Chapter 22: chapter 22
3° person P.O.V.
Corridor in front of Miku's room
TREMBLE
Another slight tremor happened at the hotel. Hearing this a scowl appeared on the face of a young man.
"Tch, noisy bastards. They are doing too much of a ruckus." Said young man with a long ponytail blue hair said.
He was not what anyone could define as a patient person. He just wanted to complete his work and that was it.
And speaking of work, some 'work' found him as he heard steps approaching him in the corridor. Looking for the responsible and probable enemy he saw a young woman approaching. She had a moderate bust, white-hair done in a ponytail, not unlike his own, was wearing a typical Japanese yukata loosely and was wearing a black eye-patch.
She was either a cosplayer or a cosplayer enemy for Kanda. Both deserved death for him.
"Is this the room of Izayoi Miku?" The girl that looked about 16 or 17 asked in a bland voice.
"It does not concern you, hentai woman. Go always before I cut you up." Was the more educated answer that Kanda was willing to give.
"That is just rude, I just asked a simple question." The woman said with an unamused tone. "Oh well, if someone of your level is here so the target is probably not far away so I will just have to terminate you to find her."
Saying this the woman took out two swords. Each of them was different but the power they radiated was devastating.
"These are my two babies. Hrotti and Crocear Mors. Let's see if you can match them." And so the woman launched herself at him.
She just needed one stroke of Hrotti for its effect to be shown. As soon as Kanda sword touched the blade he could feel a force of impact so great that he was thrown a large distance always. Strangely, it was not that the power was too strong but he simply could not touch the blade without being thrown back.
"Did you like that. This is the effect of this one, no blade can cross its path." After saying that he lifted her other sword and it shinned with an ominous light, as she made a cutting motion Kanda felt like he was carrying a bolder on his back. "And this is the skill of Crocear Mors, to command the gravity itself."
The only thing in Kanda's head seeing this situation is that it was not going well. He could not cross swords with his opponent and she could control gravity, neither of those is to his advantage.
'It does not matter' was the conclusion he got after thinking of everything. He simply raised his own katana and passed his fingers from the base to the tip of the blade. When he did that the whole atmosphere he gave off changed.
"Mugen activate." And with that, his sword showed its true power by cutting right through the gravity that was holding him down.
Taking advantage of that instant that the gravity returned to normal he activated his Ki to the max and disappeared off the spot he was to reappear beside the woman.
He went with a direct strike to her sides but she simply took one step back to avoid it. She then used Hrotti to strike him on the belly but failed as he used his scabbard to defend.
It was one of the effects of Mugen that allowed the scabbard to not be cut by the blade of Hrotti as Mugen and its scabbard could share energy letting the scabbard be covered with a large amount of Sword-Ki (Writer note: Imagine that when he activates Mugen the scabbard and the sword are covered in Ki that is modified by the sword itself to get the characteristic of CUT, giving both the characteristic of extremely well-made swords).
Showing some surprise on her face the woman moved a few meters back. But what was surprising for Kanda was that it, despite not being teleportation, might as well have been for how fast she moved.
"What is the name of that blade?" The woman asked with strange eyes.
"It is Mugen. It is the masterpiece of my family and our greatest treasure." Kanda said without taking his eye off of his opponent. He did not bother to explain its effects as doing so would be meaningless to him.
"Treasure, huh. I want it." And with those words, the woman ran towards Kanda. He tried using his prided speed but she was simply many times faster, and before he could realize she had given him a cut on the shoulder.
That would normally be a much larger problem as it would difficult the movements of the said shoulder, but Kanda's case was peculiar.
When the woman turned around to look at her work and see the bleeding (and possibly dropping the treasure) she saw that the bleeding was receding already as his skin was closing.
"If it is just this much you cannot beat me." Kanda said with considerable confidence.
"So I just need to go faster." She then put herself in a relaxed position and said. "Activate, Hermes sandals." With that, her shoes sprouted tiny wings and she shot herself on Kanda. It was like she turned into the pure wind as Kanda sprouted many injuries all over his body, while all he could see was a flash of steel.
There were simply too many cuts all over his body any lesser man would have gone to his knees or outright died, but not Kanda. He put his sword on the floor and used it as support, but did not fall.
"That is surprising, I was hoping for you to fall and leave me with the treasure." The woman said.
"Ha, as if I'd fall that easily. I will survive, and I will win. Mugen, Ascending Flower." Saying that Kanda started overwhelming with Ki and energy, the amount was much higher than before. His pupils got three black spots and veins were also raised over his eyes.
He went in the woman direction and started fighting her, fully ignoring the wounds he already sustained.
"Ripping flash claw." he said while liberating with one movement seven beans of light. The woman still managed to evade them all… but a small cut was made on her leg.
