Terror Infinity Side B
Chapter 5 - 3, Real World I
Real World Day 9/30 -
In an upscale, single person apartment there stood three individuals.
Shin - The leader of Team Japan.
Hikari - A veteran Player of Team Japan and Persona user with high potential in Psychic Force.
Shuai - A new member of Team Japan who is acquired Shaman Powers.
Shin and Hikari were currently looking down at Shuai, who was kneeling on the floor of his apartment. Somehow or another, Shuai had gotten a black eye five minutes ago in an event Shin just wants to forget about, but had to bring up again.
Shin: Shuai.
Shuai: ...Yes?
Shin: What the hell were you thinking and how did it come to this?
Shuai: Hahaha, things just happened. It couldn't be helped.
Shin: ...I guess it is okay then. No one was hurt.
Hikari: Like hell it is okay! Do you know what you did?
Shuai: ...I already apologized.
Hikari: Just once wasn't enough! Seppuku. I demand that he perform seppuku!
Shin: No one is doing that! Really, just how scared were you?
The reason Shin was fed up, Shuai prostrating on the floor and Hikari's anger, goes back to an event that began fifteen minutes earlier.
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University A
A Normally prestigious school has been experiencing a rash of... Strange incidents. And on a certain day, Shin and Hikari decided to visit the school that Shuai school he was enrolled in before visiting him at his apartment.
Shin: So do you really to come to this school?
Hikari: I do, or did at one time. I lost interest in school after... You know?
Shin: Becoming a hacker genius? The police and criminals coming after you? Or do you mean being abducted by a mysterious being calling itself God and being brought to another dimension where you normally die once on a daily basis?
Hikari: All of the above, but enough about that. I've seen enough of the school. Lets get to Shuai's apartment already. Seeing what could have been is depressing and... For some reason this place ... Is giving me the creeps. Like a chill is in the air.
Shin: Yeah, your're right. Something is definitely off about this place. It's not God's Dimension level strange, but it feels like my skin is crawling. Also, there are very few people around despite it not being the off season or holiday. Maybe something happened.
Security Guard: Hey, you two! Don't you know that the school is closed? Please leave the premise immediately.
A security guard approached Shin and Hikari to inform them that the school was temporarily closed. Shin asked if something happened, but for the guard that was a very hard question to answer for a variety of reasons.
The guard then hesitantly told Shin and Hikari what had been happening around the college recently. It started two days after Shin and Hikari returned to the real world according to the security guard.
Lights in empty classrooms would flash on and off.
Cars in the car parking lot would start up and their alarms would keep blasting during classes.
In the restrooms when students looked into the mirrors the images would be freakishly distorted.
Pipes within the walls would burst and forcing a few classrooms to be unusable till they are repaired.
And at night when students are leaving they would hear strange sounds and ghost like figures disappearing when a person turned back around.
These incidents had even gotten the medias attention in a different way then the man with the sword on a killing spree and even forced the school to temporarily shut down due to all the problems going around. Officially, the reason the school was temporarily closed was because maintenance issues, but the students and teaching staff knew better... That the reason for everything was because of something paranormal.
Shin: ...
Hikari: ...
Shin: ...What the hell is this guy doing?
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Shin and Hikari knew who to blame for these string of hauntings and so they went to visit the culprit, Shuai, for another reason then just to check up on him because they were bored.
Hikari: Do you really think that this is Shuai's doing?
Shin: Who else can it be. Do you happen to know another Shaman who can control spirits? I don't.
For that reason and knowing what Shuai was capable of, Shin knew who the culprit was. Back in God's Dimension in the Terminal Lobby Shin and the others got to see what Shuai could do after acquiring his Shaman Power enhancement. Shuai was capable of controlling low grade spirits and elements to, for all intents and purposes, pull off pranks.
Shuai could move small things like furniture around, levitate small objects and by sending his spirits into electrical appliances he could cause them to malfunction. At first glance there is little worth to Shuai's enhancement, but in the proper setting, better tools and tactics to go along with them, Shuai's powers could come in handy.
Shin: You saw it as well Hikari. All those strange events going on around here were the same things that Shuai showed us before, but just on a much larger stage.
Hikari: Do you think he has been training and that is what this has all been?
Shin: Too much training I say. Misaki completely forgot to while Shuai went overboard. Damn, why can't my comrades act more responsibility?
Hikari: Is that for you to say Shin? Or should I call you, Mr. Masked Murder swordsman? They are just following the example of their leader.
Shin: I get the point, my cute hacker sidekick.
Hikari: Cute... Baka!
Shin: ( Hmm, definitely cute. Why didn't I realize as much before we were in an relationship? ).
Shin: Anyways, lets visit Shuai to learn the truth of what is going on. If he doesn't have a good explanation in the end, I may have to punch some sense into him.
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Shin: What the hell is this?
Hikari: Shin! Another group is coming around the corner!
To understand what was going on.. Was that they were being attacked. Now five minutes back...
Shin and Hikari came to visit Shuai who had rented an apartment near the university he just graduated from and found out about the rash of hauntings. Not knowing what is going on they tried to confront him at his apartment complex, but the two of them had noticed that something was off.
Shin: What is this?
Hikari: Ahh, I am getting a headache, Shin. Was is with this space.
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Shin who had unlocked his constraint and Hikari who possess a Persona were able to immediately feel that the space inside Shuai's apartment building was off, or warped for a better word. Shuai had in fact turned the building into a boundary field that summons ghost and low level elementals.
