Nyanyanyan

Her friend, her roommate, hadn’t been home in a while. This was hardly a surprise for Riful. Yuuki was prone to getting lost. After all, when she first met him, he had forgotten where he lived and had just been napping on park benches for days on end. It wasn’t something that scared her.

It was just that he’d been gone for a lot longer than he ever had before.

It had taken much of Yuuki’s remaining strength of will to crawl away. He could not give up- couldn’t possibly. But if he was losing blood quickly before, it was gushing out of him now. The shock prevented him from feeling too much pain.  He’d always been talented at ignoring it before. But this was more than he’d ever felt.

Yuuki knew that Arata’s strength was beyond that of a human’s, but he had not anticipated that it would be beyond that of a Rare Kind’s. He had thought it impossible for him to launch such a large-scale attack in an environment like that… Much less break free so easily.

However the fight with Yuuki have to be the one that pushes him as Yuuki have no magic and just as experience with fighting as some of his other enemies he fought in citta.

[BIG ONE INCOMING!]

Arata able to defend himself in time as Yuuki sonic boom shatter the glass around them and made the VERY ground itself feel like it’s shaking. After it though it seem like Yuuki have finally use up his sound armor mode as Arata grin.

Victory is…..oh god damn it.

“SPOKE TO SOON!”

Yuuki collapse the floor on him as fall down from floor to floor. God damn weak structure.

[10 feet till impact!]

Arata fall first as he created a grappling hook to help him land safety on the one of the floor he without hestiting let his hand out and the necklace he was wearing around him turn into a jet black sword OOZING with aura.

The magic king weapon Juddeca. Only ONE of these sword for a magic king in a mutiuniverse as it’s made from the rarest material unknown to man. Anyone other then Arata Kasuga touches the sword then they get all the mana in their body drain out of them leaving them a heaping mess. It was a sword design for the final boss in a game and Arata have it.

Did we mention it can also transform into different shape depend on the magic input into it and it can slice though mountains and islands?

“Chances of him dodging in mid air while falling?”

77%

Arata nod hearing the numbers as he timed his jump and leap onto the falling Yuuki ALL the way down to the ground pinning Yuuki with his sword on his right shoulder as a bit of Yuuki blood got on Arata face and both of them crash to the first floor with Yuuki having a whole blade THOUGH his rider arm,  and Arata looking hella beaten up.

“Stay down i’m not the same kid you save that say anymore.. If i wanted it you be dead already.”

But Yuuki could not, would not stop. And even if he was outclassed, he would not stop fighting. He would not back down.

Yuuki was accustomed to falling, and like a cat he always landed on his feet. Dodging in midair was no problem either- not will all of this debris around. But he could not gain momentum while he fell. He could not outrun Arata in mid-air. The blade pierced his shoulder. He coughed, choking down the pain, and grabbed the blade, ignoring how it sliced through his palm with ease. In response something sprouted from the hilt and wrapped around his body.

Something was wrong. This sensation was familiar. A power drain. The agony was impossible to describe- for him a power drain was not just that. Yuuki’s power was his very life force. His muscles tensed- he stopped moving. It was all he could do to clench his fists. (And he could barely manage that.) Arata had the power of the Rare Kinds collapsed into a blade. A power-user’s natural enemy.

A thin cough gasp of air escaped him as Arata removed his sword. Yuuki let go. The drain was gone. He was tumbling on the edge of going Lost. If he was Lost he would not be able to fight anymore.

But Yuuki had killed a Rare Kind before.

There was only one way to do it. It was a gamble. It would drain an insane amount of his life force. If he touched the sword again after that, he would not get away with becoming a mere cat- it would outright kill him. (But here death was not permanent, was it? So there was no harm.) But all that he had to do was not touch it, right? And if he had enough power, he could avoid that with ease.

His body screamed for mercy, but he ignored it. He called out to the power sleeping inside of him- the catastrophic ability carved into his very DNA. The one he’d only used twice before.

The Apple of Eden. Long white hair, a bigger body, utterly overflowing with power. 

With a blur of motion, a sonic boom, he was out of Arata’s grasp. He ran. He’d well surpassed his previous limits like this. His speed alone created a crushing vortex of air. It would be impossible for an ordinary human to move. Immense strength would be required. But Arata had that strength. He might be able to break out of this.  He would have to attack him before he had a chance to try.

