A white mask formed on his face every time he uses his power, what it does is to conceals any kind of emotions.
The person who just helped her prey is a male, he wears a mask and a thick black jacket. She analyzed him from top to toe.
'He parried my axe with dagger alone, who is he? Is he her friends?' She looked at her expression to finds out the answer.
She does this as she knew the effective way to find an answer without make the second party move their mouth is by analyzes their body language and expression.
'Judging by her expression, they seemed to not know each other.'
On the other hand, the girl that was about to die was confused and asked him for his name.
"Who are you?" She asked but he didn't answer.
"It doesn't matter." Without wasting time, he takes a stance as his opponent dropped her guard down, and in an instant, he was in front of her. The woman startled, her mind went blank.
The woman is frozen and he takes the chance to cut something on her neck. Though, when his dagger about to reached her neck.
He stopped as he felt bullets coming at him, he takes a duck and the bullets passed him by breaths, if it was second late, his face would be turned into meat chunks!
Not only he could felt people's presence, but he could also felt something that went his way with killing intent. Like a bullet fired from a gun or an arrow flew at him from a bow.
The woman came back to reality after a raining bullets past in front of her and hits the asphalt. She swings her axe at him and it is different from last time. It is stronger and faster.
He parries her attack and a series of sparks all over the place every time both metals clashed. The asphalt formed a web-like crack as she put more strength to her attacks and he blocked it with his might.
Felt something came his way, he put more strength to his dagger and pushed her axe and leaped back, and in split seconds, bullets hit the place where he previously is.
The little boy who does the shooting, clicked his tongue in a pissed way, "tch!" He was in a tall building, about four hundred meters away from him.
A sniper on flat ground and he has to lay down to shoot, he takes another bullet from the bullet box on his right and reloads his gun. He then put his eye on the goggle and watch the fight, and at the same time, he waits for the right time to shoot.
After attacking and defending, he is panting and noticed something's wrong. Before he could think about it, the girl behind her asked.
"Who are you? Why are you helping me?" She asked the same question, but with extra dialogue. Is she an NPC or something? She could ask something else that benefits her or tell him what is going on or probably told him what is their purpose.
"Didn't I told you earlier? It doesn't matter," His word is rude but he doesn't care nevertheless. He purposely not to tell his name due to caution.
How come he is not? He just met her and the possibility of her involvement with dark organizations is quite high and yet he still helped her. Not knowing the real reason yet, he only could think of two.
Is it because of her beauty? or maybe he only wanted to get a good night's sleep? It is the latter.
It doesn't matter whether she is the bad one and the one he fought is actually the good one. He just doesn't want to see a girl about to die in front of him and let it happened, he is not a human without a heart, after all, even a cold-hearted person would help her.
"Call me..."
Still, it is weird if she doesn't know what to call him, he looked around to find a reference about his alias's name and can't find one except for snow, fence wall, houses, and darkness from the sky. Should he tell her to call him Yuki? (Yuki means snow). Or probably Yami, no Kuroyami is cooler. Wait, this isn't the time to think about that!
He really bad when it comes to naming, he then told her to call him Yuki but before his mouth said the word, a memory flashed before his eye.
It was the coffee can brand he just drunk. It is called Joker Coffee with the face of a clown, holding two can of coffee.
"Joker."
"Joker..." The girl behind him said his name again so that his name carved into her memory, she nods with determination and firm her hand.
The girl will remember his name and will pay his kindness for saving her life, she is determined to work hard then paid it. She may look cold but when it comes to paying a favor or an owe, she would do anything, as long it is equal.
For example, a person takes care of her when she is sick, and when the person is sick, she will take care of him.
But this person just saves her life, anything she succeeds in the future is thanks to him, if she got a promotion that means it because of him save her life today, or if she got free cake, it because of him save her.
Isn't that mean, she has to be his slave until she died?!
'Oi Oi! What kind of mindset is that?'
While he is thinking of a way to defeat his opponents, he reads the girl's mind subconsciously, saying that she going to become his slave. He is shocked.
Is it because his mind-reading power came back to him or because shortly after that, he heard that this girl wanted to be his slave. Either of them!
"My name is Elaina. Mestern Second Elaina." She introduced herself by raising her skirt with her hands. She introduced herself as if she is a member of the royal family, and truth be told.
She is a princess from another world and teleported to this world to search for the hero who saved her kingdom from the Demon Lord. There's no way he would believe it if she said it.
'Demon Lord... Hero... Isn't this supposed to be a Sci-fi web novel?' He asked himself after reading her mind. Then.
