Book Four
Volume 11
Ch. 173 Kaiju No. 9
Pov.
-Kara-
"Blek!" The child cringes after smelling the Kaijus innards
Their cores vary in size and location
"Kyo-ko-bo-bo. Wawawa!"
"What? The sky is not purple, dumb-ass."
I tear into the flesh
"Ke-goo!" She nods
"It's blue, you fool."
It shakes its head.
Whatever. I'm not going to argue with a fucking… insect
"You hear that? You're small, insignificant." I poke her belly "An Insect."
"Kyaha!" She claps
"Hmph!" I continue to feast on the civilian casualties the Kaiju brought
There was more than enough so I didn't have to kill a soul.
…
What the hell is that?
I sense an enormous presence
A Kaiju?
A humanoid.
"Hmhmh." I chuckle
"Kekeke!"
I flick her head
I take off towards the large presence just as it blew a Kaiju to shit
And I mean shit
There was a human boy with him
A black humanoid, skull face with blue eyes and a blue kind of outline to his muscles
"Kya?! Whoa-whoa-whoa?! Hold on there!"
"Yes, I see."
I set the sack of potatoes inside a trash bin
I leap straight through the space between the Kaiju at Mach 50
Clearly far faster than my body could handle cause every air and dust particle pierced my flesh like a needle
I smash my fist into his face so hard he tore through the sound barrier as his body crashed and flopped through the dirt
"Stop he isn't-."
I catch the Kaiju by the ankles before slamming him into the ground
The buildings around us collapse into the forty meter wide crater I buried him in
"Please, man. I just-."
"Fight me!" I smash my fist into his chin, sending him about half a mile into the sky before blitzing around him and blasting him back into the crater
"Gyah! I'm human, I'm human, I swear!" He cries, completely unfazed by the beating I just gave him
…
"Bitch!" I turn around and catch the massive sudden blast of energy
I send it into the sky before slapping the next one aside.
By then the Kaiju managed to slip away
I teleport out of the last one's way.
"What the hell are you doing?!" I growl at the woman
"Who are you?" She lowers her cannon
"What do you mean who? Fucking look at me!"
Damn pest
"You're a hero from The Kyoto Region."
Damn it. That guy was strong too. I might have to give it all I've got.
"Bingo, Bitch" I tilt my head
Chaos snaps into a Wakizashi that I used to deflect the set of twin blades that would have taken my head off
"Lady Ashiro, what did he call you?!"
"It's fine, Soshiro."
"A hero? What are you doing so far from Kyoto?"
"I'm here to… study these new Humanoid variants of Kaiju." I stretch
"Yeah right! You think we need a smug hero like you to take these-"
"Thank you, we can use all the help we can get." Ashiro sets her cannon on the white tiger behind her
"Yeah-yeah." I scoff before returning to where I first ran into the Kaiju
I take the sack of potatoes from the bin and teleport to a nice hotel
"Gh-ghh." The child rolls around in its half of the bed as I take the other half for myself
…
I'd be lying if I say I wasn't wondering where she is or how she's doing.
But there's absolutely no way to tell.
…
Her survival skills are less than a retarded dog. She'd be dead a hundred times over if it weren't for me.
"Bm-bmm." The child shivers before coughing into the blanket
I reach my hand out to its face.
She…almost looks like her.
"Ah-psh!" She sneezes
No, I'm crazy.
I turn around and shut my eyes
…
The following morning the child was asleep, hanging off the bedside
I showered, changed, before dumping the child into a bucket of water while I brushed my teeth.
It kicked and squealed before I shook it out and stuffed it back into its sack
"Brrbbbb." It coughs and wheezes as I step onto the balcony.
I set two fingers to my forehead before teleporting to the nearest Kaiju.
…
4 weeks went by. By now I was walking around with 40 thousand lbs so I had to watch my step.
Then I sensed that humanoid Kaiju No. 8 as they called it
I teleport right behind him
Except… he was human.
"Kya?! Where did you come from?!"