Yet Yuuki still prevail even with Arata tactic as Arata use Chrono calculation to teleport himself from Yuuki fist strike  just far enough to avoid being hit by the full force as even with a constant barrage of shot after shot from gun he made using Alchemy Yuuki STILL stands.

Arata on the other hand ribs were bruise and even purple as the sound wave of that punch still pack enough vibration to hurt him pretty badly as it’s thank to mantra enchantment he not done for yet.

SHIT SHIT SHIT! Arata want Yuuki to give up or get angry so Arata can defeat him without hurting him to much but the more they talk the more Arata suspect he CAN’T GET THOUGH to Yuuki.

NONONONO Arata refuse to believe killing Yuuki the only way to stop him as he at this moment rember his Reckoner self.

That was someone who was so convince he was right also. The more he wins the more it strength his Reckoner self sense of justice. The more twisted he became.

What he doing is right. After all justice always win in the end right? Yuuki must be the same also. Nobody standing a chance in hell against his own brand of justice thus slowly but surely Yuuki think all his enemies must be killed in order for their to be peace.

Yuuki Tenpouin view of morality to twisted that guiltiing him nor appealing to his sense of morals going to work.

This all can only end in one way.

“Forgive me.”

Arata perform a cross counter on Yuuki the next punch landed and it do seem like fist work after all.

Good he about to give Yuuki the whupping of his life.

“It seem like in the end our ideals are just to different. It’s a pity we can’t become friends. I did honestly like you.”

The two exchange blows as while Yuuki have more experience and a stronger defense. Arata blows are landing left and right also. 

Plus Arata unlike Yuuki was in perfect condition before the fight starts, He have the assitant of two grimmore who can warn him when ever Yuuki about to deliver a hard blow on him as it was a brawl that created craters and a lot of destruction.

Yuuki landed another punch at Arata before he seem to stagger a bit and return Yuuki hit with a headbut of his own.

Both fighter are bloody as they have both landed some good shots on each other.

He thought he tasted blood, but that was nothing new at all. He spat out a tooth. Took a deep breath.

“I like you too, Cardboard. You’re a good person. You’re gonna be a really awesome hero someday.”

“Except this is something I have to do so I can’t back down.”

Yuuki screamed- all of the glass in the building shattered. The walls shook. Alarms rang. Distant screams and footsteps indicated that whoever had been in the building didn’t intend to stick around. It was for the best. At this rate they might very well destroy the building. It wouldn’t do if they caught any innocent bystanders in the crossfire. He lost his ability to create echoes, which did limit his strength, but he had no desire to harm any innocent people.

Arata could break through his Scarlet Phoneme and it was a waste of power. He couldn’t afford to go Lost right now. He couldn’t carry a body as a housecat. The red buzz surrounding him died down- he returned to his normal appearance… and directed the soundwaves into his fingers. There was noise around the building, but they were the only two heartbeats left. What an efficient evacuation! There was one floor below him. The windows were open. If he was lucky… He slammed his hand through the floor, sending soundwaves through it- shattering the supports. The floor fell out from under them, and Yuuki leapt to the side, grabbing the arm of the corpse. But the injuries he’d received had taken a bigger toll than he’d anticipated. It took him precious seconds to hoist the body up under his arm. Too many for him to simply leap out the window. He was falling.

Is force the only way he can get though to Yuuki?

People might not die in Citta but he don’t want to kill Yuuki if possible.

Arata saw the blast hitting Yuuki yet he also see Yuuki enter super mode as in a blink of a eye Yuuki enter near hand reach of him and crush every single gun he summon. 

Arata can summon more but he realize now that Yuuki realize the trick it might not work a second time. Plus now that Yuuki basically in sound armor how the hell is he going to get though that defense? Even if he throws his fist enchanted with Mantra enchantment Arata seriously doubt Yuuki sound armor can’t deflect it.

[Master! I have a plan!]

