“I wish we could talk to Tenebeki…” Sara sighed, rubbing her tired brown eyes.
“At least we’re not stuck waiting for days like he is, for every ten minutes to us it’s an hour in there.” Kokushi said looking up into the window of the room which their targets had rented.
“So it’s been twelve hours already? I wonder if they’ve gone crazy yet? Most people kill themselves by the 24 hour mark so hopefully we can wrap this up soon~” Hummed Joko, playing with the red knife in her hand.
“But these aren't normal people, the foreigner was strong enough to help defeat Chujou Ugoki in Izumika and the other guy has a sword so he should be able to use it!” Seikiji frowned, his bottom lip quivering.
“Come on now! We’re already splitting the payment for this between the six of us as is. If we try to call in a Joshin we’d be getting less if anything at all!” Hissed Amari, her pink hair swaying in the wind as she spoke. “And besides if Tenbeki dies we get more money between the five of us and if he wins we get paid without even having to do anything! It’s a win win for us no matter how you look at it. We’ll kill these two and cash in that $50,000 price for ourselves!” She laughed, throwing her hands in the air.
CRASH!
The hotel's glass door exploded with a spray of glass shards and above the four Yakuza appearing in the sky under the bright blue moon was a figure wielding a katana. Only his eyes were not obscured by darkness and they shone a bright red looking down at them with carinal hunger.
[Water Crescent Spiral!]
[Black Gate: Open!]
[Fierce Winds Of The Coming Storm!]
[Smooth Flame!]
At the same time the four cast their own spells up at Kenji, a geyser of water, pillar of flame, gust of wind and a fury of bullets from a black fog.
[Inogiri!]
However with a single one handed slash of his katana Kenji destroyed the spells which came at him. The wind pressure from his strike made the road below shatter into rubble which flew in the air.
Landing on the ground with a light thump he flicked his waist around and sliced Jokos knife wielding hand straight off. The weapon still clutched in her hand falling to the floor with a wet slap.
“Guraaaah!” She screamed, a fountain of blood spewing from her severed wrist.
Before any counter attack by her or anyone else could be made and in the blink of an eye Kenji smashed his foot in Jokos solar plexus sending her flying backwards into a street light which crumbled under the impact.
“Oraaaa!” The first to move of the remaining three was Seikiji, between his hands came a fog made of black smoke from which came a spray of bullets like the firing of a machine gun.
[Kenshin!]
Kenji, using observation instinctually sliced down every single bullet which came at him as it pierced his aura, The hundreds of light thuds heard as the shrapnel fell to the floor in only two seconds.
Due to the rapid production of bullets Sekijis mana pool was quickly drained and Kenji seeing his opening without hesitation sliced the man's stomach open with the end of his Katana, not done yet he then smashed the back of his katana into the man's temple making his eyes bulge from his head as he fell to the floor.
[Smooth Flame!]
[Water Crescent Spiral!]
Kokushi and Amaria both released their spells at once, attacking Kenji from his right and left. Kenji had been so fast in his destruction of the other two Yakuza that they’d not even had a chance to react appropriately. Only five seconds had passed since he first kicked down the door.
[Rashomon!]
Kenji in a single clean motion sliced the throat of both Kokushi and Amari, their attacks not even landing before they both dropped to the floor dead.
“Kenji!” Kanashi called out as he ran out of the love hotel, oblivious to the massacre that’d just occurred.
“!”
It was like the world froze around Kanashi when he saw it. Juko crushed under a collapsed street light, Seikiji bled out on the floor from his stomach and both Kokushi and Amaria died in a pool of their own blood.
“Blegh!”
Unable to control his stomach, Kanashi spewed vomit onto the floor before him. Nearly falling to his knees at the unexpected sight.
“What’s wrong with you!?” Kenji asked with a shout, grabbing Kanashi by the arm and hosting him upwards.
“Don’t touch me!” Kanashi snapped, smacking Kenji’s hand away.
“What the hell is your problem!?”
“You are! You keep killing people! You can’t just go around killing everyone in our way like this, it’s not right!”
“They were trying to kill us first! Do you think they were standing out here waiting to congratulate us!?”
“!” Kanashi bit his lip at Kenji's words and wrinkled his nose. The words Jin had told him about killing people before coming to mind.
“Have you never taken a life before!? Is that what this is about!?” Kenji asked with another yell.