"That is surprising. I thought you were much weaker but you are quite strong. The more I look the more I want your treasu-"
"THUNDER" interrupting their talk a giant beam of thunder broke in the middle of the two fighters. Looking for the source they found a big man, easily 2 meters tall, with a physic to match. He was covered in a yellow armor that looked like thunders covering him. "We don't have time for this. The assassination failed, that little bitch did not manage to put a dagger on that goddess. And worst, I forgot MY SWEATS." He screamed that last part, letting some thunder flow outside of his body, destroying everything in the corridor that was not already destroyed.
"I understand." The woman then turned to Kanda and said. "Keep your treasure close, I will come to take this treasure later. And remember, the one that will obtain your Mugen is me Lugh." With that, she turned around and walked away. Kanda tried to go and kill the girl but failed as the giant of a man launched another thunder in a more widespread way, which managed to actually hit him.
When Kanda managed to move again they were both long gone.
Castiel P.O.V.
Miku's room
"You useless bodyguard. See here," Miku said giving a steric attack while pointing to her arm. "I got a cut right here and needed to defend myself. What is the use of bodyguards if they can't protect me?"
"Give me a second Miku-san. I need to listen to the report of everyone so as to better prepare for a next attack. Also, I will need to make sure that this wound is not infected by any poison so I will purify it in a few minutes. I would do it now, but I need to see if there is anyone else in need so as to heal everyone together." I then turned to the team and saw that they were with minor wounds, nothing serious for the most part but there was one much more serious case.
I turned to the dog that was in its gigantic form with his owner inside its mouth.
"Is Seryu poisoned or dying?" Koro gave a small nod sobbing quietly. I clenched my fists in pure hate. "Take her out, I will purify her and make sure that the poison on her is all gone."
Koro looked cautiously at me. He always was quite protective of his master, but he knew that I was the best chance.
He looked at me seriously and let his owner out of his mouth. Looking at her broke my heart, her skin was turning purple and she looked in absolute pain. Seeing this woman that I loved in such pain made me want to punish whoever did this to her. I called Miku closer and asked her to stay as close to me and Seryu as possible as I activated one of the presents Zelretch gave me.
This is probably the moment I am the gladdest of being his godson. If it was not for this, I would not have this item. It was a spirit bone, an item born from the body of a 100 thousand years' spiritual beast. A spirit beast was a creature of another reality that cultivated a special kind of energy, there were many different species and when one such beast got to 100 thousand years' they could, upon death, generate such an item.
Spirit bones are capable of making the user's body stronger and carry some abilities that the beast had. In this case, I am using a left leg spirit bone called purity dragon king leg. It has two skills, but I only need one of them right now.
After I activate the spirit bone it appeared covering my left leg and from the bone, a white halo covered the area. This halo is called Pure sky, it can cleanse everything covered by it in a light capable of eliminating any and all poison or evil powers in the area. It even has an effect on demonic powers, but only if I will it to.
After I activate said power as a black smoke started leaving Seryu's body and Miku's arm, proving that even if she did not feel a thing there was a poison there. Sparing just a quick glance at Miku my attention continued to be focused on Seryu, seeing all that poisonous smoke made my heart clench. I will make sure that whoever did this pays for it.
One minute later no more poison was leaving her body and it was clear that she was stable now. She was just sleeping.
I liberated a breath I didn't even know I was holding. It was too close. If it wasn't Koro holding her in his mouth she would have died long ago, whatever this poison may be it was terrifying.
"*sigh* Now can we begin the explanations about what the hell happened? Emily, report." I said in a no-nonsense voice. My patience was not much at all right now.
"I noticed that there were invaders, around 10 of them, coming to the building a minute after you went to the death arena. I decided that we should split as the opponents were in separated positions. I went to the front entrance as it had the most space for putting traps and gave more mobility.
"I sent Sister to the rooftop so as to eliminate anyone she saw in the distance, Okuyasu on the back door to as it had a considerable big clearing on the front which was good for him. Also, I sent him there as I felt that there were just human warriors and not fallen that were capable of flight so he could take care of them. I let Kanda on the front of Miku's door as I can't command him and also let Seryu here as a last line of defense. All those I detected were eliminated but it seems that at least three targets passed through my detection and our eyes and reached here." She explained all at once and with no delays.
She may be lazy in the day-to-day life, making me take care of everything for her (and I do mean everything, including cleaning his clothes), but she does know how to be professional on missions. Especially when I get pissed.
"Kanda, can you tell us what the one who fought you looks like. The skills and whatever else you can remember of her or him?" I asked.
"No." was all he eloquently said.
"I have no time for your pettiness. We need to know what is coming for us." I said raising my voice… his only answer was having an annoyed scowl while looking at the wall. Maybe I need another tactic. "Maybe you'd prefer to let our protection target die huh. How the mighty have fallen, to think that a member of the Yu family would let his pettiness in the way of his job. Really, such a petty person."