One of the two grimmore who been helping Arata since the fight start communicate with Arata though the telepathy link they both share as she seen it.  Yuuki body is coated with such high sound vibration it’s almost damn near impossible for weapon to touch his skin. Even if Arata with mantra enchantment can tank a punch throw by Yuuki and prevent his bones and muscle from being effect by Yuuki. That layer of protection still kind of insane.

So how do you beat someone like that?

Sound immunity and sound absorption sound nice on paper but with all of Arata powers he can’t pull something like that out of his ass. Sound need a meduim to travel though but there no way in hell Arata can just drag someone to another world where air ground and water don’t exist.

So they have two options. Either change their battle style and adapt a more gurrelia warfare like approach. Like Arata mantra enchantment. Yuuki Scarlet Phoneme have to run on something as Yuuki by turning this mode on means it have to be on constantly. With the right guerrilla style approach they can drain Yuuki of stamina and win.

Or they can just fire something at him that even his sound armor can’t defend itself against. He only cloaking his body with high frequency sound. It’s not like it make him completely indestructible.

Thank god he have those two grimmore by his side as Arata simply smile.

“I refuse!”

He disappear from Yuuki sight as suddenly a same beam of magic was fire at Yuuki yet was easily deflected by Yuuki sound armor as Arata have appear on a nearby roof top. A second shot was also taken yet deflected as it seem to have appear ANOTHER Arata. 

Arata card this time have been play.

You see one of Arata grimmore who is capable of taking a human form know a VERY useful kind of magic also. Illusion magic that able to pull the wool over Yuuki eye as even if he can protect himself from most of Arata attack. There no way his sound armor can defend itself from magic that can’t be deflected. The kind Illias use don’t have any particle of anything that can be deflected. Perfect to use againts nigh indestructible Yuuki.

Oh? Those vision of Arata that Yuuki seeing? Almost ALL of them are simply  guns Arata created as he hate to do this but he going to have to break Yuuki concentration one way or another.

“It seem like even if i try my best i was wrong. I thought you can become a better person but it seem like your only simply a murderer. I thought you can be a better person but the only thing you understand is killing don’t you? You don’t care about the people you hurt on your crusade. You don’t even understand the consequence of your action do you? Do you really don’t think even bad people have families to? By just slaughtering the man what make you any different from what he does to people? Let me ask you a even BETTER question. Have you slaughter of the crimnal empire produce any result yet or is people still being hurt and crime still happening on the street? How many kids have you oprhan yet havn’t proven a single result yet? Face it Yuuki. All those people you killed are for nothing. The cycle of crime and blood shed still continue in this city.”

Arata pick this trick up during Reckoner when he fought a evil mage that can turn into a fucking dragon as it’s simple psychological dissection. Something that he only become better at once he gotten his Reckoner self memory back. Arata hate he have to do this but he need to try and make Yuuki piss off at him. It might be dangerous but rash people do mistakes. Arata going to use this mistake to defeat Yuuki here and now.

Yuuki uncanny ability with sound? Arata already have a counter measure in place for that from his grimmores as almost all of the illusion Arata speaking at the same time to cloud the location of the real Arata.

Arata was unfortunate. Yuuki relied on his ears far more than his eyes. He could hear the wind, conversations on the other side of the city, the grass growing, and Arata’s heartbeat. Discerning the nature of the illusions was not a problem.  His arms dropped limp at his sides, and he closed his eyes. They were only a hindrance at this point.

The contents of the speech did not matter. He’d heard those words a million times before.

He opened his mouth wide.

“’Killing is bad.’ I know, I know! Nyanmaru told me.” Not the cat- Sakura Sakurakouji. The girl that had risked her life time and time again trying to stop them. “Ogami says that we’re ‘Evil’ ‘cause we’re murderers and that’s true, okay? Except I’m fine with that! If helping people by being ‘evil’ is all I can do, I’m gonna do it! ‘Cause I want everyone to be happy!” It was the babbling of a mad man, devoid of the traditional concepts of morality. A twisted view the flew directly in the face of Arata’s speech.

He forced a higher concentration of sound waves into his fist. It was so much easier to kill and maim than it was to beat someone while leaving them in one piece. He would need to be creative.  A decent blast, preferably delivered directly to his body, would leave him disoriented. If he could disrupt his eardrums he could throw off his sense of balance, leave his ears ringing, and potentially make him rattled enough to prevent further magic use.

