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For those unfamiliar, it's Jurina, Rena, Takamina, Atsuko, Yuki and Mayu in order~ Chapter 11 : The Cyber Four“It’s been two days since Yuki and Paru left. Still no signs of them..” Mariko said as she looked out the window. “I already told her to bring few people with her to help find Paru, but she just had to be so stubborn, insisting on going alone..”
“That kid... She never listens..” A lady standing in front of Mariko’s desk sounded. “So what’re you gonna do about this matter?”
“I still have to take care of all the reports about that Spectre wearing a Legion cloak, commiting crimes. Now the media really thinks it’s one of us.. I need to clarify this matter with them before it goes out of hand.”
“Don’t worry too much about it. They’ll know the truth sooner or later..”
“Now back to Yuki. She usually doesn’t take this long to find someone. Something must have happened.” Mariko turned around to face the lady. “I want you to find her. If anything goes wrong, report straight back to me. Got it, Katayama?”
“Got it.” Katayama smirked. “I brought her back to Legion when she was 7, and now I'm gonna bring her back again..”
“Come, let me walk you out.” Mariko walked Katayama towards the door.
“You don’t have to walk me out, you know..” Katayama said.
“It’s the least I can do for sacrificing so much for Legion. You’re one of the most senior Reaper around.”
“I hope you’re not trying to say that I’m old. I’m 40 years old this year. I get it. I’m just tired of Yuki calling me Haruka baachan for 16 years.”
“Don’t worry. I’m old myself, so I wouldn’t say that. We’re from the same generation.” Mariko said. “Besides, I’m going to visit Minegishi after this. I haven’t had the time to visit her for a week.”
“I see.. Well then, I should get going. I’ll catch you around.” Katayama said as they both parted ways outside the entrance. Katayama to find Yuki, and Mariko to the hospital.
Mariko walked along the hallway and finally reached Minegishi’s ward. She then slid open the door and was greeted by an empty bed. Minegishi was not on the bed. As soon as she saw this, she didn’t hesitate to rush out, looking for the doctor. When she was about to step out of the ward, a girl entered the room hastily and accidentally knocked Mariko. As the girl did not expect anyone to be standing right inside the room, she was a little shocked that she bumped onto someone. She was wearing huge, round glasses and had doe-like eyes. “Ah!”
Mariko turned back and immediately her eyes widened. “Minegishi?”
“Ah, Mariko! I didn’t know you’d come today.” Minegishi greeted her with a smile.
It was definitely way too random and Mariko’s mind had not had the chance to catch up to this situation yet. Just last week, she was still in a coma but now she’s standing right before Mariko, smiling back at her. “W-Wha?”
“What’s wrong? Lost for words looking at me standing here?” Minegishi said as she walked past Mariko, into her ward.
“You’re awake!” Mariko was still shocked.
Minegishi rolled her eyes left to right. “Uhm.. It seems like it.”
“Why didn’t you tell me!” Mariko grabbed onto Minegishi’s shoulder.
“I woke up two days ago. I decided not to inform you about it because I know you’d be busy with the reports.” Minegishi walked towards her ward bed and sat down.
“Reports?” Mariko frowned. “How did you know about it?”
“Hmm? Oh.. You should know, news travels fast, Mariko.” Minegishi shrugged.
“I’m just happy that you’re finally awake after Takamina......” Mariko suddenly felt a little agitated as her words couldn’t escape her mouth.
“Hey, look. I’m over it. It’s been two years. Forget it. It didn’t matter anyway.”
“Didn’t matter? It all matters. I’ve been visiting you at least once a week to check on you and heck, there were even some random kids visiting you as well and they ran away in fear before I could appraoch them. I don’t even know who or why. How can you act as if nothing happened?” Mariko was bewildered. “Takamina beat you into a coma and yet you act as if nothing happened?”
Minegishi pushed up her glasses. “I’m a scientist, Mariko. I do not care about anything else other than doing researches and discovering some sort of breakthrough in science. So let me ask you this. Where’s Takamina now?” Miichan asked.
“She left right after she knocked you into a coma.” Mariko explained.
“......” Minegishi nodded silently before looking back at Mariko. “And......what of Atsuko and Rena? Any news about them?”
“Wait, are you sure we should be talking about this? I mean.. You just woke up. Shouldn’t you be resting more?” Mariko looked confused.
“Just answer my question, Mariko.” Minegishi insisted.
“They should still be alive.. My guts are telling me that...” Mariko said.
“Alive, huh?” A small grin crawled up Minegishi’s face.
“Hmm?” Mariko was wearing a confused expression.
