Book Four
Volume 11
Ch. 172 Okinawa
Pov.
-Kara-
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"Tada!" Momo holds the child up like a trophy
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"What is this?" I grumble
"Uhh… your baby… I took her to the pediatrician… remember?" She tilts her head
"Why are you back already?"
"Because…. She is a-o-kay!" She cradles the child "so… have you come up with a name yet?"
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"It's been a week." She frowns
"So what? I don't have time."
"Grrr…. It's a baby for God's sake! A baby needs a name!" She dangles the child above my head "here! It's your turn to care for YOUR baby." She pouts
"I have things to do." I shove her right back
"I do too! I have school!" She carefully pushes the child back
"I have to-."
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"To what?"
"What do they want? You talked an awful lot.
After that Nomu banged you up it went for All Might who had trouble dispatching it himself."
"He didn't say anything."
"Then how did you know Cana was in trouble?"
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"What does it matter? She's gone isn't she?"
"We don't know that for sure, and you? You'd be an awful lot more devastated than this." She rolls her eyes
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"Tch…"
I shut the door
I pinch the child's nape and carry it over to the bed Cana assembled for it
"Mmm." It grumbles
It's so… tiny.
Only 15 ounces
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"What?" I glare at it as it reaches out towards me before rolling onto its belly
It kicks its feet and giggles around before farting and falling asleep
"Tch. What a disgusting creature." I teleport just outside Mei Hatsumes lab
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"Kya?! I was just about to give you a call!" She jumps
"I know."
"Phew, well. Here they are." She hands me the set of four silver bracelets
I snap them onto my wrist and then the other two around my ankles
"They're linked directly with the gravitational pull of Gaia." She raises a finger "theoretically you can go as far as lifting the weight of the entire universe." She puffs her chest
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I turn around.
Just what I need
"Not even a thank you?!" She growls before I take myself to the kamui dimension
I set every bracelet to five thousand lbs
The zenkai boosts I got from the Nomu annihilating me really turned me up
"Now…" I smile.
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Pov.
-Cana-
"M-my baby." I whimper
"Hm-hm-hmm!" Someone hums
"Good morning!"
My eyes flutter open
"H-Himiko?"
"Himiko Toga." She winks
"T-Toga? Wh-what's going on? Why are you here too? And why am I…" I raise my head
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My hands were nailed together, against a board
I lower my head
So were my feet.
I had huge nails battered through my belly, pinning me against the wall.
"Wh-what are you doing to me?" I whimper
And how am I still alive?
"You know, I couldn't believe it myself either. When that Hisoka fellow told me what He did to you."
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"I just had to see it for myself!"
"Wh-wh-." Before I could even comprehend what she was saying she lunged at me
She dug her knife into my shoulder and dragged it down across my chest
"Kya! Stop it, it hurts!" I squeal and wiggle my feet, trying to free myself
"I said stop it!" I smack my forehead into her lip
She stumbles back as I gasp and cough some blood
"Turns out… you are a monster, just like him." Her eyes widen
"H-he's not a monster." I spit
"Oh really?"
"Yeah, he would never hurt a child," I glared at her, hoping and praying my baby is alright.
"Is that what you think?" She smiles widely
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"Wh-where's… what did you do to my…" I sniff
"Oh? You really want to know?" Her grin grows even wider before she pulls a necklace out from her shirt
Dangling on it was a tiny little foot
She tears the necklace off
"Wh-what did you …"
"What did you do?!" I kick and squirm with all my might, trying to break free, regardless of what happened to my body
"I bashed it into a rock, over and over until little pieces began shooting and flying everywhere!" She swings the necklace around
"No! No, no, no, no, no!" I shake my head
My heart pounding out of my chest and tears blinding my sight
I couldn't believe it. It isn't true
"It isn't true!" I let out a blood curdling wail
"Yes, yes!" Toga twirls around
"Let me go! I want to see-."
She stuffs the little foot into my mouth
"Have it!" She grabs my hair and tears me off the wall
Before I could spit it out she smashes her knee onto my chin, forcing me to sink my fangs into the baby's foot.
