Ch33. Silence - 2

Leblanc stopped the car on the farthest side of the docs, and the middle-aged man cried out for help as he was dragged out of the car by the chief's telekinesis.

"Don't even bother screaming, there's no one around here to help you. Also, why would someone help a filthy regular like you?"

"W-why are you doing this?" The man cried, trying to crawl out of Leblanc's grasp.

"I won't waste my breath on a maggot, so just die, will you?"

Leblanc tightened his invisible grip around the man's head, but before he could finish the job, he heard a loud CLANK near him. His eyes went wide as he turned around to check his surroundings.

"Who's there?" He narrowed his eyes and tried to focus, searching for any trace of a presence, wielder or regular's, but couldn't find any.

He looked at the man again, sighed and threw him back in the car, locking him in with his ability.

"So you want to play, huh?" The chief snorted, but despite his best efforts, he couldn't hide the slight shaking in his voice that almost made him stutter.

***

Kurt looked at Leblanc from a distance, smirking.

'So this is what fear looks like on the outside?' Kurt smirked, approaching Leblanc and not saying a word.

The leader of the monitoring division looked around, inhaled deeply, and calmed down.

"It must've just been a bird or something." He laughed nervously.

Suddenly, then, a dagger flew towards the concrete floor, between his feet.

He staggered backwards with a loud shriek and raising his guard.

"SHOW YOURSELF! AND I WON'T HURT YOU!"

'Look who's all high and mighty now...'

Kurt kept silent, deciding that it was now time to wait.

Leblanc turned around, his hands glimmering with a faint yellowish energy.

'Hum... Something new?' Kurt thought to himself, activating [PRYING EYES]

[NAME: Laurent Leblanc

RANK: B+

AGE: 30

CLASS: Brawler Knight

STAMINA: 280/280

HP: 600/600

MP: 1/1]

[BASIC STATS

Strength: 140

Dexterity: 130

Agility: 150

Perception: 150

Intelligence: 10

Vigor: 50]

[ABILITIES

Telekinesis LVL 15

Dissociation LVL 5

Singularity LVL ???]

Kurt raised his brow at the Leblanc's info.

'Only one mana point?'

But then he focused on Leblanc's abilities. He already knew Telekinesis very well, but the other two felt quite unfamiliar to him.

[Dissociation LVL 5

DESCRIPTION: Allows the user to forget certain events, keeping them safe from any lie detection ability.]

[Singularity LVL ???

DESCRIPTION: UNIQUE ABILITY – Allows the user to focus all mana particles around him in a radius of 20 meters in a small single point at the palm of his hand. Anything that this concentrated energy touches turns to nothing.

COST: 1MP]

'This makes a lot more sense now. [SINGULARITY] is a very dangerous ability, but [DISASSOCIATION] must have some kind of trick, or else he wouldn't be able to remember being a member of the New Dawn Guild or anything... Anyways, no time to think about it now, let's just see if he goes according to my plan...'

"Oh, so you're just here to watch, and want me to use this dagger to finish the job?" Leblanc asked out loud, his voice shaking less than a few seconds before.

But as he tried to reach for the dagger, it disappeared, going back to Kurt's inventory.

'Not so fast, dirty fingers.'

"Okay, then, I'll just do it the way it has to be done." Leblanc almost stuttered again.

He took the middle-aged man from the car with his telekinetic ability, and brought him to his knees.

"No, please, don't kill me! What did I do to you?" He begged.

"What did you do?" Leblanc snorted. "Do you have to do anything other than being a regular? You 'all' must die or surrender to the pure ones! Now let your blood become one more piece of the pavement for the new era!"

Leblanc raised his hand towards the man, ready to squeeze his head, but right the next second, a black flash crossed the air, and he recoiled his hand, grunting painfully.

"WHAT THE FUCK!? I THOUGHT YOU JUST WANTED TO WATCH!"

Only then, Kurt decided it was time to show himself. He wore the oni mask, put on the hood of his black leather jacket, a gift from Nikolai, and turned [SHADOW WALK] off, carrying both [MIDNIGHT SISTERS] in his hands as he slowly walked towards Leblanc.

"WHO ARE YOU!?" Leblanc shrieked, holding his arm.

His hand had been cleanly severed from the arm, lying on the concrete floor, like a dead animal.

"IF YOU DON'T SAY ANYTHING, YOU WILL BE CHARGED WITH GRAVE ASSAULT AGAINST A LAW-ENFORCING AGENT OF THE WIELDERS ASSOCIATION!"

But Kurt didn't answer. He just walked towards Leblanc, looking at him through the eyes of the oni mask, when he noticed the faint yellow glimmer in the chief's hand.

He also felt the mana around him fading, noticing that Leblanc was really going to go all out, using [SINGULARITY] against him.

'Better to not get hit by that thing...'

He started to run, almost vanishing from Leblanc's field of view.

Kurt sped up towards the middle-aged man, grabbing his collar and preparing to run away, when Leblanc shouted.

"NO, YOU WON'T!"

Suddenly, Kurt felt an enormous weight over his whole body, making even walking very difficult.

'Shit!'

In that split second, Leblanc switched from using [SINGULARITY] to exerting all his control over the mana around him, to make a gravity mass over Kurt and his victim.

Kurt covered the man using his body, trying to shield him from the mana's weight as he walked.

He put one foot in front of the other, the gravity over him somehow unbearable, when a thought crossed his mind.

'Wait! I can feel the mana overwhelming me, even though it's just my raw strength supporting my body... What if I...'

He focused on the mana above him, and for a fleeting second, he felt it as he saw Leblanc walking towards him.

He felt the sensation of the invisible grip he used to have around the mana.

Kurt focused more and more as he walked, one step after the other.

[THE PLAYER SHOULD NOT EXERT EXTERNAL FORCE INTO THE SYSTEM]

[SYSTEM INITIATING COUNTERMEASURES]

[PLAYER WILL BE-]

'Shut the fuck up!' Kurt thought, gritting his teeth and holding on to the fleeting sensation of the mana around him.

He felt a little blood dripping from his nose, but ignored it, focusing his senses more and more.

The more he focused, the more he felt the warmth of his awakening spreading through his body, to the point that he finally managed to force a little bit of the mana overwhelming him, to work in his favor, shielding him from Leblanc's oppression.

It allowed him to break free from the mana's weight, and run with Leblanc's target from the docks.

In the little distance, he heard the chief screaming in utter rage.

After a few kilometers, he dropped the man down, looked in his eyes, and gestured with his head.

'Run, you punk!' Kurt thought, turning his back on the man, and running back to the Black Market.

When he arrived, Nikolai looked at him and his eyes went wide.

"Dear God, what happened, my friend?"

"Long story short, Leblanc tried to kill the man from before, but I was able to stop him, and now I have a recording of him announcing his true intentions towards the regulars. And by unmasking the monitoring division, we'll have the upper hand against them."

Nikolai's jaw dropped at Kurt's explanation.

"Okay, I get your point, but what's up with the mask?"

"I couldn't have Leblanc see my face, or else he would issue an execution order and 'you' wouldn't be safe. I won't let that happen again."

"Hum... Fair point, but do you have a name for this 'character' you're playing the role of?"

Kurt thought for a while, remembering that he didn't say a word while fighting Leblanc and smirked.

"Silence."