Chapter 135 - Tatsuya vs Grey One.
The great silence prevailed in the hall. They all looked towards the stage where Tatsuya was standing with a brush in his hand. Miyuki beside him was holding an inkpot for Tatsuya.
Long Tianming looked towards him, "is there something troubling junior brother Tatsuya?"
Tatsuya sighed, "yes...truth be told, this is my first time doing this. I am not very sure about what to do." He didn't hide his worries. He really wasn't sure about what to write. Something he wrote would destroy their dao. He needed something tame.
Before Long Tianming could say anything, Tatsuya's brush moved gently.
He wrote a simple word on the paper, a Dao intent illusionary Dao Intent covered everyone in the hall. Tatsuya let out a breath as he looked towards Miyuki, "We should go..."
Miyuki looked towards everyone else in the room, "It seems it would take some time before they wake up."
Tatsuya smiled and took Miyuki's hand, leaving the room with her. The only thing that was left behind was the people and a word.
'Dream.'
Long after they left, Nie Li was the first one to wake up.
He didn't know what happened, something on the stage, Tatsuya wrote a word. He glanced towards the platform; as soon as his eyes fell on the calligraphy, his eyes became vacant again.
When Tatsuya and Miyuki reached home, Xiao Yu, Shen Xiu, and Yang Xin were already there.
Xiao Yu peeked out of the room, hearing the voice of the door opening, "You are back...so soon?" She made sure to hide her body behind the door.
Miyuki bent down to take out her heels, "well, there was nothing left to do. Where were you?"
Xiao Yu pointed towards Shen Xiu's room, "today was my workday." Since she couldn't just take the spiritual stones for free. She started working with Shen Xiu and help as much as she could to earn the spiritual stones. Tatsuya glanced at her, weirdly, "why are you hiding?"
Xiao Yu had a small blush on her face, "I just took a bath."
Tatsuya rubbed his chin, "Huh...are you flat even when you take your clothes off? or does the array stop working then?"
Xiao Yu's face started giving off steam; she glared at Tatsuya before shutting the door tightly.
Miyuki let out a smile, "Onii-sama, that was sexual harassment!"
Tatsuya shrugged, "aren't you curious?"
Miyuki turned her eyes and thought about it before nodding, "I am...Wait, I'll be back."
Tatsuya shook his head as Miyuki disappeared. The next moment, a loud scream resounded in Xiao Yu's room.
That scream made the other two in the house come out. Yang Xin's door barely opened as she crawled out of her room, "what now..." *yawn*
Shen Xiu looked half asleep when she opened her door, "what happened..."
Tatsuya looked at both of them, "nothing, Miyuki just went to see if Xiao Yu is flat or has something."
Yang Xin turned on her back as she laid on the floor, "...wake me up...when you know it..." she closed her eyes. In these months, Yang Xin and Shen Xiu had learned of Xiao Yu's identity as a girl. They knew much of Tatsuya and Miyuki's secrets. Other than things like the system and another world.
Looking at her half body inside the room and a half in the hallway, he looked towards Shen Xiu, "what happened?"
Shen Xiu looked tired, "there was too much work with all the disciples coming. We ran out of stocks."
"So soon?"
"It was more popular than expected...It would take five hours to restock, we came back to rest before that happens, and we become busy."
A light flashed, and Miyuki appeared in front of them.
Tatsuya looked towards curious; Miyuki shook her head, sighing, "we need to remove that array from the poor girl. Otherwise..." She sighed again in pity.
Shen Xiu and Tatsuya also sighed in pity. Xiao Yu's embarrassed voice resounded in their ear, "Don't sigh like that!!!"
Yang Xin opened one of her eyes, "poor girl, I have just the right thing for her."
Tatsuya let out a small laugh, he looked towards Yang Xin, "I just created some weapons; they are lying on the lawn. Most are transcendent grade, so it would be hard to sell them."
Shen Xiu and Yang Xin opened their eyes, "what about God Crafts Pavillion?"
Miyuki sighed, "don't bother; he is in a mood to pick a fight."
Shen Xiu glanced at Tatsuya then at Miyuki, "what triggered it?"
"A chance for a fight to the death against a Martial Ancestor."
Yang Xin let out a burst of tired laughter, "Tatsuya...be a little more patient."
Shen Xiu crossed her arms, "do you want me to help you calm down?"
Suddenly she felt goosebumps on her body. She looked towards Miyuki and raised her hand, "I am sorry..."
