Chapter 2 - Event and Aftermath

“I WILL KILL YOU”

“DAMN BASTARD”

I stared down the approaching creature coming toward me.

It looked somehow slower than before.

I saw it moving its arm to take a swipe at me, I wiped the smirk off my face then immediately I jumped out of the way and onto the arm.

Running up its arm, the scaly arm moving as I run up past its shoulder now and I jump right in front of its daunting face.

Staring into its eye, me upside-down mid air as it just looks at me in bewilderment, maybe because I dodged its attack or maybe it was the disturbing grin that came back to my face, either way I didn't care.

After what felt like ages but was probably a second at most but I just stared into its eyes as I took my dagger then lodged it into the slithery bastard's eye.

Immediately purple liquid spilled out and it began thrashing about, I got my hand free and was slammed into an opposing building.

Weary now I see the Overbeast running uncoordinated at me, blood spewing from its eye meanwhile I struggle to move as the impact of the crash injured the hell out of my legs.

I'm not sure how long it takes for me to heal, but overflowed people have severely increased regeneration, I know that for sure.

I try to conjure more daggers and I can only get two out in time as the massive thing was approaching and fast.

I threw one at the beast foot as an attempt to slow it down, it worked minimally at best, but still it was enough to make it stumble and fall.

Doing so however it's only 5 meters away from me and a giant gust of fire comes my way, my legs feel moveable now at least I push off, my leg throbs with pain in response but I push through and with the other dagger in my hand I charge at it from above and stab the damn thing in the cheek.

The scaly thing now seems so frail and feeble, a glass cannon if you would call it that, now in my grasp, or at least it seems so.

I see a person coming, must be back up from an agency hopefully stronger than those other guys that tried, they clearly underestimated this thing before so this other guy is probably much stronger.

Now with this dagger I remove it from the cheek after paralyzing it and try to gash open its belly as it makes failed attempts to move.

Nothing happened.

Absolutely ineffective.

The thing starts to gain more movement every instant and it stands up and bats me into the air.

Now airborne I look down to see the thing is about to blast me with fire, It felt almost instinctual but I coated my entire body with Tsuno.

I feel the flames licking at me as a dash through them, from inside I see it intends to swallow me.

I let it.

Now in the mouth of the stupid monster I avoid the sharp teeth that threaten to puncture me and make my way down.

After a few small moments I lower down from the mouth by basically wiggling down and now in its neck, I immediately gash its throat from inside, blinding myself with a flash of purple, going down further and into the beginnings of its stomach I made a massive gash.

A surge of purple liquid soaks the area in a coat of blood, more than before at least.

I stand up out of the monster's belly and I look forward after clearing my eyes.

Now I notice something, the eye is back and staring at me. The neck is not bleeding though I'm sure I cut all the way through.

It must have healed, I noticed the stomach wound starting to close, the one on its cheek is already gone by now and the neck is almost closed up completely.

I was surprised and because of this I wasn't ready for its next attack.

It blast me with fire again, this time unprepared im burned horribly

My Tsuno heal factor couldn't help the excruciating pain felt, the lizard charged at me and then began to wrap its tail around me, squeezing me.

I look it dead in the eye once again as it opens its mouth and begins charging a really powerful blast.

“DAMN YOU”

I scream

“GO TO HELL”

There's nothing i can do but scream

“YOU SHITTY DINOSAUR”

But then, before i think it's lights out i feel the pressure of the tail completely disappear and i see a figure standing there with a blade attached to a chain on each on of his fingers, he appears to be wearing thug like clothes and dark purple lipstick with a pair of really nice dress shoes

The beast instantly falls to the ground as the man just stands there

He pulls out what appears to be nail polish and begins painting his nails as the chains from rings on his fingers appear to not hinder him in any way.

From my place laying upon the floor watching the fight I just hear him muttering under his breath and almost yelling in a whisper at the beast.

I get up and begin to run at the monster with all I have. I conjure something, this time a sword.

The monster is swatting at the bombardment of chains, distracted. It doesn't notice me running up to it, but once it does I'm in close range, what I don't see though is the massive tail about to slam into me.

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It does, slammed into a wall once again.

That strike was weaker than the first one like that, it's slowing down, getting weaker.

I stay still, the man in purple lipstick is still talking to himself, louder now, I can understand some of what he's saying.

