Arc (I) - Chapter 2 : Preperation

She looked down on me as if I had

done something wrong.

"How much longer will it take till you stop her?" She asked me sitting with a palm on her left cheek looking at me in a bored way.

"You have to understand. She's too strong." I replied back. I was already kneeling on the ground trembling and sweating.

"I gave you that ability for a reason." She said seriously. "I'm reconsidering choosing you as my victim. However, I can't just let you free."

"Please help me." I begged.

"I'm not helping you. You're on your own. Sort out your own troubles. If you manage to defeat her then that's all that matters. Oh and one more thing. If you die to the same person twice, no natter how much time has passed. I won't be bringing you back and you'll stay dead."

And with that she brought me back. I was in the classroom. The rest of the students including Lunar was there. Valentine and Boro were still on the ground exhausted after their battle. I still didn't know if Lunar was Kurohana or not. Judging on what's happened so far, its still possible.

"Class, let's resume our lesson shall we?"

Valentine sighed and jumped back up into the class once more while Boro floated into my pocket.

I took a glance at the students. I needed help but I don't know how.

I noticed Fuuka in the corner sipping on some coffee while looking at her phone and remembered what Sakomoto said about her.

"Don't try to provoke her. Her soulflow amount is beyond limitless." He gave warnings for each and every student. Fuuka was a special case. If I wanted to beat Kurohana, I was going to need enough soulflow to keep my aura up.

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"So you need one of you wan time to teach you have to perfect soulflow enchantment?"

I nodded.

"Alright then. Since I've never exactly seen you use one, although I did feel one a while ago..." I gulped trying to make sure he didn't know. Shirakama then sighed. "Yeah, I'll teach you. But, why now? Has someone been bothering you?"

I went a bit quiet but decided to cut to the chase.

"Its Kurohana. She's constantly popping up and tormenting me." I didn't want to reveal my ability yo come back to life to him yet since he'll probably kill me to test it.

"ai see. Well, I'll start off by showing you a couple."

It was night and the bar was empty. He held out his hand towards the table with the empty glasses and clenched his fist as a glass explodes in a frenzy. He then waved his arms in a sprfic motion anticlockwise and clenched his fist as the shards of the glass froze in the air, spun around and shot towards the walls of the bar poking holes in the worn out planks.

"Woah. Will you be teaching me that?" I asked in excitement.

"No. That was just a simple flex I wanted to do. You aren't ready to use it...yet."

Oh. My smile dropped.

"However, there is one other thing I wanted to show you."

He then held out his palm towards me.

Go ahead and use one of those glass shards and stab my palm with it. I was a bit shocked. "A-Are you sure?"

He nodded. "Do it." I slowly walked over to the thousands of pieces of glass that was dropped onto the floor and chose one. I carefully picked it up careful to not cut myself and walked over to him holding it firmly but not too tightly.

"Alright. Now stab my hand." I took one look at the glass and his palm while sweating slightly.

"Alright..." I said slowly.

I brought up the shard of glass and brought I down upon his hand. Instead of he feeling of digging into flesh, it felt like it just hit against a rock hard surface. "Physical Enhancement" He said right after as the glass broke into a billion pieces.

I then took a look and saw my hand slighlty bleed as he placed his hand over it and healed it.

"I'm pretty sure you can get that little voodoo doll of yours to help you." I nodded and tapped a bit on my shirt.

"Ugh...what is it?"

He then put his hands out onto my shirt and peeked out.

"Uwoah! The bar!"

"A! A! A! No drinking yet. I need you to show me a couple of basic soulflow enchantments first."

"Aw man what!? I'm not gonna do that." He whined. I grabbed him out and shook him.

"Do you want to drink or not?" I asked while shaking him. He sighed and finally spoke up.

"FIne Fine!" There are so many Hexes and Enchantments I have but I just can't seem to use them well because firstly, you haven't bonded with me enough and secondly, your soulflow limit is way too low.

"He's right on that." Shirkama added on.

"But I guess I can do whatever he did." Boro then proceeded to pick up a piece of glass that felt large for him and jabbed it into my leg but it didn't hurt at all and instead it bounced off as I stared in amazement.

"Woah! Cool." I said looking at the shard that now layed on the ground.

"There. Now can I have my drink?"

Shirakama smiled and handed him a drink. I still have to remember I can't let Shirakama know I have Hyper. He'll kill me again and It'll all be over.

"Well I think a great way we can train is, if we go out and fight each other for the time being.Its not too dark anyway." Shirakama said as he placed his arm on his chin

I nodded and began to walk outside following along.

"Alright then. When you're ready." Dont use Hyper, I told myself. Don't use Hyper.

I dashed at him and prepared to land a kick on his hip but he was quick to react as he then grabbed and flung me across the sandy dunes. He then used his fists and pummeled me to the ground. I slowly got up and Boro groaned in pain a bit.

"Alright then so you wanna play like that then?" Boro said, peeking out of the pocket as his eyes glowed rainbow once more. I then felt like my strength increase drastically as I dashed at him punching him in the jaw sending him flying back. I was grinning ad I dashed at him attacking from all directions but he then stopped it with a fist and stopped himself as he lifted me off the ground and punched me through crashing into the sand and down forming a small crater.

"Ack!" I jumped up and lunged towards him punching and striking him as much as I can but he easily blocked them one by one.

"Ngh..." He landed a powerful punch onto my chest with both fists causing me to crash back into a nearby rock. "You've been doing well so far. I like it." He said. I grinned and dashed back.

Boro continued supplying me with enough energy to keep going. I felt alive. It felt more like he was controlling my body. Boro then gave me a signal as I gasped.

A while ago when I was grading the students' papers, he told me: "Theoretically, if you were in a sticky situation and fighting, wouldn't you want something for me to do to help out? We've been spending enough time together for me to come up with my new ability. I'll give you a signal for when its ready to use on your next fight."

I didn't know if I should use it against Shirakama or not. It was extremely powerful when I tested it in an open area. And I wasn't sure if Boro could control it completely though. I trusted my gut and breathed out slowly as red sparks appeared all over my body.

Celestial Entanglement.

One by one, large auroric chains appeared out of the ground restraining Shirakama limb by limb as Boro held his hands together in a chain like symbol with his thumb and index fingers of both hands and kept it. As Shirakama struggled, the chains got tighter and tighter.

"Ugh! I can't get these off!" He shouted struggling and sweating. "Celestial Entanglement. A powerful technique, forges chains out of a portion of blackflow, an upgrade of soulflow when paired together with External soulflow.

"A blackflow technique eh?" Shirakama said as he exerted a ton of energy causing the chain to break. "Gah! How did he escape!" Boro gasped.

"Simple. Creating a blast of external soulflow can destroy internal attacks." He then dashed at me about to land a powerful punch when instead he dashes past and stops a familiar face from firing an arrow.