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Ep 11: What Are You?

Ep 11: What Are You?

N's group is all still chatting in the Cafeteria.

Yuji: "OK, now, let's play the name game, N!"

N: "I hate this..."

N points at the spiky yellow-haired boy in a buttoned shirt from earlier.

N: "tatsuki."

Tatsuki: "right."

N moves his arm and points at Jizzabelle

N: "jizzabelle"

Jizzabelle: "Pleasure to meet you."

N moves his arm again and points at Cassandra.

N: "Cassandra."

Cassandra does a peace sign in response.

Cassandra: "Howdy!"

N moves his arm and points at Irina.

N: "Irina."

Irina is asleep on the cafeteria floor.

N: "Uhh..."

Cassandra: "Yeah, she does that a lot...no idea why."

N thinks: "How did she even survive?"

N moves his arm and points at a woman with black long hair and a short jacket with short shorts and green boots.

N: "Holly."

Holly: "Hi."

N: "Is that everyone?"

Yuji: "Well you missed one?"

N: "No, I don't think I did."

Ashlyn is sitting at the corner of the cafeteria table.

Ash thinks: "Bastard didn't even regard me...not like I want anything to do with you, asshole."

Banishment, Jacob, and Elizabeth suddenly arrive and enter the cafeteria.

Banishment: "Seems like everyone is getting along so far."

Holly: "Didn't you say that there would be 15 people who survived?"

Banishment: "Only one of them survived...All the other 14 either bled out or passed away while in a coma."

Cassandra: "fucking hell..."

Jizzabelle: "So what exactly was all that commotion about?"

Elizabeth: "We were just about to get to that, Jacob?"

Jacob gets a flashback of him, Banishment, and Elizabeth sitting in the infirmary.

Banishment: "Allow us to do all of the talking, understood?"

Jacob: "How come?"

Elizabeth: "We just think it's best, since you can be a little...pushing."

Jacob: "What's that supposed to mean?"

Elizabeth: "It's just that we want to give these people a moment of less pressure off of their shoulders right now."

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Jacob: "Still don't know what you're trying to say-"

Banishment: "You have been rushing things lately and we think that it's time we back up from this mistake."

Jacob quickly stands up in response.

Jacob: "YOU CALLING ME A MURDERER?!"

dark red seals suddenly appear all over Jacob's body and suddenly he can't move an inch.

Banishment: "Sit down."

Jacob looks over at Banishment.

Jacob: "You think that this is gonna stop me?! I could easily bust out of this!"

Banishment: "And you're well aware of what happens when you push me."

Banishment's eyes begin to glow red.

Banishment: "And as I said. Sit. Down."

Jacob slowly sits back down on his chair.

Elizabeth puts her hand on Jacob's hand.

Elizabeth: "We're sorry to do this, but we think we should the pace of things for now."

Jacob: "...fine."

*Back to real-time.*

Jacob stands in place saying nothing.

Elizabeth: "Jacob?"

Jacob groans and snaps his fingers.

A projector appears and projects the omen made of black goop.

Yuji: "What the heck is that?"

Both Elizabeth and Banishment stand on opposite sides of the projection.

Banishment raises his arm and points at the projection.

Banishment: "This is an omen that Jacob had faced when he was initially exploring the city of Hestia."

N: "Oh wow, it's an omen that looks weird, like we haven't seen a plant snake or balloon chameleons-"

Ash suddenly SLAMS N into the cafeteria table.

Everyone's jaws drop in shock at the same time.

Ash: "Continue."

Banishment: "Ahem, while yes, this omen looks like the common look as any other this one is different from the others."

Jizzabelle pulls her glasses up.

Jizzabelle: "What exactly makes this one so much more different?"

Jacob talks while leaning against the nearby wall.

Jacob: "Syn doesn't kill it."

Everyone looks to the right to see Jacob leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

Jizzabelle: "But I thought you established that Syn was created by your ancestor to kill and only kill Syn."

Jacob: "That's what I thought but now, I don't know. I hit that thing with everything I had and I didn't even budge, no scrapes, no cuts, nothing. It's like that thing isn't affected by Syn."

N picks himself up and sits down.

N: "So what do you want us to do?"

Ashlyn's eyes widen in shock.

Ashlyn: "How did he-"

Banishment: "Well we think that this omen is affected by Syn, but it's rather somehow absorbing Syn and using it against the user."

Holly: "And what makes you think of that?"

Jacob rolls up his right arm's sleeve revealing his entire arm completely burnt.

Jacob: "The slightest bit of contact, then the next thing I know, the fucker burnt me alive."

Elizabeth: "I was barely able to heal even the majority of his injuries."

Tatsuki: "Soooo....you want us to kill something that can use the one thing that is supposed to kill them all......FUN!"

Banishment: "Assuming that this omen is in its weakest state it's best to attack at this very moment."

Holly suddenly stands up and walks up to Banishment.

Holly: "Let me ask you this. Why can't you guys do it yourselves? You all clearly seem very capable."

Banishment: "We want to give humanity a chance at fighting. which is why we started this in the first place. And trust me when I say this we aren't as strong as you think we are."

Jacob and Elizabeth say nothing.

Yuji: "Come on, let's just all calm down, hmm?"

Holly backs up then sits back down and scoffs.

Banishment: "Without any more interruptions, you will be sent out there once again shortly."

Jizzabelle: "Quite an event for our second day."

Tatsuki is sitting there with his cheeks puffed.

Tatsuki thinks: "I'M SCARED TO TALK."

N is casually sitting when Ash grabs him by the hair and whispers in his ear.

Ashlyn: "If you even think to come near me, I will end you."

N: "Someone woke up on the bitchy side."

Aslyn lets go of N's hair and walks away.

Yuji walks over and sits next to N.

Yuji: "Is...everything alright?"

N: "The girl's just a bit worried about you I guess."

Cassandra picks up Irina and piggybacks her.

Cassandra: "Well, come on. You heard the bandage man!"

Everyone gets up and heads to the meeting room.

N: "The hell was that about?"

Everyone arrives at the meeting room as Banishment opens a rift into Hestia.

Banishment: "Here's your mission. Find the omen and finish the job. good luck, everyone."

N thinks: "Here we go, again."

Everyone enters the rift as the rift closes behind them.

Elizabeth walks and hugs Banishment from behind.

Elizabeth: "Are you sure they can do this?"

Banishment: "If they survived the last attack, then they're the best chance we've got."

Jacob is walking past the meeting room then comes to a sudden stop, then PUNCHES the wall next to him.

Jacob: "I haven't changed have I, Ava?"

N and the other arrive at the intersection Jacob was attacked.

Yuji: "ok so where do...we....start..."

Yuji notices a giant shadow then turns around and looks at a bear with yellow fur behind him.

A giant dark hand appears and SMASHES The bear into the ground.

Holly: "Got him!"

The bear suddenly twitches and turns into Tatsuki.

Tatsuki picks him up from the punch.

Tatuski: "THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!"

N: "Oh great, I'm working with a fucking furry."

Holly: "That's your ability?"

Tatsuki: "Yeah...I can turn into any animal that I have memorized, the problem is the longer I stay in the form the more of the animal I become....so where exactly is this thi-"

The omen of black goop suddenly appears right behind Tatsuki as Tatsuki gets a chill down his spine.

ep 11-End.