“Let me tell you a story, Mariko...” Minegishi crossed her leg and pushed her glasses before gesturing Mariko to sit. “Here, take a seat.”
“So, what’s this story you’re talking about?” Mariko asked as she crossed her legs.
“Mariko... You know I used the Spectre serum on Atsuko right?”
“Yes.” Mariko nodded.
“And you do remember that Atsuko was the ONLY person WE experimented on, right?”
Once again, Mariko nodded. “What about it?”
That was when Minegishi smirked a little. “Apparently someone else was experimented on without my supervision...”
“Huh?” This was actually the first time Mariko is hearing this.
“You only know half the story, Mariko. While I know the whole story..” Minegishi’s expression became amused as if she just had a breakthrough in science. “It was one of the most.....fascinating story I’ve heard.. It’s too fascinating just to keep it to myself. I’m gonna share it with you.”
“As much as I’m interested to hear the story, I still think it’s a little too random that you’re being so energetic and telling me so much right after you woke up.” Mariko still couldn’t catch up with Minegishi’s energetic aura.
“This is no time for us to discuss about me... What I’m about to tell you will be far more captivating. It’s something that even I didn’t know was possible..”
Mariko raised her brows. “Not even you knew? This could be interesting..”
Once again, Minegishi pushed her glasses up and smirked. “Now sit tight and I’ll tell you the other half of the story..”
Cyber HeadquartersKumi and Yuria landed at the Cyber headquarters and panted heavily as they had just escaped death. They groaned as they were still injured by Mayu and Yuki. Kumi asked. “Since when was Mayu this powerful!?”
“I don’t know! I never knew she could even fight!” Yuria replied. “And since when was that Yuki this fast!? The last time I remember, we both were on par with her! Now, she merely swept us off the floor just like that.”
“Doesn’t matter.. We need to inform Core about this.” Kumi said.
“You came back empty handed..” A silhouette of a lady appeared in front of them. Her eyes weren’t glowing in blue. Instead, there was a glowing blue circle on something really bulky on her right shoulder. And there were a few tubes filled with glowing blue liquids connecting from her wrists, stretching up all the way to her shoulders.
“S-Sasshi.. There was uhm.... Some problems..” Yuria stuttered a little. “We had other people interfering with us.”
“I already knew you both will fail..” The figure raised her voice and that alone made both Kumi and Yuria shook in fear. With every step she took closer to them, the ground cracked. This simply exhibits the amount of strength she could release with just mere footsteps. An extremely formidable Terra.
“We accidentally let our guards down. It won’t happen again, Sasshi..” Kumi answered.
“If only The Core sent me instead..” Sasshi clenched her fists.
“If The Core sent you instead, it would be a total catastrophe.. You might end up killing the girl along the way..” Another voice echoed in the dark halls as a figure was seen patting something at the corner of the room. She then smirked back at Sasshi. “You’re the commander of the Terras.. You’re meant to destroy and annihilate.. Not some simple kidnapping mission.”
“Is that a compliment, Kawaei?” Sasshi gave her the side eye.
“I’m sure you’re able to figure that out yourself, Sasshi.” Kawaei smirked. “In terms of strength, I’m nothing compared to you. I’m just a Cyber with a weak body.”
“Says the commander of the Mechanics.” A third voice echoed in the dark as a lady was seen polishing a long thing with a cloth. A little of the metal object could be seen from the slight reflection. “Your body might not be powerful but we all know what you’re capable of summoning.. You might very well be the best person for this mission.”
“Ah.. Seems like Ami is here too..” Kawaei smirked.
“I could do it too....” Ami lifted the thing she was holding and pointed it up as she examined it before wiping it again. “But I’m more interested in assassination missions..”
That time, a fourth voice echoed. “Bringing someone back alive, huh? Are you guys for real? We all know I’m the most suitable one for this mission..” In a split second, she appeared beside Sasshi. “I can just go in between them...” Then almost instantly, she had her arms over Ami’s shoulder. “Grab her...” She leaned on Kawaei. “And then leave before any of them could see..” Now she had both her hands over Kumi and Yuria’s shoulder. “I’m just that fast..”
As one of the best Machs around, Kumi and Yuria could barely catch on to her speed. They clapped their hands and Kumi said. “As expected of our awesome Mach commander Umeda..”
“Her top speed is twice our top speed combined. Of course she’s awesome.” Yuria answered.
“The Cyber’s top 4.. Sasshi, the commander of Terras. Kawaei, the commander of Mechanics. Ami, the commander of Quartz. And our Mach commander, Umeda..” Yuria said.
“Yea.. Even their presence felt intimidating...” Kumi answered.
