Terror Infinity Side B
Chapter 21, Real World I
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Before arriving to to Chika's aid, Shin had to first get rid of the biggest threat to Chika's life and his own in this situation. Located on top the tallest building in the area, and caught at the very limits of Shin's vision was a lone sniper on the edge of the building. Shin sprinted over to the building and once he was sure that he wasn't in the line of sight of the sniper, Shin had then begun to travel with Instant Movement to reach him as fast as possible. Shin's speed and Ki consumption with his skills had improved greatly recently due to his training, so he was able to sprint the whole way using Instant Movement without running out of Ki or feeling tired in the slightest.
By the time Shin had reached the building he had he didn't bother to go inside and simply ran up the building with Instant Movement. Shin wasn't in a mind set to wonder if he could do so or not, and just did and reached the top of the roof in less then a minute.
Shin finally arrived and was on the opposite side of the sniper, yet he was still spotted from the noise he made when climbing up. The sniper had turned around to see Shin glaring at him, and before he could radio his team to alert them of the situation, the man saw Shin's left eye dye black. Shin had brought forth the strength of his Ghoul mutation and together with Ki Energy, he had jumped at the sniper with the fastest Instant Movement possible.
In the blink of an eye the sniper screamed in pain before he even registered the fact that Shin had stepped on and crushed his right hand holding the rifle. Shin's stomp had so much force that it tore through the man's arm and crushed the floor under it. Then immediately afterwards Shin grasped and crushed the man's skull till bone fragments pierced into the man's brain and died. Then throwing the corpse away as if it were a dirty rag Shin was relived that the biggest threat was gone, but his anger was still there, and even gained new strength as he overheard a conversation over the radio found by the now dead sniper.
- Agent: We will now approach the target now and capture her. Reinforcements be ready. Sniper, if the girl manages to escape our entrapment then preced to fire at her. Preferably shot off a leg, but if she possess enhancements then put a bullet in her brain. We don't need the trouble of a fight. We can just send her body off to the necromancer unit to learn more about her and her connections to that group who visited the island.
Shin: ...
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Shin: One warning... Leave now and fuck off, or end up like the man who dared to point a weapon at my cousin. Also, your reinforcements are dead. You have just three seconds to disappear from my sight!
Shin holding a severed and still bloody arm in public drew a lot of attention to him and the group of agents who were so far staying off the radar somehow, yet Shin couldn't give a damm about that right now. Shin's rage could not be contained any longer, especially after he saw that they had their filthy hands on Chika and even planned to violate her body after death, but also because of that he gave them a warning. If they backed away Shin could just take Chika and leave without having to risk her safty, so Shin did his upmost best to hold his rage back with the clarity of thought the First Stage of the genetic constraint granted him, yet...
Agent: Who are you to give orders? We are the one's in charge-
Yet in the end it was no use. Not letting the situation head in the direction of a negotiation with a hostage, Shin furry took over and he attacked. Shin threw the severed arm at the agent he was talking to and first went for the one holding onto Chika and grabbed his arm with a vice like grip.
Then like the leg of the sniper from before, both flesh and bone were crushed, and once the agent couldn't hold on to Chika anymore Shin punched the agent to the ground with all his strength. Chika and the others then saw the smashed in face of the agent slammed into the ground.
As Shin was taking out his sowrd from the Na Ring he saw the shocked fade of his cousin Chika, and then simply said a few words to her.
Shin: Close your eyes, Chika.
Chika: Wh-
Shin didn't wait to see if Chika did as he asked of her because in the next second a fight broke out between him the remaining agents. One attempted to draw what Shin assumed was a gun and so he cut the arm going for it off and then the man's neck.
Another agent took out a hidden knife and stabbed Shin in the back, but it was the agent who was taken back. Shin had already had equipped his Lesser Fenrir Coat, so a normal blade couldn't hope to cut through the fabric with just a normal knife. Shin then swift turned around and elbowed the man in the temple to kill him.
- *BANG*!!!
Bullets were shot out as three of the agents took aim and fired at Shin. Shin was surprised about how efficient and fast they moved for normal humans, but in the end all he could say about this kind of attack was...
Shin: Slow!
Shin knew long as he could see the gun and the trigger finger of the person who was firing he had nothing to feat from a guns, especially just a hand gun at that. Compared to them, Shin would be far more afraid of Kaiyo's swift swordplay then bullets.
Shin adjusted his defensive guard and held his sword in his hands to align with bullet path he had predicted beforehand. The agent's bullets bounced off the high quality sword Gravity Blade and some bullets even rebounded back towards the agents.
It was a reflection technique he learned from Kaiyo, who she learned from Sozin. It required pinpoint accurately and the ability to completely see through bullet paths, yet for Shin with his high stats and being in Unlocked Mode it was no problem at all for him.
Shin then waited for the moment that the other side ran out out of bullets and made his own move. Taking a step forward and now right in front of the three gun wielding agents, Shin threw a punch to the space in front of them. Their confusion as to what Shin was doing was soon answered as the air in font of his fist shook violently and impacted them.
Shin: Soul Crushing Strike!