“No I have! While not directly, people did die by my recklessness and it felt horrible! That’s why I can’t understand how you can take people's lives so easily! I could try to understand if it's a dire situation but this wasn't one! This was a massacre. You could have broken all of their bones or something instead of killing them! I just don’t want to believe that human lives are worth so little! Because if they are, what was the point of me surviving Azhar!?” Kanashi yelled out into the dark night.
“!?” A vein popped on Kenji's forehead as he grimaced in both confusion and frustration at Kanashi words. The thought process simply did not make sense in his mind.
“Hey what the hell!?”
The call from a third person made both Kenji and Kanashis look to their right where they saw a small group of Yakuza walking with drinks in their hand and laughing. Though upon seeing the murder scene that atmosphere they had quickly changed.
Kenji of course wanted to jump forward, his katana already drawn but Kanashi grabbed him by the wrist to hold him back. “Don’t! Even if you do kill them it will just be a waste of time that we could be using to escape this situation. No matter how you look at it, staying here to fight will only make things worse!” He growled.
“Tch, fine!” Kenji frowned following Kanashi who had begun to sprint down the road in the opposite direction
“We should come by a train station at some point up here!” Kanashi yelled at Kenji.
“Don’t we have to worry about them following us onto it?”
“No, I don’t think they’d do anything that risky. At least I hope not. They should have a limit to which they can do things without permission!”
Right as Kanashi finished speaking his observation flashed red and he leapt to the side. An arrow-like projection made of ice soaring right through the air where his head had been.
Behind them the group of Yakuza had begun to chase on foot, though more of note was the one on a motorcycle which flew at them with an amazing speed.
“Don’t kill them Kenji!” Said Kanashi.
“What am I supposed to do then!? Ask them out on a date!?”
“I don’t care if you break their legs or every bone in their body, just don’t kill anyone!”
“Damn you…” Kenji growled under his breath right as the man on motorcycle came at him with a spiked wooden bat.
[Improvised Technique: Bone Breaker!]
Kenji smashed the dull end of his Katanas blade into the chest of the motorcyclist who was forcefully flung from his bike. Bending like a “C” shape he flew backwards into a newspaper stand with an explosion of splinters and paper.
Seeing the now driverless motorcycle begin to crash out, Kanashi slammed his foot to the ground with [Bog] conjuring a swamp which caught the bike before it fell.
“Get on the back Kenji! I’ll drive.” Kanashi said, grabbing the motorcycle and putting it up right.
“Do you know how to drive this!?” Kenji asked.
“No, but I do know how to drive a car and ride a bike so I can figure it out!” As he spoke Kanashi climbed to the motorcycle's front while de-casting [bog].
Kenji with a frown jumped onto the back of the bike standing on its cowl and facing the direction of the incoming Yakuza.
“What’re you doing!? Sit down!” Kanashi yelled.
“I’ll be fine just go!” Kenji argued back.
“D-dammit alright just hold on and make sure you don’t fall!” Kanashi muttered between clenched teeth.
Remembering how Frairk had ridden his motorcycle in the past, Kanashi clicked the bike into gear and hit the gas.
“!”
The bike instantly took off with a roar. Kanashi nearly lost control of the thing if not for Kenji acting as an emergency counterbalance.
“What the hell are you doing!?” Kenji gasped as he nearly flew from the back.
“I don’t know! I already told you that, so just try to do what you can please!” Kanashi said as they raced up the street, his hair and skin being blown back by the wind.
“!”
With a loud roar from behind them came two more motorcycles of noticeably higher quality and drivers with far greater experience.
[Flame Pyramid!]
One of the drivers made the shape of a triangle with their hands pressed together and from that shape came a triangular blast of fire aiming for Kenji.
[Inogiri!]
Kenji, still balancing on the back of the Bike, swung his Katana down onto the emission intending to destroy it. However the triangle instead wrapped around his sword turning the blade a bright red.
“Hahaha nice upgrade idiot!” Kenji laughed while looking at the man with a wide grin.
“!”
However as soon as Kenji finished speaking the flaming triangle retracted backwards , bringing Kenji and his Katana along with it.
“What the hell!?” Kenji gasped as he flew from the back of the motorcycle towards the spell caster who conjured a fist full of fire which he prepared inciterate Kenji with
“Hahaha this is fun!” Kenji laughed to the man's surprise. Throwing his leg forwards and into the front of the motorcycle Kenji completely smashed the front of the bike in like it’d been hit by a car head on it crumpled.
