Yellow Experience
Hello again, folks. It's time for the continuation of last chapter, which was heavily battle oriented and quite graphic. Read on for some more action and brutality. I hope you enjoy!
I do not own JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or Assassination Classroom
Chapter 25: Challenging your limits (Part 2)
"I'm gonna start blasting, Shiobana!" Gakushuu proclaimed, unleashing a barrage of nails onto Haruno.
"!"
Instinctively, the blond shifted his Stand 100% in front of him, anticipating a terrific attack.
Barely a few seconds later it turned out he was right to use his Stand like a shield, because the nails were pouring down on him like raindrops.
'This… This can't be a normal nail gun! It has to be a modified one!'
The attack felt like a storm, with the delinquent barely being able to resist. [Ougon no tomodachi] did manage to block all nails with its Stand body, but the pressure was still high.
A short while later, which felt a lot longer than it actually lasted, the fire came to a halt.
Haruno initially thought he'd endured the entire magazine, until he was surprised by a wave of pain coming from his side.
"Augh…!"
Roughly around where he was first hit, he was hit many more times. Pain came from numerous spots on his arm, shoulder and side torso.
Asano had ceased fire before completely emptying the magazine, making him believe that the rounds were empty. But actually, the orange-haired sneaked a little bit to the side, where the blond's Stand wasn't positioned to block the nails.
"You're at a grave disadvantage here." Gakushuu boasted, only now reloading his nail gun. "I've got so many tricks up by sleeve, and they aren't going to run out anytime soon. Just like these nails."
'Indeed I am.' the delinquent inwardly admitted, acknowledging Asano's earlier part. 'But so are you, while reloading!'
Not failing to grasp what his enemy was doing at the moment, Haruno rapidly sped up, charging at the orange-haired while he was vulnerable. "I won't let you get away this time, Asano!"
With a nasty swing full of momentum, [Ougon no tomodachi] targeted Gakushuu with lethal force behind its fists. Though unluckily for the blond, Asano was prepared for this attack, estimating where the Stand would hit and preemptively preparing to dodge. And after he just did that, he pulled out one of his knives out of his pocket, ramming it into the delinquent's unguarded back.
"GHOAH!" Haruno exclaimed in pain, spitting out blood.
"You should've paid more attention, Shiobana. Just because I now mainly use a nail gun, that doesn't mean I've discarded my knives." the orange-haired reminded him after putting some distance between his foe and himself to prevent [Ougon no tomodachi] from striking back.
"GAHA!"
That stab was particularly nasty, as it wounded the dead center of his back. This way, the pain extended in all directions, covering the entirety of his rear side, from below the neck until above the butt.
"Hahaha, how nice! I've got to tell you, shanking you like this felt so much better than cutting up your dumbass friends."
'GRRRRRRRR!' Too busy with the excruciating agony, Haruno couldn't voice out his rage. He knew fully well he couldn't afford to just lose it, but that became a near impossible task. 'Asano, no matter what happens to you in the end, it won't be undeserved!'
Having failed to stop Gakushuu from reloading his nail gun, the blond was then forced to face him for another round with an extra disadvantage.
"Here comes the next load!" Asano announced before pressing down the trigger.
This time around, the orange-haired mainly targeted the delinquent's legs.
As soon as the very first nail struck his leg, Haruno knew where to defend. He covered everything in front of his legs, making sure the second nail and onwards would be blocked. Though Gakushuu circumvented that defense not long afterwards, starting to run around in circles, sometimes randomly stopping, turning around and running counter-clockwise.
'Ouch… This is too irritating!'
By the time Asano's ammo ran out, the blond's legs had nails stuck in various places. Above the knees and below, on the front side and on the back side.
But it wasn't all that bad, as the delinquent now had a time frame to strike back. And this time, he had a significantly better strategy.
'Can't escape now, Asano!'
[Ougon no tomodachi] bolted towards the orange-haired, cautiously but rapidly. Gakushuu was aware of the Stand and waited to see how it would move, so that he could evade its attack.
However, what Haruno made his Stand do, proved to be much different from the attack patterns Asano had considered.
"Huh?!" the orange-haired gasped in shock when he saw what [Ougon no tomodachi] just did. It jumped slightly in the after the run, rotated about 90° sideways in midair, stretched out its arms and legs in both directions to make itself bigger.
Unlike the other scenarios he had in mind up until that point, there was no feasible way for him to dodge. One part of him would get hit by a part of the enemy Stand, there was no escaping.
"Oh shi- UGH!"
The golden Stand knocked the air out his lungs when they collided. Gakushuu's eyes involuntarily bulged out as the impact downed him.
Even worse than that, when he fell on the ground, [Ougon no tomodachi]'s leg landed on top of him. More precisely, right above his chest.
