Chapter 7

I left the gym, stepping out into the cold winter air, My family had many, many homes, and the one me and Nier were currently staying in was in northern Hokkaido, so the ground was covered in a thick blanket of snow, we had come here for winter break, both of us loved the snow, as if taking on some traits from the animals we shared features with.

Nier had left earlier, but I had stayed to get in an extra workout, I didn't have time to do a full length endurance workout so I did a strength based one, short but sweet my instantaneous strength was monstrous, with me easily lifting multiple tons of weights, I left the gym satisfied, having quite a few notes on what to change about my musculature, I began to walk down the semi empty streets, unlike me and Nier, most people aren't fond of walking around in below freezing weather, so they generally stayed inside.

I took a short walk, the beauty of the winter snow was cathartic, stopping by a nice cafe to grab a coffee, I got some strange looks when I ordered the strongest, least sugary coffee they had, one of the workers, a man, looked mildly annoyed, likely thinking I was trying to impress the nice female employee, He needn't worry, I was not one for flings.

I liked the taste of coffee, the bitter taste helped ground me in reality, distracting me from my thoughts, with my new mind constantly running a mile a minute I cherished everything that could help me focus my thoughts.

Eventually, the sun began to set, light reflecting beautifully between falling crystals of snow, and I decided to return home, stepping into an alleyway, even without my disguise, using ones quirk in public was technically illegal, and while my status as a minor and harmless use would likely get me let off with nothing more than a warning, I was not in the mood for such an annoying encounter, so it was simply easier to warp from within the relative privacy of an alley.

But as I turned behind a building, my feet stopped, I felt a presence nearby, and from the way that their gaze felt against my skin, it was not a good one, not that I needed anything to tell me that, considering the mangled, bleeding corpse lying in the snow before me, covered in cuts and bruises, torn cloth and blood, the cadaver was barely recognisable as one of a young women. The nature of damage around their lower body referencing an… unspeakable act.

I stood there, I felt nothing upon looking at a defiled corpse but pity for the victim, I did not know them personally, so there was no anger, no desire to get revenge, just pity for the victim, and disgust at the perpetrator.

I stepped to the side, a knife cutting through the air where my neck had been moments before, my body twisting with inhuman speeds, my left arm shot out before my body had even completed its rotation, firmly grasping around the soft flesh of the perpetrators neck, he had launched himself from the shadows, likely taking my lack of reaction to the corpse as me freezing in surprise and shock.

The man choked and coughed in a painful manner, the sudden deceleration of his neck as the inertia within his body pulled the rest forwards, a painful process, accentuated by the fact my arm had not moved but an inch, it would feel like crashing into an iron pipe.

The man coughed intensely, his eyes bloodshot, as he stared at me in rage, I held his gaze, my head twisting slightly to the side in confusion, I did not understand his anger, he had attacked me, I had stopped him, for what reason was he angry, he should be glad I didn't just kill him right away.

His arm swung forwards, completely missing me, for my arm held him outside of his arms reach. He was a small man, roughly 160cm tall, a stark contrast to my 190cm self. I watched the fist's travel in slow motion, as it passed more than 10cm from my face, the futility of his action amusing me.

He swung quite a few times, each missing by quite a large margin, his panic evident in his eyes, I watched with interest as his eyes went through a variety of emotions, an interesting sight, finally his arms slumped to his side, and I continued to stare at his for a while, he had tried a few times to hit my arm instead, but had given up when he had broken his hand against it. 

Suddenly his arm swung back up, now containing a small blade, his sudden motion after having seemingly given up evidently hoping to catch me off guard, I had fully expected it, it was suspicious that someone who had so utterly mutilated a corpse would give up so easily, and while his blade was still to short to close the gap, I pulled my head back slightly just in case, my powerful mind instantly predicting its tip would pass a full 15cm from my neck, even if he were to somehow throw the knife from this position, I could easily dodge it, so I simply watched.

His face curled into a smile as he pulled up the knife, likely expecting me to have recoiled in fear, I found it odd that he swung for my neck instead of my arm, surely he knew it would not reach me, but most people would have likely backed off in fear upon seeing the knife, or at least pulled back for safety, so I thought little of it, confident in my own abilities, I watched as it traced a line from his hip towards my neck, eventually pointing directly at my jugular, I found its amusing that he thought such a thing would wor-

My mind stopped, as I felt pain from my neck, my thoughts ground to a halt, as I dropped the man in my confusion, My hand drifting up along my skin, stopping where my neck should be, I now felt a wet, deep absence, as the entire right side of my neck was simply gone, torn off in a bloody fashion, my eyes twisted to the side, watching as a bloody chunk of my flesh flew away, stuck to a very, very long knife, the previously 2cm long knife, now 20 cm long, cut through the empty air, I stumbled backwards, confused, as my hand clutched my neck, blood rapidly flowing from the open wound.

'How?' I thought, It was a 2cm blade, it should never have hit me, and things didn't simply extend in length like that, the entire blade itself was merely 10cm, and it was obviously not telescoping, so there was no way to hide its length within the hilt. And yet there it was, a full 18cm longer than it was previously, leaving me with a gaping hole in my neck.

I fell backwards, no longer paying attention to my balance, as blood poured from the wound, my eyes wide with surprise. 'I need to stop the bleeding.' I thought to myself, my mind racing a mile a minute, I recalled all of the knowledge I had on my own biology, the locations of arteries, and blood vessels, as solid tubes of space began to form along the now broken paths, the blood stopped flowing as furiously, but still continued to leave my body in a trickle, as I struggled to keep myself alive, I barely noticed the man that had caused this predicament.

Since I had dropped him he had stood up gasping, sucking in the oxygen my hold had denied him. He stood on shaky legs, pulling another blade from his pocket, it once again grew, this time as I watched, it was instant, faster than it should be, as if it had grown to full length within one gametick, one instant it was 2, the next it was 20, as he walked over to me, my mind filled with panic, as he stood over my chest, turning the blade downwards, and gripping it with both hands, he prepared to plunge it down.

'Am I going to die here???'

The knife begins to fall. Cutting through the air as if in slow motion

'No, I refuse to die here, I have the powers of a fucking demigod! I refuse to die at the hands of a small time criminal like this. 

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(3rd person perspective)

A small man is seen standing atop a much larger, but much younger looking man, with the ears and tail of a wolf, and a pair of onyx black horns. our main character, who is clutching his bleeding throat. The assailant preparing to kill his victim, clutching a long blade in both hands, it begins its fall, when suddenly the world stops moving, as everything within 100 meters of the duo simply loses all motion, the teen on the floor 

Within a radius around me everything froze, molecules stopped moving, the only thing unaffected was light, the photons the only physical object unaffected by the strange scene, as all energy left my surroundings, the very air around me would freeze if not for the fact that they were incapable of moving to get closer to one another, and gravity had lost its hold over them, the strange scene lasted mere moments, before time returned, as all the energy I had pulled from the surroundings was thrust into a much smaller radius of 5 meters around me, my attackers body, along with all else within 5 meters of me, simply ceased to exist, the very atoms making up my surroundings so energetic that bonds shattered, a massive shockwave of radiation, noise, and pure destruction cracking buildings and obliterating more of the alley around me, as the atoms that once made up the ground around me, were instantly spread along kilometers of terrain.

(an, I was feeling charitable so here's to chapters today. I don't think I did a good job with the whole "I refuse to die" scene, in fact it turned out pretty bad, but I'm inexperienced as an author, and I think the rest of the chapter turned out well, so cut me some slack. hope everyone likes it.)