“!”
The motorcycle was flung backwards sliding across the floor with a skid and the driver too was thrown scraping across the road as he went.
As this happened a second motorcycle had come up beside Kanashi, the driver conjuring a wall of ice trying to freeze the tires of Kanashi bike.
[Hell Storm!]
Kanashi immediately cast a blast of fire which melted the ice before him turning it into a large puddle of water.
[Freeze!]
“!?”
The pool of water suddenly froze turning into a slippery sheet of ice which Kanashi lost his sense of balance on the ice the bike hydroplaning before Kanashi quickly managed to re correct the wheel.
“Woah there!” Kenji yelled as he landed on the back of the motorcycle after using the one behind him as a springboard when he’d crushed the front in.
“Hold on to me!” Kanashi commanded.
Kenji, who was still standing, nodded his head and grabbed tightly onto Kanashi's shoulders with a death-like grip. Either Kenji was coming along with Kanashi or he was flying away with his arm in hand.
I’ve never [Ice] on this large of a scale so it’s a big risk on both my already depleted mana pool and the chance of it actually working. But I don’t think we have another shot. This guy also laid the groundwork so I just need to do it!
[Improvised Technique: Great Glacier Ramp!]
From under the motorcycle sprouted a massive ramp of ice which they flew up, their motorcycle soaring across the night sky under the blue moon light. Both of them jumped from the back of the bike midair before it began to shoot downwards and Kanashi threw his arm before him.
[Shield!]
Kanashi shrieked, casting a rubber barrier which both he and Kenji landed on with a boing about 3 meters before they hit the ground.
Their motorcycle crashed to the floor with a bang the fuel tank exploding into a blast of fire which shot high into the sky like a pillar.
“Gyahahahaha! this is so fun!” Kenji laughed as he fell to his feet on the floor.
“No it’s not!” Kanashi barked back, casting a [Bog] behind them.
“!”
The ice-using motorcyclist was going too fast to make a sudden stop and fell right into the swamp which Kanashi had made extra thick so he’d be trapped in it.
[Paralisis!]
With a secondary spell imbued into the [Bog] the man who was knee deep in the bog was shocked until he fell unciouns and though neither Kenji nor Kanashi could see it through the helmet he wore he foamed at the mouth.
“We managed to lose the ones on foot but seeing as how we’ve managed to escape their grasp so far they’ll probably call in more vehicles to come get us!” Kanashi said, turning to Kenji.
“Would they be willing to expend that much energy on us?” Kenji asked.
“After what we’ve done so far? Hell yeah they would! Not only that but since they recognized us as threats in the first place it won’t be much for the others to put the puzzle together.”
As two two conversed they ran down the street at a quick pace hoping to find a train station ahead.
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
“But going off how weak they are, wouldn't it be worth it to just cut the lot of them down until no more can show up?” Asked Kenji.
“No, if we do too much they’ll send a Joshin in after us. We’re lucky they haven’t done so already.”
“But you said I’m as strong as a Hachibuto or whatever right? Shouldn’t I be able to deal with a Joshin?”
“Yeah, you probably could but then what? The next call would be for a Hachibuto and then it’s game over. Whether you win or lose we’ve blown the mission.”
“Hmmm.” Kenji frowned, the wind blowing his spiky black hair back.
CHUG
CHUG
CHUG
The sound of a chain running over tracks made both Kanashi and Kenji grin widely in excitement and relief as they turned their course towards the sound.
“!”
However shortly after changing their course Kenji's observation flashed red and he grabbed Kanashi and leaped to the side with a crack, leaving the sole of his shoe imprinted into the asphalt road.
“What-!?”
Before Kanashi could ask for an explanation at the sudden movement the sound of a bullet whizzing by and clanking against the road where they’d just been filled the air. A sniper rifle round rolling across the floor.
“A sniper!?” Kanashi complained with a grimace as he fell to his feet. Looking in the direction of where the bullet came from he could see a tall building about a km which way they were most likely perched atop of.
“...” Kenji following Kanashi's line of sight with his sharpened eyesight saw the faintest of silhouettes of someone laying across the building's roof with a weapon in hand.
“!”
Another shot flew at Kenji who, predicting the trajectory, smacked the bullet away with his Katana splitting the projectile down the middle.