“Getting a little cocky here, are we now, Umeda?” Kawaei snapped her fingers and the halls brightened.
The Cyber’s top four could be seen clearly now. Kawaei was wearing a pair of goggles on her head like Mayu while patting a mecha wolf who was laying down on the ground. Ami was wearing a cybernetic suit and polishing her trademark 5 foot long sniper rifle, so gleaming that it reflects light. Umeda had four small exhaust pipes each protruding out of her shoulders angled backwards and two at the side of her mechanical boots. The one that attracted the most attention was Sasshi. Not only she had pipes on her arms, her eyes were closed and a very deep scar ran across her eyes. One could easily conclude that both her eyes were sliced off. A drone was screwed tightly into her right shoulder and acted as her eyes, which was why her shoulder looked so bulky in the dark earlier.
Umeda then questioned her underlings. “So who’re these people who interfered with your mission?”
Yuria shot a look at Sasshi for a moment, hesitating to answer. “Err....”
“Would you like me to knock some words into your mouth?” Umeda repeated.
“K-K-Kashiwagi Yuki...” Yuria answered.
Sasshi’s ear twitched as her fist curled into a ball. The glowing blue liquid in her arm tubes seemed to be bubbling and flowing quicker than before. The speed whereby the blue liquid travels signifies Sasshi’s aggresiveness at that point. As the liquid was flowing really fast, it means Sasshi was agitated from just the single mention of the name. “Kashiwagi Yuki?”
“T-That’s why we were hesitant on naming her..” Kumi said.
“Oh.. Kashiwagi Yuki.. I know her.. Bet I could take her down in 5 seconds..” Ami said as she continued polishing her rifle. “Rather than getting my eyes sliced out of my sockets..”
Sasshi lifted her right foot and stomped it hard on the ground, causing the whole area to shake. The stomp was so powerful that it literally felt like an earthquake. Good thing the Cyber’s headquarter was built to withstand Sasshi’s tremor inducing stomps. “I suggest you shut your trap now, Ami.. Or I swear one day I will break that rifle in half..”
Ami’s ear twitched. “You say that again, I’m gonna put a bullet through your eyes.. Oh wait.. You don’t even have eyes to put a bullet in.” She replied sarcastically.
That comment literally made Sasshi turn her body at Ami’s direction.
“Ooooooo.... That burns..” Kawaei flinched from Ami’s verbal attack on Sasshi.
“Kashiwagi Yuki and who else?” Umeda continued.
“Mayu.. She’s helping them now..” Kumi answered.
That statement caused all top four Cybers to stop what they were currently doing and looked at the both of them.
“Mayu? Siding with the humans?” Umeda frowned.
“She’s supposed to be under your supervision, Kawaei.” Sasshi growled with an angry tone.
“Hey, don’t look at me. She’s stubborn.” Kawaei said. “I have no control over what she does.”
“It means you didn’t discipline her enough.” Sasshi growled once again.
At that time, the main hall door creaked open slowly, silencing everyone in the room immediately as they looked upon a young lady standing by the entrance. Every step she took closer to them, they took a step back, giving way for her. She walked up the short steps and stood in front of a throne at the top of the stairs. She then turned around and sat on the throne before leaning her chin on the back of her right hand elegantly. “So I heard, Mayu is with them now?”
“Core..” Everyone in the main hall greeted the young lady sitting on the throne. She looked really young. Her appearance was of an 18 year old girl. Despite looking that young, she still had the elegant look of a queen. There was a spider-like drone sitting on her right shoulder whom the Core single handedly created to be her personal advisor.
“Core.. We’re sorry that we came back empty handed..” Kumi apologized.
“No failures can be tolerated..” Sasshi clenched her fist.
“There there, Sasshi.. There’s no need to get physical with them..” Core said with a soft and calm tone, befitting a queen.
“Mayu said that you should personally talk to her if you want to get Shimazaki Haruka. Mayu said she belonged to her.” Yuria added.
“Oh? She wants me to talk to her personally?” Core raised her brows in amusement.
Kawaei smirked as she shook her head. “As expected of Mayu, really..”
“How dare she!” Steams escaped Umeda’s exhaunt pipes in anger.
Uninterested, Ami continued polishing her rifle.
“If that’s how she wants it to be then I’ll grant her wish.” Core smiled yet again.
“Are you sure about this, Nao?” The spider sitting on her right shoulder finally spoke out and revealed Core’s name. “It’ll be unsightly for the queen to answer to a lower Cyber’s request.”
“Don’t worry about that, Rie..” Nao answered her tiny advisor. “I know what I’m doing.”
