32 chapter 28
3° person P.O.V.
In another death arena, another battle was about to start.
"Hahahaha, that is great. Three enemies waiting for choosing." Skin Bolic said, griming with desire for battle. "Now who to choose?" He pointed to the Sister. "The one to redirect my thunder," then he pointed to Seryu "the one with the beast beside, or" he then pointed to Okuyasu. "the one to punch me earlier." A maniacal grin was on his face while considering his options, all so appetizing for him.
However, while he was doing his monologue the others were not frozen in the spot. Okuyasu was already circulating his Ki to augment his capacity to the max, the Sister was finishing equipping her weapons and Koro, that was beside Seryu, already turned into a three meters' tall mass of destruction.
On the other side, preparations were made as well. One of the monstrosities had his body create a red and white carapace, one that slid out of his skin which began bulging with many grotesque organic tearing sounds, with enlarged forearms and his two eyes grown to the outside of his body, kind of alike to the Tasmanian king crab.
Another one also got a carapace, but compared to the last one, it was less bulky and his hands twisted and remolded themselves, mutating into large, twisted and deadly-looking claws. His eyes changed from a human's to that of composed eyes that could see many times better than any human. He looked reminiscent to a peacock mantis shrimp.
The third one did not transform much, just opened up a lot of pores all over his body. He took out a light sword and a gun and got ready to fight. Looked like he was the only one among these exorcists to use these as he got no natural weapon. He had thick eyebrows and a forgettable face.
The fourth one was a woman, one of the sole women in the group. She, at first, looked normal but suddenly her hair started growing like it was overdosed with growth enzymes, to the point that her body could no longer be seen. All those hairs had a metallic luster on them, almost reminiscent of actual metal. (writer's note: she is based on Yukaku from Jojo part 4: diamond is unbreakable)
The fifth and final one had his body start enlarging into gigantic proportions. His skin gradually turned charcoal black, black splotches appearing over him and spreading across his body like an infectious bacteria. His head and mid-section merged together into one body part, and his mouth shifted its position to span from shoulder to shoulder with sharp, saw-like teeth and a fork-shaped tongue oozing this dark green, poisonous-looking liquid. Compared to the rest of them, he looked the most dangerous of the bunch of monstrosities.
The other ten empty humans simply stood there, staring at them blankly. Almost like dolls, or robots without emotions. They were already incapable of moving without orders and would simply do whatever they were ordered to. As the 'leader' of this group was Skin Bolic and he did not tell them to do anything as of yet they simply stood there.
The first one to move (completely ignoring Skin) was the one with pores all over his body. His name was Bao, an exorcist that was so regular in all aspects that if put in a crowd would be just one more face in there.
He aimed his gun, charging a light bullet to shot the Sister. However, as soon as he moved his finger to pull the triger-
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His head was vaporized by a thunder beam, courtesy of Skin Bolic.
"DON'T YOU DARE STEAL MY PREY!" He screamed before aiming at the body of his 'ally' that he killed and shooting once again, burning to a crisp everything from the waist up. "I choose who I want and you guys catch the scraps, that is what I decided."
Skin then thought a bit more and said.
"I want that girl that redirected my attack earlier and that guy with bad hair, you guys can get that weakling and her dog." He said before his yellow gauntlet shined and a voice said.
"Balance breaker!"
The full body armor he used a few days ago reappeared, electricity running rampant on the surface of the armor and its surrounding.
Seryu looking at him rushing to Okuyasu and the Sister, and the other enemies rushing towards her, decided to talk to the others.
"Can you guys handle that thunder criminal?" She asked, knowing that it would take a while to deal with those others.
The Sister opened her mouth to answer when-
"What the fuck did you say about my hair, shithead?" Okuyasu ignored everything around him to rush towards his enemy by using his sacred gear.
"…I am going before he kills himself, Misaka says trying and failing to not roll her eyes from how simple minded Okuyasu-sama is." And then the Sister also went ahead, not going to close combat but staying at the optimal position to shot he guns.
"Well Koro, it seems that it is you and me against all of them." She said to the giant mass that is beside her. Normal people would be scared by the odds, one against many is not something most would find comfortable. Seryu was far from normal. Her eyes got dark while looking at those coming to kill her, she overlapped their appearance with that one stray that ruined her life. "Koro, form 1 with magic gems!"
Koro turned to her and almost swallowed her whole as he gave her the weapon she chose. As he removed himself from her Seryu form could be seen again.
She had a missile launcher of the same model as the one she used in her match against the Gremory peerage, but now instead of normal missiles, they had jewelry dust in the mix making them extremely potent magical bombs.