“I don’t think we can win against a sniper!” Yelped Kanashi trying to hide behind the cover of a building as he ran.
I couldn’t even sense the bullet coming for me until it would’ve been too late to react. If Kenji wasn’t here my head would've exploded. I could try to cast a [shield] like barrier around me and Kenji but I’m not sure if it would be strong enough to defend against a sniper round. It might just shatter so I don’t think it’s worth even attempting.
“Kenji try to stick to the left, if we're out of his line of sight we’ll be fine!” Kanashi called out.
“No, we should take him out now!” Kenji argued.
“How!? He’s too far!”
“With our own gun! You have those rocks you shot me with right?”
“I can’t shoot that far nor that precisely! [Rock Riffle] is just a magic pitching machine! It’s nothing compared to a gun and even if it could reach that far there’s no way I could be certain that I could hit him with it!”
“Then let me!” Kenji yelled back.
“?”
Kanashi raised his brow and the offer and frowned sideways, not sure of what Kenji meant.
“I’ll throw it at him, give me two.”
“Wait! There’s no way you can shoot him from far away!”
VROOM!
SCREECH!
The sound of a car speeding down the road with a sharp turn rattled through the streets and made Kanashis panic set it.
“Alright, I’ll trust you! But when you jump out to throw the rock he’ll shoot so how’re you gonna defend against that?”
“That’s why I’ll have the two, one for the bullet and another for the sniper!”
“...” Kanashi contemplated it for a moment, the thought of trying to fight both the car coming at them and dodging the sniper at the same time sounded implausible. Kenji might be able to pull it off but he couldn’t know that for a fact so he hesitated somewhat before asking his next question. “How far is he?”
“Probably a Kilometer away”
“How high up?”
“Six stories!”
So he’d have to throw it 1000 meters away and 18 meters high. Also needing to adjust for gravity and the curve of the flow… ugh I never was good at physics who would have thought now of all times I’d need it.
[Rock Riffle: Size: Golf Ball - Speed: Zero - Shape- Sphere]
Kanasshi conjured two golf ball sized rocks above him which fell down into Kenji's hand.
“Don’t miss!” He grinned.
“Of course not!” Kenji laughed. With a rock in each hand he jumped out into the middle of the street with a powerful leap and immediately threw the first rock.
“!”
With a loud bang the rock collided with the freshly shot sniper round, both exploding into crumbs that fell through the air.
Not giving the sniper a chance to reload, Kenji flexed his right arm, the muscles growing large enough that they nearly burst from their sleeve. Veins ripped across the tree trunk sized mass of flesh and like it weighed but a feather Kenji cocked his arm back and then clicked his shoulder throwing the rock through the air towards it’s target.
BOOM!
With the destruction of the sound barrier the rock burst through the air flying through the night sky with a whistle and straight towards the sniper who didn’t even have time to register what had happened before the rock flew into his head, popping it like a grape would when stepped on.
“Got him!” Kenji laughed.
“You didn’t kill him right!?”
“O-of course not…” Kenji muttered avoiding eye contact with Kanashi who sighed in response.
Despite knowing that Kenji was lying he pushed those thoughts to the back of his head and tried to keep pushing forwards, if one of them was bound to die it was better for almost everyone that the sniper had died, except for him and the Toumeikan of course.
CHUG
CHUG
CHUG
Hearing the sound of the trains chugging just a little further up ahead, Kanashi and Kenji picked up the pace of their sprint. At the same time the car behind them began to come with shooting range, the passengers stuck their bodies out the window readying to unload a mass of bullets on the pair.
“A dead end!?” Kakashi growled as he came to a skidding stop with only the railing preventing him from falling down onto the train tracks.
Kenji however didn’t spot running and simply leapt over the railing falling straight down onto the train bellows roof with a metallic pop.
“Shit shit shit!” Kanashi cried out looking behind him in a panic right as the gunfire began to fly towards him. Closing his eyes as tightly as he could he took a deep breath and prayed to God before he too leapt over the white metal railing, plunging down into the canal below.
With a thud he fell right on top of the train barley chatting onto it by the lip of the welding between carts.
“Hahaha I did it!” He laughed, opening his eyes and looking ahead of him he saw Kenji who began to walk towards him from about four cars ahead.