“As you wish, Nao.. You’re the Core.” Rie answered as she sat back down on Nao’s shoulder.
The Core called out to four of her commanders. “Sasshi. Ami. Kawaei. Umeda.”
The four of them looked back at her.
“I think I can entrust this mission to four of my most powerful Cybers?” Nao tilted her head a little and smiled. “Yes?”
“T-The four commanders in the same mission...” Kumi and Yuria expressed their shock as they have never seen all four commanders being assigned to the same mission before. This was the first. “That girl must be someone really really important.”
“I want the four of you to bring Shimazaki Haruka and Mayu back here. Alive.” Core said with a smile on her face.
“What about the others?” Ami sounded.
The Core smiled. “Your mission is just to bring them back alive. Try not to cause any casualties along the way.”
“What if someone gets in the way?” Kawaei asked.
“If something or someone gets in the way, only then you’ll have my permission to kill.”
As soon as they heard the word ‘kill’ from Core, the four of them smirked. “Got it.”
“The four of us, eh? It’ll be faster than lightning!” Fumes escaped from Umeda’s exhaust pipes.
“My my.. Why do I have a feeling that this will get a little messy?” Kawaei snapped her fingers, causing her mecha wolf to disappear into thin air.
“Time to give my little baby some excercise.” Ami said as she strapped her rifle over her shoulder and wore her leather gloves.
“Kashiwagi Yuki is with them, huh...” A huge grin crawled up her face suddenly as she traced her fingers over her eye sockets. “I can smell her death coming very soon..”
In the meanwhile, Atsuko, Takamina, Yuki, Mayu, Rena and Jurina were fighting off some Spectres in the forest led by the Gamma and Delta commanders, Mocchi and Kasai. Despite being outnumbered by a lot, they still managed to keep the upperhand. Almost half of Mocchi and Kasai’s army had already been wiped out while Yuki and her allies had not even a single scratch on their body yet. Their teamwork was amazing.
Yuki shot a look at Takamina, fighting her way through some Spectres a few feet away from her, remembering the last time they fought together. As Yuki was distracted by her sudden flashback, a Spectre ambushed her. As the Spectre got closer, Mayu suddenly appeared from the side and broke its jaw with her brass knuckles and smirked. “I got your back, love.”
Yuki finally got back to her senses and replied with a smile. “Thanks.”
At that time, Takamina voiced out towards Yuki. “I don’t remember you needing any cover, Yuki. What’s gotten into you?”
“I just lost focus for a moment. Forgive me. It won’t happen again.” Yuki felt a surge of nostalgia flowing within her with Takamina’s sentence.
“Don’t lose focus this time.”
“I won’t.” Yuki said as she tapped two other Judgements clipped on her belt. Both the Judgements were seen glowing in red and she continued fending off the Spectres.
Right after Rena ripped her victim into two, she grinned and went straight for Mocchi. The latter turned her head and noticed Rena coming towards her, but was too late to react to it. Rena ended up pinning Mocchi down, but that didn’t last long as she double kicked Rena away. Being persistent as ever, Rena immediately got back to her feet and leaped in once again. It would be much easier if Rena knew how to use her blades. She’s merely relying on her claws and aggresiveness.
“Time to end this!” That time, Yuki unclipped out two charged up Judgement laser from her belt. “Everybody duck!”
As soon as they heard her, all of them did. Takamina had to tackle Rena down as she wasn’t aware of what Yuki was shouting. Yuki then clicked on both buttons at the same time and spun her body around, causing both the laser to be blasted 360 degree around her. All the Spectres surrounding her got vaporized almost immediately. Mocchi who was fighting with Rena beside the river, tilted her whole body to the side, dodging against the laser and dragged Rena into the river with her.
“Rena!” Jurina who saw this screamed as she looked upon Mocchi and Rena being washed away by the river.
“Where are you looking at, Jurina!?” Kasai shot a barrage of fireballs at Jurina as a six Spectres gang in on her.
“Get lost! ALL OF YOU!!” Jurina entended all six of her blades, impaling each of the Spectres before releasing fireballs at the tip of her blades, blowing them to bits.
Atsuko came in between and blocked all Kasai’s incoming fireballs with her shield. “You’re not playing fair aren’t you? ”
“Tch-” Kasai scoffed as her attack on Jurina was unsuccessful.
“Jurina. Go find Rena now.” Atsuko ordered.
“Do you even need to tell me?” Jurina said and immediately sprinted along the river where Rena and Mocchi got flushed away.