"JUSTICE!" She said as she shot all her missiles at her opponents.
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The destruction caused by those many missiles being launched was nothing to scoff at, from the fourteen that came to kill her 4 of the empty humans and the hair monstrosity were all killed instantly, body parts flying everywhere and ash all around. From the rest of the survivors, the empty human presented third degree burns covering their bodies but the three monstrosities were barely fazed by what happened as their carapace or flesh was strong enough to survive that.
"Tch. Koro, prepare for close combat." She said. "Form 3!" And then Koro swallowed her again, this time instead of an even bigger weapon she had in hands… or better hand a metal ball full of spikes. It also could expand to a two meters' radius and three tons' ball of metal, guaranty of making quite the damage. Her other hand was normal as she wanted one normal limb for better handling of opponents.
Meanwhile, Okuyasu and Skin have been exchanging punches like there is no tomorrow. Both of them were having trouble, Okuyasu due to the lightning that his opponent had covering his body and Skin due to Okuyasu strikes following the principle of internal energy and damage (Chinese Kempo) that rendered his armor half useless.
BANG
A bullet penetrated his shoulder when he was going for an upper-punch. Thanks to his shoulder being damaged he could not properly move his arm in time, giving Okuyasu an opening that he was more than glad to take. Okuyasu bent his knees a bit to use them as a spring for an uppercut right into Skin's jaw.
Feeling the damage to his jaw Skin was pissed, his sacred gear was energized by this feeling rising its power to a whole new level as the thunder that was covering his whole body got twice as thick than before.
Okuyasu tried to follow up on his attacks, but thanks to the thunder's coiling around Skin he needed to stop and take a step back.
That was the wrong decision.
As soon as he got breathing space Skin started launching thunder strikes from every possible area of his body, an indiscriminate attack. Okuyasu could do nothing more but use his SG(sacred gear) to evade Skin's attacks. Unfortunately, this decision that saved him ended up putting the Sister in a bad spot.
All Sister's had the problem of not having large reserves of mana, to begin with, so even if she was protecting herself by redirecting the lightning using electromagnetism she could not evade them all.
PIERCE
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One of the lightning's managed to pass through her defense and vaporize a big chunk of the left side of her torso, burning away many important organs at the same time.
The Sister did not show any emotion at getting such serious wounds, she simply decided that she could not wait for the attack to finish anymore, as, despite the amount of thunder wracking havoc on the field being staggering, it showed no signs of ending. Her following action was surprising, to say the least as she started purring all her energy on creating a magnetic pole on the sky so as to attract al the thunder around the area to somewhere that would not make an issue.
The energy on the ground was getting smaller and smaller as she managed to redirect most of it to the sky, unfortunately it also meant that she was also electrically charged as part of the thunder energy ran into her (she was removing electrons from the clouds and purring them in the ground after all so she being overly charged with electrons was an obvious result). Her resolve was admirable, even when her skin started burning and her hair stood on end. Even if there were millions of volt running through her body she would survive, she was a homunculus made to manipulate electromagnetism and she could take even more thunder without dying.
Okuyasu seeing this scene fully snapped out of his rage (he calmed down a bit after breaking Skin's jaw but it was far from enough to get him to how he was original) and felt guilty. The hole in the Sister's body and every burn mark was a symbol of someone that he did not protect properly, her image overlapping with his parents and Asia making his stomach squirm and turn.
He knew what he should do, he needed to defeat Skin as fast as possible.
PIERCE
A bade pierced through flesh.
As the girl looked down she saw red flowing through her chest, a strange thing indeed as the red liquid started painting her clothes very fast.
"Guurgl." Was all that left her lips that were overwhelming with that red liquid. The cold she was feeling before got even worst as before her wounds were burned enough to barely bleed, but now there was no such thing.
"Alright, target eliminated." The man with the sword dripping with blood said after removing it by slicing it connecting the wound he made on the heart to the cauterized wound.
"What you are doing, Bao?" Skin screamed, pissed off that Bao was still stealing his prey.
The man that killed Sister was none other than Bao, the exorcist with pores all over his body that was 'killed' by Skin earlier.
"I am following orders. We were ordered to eliminate them and retrieve their corpses as intact as possible, so I simply took the most efficient path towards this goal." Bao said without thinking nothing of killing a girl that looked no more than 13.
'It is just my mission after all' that is the only thing that drives Bao.
"I don't care about that crap! She was my prey; how dare you steal it!" Skin bellowed as many thunder spheres started circulating him, all aimed at Bao who still had the same face as if nothing happened to begin with.
SLICE
A round thing suddenly flew through the air, and all sound all around was muted.