A bullet coming at him, at first it was just a single bullet, but when it is fifty meters from the target. The bullet separate itself, turned into thousands of small bullets, and when it hits the target, no doubt they will shred to pieces.
He immediately uses Psychokinesis to stop the bullets, he moved his hand to where those bullets coming from, and open wide.
The bullets are stopped in mid-air as if there's an invisible wall, it was like that scene on Matrix where the protagonist stops the bullet, the little boy opened his mouth, chills crawling his back as Joker avert his gaze from the floating bullets to him, he locked him in the eye. A look that is enough to pierce someone's soul.
The boy let out a screech and get away from the goggle. He can't forget that eye for his entire life and it will become the source of nightmare.
The brown skin woman who looked at Joker, searching for an opening finally found one.
She wondered what makes him forget her existence and focused on something else, also. His left hand seems controlling something as it kept wide open even though there's nothing.
The woman is annoyed that he's not paying attention to her, is he underestimate me?
Anyway, she must defeat him for he's on her way. She doesn't know who this guy's name is but will they met again by fate? If that happens, she will ask his name.
IF he survives her attack that is.
She leaped forward without wasting much time, leaving a crack on the ground.
'He doesn't realize yet! This is a chance!' As her distance between Joker shortens, she flows her spiritual essence to her axe so the strength three times stronger than before!
"Joker look out!" Elaina shouts and about to help him but Joker shook his head and calmly said.
"Take this dagger and threw at her when I give the signal. Understood?" He threw the dagger at the ground in front of her, she is dumbfounded but nods nevertheless as it is the best option to chose rather than asked the reason.
This is her final move, after this attack. She cannot use her weapon anymore. The reason is, she flowed all of her spiritual essences to her weapon and after that, her spiritual essence will completely be depleted.
She could recover her spiritual essence in one hour, but it was enough to use her weapons for five minutes.
The weapon she held consumes spiritual essence and if she doesn't have one, the weapon will consume her blood and lifespan, and then turned into an evil creature that going to eat her first, and then anyone who comes in their way.
"Step back," Joker said as he felt she got closer, he pretends to not noticed her attack to make his plan succeed.
Swing her axe at Joker's body and hoping he split into two, her expression quickly changed as he swiftly dodged her attack by moving his body to the left, and after that.
He crouched at the same time the axe misses him and about to hit the ground, it is ten cm from it.
'Everything has kinetic energy.' He could control that Physic energy, but not that well, he couldn't manipulate it as if manipulate electricity or water.
Normally, the axe would make a big circular crack around them and tremble the earth, but this time is different.
Joker immediately stops the kinetic energy from spreading, which is sent by the axe, he sent all of those kinetic energies below him, about three meters below, and let it do its job.
He flew to the air with the ground he stands, the ground blew as if there's an underground explosion.
The woman and Elaina were confused, there should be an impact from the axe but why only a small crack? Where's the huge circular crack? Where's the earth tremble went? It lies on Joker, who suddenly flew to the air and the ground makes a loud bang noise, enough to make a shockwave.
Gathering kinetic energy in one place is indeed reckless.
As he flew to the air, he quickly uses his power to the floating bullets below him, which is the power to rewind time. It is impossible to rewind the whole world, as it meant the same as rewind the universe.
He rewinds the bullets to the state when it isn't changed into small thousands of bullets, which is enough to shreds its target.
A 7.62x54mmR bullet on his hand. He placed the bullet on his index finger, he curved it so the bullet doesn't fell. The rest is firmed while the thumb behind the bullet, ready to push, or maybe eject is the right word?
Before stopping in mid-air, he is fully concentrated and as if the time slowed down. He calculated if the bullet would reach it by this distance.
Calculating is done, he stops in mid-air. Electricity is wildly coming out of his body. His hair is risen as the electricity around him getting stronger.
"I'm borrowing your technique. Railgun!" [1] He pushed his thumb as hard as he could with electricity, it charges the bullet, and with the sound of speed, the bullet reached the building in a blink of an eye.
A straight line could be seen after he shot it, Elaina and the woman could see it without any kind of light source.
The glass window was shattered to pieces and the boy felt something bruised his cheek, and at the same time, his hair was swaying.
He is dumbfounded and then touched his cheek after felt a slight pain to find out something warm and sticky flow down. He then looked at his fingers, a warm and red liquid. It was blood flowing down from his cheek! He immediately knew that his life is in danger.
He turned around to ran away but what he found, is truly unexpected.
The man who is a moment ago four hundred meters from him is now behind him. He quickly swung his dagger to the boy's neck after do a spun on his waist, without wasting much time that is.
"How?" It was his last word before his consciousness is gone.
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1. Toaru Kagaku No Railgun reference.