You live by fulfilling your own justice then you would die by someone else who fulfilling their own justice.

“YOU FUCKING IDIOT! Do you even bother knowing the man before killing him? He was planning to turn himself in to the police and start a new leaf for his little girl!  He would have been in prison himself to pay for his crimes while still able to have visitation time with his little girl! By killing him you destroy a little girl hope and a man chance to become a reform memeber of this city! PEOPLE CAN CHANGE INTO SOMETHING BETTER! I thought you of all people understand that! TELL ME! IS THIS SOMETHING NYANMARU WOULD HAVE DONE?”

Arata heard from Yuuki that he killed before yet Arata understood. Yuuki did what he had to do to survive and you can’t fault him for that. Is trying to live no matter what such a bad thing to do?

In some way Arata acknowledge he “evil” to Yuuki yet Yuuki method of handling thing is something Arata SIMPLY can not stand as he knows better then anyone about giving people chances. The man did some bad stuff without a doubt but there was a chance he could change. Arata was willing to bet on that.

After all isn’t he suppose to be the evil king that destroy the world?

The shock wave hit Arata yet he still able to stand as unlike Yuuki he have different fighting style with each brand of magic he use. Arata sure Yuuki hiding a trump card as the last time the two of them meet both have still yet gotten all their powers back.

While Arata have no idea what Yuuki trump card is Yuuki also have no idea that Arata getting assistant from TWO super grimmore and a nigh powerful magic sword as he planning to go all out once he find he needed to.

Let’s hope it don’t come down to it.

Arata change his weapons as normal bullets just isn’t getting the job done. He seen movie and play games and heard people sometime can do some crazy shit with sound waves.

So Arata switch his pistol as instead of firing bullets a magical beam shot out and ALMOST manage to nail Yuuki in the chest. Arata snap his finger as ten….no 20-30 guns appear in thin air beside Arata as he using the same trick Lilth use during the tournament as he have spend time and finally perfected this trick.

The one man firing squad. Each of these guns is able to shot out a beam that can deliver a hard concussion blast to Yuuki. It’s Arata way of upping his game.

“There no way in hell i can turn my face away from all of this Yuuki. I have my own personal code you know? What kind of man am i if i can’t even help a little girl who crying?”

No he did not bother to get to know the man. Once you killed you were prepared to die yourself.

No he did not consider the little girl’s future. Now that he knew she existed, he’d find a way to get her some money- give her a pile of toys as an apology. But he wouldn’t regret his decision to kill this man.  

No this was not something that Nyanmaru would endorse. But there was only so much that he could do with his own strength.

So he was not affected by Arata’s speech. He’d heard god knew how many similar speeches from Sakura. Not directed at him- Ogami was a clearer ‘evil.’ Much easier to target. In comparison he was just silly, eccentric Yuuki. But he had heard them. He heard everything.

Dodging the first beam was easy.

But with 20 to 30 guns firing… That was a little more difficult. Particularly when he had no indication of when they were going to fire. Arata’s fingers weren’t on the triggers. They could fire at any time. He focused on his ears to hear the snap of the triggers. But these were magic guns and did not need triggers. The blasts came without warning, faster than he could outmaneuver. The first hit him in the shoulder- the second in the leg. His eyes narrowed and clutched his shoulder. Taking a few more of those would be a problem. Fortunately there was a simple solution.

“Scarlet Phoneme,” A coating of soundwaves rushed up to cover his body, changing his appearance into something frightening. But the blasts reflected right off of it. It did nothing to help the blasts he’d already taken, but it prevented future damage. He leapt forward- concrete shattered under his feet. With high-speed soundwaves covering every part of his body, he could cut through flesh easily with just his hands. But he did not want to hurt Arata. He would deal with the guns for now. With precision from a lifetime of fighting, he crushed each in his hands, ripping them apart with soundwaves strong enough to destroy a small building.

They were gone in seconds.

A dead person can’t change anything.

Plus if the little girl father murderer is never bought to justice then the cyclical of hatred only going to restart again with the little girl growing up to become a villan wondering what could have taken her gruff but sweet old father from her.. Arata have to stop this. Even if Yuuki do have friend that need human meat there have to be better then murdering everyone that goes againts the laws of the society. They can maybe talk this out. After all nobody important stays dead in this city anyway.