The sonic boom of the external and internal Ki attack wouldn't be enough to truly harm someone with powerful enhancements or a monster from the Mission Worlds, but what Shin heard from Sozin was that it was good enough to take out normal humans, and Shin saw that he was right.
The sonic boom not only knocked the three back, but also caused them to have internal bleeding. If they didn't go to a hospital soon they would bleed out internal... Not that Shin cared and nor did he care about the tourist who saw the chaotic and unreal battle before their very eyes, and screaming before running away. Shin simply turned to the very last agent.
Agent: ...
The agent just stood there due to the shock with the severed arm in his hands as he saw his comrades falling one by one and his fear of the man who caused it. The only hope he could have had was to take the risk of taking Chika captive, but his fear was so great that he had a hard time just breathing in Shin's presence.
Chika: Shin... Can, can I open my eyes?
Shin: Ah, you really listened to me. Didn't expect that. Sorry Chika, but just wait a bit longer okay.
Shin spoke to Chika with care to keep her calm, but Shin's eyes and face that displayed his rage and bloodlust had not changed from the beginning. Shin then looked at the sole agent left and walked towards him.
Shin was a good foot shorter then the agent in front of him, yet to the sole surviving agent, Shin looked like a grand beast in his eyes, a dragon who was in a realm above all mortals and who looked down at people like the agent. What determined if the agent could leave here alive or otherwise was solely Shin's mood and the agent already knew they weren't going to be friends.
Shin: Who sent you?
Agent: ...Wh-
Shin: You are obviously from one of those Four Pillars, right? What organization are you from.
Agent: That is... I can't. They'll kill-
Shin: That was not an answer!
Shin stabbed his sword into the thigh of the agent and who then fell to his knees, yet before he could even scream Shin cover the man mouth and he then whispered something to the agent so that Chika could not overhear.
Shin: I don't want to upset my cousin anymore with your groups deathly howls, got it? I'm about to dismember you, so please answer my question.
Shin took his hand off the whimpering agent who was now crying and listen to his answer.
Agent: Ma-Mass Enlightenment! We'er are apart of their organization secret service, a group of agents who do the groud work before the enhanced members arrive. We also take care of simple surveillance jobs like this.
Shin: Who were you spying on? Me?
Agent: No were were surveying this area and to watch over the island where the man called Sozin of Dove United lives with his family. It was to know right away if he ever left the island. Recently, we heard of a group that went and came to the island in these past two weeks and so-
Shin: And so you searched for us and ran into my unsuspecting cousin here who was looking for me? Ok, I understand the situation. Next, have you told anyone else about us? Are there anymore of you guys here? Any enhanced agents of Mass Enlightenment? Don't lie to me, or else-
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Agent: N-No! The agents you just took out and the sniper that arm belong to are the only one's here for Mass Enlightenment. They only needed a small group to watch over the area after all as this is not a high priority operation. There are some informants that tipped us off about you, but they are just locals who don't know anything about the Four Pillars or anything else.
Shin: I see. That's good to know since I don't want to track down anyone else. Now, last question. Did you contact your superiors about my group meeting Sozin on the island?
Agent: We, we just gave in a sort report that a group left for that island is all.
Shin: Did you name any names?
Agent: No! Just that an unknown group came. That's all. They are waiting for a follow up report soon. They... They will be worried if no one contacts them-
Shin: What? Are you threatening me, so that I'll keep you alive?
Agent: No no of course not, but it is the truth that my superiors would send professionals to handle a mess like this once they learn of it.
Shin: ...Probably those like me with enhancements, huh?
Shin thought about his current situation he was in and knew he was screwed. Shin had made a large scene in an area that was apparently watched over by the Four Pillars and there is no guarantee that it is only Mass Enlightenment either. Shin was very much tempted to have the cowering man in front of him make a false report back to his bosses, but Shin choose to not go through the trouble. It probably was impossible to hide what just happened as well. Fortunately for Shin the Four Pillars were not at their best, so no information about his group has been leaked as far as he knew.
Shin: (At best only first names may have been learned. We also paid in cash at the motel we stayed the one night in. No IDs were exchanged since it wasn't a grand hotel either. Instead of staying around here where there's the chance that the Four Pillars, a group that from Sozin said can fuck me over with little effort at my current level with their armies of Players with powerful enhancements who have been farming points and rewards with their insider info on God's Dimension... It is best to just walk away from this mess and stay hidden under the radar. There are only less then two I am here in the real world after all).
With that decided Shin made up his mind about what to do with the agent in front of him. Shin raised his hand and fired off an AP Bullet to the agent's head and kill him. Next he made sure to destroy the heads of the already dead agents lying on the ground ( I did the same for the other before arriving here ). Shin wanted to make sure that even if a necromancer was called for later they wouldn't be able to learn anything.
Shin: Let's just hope that they don't have shamans or the like. Even I can't see souls, so I can't destroy them with the Far Ki Bullet...Chika.
Chika: Yes!
Shin: Let's... Let's just go home. I'll explain as much as I can on the way.
