Shin was able to move his body a bit but not enough to stand up on his own. The empty cartridge was absorbing the abnormal status ailment within Shin’s stats. It was 2 minutes past and the battle were already begun. He can see explosions coming from the open area where Philuffy and the others are from the balcony.
He can’t help but pray that they survive from Jigsaw’s attack. He knew Dice can buy enough time to fight him but Jigsaw was using wits in battle as he can use the two girls to win the fight.
Shin checked on his stats. It was on level 100.
Shin Kizuna
Battle Instinct: 500,000 -1,000,000
Str:150,999
Def: 205,999
Spd: ???
Int: 432,034
His original level was supposed to be level 1. He must have used his Gear to get that level.
Shin remembered the time he angered Anna in calling him useless as he was the one who praised her that she can still improve.
Shin hated that method but that is the only way to get power.
Hate Eater based on the name itself, Shin can absorb all hatred within 10 meters but the devoured victim may either be afraid or just forgotten who hates. Rare cases that hatred can make someone selfless and brave and one of them was Philuffy. The more and deeper hatred he consumes the more powerful he gets but the side effects was his emotions and sanity were eating away and he must not hate himself as it will be considered as denying one's existence which making him lose all emotion and sanity instantly.
And that only covered by Shin’s Specter form along with his passive skill, the red claw Insulator, the power that can negate any skill. Because Specter is an embodiment of negative being and can take on any hatred and fear as it can receive without any price to pay but the side effect changes, whenever he used an Overdrive skill, Shin will lose all the collected hatred and returns back to level 1 and will receive no exp.
Shin can level up with the rest but the Specter has a very strict requirement.
He must not level up, ever.
The main reason that he used Specter was all due to his Gear which serves as his limiter, without it. He might just become a rampaging beast who kept eating all hatred around him. Humans can create hatred easily just by doing something bad even if it is concealed.
3 minutes have passed and still, the battle was still going on.
Meanwhile, in the battle with Dice and Jigsaw.
Dice was seriously wounded and was started to move slower than usual as for Jigsaw, he was like, he was warming up for the real fight.
Jigsaw was taunting Dice with a smile.
“Well? Was this enough for stalling time?”
“What!?”
“I knew, you are stalling me for Shin to come. He was paralyzed right?”
“H-how did you know!?”
“I know you very well… Dice Dynamis.”
"Damn you! Don't screw with me!"
Dice charges him and kept punching Jigsaw left and right but he easily dodges them. Jigsaw was only playing around.
“Well, as if I let you succeed.”
Dice punched with his right then Jigsaw successfully grabbed it with his left hand then he heavily punched Dice and crashes to the nearby trees.
“Dice!”
The two girls shouted with worry. Dice struggled to stand up as she was looking at Anna holding the injured Philuffy.
“I am… leaving this… to you… Anna…”
Dice throws the cartridge to Anna, with much surprise from Jigsaw.
“Whoa, whoa! What is this? Are you gonna use your Cartridge to this useless girl? Ya know, it can kill her right?”
Dice was smirking while breathing heavily.
“…Yeah… I am aware of it… But… There is one thing that even you wouldn’t know…”
“…?”
Jigsaw was confused from Dice’s words. He said himself that he knows everything about Dice. Anna stood up and pressed the cartridge.
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ELEGANT!
A Breakdriver suddenly appeared from her waist. Anna was much surprised as herself. Before Dice falls to the ground, he shouts to Anna.
“Insert the cartridge there and use that power… that power… Shin gave for you… Save yourselves…!”
Anna nodded then she sway her right hand like she was dancing with a fan and made a pose like she was covering her lips with a fan.
“Transform…”
Anna reinsert the cartridge similar to Shin’s Breakdriver which is on the left side.
SENBONZAKURA!
SPRING BUDS BURST AS IT FALLS WITH ELEGANCE! SENBONZAKURA!
While in the middle of the chant, buds appeared out of nowhere and gathered around Anna. Her appearance changed to a gradient white and soft pink furisode kimono with blue obi on her back. Petal was produce from the sleeves of her kimono as she swings her arms smoothly to the left, She can now see clearer without the usage of her glasses, her hair changed color to gradient red and white. Anna’s personality change as well she became very calm and alluring.
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“I won’t forgive you for hurting my best friend! You monster!”
Philuffy and Dice were astonished from Anna’s beautiful appearance. Philuffy didn’t expect Shin made something wonderful for Anna after being mistreated that much.
“Shin… helped Anna…”
Jigsaw seemed to be very alarmed from Anna’s new found power.
“W-what is this!? I-I never… remember this moment.”
Jigsaw took out a cartridge with a button. Similar to Anna and Philuffy’s cartridge, Jigsaw pressed it.
MOSQUITO!
Then he crushed it as dark smoke spews out from the destroyed cartridge and made a form of a mosquito shaped human. Jigsaw stand beside the Nightmare Mosquito with a little smirk but he was filled with fear.
