CHAPPY 99 - A PLAY-WAR
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“””How disrespectful, giving my cube to such mindless creature.””” A voice spoke out of nowhere.
Everyone thought it was just Nagant doing something weird to boost some engagement.
“Did someone use a loudspeaker without permission?” Nagant spoke, causing everyone to realize something.
That the voice just now wasn't intentional.
Instead, someone had a silly little idea and blared their voice for everyone there to hear.
"""How dare you mortal speak without showing yourself to me?"""
The arrogance was apparent in the voice.
"Are you on the moon? That's impressive." Nagant instantly located the other person's whereabouts in less than a few seconds
"""It seems that you're not without merit."""
The voice seemed to be intrigued that Nagant was able to know something like that in less than a few seconds.
"Sure sure. So, I assume you came here because of that cube. Meaning that you will bestow whoever wields it some sort of power?" Nagant didn't beat around the bush and asked the other person's intention.
The whole arena was silent, waiting for the voice in the sky to reply.
Meanwhile, everyone watching was loudly confused, unable to conclude if this was just something the organizer had planned or not.
Including a bald man who was watching TV with his disciple. They were confused. But knowing how eccentric those people who organized this whole thing were, he wouldn't directly eliminate the chance of it being fake.
Then again, with such boring fights going around, they might as well do this gimmick to increase people's engagement.
"Headless voice speaking from the moon?" Saitama recounted Nagant's words. "Why did I not see that person then?"
Last time, when Saitama fought Boros who came to invade earth, he was punched to oblivion sending him to the moon.
While his stay there wasn't that long either, he should've been able to see anyone who lived there since the Moon's landscape was mountainous nothingness.
"Maybe that person lives underground?" Genos offered Saitama an explanation.
"True." Saitama nodded and continued watching the show while sipping some ramen soup.
Back into the arena.
Something baffling had happened, the already buff Nomu became even bigger than ever, packing more muscle into its body as foreign power entered its body.
"Due to the villains acquiring power from outside forces, the heroes are allowed to request for help." Nagant's hologram suddenly appeared beside Ei. "Anyone that's willing could be invited to fight."
The remaining heroes hesitated for a moment, unsure what to do when their already menacing opponent became even bigger and badder.
Unlike the brute that seemed to only pack pure strength in his body, the creature gained two more pairs of chainsaw arms that caused him to resemble an Asura.
"Is it actually anyone?" Gang Orca stepped forward and asked the hologram.
"Yes." Nagant swiftly answered.
"Then we would like to invite Raiden Shogun to our team." Gang Orca then looked at Ei who had an intrigued look.
Everyone was shook to hear his decision, as they had never once thought that it was possible to get the referee to fight with them.
It was even more so because they had an inkling on how strong Ei was.
Seeing how she was capable of blocking the full power of both All Might and All For One, or so they thought.
Without bothering to say anything, she walked up to the heroes and stood there facing Nomu, who had just drunk a gallon of cracked steroids.
"The fight will resume in... 3... 2... 1!" Nagant took over Ei's job and became a temporary referee, only to be interrupted by Dabi.
“I surrender!” Dabi jumped out of the platform, eliminating him from the match.
Anyone with any semblance of a brain would understand why Dabi did something like this.
Why would he fight in something that had been lost?
Not everyone was like All For One and All Might who had the highest chance to win against Ei.
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That included him, who had the least combat prowess out of everyone.
All he had in his sleeve was unmatched explosive firepower that would instantly lose to anyone who could survive the first impact.
“Dabi is out!” Nagant announced Dabi’s elimination as a passing and gazed towards the fight. "Go!"
*swoosh!*
The chainsaw Nomu instantly disappeared and reappeared with a chainsaw blaring in front of Tiger's face.
“Argghh!!” Tiger screamed in pain, as the chainsaw blade dug deep into his left arm, and dug even deeper.
Ryukyu immediately went to Tiger’s side and slammed her body against the chainsaw Nomy, hoping to stop the attack.
Unfortunately, Nomu was one persistent bastard and continued to press down his chainsaw into Tiger’s arm.
Bits of flesh and blood filled the surrounding area as the roaring of a chainsaw deafened everyone.
