Chapitre 18: Shall we Dance?

The blonde teen dropped from a bridge gracefully, he turned around in the air and dodged several fatal swipes that would have killed most others.

He wasn't like most others.

Boruto landed with a sly grin on his face and dodged several more swipes and then before the group of large cursed spirits could react he took each and everyone of them out with the sword he was already putting back in its sheath.

He had separated with Itadori and his mini group a while back now, he honestly wanted to find himself as odd as it sounded. He had realised after the battle with Kenjaku that he had been acting differently, out of character.

His desire to fight was through the roof and if he's being totally honest with himself it still is. The euphoric feeling of his blood rushing and adrenaline rising made him feel alive.

Whenever he's just sat around doing nothing he feels as if the world turns grey and lifeless whereas when he's fighting for his life the world becomes sharp, clear and beautiful.

He snorted as he shook his head, he still didn't know why he had changed. He had his suspicions of course but nothing concrete, main suspicion being the God that was currently taking residence in his body of course.

The blonde casually strutted through the clearly abandoned small town he had found. Cursed spirits had been running rampant and even the general population were clearly noticing some stuff wasn't right.

But he's here for more than just some fodder spirits, he's been making his way to the culling games.

For the first time since getting here doesn't know what's going to happen and it's terrifying of course but the main emotion he can feel when he thinks of the unknown to come is exhilaration at the future fights.

Speaking of the culling games, he looked over to the giant barrier that reached up to the clouds and smiled. A shikigami suddenly appeared in front of him, looking a bit like a Kokuna Pokémon with wings.

"I'm a Kogane!" It said with a high pitched voice that slightly grated on Borutos ears.

Boruto waved "I'm Boruto" he said with a nod towards the thing that didn't respond but did suddenly perk up.

"RULE 9! PLAYERS SHALL HAVE ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON OTHER PLAYERS SUCH AS NAME, POINTS, NUMBER OF RULES ADDED AND CURRENT COLONY" The Kogane shouted which made Boruto wince.

"Next time don't shout alright, just speak normally" Boruto asked the odd thing which seemed to nod, "Also how do I join the uh, games?"

"Just walk in, but are you prepared? This is a lethal contest called the culling games step-" the Kogane was interrupted by Boruto stepping into the barrier.

Little did Boruto know that the culling games would randomly assign him to a random location in the culling games causing him to suddenly appear hundreds off feet in the air in a brand new location.

He quickly stabilised himself and got prepared for a rough landing, as he was still falling the hair on his arm suddenly stood.

Something was wrong. Boruto was now looking around at his surroundings, he couldn't see where any threats were but a glint caught his eye. He quickly twisted his body avoiding a large rocket!

He landed with a heavy crash on a concrete cold rooftop, he quickly got back to his feet seeing 4 people standing in front of him.

He opened his Jogan eye seeing that all 4 had some decent levels of cursed energy which meant they were all sorcerers or at least knew how to use cursed energy.

The woman in the centre stood forward with her 3 lackeys standing behind her with mirth still present on their faces.

"You have no chance, just give up!" She shouted towards him leaving Boruto unimpressed and frankly still quite confused. "My technique uses rockets-" that's as far as she got before Boruto flickered and suddenly she and her lackeys all started to choke.

"Stop speaking" Boruto replied with a feverish tint in his eyes to which the women at the front seemed offended.

"W-why, shou-should we-we s-ta-stop speaking" her words were interrupted by her and her men's wet coughs and gargles.

Boruto snorted before he turned around and started to walk off, not before he responded though "You should stop speaking because you died three seconds ago" he jumped off the roof and landed somewhere else as the woman pulled her hand back from her throat only to see blood.

She turned to her friends, her brothers in all but blood and saw they were already on the floor with blood pouring out of their throats. She too fell to the damp concrete roof and while she could not reach out to her brothers, at least their blood could with the warm liquid almost embracing the group of 4.

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Boruto moved on through the district he now occupied, he fought dozens of battles all of them so far have been pitifully easy.

A roar was heard from behind him and Boruto turned towards a half woman half spider? She had 8 legs but they were spiked and barbed and her torso was all human with her face being mostly normal with a set of pincers on her face.

Her skin was extremely pale and thin allowing one to see her veins quite clearly, her hair was black but seemed to be falling out with multiple bald patches around her scalp.

Blood was all over her legs and face showing the fights she must have been in before this were clearly brutal.

He didn't care.

In a burst of speed he took the beings head of its shoulders with a punch and watched the head soar into a nearby building.

But the blonde was more focused on something else to care about the dead body at his feet, he was looking at his point total.

"100! Already?" He looked towards the floating Kogane which quickly nodded "oh, are you sure?" He asked again to which the Kogane nodded once more with a slightly peeved look on its insect face.

"That was pretty quick" he said to himself before turning back to the Kogane "I can make a rule now right?" The Kogane nodded.

"Okay, make it so I can travel between those barriers and go to different colony's" Boruto said to the Kogane with a crease slowly forming between his brows as he stared towards the other barriers.

"RULE #10 THE PLAYER KNOWN AS BORUTO OTSUTSUKI CAN NOW TRAVEL BETWEEN COLONY BORDERS!" The Kogane screams into the sky before disappearing in a pop.

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Boruto was falling through the sky again but this time it was expected so he just let himself fall into a tall building's roof.

He landed with a crack and looked around the new colony instantly focusing on a bend in space that made his head hurt.

A bend in space, not a bend…a fold in space? His Jogan eye was a glowing beacon as it stared towards the imperfections and flaws of the disgusting technique.

He pulled his attention away from the odd techniques that seemed to leave folds and disorienting bends in space everywhere and looked around the large colony.

Quickly he noticed that this colony had a big fight. 4 people were all standing around on a rooftop, Borutos blood started to sing.

These people were strong. No Gojo or anything but strong enough to be fun, in a flash he disappeared and reappeared in the middle of the group.

His attention quickly focused on one of the group, this was someone he recognised.

Yuta Okkotsu.

"Yo" Boruto said while dodging a sudden energy blast from behind him with ease.

"Hey" Yuta replied warily.

Boruto spread his arms and took in the 3 people and one curse surrounding him.

"Shall we dance?" He asked with a manic grin on his face.