Shin was thankful thankful that either due to trust or fear, Chika had yet to open her eyes. He didn't imagine that she wouldn't open her eyes with the sounds of broken bones, swords cutting through flesh, gunshot or the actual mini sonic boom. In a way Shin was very impressed and worried about his cousin ability to handle danger ( I really hope Chika doesn't windup in God's Dimension for both our sakes )
Shin then lead Chika away by hand from his own crime scene and together they took a train and left the beach resort.
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Aqua: I see. So something like that really happened.
Shin: Yeah, I was surprised as well that I would run into trouble as soon as I left the island.
Shin had boarded trains and switched to hailing cabs to escape the beach resort together with Chika. Shin had decided to switch means of transportation that only required cash since the first person he had called, Saki had told him to do so to not leave behind tracks.
Shin placed far more trust in Aqua and was talking to her right now on his phone for her advice, but before he called Aqua he called Saki. Trust was great, but what he needed now was Saki's brilliant mind to escape this mess and he had made the right decision.
Saki had warned him about all the ways he could have been tracked despite Hikari's backup, so she listed a few ways to move quickly off the grid. What was originally a three hour train ride to get close to his home took more the five hours and it was already night by the time Shin ane Chika got back.
Shin looked at his mentally exhausted cousin sitting on a bench not too far from where he was and he could only sigh about how he wished he could have done things better, or not have even gotten her involved with all the Four Pillar nonsense. Unlike Shin, most people weren't excited by the fact that a secret organization of super power individuals could be after him, and a fight that could destroy a few city blocks could start up if they were caught.
Aqua: Are you and your cousin alright? Chika was her name, right?
Shin: Yes, the two of us are fine for the most part. Those agents were still normal humans in the end, so they were easy to take out and luckily for me and I had Hikari use her Persona to see if we were being followed.
Aqua: That was smart of you, but don't place all your hopes on Hikari's powers. I don't believe she is at the level where she can give you tactical backup while you are on the move like either of us would hope. She may be able to make maps and enemy scans, but if the agents of the Four Pillars we simply ordered to follow and not engage you, I don't believe Hikari would be able to pick up potential enemy like those.
Shin: Now that you mention it, when I attacked that last building with Hikari there were some bodyguards who were not listed as enemies on her Game Map.
Aqua: That's what I thought. She might need a different skill or a higher level of Mental Capacity and Psyche Force to spot enemies who aren't obvious emitting hostility. You should keep your own eyes and senses open to see if you are being followed.
Shin: Ok, I'll do just that, but about our next move...
Aqua: We will do as Saki suggested and prepare to leave the real world. Saki had already called everyone else up to explain what we'll do. We will hide ourselves and not go out for any reason whatsoever till tomorrow night when we are scheduled to return to God's Dimension.
Shin: Do you really think that is good enough?
Aqua: It will have to be. According to what you have told me some of the Four Pillars were surveying that place to keep a watch on Sozin and found out about us as a result, but they may not know who we really are. This includes last names and any digital footprints. I think we are fine to just wait this all out, but... Shin, I wouldn't advise you to return home.
Shin: ...
Aqua: Unlike everyone else you made a scene in public as you killed those guys, right? It is more then likely that someone could get a good description of you. That is why on the off chance that you were followed back despite you precautions it would be in your best interest not to return home. Now that the agents are dead and the connection that you are cousins is dead, the best the Four Pillars could hope to find out were your first names and a description of you. The former isn't enough to find someone in a city and your current appearance with your white hair is new, so the later is unlikely. Just stay away from your home and more than likely the Four Pillars won't be able to find out about your family.
Shin: ...Understood. Well, it wasn't like I was looking forward to explaining anymore of this to my aunt and uncle. Chika should know her way home from here, so I'll tell her to go ahead alone.
Aqua: Good. You should also look into either using Hikari, Misaki, Shuai or Kamap's return sites to return to God's Dimension... Also, Shin, you could also stay at my place since you can't go home? It is just a small apartment, so I can't promise a homely feeling to it, hut yu would be able to come back with me to God's Dimension.
Shin: Thanks for the offer and any other day I would run to the end if the earth if you invited me to spend a night in your bed...
Aqua: I never mentioned the bed.
Shin: That's besides the point. Sorry Aqua, but I am in no mood to travel. I sailed by boat earlier today and took countless trains, cabs and busses to just get home. I am in no mood to travel at all. I have also been doing nothing but training these last few weeks, so I am worn out mentally. I would just rather find a park and sleep in the bushes.
Aqua: Are you a sure? Whatever, just don't do anything till tomorrow night okay, but call me if something happens, okay?
Shin: I'll promise. I won't worry my girlfriend too much,
Aqua: In your dreams and you worry me when you just take a walk around the block. I just don't want you to trouble me is all. Bye.
Shin heard Aqua hang up on him and he could only smile weary. He knew that what he had to do now could be potentially stipid and risky, but Shin had made a promise on the way back and after everything she had been through he planned to keep that promise to his cousin.
Shin walked back over to his cousin Chika who looked like she could barely stay up after exhausting so much energy today by running away from an unknown threat. Chika was so out of it that Shin had to tap her shoulder for her to notice that he was done talking on the phone and that he had walked back to her.
Shin: I can't tell you everything... But let's talk about what I can Chika.
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