She knees my chin a second time, nearly putting me to sleep before the third one snaps me back
I manage to spit it out before tackling her to the ground
I punch and claw at her face. I quickly jump to my feet and make for the door.
I stumble, but ultimately collapse before I could even get there from the sheer pain and exhaustion
I look up, hoping someone will come in and save me but…
A little child, peeked her head in through the door, like she were a ghost
"Hi!" She smiles
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"Hi?"
"My name is Valac, but you can call me Lucy." She steps inside and sits in front of me.
"I'm dead now, you see?" She points at what looks like a bullet hole between her eyebrows
"Thanks to Kara, even this physical body is super dead too!" She passes her finger through her head to prove she was really a ghost
"Wh-why would Kara… no, you're lying." I sit up
"Kara is evil, more so than Toga and even me, and I can prove it." She winks
"No way, I don't believe you." I shake my head
"I know you don't, but I'm still gonna tell ya." She raises a finger, "Kara is my daddy too, you know."
A little cloud, much like a thought bubble you'd see in a manga forms just above her finger
It flashes many pictures of what looked like the things that happened at her birth and conception
It was terrible…
"It's a long story, but that would make me your… step daughter?" She tilts her head "my mommy's dead as hell, you see. Thanks to Kara too!"
I shake my head.
"It's okay, I know it's a lot to take in."
She stands up
As she did, my arms swung back. They popped out of their sockets before a chain squeezed through the holes in my hands.
"Kya!" I cry
She raises her hand and my arms tear through my shoulder bone and raise above my head where she strung me up from the ceiling.
She crouches down at my dangling feet.
"I hope you're uncomfortable." She sparks a fire that quickly crawled up my legs
"Ghh." I whimper
"Cause there's so much I want to tell you." She smiles
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Pov.
-Kara-
3 weeks later
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"Eat… I need to eat… more, train… more"
I bite into the prostitute's throat.
Half my face was missing. I was so exhausted that even that wouldn't heal as it normally did.
Too bad nearly killing myself won't activate Zenkai Boost.
After finishing up I let myself gradually heal using Blood Flames. So I'd be ready by morning
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"What was it this time?!" Erza pats me down
"Training." I grumble
"Training with who? For what?"
"Ghh." I cover my mouth to keep my blood from spewing
"Recovery girl said she can't keep healing you."
"I don't need her." I spit
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"You can tell us, you know. What he wants."
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"We've known each other longer. You can trust us."
"Do we?"
"Wh-what?"
"Know each other." I stand up
"Of course we do."
"Really? Tell me, who am I, really?"
"K-Kara…"
"Yeah, you don't know. You don't know shit."
"Who's fault is that? You don't tell anyone anything!" She stands up
"Whatever he told you could lead us straight to her. We could find a way to have her back with us but…"
"But what?" I glare at her
"God forbid you show the world… no, you admit to yourself just how much you love her."
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"Kgh." I grit my teeth as I watch her slam the door behind herself.
God forbid…
I raise my head.
What? Do you want me to beg?
Like a dog?
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I sniff.
What the hell is that putrid odor?
I follow the odor to the child's crib.
It's it dead? I poke its head
It's face down…
Breathing, so what is that horrendous smell?
It reaches back to scratch its butt
I wrap my tail around its ankle before dangling it above my head
Disgusting.
It culminated in feces while I was training.
I fill the tub up with warm water. After removing its clothes and surgically discarding the padded underwear thing it had, I toss it into the bathtub
I drag it around some, until it was clean before tossing it back into its bed
"Kyahaha! It giggles after I relieve its lungs from the water it breathed in
Why the hell are you laughing?
"As far as you know your mother is dead." I grumble
She's absolutely not anywear on this continent, that's for certain.
Not to mention the veil the surly used to hide her energy signature
So the only way to get her back is by defeating…
Course I had already planned to challenge him some day myself…
"Ah-ahh…" it opens its mouth.
"Hungry?"
Damn Shit Factory.
"Drink this." I raise my hand and summon a bottle of milk with every nutrient it needs without the excess waste so it wouldn't discard every chance it has.
