Ch 21-I sudenly feel like eating some chiken

Meliodas Pov-

As I was wondering how badly I jinxed myself I suddenly saw a figure flying toward me. Squinting my eyes I saw a...Bird? no a crane? but the weird thing is that it keeps getting faster and faster and it's going straight at me.

seeing that it was going fast I moved to the side so it would crash with me

"?"

Huh?, It moved where I moved Is the bird dumb or something? heh, it reminds me of that meme with the jacked bird flying toward the airplane and saying "Fucking bring it on bro!!!"

as I saw it move towards me I tried shaking it off by moving to the side and doing a few loops midair but it still headed towards me.

"co-h-"

Huh is it squawking or something I wondered to myself as I saw it make some type of notice in the distance. but as it finally got close I could hear its words clearly

"COME HERE BOY!" the crane said

What the hell! is it an Adeptus or something?

"W-what?" I said as I was confused as to why it wanted me to come there

As the bird finally reached me, it stopped moving and hovered midair like I was "Boy you are in grave danger" the crane said

"Huh, what danger?" I asked in confusion

"That ring you have, the amount of negative energy it radiates is among the biggest I have ever seen, The curse on that dam thing must be incredibly powerful and must be eliminated," the crane said

'Huh?, ohhh she talking about Rika' I said as I realized why she probably wanted my ring.

"Oh if you talking about this ring then it's fine She doesn't want to hurt anyone," I said as I tried to calm her down.

"NO, you do not understand boy, The amount of negative energy that thing gives off is immeasurable. the evil within that ring is something that must never be released in this world" the crane said with urgency "NOW give it" she said in a demanding voice

"And what if I don't," I asked obviously knowing where this bullshit was going.

"*Sigh* Poor boy you have already been controlled by that dam curse, but don't worry I shall free you with a painless death," she said as a terrifying aura surrounded her.

'Shit she's for real' I said in my mind as I readied my stance mid-air.

"[Heavenly hundred sword]" she said as a bunch of swords appeared behind her,

"Dam already pulling moves like these," I said as she went all of her swords at me

*Woosh*

*Shing*

"heh"

"[King Crimson]" I looked into the future for a few seconds as he materialized behind me and erased the 3 seconds of me getting hit by her barrage of swords. As this happened the swords that were about to hit me blurred and passed through me as if time had skipped making the crane widen her eyes in surprise.

"Y-you how could you do that to erase time and what is that red man behind you!!!" she said making me surprised that she found out so easily.

"Wow, I'm impressed that you found out so easily, and about the man behind me... You could say he is me, a physical manifestation of my soul" I said making her raise an eyebrow.

"You shouldn't be surprised child, I am a being that has lived longer than you could ever think of. but the only person here who should be surprised is me. how incredible to be able to manifest your souls and obtain such powers" she said as a curiosity about my skills peaked her interest.

"But a pity that you have to die as you are not yourself," she said in a resolute tone as she suddenly disappeared from my sight.

As I was panicking, I suddenly felt danger at my left but all I could do was raise up my arms in defence along with [King Crimson] and take the blunt force of her wing smacking onto me sending me flying into to ground

*Bang*

*Woosh*

*Boom*

"Fuc- *Cough* admit!" I said coughing out blood as I got myself out of the little crater I made when I crashed.

Damit even with the ability to see the future, my body won't be able to keep up with her speed unless along with [King Crimson] I randomly erase time... but erasing time takes a lot of my energy I already felt the tiredness from that one erasure.

As I was getting out the oversized chicken said "Please child do not resist and I shall make it painless" she said with a tone of sympathy.

Taking a deep breath I said "Rika" as she appeared behind me.

"I suddenly feel like eating some chicken so... please, lend me your strength" Saying those words Rika activated her [Cursed Burst] Giving me near infinite Cursed energy.

hearing my words I could see her eye twitch in annoyance for calling her a chicken "T-this, this amount of negative energy is more than I have ever seen in my life," she said as she narrowed her eyes at me and said "Now you truly must die"

Hearing her words I also took out [Judgement of Shamash] and said "Stage two" as I combined the guns making an oversized cleaver. lt emitting power that even made the crane in front of me shudder in obvious nervousness.

"You... you just keep surprising me child to have such a dangerous weapon with you, mysterious powers, and for your body to still survive with so much negative energy flowing through you," she said as she narrowed her eyes.

"Whatever Crane let's finish this, I still have a lot to explore, and I'm wasting my time here with you" I sad as I reinforced my whole body with [Cursed Energy] and rushed at her with my cleaver slashing at her. as I did she flapped her wings to start flying but that's actually what I wanted to happen.

