Hirono stands slowly up by holding onto the broken pieces of the wall around him. He can clearly see the blue aura around the west and the gloves of Zakumi. The feeling of the blue aura is the same as his green aura. Hirono immediately concludes that both his and Zakumi's aura have to be the same source of power. Hirono asks himself, if the guy with the white clothes gave Zakumi those items bearing the power.
Hirono realizes that he is standing inside a house. As the gas turns people into monsters, Hirono immediately looks around to check up on if anyone's around. He can see that two children and their parents are looking down from the stairs at the broken walls. Hirono screams at the family to cover their faces for them not to inhale the poisones gas. The children are scared by the look of Hirono. Both parents don't know what's happening, and are in the same condition as their children, while being in shock. Hirono gets angry at Zakumi for causing so much damage already.
Suddenly, Zakumi dashes at the angry Hirono. Hirono yet again tells the family to get inside and cover their mouths. Hirono creates a shield out of his green aura in front of him, but the punch of Zakumi is stronger than his shield, making Hirono fly through the whole building, and destroying more walls. Zakumi walks slowly through the broken walls of the house towards Hirono, who's now lying on the ground.
„I didn't expect for a Gaswielder to appear inside this town. Since I've been assigned to this rot of a hell place, I don't do nothing except sitting at the station. Only a few monsters appear, but that's it. But now it's my chance to get a promotion out of this boring place. It's a chance to leave this stupid town. Finally, I will be able to get a Rank."
Hirono slowly stands up. He's even more furious about Zakumi destroying the house carelessly. The only thing Hirono is concerned right now is the family that could possibly be exposed to the gas.
„Are you insane? You destroyed a house, and now the people inside are in danger because of you!"
„A few casualties on the way of capturing you is to be expected. You can't win anything without sacrifices. The gas won't disappear out of nowhere, the people here are already doomed. We are here to eliminate them.", shocking Hirono.
„For what reason were we locked up then, if we were to be eliminated to begin with? There are masks on the soldiers that prevent the gas from being inhaled. They can move freely inside the gas."
Zakumi puts his left hand on his mask, and breaks it with pure strength. The pieces fall on the ground, while slowly turning into dust until they completely vanish.
„These masks you are talking about are made out of the same substance that it is protecting against. If being worn too long, it will have the same effect as inhaling the gas. So not even the mask is safe against the whole gas in this world. The soldiers are being trained for that cause. No ordinary human being is capable of surviving the gas with or without the mask."
Hirono remembers him giving the gas mask to Takumi, and regrets it immediately. If Hirono would've known, he would've never given the mask to Takumi. He has to go back to his best friend before Takumi uses the mask to go out.
„Why are you able to stand inside the gas without the mask then? You can clearly survive on the outside by any means of protection. Are you the same as me?"
„You seem to be able to use your powers, but you don't know how it is working. Interesting. There is no need for you to understand from were your powers came from or how this world is built of. But it's true that our powers resemble, but I'm not a monster like you. A being like you needs to be locked in!", and dashes against Hirono.
Hirono has a lot on his mind. He is concerned about his best friend, and the family inside the house Zakumi broke. But without hestitation, Hirono covers his whole body in the green aura, and creates a shield with multiple layers. Zakumi bolds his right hand into a fist and covers it with his blue aura as well. Zakumi then uses his fist to punch the shield of Hirono, trying to break through all of the layers. Hirono tries to hold on, as Zakumi is able to break two layers of his shield already. In a split second, Hirono covers Zakumi in a triangle pyramid with his green aura shields, making Zakumi smile, and break it with ease by bursting out a giant blue aura explosion within the pyramid. Hirono is yet again pushed by Zakumi's attack, while the explosion also breaks all the remaining layers of Hirono's shield.
„I believe that you are underestimating me. I went through years of training to reach this point. I've encountered many monsters and killed them until I was appointed to this place. I've hunted more of your kind than you could imagine. You don't stand a chance against me."
Hirono is confused and lost right now. He can't follow what's really happening. No matter what new information he gets, he can't find a connection between all of them.
„Not even a year passed since the meteorite crushed. The gas didn't even exist before that time, so how did you get trained? For what did you get trained for?"
Zakumi keeps on being quite for a while. Hirono still tries to figure out things by himself, but doesn't get far.
„There is a lot of things going on in this world that you are not aware of. Since you're going to be locked in anyway, there no point in telling you. It's unfortunate for you to be compatible to the gas, but your destiny as a Gaswielder can't be changed. You don't belong to this world anymore."
„I really don't know what's happening right now. I don't think either that I will be able to get any answers from you. The only thing that matters right now is to protect the people of that broken house. If you are not here to protect the people from the gas, then you are the enemy of humanity. That's why I have to stop you. The real monster in here is you by wracking havoc."