“Stupid stupid lizard, how dare you, how dare? No, why, why did you? Stupid dumb dragon, god damn it why? My perfect perfect shoes, this is unacceptable, my beautiful perfect shoes ruined by a dumb dragon. The nerve that thing has blood on my shoes, I'll show it what, I will, will. Curse you dumb dumb dragon.

He began reaching into a bag for what looked to be a cloth and shoe shiner, he continued his rant, somehow able to clean his shoe even with several chains extending from his fingers.

I healed enough to get up, slower than before but the Overbeast lizard was still batting away at the bladed chains, and this once again gives me a chance.

I grabbed the electric blade I had dropped and ran at it again, noticing me, it once again tried the same move with its tail, and I jumped over it and then landed on it and ran along its back, this time, I'll put as much power as possible, I'll stab, not slice.

I find the base of its neck, it's hard when it's moving but the distraction of the bladed chains is working perfectly.

Now.

I plunge my sword at the base of its neck and it begins to fall over.

I jump off before it falls over completely and practically fall on my ass. I see the man who was basically screaming not too long ago just silent and walking towards me.

I just sit there baffled and I see figures in the background behind the guy with the lipstick, I stand up to get a better view and then as I see the back up squad approach me I give a wave but I feel myself falling over as I faceplant into the ground and feel my entire body almost just stop entirely.

I wake up next in a hospital bed, machines attached, I look to my right, there's a table with 2 envelopes on it.

To my left, another hospital bed, more appear to be beyond it but a series of curtains make me unable to see.

It's at this moment my father enters the room, he looks worried, very very worried.

Of course he is, his son almost died and was in an accident, because of this it's not a surprise that once we lock eyes he runs at me, teary eyed and gives me a hug.

I haven't seen him like this since mom died.

“Dad I-”

That's all i could get out before he shhh’d me

We stayed like this for a good minute before he broke away and he handed me one of the envelopes.

“Its from the Tsuno agency management of Japan”

Almost like the very words spawned him in, the thug in purple lipstick walked in, this time in a suit, a very nice one and to match, the same shoes as when he was fighting the lizard Overbeast.

He seems to still be muttering about something, hard to tell what though

My dad turns his head and nods

“This is Glee Inomori, he’s one of the combatants from the agency i work for, tells me he saw you fighting the overbeast the other day”

“Other Day? How long have I been out?”

I wasn't sure how much time had past

“Four days, you have been out cold for four days”

“Huh. Wait, is everybody okay? Were there survivors?”

“There were heavy casualties, fifty-six students, three low ranking Overflowed combatants, and 10 firemen all dead. Over two hundred injured.”

I just laid there in silence, only sounds heard were from Glee who was still muttering

“I saw him”

I started tearing up

“I saw Norimaru… I saw him die”

I look at my father and he looks back at me, he looked at me with a sorry expression

“There wasn't anything i could do”

My tears now gone, I asked him a question

“So what now? Where do we go from here?”

My dad sighed

“Read the letter”

I opened the letter in my hand and began to read it aloud

“In turn of recent events, we give our condolences. It was an unpredicted event that caught us off guard, we will attempt to patch up any physical damages but we understand more than anybody lives were lost and we can never fix that. With that being said you put forth courage and by some luck you have had a rapid awakening, a rare phenomenon where instead of overtime beginning to overflow your Tsuno from a young age, you immediately start producing large amounts of it in a surge that forces an overflux. You as a person are extremely rare and we wish to have you as a combatant in training at the Kuzunoha grounds, if you choose to accept, we will put you through basic testing and give you necessary time to say any goodbyes or settle any matters. With this, I hope you take care

Head of recruitment department, Ijashi Shiria”

“They want you to become a combatant and fight more of those things”

My dad looked worried

This is something I had once thought about actually when I was like six or seven, being and Overflowed person and becoming a combatant, the idea of it just sounded cool and even now it still does.

“I think I want to”

Glee looked up at me and stopped his muttering

“Good choice kid”

He looked over to my dad now

“Daishi, I'll send you the paperwork and whatnot, just give me the call when I need to get him”

“Thanks Glee”

Dad waved at him as he left the room, then his eyes went back to me

“So, you sure you wanna be doing it?”