“N-now… with this on my side… I know you have no experience in fighting. So two on one will be… your greatest weakness.”
Anna seemed very calm and relax.
“…My dance alone can face infinite number of people to face it’s elegance. This dance carries countless blades of elegance and beauty.”
To Anna, she seems to be calm on the outside but inside, she felt her arms were carrying something heavy. It was like she was carrying a sword. And there she noticed that her training Shin made for her. To feel the weight of the invisible sword through the numbness of the arms.
“I… see… The blossom blades were seem light at first but using it was like using a real sword.”
Anna has zero knowledge in swordsmanship. She truly doesn’t know how to wield it properly.
Jigsaw was pissed from her words.
“Big words from the inexperience bitch! Kill her!”
Nightmare Mosquito dashes towards Anna in hi-speed, Anna tried to strike back but the swords doesn’t seem moving as it result successfully stabbing her with the needle at her stomach.
“Ugh…”
“Anna!”
Philuffy called her with worry, there was no injury occurred but Anna felt intense fatigue when she was stabbed by the needle of the mosquito.
“W-what is… going on? I feel… tired already?”
“Well… Mosquito likes to suck blood after all and this Nightmare likes to suck life out from you. And from the looks of it, all you did was transform to a beautiful appearance. Are you showing me a beautiful way to die?”
Nightmare Mosquito strikes her again repeatedly in a blink of the eye as she kneels down along with heavy breathing.
“This monster is so fast… I, I wasn’t able to act properly… To be honest… I… don’t know how to use this… power… I… don’t know how… to fight.”
“Its speed is no match for an elegant bitch like you! I’ll just give you… your beautiful ending!”
Nightmare Mosquito stands before her with its needle, ready to finish her off.
“Now die!”
Nightmare Mosquito was about to strike its finishing blow, Then the familiar voice of a man was heard.
“You don’t need to fight…”
“Huh?”
BREAKER SKILL: GRAVITON HAMMER!
Shin Kizuna appeared in Specter form. He slams down the Nightmare Mosquito in a middle of killing Anna with his red arm to the ground. Nightmare Mosquito was having trouble getting up, like the gravity itself sucking it.
Under the rain of blossoms, the white-haired boy named Shin Kizuna standing before her, wearing a worn-out trench coat, with his red hakama and holding his Scrapblade, backhanded. In Anna’s eyes he was like a black samurai.
“A… Samurai…?”
Anna was in awe to see him standing before her. Yet her heart skips a beat from the beautiful display as Shin looked at her. Her fear towards him disappeared, knowing that Anna truly accept Shin.
“You don’t have to fight… All you need to do is use your dance as your sword. Image it… How will you show your elegant dance to the infinite eyes of the world, using your infinite blades of blossoms? Show me your result in training, Anna! Feel that invisible infinite swords you’re carrying!”
“A-as you wish!”
Anna was able to be recovered from the attack and was able to stand normally. While Shin stand towards Jigsaw with the angry look.
“Heh, if you keep that up. You might lose it again.”
“Don’t worry, I never hated you or despise you. I only dislike you…”
“Wha…? You’re no fu-“
Shin suddenly punch Jigsaw to the face with his red claw and was came crashing through the trees away from them. Before Shin chase after Jigsaw down, he looked to Anna once more.
“I’ll take care of Jigsaw, you take care of that Nightmare and… I’m sorry from what I say to you earlier… I just…”.
“It’s fine… Philuffy said, because of your Gear, your actions for being mean to me was on purpose. But that said, please do try to tell me about it. Trust is very hard to build, you know.”
Shin looked at Philuffy who was gravely injured lying at the nearby tree and looked back at Anna again with a weak smile.
“You’re a good friend, I’ll bear that in mind…”
JIGSAW!
The chant was heard and results an explosion was occurred at Jigsaw’s location. It was shown that Jigsaw was already transform in his Breaker form.
“…Be careful, Anna. Dice is down for the count so he can’t help you this time, from this fight on… You’re on your own... but, if things got too dicey, buy time as much as you can, I’ll do what I can to end my fight between Jigsaw.”
“I understand, but I will take down this Nightmare no matter what. You gave me this power so I will put it a good use as my way to make things right.”
Shin looked at Philuffy and made a very weak smile as she was in pain yet worried for him, he replied with a warm smile saying that everything will be alright as he looked one of the branches of the tree, then he reinsert his cartridge once and sped up towards Jigsaw’s location.
BREAKER SKILL! OH NO!
Shin was slowly disintegrating and vanished out of thin air.
Once Shin disappears from their line of sight. The effect of the Graviton Hammer disappeared and Nightmare Mosquito stood up and faced Anna once again.
“Now, gaze upon the dance under the cherry blossom! Nightmare.”
She felt the weight of the sword that scattered around her as she starts swaying her arms smoothly. The petals started to react, she raised her right arm forming a petal formed fan as the rain of petals scatter within their battlefield.