Chapter 7 : Bladewood Village II

After jumping down, Satoru saw swordsmen bodies on the floor, all still breathing with no blood spilt. 

He walked around and observed the cobblestone walls, which had torches placed onto them, mystically all lit up.

Being uneasy about this place, Satoru continued on walking and looking around, upholding his guard for any sudden flanks yet nothing.

Eventually, the boy would come to a much brighter light inside and the room had a giant opening with custom blades hung on the wall, a giant locked wooden chest with a golden trim and shackles.

The shackles had a boy tied up and knocked out, with chains holding him.

"That must be Umon." Satoru thought to himself whilst looking around, and seeing 3 other possible entrances into the room, one for each side, totaling 4.

He went up to the boy and with his axe was able to cut the chains and then shake him until he began slowly opening his eyes.

Before he could entirely open his eyes however, Zankoku was sent sliding through an entrance all beat up and bloody.

"Satoru, you're here!" he exclaimed.

"The hell happened to you?"

Zankoku formed a neutral expression and pointed at the entrance he was sent sliding out of, with two glowing red eyeballs being visible in the darkness of the entrance. The more he came closer, the more they could see him.

A man from the demon eyed clan walked out, wearing a black cloak with a blue undershirt, black custom pants and has black hair with the signature glowing red eyes.

He had a grin on his face and walked out, instantly recognizing the boy with the white hair and vice versa.

"Satoru?! Well well well... We've got a failure up in here! And here I thought I'd have the luxury to kill just one invader! This will be fun!" he yelled out while upholding his grin.

"Yeah yeah keep yapping, Nobu" he replied.

[Name : Nobu]

[Age : 16]

[Affiliation : Unknown, possibly rogue]

[Abilities : Oni eye, flame manipulation, other unknown...]

[Strength : City block level]

[Speed : Subsonic+, 187m/s at least]

"Do you know why I've taken over this village?" asked Nobu

"Why did you?" replied Satoru.

"The clan leader, specifically, your father.. Or should I say, your adoptive father, had the idea of conquering the entire nation and turning it into our clan's army. But there's more to it of course. Tomio was deployed too."

Zankoku had no idea what they were talking to and was giving the raised eyebrow looking back and forth between his friend and their enemy.

Despite speculating it for a little while, Satoru now knew that he was adopted into the family and not blood related to it.

"What you're saying is insane. You truly believe that I'll let you do that?"

"HAHAAHAHAHAAH, YOU?! A WEAK PUNK WITH NO POTENTIAL?! SATORU, I KNEW YOU WERE DELUSIONAL BUT HOLY CRAP HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Nobu began yelling and dying of laughter.

Since he still had his feet imbued with lightning, he instantly rushed right at Nobu, aiming to throw a jab in his face while his eyes were closed and he was laughing.

Not even comprehending it, he stopped laughing, with his grin remaining on his face and he opened his eyes. He grabbed Satoru's arm and pulled him like towards himself, but threw him into the wall, cracking it, making him spit blood upon impact and falling face down from the wall .

"You're fast, but not fast enough." Nobu taunted.

"Satoru!" yelled out Zankoku in shock.

He took a stance and pulled out a three-pronged kunai connected to a thin yellow grip through a ring. Zan threw it in a curving motion at the ceiling, right above Nobu.

Instantly, he teleported to it and stood on the ceiling, pushing himself off from it.

Placing his hand towards Nobu's head, the compressed air ball began to swerve above his palm - Wind Vortex. Right before Zan landed the blow onto his opponent, he easily moved to the left and elbowed Zankoku mid-air, knocking the ability to disperse and making him fall to the stone floor.

The flow of the 'battle' was not looking good for them.

Satoru stood back up, regardless of the pain, and launched Thunder Circus at Nobu, which he ducked under and went rushing towards the boy. This brought a distraught look onto his face.

In front of himself, he performed the subtle uppercut motion, raising a 2ft tall stone wall through which Nobu easily crashed through and wasn't slowing down. 

He swerved the incoming thunder beam of Satoru and appeared in front of him, throwing a jab to his face but he dodged under it, as the atmosphere in the room shifted.

For a moment, Satoru had been taken to his mind, to his subconscious. There he was met by a large thunderbolt that had spoken to him with an echoing loud voice.

"Do you wish to attain your capabilities back?" it asked the boy. 