Same can’t be said about the normal people here without any powers though.

“YOU JUST DON’T GET IT DO YOU? If we killed everyone simply because they’re “bad” people then when are we stop seeing them as people and started to see them as simply digits? Are we going to slaughter everyone at our path using our own sense of justice? What if one day we so damn knee deep in blood we don’t even realize when we drag a innocent in? We let the citta justice system take care of it Yuuki. Even if it’s flaw as hell it’s not your place to play hit man! Why can’t you understand Vigilanted Justice don’t work? WE COULD HAVE TALK THIS OUT SOMEHOW! A DEAD BODY NEVER GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING!”

Arata swing the staff knocking the body out of Yuuki grasp as he aim for the stun part right at Yuuki neck trying to stun him.

.Arata not doing this for the greater good. He only doing this to stop one little girl from falling into despair from the knowledge that her father who was planning to reform not only was murder and was also feed to creatures.

If the kid knows what happen it break her and Arata couldn’t just sit by and watch a murder happen and not try to stop it.

“If he was gonna get arrested or something that’d be fine! Except they didn’t have the evidence. They weren’t gonna get him, and he woulda killed a lotta more people! So all I gotta do is kill the bad people that those guys can’t catch! Or do you just wanna let ‘em keep hurting all those people?”

‘No matter what, killing isn’t right.’ Sakura(Nyanmaru) had said that at the start. She’d never given up on that belief, but even she eventually understood and let them do what they had to do to keep everyone safe. But that had taken a long time. He did not have that kind of time right now.

He shook the blood off of his hands. He did not like killing either. He’d just as rather that he did not have to. But if it was the only way to protect and feed his friends, it was something that he had to do.

Yuuki’s fighting style relied on quick movement. He did not express concern at losing the body- he could pick it up later. Arata was slow, but his use of electricity could be troublesome. Yuuki knew all too well from past experience that he couldn’t outrun electricity. But dodging the blow was easy- though a the ghost of the stun stick tickled over the nape of his neck.

He’d have to retaliate- no matter how little he wanted to. He took in a breath. 

Of course Yuuki with his power able to get out unscratched as Arata while can’t believe what he seeing and doing right now don’t want to hurt his friend. He going to defeat Yuuki and take him in and then ask him for question later. Just why the hell is he doing this? There had to be a better way to handle things then murder people even if there the person was a person who done bad things.

Murdering people simply for food is something Arata can’t stand. There graves and dead bodies in the morgue. If you need to eat you don’t have to murder a person just to filled up you stomach. 

“Sorry Yuuki your my friend but i made a promise to a little girl i find her daddy no matter what. Her daddy might have done some bad thing but even crooks are people. I know i’m the last one to talk but isn’t it the responsibility for people like us who have power to not abuse it? You most likely have your friends and your reason. But as a ally of justice all i can do for the little girl is this.”

Arata throw away the gun and in his hand created a steel staff with electricity coming on the both end of it as the volts sure as hell seem nasty.

The time Arata spend here he have gotten STRONGER as he knew more and fought more then back in his homeworld. With his full power back he a whole different story from the kid who was running scared with Yuuki in the haunted mall as his eyes look sad.

He can create a thousand weapons and fight a thousand monster and win yet what he going to do next is going to haunt him for some time.

“I am going to have to stop you. The poor kid deserve to have a corpse to bury in her father casket!”

Were they friends? Why was Arata calling him that anyway? Yes, they’d watched things together. Yes, he’d saved Arata’s ass once or twice. But were they…?

No.

A lot of the things that he said didn’t make sense. Yuuki had never had a family. Maybe that was why. He did not understand why the little girl would want to see her father’s corpse. He did not understand why it was so important that he was buried. And empty casket… a tombstone… wasn’t that fine? Because this body was going to help people. It was going to feed people that could not feed themselves. It was going to save the life of the ‘good’ person that might have been killed in his place.

Arata was strong. He could sense that. But he wouldn’t back down.