Noticing that her army was losing badly, Kasai ordered her remaining army to attack them full force and decided to make a run for it by herself, leaving Mocchi and the others. As the others were busy fending off the remaining Spectres, they didn’t take notice of Kasai leaving the scene already.
Rena and Mocchi were already quite a distance away from the gang. Releasing herself from the scuffle with Rena, Mocchi hopped out of the river. Soon after, Rena hopped out as well with a maniacal laugh and rushed towards Mocchi straight for a slash. Before Rena could reach, Mocchi leaped back to keep a distance away from her and shot a fireball that blew up successfully on Rena’s face.
Unfazed, Rena ran past the smoke. “AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!”
“What the-!!” Mocchi did not expect Rena to be unfazed by that attack. Before she knew it, Rena already knocked her over and managed to pin her down hard.
Rena’s grin widened. “Nee.... Okotteru?”
“Get off me!” Mocchi was literally struggling to get Rena off her body. As Rena raised her claws up getting ready to slash, Mocchi used all four of her blades to stab Rena. Mocchi’s movements were fast as she managed to pierce Rena’s body in an instant. The attack was successful. Two on Rena’s shoulders and another two on her stomach.
“Gwah--” Rena coughed out a lot of blood from four stabs on her body. She lost lots of blood from that attack.
“Die!!” Mocchi pushed her blades deeper into Rena, causing the latter to struggle.
“He...hehe.....hahahaha.....” A laugh escaped Rena’s mouth all of a sudden despite her body still being impaled by the blades. “AAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
“W-What? Y-You’re supposed to be dead!” Mocchi was shivering a little, but that didn’t stop her. She immediately pulled out all four of her blades from Rena and impaled her once again.
“Ugh-” Rena was affected by the blade penetrating her body and once again, she gacked out some blood and panted heavily. “Gwaak.......ha.......haaa..... Haaaaaa....... Hahaaaaaha......... HAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”
Fear started crawling within her when Rena started laughing once again. “Y-Y-You’re supposed to be dead! You’re supposed to be dead! You’re supposed to be dead! You’re supposed to be dead! You’re supposed to be dead!!!” Raising her voice with each word, Mocchi continuously removed her blades from Rena and stabbed her again and again, but Rena seemed to be showing the same reaction everytime. The same laugh. The one that made Mocchi shiver. It was amazing how Rena was still able to pin Mocchi down despite being continuously attacked and after losing so much blood. “DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!”
By this time, Rena was at least stabbed more than 20 times as her whole body was smeared with her own blood. Before Mocchi could land another attack, Rena pulled Mocchi by her hair and slammed her head on the ground hard.
“Arggh-!” Mocchi groaned from the impact.
Once again, before Mocchi could react, Rena pulled her hair up and slammed her head down again, and again, and again, and again, and again. “AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA!!!!!” Her action doesn’t seem to stop. There was already a small crater on the ground beneath Mocchi’s head.
“ARRGH!” Mocchi was feeling excrutiating pain on her head from the continuous slamming. She felt like she was gonna pass out anytime now. That time, Rena stood up from Mocchi’s body as she placed four of her fingers inside Mocchi’s mouth and wrenched her whole body up by the jaw. She then used her brute strength to shove Mocchi’s body towards a tree with four of her fingers still in Mocchi’s mouth. Mocchi couldn’t resist much as she still felt dizzy from the concussion.
Her sight was also getting a little hazy. The only thing she saw was Rena’s insane grin right before her very eyes before Rena placed another arm on her face. With one hand in Mocchi’s mouth and the other holding her head in place, Rena started wrenching Mocchi’s jaw again and again. “AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..........”
“UGHHH UGHH UGGGHHH!!!” Mocchi had lost most of her energy already. She didn’t even have the energy to lift her blades up. All she could do now was just attempting to pry Rena’s hand off her mouth and punch her continuously. None of those fazed her at all, but that did disturb Rena a little. At that time, four blades protruded from Rena’s back and impaled Mocchi’s arms onto the tree. Each on both side of Mocchi’s shoulders and wrists.
“HAHAHAHAAHHAHAA!!!” Rena’s wrench seemed to be getting more and more violent as she slammed Mocchi’s head on the tree a few times. At this rate, Mocchi’s jaw could very well be ripped off her face. Mocchi didn’t want that to happen. She’s very afraid right now. She couldn’t even fight back. The look on her face became really desperate. Her eyes were literally begging for mercy, and then there it was again. Rena’s crazy grin. At that point, Mocchi knew that was the end.
The fear lurking within Mocchi was at an extreme nightmare level. “N-No.....” and that was her final word.
