took the watch and then updated it, "Scyther will solve his problem by himself," I muttered, deleting the Main goal.
"So what should I do now?" I thought, 'I'm not ready for the Blue Sea', 'get stronger? I will do it without mentioning it,' I seriously thought of the Goal.
I put it aside and got down from the tree to check on Stupede's body. To my surprise, I only found half of the body. "Fuck! It escaped by digging into the ground," I shouted in panic.
*shmm* I suddenly felt something rushing behind me, *swish* so I quickly manipulated the cloud in the shape of a giant pike, striking it behind. I spun around, *stab* *puff* before blood sprayed out as silence descended.
*Huuu* I released my held breath, as I felt my heart beating fast against my chest. After my head cleared, I saw Stupede mandibles only some centimeters away from my face.
*Haa* *gulp* I breathed, gulping nervously, looking at the mandibles. "Fuck! I nearly died," I muttered.
"GGAAAaaa! Holy Shit! I nearly died," I yelled angrily/panicked. "Ouch! It hurts," I shouted in sudden pain from my right shoulder. I turned to see one leg of the centipede puncturing my shoulder.
"Shit!" I cursed, feeling pain as the adrenaline wore off. I cut the leg sticking in my right shoulder from the centipede's body, moving away from it.
*poof* *thud* I released the cloud as the body fell to the ground; I sighed in relief after there was no movement from the Centipede.
"Phew! it got stopped by bones and didn't pierce through," I sighed, gritting in pain, examining the wound from which a leg sticking out.
"Will my wings fall off if it pierced through?" I wondered, looking doubtfully at the wings.
"First, get out of here and treat the wounds," I panted, walking away, securing the dials safely in my bag. As I got some distance, I felt my arms becoming numb, but I ignored in finding a safe place.
After sometimes I suddenly felt dizzy as my vision got blurry, "Shit! I'm poisoned?" I cursed in panic. Stumbling around, I felt some places becoming numb, as *slump* I fell down and dragged my body to lean against a tree.
*puff* "Ugh!" I plucked the legs out of my wound, stressfully controlling Eisen Dial, and poured the water from the water dial, cleaning it. "If my hand works properly, I can see the treatment details on my watch," I lamented, looking at my bleeding shoulder.
"I wish it came with an A. I," I mumbled at the missed chance.
"I hope not to get eaten by any animal before Scyther finds me," I slurred, waiting as I lost feeling in my limbs. *iiiinnnnn* I hear a ringing noise as black spots started appearing in my vision, as it was becoming blurry. Before losing consciousness, I saw some human feet arriving towards me.
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