With a deep but grateful sigh Kanashi let his eyes rest and he laid down on the cold metal letting it kiss his overheated body.
THUMP
THUMP
THUMP
THUMP
Four loud audible thumps filled the night air overpowering the trains chugging along the tracks. The four thumps were exactly the same as he and Kenji had made when they landed on the train's top and the realization of this made Kanashis stomach flip and hands clench the welding as tightly as he could.
“...”
Feeling his throat dry and heart pounding, Kanashi silently stood up and turned around to greet four Yakuza standing about three cars behind him. Three men and a single woman.
“We thought we’d corner you by coming around the other end but you were crazy and lucky enough to jump onto the passing train!” The woman yelled in Edogo over the whistling air.
“Sorry I don’t speak Edogo nor do I care what you have to say.” Kanashi replied, conjuring Itachi and pointing at the four assailants before him.
“Don’t worry it wasn’t important anyways.” Kenji said, coming up from behind Kanashi with his own Katana drawn. “I’ll take the three guys, you take the woman.” He said.
“Sounds good.” Kanashi replied with a nod, gripping Itachi's handle tightly. The sword's blood lust filled his body whole with its fierce unique aura. I really don’t want to fight them, but it looks like we’re not gonna be able to get out of this another way. And even when we do beat them we’ll probably just have to fight more who’re waiting for us up ahead. There’s really no end to this madness…
“!”
With a flash Kenji seemed to teleport as he appeared across the train platform with his Katana slicing into one of the three men's chest with a spray of bright red blood.
[Mudd!]
Using the confusion Kanashi conjured a frog golem which wrapped its tongue around the woman binding her and pulling her towards Kanashi.
[Sprouting Flower: Wilting Lotus!]
As the frog's tongue began to retract, pulling the women towards Kanashi it erupted with a sudden bundle of white lotus flowers. Upon their appearance the places where they had been planted on the frog golems' tongue began to decay immediately, the flowers shrinking up and turning black while large cracks formed along the tongue reducing it to crumbs of mud. However it didn’t just stop there, no the lotus quickly spread further up the tongue until the flowers exploded onto the frogs main body spreading their decay across it with large cracks before it too crumbled apart into chunks of mud that quickly dissolved into Mana.
What the hell was that!? Kanashi wondered with wide eyes and sweat dripping down his cheek after seeing what happened to his golem. She conjured flowers which decayed my Golem!? How does that work? Will it affect people the same way?
[Sprouting Flower: Rose Thorn!]
From the woman's hands shout out large and thick green vines coatine in thorns which flew across the train's roof trying to restrict Kanashi.
[Crescent Moon Style: Lunar Cascade!]
Though his skill in the Crescent Moon Style was only at a rookies level it was more than enough to deflect the incoming thorns which were sliced to ribbons from Itachi's blade, though the blade didn’t seem appeased by this insisting upon tasting blood and ripping flesh.
Pushing those foreign thoughts away Kanashi quickly attempted to cast [Rock Riffle] but before he could a sudden sharp and burning pain assaulted his shins and calves. Looking downwards he saw that the vines which had fallen to the floor had wrapped around his legs puncturing them with their large thorns each equivalent to a small knife's blade.
[HellStorm!]
With a blast of conjured fire Kanashi destroyed the vines which quickly turned black and fell apart into clumps of ash. However the damage had already been done.
[Sprouting Flower: Shroom Hive]
“!?”
Where the puncture wounds in his leg had formed came sprouting of small mushrooms. As the blood further trickled down his legs so too did the mushrooms feeding off the blood and multiplying at an alarming rate. A dull pain unlike that of the burning from having his skin punctured began to infest his leg which he bit his bottom lip at.
She’s using the blood as a medium to spread the conjured Mushrooms. Her spell must need moisture to work, that would explain the white lotus that grew on my golem. It probably used the [Water] that I combined with [Earth] to make [Mud]. But what do these mushrooms do? If they’re anything like the Lotus flowers then they’ll destroy my body. But they don’t seem to be doing anything of the sort. No they’re just multiplying around the blood coming from the open wound and- wait what if that’s what she’s trying to do? Make the mushrooms grow inside of me? Like the stories about people eating a watermelon seed and it growing in their stomach? That could be why she’s infected me in the first place. Human bodies are full of fluids perfect for sprouting mushrooms and I can feel the ones already growing on my leg sucking my mana as nutrition. She’s trying to suck the life out of me with these…
[Freeze!]