'Fuck…!'
Almost panicking, Asano tried to move that foot off of him. Though unfortunately for him, it wouldn't budge.
Some meters away from him, the blond became aware of the situation and stepped down in a literal manner, making it even more difficult for the orange-haired to breathe.
"Hugyeh…"
"Well well well… What do we have here?" the delinquent calmly but murderously spoke, a controlled but enormous rage in his voice.
"…"
With intense, bloodshot eyes, Gakushuu glared at Haruno who couldn't glare back. His heart was racing, most importantly but not exclusively because he was running out of oxygen. He felt great despair and even greater hatred.
'You fucking turd…!'
"I'll stomp you out like a cigarette butt." the blond declared, his statement free of morals. "I'll crush you until I regain my senses. By that time, you'll probably be dead."
'…!'
Hearing the delinquent speak so coldly, so devoid of mercy, made Asano feel rightfully threatened for his life.
"Whatever goes around, comes around."
[Ougon no tomodachi] then raised its other leg.
Now that the situation had come to this, the orange-haired experienced the by far biggest pinch in his life yet. With the Stand arrow, at least there was a chance of survival. But Haruno had already made his intention clear.
'Shit shit shit!'
Gakushuu's survival was dependent on him finding a solution within very few seconds, possibly even less. The desperation was real.
About a second later, Asano saw his life flashing before his eyes. What would happen to him next was crystal clear.
"No… NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The next instant, his survival instinct drove him to act sub-consciously, being guided by his brain rather than free will.
He manifested his Stand's pen in his left hand, then repeatedly stabbing [Ougon no tomodachi]'s exposed crotch area.
"KYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
His voice breaking, the blond then screeched as man's most painful pain kicked in.
With that, the stomp of judgement was cancelled. The orange-haired managed to get out of there, immediately gasping for air.
Meanwhile, the delinquent fell down once again due to the sudden ball attack severely disrupting his stability, his Stand unable to stop him from sacking down. Unfortunately, he fell on a multitude of marbles, which then brought about fresh pain on many other parts of his body.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Screaming out his voice chords, Haruno was then rolling on the ground, trying to roll somewhere without marbles.
Back with filled lungs, Asano reloaded his nail gun as fast as he could, waiting for the blond to face upwards. He was thirsting for revenge.
And as soon as he could aim, the orange-haired fired at a spot where he thought he could do the most damage.
"HOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Once more, the delinquent let out an especially painful cry of agony. A sharp pain arose from two spots on his head. Unlike the other pains he'd suffered above his neck up until then, these pains were especially close to the brain.
"AGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! MY EYES! THOSE WERE MY EYEBALLS!"
"Suffer! Scream, you son of a bitch…, you spawn of a filthy whore!" Gakushuu shouted at Haruno, utilizing the strongest language his tongue could spit out. "Don't get cocky, I still am in charge of this torture! I'm the one in control, not you! You don't even have human rights!"
Gut-wrenching yells of pure agony would continue to fill up this one locked room.
For how long would this continue?
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Nagisa, Karma, Sugino and Kaede were being walked towards a backup prison cell by the God of Death. They were essentially herded together, helplessly walking in front of him under his supervision, unable to put up resistance. All of them were very bummed, but chose not to speak at all.
"There there, you all are like good little sheeple." the assassin mocked them, taking full advantage of his superiority.
A few minutes later, they encountered the rescue team in one of the halls.
The girls were tending the boys, who'd all been cut up badly by the God of Death's collaborator.
Upon noticing the dangerous assassin, each of them were about to panic. But before any scream came out of their mouths, the bluenette spoke up to pacify them.
"Don't shout… Just surrender quietly and nothing's going to happen to you."
"Thanks for your help, buddy." the God of Death sarcastically said, then focusing on his newly captured hostages. "You heard him, folks. Join the herd."
Already physically and mentally devastated, the boys and girls of the rescue team painfully decided to follow the petite boy's advice and comply. Getting recaptured in their current state truly was a humiliation, but they simply couldn't do anything against him.
"Dammit…"
"Crap…"
With that, heads hanging low, they forcibly joined the march of the captives.
"Don't fret. The final destination isn't very far anymore." the legendary assassin told them, which wasn't really reassuring.
Like that, the number of freed students further decreased.
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"…"
From a hallway to the side, the previous situation had been watched.
Rio and Yukiko, who'd been running nonstop after being released by their captor, had been searching for their group. After turning into one of the maze halls, they finally saw their comrades. Though together with their comrades were those of their classmates who were in Haruno's group, as well as the God of Death. Prior to being noticed by the latter, the two girls quickly hid behind a wall, watching the event unfold.