"What's wrong with your face?"
"What are you talking about?! I'm perfectly human!" He shouts nervously before being backhanded by the boy he was with last we met
"Yeah-yeah, listen. Just help me find more of your kind and I won't kill you just yet."
"Wh-what? Why? Aren't you here from Kyoto to hunt Kaiju down?"
"Sure, but more than that. I'm looking to get stronger." I stretch
"Wow… so cool." He giggles
"They said All Might was sent to sweep up the ones in Hokkaido, is that true?"
"I believe so."
"Awesome! I heard they have Kaiju on par with Godzilla up there!" He jumps
"Where are we now?" I look around
"The name is Kafka, by the way. This is Ichikawa, and we're here to join the defense force!"
"I see." I watch as the Commanding officer, Ashiro steps into the room
"Kara, what are you doing here?"
"I'm here to look over your basic training."
"Why you…" Soshiro grumbles
Maybe find something worthy of my time.
This Humanoid Kaiju is bound to attract more.
And I'll be right here when he does.
I kick back as she goes over their lesson on Kaiju weak points and identification.
After that they ran a training exercise.
"Would you like to join them in this exercise, Kara?"
…
"Why not?"
I turn the weight on my person up to an even fifty thousand lbs to really make me work for it
I set the sack of potatoes on my chair and follow the rookies out to the training grounds.
"God damn back." I stretch, maybe fifty is overdoing it.
Fifteen a leg and ten an arm may just tear me apart
There were Kaiju jumping and roaring out and about.
I raise a finger. A rasengan forms on my fingertip just before I blast it through one's core.
"Huh." I turn my head. At the large one barreling my way.
It was far bigger and stronger than anything I've encountered outside
I open my palm
"Blue." Its head implodes, followed by the rest of its body before bathing the entire block with its blood and intestines
"there we are." I smile as one of the promising rookies is shot down by a humanoid variant
I step in front of her before Kafka could expose himself as a Kaiju to her
"That was impressive. I had no idea you pathetic humans were capable of such feats."
"You'd be wise to mind your tongue, maggot."
He points at me.
He had a mushroom style head and looked like he healed the fairly strong Kaiju behind him
His arm bulges before he shoots me with whatever his body is made of
I slap the projectile aside
The very instant I did, I blitz into his face at Mach 100 and smashed my fist into his chest, sending him crashing like a ragdoll down the Main Blv.
…
I teleport behind him after he came to a halt
He swings his torso around. I tilt my head and lean back just enough for his fist to graze the hair on my cheek
I smack my fist into his chin, step aside and punch his liver. I bob under his left hook and hit a pressure point on his shoulder
I twist his arm off and shove his fist into his chest
"Kgha!" He coughs
Before I could stomp on his core he blitzes around me and I block his shin with my forearm
He tears his arm out of his chest before attaching it to his shoulder
He opens his arms, creating a wall behind himself that bulged with the projectiles
My hair raises on end and my aura flickers with lightning
"God Speed."
I dodge every projectile at point blank the very moment they touch the microscopic hairs on my skin.
The building behind me crumbles before I return a barrage of fiery fists into his chest
I take a few steps back as he comes at me, even faster than before.
…
After going back and forth for a few minutes we knocked each other back
He pulls his arms back.
I do the same, destroying most of his projectiles with a barrage of rasengans
Chaos snaps into a pole blade That I used to cut the rest down.
Chaos then snaps in half, into twin Wakazashis as the Kaijus arms grow into whips
His whips greatly exceeding the sound barrier tear into my skin as I busy myself with the deadlier strikes
"Is this all you've got, human?!"
"Keep running your mouth. The longer this drags out…"
The stronger I become
"Gh-." He grits his teeth after I caught his whips
I smile, in a bloody mess
"Bastard!" He cries
I snap into Kaioken for a brief moment
My hand bursts into a ball of lightning.
"Chidori."
I shove my lightning blade straight through its torso, obliterating its core.
