R-R-R-RING!!!
The loud sound of the ringing bell pounded in my ears, I had been taking a little bit of a nap and was having a nice dream about my crush. I have my head and my arms, I accidentally drooled a bit on whatever paper my teacher handed out, after adjusting my eyes a bit I looked up and then set sights outside of the window I was able to get a nice look at the sky, the grass, the sidewalk, people walking, I look at the class door where i see Norimaru walking towards me.
“Hey, I still need my copy of Deshin Rumble back, cmon Kizuno”
He walks towards me bag in hand
“Ya, ya, ya, I know. I meant to bring it today but was in a little bit of a rush this morning, i was gonna take Rimoru to my house to study and whatnot, test is tomorrow and I barely paid attention to anything, come with”
“Huh? Sounds good to me, lemme message my dad real quick”
“Alright, I saw Rimoru outside by the gate waiting, let me pack up my papers real quick and I’ll be there in a second”
He walked out and I reached for my papers and placed them and the binder in my bag and made my way to the door. I headed down the hall, descended the steps almost shoulder to shoulder with others and made it to the bottom floor where I exited the building.
With so many people roaming about the campus it was a tad difficult but I found Rimoru and Norimaru at one of the gates, I gestured toward them and went on my way to them.
“So, would you have any snacks at your place?”
“I have a little, just stay out of my fathers stuff and it's all good”
“Alright, lets go”
We walked off the campus, and we started talking, games, girls, events, and the usual stuff. Once we made it to my place, I opened the front door and removed my shoes.
“Kizuno, you know where to set it up right?”
“Yes”
“Where do you guys keep the snacks?”
“Norimaru come with me to the kitchen, what you want should be in the fridge”
“Alright”
As Rimoru went up the creaky steps, Norimaru and I walked to the kitchen where I pointed to a cupboard
“There should be some chips in there if you wanna have some, but bring me the tea bags from in there, i'm gonna grab a kettle and get some water boiling real quick”
“Sounds good to me”
He handed me the bags and with chips in hand reached into the fridge and pulled out some seafood
“Hey, don't eat those, it’s my dad’s”
“Fine fine, what about this leftover gyoza?”
“That's fine. Tell Rimoru to turn something on the TV and go get the table out of my closet, I’ll take up the gyoza on my way up”
After a little, the water was finally done and I grabbed the tea and gyoza as well as some fried rice from the fridge and brought it all up in a tray. Once I was upstairs and in my room, I walked in to see the news.
They were talking about a new insect-like overbeast attacking a large building in some city a few 50 kilometers away from where we were.
“Some ant thing manifested in the middle of Nakajima”
“Japan's Tsuno Capitol isn't too far off from there, i'm sure they will have some guy on scene in a moments notice”
The overbeast was like an ant in the back and in from like a mantis, except it had 4 arms and each were bladed and its head looks something like that of a wasp, the captions say its roughly 9 meters tall, people screamed, they all ran from the thing as it started swiping at buildings and entire chunks of rubble just everywhere
And after Rimoru’s comment a man appeared, an Overflowed no doubt, the way he looked, he had on a nice black suit, the man himself was somewhat pale and had black hair, a sword strapped to his back and what appeared to be on his wrist chains. Everything, the suit, the sword, the hair, the demeanor, the sheer sight, everything just screamed badass.
“that's Kagaku Noisha, says he's a grade 13”
“Amazing, wish I could do that, he's gonna destroy that thing”
Sure enough within seconds an arm on the thing was severed, then another, another, until even its six legs were gone, then instantly the head fell to the ground and soon you could see large groups of men swarming the area
“That was dealt with fairly quickly”
“How much money do you think the exoskeleton of that thing is gonna fetch?”
“Billions, says the thing was a Himo scale and those sell very well”
“They can use the material for all sorts of things”
I set the tray down and sat down, the books and everything was set, notebooks, pens, highlighters, textbooks. All were set up and we began discussing and quizzing each other.
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Rimoru was asking Norimaru about history of how our world came to be
“When was Tsuno first introduced into our planet?”
“Uh, think teach said somethin like a million years or something, he was on some talk about how only recently have we reached standards even similar to whatever advanced stuff they had”
“Yep, the earliest found stones without much Tsuno date to roughly 1.37 million years ago where its assumed it was a force brought by a meteor that struck us, there's a massive crater in the middle of Kaska that supports this, the world even used to be nearly 8 times smaller”
It was cool to think about the world much smaller, only 7 continents instead of 15, it was an interesting thought to entertain.
“How does that even happen?”
“It's assumed that with the meteor theory it essentially drained Tsuno into the earth and it began to produce it for itself, and eventually living things started to adapt and become part of it too. Much is still speculation though, it's also speculated what made the advanced civilization of the past fall apart and start from scratch was the overbeasts”
“Why didn't they just fight them?”
I looked at him plainly
“Dipshit, how long do you think evolution and adaptation takes?”
“Hey, I don't know, why do you think i'm asking questions here”
Rimoru put a hand up
“Chill both of you, let's get back to work, i'd rather you dont fail a test.”
We both got to work and knocked out the basics and then reviewed the more troubling or confusing things for Norimaru who wasn't exactly the brightest but was always willing to give things a shot.
He likes asking questions, never knowing why but he likes trying to understand things regardless of how hard they are.
And the things he easily understands become masteries for him, he's an athletic genius and an absolute whiz at games.
Rimoru always just stuck to academics, he's good at it too.
In more recent years we all got closer and his parents are relatively strict and hes only really out for things like this.
After we finished covering all the material and quizzing each other we just watched a movie and before too long they had to head home as it was already dark.
It wasn't until after he had already left that i remembered about Deshin Rumble, i guess ill just give it to him tomorrow.
