Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 9, Real World I

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Aqua was the first to separated herself from the team. She didn't know what to expect from her opponent, but she didn't want to risk them getting involved.

Aqua: Come! The one with the metal claws. If you're not afraid then be my partner here for a bit.

Ken: ...

Aqua kept a cool facade, but was relived that her opponent feel for her taunt so easily. The masked man with metallic armored claws equipped on his hands first took a few steps towards her and rushed at her. A claw came in closer and closer to Aqua's face and when her opponent came within a few inches... Aqua vanished.

Ken: What! Telaportation?

Aqua: No, but to think you were just a brat. Don't scare me like that!

Ken: !!!

Before Aqua's opponent could react she had reached his back and a kick was sent and slammed into the man's sides. Aqua was a little surprised by the resistance that her kick received, but who was she? Aqua had just gotten herself an A rank genetic mutation, so her already high stats had reached a new level and she could reveal more of the power of the Werewolf bloodline without even transforming.

The kick Aqua had used on her opponent sent him flying meters away and into a crash landing on top of the sand of the beach. Aqua looked at her opponent, a kid by the sound of his voice, who had picked himself of the floor of the beach and she sighed to her self.

Aqua: Not only was he a brat, but because of what Saki said I held back too much. Still, who would have guessed he would have that as well? This island here really is full of mysteries.

Aqua said as much as she observed her opponent. Not only did he stand back up and was ready to continue after taking a blow that have sent even strong men to the hospital, he became stronger then before. The reason for this sudden change... Was because Aqua's opponent began to bring out Ki Energy.

Similar to what Shin does himself, Ki that was stored within the navel started to spread and wrap itself around the opponents entire body, empowering the body with Ki to become stronger, but there was more. Aqua observed how her opponent's Ki seeped into his metallic claws. It was the Ki manipulation technique that Shin and Aqua discovered on their last mission, and in Nen it is what it what peopel call Shu.

Aqua's masked opponent quickly gathered Ki into his legs for increased speed and leaped at Aqua. Both of his metallic claws were aimed to rip out her throat, yet despite having the ability to move away, Aqua stood her ground.

Aqua brought up her two hands and caught the metallic claws of her foe. The force of the the jump and the strength of the masked man pushed Aqua back, sliding across the sands yet to the masked man's surprise Aqua was perfectly fine. Despite grabbing the metallic claws empowered by Ki and his full force tackle there wasn't a scratch to be seen on her hands.

Aqua: So you are the strength type, huh. Like Misaki you don't need high stats to showcase your strength... But you are still lacking. Shin's Ki and my own Nen is much stronger and we wouldn't have simply jumped in against a stronger foe without a plan.

Aqua began to exert more of her strength onto the the masked man's metallic claws. With the strength of her Werewolf  bloodline and adding Aura on top of it...

- METAL DISTORTING!

Ken: Gahhhh!

The claws were bent out of shape and nearly crushed the boy's hands. The masked opponent quickly jumped backwards and kneeled on the floor of the beach in pain. He was able to take off his weapon from his hands and saw the bloody flesh within.

Aqua: You should be grateful. If it was a normal human being those hands would be done for, but since you have Ki and whatever else you have up your sleeves they should heal in no time.

Ken: You Bitch!!!

The masked man attempted to stand back up, but Aqua had kicked him in the gut and the man threw up whatever he had last eaten and acidic juices mix with blood. The masked man stared at Aqua with hate in his eyes, but with the maks still on his face Aqua could only imagine what face her opponent was showing her.

Aqua: Sorry for being so rough, but recently there has been a boy your age in my group... Who has been getting full of himself recently. Also, he has been showing off his new... Whatever, I don't care.! Well, the point is here that I won't kill you, but I am going to render you unable to move as I take out my pent of frustrations on you. That is why... Sorry.

Aqua reached out her hands to the helpless masked man and...

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At the same time and on the other side of the beach Shin had felt a cold chill run down his spine despite the warm weather and the intense fight that he was currently in.

