Chapter 23: #23 - Lets Continue
I'm running again once more.
He follows me behind, close enough to keep me in guard, not enough to attack him.
I'm leading him away from Jack's battle now.
Senbon in hand, I throw it to him, making a straight line towards his head.
He puts his injured hand in between, the needle piercing it.
While he was distracted i hide in the first floor of one of the houses with two floors.
He enters.
"..."
No breathing or sound can be heard.
I'm using to the full every way of not being found that i have.
My plan is for him to go to the second floor and stab him in the back as he goes up.
He looks around...
And takes in a huge breath.
He screams:
"Sendo Hamon Overdrive!"
Uh-oh?
What's he doing?
He punches the floor, breaking the plywood and sending Ripples to all the house.
The ripple goes through all of the house, not breaking anything and not damaging anyone since there's no vampire in here.
But the ripple stops at my location.
Creeping inside my body and charging my Hamon to the full.
Good and bad.
Good because it recharged the hamon that i had spent doing the armor when he threw me through the wall, and now i can do one of my special techinques.
Bad because he now knows my location.
But this situation works better for me.
"There!"
I jump, summoning my Dawn in the left, while fusing hamon in the ravi.
But he throws something at me.
It's my senbon.
I try to block it with my Dawn.
It's not solid enough yet.
My hand gets pierced.
"Argh!"
Shit.
I can move my hand, but it hurts a lot.
Dire gets closer, but ignoring the pain i send my left hand back and down to my waist.
First fusion.
The Hamon flares wildly in my left hand
Dire stops in his way, and puts his arms to his torso.
Second fusion.
Dawn is charged fully.
And i pierce.
Instead of aiming towards his torso, where he's protected by the scarf and both his arms...
My stab goes to his left shoulder.
Piercing it almost completely.
"UARGHHHHHH!"
He screams.
The sword drags him to the street, breaking the wall.
His left arm is dangling like a thread, while his right arm is basically unusable.
This is over.
"Now that i think about it, I haven't named that attack yet".
I shouldn't call it vegito sword.
Meh, I'll think about it later.
I take the knife from my hand, saving it in my one waist pouches.
I find Dire scurrying away towards the sounds of booms in the distance, definitly being made by Jack and Dire.
I breath in loudly.
He spots me in the distance.
I charge hamon, summoning my ravi in my right, healthy hand.
First fusion.
I think he knows what I'm trying to do, and enters the house.
I start running after him.
I send a bit of the Hamon to the floor, using it as echolocation.
Second Fusion.
All the ripple goes to my Dawn.
I feel him protecting his heart with his only movable hand.
Shame for him, that's not where I'm aiming.
I send my hand back to my waist.
The inspiration flows through me...
"Sudden Death".
I pierce.
Faster than than the eye could see.
I pierce directly towards his head.
My sword directly overlaps with his head
His body falls.
Definitly dead.
I unsummon my
I fall to my knees.
Exhausted.
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[Quest : The Masters Of Hamon]
Through your actions, you will soon be in a fight with important individuals for the progression of the new fate of this world
**The Results of this quest will have consecuences in the fate of the world**
**You will recieve indications about your reward as you finish the quest**
Tasks:
-Kill or Neutralize Straizo (0/1)
-Kill or Neutralize Dire (1/1)
Failure conditions:
- Die Against one of the Hamon masters (0/1)
- Let your companion die against one of the Hamon masters (0/1)
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Yeahhh.
Now, i would rest, but i should help Jack with his fight.
Before that though, I start moving towards my bag
I left it around the place where we first landed, there are some bandages in there.
I'll bandage my hand, and go to his fight.
Alright here it is
The bandages, some morphine and the stone mask.
It was actually relatively easy to get morphine, as opium isn't banned yet, and I'm a rich kid so no one wanted to say no.
I take a pill, the bandages and start healing my hand.
When i'm all set and done, i grab my bag, ready to go to Jack.
But, the tab pops infront of me.
'It only pops out for mission related things, So that means Jack killed Straizo right?'
Oh boy, oh boy how wrong i was.
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Failure conditions:
- Die Against one of the Hamon masters (0/1)
- Let your companion die against one of the Hamon masters (0.5/1)
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"What?"
"..."
"OH FUCK!"
"JACK!"
And i ran.
I ran as fast as i could.
I ran faster than i thought possible.
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*Some minutes earlier, Right when Aroa and Dire separted from Jacka and Straizo*
[Jack's POV]
I kick him in the knee, before using the momentum, spinning and landing an uppercut directly to his jaw.
'This guy fights weird'
He recieves the punches and hits, but moves a little bit to the same direction they do, reducing the damage a lot.
He dodges the slashes i try though.
'He's not attacking me back'.
Not even trying to dodge, at this point i'm just using him as a training dummy.
I retreat a bit.
I can't go into hiding, i don't have any stealth options and if this guy gives up and goes to help his teammate, then they will overwhelm Aroa.
This is a failing battle now that i think about it.
He's stronger, bigger, older, maybe more masterfull in the ways of the Hamon...
I can't really see any way to win.
"But".
"That just makes it more interesting!"
I rush at him low, knives in both hands.
I cut and cut and cut and keep on pressing him, overwhelming him just by raw speed and agility.
Some traces of blood are beginning to appear in the edge of the knives.
"Urgh!" I hear.
I slashed his left leg, in the upper thigh.
I'm definitly going to win.
I need to win.
After so much time of angish, i'm saved by a silly guy that only says cat jokes.
And you're telling me we both die!?
"No way!" I slash at him.
'He's beginning to counter some of my attacks.'
Do you have any idea how i felt when Apolonia said that!?
"I bet you don't right!?"
*Smack*
How could you possibly even know!?
How could you even know how I felt when he saved me!?
So easily too!
He just swooped in and beat those guys up!
He saved me as if i was just a thought more.
"CAN YOU EVEN COMPREHEND HOW MUCH THAT MEANT TO ME!?"
*Pierce*
He saved me that day.
Of course, my problems didn't inmediately disappear.
But i didn't wanted them to.
I just wanted a bit of hope
Hope that i could move forward.
Hope that i can get through this.
I wanted someone to help me.
*Slash*
To give me a small jumpstart.
He did that, and he kept on doing it.
He did so much for me.
And you tell me...
I DIE WITHOUT REPAYING HIM!?
"NO WAY!" I dodge a scarlet punch going to my face
I spin in my spot, doing a 360 degrees slash.
"Argh!"
His torso has a huge gap, the Hamon in my slashes becoming fire type and leaving him with scorched skin.
"I'm definitly surviving this".
"I'm definitly repaying him all of this"
"I'm definitly killing you"
"And I'M... DEFINITLY... GOING TO WIN".
I see him move and throw something to me.
"Wha-?!"
Something is embedded inside my torso.
I touch the affected part.
"A knife...?"
I feel my strength leaving me.
"You don't need to land 1000 hits if only one is as effective".
"Aparently you don't know that, neither you know when to shut up".
But i couldn't answer.
Because how much it hurt.
Because how much i wanted to win against this guy.
But more than anything.
By HOW ANGRY I AM RIGHT NOW
WHY!?
I SHOULD'VE DODGED THIS!
I COULD'VE DODGED THIS!
I SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTER!
I grab the knife.
*tear*
My flesh is teared and it stings.
But it's useless to think about those things.
Now.
Now..
NOW!
"NOW YOU DIE!