Stacy swipes her sword out of her hand, and goes in for a psycho stab. She falls backward, but before it hits, she puts her fingers on the dome. A green energy flows around her fingers, as they release a beam. As Stacy was falling into the stab, he hits into the and clutches his chest. His eye and right arm go limp. It looks like he's gasping for air but gets none. He eventually stops moving.

--- Chapter 34 ---

Hiro moves along the path given to him. As he's walking he sees a man with headphones and a lab coat on. He summons his katana.

Hiro: Who are you!

Nero: Huh?

He says adjusting knobs on his headphones.

Hiro: I said, who are you!

Nero: Oh my bad. The name’s Nero.

Hiro: That's not what I- Nevermind, are you one of the Tenyi.

Nero: Oh, you're that Hiro kid. Lucky me.

Hiro: I'll take that as a yes. Why is that lucky?

Nero: Cause your going to be the easiest. Not that you're the weakest, just very easily predicted. I wanted an easy fight to adjust my headphones. It's very loud here.

Hiro listens for a moment, but hears nothing but his own breath. The many people in the town are hiding in their homes.

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Hiro: I don't know what you're on about but I'm going to take you down now.

Hiro dashes in with his katana, he swings and as he does, Nero dodges easily, and perfectly, still adjusting the knobs. Hiro closes the distance and keeps slashing but Nero is not getting hit. Hiro takes a break and leaps back.

Hiro: How are you doing that?

Nero: Doing what?

He says half listening, dialing the knobs. Hiros katana flakes into nothing before he summons his blue and red blade out. Hiro gets a more serious look on his face before dashing in to attack. The red sword gets really close to his nose. He looks down at the tip of the blade wiz by. He stops fumbling with the knobs.

Nero: You now have my undivided attention.

Hiro gets an uneasy feeling as Nero starts to walk towards him. Nero breaks into a sprint, and runs right up to him. Hiro brings his sword to block, and the other to slash. As the slash comes in, he jumps, and barrel rolls to the right in mid air. And palms Hiros side, somehow getting perfectly through his guard. A burst of mana comes out of his palms, sending Hiro flying. Hiro coughs up some blood.

Hiro: The h-

Another blood cough.

Hiro: The hell did you do to me?

Nero: I sent a blast of raw mana into your kidneys. The mana a normal person has is filtered, safe for the body, but raw mana is extremely deadly.

Hiro: Then.

Blood cough.

Hiro: How can you wield it?

Nero: It's simple. Like electricity, as long as there is a conductor directing it out, I'm fine.

Hiro pulls himself up, and prepares his blades. He runs to him slashing. But like always, he dodges just out of reach. Nero closes the distance suddenly, perfectly when there is an opening. He palms Hiros wrists, sending the blades flying. And he continues to palm Hiros chest, attacking his vital organs with raw mana. Hiro goes flying on the last hit, and lands leaning against a wall. Hiros violent coughs of blood turn into a vomit of blood. Nero crouches down next to him.

Nero: Currently, your body only got hit by raw mana. The raw mana inside your body is causing blood vessels and tissue to burst. In 30 seconds your body will realize the mana and bleeding. Your mana will attack it, causing more damage to your body. As well as that, the blood rushing to the wounds won't clot do to the raw mana, causing you to bleed out faster. In 1 minute, Soon your body will realize it's in danger, and cause you to gasp for air, but due to most of the blood rushing at the wounds, and your heart muscles bursting, no air or blood will reach your brain. In 1 minute and 15 seconds your body will go into total organ failure. And around 1 minute and 30 seconds you will lose consciousness, from lack of oxygen to the brain. By 2 minutes, you will have passed on to the next life. Luckily, the adrenaline will dull the immense pain of your body killing itself, and shutting down.

Hiro's eyes in horror, generates his katana, and swings at him, while they are still sitting, but mid swing a burst of pain hits him, and he throws up a large some of blood, and he ends up throwing the sword, and falling to his side. Ner brushes himself off and begins to go back to the main path, leaving Hiro grasping in the air for him, his eyes fading in and out of focus, before closing, and falling limp.