With one last wrench, Rena ripped Mocchi’s jaw completely off her face, blood smearing all over her body. Holding Mocchi’s jaw on her left hand and pinning the rest of her face on her right hand, Rena let out a laugh. “HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!! AHAAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!”
Mocchi’s body slowly tumbled down as fell flat onto the ground from her jaw being ripped off completely. That did not stop Rena from attacking Mocchi. She slashed Mocchi’s body again and again with her claws. That time, Jurina reached the scene and was shocked with what she saw. Rena sitting on top of what seemed to be remains of Mocchi’s corpse. Her jaw completely ripped off the face, body completely bloodied up by Rena’s continuous slashing.
“AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!” Rena kept slamming her claw on Mocchi’s remains despite the latter already dead and that became a little too unsightly for Jurina.
“Rena! Stop!” Jurina had to jump in and stop Rena from losing herself more. She pulled Rena off Mocchi’s body and pinned her on the wall. That was when Jurina noticed the number of blade piercings on Rena’s body. “What the...”
Rena struggled hard against Jurina.
Even Jurina’s arms were completely smeared with blood just by holding Rena. “Rena! Snap out of it! She’s dead!”
Rena grin widened and tilted her head. “Nee.... Okotteru?”
“Please, Rena..” Jurina caressed Rena’s bloodied face.
As soon as Jurina touched her face, she lost her grin as she slowly lifted her hand and cupped Jurina’s hand. The other hand moved up and traced Jurina’s lips. “Ju......”
Jurina’s eyes widened as she noticed the words excaping from Rena’s mouth.
“Ri.....”
At this point, Jurina was sure about this. Rena was about to pronounce her name. Rena did remember her after all. Before Rena could utter her name completely, she spit out more blood from her mouth and nose. Then her eyes slowly closed, whole body collapsing onto Jurina’s.
“Rena? Rena!” Jurina shook her and checked for a pulse. “There’s still a pulse.. Thank god..”
Rena was just unconscious from all the blood lost. The amount of injuries Rena sustained was more than enough to kill even an Alpha. It was a miracle that Rena was merely unconcsious after all the attacks. Jurina held Rena’s body close to hers and hugged her tightly. “I promised to protect you. I’m really sorry that I let this happen to you, Rena.. I really am..”
That time, the whole gang just arrived after taking out the entire Spectre army.
“How unpleasant...” Mayu shook her head from the amount of blood smeared all over the area.
“Poor Mocchi...” Atsuko flinched a little from the remains of Mocchi’s body. “If only she knew all of Rena’s pain receptors were dead, she wouldn’t let her guard down..”
“What the...” Yuki’s eyes widened from the gory scene. She couldn’t believe the sight before her very eyes. “T-This was done by Rena senpai?”
“Exactly.. That’s Rena now.” Takamina explained.
“I...” Yuki was still lost for words. This definitely wasn’t the Rena she knew before this. The Rena that Yuki knew had a really cute character. This one’s an insane monster. Yuki couldn’t believe Rena’s drastic change.
Paru who saw the gory scene immediately hid behind the tree, hugging Romeo tightly while shivering in fear. It was too much for her to handle. The scene was simply inhumane.
Yuki noticed this and went over to comfort the younger girl. “You ok, Paru?”
“W-W-W-What was that, sensei...?” Even Paru’s words shook in fear.
Yuki lowered herself down to the frightened girl. “Hey. Don’t be afraid of things like these, alright?”
“H-How can I not be afraid? D-Did you see how brutal that was!?”
“Paru.. You’re a soon-to-be Reaper. You can’t be afraid of these things right?” Yuki said softly.
“Yes I know, but that was too much! The guts were all over the place!”
Paru was suddenly dragged up by Takamina and held her head at the gruesome scene, forcing her to look. Paru gasp at the scene yet again before Takamina continued. “You’re my student, aren’t you? It’s a shame I do not accept students who cower themselves in fear from mere guts and blood.”
Paru’s eyes were fixated at the scene. She was too afraid to even shut her eyes. “S-Stop...”
“Stop?” Takamina shoved Paru towards Mocchi’s remains as the latter fell down hard. Her hands and shirt were smeared with Mocchi’s blood completely. Paru screamed as she was really afraid. She wasn’t used to seeing a gruesome scene like this, let along showered in the blood. She wanted to cry so hard right now.
“Ooo... That’s harsh..” Even Mayu flinched a little.
“Minami, please...” Atsuko urged.
“As long as you keep being timid like this, you will have the same fate as her.. Being afraid of something as petty as a torn off body? Don’t make me laugh.”
Yuki walked over. “Sensei.. She’s just 18.”