CRASH
That same thing fell to the ground and rolled away, a geyser of blood erupted from the headless body of Skin Bolic.
"Wasn't it too early, me?" Bao asked.
"I don't think so, we had a mission to kill him anyway, me." The other Bao said.
"Ok then, good job me." Bao said.
"And good job for you too, me." A new Bao said.
There were not one or two Bao's, but there were already 12 of them. All had the same appearance, the same thought pattern, and the same speech patterns.
They were all the same.
They were one.
They were many.
They were Bao, the biggest monstrosity on this field. A man that was part Coral, a man that could reproduce infinitely.
He was one of the masterpieces of Iscariots, a one-man turned instant army. He could parasite anyone, he could multiply infinitely, he was free of all actual emotions except loyalty. The perfect monster for such monstrous organization.
"You fucker, what do you think you are doing!?" Okuyasu screamed, finally realizing what just happened. The change was just too fast, too abrupt for him to comprehend and do anything before it was too late.
The Sister was dead, and all he did was look.
And worst of it all, that fucking son of a bitch was stepping on her body as if it was nothing.
Let it never be said that Okuyasu was irrational. He always had his order of priorities and at this moment they go like this:
1-Kill this dude
2-Kill this dude bad
3-Heal him just to kill him again
See, completely rational.
WHOSH
Swinging his SG, he scraped the space between himself and his opponent away, forcing one of the Bao's to come into close combat.
Bao tried to swing his sword towards him aiming straight to his neck, but Okuyasu was faster as he directed a punch to Bao's gut forcing him to vomit blood and bits of his organs as the punch aimed to destroy his internal organs.
Seeing that this one was dead Okuyasu got ready to pull another one so as to kill more of these fuckers when his instincts honed by the many trainings with his masters screamed at him.
DOWN!
He listened immediately throwing himself to the ground, an action that saved his life as a sword passed right through the spot that Okuyasu's torso was a second ago. The scariest part is that there was no killing intent on the attack, it was just like there was no emotion to be felt when you cut grass for Bao. It was all a mission after all.
"Arerere, you managed to avoid that? Good for you." Was all that Bao said before smiling warmly and aim his gun right at Okuyasu's back.
CLI-
CHOMP
A giant mass of white and muscles bite down on the Bao that was about to shoot Okuyasu's back. That was Koro, the 'pet' of Seryu.
Seeing as he managed to avoid death he looked at his surroundings. There were now four of the empty humans (they were a bad match against Kuro regeneration and the initial burns were taking their tool) and Seryu was doing her absolute best to fight off against those monstrosities… but why did she only have one arm?
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Two minutes ago
Seryu was not a patient girl, seeing as those villains were heading towards her she decided not to wait and advance instead. Sprinting at her top speed she managed to reach the most advanced one of the enemies, the crab one.
When she got close enough to him she got to see him in more details, he was completely covered in a red and white carapace and had beam sized eyes that were pretty much the only visible part of his body. His 'hands' were shaped like claws and despite its bizarre appearance, those claws were radiating a massive amount of light energy showing that even a single strike could cut steel like butter.
That was bad news for Seryu that had prosthetic arms. But she did not falter, she went forward and swung the metal ball expanding it to be as big as her opponent. The crab managed to stop said ball but it took its toll on him as many cracks could be seen forming over his body due to pressure.
He and the others monstrosities survived because of their resistance to fire, magic and sudden impacts. Pressure, while also not being normally capable of killing them, was capable of stopping them and incapacitate. Seeing that her attack worked Seryu used her other hand that started to vibrate at incredible speed to cut the only joint she could at this time, cutting off his left arm.
She wanted to keep pressuring him but at this moment the other enemies reached her location making it impossible to continue in the same way. Jumping back at the biggest speed possible she called out.
"Koro, go forward!" And so the giant mass of white that was close to her(he was slower than her after all so he took a bit longer to get there) transformed its small arms into big muscular ones. Using them he pushed himself off the ground and like a bullet hit their opponents. The first one to get close enough to him was the crab one, using one of his hands he managed to take a hold of crab's arm and used him as a mace to knock back the others throwing him in the mix as well before he could retaliate as the crab one's arm has regrown.
The empty humans ignored the fact that they were being knocked back and the sounds of cracking that could be heard from their bones preferring to aim at Koro and invocate magic circles, launching a barrage of all elements towards him.
Thunder, fire, ice, earth, wind and even light bullets were thrown towards Koro knocking him back and damaging him badly as a lot of his body was damaged. Seeing this Seryu was not worried as she knew Koro could take much more and still not feel much of anything.
And she was right as Koro managed to go right ahead fully ignoring all those attacks even when pieced of him was destroyed he did not seem to really care as it just grew back anyway.