Like Aqua who had faced off against one of the two masked men, Shin had faced off against the other. His opponent wielded a sword instead of claws like the other masked man and together with Shin's own sword the Gravity Blade, their battle had developed into an intense sword fight. It was Shin's first sword fight, but he couldn't be to excited about it since he was on the losing end.

Shin: Strong, and god your fast. Won't you cut me a break!.

Kaiyo: ...

Shin: So does that mean go die?

Shin has a far more amount of trouble against his masked opponent then how much Aqua had against her masked foe.  

Where as Aqua's opponent strengths lied in physical strength and dominating his foes, Shin's opponent strengths lied in speed and precise moments. Shin had become a much better fighter after unlocking his constraint multiple times and living through a few life and death battles, yet Shin was still far from skillful and in a sword fight that weakness was clearly shown.

Shin's masked opponent was definitely a skilled swordsman and never let Shin catch his breath since the battle began. Within Shin sword fight his enemey they slashed at each other, used feints and locked blade over and over again, Shin was only able to keep up with his opponent due to his Reaction Speed stat being so high and his natural instincts kicking in. If not for those two he would have been killed over a dozen of times by now.

If Shin was willing to kill at all cost he could possibly fight and defeat his opponent a number of ways with his many enhancements, but since he didn't want to make enemies here on this island Shin held back. Still, with every clash of their swords he was coming closer and closer to his Unlocked Mode. At that point he might not have the room to hold back like he is doing.

Shin: ( The real problem here is that sword. If I could just grab it I could break or throw it away, I could just punch him and it'll be over and done. This masked guy is fast, but I can tell from the times we locked blades he isn't too physically strong for someone with enhancements. It is just that energy around the sword that'll burn my hands ).

Shin could tell that with his B rank level enhancements he could quickly over power the masked opponent in front of him with force if needed. Even grabbing his opponents sword as it is being swing at him is possible for the current Shin... If not for the red energy emitting from the masked man's katana.

From the masked man's sword, a clear red aura of energy was present, but it wasn't that the sword itself was a magic weapon. The masked man was channeling this energy into the sword similar to what Shin is even doing now with Ki. From what Shin could tell the blood red energy around the opponents sword did more then allow him to clash swords with his high quality magic weapon empowered by Ki.

Shin discovered this early on when after the first few clashes of swords between them when he saw something shocking. A steam was rising up from a scratch on his Gravity Blade. Shin was shocked that something could even do that to his sword, but fully discovered the properties of the masked man's red energy when he pushed Shin against the pillars of the stairs leading up the island and slashed at him.

Shin successfully rolled away from danger yet saw what happened to the pillar the opponent's katana slashed into. It melted. Along with being cut the pillar was melted and a cloud of smoke rose up. It was then that Shin discovered the corrosive nature of his opponents atracks and countered it by enveloped his own sword in Ki to counter the blood red energy.

GB: Can you stop playing around already.

Shin: GB!

Kaiyo: !!!

The masked swordsman jumped back after hearing a voice coming from Shin Sword the Gravity Blade. Shin was surprised that he finally had room to breathe again, but understood how shocking it must be for his opponent to see a talking sword.

Shin: GB, are you okay? That red aura off that sword was able to scratch you.

GB: I am fine. Anyways, that red aura of energy is called Blood Energy. It is a characteristic of the vampire race and the source of their magic. Blood Energy is corrosive by nature and it is even possible to use that power on magical entities and items like myself. I hold no special powers outside of the weight control gravity magic, so please continue to provide me with Ki to increase durability and slashing power.

Shin: I'll do just that. Anything else, like say a way to beat Blood Energy?

GB: There are, but nothing that you are capable of using currently. Just don't let it touch you and your flesh won't corrode. Just one thing though.

Shin: What?

GB: Stop messing around with a straight out sword fight! Your no sword master, so stop trying to act like one. Just overpower the girls already. You won't kill her.

Shin: But I really wanted to win with just... Wait! Her? That's a girl?

GB: Focus! She is coming!

Shin watched as his masked opponent, a girl according to his magic sword, dash towards him.

Realizing that not only did her opponent have a magic sword that could talk, it had discovered the origins of her powers and ways to counter act it. Not wanting to give them any time to come up with a plan she went in for the attack... Yet Shin was already gone.