"Oh no… What should we do now, Rio-chan?" Kanzaki asked, still extremely worried about their collective safety.
"Let's try finding the intel-collection team." Nakamura suggested, not really sure herself. "Maybe they're still out there. At least I hope so."
"I hope so too."
That said, the duo went on a search for their remaining classmates.
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"Ugh… Agh…"
Haruno's pain receptors were nearing their limits, but so was his voice he'd used for broadcasting his pain. His current voice was very hoarse and raspy, no longer sounding nice to Gakushuu's ears.
"No good, no good at all. You were wailing like an opera singer, but now these disappointing sounds of a zombie… Well, at least that's a sign you're about to croak!"
"…"
The blond couldn't disagree with his tormentor. Asano's constant rapid fire of nails drilled countless holes into him. Luckily, the nails largely blocked the wounds, making the amount of blood lost per single wound negligible. However, at a constant pace, there were many dozens of blood drops dripping from the nails when enough of it accumulated around it.
"Tell me, Shiobana, does every last part of your body hurt? I wouldn't want to have left a sound spot." the orange-haired sadistically inquired.
"…"
Having no intention to entertain him, the delinquent stayed quiet. The addition of his ridiculously high amount of anger to the already heavy pain in his head nearly made his brain implode. But yes, the torturer was right. There wasn't one place in Haruno's body that didn't hurt. The pain thoroughly encompassed him.
"I take that as a yes." Gakushuu rightly guessed, grinning widely before cracking one last pun. "Well then, showtime's over. If you'd excuse me, I'd like to put the final nail into the coffin!"
'Damn it, is there nothing else left I can do?!' the blond thought, really feeling that this one-sided torture of a battle was coming to its end. He, despite the lack of his touching sense, could feel the pain. He felt it all around, which weirdly also made him want liberation.
"Say goodbye, Shiobana!" Asano yelled, commencing his final attack which was supposed to be the killing blow. Though this time, unbeknownst to the delinquent, he didn't aim the usual nail gun, but a silenced pistol with real 9mm bullets.
An instant after the trigger was pulled, Haruno saw his life flashing before his eyes, despite his vision being stolen. At this moment, a last-ditch idea came to him. One he would go all in on.
'That's it! How did I not think of this earlier!' he came to a realization, finally ready to turn around the situation.
This premonition of death saved the life of Shiobana Haruno at the most convenient of all times.
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After some running around, Yukiko and Rio encountered the remaining batch of their classmates. The team they stumbled upon was the final remaining intact team, the intel-collection team.
"Nakamura-san? Kanzaki-san?" Kimura addressed them, being the first of the team to notice the two girls.
"What happened? Where's your team?" Yuzuki then questioned.
"Our team…" Kanzaki didn't know where to start, as so many bad things happened to both the remaining present duo as well as the captured ones. She wasn't sure whether to mention Gakushuu's attack or the God of Death's appearance first. "We were… They were…"
"Calm down." Noticing their visible distress, Rinka tried to facilitate a slower, softer explanation. "It's fine, we are here. Take it easy."
For these two girls, that was near impossible. Having been frightened, threatened and made to feel helpless, they had been constantly suppressing their urge to tremble and cry out tears after being freed.
"Relax." Chiba added, holding out his hands in front of him and making a slight pushing motion. "Tell us what happened at your pace."
"Asano happened…" Nakamura let out, her eyes trembling but dry. "He violently ambushed us."
Narrowing their eyes, the group immediately understood and expressed silent anger.
"First he took out our communication man Okajima with one hit, which is why nobody learned of this until afterwards." she explained, speaking slowly. "Then he… then he hacked and slashed at all the boys with his knives, making them bleed like crazy. It was… it was so shocking how despite our training, we were so overwhelmed by him alone, so fast at that."
Ryouma and Itona, learning that their best friends had been stabbed, were clenching their fists and teeth in pure anger.
"And then he singled us out for being close to Haruno-kun, kidnapping us… with… knives to our throats…" Yukiko continued, reliving the horror inside her head.
"…!"
The more everyone else heard of what had occurred, the more they wanted to avenge their classmates with blood.
"He took us to a room with many dangerous weapons and tools, telling us he'd use us as hostages to lure in Haruno-kun." Rio took over for her friend, only faring slightly better. "He said those weapons and tools were there for him to torture Haruno-kun and inflict unspeakable pain onto him."
None of the listeners were surprised anymore about how low their Class A counterpart would stoop, though they nonetheless found it extremely disgusting.
"Haruno-kun did show up after being called." Kanzaki went on, her speech becoming more uneven. "But, don't get the wrong idea… Haruno-kun is strong, but I felt that Asano had some dirty tricks and traps up his sleeve, since he was so… unnervingly confident about facing Haruno-kun despite knowing about Haruno-kun's supernatural powers and strength."