Kanashi quickly cast a sheet of ice over his blood and the mushroom which had grown, with the dull side of Itachi he shattered the ice separating the mushrooms from his legs.
“It won’t work, they’ve already begun to grow inside of you~” The woman hummed with a nasty grin.
“Sorry, I didn’t understand a word of what you just said, I should have studied harder I guess.” Kanahi said with a shrug. Though he tried to keep his cool an intense pain began to spread through his quickly swelling leg. He’d once had a fungal ear infection as a kid due to swimming in a dirty pond and the pain he felt in his leg at the moment was similar to the pain from the ear infection. Dull yet sharp at the same time an ache with sudden increases of pain like he was being stabbed with a red hot poker.
They must have already started growing inside my blood stream already, how terrifying that they’re so fast. In less than a minute they might spread into my main arteries and then I’ll be dead, or dying. So I need to finish this as quickly as possible, chances are knocking her out will dispel the effects. If not the only choice is to kill her… but I’ll try to knock her out first, that’s all I can hope for. I’ll need to hit her hard enough in the solar plexus that she faints.
Filling his non infected leg with enhancement Kanashi leapt across the train's top flying at the woman with Itach In hand and his other hand closed in a fist and pumped with enhancement.
[Sprouting Flower: Chestnut!]
The woman conjured a large chestnut-like shell before her which Kanashis fish smashed into, cracking it apart with ease.
“!?”
The woman's jaw dropped in shock as her defense was easily shattered as if made of cheap glass and Kanashi couldn’t help but let out a proud smile at that recognition.
“I might not be the strongest, But I’m still the one responsible for defeating Kageki Satoshi, Honeitsu Guro and playing a role in the defeat of Chujou Ugoki so don’t just underestimate me like this!” He boasted filling his chest with both pride and air.
“Tch.” The woman clicked her tongue and used a set of conjured vines to pull herself backwards creating some distance between her and Kanashi who trembled in pain as he stared at her.
“...” Kanashi staggered, the pain growing more intense as mushrooms continued to sprout from his orifices, from his ears they spread, from his nose in his eyes and out of his throat. They spread quickly bringing an intense pain along with them one his reinforcement couldn’t dull.
Pain, I’m sick of feeling pain… He thought, trying not to collapse right then and there. It’s not just my blood but also my sweat that they’re using to spread out. I can’t even feel my left leg anymore and my left arm is next. This is a killer spell for sure. But her attacks themselves are weak physically. That shield might as well have been made of drywall so I don’t need to worry about not being able to knock her out. My next attack will bring her down for sure. He thought letting out a deep sigh to dull the pain in his lungs and throat.
Filling his right leg with enhancement Kanashi sprung towards the woman, his vision blurry and ears ringing out he gasped for air which the mushrooms from him before it could reach his lungs. This was the final moment.
[Sprouting Flower: Clematis Josephine!]
Clapping her hands together to form a triangle like shape between her fingers the woman conjured a massive rosebud, its razor sharp petals giving the appearance of a spiral of swords.
The rose shot out at Kanashi who gripped Itachi firmly in his right hand and imbued it with a large amount of mana. Swinging the blade down he let out a cry.
[Kyoyu Style: Senrestu!]
The moment Itachi's blade made contact with the rose it shot out a massive blast of orange mana, the rose was easily ripped apart shattering like glass. The now limp petals floated down the ground as Kanashi deconjured Itachi and prepared to launch his right fist square into the woman's stomach.
[Sprouting Flower: Horse Chestnut!]
In a desperate final defense the women conjured a large shield like she had previously; however this shield had a mass of large spikes growing from it not too dissimilar from the razor-like rose petals. However unlike the previous spell this shield stayed in place not moving as Kanashi came at it.
I’ll have to break it apart before it can cut me! If I mess up it’ll split my fist right in half down to my elbow. I need to unleash the full force of my punch the moment I make contact with it using Energy Manipulation!
If Kanashi failed to do as he wished the result would not be pretty to say the least. The spike would first and foremost embed itself between his knuckles ripping them apart right down the middle it would dislocate the bones of his hand forcing them apart as it continued to rip upwards through his wrist and forearm tearing apart the muscle fibers until eventually stopping at his elbow.
[Gigant Impact!]