"Gh-ghh…"
"Tssh." I exhale
"Wretched human." He holds his side
I tilt my head as he crumbles into dust
A second core? I tear the patch of skin dangling off my abdomen aside
"That was awesome!" Kafka laughs behind me
I teleport back to the child crawling around the desk
"Seriously?! You put a baby inside a potato sack?! What kind of dead beat are you?!" Soshiro shouts
"That Kaiju likely isn't dead. It could speak like number eight." I said as I stuff the baby back into its sack
"Bastard!"
"I see…" Ashiro thinks for a moment. "This will be Kaiju No. 9, it's best to enter another request form for more heroes."
"What for?" I stretch
"That thing nearly killed you." Soshiro smugly crosses his arms
"Is that what you saw?" I scoff
"You mean to say you weren't giving it your all? Even with all the wounds you sustained?"
"Hardly." I stretch before taking myself to a hotel
Still, that doesn't mean I did not get the dog beat out of me.
…
"Yeah-Yeah, this one right here." I point at the largest suite on the highest floor.
"That one is booked, sir."
"How much?"
"Thirty thousand a night."
"I'll give you fifty."
"Oh… umm… let me make a call." She stares at the diamond debit card I tap on the counter."
…
"They said they're willing to pay fifty five a night."
"You're kidding, right? Make it a hundred a night for two months and get dickless out of my suite, yeah?" I throw the sack over my shoulder
The suite was ready by the time I took the elevator up to the top floor.
I toss the kid onto its own king size bed as I kick my clothes aside and jump into the shower
After getting out I toss it its bottle of milk and head out to the roof.
I scroll the bracelets up to 70k… 75k
I tap my foot, imprinting my shoe into the concrete
With this weight I'll have to watch my step. Wouldn't want to sink this entire building along with-
…
I turn around, before I could get to training I sensed someone's bloodlust for a fraction of a second
No, less than that.
The only reason I caught it is because I was thinking of…
I teleport through the floor into the child's room
She was laying back, drinking out her bottle.
"Toga…" I squeeze her forearm
"Kehe, you got me." She smiles widely with a kitchen knife in her hand, mere inches from the girl
"What are you doing here?"
"Well, I was hoping to serve this little thing on a dish for you, master." She winks
"You here to cash in on my bounty?"
"I'm hurt, I thought you knew me better than that." She sniffs
"Cut your bullshit, Himiko." I squeeze her arm
"Kya! You're hurting me!" She moans. "I'm here to take you back!"
"I'm not going anywhere."
"We miss you, Kara. Esdeath… misses you." She frowns
"She told me to do anything it takes to get you back." She smiles widely
"Cana…"
"Yes, right on!" She jumps
"Where is she, what are you doing to her…"
My eyes widened. The sudden thought of Cana being in her care, after all the things that I've taught her…
It threw my heart into a marathon.
Course I know better than to come to you with that information. She said in her head
"But if you really want to see what I've done to her then go ahead and look."
She knows I can read her mind
She uses an instant transmission technique to go to Cana.
Cana…
Images of her hanging from the ceiling flash into my mind.
I crush her forearm
"Kya! I'm going to need that!" She whines
"Don't you-" I shove her back.
Cana… the amount of pain she must be enduring…
But if I kill Toga, they'll kill her.
If I don't kill her now, she'll torture her…
"That's right… you make up your mind yet?
I can't win.
She has me straight by the balls
I've never felt so helpless…
So weak… pathetic.
"You can do it. You can end her pain, Kara." She leans in. "You just have to kill me," she breathes into my neck
But then… I'll never see her again.
"C'mon, don't be selfish now. You know you can do it." She leads my hand to her throat "I mean think about it. This is your pride we're talking about." She whispers
My… Pride…
She's right…
But is that really what I want?
To salvage my Pride?
To end her… suffering…
Or to possibly… see her again?
I snap her arm in two
"Oh man." She bites her lip.
She bends over to pick up her severed arm before walking to the door with her head down as she bleeds all over my carpet.
…
-to be continued