Chapitre 18: Chapter 18
Sorry I didn't release a chapter yesterday. See, I started a new playthrough of Skyrim at around eleven in the morning (I start writing at about three-ish in the afternoon), and I forgot to stop playing. By the time I remembered that I was supposed to write a chapter that day, it was already almost ten at night, so I decided that I would just go to sleep and write it today.
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"So what do we do now? Did you have any plan for finding this murderer?" Kaz asked as they walked through the city, with Kaz being distracted by his conversation with Mark so he doesn't notice that there are other people around and get nervous.
"Ah, what do you mean plan? I was just walking around to find people that looked like they might be the murderer and then fighting them." Mark asked confused, thinking that that was a perfectly valid strategy.
"Oh, okay, so, let's not do that anymore. Here, how about this, we can visit all of the crime scenes and find out as much as we can about the victims first, then we can look for any patterns from there." Kaz suggested .
"What do you mean? Why would we do that? We already know patterns right? The victims are girls and are killed by being blown up." Mark asked. He wasn't really dumb, but he was pretty simple minded and wasn't very creative.
"Well yeah, but there is more we can find out that'll help us. The locations of all of the crimes, the time of the crimes, the situation the victims were likely in before they were killed, the people that were seen visiting the area around the time of the murder, any evil theme music the neighbors of the victims might have heard, and even the daily lives of all of the victims. Knowing all of these things might help us find a pattern that'll definitely lead us to the murderer." Kaz explained.
"Oh, I get it, like, if all of the victims work in the same place, then the killer probably works there as well. But wouldn't the police have found things like that by now?" Mark asked while remembering all of the police and investigators that he had seen at the crime scene and all of the weird tools they were using to search the scene.
"Well, yes, they probably have already, but they cant release that information to the public, otherwise the killer would change up his tactics to hide his patterns. If they haven't, then it is probably because the killer left none behind, in which case he is incredibly smart, and your strategy definitely wont work to find him." Kaz said and was about to explain further, but then they heard a scream.
The scream came from an alleyway nearby. A few of the passing people curiously looked down it, only to scoff at what they saw and walk away, some even laughed. Kaz and Mark ran over to see what was happening, only to see a very muscular women holding a pretty skinny man by the neck while grinning.
"H-Help!" The man cried out as loud as he could, but the women's grasp around his neck stopping him from saying it to loud.
"I don't know why you wouldn't say yes, I mean, what kind of man would say no? You are more of a coward then I thought. But, I guess this is better for me, since I like them that way." The women said and reached to grab the mans shirt.
Neither of them had noticed Kaz and Mark until now, but when they did, the man was about to ask for help. But then he noticed that they were just kids, he tried to tell them to leave, but the women's grip wouldn't let him talk, and he was starting to lose air.
"Oh, some kids! Why don't you stay there until I'm done with him, you can have some fun with me after I'm done." The women asked with a perverted grin in her face.
Mark paled a little, taking a step back, apparently forgetting that he was at least a dozen times stronger then this women.
"You boys look like martial artists, why don't you come back with me to my house, I have a few-" Before the women could finish, she was drop kicked through a wall by Kaz.
Kaz's parents had never really taught him anything about chivalry or anything like it, so anything about it he had learnt from anime and manga. By the time Kaz could learn from anime, he had been starved of that type of social knowledge for years, so he absorbed the teachings of the first few anime protagonists he watched like a sponge(this is part of the reason Kaz is terrible at communication, he tried really hard to mimic the protagonists that he had learnt from, but fails, most of the time). Unfortunately for that women, one of those protagonists happened to be Kazuma.
"You little shit!" The women yelled as she stood back up and pulled out a gun that was at her side.
"Kaz get down!" Mark tried to yell, but it was to late as the women pointed her gun at Kaz's face and started shooting. It was an automatic gun, so dozens of bullets came at him all at once.
'Hit, where the fuck was she hiding that?' Kaz thought as he was going to dodge, but then, he noticed that all of the bullets were moving through the air extremely slowly. He looked at the bullets and grinned.
He had unconsciously activated his death concentration. In this state his thinking speed was accelerated to the level of a warrior that had a power level of 2,000. Not that he needed that to stop a bullet (you only need about a power level of 50 or so to do that), but he still hadn't fully realized the extent of his power yet and didn't think that he could move faster then a bullet already.
Kaz grinned from ear to ear and put his hand up, he then moved it around at speeds nobody there could see, not even Mark. The women stopped shooting as her eyes widened. Kaz then held up his hand in front of his face and dropped the bullets that he had caught.
""Hahahhahahahahahahahahaha!" Kaz started laughing hysterically out of excitement after realizing that he was already fast enough to catch bullets.
After a few seconds of laughing, his face then abruptly turned serious again as he vanished from sight and drop kicked the women into another wall, this time knocking her out.
Kaz picked up a rock and chucked it at the women's, head to make sure that she was unconscious. Luckily for her, she wasn't too injured despite being thrown through a concrete wall, probably because of either all of her Broly like muscles.
Kaz then ran over to the man, who was on the ground, gasping for air, but not being able to due to the women crushing his neck just before he was thrown. Kaz hurriedly charged a Ki blast and shot it at him, instantly healing him and allowing him to breath again.
"Are you okay?" Kaz worriedly asked, thinking that his powers wouldn't be able to heal other peoples fatal wounds.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine, actually, I feel great!" The man stood up and rubbed his neck, staring in amazement at his harasser covered in the concrete from the wall a few meters away.
Kaz sighed in relief and charged another, slightly weaker Ki blast and shot it at the women. The Ki healed her injuries, but it didn't wake her up.
"All right then, that's good, now, you'd better call the police and get out of here before they arrive, and maybe leave the city incase they don't do anything." Kaz said and then turned to Mark. "We'd better leave, if this goes anything like I remember seeing on the news, we will probably get in trouble too."
"Uh, yeah, sure." Mark said while he was still trying to figure out what just happened.
They quickly ran away, leaving the skinny man there in a state of confusion. He just stared at the fallen body of the women in front of him, then he remembered back to the strength and speed that Kaz had just shown, despite his small frame. He then looked down at his own, very skinny body. Suddenly, a flash of determination shone in his eyes.
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"Anyway, as I was saying before all of that happened, we need to start investigating the other crime scenes. Do you know where the nearest one is?" Kaz asked after the pair had ran far enough away.
"Uh, I think the closest one is a few blocks that way." Mark replied, forgetting about what just happened and refocusing his mind on more important matters.
"Okay, lets go there. We will probably need to be a little stealthy, but if we stay on the tops of the houses and keep out heads low, we shouldn't be seen, but I guess, just to be safe, lets wait until nightfall." Kaz said and went to jump on top of a building to sleep.
"Uh, Kaz, I cant jump that high or that far, how do I get up there?" Mark asked as he tried to jump, but failed to jump more then a few meters, which was a lot to a normal person, but it was nothing compared to the dozens of meters that Kaz could jump with no effort.
"Just use your Ki, surround your body with it and jump." Kaz said, actually believing Mark's obvious lie from earlier.
"Uh, yeah... my Ki." Mark said in a low voice and looked down at himself, clenching his fists.
'How am I supposed to do that? My master hadn't taught me how to do that stuff yet. Its okay, Kaz can do it easily. But how? What does he do to make it work?' Mark thought and tried tightening his muscles, then he tried breathing super fast, then he tried meditating, but none of it worked. Kaz just looked down at him in confusion, still not realizing what was happening.
'Damnit! Am I going to have to ask him for help? I don't want to! My pride is on the line here!' He then looked up at Kaz and then over at a nearby ladder.
"I cant use my Ki right now! I have to save it for the fight later! What'll happen if we run into him on the street and I cant fight him because I wasted all of my strength on jumping around on some buildings?" Mark came up with an excuse and climbed to the top of the building.
"Hmm, You may be right. We don't know how strong this killer is, and I can't sense anyone strong right now in this city, so he is probably hiding his strength. He could also be a normal person, but I doubt it based off of what he has shown with his killings. How about this, I will teach you a method of breathing that will keep you from running out of energy for a long time. Then we can both use that to get around without needing to use our Ki." Kaz said and sat down in a lotus position, motioning for Mark to follow him.
'I cant believe that worked!' Mark thought in his head and mentally sighed, but he did feel a little guilty.
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That skinny guy is going to be a pretty important character in the future, so remember him. Normally this formula is used to introduce a love interest, you know, guy saves girl from being raped/robed/extorted, but I figured I'd use it for a guy this time. He isn't going to be a love interest, but he is going to be a part of the dragon team later down the line, so I needed to introduce him somehow, and I figured this was a little more unique, at least when it comes to introducing a male character. He is an OC that I haven't picked a name for yet, so if you have any suggestions leave them here. Anyway, thanks for reading.
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