Takamina raised her voice. “You were already a fearless elite Reaper by 18, Yuki.” and then she pointed at Paru. “While this girl!? 18 and still acting like a baby!”
“....” Paru was silent as she remained face down.
Yuki sighed at Paru. “Takamina sensei is a little harsh, so I hope you don’t mind.”
“She’s right, Yuki sensei.. I need to be fearless... I can’t let something like this hinder me. I wanna be an elite like you..” Paru said as she stood up.
Yuki smiled and patted Paru’s head. “I’m glad you understand..”
“We should leave now before we get tracked down.” Yuki suggested.
“Where else is safe?” Atsuko asked.
“We can go back to Legion and get some help. It’s definitely safer than anywhere else.” Yuki suggested.
“Forget it! I’m not going back there!” Takamina raised her voice.
“Don’t forget you lost the fight against me, sensei. You promised me that you will return to Legion with me.” Yuki replied confidently.
“Minami, maybe Yuki’s right.. Legion is the safest place we can be.” Atsuko said.
“Now’s not the best time to return. Maybe next time. Besides, I know a safe place.” Takamina said.
“You do?” Suddenly realizing what place Takamina was refering to, Atsuko raised her brows. “Minami.. Are you sure?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Well, whereever it is, how long is it gonna take?” Mayu asked.
“By foot, maybe almost a day.” Takamina said.
“A day!?” Mayu’s eyes shot wide open. “Why don’t we just fly there? I hate walking.”
“Unless you still have drones for us to fly?” Atsuko asked.
Mayu snapped her fingers. Nothing came out. Once again, she snapped. Nothing. Mayu was lying about not having any more drones before this but this time, Mayu was out of drones for real. “Damn..”
This time it was Yuki’s turn to smirk at Mayu. “So karma really does exist..”
“Tch-” Mayu had no choice but to follow them and walk this time.
Paru held Romeo close to her and carried him along. Jurina was carrying the unconscious Rena behind her back. It was a long journey. As all of them had extraordinary staminas, they didn’t make a stop along their journey at all. Romeo woke up from his deep sleep along the way. The journey took a little longer than expected, about 28 hours rather than the estimated 23 hours because there were some paths that were destroyed by landslides. They had to take the long way.
Finally, after one whole day of walking, they reached their destination. It was a cave at a very secluded area of the forest. They walked inside for a distance and camped there. After laying Rena down gently on the soft ground, Jurina tossed a bunch of logs that they collected along the way onto the ground and shot a fireball at it, creating a bonfire.
Jurina then got back to Rena’s side and embraced her. “This will warm you up, Rena...”
Romeo wasn’t feeling too well. He was just laying his head on the ground, staring at the bonfire.
“Romeo, is something wrong?” Paru brushed Romeo’s fur with her hand.
“*whine*” Romeo let out a small whimper.
“Are you in pain?”
“He’s just tired after all that walking.” Atsuko smiled and twitched her nose.
“Atsuko, you can speak dog too?” Paru asked.
“Everyone in Team Taka understands Romeo..” Atsuko explained.
“I see...” Paru nodded.
Mayu then sounded, breaking the silence. “Alright. I might need some help in this research about Paru.”
“Why the rush? Wait till her wound heals up completely first.” Takamina said.
“Wound?” Mayu frowned. She looked really confused.
“The wound on her chest.” Takamina continued.
“That girl didn’t even fight. She merely stood behind the whole time. Why would she have a wound?” Mayu asked again. “There’s no wound on her..”
“There is. She has a wound on her chest. She stabbed herself way before. I saw it with my own eyes.” Takamina insisted.
Mayu shook her head. “And I saw her completely naked. There was absolutely nothing. Her body was completely clean.”
“.....” Takamina frowned as well. “That means... Her wound healed within hours.. I thought it was a little weird that she could stand a little too long for someone who just got injured recently.”
Yuki turned over at Paru with a shocked expression. “Wait, you started the training only hours after you stabbed yourself!?”
“I thought I told you about it.” Paru said.
“You told me that you pleaded her to teach you about combat. You didn’t tell me you already STARTED the training with her within hours after you suffered a heavy injury!” Yuki said.
“Minami... You should have noted it.” Atsuko said.
“What? That kind of injury never stopped me from training before.” Takamina clarified.
“Yeah, not everyone in the world is a superwoman like you, Minami.” Atsuko explained.
“Wait. If what you said were true, her healing factor definitely isn’t of a human’s..” Mayu suddenly rubbed her head and thought to herself. “Wait wait.... It doesn’t make sense... It can’t be.. Those force and magnetic powers she possess... And this healing factor... No.. It’s not possible.”