With a battle cry Kanashis fist exploded with mana upon first contact with the spike infusing it with his mana he blew it apart into a spray of fuzzy wood shards.
“!”
The woman's eyes widened as she saw Kanashi shatter her offensive shield, a wide and crazy smile painted over his mushroom covered face. Despite the immense pain and the mushrooms growing scrolls his skin, out of his ears, nose and the corners of his eyes he still pushed forwards with this second and final attack.
When he’d first punched the Horse Chestnut and infused all the kinetic energy of his punch into his knuckles upon first contact the resulting force exploded had caused his arm to recoil backwards. However using that recoil through [Energy Manipulation] he redirected the inertia instead pushing his fist back towards the woman smashing it into her stomach with a pop. This was the act of [Gigant Impact].
“ACK!” The woman wheezed as she was thrown backwards about two meteors crashing to the trains top with a groan she writhed on floor gasping for air as pain filled her body.
“Sorry about that, I don’t really want to hit a woman but when you’re trying to kill me I have to hit you like I would a man.” Kanashi laughed weakly. He found it nearly impossible to breathe anymore and one of his eyes had been completely overgrown with mushrooms. He looked like a walking abomination. “But I know a few real tough women out there so I know you won’t die from this. It’ll just hurt really bad. So I guess we’re even huh ?” He asked as he collapsed backwards onto the train's top, Itachi returning to a ring.
The woman who also laid on her back let out a final croak of air before her eyes rolled into the back of her head as she finally fell unconscious.
“Ah, there we go…” Kanashi sighed, the pressure and pain inside his body beginning to die down and the mushrooms evaporating into particles of mana which flickered into the sky.
Why do I always have the hard fights? He wondered with another sigh. Though not unconscious he let his eyes rest and enjoyed the cool sensation of cold metal pressed against his sweaty overheated body.
You got this Kenji, and if you don't.. Well, give me a moment to relax. I feel like I’m gonna pass out. The mushrooms really drained my mana pool there. They probably spread so fast because I kept using a lot of mana with my attacks. She might not have been comparable to Guro, Ugoki or Satoshi physically but damn if she wasn’t just as close to killing me as they were.
۞ ۞ ۞ ۞ ۞ ۞
“Michikazus down!” Natou groaned in pain as he nursed his arm which was nearly sliced in half, his blonde hair had a streak of black across it from his own blood.
“Saki is? Dammit she was our ace!” Nigiri grunted out as he tried to defend against Kenji’s barrage of sword slashes with his aura reinforced metal bat.
“Is this all you have!?” Kenji laughed with another strike of his Katana. This time slicing the bat clean in half.
“Dammit, dammit, dammit! We should have called a Joshin, no, maybe even a Hachibuto! This guy’s just playing with us!” Nigiri yelled out as he was kicked in the stomach by Kenji, launching him backwards.
“Joshin, Hachibuto, District Lord, Yakuza, Venator Society, I don’t care who they are! I’ll cut them all down the exact same way so don't use your rank in whatever bull shit club you’re in as an excuse for this pitiful performance!” Kenji screamed out into the night, his aura alone shaking the train from side to side.
“...”
Neither Natou nor Nigiri could muster a word out as they stared at Kenji nervously. The image of a mountain size boar filled with blood lust and glazed over eyes appearing in their mind as they started up at the swordsman.
“Alright, I’m ready now.” The third man of their party said standing up and walking towards Kenji.
“Takoyaki!” Both Natou and Nigiri laughed in relief as they watched the back of their third member appearco Kenji.
He’s been hiding behind the blonde guy and the one with a bat this whole time. He must have been trying to prepare some kind of attack or trump card. Tch, all of these people and their magical tricks. My blade will stomp all of it down into the dirt!
“!”
Kenji leapt forwards, the power from his jumping causing the train to dent in where he stood and the cars to shake violently side to side.
In a flash Kenji slashed his blade straight into Takoyakis neck, slicing deep into the muscle with a torrent of fresh blood.
"?" However as Kenji did so he felt something ominous and jumped back creating a distance between himself and Takoyaki.
[Eye For Eye: Nail For Nail]
“!”
Suddenly blood sprayed from Kenji's own neck, a massive gash equal in size to the one he’d given Takoyaki appeared.
His eyes widening at the sight of his own pouring blood, Kenji couldn’t help but let out a devilish grin as his eyes narrowed. “Interesting…” He hummed.