"Yes, I do believe that Haruno-kun will prevail in the end… But I'm too damn worried about his safety because Asano is just so dangerous." Nakamura finished, emphasizing her immense concern.
"…"
This was quite shocking for them to hear. Haruno was someone who took out professional assassins, enraged tentacle Itona and could battle Korosensei. He was someone near unbeatable to them. For these two girls to be that worried about him, Asano must really be as terrifying as they made him up to be. They could hardly even imagine it, but since they weren't the ones to experience being around Asano, they just had to take the girls for their word.
"Wow, that's insane…" Mimura spoke, his jaw slightly hanging down.
"Yeah…"
"When Haruno-kun came, we were let go." Yukiko continued. "We then ran around this place, trying to find our team. But then we saw that the God of Death found our team before us."
"What?" the others called, having a very bad feeling about this.
"We watched from a side hallway how he encountered our team. Not only that, he also had the battle team with him." Rio described. "Nagisa-kun even told them not to put up resistance. They all just listened and got captured."
From the sound of it, that seemed extremely bad. When even Nagisa would tell them to comply, the God of Death must be unfathomably powerful. They figured that the bluenette fought back earlier and found out.
"His aura, we could feel it even from that distance." Kanzaki went on, beginning to sweat. "It was an aura of a true killer, too demonic to be human."
All those of the intel-collection team started to become just as scared as these two girls were. It became clearer and clearer that this assassin was far too much for them to handle, and that one misstep was akin to death.
"That's why we're so concerned about Haruno-kun." Nakamura added, suppressing the shivers she was getting. "Because if Asano is even 1% as dangerous as the God of Death is, then that's reason enough to worry about him!"
While hearing this report was extremely valuable and informative, it also had a demoralizing effect.
"Oh no… What do we do?" Manami asked, having lost a great amount of confidence.
"There's no way we can fight back in that case, we might be captured the same way!" Sugaya warned, feeling himself in danger.
Takebayashi too was pessimistic. "Hate to say it, but there really is nothing much we can do. We can carefully move around, and that's about it."
"Talk about a bad time…" Itona grumbled.
Due to a severe lack of good options, the group of boys and girls decided to stick together and carefully traverse the area.
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[Ougon no tomodachi] caught the bullet between its fingers. But the danger wasn't over yet, as it had to really press those fingers together in order to not let the bullet escape via its drag.
"Wha-!"
Gakushuu was dumbfounded, his eyes bulging out in disbelief. Just as he thought he'd won for sure, Haruno's last-ditch effort took away that victory right before his face.
Following this move, the blond did a something truly unexpected, catching Asano off-guard.
"Oh fu-"
He made his Stand reverse its hand, then letting the bullet with most of the remaining drag go in the other direction, effectively reversing the shot.
The orange-haired panicked, seeing his own bullet about to shoot him. Thanks to having become a Stand user, he managed to react to it. Though as it was literally written in the word, that was merely his reaction speed. His movement speed didn't increase to the point of him being able to outmaneuver bullets.
"DAHH!"
One moment later, Gakushuu felt a ripping pain coming from the left side of his head. Overcome with adrenaline, he placed his hand on the wounded spot. Upon touching the gunshot wound, his palm was immediately painted red with his own blood.
But that wasn't the worst discovery he made. Asano felt that a part of his ear was missing.
"NA-"
Highly alerted, he carefully touched all over the place, wanting to learn about the extent of the damage he received. It soon turned out that the entire upper half of his ear had been blown off.
"…!"
His eyes were getting intense and bloodshot from the pain and adrenaline. He even started hyperventilating loudly.
"Hahhh… Haaaahhhh…! My… My EAR!"
All the blood flowing down his neck tainted his formerly white shirt with bodily red.
"That's nothing yet." the delinquent then spoke up after some silence from his part, his voice calm but sharp. "There's more to come. This was just the appetizer of the appetizer."
"Shi… SHIOBANAAAAAAAAAA!"
A scream full of fury, hatred and agony echoed through the room. The orange-haired wasn't accepting this.
Haruno then put his hands on the ground, readying his legs to start standing up. He didn't have a problem with feeling what he touched, albeit his sense of touch hadn't been returned yet.
The greatest turnaround had begun.
Great news, folks! This chapter will come out far earlier than initially expected, although the length is also shorter than initially planned. As I was writing this, I thought that narratively and from a pacing aspect, it would be better to relay the grand conclusion of the Giorno vs Asano fight for one chapter. I will fix last chapter's afterword regarding this.
Anyways, how was the gore. Did I manage to provide gruesome imagery to your minds while reading? Let me know please.
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