Maki ran through the row of buildings that Akira flew through from the explosion. S Cold sweat slid down her face from worry as she followed the trail of destruction.
Panda and Inumaki followed closely behind her, both of them looking worried as they felt the cursed energy of people surrounding Akira in the distance.
Maki couldn't sense anything, but Panda and Inumaki could, especially since they were both talented and strong for their age.
Swoosh!
The three of them jumped through the last building, falling from the second floor onto the destroyed concrete ground, only to see a destroyed truck with assassins surrounding a knocked-out Akira.
Maki looked up as she touched the floor, looking past a bunch of men with buzz cuts, wearing familiar clothing, and straight onto the back of someone she could never forget.
"Na..."
Maki's lips pressed into a thin line, veins bulging on her face and her pupils constricting as if she saw her most hated thing. Her palms around the handle of her spear tightened in hate.
Panda and Inumaki looked at Maki with worry as they sensed her anger; even without Cursed energy, they could feel it pressing down on them.
Panda followed Maki's line of sight, only for sweat to seep out on his skin as he felt Naoya's cursed energy. It wasn't massive like a Special Grade sorcerer, but it had a vile and arrogant feel to it.
"Inumaki, can we take that guy in a fight?" Panda whispered quietly to Inumaki with caution, the cores of his siblings moving in his body, ready to enter his other forms of power in an instant.
"Bonito Flakes..." Inumaki shook his head with disbelief as he pulled the zipper of his jacket down, revealing the markings on his face.
"Naoya! What are you doing here?!" Maki screams out in anger, catching Naoya's attention from a distance. Naoya turned around with raised eyebrows, a tiny smirk on his face.
"Oh? Sorry, Maki-chan, but I couldn't even sense your dirty and inferior presence, so I didn't notice you." Naoya looked Maki straight in her eyes, enjoying the look of hate and unwillingness on Maki's face, knowing she couldn't do anything.
"Now that I take a good look at you, I see your feminine traits have improved somewhat~," Naoya said with an amused wink as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Maybe it's because you are cosplaying as a dirty woman? Or rather, a female monkey~" Naoya continued with his teasing tone, scratching his ear in the process as he stopped looking at Maki so as not to dirty his eyes.
"Blast away!"
Boom!
Naoya's face froze as a sudden kinetic blast acted upon his body. His muscles tensed, and his bones creaked as the force acted, directly blasting him away with a gigantic force.
Boom!
Naoya flew past the truck, into a distant building, instantly tearing the building down from the massive force, eliciting a groan of pain that filled Maki's ears right before Naoya flew away.
Splash!
"Inumaki! Are you okay?" Panda and Maki looked at Inumaki with worry. Inumaki coughed, a bit of blood leaving his mouth as he gave the two a thumbs up.
Inumaki was not as strong as when he fought Hanami in the goodwill event, so even though Naoya has much less cursed energy and is weaker than Hanami physically, the backlash was still quite huge on him.
"Kill them,"
A sudden voice sounded from the assassins, or rather, the Kukuru Unit.
Nobuaki Zenin, the captain of the Kukuru Unit, spoke without showing a hint of care or worry for Naoya; in fact, a hint of joy was visible on his face.
"Get ready!"
Maki spoke as she watched the members turn towards them, their eyes filled with killing intent. These people were trained and abused to obey the words of higher-ranked members since they could walk and use cursed energy.
They had no reason to live other than to obey the words of their captain and the Hei members. The dozen members rushed towards Maki and the others, weapons in hand and pure killing intent around their bodies.
"Brother, help me!" Panda smacked his right chest, a grin on his face as his body started to shapeshift. His body became taller, his muscles bulged, and his round figure turned into that of a muscular Gorilla.
Inumaki, on the other hand, quickly took out a throat spray and sprayed three pumps into his mouth to refresh his throat. Maki stood in front of the two, her hand in front while her spear was behind her.
The first to rush out was Maki.
'Mach Movement!'
Maki's calves tensed as she stepped onto the ground. Her eyes sharpened, and she vanished without a trace as she rushed forward faster than these grade 2's and 3s can react.
Slash!
With a single wide arced slash, Maki's spear cut through the stomachs of two Kukuru unit members, splashing blood and faeces on the ground in a brutal manner.
Swoosh!
"Take this punch!"
Panda jumped into the air before dropping like a torpedo bomb towards a Kukuru member. His fist, enveloped in cursed energy, smacked down, using his unblockable drumming beat to punch straight through the member's defence, turning his organs into soup.
"Get Crushed!"
Inumaki looked at a member and spoke with cold eyes. Instantly, the ground cracked and turned into a crater as the member was crushed into the ground, crumpled up like a ball of paper.
Suddenly, everyone froze as Naoya's presence reappeared.
"Oh? Not bad, Maki-chan! You got a bit stronger during your stay at that school. Though I wonder why you are so angry, is it because of him?" Naoya walked out from behind the truck, wiping a bit of blood from his mouth casually.
Maki spun around as she watched Naoya move next to Akira's body. He reached into his coat, taking out a dagger that he promptly unsheathed from its sheath.
Maki's eyes widened as Naoya grinned at her, his hand gripping the hilt as he placed his hand above Akira's limp form, veins bulging on his hand as he got ready to stab down into the heart.
"Nothing personal, Maki-chan. But the higher-ups want him dead, so he has to go. And since you saw this, that means you'll have to go as well~," Naoya spoke without a hint of mercy or regret, only pure amusement in his annoying tone.
Swoosh!
"No!"
Makis creamed with wide eyes as Naoya stabbed down onto Akira. Maki felt her chest seize up, her eyes trembling, and her finger loosening around her spear handle as she watched the tip of the dagger get closer to Akira.
Before the dagger could stab into Akira, a blur flashed towards Naoya's wrist with pure instinct, and the knocked out Akira instantly woke up from the danger sense.
Clap!
Naoya and Maki froze as a hand clamped down on Naoya's wrist, holding it in place just before the dagger touched Akira's chest.
Opening his eyes lazily, Akira sat up from the destroyed truck, metal crumpling and falling from his skin.
His previous injuries from the explosion had already healed, and it actually even made his body slightly tougher after healing.
"What a way to be awakened from a dreamy sleep", Akira mumbled as he looked at the shocked Noaya. His hand, clamping on his wrist, tightened painfully.
Crack!
"Arghh!!"
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What do you guys think about a multiversal fanfic?
I've been considering creating a new story after this one. In this new narrative, the main protagonist travels into Mark's body from "Invincible" after he is sent back in time by a mysterious entity. The protagonist can replicate, steal, and upgrade the powers of others.
My thought process is this: Mark steals Angstrom's Multiversal Portal power and then upgrades it, allowing him to travel to any multiverse.
There will be a system, but its only function is to give Mark missions and objectives in the new worlds he goes to. Otherwise, it would be boring. And no, it's not sentenced or does not have punishments. It only rewards him with increased physical stats.
So, what do you guys think?
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