NOVEL NEXT Chapter 19: Grade One
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Someone asked me yesterday and I quote "what style does Rengoku use?" yesterday.
And I replied. "None, he's no longer breathing."
Question: Was my answer wrong?
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After Mei Mei had explained the plan both Kakashi and her were waiting... wait, that wasn't phrased properly. He was waiting for Mei Mei to come back because she claimed that she forgot her hammer, he would have thought that she actually forgot some money (even though that is technically impossible), but then he remembered that in the anime she had Ui Ui carrying her tools for her.
During the time she was away, about 20 crows had entered the barrier.
Kakashi highly thought that it would be impossible for Mei Mei to lose to a grade 1 curse, she had two strong cursed techniques: Black Bird Manipulation and Bird Strike; the former was weaker than the latter, but when both were combined together she was a force to be reckoned with.
About 20 minutes later Mei Mei came back brandishing her axe, even he could tell that the item radiated a bit of cursed energy – probably grade 1? The body was mainly made out of wood while the pointy bit was made out of steel.
"Let's go. Make sure you'll follow the plan to the death." Mei Mei ordered him.
If Kakashi knew what she was thinking he would know that she was one of the most strategic people in the world, not because of a hidden strategy, but because of her plan for him.
She planned for him to get injured, the fight to last longer, her promotion to grade 1, and a bigger paycheck at the end. She knew that only special people from the big clans could go to grade 1 or special grade with only special qualities, a grade 1 was supposed to have great leaders.
People like Gojo were not good leaders, but they got to grade 1 and special grade due to their affiliation with the clan, however if you had a good relation with those clan heirs you could get promoted to at most grade 1.
That would ascertain that she would at least get to the rank of grade 1, which meant more money in her bank account.
Arriving at the flock of grade 4's, Mei Mei swung her axe down several times, bursts of wind sliced through the air several times and left nothing, the curses had already disintegrated.
"Let's keep moving, we have to find 4 bodies and carry back the ones that are still alive." The have in her voice was more pronounced than the rest of her words, showing 'how important human lives were to her.'
A/N: Who here knows how Mei Mei views people, leave it in the comment section so that people will know .)
"Wow." Kakashi couldn't help but exclaim.
He hadn't expected the raw destructive power of just slashing at the air to be this intense, he didn't expect this kind of power from her when she was still a student.
"Keep moving." She repeated.
Kakashi woke from his daze and walked after her, with people this strong and not even being considered special grade he was shocked at the power Ryomen Sukuna with just 1 finger wielded. Since the higher-ups would be made of grade 2's and grade 1's who wouldn't even be remotely strong he understood why they feared Sukuna.
However, this just made his drive to be the strongest greater, he could already imagine himself as the next Toji; a monkey.
They entered the various houses on the street, though most of them were empty there where still some houses that had some money, Mei Mei quickly pocketed all the money. In most of those houses they found several bodies, none of them were alive.
How would they be when the eyeballs had been gorged out, the ears cut off, the nose bent in an unusual angle, one of the lips torn off roughly, missing limbs, plucked out hearts, on some the hearts had been squeezed and Kakashi guessed that they had exploded like a water balloon.
He was barely managing to remain his composure, they had passed 10 bodies and whenever they passed one she brought out a piece of paper with the victims faces on it and crossed it.
Kakashi had just joined her after almost vomiting out his organs, he managed to use his chakra to create water which he used to clean his mouth.
"I assume you're new." She said.
"I just became a grade 4 sorcerer today." He responded.
"Well, we need to stop here. There are a few changes that I feel could be added to the plan so that we can both not die."
They both stopped moving, they had been walking for a long time. The fact that they could miss something crucial stopped him from rushing in, if he had to guess he would say that 2 hours had gone by – though, he was never one to correctly predict time.
"Since you are new, I will tell you something... or rather, you should guess it. Can you tell me what a sorcerer's greatest strength is?"
Kakashi thought about it for a long time, what was a sorcerer's greatest strength, wasn't it their cursed energy and technique?
"It's their cursed technique!" He exclaimed after thinking about it for a while.
"No, it's not." She informed him.
"Their cursed energy?"
"Did you even try to use your brain!" She said clearly annoyed.
He could feel a question mark above his head wondering how the hell he was wrong!
"A sorcerer's cursed energy and cursed technique only play a part of how things will play out, a sorcerer's strength is how they use their cursed technique." She paused. "But in the case of fighting a cursed user or a cursed spirit that is sapient it is different. Sapient cursed spirits are only at grade 1 and special grade, in the case of fighting them you have to reveal your cursed technique."
"The situation can turn out good or bad depending how or how much you reveal." She explained.
Kakashi soaked the information in like a sponge, he normally expected that it was the destructive power of your techniques that decided if you would win. He thought back to the manga, there were several people who considered their technique useless... Mei Mei included.
But he could get what she was laying on him, it made sense, but what if they were like Yuji... Would you have to use your heavenly Dao of bullshit.
"So tell me your cursed technique." She said bluntly.
'No wonder she explained, assuming that I survive this it would seem fishy if I just told her my cursed technique at the get-go because she asked. But it's all a part of her plan so she has a reason.'
"My cursed technique gives me access to another type of energy that allows me to use several dozens of skills." He said the truth, but he made it as vague as possible.
He assumed that in the future he would confuse his enemy by making it even vaguer.
"Examples."
"Eh, what?"
"What kind of attacks can you use?"
"... I can create a water dragon and use it to attack, I can create a small blue orb of energy that packs destructive, I can create an exact body double of me. Apart from that I haven't mastered the rest." He spoke "truthfully".
You can't tell someone you just met all your secrets, even on paper he only put undetermined on the side where the cursed technique was.
"Wow, all your attacks are... useful." She said the last part silently.
Mei Mei was comparing him to her, her cursed technique had to be honed for several years before it could even be considered as semi-useful, but this brat had the nerve to tell her several dozens and most of them didn't lack destructive power.
If she found out that he was actually had hundreds would she be shocked or strangle him to death, Gojo was expected since he was the honored one, Geto's technique depended on the curses he could gather.
This brat over here didn't even have a background for Christ's sake.
'Calm down Mei, you can kill him later.' She didn't want to kill him, it was just a technique to calm herself.
"Then I guess I should tell you mine, my cursed technique is called Black Bird Manipulation: It allows me to control a large number of birds." She said making it short.
Just as she was about to continue speaking a large amount of cursed energy suddenly made itself known as it zipped through the air. It's gaze suddenly landed on them.
"Get your weapon out!" She ordered.
"Umm..." Kakashi let out a dry laugh.
How was he supposed to explain to this chick that he didn't have one, he was practically useless in a one on one fight with a cursed spirit as burly as this one, it was basically flexing and he barely had any muscle on him. She could tell because she was a fist fighter, she would be able to beat him and he wasn't sure she could beat this thing.
"I should've packed weapons."
A/N: Add this book to your library... let's reach 900 collections.
And give me Powerstones!!!