- Episode 17: The duel rematch. -
- Ryan Leto -
My eyes shot open, i found myself in reality yet again. The dreams i had been having recently were starting to eat at my mind, it felt as if my brain was teasing itself with hallucinations of my past. I now knew though, i had a family of some kind. The messages i found in my sleep were starting to get to me, it was as if my brain was teasing itself with my past. However, there was no reason to pick my brain for answers I wouldn't get.
I turned to my side and realised Elenor was still sleeping. She looked peaceful and I was sure she was tired from healing me so much recently. I shook her slightly to wake her up and she slowly opened up her eyes then rubbed the dust out of them. We looked at each other for a moment and I realised I was a little too close. Her face went red and both of us suddenly got up, brushing the sand off of our clothes.
"Elenor, i'm going to have a rematch with Rei today. I feel like i need to test my strength against him, so we might be moving on soon." She turned to me and smiled. "That's fine, let's beat the shit out of him." I don't know why I thought she wouldn't like the idea but I smiled back. "Yeah!" We both got up and began to head towards the settlement.
- Rei Ito -
It was time to go out to the storehouse again, I grabbed my Tachi and strapped it to my waist. I then suppressed my mana and headed out into the settlement, jumping roof to roof. I sensed mana on my way there and noticed they had bulked up their security, at least this would be boring. I got into view of the storehouse and immediately jumped backwards, a bolt of mana flew into the house beside me , it looks like they figured out my route.
This was completely fine though I took a detour and jumped across to a different route, weaving around to the opposite side of the settlement and then dropping in between two of the houses for safe measure. They were off my tail now and I started to dwindle down their numbers first. I sent mana out of my body and in front of the two guards at the front of the storehouse. I condensed it down and allowed it to gather power before remotely exploding it.
The two guards dropped to the floor and caused a ruckus, four of the other guards rushed to help and I took my opportunity to jump to the storehouse roof, blowing a small hole in it with a silent explosion and taking what I could as fast as I could. The door suddenly swung open and the guards flowed in. I wanted to avoid this situation but there was no way out now. I guess I had to kill them.
I allowed them to come to me as I had already set up a trap for them, they rushed through the door and one of them took a swing at me with enhancement manipulation. kicked the man forward and remotely exploded the mana i had planted in advance. They were now all on the ground, some of them heavily bleeding from the attack.
I then sent mana into my arm and readied a blast of mana to finish them off, if i didnt they would continue to come after me after all. That was supposed to be the case, but a black dagger came into view and my attack was interrupted so that I could dodge it. Ryan was standing between me and the guards. he eld his two daggers in a fighting stance and his facial expression was one of intense anger.
"What have you got to be so angry about dumbass, move." He seemed to get even more angry as he tossed one of his daggers at me, they were much, much faster than before. I couldn't even react to it as it made a scratch across my cheek before returning to his hand. "I don't have anything to be angry about? Fuck off you narcissist!" I condensed mana into my palms and launched it at him. My heightened anger showing through my attacks instead of my face, the blast was parried but Ryan was knocked back.a few metres by the recoil.
"You lost last time. what makes you think you can win this time huh?" Ryan was silent as he dashed towards me at full speed. He grabbed both daggers and aimed for my legs, i jumped up and kicked him in the face to push him away before charging up a blast with both hands and closing the gap at the same time. However, Ryan was no longer in front of me. He had somehow gotten behind me and had his daggers pinned against my neck.
"How the fuck?!" I attempted to get out but he wrapped his arm around my neck and began to strangle me, he intended to knock me out. I no longer had a choice, I reached for my tachi and drew it from its sheath, Ryan had already felt the danger coming and stepped away from me. His instincts are better than I thought. "Ryan, let's stop here, let me kill the guards and you can get out of this alive."
He ignored me and went on the offensive so I responded in kind. I pointed my blade forwards and condensed mana into the tip of it. I then let the attack loose, a beam in the shape of my tachi extended outwards, Ryan barely dodged it and a small chunk of his shoulder was completely disintegrated by the attack. The building behind Ryan now had a hole etched through it.
Despite this, Ryan looked determined to finish our battle. It was foolish but I found it amusing. "Damn it, you just won't die will you?!"
- Episode 17 end -
- Next: The more the merrier -
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