Hearing this he looked positively livid. Like, to the point of testing his sword against my jugular possessed. But he seems to be capable of seeing my point… even if he did not like it.
"Tch, fine. There were two offenders that I saw. One was a big burly man using a yellow full-body armor, he was capable of launching big thunder strikes through his mouth. The other one was an albino woman. She used a Yukata and eyepatch." I can feel a migraine start forming. Please God, I am begging you, do not let it be her. "She used two legendary swords, Crocear Mors that allowed her to control gravity and Hrotti that pushed back any weapon automatically. She also had a pair of sandals, she said it was the sandals of Hermes but I don't know if it really was or not." Please, GOD, don't let it be her. "I got her name, it is Lugh." Shit. God, I prayed for you. Why couldn't you let it NOT be her?
The look on my face must have been quite strange to everyone, except the Sister that was looking stoic and Emily as she knew the reason, was confused by my action.
"Do you know that treasure obsessed woman? If yes, I will cut you, if no, I will probably cut you." Said Kanda showing all the patience that he did not have.
"*sigh* Lugh is an ex-member of Judgment. She is a descendant of the Irish hero Lugh and is completely obsessed with treasures. She usually tried to steal any and all treasures she saw and, for as strange that it may seem, can use any and all treasures she claims as her own." I explained. She was a difficult person to work with as she was usually cheering for my death at every turn so that she could claim my weapons. If someone tells me she is part dragon, I would not believe it as she loves treasure even more than them. "Miku what happened with you and Seryu exactly?"
"*sigh* We were hearing a lot of sounds all around us when suddenly the door opened. We did not saw anything coming in until suddenly two figures appeared as if coming out of nowhere. One of them was the big guy you talked about, the one with the thunder armor. The other was a hooded figure. There were no traces of its body for us to see, just a skull mask covering its head." Miku explained. "Seryu-chan jumped in front of me with Koro enlarging pretty fast. Koro jumped to face the big guy and Seryu decided to face the skull one but was overwhelmed pretty fast by its use of a dagger. I tried to help but my voice could not do much more than disturb it and after touching Seryu with its hand it jumped at me ignoring her. Thankfully I managed to not get wounded thanks to using the air around me as a barrier with my ability with sound."
"But how did you managed to survive in that situation?" I could not help but wonder. This was not something easy to just survive somehow.
"It seems that they felt that the others finished their enemies and were approaching as they did say that 'time is up'. The giant used one of its thunder strikes to pierce through Koro and almost hit me as well if it wasn't for Seryu jumping and pushing me aside. It created a large hole in the wall and while we were confused the large guy went outside while the hooded figure continued trying to attack. That was when it managed to give me this scratch. After that the large guy reappeared with that Lugh you were talking about and they all run away as in less than 10 seconds you all started appearing." Miku explained the situation.
I suddenly noticed that she started giving out a strange smile. What is up with that?
"So this last one is highly capable of use of dagger as it could overwhelm both off you easily and is an expert in poison, huh. Also, they have some way of becoming invisible, probably the hooded figure is responsible as it seems like much more of an assassin than a guy wearing YELLOW armor releasing thunder strikes." I nodded to myself, this information was important.
A plan was forming on my head so as to deal with this situation. "It is decided then, Miku" she trembled slightly hearing me call her name so directly. "you are not to get more than 10 meters away from me.
"My skill in the purification of poison is almost like the perfect counter to the assassin poisonous skill. Okuyasu, you the Sister and Seryu, when she wakes up, will be responsible for the big guy. His powers seem to center on thunder and brut power so you three are the best option." He nodded his head with a serious face. An irritated face on it as he looked at Seryu, he really is a softy with his companions. "Emily, you and Kanda will work together to deal with Lugh."
"Not needed. I will defeat all three of them. You can go and do something useful for the world like dying in a ditch." Kanda said. I must say that I am surprised he can even walk; I mean he got a stick that big up his ass.
"Yeah… no. I don't doubt you are strong but facing Lugh alone is reckless. She got much more artifacts we don't know of so facing her is difficult. Emily can give you aerial support so it will be a great help for you. And it is not optional unless you want to face us here as well." I said, but Kanda ignored it and glared at me with killing intent, not much but enough for me to respond with an equal amount in retaliation. He responded by raising his and before long we were almost at each other's throat.
"STOP." Miku commanded. At that instant, everyone except me could not move. She looked at me with a dark glare for an instant before returning to her normal self… not an improvement. "Kanda you will listen to what he says. And Castiel-kuzu-san I will allow you to accompany me, but do not look at me with perverted eyes or I will kill you myself."
And with that our first day on guard duty ended.
Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone