Chapitre 11: Meltdowner vs Jiren
*North Pole*
I dropped the woman on the cold ice of the north pole, she looked confused but recovered quickly and turned to look at me with hostility.
"Powerful teleportation, this isn't even possible for Paranormals with this specific ability" - Meltdowner didn't seem surprised at this ability, she must have researched about me before coming to my house.
"It's not teleportation I connected two points in space to get us here? " - I replied calmly to Mugino Shizuri, I looked at her with indifference.
What can I say, it's been quite a while since these aggressive visitors started coming to my house, I've gotten used to dealing with people like her once a week.
"Hee~ is it like a wormhole? interesting~" - although she spoke with a kind tone her eyes reflected that she really didn't care.
"But I thank you Kuhaku Jiren, I actually had my doubts about fighting in the city" - as she said that green spheres manifested around her, this time they were a dozen of them many times bigger. - "Because holding back is hard enough!"
"Energy?... they are concentrated electrons!"
It seems that this woman is very dangerous, It can easily go through steel, if they were fired in the city even the reinforced shelters would be like paper.
"You are very smart, they say you even beat Little Princess in a battle of wits" The woman smiled and arranged her hair into a ponytail.
Even as a level five she shouldn't have had many opponents, now that she was a level six she even felt afraid of her own power, Mugino despite being a bitch who kills for money, she's not a monster who would kill millions of innocents just because she can, or that's the impression she gave me.
But here in the middle of nowhere and against a powerful enemy, she can unleash everything she has without fear of making a massacre, to my misfortune.
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Without delay twelve beams of concentrated electrons capable of melting and pulverizing anything were directed at hyper sonic speeds towards me.
[Protection]
My favorite shield rose imposingly in front of me. The beams collided making shrill noises and causing energy waves, the energy dispersed all over the place, even an aurora borealis formed in the sky due to the change in the magnetic field of the area.
The powerful beams warped to the sides of my shield without harming me.
"Tch, that's a tough shield" - Meltdowner lowered her center of gravity and she sent toward me the electron spheres. These spheres positioned themselves around me and fired everything in a split second.
The crash of the electrons against my shield echoed for miles. Mugino opened her eyes even wider in surprise and frustration.
Ignoring Meltdowner's shocked expression, I decided not to be passive and prolong this any longer than necessary, or this fight will melt the polar ice caps.
I disappeared from my position and appeared next to Mugino.
"Damn!!!" - she created a shield of concentrated electrons on her stomach, but I still punched with my right fist and almost broke it with one blow.
*Crunch*
"Impossible!!! with his hands?!!!" - I could feel her terror as her indestructible shield almost collapsed.
Her shield formed of concentrated electrons increased to level six and she is capable of withstanding nuclear bombs, but it almost shattered with a child's fist.
"What's wrong...are you surprised by something like this?" - it wasn't that I was mocking, but apparently she lacked the character of someone strong, like Kumagawa who broke down as she felt helplessness and pain.
Giving children such great power, this world seeks its own destruction.
I don't know whose fault it is god or the devil or maybe this world is like that, the point is, many dangerous people have too much power and get it too easily, I'm not fit to say it having inherited the abilities of a Demon King but at least I try to be decent.
I looked at Shizuri her face was close to mine. - "It's not over yet... dodge fast or you'll die."
She jumped back superhumanly several dozen meters before I attacked her again. This physical strength is superior to a human being, does it have to do with her level Six... or did she receive more enhancements besides her Esper power...?
"Well how about this!" - A massive sphere of electrons formed above her head and she didn't hesitate to shoot towards me. - "Ahhh!!!!"
A massive beam was heading towards me, but I blinked with my speed to easily avoid it. The beam vaporized the ice and water, the heat increased throughout the north pole increased several degrees causing it to begin to melt.
[Protection]
I used Protection and covered the north pole to protect it from the heat.
I looked at the place where the beam had struck. The ice and ground had completely vaporized, and large amounts of hot air and pressure had been shot out into the horizon. If this had been fired in a city, not even the ruins would remain.
The electron beam traveled many kilometers before leaving the atmosphere for space. Only molten magma remained in front of a tired Meltdowner.
"The power is impressive, but it was a very slow process," I spoke as I floated behind Meltdowner.
"Behind?!" She turned to look at me with hostility, but her fatigue was evident. "Slow? That should have been ten times faster than sound..."
"Gahh!" She felt heat and pain in her stomach. This time, I was faster and hit her before she could react.
"Still slow..." I responded with my fist in her stomach. My blow rearranged several of her organs. If Mugino didn't have a superhuman body, she would be dead.
It didn't end there. Meltdowner was thrown like a rag doll for several kilometers. Although her physical enhancements made her very strong and resistant, she couldn't take one of my blows completely.
"Ah!"
"What's wrong? Are you finished?" I appeared behind her before she finished rolling and crushed her chest with my foot, breaking the ground.
I looked down at her without pity. She may be a beautiful woman, but she is still my opponent.
She lay on her back, suffering from her injuries and bleeding from her mouth. But instead of begging for her life, she smiled fearlessly.
"Is that all? You're too kind. I would have killed myself if I were you! Ahh?!"
I have to admit she's a tough girl. She had multiple fractures and internal bleeding, but still had that wild and rebellious look.
"How about this?!" She took some technological device composed of triangles from her clothes and threw it into the sky, where it remained suspended in the air.
The device detached and began to grow until it reached a meter in diameter and divided into hundreds of pieces.
"Not yet!" She shouted angrily with blood in her mouth and still on the ground beneath me.
Twenty electron spheres formed around us, but they didn't fire at me, they fired at the pieces above us.
"What are you doing, Mugino Shizuri?"
"Just watch! Jiren-kun, this will be my greatest attack hehe~" She smiled cutely. I wouldn't think she was capable of having a face deformed by savagery if I hadn't seen her before.
Although behind that savage face, I noticed that her eyes seemed tired. Was she willing to die in this fight? Damn it, another woman with depression.
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The rays collided with the triangular mirrors and were reflected towards other pieces, again and again, accelerating and accelerating.
"I see... but Mugino Shizuri, you'll die too..."
She remained silent. "In the end, I'm that kind of person... don't worry about me." Does she plan to die?
Mach 6
Mach 13
Mach 20
Mach 32
(Mach = speed of sound)
"Are you trying to commit suicide?" I looked calmly at what was happening.
"Hahaha, that doesn't sound bad. Let's have a lovers' suicide, Jiren-kun~" The woman laughed vulgarly, seeming willing to throw her life into this attack.
Interestingly, this is not the first time a woman has attempted a lovers' suicide with me in recent years.
The rays collided, breaking the sound barrier a hundred times over, and hit us.
*ZOOOM*
I tried to resist the attack with a magic barrier, but I underestimated its power and my shield broke. "Tch, magic *****."
The impact was heard thousands of kilometers away...
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*POV Shizuri*
Everything is dark, did I die? It must be that... I guess I deserved it.
Since I can remember, I was taught one thing, money is everything. I was born surrounded by gold and silver, with elderly men in suits and beautiful young girls in uniforms to attend to me twenty-four hours a day.
I thought it was common to have everything I wanted and that everyone lived like me.
But...
Nothing is free and the price I paid was discipline. Throughout my life, since I became conscious, I learned to behave like a lady and live with nobility, etiquette and manners, were unquestionable law, but I was fine with that, that was my life, the life that fate or luck gave me...
Although over time, I learned that I was wrong about something, that what I considered normal was an enviable luxury for the vast majority of people.
Even so, I didn't understand those people. To me, who always lived in luxury, it was nothing special in my eyes. Every day, I received envious looks hidden in the maids and butlers, but that was just another day in the life of Ojou-sama.
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Then, overnight, I lost everything...
One day without warning, we had to flee from home, pursued by people who wanted us dead. Everything has a price, and my father had to pay his. He was ousted from the board of directors of his company, and it didn't matter that he was the founder. All his influential friends turned their backs on him.
They were a bunch of hypocrites who only smiled when they saw the gold, selfish people who wouldn't lend a hand if they knew it would get dirty in the process.
Taking advantage of the fact that our family was finished and abandoned, people who once looked at us with respect and adulation tried to finish us off completely... if they had caught us my father would have died and my mother and I will have a miserable fate.
Why did it happen? Why did our family fall from heaven to hell? Perhaps some grudge against my father, some revenge, or just the ambition of some lowlife snake, it didn't matter in the end.
We hid for a while and lived in the shadows with what we had left of money, some jewelry, and various family relics.
It wasn't much, but it was enough to live on, although the life of Ojou-sama was over.
Earlier, I said that I didn't care about what I had, and it wasn't a lie... at least at that moment, gold had no meaning for me, but deprivation wreaks havoc on needy bodies.
I was too used to my life of luxury to endure it for long.
No more baths in luxurious tubs with expensive skin care products. No more imported beds made with feathers of extravagant animals. No more food cooked by the best chefs, I lost that and more in a single day.
Everything was exchanged for morning back pains, tasteless food that was sometimes unpleasant, and the shower replaced by a rusty showerhead that often had no hot water.
My father and mother were capable people, they could get good jobs at the moment, but being sought after by many mafias, we couldn't even go out on the street, and as soon as we felt danger, we moved again and again.
Each time we arrived at a new house, it was worse than the last, and I think that was the first time I snapped. Irrationally shouting, being a bitch, I hit my mother in the face... I regret that, I regret it every day since that moment, but I never apologized... I am truly despicable.
I never looked back and left my parents.
I knew it was up to me to get out of that situation, and if I succeeded, I could go back to that dream life. I went to the only place where I could get the essential piece to achieve my goals - Academy City, the city of miracles.
If I underwent the procedure and managed to awaken paranormal abilities, even as a spoiled child with no useful skills other than high society etiquette, I could go back to heaven.
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And I did it. I obtained a power with enormous potential - the Meltdowner... I was happier than ever, or so I thought.
In a short time, I leveled up and with each advancement, I received more - money, power, luxury, to the point of becoming intoxicated by it.
Of course, I didn't forget about the bastards who chased me like a rat and I looked for them.
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(Years later)
In a large mansion, there were charred bodies, blood vaporized in the air, corpses everywhere.
A girl standing over them, laughing like a maniac - to be honest, I felt like she wasn't me and I was watching this in the third person.
I vomited the next day for a long time. I felt like shit. I went to Gakuen Toshi only to find looks of terror and fear, as what I did was immediately known.
Although it didn't matter to me at first, over time, what I did affected me. The expensive wine tasted like water, the expensive clothes seemed useless and disposable, and the jewelry looked like clown decorations. I got my revenge on those people, now I'm rich on my own merit, but I didn't feel satisfied... everything was so empty...
I started acting like the monster that everyone sees me as, I went from being a complete bitch to others, killing for money, fighting to win, not caring if I died in the process, but the adrenaline of the battle was like a drug that took me away from reality. That was Mugino Shizuri, the Meltdowner.
I never went to see my parents again, although they were already free and living well thanks to me. I never went to see my mother, whom I hurt, or my father, whom I came to despise.
Many times I wondered why I was still alive. Maybe pride, the bitcjin me who hated losing to the bone, kept me alive to the point of seeking revenge if someone surpassed me in anything. I didn't just want to end up as a pathetic loser. I know, that shitty mentality is not an excuse for everything I did, but it's what I am.
...or
Perhaps deep down, I was looking for something more, but it doesn't matter now. This is where it ends... I wonder if the boy survived? Haha, what am I saying? I wasn't even able to hurt him. He's probably laughing at how pathetic I was to commit suicide with my own attack.
"I wonder if it's like this."
"What?" I opened my eyes at the sound of Jiren's voice. I was alive.
(to be continued)
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Glossary:
Espers and Paranormals - they are the same, terms used to refer to people with powers related to the mind.
Super- is used for people with powers related to some super human mutation but of artificial origin like Homelander, if the physical mutation is natural they are mutants.
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