I myself cleaned up and scrolled on my phone until I was tired enough to sleep.
Waking up in the morning, I got up very groggy-like and switched out of my clothes from the other day I couldn't bother to change. We have 3 given pairs of the school Uniform so it was fine, I chose to wait until I was about to leave the house to change.
I could smell my fathers cooking from the bathroom, I brushed my teeth and took a quick shower, after going down in underwear, I asked him how work was, he works at a company that buys property where Overbeast manifest and use the companies Overflowed personnel to kill the overbeast and sell its corpse and whatever parts of it that can fetch a price for some insane quantities of cash.
My father just turned to me and looked me in the eyes.
“Honestly pretty bad, yesterday night 2 unexpected overbeast manifested, a large surge in them have happened in the last week”
See usually an Overbeast manifestation can be detected days or even hours before it actually manifests, the Tsuno for it needs to concentrate and it essentially sucks Tsuno form its surroundings and then manifests once a threshold is met.
Unexpected ones are usually the result of a rapid increase in development or near instantaneous development in which both cases are damage heavy and are often at the cost of lives.
I look at him somberly
“That's really unfortunate”
“Could have been infinitely worse, we were lucky some grade 13 guy from another agency showed up, our closest guy was 5 minutes away and only grade 8.”
That insectoid we saw, huh
“Well good thing he was there”
He looked away
“Ya, good thing”
I walked in the kitchen and grabbed some rice to eat real fast. My dad offered me some fish to go along with it but I was already a little behind schedule so I declined.
To my room I went, needed to put on the rest of my clothes and once that was done I grabbed my bag, a lunch from my dad, put on my shoes, and went out to walk to school.
I quickened my pace a bit from usual and by doing so I barely made it to school before they closed the gates.
Running now I hurried to class where I was just able to make it to my desk not even 2 seconds before I would have been considered tardy.
The teacher went over the pretenses of the test and began to pass out papers. It was the same 30 minutes, no cheating, no bathroom, no glancing over, no nothing.
I finally got my test and quickly answered most of it. I was bored and began staring out the window.
Always bored in class just looking out there was a decent way to pass by the time, looking down though I noticed a faint glow coming from a sewer drain.
On further inspection I saw something that rocked me to my core, scales forming. A Overbeast was manifesting, the blue glow from the grass now as it seemed to siphon to the growing scales, in less than two seconds more scales developed and I saw the ever so faint blue glow reach nearly eight meters high and scales cover it.
I looked over to my class, jumping out of my chair now breathing heavily, even 10 seconds ago was perfectly fine and I started to weave past the desk and tripped on a bag.
I yelled
“RUN!!!!”
“JUST RUN!!!!”
I got up and pointed at the window and in it was a large yellow eye fixated on the interior of the class
The following scene was screaming, within seconds the roof of the classroom was missing.
I was hit in the head hard and my vision went black.
When I woke up, I couldn't see anything at first, only the feeling of oppressive heat, the taste of the smoke, the smell of it too and the egregious smell of blood, the sound of screams.
After a bit I could just barely open my eyes. In front of me was my bag, I was pinned under a larger chunk of the ceiling, and a large pressure was felt on my legs and arm. I look up further and see splayed out on a rock my bleeding friend Norimaru.
In the corner of my eye i saw his copy of Deshin Rumble torn
I looked back at him, and he smiled.
I look higher at his upside-down splayed figure and I see nothing, a trail of red, it's not what I saw, but what I didn't see that made me black out after vomiting and failed attempts at a scream.
I woke up once again, specialized firefighters moving my dead friend's corpse out of the way.
They removed the large rubble pinning me down, I got a small look at my arm and it's in tatters, I can't even see my legs, my head wont turn that far back at the moment.
Once again I see the 3 men next to me swiped away and Norimarus dead ragdoll body slammed in my direction, now staring me dead in the eyes.
For the first time since yelling for my classmates to run i scream loudly
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
“GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I began to cry, my eyes teary and anger rushed over me.
I see the giant Lizard. The flaming behemoth I saw was nearly 9 meters, no 10 meters tall, flaming mane that followed along its bag in spikes, the face was black scales that resembled charcoal in a way.
“I FUCKING SEE YOU”
“I'LL KILL YOU”
I can't contain myself anymore and scream more
And suddenly it looks at me
Locks eyes with me
Glares at me
I glare back
I wont die here
“You have guts”
I heard a voice coming from almost inside of my head
“I can't have my host dying on me now can I”
I look around and can't see anything, the lizard has turned its back and began fighting some clearly weaker Overflowed individuals.
I look out asking
“Who are you, where-”
Im cut off
“Your damn mind, now shut up kid”
Immediately I felt a rush, a pulsing sensation throughout my body, my body that's down to just a bruised bloody mess feels better.
I feel relieved and now can't move my arm and my legs.
All I have left of my uniform is my torn up pants.
I stand up.
“Now, kill that thing”
I don't know what it was, who it was, or what happened.
I had awakened.
I get up, my hair longer than before, my shoes and shirt gone, my wounds healed, heavily scarred.
I'm not the same person I was a minute ago.
Standing now, I look over to Norimarus body, I close his one singular opened eye and step to where the window used to be, the wall itself is completely gone.
Call it instinct but I tensed up my hand and a dagger of electricity appeared, and my body was encased in a thin veil of light blue almost like an armor.
I start to grin
I laugh
I erupt in laughter
It was hilarious
The very thing that I was cursing at not too long ago while I was powerless is now about to be flayed by my hands.
The lizard Overbeast looks at me and we make eye contact, it rushes toward me.
I become still
Once again a smile appears upon my face and i grip my newly found weapon and scream at the damn thing
“I WILL KILL YOU”
“DAMN BASTARD”