“What’s wrong, Mayu?” Yuki noticed Mayu’s expression was a little off.
Mayu then looked back at Yuki. “I need to test this healing factor of hers..”
“Uhm... What do you need?” Yuki asked.
“I need to compare the healing factor of a normal human and Paru’s.”
“Simple.” Takamina suddenly landed a powerful elbow strike on Paru’s torso and broke one of her rib without alerting the latter.
“ARRGHH!!!” Paru fell down on her knees while grabbing on her torso in pain. “It-It hurts....”
“Sensei... She’s just 18.”
“You survived much worse things at 18, Yuki.” As soon as Takamina finished her sentence, Takamina landed an elbow strike on Yuki, breaking one of her rib as well, once again without alerting her.
“Ouch!” Yuki grabbed her torso with her right hand, but she didn’t feel it as much as Paru did.
“Ouch?” Takamina raised a brow. “It was just one rib, Yuki.”
One broken rib was nothing for Yuki definitely. She suffered much worse things than just ‘one broken rib’. “Yea, I know it was just one but you could at least warn me about it.”
“Ughhhh......” Paru was still groaning on the ground. “It hurts.....”
“Sleep it off. You’ll forget the pain when you’re sleeping.” Takamina said as she walked deeper into the cave.
“Takamina sensei’s right. You should probably go to sleep.” Yuki told.
“Y-Yea, I should..” Paru slowly crawled her way to a boulder and leaned on it. Soon after, she drifted off to sleep.
Atsuko kneeled down beside Jurina and asked. “How’s Rena hanging on?”
“She’ll be ok.” Jurina answered as she continued embracing Rena’s unconscious body. “She suffered heavy injuries on the torso and both her arms... I promised to protect her, Atsuko..”
“Hey.” Atsuko called out. “You did a very great job, Jurina. So don’t you dare blame yourself for anything.”
Jurina smiled a little from Atsuko’s words and tightened her hug on Rena. “Thanks..”
“We’ll rest for now. Mayu may need our help for the research on Paru later on.” Atsuko said.
Paru opened her eyes, glancing slowly at her surroundings as her eye met with Mayu. Mayu suddenly stepped over and scanned Paru’s body thoroughly. “Hmm.. Just as I thought.. The broken rib seem to be slowly healing itself.. It’s now just a tiny fracture.. And it’s only been 2 hours..”
Mayu then walked over towards Yuki and scanned her as well. “The rib is still broken.. Not much changes... Hmm... This is good data.. I need some time to analyze this..”
That was when Paru noticed Takamina standing deep in the cave, staring at something on the ground. She just stood there silent as her eyes were fixated on three things on the ground. As it was a distance away and a little dark, Paru couldn’t make out what those things were.
“Yuki sensei..” Paru called.
“Yeah?”
“I noticed Takamina sensei stood there staring at some weird things for quite some time... What are those?”
Yuki turned her head over at Takamina. “Those are tombstones, Paru.. They belonged to her sister and parents.”
Paru’s eyes widened in shock. “You mean they were burried here??”
Yuki shook her head slowly. “You see, Paru... Their bodies were not recovered.. Takamina sensei made the tombstones just so that she could pay her respect to them.”
“Huh? No bodies?” Paru looked confused. “Why not?”
“It’s a long story, Paru..” Atsuko sounded at this time.
“I’m interested to know.” Paru’s face brightened as she felt interested in the story suddenly.
Atsuko smiled and twitched her nose. “Why are you so interested in her story suddenly?”
Paru merely shrugged. “I don’t know.. I just feel like I should know her backstory better so I don’t end up offending her in any way..”
“Well, alright then..” Atsuko sat down on a large boulder. “Sit. You too, Yuki. I’ll fill you in with Team Taka’s details along the way..”
Paru and Yuki sat down in front of Atsuko. Judging from the expression on their face, Paru was definitely the more excited one.
“Now.. Let me tell you her story.. The story of a child prodigy.”
Chapter 11 : The Cyber Four
ENDNOTE : Next chapter will be the chapter where a lot of you had been waiting for~ The start of Team Taka's history~ It revolves around Takamina's journey of becoming a legendary Reaper in the Legion, her relationship with her team members, her first meeting with a 7yo Yuki and also fills up the two years mystery gap... The history will take up a few chapters because it definitely cannot be done with just one chapter. There's too much backstory LOL. So, stay tuned, and I will see you in chapter 12 entitled "The History Of Team Taka : The Child Prodigy"~! 
Topic: [Atsuko_love's fanfic] The Ultimatum - CHAPTER 27 (multipairing) 31/03/2016 (Read 158552 times)