She wanted to curse her mouth. She didn't think that something like this would slip out of her mouth.
Tatsuya sighed, glancing at Miyuki, "don't hurt her..."
Miyuki humped and looked away, "we decided no one would talk about it in front of me."
"I won't!! I won't!!" Shen Xiu shouted as if begging for mercy.
Miyuki pouted but let go. Shen Xiu let out heavy breaths.
Tatsuya looked at Shen Xiu, "Rest...come see me before you go back. There should be something to sell." Tatsuya walked to his room before opening the door.
"Miyuki," Hearing the sound, Miyuki looked back at Yang Xin, who was barely able to stand. She was probably going back to bed.
Yang Xin stared at Miyuki, "He will need you."
Miyuki was startled before looking down, "I know..."
She went inside the room before shutting the door. Her eyes fell on Tatsuya, who was already sitting on the chair with Myriad Paining in front of him.
She went behind his and wrapped her hands around his neck, "Onii-sama..."
Tatsuya stared at the painting before using decomposition to remove all the locks.
Tatsuya stared at the painting, "Miyuki, it's suffocating."
Miyuki was startled, she hastily removed her hand, "I didn't know..."
Tatsuya shook his head, "You don't understand...I don't want you to see me like that..."
Miyuki put her hands on his shoulder, "I want to..."
"I can't let go with you there. With you there, I can't let go..."
Miyuki put her hand on the painting, "give me some control, so you don't get trapped."
Tatsuya nodded; soon, Miyuki felt a connection to the painting. She was about to say something to Tatsuya when suddenly Tatsuya disappeared. Only the Myriad Painting was left behind.
Although she couldn't go in, she could still see inside.
Tatsuya was kneeling on his arms and legs. He tried to vomit as hard as he could. His voice echoed in the empty world; nothing but saliva came out of his mouth.
He kept trying until dark energy came out of his from all of his body. It wasn't darkness, but something much muddier, corrupted. It started spreading across the land of Myriad Painting. As more and more energy came out, Tatsuya's screams started spreading the whole dimension.
"Hah!!! Hah!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Not only dark energy, but other energies also started going out of control. The land beneath him started to get torn apart. With his screams, shockwaves started to appear, tearing and flattening the mountains near him.
Tatsuya put a hand on his mouth, trying to vomit. His fingers dug inside the ground.
His energies started covering the air, plants started withering away, land lost its vitality, water started to disappear.
After a while, Tatsuya started taking a deep breath. He barely managed to stand up as he looked in the front with madness filling in his eyes.
A grey Tatsuya was standing in front of him, wearing his grey-shaded school uniform.
A maddened Tatsuya attacked him as soon as he appeared, clawing towards him.
Silver Trident appeared in the grey one's hand as he pointed it at Tatsuya.
A highly concentrated blue cero shot out of the gun, striking Tatsuya. It hit in Tatsuya's stomach before taking him nearly a mile away and creating a blast big enough to pulverize a nearly mile-high mountain.
He didn't stop; he shot numerous ceros, creating massive craters in the process.
The air seemed to have calmed down for a moment before great darkness rose from the craters.
The grey one sighed as he looked at the darkness that started covering the sky, "how did he keep that absurdness trapped inside him."
The grey one narrowed his eyes, "It seems I have to get serious."
The grey one's body became covered in black armor-like carapace; it completely covered his body. There were cracks on his arms and legs with blue light seeping out from them. It even covered his head with as blue reiatsu shined in place of his eyes.
His guns had turned black with a metallic shine on them.
'Cero Oscuras'
A black cero with red sparks like outline formed at the gun tip; it flashed towards the darkness with lightning-fast speed. The moment cero collided with it, it got sucked inside.
*Boom*
It exploded inside the darkness, expanding it from the inside, but the darkness restored itself.
Suddenly, tens of grey ones appeared covered in armors, firing the cero oscuras one after the other. The original one floated in the air as massive swords appeared and spiraled behind the grey one shining in red.
The sounds of many massive explosions resounded as the ceros collided with the darkness.
'Megaflare!'
A red beam of light flashed and tore the darkness apart. A gigantic explosion covered thousands of miles of the surrounding area. The grey one teleported away before the explosion reached him.
A massive chasm had formed where Tatsuya was. The grey one frowned when he looked at the chasm. He felt even a bigger danger approaching.
Suddenly, a giant hand made of darkness appeared and grasped the top of the land.
*Growl*
The grey one raised his eyebrows, "I am starting to run out of ideas."