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Shin had used Instant Movement to maneuver around his opponent. Shin had to hold back on his offensive Ki skills, but he could have used Instant Movement to out speed his masked opponent. He hadn't so far simply because despite the dangers of their sword fight he was enjoying himself too much.

Shin: Back stab!

Kaiyo: !

The maksed swordsman turned around and blocked Shin's sword slash in time, yet when their blades clashed she had her own sword knocked out of her hands by the sheer force of Shin's attack. Shin had used the Gravity Blade's magic to increase the weight of the sword at the last second to ×300 in his attack.

Still shocked after losing her weapon a second sword slash came at the masked swordsman. The Gravity Blade simply passed by her face but a second later her mask fell apart cut diagonally in half, revealing her face. Then Shin approached the now weaponless and unmasked womena and spoke.

Shin: Sorry for that, but my sword was nagging me to end this. It wasn't thwt you were so weak I could win at anytime, but just because my weapon is better then yours. I also yelled out because I didn't want to cut you. Also... Your very pretty. You shouldn't wear a mask. Women swordsmen are hot.

Kaiyo: You!

Shin's opponent revealed hidden knives and lounged at him, but Shin had already expected something like that after taunting her. Shin used Instant Movement once more to arrive behind her and hit her neck with the hilt of is sword, using enough force to knock her out and fall to the ground.

Shin: ...Wow. Till recently I always thought that doing that in real life was fake. I am glad that Kampa showed me otherwise.

GB: Aren't you happy that you won?

Shin: Not at all. This girl was clearly the better swordsman here. Just trying to keep up with her almost made me go into Unlocked Mode. I wanted to win using the least power necessary. Revealing Instant Movement and your magic with the possibility of us being watched right wasn't a good idea.

GB: You thought so far ahead. Sorry, I thought you were just messing around.

Shin: Of course not. That was like 70% enjoying the sword fight and the remaining 30% not wanting to reveal my strengths. I know what my priorities are.

GB: ...

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Shin: So that was hard, but not unreasonable hard. Anyways I won and didn't kill her like you asked Saki.

Saki: Thank you Shin. Both you and Aqua didn't kill them, so their might still be hope of us learning from the peopel here on this island.

Shin: If you say so. Still, I'm not liking our chances anymore if their idea of a welcome to our island is to send two assassins to kill us. There weren't weak. If Aqua and I weren't here someone could have possibly died.

Hikari: I agree with. By the way, Shin.

Shin: Yes?

Hikari: Why are you holding the female assassin you were just complaining about like that.

Shin: Th-That's...

Hikari was not happy that after coming back from his death match against one of the two masked assassins that attacked their group, then finding out that his opponent was female and pretty, Shin had come back carrying his unconscious opponent in a princess carry.

Shin: Well, I was treating our hostage or whatever she is carefully. That's all. There is no ulterior motive here, Hikari.

Hikari: Then is she were a he, would do the same thing?

Shin: God no.

Hikari: Baka!

Shin: ...

Shin turned his attention away from his second wife to be who was looking at him like he was cheating on her, to check up on his first wife to be and how she was doing ( Kinda funny, right? ).

Shin had already seen that Aqyua defeated her masked opponent before he did, but was shocked by the condition of her opponent was left in. Unlike the girl who Shin simply knocked out, the masked assassin who turned out to be a boy was beaten black and blue by her. Looking at the poor man... Shin felt another chill travel down his spine.

Shin: You really didn't hold anything back, did you Aqua?

Aqua: Aren't you mistaken? He would be dead if I didn't hold anything back. I just made sure that he wouldn't be able to get back up is all. This guy was no match for me, but was definitely physically strong and possesses Ki just like you, Shin. He could easily recover from just a light beaten. So how was your masked enemy?

Shin: My opponent turned out to be a girl. She was a skilled swordsman and although not Ki, she possessed a different power.

Aqua: Not Ki. Then what?

Shin: Blood Energy. According to GB, I mean the Gravity Blade, Blood Energy is the power of a Vampire race. Most likely she is in possession of the Vampire genetic mutation. They are both probably Players from God's Dimension since they both have enhancements.