I myself wasn't too sure about it but now I have the opportunity most other people don't, I can actually be somebody who can fight for others, I have the chance to improve, to get better and save people. That in itself sounded thrilling, exhilarating even, I can stop overbeast, kill them before they could kill other people like how that lizard murdered Norimaru.

“Yes”

My dad once again lets out a sigh

“Fine, nothing much I can really do, even if I had you decline or you said no yourself they would still ask you, you still need to rest for a bit, the doctors said you would be discharged sometime tomorrow”

‘Only five days to recover?”

“Yes, your healing factor has increased severely. You could probably regrow an entire limb if you were given a week, the doctors were astounded to see how fast you regenerate. Even for an overflowed individual your regeneration is way above average”

“Is that so?”

I did recover broken limbs and several injuries in a fast manner, or a half assed job of it at least, the bare minimum to move around decently.

“I have work to do but I'm glad to see you are awake, I will be here tomorrow morning”

“Bye dad”

I waved him out and for the rest of the day it was doctors asking questions, doing some tests and also just having me do things. It was all a tiring process, so I went to sleep early.

I wake up the next morning and this time i stand up, for the first time in days i can walk, my legs are riddled with scars and my arm too, I must have done a lot of internal damage, running around swinging daggers while chunks of bone were digging into my legs

I feel disbalanced at first and even almost fall over but after a minute or two i finally get a hold on things

I call for the doctors and ask them for breakfast

My door open, me expecting a nurse to bring me some food and instead its my father telling me to grab the other letter and to follow him

We go out to the parking lot and to the car, once we are in I look at the envelope in my hands and open it

Its from Rimoru

Apparently it was given to me the third day I was in the hospital

I began to read it as my dad was driving

Kizuno, thank you, genuinely thank you. Norimaru is dead unfortunately, he was an amazing friend and other than you the closest person to me, his funeral was held yesterday, you were still unconscious but they did make an effort to reach out to you and tried seeing if you wanted to come. I also heard it was you who killed that thing. You of all people had an awakening. I'm in the hospital room as I'm writing this. Your arms, your legs, your face, everything is so scarred, there's still a giant gash on your forehead. Thank you for saving us, I barely managed to get out, it was charging at me and when I thought I was about to die, it turned around to you screaming. I was confused at the time but didnt think about it, I ran. Maybe we can talk in person sometime but please give me a text or anything once you see this.

-Yours truly, Yakamara Rimoru

I immediately reached to grab my phone, forgetting I no longer had one, dad must have seen this because he talked to me

“They found your bag, anything they could salvage is still in there, think your phone is in there too”

“Thanks”

We eventually got back to the house, dad walked up and opened the door, we went in and sure enough my bag was on the counter, charred and reeking of smoke but still, better than being completely toasted

I see my phone in there, I grab it and notice it's heavily cracked, I try powering it on and to my relief it's just low battery.

I go upstairs and plug it in, my father knocks on my door and notifies me that he will be out for a bit and that there's some snacks in the cupboard and food in the fridge.

I tell him to wait as I hear him walking down the stairs, I walk out my door and into the hallway, and down the stairs, I catch him by the door where I give him a hug.

“Thank you”

He doesn't respond but he returns the gesture and leaves with his head down.

I go back upstairs and message Rimoru about what's going to happen, I tell him about majority of what happened, leaving out Norimaru of course.

He replied relatively soon and we talked back and forth with it mainly consisting of him asking me questions about my newfound abilities, he asked me questions such as

“How many can you make at once?”

“How big can the swords be?”

“Can you make just regular lightning or electricity?”

“What specifically can you do”

I was going to go to my backyard to test out some of these questions and try to see what I can do, but before I finished going down the stairs I heard a knock on the door.

Another followed a few seconds later, I texted Rimoru I would talk to him later as I needed to do something and with that I headed down the rest of the stairs and looked through the peephole. Standing out front of my door was Glee, I could almost hear the muttering from the guy from the other side of the door.

“Ill open it, just give me a second”

As if he didnt hear me he knocked faster and louder, and when I finally opened the door he handed me a piece of paper.

Before I could read it he pointed to a sleek black car

“Get in, we’re gonna go through some basic testing trials”

I looked down at the paper and it was a security ID card with my name and face on it as well as a code and a few other random things

I followed him back to the nice looking car and we get in, after a few minutes of him talking on the phone to somebody, probably something to do with me, we sped off and away.