“Uh-uh. ‘Cause of him a lotta people died. And ‘cause he’s dead a lot more people’re gonna be safe, and some other people aren’t gonna be hungry. So I’ve gotta hurry and take him over there. He was a really bad guy, and no one was gonna do anything about it so I had to.” Yuuki took a breath, and repeated words that he’d hardly said in over a year.

this post was used for reference.

Yuuki Tenpouin. The strange as hell kid that save his life back when he was a newbie in this city. Arata was following a clue of a trail of missing people as he came across this store and decided to buy a new season of Nyanmaru dvd so he can binge watch it with Yuuki. Thank god he had two super smart grimmore to help as he gather plenty of info on who might have last seen the girl father but he still can’t piece it all together. He was busting his brains when he notice the store so he went inside planning to buy something for a good trusted friend.

Nyanmaru kind annoying but it kind of had grew on him like a fungus that he can’t get rid of now.

Hell in some way he can even called Yuuki his friend.

“Yuu…ki?”

That why he couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted Yuuki carrying a dead body who face was barely recognizable. Yet he notice it the butter fly tatoo on the man shoulder and he finally got his last piece of the puzzle.

It was the description of the tatoo the little girl gave that her father have. Arata connected the dots in a inhumane speed as he summon a pistol using alchemy and fire a warning shot at someone he once called a friend.

He seen Yuuki in fights before. He knows when it comes to speed Yuuki have a edge over him. His ability to control the sound wave is unqie as the rumors Arata heard from people who witness a red streak or a boy dragging a dead body have came together.

“PUT THE BODY DOWN TENPOUIN!”

Yuuki involve in the missing people and the increase of dead bodies in the black market as Arata not a cop and have no duty to arrest Yuuki but he knows he need to stop Yuuki.

If he jumped now he risked ripping the tenuous connection between the body’s arm and its shoulder, but there was no time to reposition it. Too late.

They locked eyes. Yuuki betrayed no guilt, nor did he flinch at the gunshot. What was a little odd was that Arata was calling him by his last name. But disgust was the normal reaction to this sort of thing, right? … Probably. He’d spent most of his life surrounded by people that encouraged him to kill, but a certain girl had always made the same sort of face whenever she watched the Code:Breakers ‘work.’

Arata was like her at the beginning- before she’d started accepting them as they were. He couldn’t possibly accept this.

Sakurakouji Sakura- one of his six Friends.

Yuuki glanced down at the body and back at Arata.

✯ “Eeeh? Yuuki, what did I even do?!” Maya ran her hands through her chest, belly and arms in search of anything different with her, but she found nothing. Well, actually, there was a difference on her very hands. They don’t usually emit a purple glow like that, do they?

“That’s a power. Except you should make that stop soon ‘cause it’s dangerous.” How did one stop Power output again? “You’ve gotta like... Bam! And then Swoop!” He gestured to illustrate his point, but the gestures were largely unhelpful. Yuuki, who learned by instinct, was not suited for teaching. 

For now it was probably best if she used it all up until he could try a little harder. 

✯ “Ohhhh, that sounds amazing! Wait, what does sound have to do with running fast?” Maybe it has to do with the speed of sound, like Sonic? “It’d be so cool if I had some cool power like thaaa… Aaaaaaah…”

“Uh-huh.” He was a little battered, but no worse for the wear. It was a little funny how something he’d done on accident all the time in the past had caught him off guard like that. 

✯ “Isn’t that what heroes do anyway? Just look at all of the recent superhero movies.” Maya Fey, throwing some sick shades ever since 2016.

✯ But yeah, that won’t stop her. This is a girl who breathes and sweats the superhero genre and eats it for breakfast. “Didn’t Nyanmaru also face bad guys of that level too? Besides, I’m kinda used to seeing corpses by now. Kinda comes hand in hand with being a defense attorney’s assistant, you know?”

✯ Good job, Maya, now Yuuki has another reason besides you possibly hating him not to show you his ‘heroing’. If only she had a power of her own….

And he would have to. Because it didn’t matter if she was used to seeing corpses. It wasn’t like he was determined to shield her from the world at large. But he judged her far more innocent than she seemed to think. It was highly unlikely that she would accept him if she knew what he was. Which would, perhaps, be for the best. But just because it was for the best, didn’t mean it was desirable. 

Putting that aside, he could probably distract her for now.