Aqua: I don't know about that, Shin.

Shin: What do you mean?

Aqua: Saki hypothesized that the people who live on this island are survivors of God's Dimension, so aren't they too weak? Don't get me wrong Shin, my opponent wasn't weak in the slightest since I was just too strong, but they aren't at a level where they had the power to survive dozens of missions, safe up 50,000 points and come back to the real world after risking there lives in that hell dimension. How was that girl you defeated?

Shin: Now that I think about it I would have to agree with you Aqua. Sure this girl was strong, but at best her enhancements were at the D-C rank level. I aslo felt that despite being a strong swordsman she lacked the experience to deal with me. I went along with a sword fight with her, yet despite being an amateur and relying just on my stats che couldn't deal with me decisively. She definitely lacked a Players mental fortitude and probably has never been in a true life or death. No Player of God's Dimension would ever lack that kind of thing, and if they did they surly wouldn't have made it back to the real world.

Aqua: Your right. Using an example... The Btooom Soldiers and Btooom Commanders from the last mission. They too held greater than average power due to their armor, but they had a live or die mentality that allowed them to keep fighting even when overpowered by us. You couldn't let your guard down without unexpectedly receiving a BIM thrown to the face ( Like I did ). Also, when you look at the two of them don't you feel a resemblance.

Shin: Ah, now that you mention it...

Shin then carefully looked over their two unconscious enemies. Shin could notice despite the bruises to the males face, the male maksed assassin looked very much like the female one that he had fought. It would be easy to say that they could be brother and sister, but Shin felt it was something more.

Shin: Are theae two twins?

Aqua: that would be my geuss, and that is what's so odd? What are the chances of two siblings both appearing in that dimension and coming back alive?

Shin: I would say... Impossible. Let's consult with Saki and the others to get their opinion.

Shin and Aqua then began to share their experience and worries with the rest of their group. Listening to what they had to say Saki mentions that she might have an idea for what Shin and Aqua were concerned about, but they had another and immediate problem at hand.

It was whether to stay on the island to try and learn the answers for their many questions, or call it quits and leave while they can. Kampa and Misaki made the argument that despite the advantages of learning what the people on the island knew, they had harmed two of their people even if it wasn't their intention to do so.

It would be hard to explain what happened and especially if the two that they defeated lie through their teeth that they were the ones who were suddenly attacked, so they thought it was best for them to leave. Saki was for staying, and as they were discussing further about whether to stay or leave... Company arrived.

Sozin: Well well, what a impressive lot of kids. You took out Ken and Kaiyo fairly easily and without killing them. I am both impressed and thankful for that, so how about I respond in kind.

Shin: ...

Aqua: ...

Shin and Aqua looked over in a panic and found that silently walking down the stone steps leading deeper into the island was a man in monk clothing. The man had a bold head like most monks do, yet even with no hair he was obviously a very good looking man, but that wasn't what drew Shin and Aqua's attention.

Shin and Aqua were both still in a post state battle mode from the previous fight, so their fives senses and sixth sense for danger were on high alert, yet neither of the two noticed the monk till he began to speak. Additionally, despite smiling and freely walking down the stone steps the monk had not let his guard down, no it was more accurate to say there were such concept as an opening to exploit against this type of opponent from the beginning.

Sozin: I can tell one way or another that you mean no harm by coming here and it was because of my foolish grandchildren that attacked things escalated as they did, yet because of that your guards are too up for a peaceful talk. Especially the two over there who have unlocked their constraints. They far too wary of my presence because of the power I hold.

Saki: Shin! Aqua!

Shin: ...

Aqua: ...

Sozin: It is no use. Just telling them to disarm and talk things out now will have no effect on them. Their instincts are screaming at them to not let their guard down no matter what. That is why... I'll end this quickly.

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Then not ten seconds later Team Japan that has survived the dangers of High School of the Dead and BTOOOM! were wiped out...

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Looking back this was a fairly nice chapter and better then what I remembered. This would rank second overall in this arc, yet I'll still warn my fans if a future battle scene isn't very good and it's okay to skip it. The next real fight is basically just a useless info dump, but not even an important one.