Not understanding what was going on, Satoru looked around and all he could see was dim lights and only the thunderbolt in front of him. Being puzzled by this, he went ahead and asked : "Who or what are you..?"

With a quick response whilst the sparks of the thunderbolt flickered, it answered him : "I am a version of you."

Being full on confused now, he continued on questioning.

"What do you mean? How could you be a version of me...?"

"I am from the original timeline, I am Satoru just like yourself. Except my body, my memories, my abilities and arsenal have been taken away. That won't mean anything to you since you will forget after our meeting." he said whilst his words continued on echoing.

"Will I obtain your memories or something?" asked the young boy.

The thunderbolt was quiet for a moment, hesitant one might say, but it did reply.

"No. It will be like this never existed, like I never spoke with you. Never in your life will you remember of this conversation, no matter how strong you do become. I am only here to say that my plan has worked, that our plan has worked."

Young Satoru raised his eyebrows and tried to find the words to reply with but he was really confused... 

"Wait what? So if you cannot give me any powers, why bother speaking to me?" he asked the thunderbolt, giving it a good genuine question.

Despite the good question, it replied quickly and confidently : "After you 'wake up' from this conversation, there will be the red mark, the same one that Kratos bea-"

"Kratos?! The God slayer from the legends?!" asked the young boy loudly, almost yelling.

"Yes. As I was saying, you will wake up with the red mark that he has as a tattoo, but little do you know, it's the mark of the God slayer in this universe and both a curse and blessing at the same time. I do not wish to elaborate to you these things since you'll forget anyway. By the way, speaking of Kratos.. That's ironic for what's to come next..."

Again, being confused by the universes, the curse and blessing part and now Kratos, he went on to ask anyway : "What do you mean ironic?"

"Well... just wait and see."

The thunderbolt began to fade away as he was taken back to his consciousness, with the red mark very slowly appearing over his eye and him dodging the jab from Nobu.

His dodge shocked Nobu as he didn't know he was that capable, aiming to throw a left hook to his head, but he dodged under that as well. Thinking he's simply still underestimating him, he front kicked him full force, basically pinning him against the wall.

Nobu went on to gaze into the eyes of the boy in front of himself, to place him under an illusion. To his surprise, Satoru was not looking at his eyes, but instead at the floor, seeming to be zoned out but in reality, he could not be more locked in.

Thinking it doesn't matter, he placed his hands into a quick hand sign and turned his palm at the white haired boy, firing a 4x larger fireball at him than Satoru's.

Even though it was not visible, the lightning shard on the axe that was being held on Satoru's back glowed. For what reason is unknown.

Satoru's energy seemed to have change as did his aura which was not visible. The atmosphere change in the room was not caused by the appearing red mark but by the thing that was sealed inside of him by the demon eyed clan. 

To grant them full control of the nations and later even the realms, they needed to have a sudden burst of their own controllable catastrophic power. Deciding to not be risking death upon sealing something like that into one who wields an oni eye, so they had to resort to something else... To someone else...

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Still remaining in control, Satoru's energy spiked up as he tanked the incoming fireball, still sustaining the burns on his face which also burnt his shirt entirely from the front and even his skin up to 2nd, possibly even 3rd degree burns.

The white boy charged at Nobu as dark blue eyes with a vertical pupil, similar to that of a snake's, were instead of his regular black eyes but fading at a quick pace, with the energy spike leaving too.

Despite putting his hands in front of his face, Satoru's punch sent sent Nobu sliding back with bruises on his forearms. 

During the second or two he was sliding and not looking, he felt something extremely hot in front of himself during that period until it got colder and colder, ultimately making it at the very most warm in the room.

When Nobu looked up, he saw a large runic circle and everything was scorched below it, specifically the stone floor. Zankoku, Umon and Satoru were no longer there and despite not killing them, he couldn't help but grin and hope to kill the white haired boy another day.

But what in actuality happened was that the the bifrost was accidentally opened by the axe and they were transferred back to outside of the Ember village on the east wall. 

Neither of them knew what happened, but Satoru and Zankoku split up, with Zan taking Umon to his old uncle and getting payed a big sum of money. He proceeded to go to the Medical Facility and there he got healed, but didn't see Satoru who said that he'll be there. He found it strange but shrugged it off, going inside to get healed.