They were basically harmless, but along with pulling pranks if they touched you the person would feel temporarily ill, something similar to sea sickness. Additionally, the ghost and elemental would keep respawning till the magic item used as the catalyst was destroyed or just moved from where it was set up. Shin wasn't aware that Shuai had such a power, but it was Hikari who actually remembered buying that item for Shuai that allows him to set up a boundary field within a closed space.
Hikari: Hiiii! I can't take it anymore! Even if they can't really hurt you it is still creepy. Shin, do something! Your my boyfriend, right?
Shin: Why only now are you willing to call me that? Whatever, just keep following behind me!
Shin and Hikari were currently attempting to break through Shuai's boundary field and reach his room on the upper floors of the complex. So far, neither one of them have been hurt, but constantly confronting ghost wasn't good for the mind and if they did managed to touch you, you would feel like shit for the next 2-3 minutes.
Hikari: Shin! Another group is coming around the corner.
Shin: Thanks! I am on it!
Their pace from going from one floor to the next was slowing down thanks to the ghost attacks getting in their way, so they had decided to take this seriously. Hikari would summon her Person Adrasteia to detect the ghost in advance and relay that information to Shin, and then Shin would deal with any of the ghost and elementals that came after them.
Shin: Shit! Why do I have to breakthrough a haunted house in the middle of the afternoon AFTER leaving God's Dimensions of HORRORS!?
Shin wasn't in the best mood, but their was one fortunate thing about his troubles. This gave him the chance to try out his magic weapon/tool that so far, he had only been using as an storage subspace.
The Na Ring.
Most of Shin's comrades see it as a convenient bag to store items in another dimension, but most of them and almost Shin himself had almost forgotten that the Na Ring also functioned as a magic weapon that was powered by Ki to use against the supernatural.
When the see through, yet scary group of three ghost came into view Shin channeled Ki into the Na Ring to activate it. A forcefield of sorts covered Shin's left hand where the hand was, and he slammed his clenched fist against the ghost in front of him. The forcefield came into contact with the ghost and all three were torn apart and destroyed in one move.
Shin felt delighted whenever he got to see the long awaited effects of the Na Ring, but he was also disappointed as well. It was because the ghost that Shuai summoned were not ghost he acquired from an exchange or found, but false and flimsy existences made up on the spot.
Shin remembered that the item that he exchanged for Shuai allowed him to create spirits from the last thoughts of the dead and give them shape, so what they were facing weren't real ghost, but mindless and fake NPC like images of ghost that could at worst only someone a slightly bad cold.
Shin thought that it was still an interesting skill, but with or without the Na Ring, long as he waved a hand empowered by Ki the ghost would fade away without even harming him or Hikari, so Shin still didn't know just how effective the Na Ring really was.
Shin: This would had been a bit more fun if Shuai had a descent ghost by his side, but like this... It's so tedious. Let's just end this already.
Hikari: Stop trying to make things a game and get depressed when it doesn't turn out to be fun, baka! Look, that room there should be his. Kick it down!
Shim: Yes, yes. Anything you say boss lady.
The two of them had made it to the floor of Shuai's apartment and after finding the door Shin didn't hesitate to kick it down as instructed by Hikari. When they looked inside they saw that Shuai, the man responsible for their troubles was sitting down in a chair with a bowl of cereal and watching a baseball game.
This normal scene was so normal and opposite of what was going on in the hallways that Shin who had entered somewhat into a battle mindset had frozen up oj the spot, and seeing Shin, Shuai did as well, but the person who came up with me didn't hesitate to enter to the apartment and walk over towards Shuai.
Shin: Hikari?
Shuai: What are you two-
Hikari: Shut up Shaman King nerd!!!
- *BAM*!
Hikari didn't slap, but punch Shuai with enough force that both he and his chair flipped over onto the floor ( Well, Hikari did go through some minor stat increases as well ). Seeing this, I didn't know what I enjoyed more. Watching my girlfriend hit Shuai for all the troubles that he put us through, or that she knew what Shaman King was.
In the end I couldn't decide.
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Shuai explained himself as he was getting up from the floor and rubbing the black eye Hikari gave him.
Shuai said that he training his powers and remembering all the times the students of University A messed with him because he was Chinese, so he wanted to get back at them all... And just got out of control. Shuai had already stooped his pranks recently, but the school was still closed down for the rest of the week.
As for his apartment building, he was training earlier at setting up boundary fields, but he got distracted by a game on tv, so he forgot to undo it. Shin was impressed that his boundary fields could still function when he wasn't consciously keeping it up, but Hikari wasn't impressed all. Hikari was about to hit Shuai again, but Shin stopped her.
Shin: Well, at least this one is training in a way. Can't we just let this go?
Hikari: Let it go! This guy needs a good beating! I almost pissed myself the first time I saw one of his ghost!
Shin: Come on, and don't say pissed. You already gave him a black eye, so lets call him scaring you even.
Shuai: I really am sorry Hikari.
Hikari: Fine, but if you do this again Shuai, I will make a fake Facebook profile that says you are looking for a roommate for your asshole, and preferably his name should be Fat Di-
Quickly shutting the sharp mouth Hikari's mouth, and said good bye to Shuai ( Who was now cowering now ) as I dragged Hikari out of the apartment, putting today's events to a close.
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