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A rain of punches was what greeted those empty humans that could do nothing but defend themselves. Koro went berserk throwing as much punches as he could in a blood rage as to dish out all the pain it felt by their attacks right back to them.
PUNCH!
A punch suddenly hit Koro on the side making him be thrown back a great distance, a chunk of his side fully caved in. When he looked to see who did it he saw another one of those monstrosities, the shrimp. His claw was not made for cutting anything, it barely even opened to be fair, but it was unimportant in face of the capacity that he had. The shrimp monstrosity had a punch that could compare to a missile in impact power and the light energy circulating those claws could accelerate his punching speed even further.
He truly could fight against most low high-level with no problems.
Koro seeing this tried to run towards him to finish him off when he saw that the empty humans decided that attacking him was useless so they aimed at something, or better saying someone else, Seryu.
Koro was enraged seeing this. NO ONE HURTS HER ON HIS WATCH. Last time she got hurt so bad, so freaking bad that she almost died and he could do nothing. Not this time. Ignoring the Shrimp bastard, as well as the other two monstrosities that were approaching, Koro jumped to the middle of those empty humans in hope to break their formation.
He managed to catch one of them by the head and squish it between his fingers but the others managed to jump back before any new attack connected.
BANG
A shot was made, penetrating the head of another one of the empty humans. Seryu had her 'normal' hand turned back revealing from her wrist a gun barrel. Even her normal arm was quite special after all, many little tricks were added so as to her always be ready… even if she preferred her canons and explosives.
"Tch! Oy, dumb heads, aim at her and kill the bitch. We will stop this monster." Was what the Shrimp said, the Crab was with an irritated expression on his face looking at Koro while the Big Mouth was just letting droll roll out of him as he seemed oblivious to his surroundings, his mind mostly gone as instinct ruled his movements.
It was at that instant that thunder started rolling all around them, a clear sign that the battle on the other side was getting more dangerous. Seryu was trying her damn best against those empty humans, their barriers were too hard for her metal ball to break in one strike and when she tried to go for a second one she was bombarded on the other side by the other 3 would rain magic on her. The best she could do was focus on defense and wait till Koro managed to disentangle with those other villains so as to help her. Maybe for 6 could give her the edge she needed.
Koro, on the other hand, could not move towards her even if he wanted to. The Shrimp had absurdly good eyes, using them to predict his movements and intercept whenever he wanted to move towards her. Meanwhile, the Big Mouth managed to bite one of his arms and started eating Koro bite by bite. The Crab one ran straight towards his belly so as to slow him down as much as possible.
No matter how much Koro wanted to advance towards Seryu he simply could not go there.
It was at that instant that things changed yet again. The thunder that was in the area started to diminish quickly, Seryu managed to look at the cause and saw that the Sister was redirecting the thunder away from the area.
'Good call' was what Seryu thought. All that electricity would make fighting become that much more difficult as they could not move freely for fear of being electrocuted. Now she could fight much more freely and so she turned back to face her opponents.
But
Just as the situation changed once for the better it changed again for the worst.
Seryu heard shouting on the other side of the field and worry started coming on her mind when she heard 'steal my prey'. She turned to see what happened and seeing that the Sister was de-
'Mommy save me. Mommy did not move.
Daddy, please save me! Daddy was in the mouth of that thing.
Someone, save m-'
'No, this was no time to think about the past. You need to focus on the present, Seryu Ubiquitous!' was what she thought when she saw that the man with the light sword had copies of himself and one of them was approaching Okuyasu's back.
She would be the hero this time, she would not let others die in front of her.
"Koro, help Okuyasu now!" She said to him, and thanks to their link he could hear her voice no matter what.
Koro quickly changed directions and, as those monstrosities were focused on not letting him go in one direction when he went to the other side none managed to bar his path.
BANG
It was at that moment when she got distracted by Okuyasu's situation that one of those empty humans managed to launch a wind blade strong enough to cut her 'normal' arm.
'It hurts, it hurts, it hurts' was all that Seryu could think as the arm was connected to her nerves so she felt the pain of losing an arm again.
Bad memories started flooding her mind, memories of that night so long ago that marked her forever.
But, she would not let herself be taken by those thoughts. She trained hard, she fought hard and finally reached a place where she could stand beside her hero as his heroine.
She recollected herself in time to stop a magic bullet that was aimed at her head.
The situation for her was getting worse by the second as she only had one arm now and those monstrosities decided to abandon their fight against Koro and take advantage of his absence to finish her off.
The situation was terrible, there was no longer a choice.
"Koro, BERSERK MODE!"