Zakumi smiles and says that Hirono should come at him, and touches his vest with his right hand to let a huge amount of blue aura surround it. Both of the gloves of Zakumi also get covered by the same amount of blue aura as the vest. Hirono's whole body is still covered by the green aura, making Hirono turn the aura into blade like spikes. Hirono bolds both of his hands into a fist, and stretches the aura on both hands into green aura blades.
„I think you are prepared to fight. But are you also prepared to kill a human being?", and disappears all of a sudden.
The speed of Zakumi is increadible to the degree that Hirono is no longer able to see him. Hirono suddenly gets punched by his right side and is being send flying. But the attack of Zakumi doesn't stop there. Hirono gets punched another time by Zakumi from the side he was send flying, repeating this process, punching Hirono in a circle back and forth.
I can't see him nor I can't move. He is too strong for me. The green aura is not able to protect me from his attacks. How is it possible for him to be this strong? If this goes any further, I will really be captured by him. I need to find a way to break this combo of his.
Hirono remembers the burst of explosion Zakumi used ealier, and tries to use the same move, but instead, the green aura spikes around him strech to an unbelivable length. Zakumi has no choice but to stop. Hirono is finally able to land on the ground. He's bleeding everywhere and feels pain on his whole body. While Hirono takes a moment to breath, when his green aura slowly vanishes, the vest of Zakumi is emitting steam.
„I am surprised to see that you were able to stop my high speed attack. You even don't know how to use your powers, yet you were able to find a counter measure. But I know that you were only able to find this solution thanks to me. If I wouldn't have used my blue aura explosion earlier, you wouldn't even come up with the idea of trying to do the same thing. But this is as far as you go. You already reaches your limit."
„Even if you are right, I'm still able to fight you. This isn't over yet. And as it looks like, you are at your limit yourself. You overused your powers. You should worry more about your own condition right now."
„It's true that I overused my vest, you are right about that. But I didn't use my vest for a long time, I got excited and used the wrong amount of aura. If you really think that I reaches my limit, you're welcome to see the true power of my vest and gloves."
Zakumi streches his arms to both sides, and the amount of aura releasing from both of his gloves get weaker until it stops completely. Once the aura is no longer visible, the ground slowly starts to shake. Over time, the shaking gets stronger, making even building slowly fall apart. Hirono doesn't know what's happening.
„I will show you a piece of my true power. I am the commander of the Space Station 59. As it is in power, I will now arrest you."
Suddenly, a huge amount of blue aura starts to come out of both gloves, even greater than before. The aura clears all the fog around the whole town. The people inside their homes are looking outside from their windows, witnessing the clearing of the fog by the blue aura. The quakes destroy few buildings from the outside and also from the inside. People get hurt from the falling walls as well. The power Zakumi displays, gives the inhabitants even more fear, while the chaos from it rises. Takumi looks out of his window, and is worried about Hirono. His eyes look at the mask that Hirono gave him. Zakumi is still across Hirono, and stops the quaking by putting his arms down.
„This is what true power feels. I can turn this place into hell with only my presence. But it's not why I've been assigned to this town. Now that you know my true strength, you should know better to give up."
Hirono is hardly able to stand, and is sweating. He knows very well that no matter what he does, he can't win against Zakumi at his current level. But he can't just stand and do nothing. Hirono covers his whole body with the green aura again, preparing to attack Zakumi. Zakumi has a disappointing look on his face. He expected for Hirono to give up, but now he has to stop Hirono completely.
„I hope you won't regret your decision later. And I hope for myself, that I won't kill you and miss my promotion.", shooting a giant wave of blue aura out of his hands towards Hirono in a flash.
Hirono has no chance in countering the attack of Zakumi and gets caught entirely in it. The wave destroys various building an clears the fog in that direction as well. The people being exposed to the gas, due to the destroyed buildings, slowly feel pain in their chests. Multiple people turn into monsters, all shaped differently. Screams of those monsters can be heard from all around the town. The dust, that the attack of Zakumi left, vanishes and Hirono can be seen entirely wounded while standing. There is no trace of his blanket, and the rest of his clothes are completely burned. Burn marks are around his whole body, and his eyes are completely white. Hirono is already unconscious. Hirono falls face down on the ground, while the monsters begin to create more chaos in the town. Zakumi deactivates his vest and gloves at once, and moves over to Hirono. Soldiers of the Space Station 59 arrive at the scene, backing up Zakumi. Zakumi orders them to deal with the monsters for real this time, and take the wounded soldier to the station before they get turned into one as well. Zakumi looks at the unconscious Hirono on the ground.
„The monster has been captured."