*ROAR*
A hypersonic wave assaulted the Nomu, but he was strangely unhindered by the attack.
Unable to do anything but to watch his arm getting cut into two, Tiger did everything he could to break free.
Alas, chainsaw Nomu simply overpowered him, giving him no chance to break free.
“GYAAAGH!” A manly shriek flowed into everyone’s ears.
*Thud*
A severed arm fell onto the ground, oozing with fresh blood.
“Tiger!” Gang Orca widened his eyes, shocked to his core but forced himself to act.
As a last-ditch effort to save Tiger, Gang Orca charged his hypersonic roar to its peak.
*ROAR!!!*
Just like before, the Nomu didn’t seem to be affected by the roar.
However, if one were to squint.
They would realize that he was stunned, to which Gang Orca took advantage and slammed his feet onto Tiger’s abdomen, eliminating him from the fight.
“Tiger has been eliminated from the fight.” Nagant announced for everyone to hear.
Something like this was better than having one of them dead.
“Hey! Aren’t you supposed to be strong or whatnot? So why are you just standing there?” Ryukyu took a glance towards Ei who was standing in the middle of the platform, watching.
Everyone who was watching also had the same thought.
Since all Ei had ever done was to watch one of her teammates getting attacked without any intention to help.
“I would’ve liked to see you two injure him, but it seemed my expectation was a bit too high.” Ei shook her head in disappointment.
*step*
For the first time, Ei finally moved, albeit slowly towards Nomu.
It was then that everyone saw something so baffling.
*SWOO-BZZT!!*
Storm suddenly enshrouded the whole arena, dampening the already low atmosphere.
“Wha?!” Everyone gasped in shock and confusion.
Since a purple katana seemingly surrounded by storms came out of Ei’s cleavage, as if accepting her call.
“I didn’t expect for a transcendent to be around, but it was a tad bit too weak.” Ei grasped the katana and disappeared.
*crackle*
Lightning exploded, leaving trails of human afterimages on where Ei should have been.
While everyone was still focused on that, she appeared behind the Nomu, sheathing her katana into an invisible scabbard.
Suddenly, dozens of visible sword slashes suddenly entered everyone’s vision, allowing everyone to see how the Nomu was being cut from all directions.
Not stopping just there, the storm had gotten darker right above the Nomu.
*BOOM!*
A massive thunder descended from heaven, smiting the Nomu into oblivion.
“That’s how you do it.” Ei spoke before she teleported to Nagant’s side. “Weird Muscle Guy has been eliminated. The winner is the Hero.”
Before anyone could register what had just happened in front of them, the Nomu had already been turned into ashes.
Not long, the heroes won just like that.
Even Gang Orca and Ryukyu couldn’t believe what had happened.
“””You… Who are you?”””
The voice from before was heard once more, seemingly also questioning Ei’s strength.
“A mere flesh like you is not worthy to know.” Ei couldn’t care less about the voice, since all of her surprise stemmed from the fact that this world had a creature of this level.
“””Not worthy? ME?!”””
Anger could be heard from the voice, sending shivers to everyone there.
It was the first time that the voice had ever heard someone say something like that to him.
Moreover, Ei should’ve already known what he was capable of after seeing what happened to Nomu.
“Like I said, you’re just a weakling who got arrogant after tasting a bit of absolute strength.” Ei couldn’t hide her laughter anymore, feeling amused by the other person.
All of the bystanders around were drenched in their own sweat, doing whatever they could to prevent themselves from fainting.
They felt like they were being submerged into the deepest depth of the sea every time they heard the voice speak.
Something so foreign and incomprehensible.
“”Say! Do you want to do some play-war?”Kenjiki's voice suddenly entered everyone’s ears.
“””Who are you now?”””
The voice only then realized that the world that he had been monitoring for eons suddenly became confusing.
“”That’s not important. All I wanna ask is do you agree or not? I’m quite bored watching these fights.”” Kenjiki made it obvious that this whole war between heroes and villains was boring.
“”””Sure, explain to me how this works.”””
The voice agreed, knowing that he had finally been able to complete his objective.
Without being able to say anything in this otherworldly exchange, the fate of humanity had been gambled once more.
Alas, no one could do anything to object.
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