I dangle the child into the kitchen just as Midnight rang me up
"What?" I spill the potatoes out of their sack
"Hey! Ready for another adventure?!" She giggles
"Do you have anything for me?"
"Regarding Cana? No, but I did sign you off on some of those super S Class Missions you so much wanted."
"I'm coming over."
The child giggles around as I stuff it inside the sack of potatoes and toss it over my shoulder
I grab my things and head outside where they were dropping off what was left of the Miata
It rolled so many times that the front and rear end of the chassis twisted opposite to each other
The engine itself was still attached by a single mount
"Mm-Nmm." The child whimpers as if it could sense her mother inside the car
I use instant transmission to meet Midnight in her office
"What's up with these potatoes?" She pokes the bag hanging at my hip
"That's-."
"Hmh!" Before I could say anything the child pops its head out.
"Kya! Oh My God! She's So Cute!"
"What do you have for me?"
"Why is she in a potato sack?!"
"What do you have for me?" I ask again as I swatt her hand aside before she could take the child
"Heh." She giggles "well… There has been a rise in reports regarding Kaiju in the islands of Okinawa."
"Are they strong?"
"Oh yeah. They sent All Might to dispatch the stronger ones up in Hokkaido. Still, that doesn't mean these guys won't mess you up, right baby?" She crouches down to pet the kid
"Good." I crank each bracelet up to seven thousand lbs
"Jeez…" Midnight peaks over my shoulder "how about we have a little fun before you go and get yourself killed." She smirks
"Shut up." I toss the sack of potatoes over my shoulder
"Careful with that!"
I teleport to the nearest train station
I hop onto a cargo train that took us to Kyushu
On our way there I let the child out of the sack.
It rolled around, touched its toes and what not
When we finally arrived at Kyushu I stuffed the child back in. I let it dangle off my tail wrapped around my waist as I fly to Okinawa
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"Here we are." I settle down at the very top of their tallest building
"Wohoho!" The child giggles before I stuff a baby bottle into its mouth and shove its head back into the sack
Now… Kaiju. I pat my fists
I sat back for some time until one finally attacked
With the added weight, slaying the beast turned into a good workout
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I sprint around its massive arm
"Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba." The child mumbles inside the sack
I draw Chaos into a katana that splits his arm off
I jump straight through the hand it sent to swat me down
I then slash my blade across its face
It's head splits in half
Even so it continued to swing its other arm, only this time without much thought
I see, so then the brain is not the source of life.
It's safe to say same goes for the heart
I shut my eyes
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There.
I drill straight through to its crystallized core hidden on the bottom left side off its torso
"Hmm" I juggle it
It was roughly the size of a bowling ball
I toss it aside
"Kekekeke."
I flick the potato sack so it'll shut up
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Pov.
-Cana-
Forgive our trespasses
"As we forgive those who trespass against us…"
And uh…
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory. Forever and Ever…
"Amen."
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"Hmh-hmm" I smile at… My Baby, My cute little Baby.
"My beautiful little girl." I sniff
"Mhmm." I raise her to the light
"Kekeke. Kyohoho!" She giggles hysterically, the light glowing behind her head made her seem like those angels you'd see in paintings
Then, suddenly.
The light was shining in my face
I set her down on my lap only to find her head… it was torn off, and her little foot…
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"Kya!" I cry after Toga wakes me up by praying my fingernail off
"Sweet dreams?" She smiles
"Ah-I…" I shake my head
"Anyways, like I said, he twisted her head off like a baby bottle "it was really bloody."
"That was the first time we did anything special together." She sighs
I think back to his brutal fight with Erigor. How I had to keep him from beating him to death.
Or just how easy it is for him to kill, really.
Like there isn't a sliver of light in his world.
"Hmh." She smiles "do you understand now? What kind of person he is?"
I raise my head
Even so…
These wounds… I look at the chain piercing my hands.
I've seen them on Kara
He's felt this and an awful more. So who am I to judge?
Who is anyone to say anything?
He's hurting, more than anyone could imagine.
I only wish I'd have done more.
I wish I could have taught him there's more than hate in this world.
There's Love…
Peace…
Salvation… even for the things he has done.
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-to be continued