"[Unleash]" I said as I sent out a destructive wave of fire toward her as she was still stabilizing herself in midair.

*BOOM*

As the smoke cleared from the explosion, I saw a blue shield protecting her, dispelling it she looked at me and said "It seems like I underestimated you child, I will use more strength of mine than I thought I would need to use"

She started flying up high until she stopped and gathered huge amounts of energy in her wings, Suddenly she burst forward as she zig-zagged midair without stopping her momentum.

Seeing this I started to see the future a few seconds ahead and moved my head to the right slightly as her wings almost cut my head off. because she was steel flying to this speed I decided to bring out [Blue rose] on my other hand and dual-wielded them as I attempted to block every incoming high-speed attack that came.

*Woosh*

*Woosh*

*Shing*

I was still blocking her attacks as a few of them still gave me semi-shallow cuts over my body. but as I was blocking her wings suddenly appeared in front of me.

'Fuck' as I was thinking of [King Crimson] ability but if I did then my body would be too tired than it already is and I'm still barely holding on.

*Push* As I was still in a daze trying to figure out my options Rika came in last second and pushed me out of the way, getting her arm cut off from her floating white ghost body.

*Shriek* Rika yelled in pain

"Rika!" I said in worry, As she was about to come swooping down on us again I activated [Blue rose sword] Ability

"[Enhance Armament]" I said as I stabbed the sword into the ground causing a sort of magic circle to appear on the ground and ice sprouted up making the bird stop her immense speed not wanting to get caught in the ice.

As we were defended by the ice for a bit I went over to check on Rika.

"Dam your whole arm is cut off, even a big chunk of your shoulder is gone," I said but on her wound, She wasn't bleeding or anything but her cursed energy was leaking immensely from her wound. perhaps if not patched up however you would patch it up, the immense cursed energy she contains might all leak within an hour out of her body and disappear completely.

looking at Rika I said "Do you trust me" I looked at her with eyes full of resolution

"Of course, I will die for you,~" she said with a tone full of affection.

'Standing up with RIka hugging me from behind, I extended my arm and pointed out my hand with my thumb holding back my index and middle finger.

Taking a deep breath I started to concentrate.

'Infinity'

'What is infinity?'

'Is it never-ending, ever-expanding,'

'No, infinity is just infinity as simple as that. it doesn't expand because it already is infinite with no beginning or end it is what it is

I remembered that the [Cursed Burst] also allowed me to do any cursed technique that I had seen before... but it never said that I couldn't do any that I had seen in the anime or manga so as I put all my eggs in a basket

I destroyed the ice made by [Blue Rose sword] in my free hand. making me exposed to the floating crane in front of me that was staring at me with her eyes not moving an inch midair.

"Let sto-" she tried to say before I acted

"[Cursed technique reverse: red]" I said as I consumed a huge amount of Rikas Cursed energy to make a shiny red tiny ball at my fingertips. seeing that it worked I sent it out flying toward her at blinding speed barely missing her and grazing her beak and her face making her bleed a little for the first time in the fight.

'HEheheheheheh it worked!!! it was the size of a dam pebble but it worked hahaha!!! Gojo who?, Six Eyes who? hehe, I did it without the cheat that Gojo has... well barely and the accuracy was shit but I did it nonetheless!

But as I was contemplating my achievement the crane spoke up again "Dam it boy I sad let's stop here!!!"

'Huh did this crane go senile?, She attacked me and then she told me she didn't want to fight me anymore" I grumbled inwardly as I readied my stance to fight her again

seeing that I didn't believe her She said "Boy let's stop here... after fighting you I can see that the... "thing" that lives in that ring is loyal to you and isn't controlling you so i have decided to not kill you" she said as she wiped the blood that driped at the side of her face.

"Heh, you really want to say that after attacking me!" I said in annoyance

"Haizz, alright boy how about we start again" she said as a blinding light enveloped her body. As the light dimmed down her body of a crane transformed into the form of a beautiful woman with long white hair tied into a ponytail, Her eyes were blood red and she wore an elegant blue dress.

"My name is Jingliu but I am also known as Cloud Skipper," she said

'Wait a hot dam minute Jingliu, like THE Honkai star rail jingliu!' I said internally in surprise. I remember her I was a constant player of it and I still am as I can play it on my multiverse chat phone although I can't talk to people or play multiplayer.

Seeing that she was waiting for my response I put away my [Blue rose sword] in my inventory though I still kept [Judgement of Shamash] in its gun form on both hands.

"The name is Meliodas Pendragon," I said introducing myself

"Meliodas... follow me we have much to discuss," she said as she started flying with a sword that materialized under her feet and I also started flying behind her.